Other favourite music artists.
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tylerwirch
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HamletNoMore
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Radiohead is my favorite, but also included on my top bands are Bad Religion, pre-'00 R.E.M., David Bowie (specific phases of his career, not all of it- Who could like all of it?), Bob Dylan (again, specific phases), Tori Amos, the Velvet Underground, the Smiths and the list goes on a bit. I also like many other bands, but these are some of my definate favs.
I just joined the board today. I am looking forward to perusing the board and commenting where I feel I have something to contribute. I will try not to make too much of an ass out of myself.
I just joined the board today. I am looking forward to perusing the board and commenting where I feel I have something to contribute. I will try not to make too much of an ass out of myself.
I had a really long signature but I changed it cause noone else does and I want to fit in. 
John Prine
I just got John Prine's recent album 'Souvenirs' as a gift and recommend it very strongly. It is a collection of Prine's favorite songs over the years re-recorded recently. Prine's been around for quite sometime but I heard him for the first time ever on this album. The arrangement and ambience is very simple and a little bit like TNS (no synthesiszers though ) so folks who enjoyed TNS may like it. It is always exciting for me to hear an artiste that I havent heard before. Here are some lyrics though I am still getting into it.... he certainly has that gift for the unexpected turn of phrase
There were spaces between Donald
And whatever he said
Strangers had forced him to live in his head
He envisioned the details of romantic scenes
After midnight in the stillness of the barracks latrine.
- Donald & Lydia
She reminds me of a chess game
With someone I admire
Or a picnic in the rain
After a prairie fire
Her heart is as big as this whole goddamn jail
And she's sweeter than saccharine
At a drugstore sale.
- Christmas in prison
Me and Loretta, we don't talk much more
She sits and stares through the backdoor screen
And all the news just repeats itself
Like some forgotten dream that we've both see.
You know that old trees just grow stronger,
And old rivers grow wilder every day.
Old people just grow lonesome
Waiting for someone to say,
"Hello in there, hello."
So if you're walking down the street sometime
And spot some hollow ancient eyes,
Please don't just pass 'em by and stare
As if you didn't care,
Say, "Hello in there, hello."
- Hello in there
) so folks who enjoyed TNS may like it. It is always exciting for me to hear an artiste that I havent heard before. Here are some lyrics though I am still getting into it.... he certainly has that gift for the unexpected turn of phraseThere were spaces between Donald
And whatever he said
Strangers had forced him to live in his head
He envisioned the details of romantic scenes
After midnight in the stillness of the barracks latrine.
- Donald & Lydia
She reminds me of a chess game
With someone I admire
Or a picnic in the rain
After a prairie fire
Her heart is as big as this whole goddamn jail
And she's sweeter than saccharine
At a drugstore sale.
- Christmas in prison
Me and Loretta, we don't talk much more
She sits and stares through the backdoor screen
And all the news just repeats itself
Like some forgotten dream that we've both see.
You know that old trees just grow stronger,
And old rivers grow wilder every day.
Old people just grow lonesome
Waiting for someone to say,
"Hello in there, hello."
So if you're walking down the street sometime
And spot some hollow ancient eyes,
Please don't just pass 'em by and stare
As if you didn't care,
Say, "Hello in there, hello."
- Hello in there
Last edited by Kush on Tue Dec 31, 2002 12:51 am, edited 1 time in total.
Lizzytysh,
I had heard Joan Baez & kris Kristofferson's duet of Hello in There before but yes, Prine wrote the song as I just found out. Here's another curious song I thought....set to uptempo country beat.
Please don't bury me down in the cold cold ground
No i'd druther have em' cut me up and pass me all around
Throw my brain in a hurricane and the blind can have my eyes
And the deaf can take both of my ears
If they don't mind the size.
I had heard Joan Baez & kris Kristofferson's duet of Hello in There before but yes, Prine wrote the song as I just found out. Here's another curious song I thought....set to uptempo country beat.
Please don't bury me down in the cold cold ground
No i'd druther have em' cut me up and pass me all around
Throw my brain in a hurricane and the blind can have my eyes
And the deaf can take both of my ears
If they don't mind the size.
