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Albert Collins
Albert King
The Allman Brothers Band
Ana Popovic
B.B. King
Bernard Allison
Big Bill Broonzy
The Black Crowes
The Black Keys
Bo Diddley
Duane Allman
Duane Allman
Bonnie Raitt
Buddy Guy
Charlie Musselwhite
Chris Whitley
Coco Montoya
Dave Hole
Derek Trucks
Dr. John
Duke Robillard
Elmore James
Eric Clapton
Etta James
Freddie King
Gary Moore
George Thorogood
Gov't Mule
Howlin Wolf
Howlin Wolf
Janis Joplin
Jeff Healey
Jimi Hendrix
Jimmie Vaughan
JJ Cale
Joe Bonamassa
Joe Louis Walker
John Hammond
John Lee Hooker
John Mayall
Johnny Winter
Jonny Lang
Keb' Mo'
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Koko Taylor
Lead Belly
Lightnin' Hopkins
Lightnin' Hopkins
Luther Allison
Magic Slim
Marcia Ball
Muddy Waters
Otis Rush
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Peter Green
R.L. Burnside
R.L. Burnside
Ray Charles
Robben Ford
Robert Cray
Robert Johnson
Rory Gallagher
Roy Buchanan
Son House
Sean Costello
Sonny Boy Williamson
Sonny Landreth
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Sue Foley
Susan Tedeschi
T-Bone Walker
Tab Benoit
Taj Mahal
Ten Years After
Tommy Castro
Van Morrison
Warren Haynes

I've made some time ago a list of 100 MUST listen albums on my old profile which received good response from you all. (From most of you anyway...) Well ladies and gentlemen, this time I'm doing... Another 100 MUST listen albums with even more musical knowledge to serve you all ! Some albums might be back, some might not, but I think there's music to please even moaaar people this time. Not a single choice was chosen because I had nothing else to put, unlike last time. ;]

Enough talking. The list is in no particular order and genres have been added at the end for your convenience.

