Recommend music to people that haven't requested it

[Plan Austral]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
You guys ever have a threesome?

I recommend to snapcase he listen to Mahler's 5th symphony so he can see that great classical music is passionate and not the work of churning out things for patrons.

Mahlers 5th is awesome!

[Plan Austral]

Buck, I would recommend you Hejira by Joni Mitchell, from 1976, her last truly great album (even though Turbulent Inidigo is quite good), all the songs in Hejira are winners, it is a really influential jazz-rock album and it features an early Jaco Pastorious from before he got big.
Lyrics are great and they document some kind of journey across north America.
Downloadable songs, Black Crow, Amelia and refugee of the roads.

[Ben Kenobi]

So much potential in this thread.


Nothing better than forcing music on others

Che- you get Beatles no. 1 album to suit your exquisite refined taste in music.

[Immortal Wombat]

Sloww, get Aint no Liberal by the Foremen

[Skanky Burns]

Mayhem of Oz.

Unfortunately at the moment they are a local band, and you can't actually find any of their stuff on the net yet, so its kind of pointless me recommending them.

Boris should listen to Mayhem.

[molly bloom]

For your listening pleasure I recommend:

Classical:

Thomas Tallis's Lamentations of Jeremiah or Spem in Alium

Abbess Hildegard of Bingen: A Feather on the Breath of God or Ordo Virtutum

Anne Dudley: Ancient and Modern

Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble: Mnemosyne

World music(silly title, I know):

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: Devotional Songs or Night Song

Toumani Diabate: Kaira

Baaba Maal and Mansour Seck: Djam Leelii

Chaba Zahouania: Nights Without Sleeping

Electronically:

Cabaret Voltaire: 2 X 45 or Red Mecca

Cluster & Eno: Cluster & Eno

Kraftwerk: Trans Europe Express

Throbbing Gristle: 20 Jazz Funk Greats

D.A.F. : Fur Immer

To feed the Soul:

Aretha Franklin: Live At Fillmore West

Sly and the Family Stone: There's A Riot Goin' On

Gil Scott Heron: From South Africa to South Carolina and The Mind Of...

Shirley Brown: Woman to Woman

Isaac Hayes: Black Moses

Marvin Gaye: What's Goin' On (reissue dbl c.d.)

Singer Songwriter:

Natalie Merchant: Tigerlily

The McGarrigles and Guests: The McGarrigle Hour

Beth Hirsch: Early Days

Shawn Colvin: Live 88


These I have loved....

[Boris Godunov]

And I thought I could be pretentious musically...

[Hobbes]

Boris, listen to some Phish!

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Hobbes
Boris, listen to some Phish!

I have. Several HS friends were nuts about them. Hippie potheads.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
And I thought I could be pretentious musically...

If that's a reference to me, I can say in my defence I own and enjoy all my recommendations.

To what am I alleged to be pretending? I have been a serious Eno fan since I first bought 'Discreet Music' in 1980, but enjoyed his work since 1972- when I first saw at a tender nine years of age, Roxy Music performing on Top of the Pops, - a blistering rendition of 'Virginia Plain'.

Similarly, I first heard Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan on a Womad compilation, it was the track 'Allah Hoo' if I recall.
Since then I have assiduously purchased his recordings and seen him perform live, but only once, before his tragic, far too early death.

I have had the good fortune to see Gil Scott Heron live, once in 1984 with a pared down band of four, and in 1998, with a larger group.

If the choices seem pretentious to you, then tant pis. You listen to what you like. I know what I like.

[Boris Godunov]

Apparently you don't know how smilies work. They denote light sarcasm.

[molly bloom]

No. I do understand smilies, it's just that a combination of sunburn and hayfever is making uncharacteristically cranky and quick to anger.

Apologies tendered for misapprehensions laboured under.

Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

[CapitanGarlic]

Hmm...I'm gonna say everyone go out and listen to UB40.

[monolith94]

I have been meaning to get more Sly & family stone…

[Buck Birdseed]

Star Trek Fans!

You all need to buy the newly-released compilation Journey Into Space by The Vulcans. I've no idea why you in perticualr really, except for the name and some of the song titles, but it's really cool if strange mid-seventies Moog-based reggae.