No one mentioned the Talking Heads!
On 3/20/07, Gerald Schwartz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Also, I believe, missing are (is):
>
> Psychic TV (w/ and without Burroughs)
> The Residents
> Richard Thompson
> William Parker
> Cecil Taylor
> Steve Swell
> Sabir Mateen
> Test
> the Brotzman's (both father und son)
> The Birthday Party
> The Bad Seeds
> Solomons Ramada
> The Browncuts Neighbors
> The Minutemen
> Faking Trains
> The Buckets
> Ed's Redeeming Qualities
> B. A. D.
> Popol Vuh
> Can
> Zoviet France
> ...and the Mekons...
>
> --Gerald S.
>
>
> > No one's yet mentioned Jonathan Richman or Warren Zevon, have they?
> >
> > Roger Day wrote:
> >> A recent article in the LRB compared the trajectories of Velvet
> >> Underground and the Grateful Dead, seemed to find them very similar. I
> >> loved the Velvets. Nico's Marble Index is way spooky.
> >>
> >> The Ramones were almost comatose the last time I saw them, supported
> >> by the Chilli Peppers (in their socks-on-cocks phase).
> >>
> >> I liked Television.
> >>
> >> New York Dolls.
> >>
> >> Joni Mitchell has an interview in the Guardian on line. Ladies of the
> >> Canyon, heh, good for listening to and rolling joints on.
> >>
> >> Nick Cave's colloboration with Kylie was awesome. The film he scripted
> >> recently also got good reviews.
> >>
> >> I looked at the guitar tabs for The Church's "Under the milky way
> >> tonight" but gave up. Simon and Garfunkel also defeated me - a pair of
> >> guitar geeks with the most obscure chords. Transposing the songs for
> >> mandolin is currently beyond me. I want to buy a guitar NOW, but I'll
> >> have difficulties transporting it to Oz.
> >>
> >> Any more up and coming Oz bands?
> >>
> >> Roger
> >>
> >> On 3/20/07, Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>> Well, my second favourite band is Calla, from New York.
> >>> Someone happened to mention them online one time and I checked them
> out.
> >>> Anyone on here heard of them?
> >>>
> >>> After that I probably like Ladysmith Black Mambazo as much as
> anything.
> >>> And traditional Celtic played live (here in Perth we have David Hyams
> >>> and
> >>> the Miles to Go Band, including the truly awesome Andy Copeman on
> guitar
> >>> and cittern).
> >>>
> >>> Nick Cave. PJ Harvey. White Stripes. Arcade Fire. Snow Patrol (a
> little
> >>> on the lite side, but very good live -- I've seen them twice now!)
> >>> Did someone mention the Pixies? And does anyone remember the Smiths?
> >>> The Cure? Television? THE VELVET UNDERGROUND!
> >>>
> >>> Pink Floyd. Jimi Hendrix. The Doors -- indeed, Ken, there's a band I'd
> >>> like
> >>> to have seen.
> >>>
> >>> And of course there's Bob Dylan. I did once see him live and was
> >>> disappointed...but I wasn't feeling well at the time so maybe it was
> >>> that.
> >>>
> >>> I should perhaps mention that also I like a bit of opera, a bit of
> >>> Vivaldi,
> >>> a bit of the Ramones and the Sex Pistols... and that Kanye West is
> good
> >>> live!
> >>>
> >>> Janet
> >>>
> >>> > I'm just impressed by what good musical taste list members have.
> >>> Reading
> >>> > this thread, I keep going, "Yeah, that. Oh, & that's a great band
> >>> too."
> >>> >
> >>> > jd
> >>>
> >>> -------------------------------------------------------
> >>> Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
> >>> Poems at Proximity:
> >>> http://www.proximity.webhop.net
> >>>
> >>> The choice is between nonviolence and nonexistence.
> >>> Martin Luther King Jr.
> >>> -------------------------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>
> >>
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