Originally posted by Bosse de NageTheir album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was considered one of the best albums of.... what year was that.... oh well, whatever year it was. Everyone kept comparing it to Radiohead's Kid A and hyping up the whole story of how Wilco made the album years ago and it was rejected by their label and yada yada. Since then they've had another album, A Ghost Reborn I think it was called, that didn't really make as big of a splash. I guess the only real big change for them now is they have more of a following and Rolling Stone magazine seems to love promoting them.
Is Wilco more popular now? I like their stuff, though I wouldn't sell my soul (again) for it.
Glad you gave up on the Korn. A Korn-fed boy is a nasty sight.
Originally posted by seraphimvultureI started thinking about this and couldn't really reach a conclusion, it's a bit of a bizare question. Quite interesting thought. I guess its all relative, for instance, Miles Davis is about as mainstream and popular as you can get for jazz, but then if you don't listen to jazz then it is probably far different to anything you listen to.
Tonight, in the wake of a recent break up, I spent a good three hours listening to music and just realized how absolutely bonkers my playlist was tonight. Just throw a few names out there: Elvis Presley, Radiohead, Metallica, The Pixies, Jethro Tull, The Beatles, The B-52s, Janis Joplin, A Tribe Called Quest, Pantera, Ill Nino, etc etc.... Quite a mi ...[text shortened]... Davis, and in the other corner probably the very hardcore band Dillinger Escape Plan.[/b]
It also seems to depend on what you define as an end, something that sounds far different such as Rammstein and Coldplay (i'm deliberatly quoting popular examples) but then when you look at it both are rock music and so fundementally have the same charactoristics.
Personnally i would say my to "ends" would be Louis Armstong or Glenn Miller, they were the pop and dance music way back when, and then someone like Soweto Kinch or Buckshot LeFonque which are both jazz based but are trying develop the popular music of now into other things. For instance Soweto Kinch is basically a hip/hop musician who also plays jazz saxaphone in many of this songs. This, i think, is what is pushing music to develop.
So there, my "ends", the old and the new.
Wow, what a long post.
Nick
Originally posted by Bosse de NageI haven't listened to much of her music, but what I heard was quite nice. I am most interested in more traditional joik, like here for example: http://www.jus.uit.no/ansatte/somby/juoigENG.htm
Do you like Marie Boine (sic)?
Squareheads
Squared squared
are the beds
we sleep in
Squared squared
are the windows we
Look out through
Squared squared
are the pieces of bread
that we chew
Squared squared
are the tables
we sit next to
Squared squared
are the books
we learn wisdom from
Squared squared
are the rooms
where we live
Squared squared
are the graves
where we become burried
(Ande Somby)
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Originally posted by nickhawkerLook out for Soweto's next album - due out soonish. I got a sneak preview of it from his iPod when I gave him a lift home from the Brecon Jazz festival. It is more story based and hip-hop influenced. Kinda reminded me of Blackalicious in places.
I started thinking about this and couldn't really reach a conclusion, it's a bit of a bizare question. Quite interesting thought. I guess its all relative, for instance, Miles Davis is about as mainstream and popular as you can get for jazz, but then if you don't listen to jazz then it is probably far different to anything you listen to.
It also see ...[text shortened]... sic to develop.
So there, my "ends", the old and the new.
Wow, what a long post.
Nick
Edit - interestingly - he hadn't heard any Blackalicious.