Music you should have heard before, but have only come to now

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Originally posted by JWM:
I have only just discovered JSB's Goldberg Variations

Ah so you missed it when it first came out?

Well, I've just been reading Gary Shaw's thread on the other Cathedral and listened to a track on the Prog archive and very good it is too. I'm sure over the years I missed lots of great music both traditional, classical and contemporary - there is so much of it.

This forum is a wonderful place for checking out what folks listen to ... and when anybody posts with enthusiasm about a composer/performance/artist it makes want to hear it to see if I like it too.

I had heard preciously little Todd Rundgren, but now I have - thanks to a member of this forum. I didn't know about Lúnasa - but now I have - thanks to a member of this forum .... and so it goes on.

I must listen to some JSB myself.

ATB Rotf

Jazz.

Something I, suddenly about a year or so ago, started to like.

At my age (49) it's actually very fun and fullfilling to discover a completely new kind of music and hunting records and musicians to like. I'm not sure I wish I had listened to it earlier, because then I wouldn't have all the fun I have now!

JohanR

Elgar's "The Kingdom".

A work which has the power to make an atheist like me into a believer. At least for the duration of the work.

I love the Kingdom. I'd been a little lukewarm about Elgar until I heard this last year.

regards, Tam

I STILL haven't got round to listening to Lohengrin and Fliegender Hollander - excellent recordings of which have been on my shelves for almost a year now!! (Kempe and Klemperer respectively.) Frankly, they require more time than I've got to throw at them at the moment, but I've been wanting to have a listen for about 15 years...!

EW

Just bid a pitance for a Walcha Goldberg LP on ebay and won! - so I can catch up on this one too.

Ian

Ian, do let us know how you get on with the disc. When I finally got round to picking it up a little while back, I couldn't stop playing it (but then you probably know that, because we've had endless threads on the subject).

regards, Tam

Dear Ian, and Tam,

Everyone who enjoys the Goldbergs should have access to Walcha's recording of it! Unique, and even if not perhaps the favourite for everyone [though it is for me], it has enough great musicianship in it for it to remain a contender against all comers!

ATB from George

Like Johan,

I just discovered the band YES (Jon Anderson's voice is incredible) and then the whole prog genre which I'm starting to read up on now, thanks to the prog archives, just trying to find nice copies of so many artists. But also like Johan I don't think I would have appreciated, nay rejected it, when I was younger. Though I've loved the Floyd ever since I was a kid and Another Brick In The Wall was in the charts .



Dean...

It took me way too long to discover Jeff Buckley's Grace. Couldn't believe my erars when I heard this the first time.

Johnny Cash - American Recordings 4.

Jono

I've recently come to appreciate Little Feat. I picked up a copy of "Dixie Chicken", really enjoyed it and have since picked up "Sailin' Shoes", "Feats Don't Fail Me Now" and "Last Record Album".

This revelation has deepened my appreciation of "Waiting for Columbus" which I have had for years but seldom played.

Ry Cooder.. Okay it was a couple of year ago but before this time I'd never heard of him. A good friend introduced me to Chavez Ravine and i was smitten. I've since collected...

Chavez Ravine
Borderline
Paris, Texas
Buena Vista Social Club
Mambo Sinuendo
Talking Timbuktu
My Name is Buddy

In 1995 i lived with a better naim-audio set up than i have now but despite Ali Farka Toure and Ry Cooder winning a Grammy Award with Talking Timbuktu i had no idea this fantastic music existed!
(My head was probably stuck in a baroque time warp)

Anyway, so many Ry Cooder albums to collect, which one should I buy next? : )

regards
nymph

Cole Porter, The Gershwins, similar stuff from the fifties, via Ella Fitzgerald.

I bought a remastered Verve CD of "Ella Fitzgerald Sings Cole Porter" on a whim, and I'm captivated!

The recording, incidentally, was done in 1957 and sounds wonderful.

I really had a"problem" with jazz, Trad and Miles Davis type noise I still do.My guitar playing friend pointed me towards Wes Montgomery, Rippingtons, Fourplay,Larry Carlton and Lee Ritenour.OCS has found a way in to.

Howard

I've only recently discovered Nina Simone.

Joni Mitchell -Hejira

i've listened to everything over the years, i thought. but recently, i've gotten into drone - tomorrowland, stars of the lid, others. may not have liked it years back, but it has its place. also, l7, lovable riot grrl punk/grunge band. finally, just saw noodles, an adorable japanese femme band. went to get their cd after their set, and they'd sold them all ...

I join musfed, Grace is incredible, but I'm not sure I would have appreciated it 15 years ago...

I am another convert to jazz ( in middle age - is there a theme? ).

I will also admit to only recently getting into Pink Floyd albums other than DSOTM.

Judee Sill's two Asylum albums, now released as a double-cd with a lot of bonus tracks (in faact, several different versions of the same songs). The effect of this is quite hypnotic, making the whole sound like a suite with repeated themes. The songs, vocals and arrangements are mostly brilliant. I can only assume that the reasons for her complete lack of success in the 70s were:

• too much heroin to concentrate on a career
  
• too folky for the post-60s era, and
  
• the obviously Christian imagery of the lyrics which didn't match well with the ethos of the time (or now, I suppose)

bach cello suites
roy haynes
jazz loft sessions
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