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At the risk of foisting my musical tastes on the world, I'm recommending the above "greatest his" CD from Uncle Tupelo.Great music and vocals, and all a bit rough around the edges. It's basically roots music, sorta Led Zeppelin meets Maria Muldaur, except there aren't any females anywhere. Okay, but seriously...
This is a CD I've had for more than a year and it never really "stuck", until I started playing it in my car to and back from work. Then it started growing on me in a big way. There are great ballads, there are head banging, guitar distorting monsters, and there are a couple of songs where there are beautiful ballads combined with guitar distorted chorus riffs that will make you go 90 miles and hour and get a speeding ticket.
So if you're at all into alt.country rocking/punkified roots music -- just get it.
- http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/B000063CN9/ref=cm_cr_dp_pt/102-1205511-7580903?ie=UTF8&n=5174&s=music (Open in New Window)
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written well before he told the Prince ARCHBishop of Salzburg to stick his job!And they'll soothe and inspire depending on your mood.
;-)!
Only half seriously!
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
Garage band?Based on your recommendation, I'll check him out. Any particular version or performer? I know that this sorta music gets remade every now and again by different performers.
you get a nice extra too!
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
NT.
Great collection.
An expert is someone who knows no more than you but is from out of town.
-Mark Twain
why is it that we sometimes have to turn something into background music just to get to it?When Two Against Nature first came out, there was no one more excited than I. I got it, rushed home and put it on......and was less than enthused. The next day I put it on and was doing something else in the room (maintenance or something) and holy crap, it was one of the best albums I'd ever heard.
that many pieces need mental digesting. Repetition is a keystone of music and it seems to hold true in listening to it. How often have you heard something once and felt it was terrific? It's been the exception, not the rule with me. When I'm interested in exploring a piece, I often play it in the background so my ears get used to it. Then, after a while, my ears seem to start picking up things and start knocking on my mental noggin, saying things like "You've got to hear this phrase." or "Oh, oh. Listen to this riff."I'm just thankful, for the sake of my driving record, that I have minimal interest in alt.countrified punk-rock-southern-fried woo-woo or whatever it was that Grover classified Uncle Tupelo as.
If you're going to fry your woo woo, leave me out of it. ;-)I agree completely that you need to let musical work grow on you and gain a closer fit. There have been plenty of times that a new CD from even a familiar artist hasn't captivated me until after maybe the fifth playing. The latest "Roadrunning" CD from Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris is an example. Individually the performers are amongst my favorites, but it took me perhaps five plays of the CD before I started liking more than one or two tracks. After dozens of plays, I'm enjoying every track for different reasons and at different times and the musical expressions never seem to lose their flavor.
But I will say there are other times when my first impression isn't so good, and it never gets much better. Even after many plays, I just find that Beethoven hack a real waste of time. Okay, maybe not Beethoven, but Rufus Wainwright sorta disappoints, and I'm completely surprised and perturbed by my reaction to his music, which I think I ought to love.
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