Bored, Need Something New To Listen To

What do you listen to at the moment?

Try listening to BBC Radio 6 Music for a week or two..

Stu.

Thats the problem virtually anything from.

Oasis to Diana Krell to Mumfords to T Rex

But mainly well known artists

A blast of joy and an old bit undimmed vista may be found in Bach's Brandenburg Concertos.

Only earlier this year did I introduce a friend of mine to that gold mine of classical music, and since he has been so sad it took him to retirement age to find it.

I would recommend the EMI/Virgin recording from about 1980 that may be found by searching Amazon uk ...

Search 

bach brandenburg concertos linde

and you will come to this:

costing from £25.85 for new [old stock] to less than £9 for second hand.

If that does not revitalise your musical interest then nothing will

ATB from George

PS: Email in profile if you want further alpha plus first classical reco's ...

What about buying an SACD copy of of the the " best femaleaudiophile voice"

Cbr,

What do you play your SACDs on?

Stu.

HFK,

You could try the Hadouk Trio with i.m.o. their best (live) disc Baldamore: some French, some African, some jazz, good sound quality and really different !

Paul 

Just use the HDX to rip it to the NAS drive. Probably don't get the benefit of he SADC but the disc will be there for the future, just in case

HFK,

Another different one comes from Mali: Rokia Traoré withTchamantche.

Special atmosfere from a good singer out of a talented family.

Paul

Chris Difford - I Didn't Get Where I Am

Shawn Colvin - A Few Small Repairs

Michael Landau - Live

3 tremendous albums that I suspect you may not yet know but, given your wide interest, you should love. 

Hunt down the original CD pressings.

They will sound loads better on your HDX/NAS.

There is no just in case with the Hybrid/SACD/ CDs.

They are not worth hard drive space.

They suffer from well over the top Loudness wars.

Stu.

Remember when you were a kid  and used to find new music through friends or radio? Plenty of new radio stations, even better now with the event of internet streaming, and of course,  friends, that if you still have any left! You can also check what people are listening to here on the music forum: there's a lot of good people listening to some really new and good stuff. They don't bite! Talk to them.

I  have exchanged a few ideas with them on both sides of the atlantic and beyond.... and I love searching for new sounds on the "wireless".

There's so much out there and so little time(that's another thread anyway!).

KR

Tony

Very interesting. I thought (in my ignorance) that the sacd and xrcd discs were a better disc and supposed to give better sq?

If your greater wisdom is correct ( and why shouldn't it be), I will need to re evaluate my future buying strategy

Thanks again

Paul

Try Oh My Darling by Basia Bulat - it is like a breath of fresh air and remains as remarkable as when i first heard it a few years ago. You could also try the latest album from Karine Polwart - Traces. And of course try Last by the Unthanks (Not if you are feeling a bit down though). 

If you want to delve back in to the archives then Sandy by Sandy Denny is a wonderful recording. As i get older i realise that Sandy was as good a song writer as anybody. I think only Nigel Blackwell matches her in the field. i put Sandy above other songwriters as she never sings inwardly about her experiences and problems, but she creates a picture of a long past England with green and pleasant lands. Her songs are timeless. That she died so young meant the world was robbed of one of the greatest talents of my lifetime way before we should have been. 

I thoroughly recommend the two CD set by Shirley & Dolly Collins called The Harvest Years. The first part is the Anthems in Eden suite in its entirity. It amazed me when i first heard it back in 1969 and it still does today. The remaster is superb. The remaining tracks are also very good though more subtlevthan Anthems. 

Another sadly neglected but superb songster is Robert Calvert ... Try his album Hype. He was a member of Hawkwind and i found it annoying that the BBC4 documentary concentrated on Lemmy who was insignificant in Hawkwind compared with David Brock and Robert Calvert. Calvert merits a documentary on his own. The Brock Calvert Project is superb, but I'd try Hype first. 

So a few to be going on with ... I hope a little different from the norm. 

In two different directions two recent buys:

Isabella Faust:

Iiro Rantala:

The Tom Robinson show now on BBC Radio 6 music.

You can go to the site and download the whole show for free in half an hour.

You don't have to use iPlayer.

Stu.

Just bought 'Lord Huron: Lonesone Dreams'. Jaunty and lively, sort of up-tempo Fleet Foxes feel. Not earth shattering stuff but a nice bright and sharp album

I also keep returning to 'Patrick Watson: Adventures In Your Own Backyard' as an lbum form earlier this year that rewards repeat listening.

