The Syndicate

G-Man wrote:One thing I did notice is that a lot of Dylan's early stuff was covered by The Byrds. I knew they made a few covers (all inferior in my opinion) but I didn't realize just how repackaged they were.

Ture, but William Shatner's cover of Mr. Tambourine Man is transcendent.

I think there's room in a music discussion for people who like Peter, Paul & Mary and people who think they are wussy folk nonsense. Variety is the spice of life.

S~V~S wrote:I think we should talk about what we like without denigrating what we don't by calling it names. Making fun of the listeners of some kinds of music discourages people from joining the conversation.

I happen to like folk music. I grew up with it, it is the soundtrack of my childhood.

I wasn't denigrating folk music. I like folk music. That is Dylan's own characterization of that album. He is on record saying he didn't mean a word of it, and was just doing it to get successful enough to play the music he wanted to play. I also happen to think it is not a very good album, but many of his other folk efforts (Freewheelin', self-titled, Another Side) are outstanding.

G-Man wrote:I took a week off. I'm back in the swing of it this week though. Yesterday I began listening to Bob Dylan's discography. I was pleasantly surprised that he never went softer than "Blowin' in the Wind." I was worried it would be Peter, Paul, and Mary type wussy folk nonsense but Dylan's sneer cuts through the accoustic stuff.

With the exception of "The Times They Are a Changin'" which is his insincere protest-folk record calculated to separate the hippies from their meager funds, Every one of Dylan's first 7 records is at least borderline brilliant.

S~V~S wrote:Can you point me to where I might have heard a melodica?

Here's a particularly annoying melodica rendition of an already bad song. When played well, it can almost sound like a crummy accordion, but they are almost never played well.

S~V~S wrote:People are of two minds about pipes; either they love them, or they think it is an awful caterwauling. I never knew someone to be indifferent. My husband was a Fenian & a Hibernian. We had pipers at our wedding, and at his funeral. They are precious to me, and I don't often meet a kindred spirit!

The first instrument I learned to play was the accordion, so I am well acquainted with love it or hate it instruments. I happen to love bagpipes, and most of the other instruments everyone else dislikes. The only one I really can't stand is melodica.

MovingPictures07 wrote:

thellama73 wrote:How come no one else has joined me in doing a Nurse With Wound list?

I would, but I haven't heard enough yet. I should really work on getting more albums though, since I've liked what I've heard. The recommendation was much appreciated by these ears.

I love dragging people down my dark and mysterious rabbit hole of insane music that no one likes.

How come no one else has joined me in doing a Nurse With Wound list?

I should do the Kinks, since I have everything of theirs up through Everybody's in Show Business.

But how is Smiley Smile not higher on your list? That album is so weird and amazing.

MovingPictures07 wrote: Kraftwerk

Trans-Europe Express
Radioactivity
The Man Machine

Computer World
Autobahn
Minimum Maximum
Electric Cafe

Tour de France
The Mix

Kraftwerk 2
Ralf und Florian
Kraftwerk

I can do Kraftwerk too, although I don't have all their albums, I at least have one that MP doesn't.


Radioactivity
The Man Machine

Trans-Europe Express
Autobahn


Ralf and Florian


Organisation

I am not much of a Magma fan, but that's pretty damn cool.

I feel like I have more NWW albums than that. Maybe I missed some. Oh well.

Hey everyone, let's do my favorite band, Nurse With Wound!

Spiral Insana
Shipwreck Radio Vol. 1
The Memory Surface
Lofoten Deadhead
Gulls Just Wanna Have Fun
Man With the Woman Face
Sylvie and Babs Hi-Fi Companion
Surveillance Lounge
Merzbild Schwet
Homotopy to Marie
A Sucked Orange
Scrag
Solilloquy For Lillith
Shipwreck Radio Vol. 2
Gylleskold
Exctotoxicity
Alice the Goon
Thunder Perfect Mind
Cabbalism
Parade
Automating Volume 3
Creakiness and other Misdemeanors
Chromonatron
Diploid
Crumb Duck
Insect and Individual Silenced
Salt Marie Celeste
Echo Poem Sequence 2
Mutation
Live at Bar Maldoror
Rat Tapes One
Disconnected
Space Music
Ød Lot
Soundpooling
May the Fleas of a Thousand Camels Infest Your Armpits
Stereo Wastelands
Shipwreck Radio Final Broadcasts
Drunk With the Old Man of the Mountains
The Iron Soul of Nothing
Lumb's Sister
Terms and Conditions Apply
Angry Eelectric Finger Zero Mix
Angry Eelectric Finger Spitch'cock One
Angry Eelectric Finger 1
Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella
Erroneous: a Selection of Errors
Large Ladies with Cake in the Oven
Paranoia in Hi-Fi
An Awkward Pause
Huffin' Rag Blues
Second Pirate Session
Chance Meeting Between a Defective Tape Machine and a Migraine
Rupture
She and Me Fall Together in Free Death
Rock 'n Roll Station

I might as well do Queen too while I'm here.

Queen II
A Night at the Opera
A Day at the Races
Sheer Heart Attack
News of the World
Jazz
Queen
Innuendo
The Works
The Game
The Miracle
A Kind of Magic
Hot Space

I'm going to do Rush, because they're one of the few bands whose complete discography I own.

Hemispheres
A Farewell to Kings
Moving Pictures
Signals
Permanent Waves
2112
Caress of Steel
Power Windows
Grace Under Pressure
Presto
Fly by Night
Clockwork Angels
Counterparts
Vapor Trails
Snakes and Arrows
Rush
Test for Echo
Roll the Bones
Hold Your Fire