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Wilbur Swain: Sep 13, 2007; These are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

abelwingnut posted:

to me, metal is, by definition, kind of a cartoon. sorry if i'm offending anyone, but i kind of think all forms of music are. isn't any good musician just a jester?

um, no

# ¿ Aug 26, 2020 05:43

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 11:14

Wilbur Swain: Sep 13, 2007; These are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

HenryJLittlefinger posted:

Please get into it and spread it wide. Hill Country blues is a dying art form. A lot of people know the names Burnside, McDowell, and Kimbrough, but don't realize they were playing something distinct from Memphis and Delta blues. Broadly, it's all Mississippi blues, but the Hill Country stuff is really stripped down and a straight line back to the slave-turned-sharecropper culture. It's not city blues, it's dirt-floored shack, goat-roasting, juke joint American poverty music. For names and sources to look into, Alan Lomax did a lot to document it back in the 70s, and Fat Possum Records has the last handful of Hill Country artists today.

Probably the oldest bits of it, fife and drum blues, are mostly already gone. Othar Turner was kind of the end of that style when he died. His granddaughter, Sharde Thomas, carries it on today, but it's basically extinct. Traditionally the fifes are sugarcane, which were a major crop in Mississippi iirc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyqf-jf2B_4

I was at this show and while it doesn't seem like much from the video, it was kind of a moving performance when you realize it's just a bunch of kids doing their best to keep a part of their culture alive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUjxGra9uBw

Anyhow, back to the dirty guitar end of the genre, also check out T-Model Ford.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3V2GWlcUg4

He was a trucker until his 70s, when he decided to become a bluesman. I saw one of his last performances and he was so deep into dementia that he was practically carried onto the stage, had a guitar put in his hands, and played the same song about 4 times until he was too tired. It was sad but also really impressive.

I got to see RL, Othar Turner, and T-Model Ford back in the '90s and I'm very glad I did. One artist I noticed you didn't mention is Jessie May Hemphill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSf0Z0hYXvQ

For the OP, if you haven't yet checked out the original electric blues of Howlin Wolf and Muddy Waters they may hit the spot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4b-vwuzjBM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG90_NjWcoQ
There's some very raw acoustic blues that might also appeal.
Bukka White
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM23S12LXaE
Robert Pete Williams, genius improviser and abstract expressionist in the country blues idiom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqPdguXB3VI

# ¿ Nov 12, 2020 07:07

Wilbur Swain: Sep 13, 2007; These are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

HenryJLittlefinger posted:

I�d like recommendations for soundtracks or film scores all done by one artist or group not normally considered a film scorer. Or if not that precisely, scores by non-traditional film scorers.
Think Tosca Tango Orchestra�s Waking Life, Amon Tobin�s Taxidermia, or Ry Cooder�s Paris, Texas rather than John Williams, Clint Mansell, or Ennio Morricone.

Art Ensemble of Chicago - Les Stances a Sophie

# ¿ Dec 1, 2020 05:51

Wilbur Swain: Sep 13, 2007; These are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

I am absolutely in love with Portrait in Jazz by Bill Evans Trio. The Blue in Green takes are just some of the best music I've ever heard, and I want to hear more like that, cool jazz but quiet and somber.

Chet Baker?
Vince Guaraldi?
Jimmy Giuffre?

Money Jungle?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIo_OUzHC5o

# ¿ Dec 7, 2020 05:37

Wilbur Swain: Sep 13, 2007; These are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

Thanks for the rec. Money Jungle is amazing. What would you recommend by those three?

for example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgbPHTBiAVQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxkH-KkhI1Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLlC0sPPnyI

And if you're not already familiar, Miles Davis basically invented cool jazz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDjeXUxbvGI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJaRQ8F_CIs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSS5p9BdNGU

You might also like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dKmQGJ7bw4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rViN52pgwY

Wilbur Swain fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Dec 8, 2020

# ¿ Dec 8, 2020 01:33

Wilbur Swain: Sep 13, 2007; These are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

regulargonzalez posted:

This is going to sound pretentious as gently caress. So, the first ~3 minutes of Beethoven's 7th Symphony, 2nd movement -- it makes me feel emotions I don't even have words for, makes me think that maybe he was capable of feeling things beyond my capacity to understand.

