Favorites Musicians (archived)

Submitted by Feif Umgotnn on Fri, 04/02/2010 - 21:22
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  • -----i don't care about this list at all anymore, but i shouldn't keep deleting every list


  • mostly rock musicians because that is what I listen to most of the time, especially now - there are SO MANY great musicians missing.
  • Favorites:
  • John Coltrane - everything that sound has to offer this man could do and did to the best of his ability before he died. i don't know how much further he could have taken the idea of sound.
  • Albert Ayler - only behind the the Trane: PURE PASSION, PAIN, GLORY
  • Howlin' Wolf and the other screamers from the 50's - and not just the growl or howl, but the pain, the love, the joy, the sorrow, the hole in their souls that echoes through their bodies and through the conscious of all those who can connect to it. people like Beefheart may have improved the physical structure, but it was only different, and maybe better. i still find myself drawn to these guys if the only thing considered is the vocals.
  • Joanna Newsom - too much/too talented for her own good :-) i should have talked with her when i had the chance
  • Mark Sandman - smooth
  • Cecil Taylor
  • Robert Quine - ferocious
  • Keith Richards
  • Drumbo
  • Marc Ribot/Alan Licht/any other good experimental guitarist/Haino/...

  • Singers

  • Joanna Newsom – Bridges and Balloons, This Side of the Blue, Peach, Plum, Pear, Emily, Only Skin, Cosmia, Collen, Good Intentions Paving Company, – live versions of anything half - way decent to A Love Supreme
  • Captain Beefheart
  • Lisa Germano – Baby on a Plane, …Of Love and Colors
  • Sam Cooke - You Send Me, A Change Is Going To Come, Jesus Gave Me Water
  • Howlin' Wolf - Red Rooster, Killing Floor

  • David Thomas (Pere Ubu) - Final Solution, Street Waves, Over My Head, Have Shoes Will Walk, Hand A Face A Feeling
  • Jim Morrison (The Doors) - Crystal Ship, Endless Night, Indian Summer, The End, Strange Days, When the Music's Over, Orange County Suite
  • Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit, Gloomy Sunday, Solitude
  • Tim Buckley - Driftin', I Don't Need It To Rain, I Had A Talk With My Woman, Song To The Siren, Starsailor, Gypsy Woman, Pleasant Street, Lorca, Anonymous Proposition, Nobody Walkin', Strange Feelin', Buzzin' Fly
  • Mark Kozelek (The Red House Painters) - Down Colorful Hill, The Red House Painters I [Rollercoaster]
  • Nico (The Velvet Underground & Nico) - Femme Fatale, I'll Be Your Mirror, Frozen Warnings, Janitor of Lunacy, Afraid
  • Eric burden (The Animals) - Ring of Fire, We Gotta Get Out of This Place, House of the Rising Sun
  • Joni Mitchell - Blue
  • Patti Smith - Birdland, Rock 'n' Roll Nigger
  • Nick Cave - Foi Na Cruz, Ship Song, Watching Alice, Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree
  • Mary Margaret O’Hara - Miss America
  • Dennes Boon (Minutemen)
  • Van Morrison (solo, Them) - Astral Weeks, Sweet Thing, Slim Slow Slider, Crazy Love, Into The Mystic
  • Jeff Buckley - Lilac Wine, Hallelujah
  • Bob Dylan – Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, Gates of Eden, Girl From The North Country, Bootleg Series 4: The “Royal Albert Hall” Concert
  • Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane) - she is the ONLY reason i can stand to listen to A song at a time by this band - White Rabbit, Somebody To Love, Eskimo Blue Day
  • Louis Armstrong
  • Catherine Ribeiro (CR 2Bis, CR Alpes, solo)
  • Mark Lanegan
  • Muddy Waters
  • Leonard Cohen
  • Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) – Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You
  • Tod Ashley (Cop Shoot Cop)
  • Mark Sandman (Morphine)
  • Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star)
  • Mark Stewart (The Pop Group, solo)
  • Ian MacKaye & Guy Picciotto (Fugazi)
  • Lux Interior (The Cramps)
  • Tom Waits - Anywhere I Lay My Head, Train Song
  • Alan Vega (Suicide)
  • Gibby Haines (Butthole Surfers)
  • Linda Perhacs – Parallelograms
  • Karen Dalton
  • Janis Joplin
  • Judy Henske
  • Elvis Presley
  • Zach de la Rocha (Rage Against The Machine)

  • there are always more to add…

  • Bands

  • These are the most complete and greatest functioning BAND of talents, and not necessarily the ones who made my favorite albums:

  • The Velvet Underground
  • The Doors
  • John Coltrane Quartet
  • The Rolling Stones
  • Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – all the various bands from Safe As Milk to Lick My Decals Off, Baby are the prime years.
  • Pere Ubu
  • Pink Floyd
  • Art Ensemble of Chicago

  • Minutemen
  • The Mothers of Invention
  • Can
  • Faust
  • Dirty Three
  • The Residents
  • Morphine
  • Fugazi
  • King Crimson
  • Soft Machine – variations on the group that existed for the album years of Vol. 1–Fourth
  • Roxy Music – first 2 albums
  • The Pop Group
  • Television
  • Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
  • Led Zeppelin
  • Neu!
  • Mercury Rev – first 2 albums
  • Hüsker Dü
  • Run On
  • Original Dixieland Jazz Band
  • Miles Davis Bands
  • Butthole Surfers
  • Sonic Youth
  • The Fleshtones
  • Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Rip Rig + Panic
  • Soul Coughing – one of the greatest rhythm sections of all time

