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However I'm just working my way through Raising Sand - Robert Plant and Alison Krauss and it's rather lovely, what do you like to listen to when you just want to relax?
People that say Chill out dance mixes will get a slap
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:10, 120 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
Must expand repertoire...
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:15, Reply)
Had to watch the rest of youtube. Always the bloody way with festivals.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:40, Reply)
I love yer Robert Johnson, Charley Patton type country folk blues, I love your Buddy Guy electric Chicago blues, yer British 60s blues boom stuff right up to some of the present day stuff like Seasick Steve.
Fucking LOVE. IT.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:16, Reply)
David Bowie turns his imeasurable talent to the broken down raw power of blues music and blows all blues away. ***** The NME
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:19, Reply)
...that that terrible, terrible penis even had a go at being a blues/r&b artist in the 60s. One of his many early failed bandwagon-jumping attempts.
Such integrity! God how I love him.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:23, Reply)
hardly relaxing though. Even when he does the almost normal stuff, it tends to descend into a stramash of hootin and a hollerin.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:21, Reply)
I rather like the latest Bat For Lashes one at the moment.
More often than not though I'll put on some of Nick Cave's less bombastic stuff or some early croony Tom Waits.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:14, Reply)
homepage.ntlworld.com/mickthompson/sandyboys.mp3
EDIT: No takers on this modern appalachian 'old time' music then? Jaw harps are full of win!
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:14, Reply)
try Bonnie Prince Billy, Will Oldham or Palace/Palace Songs/Palace Music (they're all the same bloke).
Check out Besnard Lakes 'Are The Dark Horse' - youtube 'and you lied to me' for mellow rock-out loveliness.
rafter
baz
ps - I could go on all day on this one if you want more.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:15, Reply)
I shall investigate
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:17, Reply)
I propose 'The Allman Brothers' who encompass the Blues recommendation also.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:19, Reply)
or reggae. To be honest I don't often listen to music to relax - I listen to music to be blown away. I get too into what I'm listening to and find I'm not relaxed at all.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:19, Reply)
Anything by King Tubby usually does the damage, really need to have sub bass capabilities though, as half of the musical joy is skanking away down there.
JAH!
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:24, Reply)
I quite like some of the modern digital stuff like Iration Steppers from Leeds.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:29, Reply)
that they cart about, very good it is as well. For me it is the whole soundsystem culture and how they can't just roll up and play on a regular system as they would probably destroy it within minutes. The sheer power and clarity of the bass on a good system is a thing of beauty. Jah Shaka playing on The Messenger Sound System at the Glasgow Art School a few years back was possibly my favourite gig of all time. I ended up totally zombified, it quickly spilled over into a full blown religious experience.
The whole 'warrior' dub thing completely overwhelmed me and I was playing out all these bizarre hallucinatory 'episodes' in my mind, where I became a figurative warrior for all things good and holy and was battling against evil and dancing my way to a better future for all mankind. Unforgettable.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:37, Reply)
on an almost-weekly basis. Gotta love the whole 60-year old man with one deck approach. Tufnell Park's Dub Club used to have a visiting system every week - and they'd bring their entire rigs despite the reasonably small venue.
On occasion you'd have to order drinks by sign language. Apart from Dillinja's Valve Sound System I've never been exposed to such extreme volume in my life. Motorhead are nowhere near.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:44, Reply)
Shaka live is so addictive, he has the energy, the rekkids, the moves, the patois, the presence, the whole fucking package. I may have to make a pilgrimage down to London this year to catch Shaka, as he rarely plays up here. Your local knowledge would be a mighty fine skill to have onboard for such a venture.
The thing is with the well tuned systems is that they sound SOOO crisp and clear yet the bass still weighs a fucking tonne.
Check youtube for 'shaka plays rent man', and witness some proper Rastas totally losing their heads to the vibrations. This one guy just takes to running in a circle he's so far gone. Brilliant clip.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:54, Reply)
"COME ON YOU SLAAAAGS"
Brilliant film, the scene where he stumbles into the Rastafarian Church at night is amazing.
What about Rockers? Another great reggae film with a top notch soundtrack and cast.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:01, Reply)
I picked up the soundtrack LP for that last year.
Jah no dead.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:02, Reply)
A few that just look like one giant dread, like a mane. The intro scene where Horsemouth is drumming up money and there is this horn based track playing, then he eventually walks round and the 'soundtrack' is a group of rastas actually playing the music.
Hypnotic and brilliant. Jah no dead indeed!
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:13, Reply)
Bits and bobs (Marley) but it never clicked with me
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:26, Reply)
fire and brimstone type heavy Rasta stuff like Prince Far I, or cheeky rudeboy ska.
To my mind the best reggae Lp of all time is Best Dressed Chicken in Town by Dr Alimantado, or Lee Perry's From My Secret Laboratory.
Best reggae song ever: Walk & Skank by Jah Screechie, as sampled by SL2 for their rave anthem 'on a ragga tip'
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:32, Reply)
is very beefy reggae. All roots and messages - not a novelty hit in sight.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:32, Reply)
and its dub counterpart, Garvey's Ghost.
Misty in Roots are also great.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:34, Reply)
I shall make a list and go downloading this evening!
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:23, Reply)
Rodrigo Y Gabriela. Very uptempo Spanish accoustic instrumental genius.
