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Good rainy day music?

narlus

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Ridemonkey said:
Wow, those are all on my standard playlist. Good picks.

I met the Iron and Wine dude last year. He was playing in a little bookstore for like 30 of us. Good stuff.
has anyone gotten the I&W/calexico split yet? sam beam's ok, but i do really like joey burns, john convertino and the rest of teh calexico bunch a whole lot.
 

DNA

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ridetoofast said:
if mellow is yer gig...check out a band called morhpine. indie band from boston that was just about to break it big when their lead singer had a big chest grabber on stage.

they have a sound that is entirely their own.
I'll second the vote for Morphine. It was hard to believe how BIG a sound could come out of a three-piece band.
 

greenchris

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DA BEARS.
morphine is a good listen and calexico puts on a great show...but anyone ever listen to any umphrey's mcgee??? and for the grateful dead-y'all just dont understand
 

kinghami3

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narlus said:
what's to understand about a bunch of smelly hippies aimlessly noodling about for hours on end? :oink: :D
It's called jamming and they're good at it. Don't dis the Dead.

Damien Jurado is my favorite for a rainy day. Mellow, relaxing, and fairly upbeat. Very Seattlish.
 

Westy

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narlus said:
what's to understand about a bunch of smelly hippies aimlessly noodling about for hours on end? :oink: :D
I like music that entails aimless noodling and even I can't stand the dead.

Soulive does it for me on a crappy day.
 

kinghami3

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narlus said:
was he in a band prior to his solo stuff? i've seen teh name a bazillion times but can't say i'm familiar w/ the music.
I don't think so, but if it was any band, I would say it was Pedro the Lion; he's fairly similar but generally more positive in his outlook on life. He's worth looking into IMHO.
 

Westy

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narlus said:
actually, i prefer it if they are smelly swedish hippies.

These guys represent old school. :dancing:
With already dubious showering habits I find it difficult to distinguish regular Northern Europeans from the hippies. Unless their donning a track suit or something similar.
 
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narlus said:
any of the 500? dude, they picked "Love Will Tear Us Apart" at like #7 or so. there are plenty of decent to good (even a few great) tunes on the list, but a lot of questionable ones too. i've only gotten to about #200 or so.
It could be 10% is great to decent, leaving 90% to the suck.
 

narlus

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i'd say that your comfort level of rap/hiphop and pop music in general will go a long ways to predicting yr reaction to that top 500 list...
 

stevew

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I should get that. I have the first CD. I saw him open for Dwight, and he is bad ass.
I missed seeing him with the Melvins.

Rainy day song: "Happy When It Rains" The Jesus and Mary Chain.
 

ridetoofast

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DNA said:
I'll second the vote for Morphine. It was hard to believe how BIG a sound could come out of a three-piece band.

yeah they had some kick ass music. do you have their last cd? into the night? they had progressed to background vocals and string accompanyment (sp?, or did i just make up a word?)

their bootleg live cd rocks too
 

HRDTLBRO

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I was about to say Blind Melon, just for that reason...Listen to some Nick Drake if you wish to be ultra chill.
 

DNA

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ridetoofast said:
yeah they had some kick ass music. do you have their last cd? into the night? they had progressed to background vocals and string accompanyment (sp?, or did i just make up a word?)

their bootleg live cd rocks too
I think that I have all of their albums except the Live CD (Good, Yes, Cure for Pain, Like Swimming, B sides and Otherwise, and The Night). The Night did show a lot of expansion in their music. That album kind always kind of depresses me when I listen to it as I had just gotten it and was really listening to it about the same time as when we had to put our dog to sleep.

Did you ever seen them live? It surprised me how the played with this mellow vibe, but still came off as big and intense.
 

ridetoofast

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unfortunately no i never saw them live. didnt even know about them until about fall of 01 but the first time i heard them within like 30 seconds of the cd playing i was snappin' my fingers. about a month or two after that i had bought every cd i could find.
 

narlus

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i never did see Morphine, but did see a mark sandman-led outfit called candybar. not sure how long that lasted before he got Morphine together...his other (first?) band Treat Her Right got some fans but i was not among them.
 

DNA

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I think that the other guys from Morphine stayed together as another band, Twinemen or something like that. I never picked it up, so I don't know what it sounded like. It wouldn't be the same without Sandman's raspy voice.