you record emo music, right?
A portable model of,
― Dare, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Arthur, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I'm from the U.S. Grew up listening to what was on the radio and whatever records we had at home: mostly rock, R&B, soul, disco. Sesame Street songs. Church music. In 6th or 7th grade I dabbled with listening to jazz on the radio. Also around this (77/78) time I used to go to the rehearsals for a "punk" (using the word pretty loosely--some of what they covered was not punk at all, but they did play some Ramones and Clash songs, as well as early Elvis Costello "I'm Not Angry", but even that is stretching it) cover band whose leader was one of my brother's friends.
Around this time, my family moved and I discovered a college radio station I had never listened to before, and suddenly I was exposed to all sorts of music that was totally new to me: punk/new wave/industrial, reggae, free jazz, avant-garde/modern classical/experimental, electronic music, unfamiliar progressive bands (mostly European), traditional music from around the world, Medieval music, and perhaps a few things that don't fit into any of those categories. It was an education. (Around this time I was also very rapidly discovering modern poetry, something very exciting to me for several years after, but not, for the most part, something I enjoy currently.) The station became much less eclectic around 1990 (and I was listening to it less by then anyway), but by that point I already had been made aware of these sometimes invisible forms of music, so I knew what names to try to keep track of.
I was initially intrigued by acid house/techno (etc.) after becoming aware of it via Psychic TV around 1988. (I remember looking at a PTV disc with the words "Turn on/Tune in/The Acid House" with a friend, and both of us debating about whether it meant anything, and if so what.) Saw them eight times and don't regret it, although 99% of the recordings they released are crap. Psychic TV was kind of a 20's thing for me, and I am very ambivalent about how wrapped up I was in their work at the time. (Maybe I was really the victim of subliminal messages in their recordings?) I ended up becoming very turned off by most techno, and the various, related, mutating forms of electronic dance music (but I admit that there must be a lot of it I have not heard). Maybe if I had tried E, but I'm not interested in that now. (I have only one psychedelic experience to my credit, and it was not at a rave.) I also listened to a lot of hip-hop between 1988 and about 1992/93, but I got a bit tired of the homophobia, misogyny, anti-semitism, anti-white, pro-random-violence themes in much of the music. I still check in with it now and then, however.
Around 1993 I "discovered" Arabic music, which is not something I remember hearing on the radio (at least not the classically based popular music I have in mind). This has become some of my very music. I am thinking of individuals such as Oum Kalthoum, Riad el-Sonbatti (mostly known as a composer), Asmahan, Farid el Atrash, Fairouz, Said Mekawy, Mohammed Abdo, plus lesser lights such as Samira Tewfic, Milhem Barakat, Saleh Abdel Gafor, etc. I love this music for its expressiveness; its modal/microtonal approach; its complex rhythms; its often brilliant vocal technique; the color and texture of traditional instruments such as the oud, the ney, and the kanun; the emphasis on improvisation in much of it; and the fact that I can listen to the same piece repeatedly, but still hear something new.
And for the last four years I've been salsa dancing, with increasing seriousness (though I have been out for a while with a knee injury and am currently recovering from minor knee surgery), which has turned me on to salsa, and led me to discover some other Latin musical forms.
Listening to Arabic and Latin music intensively has altered my taste a lot, to the point where it's very hard for me to find new things closer to home, culturally speaking, that I really enjoy. I have more trouble making allowances for singers who can't sing, for one thing. I _have_ been listening to increasing amounts of Sun Ra over the past couple years, too, and he has gone from being just one eccentric artist I was aware of, to being one of my favorites.
I will never have enough money to buy all the CDs I want. Oum Kalthoum alone recorded hundreds of songs, many of them stretching out for a half hour to seventy-five minutes in live performances.
np: Kirsty MacColl "Tropical Brainstorm" (Nice bonus tracks only available on the U.S. release--ha!)
― DeRayMi, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
to be uncircumcised in? hehe LA is such a wasteland. how long have you been here?
no i don't record any music, except i'm so graceful when i walk that the angels look down below make music when they see me coming
― Vic, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― bob snoom, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Last CD acquired: The Dismemberment Plan, "Change" (but I'm underwhelmed with what I've heard so far). Favorite artists (active division): Firewater, Girls Against Boys, Mike Doughty. Favorites (RIP division): Afghan Whigs, Soul Coughing, Scarce, Jawbox, Long Fin Killie (rather disappointed with Bows). Rather curious about: Q and Not U, older D-Plan, the Standard. Loathe: nu-metal, female singers who are more about T&A and studio effects than vocal technique, bling-bling hip-hop. Suspect that bluegrass and alt-country and its offshoots are better than I'm willing to credit, but haven't taken the time to explore either.
