I’m not very esoteric in my musical tastes, so I’ll just list a few that i haven’t run into on many music lists from other Dopers.
A Perfect Circle
Mad Season (in particular an instrumental called November Hotel)
Jerry Cantrell (Guitarist from AiC, sings without accompaniment of Staley)
Then there is some old school metal from Megadeth or Anthrax that you can’t even get radio stations to play via request anymore.
Well, I’d hardly call this stuff esoteric, but this mixed tape I was listening to this morning certainly sounded varied:
Dancing Barefoot - U2
Halcyon - Orbital
Summertime Rolls - Jane’s Addiction
Black Steel - Tricky
A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash
Sweet Child o’ Mine - Guns 'n Roses
I Fought in a War - Belle and Sebastian
Cross Bones Style - Cat Power
Debaser - The Pixies
Waltz No. 2 - Elliot Smith
The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret - Queens of the Stoneage
A Place Called Home - PJ Harvey
I Hear Motion - The Models
The Crystal Lake - Grandaddy
Snow - JJ72
Kids - Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue
Here It Comes - Doves
Music Is My Radar - Blur
Limp - Fiona Apple
These Days - Powderfinger
My favourite songs right now are:
I limited myself to three songs for each of the really good bands, but those should span more than a few genres…
Love Song for a Vampire – Annie Lennox – without doubt one of her best 4:19
Indigo Eyes – Peter Murphy 5:49
Moonlight Sonata – Beethoven 6:07
I Am Stretched On Your Grave – Sinead O’Connor 5:31
A Strange Kind of Love – Peter Murphy 5:03
It Tango – Laurie Anderson 3:01
Song to the Siren – by Tim Buckley covered by This Mortal Coil 3:31
“Bewitched” and other EARLY Doris Day songs. Hey, back before she was a goody goody movie star she was a sultry teenage siren. Try it.
“Sink the Bismark” by Johnny Horton and other of his songs.
“Running Bear” by Johnny Preston
Oh, and “Man of Constant Sorrow” and “The Siren’s Song” from the movie ‘O Brother Where Art Thou?’
And cap it off with some Peruvian songs.
This is what’s in my cd case that comes to work with me:
Klenegan Session of Solones Gamelan I. Slow meditative work (only 2 songs), good music to listen to while working.
Rabih Abou-Khalil: Yara – it’s Lebanese music featuring oud, viola, cello, and drums. Also good to listen to while working.
Hamza El Din: A Wish – Oud and percussion from upper Egypt.
Chuck Berry: The Anthology – no matter what they tell you, Chuck has the boss licks.
Dwight Yoakum: Tomorrow’s Sounds Today – best voice in country music, no doubt about it.
King Crimson: B’Boom – Because it was cheaper than buying Discipline, Beat, and Thrak.
Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love – It was a cheap promo copy. This way I don’t risk losing/breaking my copies of Daydream Nation, Goo, or Dirty.
I would also recommend throwing in Ginger Baker’s “Horses and Trees” (great album), Frank Zappa’s “The Yellow Shark,”
some Junior Brown, Dick Dale, Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant, Rollins Band, Bill Frisell, Henry Kaiser, Bill Laswell (Material, Praxis, whatever), and if you want to completely smoke people, what better than something by Spike Jones and his City Slickers?
My ‘mellow’ playlist…
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
No Distance Left to Run - Blur
Captive Heart - Brendan Perry
Daniel - Paradise Motel
Air That You Breathe - kd lang (orig. The Hollies)
Indigo Girls - Mystery
Hey Jupiter - Tori Amos
Kite - U2
12305te Nacht - Einsturzende Neubauten
Asphalt World - Suede
Group Four - Massive Attack
Cemetry Gates - Frank & Walters (orig. The Smiths)
Shake the Disease - Hooverphonic (orig. Depeche Mode)
Everyday Is Sunday - Morrissey
Water Is Wide - The Vards
Song to The Siren - This Mortal Coil (orig. Tim Buckley)
Low Red Moon - Belly
the list goes on - it’s actually three hours worth of songs, but I’ll spare everyone…
Currently in MP3 rotation:
Music for Airports (1) – Brian Eno
Statesboro Blues – Allman Bros.
Superstition – Ahmad Jamal
Blue Railroad Train – Tony Rice Unit
Once in a Lifetime – Talking Heads
James Brown’s Celebrity Hot Tub Party – Eddie Murphy & SNL Band
Paranoid – Ozzy Osbourn w/ Randy Rhoads
Scarlet Begonias – Dead 3-18-77
Agua de Beber – Antonia Carlos Jobim w/ Astrud Gilberto
Here’s some selections from stuff I’ve left out of the CD cigar boxes, meaning I’ve been listening to it over the past week…Set these up; they’ll have your roomies scratching their heads in confusion.
