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Re: What other artists do you listen to?
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 7:44 pm
by peter jackson
I've been listening to Lenny since the 60s, I even had that poetry Lp with some other poets on. Not that I was much of a fan then, I just liked the unusual. Way back then I listened to what they called underground. Pink Floyd, Spooky Tooth, Zappa and Beefheart Hawkwind, King Crimson, Van der Graaf (who I happened to see yesterday in London. The list goes on. (not forgetting Roy Harper and Richie Havens) Moving onto the 80s I was well into The Enid in turn opened me up to Classical Music. Now I'm into The Kronos Quartet, John Adams, Philip Glass (long before 'Book of Longing' I might add) Steve Reich, I'm also into Dylan Thomas and Alan Bennett. But you know over the years those classic recordings that remain in the front of your collection, well Lenny still does it for me. He's right there. Peter
Re: What other artists do you listen to?
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:23 pm
by Steven
Hi Peter,
Of Richie Havens, of the songs I've heard him sing, I don't think that any have
been good enough to match the quality of his voice and soul. I've enjoyed
many, though.
Re: What other artists do you listen to?
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:21 pm
by peter jackson
Hi Steven
your right steven, I have a couple of live recordings, that what does it for me. I like live shows. Pete
Re: What other artists do you listen to?
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 11:50 pm
by John Etherington
Hi Minna,
I totally agree that Dylan's "Mississippi" is the greAtest track on one of his greatest (and most varied) albums. Meanwhile, "That Lucky Old Sun" is a new work that Brian Wilson created for the re-opening of The Royal Festival Hall, last September. He performed it there for six nights and at other venues in the U.K. The only song that was not original was the song "That Lucky Old Sun" which appears in part at the beginning and near the end (this is the song recorded by Cash, Ray Charles etc.), though Brian added some "spiritual chords" to it. The work contains some adapted but previously un-releAsed songs from Brian, and some new ones - notably the stunning "Midnight's Another Day" which many think is his greatest song since "Surf's Up". There are five short "narrative" pieces in the work written by Van Dyke Parks, and Brian's main lyricist on the album is band-member Scott Bennett. The work is largely a positive and nostalgic piece about LA and is comparable to "Smile". It was performed with the Stockholm Strings 'n Horns, who also played with Brian and his band on the "Smile" tour.
All the best, John E
Re: What other artists do you listen to?
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 9:39 am
by Minna
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Re: What other artists do you listen to?
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 6:21 pm
by Lissa
Well, this is going to take awhile.
Tori Amos, A.A. Bondy, Chris Cornell, Counting Crows, Keith Caputo, Johnny Cash, Free Dominguez, Faith No More, Kay Hanley, Gary Jules, Jewel (old stuff), Norah Jones, Kidneythieves, Lisa Loeb, Letters to Cleo, The Murmurs, Nirvana, Poe, R.E.M., Silverchair, Stone Temple Pilots, Soul Asylum, Regina Spektor, Tilly And The Wall, and Amy Winehouse
How's that?
Re: What other artists do you listen to?
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 2:34 am
by dharma
Re: What other artists do you listen to?
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 3:24 pm
by ~greg
Hey dharma, that's a cool way to do this!
~~
i keep a small partition, about 60g, where i put music, temporarily,
before offloading it to external drives.
so this isn't "who I am"
it's just what's on the music partition at the moment.
