Basia Bulat

From that link I'm 6 songs into this blond girl Basia Bulat's album Oh, My Darling. That's a voice, damn. Country/folky but also new and different. Thanks, HowardBeale.

Fighting off zombie music is associated in my mind with too much heavy metal, so I would never click that link, but "The Inalienable Dreamless" is the start of something really good.

Steely Dan!

the arcade fire - wake up

hopefully this has already been included here, but this is prob the best contribution I will ever make on 2+2. even if its only a reiteration

Sade's new one, Soldier of Love. Very good.

Cream - Wheels Of Fire
The Steve Hoffman remastered gold CD.
I've never heard a better sounding CD.

Started the ride to work with Radiohead - Hail to the thief
While working been listening to martin scorsese presents the blues - Jimi Hendrix, Robert Randolph and the family band - Live at the wetlands
And on the way home i figure i should be able to get a couple yes songs in (45 minute drive)

Thought i should listen to some good music before my night is filled up with Hip Hop

Isis - Panopticon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EjFjUW_xN8

I've been trying to get into some heavier stuff lately, but it's hard to find bands whose subject matter isn't so ******ed that it ruins the music. I mean, I don't think I could ever take a band like Nile or Cannibal Corpse seriously. Why can't metal bands just write, like, insightful songs about relationships and stuff?

I'm listening to the Replacements' Tim.

Here Comes a Regular is the song.

I'm listening to these The Hold Steady people Landonfan touted in another thread, and I'm a convert. I like the loud crunchy sound, and the lyrics are growing on me.

"Subpoenaed in Texas, sequestered in Memphis."

White Hinterland

Icarus - from upcoming album Kairos

I Miss You - Bjork Cover

My Love - Justin Timberlake cover

im listening to angels and airwaves new cd "love" and its ridiculously great.
free at http://www.fuel.tv/ava
really good.

I'm on a Springsteen bender. Atlantic City, The River, Brilliant Disguise, Secret Garden, like that. I've been taking Springsteen for granted too long.

ya i like it too, though after song 3 it goes downhill, but then repairs itself alittle at the end. still decent imo

Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On
Surfer Blood - Astro Coast

Bruce Springsteen's album Darkness on the Edge of Town

I've got four Springsteen albums, which I would rank:

Darkness > Nebraska > Born to Run > Born in the USA

I love them all, but I def prefer his darker stuff.


edit: What do I need to get next?

Landonfan, I can't even answer that. All his dark songs resonate strongly with me. I owned Darkness on 8 track tape way back when, but I didn't appreciate him back then. I think he's so hit and miss, and I don't like the happy famous songs, but he's so profound when he gets it right, it's just stunning. Like in Atlantic City, "I've got debts no honest man can pay." But overall I'm not close to being familiar with him enough to say anything; if you own 4 albums of his, I should be asking you.

Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ and The Wild, The Innocent & the E Street Shuffle are criminally underrated imo. Stylistically very different from his other stuff but very good nonetheless. Lost In The Flood is probably my favourite Bruce song. There's a version of it on the Hammersmith Odeon London '75 DVD that slays me. One of the best live performances I've seen. Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street?, For You, Spirit In The Night, Blinded By The Light, The E Street Shuffle, Rosalita, 4th of July are also great to name but a few. You should get them if for no other reason then to see his transition from Asbury Park -> Darkness in about a five year span. I think you will be hard pressed to find a better series of debut/2nd/3rd/4th album from any artist/band.

A quick ranking of the Bruce albums I've spent a lot of time listening to:

Born To Run
Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ
Darkness on the Edge of Town
The Wild, The Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
Nebraska
Born in the USA
(We Shall Overcome: Seeger Sessions)
The River
Magic

I haven't listed to Tunnel of Love -> Devils & Dust enough to comment.


If you like his darker stuff more then The Ghost of Tom Joad might be your thing.

Since I'm rambling I may as well say too that these ****ing kids my age (22) that don't appreciate Bruce cause he's "old, grown up crap etc" piss me off with their ignorance. When I got to university around ~19-20 I bought Born To Run and just fell in love with it and spent the next several months listening to nothing other than him. Sometimes it's easy to list those albums/books/movies etc that have a profound effect on your taste/life and Born To Run was definitely the album for the 19 year old me. Armchair psychological observations of moving away from home <-> themes from Born To Run are too obvious to even warrant mentioning.

I'm a big fan of Tunnel of Love...great songs about the dissolution of his marriage

I've been watching that Brilliant Disguise video over and over again, where the camera just closes in on him, and I admire his honesty so much. What the hell did wife think of that, damn.

Going back to Darkness, I've been stuck on Candy's Room. That's about 5 songs in 1, and so strange, especially for that time. He is such a courageous artist; he takes his life and his music seriously.

Maiden Killers and Number of the Beast. I still love this ****