Resurrected unified MUSIC thread.

fishercob · Post #241 » by **fishercob** » Wed Jul 8, 2009 9:54 pm

Best song ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwrL9MV6 ... re=related

BanndNDC · Post #242 » by **BanndNDC** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:51 am

I'm in a laid back rocksteady kinda mood tonight so here's some random (mostly) reggae cuts to add to the melange. just gonna hit a bunch of the classics and sprinkle in a few lesser known ones.

Roots Radics = Radically Radics
(not the best to youtube since it loses a lot of the bass)

Lloyd Brevett - African Roots
(the bassist from the skatalites doing full on dub)

Burning Spear - Social Living

The Tamlins - Baltimore

Gregory Isaacs - Number One

Alton Ellis - Rocksteady

The Paragons - Tide is High (the original)

one of my all time favorite bands. the epitome of rocksteady
The Heptones - Make Up Your Mind
Suffering So
Hypocrite
Mystery Babylon
I Shall Be Released
(cover of the dylan song btw)

Christel and the Goldmaster All Stars - Government Man

Lucky Dube - Prisoner

Alpha Blondy - Armee Francaise
Guerre Civile

Toots & the Maytals (w/ Keith Richards) - Careless Ethiopians

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and some random stuff

Onra - The Anthem
The Herbaliser - Goldrush
Latryx (w/ the Herbaliser) - 8 pt. Agenda

doclinkin · Post #243 » by **doclinkin** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 6:45 am

Funny. I've had the Harder They Come soundtrack in my head for the past week or so.

For my money, the best soundtrack ever. Every cut a classic.

Johnny too bad.

Pressure drop.

And so on...

Wife's been singing Steel Pulse:

Rollerskates.

and

Throne of Gold.

Mortality Pie · Post #244 » by **Mortality Pie** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 5:28 am

Bannd - I love the Heptones. Here's one of my favorites from them:

Crying Over You

No one has posted my absolute favorite from them, "I've Got a Feeling." I'd post it myself but, well, that seems like too much work or something.

Gregory Isaacs, too.

Uncle Joe

This one is a combination of the Gregory cut, plus the rugged-ass Prince Far I DJ take over the same rhythm. Both are diss tracks aimed straight at the head of Joe Gibbs. I've tried to see Gregory live twice, but his propensity for not showing up for tour dates is on an Axl Rose level. Probably worse.

Doc - Its been too long since I've listened to that soundtrack. I always come back to Shanty Town

Some random reggae cuts in my current rotation, some old, some newish:

Perfect - 8 Gangsters

In Crowd - Back a Yard

Dezarie & Midnite - All Ova

Harry Mudie & King Tubby - Full Dose Of Dub

Wayne Jarrett - Love In Mi Heart

Michigan & Smiley - Eye of Danger

Ken Boothe - Artibella

Alozado, Hollow Point, & Mr. Vegas - Under Mi Sensi

bulletproof_32 · Post #245 » by **bulletproof_32** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 6:45 am

Some of these are possible repeats in this thread but I've had these 5 songs on repeat for the last 2 hours:

Okkervil River - Love to a Monster
Damien Rice - Rootless Tree
Ray LaMontagne - Still Can't Feel the Gin
Xavier Rudd - My Missing
Bon Iver - re: Stacks

Mortality Pie · Post #246 » by **Mortality Pie** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 11:31 am

Bannd - I haven't heard "Government Man" before, or anything by them. That is an amazing track.

doclinkin · Post #247 » by **doclinkin** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 6:41 pm

Okay. Just lost a classic post on here. I'll try to re-create.

This is gonna go a few different directions.

Dub: Friend of a friend, jazz keyboardist Jamie Saft, looks like a Hasidic ZZTop sorta cat, put out an album some years back of experimental music, really odd and interesting, called Sovlanut.

