Andrew
495 posts
Aug 07, 2009
7:18 AM
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I know it's a mistake to start this thread because you're all going to recommend blues albums I've never heard of, but at work someone started such a thread and my reply was as follows: -
(on the other hand, most of these albums I've only listened to once and dumped in a box)
1. Art Brut vs Satan. Their best album yet, I think, but their songs, although witty, are repetitive, so that I can never listen to a whole album at a time.
2. The Crystal Method, Divided by Night
3. Jason Ricci, Done with the Devil
4. Röyksopp, Junior
5. Marilyn Manson, The High End of Low
6. The Prodigy, Invaders Must Die
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, It's Blitz!
Last Edited by on Aug 07, 2009 7:21 AM
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RyanMortos
249 posts
Aug 07, 2009
7:58 AM
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Most of the CDs I bought this year are older blues or jazz albums.
I might be wrong but Id venture to say the only '09 release I got was Jason Ricci's Done with the Devil.
There are some bands I followed quite closely in years past that I didnt feel like buying just because I liked their old stuff. For example, you name Marilyn Manson which for the most part I like their catalog but dont really feel I need more of the same. Others include Lacuna Coil & 311. I think Incubus had a greatest hits but I dont need that.
Maybe thats part of why I listen to more & more jazz & blues, bored with most modern day (post 2000) rock music.
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Pennsylvania - H.A.R.P. (Harmonica Association 'Round Philly)
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jonsparrow
744 posts
Aug 07, 2009
8:29 AM
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i have this strong rule that i follow that if the band didnt come out before the year 2000 they suck. there are some very few exceptions but for the most part my rule stands true. post 2000 music (the new bands) is so horrible. no one cares about making REAL music anymore. its all about following a certain format that will make money. thats why i like the blues. blues cant realy sell out. if anything it can only progress an get better.
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bluzlvr
230 posts
Aug 07, 2009
2:07 PM
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I was watching a little bit of VH1's top ten last week and it got me to wondering - is rock and roll dead?
I didn't watch a lot, but what little I did watch seemed like of bunch of insipid ballsless crap.
At least AC/DC had a hit with their good old blues based rock and roll a few months ago...
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Andrew
500 posts
Aug 07, 2009
2:21 PM
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Well I think there has been some great music since 2000, but bands tend to burn out very quickly nowadays. There have been some good debut albums and some awful "sophomore" albums, e.g. Bloc Party's Weekend in the City. I bought their 3rd album in a supermarket for the equivalent of a dollar and I thought it was OK, but I've only listened to it once.
Maybe it's the CD format - 70 minutes is hellishly long. Vinyl used to be about 45 minutes, and a group could expect to bring out an album a year. 70 minutes for a CD is asking too much of them. OK, a group brings out a CD every two years instead of every year, and if they planned it, they could produce 35 minutes of music each year, but they don't or can't. Maybe the managers make them tour too much so they're too busy, I just don't know. Even Prince at his most productive (e.g. the Love Symbol album) managed half an hour of good music followed by 40 minutes of filler.
I totally agree that once you've got (e.g.) Marilyn Manson's best, you don't need to carry on, because it's just more of the same. 2006 was my big year for CD buying, and I enjoyed myself that year, but I'm winding down in a big way. Marilyn is old hat; the Prodigy are old hat.
There are bands out there - the Magnetic Fields are one of many that don't get a big write-up. Although their 69 Love Songs should have been edited, so that I don't love them as such, but I keep an ear open for them. I follow Tegan and Sarah. I like k d lang a lot, but she never lived up to the promise she showed in the early to mid 90s. Watershed wasn't that interesting, but I'll listen to the next thing she does for sure. I loved Emiliana Torrini for a short while, but she seems to have lost it.
Music is music, to quote Ravel (on the subject of George Gershwin, I think)
OK, that was incoherent because I'm drunk, but I don't care.
Last Edited by on Aug 07, 2009 2:28 PM
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Elwood
107 posts
Aug 07, 2009
2:41 PM
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I'm surprised a blues lover would accuse modern music of being sameish or following a format. I mean, it's been pretty much the same three chords since 1912. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black [or blue]...
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Andrew
503 posts
Aug 07, 2009
2:45 PM
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Yeah, what Elwood said.
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jonsparrow
748 posts
Aug 07, 2009
3:09 PM
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"I'm surprised a blues lover would accuse modern music of being sameish or following a format."
if your talkin about what i said what i mean is how all rap songs now are about money, clubs, rims, bitchs. all "rock bands" are now about being emo an suicide an cutting yourself with every one dressing like a girl. every one just does shit thats simple so people can automaticly like it instead of commin up with new shit to grab people attention like "hey look at me i actually worked hard to make this song." you cant fail at making a club hit/radio hit if the topic is allready popular an in style. blues is not popular or in style. ask any one around my age or younger livin in america. an for its sake i hope it doesnt go mainstream. every thing that goes mainstream in todays corporate world turns to crap. blues music gets the respect it deserves from the people who know what it is. as long as there will be people like us here it will stay preserved in all its glory. or get better. but the day i see a new blues band signed by interscope records shooting there new music video for MTV is the day i shoot myself in the face with a 12 gauge.