Brian Eno; “King’s Lead Hat”
Gene Ammons Quartet; “Willow Weep for Me”
Fairport Convention; “Si tu dois Partir” (Dylan’s “If you Gotta Go, Go Now, or Else You Got to Stay All Night” sung for some reason in French)
Johannes Brahms; Allegro Passionato from Cello Sonata No. 2 in F
The Clancy Brothers’ “Bold Thady Quill”
Oscar Aleman; “Limehouse Blues”
Jerry Butler and the Impressions; “For your Precious Love”
Alexander Scriabin; Le Poeme de l’extase, op. 54
Ute Lemper; “Sex-Appeal”
The Fugs; “Kill for Peace”
Kokomo Arnold; “Salty Dog”
Ornette Coleman Quartet; “Lonely Woman”
The Kinks; “Victoria”
Clifton Chenier; “Zydeco Sont Pas Sale (Snapbeans Ain’t Salty)”
Anton Bruckner; Scherzo from Symphony No. 9 in D minor
The Ad Libs; “The Boy from New York City”
Dock Boggs; “Old Joe’s Barroom”
Art Pepper; “Blues in the Night”
The Wolfe Tones; “Rifles of the IRA”
Lee Wiley; “Keepin’ Out of Mischief Now”
Sonny Criss Quintet; “More Than You Know”
Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers; “Shootin’ Creek”
Alberta Hunter; “I Got Myself a Workin’ Man”
Boozoo Chavis; “Hamburgers and Popcorn”
Hot Tuna; “True Religion”
Outta the way!
Here’s what I’ve been listening to while getting dressed and made up to go to work:
My Canary Has Circles Under His Eyes (Sophie Tucker)
The Castle House Rag (James Reese Europe)
I’m a Stranger Here Myself (Ute Lemper—hi, Ike!)
Nobody Loves a Fairy When She’s 40 (Tessie O’Shea)
Bach’s Brandenberg Concertos
Night Flight (Artie Shaw)
Fido is a Hot Dog Now (Nora Bayes)
soundtrack to La Dolce Vita
Sister Susie’s Sewing Shirts of Soldiers (Billy Murray)
Wig (the B-52s)
I won’t list individual songs, but the current combo in my CD changer makes for a pretty interesting mix of music:
The Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace with God
The Replacements - Tim
Lyle Lovett - Road to Ensenada
James McMurtry - Too Long in the Wasteland
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swinging Lovers
I’ve got it set to random, and there’s nothing quite like the feeling of hearing ol’ Blue Eyes swing through “Anything Goes” followed immediately by Chuck D tearing through “Burn Hollywood Burn”
well, my music is too long to list, but following BOS’s Idea,
I would have
Beethovens 9th, followed by
“The sun has got his hat on”
followed by
“Know your Enemy” RATM.
Since we’re dealing with MP3’s here, I’ll go with some individual songs:
Mary Prankster - Tempest
Cowboy Mouth - How Do You Tell Someone?
The Uninvited - Too High For the Supermarket
The Penguins - Earth Angel
Joan Jett - The French Song
Paul Sanchez - I Can’t Stand You Now (The Hate Song)
The Pretenders - Hymn To Her
Woody Guthrie - Tom Joad I & II
Nirvana - All Apologies
Queen - It’s Late
How’s that?
A few entries from my playlist:
“Cruel Angel’s Thesis”, Neon Genesis Evangelion
“In the Night,” Pet Shop Boys
“When Heterosexism Strikes”, Romanovsky & Phillips
“The Riddle”, Nik Kershaw
“Désenchantée”, Mylène Farmer
“God”, Tori Amos
“Why Must We Die”, Kate & Anna McGarrigle
“The Nancy”, Stan Rogers
“Kiss Me”, Sixpence None the Richer
“Desert Rose”, Sting
“Clear Heart”, Wyrd Sisters
“Canticle”, Simon & Garfunkel
Thanks a lot. Balance. I followed the link and listened to the MIDI while reading the lyrics. I hummed that damn tune all day yesterday. Do you want to take a guess at what was the first thing that popped in my head this morning…?
And I always start thinking of it at the same point
“Go get the axe, there’s a fly on baby’s ear”
Bwuhahahaha…the plague spreads! I told you so. Andygirl can inflict it on the [sub]rb[/sub] down the hall (and the rest of the hall).
You have no idea how often this song gets stuck in my head (sometimes with the Animaniacs theme lyrics, though). One of my coworkers (who sits nearby) has the tune programmed into his cell phone…so every time he gets a call, this song gets stuck in my head. Fortunately, I find it amusing (yes, I’m twisted).
John Hiatt Buffalo River Home
John Hiatt Have a Little Faith in Me
Graham Parker Stick to Me
Graham Parker Heat Treatment
Dave
[I’m guessing from the OP you mean eclectic (varied), rather than esoteric (abstruse).]
On my playlist are:
Mommas and Pappas
Hall & Oats
Norman Greenbaum
Hoyt Axton
Beethoven
Buster Poindexter
Marilyn Monroe
Al Jolson & Eddie Cantor
Flatt & Scruggs
Jelly Roll Morton
Sheryl Crow
Limp Bizkit