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1 song per genre

Mai 5 2008, 0h02 por MetalManni

For every subgenre I like to listen to I name my favourite song at the moment:

Rock:
hard rock: Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand
progressive rock: Genesis - Burning Rope
krautrock: Can - Future Days
melodic rock: Europe - Seven Doors Hotel
sleaze rock/metal: Skid Row - Youth Gone Wild
surf rock: Dick Dale & the Del-Tones - Misirlou
blues rock: John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers - Hideaway
classic rock: The Cream - Sunshine of Your Love
psychedelic rock: Santana - Every Step of the Way
post-rock: Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Sleep
stoner rock: Queens of the Stone Age - Go With The Flow
indie rock: Babyshambles - Delivery

jazz:
free jazz: John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
jazz rock: Chick Corea - Captain Senor Mouse
funk/fusion: Herbie Hancock - Rockit

punk rock: The Offspring - The End of the Line
deutschpunk: WIZO - Kopfschuss
hardcore (Punk): Madball - Down By Law
crust punk/ crustcore: Skitsystem - No Hope, No Future, No Second Chance
grindcore: Napalm Death - Forced to Fear
metalcore: Caliban - A Faint Moment Of Fortune

metal:
heavy metal: Manilla Road - Mystification
epic metal: Manowar - Secret of Steel
(US) power metal: Fates Warning - Giant's Lore (Heart of Winter)
thrash metal: Megadeth - Tornado of Souls
death metal: Death - Empty Words
melodic death: At the Gates - The Break of Autumn
technical death metal: Golem - Starchild
black metal: Immortal - Withstand the Fall of Time
industrial metal: Rammstein - Sehnsucht
progressive metal: Psychotic Waltz - Butterfly
progressive death metal: Opeth - Forest of October
progressive black metal: Emperor - The Tongue of Fire
folk/pagan metal: Moonsorrow - Pimeä
doom metal: While Heaven Wept - Of Empires Forlorn
doom/sludge: Minsk - Orphans Of Piety

classical: Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony no. 9 - 2nd Movement
romantic: Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 7 - 1st movement
avant-garde: György Ligeti - Lux Aeterna
minimalist: Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians

film score: Basil Poledouris - Riddle Of Steel/ Riders Of Doom (Conan the Barbarian)
country: Johnny Cash - Ghost Riders In the Sky
ska: Ernest Ranglin - Below the Bassline
flamenco: Paco de Lucía Sextet - Solo Quiero Caminar
raga: Ravi Shankar - Dhun
electro: Kraftwerk - Das Modell
breakcore: Venetian Snares - My Half
8bit/chiptunes: Sabrepulse - Venom

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Nuevos descubrimientos - recent discoveries

Abr 19 2008, 22h35 por dumpita

Una lista de lo que he encontrado recientemente que recomiendo con toda.

Here is a list of some recent musical discoveries I recommend to anyone who loves reggae music. This list will keep growing. Please help me expand it.

Sebastian Sturm buen roots reggae. Muy recomendado.

Lloyd Charmers

Ernest Ranglin

Rico Rodriguez

Love Joys para el que quiere escuchar buen dub.

Hugh Mundell buen roots

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A fine evening of British Jazz

Nov 26 2007, 13h45 por mwchurst

Fri 23 Nov – Jazz Jamaica

This event was held to celebrate the 10th anniversary of UK jazz label Dune and was part of this years London Jazz Festival.

The evening started off with New Orleans trumpeter Abram Wilson paying tribute the Fisk Jubilee Singers, a group of freed slaves from Tennessee who were the first African American singers to be heard in the UK. Abram was backed by the excellent London Community Gospel Choir. The combination of Wilson's New Orleans style sound worked well the soaring gospel of the LCGC.

The second part of the show called Tighten Up! featured Jazz Jamaica playing tribute to the legendary reggae label Trojan records. Along with Jamaican guitarist Ernest Ranglin they delivered an excellent fusion of jazz, reggae & ska which had the sell-out audience dancing on their feet and no doubt bought back memories of those classic reggae tracks from the late 60s/early 70s.

A great uplifting musical evening.

