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ibis · 08-04-2004, 08:50 PM

I'm gonna be getting a fat paycheck next week and have decided to invest $100 of it and expand my musical horizons. What should I download from iTunes?

I'm particularry interested in music before the mid '80's.

Thanks for your suggestions!

EDIT: I'm really into blues!

Redlemon · 08-05-2004, 05:50 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by ibis
and expand my musical horizons.
EDIT: I'm really into blues!

Well, other than that, can you give us some more hints about what you presently have?

brinkn1 · 08-05-2004, 03:23 PM

The Meat Puppets

Their early stuff.

ibis · 08-05-2004, 04:39 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by redlemon
Well, other than that, can you give us some more hints about what you presently have?

Basically I want to learn about music from before I was born (early 80's).

An example might be:
-Aretha Franklin
-Lynard Skynard
-Frank Sinatra
-Bob Dylan

These are poeple I've heard of before, but don't have a clue of what their music's like.

I'm sure there's others.... that's what I'm looking for. I want to become well rounded musically.

K-Wise · 08-05-2004, 07:53 PM

You need to get some Pink Floyd....LOTS of Pink Floyd.

Asta!!

Arroe · 08-05-2004, 09:34 PM

download some Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix. If I could go back in time to witness any musical event it would be the 1969 Woodstock festival. Holy crap those performers were incredible.

My favorite Jimi and Zeppelin tunes:
Jimi - Voodoo Child
Jimi - Little Wing
Jimi - Purple Haze
Jimi - Foxy Lady
Zeppelin - Black Dog
Zeppelin - Custard Pie
Zeppelin - Kashmir
Zeppelin - Dancing Days
Zeppelin - Rock and Roll
Zeppelin - Dazed and Confused

All in all, awesome stuff.

08-06-2004, 06:42 AM

Billie Holiday - Lover boy or Lover man... one ofthe two

Ella Fitzgerald - My Heart Belongs to Daddy
- At Last
- Paper Moon

Natalie Cole - Orange-Coloured Sky

That's all I can think of at the moment......

balderdash111 · 08-06-2004, 06:57 AM

If you're REALLY into Blues, you need to go old school:

Muddy Waters
Robert Johnson (don't bother if you are an audiophile - these recordings are almost 100 years old now and sound like crap. but if you really want to understand blues, you have to listen to the musicianship of this man)
Bo Diddley
Howlin' Wolf
etc
etc

If you want to explore your horizons a bit, there's a whole universe of stuff to try out:

Frank Sinatra - when he was young and cool
Glen Miller - big band... amazing stuff if you can stop yourself from thinking of scenes from modern movies that use him to set the mood of the 30s and 40s.
The Andrews Sisters - same story

Beatles, Beatles and more Beatles - if you don't have them already
Stones, Stones and more Stones - same

Brian Eno - weird atmospherics
David Bowie - the Ziggy Stardust album

Do you like Jazz?
If so, try some Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Coltrane, etc (I'd ask the true jazz-heads to add to this b/c I don't really know what I am talking about)

That was sort of a shotgun approach....

slugo · 08-06-2004, 08:05 AM

you can also try some of these, tho you might've heard some before:

steeley dan(jazzy)- aja, my old school, or bodhistavva(sp)

yes (progressive)- roundabout, starship trooper, closer to the edge

van morrison- and it stoned me, into the mystic

i'll ty to think of more

FoolThemAll · 08-06-2004, 04:39 PM

Bob Dylan
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Most Likely You'll Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Mr. Tambourine Man
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright

K-Wise · 08-06-2004, 11:44 PM

Yeah I'd recomend Yes too. They are an absolutely fantastic band. Steve Howe...definitely one of the most innovative guitarists I've ever heard. Man could probably play anything. Jon Anderson has a really great voice. Hey you have an I-Tunes......I also have an I-Tunes don't they have a sharing feature on the I-Tunes? Cause I can hook you up with Yes and Floyd if they do.

Asta!!

mercury-hg · 08-07-2004, 06:17 AM

Blues? Check out Roy Buchanan

mattevil · 08-07-2004, 09:43 AM

John Lee Hooker & Taj Mahal are good blues artists that hasn't been discussed

darkmagnus · 08-07-2004, 01:14 PM

ummm...Howlin Wolf

brianna · 08-08-2004, 06:40 AM

if you like blues you might also go in for some classic country (i promise it's not as smaltzy as the modern pop country) i suggest some hank williams sr, loretta lynn, george jones, and tammy wynette.