But on the disc he had two dub tracks in which he mixed an old wax track of his great grandfather who was a well-known Rebbe and Cantor singing ecstatic prayer within the temple. The rest of the album is decidedly more odd but worth it all the same. Still I lay out these two tracks here for the sake of interest:

Kasha Dub.
Fresser Dub.

Jamie played a bunch with composer John Zorn who has experimented a ton with the jewish ecstatic sound in his Masada projects. And it's resulted in a few interesting iterations and spin-offs. Here's one:

Zarach. Middle Eastern Ambiance with crunchy death metal riffs.

Later on Jamie actually pumped out an album of jewish death metal. Black Shabbis. Somewhat after laying down keyboard tracks for a recent Bad Brains album, because pal Adam Yauch of the Beasties was producing and asked him to drop a couple tracks on there.

Oh and naturally he had to record a Bob Dylan homage with his jazz trio. A mellow Vince Giraldi-esque 'Charlie Brown Christmas' sound. Some surprisingly nice tracks. Here's one:

Was It What You Wanted. Mellow bass lope, sassy snare track, keyboard noodling that goes a little off the rails midway through, but still nice background soundtrack for a mellow day.

But anyway while tracking down some of this stuff and meandering through various iterations of the John Zorn Masada projects, i found myself thinking about how the north african/middle eastern sounds have influenced musical genre from klezmer to flamenco to Django Reinhardt gypsy guitar thence to jazz and so forth. Anyway, some seriously great music here:

Masada String Trio. Meholalot. Uptempo upright bass, fiddle, cello. Thrumming driving pizzicatto plucking with a middle east flair. Make your armhairs stand up, or whirl like a dervish if you're susceptible to that sort of thing. Go. Gettit dude. Gettit.

Bigger band version. 'Khebar'. Adding drum kit by finger drum techniques. Percussion, electric jazz guitar. etc. Ripping through the thing.

Then finally as a total dischord from all that. Just because it amuses. Namesake song for one of the common contributors to the board:

Bad Brains: Banned in DC. from CBG's in 1982.. Half the guys skanking on stage look like a my brother or one of my friends, though that's about 2 years too early for me.

barelyawake · Post #248 » by **barelyawake** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 12:25 am

PUNK/HARDCORE, or THE GREATEST MUSIC MANKIND HAS KNOWN
(Part 1... minus the ska bands listed in the ska section earlier in the thread)
A.K.A. songs you simply must hear before you die...

The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop
Witness the birth of punk. It began here -- this club, this band, and this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEvktMyMkQo

The Ramones - I wanna be sedated
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMD7Ezp3 ... re=related

Ramones - California Sun (Thus starts the punk tradition of "punking" pop tunes. 'Course with most of these bands I could just list all their songs -- especially the Ramones.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z9iUdiS3hI

The Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxjLWu7-fEM

The Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQkActP-isE

The Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeP220xx7Bs

Fugazi - Waiting Room (The greatest band D.C. ever produced. Considered one of the greatest punk songs ever.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTWSSCYU ... re=related

Fugazi - Suggestion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIywtO0OY78

Fugazi - Bad Mouth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_gVEx57 ... re=related

The Clash - London Calling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqO1b-5R ... re=related

The Clash - Complete Control
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXBY5nJDz_k

The Clash - Career Opportunities
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRd6ciCFL3g

Bad Brains - Pay to cum (Explicit)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaBWHaoN ... re=related

Bad Brains - Attitude
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYjqY0Yg ... re=related

Bad Brains - I Against I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjITD9LnwRY&feature=fvw

Minor Threat - Minor Threat (Explicit)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaOzbsv2ZB0

Minor Threat - I Don't Wanna Hear It (Explicit)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-bZKQeR ... re=related

Dead Kennedys - California Über Alles (Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy do a great hip hop version of this)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW8UlY8eXCk

Dead Kennedys - Kill The Poor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxrNZcV9 ... re=related

Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R11x32WoxrM

Misfits - Where Eagles Dare (Explicit)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZHxmzwx ... re=related

