The Song Fight Bulletin Board

so. right now I'm looking up exotica albums online, as I have been doing for the last ... six hours, maybe, ever since I woke up from a nap I took. here's some sites I dug up:

http://manakoora.blogspot.com/ album downloads
http://www.blognow.com.au/XtabaysWorld/ album downloads
http://www.bluehipster.com/music.htm dutch exotica album downloads
http://66.175.10.211/music/ japanese albums
http://www.weirdomusic.com/downloads.htm asstd downloads of albums
http://www.shoddity.com/
http://my.opera.com/Licorice%20Pizza/blog/
http://thirdisland.blogspot.com/ damn!
http://thegroovegrotto.blogspot.com/

http://hallofrecords.blogspot.com/ not much of interest online right now

http://www.weirdomusic.com/downloads.htm links
http://www.ecbrown.org/mp3/ big mp3 page list

maybe someone here will find something they like on one of these! I'm going to do all exotica on my show Friday night. my grandma had her appendix out yesterday, but I don't know what's happening beyond that. my sister, newly a mother of twins, has returned to work after having delivered on the lunar new year of this year. I don't have any specific plans for today, besides getting some chores done. got the new, instrumental Beastie Boys album in at the station; it's quite good. also Maserati, but I mentioned about that in the currently digging thread.

<b>Question of the Day</b>: which are your favorite non-rock musical genres?

myself I love jazz. I've been spending a lot of time with the Bad Plus and Sex Mob lately, we're getting the new Charles Mingus reissue in soon... I dunno if it's my favorite, but every time I play jazz on my radio show I think to myself, man, I could really stand to only ever play jazz. I have a soft spot for lounge and exotica, though I don't spend much time with it. I've been listening to quite a lot of world music lately, just the folk stuff from different regions... lots from Latin America, some from East Asia, some from Asia Minor, some from Eastern Europe. I like a lot of 20th/21st-century art music (erik satie, steve reich, philip glass, countless others...). I enjoy other art music ("classical") but probably not as much as I should. some of my favorite composers are Saint-Saens, Chopin, and Debussy. A lot of folk otherwise is really rad, up to and including the 60s revival. But I guess I'm not saying much here. Oh, well.

I love Miles Davis from "Birth of the Cool" thru "Bitches Brew" and roughly the same era for John Coltrane. "A Love Supreme" will show you the light. Splashes of other jazz artists and some of the classical big guns have infiltrated my rock tastes for many moon. Imagine the days when jazz was king, probably not as easy for the regular Joe to jump into and play as it is for rock. Although not everyone that can rock, does rock.

Part two of the studio re-arrange today, I now must obtain a big-ass table to finish my, er, vision.

Thanks for the links, MK. They'll keep me busy for hours, I can already tell.

Today: I'm taking my new guitar to the local shop for a tune-up. I can tune a guitar, but when it comes to electrics, I'm pretty naive to all other upkeep things. This one is way sharp on the 2nd to 5th frets on a couple of the strings. I tried doing the intonation adjustments that the book that came with the guitar recommended, but no luck. Time to involve the experts.

(UPDATE: The guy at my local shop adjusted the intonation on my (early) lunch hour. The open G major and D major chords I played sounded just as out of whack. He said that's the nature of guitars, and it's more noticeable on electrics than acoustics. The best I can hope to do is maybe tune the strings and then try to off-tune them to compensate. Anyone heard this before? He also suggested a couple things to research about tuning in general, which I'm gonna do.)

I think the hum in my sound system is from an old power strip with too many things plugged in to it. I won't get to test this theory tonight though, as the band is playing at The Bad Moose Cafe in Moultonborough, NH. It's Bike Week in the Lakes Region, so it should be a rowdy one.

QotD: I like me some jazz. In fact, one of MK's links directed me to a Jimmy Smith album I can't wait to check out.

QotD: classical, trance, abstract electronica, experimental, trip-hop

DRC: For someone who claims to hate the fact it's my birthday, I sure seem to keep bringing it up a lot.

Great and historic album: Benny Goodman-Live At Carnegie Hall (1939) Great songs, amazing musicians that take you all over the place and this is the definitive version of the mis-used Sing Sing Sing. Marcus, please check this out if I'm not stating an obvious one here.

good morning, its Thursda, which is good because tomorrow is Friday.
I will probably have to do my laundry tonight.

