General Music/Band Chatter

[Spooner]

Ya know, we've gone almost four years w/out a place to just talk generally about bands we dig, why we dig 'em, talkin' liturgy of the greats, discussing personnel changes over the years; individual musicians, etc.

We've only got a "What Are You Listening To?" thread, which is restricted to just that (which is fine).

So, for all fans of tunery and musicians and just talkin' shit about all the shitty poser music of this current generation of choads, OR showing reverence for the great shit of the past, now we have a thread.

I was thinking of Random Music Thoughts, but we've got more Random threads than Carter's got liver pills.

• • •

Okay, so Diddy brought up the Raconteurs in another thread, and I'll start it off by saying that "Steady As She Goes" (especially the chorus) is just stolen from the great Utopia's "Feet Don't Fail Me Now."

Alright, now we can just freely talk music, especially since :beans: ain't here to clog it up with Slayer and Bon Jovi talk.

'S'talk some music!!

[Belasco]

Blues.

It's all about the blues for me. Chicago style.

Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker... don't get no better.

One of the tunes the Raconteurs did this weekend was called "Blue Veins" and it was a fantastic blues tune - great tempo changes, "dirty" guitar sound, passionate singing, etc. White played a blistering solo on it.

[Spooner]

Welcome to Austin, Belasco!

I'll tell ya one thing, though--thank your lucky stars you didn't grow up a musician. Don't get me wrong, brutha, I love me some swamp and throttled blues like the next cat, but when you've spent over two decades of your life "jamming" with guitar players who do 30-minute solos over the same 12 bars, you could go 20 lifetimes w/out wanting to hear it again. In a way, I'm jealous as hell that you don't have that fucking HEAVY cross to carry. And, you're in JUST the right place for the best kind!

:tip:

[Dr. P]

Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee did some of the best blues harmonies, harp, and guitar for my money. I'll upload some if'n you want, Diddy-mac.

[Belasco]

I'll take it. I hear a lot of them on B.B. King's Bluesville (XM channel 74) and it is great.

[Dr. P]

Do you mind negro spirituals? That's the best old recording I have of them. Their later stuff was good, but it's really better recorded in a take than the studio stuff.

[Spooner]

^^Oh, okay, Mavis... you talkin' 'bout "Scrub That Baby Down..."? lmao

[Heap]

Speaking of blues...if "Guitar Shorty" is in your area, it might be worth checking him out. He's Hendrix's godfather, or some shit like that, but has a killer set. Even his rhythm guitarist will get out (after the show) into the hotspots in town after hours and whore a guitar off of one of the local douchebags and shoehorn a few sets in, himself.

[The BYP]

Tom Morello's new album is out today. Listened to a bit of it today on itunes. Sounds very original with lots of acoustic guitar. Tom's the man. You don't get alot of guitarists out there today that forge their own sound.

[mysticllama]

Lately I've been doing RB2 more than Pandora, but you either discover cool new stuff in RB or you get exposed to some truly odious stuff.

My new favorite is "A Jagged Gorgeous Winter" by The Main Drag.

Because anyone who writes a lyric about the cracking of a plastic sled when it's super cold outside pretty much has hooked me. I feel kind of bad that it's kind of bordering (?) on Emo-like territory but big shrug.


This is the time of year when I dig out the old cassettes of Dr Demento Halloween shows and listen to them - I'm the biggest sucker for novelty music, especially about my favorite holiday!! Were Cow and Carmen Miranda's Ghost is Haunting Space Station Three here I come!

[Belasco]

I usually go dark in my music preferences around this time of year. I'm currently in a Psychobilly phase:

Tiger Army
Nekromantix
Bloodsucking Zombies from Outer Space
Ghoultown
Rev. Horton Heat

[Spooner]

I don't know if I've mentioned it, Diddy, but Jose Conseco was playing an upright thunderstick last time I sawr the ol' Reverend. Look for something on YouTube--you might see him. He wasn't wearing an Oakland jersey, though. :tip:

[Sticky Fumblings]

Music, hmmmm, well ...

