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Post by nuraman00 on Sept 14, 2020 11:08:43 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2020 15:45:38 GMT -8
Rolling Stone came out with a new Top 500 Albums of All Time list: www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=62479Refreshing that the top 10 wasn't dominated by Beatles, Dylan or Radiohead. Marvin Gaye's What's Going On was #1. I'm listening to #3-Joni Mitchell's Blue right now. Thoughts? Trying to figure out what albums I should add to my Spotify library. |
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Post by clipsentuboca on Sept 28, 2020 19:59:49 GMT -8
Going to check out that Joni Mitchell album as never heard her music, but heard so much about her. Cheers. A brilliant female contemporary singer/musician/songwriter is Catherine Anne Davies who records under the stage name of "The Anchoress". Her debut 'Confessions of a romance novelist' is incredible and she's about to release her second album hopefully this year.
Mainly listen to reggae and brit pop or american bands who lend more towards the avant-garde (velvet underground, scott walker). Favorite album of all-time is likely 'Pioneer Soundtracks' by Jack and can comfortably say Top 5 songs include 'Burial Dub' by Sly & Robbie, 'Taking Islands in Africa' by Japan/Sakamoto, 'Notorious Lightning' from Canadian artist in Destroyer (Dan Bejar), 'War is Over' - Mighty Two, and 'No bones for the dogs' by The Upsetters.
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Post by corkscrew on Oct 1, 2020 11:57:56 GMT -8
Rolling Stone came out with a new Top 500 Albums of All Time list: www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=62479Refreshing that the top 10 wasn't dominated by Beatles, Dylan or Radiohead. Marvin Gaye's What's Going On was #1. I'm listening to #3-Joni Mitchell's Blue right now. Thoughts? Trying to figure out what albums I should add to my Spotify library. I think the idea of selecting the top anything in any artistic field in fundamentally, irreparably flawed. Selecting the top 10 may be less flawed but still flawed, and the top 500 also flawed, albeit even less so. What does make some sense is to designate one work as definitely not the best, and I think Marvin Gaye's What's Going On is definitely not the best, not even in the top 30-50, actually. And I think the central reason "the best" cannot possibly be selected is because it depends on so many variable criteria that it becomes a futile exercise. How are albums evaluated? Songwriting? Musicianship? Talent? Originality? Production value? And if it's a combination of all of the above, are these criteria all equal in importance or some more than others? And to whom, who is the audience, men, women, children, teens, seniors? And here is where this flawed thinking leads to: Rolling Stone names Marvin Gaye's album What's Going On and the best of the best and yet they name Marvin Gaye as only the 82nd best songwriter. And if you look at who they selected as better songwriters, you'll shake your head in disbelief: www.rollingstone.com/interactive/lists-100-greatest-songwriters/#joe-strummer-and-mick-jones |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2020 14:27:24 GMT -8
Rolling Stone came out with a new Top 500 Albums of All Time list: www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=62479Refreshing that the top 10 wasn't dominated by Beatles, Dylan or Radiohead. Marvin Gaye's What's Going On was #1. I'm listening to #3-Joni Mitchell's Blue right now. Thoughts? Trying to figure out what albums I should add to my Spotify library. I think the idea of selecting the top anything in any artistic field in fundamentally, irreparably flawed. Selecting the top 10 may be less flawed but still flawed, and the top 500 also flawed, albeit even less so. What does make some sense is to designate one work as definitely not the best, and I think Marvin Gaye's What's Going On is definitely not the best, not even in the top 30-50, actually. And I think the central reason "the best" cannot possibly be selected is because it depends on so many variable criteria that it becomes a futile exercise. How are albums evaluated? Songwriting? Musicianship? Talent? Originality? Production value? And if it's a combination of all of the above, are these criteria all equal in importance or some more than others? And to whom, who is the audience, men, women, children, teens, seniors? And here is where this flawed thinking leads to: Rolling Stone names Marvin Gaye's album What's Going On and the best of the best and yet they name Marvin Gaye as only the 82nd best songwriter. And if you look at who they selected as better songwriters, you'll shake your head in disbelief: www.rollingstone.com/interactive/lists-100-greatest-songwriters/#joe-strummer-and-mick-jonesYou are on to something Corkscrew. I find music is so personal that I never trust music reviews. What is really important is do I like it and my taste is based a lot on "good beat and easy to dance to". I don't spend a lot of time obsessing on the technical details.* For karaoke, I like a lot of stuff from the 70s because more songs told stories as opposed to a lot of music from the 80s that was more about the look of the band or the video. What I want to get out of the Rolling Stone list or recommendations is what music should I check out to expand my horizon. Using Pandora's recommendation engine has turned me on to some interesting bands like The Steeldrivers and Nathaniel Rateliff & The Nightsweats. Spotify gave me a new appreciation for the first 2 albums of the B-52s. *I did spend some time last week trying to figure out who was the greatest drummer of all time after watching a Howard Stern clip where he asked Lars Ulrich that question. After extensive research, my vote is for Gene Krupa. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2020 12:54:11 GMT -8
One of the greatest rock guitarists, Eddie Van Halen, just passed away. Hendrix may have been the best, but Eddie was up there.