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Gwood420
10 posts
Aug 07, 2009
3:25 PM
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i have found alot of really good music lately bu just clicking my way through you tube..
also, i use www.legalsounds.com alot. the songs are only 9 cents per.. so an album costs just over $1.. but for the most part, i have been looking through local bands from everywhere.. just serching genres.. i have found some good stuff lately:
"fatter than albert" a punk band with a sax and a trumpet
"john butler trio" a good rusted root type band..
yesterday i found a band called "slightly stoopid" interesting to say the least.. verdict is still out..
my buddy just introduced me to "dropkick murphys" irish punk.. makes we want to drink..
dont forget "R L Burnside" loving it..
started likeing "morphine" too..
i just find stuff and give it a chance.. usually i start to like it
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jonsparrow
752 posts
Aug 07, 2009
3:34 PM
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""fatter than albert" a punk band with a sax and a trumpet"
dont that make them a ska band?
also john butler trio is amazing. i love them to death. john butler is actually who got me into harp.
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Kyzer Sosa
24 posts
Aug 07, 2009
8:29 PM
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emo rims bitchs looka lika girly man club hos rollin in dough, you freaking said it.... im only 33 and i agree with sparrow 156%....
I dont know jack squat about blues music. you want to know why? because it never HAS been on the radio. Ive been over-saturated with every other kind of music known to man, except blues....perhaps that is why i am drawn to it now. regardless, it brings me great pleasure to know that even with my limited knowledge of the genre and the most basic of comprehension with this instrument, many aspects of it have come naturally to me. im still able to follow along with blues fairly well, and feel it inside the way that i know i should in order to play well...
lets hope it stays right where it is...
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Gwood420
11 posts
Aug 07, 2009
8:46 PM
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a ska band... i guess.. never thought about it.. just thought there were like the misfits with a horn section.. and i liked it.. :)
i think the "slightly Stoopid" is a Dub band.. i really get lost on the titles.. if it is good.. i like it....
my overall point was to check out some bands you never heard of.. just search genres you like and go from there.. that is how i have found some of my favorite bands.. i found jason ricci that way, john butler, Blues Buddahs, easy star all stars, jazz pharmacy, matisyahu, among others.. just listen, just cause they arent in some top 10 list, doesnt mean they suck.. take fatter than albert, i just liked there name, checked em out and liked it..
here is another one for you guys.. my good friends band is called Mudfoot.. good funk music with a touch of blues...
http://www.myspace.com/mudfootcleveland
Last Edited by on Aug 07, 2009 8:48 PM
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jonsparrow
754 posts
Aug 07, 2009
9:31 PM
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when i first found jason ricci i didnt even know he had a band. i just thought he was a great harp player on youtube. when i found out he had a band i was like OMG this is awesome!!! i found john butler cause some one liked his dreads when he used to have them an they mentioned him so i check him out an i was like OMG this is awesome!!!
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walterharp
15 posts
Aug 07, 2009
10:54 PM
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it seems like everyone likes to say.. popular music today, it stinks, back in the day..
i think there is always good new stuff out there because people have a compulsion to make music, and make it as good as they can, somebody always breaks through that, although not many can put a whole cd together these days with internet-by-the-song smorgasbord.
Done with the devil gets my vote!
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Andrew
505 posts
Aug 08, 2009
12:22 AM
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I can't remember if I said this before, but the thing is, I'm 50 and I've got friends who are 58, and they only listen to the stuff they listened to when they were 20, so it's endless Cream and Frank Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood and Rolling Stones and Beatles, and I can only take so much of that; I don't want to get stuck in that rut (and only listen to Kraut Rock and Captain Beefheart and punk and Kevin Coyne and Brian Eno and Roxy Music and Henry Cow and all the stuff I listened to as a teenager), so I listen to what my 25/30-year-old work colleagues listen to.
Last Edited by on Aug 08, 2009 12:23 AM
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Andrew
506 posts
Aug 08, 2009
4:50 AM
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Actually, I've just been listening to Royksopp and Crystal Method, and I have no idea why I put them so high up on the list. Just bad memory, I guess.
Last Edited by on Aug 08, 2009 4:50 AM
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Gwood420
12 posts
Aug 08, 2009
7:51 PM
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here is another good one to check out... they havent put out a new album(i dont think) but it is really good feel good music... "Gomez" seen them live, and i have all of their albums.. great band..
http://www.myspace.com/gomez
edit: they do have a new album!! sweet :)
Last Edited by on Aug 08, 2009 7:58 PM
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