The One & Only Official Music Geeks' Thread

[carcajou]

To all the dutch speaking people of these boards:

http://www.radioblogclub.fr/search/0/mijn_vlakke_land

What do you think? Jacques Brel is not a native dutch (or belgian flemish) speaker, but he's very close to perfection in french. Is he any good in dutch too?

[SE6Ajacied]

Just bought three new CD's, all out in the same two weeks - Manu Chao 'La Radiolina' (which I've not actually played yet but I really like this guy), 'Shoffers Nation' by Babyshambles (which I thought was good but still strugling to get near The Libertines) and 'The World is Yours' by Ian Brown, which I think is absolutely excellent and I've not stopped playing.

Totally recommend two of these, Manu Chao (on reputation - even though I've not played it) and Ian Brown (as it's excellent and by a really under-rated artist imo).

[Per]

Just got PJ Harvey's new one. Sounds good on the first two listens but I still miss her mad days. Nothing beats a 45 kg woman out-shouting a wall of guitar mangling with the words "Lick my legs - I'm on fire!!!"

This album is very stripped down and mellow. Still...sounds nice.

On account of Babyshambles, I guess I feel exactly like you there SE6, sounds ok but nowhere near Libertines. I had a short listen to it in the store and quickly decided not to buy it.

[SE6Ajacied]

On account of Babyshambles, I guess I feel exactly like you there SE6, sounds ok but nowhere near Libertines. I had a short listen to it in the store and quickly decided not to buy it.

Ah, well, I've just moved house and no time to do too much shopping - I got them all online.

I'd probably have bought it anyway though...............

[SE6Ajacied]

We seem to have discussed a lot on here but thought it might be fun to write a top ten of favourite tracks and see how our lists compare - shall I start?

1) November Rain - Guns n Roses
2) Hand in Glove - The Smiths
3) It's My Heart - Mano Negra (and the cover version by Rude Boy System)
4) Scorpios - Adam and the Ants
5) Shadowplay - Joy Division
6) She's Lost Control - Joy Division
7) A New England - Kirsty MacColl (and the Billy Bragg original)
8) Out of Time Man - Mano Negra
9) Radio Aktiv - Bruset (I've got that on a compilation - Great Track)
10) Anything else by Joy Division/Mano Negra or The Smiths (cheating I know)


This is really only today's list I suppose but a lot of these have been favourites of mine for years....I've tried to spread it out as well otherwise my top ten might all be on Hatful of Hollow by The Smiths!

[carcajou]

Here's mine, of course as usual in this kind of threads, I'm breaking the rules because I could not prune it down to ten items....

• Pete Rock feat. Raekwon, Prodigy and Ghostface Killah - The Game
  Barbara - Nantes
  Jacques Brel - Mathilde
  The Pixies - Where is my Mind
  Placebo - Every me and Every You
  Francis Cabrel - L'Encre de tes Yeux
  Alan Stivell - Tri Martolod
  Ludwig Van Beethoven - Ode To Joy (our WONDERFUL european anthem) and the 9th symphony in its entirety
  Mos Def - Speed Law
  The Smashing Pumpkins - Zero
  Wolf Parade - Fancy Claps
  Nirvana - Territorial Pissings
  Simon and Garfunkel - April Come She Will (and lots of other songs)
  Téléphone - La Bombe Humaine
  Metallica - The Unforgiven
  Barrington Levy - Black Roses
  EDIT: Cédric's list made me think about another one...
  Louise Attaque - La Plume

[Cedric]

10 is also too few...

Het Voordeel Van Video - Spinvis
Plane Song - Absynthe Minded
Instant Street - dEUS
Jacksonville - Sufjan Stevens
Fallen Angel - Elbow
This Is A Low - Blur
Tes Vanités - Eiffel
Unfinished Relief - Mud Flow
Fin de Siècle - Noir Désir
Les Etoiles Filantes - Les Cowboys Fringants
Casper - Girls In Hawaii
Battle-Axe - Deftones
Le Souvenir - Matmatah
Telepheric Love - Austin Lace
Thru the Eyes of Ruby - Smashing Pumpkins

Let's stop here..

