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OK, in our one-thread tradition of "Greatest ...", here's Greatest Music.
What you favorite music ever/at the moment? Wich genre?
Mine: Definetely Tool! DOn't know quite the genre, something like 'very melodic heavy-metalish kinda rock music'. Interesting lyrics, with some anti-religion, anti-drugs subjects (like my status line). This band actually makes a lot of things up, like most of their own bographies and their mysterious lyrics, wich the lead singer sometimes mumbles so softly, you can hardly hear them.
Then there's Limp Bizkit, Rage Against The Machine, Beck, Foo Fighters, Skunk Anansie, Deftones, A Perfect Circle, Fatboy Slim, Chemical Brothers, Lit and The Prodigy.
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Tori Amos -- my girl. Nine Inch Nails -- the first best 'angst' band. David Bowie -- perennial class, despite Iggy Stardust. Sting -- For 'Ten Summoner's Tales' alone, he deserves immortality. Peter Gabriel -- 'Washing of the Water' - my theme song. Live -- a great PA band with some wondrous takes on spirituality and religion. Queen -- Queen needs no explanation. TMBG -- same here. The 'Stones -- Jack Flash. Metallica -- The black album, and S&M. Enya -- Gaelic frost, ethereal melody, all that cool stuff. Judy Garland -- my girlfriend made me listen to her. Sings with great emotion, and is NOT just a 'belter' as is commonly assumed. Frank Sinatra -- The Chairman of the Board. Willie Nelson -- One of maybe three country-type singers I'll listen to. And he does more. Paul Robeson -- who sings better than any rap singer ever did or ever will. Possibly the greatest black singer I've ever heard.
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Definitely Pink Floyd. Also toss in Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, They Might Be Giants, Supertramp, the Grateful Dead, the Rolling Stones, the Doors, Chicago, Clapton, Hendrix, some Metallica, some Ozzy Osbourne, and many others I'm sure I'm forgetting...
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Music is a very personal and often a very eclectic choice.
Looking at the CD's I have at my desk here at work, most are Jazz related. Mmmmm Jazz.
Miles Davis (16 discs) Dave Brubeck (8 discs) John Coltrane (5 discs) Harry Connick Jr. (9 discs) Wynton Marsalis (4 discs) Herbie Hancock (3 discs) Thelonious Monk (4 discs) Diana Krall (5 discs) Mmmmm Diana Krall
ect....Roughly 115 Jazz discs total
But I have others....
They Might Be Giants (6 discs) Props to Sol The Beatles (6 discs) Sting / Police (4 discs)
Oh, I have more, but that I guess is enough.
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Sometimes I wish I was a music major. I know one, but she's a little goofy.
The following list is by no means complete, and beyond the first two the numbers are meaningless. In fact, I think I shall forget to include them. Yes.
1.) They Might Be Giants. Quite simply the greatest combination of man and machine since the Third Zibroxi War. Plus, they rawk! Frank already gave one URL, but here's another.
2.) Soul Coughing. The second greatest band in the universe. M. Doughty is one of my favorite poets. I wish I was him, minus most of the drugs. They are no longer together. I cried. Then I wrote an essay about them.
3.) Oh, wait, I said after the first two the numbers were meaningless, didn't I? Well, we'll just go with random ones, then.
5.) Squirrel Nut Zippers. It's been said that they make theme songs for nightmares. Tired of that horribly trashy neoswing craze, but still hungry for something to fill that modern take on pre-WWII music? Give 'em a try.
10.) Beck. Notice how we're getting more mainstream as I go along? Anyway, Beck is cool. Modern Dylan, yadda yadda yadda. Plus, the video for Sexxlaws featured a stove and a fridge having sex.
15.) R.E.M. Don't go back to Rockville. Why? No one knows. Stipe didn't know how to annunciate yet. But it's damned good advice, just like the rest of their catalog. Plus: "Wire in a fire, representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site. Left of west and coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck."
20.) And now we're getting back into nonmainstream land. XTC. Why? Because Andy Partridge is one of the world's great songwriters, and "Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her, Kiss Her" was written specifically for me.
Crap, you know what, there are a whole host of others. I'll list more later. For now, everyone glide over to the local record store and pick up a copy of 69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields.
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Hey, what about that disc I sent you Sol????
Only the best jazz album ever, Kind of Blue. Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, ect....
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Well, I'm trying to list bands that I have some small bit of knowledge about. I could sing the praises of Saint Coltrane, for instance, but it wouldn't be coming from personal experience.
But yes, Kind of Blue is a wonderful album that everyone should own.
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As opposed to them, say, producing quality music? That's how bands were noticed in the old days.
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