most of these folders have subfolders
! AGENT
! Arias
! SPOKEN
$ FLV
African headcharge -great vintage-vol 1&&2 (1989)
Alan Mills - Folk Songs Of French Canada (Folkways 1952)
B.B. King - Live At The Regal
Bob Seger
Bobbie Gentry
Brandi Carlile
Bruce Springsteen
cherish the ladies
Chuck Berry - The Definitive Collection - 2006
Cyndi_Lauper-Shes_So_Unusual-1984
Damien Rice
Danny Epps
Daphne's Flight - Collister,Harrold,Matthews,Watson,While
Dave Clark Five
David Massengill
Dick Fariña && Eric Von Schmidt - (1963)
dump
Dylan
Edward.Stachura.-.Cala.jaskrawosc.aBook.pl
Eliot - The Wasteland
Elton John
Ernest Ranglin - Below The Bassline
Eva Cassidy
Feist
Fiona Boyes - Lucky
Flamenco
Fred Neil
Greek Dance VA
Hem - Home Again, Home Again EP
High Octane Cult
Ian Whitcomb
jackie_leven
James Joyce - Ulysses
Joe Dolan
John Hartford - Aereo-Plain
John Prine
Judy Roderick
Katie Melua
La Traviata 1979, Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland, Manuguerra, Bonynge
Lakme
Lambchop
Les Barker
Louis Prima
Maddy Prior and June Tabor - Silly Sisters
Mary Gauthier
Matthews' Southern Comfort (1969
Moody Blues-Days of Future Passed
Movies
Muddy Waters
Music in the World of Islam
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Paolo Conte
Pearls In The Snow, The Songs of Kinky Friedman
Peter Bellamy
Pino Daniele
Popson Tapes
Purcell
Purcell - Chamber Music
Purcell - Viol Fantasias
Ray_LaMontagne
Robert Plant && Alison Kraus - Raising Sand (2007)
Romania
Shirley Collins
Songs from the life of Leonard Cohen
Steel Band Music from Vinyl (The Bamboushay Steel Band)
Steel Band Music from Vinyl (The Trinidad Steel Band)
Stevie_Ray_Vaughan_and_Double_Trouble-Texas_Flood-1983
Sukay - Return of the Inca
Susan Werner - I Can't Be New
Tim Buckley
Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Tom Waits
Townes Van Zandt - Texas Troubadour
TTC (the teaching company) Great Courses Series
Ulysses
Various - This I Believe - The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
Vashti Bunyan
Wallflowers-Red_Letter_Days
Willie Nelson - It Always Will Be
Zucchero
june tabor
Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 5:51 pm
by sebmelmoth2003
june tabor was on this morning's woman's hour.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00yrg1n
audio online for 7 days.
Re: What other artists do you listen to?
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 1:29 am
by MegaMilton
Tom Waits
T-Bone Burnett
Bob Dylan
Captain Beefheart
Nick Cave
Dr. John
Randy Newman
Elvis Costello
Tom Petty
David Bowie
Meat Loaf
Willie Nelson
Johnny Cash
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Howlin' Wolf
Roy Orbison
Re: What other artists do you listen to?
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 2:08 am
by LisaLCFan
John Etherington wrote:Yankovic - add Elton John's very first album "Empty Sky" to my list. I'm probably the only person who thinks that was his best album.
I just came across this thread, and I was surprised by this! I love EJs Empty Sky album (when I can tear myself away from Leonard, which hasn't happened for quite a while!). Great songwriting, and a unique, raw sound. Elton's early work is exceptional.
Well, back to Leonard.
Cheers!
Lisa
Re: What other artists do you listen to?
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 2:46 am
by John Etherington
Lisa - I'd forgotten this thread, until I saw it here the other day ...it seems I got very involved in it! Anyway, I'm glad that you share my appreciation of Elton's greatest album. "Valhalla" and "Skyline Pigeon" are my favourites (I love the harpsichord). Another favourite is the single "It's Me That You Need" which is included as an extra. I finally picked-up a copy of "Rare Masters" for £3.00 at Fopp, last year. That collection contains some good stuff, too.
All good things, John E
Re: What other artists do you listen to?
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 6:04 am
by LisaLCFan
John Etherington wrote: "Valhalla" and "Skyline Pigeon" are my favourites (I love the harpsichord). Another favourite is the single "It's Me That You Need" which is included as an extra. I finally picked-up a copy of "Rare Masters" for £3.00 at Fopp, last year. That collection contains some good stuff, too.
All good things, John E
Hi John,
Ah, yes, I remember listening to Skyline Pigeon over and over, it's beauty and simplicity are astounding (kind of reminds me of some of Leonard's songs!). Elton also recorded a piano version of it (a b-side to a single I have somewhere, from long ago!), but I, too, prefer the harpsichord. I just noticed that Empty Sky was re-released with bonus tracks (It's Me That You Need was also a b-side to a single, as I recall. I know I've heard it somewhere!). Another favourite album of mine was Elton's "11-17-70" live album, with a very rocking version of Burn Down the Mission, plus a fun cover of the Stone's Honky Tonk Woman (if my memory serves me correctly!). I don't even know if that one is available anymore. Quite a different "live" Elton than the one that appeared a few years later!
I'll have to check out "Rare Masters," since this thread is the first I'd heard of it (I'm totally out of touch on things Elton, although when I was a teen I was his biggest fan! I still have most of his stuff on vinyl, and some on CDs, but not the re-released ones with bonus tracks!).
Cheers,
Lisa
