What are we listening to now? - Page 99

TheMercenary · 11-01-2008, 12:41 AM

Death Magnetic - Metallica

DanaC · 11-01-2008, 07:05 PM

MGMT

I'm listenin to their debut album. I am ever so impressed.

Ibby · 11-01-2008, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by DanaC

MGMT

I'm listenin to their debut album. I am ever so impressed.

MGMT are okay, but i personally recommend Black Kids, White Rabbits, Cajun Dance Party, etc a little more.

elSicomoro · 11-01-2008, 08:17 PM

I've been listening to a lot of Ministry lately. I'm going to miss Al Jourgensen and the gang, but if McCain gets elected, he might wind up coming out of retirement.

Undertoad · 12-04-2008, 12:29 PM

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

This is in the heart of the American cultural DNA. Somebody said it was coming up on the 50th anniversary of it so I fetched it.

I have never listened to the whole thing in real-time, but I've surely heard everything on it just by accident and since mama is a deep classic jazz fiend and since it influenced everything that came after it.

Since I have not yet achieved my own 50th anniversary this work is not revolutionary in my lifetime. It strikes me that my understanding of its musical language is largely due to Vince Guaraldi's awesome Peanuts soundtrack work, which began 5 years after Kind of Blue. We didn't realize it at the time, but you didn't grow up in the Peanuts generation without being exposed to quality jazz.

So, to me, Kind of Blue is simply good music, and not the extraordinary accomplishment that it's always heralded as. But for the same reason, it sounds... modern somehow, not like a 50-year-old recording.

dar512 · 12-11-2008, 04:40 PM

Are You Hep to the Jive - Cab Calloway

Good music. Still sounds hep.

glatt · 12-12-2008, 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by dar512

Are You Hep to the Jive - Cab Calloway

Good music. Still sounds hep.

I threw a department party on Tuesday, and had trivia. One of the questions asked "What big band leader and scat singer is best known for his 1931 hit Minnie the Moocher?" Only half of the teams got it. Sad. So very sad.

Griff · 12-12-2008, 03:47 PM

We need music education in this country.

DanaC · 12-11-2008, 05:52 PM

I love Miles Davis. Kind of Blue was the first jazz cd I bought when I went through my jazz fad last year. I'd heard most of it, like you say, accidentally; my Dad was a jazz fan.

elSicomoro · 12-14-2008, 12:16 AM

Sadly, when it's time to cut budgets, it's usually one of the first things to go.

Kaliayev · 01-27-2009, 05:07 AM

Saul Williams - Talk to Strangers Apparently, anyway. I've got it on low while the 24 hour news channel plays in the background.

rockerreds · 12-16-2008, 05:00 PM

R.E.M.-Eponymous

Elspode · 12-16-2008, 05:04 PM

I'm not actually *listening* to anything right now, but I am *ripping the shit* out of a bunch of CDs from the library.

Cicero · 12-16-2008, 05:49 PM

This oldy:

Elspode · 12-16-2008, 06:53 PM

Nothing is truly old unless you have at least two MiniMoogs.

11-01-2008, 12:41 AM	#1
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Death Magnetic - Metallica __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

12-11-2008, 04:40 PM	#6
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	Are You Hep to the Jive - Cab Calloway Good music. Still sounds hep. __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

12-12-2008, 03:47 PM	#8
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	We need music education in this country. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

12-16-2008, 05:04 PM	#13
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	I'm not actually listening to anything right now, but I am ripping the shit out of a bunch of CDs from the library. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

12-16-2008, 05:49 PM	#14
Cicero Looking forward to open mic night. Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: New Mexico Posts: 5,148	This oldy: __________________ Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.- Carl Jung

11-01-2008, 07:05 PM	#2
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	MGMT I'm listenin to their debut album. I am ever so impressed.

11-01-2008, 08:17 PM	#4
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	I've been listening to a lot of Ministry lately. I'm going to miss Al Jourgensen and the gang, but if McCain gets elected, he might wind up coming out of retirement.

12-04-2008, 12:29 PM	#5
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Miles Davis - Kind of Blue This is in the heart of the American cultural DNA. Somebody said it was coming up on the 50th anniversary of it so I fetched it. I have never listened to the whole thing in real-time, but I've surely heard everything on it just by accident and since mama is a deep classic jazz fiend and since it influenced everything that came after it. Since I have not yet achieved my own 50th anniversary this work is not revolutionary in my lifetime. It strikes me that my understanding of its musical language is largely due to Vince Guaraldi's awesome Peanuts soundtrack work, which began 5 years after Kind of Blue. We didn't realize it at the time, but you didn't grow up in the Peanuts generation without being exposed to quality jazz. So, to me, Kind of Blue is simply good music, and not the extraordinary accomplishment that it's always heralded as. But for the same reason, it sounds... modern somehow, not like a 50-year-old recording.

12-11-2008, 05:52 PM	#9
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	I love Miles Davis. Kind of Blue was the first jazz cd I bought when I went through my jazz fad last year. I'd heard most of it, like you say, accidentally; my Dad was a jazz fan.

12-14-2008, 12:16 AM	#10
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	Sadly, when it's time to cut budgets, it's usually one of the first things to go.

01-27-2009, 05:07 AM	#11
Kaliayev Magnificent Bastard Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 216	Saul Williams - Talk to Strangers Apparently, anyway. I've got it on low while the 24 hour news channel plays in the background.

12-16-2008, 05:00 PM	#12
rockerreds Infamous Defamer Join Date: May 2007 Location: Philadelphia,PA Posts: 50	R.E.M.-Eponymous

12-16-2008, 06:53 PM	#15
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Nothing is truly old unless you have at least two MiniMoogs. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

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