K-Wise · 08-08-2004, 12:17 PM

Don't forget old Bonnie Raitt. She's quite the slide player these days. The older stuff was less country and more just the groovy music of the times.

Asta!!

password · 08-10-2004, 08:59 PM

well bright eyes is not before 80s but he is great.

also look into some Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

balderdash111 · 08-11-2004, 08:29 AM

Another one:

"Sing Sing Sing" (performed by Benny Goodman)

Speed_Gibson · 08-11-2004, 08:56 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by balderdash111
Another one:

"Sing Sing Sing" (performed by Benny Goodman)

anything by Benny Goodman, he is by far one of my favourite musicians of any genre. I have a copy of a live version of "Seven come Eleven" that is nearly 8 minutes long that is incredible. Benny was playing until the end; his last performance was a week before his death at 75.

hivesman · 08-12-2004, 08:22 AM

"Masters of War'" by Bob Dylan and everything else from the Freewheelin' Album

Esen · 08-12-2004, 04:15 PM

Sounds like you would prolly like:

Jim Kweskin
Kind of jug bandish/ bluesy
I love it

trickyy · 08-15-2004, 09:09 PM

serge gainsbourg - cool french pop from the late 60s...look for melodie nelson or his collaborations with jane birkin and bardot. seems like he had a fun life.

laurindo almeida - good jazz samba or bossa nova stuff out of brazil decades ago

deltron 3030 - paranoid-intellectual hip hop

rachmaninof - piano master

amon tobin - exceptional electronica artist

buckwheat zydeco - cajun accordianist/snazzy dresser/chronic smiler

air - good french music of today's car commercials and movie soundtracks

buena vista social club - aging cubans jam like its 1962

rjd2 - whitey from ohio brings the beats

louis armstrong - that trumpet guy

neutral milk hotel - lo-fi musical gem

morphine mambo jazz club - probably not on i-tunes but worth a listen

blues...i dunno...maybe albert king, albert collins, leadbelly, oliver sain, bessie smith, or fats waller (variety of styles)

steve earle is kind of bluesy. he's on the butt rock stations but has some decent music.

kalisto_911 · 08-16-2004, 01:52 PM

Hope I-tunes has some of these:

Frank Zappa:

Help I'm A Rock
It Can't Happen Here
Return of the Son of Monster Magnet
(play in that order)
Call Any Vegetable
Invocation & Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin
(play in that order)
(this is some of his insane early stuff, the pumpkin song is killer jazz!)

Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan's 115th Dream (Awesome!)

These 4 tracks off of Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland Album are absolutely amazing but they all go together so you might as well buy the album because other songs on it are great as well. If anything get 1983.
10. Rainy Day, Dream Away
11. 1983 ... (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)
12. Moon, Turn The Tides ... Gently Gently Away
13. Still Raining, Still Dreaming

Cream - Strange Brew, Sunshine of Your Love

H.P. Lovecraft - The White Ship, Wayfaring Stranger, That's the Bag I'm In

The Who - Summertime Blues, My Generation, Magic Bus (The Who - Live at Leeds is considered one of the best live recordings ever and is highly recommended to get a feel for the energy these guys had)

The Beatles have too many to list, the albums 1, Sgt. Pepper, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Magical Mystery Tour, are all amazing.

The Doors Best of Cd is worth getting but some select tracks worth getting
People are Strange
Break on through
Crystal Ship
Alabama Song
Spanish Caravan
Light My Fire

Don't want to use up all your dough

hope you like any of these that you download!

matthew330 · 08-16-2004, 02:09 PM

You'd definately like Tom Waits, The Velvet Underground perhaps.

Maybe Patsy Kline - incredible voice.

Dennis · 08-16-2004, 05:43 PM

Some bands to consider:
Murder By Death
Moby
They Might Be Giants
KMFDM
TM Revolution
Glay
Gackt
GWAR
Peaches
Five Iron Fighters
Rammstein
Deftones
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
the pillows

Unright · 08-18-2004, 03:50 AM

More stuff...

R.L. Burnside - Great bluesman recently discovered by Fat Possum.

