We have re-signed with BMG music - we're a sucker for their sales, and we've found that $5 cd's make great Christmas gifts. (The trick is to keep signing yourself up under different pseudonyms - you get 5 free CD's for referrals, plus the 12 for 1 sign up deal = 17 for the price of 1)
So We need your help - what sort of meaningful music have we missed, what essential "must haves" should we include in our pending 17 CD order?
We think Gilli will include some Phish
We think Jamey may refer us to Sufjan
Macey will lead us in the ways of techno. Or Rush.
Noel has probably found some new hip hop band with sweet grooves that you would never imagine a computer programmer would jive to...
Strawbridge will lavish praises on some shuttle bus driver/musician that he met at the airport
Murray = Phoenix
Bintz says Mother Love Bone, but we seriously doubt BMG has that
Johnny T's music collection is already identical to ours
Anybody else?
Now taking suggestions...
8 comments:
Gnarls Barkley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdsDwVxmjZA
when i did my bmg request, i didn't get too many responses, but i took your advice jason on signing myself up. i've been waiting to do that for financial reasons, but i'm about to follow through.
phish's best studio album is billy breathes, at least in my opinion. but i think bmg has their "live one" live album. get that if you're pheeling phishy.
as i recommended previously, get sigur ros. bmg has both takk and ().
led zeppelin is always a good decision, not matter which album.
and while i only have one of his albums, james brown will make you move.
recent personal favorites:
broken social scene. canadian supergroup (18 members!?) - straight up indie-alternative rock:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/15685/Broken_Social_Scene_Broken_Social_Scene
same band, ambient-rock debut album - instrumental, no vocals (good at work):
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ck98s37qa3pg
d'oh! bmg doesn't have broken social scene.
probably more up your alley; a classic folk-rock cd:
http://www.bmgmusic.com/catalog/product/cd_detail.jhtml;jsessionid=5IDF44IZ11EEKCTI0VPCFFQ?productId=28262
I totally dig Gnarls Barkley too (not our style though, Jas). I'm digging deep into the catacombs of my collection and wondering if you have any Taj Mahal? He's awesome for accoustic blues and he has a voice for blues that only a black man can have.
The Best Of Taj Mahal is available on BMG, so you may want to check that out.
The Derek Trucks Band's new album, "songlines" is worth a listen.
I'm digging beck right now. Sea Change is great. I think the new stuff is probably pretty good too.
I'm late to the party, but giving advice nonetheless.
The hip-hop act you were referring to is Lupe Fiasco. Out of Chicago, on Jay's Def Jam label. Skateboarder, old-school beats, muslim. Best rap album of the year (as long as you skip past the collab track with Mike Shinoda).
My indie rock pick for you is The Hold Steady. Boys and Girls in America. If Led Zepplin grew up in Minneapolis and replaced Jimmy Page with a street preacher as the lead singer, it would sound almost like this. If you mix in Springsteen and Kerouac, then you just about got it.
Lots of people like Cat Power. She's pretty, and sings nice, like a less polished Norah Jones.
I also second the Gnarls Barkley, Beck, and Sigur Ros noms.
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