Rediscovering bands

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For hip-hop you could try Breaking Atoms by Main Source and Magnificent City by Aceyalone.

For AltCountry try Dolly Partons 'Sex Album' (Includes the classic 'Slip It In' and 'Pummel Me Senseless') although this is hard to find.

Kind Regards

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

You can't whack a bit of DP. (Dolly Parton).

 

[Pubey]

Talib Kweli
Quality
Reflection Eternal

Anti-Pop Consortium
Arrhythmia

Beans can be hit and miss but an intelligent rapper
Shock City Maverick
Thorns

MF Doom
Vaudiville Villian (released under Viktor Vaughn) - one of the best hip-hop albums ever

Do Make Say Think all their albums are great, Winter Hymn is maybe their best, maybe their most accessable too
Do Make Say Think
Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord Is Dead
& Yet & Yet
Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Thanks again mate, I'll check that out.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

For a bit of Alt-Country you couldn't get much better than The Jayhawks or Uncle Tupelo.

Saw the Jayhawks here on the same bill as Neil Young recently.Thought they were pretty good

 

[MK Shrimper]

Saw the Jayhawks here on the same bill as Neil Young recently.Thought they were pretty good

Where they! Dammit, I thought they'd split!

I highly recommend Rainy Day Music, it's one of my favourite albums.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-3yswHFUNc

 

[Crawliano]

Can definitely help you out with some of that:
Hip-hop - El-P, Common, Ghostface Killa (bit more gangsta), Talib Kweli (definitely, also check out Black Star), early Nas, first Anti-Pop Consortium record (and their driving force "Beans"), MF Doom

I saw Kweli and Anti-Pop Consortium recently, I nearly cried at how crap they were.

Seriously upset at how something so beautiful that soundtracks many a day could be so bad live.

Anti-Pop Consortium were just like 4 blokes on stage playing Quake or something and making their laptops beep.

 

[EastStandBlue]

Can definitely help you out with some of that:

Hip-hop - El-P, Common, Ghostface Killa (bit more gangsta), Talib Kweli (definitely, also check out Black Star), early Nas, first Anti-Pop Consortium record (and their driving force "Beans"), MF Doom

You couldn't be more right with Talib. One of my favourite HipHop artists.

The Blackstar Album is Orgasmic, the collab with Mos Def is perfect. Almost every track on the album is picture perfect... Definition, Respiration and Thieves in the Night are my favourites.

That leads me onto Reflection Eternal and, my favourite Kweli album, Quality. "Get By" is one of my all time top 5 tracks, more so the remix. The line in it "If music gets you choked up, this is the tree and a rope" basically describes it.

His last good album though was The Beautiful Struggle... Which I was actually just about to mention on here, as it came on my iPod down the gym earlier today. Great album.

 

[Uncle Leo]

For the first time in ages I have been listening to a spot of Faith No More. 'Angel Dust' was superb.

 

[SUFC_Al]

For the first time in ages I have been listening to a spot of Faith No More. 'Angel Dust' was superb.

Good stuff James, i've been spinning a bit of FNM recently.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Where they! Dammit, I thought they'd split!

I highly recommend Rainy Day Music, it's one of my favourite albums.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-3yswHFUNc

MKS-Definitly them on the same bill as NY.Just see the YOU Tube clip(thanks) and I believe they played this number in their set.Though they were a 3 piece at the gig and not a quartet as in the video.
Much better than Sonic Yoof who were also on thesame bill.

 

[Crawliano]

If you're looking for that "Perfect Summer Sound" revisit "Club Classics Vol. 1" by Soul II Soul.

Takes me back to the good ol' days of bike rides and tree houses at the bottom of my mates road.

 

[Nobby Snide]

If you're looking for that "Perfect Summer Sound" revisit "Club Classics Vol. 1" by Soul II Soul.

Takes me back to the good ol' days of bike rides and tree houses at the bottom of my mates road.

Cant beat The Beach Boys for that...or even the Isley Brothers....or the Undertones.

 

[Napster]

I recommend Pharcyde, Jurassic 5, Ugly Duckling, Digable Planets, Yesterdays New Quintet (especially Stevie), Quannum, The Coup (Laugh, Love and **** is a banger)

Jazz- Blue Mitchell, Hank Mobley, Horace Silver (Song for my father is a classic), Miles Davis, Lee Morgan, Thelonious Monk,

Also, check out soulsides.com for some soul.

 

[Rob Noxious]

For a bit of Alt-Country you couldn't get much better than The Jayhawks or Uncle Tupelo.

Rather partial to the 'gothic noir' of The Handsome Family myself...

 

[Rob Noxious]

Heard some Linton Kwesi Johnson stuff again recently...genius!

 

[Firestorm]

Listened to a Mike Peters interview the other day, he mentioned the Skids which got me desperately trying to find my Scared to Dance tape....
Couldn't find it and ended up ordering too many CD's from Oi Records

 

[Bob Cratchitt]

Good stuff James, i've been spinning a bit of FNM recently.

Same here, i wonder if subconsciously this is happening due to them headlining at Download. I was so ****** off that I could not make it.

What.a.line.up!!

 

[Uncle Leo]

Same here, i wonder if subconsciously this is happening due to them headlining at Download.

I think you're on to something there BC.

I've also been getting back in to Electronic recently. They're not headlining anywhere are they?

 

[Pubey]

I think you're on to something there BC.

I've also been getting back in to Electronic recently. They're not headlining anywhere are they?

Electronic are great, their self titled is superb