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T. Rex - Electric Warrior

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Bloomfield, Kooper & Stills - Super Session

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Boz Scaggs - Boz Scaggs

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In the rap/hip-hop genre, I'll throw out:

A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders or Low End Theory
Little Brother - The Menstral Show
GZA - Liquid Swords
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
Cormega - The Testament
Nas - Illmatic
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
Outkast - ATLiens or Aquimeni
The Roots - Illadelph Halflife or Do You Want More or Things Fall Apart
The Streets - Original Pirate Material or A Grand Don't Come for Free (this is a weird British(?) rap group. both their albums are really hit or miss, but the 'hits' are really good IMO)
Sage Francis - Personal Journals (won't like it unless you're really into underground rap/hip-hop)
Common - Like Water for Chocolate

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definitely been meaning to download the weakerthans. that said, I'm asking for specific albums.

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Reconstruction Site is amazing.

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i prefer Left and Leaving, but they are both brillinat. imo Fallow sucks.

Matt Pond PA - Several Arrows Later
 

halloween alaska - too tall to hide (kinda electronic)
his name is alive - stars on ESP (weird math stuff...pretty voiced gal)
whiskeytown - strangers almanc (alt country)
the cult - Love (rock)
sebadoh - bakesale (indie stuff)

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definitely been meaning to download the weakerthans. that said, I'm asking for specific albums.

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Reconstruction site is their best, by a long shot. But, Im still not that fond of it.

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that is becuase you suck at musicing. now get on your bike and get to vegas.

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I tried to get some stuff from genres not yet recommended.

Links go to amazon.com for easy sampling of the albums. If this isn't kosher, I apologize and will remove the links.


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Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
Flight of the Cosmic Hippo


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Kevin Gilbert
Thud


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California Guitar Trio
CG3+2


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Mr. Bungle
Mr. Bungle


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Genesis
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway


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Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Beethoven's Last Night

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Plastic Ono Band.

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I'm looking for non-indie stuff. I don't care if it's techno, jazz, pop, classical, metal, rap, new, old, etc. Whatever you like listening to and have been diggin' lately, just spout it off and I'll do my best to get a copy of it and I'll give it a short review.

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To try out some cool downbeat check out anything by the following:

1. Thievery Corporation
2. The Dining Rooms
3. Morcheeba

It'll get ya laid if you play it at the right time with the right chick.

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Jack of Arcades,

Try Muse - Absolution is great.

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Good stuff I've been playing lately:

Lucinda Williams:
- Cart Wheels on a Gravel Road
- World Without Tears

Emmylou Harris: Wrecking Ball

Cowboy Junkies:
- Trinity Sessions
- Caution Horses

Ned Sublette: Cowboy Rumba

Maria McKee: (self titled solo album)

Over the Rhine: Good Dog Bad Dog, The Home Recordings

Soundtrack to "Last of the Mohicans"

Keep in mind I'm 51 years old and some/many people think I'm a nit. Perhaps my opinions should be disregarded.

~ Rick

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this has been fun to listen to recently... keeps me nice and relaxed:

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Yeah I've been listening to this one a lot recently too. He's something different and has a very mellow sound.

Also I recomend Dream Theater: Metropolis
Sit down with it and some candles (or low lighting) and read through the lyrics as you listen. Then find your own meaning to the story. I love concept albums.

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Hardcore:
Cro Mags- The Age Of Quarrel
Integrity- Humanity Is The Devil
Killing Time- Brightside


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Brightside and Age of Quarrel are classics. But you have to be kidding me with Humanity is the Devil. Those Who Fear Tomorrow is what Integrity is all about. It is a hardcore classic and makes Humanity is the Devil look like a pile of steaming dung.

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Good stuff I've been playing lately:

Lucinda Williams:
- Cart Wheels on a Gravel Road
- World Without Tears

Emmylou Harris: Wrecking Ball

Cowboy Junkies:
- Trinity Sessions
- Caution Horses

Ned Sublette: Cowboy Rumba

Maria McKee: (self titled solo album)

Over the Rhine: Good Dog Bad Dog, The Home Recordings

Soundtrack to "Last of the Mohicans"

Keep in mind I'm 51 years old and some/many people think I'm a nit. Perhaps my opinions should be disregarded.

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Excellent call on the Last of the Mohicans Soundtrack.

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Just realized that not everybody recognizes this as the greatest album evah: Toad the Wet Sprocket's "Fear". I'll never tire of that disc.

