What are you listening to? (May 2002)

[Mark_Knecht]

Wow,
It's been a few months since I started one of these threads, so time to give it a go. Look here to see what was gracign people's ears in past months:

http://duc.digidesign.com/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=32;t=004695

http://duc.digidesign.com/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=32;t=005247

Again, feel free to list whatever you'd like, but my main interest in in hearing about new stuff coming out. Along those lines I'll list a few that are high on my playlist right now:

Angelique Kidjo - 'Black Ivory Soul' - a wonderful CD full of African (Benin) and South American sounds.

Bill Bruford's Earthworks - 'The Sound of Surprise' - truly one of the best jazz-fusion CDs I've enjoyed in years. We all know Bill...

Allan Holdsworth - 'Flat Tire' - Extra special because it's recorded and produced by our own English Jim. Not your typical Allen Holdsworth CD, but hey, what is?

Keb' Mo' - 'Just Like You' - Just such an upbeat blues talent.

Transatlantic - 'SMPTE' - Still can't put this away after about 4 months of listening.

Cheers,
Mark

[pk_hat]

Kruder & Dorfmeister - 'sessions'

Craig Armstrong - 'as if nothing'

Fila Brazilia - 'jump leads'

Lo Fidelity All-Stars - 'don't be afraid of love'

Portishead - 'live at Roseland ', now on DVD!

pk

[alonzoslefthand]

gomez - liquid skin. over and over again......

occassionally i'll mix in some radiohead, or possible soulive or the greyboy allstars

[Ultraslide]

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
The Waxwings - Low to the ground
Big Star - Radio City (is it possible to wear out a CD? I'll let ya know!)
Television - Marqee Moon
Elmore James - Rollin and Tumblin'
John Lee Hooker - The Chess Box set

the 'slide

[rrakoczy]

Joseph Arthur - Junkyard Hearts Ep's
Ken Burn's Jazz box set
Diana Krall -Live in Paris (DVD)
Sarah Slean- Night Bugs
Lyle Lovett-Pontiac

and as always..some Peter Gabriel tossed in every once and a while

Rob :-)

[Dreamware]

I have been listening to alot of Helloween lately.

[Mr_Seven]

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[Mark_Knecht]

Don't apologize. I completely agree, with the exception of Galway CD, but, hey, you're a flute player, right?! images/icons/wink.gif Even a flute player get to have favorites. I used to play in a progressive rock band with TWO flute players. That was fun! images/icons/wink.gif

Originally posted by Sabe:
Sorry Mark, these aren't new but they still inspire me as though they were new images/icons/smile.gif <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">

[pedrohead]

pedro the lion "control"
wilco "yankee foxtrot hotel"
clinic "walking with thee"
nick drake "pink moon"
radiohead (entire catalog)

[phdumas]

John Lee Hooker "The Legendary Modern Recordings"
Son House "The Original Delta Blues"
Depeche Mode "Exciter"
Recoil "Liquid"

Philippe Dumas

[STUDIO-DE-ARIEL]

Mark

Between 20 to 30 db of silence in the studio getting better all the time.

Yes i used a 3k quest to test it in Dec. I can see the floor again in places. The radio shack ones
only go to 60 or 50.

The trippin the live fantastic album is good by Paul Mc Cartney.

[DarkShade]

Pk,

As always, I love your taste in music images/icons/grin.gif

If you get a chance - check out 'Peace Orchestra'
Kruder's solo project...

Play licit -

Cee-Lo - 'Basehead Jazz'
Autechre - "corc"
A Perfect Circle - '3 Libras' (massive attack remix)
Jazzanova - 'That Night' (drum programming at it's BEST)
Lauryn Hill - 'Unplugged'
Deep Six

Can anyone recommend some GOOD Beatles songs?
The one group I've never really listen too - 'imagine that'

[Roy Howell]

Mark,
I have got to check out the Bill Bruford CD. His work with 'Yes' is classic. Also, cool about English Jim... I want to hear his work with Allan Holdsworth, as much as you rave about the guy... images/icons/wink.gif

~rh

[Sixpence]

Currently going through a bass phase......