My taste in music is rather eclectic. As I scroll through my iPod, I've got everything from Mozart to Vivaldi, The Kingston Trio, Eagles, Supertramp, Pink Floyd, most bands of the 80's, when love songs were kind of sappy or edgy instead of having some dude screaming like someone is sawing his balls off with a spork - "Scream-o", I believe the kids call it.

I am especially fond of anything Dr. Demento, in particular his early years to about 1985. I grew up on that shit and I love it! Charlie Drake's "Bent My Assegai" is one of my favorites, but alas, I cannot find it. :( But I *do* have "Big Bad Bruce" by Greenberg.

Anything and everything Weird Al. Josh Groban tends to make me squishy, too.

Gorillaz, Plain White T's, Gym Class Heroes, some Evanesence ...

Only thing missing from rap is the "c". Hate it. (But I like Soulja Boy and two Eminem songs.)

[mysticllama]

Evanesence ...

If you want a leap in production and theatricality, check out Nightwish, especially in the Tarja (lead singer who left) years. If you like THAT, you'll probably also like Leaves' Eyes (If you've ever heard 'Nymphetamine (fix)' by Cradle of Filth (God I love me some COF):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dW6aNAZGTM
6dW6aNAZGTM

She's the clear sounding voice. Her stuff is like Nightwish - symphonic 'gothic' metal.

Coffee's finally kicking in... Didn't mean to go all Pandora.com on you - but thought you may like some other related stuff =) :runaway:

[Sticky Fumblings]

Always appreciate new stuff! Thanks, mystic! :up:



***Edited to add: Just watched the vid. WEIRD, but kinda cool! Gert kept yelling "Whassat??!?" through the whole thing. I think she dug it. LOL

[Spooner]

I couldn't get past the skull & white rose. I was waiting for a raven to fly by, but maybe that comes later.













/quack (you know I kid, Llama)

[mysticllama]

I couldn't get past the skull & white rose. I was waiting for a raven to fly by, but maybe that comes later.

Then some black balloons drop from the sky, and about 15 kids with emo-zoot-chain encrusted trousers around their knees all mope by the camera, simultaneously not looking at the camera and giving over the top tortured looks to it.

Then two goth chicks in black pleather corsets start some production with coffins and razor blades. A guy in a black pleather harness top starts singing something poig-nant and it ends up with everyone dramatically piercing their wrists with intact thorns on a bunch of black dyed roses.

( :rofl: )

[melon]

Llama, Kumway, check out this band "Within Temptation" if you like that gothic metal stuff :up:

Stand My Ground:
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[Sticky Fumblings]

Then some black balloons drop from the sky, and about 15 kids with emo-zoot-chain encrusted trousers around their knees all mope by the camera, simultaneously not looking at the camera and giving over the top tortured looks to it.

Then two goth chicks in black pleather corsets start some production with coffins and razor blades. A guy in a black pleather harness top starts singing something poig-nant and it ends up with everyone dramatically piercing their wrists with intact thorns on a bunch of black dyed roses.

( :rofl: )


Oh, that? That was last Thanksgiving.

[Sticky Fumblings]

Llama, Kumway, check out this band "Within Temptation" if you like that gothic metal stuff :up:


That was rather good, melon! Thanks for the vid:up:

[Nickenheiser]

i just came 'cross this thread...

thanks to spoon for the startup, this is needed.
i go through disk space like an addict when it comes to mp3s. ive had to take off almost all my vids and podcasts on my 80g zune just to have more room to move around.

i can get into almost all music ( i know i hate people who say that too )

the things i cant stand are
ANY country song on the radio after the mid 80s. i love the old stuff slim whitman, h. williams, cash, the story telling song... love em.
ANYthing emo
ANY punk/pop/emo/whiney angst B.S.
those are the first things that come to mind.

has anyone got into "Kings of Leon" ?
ive seen them a few times live now and they put on a great show. almost no difference from album to live, a big plus in my book.

[Nickenheiser]

I usually go dark in my music preferences around this time of year. I'm currently in a Psychobilly phase:

Tiger Army
Nekromantix
Bloodsucking Zombies from Outer Space
Ghoultown
Rev. Horton Heat

:up: :up: :tip:

havnt heard of the other 3 too much, checking them out now. thanks for the suggestions.