The Temptations - Their catalog is amazing!

Manu Chao - Internationally reknown, but ignored by Americans

Big Mama Thornton - Get the original version of "Hound Dog"

Leadbelly - Because he's damn good.

Robert Johnson - the original bluesman, puts everything else in perspective.

warrrreagl · 08-22-2004, 05:22 AM

Beatles - Sgt. Pepper (entire album)
Beatles - A Hard Days Night (entire album)

xepherys · 08-22-2004, 04:47 PM

hmmm...

Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl

Led Zeppelin - Tangerine (GREAT Zep song!!!)

Deep Purple - Hush

Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride

Cream - Sunshine of my Love

Eric Clapton (formerly OF Cream)- Layla

Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower

Elvis Presley - (Lots of good songs)

Iron Maiden - EARLY 80's... lots of good songs (I recommend Alexander the Great and The Mariner)

The Byrds - Hazy Shade of Winter

Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge over Troubled Water

Woody Guthrie

The Cars

ThrasheR · 08-25-2004, 07:50 PM

rainbow - the gates of babylon

pedro padilla · 08-29-2004, 04:41 AM

country... david allan coe
merle haggard
freddy fender

rock ... queens of the stone age
danzig (first 2)
faith no more

punk ... bad brains
minutemen
black flag

reggae... buju banton
culture
steel pulse

hip hop... orishas
dj shadow
del tha funky homosapien

other... kulturshock
mark lanegan
buena vista social club

soul.... solomon burke
etta james
otis redding

some of these are probably not available on itunes but all are worth checking out

08-04-2004, 08:50 PM	#1 (permalink)
ibis PIKE!	$100 to blow on iTunes - help expand my music knowledge I'm gonna be getting a fat paycheck next week and have decided to invest $100 of it and expand my musical horizons. What should I download from iTunes? I'm particularry interested in music before the mid '80's. Thanks for your suggestions! EDIT: I'm really into blues! Last edited by ibis; 08-04-2004 at 09:21 PM..

08-05-2004, 03:23 PM	#3 (permalink)
brinkn1 Crazy	The Meat Puppets Their early stuff. __________________ I'm melting down your 20 inch rims to build 5 foot plates for the shins of my 30 foot android.

08-05-2004, 07:53 PM	#5 (permalink)
K-Wise It's All About The Ass!! Location: In a pool of mayonnaise!!	You need to get some Pink Floyd....LOTS of Pink Floyd. Asta!! __________________ "I love music and it's my parents fault (closing statement)." - Me..quoting myself...from when I said that...On TFP..thats here...Tilted Forum Project *It ain't goodbye, it's see ya later! I'll miss you guys!* - Asta!!

08-06-2004, 04:39 PM	#10 (permalink)
FoolThemAll Walking is Still Honest Location: Seattle, WA	Bob Dylan It's All Over Now, Baby Blue Most Likely You'll Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine Subterranean Homesick Blues Mr. Tambourine Man Don't Think Twice, It's Alright __________________ I wonder if we're stuck in Rome.

08-06-2004, 11:44 PM	#11 (permalink)
K-Wise It's All About The Ass!! Location: In a pool of mayonnaise!!	Yeah I'd recomend Yes too. They are an absolutely fantastic band. Steve Howe...definitely one of the most innovative guitarists I've ever heard. Man could probably play anything. Jon Anderson has a really great voice. Hey you have an I-Tunes......I also have an I-Tunes don't they have a sharing feature on the I-Tunes? Cause I can hook you up with Yes and Floyd if they do. Asta!! __________________ "I love music and it's my parents fault (closing statement)." - Me..quoting myself...from when I said that...On TFP..thats here...Tilted Forum Project *It ain't goodbye, it's see ya later! I'll miss you guys!* - Asta!!

08-05-2004, 09:34 PM	#6 (permalink)
Arroe Insane Location: USA	download some Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix. If I could go back in time to witness any musical event it would be the 1969 Woodstock festival. Holy crap those performers were incredible. My favorite Jimi and Zeppelin tunes: Jimi - Voodoo Child Jimi - Little Wing Jimi - Purple Haze Jimi - Foxy Lady Zeppelin - Black Dog Zeppelin - Custard Pie Zeppelin - Kashmir Zeppelin - Dancing Days Zeppelin - Rock and Roll Zeppelin - Dazed and Confused All in all, awesome stuff.