Love the early David Lee Roth incarnation of VH.
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Post by samiam19 on Oct 7, 2020 7:32:19 GMT -8
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Post by nuraman00 on Oct 12, 2020 16:16:40 GMT -8
One of the greatest rock guitarists, Eddie Van Halen, just passed away. Hendrix may have been the best, but Eddie was up there. Love the early David Lee Roth incarnation of VH. My top Diamond Dave era Van Halen songs (I don't have any of their albums, so this is just based on what I know. If they ever would have toured, and agreed to play both David Lee Roth songs AND Sammy Hagar songs, I would have gone to see them. I didn't want to go, knowing one era would be dismissed). * Mean Street * Hot For Teacher * Everybody Wants Some!! * Ain't Talkin' 'bout love |
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Post by nuraman00 on Oct 12, 2020 22:31:38 GMT -8
You are on to something Corkscrew. I find music is so personal that I never trust music reviews. What is really important is do I like it and my taste is based a lot on "good beat and easy to dance to". I don't spend a lot of time obsessing on the technical details.* For karaoke, I like a lot of stuff from the 70s because more songs told stories as opposed to a lot of music from the 80s that was more about the look of the band or the video. This isn't from the 70s, but how do you feel about music from Franz Ferdinand? |
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Post by nuraman00 on Dec 8, 2020 16:00:48 GMT -8
Today is the anniversary of Lennon's death.
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Post by nuraman00 on Jan 27, 2021 14:20:12 GMT -8
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Post by clipps on Jan 27, 2021 16:50:06 GMT -8
I wasn't thinking of it, but I did see that same show when they toured in Denver. It was pretty awesome. They started with other classics and finished off with Images and Words. Their most recent show I saw, they played their most recent album and finished up with Metropolis 2: Scenes of a Memory... Pretty cool.
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Post by nuraman00 on Aug 24, 2021 22:33:40 GMT -8
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Post by nuraman00 on Oct 9, 2021 1:03:39 GMT -8
Are any of you going to post some thoughts?
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Post by corkscrew on Oct 11, 2021 22:21:56 GMT -8
I’ve been spending more time listening to jazz lately, more specifically rediscovering Django Reinhardt, the Gipsy jazz guitarist. I first listened to him years ago and I was amazed at his playing and his story. Lately though, following one of my YouTube rabbit holes, I revisited his playing and his legacy, and gained more appreciation than ever before.
The remarkable thing about Django Reinhardt, who is said to be the father of all modern jazz guitar, was how he came to develop his style of playing. As a young, newly married traveling gypsy, he, his wife and newborn baby were caught in a fire. Trying to save his family, his left hand was badly burnt and he lost two of his fingers on his left hand. So he had to reinvent his guitar playing to using only two fingers instead of four.
Listen to his 1937 recording of his now classic Minor Swing. What he does with the guitar is nothing short of mind-boggling:
Here is one of many interpretations of the same piece, this one by Gretchen Menn, except she is performing it with four fingers. He did it with two.
There is no footage (that I have found) of him playing the piece with two fingers, but there is this of him playing a different piece.
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