<a href="http://mirroronamerica.blogspot.com/200 ... cable.html" target="resource window">F'n Sad</a>

I spent 3 1/2 hours in ER waiting lounge before leaving and going to another hospital the next day. This woman didn't have the luxory of making such a choice.

Anyways, that story makes me feel human again. Sometimes I feel indifferent about everything. The writer reminds me of that even. This story is so sad that I remember that I do actually have feelings.

qotd: country.

QOTD: Jazz & Latin (MMMexican radio, I mean) like mariachi, nortenga, uhhh... really wish i spoke spanish as there's a couple other flavors I'm partial to.

It's my friday today (taking tomorrow off to recoup--boss' orders--and see John Doe play with my fiancee. Wait, that didn't sound right. Heh) and pretty damned hungover, ç'est moment. Still have a workday to get through. Mid-month printing surge is here, busy busy.

garfunkel, why do you have a cedilla there? and why have you used "c'est," which means "it is"? I think what you are after is "à ce moment," which means "at this moment." <i>ah say mo'-mahn</i>.

How'd I neglect to mention hip-hop? man, hip-hop is great. dj shadow, j dilla, mf doom (beats... don't like his rhymes), beastie boys... etc...

...because I'm an illiterate s.o.b. marcus. I thought you knew that

Just came home from writing pt. 1 of my social diploma exam. Each exam is worth 50% of my final grade in the class. Wish me luck!

If you've read my song-a-day posts, you know that my favorite genre outside of rock is... almost everything. Seriously.
-bill

Today has been an insane day. I've been on special project all morning and this is my one chance to breathe all day and once its done, I'm back on special project.

QotD: I like all music. (I think I need to show that more in The Other Night though...have people been enjoying that?)

And a quick note:
Last night, I had the weirdest dream. In my dream, I was hanging out with my friend Yvil Mike (of Suave Noise Youth) and Philip Redmon. Just that fact is hilarious to me because the conversations in that meeting of the minds would be the best. There would be conversations ranging from the Cobra La to why Rodimus Prime sucked ass. It would be brilliant. But anyway, we were driving around and we ended up going to a Message Parlour. I ended up in a room with a massuese with a large resemblance to Nicole of the Pussycat Dolls (why her I don't know) and she offered be the deluxe package (the one with the happy ending). But none of that happened because the three of us had to make a run for it out of the place because 1) Heather and CJ were looking for us (Yvil is the bachelor) and 2) There was a raid at the parlour for prostitution. One of the people busted in the raid--- Pro wrestler Sting. (Yes born-again pro-wrestler Sting). What a weird fucking dream.

That is sad Hoblit
I'm the type that would get fired, sued and sent to prison if it was a matter of helping another human being.

It's another day in pair of dice
Feeling boxed in and quite concise

QOTD:
Non Rock?
Funk and Progressive Jazz for sure. The guitar player (Julio Fernandez) in this Spyro Gyra vid cracks me up. I hope I'm that cool when I'm eleventy hundred.

HeuristicsInc wrote:If you've read my song-a-day posts, you know that my favorite genre outside of rock is... almost everything. Seriously.
-bill

I just looked at the last 80 tracks you've chosen, and it looks like your favorite genre outside of rock is pop. besides Dvorak and a couple of ambient pieces, it's all rock, pop, pop-rock. people say "everything," or "almost everything," but they don't usually mean it, it doesn't seem to me. what's your favorite metal act? traditional folk song? blues musician (don't say SRV)? punk album? these ones are gimmes; have you spent any time with nusrat fateh ali khan, gilberto gil, tito puente, michio kurihara, steve reich? james p. johnson, leadbelly, jelly roll morton? shirley collins? animal collective, wolfmother, frog eyes? ... the Strauss track you selected is a way gimme, though. I just downloaded like twenty versions of the blue danube from WFMU: <a href="http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/03/m ... ">click</a>. and everyone knows Tocatta and Fugue, though maybe your selected performance is notable (and you didn't choose a performance for Strauss or for Dvorak? for shame--also, as JB can tell us, songs have words).

anyway, hinc, a few superficial nods to classical, a Cut Chemist track, etc., do not a varied taste make. I don't recall seeing a single jazz cut in the last 80 selections. maybe there's more in #1-156. I did see two Weird Al songs. wow, what daring choices. I'm sure I sound like an asshole, I don't mean to act like I'm better than you, I'm only a student of music myself. but your website isn't helping your case so far.