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2 month album list update

Out 7 2006, 2h29 por LondonIndieKid

So, now 2 months later my collection of albums stands at:

AGK:
The Liking of Things

Arctic Monkeys:
Whatever People Say I Am Thats What I'm Not
When The Sun Goes Down (Single)

Art Brut:
Bang Bang Rock and Roll

Associates:
Sulk

Audioslave:
Revelations

Be Your Own Pet:
Be Your Own Pet

The Beach Boys:
Pet Sounds

The Beatles:
Abbey Road
One
The White Album
Let it Be...Naked
Magical Mystery Tour
Revolver
Rubber Soul
Sgt. Pepper's Lonly Hearts Club

Beck:
Odelay

Belle & Sebastian:
Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant
If You're Feeling Sinister
The Life Pursuit
Push Barman To Open Old Wounds

Billy Bragg:
Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy

Björk:
Debut

Blondie:
Parallel Lines

Bloc Party:
Silant Alarm

Blur:
13
Best of Blur [Live Disk]
Blur
Blur live in Holland
The Great Escape
Leisure
Modern Life is Rubbish
Parklife

Bob Dylan:
Blonde on Blonde
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
No Direction Home
Highway 61 Revisted

Bob Marley & The Wailers:
Legend
Natural Mystic

Brian Eno:
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

British Sea Power
Open Season
The Buggles:
The Age of Plastic

The Cars:
The Cars
Candy-O
Shake It Up

The Clash:
The Clash [UK]
The Clash [US]
Combat Rock
From Here To Eternity (live)
Give 'em Enough Rope
London Calling
Sandinista!

Coldplay:
A Rush of Blood to the Head
X&Y

Common:
Electric Circus

Cream:
I Feel Free: Ultimate Cream

The Cribs:
The New Fellas

The Cure:
Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
Three Imaginary Boys
Boys Don't Cry
The Head on the Door

David Bowie:
Diamond Dogs
Earthling
Heroes
Hunky Dory
Low
Outside
Station to Station
Tonight
The Man Who Sold The World
Scary Monsters
Ziggy Stardust

David Sylvian:
Everything and Nouthing

Dead Kennedys:
Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death

Death From Above 1979:
Your a Women, I'm a Machine

Depeche Mode:
Violator

Dexy's Midnight Runners:
Searching for the Young Soul Rebels

Dido:
Life for Rent
No Angel

Dirty Pretty Things:
Waterloo to Anywhere

The Divine Comedy:
Absant Friends
Casanova
Promenade
Victory for the Comic Muse
Regeneration

The Doors:
The Doors
L.A Woman

Echo & The Bunnymen:
Crocodiles
Heavan Up Here
Ocean Rain

Editors:
The Back Room
Munich (single)

enginners:
Enginners

Ernest Ranglin:
Alextown

Evenesence:
Fallen

Faithless:
Forever Faithless

The Flaming Lips:
At War With the Mystics

Franz Ferdinand:
Franze Ferdinand
You Could Have It So Much Better
Eleanor Put Your Boots Back On (Single)

Gang of Four:
A Brief History of the Twentieth Century

George Harrison:
All Things Must Pass

Gnarls Barkley:
St. Elsewhere

Godspeed You Black Emperor!:
F# A# (Infinity)

Goldfrapp:
Felt Mountain
Black Cherry

Gorillaz:
Gorrilaz
Demon Days

Grace Jones:
Nightclubbing

Grand Funk Railroad:
Classic Masters

Hard-Fi:
Stars of CCTV

Ian Dury:
The Best of Ian Dury

Iggy Pop:
The Idiot
Lust for Life

Interpol:
Turn on the Bright Lights

Jah Wobble:
I Could Have Been A Contender

The Jam:
Absolute Beguinners (Single)
All Around the World (Single)
All Mod Cons (Deluxe Edition)
Beat Surrender (Single)
The Bitterest Pill
David Watts (Single)
Down in the Tube Station at Midnight (Single)
Eton Rifles (Single)
Funeral Pyre (Single)
Going Underground (Single)
In the City (Single)
Just Who is the 5'O Clock Hero? (Single)
The modern World (Single)
New of the world (Single)
Start! (Single)
Strange Town (Single)
That's Entertainment (Single)
Town Called Malice (Single)
When You're Young (Single)

James:
Laid
Pleased To Meet You

Japan:
Quiet Life

Jeff Buckley:
Grace

Jeff Wayne:
The War of the Worlds

Jefferson Airplane:
Surrealistic Pillow

Jethro Tull:
Aqualung
Thick as a Brick

Jimi Hendrix:
Experiance Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix Experience:
The Ultimate Experience

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros:
Global a Go-Go
Streetcore

Johhny Marr and the Healers:
The Last Ride

John Cale:
Vintage Violence

Johhny Cash:
American IV: The Man Comes Around

Joy Division:
Heart And Soul (Its a box set of everything they ever released, 4 disks)

Kaiser Cheifs:
Employment

Keane:
Hopes And Fears [UK]

The Killers:
Hot Fuss

Killing Joke:
What's THIS For...!

