[teszeract]

Hi all lounge lizards

i've been buying very little new music for the last 5 years, maybe 6 or 7 even. Some of you older guys may be understanding - you get to know your music in your teen and twenties, and then keep looking for the same "great stuff" into your thirties and beyond. So it comes to be that you find very little new good stuff, cos you also stop listening to the top 40 and pretty soon, all your stuff is old.

now my collection has way too much easy listening - and I need to find some good tunes to flesh out my horizons, but I am looking for the kind of stuff that will keep me interested.

So I still really love my Dire Straits, Santana, George Benson, Queen, Pink FLoyd. I like them because it has composition - a bit of complexity, great guitar or piano, lows and highs. Do some of you like the same? Who would those people suggest I take a listen to? But new stuff.

I really don't want any bland repetitive stuff - not thumpin, not dance, not schmaltz, not easy listening. Where do I look?

[ambush]

try some dandy warhols

we used to be friends is good.. but that's only ONE song..

[d4nth3m4n]

i really cant believe im promoting this, but give phish a whirl. especially if you like compositions. some of their songs are incredibly complex and the band is very tight.

if not them, try looking for a jazz trio named medeski martin and wood. again, tight and long-ish winded.

[teszeract]

will check them out. I am writing this down in my handy voodoopad. thanks. any more?

[rozwado1]

www.musicplasma.com

[DarwinX]

I have long been, and will always be an Our Lady Peace fan. While I know I'm setting myself up to get shotdown here at the success of "Somewhere Out There" and the length of time this song spent in the Top 40, I think they're an absolutely fantastic band(even better live). I recommend you start at the beginning and sample you're way through each of their 5 albums and their latest Live CD(which is somewhat of a greatest hits). Music is all relative, I wish less judging went with it, but hey, even through all of it we find something new. That's the best part! Our Lady Peace gets my nod, good luck!

[drive-thru]

Originally posted by d4nth3m4n:
try looking for a jazz trio named medeski martin and wood. again, tight and long-ish winded.

Those guys are great, and on iTunes!

[teszeract]

mmmm. phish (Trey Anastasio) is great! just took a listen to farmhouse -- wows. Going out to get some now. the guitar reminds me of clapton - although this is just the one piece i've heard so far.

[d4nth3m4n]

Originally posted by teszeract:
mmmm. phish (Trey Anastasio) is great! just took a listen to farmhouse -- wows. Going out to get some now. the guitar reminds me of clapton - although this is just the one piece i've heard so far.

go get junta. now. EPIC songs on there. billy breathes is also incredible.

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by d4nth3m4n:
if not them, try looking for a jazz trio named medeski martin and wood. again, tight and long-ish winded.

Aw hell, my heroes.

They also did an album with John Scofield, called "A Go Go", but the stuff they do as MMW is better.

Also, newer jazz trio (p, dr, acoustic bass): Esbjörn Svensson Trio. (ACT music, Munich, but they're Swedish) They also have a live DVD out that is absolutely spectacular, but rather hard to come by (I ordered mine via the label's website).

-s*

[d4nth3m4n]

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
Aw hell, my heroes.

They also did an album with John Scofield, called "A Go Go", but the stuff they do as MMW is better.

Also, newer jazz trio (p, dr, acoustic bass): Esbjörn Svensson Trio. (ACT music, Munich, but they're Swedish) They also have a live DVD out that is absolutely spectacular, but rather hard to come by (I ordered mine via the label's website).

-s*

or soulive. they teamed up with scofield for scolive- great album.

[Kilbey]

Try the church. (They are NOT a christian group or a religious band in ANY way.)

They have been around a long time and are still making awesome albums.

And you can try a sample in iTunes.

[teszeract]

I think that I have heard the church, but i won't swear by it on a stack of bibles.

but i just bought medesky martin and wood. wonderful rhythms.

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by teszeract:
but i just bought medesky martin and wood. wonderful rhythms.

I never leave home without some on the 'pod.

[d4nth3m4n]

2 for 2! hell yeah.

[teszeract]

Monte Montgomery. I just "discovered" him. Takes a listen in the itms. A nice list to explore here: (whoops, lost the amazon url, so heres the copied text):

okay. i'm really only doing this because i'm bored and i've recently read a lot about the 10 best or the 50 best or the 100 best guitarists of all time. and i realized that i dont really care who the best guitar players in the history of mankind really are. what matters to me is who i like. who composes the most compelling leads and melodies. who uses the instrument well as a tool for songwriting. now...the neo-platonists would certainly contend that there must exist an ideal guitarist, at least in our minds by which we can judge all other guitarists. but i always thought plato was an idiot. and neo-platonists are boring, so here's a list that no one will ever read.

