Open Music Call

[dewline]

Okay, this is me calling for music recommendations. I've an account with emusic.ca at the moment(which could change at the drop of a hat), so...?

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[radargrrl.livejournal.com]

Not sure what you mean...

[dewline.livejournal.com]

I'm shopping for music, and looking for recommendations on what to buy. Whether via bricks'n'mortar stores, or download from my emusic.ca account.

[radargrrl.livejournal.com]

Where shall I start?

a-ha
Ultra Bra
Spoons
Rush
Dead Kennedys
The Pretenders
Gary Numan
Jorane
Katrina and the Waves
Martha and the Muffins
Rational Youth
Men Without Hats
Mike Oldfield
Nickel Creek
The Seekers
The The
Thomas Morgan Dolby Robertson
Ultravox

I could go on...

FYI, I have all of this, and more, sitting here on an external drive.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

I've heard of - and heard samples of the work of - about a third of that list thus far. I think.

[steve-roby.livejournal.com]

You should be able to see the stuff I've downloaded from emusic by looking at http://www.emusic.com/profile/downloads.html?showArtists=true&nickname=semtex but there's a lot to look through (1128 artists, though some of them are no longer available).

What sort of music are you generally into? I've downloaded punk, electronic, alt.country, jazz, reggae, classical, soul, and a heck of a lot more there.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

My tastes are rather wide-ranging as well, and could probably take up a couple of MB worth of posted text of their own.

Been known to go looking for Mike Post albums, for example. Yes, Mike Post, the TV theme guy.

[steve-roby.livejournal.com]

Let's see... did he do Rockford Files and Hill Street Blues? I remember he was a really big name in TV theme music for a few years.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Rockford and Hill Street are on his resume, along with the Law & Order variants. He's done almost every single show Stephen Cannell ever worked on, I think, from Rockford onward.

[mary-mayhem.livejournal.com]

I am in love with Leonard Cohen, Moby, k. d. lang and Rickie Lee Jones. All tend to the laid back side.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Got a couple of Cohen's albums, one of Moby's...and the others I've yet to try beyond what I've heard on the radio.

[mary-mayhem.livejournal.com]

You may like http://pandora.com for a place to get some clues about flavors you like.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Pandora...is not an option for Canadians. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

Do what?

[mary-mayhem.livejournal.com]

That's bizarre.

Pandora and Canadians

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Memory's vague on this point, but I think it was at least partly due to perceived IP control issues on the part of the US Big Music Industry Four(AKA RIAA). Pandora was forced to back away from their non-American subscribers at speed.

Awaiting confirmation or debunking...

[wyldemusick.livejournal.com]

Michael Chapman (if you can find MILLSTONE GRIT, it's particularly excellent), especially DOGS GOT MORE SENSE (aka ORIGINALS on eMusic), but also FULLY QUALIFIED SURVIVOR, RAINMAKER, AMERICANA 1 & 2, THE TWISTED ROAD, and, if you can find it, PLEASURES OF THE STREET. I'd skip HEARTBEAT, however, which is Chapman going new agey.

John Martyn
Richard Thompson
Fela Anikulepo Kuti (eMusic has pretty much everything the last I looked)
Jah Wobble
Bill Laswell
Peter Hammill (Thin Air is excellent)
Van Der Graaf Generator's TRISECTOR
Bill Nelson
Porcupine Tree (and Steven Wilson, and No-Man amongst the offshoots.)

I recommend also going over to http://jamendo.com and rifling through their growing list of releases, all of which are free to download. I rather like The TenGooz, amongst others.

The works of Arnold Bax. Also, Malcolm Arnold.

And for a slightly perverse capper -- The Edgar Broughton Band. Gutbucket social-issues rock from 1970s Britain.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Hmmm.

*makes notes for further research...*

Thank you!