Rediscovering great music

[MadHound]

Back in the days when I was a hotshot DJ at the number one college station in the country(number two in the world), I came across a wonderful album, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Brian Eno and David Byrne. A groundbreaking album that helped bring sampling to prominence as a musical art form, not to mention is was simply great work. After all, who thought you could dance to a song that featured the vocals of a radio preacher and a real live exorcism.

Anyway, I had the album on vinyl myself, and played it for awhile, but media changed, and while I still have my turntable and vinyl collection, I don't use either that much anymore. So I was in the local record shop the other day and came across the reissue of this wonderful album, and have rediscovered the magic of it after so many years. It sounds as fresh and innovative today as it did thirty years ago when I first discovered it.

So what music have you rediscovered after all these years? What music still sounds as good as when it first came out, and better than much of what is out there now?

"Do you hear voices? You do, you are possessed."

[Lionel Mandrake]

1. Horowitz plays Chopin: Fantasie-Impromptu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x93pwAvUkAA

I have always loved this piece. Moura Lympany's interpretation is my favorite, but Horowitz also plays it beautifully.

[guitar man]

2. Lately I've been revisiting

Gram Parsons, The Flying Burrito Brothers, New Riders of the Purple Sage and early Little Feat stuff. Can't get enough of it, it just real quality music :)

[AlecBGreen]

3. Love Talking Heads!

Stop Making Sense is one of the finest live performances Ive ever seen. The music, the showmanship, David Byrne & crew just workin their asses of belting out great music. I get chills every time I hear "Heaven", just him & Tiny Weymouth. Its as good as CD as you'll hear. Ill check out My Life.

Ive discovered a great band in 2010... Ween :7 If you've heard them you love em or hate em. If you havent, let me know and Ill point you in the right direction. Here's a pic of the lead guitarist, Dean Ween shreddin away



As for 'rediscovering' music, cant say I have this year. Listening to a lot of old Phish shows I have socked away, but other than that nada much.

[JCMach1]

4. Gary Numan of all people...

Was into New Wave, but he was never my favorite...

Love this new version of 'Are Friends Electric' with Little Boots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEQW4lnonno

[thirtiesgirl]

5. I'd second the nods for Talking Heads and Gary Numan.

I did the college DJ thing for 5 years in the '90s and have continued to listen to most of the music I was playing back then. There are a couple of albums in my collection that I hadn't listened to for several years, though, and recently re-discovered their greatness: Pale Saints, In Ribbons, and Verve, A Storm In Heaven. Good stuff.

[AlecBGreen]

6. "rediscovered" new music from old favorites

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VylkAj5NQuQ - Sublime, Roots of Creation is a nice one :)

[RandomThoughts]

7. Depends how you define that.

Most people don't understand that everyone has good and bad in them.

If you say anyone that hears voices is possessed, then explain the concepts of devil on one shoulder and angel on the other in many stories.

Explain the concept Freud taught about id and super ego, same thing.

Explain the concepts of having a thought or impulse, that you know is dumb and still do it.

Most people don't know they have a spiritual side, and most people don't know they have both good and bad as part of what a person is.

It is true there are 'different types' of stuff like that. Many compulsions are a very weak or faded version of some desire or impulse that is part of a person, many different doctrines on why that is.

And what is muse for a story, it is an inner voice.

There are some cases with some really bad things out there that effect people, I agree with that, but there is also good things that help people.


Your definition includes everyone that has a mind.


Most people think they 'think they want to go to some place' 'then decide to' Most people actually inside, 'decide to do something' then their conscious mind makes up some excuse as a reason for why.


All those people with disingenuous thoughts and rationalizations, it is because most of what the conscious mind does is explain back to you what you are doing by other decisions.

Finding out why you think something, really helps with figuring out when you rationalize.

[abq e streeter]

8. Not rediscovering, because I never have for a moment forgotten, but been listening to Buddy Holly

almost obsessively lately. And the same to a lesser extent regarding The Beachboys. Not rediscovering, but reminding myself for the hundredth; maybe the thousandth time, of how timeless and brilliant their best stuff was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_3fGY_DMkc

[Tikki]

9. Peter Gabriel....our 8 y. o. grandson begged for...

Peter Gabriel songs on his music player...we've been listening along
with him...we are sure glad we have this fine music to share...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0FBi5Rv1ho
'Big Time'

The Tikkis