1. Jimi Hendrix. 'Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix'. Of course. he's a legend.
2. Phil Keaggy. 'Acoustic Sketches'.
3. Tom Verlaine of Television. 'Marquee Moon'. Marquee Moon has some of the most intense guitar work I've ever heard.
4. Jimmy Page. 'Led Zeppelin IV (aka ZOSO)'. Oh yeah.
5. Monte Montgomery. 'New & Approved'. His solo version of Romeo and Juliet sounds like two or three guitars.
6. Duane Allman of Allman Brothers Band. 'The Allman Brothers at Fillmore East'. One of the best slide guitarists ever.
7. Frank Zappa. 'Hot Rats'. What the heck?
8. Robert Johnson. 'The Complete Recordings'. He sold his soul to the devil in exchange for his guitar playing abilities.
9. Beck Hansen. 'Mellow Gold'. Loose, idiosyncratic style that fuses musical styles.
10. Lou Reed. 'Velvet Underground & Nico'. Anarchic leads that help to create the Velvets unparalleled sound.
11. Kaki King. 'Everybody Loves You'. Mind-blowing licks in open-tunings. Nothing traditional about the way she plays.
12. Nick Drake. 'Bryter Layter'. Some of the prettiest sounds ever made.
13. Elliot Smith. 'Either/Or'. His arrangements are complicated yet bare.
14. Neil Young. 'Decade'.
15. George Harrison. 'Revolver [UK]'. Very economical. Every note counts.
16. Francis Black of the Pixies. 'Surfer Rosa'.
17. Kurt Cobain of Nirvana. 'MTV Unplugged in New York'.
18. Dave Davies of the Kinks. 'Arthur - Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire'.
19. Rivers Cuomo of Weezer. 'Pinkerton'. uncanny ability to combine staple rock riffs with gorgeous melodies.
20. Spencer Seim of Hella. 'Hold Your Horse Is'. He sounds like a train wreck with a melody.
21. Steve Vai. 'Elusive Light & Sound 1'. Cycles through scales like a hurricane.
22. Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney. 'One Beat'. Aggressive, powerful riffs.
23. Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins. 'Siamese Dream'. honestly, does anyone else in the world sound like the smashing pumpkins.
24. Johnny Marr of the Smiths. 'The Queen is Dead'.
25. Matt Wignall of Havalina Rail Company. 'Havalina Rail Co.'. Can play in any conceivable musical style.
26. Trey Anastasio of Phish. 'Farmhouse'.
27. Jeff Buckley. 'Live at Sin-E: Legacy Edition (Bonus Dvd)'.
28. Mick Jones of the Clash. 'Essential Clash'.
29. Robert Randolph. 'Unclassified'. Pedal steel guitar that sounds like Hendrix at times.
30. Dean DeLeo of Stone Temple Pilots. 'Stone Temple Pilots - Purple'.
31. Michael Einzinger of Incubus. 'A Crow Left of the Murder'. He's like a sharp-toothed junkyard dog unleashed on this album. And he's got a blonde 'fro.
32. Stevie Ray Vaughan. 'Stevie Ray Vaughan - Greatest Hits'.
33. Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys. 'Thickfreakness'.
34. Jack White of the White Stripes. 'Elephant'.
35. Johnny Ramone of the Ramones. 'Ramones (Dlx)'. i respect the Ramones use of simple, straight-forward sounds to create a deadpan commentary on music, rock and roll, life, and youth.
36. Bob Mothersbaugh of Devo. 'Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!'.
37. Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane. 'Surrealistic Pillow'.
38. Elvis Costello. 'Very Best of'.
39. Mike McCready of Pearl Jam. 'Vs.'. or whoever played the lead on yellow ledbetter.
40. Robbie Krieger of the Doors. 'Morrison Hotel'. The underappreciated element of the Doors sound.
41. DaveMason of Traffic. 'Traffic'. he actually plays the twelve-string acoustic on Hendrix's version of All Along the Watchtower.
42. Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits. 'Dire Straits'.
43. Gary Lucas. 'Songs to No One 1991-1992'.
44. Matthew Followill of Kings of Leon. 'Youth & Young Manhood'. His solos come of nowhere and smack you in the face.
45. Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac. 'Rumours'. Never Going Back Again is an awesome song.
46. Sune Rose Wagner of the Raveonettes. 'Chain Gang of Love'. Brilliant juxtaposition of fuzzy guitars and pop melodies
47. Jeff Tweedy of Wilco. 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot'. The outro on I'm the Man that Loves is striking.
48. Cat Stevens. 'Teaser & The Firecat'. The Wind. Peace Train.
49. Jeff Beck. 'Live Blueswailing: St George's Hall July 1964'.
50. Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. 'Fever To Tell'.

[d4nth3m4n]

no Clapton or duane allman?

there was a thread on this over the summer, pretty good read as well. worth searching for.

[MountainMac]

Go to allmusic and search your favorite bands. They have "Similar Artists", "Influnced By", "Followers", and "Performed Songs By" categories, so you can follow "n degrees of separation" to your heart's content. Plus they have samples for lots of artists.

MM