# Want good music **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 15, 2006, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-good-music/376499 "2006-10-15T05:36:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![overeasy4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b9bd4f/32.png) [@overeasy4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overeasy4)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-good-music/376499/1 "2006-10-15T05:36:44Z")
I am tired of the same old music. I would like someone knowledgable to refer me to some different music. Preferably from years and years ago, sortof funky, different, eclectic, with a good beat. Any suggestions will be looked into. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-good-music/376499/2 "2006-10-15T05:41:54Z")
It’d help if I knew what “the same old music” might be. I mean - Jethro Tull is from years and years ago, sort of funky sometimes, certainly eclectic, but is it different? Thick as a Brick, Songs From the Wood, Aqualung (aside from the title track - it’s not different). ---
**Author:** ![overeasy4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b9bd4f/32.png) [@overeasy4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overeasy4)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-good-music/376499/3 "2006-10-15T05:50:57Z")
Different from what they are playing on radio stations now. Something I probably had never heard before. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-good-music/376499/4 "2006-10-15T06:12:09Z")
Earth, Wind & Fire, Tower of Power, Parliament - all old funk bands. Wild T and The Spirit Prince (some of his best albums are the Love Symbol album with “Sexy M.F.” and “Wanna Melt With U” on it, “Diamonds and Pearls” and “Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic” - this is one of the best albums ever, period.) Prozzak The Police (they started life as a reggae/ska band) Terence Trent D’Arby Jimi Hendrix Led Zeppelin Colin James Jeff Healy Eric Clapton ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-good-music/376499/5 "2006-10-15T06:18:16Z")
Try Stevie Wonder’s Innervisions or Musicquarium (sp?). If you feel more ambitious try Os Mutantes or maybe Ozric tentacles. I just discovered Danko Jones and I really like it. You’ll have to be more specific about what you’re looking for to get better advice though. ---
**Author:** ![overeasy4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b9bd4f/32.png) [@overeasy4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overeasy4)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-good-music/376499/6 "2006-10-15T06:23:18Z")
I know. I was trying, but its like I will know it when I hear it. Something that was never way popular but just sounds good, risque for its time, different. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-good-music/376499/7 "2006-10-15T06:39:47Z")
Shuggie Otis ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-good-music/376499/8 "2006-10-15T06:50:44Z")
Might help if you told us what stuff you like. Here’s some random crap that I like, though: Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros The Specials The Pogues The Beta Band Butthole Surfers Captain Beefheart Smog Kirsty MacColl ---
**Author:** ![overeasy4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b9bd4f/32.png) [@overeasy4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overeasy4)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-good-music/376499/9 "2006-10-15T06:57:03Z")
Maybe. I’m not looking for duplicates of what i like though. Ramones, Cheap Trick, some country, Grateful Dead, Kelly Clarkson… ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-good-music/376499/10 "2006-10-15T07:06:32Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] Kirsty MacColl [/QUOTE] I cry, I cry. A goddess lost too soon. Gonna throw on _Kite_ (and the interview Equipoise and I taped with her) and bawl. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-good-music/376499/11 "2006-10-15T07:07:46Z")
[QUOTE=overeasy4] I know. I was trying, but its like I will know it when I hear it. Something that was never way popular but just sounds good, risque for its time, different. [/QUOTE] Dude, the more you specify what you’re looking for, the more what you’re really saying is **SHUGGIE OTIS.** Serious. Do yourself a favor. ---
**Author:** ![overeasy4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b9bd4f/32.png) [@overeasy4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overeasy4)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-good-music/376499/12 "2006-10-15T07:09:13Z")
I am impressed by your opinion. I will go to the library tomorrow and see if they have him (him?). I am no dude. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-good-music/376499/13 "2006-10-15T07:09:48Z")
From wiki: > [@](#): > > Shuggie’s style was groundbreaking. The fact that he was so ahead of his time could be evidenced by the mainstream largely ignoring his genius at the time he recorded his albums. An extraordinary guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, he melds classic blues, oozing funk, orchestral movements, and a hint of pop sensibility into a special 1970’s psychedelic California soul. It is rumored that he was offered guitar duties in the Rolling Stones but declined. Here comes Shuggie Otis, Inspiration Information and Freedom Flight are essential listening for the blues and soul fan, they serve as a decent summation of a young, incredibly gifted, yet largely unrecognized blues and soul pioneer. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-good-music/376499/14 "2006-10-15T07:12:14Z")
Well, they gots him at [my](https://catalog.spl.org/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=dial&menu=search&aspect=power&index=.GW&term=shuggie+otis) liberry. Look at your library’s catalog online, and request it, that way if they don’t have it at your branch they’ll get it for you. Way easier; whenever I go t’the liberry, they’s a stack o’discuses waitin for me. One stop shopping. ---
**Author:** ![overeasy4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b9bd4f/32.png) [@overeasy4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overeasy4)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-good-music/376499/15 "2006-10-15T07:13:19Z")
Shuggie sings the blues 1994. Its on hold. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-good-music/376499/16 "2006-10-15T07:19:43Z")
Hmm. Never heard his now stuff. His 30-years-ago stuff is horrifically essential. Find _Inspiration Information._ ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-good-music/376499/17 "2006-10-15T07:31:12Z")
> [@](#): > > Something that was never way popular but just sounds good, risque for its time, different. > [@](#): > > Ramones This means Shonen Knife. Get an early album. ---
**Author:** ![overeasy4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b9bd4f/32.png) [@overeasy4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overeasy4)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-good-music/376499/18 "2006-10-15T07:34:25Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] Hmm. Never heard his now stuff. His 30-years-ago stuff is horrifically essential. Find _Inspiration Information._ [/QUOTE] They only listed 3 titles, only one of which was totally his. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-good-music/376499/19 "2006-10-15T07:35:55Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] I cry, I cry. A goddess lost too soon. Gonna throw on _Kite_ (and the interview Equipoise and I taped with her) and bawl. [/QUOTE] For me it’s _Fairytale in New York_. God, I didn’t used to think that song could get any sadder. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-good-music/376499/20 "2006-10-15T08:03:24Z")
I don’t mean to be a prick, and I know you said you wanted music from years and years ago, but I just don’t get why someone would block themselves off from a whole universe of music just because it’s not old. There is so much amazing new music being created _right now_ - it’s just that you don’t hear about it, because it’s not on the radio unless you’re listening to a college indie station. Have you ever heard of Calexico? Broken Social Scene? The Drive By Truckers? Silversun Pickups? I guarantee you will like at least a few of these bands. All of them probably have songs that you would enjoy. Music with a good beat, you say? Phoenix. Booka Shade. Squarepusher. Wagon Christ. Amon Tobin. Mr. Scruff. I could go on and on with this list, but it would take hours and I don’t feel like doing it right now. For starters, you should just check out the bands I’ve mentioned. WIUX, the IU radio station, has a Winamp stream that you can listen to: [WIUX online.](http://wius.org/high.pls) All you need to do is click that link and you can listen to the station. You will hear some great music, you will hear some not-so-great music. But all of it is totally unique. From 5 PM until 7 PM is a bullshit sports show, but all the rest of the day is a wide variety of great music. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-good-music/376499.md?page=2)