Sandy Denny - The North Star Grassman and the Ravens
Mendelssohn Symphonies 1-5, by John Eliot Gardner
Dream Theater - all their albums.
Children of Sanchez - Movie score
The Band - Stage Fright
@spo posted:Mendelssohn Symphonies 1-5, by John Eliot Gardner
Dream Theater - all their albums.
Good call on JEG Mendelssohn symphonies. He uses a smaller orchestra, more like what Mendelssohn would have actually been thinking. His pacing and nuance are excellent.
@purplehaze posted:
Thanks for the link. His studio version of Highway 61 on "Second Winter" was and still is smokin'.
One of my favourite artists back in the day. Couldn't get enough of the early stuff: Progressive Blues Experiment, the eponymous Johnny Winter, Second Winter, Johnny Winter And, and Still Alive & Well. And of course his playing on Edgar Winter's White Trash "Roadwork" album. Tobacco Road, man!
I still crank up Still Alive & Well a few times a year.
Chris Smither "Time Stands Still."
@sunnylea57 posted:Thanks for the link. His studio version of Highway 61 on "Second Winter" was and still is smokin'.
One of my favourite artists back in the day. Couldn't get enough of the early stuff: Progressive Blues Experiment, the eponymous Johnny Winter, Second Winter, Johnny Winter And, and Still Alive & Well. And of course his playing on Edgar Winter's White Trash "Roadwork" album. Tobacco Road, man!
I still crank up Still Alive & Well a few times a year.
You're quite welcome. I was off and on with Johny for a while.
The more I saw and heard him play, the more I appreciated his ability to play the blues.
PH
Loved Live Johnny Winter And since it first came out. I always liked Rick Derringer.
@The Old Man posted:Loved Live Johnny Winter And since it first came out. I always liked Rick Derringer.
Ah right. Forgot about that one. That was also a favourite in high school as was, a year later, Jimi Hendrix In The West. They both did Johnny B. Goode.
Castlemusic (aka Jennifer Castle)
Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell
Wagner - Tristan & Isolde
Cream - White Room
The Nutcracker/Simon Rattle
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - "Christmas Eve and Other Stories"
Anne Sofie von Otter - Santa Lucia
Andeas vollenweider
The Kinks
@winetarelli posted:The Kinks
Good idea. Put them on shuffle. Started with Sunny Afternoon.
Sam Cooke - Wonderful World
H.C. McEntire - Eno Axis
@Bytown Rick posted:Good idea. Put them on shuffle. Started with Sunny Afternoon.
Curious what time frame your shuffle covers? As I was a dedicated follower I have almost all of their studio albums and a few compilations. Ray Davies was a great songwriter.
@steve8 posted:Curious what time frame your shuffle covers? As I was a dedicated follower I have almost all of their studio albums and a few compilations. Ray Davies was a great songwriter.
A quick scan starts with Face to Face (1966) and goes to The Kink Controversy (2016 re-release?). Plus several best of albums.
The Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (2003). Great compilation.
Woods - At Echo Lake
Rush - All the World’s a Stage, in honor the incredible Neil Peart, lost one year ago today.
Sturgill Simpson's two new folk albums, which has a lot of his older songs and a few new ones. So good.
Cody Jinks Live at Red Rocks. Some good ole country music for a Monday.
@Bytown Rick posted:My Supertramp collection on shuffle.
Roger Hodgson often plays in Montreal. Seen him at least twice. Great band (Supertramp)
More music from Tindersticks. Best discovery of 2020
@mimik posted:Roger Hodgson often plays in Montreal. Seen him at least twice. Great band (Supertramp)
Lucked into a pair of tickets in the VIP box at the National Arts Centre last time he was here in Ottawa. Truly great show/venue.
@mimik posted:Sung by Rick Davies, not Hodgson and imho, Hodgson had-has a voice.
But you have to admit Mim that Crime of the Century still rocks. 
Jethro Tull - Bungle in the Jungle
Neil Young's Greendale album.
@Bytown Rick posted:But you have to admit Mim that Crime of the Century still rocks.
Well I like the songs that Hodgson sings on the album. The song is fine though 
@Bytown Rick posted:Lucked into a pair of tickets in the VIP box at the National Arts Centre last time he was here in Ottawa. Truly great show/venue.
Nice!
Fleetwood Mac -- Rumours
Chris Smither "Time Stands Still." Brilliant and I could listen to it on endless repeat.
@haggis posted:Chris Smither "Time Stands Still." Brilliant and I could listen to it on endless repeat.
👍🏻👍🏻
Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
Sabre Dance -- Love Sculpture. I was in our Skokie apartment kitchen when this came on on our small AM/FM radio on the counter. I couldn't believe the blistering guitar playing of Dave Edmunds on this version of the famous classical work by Aram Khachaturian. Still a guitar tour de force today. Not as good, but also interesting, from the same album, is Farandole, Arlesienne Suite No 2 by Bizet.
Another artist who makes me put my guitar away for a week or so when I see/hear her play. Local lady. Very talented.
PH
Etta James
@purplehaze posted:Another artist who makes me put my guitar away for a week or so when I see/hear her play. Local lady. Very talented.
PH
Very cool - thanks for sharing.
