What "old" musical band or artist have you rediscovered lately?

[bbernardini]

Me? New Monkees. Yes, the new version of The Monkees created in the mid-80s. There's some damn fine tunes on that CD, including one by Tom "Life Is A Highway" (or more appropriate for DU, "Lunatic Fringe") Cochrane.

[RedStateShame]

1. Miles

I just listened to "Bitches Brew" for my first time some 3 weeks ago, and my being a standard 4/4 time rocker, it boggles my mind, even to the core, where I don't even know why it's so good, if that makes sense. All I know is that it sounds like Miles, Herbie Hancock, and John McLaughin(sp?) could lose the song at any moment, and yet, through every seemingly random time signature change and wandering tune, they never do!!! That, and I realize I am a horrible drummer.

[plcdude]

2. I just

started listening to Harry Nielsson again.

[taterguy]

3. Webb Wilder

Went to see him live a couple times a decade ago and enjoyed his shows. Never knew what happened to him. Found one of his CDs last week at a used record store and have been enjoying it tremendously, although my wife is getting a little tired of the incessant playing of that Human Cannonball song

[dysfunctional press]

4. Sarah Records (label, not a band), and Moose.

dreamy brit pop from the 90's.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

5. Sonic Youth

I used to be a pretty big fan in high school and college (early 90s). They had a run of bad albums in the late 90s and so I wasn't listening to them nearly as much.

However, their last three albums have all been astonishingly good -- at times almost reaching the heights of their "classic" albums from the 80s. As a result, I've found myself listening to Sonic Youth -- both the new albums and the classics -- much more than I have in close to a decade.

[SteppingRazor]

7. You heard theit new one yet?

Rather Ripped. I give it two :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Tyrone Slothrop]

10. Yep!

I just got it, so I've listened to it once so far, but I liked it quite it a bit. It follows nicely in the footsteps of the mellower, more mature sound of Sonic Nurse and Murray Street.

[anarch]

6. I've been listening to Joy Division a whole lot, recently

[idgiehkt]

30. Thanks, me too, and I'm re-appreciating the hell out of Depeche Mode.

I am so proud to have been around while all that innovation with music was going on. The other day I heard "Cars" by Gary Numan called the 'very first techno song ever"...lol, during the nineties it was just 'that weird 80's song" like most of the music that I listened to back then.

[LSK]

8. not old, but I just started listening to Dido

[Burma Jones]

9. Spirit

"Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus" in partucular

[blue neen]

21. Wow. I had forgotten about Spirit.

I loved "Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus" back in the day. Spirit performed at our college back in 1974...a good time was had by all. :)

[jobycom]

11. Armi and Danny have been whirling around my brain nonstop recently

[kwassa]

12. Bach

Listening to a lot more J.S.

All these cantatas.

[speedoo]

13. Queen. Listened to their greatest hits, was amazed...

some of their lesser known songs are fabulous. For example, Radio GaGa.

Anybody know what exactly is Radio GaGa?

[WeRQ4U]

26. Me too.

Used to listen to them quite a bit when I was in high school. Never seriously. I've just now started up again. Freddy Mercury was one hell of a performer. LOVE Radio Gaga.

Right now my favorite has to be "Don't stop me now." Great song.

[idgiehkt]

31. me too, I've been watching all their videos on youtube.

They were totally unafraid. I love "I want to break free."

[nickgutierrez]

14. Kevin Gilbert, of Toy Matinee fame

He was working on an album called "Shaming of the True" at the time that he died. A few of his friends finished it after his death, and it turned out to be a very good one.

[bbernardini]

20. Very good?!?

It's friggin' GENIUS. Every time I listen to Kevin Gilbert I'm simultaneously overjoyed and depressed.

[Joey Liberal]

15. Be Bop Deluxe

Great band.

[Squeech]

16. Don't laugh

Rush. The Canadian power trio with the vocalist only dogs can hear and the lyrics abstracted from the secret diaries of Ayn Rand.

I have this nephew I give guitar lessons to. (The good news is, everything he likes was recorded before he was born, so I know it, and together we can usually figure out how to play it.) So he came in one day playing this catchy riffy tune in D, clearly a power rock tune but with a lot of chords in root position on the neck. I barely recognized it as Rush, and which tune it was I was off by three albums. (It was "Fly by Night," and I misidentified it as "A Farewell to Kings.") So we worked on it for a bit, then I pulled out all my old Rush LPs (I have the first 14!) and played him some of the hot parts.

I learned a lot of funny chord voicings from listening to Alex Lifeson. I play in a power trio and I think Rush is an important part of the rock trio literature-- the missing link between Cream and the Police. And I'm willing to put up with the vocals and the lyrics.

[blondeatlast]

17. The Waitresses, X. I think I'm having a mid-life something, but crisis it

isn't.

I'm enjoying whatever it is immensely!

[mitchum]

18. Canned Heat...When I was younger I dismissed them as "fat, bearded...

hippies in overalls" (which they indeed were), but I have been discovering that they had some top notch material

[sendero]

19. Magazine..

... The Correct Use of Soap

"They took you to the top of the mountain
They showed you the valley
You bought it
You couldn't wait, could you"

[blue neen]

22. The Who

I got my son "Tommy" for his birthday and have really enjoyed listening to it again. He keeps playing it over and over, just like I did when it first came out.

Now he wants to rent the movie. I had to explain to him who Ann-Margret is! :)

[Hissyspit]

23. Steely Dan

heh

[ScreamingMeemie]

24. Pet Shop Boys...I'd forgotten how much I adored them.

:)

[idgiehkt]

32. hell yeah!

I love all these guys...It's so freaking weird how many times music has flipped styles since the mid eighties. Some of the bands that are coming out now are kind of having that look, the short haired kind of eurotrash look. I'd like to see those bands get credit for what they did because metal kind of steamrolled over them in the late eighties, early nineties before grunge.

[ScreamingMeemie]

33. Right on! I'm a Thompson Twin listening, Pet Shop Boy owning,

Aha adoring, Paul Young/Howard Jones fan. :D

[BigMcLargehuge]

25. The Spinners

Rose Royce

[WeRQ4U]

27. I'm fucking ashamed.

Guns and Roses. I bought Appetite for Destruction from iTunes.

[Arkham House]

28. Bunny Berigan

Has anyone ever heard of him? He had a big hit in 1937 with "I Can't Get Started", but he was primarily a trumpet player, and in my considered opinion the best white trumpet player of the Swing Era, and that includes Bix...just some remarkable stuff...

[haf216]

29. Joan Baez

My sister sent me some copies of here cd's. I forgot how much I enjoyed her. Plus brought back good childhood memories.

[Alexander]

34. Emerson Lake & Palmer

[Tikki]

35. Silver Apples....

....Program......."The universe is not but sound...sound is it's own perfection....Mind is the only truth I've found...The flame is it's own reflection"...


Tikki

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

36. Head East

You ain't rocked until you've done it to Jefftown Creek.

Trust me.

http://www.head-east.com/newsmay2001.html