1. Steve Roden - Forms Of Paper; Lowercase.
2. Atrium Carceri - Seishinbyouin; Dark Ambient.
3. Sunn O))) - The Grimmrobe Demos; Drone.
4. Navicon Torture Technologies - The Church Of Dead Girls; Power Electronics.
5. Merzbow - Batztoutai With Material Gadgets; Noise.
6. Albert Collins - Frostbite; Blues.
7. dev/null - Lazer Trash; Breakcore.
8. Black Sun Empire - Driving Insane; Drum N' Bass.
9. Lesbians on Ecstasy - We Know You Know; Electroclash.
10. Justice - Cross; Electronica.
11. Angerfist - Towards Isolation; Gabber.
12. Grand Corps Malade - Midi 20; Rap/Slam.
13. Dr. Octagon - The Return Of Dr. Octagon; Hip-Hop.
14. Daft Punk - Homework; House/Dance.
15. Kid 606 - Kill Sound Before It Kills You; IDM.
16. m1dy - Speedcore Dandy; Speedcore.
17. Shpongle - Are You Shpongled?; Psytrance.
18. Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom; Trip-Hop.
19. Elsiane - Hybrid; Trip-Hop.
20. Coil - Scatology; Experimental.
21. Nurse With Wound - Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table Of A Sewing Machine And An Umbrella; Experimental.
22. Throbbing Gristle - Part Two - The Endless Not; Industrial.
23. Triarii - Pièce Héroïque; Neo-Classic.
24. Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio - Apocalips; Neo-Folk.
25. Of the Wand and the Moon - Emptiness Emptiness Emptiness; Neo-Folk.
26. Egg - Egg; Jazz.
27. Bohren und Der Club Of Gore - Black Earth; Doom Jazz.
28. The Cinematic Orchestra - Man With A Movie Camera; Nu-Jazz.
29. Fantômas - The Director's Cut; Avant-Garde Metal.
30. Meshuggah - Chaosphere; Progressive Metal.
30. Amesoeurs - Ruines Humaines; Post-Rock/Black Metal.
31. Psycroptic - The Scepter Of The Ancients; Death Metal.
32. The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand; Drone Doom Metal.
33. Die Apokalyptischen Reiter - All You Need Is Love; Folk Metal.
34. The Old Dead Tree - The Nameless Disease; Gothic Metal.
34. Mnemic - Mechanical Spin Phenomena; Industrial Metal.
35. Swarm of the Lotus - When White Becomes Black; Sludge/Mathcore.
36. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone; Stoner Doom Metal.
37. Coroner - Mental Vortex; Thrash Metal.
38. Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity; Indie Pop.
39. !T.O.O.H.! - Rad A Trest; Grindcore.
40. Acme - ... To Reduce The Choir To One Soloist; Hardcore.
41. Car Bomb - Centralia; Mathcore.
42. What's He Building In There? - What's He Building In There?; Mathcore.
43. When Knives Go Skyward - A Thoudand Miles Of Rope; Deathcore.
44. At the Drive-In - Relationship Of Command; Post-Hardcore.
45. Spazz - Crush Kill Destroy; Powerviolence.
46. Stupid Babies Go Mad - Burn Up The World; Punk.
47. The Discord of A Forgotten Sketch - The Discord Of A Forgotten Sketch; Screamo.
48. Tomahawk - Tomahawk; Alternative Rock.
49. The Doors - Waiting For The Sun; Classic Rock.
50. Soundgarden - Superunknown; Grunge.
51. Trephine - Trephine; Math Rock.
52. Fushitsusha - Withdrawe, This Sable Disclosure Ere Devot'd; Noise Rock.
53. Melt-Banana - Bambi's Dillema; Noise Rock.
54. 65daysofstatic - The Fall Of Math; Post-Rock/Math Rock.
55. Godspeed You ! Black Emperor; Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven; Post-Rock.
56. World's End Girlfriend - Dreams End Come True; IDM/Post-Rock.
57. The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute; Progressive Rock.
58. Porcupine Tree - On The Sunday Of Life; Progressive Rock.
59. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History; Progressive Rock.
60. Una Corda - Proper Position For Floating; Shoegaze.
61. The Legendary Pink Dots - The Maria Dimension; Stoner Rock.
62. Dense Vision Shrine - Lost Time In Oblivion; Dark Ambient.
63. Byla - Viscera; Drone.
64. SKM-ETR - The Rugged Meat Cleaver; Power Electronics.
65. Duran Duran Duran - Drunk On Cock; Breakcore.
66. London Elektricity - Power Ballads; Drum N' Bass.
67. Komprex - Trance Hates Me; Speedcore.
68. Imminent Starvation - Human Dislocation; Industrial.
69. Puissance - Total Cleansing; Neo-Classic.
70. Current 93 - All The Pretty Little Horses; Neo-Folk.
71. Xploding Plastix - Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents; Nu-Jazz.
72. Himinbjorg - Haunted Shores; Black Metal.
73. Deinonychus - Mournument; Doom Metal.
74. Tÿr - Eric The Red; Viking Metal.
75. Cult of Luna - Cult Of Luna; Sludge Doom Metal.
76. XXX Maniak - Harvesting The Cunt Nectar; Goregrind.
77. Ion Dissonance - Solace; Mathcore.
78. Buried Inside - Chronoclast; Metalcore.
79. mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister; Post-Hardcore.
80. Mindless Self Indulgence - You'll Rebel To Anything; Industrial Punk.
81. Nirvana - Incesticide; Grunge.
82. Don Caballero - What Burns Never Returns; Math Rock.
83. The Gerogerigegege - Tokyo Anal Dynamite; Noise Rock.
84. Mono - Walking Clouds And Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered And The Sun Shined; Post-Rock.
85. Estradasphere - Buck Fever; Progressive Rock.
86. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless; Shoegaze.
87. Angel'in Heavy Syrup - III; Stoner Rock.
88. Jazzkammer - Timex; Noise/Lowercase.
89. Xanopticon - Mehtanic; Breakcore.
90. 1200 Micrograms - 1200 Micrograms; Psytrance.
91. Bjork - Medulla; Trip-Hop.
92. Luc Ferrari - Presque Rien Avec Filles; Concrete Music.
93. Death in June - Rose Clouds Of Holocaust; Neo-Folk.
94. Amon Tobin - Nu-Jazz.
95. Pan.Thy.Monium - Khaooohs And Kon-Fus-Ion; Death Metal.
96. Isis - Celestial; Post-Metal.
97. Examination of the... - We Are The Architects Of Desire; Screamo.
98. The Residents - The Third Reich N' Roll; Avant-Garde.
99. Juno Reactor - Bible Of Dreams; Psytrance.
100. Dissecting Table - Kaiboudai; Noise/Industrial.