[Philippe]

among many others :

Pink Floyd
Echoes
Us and them
Confortably numb
The Doors
When the music's over
The end
Take it as it comes
Jacques Brel
Amsterdam
Gerry Rafferty
Baker street
Jimi Hendrix
Voodoo child (long version)
Roger Waters
It's a miracle
Patti Smith
Pissing in a river
Souchon
Sous les jupes des filles

[Manneken Pis]

What do you think? Jacques Brel is not a native dutch (or belgian flemish) speaker, but he's very close to perfection in french. Is he any good in dutch too?

He speaks Dutch as well as any Flemish person ....

[aveslacker]

In no particular order. Subject to change in 5 minutes.

The Sky is Crying -- Stevie Ray Vaughan
Three Days -- Jane's Addiction
Hannah -- Ray Lamontagne
Gimme Shelter -- The Rolling Stones
One -- U2
White, Discussion -- Live
Lithium -- Nirvana
Black -- Pearl Jam
#41 -- Dave Matthews Band
New Madrid -- Uncle Tupelo
All Along the Watchtower -- Jimi Hendrix
Friend of the Devil -- The Grateful Dead
Mr. Brightside -- the Killers
No Woman No Cry -- Bob Marley
Flake -- Jack Johnson
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye -- David Grey
Into the Mystic -- Van Morrison
Tupelo Honey -- Van Morrison

Is that ten yet?

[kraz11]

At the moment its like this

1 radiohead-pearly

2 radiohead-nude

3 radiohead-15 step

4 Beatles-while my heart gently weeps

5 Tribe called quest-excursions

6 pharcyde-passing me by

7 radiohead-exit music

8 Pink floyd- shine on your crazy diamond

9 Soul williams - skin of a drum

10 Bill withers- the same love that made me laugh made me cry

[SE6Ajacied]

Here's mine, of course as usual in this kind of threads, I'm breaking the rules because I could not prune it down to ten items....[

Well, if we're all cheating can I add Don't Dictate by Penetration?

An old tune - not exactly an old favourite of mine but I'm playing it all the time at the moment - love the guitar rifts......

[carcajou]

6 pharcyde-passing me by

The Pharcyde is awesome, I love Pandemonium by the same band.

[SPL]

Being rather old ie 56 I might be one of the oldest posters I will list 10 of my favourites.

Remember guys I go back before any of you were born!

Byrds Mr Tambourine Man

Kate Bush This woman's work

Meat Loaf For crying out loud

Buddy Holly True love ways.

Dusty Springfield Goin Back The Byrds version is also a favourite

Thunderclap Newman something in the air

ELO 10538 Overture

Van Halen Jump

Blue Oyster Cult Dont fear the reaper

Jim Croce Photographs and Memories

Bob Dylan Positively 4th Street

[carcajou]

Van Halen Jump

That song is played in Marseille at the Velodrome when the teams enter the pitch. Sounds pretty awesome.

[SE6Ajacied]

Meat Loaf For crying out loud

I'll second that - Meat Loaf....For Crying Out Load!!!

They were great in the Young Ones with the Ace of Spades in the front room though......

[DanK]

If we were talking albums I wouldn't have an issue, but individual songs...they change so often depending on my mood. So I have gone for my favs from my fav artists (and maybe 1 or 2 others):
Radiohead - No Surprises, Climbing Up The Walls, Paranoid Android, There There
Ryan Adams - Please Do Not Let Me Go, Call Me On Your Way Back Home, Oh My Sweet Carolina, Strawberry Wine, Blue Hotel
Sigur Rós - Svefn-g-englar, Olsen Olsen, Glósóli
Augie March - There Is No Such Place, One Crowded Hour
Jeff Buckley - Hellelujah, Lilac Wine, Satisfied Mind

I could also included a number of songs by Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Beck, The Rolling Stones, Joanna Newsom, Bob Marley, Faith No More...There are so many more. I could really list 200 songs here, easily, that I love and they vary from the funky, depressing, rock, hippy it really does vary.

I tell you what though there are a few songs I can't stand:
Stairway To Heaven (worst Led Zep song off all time)
Khe Sahn - Cold Chisel (this is one of the best pub/rock bands from Australia, but this song is so over rated).
99% of "Commercial Music"

[aveslacker]

Meat Loaf For crying out loud

I'll second that - Meat Loaf....For Crying Out Load!!!

They were great in the Young Ones with the Ace of Spades in the front room though......

That's Motorhead you're thinking of.

