For "this changed the way i listened to music" goodness, i'd say King Crimson's Discipline. For "muscular blast of indie rock" goodness, i'll say Throwing Muses' recent untitled orange album. I'm not much on the "wacky comical music" side of things, but Klark Kent's Kollected Works is pretty good. And then there's Duke Ellington's The Far East Suite-Special Mix, which is far and away the best jazz record i've heard.
You might like any of the various albums by the group Magpie, who do a mixture of folk and blues, with great harmonica parts; I particularly enjoyed their record "Working My Life Away," which had working songs about mills and mines and fisheries. Anything they do with Phil Ochs songs on it is good, too.
I'm always game to recommend David Byrne's "Rei Momo," (http://www.luakabop.com/david_byrne/cmp/reimomo.html) songs with Byrne's slightly eccentric lyrics and with latin beats and arrangements. Since the song titles indicate the beat found within, it's practically a primer for latin rhythms from Bolero to Samba.
I used to have that on tape a million years ago. Pretty good album.
Lately I've been listening heavily to a CD of Scott Joplin pieces, an amalgamation of two albums by the New England Ragtime Ensemble and the Southland Stingers respectively ("The Red Back Book/Elite Syncopations"). My favorites are "The Rag Time Dance" and a sweet non-syncopated piece called "Binks' Waltz", which was apparently composed in honor of somebody's dead baby (bit of a downer, that).
Further addition: Buettner and I seem to agree you need some Godspeed You Black Emperor. We're thinking _Yanqui U.X.O._, but _Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven_ isn't half bad, either.
Try listening to Thelonious Monk play the piano. The album "Monk's Music" is particularly good, especially the second track, "Well You Needn't". This album features Art Blakey on drums, as well as Coleman Hawkins and John Coltrane on tenor saxophone. I'd be very surprised if you weren't blown away by "Well You Needn't".
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Date: 2004-01-24 10:55 am (UTC)For "this changed the way i listened to music" goodness, i'd say King Crimson's Discipline. For "muscular blast of indie rock" goodness, i'll say Throwing Muses' recent untitled orange album. I'm not much on the "wacky comical music" side of things, but Klark Kent's Kollected Works is pretty good. And then there's Duke Ellington's The Far East Suite-Special Mix, which is far and away the best jazz record i've heard.
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Date: 2004-01-24 05:05 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-01-24 01:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-24 10:46 pm (UTC)Lately I've been listening heavily to a CD of Scott Joplin pieces, an amalgamation of two albums by the New England Ragtime Ensemble and the Southland Stingers respectively ("The Red Back Book/Elite Syncopations"). My favorites are "The Rag Time Dance" and a sweet non-syncopated piece called "Binks' Waltz", which was apparently composed in honor of somebody's dead baby (bit of a downer, that).
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Date: 2004-01-24 06:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-24 07:09 pm (UTC)Or Saint Etienne's _Tiger Bay_ for something poppy with a slight undercurrent of death?
Or Ladytron's _604_ for pop music in the year 2000 in the eighties?
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Date: 2004-01-26 09:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-26 05:13 am (UTC)Monk's Music at Amazon.com
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Date: 2004-01-26 09:03 am (UTC)I'm sure my mind will change about this next week.
Oh, and maybe, for the sake of nostalgia
Iggy Pop and Kate Pierson - Candy