Alright, that's 100 motherfucking albums. You're all better enjoy !

Comments are mandat... much appreciated if you like the list. ;] If you don't, go ahead too, I'll answer back in a (probably much more) diplomatic way. Your recommendations are also much appreciated.

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Now, doing my self-promoting whore a little bit. If you think you too have got awesome musical tastes, you could always try joining a new group I've made, All We Are Asking For Is A Kick Ass Group Radio. Think you've got what it takes ?

Cordialement, Arch.

Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first two lines from the first 50 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Bold out the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
Step 4: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!
Step 5: If you like the game post your own!

1#
Breaking The Silence

2#
My adversaries cry like hoes fully eradicate my foes
My lyrics explode on contact, gamin you hoes

3#
You're life is all i need, my satisfaction grows...
You make me feel at ease, you even make me glow...

4#
You gave your all and all to him. He wasn't true..
He tried to find another girl.... Sweeter than you..

5#
My name is Squirrel, Best shaker in the world
Shake it on down, Shake it down to the ground.

6#Davidian

7#
I Got a taste for waste, and a taste for blood
'Murder' i heard her when she screamed 'the drop' when her sun caught the slug

8#
I've heard your song, And I've seen the light, in your eyes and it Took me so long to see, Straight through the night

9#
Wait for Sleep

10#
Descent of the Archangel

11#
We Will Rock You

12#
I sold my soul, Just so I could feel paid, I broke my heart, So I couldn't feel pain

13#
RammsteinAmerika

14#
Hey There lonely girl... Lonely girl. Let me make your broken heart like glue

15#
We Be Burnin'

16#
The StylisticsYou Make Me Feel Brand New

17#
I see through spec of terrorvision
Await my turn, prepare countdown

18#
I dont wanna wait till you know me baby.. Lets just be glad for the time together

19#
Everything is real, on this concrete and steel
Niggaz peel your cap for a happy meal

20#
One thing about music when it hits you dont feel no pain
white folks say it control yo' brain

21#
Repentence

22#
I got a case for spittin in a mutherfuckers face
So me and my ace we got a taste

23#
Point of No Return

24#
they say, he do a little this, he do a little that
he always in trouble..

25#
In the Presence of Enemies, Part I

26#
Were kissin in cleveland, and cincinnatti too
Way out in chicago, Ill tell you what to dooooo

27#
You can approach, but the danger light is blinking..
A self destruction button is activated when im thinking

28#
He puts the beat in my heart. Every time I see him, thoughts are getting deeper

29#
All you trekkies and tv addicts
Don't mean to diss

30#
Nuthing But a G Thang

31#
You're a dreamer, you live a world full of lies..

32#
Falling flat, falling on my face .. Up yours you fucking basket case

33#
Everyday is the same thang, L.A. ain't changed
Niggaz still playa hating, but Dre ain't changed

34#
Well my soul checked out missing as I sat listening
To the hours and minutes tickin away

35# Days at a time pass, in the dead of night is when you come to me, you have so much to say..

