Non-Classical Music Listening Thread!

[Scriptavolant]

Tom Waits listed this as one of his top 30 favourite albums a couple of years ago. Kaizers Orchestra is a Norwegian band, merging rock, pump organ, balkan polka, oil drums, wheel rims and crowbars into one of the most irresistible live acts in Europe in the last few years. Of course they're influenced by TW too.
Sound samples here: http://www.farmenas.com/kaizers/ompa.htm

The band website is here (English available): http://www.kaizers.no/
Wikipedia.

Very interesting. I did enjoy the album (especially 170 and Rullett)

+ Lorena McKeennit "The mask and the mirror"

and AIR "The virgin suicides"

[rubio]

Rapture "Pieces of the People We Love". Some dance-punk/indie rock with Robert Smith-like vocal. Also music for jogging, and I think the first half of the album is really good. However consistency is often the problem with pop/rock albums and it's also the case here. But some of these songs would suit some cool clubs in NY/Amsterdam/London perfect  .

[rubio]

Amadou et Mariam "Sou Ni Tile". It's sunny outside in Oslo today, and then this blind duo from Mali provides the most perfect music I can listen to. Beautiful complex vocal harmonies, polyrythmic percussion and fluid guitar, violin and horn lines make this intelligent, human pop music. They were supposed to be play in a festival close to my home last year, but they cancelled in the last minute due to some illness  .

[George]

[Daverz]

More non-classical vinyl:




The one with the guys in diving suits is XTC, Black Sea.

[dtwilbanks]

We must be the same age, Daverz.

[George]

We must be the same age, Daverz.

I thought that too, when I already knew that was XTC. 

[Daverz]

We must be the same age, Daverz.

I started collecting records in the mid 70s, so some of this stuff is a nostalgia trip (e.g. Rachel Sweet and the Flying Lizards).  But the XTC and Television Lps are new to me, and the Tom Waits was released in 2004, I believe.  The Television Lp is actually a sealed reissue. 

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a lot of used Tom Waits Lps on the market, and I have about 30 years of his records to catch up with.  The only other Lp of his that I have is The Heart of Saturday Night which is from the late 70s.  I love that Lp.

[Solitary Wanderer]

Sinatra with The Hollywood String Quartet.

[dtwilbanks]

I started collecting records in the mid 70s, so some of this stuff is a nostalgia trip (e.g. Rachel Sweet and the Flying Lizards).  But the XTC and Television Lps are new to me, and the Tom Waits was released in 2004, I believe.  The Television Lp is actually a sealed reissue. 

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a lot of used Tom Waits Lps on the market, and I have about 30 years of his records to catch up with.  The only other Lp of his that I have is The Heart of Saturday Night which is from the late 70s.  I love that Lp.

You're building a very cool collection is all I can say. Got any Elvis Costello?

[dtwilbanks]

Now playing...THE SMITHSONIAN COLLECTION OF CLASSIC JAZZ.

Out of print now. Too bad for you, eh?

[Daverz]

You're building a very cool collection is all I can say. Got any Elvis Costello?

Yeah, his first 3 records.

A lot of my non-classical vinyl is actually my brothers, but since he doesn't have a turntable...

[dtwilbanks]

I was thinking, if you gave a kid all the Ken Burns Jazz CDs, he or she would have quite the basic jazz library.

[dtwilbanks]

Yeah, his first 3 records.

Good deal. I think I like MY AIM IS TRUE best out of those three, but you can't go wrong with any of them.

[dtwilbanks]

[Robert]

I see your getting serious, bringing out the heavy lumber....

[dtwilbanks]

I see your getting serious, bringing out the heavy lumber....

Damn skippy. 

[Bogey]

I was thinking, if you gave a kid all the Ken Burns Jazz CDs, he or she would have quite the basic jazz library.

Agreed.

[Robert]

Damn skippy. 

Damn right...now that your there you might as well bring out THE SERMON, PRAYER MEETIN, THE CAT, for openers....

[Valentino]

More of the same...


This is Kaizers Orchestras latest album. I presented their debut a couple of pages back. Do give them a listen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2PIZN8V-Bo