Stu Hamm-Kings of Sleep
Billy Sheehan-Compression
Incubus-Make Yourself
Incubus-Morning View

Listening aslo to a compilation disk of my bands set. (We're finally gigging-tuesday week) Foo Fighters, Alien Ant Farm, Linkin Park, Hoobastank, System Of A Down... For the record lads and lasses I'm 31 not 17 so if the above looks too young images/icons/shocked.gif

[pk_hat]

Originally posted by DarkShade:
Pk,

As always, I love your taste in music images/icons/grin.gif

If you get a chance - check out 'Peace Orchestra'
Kruder's solo project...

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">s'funny cuz I almost mentioned that one. I had bought it when it was first released (2 years ago), had it stolen, then just last week picked up a new copy, as all the K&D catalog is on sale at Virgin, including the Tosca and Peace Orchestra CDs.

The production on these K&D albums is by far the best in the genre, IMO.

Tosca's 'Suzuki in Dub' is rather impressive as well.

I also have Zero 7 'simple things' on heavy rotation, David Holmes 'let's get killed' and Amon Tobin's 'supermodifier'.

pk

[greenroom]

Citizen Dan - Steely Dan box set thingummy
Grace - Jeff Buckley
Hats - The Blue Nile
Miles of Aisles - Joni Mitchell
Mysterious Traveller - Weather Report
No Encore - Queensville Wakes (aka me and me writing partner!) images/icons/grin.gif

[Stone Knife]

Days Of The New's 'red' album this week.

Also just got a re-release of Lennie Tristano's self-titled album (that was originally on Atlantic, previously out of print) which is being packaged with his "The New Tristano" album, all on the same disc.

[H-man]

Janes Addiction- all albums
ELO- greatest hits
Police- live
Pete Yorn-
Tool- Anema
Incubus- new album
Hodoo Gurus
Zepplelin- BBC sessions

[Sabe]

Eric Johnson - the Alien "live" album
ELP - ELP (thier first studio effort) killer organ mix (B3, C3 ? anybody know..eh..?)
James Galway - hits album?
Jethro Tull - A little light Music and Bursting Out (both live)

Sorry Mark, these aren't new but they still inspire me as though they were new images/icons/smile.gif

[Wade]

INJECTED (http://www.injected.net)
Great band, great bunch of guys. Check em out.
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom (I think thats the correct spelling images/icons/grin.gif )
Alice in Chains (RIP Layne)
Sevendust

[Datus]

I rotate these cant stop listening to any of 'em

King Crimson: Thrak, Discipline, In the court of the Krimson King

Tool: Aenema, Lateralus, Salival

Ben Folds: Rockin the Suburbs, Fear of Pop

NIN: The Fragile, Broken, Pretty Hate Machine...I have all the halos, just assume I listed them

Aphex Twin: Druqks, Richard D James Album

Mr. Bungle: California, I am about to get Disco Volante

Paul Oakenfold: Tranceport, Perfecto Presents Another World

Radiohead: Amnesiac, Kid A, OK Computer

I actually do listen to all of these pretty consistantley

[PK Ripper]

I'm going through an Indie phase

Cursive
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Snapcase
Halo Benders
Les Savy Fav
Tha Faint
Hotrod Circuit
Gaza Strippers
Milemarker
Groovy Ghoulies
New Wet Kojak
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Bratmobile

[Jorge442]

Krisiun (brasilian ¨satanic¨ death metal)
Pantera ¨reinventing the steel¨
Deep Purple - I forget the name but it´s old and has some covers on it (hey joe)...
Creedence (¨I put a spell on youuuuuuu!¨)

jorge

PS: sorry for the oldies, Mark!