The Kinks:
Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire
The Kinks
Something Else
The Village Green Preservation Society

Kooks:
Inside In/Inside Out

Led Zeppelin:
Led Zeppelin IV

Leonard Cohan:
Songs of Love and Hate

The Libertines:
Up The Bracket

Lou Reed:
Transformer

Massive Attack:
Blue Lines

Maximo Park:
A Certain Trigger
Missing Songs

Menomena:
I Am the Fun Blame Monster

Michael Flanders & Donald Swann:
At the Drop of a Hat

Micheal Nyman:
The Draughtsman's Contract

Mike Oldfield:
Crises
Five Miles Out
Heavan's Open
Tubular Bells

Morrissey:
Suedhead (second album i ever bought)
Vauxhall and I
Viva Hate
You are the Quarry
Your Arsenal

Muse:
Black Holes and Revalations
Absolution
Origin of Symmatry
Hullabaloo

Neil Young:
Decade

New Order:
Singles

The New Pornographers
Mass Romantic
Twin Cinama

Nirvana:
Nevermind
MTV Unplugged in New York

Oasis:
Definatly Maybe
(Whats the Story) Morning Glory?

Patti Smith:
Horses

Paul Weller:
Modern Classics

Phillip Glass:
Glassworks

Pink Floyd:
The Dark Side of the Moon
The Wall
Wish you Were Here
The Piper At The Gates of Dawn

The Pistolas:
Listen Listen EP

Placebo:
Meds
Without you im Nouthing

Pretenders:
Pretenders

Primal Scream:
Screamadelica

Prince Far I & The Arabs:
Dub to Africa

Public Image Ltd.:
The Flowers of Romance
Metal Box
Public Image

Pulp:
Diffrent Class
This is Hardcore

Queen:
Greatest hits (all 3 disks)
A Night at The Opera

R.E.M:
Automatic for the People
Out of Time
Murmur

Radiohead:
Amnesiac
My Iron Lung
The Bends
Hail to the Theif
Kid A
OK Computer
Pablo Honey

The Ramones:
Ramones

Razorlight:
Up All Night

The Rolling Stones:
Made In the Shade
Exile on Main Street

Roxy Music:
Country Life
For Your Pleasure
Roxy Music
Siren
The Early Years
Stranded

Sex Pistols:
Never mind the Bollucks heres the Sex Pistols
Filty Lucre Live

Sigur Rós:
()
Ágætis Byrjun

Siouxsie and the Banshees:
The Best Of

Sisters of Mercy:
A Slight Case of Overbombing

The Small Faces:
Odgen's Nut Gone Flake
There Are But Four Small Faces

Smashing Pumpkins:
Siamese Dream

The Smiths:
Hateful of Hollow
Meat is Murder
The Queen is Dead
Rank
The Smiths
Strangeways here we Come
Singles (first ever album I bought)

Snow Patrol:
Eyes Open
Final Straw
Songs for Polar Bears
When its all over we heave to clear up

Sonic Youth:
Daydream Nation

Sons and Daughters:
Love the Cup
The Repulsion Box

The Specials:
Specials
More Specials
Singles

Spiritualized:
Let It Come Down

Stereophonics:
Just Enough Education to Preform
Language Sex Violance Other
You Gotta Go There To Come Back
Preformance and Cocktails
Word Gets Around

The Stone Roses:
The Very Best of
The Stone Roses
The Second Coming

The Stranglers:
The Collection 1977-1982

The Strokes:
First Impressions of Earth
Is This It
Room on Fire

The Subways:
Young For Eternity

T. Rex:
Electic Warrior

Talking Heads:
Fear of Music
More Songs About Buildings and Food
Remain in Light

The Teardrop Explodes:
Kilimanjaro

Teenage Fanclub:
Grand Prix

Television:
Marquee Moon

The The:
Dusk
Mind Bomb

Travis:
Singles
The Man Who

U2:
Actung Baby
Boy
The Joshua Tree
October
Under a Blood Red Sky
The Unforgetttable Fire
War
Wide Awake In America
How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
All That You Can't Leave Behind
(not too fond of the last 2 albums)

The Unicorns:
Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?