Meatloaf is a fat American who sings stupid love songs in an overdramatic fashion.

[Khraa]

1. Little Wing (live versie) Jimi Hendrix
2. Hey Johnny Park - Foo Fighters
3. Keepsake - Bettie Serveert
4. Muscle Museum - Muse
5. Hotel Lounge - Deus
6. Soma - Smashing Pumpkins
7. The wind cries Mary - Jimi Hendrix
8. Eternal Live - Jeff Buckley
9. Rooster - Alice in Chains
10. Oh my god - Kaiser Chiefs
10. Round here - Counting Crows
10. Hey - Pixies
10. Porch - Pearl Jam
10. Fell on Black days - Soundgarden
10. Not ready yet - Eels

Precies 10!

[SE6Ajacied]

That's Motorhead you're thinking of.

Yeah, you're right. I thought there was something wrong as I was typing it..

Meatloaf is a fat American who sings stupid love songs in an overdramatic fashion.

Another fan I presume

[Tom_]

Well. I'm more a whole-album kinda guy (we can do that later!), but here's a list of songs I really like. Mind you it would probably be different next week...

The Drones - Shark Fin Blues / Words from the Executioner / Sixteen Straws
Pixies - Hey / Where is My Mind? / The Holiday Song / Gouge Away
Calexico - Sunken Waltz
The Arcade Fire - Tunnels
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand / Oh My Lord
Okkervil River - So Come Back, I am Waiting
Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus
Comets on Fire - Dogwood Rust
Tool - Lateralus
Augie March - Asleep in Perfection
Elliott Smith - Waltz # 2
Smog - Rock Bottom Riser
Grinderman - Honey Bee
Teenage Fanclub - Born Under a Good Sign
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Queens of the Stone Age - Mexicola
The Mars Volta - Take the Veil
Rage Against the Machine - Bullet in the Head
Tapes 'n Tapes - Insistor
At The Drive-In - Cosmonaut
Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life
Joy Division - Transmission

[Blind3]

Only ten ? Here goes nothing.

10. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
09. A Quick One ( While he's Away )- Either The Who version from The Rolling Stones Rock 'n Roll Circus or the My Morning Jacket w/ Eddie Vedder version .
08. The Holiday Song or Where Is My Mind - The Pixies
07. White Riot - The Clash
06. Negative Creep - Nirvana
05. Down - Pearl Jam
04. The Cretin Hop , I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend , or The KKK Took My Baby Away - The Ramones
03. Second Skin - The Gits
02. It All Dies Anyway - The Gits
01. Immortality - Pearl Jam

[AsgAarD_xxx]

My favourite ten (in no particular order, because it changes almost every month) :

Sabaton - "Primo victoria"
Iron Maiden - "Paschendale"
Atrocity - "Gods of nations"
Pink Floyd - "High hopes"
Moonspell - "Alma mater"
Asgaard - "Cogitemus corpus esse mortale"
Godsmack - "Voodoo"
MC Hush - "All I got"
Jacek Kaczmarski - "Mury" *
Leszek Czajkowski - "Zolnierzom wykletym" **


*Jacek Kaczmarski (1957-2004), polish poet and singer, the bard of Solidarnosc. "Mury" ("The walls") is his most popular song. It is about hope for political changes, the end of communism and better times for Poland and for Europe.

**Leszek Czajkowski is not as popular as Kaczmarski, but he's called "the bard of political right wing". The song I put above ("Zolnierzom wykletym" I can translate as "For cursed soldiers" or "For excommunicated soldiers" - I do not know which one is better) is a tribute to polish soldiers-nationalists which created Narodowe Sily Zbrojne (National Armed Forces), a part of the Polish resistance movement in World War II.

[DanK]

Just watched the Sigur Ros documentary “heima” over the weekend.

How this band does this is beyond me. It is simply a stunning movie. There are no other words for it. Fabulous stuff. Would strongly encourage anyone who even has the smallest liking for this band to check it out.

They have captured perfectly the beauty of Iceland and their music.

Nice one guys.

[Manneken Pis]

I don't usually venture onto here, but just wanted to say I went to a concert tonight; "Rodrigo y Gabriela".

It blew my mind.

If you like fast accoustic guitar work and varied rythms its well worth checking out.


More info on their official site:

http://www.rodgab.com/