36#
In the corder on a wall, underneath the staircase in the hall, on a hook behind the door, in the closet, on the floor

37#
You know they got me trapped in this prison of seclusion... Happiness, living on tha streets is a delusion

38#
My wife has a charge card, that i got her that other day.. i owe fivehundred dollars thats just for yesterday

39# X rated Americaz most faded, Bitch plated niggas in the industry.. Got it in for me, but kick back nigga life is short,

40#
Ruthless, plenty of that and much more......... so at the party ren is controllin tha floor

41#
Firewind Raging

42#
Ive been lonely but i feel allright.. you gotta know baby that hold it thight.. you know youve been pushing and you wont get me tonight

43#
For awhile to love was all we could do, we were young and we knew, And our eyes were alive.. Deep inside we knew our love was true

44#
Wanna see you with it, Sho' could treat you right
Give me just a minute, Of your time tonight

45# I sold my soul to devil, but the devil came back for more,, i sold my soul to the devil, but the devil came back for mo...

46#
I wish that, you could be a little bit more upfront
Weigh the situation how you want, The lovin that you claim is just a four letter word

47#
She'll adore you and she'll floor you
With her wisdom and her vision
And you'll love it and think of it

48#
On the Coldest Winter Night

49#
I Love Rock and Roll

50#
Great scotts, its hot to death.. He ran up out of bullets so I shot him in his chest

Snoop Dogg
Joan Jett
Firewind
The Dramatics
Ace Frehley
Paul Stanley
Kamelot
KISS
Queen
My Dying Bride
Gare du Nord
De La Soul
Dazz Band
N.W.A 3x
Earth, Wind & Fire
2Pac
Albert Collins
Westside Connection
Dr Dre 1 left
Beasty Boys
Dream Theater
Ciara
Exposé
Ice Cube
dead prez
Sean Paul
Pagans Mind
The Delphonics
Leaves Eyes
Rammstein
Machine Head
Ritchie Kotzen
Bruce Springsteen
The Stylistics

...and here we is, in Texas yet."

It's a shameful truth that I've lived in Texas for more than a dozen years and never been west of Mineral Wells (and Possum Kingdom State Park -- LOVE the name of that park).

Next month, that's going to change. A friend and I are driving from Dallas down to Big Bend National Park. That's a lot of driving. We're going to need music. A whole lot of music.

I'm assembling a road-trip playlist of artist who were either born in Texas or make/made their base here. My research has boggled my mind. Even without counting the music powerhouse Austin has become (which I do), this state has produced a staggering amount of talent

Right now, it's 62 artists long, with another 18 in my iTunes shopping cart, waiting for me to commit and pony up.

This is where you come in.

Who are your favorite Texas artists? If I've missed a shining star of the Texas pantheon, set me straight. I promise to give any suggestions a fair audition, even if I ultimately choose not to include them in my final picks.

The list of strong contenders, so far...

Albert Collins
Alison Krauss
American Analog Set
Ann Armstrong
Arcade Fire
Asleep at the Wheel
Ben Kweller
Billy Joe Shaver
Black Angels
Bob Schneider
The Bodeans
Bowling for Soup
Boxcar Preachers
Boz Scaggs
Brave Combo
Bruce Robison
Buddy Holly
Butthole Surfers
C.J. Chenier
Charlie Sexton
Chris Sandoval
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Damnations TX
The Deathray Davies
Delbert McClinton
The Dixie Chicks
Don Henley
Doyle Bramhall
Doyle Bramhall II
Earlies
Edie Brickell
Emmylou Harris
Frank Lee Sprague
Gary Moore
Gary P. Nunn
Guy Clark
Herb Ellis
Hurts to Purr
James McMurtry
Janis Joplin
Jimmie Vaughan
Joel Sprayberry
John Prine
Johnny Copeland
Johnny Hi-Fi
Johnny Winter
Jon Dee Graham
Kinky Friedman
Laura Freeman
Lee Roy Parnell
Little Texas
Los Lonely Boys
Lucinda Williams
Lyle Lovett
Marcia Ball
Mason Williams
Meat Loaf
Nanci Griffith
Norah Jones
Okkervil River
Patty Griffin
Polyphonic Spree
Reckless Kelly
Reverand Horton Heat
Robert Earl Keen
Rodney Crowell
Roger Miller
Roy Orbison
Sara Hickman
Selena
Shawn Colvin
Spoon
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Texas Tornados
Tish Hinojosa
Tripping Daisy
Trout Fishing in America
Trova
Willie Nelson
ZZ Top

Thanks to silverchimes for starting me down this path.