Niv, I did listen to your TONIDOK's #3 show, and awesome as usual. Quite a veriety of styles, plus I've never heard that acoustic Foo cover before, awesome. But I don't remember a link to your second show. I should just bookmark your website.

Today has been madness.

At about 8:10, I'm getting ready for the day. Suddenly I hear mum shrieking and yelling something about the door. I ran downstairs and she was pointing and saying that the cat escaped. Now, our cat is fat and has no balance because her tail is busted; there's a reason she's an indoor cat. (That and we live near a super busy road). So I grab her bag of treats, go running across the street, dive in a hedge, and grab the cat. It's only when I'm standing up, holding the cat by her scruff that I realize that two of my older male neighbors are getting their papers, and the garbage truck just turned into the road. And I'm standing there, in my underwear, holding a cat. Very strange.

A presentation I had to give was all messed up because the casing on the flash drive I have was too wide to fit in the silly computer.

Other than that, today has been good. Got a super good grade on a big end of term paper. I have one more final tomorrow and then a half day on Monday, then I'm done with school for the year. Woo!

QOTD: I listen to most things. I guess the most-listened to genre other than rock would be musicals, then probably acoustic stuff.

mkilly wrote:stuff

It's funny reading that and then looking at my own song-a-day journal. I think mine shows a preference to rock stuff (because I have one), but I don't think that even after I reach 10,000, I'll ever have a true representation of what I listen to. I still haven't put up a song from Painted From Memory, or by Montgomery Gentry or by Joanna Newsom or So So Many White White Tigers or The Cold War. I may have touched upon some industrial or Rasputina (my favorite band besides Made Out Of Babies but only has 2 entries so far) or rap but I haven't explored it. Sometimes I think you just have to either take a persons word for it or raid their iPOD/Record collection.

yeah, no doubt. though... I'd classify Rasputina as firmly in the rock tradition. chamber rock, but. their new album's great, btw. can't stand joanna newsom, though.

I only like Vietnam protest songs performed by bluegrass musicians.

Niveous wrote:

mkilly wrote:stuff

It's funny reading that and then looking at my own song-a-day journal.

That post sent me straight to my own list of songs. I never thought of my musical tastes as all that varied, but reading all the references around here over the last couple of years along with the other song-a-day lists has made me realize how little exposure I have had to the non-mainstream music world. My list of old and new favorites along with some guilty pleasures is thus far heavily skewed towards pop and country. In general my favorite non-rock genres are country, bluegrass, folk, celtic, and jazz. There are several others I enjoy, but those cover the vast majority of my CD collection.

Bluegrass is probably the only one that I have followed off the beaten path. I spent most of my vacations in the late 90's going to bluegrass festivals back east, so I had the chance to catch a lot of local and independent musicians along with the older stars and popular acts. Even though I grew up listening to country music and may have been (like the the Barbara Mandrell song) country when country wasn't cool, I still only really listened to whatever was available on radio, TV, and in the stores. So, this whole internet thing has been great for access to smaller artists and expanding my musical horizons.

mkilly wrote:wow, what daring choices. I'm sure I sound like an asshole, I don't mean to act like I'm better than you, I'm only a student of music myself. but your website isn't helping your case so far.

Marcus. You *totally* mean to act like you're better than him. As someone who actively hates most genres of music (and who can understand your ire at the "everything" response), let me offer this advice (which you are free to discount): If someone thinks that they like everything, just let them think that, because there is no negative consequence to letting them think that. But if you attempt to lay a bit of knowledge on them (like you have here) you run the risk of someone whipping out their even bigger musical dick and beating you about the head with it.

There's always more music to know about. But for some people, it's not about knowing about music, but just about enjoying music.

QotD: I like showtunes and dixieland, even though I admit I don't know enough about either (please don't school me, I am lazy)

I like listening to construction sites.

Today I made so-so pad Thai from a box. Then I went to see my friend's band play outside of a record store in Muncie. It was their last show, their first that I've seen. They were ok. Now I'm at work.