[Mark_Knecht]

Jorge,
Don't be!
Mark

No more recommendations this month? Short list of responses this time around.

Thanks!

Originally posted by Jorge442:
sorry for the oldies, Mark!<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">

[Roy Howell]

Seal-Bring It On
Annie Lennox- No More I Love U's
Incubus
Alice in Chains
Patti Page
Nine Inch Nails

[BigRedButton]

David Gray - White Ladder
Roger Waters - In The Flesh - Live
New Radicals - Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
PFR - Them
Alice In Chains - Jar Of Flies
Ben Harper - The Will To Live
Phil Keaggy - Crimson and Blue

[ashenvy]

I'm in an off-Radiohead month. So ... here goes. images/icons/smile.gif

picked up a lot of great old jazz stuff from BMG... signed up my wife...(hint hint...i'm single) (oh shoot...blew my cover)

Herbie Hancock ...Empyrean Isles
Miles Davis - Live at the Fillmore East, 1970
John Coltrane - Ascension...(crazy free-jazz)

the new Medeski Martin and Wood album is good stuff.

Wilco. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. sounds to me like they have been listening to Kid A a little too much...it rocks! and a lot of it was Pro Tools tinkering...Amen Digidesign.

I JUST picked up one of the new Tom Waits discs, Alice. Really moody, dark, Carnie music. I like.

And....I got into some old Cure stuff (Pornography, The Head on the Door)...just cause I haven't listened to it in quite awhile.

Well...i've taken up so much space here. thanks for reading!

How is the new Pedro the Lion disc? I tried to pick it up the other day, but Eide's in Pittsburgh didn't have it.

Later!

[VincePro]

Just curious....Are there any other r&b or hip hop producers on this board besides me? Doesn't seem to be many for some reason. What do you guys think of hip hop and rap production these days?

[go i huvet]

Right now...

Esbjorn Svensson Trio - GREAT swedish jazz pianist..togther with bass and drums...Oh, man.

////Go

[oslpchris]

Brendan Benson - Lapalco www.brendanbenson.com (http://www.brendanbenson.com)
Mike Viola and the Candy Butchers - Play w/ your Head www.candybutchers.com (http://www.candybutchers.com)
Abandoned Pools - Humanistic
Adam Daniels - Blue Pop
Nickleback - ?
Self - Breakfast with Girls

that's all for now.

chris

[soundsurfr]

Originally posted by DarkShade:
Pk,

Can anyone recommend some GOOD Beatles songs?
The one group I've never really listen too - 'imagine that'<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">a) It's all good. images/icons/grin.gif

b) If you have to get your feet wet on something, try side two of Abbey Road.

[REtroJECT]

I haven't posted in a while...been playing out so much I haven't been in my studio for a few months. What am I listening to? Let's see...

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Weezer - Maladroit
Old 97s - Too Far To Care
Creeper Lagoon - Take Back the Universe and Give me Yesterday
Haven - "Let It Live" (incredible song by an average Britpop band)
Bob Mould - "Sound on Sound" (incredible song on an album experiment gone wrong)
Pete Yorn - Musicforthemorningafter

[oslpchris]

Darkshade, 2 words... kinda... Sgt. Pepper's

I've seen alot of people mentioning Wilco... what are they like?

thanks,
chris

[Jopry]

Satriana - all
Incubus - all, but especially S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
Duke Ellington and John Coltrane - NPRJazz calls this a "perfect album"...I tend to agree with them
Tonic - both albums
Platypus J - ok, thats my band images/icons/smile.gif always listening for mistakes to fix lol

[REtroJECT]

Originally posted by oslpchris:
I've seen alot of people mentioning Wilco... what are they like?
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">They started out as one-half of the defunct alt-country group Uncle Tupelo. They were (and still are) rootsy in style. But Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is alt-country, indie pop, and Kid A all thrown into one. It isn't a record that grabs you instantly, but it digs itself into your brain over time. Great record.