Sally

Maybe I need to allow more time for the last.fm software to calibrate... or maybe I just cannot be calibrated. Time will tell.

But I went surfing around to see what everyone else is into, and found the same patterns I have seen my whole life. People trying to force themselves into some kind of brand; people defiant about their tastes; people trying too hard NOT to fit into any particular box. Like pop music, it´s amazing how much variety can be derived from the same three chords.

But I like this new toy, and I´m curious to see what, if anything, it will say about me. So far, because I just let it go on shuffle, and it saw a lot of Dream Theater, it scrobbled me into that neighborhood; Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Metallica, etc.

Okay, so I tinkered with my music library a bit. Played some stuff by Iron & Wine I´ve been into lately. Wondered how Matthew Sweet got into my Top Ten... ah, so much for ¨shuffle¨. Still, he wouldn´t show up if I didn´t like at least some of his tunes.

Seems like a lot of white males, though... where are Tori Amos and k.d. lang? Indigo Girls? What about the jazz men? Miles Davis, and Charles Mingus... or B.B. King and Albert Collins for when I´m feeling the blues?

And let´s just see what happens when you throw all of this into a mixer and shake.

Dutch National Radio Station Arrow Classic Rock asked their listeners to make up a list of what they feel is the blues song ever made. It turned out to become a chart of 50 best blues songs:

