Your mission, should you chose to accept it, is music recommendations..

8 Gigs worth to be exact!

Since finally giving up on all radio stations recently, I have just been putting my Ipod on shuffle and letting it do its thing.... all good for a while but I am now sick to death of my current pods worth!

So, I entrust next weeks sanity at work to the good folk of TLB.. Recomend your fave tunes / bands and I will fill the ipod with the first 8 gigs worth in the name of musical education.

Anything goes, with the obvious exception of lame pop, and country and western...

Over to you folks..

 

hoo- whats your gender?
60,70,80,90,2000, blues ,northern soul , soul , motown, blue grass, cajun ?

 

orchestral , ( new and old) german umpha ,glamrock ,new wave

 

I am treating my teen to pulp ,last month it was elo....

When she does'nt like the music she tells me ,she has quite a grounding in 80-90 pop...

When it is not a taxi ,les miserables goes in the cd...

 

Currently listening to The XX.I use Apple music for recommendations and generally pick bands i don't know, found loads of great stuff that way that i would never have known about.

 

Having just been to see Thunder, Terrorvision and King King in concert, they are currently stuck in my mind. Bit of everything rock.

Thunder. Tuneful rock.


King King Blues rock.


Terrorvision. Wake you up on a Sunday morning rock. (Do you want to go faster? - obviously VW bay owners!)

 

It's got to be Ernest Ranglin 'Below the Bassline' .....awesome sounds from the master!

 

Excellent, keep them coming peeps!

 

If you have all you can eat data on your phone, try an internet radio station, some have zero waffling and generally if you find a show you like the 100 previous shows are on a cloud somewhere.
Dub Chronicles, DJ Disorda on Kane FM is my fav - you would have to like Dub Reggae for that one but 2 hour shows durng which he lists the tracks after every 10 or so, advertises the odd cheap event in Brixton etc but generally keeps quiet.

 

Albums
Led zep 4
Jethro tull - thick as a brick.
Pink floyd - wish you were here / meddle
Jimi hendrix - Are you experienced

 

More terrorvision

 

Gender ? or did you mean genre .

 

I'm on limited data on my phone so internet radio costs a fortune at work.. I will check out your suggestions at home on the Wi-Fi though.

 

Got all these on my current playlist so will have to leave them off this week.

Some excellent suggestions so far, keep them coming folks!

I will entertain any genre, and indeed gender! Today's shopping experience was greatly enhanced by a soundtrack of Django rheinhert ( or however it's spelt.)

 

Ian Dury -New boots and panties
Roxy music -For your pleasure
Pink Floyd -Meddle
Cockney Rebel - Timeless Flight

 

i use spotify a lot at the moment lots of choice of all sorts including recommendations based on what you have listened to

 

Even no radio 6? That's the best source of new music and obscurities I've heard.

Otherwise on my turntable (yep, good old solid physicality of vinyl)...

I'm revisiting talking heads at the minute a lot, the earlier albums are stunning, 'remain in light' especially. Hypnotic beats and rhythm.

Gil Scott heron 'pieces of a man'

Rolling Stones 'beggars banquet'' 'let it bleed' and 'sticky fingers'. Best three albums, the current release of SF with the out takes and alternates in excellent. I've also got a relic of a mono 12" 45rpm from their very early days, I for get the name, but it was about 50p from a car boot, mouldy as heck, but it is incredible.

Tubeway Army 'replicas redux'

Doors LA Woman, hadn't played that in years but on a whim bought a white vinyl release and now remembering how good it is.

Velvet Underground, that's always good.

Bare Naked Ladies 'Gordon'.

B52 'the B52's', bought on a whim, only ever heard the singles as like most people, but listen to it as its laid out and with a mind that it's a fresh album by a band starting out and it is stunning.

 

it was late and i was ably assisted with some beer

 

Not a specific recommendation as you may not share my musical taste, but if you use Spotify (and you should) check out a playlist called Discover Weekly. It picks a load of tunes based on your previous listening and what people with similar taste are playing and it's bloody amazing. I've discovered more great music since I discovered it than I'd discovered in years... very clever - it rarely picks anything I don't like and has picked loads of stuff that I love and would never have heard otherwise. Spans loads of different genres but it's all been good.