[Spooner]

I've *always* said there's simply two kinds of music: good music and shit. Further, you can break that down into good SONGS or SHIT songs. That's where I am.

Take that Lacuna Coil cut "Our Truth" from GH4/RB2 and that Lazy Eye tune by SSPU. The former, I never would've DREAMED of liking a song in that "genre." But, get to that chorus and it's over. Fuckin' great. I have to give a good hook its props, no matter WHERE it comes from. Christ, I have to give Marvin HAMLESCH props for writing "Nobody Does It Better" for Carly Simon in "The Spy Who Loved Me," and he's notoriously cheesy.

It's good or it's shit. No in between. When Jamiroquai came out with Emergency on Planet Earth, it took me by storm (for contemporary funk fusion). Then I hear this song a few weeks ago in a GROCERY STORE, and the hook was so fucking good, that I had to remember a line or two soes I could look it up. I was sick to my stomach to find out it was that ultra-choady heeb poser in Maroon 5 doing a song (Jamiroquai light) called "Sunday Morning." I can't lie--I gotsta give credit where it's due. Good music and shit--that's all it berls down to IMO (whether you're a musician or not).

[Nickenheiser]

I've *always* said there's simply two kinds of music: good music and shit. Further, you can break that down into good SONGS or SHIT songs. That's where I am.

Take that Lacuna Coil cut "Our Truth" from GH4/RB2 and that Lazy Eye tune by SSPU:up: :up: . The former, I never would've DREAMED of liking a song in that "genre." But, get to that chorus and it's over. Fuckin' great. I have to give a good hook its props, no matter WHERE it comes from. Christ, I have to give Marvin HAMLESCH props for writing "Nobody Does It Better" for Carly Simon in "The Spy Who Loved Me," and he's notoriously cheesy.

It's good or it's shit. No in between. When Jamiroquai came out with Emergency on Planet Earth, it took me by storm (for contemporary funk fusion). Then I hear this song a few weeks ago in a GROCERY STORE, and the hook was so fucking good, that I had to remember a line or two soes I could look it up. I was sick to my stomach to find out it was that ultra-choady heeb poser in Maroon 5 doing a song (Jamiroquai light) called "Sunday Morning." I can't lie--I gotsta give credit where it's due. Good music and shit--that's all it berls down to IMO (whether you're a musician or not).

ive had so many moments like that.

gotta say, THANK GOD for those programs what take a snippit from a song and identify it.

[Spooner]

There was a song that was used in a REALLY old Hendrie bumper (not by him, but by the doucheholes who made the clip). It was so muddy and unclear that I couldn't make out a single word (and the clip was 31 seconds). It sounded "Bowie'ish" during his wanna be Reznor period, but good.

So, a year ago, Tabasco says there's a site where you hold your microphone to your speaker, and it recognizes the waveforms, and shoots back the song. THIS MOTHERFUCKER WORKED ON THIS ONE!!! After YEARS of asking people and pulling my hair out, it was "Air Conditioned Nightmare" by Mr. Bungle. Fuck NO, I wouldn't have just rolled across that in my natural progression. It was AWESOME.

[Spooner]

The Man (Paul McCartney) announced that "Carnival of Light," which has been buried somewhere near the earths' core since about '66/7 is probably going to be released (and no doubt, remastered by George Martin). Yoko's a money-hungry Yoko; George is gone and would've gone with anything Paul said anyway; Ringo's got 1/1000th the casheesh what the other two estates have, and Paul owes that one-legged gunt half his earnings.

This WILL happen, and I, for one, am fucking FIRED UP!!!!

Stellar news. STELLAR news. You're right, Ed. This first week under Obama has been KICK-ASS!!!

[Nickenheiser]

The Man (Paul McCartney) announced that "Carnival of Light," which has been buried somewhere near the earths' core since about '66/7 is probably going to be released (and no doubt, remastered by George Martin). Yoko's a money-hungry Yoko; George is gone and would've gone with anything Paul said anyway; Ringo's got 1/1000th the casheesh what the other two estates have, and Paul owes that one-legged gunt half his earnings.

This WILL happen, and I, for one, am fucking FIRED UP!!!!

