DrGonzo
Mogwai - Mr Beast
Isis - Oceanic
all hail post-rock/metal music!!
Bob-Dubery
Top of my current listening pops are
- Loudon Wainwright III - Career Moves
- Ry Cooder - Bop Till You Drop
The latter is one of my faves in terms of ensemble playing. Cooder is really a band leader on this album, and the band includes David Lindley. So two fab guitar players on one album, and both of them seem to have their egos well under control. I always enjoy listening to Cooder's and Lindley''s interlocking and complementary guitar parts on this album. There's also Jim Keltner on drums with a typically marvelous performance.
Riaan-Combrink
This week I've had Steven Bishop, Tommy Emanuel, Steely Dan's Aja and Life'll Kill Ya by Warren Zevon on rotation in the car's mp3-player.
bENDER
As I was typing this....The Beatles - A Day In The Life, then Hatebreed - Proven started.... ?
dee
Iron Maiden's latest DVD/Live album, called Flight 666.
Wow....
I'm not a metal fan, but this simply blows me away. On the DVD you can clearly see they are truly still having fun doing what they do, and that translates into their music as well...
Squonk
I have kind of delved into the 60's and have been listening to "The Kinks" and 'The Who", These bands were so creative and have influenced many of the modern bands.
For a really power rock band, listen to "The Who Live at Leeds".
Frans-B--Cocq
Right now I have some Kamelot playing...
needleshy
megadeth youthanasia!!!!!!! right on the money
Wizard
Deep Purple - Child in Time
Squonk
I was listening to Alter Bridge's first Album.
Myles kennedy has an awesome voice.
Bob-Dubery
I've been listening to The Band's first two albums. I know the second one is supposed to be the one, but I prefer the feel and sound of Music From Big Pink - everything about that album sounds very organic.
I am becoming a big fan of Richard Manuel's singing.
Squonk
@ Bob
Must get into the Band, I saw "The Last Waltz" a while back and started reading up on them.
The only album I ever had was "Before the Flood", a live album they did with Bob Dylan.
Very interesting mix of music
Squonk
Another album I am listening to is "Imagery Suite" with
Maurizio Colonna on classical guitar and Frank Gambale on acoustic and electric guitar.
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Hahaha - I have the Last Waltz DVD (way superior to the (in my opinion) rubbish Shine a Light), and apparently that was the first instance of the "travelling booger matte", because backstage Neil Young had schnarfed so much cocaine that when he came out onstage he had a rock the size of Gibraltar hanging off the end of his schnoz. So Scorcese and the editing team had to go frame by frame and block it out for the sensitive cinema public.
It's a good film (and that horn section at the beginning of The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down is absolutely fantastic), but I resented the crappy version of The Weight from the sound stage. Even the chords/bass counterpoint were (as far as my ears can tell, from the Easy Rider soundtrack as a reference - I don't have any of The Band's albums) simplified, dumbed-down. And that song is the whole reason I bought the flipping DVD. Anyhoo...
I've been listening to lots and lots of Bloc Party recently. Precocious songwriting talents and, to my mind, the best debut I've heard in ten years (and I like the other two albums very much as well).
Spyke
Stratisfear wrote:
I've been listening to lots and lots of Bloc Party recently. Precocious songwriting talents and, to my mind, the best debut I've heard in ten years (and I like the other two albums very much as well).
I'm a big fan of Bloc Party. There's something refreshing about their sound. Russell is quite a guitarist and very secretive with regards to his effects. Kele's voice is also entertaining.
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Agreed. While some people point to stuff like Gang of Four, etc, to say they're heavily derivative, Bloc Party's understandably (and rightly) condemned that as lazy journalism. I find them very refreshing, even if their live performances are often a little disappointing compared with their superb album production.
And I remember Russell once, in some interview, saying maybe the excoriating sound he had on a solo could be explained by old, battered cables. He's a little master at tonal wild goose chases and red herrings!
Spyke
Stratisfear wrote:
Agreed. While some people point to stuff like Gang of Four, etc, to say they're heavily derivative, Bloc Party's understandably (and rightly) condemned that as lazy journalism. I find them very refreshing, even if their live performances are often a little disappointing compared with their superb album production.
And I remember Russell once, in some interview, saying maybe the excoriating sound he had on a solo could be explained by old, battered cables. He's a little master at tonal wild goose chases and red herrings!
Your favorite of theirs?
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Sjoe, it's hard to choose. I did recently write a song heavily inspired by Compliments, though...
Kreuzberg
Like Eating Glass
Compliments
This Modern Love
Tulips
Hell... How about everything off the first, second and third albums? ?
Squonk
Bloc Party are a British band, composed of Kele Okereke (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Russell Lissack (lead guitar), Gordon Moakes (bass guitar, synths, backing vocals, glockenspiel), and Matt Tong (drums, backing vocals). Their brand of music is said to have been drawn from such bands as The Cure, Joy Division, Sonic Youth,and in their more recent work, Radiohead.
@ Spyke, got this from Wiki. Notice Joy Division, The Cure etc. These influences have come out in your weekly competition entries ?
Will give them a listen...
Spyke
I'm particularly fond of Hunting for Witches, Helicopter, Banquet, Waiting for the 7.18, Kreuzberg, On and amazingly enough, Flux.
@ Squonk: Never looked at it like that, not having been a big fan of The Cure or Joy Division (if you'll believe that!) - But I see what you're saying!