I live in Washington, DC; I'm not attached and can't seem to attract any man's eye right now. Between this and people not following up to my posts in this and other forums, I sometimes wonder whether I really exist. If I truly have no existence outside of some fantasist's mind, I hope he or she enjoys my life a lot more than I do.
― j.lu, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Andy, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
are you an amg writer ? who
I've wanted to listen to more arabic music. Where would you recommend starting and where are the best sources? I've found a couple of websites dealing with but they seem to be a bit more on the 'poppier side' than I might like.
[quote]"Between this and people not following up to my posts in this and other forums, I sometimes wonder whether I really exist. If I truly have no existence outside of some fantasist's mind, I hope he or she enjoys my life a lot more than I do." Julia[/quote]
Whoah. Even scarier that I relate immediately to what your saying...
Myself, I'm mainly a lurker, coming here to find recommendations for music that I can (in theory) download off of the net. I have gone through periods of my life when I spent waayy too much on music, and, can't realistically keep that up. I would love CD prices to drop. Listening to music either seems to consume my life or be in it very little at all. I'm in the latter stage at the moment, no music at work, no time at home, it's beginning to piss me off. To console myself I need I think of the thousands upon thousands of years we humans didn't have any recorded music at all. What would they have had to speak to people about on message boards?
I love these 'intro' things. So many people willing to offer up snippets of there lives, so trustingly...(that came off sounding slightly psychopathic for some reason) Myself, I'm a cartoonist, making a living working at an ISP in rural Ontario. Actually in the town that is "the most perfect example of suburban/rural community in Canada" (I still remember this from school.) Have a fantasy that I one day lose my sight and have to discover my hidden musical talent that I've been to lazy to cultivate for the last 29 years. Constantly aspire to the level of confidence and happiness I felt when I was 10. Have also had a disturbing ongoing 'fantasy' (or nightmare I guess) that our entire civilization is on the verge of being destroyed by some terrible disaster. I suspect this has something to do with sept 11th, but also suspect that it's a very real possiblity.
Currently listening to a mixed bag of stuff that I've downloaded, including Wire, Nina Simone, Jackie Wilson, Tim Buckley, Air, Rufus Wainwright and I actually quite enjoy the new Depeche Mode, which I downloaded for my sister. Favourite album? Maybe "Here My Dear" mainly for the first 5 minutes, which always, without fail, makes me cry. I think it's a deeply profound album. When I do I get a chance to put on music I often listen to Cosmic Slop online, which has just the right mix of funkiness, obscurity and wierdness on which I thrive.
Okay, enuf sharing.
― Alan Hunt, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Male, first-year law student with art history degree(?), I worship music. been a musician for about 15 years and have managed to craft about 3-4 songs that are not complete shite. it's nice to see such a diversity of input on this board.
my music: Sloan, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Detroit Cobras, Afghan Whigs, Dag Nasty, the Make-Up, Curtis Mayfield, Big Star, Beth Orton, Beta Band, James Brown, Doves, St. Germain, Mellow, Sea and Cake, Miles, Ivy.
Most recent disc purchased: Sloan-Pretty Together (rocks) Most recently wished I hadn't purchased: Arab Strap-red thread (pap)
Found this board through Momus. Probably underqualified to converse with some of you existentialist-philosopher types but too impatient not to post. If anyone knows of a good online mixtape exchange please point me in the right direction--I thirst for undiscovered music with an unholy burning lust.
― Ian M, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Got too many Lou Barlow, Sonic youth, Ween and The Frogs records. I like Slayer and I like Lambchop.
I am excited by Boedekka, The Coral and the Moldy Peaches
Never really got into hip hop, but my first ever gig was LL Cool J... my second was The Macc Lads
― Sonicred, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
i like nearly all kinds of music, but focus in on IDM, indie, and classical, for the most part.
feel free to email me if you're interested in writing music reviews for the website that i run, we're always "hiring" for volunteers.
― todd burns, Sunday, 30 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― jack cable, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― helenfordsdale, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Chris Noble, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Christian, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dbini, Saturday, 19 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ramosi, Saturday, 19 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
No, I will not try to say something about them that will interest you scoundrels. I don't value music more if it generates something clever to say than I do for the experience of listening to it.
― DeRayMi, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
music i like includes Fugazi, my bloody valentine, radiohead, GVSB, Peaches, the pop group, PIL, big black, serge gainsbourg, scott walker, richard hell & the voidoids, television, new york doll, sonic youth, madredeus, suicide, boards of canada, lots of 60s garage bands and many more.
