OT: Good music others may not have heard of...

[559Rando]

Here's some YouTube links for awesome, awesome music (based on my last post in this thread).

Sufjan Stevens - The Dress Looks Nice On You


A few gems that I always come back to:

The Zombies - their catalog is quite good, though they're really only known for a few hits during the British Invasion
The Zombies - Summertime (Shindig, 1965)

Colin Blunstone - 'One Year' is a phenomenal album. Blunstone was the Zombies front man, One Year his solo debut and it's 70s rock meets classical, heavy on the classical.
Colin Blunstone - Say You Dont Mind

Hem - Hauntingly beautiful, 'American' music. I'm especially fond of their debut, 'Rabbit Songs', probably for emotional reasons, but all of their albums are great and I think most would say the later stuff is even better.
Hem - Redwing [Official Music Video]

Goldmund - Minimilist piano music. Great background or meditative stuff.
Goldmund: Image-Autumn-Womb

HUM - Brilliant 90s space rock with thick noisy guitars
Hum - Green To Me (music video) [HQ]

Jellyfish - 90s retroband mixes The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Queen and AC/DC. I wish they took themselves more seriously. Spilt Milk is a great album.
Jellyfish - The Ghost at Number One (Later)

Ida - One of the bands I'll never tire of. The later work is easier to get into. Great boy/girl harmonies, mellow, great musicianship.
Ida - Late Blues [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]

[cmg]

Originally Posted by staggerwing

For an original take on the surf genre, sometimes referred to as psychedelic surf, I really dig The Mermen. To my ears it is both powerful and peaceful.

Start with a couple of live sets from Youtube, such as:
100 Foot Lemon
Krill Slipping
Soul Surfin'

There are a bunch of shows up on archive.org too.

Perhaps start with:
Rusty's Surf Ranch October 14, 2000

Really nice sound on that one.

Caught them at the Continental Club in Austin around the same time frame. Great stuff. Honeybomb does it for me. Check out one of the many podcasts at Surf 101 http://surfguitar101.com/podcast/13/
excellent website in general.

[Pars]

Originally Posted by jh_on_the_cape

pandora. put a band you like. if something you like comes on, make a new station of that band...
I have found new stuff that way.
depends on the genre. some stuff is way limited, while other stuff it's amazing what pandora comes up with.

Music depends on your taste and mood, but quality is quality.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
MGMT
Vampire Weekend

Radio is just garbage these days. A few stations are still great. Try streaming WMVY, our local station. mvyradio.com good mix with good DJs.

Yes, I do the same thing using Last-FM. I too like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs; wich I could have caught them at Lollapalooza last year.

An Aussie band I found and like (IIRC using this method) is The Jezabels. Their album Prisoner is awesome IMHO.

I also listen to BRMC as gomango pointed out, though I don't have Berlin.

[bluesea]

Chicken Shack

[tlittlefield]

If you want to hear some music you usually don't hear go to Radio BDC. The staff is from the now defunct WFNX in Boston, but they play stuff that even 'FNX did not play. You can get it as an app for your phone or stream it on-line.

Highly recommended for people who like, alternative/indy rock and pop.

[bluesea]

[Steve in SLO]

Originally Posted by dumbod

Among my more recent favorites (even if you hate the music how can you not love the names?) :

Seasick Steve for blues

http://www.youtube.com/user/seasicks...e=results_main

and Enter the Haggis for Celtic-oriented rock

http://www.youtube.com/user/enterthe...e=results_main

Thanks dumbod for the Seasick Steve link. I watched about 45 minutes of his stuff. He's a great player who's experienced a lot of life.

[SpokeValley]

THANKS everyone for the great links to stuff I've never heard!

I have a couple:

Billy D and the Hoodoos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL_T7-il8AU

Neil Finn (old vid, hot giant girl, great song): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFNm3yoVOS4


And now for something totally irrelevant and stupidly childish that was lurking on one of my YouTube lists...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pLos...mnT6dN4Kx1xyBg

Hey, we're all goofing off here...

[rounder]

Me and My Uncle

Grateful Dead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTRLYnwnAXM

Joni Mitchell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp3lJg07u4w

John Phillips
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofuOfpb2SCM

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_and_My_Uncle

[pcxmbfj]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/bestmusic20...-songs-of-2012

[19wisconsin64]

Tragically hip- Canada’s amazing band … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPJ2rcYQC88

if you like metal (zeppelin style, but much darker)… Tool, from the good old USA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOiR_eZGLcc


well, if you have not heard Radiohead here you go …great with and without headphones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTkf1X6RIPw

just imagine you are in a night club, it’s 4 am, and you are altered, and dancing, and you are 21 again…..can't write this name, will be deleted....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqlSa...eature=related

1972 England – Nick Drake http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1AkYgBTc4M , this guy was great

PJ Harvey – from England http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldCm-5fIUs0

more modern, amazing lyrics, still in the UK – Editors http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMKEHQqREMo

back to the states – Death Cab For Cutie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XmbvfxMiUE

and something that is old and French sounding, yet new...Beruit Band ....wonderful!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWSz_PAfgNc



thanks for letting me play dj, hopefully something new for your cycling ears!

[tlittlefield]

Matt and Kim...

[rounder]

Another vote for the Zombies. She's Not There

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5IRI4oHKNU

[rounder]

i was clicking around and found this...Roy Rogers, kingston trio, everly brothers, johnny cash, etc,

The song is not all that great, but where else are you going to see all those people in one place.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUVvd...yer_detailpage

[carpediemracing]

I'll have to comb through for home-brewed alternative/punk bands.

There's one song that I really liked from the mid 80s, "alternative rock", probably a local band. It played on the WestConn station 91.7 FM (Western CT State Univ?). Some lyrics, from the top of my head:

Shalala sing a simple song (might be Shanana)
But in my mind everything is wrong
blah blah blah
See the face I have to shave

part of refrain:
Every single day I play the game,
Every single day I blah blah blah,

Any old timers recognize this song? I have it on a cassette somewhere, I need to convert to mp3, but I need to find the cassette etc etc etc.

I have some (cycling) clips on YouTube under Sprinterdellacasa. I use music from bands my brothers were in. One of the more standard songs I use is this one from the band URT (now defunct). This is them performing "Deepest Knife" at their last show in 2002. I used a studio recording for the actual song as I videotaped the show thinking I'd have a recording to work with (the Elbo Room said that they'd record the sound). No recording so I had to fudge a bit. Any odd flashes etc are me adjusting the video track to match the sound (not always successful).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTEhBqPNiNA

I hope to make a couple more clips of URT but it's way more time consuming than the 10-40 hours it takes me to do a cycling clip.