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TheEverGrowingTakeMyTime ListOfGreatnessOffTheTopOf MyHead: Sonic Youth, The Police, NoMeansNo, Dolly Parton, RadioHead, Dave Grohl, Stephen Perkins, Jane's Addiction, Early Rolling Stones, Banyan, Robert Johnson, Bob Marley (except I can't seem to listen to Legend anymore), Neil Young (same thing - can't spin Decade), Stewart Copeland, Beck, Wilco, Beastie Boys, Jimmy Chamberlain, StereoLab, Public Enemy, Smashing Pumpkins, James Iha (Let It Come Down is so great on a sunny day), BrokeBack, John Coltrane, Feist, Giant Sand, Calexico, Lou Reed, PJ Harvey, Queens Of The Stone Age (especially Songs for the Deaf - also great on a sunny day), The Pixies, My Bloody Valentine, Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr. (for me - up to & including Green Mind is the best o' the best), Captain BeefHeart, Kim Gordon, The Roots, The Flaming Lips, Gal Costa, Jorge Ben, Red Hot Chili Pillies, Fantomas, Urge Overkill, Iron & Wine, Tortoise, Talking Heads (Stop Making Sense - is the best Concert Film of All Time), Porno for Pyros, R.E.M. - early stuff, Zwan ("Honestly - I believe in it all."), BrokeBack, Arcade Fire, Final Fantasy (esp. Live), Nina Simone (She could use a gun as well as she could sing), Wilco, ZZ Top, Brian Eno, John Wright, War, Fear, CCR, The Band, Black Sabbath, Dread Zeppelin, Antony & The Johnsons, Gil Scott Heron, OysterHead, Miles Davis, Califone, David Bowie, Chad Smith, Willie Nelson, ?uestLove, Palace Brothers, John Frusciante, Tenacious D, Stevie Wonder, Super Furry Animals, Broken Social Scene, John Bonham, Jeff Buckley, Tom Waits, Butthole Surfers (up to & including Hairway to Stephen), Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Johnny Cash, Mike Watt (in all his forms), Loretta Lynn, Urge Overkill, Farrago, Califone, Probot, Celia Cruz, Senor Coconut, Air, EmmyLou Harris (I still have a crush on this woman), Foo Fighters (The Colour and the Shape is one great Rock Record), Wilco, Husker Du, Spirit, Dean Martin, Serge Gainsborough, NIN, M.I.A., Breeders, Devo, The Buggles, Afrika Bambaataa, Neu!, OutKast, The Roots, Manu Katche, Fela & Femi Kuti, Leadbelly, Leonard Cohen, Tony Allen (they had to replace him with 4 drummers when he left Fela), Bjork, The Sugarcubes, Steve Shelley, Primus, Mercury Rev, Daniel Lanois, The Boredoms, Bedouin Soundclash, Bright eyes, thurston Moore, LCD Soundsystem, Ensemble Nipponia, U-Roy, Arcade Fire, Chet Baker (Did you know he is Flea's dad?), Kronos Quartet, Jim Thirwell, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Jimi Hendrix, Ry Cooder, Gnarls Barkley, M.I.A., Blondie, Jim Belushi, Nick Drake, De La Soul, Terry Bozio, Johnny Cash, Tori Amos Live, John Zorn, The Partridge Family, Rush, Peter Gabriel, Massive Attack, Bad Brains, Mitch Mitchell, Metallica (Only cause - "They are so heavy Man - You know how you know? They have METAL right in their NAME!!"), Pink Floyd (everything before The Wall), Steve Albini (Big Black, Rapeman, Shellac), Psychic TV, Ohbijou, Leonard Cohen, The Meters, Zed Leppelin (for the best rythym section in Rock), The Herbalizer, K-oS, Buddy Rich (he's what I'm like when I fly off the handle.), Stevie Wonder, Ween, Ray Charles, Buck Owens, KUKL, The Good, The Bad, and the Queen, {And the list grows...}................... Current Musical Fixation: Early Broken Social Scene - their ambient stuff rules! -- Early 'Un-released' and Live Pink Floyd - Beck B-sides and non-releases (I have 2 Gigs worth of unheard songs - the man is prolific - and every song is great!) - NIN - With Teeth (2005)[Dave Grohl does all the drumming!] - tHE TALKING hEADS dISCOGRAPHY - ----, Everything Wilco - from Loose Fur to Uncle Tupelo - to Glenn Kotche & Nels Kline solo stuff - and more! - Sonic Youth's current relases of Live DayDream Nation Material is great fun for an early shit fan like myself - I've also been learning - front to back - the first 4 Zeppelin albums (go triplets!), Exile on Main Street and some other classic rock samplings - on Drums -- lottsa fun -- Really digging -- Thurston Moore's new Album "Trees Outside The Academy." -- M.I.A.'s "Kala" album - Holy Crap is this Fun & Awesome --Kevin Drew's Album "Spirit If...." is Amazing! -- Loving The Boredoms - -- 2 months ago they did a gig in a park in New York with 77 drummers! - Yee-Hah! --
My Favorite Movies are all the Cool Bands My Friends are in. For Instance: The Old Soul, The Dirty Hearts, In Support Of Living, God's Last Name, The Sunday Night band at The Dakota, Ronley Teper, Treasa Levasseur, Gnostic Rocket, Sweet 66, John Rae and the River, Jo Lou (& GoManGo?), Kaminari, Quadraped, Joe Lapinski & Palooka, Jude Haines, Lysa Fina, Gnostic Rocket, Jab, Hell Yeah, Debaser, The Easy Targets, Frog Pilot, Jon Rae & The Mortimers, Dan Cornelius, Meagan & Cam, Hylozoists, Roger Sader, Damn13, Password, Nassau, Rob Szabo, More or Les, Marilee Yorston, Sarah Siddiqui, SoBeItUnion, Pop Psych Dreams, and that band you are in. You guys rock.
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You can't listen to a book. Oh wait -- maybe you can. Nevermind. . . . . .
Have you noticed how exciting music is getting. I mean not just the "Music Industry" or "Bands" or "Genres of Music" -- but Music itself -- everyone is listening/making/being intigued by/talking about/including Music as part of their life. More than ever. The last couple of years when I go out I don't take my music with me -- Not to work, to friends, to clubs, wherever -- I don't need to -- I am hearing so much great stuff -- Exciting times for the Muso --- Exciting times.