Music recommendations

Here is a compliation cd I am working on, as soon as I collect up all of the songs

No particular reason other than a late night of drinking with 4 mates and everyone's top 5

The End - The Doors
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Lust for Life - Iggy Pop
The Man Who Sold the World - David Bowie
My Way - Sinatra
Night Shift - The Commodores
Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf
Candy - Iggy Pop
I got the Feeling Baby - James Brown
I Would Die for You - Prince
Blackbird - The Beatles
Don't You Love Her Madly - The Doors
Woman - John Lennon
Have I Told You Lately -Van Morrison
Don't Give Up - Peter Gabriel
One - U2
Working Class Hero - John Lennon

Band: Gomez
Album: In Our Gun
(and, of course, anything by Elliott Smith - self titled; XO; Figure 8; either/or; roman candle)

Maybe not on par with the previous cd´s but good in any serious collection would be Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy

This is from the 70´s but includes the classic "Werewolves of London"...and "Roland the Headless Tomson gunner" as well as "Lawyers guns and money"

Anything from Badly Drawn Boy ... brilliant

also here is a great web-site with loads of great music to listen to for free
http://launch.yahoo.com/

just sign up and select what ever you want to hear, its brillinat check it out. and plus its free .

elliot smith: i started with figure 8, but anything by him is tops.
jeff buckley: last goodbye is one of my favourate songs ever but i wouldn't desert island the album.
teenage fanclub: love songs from northern britain - great sunny day stuff.

so, er...

recent: delays, "faded seaside glamour"
old-ish: the sundays, "static and silence"
bit noisier: oasis, "definitely maybe" - you may have forgotten how good oasis actually used to be.

ELLIOT SMITH SUCKS™

Adam Green
The Dresden Dolls
Morrissey
Rosenstolz & Jens Friebe

lol MM - I liked Good Will Hunting too, but damn...

Did Elliot Smith do a song for Good Will Hunting? I know I've seen the movie, but for some reason I don't remember that. He did do a fabulous version of "Because" that runs during the credits of American Beauty. I can't speak for the others, but I've like him much longer than these movies have been around...

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000...2127851-6258151

Needle in the hay isn't listed there, but I've a vague recollection that it gets played at one point and it's pure goosebumps.

I've liked him since before he started playing music

Elliott Smith is amazing, if there was a big bloke called God that's the music he'd hum while he did the house work.

I've never seen Good Will, but im sure it's Needle In The Hay that's played in it.

@MM

Are you being sarcastic about my comment? [img]http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/mad/1/mad03.gif[/img] He did put out a couple albums before those movies came out.

@chris_the_4th

agreed.

ELLIOT SMITH IS OK™
I even have a couple of albums by him, but the last word he aint. I would rate David Gray much much higher, for example.

To take this whole thing away from ES, my recommendation for this week is:
La Revancha Del Tango by Gotan Project
French Accordion and Tango with house and deep house beats. Alongs the lines of St Germain. Niiiiiiice

Never heard of Eliott Smith, surfing it up now.. But I did find that:


So Miss Misery might be the song you were thinking of.
Also from this CNN article about him, he doesnt sound like a very good role model. What sort of music does he do anyway?

Elliot Smith is neo Simon & garfunkle as far as I am concerned. The guy offed himself a few months ago by falling on a knife. When you listen to his music, you can pretty much see it coming e.g. "I'll fake it through the day with some help from Johnny Walker Red."

Wow, TT will be the top link for Elliot Smith in Google soon, I think

Have to check out the Gotan Project deal, sounds swell. I'm really enjoying Daniele Luppi and will push that album a second time. Can't you picture yourself sashaying down Kaufingerstr. with your iPod and snapping your fingers to this? Or strolling past the naked flesh on the banks of the mighty river Isar, whistling along with this? Fantastic stuff!

Is it okay to give you minus cool points for David Gray?

These guys kick butt
Primal with a lot of percussion

http://www.rustedroot.com

I just realized I forgot to put Primus on the list. I saw them open for Rush one time (my age shows, I know), and they were great!

I like Sailing the Seas of Cheese and Pork Soda.

@ eurovol

Ever heard of Gran Torino? They're a funk band out of Knoxville that I got into when I lived in Nashville (95-99).

Sounds familiar, but I was living in Germantown 93-97 before moving here. The only local guy that was any good was Tall Paul and he was a one man Dead/Dylan show. Everything else then was line dancing country.

