Gnarls Barkley

[rareboy]

If you haven't paid attention to this group you should.

The CD St. Elsewhere is just a lot of fun and some of the tracks are where music should have gone instead of the dreary, sterile direction it has been heading in for the last decade.

http://www.myspace.com/gnarlsbarkley

Particularly 'Crazy'

 

[sabot3ur]

music has gone in many directions in the past decade.

and I saw them at the first virgin fest, I probably shouldn't pass judgement on music that I have no feeling for, but they did have crazy sparkly outfits.

 

[honooryuu]

the songs that i have heard i liked

 

[Corny]

Oh .. "crazy" has been running up and down in the clubs here

 

[G-Lexington]

Look up the two members of Gnarls Barkley, and what else they've done. You might be surprised. I for one never thought I'd hear Danger Mouse on the adult contemporary radio station...

The Odd Couple album? Enh.

Lex

 

[Mr-Pickles]

I love them I listened to their last album so much when it was first released

 

[AngelFromAbove]

No offense RB, but you're a little late. Gnarls has been around for a few years, although Cee-Lo has been around longer. Their songs provide a different sound to mainstream music, although the second album did not receive a lot of publicity and promotion.

 

[just_mills]

Gnarls are cool

 

[rareboy]

I'm not saying that they're new.

...just have been listening to St. Elsewhere again this week and thought they were worth a mention. Certainly don't remember them being mentioned here before.

And they have nothing to do with Michael Jackson.

 

[Paws]

If you haven't paid attention to this group you should.

[...]

Particularly 'Crazy'

Dude, where have you been the last 4 years? Nobody wants to hear those guys anymore, particularly "Crazy".

 

[rareboy]

^ d'uh. Read post above yours, Paws.

I didn't say they were new.

I wrote that if anyone hadn't paid attention to them, they were worth a listen.

Not a lifetime investment of all your emotional energy and rabid fan worship. Just some attention.

But while we're here...any suggested stuff from anyone that you fell deserves some attention?

 

[G-Lexington]

>>>any suggested stuff from anyone that you fell deserves some attention?

Yeah, but I have a feeling you're a tough one to pin down, musicwise. I love the Passion Pit album Manners, but I have a feeling you'd despise it. I can almost hear (see?) you saying "And that high-pitched yelping is supposed to be singing?"





Meese's "Next in Line" might be a bit more up your alley. It's the single of the week on iTunes, so hey, free.

And if you don't mind something older, Penguin Cafe Orchestra.



Lex

 

[rareboy]

Thanks for the reminder about Penguin Cafe...a few years since that one. I'd even forgot we had it in our music collection until you'd reminded me.

Meese is cute as kittens; hadn't really noticed them before and I enjoyed the Reeling.

What else do people have to share from 2007 or before?

 

[G-Lexington]

Any particular genre? Pop? This decade or earlier? My music collection is pretty deep, and I need to narrow it down somewhat...

Lex

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Chi get into Danielia Cotton

"Cuz you're the devil in disguise
and the last thing you'll see of me is my backside"

she won me right there. Warning: her voice is terrible.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Bill Withers slays.

 

[Apollo]

That song by the Gorillaz was awesome, and I always love me some Bill Withers.

 

[Apollo]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Quhj6PEboCU[/ame]

 

[rareboy]

Some great additions. They have me going back into our collection and hunting down some CD's and vinyl pressings as well.

For those of you who recall my recent thread about an 8 hour drive for a project we're working on will appreciate that we have lots and lots and lots of listening time.

Today, on another road trip, we've listened to the new Moby 'Wait for Me', Snow Patrol...the cut with Martha Wainwright is excellent and 'After Dark' a compilation of music Nick Rhodes was listening to in 1979. I don't have time to create links to these, or I would, but they're all worth a listen.

 

[G-Lexington]

Just remembered one you might like.

Herbie Hancock was introduced to Gambian Foday Musa Suso when he was asked to write a song for the 1984 Olympics. (The song "Junku" ended up on his Sound System album.) I believe he then took FMS on tour with him, and on one day off in Japan, they went into the studio and made this album, more or less improvised. FMS plays a 21-string kora, whereas Herbie Hancock is on a Yamaha keyboard, intentionally detuned to match the kora. The album is dreamy without being boring, and "world" without feeling foreign. The CD issue was in and out of print in a day (somehow, I stumbled on a copy), but I was shocked and pleased to see it's on iTunes.

Lex