Hi Hifikid

Check out Timber timbre, they have a dark swampy sound with great atmospheric keyboards and quite unsettling lyrics but worth the punt.

Also try ( if you are not already into them) anything by Dead can Dance but would recommend their latest album "anastasis" as a starter.

Also try Tuung, any of their albums would be worth it and you will probably end up buying all.

If you like a bit of rock then check out" Paradise lost, symbol of life" a great rock album, nothing like their early stuff, this is melodic with good vocals and none of the shouty death metal scene of their early work.

That's it for now until I can think of some more.

Regards

Donald

Another plus here for Rokia Traoré and also fellow Mali musicians Ali Farka Toure (guitar) and Toumani Diabate (Kora) - either individually or collectively as on the CD "Ali and Toumani" produced by Nick Gold.

I also enjoy Radio Paradise very much - as well as old favourites I keep hearing new stuff which leads me to search out CDs I had previously never thought about - a great station in my opinion.

The Radio 6 music recomendations i can agree with , great way of hearing new music,, during  the day it tends to be  a safe mix of indie bands but the eveneings , Tom Ravenscroft ,Gideon Coe are a little more diverse.. and if you like a odd mix of blues , country and latin music Cerys Mathews is a great show.

Just a few to tempt you that are worth a listen , if you havent already

 The National , High Violet ,, sound quality is superb , a grower of an album

 Brakes, Give Blood, fantastic mix of fast and slow guitar based songs from Brightons finest live band.

 Jenny Lewis , acid Tongue, a forum favourite , a country type album i would never thought i would own but the SQ is excellent and is really engaging music wise.

Moon Duo, Circles . Space guitar band , hypnotic  60's influenced guitar based band ,, again a grower but really rather good

Lower Dens, Nootropics,, my favourite of this year so far ,, again hypnotic melodic guitar album with the odd bit of Kraftwerk influence,, Brains is the standout track and on you tube

Bjork , Biophilia .. if you want something completely out of anyones comfort zone this is the album to try,this is  not chorus verse chorus verse set up and takes  afew listens to appreciatte , vocals and musical arrangements are superb. an eclectic mix of tracks , even a bit of drum and bass thrown in to test the bass on your speakers !

 La Sera , Sees the Light. sound quality is excelent , garage band well worth a listen.

and if you are partial to a bit of noisey boys with guitars have a listen to Ty segal Twins,, or if you want to try something bordering on having a road menders drill in your front room try Metz self titled album that is just released .

if none of that floats your boat,, Fist Aid Kits the lions roar . possibly one of the most pleasant  records  made in my opinion . and again an album i thought i would never have owned..

and then of course you could go out and get the Falls back catalogue which will keep you busy for a while

TWP

HiFi Kid

Sounds like you need a little bit of Throbbing Gristle in your life - DoA or 20 Jazz Funk Greats are good places to start.

No excuse for being bored then. Gotta love the Gristle.

Also, you could always try listening to Staurt Maconie's Freak Zone and its companion piece The Freakier Zone on BBC 6 Music - every show I hear stuff I've never heard before (and I'm a guy with 5,000 or so LPs and several thousand CDs, tapes and singles).

Wow  thanks all

Certainly a load of artists I don't know.  I will start to look some of these up and let you know my thoughts once tried.

Thanks Again

HiFiKid

Plenty of good advice above.

Even though I have a few more CD's/LP's than you, I've felt the same a number of times over the years. If I might suggest two alternative approaches? Firstly, choose an area of music you haven't explored and find a radio station that plays it. Listen for a bit, maybe an hour - what did you like or find worthy of further investigation? Secondly, if you have access to internet radio, play a station/broadcast at random (no, really!) and do the same. Sometimes you need to step outside what you know and look for the things you like in different places.

One area I've chosen to to re-appraise is classical music. I've a couple of hundred classical CD's, nearly all well-known pieces and composers, so what I've done is really to start again with the intention of building up more considered library. To that end, I'm taking a closer look medieval and early classical music. Don't know anything about it but I'm willing to give it a go! For you, it might be reggae, kazoo orchestra versions of rock classsics, Carpenter's b-sides, Prokoviev, polyphony, X-Ray Spex, zydeco, test tones from the BBC Radiophonic workshop, anything you don't normally listen to!

I suggest you visit the super thread on "Woman Vocals" in the Music Room. I've made an excel sheet of all suggestions and there is over 200 very good ones. Right now, listening to Jen Chapin which I discovered 2 days ago on that thread. Worth a visit 

Yip