Non-Classical Music Listening Thread!

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[ezodisy]

buena vista social club, this is beautiful music. Anyone have any recommendations for latin music? I'd like to seek out some habanera style music, not sure what it sounds like

[Kullervo]

[Lethevich]

Univers Zero - Heresie



Messed up, like always. I like the way they look like an 80s goth band on the cover.

[Kullervo]

Prefab Sprout - Swoon

[Lethevich]

Second listen, I like it more this time. Reasonably rocky, very un-Smithsy production, if the lyrics can be got along with it's a good album with some very high points.

[George]

Second listen, I like it more this time. Reasonably rocky, very un-Smithsy production, if the lyrics can be got along with it's a good album with some very high points.

With the exception of the first single, that one never quite grew on me. The new album (Years of Refusal)  is incredible though! (Yes, it has been leaked) 

[Dr. Dread]

[Lethevich]

With the exception of the first single, that one never quite grew on me. The new album (Years of Refusal)  is incredible though! (Yes, it has been leaked) 

Coolie, I'll get it once I've gone through the rest. The Shostakovich sampling in Southpaw Grammar is unfortunately moronic and ruins the first song

[George]

Coolie, I'll get it once I've gone through the rest. The Shostakovich sampling in Southpaw Grammar is unfortunately moronic and ruins the first song

Yes, I usually recommend starting at the beginning with Viva Hate and Bona Drag. BTW, there's a discussion going on of his albums from start to finish over here: http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=169590

[Kullervo]

Prefab Sprout - Swoon

Listening again. I never realized how awesome this album is. Not as "perfect" as Steve McQueen, but that only makes it more endearing to me.

[ezodisy]

[Kullervo]

[Dr. Dread]

The Original Sins - BIG SOUL

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Kaushiki Chakrabarty is one of the very few classical vocalists who will make a mark in the 21st century...." This was the assessment made by Bhimsen Joshi, one of India's greatest classical vocalists of the modern era.

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Kaushiki's mother, Chandna Chakrabarty was her first guru noting that she could reproduce virtually any musical and rhythmic phrase when she was only two years old. Kaushiki then became a "ganda-bandh" shagird (disciple) of her father's guru, Jnan Prakash Ghosh, according to India's ancient system of guru-shishya parampara. On account of the old age of her guru and with his consent, she resumed her training under her father, Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty. The guru-shishya system of teaching is the most intensive and effective route of musical learning in North Indian Classical music. It is the very soul of the oral tradition of India, and embodies the living and learning relationship between master and pupil. Evolving from the era of the great Indian seers, what the tradition signifies is the complete emotional, intellectual and spiritual surrender of the ardent shishya (trainee) to the guru (teacher).

[Dr. Dread]

Gene Vincent

[Lethevich]

This is a surprise. I am finding Maladjusted better than a lot of the earlier stuff. I don't have a clue why the critical consensus is that this is somehow related to prog rock - it's not at all. No similarities with the classics of that genre, and it doesn't contain any more pretentious "classical" samples than his debut, for example. Even if the rest of the album sucked Alma Matters would raise it to "interesting".

[George]

This is a surprise. I am finding Maladjusted better than a lot of the earlier stuff. I don't have a clue why the critical consensus is that this is somehow related to prog rock - it's not at all. No similarities with the classics of that genre, and it doesn't contain any more pretentious "classical" samples than his debut, for example. Even if the rest of the album sucked Alma Matters would raise it to "interesting".

Glad you enjoyed this one! I find that there are a number of great songs on that one, just like Southpaw Grammar and a few other albums, but not enough to consider the album great.

[Kullervo]

Acid jazz arrangements of music from the game Chrono Trigger. If one didn't know Chrono Trigger this would just seem like unusually-melodic smooth jazz, albeit with something about the production that places it more among Pizzicato Five than Chuck Mangione. I'm not normally into video games or video game music but Chrono Trigger's soundtrack is great for the purpose it serves.

[Dr. Dread]

The Clash