08-06-2004, 06:42 AM	#7 (permalink)
Untitled Guest	Billie Holiday - Lover boy or Lover man... one ofthe two Ella Fitzgerald - My Heart Belongs to Daddy - At Last - Paper Moon Natalie Cole - Orange-Coloured Sky That's all I can think of at the moment......

08-06-2004, 06:57 AM	#8 (permalink)
balderdash111 Psycho	If you're REALLY into Blues, you need to go old school: Muddy Waters Robert Johnson (don't bother if you are an audiophile - these recordings are almost 100 years old now and sound like crap. but if you really want to understand blues, you have to listen to the musicianship of this man) Bo Diddley Howlin' Wolf etc etc If you want to explore your horizons a bit, there's a whole universe of stuff to try out: Frank Sinatra - when he was young and cool Glen Miller - big band... amazing stuff if you can stop yourself from thinking of scenes from modern movies that use him to set the mood of the 30s and 40s. The Andrews Sisters - same story Beatles, Beatles and more Beatles - if you don't have them already Stones, Stones and more Stones - same Brian Eno - weird atmospherics David Bowie - the Ziggy Stardust album Do you like Jazz? If so, try some Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Coltrane, etc (I'd ask the true jazz-heads to add to this b/c I don't really know what I am talking about) That was sort of a shotgun approach....

08-06-2004, 08:05 AM	#9 (permalink)
slugo Upright	you can also try some of these, tho you might've heard some before: steeley dan(jazzy)- aja, my old school, or bodhistavva(sp) yes (progressive)- roundabout, starship trooper, closer to the edge van morrison- and it stoned me, into the mystic i'll ty to think of more

08-07-2004, 06:17 AM	#12 (permalink)
mercury-hg Psycho Location: U of MD	Blues? Check out Roy Buchanan

08-07-2004, 09:43 AM	#13 (permalink)
mattevil Addict Location: Virginia	John Lee Hooker & Taj Mahal are good blues artists that hasn't been discussed

08-07-2004, 01:14 PM	#14 (permalink)
darkmagnus Tilted	ummm...Howlin Wolf

08-08-2004, 06:40 AM	#15 (permalink)
brianna Addict Location: nyc	if you like blues you might also go in for some classic country (i promise it's not as smaltzy as the modern pop country) i suggest some hank williams sr, loretta lynn, george jones, and tammy wynette.

08-08-2004, 12:17 PM	#16 (permalink)
K-Wise It's All About The Ass!! Location: In a pool of mayonnaise!!	Don't forget old Bonnie Raitt. She's quite the slide player these days. The older stuff was less country and more just the groovy music of the times. Asta!! __________________ "I love music and it's my parents fault (closing statement)." - Me..quoting myself...from when I said that...On TFP..thats here...Tilted Forum Project *It ain't goodbye, it's see ya later! I'll miss you guys!* - Asta!!

08-10-2004, 08:59 PM	#17 (permalink)
password Tilted	well bright eyes is not before 80s but he is great. also look into some Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

08-11-2004, 08:29 AM	#18 (permalink)
balderdash111 Psycho	Another one: "Sing Sing Sing" (performed by Benny Goodman)

08-12-2004, 08:22 AM	#20 (permalink)
hivesman Upright Location: Oklahoma	"Masters of War'" by Bob Dylan and everything else from the Freewheelin' Album

08-12-2004, 04:15 PM	#21 (permalink)
Esen TFPer formaly known as Chauncey Location: North East	Sounds like you would prolly like: Jim Kweskin Kind of jug bandish/ bluesy I love it __________________ ~Esen What is everyone doing in my room?

08-15-2004, 09:09 PM	#22 (permalink)
trickyy ►	serge gainsbourg - cool french pop from the late 60s...look for melodie nelson or his collaborations with jane birkin and bardot. seems like he had a fun life. laurindo almeida - good jazz samba or bossa nova stuff out of brazil decades ago deltron 3030 - paranoid-intellectual hip hop rachmaninof - piano master amon tobin - exceptional electronica artist buckwheat zydeco - cajun accordianist/snazzy dresser/chronic smiler air - good french music of today's car commercials and movie soundtracks buena vista social club - aging cubans jam like its 1962 rjd2 - whitey from ohio brings the beats louis armstrong - that trumpet guy neutral milk hotel - lo-fi musical gem morphine mambo jazz club - probably not on i-tunes but worth a listen blues...i dunno...maybe albert king, albert collins, leadbelly, oliver sain, bessie smith, or fats waller (variety of styles) steve earle is kind of bluesy. he's on the butt rock stations but has some decent music.