They have a self-titled one and their new one 11:11 is great.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:25, Reply)
I was still working in a book shop, and I left there a year and a half ago
He had a none sci fi one recently - Transitions - usually a sci fi one follows
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:49, Reply)
Well worth a read IMO. Not sure how it's ended up lumped in with his non sci-fi stuff as it's got parallel worlds and whatnot.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:52, Reply)
can't remember which ones off-hand...walking on glass or the bridge probably
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:54, Reply)
he gets to decide himself
perhaps he's tempting scifi-haters to the dark side
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:56, Reply)
www.amazon.co.uk/New-Culture-Novel-Iain-Banks/dp/1841498939/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262707094&sr=8-13
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:59, Reply)
Does that mean this time next year for the next one? Transition was practically sci-fi anyway.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:50, Reply)
any good? I do like his nongenre stuff, but it varies
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:51, Reply)
I thought so anyway
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:52, Reply)
Song of Stone is pretty blergh, but all the rest of it is all well worth reading.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:53, Reply)
good, part whisky book, part autobiography, mostly Mr Banks arsing about in Scotland
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:02, Reply)
He was on the "My planet rocks" segment on Planet Rock a little while ago
he likes good music
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:03, Reply)
he also likes to climb the outsides of hotels at sci fi award parties, apparently.
When I (don't) grow up I want to be like him :)
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:06, Reply)
fairly enjoyable, but not as gripping as the others. I suppose it gets marks for having mark and lard in it :)
Was Complicity the one where he wrote in the second person, I liked that one
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:53, Reply)
made into a reasonable film with Johnny Lee Miller in it
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:55, Reply)
I haven't read and never buy because I think it's one of the others
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:56, Reply)
I rank them thusly :
The Bridge
Transition
Complicity
The Business
Whit
The Wasp Factory
Garbadale
Espedair Street
Dead Air
Canal Dreams
Song of Stone
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:00, Reply)
I forgot Espedair Street!
that's one of my all time favourite books
must buy Transition
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:01, Reply)
is on loads of reading lists for college now, that,1984 and Handmaid's Tale. Lucky bastards
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:03, Reply)
I think it would be somewhere near the top, although I agree The Bridge was best (of the ones I've read)
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:12, Reply)
is that the very second I posted it I wanted to go back and revise it as I've not read some of them in years, but sod it - that would be cheating
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:31, Reply)
I tend to listen to rock and metal to relax though, as well as at most other times.
or a bit of simon and garfunkel.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:37, Reply)
some kind of kinky vicar, I really would.
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(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:51, Reply)
And you think the rogering may have been a bit 'off-message'?
Well I never did. Except that I actually did. Which is the problem.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:54, Reply)
Might be a bit too dour rather than chilled, but 'tis splendid stuff.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:39, Reply)
Only heard a little of their stuff, basically on dance mix albums.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:50, Reply)
Are you sure? There's an electronic act called Moguai. Mogwai have had very few remixes done, and the ones they have had aren't exactly suitable for dance comps.
And my faves are Come On Die Young, Young Team and The Hawk is Howling. Rock Action was a massive disappointment.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:04, Reply)
Basically covers of all your out there stonking songs but sang as if you're in a small smoke filled club with cool people wearing lots of black polo neck jumpers.
Coooool!
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:53, Reply)
Are you fucking sure?
Not Wayne Rooney's cup of tea, I've heard...
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:55, Reply)
www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nouvelle+vague&search_type=&aq=0&oq=nouvell
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:41, Reply)
I was just being an arse.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 17:34, Reply)
The early Sun Records stuff was fucking fan-bloody-tastic.
I was raised on that stuff but have recently got back into it of my own volition. Sonny Burgess, Billy Lee Riley, those cats.
That said it's generally pretty upbeat. But if you're a rocker, you should know about all that stuff. IT'S YOUR ROOTS.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:11, Reply)
but this is where you tell me I should have downloaded it or some other ridiculous notion, isn't it?
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:13, Reply)
or how much you want to tell people about owning it.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:15, Reply)
With this in mind when I did get it, I considered the event to be somewhat momentous - it was hardly a 'woo look at me' thing, just a remark that I loved it to the extent that I'd spent years looking for it.
A normal person would have replied in the vein of 'yeah I love it too'. But then you're not normal, are you?
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:20, Reply)
I just imagine your persistent bitterness must grind you down sometimes, that's all.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:40, Reply)
because Im not in WORK!
I do hope University lockdown continues tomorrow...
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:14, Reply)
Death Cab for Cutie and The Shins when I want to be calm. Also Placebos version of Running Up That Hill is a great chill out song! Oh and Brand New - The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot is super.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:20, Reply)
New stuff seems best to me but then I heard that first!
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:21, Reply)
Chutes Too Narrow
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:23, Reply)
I think they have had three since then! :D
Oh, Inverted World, I think was the next album after Chutes - that's pretty good. I think they have had two more in recent years, I'm not too sure what they are like!?
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:30, Reply)
When You Land Here, It's Time to Return ((1997)
Oh, Inverted World (2001)
Chutes Too Narrow (2003)
Wincing the Night Away (2007)
I thought wincing was older than chutes, meh, shows what I know!
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:47, Reply)
I thought Oh, Inverted World was after Chutes - confused! Hehe
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:51, Reply)
made that boy from Placebo cry at a party once. Brian somebody?
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:23, Reply)
that is also good!
I think when they released Sleeping With Ghosts you could buy a copy of the album that had an extra disc of Covers - it had Robert Palmer's Johnny and Mary on it too - that was wicked! I bloody love Robert Palmer!
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:35, Reply)
there's a volume 2 as well I believe. The vinyl version had unmixed full tracks - I played that fucker to death when I used to DJ for money back in't day.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:48, Reply)
is superb also... kinda sounds as if a smoked-out John Barry recorded an album with a smacked-up Billy Holiday.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:56, Reply)
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