Found this on the web, they're not bad.

http://www.liketelevision.com/web1/grantorino/

It is very ok. David Gray is a genius. If god was singing a ditty while taking an amazingly satisfying shite, he would sound like David Gray.

Would he be singing "Dead in the water" or "Sail Away" with that?

Nah it'd be "Turds Without Wings".

not to detract from the Elliot Smith thread...

Incubus. latest album has been in my CD changer for months now.

Love their music (and the lead singer is yummy to boot)!

ok, yes, yummy in a much younger than me but lovely to look at kind of way

At Work, anything that will put a smile on my face. At the minute its TV Themes I am listening to -

TV Themes

Taken from 'Wonder Woman' lyrics -

'In your Satin tights, fighting for your rights'
'And the old Red, White & Blue'

Hilarious!!

Knight rider now...cool, then Thundercats!!

Good man Ken, I am a lover of great Theme tunes. Monkey is AWESOME. Really good.

Today, I have been mostly listening to "Tenacious D". I really do not know what to say about a band with a song called "I'm the only gay eskimo" but I have not laughed as much in a while. Superb.

if you'll try anything, how 'bout a little unconventional jazz?
Give Jan Garbarek a shot (unless you hate tenor sax).

The old Tears for Fears LP, what's it called, Songs From The Armchair or something, a great fave or mine.

Chaka Khan's great when you want a bit of a bop.

(see? One reply where "Elliot Smith" hasn't been mentioned - oh damn, just done it)

Talking about jazz, I just discovered Herbie Hancock in my mp3 collection, have about 6 albums here, not bad stuff at all. Most of its fairly traditional jazz, which is ok, but 2 albums that stand out for me are Headhunters and Man-Child for being rather more experimental, more far-out and more funky in my opinion than the more traditional stuff.

Hiya
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This is just plain glorious, happy, sad, nostalgic, bittersweet, uplifting, magical...
And listening to it whilst walking across the Hackbrücke this morning seeing the sun glint off the Frauenkirche made for a very special start to the day.
Finn Bros.com
Katrina

How nice! i love days like that!

powderfinger - vulture st.

The Blue Nile. All four albums are fantastic.

Sticking with the "one per person" rule :-)

...anything by Todd Rungren...you have to separate the dross from the genius bits but when you find them, its worth it.

I quite like the new Zutons album - Who Killed the Zutons.

Ok to please the 'rule keepers' - The Blue Nile - HATS

Just got hold of some stuff my DJ Tiësto. Was watching the opening of the olympics and he was the DJ who did the long set while the athletes were coming out into the middle of the stadium.

Hes got some great lives mixe albums and good studio stuff too.

Listening to

In Search of Sunrise 3

and

Just Be

Hes got his website at www.djtiesto.com

P

Saturday night definitely a must - Radio FM 107 - Modern Music
from 9-12 midnight...if you are having guests, its perfect, music to relax to with some good rhythem and at the same time compliments an nice dinner get-together with friends.

Corvus Corax - Seikilos

Modest Mouse, Mike Hosty Duo and Sugar Free Allstars. Their is one other band but good luck finding anything from them- Red Eyed Yellow Toothed Transcendental Traveling Guru Bandit Band. Amazing band that should have gone all the way but due to differences between best friends never made it.

Check out "Above" by Mad Season.

Anything by Coldplay gets my vote, but if you want to hear something different all day long go to http://www.radioparadise.com and listen.
They play the best eclectic mix I've ever found on a radio station. You can record mp3s right off the web from the radio broadcast (and it's legal!)

For you DnB heads out there. Here are a couple acts out of Sea-town
http://base100.org/mainstream.mp3 Pitch 1000
http://perfecttrip.pulsenation.com/albums/triptastic.mp3 Soular

Speed garage heads
http://www.reidspeed.com/pictures/flyers/Need4Spee.mp3 Reid Speed Duh!
Misc...
http://www.electrokid.com/realaudio/robotwithin_256kbps.mp3 ElectroKid

anyways enjoy
-BenE

SUBLIME

What Happened? Must have been drinking wrecklessly...

Anything with Duane Peters.

Five for Fighting - The battle for everything

I lov that!

After a talk with some big hitters last night I'm listening to some classics today at work:

Alice in Chains - Dirt / Jar of Flies
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger / Superunknown
Nirvana - Nevermind
Pearl Jam - Vs / Ten

Currently its 'Polly'...good tune..