Van Morrison:
Astral Weeks

The Velvet Underground:
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Loaded
The Velvet Underground
White Light/White Heat
VU

The Verve:
A Northan Soul
Urban Hymns

We Are Scientists:
With Love And Squalor

Weezer:
Pinkerton
Weezer (Blue)
Weezer (Green)
Maladroit
Make Belive

The White Stripes:
Elephant

The Who:
Live at Leeds
Tommy
Quadrophenia

Wire
Pink Flag

Yann Tiersen:
Amélie
L'absente

Yeah Yeah Yeahs:
Show Your Bones
Fever To Tell

Do tell if I'm missing anything major.

In the next 2 weeks I intend to buy:
Here Come the Warm Jets - Brian Eno
Doolittle - Pixies
Surfer Rosa & Come on Pilgrim - Pixies
Let It Be - Replacements

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(Wel)come into the tff Rudolstadt Group (R)

Jul 17 2006, 0h06 por ECL

Ich lade alle, der jährlich rund 60Tausend TFF Besucher & Sympathisanten, ein dieser Group beitreten.

Here is the way to the tff Rudolstadt Group: http://www.last.fm/group/tff%2BRudolstadt

& eine kleine Zusammenfassung zum TFF 2006 gibt es hier:[url= http://www.last.fm/user/ECL/journal/2006/07/12/177790] http://www.last.fm/user/ECL/journal/2006/07/12/177790

A list of the artists with the letter R since 1991 in Rudolstadt occurred (incompletely):

Ro:TORO (EST) 2006
Thierry Robin/Thierry 'Titi' Robin (FRA) 2006
RUDOVOUS (CZE) 2006
Raffelemusik Hüttlinger/Milz (GER) 2001
Sudha Ragunathan (IND) 2000
U.Rajesh (IND) 1995
Rakatak (GER) 2002
Susheela Raman (IND) 2002
Romano Drom (HUN) 2004
Lesego Rampolokeng (SAF) 1995
Ernest Ranglin (JAM) 1999
Ras Clan (GER) 2002
Antál Racz (HUN) 2004
Re Niliu (ITA) 1995
Realejo (POR) 1998
Jalda Rebling (GER) 2003
Vlasta Redl (CZE) 1995
Silke Reichmann (GER) 1998
Reisegruppe Frohsinn (GER) 2003
Cheikha Remitti (ALG) 1996
Laurence Revey (SUI) 2003
Luis Rico y su Conjunto Rico (BOL) 1992
Michael Riessler (GER) 1993, 1997
Rimfakse (NOR) 1999
Ringsgwandl (GER) 1997
RinneRadio (FIN) 1997
Antonio Rivas y sus Vallenatos (COL) 1996
Rizla Soundsystem (GER) 2002
Röhrs, "Hardy" Reinhard (GER) 1991
Rolling Drones (GER) 1998
Rubon (BLR) 1997
Rüdiger Oppermanns Harp Attack (GER) 1992
Darko Rundek /Darko Rundek & Cargo Orkestar (HRO/FRA) 2005
Russendisko (GER) 2003
Ryth´Miss (BEL) 1996

Quelle: http://www.tff-rudolstadt.de/htm/a_z/r.htm

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Artists I should check out:

Mai 22 2006, 10h21 por Durruti

-Josefine Cronholm (an Iceland vocalist, similar to Bjork)
-Karate
-Blonde Redhead
-Femi Kuti (I love his father's music)
Hybrid Sound System
Papa Project
Philosophy Major
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists
Max Roach
Sun Ra
Sunny Murray
Avec A
Ernest Ranglin
mariacallas
BomberMan Awesome
theNoLifeKing
Arclight
Stencil

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Since some of the people on my friends list are doing it...Weekly Top 10!

Mar 7 2006, 22h35 por daoster

So some of the people on my friend's list are doing this weekly top 10 thingie, so I thought, what the hey, might as well give it a try. I probably won't do it every week, but whenever I remember to do it, or when i'm not too lazy, I'll do a weekly top 10 thingie.

Without further ado, here's my weekly top 10 for the week of 2/26 - 3/5!

1. Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra (100). Is this really a surprise? I can't even remember a week when this band hasn't been on my top 10...and on my overall top artists, no other artists are even close to them. Yeah, it might be a little unhealthy to listen to them as much as I do, but there's a reason why I do..it's because I seriously think they are one of the best bands in the world. Two weeks ago, I think, I tried to get another artist on my number 1 spot, but I didn't achieve that goal. All I did was bring the amount of other bands I listened to closer to TSPO's number. This week, I've probably listened to their track Lucky 7 off of their "Live" album a lot, because it is a pretty awesome track. The song itself is a cover of Lucky Seven, but my favorite part of the song is when it ends, and the band jumps straight into a cover of Mr. Prince. That track is just fucking tiiight.