Stellar news. STELLAR news. You're right, Ed. This first week under Obama has been KICK-ASS!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Spooner]

Any old-school Kate Bush fans around here? If so, anyone fuckin' checked out her last goddamn album from 2005: "Aerial"?!!!

Sweet Christ, fuck knows how old she is now, and she's still bringin' it! Peter fuckin' Erskine on tubs (for openers) and Lol Creme (one of me 'eroes) involved. If yer a fan, check this shit out--double album, too. The title track alone is pretty fuckin' out there. This reminds me, Sade (who has the best live band next to Steely Dan) needs to GODDAMN TOUR! She either died, had kids, or went to get that Snowboarding game with Ed. Either way, I'M fucked.

[Booze]

Ain't that the album that's got Rolf Harris on it?

[Dr. P]

I used to throw on Sade every time I had chicks over for the first time for some wine and grub. Shit I miss making money and not having a beard.

[Spooner]

Ain't that the album that's got Rolf Harris on it?

lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao

Zat yer favorite didgeridoo player... he the same Abo what blows that big bitch in Jamiroquai. You ain't LIVED till you've heard "Journey to Arnhemland" Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!!! My favorite groove of that decade---no doubt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vvweLtkN9Q&feature=related
^^Way better version (musically)---No VR or RR... swear on Booze's green army mug full of TB Sheets.


GIT SUMMA THAT!

[Dr. P]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs-ceWbdT-Q&feature=email
cs-ceWbdT-Q

[Spooner]

Oh my god... that was like a bad Malcolm McClaren April Fools gag. I actually got a migraine after the 20th time they said "small car drivin'" inside of the one-minute mark. HOooooooo.

[Dr. P]

I'm hopin' it's the new SLD roll. :up:

[The BYP]

Not sure how ya'll feel about Green Day, I know they get bagged on a lot, but their new record album (that's right punks, I said record album) is fucking fantasti!!!!!!!

[Spooner]

Tryin' to recapture your late 30s, BYP?

[The BYP]

Damn kids! Get off my lawn!

[The BYP]

On a serious note Spoon, I can't stand listening to what other choads my age listen to. Classic rock was old and tired before they decided to name it classic rock.

[Spooner]

lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao

Dude, I had to drive in my dolly's ride. No Sirius, no XM, no CD's. Here were my choices: Joe Walsh - Life's Been Good (cashbox-edited to be 2:45 long), and then 20 songs that sound like the two Coreys were singing. Gimme "classic rock" ANY day over this current shit. lmao

[The BYP]

2 Coreys? I love that song!

[Spooner]

BYP wears sunglasses at night.

[The BYP]

I have to. So I can, So I can keep track of the visions in my eyes. Plus they match my thong.

[TheWagesofSin]

Waitaminnit...Bip, I thought you were a HUGE Styx fan. That ain't classic rock?!!?

[The BYP]

I am, but the older I get the more bored with it all i am. I have been digging Chickenfoot. Those fuckers are my age.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDo7lQ6Jt8Q
BDo7lQ6Jt8Q

[Spooner]

I just heard this today on Seattle's gay ex-grunge station. They were goofin' on Satriani for being "Comic Book Guy, but he can play guitar." Well, that drummer from RHCP blows ass (but at least he knows it). You really diggin' that, BY? Do they do a cover of Mr. Roboto?

[Spooner]

I have to. So I can, So I can keep track of the visions in my eyes. Plus they match my thong.

Woooops. Missed this.

:rofl:

[The BYP]

Ya, well a little. I've learned alot from Satriani's guitar articles / lessons in guitar world magazine over the years. I was just making a point that bands with members in my demographic are playing Indian casinos. That said have you heard these little fuckers, ages like 15 - 19.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz82TarLmSI
bz82TarLmSI

[Spooner]

Oh, yeah... throw THAT in the You Know Your Ass Is Old thread: When you drive by the Tulalip Casino and almost get in a wreck 'cause you saw Pablo Cruise is playin' there in May. Shoot me.

[The BYP]

Just watched a Jeff Beck concert on Palladia. Man I love that dude. (Yes in a gay way) That fucker can do more with a tremolo bar than any other human being in the world.