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neveranygood
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- Location: Oklahoma, USA
Hi Kush,
I like some of John Prine's music also. My favorite is "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness". His wife Rachel sang just enough harmony to make it even better. That was back about 1986 I think. Also I like him doing the old country song, "They'll Never Take Her Love From Me".
Are either of these songs on the "Souvenirs" album? Bob
I like some of John Prine's music also. My favorite is "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness". His wife Rachel sang just enough harmony to make it even better. That was back about 1986 I think. Also I like him doing the old country song, "They'll Never Take Her Love From Me".
Are either of these songs on the "Souvenirs" album? Bob
I don't think John prine took off anywhere. The fate of many wonderful songwriters I can think of.
Bob, neither of the songs you mentioned is on the Souvenirs album. Sam Stone is however...I havent really got into its lyrics yet...will listen to it. I think his writing style as sort of whimsical storytelling.
Bob, neither of the songs you mentioned is on the Souvenirs album. Sam Stone is however...I havent really got into its lyrics yet...will listen to it. I think his writing style as sort of whimsical storytelling.
Just thought I would post the lyrics 
Nicked them off a web site. I didn't really know if the pitcher in question was a jug or a child (as in baseball). Any offers on explanation? It was one of many songs which made me question what was happening in Vietnam and how badly affected the young men were who had served. We were quite divorced from it over here.
Sam Stone came home,
To his wife and family
After serving in the conflict overseas.
And the time that he served,
Had shattered all his nerves,
And left a little shrapnel in his knee.
But the morphine eased the pain,
And the grass grew round his brain,
And gave him all the confidence he lacked,
With a Purple Heart and a monkey on his back.
There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes,
Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose.
Little pitchers have big ears,
Don't stop to count the years,
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios.
Mmm....
Sam Stone's welcome home
Didn't last too long.
He went to work when he'd spent his last dime
And Sammy took to stealing
When he got that empty feeling
For a hundred dollar habit without overtime.
And the gold rolled through his veins
Like a thousand railroad trains,
And eased his mind in the hours that he chose,
While the kids ran around wearin' other peoples' clothes...
Sam Stone was alone
When he popped his last balloon
Climbing walls while sitting in a chair
Well, he played his last request
While the room smelled just like death
With an overdose hovering in the air
But life had lost its fun
And there was nothing to be done
But trade his house that he bought on the G. I. Bill
For a flag draped casket on a local heroes' hill.
Nicked them off a web site. I didn't really know if the pitcher in question was a jug or a child (as in baseball). Any offers on explanation? It was one of many songs which made me question what was happening in Vietnam and how badly affected the young men were who had served. We were quite divorced from it over here. Sam Stone came home,
To his wife and family
After serving in the conflict overseas.
And the time that he served,
Had shattered all his nerves,
And left a little shrapnel in his knee.
But the morphine eased the pain,
And the grass grew round his brain,
And gave him all the confidence he lacked,
With a Purple Heart and a monkey on his back.
There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes,
Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose.
Little pitchers have big ears,
Don't stop to count the years,
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios.
Mmm....
Sam Stone's welcome home
Didn't last too long.
He went to work when he'd spent his last dime
And Sammy took to stealing
When he got that empty feeling
For a hundred dollar habit without overtime.
And the gold rolled through his veins
Like a thousand railroad trains,
And eased his mind in the hours that he chose,
While the kids ran around wearin' other peoples' clothes...
Sam Stone was alone
When he popped his last balloon
Climbing walls while sitting in a chair
Well, he played his last request
While the room smelled just like death
With an overdose hovering in the air
But life had lost its fun
And there was nothing to be done
But trade his house that he bought on the G. I. Bill
For a flag draped casket on a local heroes' hill.
