Posted on 06/18/2005 6:49:54 PM PDT by psimpson2005
Hello FR music fans. A light hearted thread for FReepers to discuss what music they have been listening to lately (old and new). It might be cool to be exposed to new music or old music that others might not have heard. Since I don't have a life, I'm home on a Saturday night listening to my local rock station (WRIF -Detroit).
A 3 CD set consisting of Beethoven's 5 piano concertos.
Not all of the humor was on the left, although conservative humor from the 1960's is hard to find.
One of my favorite LP's in this genre is Folk Songs For Conservatives, issued in 1963 by Noel X and His Unbleached Muslims, a barbershop-style quartet led by Noel Parmintel. Among my favorite tracks on this record are "Selma Levine," which is sung to the tune of "Molly Malone," and tells the story of a YAFer who wins the heart of a leftist peace demonstrator by weaning her on the writings of National Review columnists Frank Meyer, George Sokolsky, and Willi Schlamm. Other songs include "Hang Earl Warren" (to the tune of "John Brown's Body"), "Rock's Big Candy Mountain" (a song about Nelson Rockefeller, sung to the tune of "Big Rock Candy Mountain"), and "Tom Dewey" (to the tune of "Tom Dooley").
I agree that all of the groups you mentioned were good musicians. You might also throw in the Almanac Singers, a left-wing folk group active in the 1940's. I happen to own a tape of their super-rare album Songs For John Doe (1941), an anti-World War II anthology that was pulled off the market after Hitler invaded the Soviet Union.
Scott - you're such a little music-hound...
Yesterday's CD pick:
"The Essential Journey"
(repeatedly "open Arms" and "Separate Ways")
My Song of the Week Obesession:
"Flood" - Jars of Clay
whenimcallingyou ping
1. Roy Rogers - - Slideways
2. Days of the New - - Yellow
3. Days of the New - - Green
4. Toni Price - - Sol Power
5. Ray Wylie Hubbard - - Dangerous Spirits
6. Ray Wylie Hubbard - - Growl
7. John Lee Hooker - - Face to Face
8. David Lindley + Hani Nasser #2 - - Playing Even Better
9. Bob Dylan - - Love and Theft
10. Johnny Cash - - Unchained
this is probably my all time favorite commercially released album. NRBQ AT YANKEE STADIUM..1978 studio I have over 200 live concerts of this band on cd!..they are one of the most respected bands among musicians and critics but the general population never heard of them....I'll make you a copy, you will really like them...MY FAVE!!!! :)
What's on that?
I'm accused of being "stuck in the 80s" by my friends. I have a vast collection of 80s CDs with me - The Ramones, Elvis Costello, Blondie, English Beat, The Specials, the B-52s...can't get enough of it. ;-)
There should be a Kate Bush rule...
They are simply one of the finest groups on the planet. I've seen them several times in concert in southern California, and have never been disappointed.
The last time I saw them, they opened with 'Birdland' and followed up with two more high-energy songs. Then the lights went low and they drew close together... I figured they'd do something slower so they could catch a breath. Instead, in glorious harmony, we heard, 'Operatorrrrrrrrrrr...' Janis cut loose and rocked the place.
Out of curiosity, I went to a website for the Doors. This led to a website for Ray Manzarek. I spent a little time browsing through the many offerings of that site. It seems Ray has a knack for milking the Door / Jim Morrison cash cow for all it is worth. I got the same feeling from that site as one might get from driving past a bad car wreck- you know what you are about to see is not going to be pretty, yet you feel compelled to look.
I remember 'Selma Levine' - and now I can't get 'The Ballad of Lizzie Borden' out of my head.
I just wonder if anybody would have paid attention to the Doors if it hadn't been for acid.
I've always felt the same way as you about Manzarek. Move on, man! That was over 30 years ago!
At least Grohl (sp?) had the decency to go front another band and come up with some original music, rather than trying to milk the Nirvanamania vein for all it's worth.
I love 80s music, although technically I am a bit old...but it was just a great time.
I have eclectic music tastes. Normally, I listen to 80s compilation albums, Celtic music, blue grass and classical. Blues and some jazz, too. Go figure.
"step back from the edge my friend" and wait your turn in line...
heh heh...
a collective soul joke.
Well, I like a mix, too. I grew up in the 80s, and now--since I despise almost all of the "new" stuff that passes for music, I have found that I even like some music that I detested 20 years ago. So I like 80s new wave, dance, hard rock, hair band metal, and just plain old rock and roll.
But I also like some country, classical (not orchestral, but chamber music), a little new age, blues, and the more harmonic "alternative" bands of the last couple decades.
Hmm? Sorry, I couldn't hear you. I was list-en-ing to some hymns of off-er-ing.
:o)
No, I had no knowledge of her child. I knew she married Richard Rudolf. Thanks for letting me know - I will certainly try to find her music. Her parents had some excellent musical DNA. Are you familiar with the Come To My Garden album? Most never heard of it, as it was made on the Cadet/Chess label in Chicago in 1969/70. The arranger was Charles Stepney, the genius behind Earth Wind & Fire, who coincidentally died the same year Minnie did. They made this after Rotary Connection and before she left Chi-Town for LA. It's available on an import from Australia. Incredible.
the doors were depressingly crappy.
LA woman sold, largely because of the cover... a nude woman crucified on a telephone pole in l.a.
morrison, I THINK, sucked.
his masterbating on the stage with the guitar was a 'real breakthrough' for him... from what I heard from a few girls who 'knew' the guy... he did better with his guitar than he did with them... if you know what I mean.
Even Moby could kick his ass.
... and that aint' sayn much cuz I despise Moby.
'rider on the storm' was a purchased top 40 item... meaning that the 'industry' ahem, folks paid to get it play time, it was a complete stinker at clubs and venues however... where the payola scam wasn't there to prop up the loser crap the doors pumped out.
over rated...
yup.
the riaa and major record labels were the paymasters behind his limited success.
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