Eberhard Weber - Chorus (1985)

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Sia -- We Are Born

Bitches Brew after some Minutemen

Was: Peccatum, Lost in Reverie -- one of my more favorite albums of the genre, especially with its superlative use of dynamics -- not just soft interludes, but it actually takes a while to get started, and intersperses the metal with...uh...non-metal. "Black Star", in particular, rocks my world -- clean singing against full-on blast beats. It really does not get any better than this.

Now: The Devics, If You Forget Me... -- can't stop starting this album over, it really is good. Cabaret/honky tonk/blues/Nick-Cave-ish hard rock/dream pop/Calexico-ish nightclubby stuff/Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood/other...and yet sounding like none of those.

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Buster Williams Quartet -- Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1999

I kind of like it. It takes awhile to embrace atonality. Have you heard the Berg violin concerto? Pretty fantastic.

I haven't given up. Thanks for the Berg rec. I listened to the first movement on youtube and liked what I heard. Going to have to make a purchase.

Jason Moran -- Ten

btw, the new Herbie Hancock suckfest is unImaginably bad.

Met her at a show in Portland, ME... Incredibly nice girl, and I ended up with a personalized note from her. Oh yeah, great show, too.

Nina Nastasia -- Outlaster

This.

One word:

Amazing!

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Up from Below.

Home is stuck in my head!

sweet, theyre touring too, and theyre playing on Governor's Island.

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"Home" is definitely a catchy tune. See what I mean? It's an addictive cd, though really goofy. I bet they would be really fun live.

Art Tatum - Piano Starts Here

Brubeck and Mulligan - We're All Together Again For the First Time MFSL

i'd be hard pressed to name a better jazz album.

Terrific album, but I would still say Time Out is Brubeck's master piece.

Time Out is god tier

I have the entire studio collections of the following and I am listening to them in order of release:

Dream Theater

Tool

Deftones

Earshot

Chevelle

Rise Against

Disturbed

A Perfect Circle

Russian Circles

Pelican

Red Sparowes

My Sleeping Karma

Paging elnero: anything glaringly missing?

Cya in a month or so.

Stone Temple Pilots

Just got this - Likin it

Wait, that's not right...

That looks better.

I have the entire studio collections of the following and I am listening to them in order of release:

Dream Theater

Tool

Deftones

Earshot

Chevelle

Rise Against

Disturbed

A Perfect Circle

Russian Circles

Pelican

Red Sparowes

My Sleeping Karma

Paging elnero: anything glaringly missing?

Cya in a month or so.

You've got a couple on there I'll have to check out myself. If you like Dream Theater you might also try Riverside, Fates Warning and maybe Coheed & Cambria and Carpark North. On the instrumental side you could try Sleep - "Jerusalem", Zebulon Pike and Mogwai. The two other bands outside of some you've listed that I've really been taken with lately are Shrinebuilder and Isis (I can't believe I only gave them a try recently, their last show before disbanding is in Montreal tomorrow night ) with an honorable mention to Gomer Pyle's - "Idiot Savant" which has been getting quite a bit of ear time.

Discovering new stuff is so much fun, I've been soaking up all kinds of new music lately, mostly on the heavier side this round but I listen to a fairly wide variety of music so I'll try just about anything.

steely dan - aja (cisco vinyl)

ryan adams - gold (vinyl)

miles davis quintet - workin' (dcc)

particularly "It Never Entered My Mind", a track I've been fascinated with the past couple of months. it feels so much like a cold sad city during the holidays. awesome.

oh man, havent listened to gold in so long. gotta change that

Edge of Sanity - Crimson II

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Edge of Sanity - Crimson II

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That damn cetoole

Heh, that music will send you crazy, boo.

Iconoclast - Dirty Jazz (2010)

Edge of Sanity - Crimson II

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44 tracks of prog death metal goodness, lol. Who's idea was to start you off with this one?