Da Official Discontinuum Music Appreciation Thread

[whofarted]

'god ween satan' by ween

their first major release, although they had legitimately recorded over a 1000 songs before this was out for public consumption.

some notes from the album -

"Ween plays gospel music.  Ween is here to spread the word of their lord, the demon-god BOOGNISH.  BOOGNISH first appeared to Ween in 1984, then Dean and Gene were 14 years old.   They (Dean and Gene) were not friends and they shared little in common.   Upon the first sighting, BOOGNISH communicated to them what had to be done and later that day Ween recorded onto tape the holy picture that HE had painted for the two boys.  He has since appeared twice, once to punish Gene for trying to leave the band.  The other time Ween will not discuss....    ....You can play this CD on random play and the same tears of love and hate will fall into your eyes no matter what sequence the songs are in."

Basically, this whole album does rock, and like the liner notes say, you can play it in any order and it will still kick your tail.  The music is hard to describe, but if you remember how things were when you were 15 or so and put those manias on record this is what it would sound like.

[whofarted]

i woke up this morning and started drinking coffee and then at 6:06am i look outside and nothing. disappointing. now rem is on the radio. satan thus far has thrown a pretty weak uprising. by nightfall i expect total chaos and dead prostitute zombies with bat faces everywhere.

here's some artists who are said to have donated their soul to satan...

[whofarted]

my car got broken into last night and not only did those punks get my cd player and my time and efforts to replace it and the window that they broke, but they took every single one of my django rienhardt, miles davis, and frank zappa cds as well (i was literally five cds away from having every officially released zappa album too).  between the three i had nearly 150 discs of theirs, some of which i had to go to great lengths to get.  what a kick in the teeth.  beyond that, i called my insurance agent and what i am gathering is that they will only be covering what was attached to my car - the window and the cd player.  so i am going to pay a 100 dollar deductable and have absolutely nothing to show for it that i didnt have yesterday.  if i would have known that last night was going to be the night that vandals came to my neighborhood i would have stayed up with a flashlght, a bat, and some c clamps.  uhhhh....

[damonshort]

but they took every single one of my django rienhardt, miles davis, and frank zappa cds as well (i was literally five cds away from having every officially released zappa album too). between the three i had nearly 150 discs of theirs

Greg, that really really blows. You might want to talk to used CDs shops in the area; punks like these have no taste and they'll probably try to unload the CDs as quickly as they can.

[whofarted]

they blanketed my whole neighborhood so they have got alot of goods to get rid of.  i'm going to do the rounds of some of the local pawn shops, but i cant really afford to spend more than an afternoon doing so.   i think the best course of action is just to keep less stuff in my car, if they wanted to and had the time they could have really taken me for ride - i had my golf discs, a 500 coat, italian boots, uncashed checks and old pay stubs, etc... all in there waiting to be looted.  i cant stand to think that i have to rethink the way that i operate to compensate for the douche bags of society.  but if i continue to leave stuff in there they will be tempted to take it - what a bummer...

the newest frank zappa fans of rockford illinois...

[Mitch]

Greg,
Sometimes a homeowners or renters policy will provide some limited coverage for this type of loss.

[whofarted]

i talked to my insurance agent about a half hour ago and what he told me was that most general policies wont cover cd's and items like that, wether it is a car or a homeowner policy.  so i would have been screwed regardless of my coverage unless i specifally included cd's, which i am assuming would cost me something more per month.   i really dont think that there is any easy solution to prevent these types of things except for sweeping social change, and that could take a thousands of years.  better off just leaving them all in the house or spending 450 and getting an ipod big enough to hold my collection and instead of toting around hundreds of cd's.

[SERG]

Posting here because this deals with music files:

I've just recently started to look for "live" versions of music (particularly concerts, no band/person in particular). I have a few sites that I visit but I'm wondering if people visit sites in particular. Also, what types of software (prefferably freeware) are people using to decompress the files (.flac, shn, etc)? I'm trying to learn the "lingo" but it's taking me a little bit.

Some sites I visit:
http://db.etree.org/index.php
http://digitalpanic.org/bittorrent/index.php
http://www.dmbexchange.com/
http://www.archive.org/details/audio

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[mirth]

the flac frontend is great for flac files, but if you're willing to spend $20 dbpoweramp is the swiss army knife of digital audio files.... you can transcode between formats, decode to wav for cd burning, and rip cds to your format of choice.

[damonshort]

Frank Zappa on Steve Allen Show (old Tonight Show?) 1963:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIpPENCP4Ak&search=zappa

... this also points to an overwhelming stash of Zappa concert excerpts and other TV appearances, including one w/ Johnny Carson in 1985/6 which I'd never seen.

[whofarted]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYLCOakqhkY

going off the youtube theme - here is a clip of a few good artists doing 'while my guitar gently weeps'.  about halfway through prince gets on stage and completely desimates the place - its worth a watch

[damonshort]

OK, so most of y'all weren't around then, but this was one of the first and still the best jazz-fusion bands...

