Music Thoughts so far

[andrewducker]

Mr Bungle: I already have Disco Volante, but it was great to be reminded of the sheer anarchic fun of what is effectively abstract jazz played on things that aren't technically instruments.  Well worth a listen.  I recommend "Desert Search for the Techno Allah"

Fantomas - Rosemary's Baby.  Fantomas are another Mike Patton project.  Film Soundtracks done with singularly chaotic and confusing style.  Very energetic and moody.

Liz Phair - Flower.  Pretty background music.  Will listen to more (Napster seems to have numerous albums).

Sopor Aeternus - Dead Souls.  Firmly in the Apoptygma Berzerk "Alternative soundtracks to gothic movies" vein.  Heh - gothic/vein.  Gettit?  Oh, never mind.  Anyway, listenable, but nothing I haven't heard before on numerous occasions.

Os Mutantes - A Minha Menina.  60s Brazillian Psychedelia.  Nicely rhythmic, but could be any number of mainstream 60s bands singing in a foreign language.

Comedy Music that's not getting the satisfaction of a review:
Leonard Nimoy: Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
Vic Reeves: Vienna
Ivor Cutler: Various
Terry Wogan: Floral Dance

Nothing so far that isn't instantly recognisable as similar to music I already own (or have heard on numerous occasions).  Except for the Floral Dance, the less said about which, the better.  Nice try with the Mr Bungle though.  If I didn't already own it, it'd be a winner.

Comments

[davidcook.livejournal.com]

I've left you another - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
Unfortunately, I don't have all of my Nusrat available (the CDs are in storage in Melbourne, and the mp3s were lost in the bringing-the-wrong-harddrive-to-Scotland bungle), so this isn't quite the song I'd have picked to "impress" someone, but it'll have to do ...

[andrewducker]

Oooh, Nusrat. The only stuff I have of his is a Peter Gabriel collaboration on the Natural Born Killers soundrack!

[darkoshi]

Nusrat's very good. Try the "Devotional and Love Songs" cd. Although since hearing he died a while back, listening to his music isn't quite the same for me. Same way with Ofra Haza. BTW, the Peppermint Teahouse cd I was mentioning - there are samples at the link I left in that comment.

[darkoshi]

Have you heard the Peppermint Tea House cd?http://shoukichikina.linktvstore.org/
Lively Okinawan music. Am planning on buying/downloading it myself.

[andrewducker]

Don't know them - feel free to send me cool stuff!

[derumi.livejournal.com]

I have one of their MP3s... Jing Jing was a big hit in Japan.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

HK Chris, while at Uni, provided me with a way to listen to a variety of traditional Chinese folk music. Some of it was quite good. I have a tape somewhere, I think.

[thadrin.livejournal.com]

Right...giving up on FTP. Expect a shiny disc in the mail.

I do CDs for people given the slightest excuse.

[derumi.livejournal.com]

What's Mr. Bungle like in comparison with Faith No More?

[trashcanglam.livejournal.com]

Mr Bungle have gone through several 'phases', from their initial mixture of demented circus music, farting and thrash, to later efforts combining electronic beats, farting and thrash. Listening to them for more than two minutes is enough to send most people into a state of 'brown euphoria'.

They're ace.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Hey, if you want messed-up jazz, then try some early Throbbing Gristle :-)

And, while they're not new, if you don't own the albums "Radio-Activity" and "The Man-Machine" by Kraftwerk, you have no right to listen to electronic music. They are what electronic music was, they are what it is, and they are what it should be. They're as influential, to my mind, and to informed commentators, as almost any other band in the last 30-40 years. Possibly more so.

[andrewducker]

I have Radioactivity. It's good. Doesn't really grab me in the same way other stuff does, but still rater good.