Misfits - American Nightmare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-WO34WE-Q4

Burning Sensations - Pablo Picasso (The Modern Lovers cover)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl8sWnUZVL4&feature=fvw

The Circle Jerks - When the S*** hits the fan (Explicit)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIlIL5pP ... L&index=19

Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoF_a0-7xVQ&feature=fvst

Nirvana - Territorial P***ings (This song ain't grunge. It's one of the greatest punk songs ever.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v4tFLpW ... re=related

Against Me! - Pints of Guinness Make You Strong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wkZGMkt ... BF&index=1

JFA - I Don't Like You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lDc2Are ... re=related

Black Flag - Rise Above
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fUi1kFvL8g

Black Flag - Revenge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUCpOyCIS3c

The Adicts - Easy Way Out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjDfppccbfw

Leftover Crack - So you want to be a cop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ld5LDji ... re=related

Buzzcocks - What do I get?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_nsp7bCEls

Buzzcocks - Orgasm Adict
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAGmNul1 ... re=related

Devo - Uncontrollable Urge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnAXb6gmbOc

Agent Orange - No Such Thing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQuwBo7W ... re=related

Agent Orange - Bloodstains
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ1RecSX ... re=related

Minutemen - Viet Nam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06LsyO7XK9M

Subhumans - Mickey Mouse Is Dead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWvjUPI_ ... re=related

Bad religion - You (Explicit)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1PgiBpTtao

Choking Victim - Corporate Trash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK8bMn9c ... re=related

NoFx - Linoleum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wtak7jJmv8o

Iggy Pop & Rancid - No Fun (Iggy cover)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7GhHXt0e58

The Varukers - Punk ain't dead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq_l0weHFxY

OK, enough...

barelyawake · Post #249 » by **barelyawake** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:39 am

Beasties and Nas (new song) -- Too many rappers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqYNFiAOAtE

Can't tell. Might be a'ight. The new Beasties' punk song is better.

barelyawake · Post #250 » by **barelyawake** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 11:06 am

First, new Wolfmother. Then, new Beasties. Now, new Devo.

Devo - Don't Shoot (I'm a man)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPJV2M5H ... re=related

Eh. First listen, I was sorta disappointed. Second listen, it's growing on me. And it makes me wonder about the rest of the album. They are certainly returning back to their darker, punk roots (at least lyrically). Will "Don't tase me, bro" become the new "What's the frequency, Kenneth"? Anyway, it gives me an excuse to play more of this groundbreaking band who progressed three different genres of music -- alt, punk and electronica. The self-described Andy Warhols of music, they are not men, but Devo...

Devo - Watch us work it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCZcIrSA ... re=related

Devo - Jocko Homo (Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUrT0M_X ... re=related

Devo - Girl U want / Gates of steel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cadA5iANN2o

Devo - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I09xjQg ... re=related

Devo - That's Good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkZwHVM64qg&NR=1

NbdyBeatsTheWiz · Post #251 » by **NbdyBeatsTheWiz** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:10 pm

was listening to it the other day, and the best song ever used by any network going to break was hands down "Here I Come" by the Roots, used by TNT a couple years ago in the playoffs...

also, as if I needed further proof that Danger Mouse, the taller half of Gnarls Barkley, was a genius, he just came out with "Jaydiohead" as a followup of sorts to his "Grey Album" a couple years back...

Check it out...

http://jaydiohead.com/listen/

Tough*Juice · Post #252 » by **Tough*Juice** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:27 am

The unreleased song Alright from Twista's new album has a tiny snippet about Arenas about making something from zero.

Just an excuse to post up an addictive song.