Mahavishnu Orchestra, 1972:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=425099801869161388&q=john+mclaughlin

flaky b/w film but the music is still great. I saw this band at the Auditorium about a year after this and I thought the balcony was gonna collapse from the vibrations.

[Chainmeister]

OK, so most of y'all weren't around then, but this was one of the first and still the best jazz-fusion bands...

Mahavishnu Orchestra, 1972:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=425099801869161388&q=john+mclaughlin

flaky b/w film but the music is still great. I saw this band at the Auditorium about a year after this and I thought the balcony was gonna collapse from the vibrations.

Downloaded that show and it sounds great  The black and white makes it look older than it really is. Thanks.  I have a weakness for 70's fusion music.  If you like a more rock oriented fusion try the Dixie Dregs.  I have a lot of their vinyl but nothing digital.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdbOjF9ZDX4&mode=related&search=

[Tom McManus]

I know this thread is going way back, but here are my 10 favorite albums in chronological order. Yes I am old. I would like to see some other lists.

Let It Bleed                                             The Rolling Stones   1969
Led Zeppelin 2                        Led Zeppelin                        1969
Who's Next                                               The Who                         1971
Every Picture Tells a Story    Rod Stewart   1971
Something/Anything                        Todd Rundgren   1972
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road   Elton John                         1973
My Aim is True                         Elvis Costello   1977
Parallel Lines                                              Blondie                        1978
Darkness on the Edge of Town   Bruce Springsteen   1978
10                                              Pearl Jam                         1991

Also a casual observation, I think in general that music doesn't play as an important part in young people's lives as it did in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.  There is too much other media out there vying for the limited amount of time that people have available.  Games, texting, internet, etc,,,,,  I could be wrong but it just an observation.

[pdga#7648]

any classic rock works...

Zeppelin
Doors
Hendrix
The Who
Beatles
Sabbath
Ozzy
Pink Floyd
and I agree, the 60's, 70's, and 80's had some of the best music period. All these new Idol winners, and young rapper shit, well is just shit.


But being a high school graduate in 1990, my most favorite band of all time....
anything Metallica before the Black Album.
Master of Puppets, Ride the Lightning, Kill em all, Garage Days, and And Justice all kicked ass. If you see me at a tourny with an ipod in, yep, its Metallica.

[jasonc]

Tom,
At 31, I'm not sure if you include me in the younger people you mentioned, but if you give any of these a chance, try out My Morning Jacket.  Great, newer rock n' roll band.

Some of my favorite albums, in no particular order....
Led Zeppelin--II, III or Houses of the Holy.  I can not pick a favorite Zep album.
Phish--Rift
Pink Floyd--Wish You Were Here
Beatles--Abbey Road
Paul Simon--Graceland
Bob Dylan--Highway 61 Revisited
Benevento/Russo Duo--Best Reason To Buy The Sun
Xavier Rudd--To Let
String Cheese Incident--Outside Inside
My Morning Jacket--It Still Moves

[Chainmeister]

Tom, I like your list.  Its hard to pick only 10.  Trying not to overlap previous posts and sticking only to Rock here is a list off of the top of my head-

The Rolling Stones      The Chess Sessions
The Who         Live at Leeds
Chicago         Chicago VII
Yes         Fragile
The Talking Heads      Remain in Light
The Beatles         Revolver
Kansas         Masque
Pink Floyd         Dark Side of the Moon
The Grateful Dead      American Beauty
The Allman Brothers      Eat a Peach
Cheap Trick         Live at Budokan

[Jon Brakel]

I think the importance of music to youth corresponds with the near death of the album. There have been only a few music collections recently that can be considered "Albums". Green Day's American Idiot comes to mind. Most music today is sold and listened to as songs and I think most people listen while doing something else instead of sitting down and listening to an album the day it comes out.

[Sr.]

I'm not old but I like old music. Here's my taste.
1.Grateful Dead
2.Rolling Stones
3.Allman Brothers
4.Led Zeppelin
5.Neil Young
6.Bob Dylan
7.Jefferson Airplane
8.CSN+Y
9.John Prine
10.Pink Floyd

Hendrix and Beatles are tied right along with the Dead. Talent talent talent.

[pickax]

These are the albums that I keep going back to. I never skip tracks when listening to these. (And can't stand that one of them is played out of order on my computer).

Larry Norman - Only Visiting this Planet (1972)
Les Miserable Broadway Cast (1987)
77's - Sticks and Stones (1990)
They Might Be Giants - Flood (1990)
Steve Taylor - Squint (1993)
Lost Dogs - Little Red Riding Hood (1993)
BoDeans - Joe Dirt Car (1995)
Five Iron Freny - Proof That The You are Revolting (1999)
Nickel Creek - Nickel Creek (2000)
O Brother, Where Art Thou Soundtrack (2000)

There's a lot of music from the 70s and 80s that I like, but mostly I like certain songs and not necessarily the whole album.