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Greatful Dead and or Phish, and I cant recommend Albulms just live concerts. Go Grab any Dicks Picks (the Dead) from prior to 76 or any Live Phish from 90-96
THe have them in stires, usually there 2 disk sets. If you like it you can download tons more for free.

If you really start to dig the Jam Bands you can dive into , Disco Biscuits, Moe, Govt Mule and Medski Martin and Wood as well as about 20 others I can't name but rock.

If you like trancey/trippy stuff, Try DJ Logic - Project Logic

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Greatful Dead and or Phish, and I cant recommend Albulms just live concerts. Go Grab any Dicks Picks (the Dead) from prior to 76 or any Live Phish from 90-96
THe have them in stires, usually there 2 disk sets. If you like it you can download tons more for free.

If you really start to dig the Jam Bands you can dive into , Disco Biscuits, Moe, Govt Mule and Medski Martin and Wood as well as about 20 others I can't name but rock.

If you like trancey/trippy stuff, Try DJ Logic - Project Logic

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For Dead albums check out:
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Workingman's Dead

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American Beauty

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I guess working mans dead would be the standard, but I don't own any studio albulms from either band so I couldn't tell you. Though Skeletons from the Closet is the standard albulm in most Juke Boxes

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I'm not a big greatest hits fan, but that's me.

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lol. I just can't imagine anyone recommending those eminem and dre albums over others they've made. like I said, the killers suck, and I don't think anyone really needs to recommend tupac and biggie

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To be honest, I just named the killers off the top of my head because I didn't have many rock groups listed. Also, you said whatever we've been listening to lately, not the best, I reccomended the albums of those artists that I've been listening to. If you want the best, that's subjective, and you should have said "I want the best." Do you think old green day sucks? I haven't listened to old weezer, but I like the stuff I've heard of them. Anyway, if you're gonna be a prick about my reccomendations, being what I've been listening to lately, I suggest go with what somebody else reccomended, Mac Dre.

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Billie Holiday - Billie's Best
Mofro - Blackwater
Gomez - Bring It On
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cold Roses (2 disc set)
Martin Sexton - Live Wide Open (2 disc set)
Jeff Buckley - Mystery White Boy (Live)
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Chris Isaak - Speak of the Devil
Ray LaMontagne - Trouble
Reckless Kelly - Under the Table & Above the Sun
North Mississippi All Stars - 51 Phantom
Amos Lee - Amos Lee
The Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony & Musical Companion

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Rick: Good stuff. It's probably time for a female singer/songwriter thread.

Harv: That Toad album is pretty good, but sounds a little dated imo.

Jack: You check out that BV3K album yet? It rules.

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Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine + Four and More. this is his second quintet kicking ass at carnegie hall. Miles said the band got in a huge fight before the show and everyone was mad as hell at each other and that's why it kicks so much ass. tony williams, then 18, also lights a fire under everyone else better than anyone on this record.

Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello - Painted From Memory. I think these are some of the best songs ever written. this album is perfect.

Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra - Concert in the Garden. My personal favorite living composer, easily the most unique composer in jazz today.

Fred Hersch and Bill Frisell - Songs we know. Fred is a Bill Evans disciple and Frisell is Frisell. Very textural album considering it's a piano/guitar duo.

Ben Monder - Excavation. very very modern compositions for guitar, bass, drums and voice (wordless).

John Coltrane - The Olatunji Concert. this is Trane's last recording before he died, with Alice Coltrae, Rashied Ali, Jimmy Garrison and Pharoah Sanders. Extremely noisy and avant garde, but possibly some of the most searing music every recorded. Trane sounds like he is staring down death on this.

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John Paul Jones-Zooma

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try these for something a little different if you don't already know them:

os mutantes - s/t (late 60s brazilian band)

monks - black monk time (60s american GIs stationed in
germany making truly unique rock'n'roll. nothing like them.)

sam the sham & the pharoahs - best of, or whatever.(60s rocknroll. the dudes that sing 'wooly bully' and 'lil red riding hood')

wailers - 'boys from tacoma' (60s instrumental rocknroll.)

gories - anything by the gories. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] early 90s garage/punk/rocknroll from deeeetroit.

falcons - i found a love (60s r&b/soul, lead by wilson pickett. great stuff)

lyres - on fyre, ahs 1005 (80s, boston based, post-DMZ. garage/psych/rocknroll)

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THE SONICS-HERE ARE THE SONICS

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The best CD I bought this year was released in 1999. It's from a band called Union. The band has Bruce Kulick from Kiss and John Corabi from Motley Crue. I'm not a big Kiss or Crue fan, but this cd is great. It's hard to find in my area though, but you can get it here:

Union

Some other good CDs I bought this year (I'm probably skipping a bunch, but I buy anywhere from 5-10 CDs a month on average.