2. Ernest Ranglin (18). Yeah, a far far number from the 100 times I listen to TSPO, but it's okay. Ernest Ranglin is fuckign tight, probably my favorite guitar player from the early era of Jamaican music. A lot of people claim that it was he who created the guitar sound that is almost vital to the ska sound, and while he may, or may have not created that sound, he certainly played a vital role in the development of ska and Jamaican music. Boss Reggae is probably my favorite album from him. It's a whole bunch of covers (mainly The Upsetters covers), but his freaking sick guitar playing make those songs a whole lot better.

3. The Drastics (17). Right up next to Ernest Ranglin are the Drastics, a dub group from Chicago, featuring members of Deals Gone Bad. To be honest, I can only listen to dub so many times before I get tired and/or annoyed of it. I didn't even enjoy The Slackers' "An Afternoon in Dub" that much. However, for some reason, I don't get tired of the Drastics' album. I got the album early last year, and I still listen to it regularly. My favorite track off the album is probably Wild Bunch. Dr. Ring Ding seriously is one of my favorite toasters. Honestly, I don't think King Django has anything on him.

4. The Aggrolites (13). Ah, the Aggrolites. Without a doubt, my favorite U.S. of A. band right now. Their energy on stage is amazing, and all the times I've seen them, I've been blown away. I seriously cannot wait for their next album that comes out in May. The exceitement is really killing me. Not much else to say here.

4. The Aquabats (13). Right up next with the Aggrolites are The Aquabats! My roommate has a VHS of them that is bascially the second DVD from their LIVE DVD, plus a few extra scenes that were cut off. While watching it, I had a nostalgic feeling and proceeded to re-download their first two albums, The Return of the Aquabats, and The Fury of the Aquabats. Okay seriously, I'd personally rather hear the songs from these two albums in live form, rather than their recorded versions here, because I only gave it a few listen to before I got sick of their tracks. Sorry, I just don't really enjoy their generic third wave ska shit as much as their later albums...I still listen to vs. the Floating Eye of Death, Myths and Legends, and Charge a lot. Their later stuff just sounds a lot better than the generic OC "ska" they used to play.

6. The Slackers (12). To be honest, their latest album "Peculiar" is a disappointment, but after listening to it a couple of times, it's less of a disappointment. I don't enjoy it as their earlier works, or even as much as Close my Eyes, but it's still a good listen.

7. Man or Astroman? (10). I need to get my surf fix somewhere, and this week it was Man or Astroman. To be honest, I get really tired of their stuff quickly. Their international counterparts like The Surf Coastersfrom Japan or Hawaii Samurai from France are much more catchy to me. Still, Man or Astroman is always a fun group to listen to in bits, and apparently, I listened to them enough times for them to be in my top 10!

8. Django Reinhardt (9). Hmm, not much that I can say about him, other than that he's an amazing jazz guitarist. He played a pretty big role (or I think so) in the development of Jazz outside of the U.S....more specifically, France.

9. Polysics (8). You know, my school usually doesn't get that many good bands to play for them. Usually it's fucking SHITTY indie rock bands who trys to sound like the same boring old shit or shitty pop punk bands who also try to sound like the same old shit. Why just last week, the bitch who books the bands for our school passed off The Toasters for some generic ass acoustic indie fucker that she found on myspace. To their credit, they seem to get the bands that's always bound to be hip with the hipsters within the next few years. A couple of years back, shit bands like Akaline Trio or Fall Out Boy have played at our school. There's really no variety...last semester we had like ONE hip hop group. However, there are times when my roommate wins the day, and tries to get good groups who play. Last semester, it was The Aggrolites, and this semester, it'll be Polysics!

10. Public Enemy (7). Don't believe the hype! Public Enemy is still my favorite rap group. While I don't agree with their politics 100%, their aggressive rapping style and choice production from the Bomb Squad still makes them stand out for me.

Well, that's this week's top 10, I'll see you next week (or next time I decide to write in this journal again).

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Blog

1 song per genre

Nuevos descubrimientos - recent discoveries

A fine evening of British Jazz

2 month album list update

(Wel)come into the tff Rudolstadt Group (R)

Artists I should check out:

Since some of the people on my friends list are doing it...Weekly Top 10!