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I need some help for music at el deli. Any suggestions? I'm getting sick of the 1gb playlist we have going day in and day out, but I don't really want to bring in anything from home cause I'll eventually hate it.

So, I need mellow-ish (not Neil Diamond mellow, but no Eath Crisis or NOFX) music for a sammich shop. Currently have a bunch of Thievery Corporation ready to add...anyone have artists/albums/songs suggestions for a chill atmosphere?

 

[narlus]

these are all electronic-based music, most w/o vocals.

To Rococo Rot - The Amateur View
Kruder and Dorfmeister - DJ Kicks
Boards of Canada - Music has the Right to Children and/or Hi Scores
Coil - Musick to Play in the Dark, Vol 1 (only if you have adventurous eaters)
Air - Virgin Suicides OST
Bonobo - Dial M for Monkey
Boom Bip - Seed to Sun
Fog - 10th Avenue Freakout
Why? - Miss Ohio's Nameless
Fridge - sevens and twelves
Four Tet - Rounds
Jaga Jazzist - The Stix
Labradford - A Stable Reference or Mi media naranja
Lemon Jelly - various
Nightmares on Wax - Smoker's Delight
Porter Ricks - Nautical Dub
Savath & Savalas - Rolls and Waves
St. Germain - Tourist
the Remote Viewer - you're going to love our defeatist attitude
Tunng - Mother's Daughter and other Songs

 

[cannondalejunky]

bella fleck and the flecktones, bob marley, jamiroquai, santana, the walkman, garbage, the faint, chili peppers...thats all i got for now

 

[Bicyclist]

Neil Young. Some of his more mainstream songs for the deli.

 

[BurlyShirley]

Just play the big mac song over and over. Its sandwich related.

 

[sneakysnake]

Guster, Beck, Jack Johnson, Wilco

 

[stevew]

miles davis/thelonious monk/charlie parker/john coltrane should work.

 

[Trainwreck]

Here's a few that you can check out for your playlist. Hopefully you'll find something you like.

 

[.Pit Steelers.]

look at Three Plus
Slack String
Zipso cheewo

 

[PatBranch]

Eric Clapton/Cream
-(some good songs: Cross Roads, Strange Blue, Sunshine of Your Love, Swalbr, Outside Woman Blues, Take It Back). Most of these are on the album, Disraeli Gears. The link has samples and the cd.

http://www.amazon.com/Disraeli-Gears-Cream/dp/B0000067L2/sr=8-1/qid=1161590507/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-5803860-8310552?ie=UTF8&s=music

This is bike music!

In the summer of 1968 a friend and I were fortunate fourteen-year olds... we scored a brief summer job clearing knee-high weeds from behind a sign manufacturing shop. With our $30 windfall we purchased two of the classic psychedelic albums released the previous year. I walked home with The Beatles 'Sgt. Peppers', while my buddy picked up Cream's 'Disraeli Gears'. Both were wise purchases, but I felt I had made the better choice since I got the cool pop-out Pepper inserts! Given the same choice today, I may well walk home with Cream...

'Disraeli Gears' is, arguably, the finest album recorded by Cream. The only real competition is from 'Wheels Of Fire', and that's a double-lp, so it's difficult to make comparisons. It is one of several albums that made the late-1960's psychedelic era the psychedelic era. It was the second of their four studio releases, and for most people it was the work that brought the band to their attention. Cream had a hit with 'Crossroads' from their first album, but 'Sunshine of Your Love' rose to number five on the national charts, and essentially ushered in the heavy metal feel for bands like Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple. The overall strength of 'Disraeli Gears' also easily eclipsed the quality of their first album, 'Fresh Cream'. Eric Clapton indulges heartily in the mainstay of psychedelic rock, the wah-pedal guitar, while Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce add their readily distinguishable style on drums and bass, respectively. All three contribute to the vocals, though Clapton and Bruce share most of the leads.

The origins of psychedelic rock albums and songs often has strange origins, and this album is a case in point. Consider that the title for this album was gleaned from a mispronunciation of "derailleur gears" for racing bicycles as "Disraeli gears". Can you imagine how many hours stoned-out freaks spent contemplating the connection between Benjamin Disraeli and gears? Ukulele Music To My Ears would have rhymed and perhaps made more sense. The psychedelic imagery is ever-present in the lyrics as well. 'SWLABR', for example, is an acronym for She Walks Like a Bearded Rainbow, words that appear nowhere in this rocked-up tune (though we are told that "the picture has a mustache"...).

I love the beginning of 'Disraeli Gears'. 'Strange Brew', which gleaned a lot of playing time on the emerging FM stations of the era, is the opener. It's followed by 'Sunshine of Your Love', 'World of Pain' and 'Dance the Night Away', superb psychedelic rock numbers. You would be hard pressed to find four finer consecutive songs on any disc. 'Blue Condition', like 'We're Going Wrong' are both slow, dismal numbers, which capture their stories well, but seem to stand in the way of rummaging through the other great rock tracks on the disc, 'Tales of Brave Ulysses', an excellent electrified cover of Arthur Reynold's 'Outside Woman Blues', and 'Take It Back'. 'Mother's Lament', a short (1:47), traditional cockney number, is the a capella closer, essentially a throw-away unless you're into traditional cockney numbers.

Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce are the author's of most of the great compositions found on 'Disraeli Gears'. The album is steeped in memorable guitar riffs and clever, thought-provoking lyrics. And few bands, especially bands stripped down to lead guitar, bass and drums, aside from today's White Stripes (who somehow do it with two...), rocked as fluidly as Cream. There won't be a dollar of your entertainment money wasted here.

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Neil Young. Some of his more mainstream songs for the deli.

I'm listening to Sirius Buzzsaw - Classic hardrock (tv radio) and his song, Rockin' In The Free World just came on.

 

[douglas]

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