  • there are always more to add…

  • Guitar

  • Jeff Beck
  • Robert Quine
  • Keith Richards
  • Jimi Hendrix
  • Marc Ribot
  • John Fahey
  • Chuck Berry
  • Ry Cooder
  • Lou Reed/Sterling Morrison (The Velvet Underground, solo)
  • Frank Zappa (The Mothers of Invention, solo)

  • Jimmy Page (Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin) – Led Zeppelin I, II, & IV
  • Tom Verlaine (Television) - a cleaned up version of Quine.
  • Django Reinhardt
  • Alan Licht (Run On, solo)

  • Captain Beeheart’s Magic Band Guitarists: Trout Mask Replica’s guitarists are the prime examples, but I am not sure which is which right NOW – later – Jeff "Antennae Jimmy Semens" Cotton (1967-69), Bill "Zoot Horn Rollo" Harkleroad (1968-69), Alex St. Clair "Snouffer" (1965-68), Doug Moon (guitar, 1965-67, and Ry Cooder on Safe as Milk)

  • either good or favorite guitarists in no order:
  • Peter Green (early-Fleetwood Mac, solo)
  • Helios Creed (Chrome, solo) - cool
  • Charlie Christian
  • Duane Allman (Allman Brothers, Derek & the Dominoes)
  • Sandy Bull
  • Syd Barrett (Pink Floyd) - intergalactic
  • Keiji Haino (Fushitsusha, solo) - phucked
  • Link Wray
  • Roy Montgomery (Solo, Dadamah, Dissolve, Hash Jar Tempo)
  • Dennes Boon (Minutemen)
  • Wes Montgomery

  • there are more great guitarists, probably some better than the ones here, but I have not listened to them in a LONG, LONG, LONG time

  • Drummers

  • Keith Moon (The Who)
  • Anton Fier (The Feelies, Pere Ubu, The Golden Palominos, The Lounge Lizards, solo, other)
  • Maureen “Mo” Tucker (The Velvet Underground) - proto-motorik
  • Jaki Liebezeit (Can)
  • John “Drumbo” French (The Magic Band)
  • John Densmore (The Doors)
  • Nick Mason (Pink Floyd)
  • John Bonham (Led Zeppelin)
  • Klaus Dinger (Kraftwerk, Neu!, La Düsseldorf)
  • Jimi Carl Black “The Indian of the Group”/Art Tripp (The Mothers of Invention)
  • Yuval Gabay (Soul Coughing)
  • Ginger Baker (Cream)
  • Chris Cutler (Henry Cow, Art Bears, work with David Thomas’s solo work/later-Pere Ubu)
  • Scott Krauss (Pere Ubu)
  • George Hurley (Minutemen)
  • Bruce Smith (Pop Group)
  • Mitch Mitchell (Jimi Hendrix Experience)
  • Elvin Jones

  • there are always more to add…

  • Bass

  • Mark Sandman (Morphine)
  • Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu)
  • Mike Watt (Minutemen)
  • Les Claypool (Primus)
  • John Entwistle (The Who)
  • Jah Wobble (Public Image Ltd., well, there are too many bands/projects/albums to name)
  • Jack Bruce (Cream)
  • Sebastian Steinberg (Soul Coughing)
  • Mark “Rockette Morton” Boston (The Magic Band)
  • Jaco Pastorius

  • there are always more to add…

  • Other (or instruments not in the basic “rock” band)
  • John Coltrane
  • Albert Ayler
  • Cecil Taylor
  • John Cale (The Velvet Underground) [viola/bass/keyboards] - heroin
  • Louis Armstrong
  • Ray Manzerik (The Doors) [keyboards] – light my fire
  • Richard Wright (Pink Floyd) [keyboards]
  • Anthony Braxton
  • Sam Rivers
  • Pharoah Sanders
  • Archie Shepp
  • Eric Dolphy
  • Ornette Coleman
  • Cannonball Adderley
  • Thelonious Monk
  • Grant Green
  • Lennie Tristano
  • Andrew Hill
  • Paul Bley
  • McCoy Tyner
  • Carla Bley
  • Jean-Luc Ponty
  • Keith Jarrett
  • Sun Ra
  • Miles Davis
  • Dizzy Gillespie
  • Don Cherry
  • Simon Jeffes (Penguin Café Orchestra) [too many]
  • Allen Ravenstine (Pere Ubu) [keyboards]
  • Brian Eno (Roxy Music, solo) [keyboards, electronics]
  • Dana Colley (Morphine) [woodwinds--saxophones]
  • Joanna Newsom [harp, keyboards]
  • Lisa Germano [violin]
  • Florian Fricke (Popol Vuh) [keyboards]
  • Ian Underwood (Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention) [SAX…piano]
  • Erik Lindgren (Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic) [keyboards]
  • Klaus Schulze [keyboards]
  • Martin Rev (Suicide) [keyboards, electronics]
  • Al Kooper [keyboards]
  • Gareth Sagar (The Pop Group, The Fleshtones, Rip Rig Panic) [woodwinds, guitar, keyboards]
  • Clarence Clemons (Bruce Springsteen) [woodwinds]
  • Andy McKay (Roxy Music) [woodwinds]
  • Lindsay Cooper (Henry Cow, and worked with David Thomas’s solo career) [woodwinds]
  • Mark Springer (Rip Rig Panic) [keyboards]
  • Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) [keyboards, electronics]
  • Billy James (Ant-Bee) [drums, keyboards, guitar, bass, tape manipulations]

  • there are always more to add…

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