Sinister: Other bands that get you off musically...
So... I would really love to know which other bands get you *sinister* people off...musically, that is. My own essentials include The Bathers, Apples in Stereo, Bedhead, Blueboy, Cocteau Twins, The Divine Comedy, Field Mice / Northern Picture Library / Trembling Blue Stars, Frank & Walters, The Magnetic Fields, The Innocence Mission, Low, Red House Painters, Spain, Stereolab, The Sundays, Tindersticks, Trash Can Sinatras, Versus, Buddha on the Moon, Shift, 7% Solution, ESP Summer, and Nick Drake (OK, hes not a band, but I adore him). By the way, does anyone know anything about the Pearlfishers? The review I read from TweeKitten sounded fabulous! Classic acoustic pop? "I want to take my pleasures where and how I will, be they disgraceful or distasteful or distilled and to be frank, I find that life has more appeal without a driver who's asleep behind the wheel " - Neil Hannon ("Don't Look Down", 1994) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
empyreal wrote:
So... I would really love to know which other bands get you *sinister* people off...musically, that is.
Surely a more interesting question would be, "what _non-pop_ music floats your boat?" Endless lists of pop bands are starting to drive me crazy in this season of the top ten. OK, I'll start, Steve Reich Loudon Wainwright III Balanese gamelon John Fahey Hal Kemp & his orchestra That should pick your brains Aadam ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Surely a more interesting question would be, "what _non-pop_ music floats your boat?"
Endless lists of pop bands are starting to drive me crazy in this season of the top ten.
OK, I'll start, Steve Reich
Loudon Wainwright III
aaagh! can't go with you on this one here... i listened to a few tracks ages ago cos my mates were into it and i couldnae stand it :-(
John Fahey
i've got a bit of this on a tape someone made me once, and it's very nice... no idea about titles though. i ought to explore more... and even though i'd say that these people make records that are Pop to me simply because of how i'm defining that these days, here's a few of mine: Dexter Gordon Jon Hassell Les Baxter Ernest Tubb Actually i was just going to write a piece about the Country influence in B&S. maybe tomorrow. the duke -- Tangents On-Line http://www.virtual-pc.com/tangent/ Tangents On-Paper: PO Box 102, Exeter, EX2 4YL, UK tangent@mail.zynet.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
the duke of harringay wrote:
OK, I'll start, Steve Reich
Is this the "it's going to rain, it's going to rain..." bloke? Heard an interview with him on the radio not long ago. Splendid chap, liked him a lot.
Loudon Wainwright III
aaagh! can't go with you on this one here... i listened to a few tracks ages ago cos my mates were into it and i couldnae stand it :-(
A question. The LWIII song on Big Star Live, Motel Bloooooes, is it a comedy song originally? Obviously not very comic in the Big Star version, but I read somewhere that Loudon did a lot of comedy songs. Just a thought.
John Fahey
i've got a bit of this on a tape someone made me once, and it's very nice... no idea about titles though. i ought to explore more...
I've got The Legend of Blind Joe Death super extended CD version with two versions of most songs. It's very nice, especially for falling asleep to. According to the sleeve notes, people in the swinging sixties used it as a soundtrack for "making love". Takes all sorts dunt it?
and even though i'd say that these people make records that are Pop to me simply because of how i'm defining that these days, here's a few of mine:
Dexter Gordon
Meeeowww! Choo Choo Mitchell'll be slinking round in his beret.
Jon Hassell Les Baxter
Top one. I like the one with stairs in it. Or is that someone else?
Ernest Tubb
Actually i was just going to write a piece about the Country influence in B&S. maybe tomorrow.
I believe that it is a country influence filtered through the Orange Juice influence.
the duke
keep the faith.
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your address upstairs has changed, but this one remains the same. Dark deeds are afoot in Devon. I'm beginning to quite like that Pakistani bloke who kicked the bucket, Nusfrat Fatty Kahn, or something similar. Him and his mates really get into a groove. My new flat mates have got an album called tropical feelings or something. It makes you feel like you're in the rain forest, sitting between a tinkling waterfall and a bloke with a synthesizer. I quite enjoyed it. Then I said it reminded me of Tangerine Dream, and for some reason they switched it off. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
OK, some other bands that have been getting me off lately... acetone the beautiful south bjork future sound of london gusgus his name is alive luna radiohead red house painters tindersticks ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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