08-16-2004, 01:52 PM	#23 (permalink)
kalisto_911 Psycho Location: Dreams	Hope I-tunes has some of these: Frank Zappa: Help I'm A Rock It Can't Happen Here Return of the Son of Monster Magnet (play in that order) Call Any Vegetable Invocation & Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin (play in that order) (this is some of his insane early stuff, the pumpkin song is killer jazz!) Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan's 115th Dream (Awesome!) These 4 tracks off of Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland Album are absolutely amazing but they all go together so you might as well buy the album because other songs on it are great as well. If anything get 1983. 10. Rainy Day, Dream Away 11. 1983 ... (A Merman I Should Turn To Be) 12. Moon, Turn The Tides ... Gently Gently Away 13. Still Raining, Still Dreaming Cream - Strange Brew, Sunshine of Your Love H.P. Lovecraft - The White Ship, Wayfaring Stranger, That's the Bag I'm In The Who - Summertime Blues, My Generation, Magic Bus (The Who - Live at Leeds is considered one of the best live recordings ever and is highly recommended to get a feel for the energy these guys had) The Beatles have too many to list, the albums 1, Sgt. Pepper, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Magical Mystery Tour, are all amazing. The Doors Best of Cd is worth getting but some select tracks worth getting People are Strange Break on through Crystal Ship Alabama Song Spanish Caravan Light My Fire Don't want to use up all your dough hope you like any of these that you download! __________________ I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with. [Plato]

08-16-2004, 02:09 PM	#24 (permalink)
matthew330 Banned	You'd definately like Tom Waits, The Velvet Underground perhaps. Maybe Patsy Kline - incredible voice. Last edited by matthew330; 08-16-2004 at 02:11 PM..

08-16-2004, 05:43 PM	#25 (permalink)
Dennis Tilted Location: Scranton, PA	Some bands to consider: Murder By Death Moby They Might Be Giants KMFDM TM Revolution Glay Gackt GWAR Peaches Five Iron Fighters Rammstein Deftones Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five the pillows

08-18-2004, 03:50 AM	#26 (permalink)
Unright Crazy Location: Florida	More stuff... R.L. Burnside - Great bluesman recently discovered by Fat Possum. The Temptations - Their catalog is amazing! Manu Chao - Internationally reknown, but ignored by Americans Big Mama Thornton - Get the original version of "Hound Dog" Leadbelly - Because he's damn good. Robert Johnson - the original bluesman, puts everything else in perspective.

08-22-2004, 05:22 AM	#27 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	Beatles - Sgt. Pepper (entire album) Beatles - A Hard Days Night (entire album) __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.

08-22-2004, 04:47 PM	#28 (permalink)
xepherys <3 TFP Location: 17TLH2445607250	hmmm... Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl Led Zeppelin - Tangerine (GREAT Zep song!!!) Deep Purple - Hush Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride Cream - Sunshine of my Love Eric Clapton (formerly OF Cream)- Layla Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower Elvis Presley - (Lots of good songs) Iron Maiden - EARLY 80's... lots of good songs (I recommend Alexander the Great and The Mariner) The Byrds - Hazy Shade of Winter Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge over Troubled Water Woody Guthrie The Cars

08-25-2004, 07:50 PM	#29 (permalink)
ThrasheR Upright	rainbow - the gates of babylon

08-29-2004, 04:41 AM	#30 (permalink)
pedro padilla Insane	country... david allan coe merle haggard freddy fender rock ... queens of the stone age danzig (first 2) faith no more punk ... bad brains minutemen black flag reggae... buju banton culture steel pulse hip hop... orishas dj shadow del tha funky homosapien other... kulturshock mark lanegan buena vista social club soul.... solomon burke etta james otis redding some of these are probably not available on itunes but all are worth checking out Last edited by pedro padilla; 08-29-2004 at 04:51 AM..