[Mark_Knecht]

DarkShade,
Check out two songs form Revolver - 'Tomorrow Never Knows' and 'She Said, She Said'. From Magical Mystery Tour, try the Harrison tune 'Blue Jay Way'. Go back a bit and check out 'We Can Work It Out' or 'Day Tripper'. I could go on a while with lots more, but I think that the first 3 are not what most people think of when they think Beatles, which is why I like them so much.

I actually listened to A Hard Day's Night yesterday on headphones. It all sounds so strange, really. Their writing is very cool, but all the songs are so very short and concise. That made them sound pretty out of place after just finishing a Transatlantic CD. Very different spaces after 40 years.

Mark

Originally posted by DarkShade:
Can anyone recommend some GOOD Beatles songs?
The one group I've never really listen too - 'imagine that'<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">

[elwoodblues]

Originally posted by ashenvy:
I'm in an off-Radiohead month. So ... here goes. images/icons/smile.gif

picked up a lot of great old jazz stuff from BMG... signed up my wife...(hint hint...<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">that's reminds me of the time I signed my dog (ABBY) up..4 for signing up a friend and 8 for new member...did that a bunch of times and now I get calls all the time asking for Abby...she won a free carpet cleaning a couple of months ago...

anyway:

Strung Out--American Paradox
has been the cd of the last two or three weeks..

John Frusciante--to record only water for 10 days
--a regular

Strike Anywhere--newest one produced by Brian Mcternin (might be spelled wrong)

many more too but those are the most listened to right now

[ashenvy]

haha...good story Elwood. images/icons/smile.gif

How's the new Strike Anywhere? They came through Pittsburgh several months ago...but as usual..I was working a late night at the theater.

[Ridger]

still listening to:
Poco
Pure Prairie League (before 1972)
Caedmon's Call
Sandra McKracken and Derek Web
Moody Blues
Steely Dan
Steel Eye Span
Buffalo Springfield

sort of dates me, doesn't it? I tell you, though, the quality of sound that we can get with
PTLE makes you just wish for talented musicians and inspired music, doesn't it?

Ridger

[elwoodblues]

Originally posted by ashenvy:
haha...good story Elwood. images/icons/smile.gif

How's the new Strike Anywhere? They came through Pittsburgh several months ago...but as usual..I was working a late night at the theater.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">It rocks...Not sure if you know who brian mcternin was but he did the newer Hot Water Music and also the newer Thrice album..very well produced compared to all of these bands previous albums....good to see people listening to the same..I guess my DUC name is a little decieving images/icons/grin.gif

[Avid]

Ridger, we have similar tastes in music, going back to my days in the 70's as a cross-country trucker listening to those bands, Graham Parsons, New Riders of the Purple Sage, The Flying Burrito Brothers (still my favorite version of 6 Days on the Road along with the Taj Mahal rendition). Poco's Forgotten Trail compilation is a nice box set of their early work. Jim Messina is a Pro Tools user, and produced and played with both Buffalo Springfield and Poco: http://www.jimmessina.com/poco.htm
He was the engineer on a couple of the Buffalo Springfield albums:
http://www.jimmessina.com/buffalo.htm
I don't know if you've ever heard of these, but they are a couple of my somewhat obscure favorites:

McKendree Spring
Goose Creek Symphony

If you like the kind of country rock that you thought no radio stations play anymore, check out www.kpig.com (http://www.kpig.com)

KPIG evolved from the legendary station KFAT that used to be in Gilroy, CA and played alternative country, Grateful Dead, acoustic, blues, honky tonk and other stuff that never gets anywhere near any of the rock or country stations now. Unless you are near Monterey or Santa Cruz, the only way to listen to it is on the internet, but they have good hi-band streaming.