LISTEN: Twista - “Alright” f/ Kanye West

BanndNDC · Post #253 » by **BanndNDC** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 7:04 am

Mortality Pie wrote:Bannd - I haven't heard "Government Man" before, or anything by them. That is an amazing track.

i know. found it on some random french reggae mix album i took a chance on and immediately fell in love with it.
http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/mus ... gae+03.htm

i was surprised to find it on youtube. iirc, it's some well regarded UK backup/house reggae band http://www.ukreggaeguide.co.uk/index.php?id=50

btw: gonna have to check those tracks out a little closer (need to do it on my desktop to try and get a little of the low end). crying over you was another of my favorites but i didnt want to put too many down (but im used to a diff heptones version).

for what it's worth my favorite from the harder they come was Draw Your Brakes. the specials version of pressure drop was always my favorite.

barelyawake · Post #254 » by **barelyawake** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 12:05 pm

New Jet album coming out.

OLD JET
Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkL7V3Tb ... re=related

Jet and Iggy Pop - Wild One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwTI88_8pEI

NEW JET
Jet - KIA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDf4V5OHsIY

Jet - She's a Genius
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVA799gKNzo
(Christ this song is ALREADY in a commercial, which means it was probably written to go straight to a shampoo commercial. God, that makes me sick.)
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Dead Weather's album is better. Still trying to decide between this album, "The High end Of Low," and Wolfmother's "Cosmic Egg" for best rock album of the year. The great Jack White might narrowly lose my vote this year (for the first time in many a year).

The Dead Weather - Hang You From the Heavens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scJ8ITsZ ... re=related

The Dead Weather - I Cut Like a Buffalo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhPhV7Z7 ... re=related

The Dead Weather - Will There Be Enough Water?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YtNu_T5cEs

The Dead Weather - Are Friends Electric?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEvTfIyO ... re=related

barelyawake · Post #255 » by **barelyawake** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 11:25 am

FYI Muse fans, Muse is releasing their new single off their new album at the VMAs. The album drops the day after.

New Clutch album. Another band vying for best rock album of the year. Narrowly losing, but vying...

Clutch "Motherless Child"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dxk03pdrkg

Clutch - Abraham Lincoln
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwDLB8fF ... re=related

Clutch - Struck Down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKiIZQ-L ... re=related

New Modest Mouse
http://www.spin.com/articles/exclusive- ... on-machine

New, friggin' amazing, Radiohead cover of Miracle Legion (Mark Mulcahy's old band). And this album which it is from, a tribute to Mark Mulcahy's wife Melissa's passing, looks to be classic. Mark wrote some great underrated songs and the line-up covering them for this album is stellar.
http://stereogum.com/archives/new-thom- ... .html#more

If you don't know Mark Mulcahy, get to know him:

Mark Mulcahy - Hey Self Defeater
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb-fyJNSizY

daSwami · Post #256 » by **daSwami** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:45 pm

barelyawake wrote:New Jet album coming out.

OLD JET
Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkL7V3Tb ... re=related

Jet and Iggy Pop - Wild One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwTI88_8pEI

NEW JET
Jet - KIA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDf4V5OHsIY

Jet - She's a Genius
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVA799gKNzo
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Dead Weather's album is better. Still trying to decide between this album, "The High end Of Low," and Wolfmother's "Cosmic Egg" for best rock album of the year. The great Jack White might narrowly lose my vote this year (for the first time in many a year).

The Dead Weather - Hang You From the Heavens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scJ8ITsZ ... re=related

The Dead Weather - I Cut Like a Buffalo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhPhV7Z7 ... re=related

The Dead Weather - Will There Be Enough Water?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YtNu_T5cEs

The Dead Weather - Are Friends Electric?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEvTfIyO ... re=related

for me, Jack White has jumped the shark ala Dave Grohl. He needs to stick with the instrument he plays best: guitar. This Dead Weather stuff just isn't up to his standards, and his drum playing skills are sub-standard at best. I do like the fact that there is a Fender Rhodes in the mix - I've always liked that vintage sound and have longed to hear a band that incorporates it well. Here's where I have to pimp a friend's band, the Muggs. Their bass player, like me, had a stroke and lost the use of his right arm/hand, so he now plays all of his bass lines on a Rhodes. These guys are cut from the same creative cloth as the Stripes and Wolfmother. check it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DevsTro ... re=related