[Spooner]

"I Ain't Superstitious" is in my top 100 songs, and I agree -- Beck is England's #1 most underrated guitar player here in 'Merrrricah.

[the deta]

Heading to see NIN and Jane's Addiction in a couple weeks. Rock and Roll Mutha fuckas

[Spooner]

Janes?! AAAAhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao

Hmmmmmmmmm ... yeah, you'll see Perry Ferrell, but thass it, brutha. Instead of Avery, you're gonna get the kid from Hansen; instead of the bald Perkins, you're gonna get Elizabeth Perkins? Drums? You got it: Jeff Dowder.

Have fun, Ed.


Oh, wait. You'll LOVE that ineup.

[the deta]

You don't know what the fuck you're talking about. They're all there.

AAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao

[the deta]

You don't know what the fuck you're talking about. They're all there.

AAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao lmao

:score:

[Pull Out Method]

^That's what I'm talking about right there... nothing like an ed 'sco to make me laugh.

:rofl: :rofl:

[the deta]

GD i really shut spoon down with that shit. I think he pissed his panties and ran off !

He cant hang with the big dog!

<-------OOOooooooo YEaaaaaaaaaaa

[The BYP]

I saw what happens to people that hang with the big dogs, Fuck that!

[Spooner]

Thanks, Ed. Coffee on my shitty aluminum Mac keyboard; coffee in my lap; coffee on my screen. Each farmer shot came out with each of your three posts. :rofl: x100000000000000000000000000

You old HACK. Have you seen 'em lately??? Steve Perkins is bald and weighs in ... well, he weighs about as much you ... Perry Farrell looks like Margaret Hamilton. Navarro? Well, he got kicked out of the Chilis on accounna he blows ass. HAVE FUN, MOUNTAIN HESH!! Who else is on the bill, Kajagoogoo?

[the deta]

:up: You shouldnt drink coffee anyway. Shit is crap for ya.

[Spooner]

Yer right. Pass me one a them Chili Cheese Burritos. I'll throw it in a blender and swill it -- gots 8 essential vitamins & minerals, and riboflavin.

[the deta]

Now you're talkin.

[Belasco]

Anybody here dig the psychobilly stylings of Mojo Nixon? That crazy bastard made his entire album back catalog and his new album available for free download through Amazon.

I hadn't heard much of his stuff, but SiriusXM played his "Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant With My Two Headed Love Child (http://www.amazon.com/Debbie-Gibson-Pregnant-Headed-Child/dp/B000QPCHQO/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1256780055&sr=1-10)" on Outlaw Country last week and I got hooked.

Other choice titles are:

Don Henley Must Die
The Poontango
What's Up Judge Judy's Ass?
Art Fag Shuffle
Rock n Roll Hall of Lame
I'm Wanna Kill My Wife Tonight



I think his stuff is available for free until the end of the month...

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-music&field-keywords=mojo+nixon&x=0&y=0

[Franks n Beans]

Belasco man, you're weird.

[TheWagesofSin]

lmao lmao lmao lmao

I don't think Belasco's weird...I'm just questioning if Mojo Nixon's still alive, since his most recent cultural reference is Judge Judy.

[Belasco]

The new album also has " Dr. Laura Who Made You God?"

[djb]

Wow, thanks for the heads up. I saw Mojo a jillion times in San Diego in the 1980's. He lived and played constantly here for years.

[TheWagesofSin]

The new album also has " Dr. Laura Who Made You God?"

lmao lmao lmao lmao

Well, actually, if he's making talk radio references, who's more current? Laura fuckin' Ingraham? lmfao

[Spooner]

Mojo & Top Jimmy ... two of the oldest Cali-club haunts I can remember rembemberin' ... remember? Oh, and the Zeros, whose name was befitting.

[CommunistaCow]

Anyone hear what's wrong with Dio? I just heard on XM that he's in the hospital, but they didn't give any details. Good gawd, if it turns out he's a pillow-biter, I'm jumping.

[The BYP]

He was dio-gnosed with Holy Diverticulitus

[CommunistaCow]

He was dio-gnosed with Holy Diverticulitus

=D&gt;

Oh, you are bad.