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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat out-of-the-ordinary music do you enjoy, a lot?
In my case, I love Caribbean steel drums.
I hear them in more and more tunes, and really enjoy that sound.
Here's a video with steel drums and Jean-Michel Jarre.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,706 posts)It's been all downhill since then.
Aristus
(66,380 posts)qazplm135
(7,447 posts)BSG, Fringe, several movies...weird stuff like that.
Turin_C3PO
(13,998 posts)Lochloosa
(16,065 posts)tblue37
(65,377 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)And Stars of the lid.
All ECM label jazz
bif
(22,708 posts)Are you into Mogwai and God Speed You Black Emperor?
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)Also, Explosions in the Sky. Not sure if Cocteau Twins is considered out of the ordinary these days, but have loved their music for many years (wish they were still making it!)
bif
(22,708 posts)Like Dead Can Dance and This Mortal Coil.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)The National is actually now on 4AD - one of my favorite current bands
bif
(22,708 posts)I love Mark Kozelek. And a bunch of other low-fi and shoe gazer bands as well.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)IcyPeas
(21,876 posts)also more recent have you listened to Sigur Ros from Iceland? When I first heard this album it raised hairs on my neck. I heard Ný Batterí on the radio as I was waking up and thought "what the hell is this crap" 1 minute later I jumped up to look at the playlist of the radio station to see who it was..... I was blown away by this entire album. (lucky enough to have great public radio station here that plays great new stuff)
bif
(22,708 posts)One of my favorite bands.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)LeftInTX
(25,346 posts)I'm from Wisconsin where I think the polka is the state's dance, I could not do the Mexican Polka when I got here. I still can't.
What I learned in Wisconsin was very "free-form" and casual.
On observation, I note folkloric steps woven in on the woman's feet. (yikes) But that's how they do the polka here in South Texas!
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)A polka inspired by the courting dance of the egret.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)nocoincidences
(2,220 posts)Gracias!!
EarnestPutz
(2,120 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)I love these kinds of vids, there's a bunch of 'em, collages of tons of people playing the same song, often from all over the world ... they're pretty much all incredible ...
Mongolian metal rock
Archae
(46,328 posts)Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)I was going to post it till I saw you beat me to it.
Brother Buzz
(36,439 posts)randr
(12,412 posts)He wrote Steve Millers "Jet Airliner"
Brother Buzz
(36,439 posts)Jet Airliner was positioned to be Paul Pena's smash hit on his break-out album, New Train, and make him a star. Hell, Jerry Garcia was poised to make that happen. But contracts and management disputes put the kibosh on that; Paul got royally stiffed.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/pena-paul
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)GemDigger
(4,305 posts)And then from there the youtube wormhole of Mongolian throat singing and then throat singing from whomever.
And right smack in the middle of my weeks long adventure, the museum here had a Mongolian exhibit that was absolutely fabulous.
The empressof all
(29,098 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)Lochloosa
(16,065 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)Lochloosa
(16,065 posts)The band Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions was a precursor of the rock group the Grateful Dead, and included three future members of that band Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, and Ron "Pigpen" McKernan.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_McCree%27s_Uptown_Jug_Champions_(album)
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,439 posts)Cartoonist
(7,317 posts)In My Canoe
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I love music from the 20's and 30's and from old movie soundtracks. I listen to it a lot when I go to bed at night. I find it very soothing.
nocoincidences
(2,220 posts)PETRUS
(3,678 posts)underpants
(182,818 posts)that has potential!
Beringia
(4,316 posts)It is ancient, played in Japan since 1600s. I listened to it while doing art for a couple of weeks or so.
FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)I've been singing in a German folk chorus in Pittsburgh for the last 25 years.
Oktoberfest season is coming up very soon!
Trailrider1951
(3,414 posts)Inka Wayra
WheelWalker
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(7,317 posts)Especially on the Muzak channel.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Steel drums are a close second, especially the Esso Steel Band.
LuvNewcastle
(16,846 posts)I especially like Ralph Stanley's voice; sometimes his singing sends shivers down my spine.
Cirque du So-What
(25,939 posts)FM123
(10,053 posts)Lunabell
(6,082 posts)This makes me very happy.
marlakay
(11,468 posts)Listening to it. I love Irish traditional music especially the fiddle.
Kali
(55,009 posts)I don't really like "ordinary" music at all. My normal Pandora channel for Sunday morning when the local community station overindulges in 5 hours of gospel (I love a little gospel, but 5 hours is way too much), is Egyptian club and techno.
Archae
(46,328 posts)Cover of a 60's tune?
LeftInTX
(25,346 posts)mithnanthy
(1,725 posts)I could dance my ass off to THAT! Thanks!!!
Initech
(100,078 posts)This band has done everything from jazz:
To death metal:
To experimental prog:
To 50s boogie music:
To Beatles tributes:
And their latest album is a nod to 80s thrash metal:
Codeine
(25,586 posts)but they do have the best name in music.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,854 posts)... such as this one:
Farmer-Rick
(10,175 posts)A Scothish multi instrumental folk singer and musician. This is more likely out of the ordinary for mostly me, an old ex-military, turn farmer in East TN.
Carry You is my favorite but most people recognize Anchor.
Leith
(7,809 posts)How about a Strauss polka done by an a capella singing group instead of a full orchestra?
If you like PDQ Bach, you'll love Rainer Hersch. Here's a sample:
And there's nothing like traditional Spanish guitar for background music. It sets a relaxed and very nice mood.
I also like Irish punk and country from pre-WWII (like Patsy Montana).
jpak
(41,758 posts)Texasgal
(17,045 posts)The more bluesy and old school the better!
LeftInTX
(25,346 posts)Hooked on Can Can is one of the tracks on the series. Here's a Russian version. Don't do aerobics without it!!!!
And a Romanian version...all done with exquisite dancing inside a tiny studio. (I guess it's a world wide cult thing!)
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Tikki
(14,557 posts)bif
(22,708 posts)Indian music, Celtic, African,Post rock, electronic, classical and jazz.
JustFiveMoreMinutes
(2,133 posts)lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)And Zydeco.
Now there's a combination.
LAS14
(13,783 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)Black metal and blackgaze (shoegaze with black metal elements)
Really out-there free jazz (Ornette Coleman, Pharaoh Sanders, late-period Coltrane)
Neo-folk, martial folk, and apocalyptic folk (Current 93, Death in June)
Technical death metal (Nile)
Krautrock (Can, Neu!, Kraftwerk)
bikebloke
(5,260 posts)sdfernando
(4,935 posts)Ragtime, not just piano, but small orchestra.
Some of my work.....(shameless plug).
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