If you're in Edinburgh on a Saturday night be sure and pay a visit to Extra Width at the Gilded Balloon Saloon in the Cowgate - lots of the above and many more
― leigh, Wednesday, 30 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
my name is richard john gillanders. I'm twenty years old. I live in glasgow. I study architecture. I like the music of a lot of the musicians and bands listed previously. but not all of them.
― richard john gillanders, Wednesday, 30 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― cybele, Wednesday, 30 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Joe "PappaWheelie" Gonzalez, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Atul, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tim DiGravina, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― tav, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Poops McGee, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
You have achieved a state of bliss we all desire. And to all the new people I haven't said hi to yet, welcome.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
forewarning: i'm an unabashed avalanches fangirl and i will defend them to the death. i might also bore you with my slavish-adoration-of- the-avalanches babble. if i'm doing that, just tell me and i'll stop.
i like pop: the good bits. especially hip-hop. my definition of pop is very broad. for me these days, the good bits include a lot of what happened between 1976 and 1983, 60s garage rock, disco new and old, timbaland etc.
i tend not to listen to "IDM" but that doesn't mean i think it's terrible. on the other hand, that's the very reason i don't listen to post-rock. i'm sick of indie because that's mostly what we're served here in melbourne, but i have to admit that it's good, in small, easy to swallow doses. names like grandaddy, belle and sebastian and low fail to excite me these days. i can't explain exactly why not.
i intend to start a big argument here about 'retro' in the not too distant future (unless you've already done that and can point me to the link...)
and finally, sorry, but i don't like britney, not even when she got the neptunes in.
― minna, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― electric sound of jim, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― minna, Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Jeff W (not in melbourne, sorry), Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― minna, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ben Squircle, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― petra jane, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Hello, I'm Ron, 29 from Seattle, WA. I build custom furniture for a living, mostly modern-ish pieces, some steel work. For a few years after HS I produced beats for a local hiphop outfit, but now only occasionally dabble in music making. I'm hoping to get more into it again, but another style of music. In terms of listening habits, I'd like to think I have broad tastes, but mainly I'm into indie rock, soul jazz a la 60's/70's, rap and some soul but more limited knowledge there. I would like to learn more about drum & bass types of music but find it a bit intimidating to get started. Don't really know where to begin. Oh yeah, I also watch a fair number of movies, mostly newer ones. OK, bye!
― Ron Hudson, Sunday, 10 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Brian MacDonald, Sunday, 10 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I play drums, probably most significantly in the Ryan Meisel Quartet at the moment (jazz group, should be coming out with an album in a couple of months). I started off my musical life (at least in the teenaged obsessive sense) with metal and prog-rock, but after high school it's all been about the jazz and the hip-hop and that sort of fun stuff.
― Jordan, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
As far as music goes, I like Can, the Fall, Slayer, Cluster, Shirley Collins, the Kinks, Panacea, Lee Perry, Dock Boggs, Goblin and some other stuff which is not in my bag today.
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Isn't there anybody from Cornwall on the internet, i can't find anybody.
― Rach, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― mxyzptlk, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
PROFILE:
Call me Dave (or Daver, if you don't lay into the R like a hillbilly). I'm 27. Thanks to the Freaky Trigger Family, I like a lot more music than I used to; specifically, Tom & Co. have shown me that my childhood love of Top 40 muzak CAN happily co-exist with indiephilia. Unfortunately, I live a fair ways away (1.5 hours) from places where my thirst for LIVE INDIE can be slaked. I play guitar; I want to buy a piano of some sort (preferably one that makes neat sounds); I write stuff about music on a pro-bono basis (though my amateur status has been tainted); I have a website (where most of my pro-bono work can be found); I take computer classes (from which a job will be secured to allow my pro-bono antics to continue unfettered); I have been spammed a lot since I first posted on this board.
WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR:
Well, the ideal bandmates would be open-minded, open to different influences, open to trying new things, open to failure. If they can stand a diehard post-punk guy smacking out bits of pseudo-literate wussy pop songs on his acoustic guitar, that's a bonus. Fans of the Beatles, This Heat, Franklin Bruno, Big Flame, and the Game Theory / Loud Family nexus get 1st priority. (List subject to change.) I'm specifically looking for someone with either a Jew's Harp, a didgeriedoo (sic), a rain stick, or a set of spoons. Anyone w/ recording equipment can join. The name of the band will NOT be Nixon Liddy Codpiece; that's my only demand.
― Daver, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― william harris, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― mark s, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― nathalie, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tim, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link