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chaos_to_grace
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- Location: minneapolis, mn
i am a writer, but my heroes are all musicians (and thereby poets as well, but...er...). after leonard:
jeff buckley. he covered 'hallelujah' on his flawless first and only completed album, 'grace'. he drowned about 6 years ago, and never made another album. there have been others released by his mother, but none compare to the raw, soul trembling intensity of 'grace'.
nick cave. he covered 'avalanche' on the album 'from her to eternity'. great cover, great album. but not his best. try 'let love in' or for a mood very similar to that of some of leonard's work, listen to the newest one, 'no more shall we part'. he does a song called 'hallelujah' on it that isn't a cover, and it is phenomenal.
tom waits. he makes me tingle all over. devlish and sexual and earthy and funky and hilarious in turn. a voice like no other. early work is the best, but all albums are wonderful.
einsturzende neubauten. very innovative. blixa bargeld is a member of nick cave's band, the bad seeds. use of pneumatic tools as instruments and the like. one of the very first "industrial" bands. for a good taste, try 'strategies against architecture 3'. songs done in numerous languages, mostly german.
REM. michael stipe is an angel and no one can convince me otherwise. unlike most fans, i prefer their last three albums, 'new adventures in hi-fi', 'up' and 'reveal'. duet with patti smith on '...hi-fi' called "ebow the letter" that frequently knocks my socks off.
other favourites are pj harvey, fiona apple, duncan sheik, nina simone, tori amos...
sorry this was so long--music is my life's blood. upon being asked what i would do if i could no longer write, i laughed and said i would be fine...as long as i had music.
yarbles,
sarah.
jeff buckley. he covered 'hallelujah' on his flawless first and only completed album, 'grace'. he drowned about 6 years ago, and never made another album. there have been others released by his mother, but none compare to the raw, soul trembling intensity of 'grace'.
nick cave. he covered 'avalanche' on the album 'from her to eternity'. great cover, great album. but not his best. try 'let love in' or for a mood very similar to that of some of leonard's work, listen to the newest one, 'no more shall we part'. he does a song called 'hallelujah' on it that isn't a cover, and it is phenomenal.
tom waits. he makes me tingle all over. devlish and sexual and earthy and funky and hilarious in turn. a voice like no other. early work is the best, but all albums are wonderful.
einsturzende neubauten. very innovative. blixa bargeld is a member of nick cave's band, the bad seeds. use of pneumatic tools as instruments and the like. one of the very first "industrial" bands. for a good taste, try 'strategies against architecture 3'. songs done in numerous languages, mostly german.
REM. michael stipe is an angel and no one can convince me otherwise. unlike most fans, i prefer their last three albums, 'new adventures in hi-fi', 'up' and 'reveal'. duet with patti smith on '...hi-fi' called "ebow the letter" that frequently knocks my socks off.
other favourites are pj harvey, fiona apple, duncan sheik, nina simone, tori amos...
sorry this was so long--music is my life's blood. upon being asked what i would do if i could no longer write, i laughed and said i would be fine...as long as i had music.
yarbles,
sarah.
"oh my darlin' clementine."
Elizabeth Cotton
Uncle Tupelo
Taj Mahal
Son Volt
Mazzy Star
Wilco
Todd Snider and every single note coming outta Oh Boy Records
Iris Dement (especially On Tulare Dust songwriter tribute to Merle Haggard) "somewhere in da middle of montana"
Woody and Bob and all them guys (too many to list)
RHCP
Tracy Chapman
Steve Earle
Maggie Simpson
Bob Marley
David Peel & the Lower East Side
Edie Brickel - especially Ghost of a dog
Steven wright
Chris Rea
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Johnny Taylor
i guess i've got to stop typing now
Uncle Tupelo
Taj Mahal
Son Volt
Mazzy Star
Wilco
Todd Snider and every single note coming outta Oh Boy Records
Iris Dement (especially On Tulare Dust songwriter tribute to Merle Haggard) "somewhere in da middle of montana"
Woody and Bob and all them guys (too many to list)
RHCP
Tracy Chapman
Steve Earle
Maggie Simpson
Bob Marley
David Peel & the Lower East Side
Edie Brickel - especially Ghost of a dog
Steven wright
Chris Rea
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Johnny Taylor
i guess i've got to stop typing now
"They are one person
They are two alone
They are three together
They are for each other"
They are two alone
They are three together
They are for each other"