What are some other pieces like that, where you feel overwhelmed with an emotion that has no name?

E: another good example is Kyrie Eleison from Mozart's Great Mass

vvv interesting, thanks

I get the same reaction from the entire first movement of Beethoven's 6th, but I get the feeling that you can't successfully ask for recommendations of music that makes you feel like this, because Flipper's first album makes me feel the same way.

# ¿ Dec 15, 2020 12:58

Wilbur Swain: Sep 13, 2007; These are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

Holy poo poo goddrat is Art Tatum amazing, what the hell, I didn't know playing piano like this was possible. OK, so far I have:

Piano Starts Here
The Tatum Group Masterpieces Vol. 4
The Tatum Group Masterpieces Vol. 8 (has the same tracks as "The Tatum Group Masterpieces" from the 50s)
20th Century Piano Genius
The Art Tatum / Ben Webster Quartet

What else should I be buying?

By Tatum? Whatever you can find, it should all please you.

Have you tried Cecil Taylor?

# ¿ May 15, 2021 12:16

Wilbur Swain: Sep 13, 2007; These are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

No but it's time I stopped putting that off, anything in particular I should grab?

My introduction to him was the Great Concert of Cecil Taylor triple LP, which I recommend. Go back to his earlier work like World of Cecil Taylor if you want to hear a more traditional style.

I enjoy his solo work the most.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EstPgi4eMe4

# ¿ May 19, 2021 12:25

Wilbur Swain: Sep 13, 2007; These are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

regulargonzalez posted:

Pretty specific, but I love the dreamy surfer rock guitar in the middle part of Radiohead - Bodysnatchers. Anything else like that? Is that a desert rock sound? I'm not really familiar with that particular genre.

Frankly, I don't think you deserve a response to a request for something that sounds like one instrument of one part of one song, but it reminds me a little of some parts of some Flying Saucer Attack songs, so there you go, hope you like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wnE0p6YVNs

# ¿ Jun 9, 2021 10:10

Wilbur Swain: Sep 13, 2007; These are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

simplefish posted:

Looking to fill out my playlist.

70s songs about going somewhere or being somewhere warm on a beach, electric pianos and jangly guitar encouraged.

So far I have:
Escape (Pi�a colada song)
Margaritaville
Daniel - Elton John

So not really "yacht rock", Sailing sounds too studio and not really "bright" enough. It would be easy to turn to reggae, although I'm not looking to build a reggae list - "Dreadlock Holiday" did cross my mind though, as it's about travel to Jamaica and that foreignness in a new place is something I'm trying to get in the playlist.

This isn't really my normal kind of music, so I'm short on ideas.

Feel like there are some steps that could transition the playlist through to Horse With No Name and Hotel California - would really appreciate any suggestions!

E: some further info:
Kokomo is too 80s (but would go well with Smooth Operator, Isla Bonita, and Duran Duran's Rio).
Ain't No Sunshine is too much strings
Mungo Jerry's In The Summertime is a song very dear to me but a bit too energetic and not laid back enough

'70s era Beach Boys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdzC-3UPKbk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHVCfj6WHXw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3udOtr6U84

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlyqh5wJFWQ

# ¿ Jun 19, 2021 11:12

Wilbur Swain: Sep 13, 2007; These are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

Gregorian chants, Anglican hymns.

# ¿ Oct 4, 2021 07:32

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 11:14

Wilbur Swain: Sep 13, 2007; These are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

Blue Labrador posted:

I just listened to the Type-O Negative cover of "Angry Inch" from Hedwig and the Angry Inch and I found it extremely charming.

Does anyone else have any other musical covers they'd be willing to share? Genre doesn't matter.

the best cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssR-830hrck

# ¿ Nov 22, 2022 02:56

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