music quiz thing.

[fadedpaladin]

I was really expecting a few of these to get ID'd.. I admit some are dementedly obscure, but Dylan or Flanders and Swan are fairly well known...

1 Rhapsody--Black Dragon
2 The Shangri-Las -- Never again
3 Stone Sour--Orchids
4 Keller Williams--Gate crashers suck
5 mullmuzzler--his voice
6 bob dylan and the band -- Lo and behold!
7 collective soul

Comments

[ladymedb]

These aren't obscure (although the day I listen to Pearl Jam is the day I gouge out both my eyes with a rusty spoon - my friend Amber forced me to go to one of their concerts once, and other than "Yellow Ledbetter" and the way they do "Daughter" live, they could fall into the nearest black hole and I wouldn't notice).

The whole point is to share good music with other people/show people music they already know in a different light. If you picked things other people knew too readily, no one would learn anything.

Mistle Thrush? I have some of their work, somewhere. I remember liking it. I'm going to listen again.

How are the new Enya albums post-The Memory of Trees? I found A Day Without Rain to be useless on a perfunctory listen except for (what I think is a Japan-only track) "Isobella". Isn't "Falling Embers" the doomy track off of that album (the only other good one)?

And you can tolerate Bob Dylan's vocals but not Nick Cave's? :)

[mosephine]

*chuckle* can totally tolerate Bob Dylan over Nick Cave ;) i've only listened to a bit of his stuff, but i was really not a fan of Nick Cave.

[ladymedb]

I just see them as operating in much the same artistic space. Of course Dylan has been more important politically, but it will be interesting to see how Cave's body of work holds up over the next 50 years or so. The flawed poetry, the excursions into academia, and the incisive comments on sex and death and religion may prove timeless, or at least biography-worthy.

I love Cave's vocals - from when he had no idea what he was doing past the comic Elvis impersonation that made him famous, to the drug-addicted Southern preacher, to the broken-souled crooner. I think he's even in key most of the time now and actually sounds beautiful on songs like "The Ship Song" or "Do You Love Me", and his whole latest album has been brilliant, and worth checking out, especially if you weren't into the crashy stuff.

[fadedpaladin]

Right, that's the other thing. Dylan's lyrics speak more to me. *shrug*

[straussmonster]

I have no idea who John Valby is besides the fact that he plays Toad's every few months.

[fadedpaladin]

he's often known as Dr Dirty. creator of some of the most overtly warped vaguely comedic songs I've ever heard. after a few pitchers of bad beer, it's a good show.

[straussmonster]

http://www.toadsplace.com/calendar

I'd go with you, but I'll be in Helsinki. =)

[fadedpaladin]

*shudder* I don't need a valby-inspired hangover.