What are you listening to?
Got an undiscovered band you’re crazy about? A new album that a good friend has turned you on to? Let’s hear about it! Post your recent favorites as a comment and let’s get some dialogue going!
Here’s a quick list of some of what’s on my playlist lately:
- Joe Pug’s Nation of Heat EP
- Paul Simon’s Graceland
- Raphael Saadiq’s The Way I See It
- Al Green’s Lay It Down
- The Roots’ Do You Want More?!!!??!
- Siah & Yeshua dapoED’s The Visualz Anthology
- Jars of Clay’s The Long Fall Back To Earth
- Joe Henderson’s Mode for Joe
- Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 6 and No. 9
Keep ‘em coming!
yo man. check these out.
- John Frusciante (any album of his indy 8 track stuff)
-Rivers Cuomo (alone album)
-Battles (Mirrored)
-Willy Porter (High Wire live)
-Pendulum
dig it.
Good stuff, Patti! I’ll check some out.
Here’s some of the conversation happening on Facebook:
DAVID OLSON
Very nice. Do you like the Raphael Saadiq record? It intrigued me…and the Al Green one. Long live ?uestlove!
Before I left on my trip, I watched the Dave Matthews live event on TV – I only have one CD of his, but I put that on (the one with So Much TO Say and Crash). I may get the new CD – the live TV thing was amazing.
I bought the new Mat Kearney project – I really like it. He dropped the rap thing, which disappointed me a bit, it made him so unique. And there’s a part of me that wonders if I like him because it sounds like a Coldplay record. He’s got really strong writing sensibility – some great hooks; though the music can run together a little bit…. Read More
I got some old Dylan before I left on this trip, but I haven’t been listening to my iPod much (surprising, considering how much I’ve been on a plane).
What has been the most thought captivating thing here for me is looking at the evolution or modernization of African music – at least in the small pockets that I traveled in.
I visited a church in Kampala – I went to college with the Arts director there. He says the young people don’t like to do the “African” songs and the things they write sound… Read More more like modern (I called it “western” he called it “global” – he’s right) rock/pop.
His pastor’s (Americans) love the Hillsong approach/sound/whatever (sound familiar anyone?) and want to model themselves after that. I hope they will be able to somehow fuse their African/Ugandan heritage with modern music – it would be such a shame to see another church just trying to imitate something that is not their own – and then wonder why it doesn’t work.
MARY CREWS
Starfield. Some of the best praise ever!
CHRIS FOUCHE
Good stuff. The Roots are probably one of the most mind-blowing groups out there. 100% Dundee! And Socs, the way you’ve been talkin up Paul Simon lately, I had to go back and dig up my CDs. Graceland is an all-time classic, but I’ve really been listening to The Rhythm of the Saints quite a bit lately too. Here’s what else is bouncing around my head
Widespread Panic, Carbondale 2000- unbelievable concert from my alltime favorite band.
Trey Anastasio- on some pretty interesting musical journeys ever since Phish stopped touring…. Read More
The Radiators, Live at the Great American Music Hall- New Orleans Blues. Love it.
The Derek Trucks Band, Songlines- Trucks mixes like 16 types of music into one sound, its amazing.
As you can probably tell, the jambands are my favorite!
SOCRATES PEREZ
Dave, that’s such an intriguing conversation! Man, I don’t know where music would be today without the unique heritage Africa has offered it historically. It’s sad to think that potentially new sounds are being left undiscovered because the people want to stick with what’s a hit @ the moment.
Love the Saadiq record! I don’t know how to explain it … Read Morethat well, but it sounds so true to the Motown sound, yet so fresh and modern in many ways. The Al Green is a MUST HEAR!
I’m a little more interested in Dave Matthews lately. Sarah’s always liked him, but I never dug. Can’t wait to hang when you get back!
Chris, my wife has been trying to get me to listen to The Rhythm of the Saints lately. I’m looking foward to it! I’ll take a gander @ some of the other stuff. Thanks for posting!