Bruce

[Roy Howell]

Originally posted by Digidesign:
Ridger, we have similar tastes in music, going back to my days in the 70's as a cross-country trucker listening to those bands, Graham Parsons, New Riders of the Purple Sage, The Flying Burrito Brothers (still my favorite version of 6 Days on the Road along with the Taj Mahal rendition). Poco's Forgotten Trail compilation is a nice box set of their early work. Jim Messina is a Pro Tools user, and produced and played with both Buffalo Springfield and Poco: http://www.jimmessina.com/poco.htm
He was the engineer on a couple of the Buffalo Springfield albums:
http://www.jimmessina.com/buffalo.htm
I don't know if you've ever heard of these, but they are a couple of my somewhat obscure favorites:

McKendree Spring
Goose Creek Symphony

If you like the kind of country rock that you thought no radio stations play anymore, check out www.kpig.com (http://www.kpig.com)

KPIG evolved from the legendary station KFAT that used to be in Gilroy, CA and played alternative country, Grateful Dead, acoustic, blues, honky tonk and other stuff that never gets anywhere near any of the rock or country stations now. Unless you are near Monterey or Santa Cruz, the only way to listen to it is on the internet, but they have good hi-band streaming.

Bruce<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Hey Bruce,

Wonder what ever became of McKendree Spring? Weren't they just 2 guys, one playing acoustic/singing, and the other a violinist with an EchoPlex?

Thanks, Roy

[Digi Engineering]

>>Goose Creek Symphony

Hey - I'm the guitarist for that band!

http://www.goosecreeksymphony.com/bios/edbio.html

(just kidding - it's a different Eric Day)

Eric Day
Digidesign

[Ridger]

" Jim Messina is a Pro Tools user, and produced and played with both Buffalo Springfield and Poco:"

_________________

Thanks for the Jim Messina info, Bruce. I've been a fan since I saw Buffalo Springfield in the late sixties in Florida, and later listened to Poco. I'm also a Rusty Young fan, as a fellow steel player.

Ridger

[Stone Knife]

Just picked up the new Neil Young "Are You Passionate?" Booker T. Jones co-produces with Donald "Duck" Dunn and they both play on it. images/icons/wink.gif

[Avid]

Wonder what ever became of McKendree Spring? Weren't they just 2 guys, one playing acoustic/singing, and the other a violinist with an EchoPlex?<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Looks like they took a 30 year break images/icons/smile.gif
http://www.franmckendree.com/mspring.html

There were 3 main members, including the violin/theremin player, but they had a number of people on some of their albums like McKendree Three
Raun MacKinnon *Piano *
Fran McKendree *Vocals Dulcimer Guitar (Acoustic) *
Andy Newmark *Drums *
Martin Slutsky *Guitar
Larry Tucker *Bass
Bobby Gregg *Drums
Jerry Burnham *Flute
John Devoe *Vocals (Background)
Michael Dreyfuss *Keyboards Theremin Viola Violin (Electric) Violin
Suzanne French *Vocals (Background)
Russell George *Bass
Ellen Kearney *Vocals (Background)

I have 3 of their old vinyl albums and found a couple of CD reissues before they disappeared, much like another of my relative unknown favorites, Jimmie Spheeris (http://www.jimmiespheeris.com/)

I have to get the new Neil Young...love Booker T and have had the great honor of playing with both of them at different times. (they're Bay Area locals, Neil a couple miles down the road from me in the Santa Cruz mountains, and Booker's in Marin)

Speaking of Neil Young and KPIG, last night I heard "Like a Hurricane" from his Unplugged album on the Pig, and that antique pump organ that he plays on it is just amazingly eerie. Another album I need to get.

[Adam B.]

Wow! This is my first post!!
Currently I listen to a lot of:
Golden Smog
Jayhawks
Jr. High Band music (I'm a teacher)
The Cash Brothers
Paul Simon
Afgan Whigs
Catherine Wheel

Among Others
Take Care,
Adam images/icons/smile.gif