James Vincent McMorrow - Wicked Game
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Band, I've always loved his strangely upbeat version of "Town Without Pity."
My daughter has been playing mxmtoon. Kinda quirky emo ukelele singer/songwriter. She got some catch.
Andreas Vollenmeier
Power In the Darkness by The Tom Robinson Band. Saw them live in 1980 at the El Macambo in Toronto. God, I'm old.
@brucehayes posted:Power In the Darkness by The Tom Robinson Band. Saw them live in 1980 at the El Macambo in Toronto. God, I'm old.
I saw them in '83 or '84 at UWaterloo. I'm old enough to not remember which year it was.
Nights in White Satin
Skylar Gudasz - Oleander
Daft Punk - Da Funk
Bunny Wailer - Protest
RIP.
AC/DC - Back in Black (performed by my ten year old son on acoustic)
😎
Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show -- Sloppy Seconds. 
Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
Keel - Lay down the Law👍
@billhike posted:Gotta be the first Keel reference on this forum - unless you’ve made one previously.
I'm here to make this place more classy.
@spo posted:I'm here to make this place more classy.
Ha! I just went to Spotify and listened to a couple of songs and: a) nice album cover, and b) my wife said “is that a joke?...turn it off”
Black Pumas - pretty killer
Link Wray (self-titled)
Toto - Africa
The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
Oscar Peterson Trio - Band Call
Top 5 jazz song for me.
Thelonious Monk - Blue Monk
Roxy Music - Avalon.
Inspired by gigabit's post on another thread.
@gigabit posted:
I love all of Paul Simon's solo work from the 70s, as well as the early work of both XTC and Elvis Costello.
I would add lots of great music from Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, Steely Dan, Steve Miller Band, Rush, Roxy Music, Boston, Genesis, The Doobie Brothers, Heart, Journey, Dire Straits, The Kinks, Black Sabbath, and The Allman Brothers.
Chauvin trial.
Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate
Getting into the artist Nick Cave- Carnage. amaizing album
@mimik posted:Getting into the artist Nick Cave- Carnage. amaizing album
Rolling down the mountains like a train.
@Bytown Rick posted:Rolling down the mountains like a train.
"The firstborn is dead" is a great album.
@robsutherland posted:"The firstborn is dead" is a great album.
Thanks for the suggestion. Listening now.
@azwiese posted:Ha! I just went to Spotify and listened to a couple of songs and: a) nice album cover, and b) my wife said “is that a joke?...turn it off”
It's a niche market.
Michael Schenker Group - Built to Destroy 
Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
Bruce Springsteen - If I should fall behind
Humble Pie "Rock On."
David Bowie - Legacy
Waiting to hear the word, "guilty."
Good and just result. Now maybe more of our cities won't burn and businesses won't be attacked (except in Portland, of course)
@arsenal4ever posted:Good and just result. Now maybe more of our cities won't burn and businesses won't be attacked (except in Portland, of course)
Now maybe people of color will start being policed the same way that white people are.
@billhike posted:Now maybe people of color will start being policed the same way that white people are.
I think THAT'S the point to draw from this momentous event.
Sia - Courage To Change
Given that it is his 80th birthday (see my Happy Birthday! post), Dylan all day long.
Jimi Hendrix "Up from the Skies", damn he was so great. Sorry boys, just like there'll never be a greater jazz sax player than Coltrane, there'll never be a greater rock guitar player than Hendrix. As pointed out in the astute "When Did Rock Die?" thread, it's a closed road. Listen to "Ain't No Telling", those Iron Maidens and Black Sabbaths of the world just can't touch Jimi. He's too deep.
Tom Morello > Hendrix
@billhike posted:Tom Morello > Hendrix
I'm sure there's a small percentage of people who agree with you. However, ask someone younger than us who Tom Morello is and they'll probably give you a blank stare. I don't think there's a question that a great many more people of all ages know who Jimi Hendrix is. Does that mean he's better? No, he is just more important in the history of electric guitar for a reason.
So are you contradicting your statement that there will never be a greater rock player? You seem to be changing your statement to more “important” or more well-known.
A million dreams
Then Play On by Fleetwood Mac. RIP Peter Green and Danny Kirwan
Nick Cave "The Boatman's Call". This is one of the greatest albums of all time. His way with words, his cynicism, humor, bluntness, whatever... I am a Dylan fanatic and have deep admiration for Leonard Cohen, but this Nick Cave album just blows me away.
@haggis posted:Nick Cave "The Boatman's Call". This is one of the greatest albums of all time. His way with words, his cynicism, humor, bluntness, whatever... I am a Dylan fanatic and have deep admiration for Leonard Cohen, but this Nick Cave album just blows me away.
Not sure about greatest of all time but it is superb. Part of what made it great was how different it was compared to his music prior to that. Kicking heroin and breaking up with PJ Harvey clearly influenced the music.
Sonny and the Sunsets - Antenna to the Afterworld
@steve8 posted:Sonny and the Sunsets - Antenna to the Afterworld
AthA (as we insiders call them) is one of my favorite groups.
The Flatlanders - Now Again
@The Old Man posted:AthA (as we insiders call them) is one of my favorite groups.
I understand that identifying yourself as an insider is one of the two surest indicators that you’re an outsider.