What music are you listening to for comfort/escape?

[Strawman]

This morning on the drive to work it was Lou Reed's "New York" album. Last night on the way home from class it was a mix cd with LeTigre, Tegan and Sara, Stellastar, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Magnetic Fields, Lou Reed, Tom Tom Club, and Gil Scott-Heron.

[SnowGoose]

1. "Suffer Bastard"

By Fear Factory (actually I think that's the mix name - the song title is "Fear is the Mindkiller" if I remember right).


Gee.... who does that remind me of? Hmmmm....

[morgan2]

13. "Fear is the Mindkiller"

from the Dune novels.. Is George HW Bush Baron Von Harkonen? Dubya is the Beast Rabban?

[JudyM]

2. Cowboy Junkies

[BOSSHOG]

3. First Rays of the New Rising Sun - Hendrix

Does it every time

[rogerjab]

4. Winter in America\Gil Scott Heron

[Strawman]

17. That's Very Appropriate

B Movie, The Gun, 1980, his version of "Inner City Blues" all come to mind as well. His poem "The Siege of New Orleans" in the middle of "Inner City Blues" is one of the most powerful things I have ever heard.

[lil-petunia]

5. a mix of CCR and Stones.

With Johnny Hodges and Verdi thrown in for spice.

[flobee1kenobi]

9. First rays

What an album!

[Squeech]

6. Richard Thompson

Coming up next: the Doors

[one_true_leroy]

7. TOM WAITS

... Real Gone is GREAT!

[MotorCityMan]

8. Leann Rimes

Her cd where she covers a bunch of old country songs, especially by Patsy Cline

[wildflower]

10. "Everything in its own time"

by the Indigo Girls.

A few snippets of the lyrics:

---
Remember everything I told you, keep it in your heart like a stone And when the winds have blown things round and back again,
What was once your pain will be your home.

All around the table, the white-haired men have gathered
Spilling their sons' blood like table wine
Remember everything I told you
Everything in its own time

...

Boys around the table, mapping out their strategies
Kings all of mountains one day dust

...

We own nothing, nothing is ours
Not even love so fierce it burns like baby stars
But this poverty is our greatest gift
The weightlessness of us as things around begin to shift

...

Remember everything I told you
Everything in its own time.
---

Anyone else like this song?

-wildflower

[DBoon]

11. Devo

I think they had the whole notion of devolution right.

I would compare Devo to the DaDa artists of the WWI Caberet Voltaire. They faced incomparable human atrocity during the war, and the collapse of so-called workers solidarity, as national socialist parties rushed to support their government's side to the war. Devo was a response to the killings at Kent State, at which time many of their founder were attending.

Yes I know this is defeatist, but I have a feeling of lemmings going over a cliff right now.

[Strawman]

18. Yep.... Jocko Homo n/t

[quispquake]

12. Johnny Cash "Hurt"

Although I don't know how much of a comfort it has been...

Also, a lot of underground 80's stuff (bought the "Left of the Dial" comp on Rhino a few daze ago)...

[bryant69]

14. Fatboy Slim

Last I heard he was fucking in heaven.

His latest CD is great, particularly Wonderful Night, Mi Bebe Masoquista, and Slash Dot Slash.

Bryant
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[Tangledog]

15. Beethoven and Schubert string quartets (n/t)

[eurolefty]

16. »Ballad of Cable Hogue« (French version)

I like the subversive idea of Americans singing in French. :evilgrin:

You can download the song legally from this site:
http://www.cityslang.com/bandseiten/calexico/calexicodowntext.html

[Strawman]

22. Cool. I may just start playing Serge Gainsbourg in my office too

To piss off co-workers. Stereolab works too.

[theblasmo]

19. Mekons

Lots of Mekons. A band whose very existence and make-up represents the best of what rock and roll can do: solidarity, opportunity, intelligence, and energy. Put on "Sometimes I Feel Like Fletcher Christian" and "Hard to be Human Again" and danced with my 3 year-old daughter. It worked. Better than breaking out the Joy Division.
David Murphy

[demokatgurrl]

20. Led Zeppelin, Doors, Dylan- depending on mood.

[enigma-e]

21. "Mosh" - so that I won't forget the anger I feel!

[HuckleB]

23. Springsteen's "Badlands," Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris...

[LuCifer]

24. Dead Kennedys "When You Get Drafted"

Thanks to all my fellow 18-29 y/o's who didn't vote! 17%?! Piss F'ing poor! I *almost* (key word) can't wait to turn 30 in Dec. so I'm out of that bracket!

Lu Cifer

[Mr Creosote]

25. Well not for comfort or escape

but today I have been listening to "Amused to death" by Roger Waters.
Guess what America, you're not out of range anymore.

[cmf]

26. Nothing right now, but I cried when

Randi Rhodes played Simon and Garfunkel's "America" on her show last night. The America that we used to know is finished.

[mountebank]

27. Silvio Rodriguez, Cuban singer-songwriter, Latin American Dylan.

Or Dylan is the U.S. Silvio. Even if you don't speak Spanish I highly recommend his music.