Black Label Society - Mafia
Nickelback - All the Wrong Reasons
Disturbed - 10,000 Fists
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Essential SRV

I'm drawing a blank right now. I'm at work. I've bought some real turds this year, but these are above are pretty good. Trust me on the Union CD. If you want to sample some songs, my favorites are "Robin's Song" and "Love (I don't it anymore)".

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Predator,

"John Corabi from Motley Crue."

Come on, now.

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Jack: You check out that BV3K album yet? It rules.

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haven't been able to find it but I've heard a little bit of it and I agree.

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whiskeytown - strangers almanc (alt country)


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For what it's worth - I picked this name after listening to Pneunomia - though I picked it online before I picked it as the nic. for this board.

RB

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this band is pretty indie/hipster but i can't remember anyone ever posting about them. Le Tigre, a very "different" sound, but fun to listen to when I'm getting ready to go out. Kinda feminist/political punkish/8th grade garage band energy and sound:
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Another CD I absolutely love (and hipster but I haven't heard anyone talk about it either), Nouvelle Vague. All '80's punk covers, not exactly how you would expect to hear them. I really [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] this cd and I am a sucker for female vocalists:
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Jack: You check out that BV3K album yet? It rules.

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haven't been able to find it but I've heard a little bit of it and I agree.

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Have you heard 'Drinking in LA' yet?.. because if you havent, its SOOOOOOO good.

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Muse, not just absolution but all their albums.
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ditto on the Martin Modeski and Woods -great band. You can download their shows from Archive.org or Etree.org

some "electronica" recommendations.... am I the only one on this entire 2+2 community who likes this stuff????

Pole Folder - Zero Gold --- best electronic "artist" album in the past few years - definitely check it out.

Sasha and Digweed - Northern Exposure North/South - all time classic progressive house music mix - Nothing comes close to this mix in terms of quality - will never be topped

Balance 005 - James Holden - pixie trance master's trippy mix

Everything But the Girl - Back to Mine - DJ mix of their favorite songs - perfect mellow music.

Richard Dorfmeister - Richard Dorfmeister Presents A Different Drummer Selection ---great mellow DJ mix of reggae tunes from one of the best downtempo artists around

LTJ Bukem - Logical Progression - the all time classic drum and bass album

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Jackson C. Frank - Blues Run the Game
1965
Folk

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Only album he realeased. It's amazing.

His story is heartbreaking and interesting. This article is a pretty good bio. It was written in 1995. Jackson died in 1999.

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jazz:

arthur doyle-the songwriter

enjoy!

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Circa Survive - Juturna
The Receiving End of Sirens - Between the Heart and the Synapse
Cartel - Chroma
Mae - Destination: Beautiful
Copeland - In Motion
Fall of Troy - Doppelganger

Cartel, Mae and Copeland are all emo bands
TREOS and Circa Survive are similar technically sound rock bands
Fall of Troy is crazy and screamy


P.S. Trapt is terrible, as is Shinedown, etc... pop rock, yuck... Nickelback?!?! Puke!
Enjoy OP!
~Justin

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Mushroom Jazz--Mark Farina

there are 5 in the series, i love 4, but they are all Great!

cheers. J.

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I second Mae - Everglow, and Mars Volta as the only great cd's I saw in this whole thread.
~Justin

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Hardcore:
Cro Mags- The Age Of Quarrel
Integrity- Humanity Is The Devil
Killing Time- Brightside


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Vocal Test!
Hollow!
Psychological Warfare!
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Micha

In my humble opinion.

So far we have Magic, poker, and hardcore in common. What is next?

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Circa Survive - Juturna
The Receiving End of Sirens - Between the Heart and the Synapse
Cartel - Chroma
Mae - Destination: Beautiful
Copeland - In Motion
Fall of Troy - Doppelganger

Cartel, Mae and Copeland are all emo bands
TREOS and Circa Survive are similar technically sound rock bands
Fall of Troy is crazy and screamy


P.S. Trapt is terrible, as is Shinedown, etc... pop rock, yuck... Nickelback?!?! Puke!
Enjoy OP!
~Justin

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Fall of Troy is awesome, I second that recommendation. Copeland is also decent.