De Arrow Blues 50 of 2006

1. Walter Trout: Say Goodbye to the Blues (1991)
   
2. Stevie Ray Vaughan: Tin Pan Alley (Aka Roughest Place in Town) (1984)
   
3. Joe Bonamassa: Tea For One (2006)
   
4. Rory Gallagher: Too Much Alcohol (1974)
   
5. Albert Collins: Black Cat Bone (1985)
   
6. ZZ Top: My Head's in Mississippi (1990)
   
7. Eric Clapton: Third Degree (1994)
   
8. Rory Gallagher: I Could've Had Religion (1972)
   
9. Luther Allison: Cherry Red Wine (1995)
   
10. The Red Devils: Devil Woman (1992)
    
11. Roy Buchanan: The Messiah Will Come Again (1972)
    
12. Hans Theessink: A Hundred And Ten In The Shade (2004)
    
13. Elmore James: Dust My Broom (1936)
    
14. Jimi Hendrix: Red House (1967)
    
15. John Lee Hooker: Boogie Chillen (1935)
    
16. Lonnie Mack: Stop (1985)
    
17. ZZ Top: Brown Sugar
    
18. Julian Sas: Turpentine Moan (1996)
    
19. Gary Moore: Still Got The Blues (1990)
    
20. Freddie King: Key To The Highway (1996)
    
21. B.B. King: Sweet Sixteen (1960)
    
22. Muddy Waters: (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man (1954)
    
23. Stevie Ray Vaughan: Little Wing (1991)
    
24. Walter Trout: Red House (1989)
    
25. Dave Hole: Up All Night Thinking
    
26. Sonny Landreth: C'est Chaud (1995)
    
27. Buddy Guy: Damn Right, I've Got the Blues (1991)
    
28. Monster Mike Welch: Cold Poison (1996)
    
29. Bonnie Raitt: Love Me Like A Man (1995)
    
30. Joe Bonamassa: Blues Deluxe (2003)
    
31. The Jeff Healey Band: Roadhouse Blues
    
32. Albert Collins: If Trouble Was Money (1984)
    
33. Susan Tedeschi: Just Won't Burn (1998)
    
34. John Lee Hooker: Boom Boom (1961)
    
35. Johnny Winter: Boot Hill (1984)
    
36. Luther Allison: Little Red Rooster (1976) (2002)
    
37. Rory Gallagher: As the Crow Flies (1974)
    
38. Gary Moore: The Messiah Will Come Again (1989)
    
39. Michael Katon: Walkin' Blues (1993)
    
40. B.B. King: Paying the Cost to Be the Boss (1995)
    
41. Keb' Mo': Every Morning (1994)
    
42. Howlin' Wolf: Killing floor (1966)
    
43. Stevie Ray Vaughan: Pride And Joy (1983)
    
44. The Blues Brothers: Sweet Home Chicago (1980)
    
45. Robert Johnson: Crossroads (1936)
    
46. Ian Parker: It Hurts a Man (2006)
    
47. Cuby & the Blizzards: Brother Booze (1991)
    
48. John Mayall: Room to Move (1969)
    
49. Gary Moore: Walking By Myself (1990)
    
50. De Arrow Blues Box Band: Doppie (2005)

So says Wikipedia about this lovely color.

you can also check this very useful web page:

http://www.international-klein-blue.com/

Now you can also listen to it with the IKB tag.

a very temporary and partial IKB artist list:

Blind Willie McTell
Son House
Charley Patton
Alexis Korner
Memphis Slim
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Albert Collins
Freddie King
Blind Boy Fuller
Big Bill Broonzy
Leroy Carr
Blind Willie Johnson
Magic Sam
Memphis Minnie
Bukka White
Champion Jack Dupree

So imagine pulling up roots out of the fields of cotton and peanuts and just moving in an age when you did not have any big old highways.

Moving from the heat of the delta and the deep south swamps to the cold of Chicago to the noise and confusion of New York. Now that is scary enough to do that BUT as a black man in America at the turn of the century? Fucking amazing bravery really.

I should have done this during Black History month after all its the forgotten times between Reconstruction and the start of Jim Crow and the Civil Rights movement. Its the time that no one wants to talk about. Maybe a little mention of the Harlem rennaisance and all that but not too much. No one really wants to remember Jim Crow, the lynchings and in that you miss one of the most amazing stories in America. There was this incredible migration of humanity to the point that Savannah GA actually considered a law preventing African Americans from leaving via the Savannah port for fear of losing too much cheap labor.

In regards to the social history and the recording of the impact and the story the incredible story of this migration of humanity, I don't know half of what I should know. Especially considering the impact it has had on culture and music.

In terms of music though the impact was deep. In terms of culture with Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright and Langston Hughes for examples the ideas were so powerful.

But take it to that personal level for a second. You have everything you own in a suitcase and you move up North maybe with your family and maybe not. Maybe you moved all by yourself and send money back home south.

Dusty grey suit fedora hat pulled down and all these faces of people you don't recognize when you are used to a world so small town that everyone knows who you are. And the place you are going to in Chicago is world of cold frigid wind slicing you up and still you muster up the will to go on and make another day.

Its hard to even begin to fathom what could be going on in a man's mind in that place in that time and certainly I have no clue.

So I got to thinking about all this on a rainy day putting together a new primarily electric or urban blues mix.

I had been off that style of blues for so very long. Been focused on the real country blues and roots music.

So I came back for a moment and put together this mix.

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1. Born on the Blues - Albert Collins
2. Seventh Son - Willie Mabon
3. Oooh Baby - Bo Diddley
4. Back Door Man - Willie Dixon
5. Red Shoes - Chris Thomas King
6. Sugar Mama Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson
7. The Thrill is Gone - BB King
8. I Can't Stand To Leave You - John Lee Hooker
9. How Long Before I Change My Clothes - Alvin Youngblood Hart
10. Laundromat Blues - Albert King
11. I Feel Like Going Home - Muddy Waters
12. Please Don't Go - Floyd Dixon
13. Blues With a Feeling - Little Walter
14. I Just Wanna Make Love to You - Etta James
15. Moanin' at Midnight - Howlin Wolf