Mortality Pie · Post #257 » by **Mortality Pie** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:32 pm

barelyawake wrote:Clutch "Motherless Child"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dxk03pdrkg

Two of my favorite versions of Motherless Child:

OV Wright

Kathleen Emery

barelyawake · Post #258 » by **barelyawake** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 9:47 am

Hey Swami, no taking shots at Dave (even though I pretty much agree with everything you said). I grew-up in the same circles as Dave; I'm very close friends with a couple of the guys who were in Dain Bramage (Dave's first band); I know the guys in Scream (Dave's other band); and I've hung with Dave several times (probably couldn't pick me out of a line-up). D.C. used to be a pretty small town, especially in terms of degrees of separation in the punk community. There was really only the 9:30 and the Black Cat, and a few one room s'holes. You were eventually going to meet everyone or their younger brother. And all of the aforementioned went to every Fugazi show.

Of course, I'm younger than Dave, but my friends were usually such good musicians they were tapped to play with much older guys. Dave famously did the same thing with Scream. That plus my friends' older brothers were in bands. Actually, a few of my friends were as good on bass as they were drums, so they were in multiple bands. That seemed like a D.C. trend (bass and drums). Lots of great drummers.

Dain Bramage (I even know the guy who waves in this video. I don't remember his name, but I know his face.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYH8_-0UoT8

Scream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTNACbdc ... re=related

Fugazi - Waiting Room (live) - speaking of one-room blankholes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJFWirQ3ks

Anyway, enough of the misty, watercolor memories... So yeah, that Muggs' stuff is cool. The song gets progressively better. By the end, it's really kickin'. That Clutch album also gets better every listen. Mort, nice choices on those versions. I love how slave songs were passed on (if one can "love" the product of not allowing a culture to learn to write) because you could "cover" a song by truly making it your own. Songs were fluid and the lyrics could be personalized.

On a completely different topic, there's a new Ozzy album (with an as of yet unnamed guitarist) coming out by year's end. Ozzy is the king of finding new guitarists, so I'm crossing my fingers hoping it's some undiscovered talent (though I hear it might be the guy from White Zombie). And here's another huge swing of genre:

Rooftop McCartney
http://www.cbs.com/late_show/video/mccartney.php

barelyawake · Post #259 » by **barelyawake** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 10:48 am

HEY RICO, he says completely changing the genre, again. Do these qualify as the type of "modern, big band" for which you were searching?

Kurt Elling - Nature Boy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXprs8-U5nA

Madeleine Peyroux - Dance Me To The End Of Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zORe5v2Z ... re=related

Sophie Milman - Lonely in New York
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSHIMLVg ... re=related

Clare Teal - All For Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52ipSQEUx24

barelyawake · Post #260 » by **barelyawake** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 8:51 pm

Figured a tribute to the Melvins was fitting here. Like Blue Cheer and MC5, the Melvins are criminally underrated -- considering they created the grunge/sludge sound and brought Nirvana together. Kurt was friends with these guys since high school and acted as their roadie. Dave was a huge fan, and went backstage for one of their shows (at our very own Black Cat). The rest as they say...

The Melvins - A History of Bad Men
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oolwsWexSzQ

The Melvins - It's Shoved
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBW9tTpu ... re=related

The Melvins - Sweet Willy Rollbar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvtc3DBKLeE

The Melvins - Boris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U8fRHemfZw

The Melvins - Cow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pMn-kSV ... re=related

The Melvins - Night Goat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EuFXDXu ... re=related

The Melvins - Black Santa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2RAzbgn ... re=related

The Melvins - Let God Be Your Gardener
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjRIogF- ... re=related

Nirvana - Lithium
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGPqgJDYI6M

Dave Grohl - Everlong (first time played acoustically) on Howard Stern
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aexD6d5s ... re=related