The Official Talk Bass Music Recommendations Thread! Thread.

[Kgoodrich]

I'm feeling musically frisky today and I feel like expanding my musical horizons.

the rules are simple, recommend me anything and I mean ANYTHING from hardcore to jazz to electronic, let me know the artist and song title and just make sure you post youtube links so I can listen to it!

I'll do my best to review whatever you give me so get to posting!

[soong]

The song "Ghost of Stephen Foster" By the Squirrel Nut Zippers

http://youtube.com/watch?v=m1DISNYj0QU

[JPrinos]

Heard this on Basscast not too long ago. Jaco Pastorius played fretless bass on this Joni Mitchell track from 1977:

OverTure-Cotton Avenue

Jaco comes in about 1:45 into the tune. I love that first note!

It is very different form what I typically listen to but his playing and sound is a treat to hear.

The other one is King Crimson's Great Deceiver from Starless and Bible Black.

Enjoy!
John

[uethanian]

o man i love introducing people to my music. i have a whole slew of just intonation/microtonal stuff that i give everyone.

harry partch (can't be described in words)
glenn branca (electric guitar orchestra)
lou harrison (music for justly refretted guitar)
michael harrison (justly tuned piano)
ben johnson (microtonal string quartet)
any and all classical indian music (ravi/anoushka shankar is a must)

there's no songs i could really name in particular...most of this stuff can be found on itunes. give it a try...i can ASSURE you it will 'expand your musical horizons'

[CHILDISHGAMBINO]

Amon Tobin - he's a dj but he is amazing. He only uses records from the 50's and earlier for the music and he pumps them through a computer to get the more industrial sounds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlYBPuHeZxw

Electro Quarterstaff - technical instrumental metal. They used to just have 3 guitars and octave pedals but now they have a bass player. He's on the first couple of tracks on the myspace
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...riendID=572105

The Dillinger Escape Plan - some people call them technical metal, some call them mathcore, I don't know what to call it but I love this band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMEYLlDThZU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGNb-YT5ECA

Buck 65 - weird hip hop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jme-i_m2Rlw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-sJgQM1hWw

[Kgoodrich]

everyone has such great musical tastes!

reviews coming soon.

I listen to Amon Tobin and I'm a giant DEP fan so it's good to know someone out there likes the same music as me!

[CHILDISHGAMBINO]

Cool. Have you heard these guys:
http://www.myspace.com/dubtrio
I just got they're new album for free from emusic. If you download the newest version of winamp you get 50 free down loads from them.

[Kgoodrich]

Originally Posted by CHILDISHGAMBINO

Cool. Have you heard these guys:
http://www.myspace.com/dubtrio
I just got they're new album for free from emusic. If you download the newest version of winamp you get 50 free down loads from them.

sure have!

[Kgoodrich]

Originally Posted by JPrinos

Heard this on Basscast not too long ago. Jaco Pastorius played fretless bass on this Joni Mitchell track from 1977:

OverTure-Cotton Avenue

Jaco comes in about 1:45 into the tune. I love that first note!

It is very different form what I typically listen to but his playing and sound is a treat to hear.

The other one is King Crimson's Great Deceiver from Starless and Bible Black.

Enjoy!
John

Originally Posted by I Suck At Bass

The song "Ghost of Stephen Foster" By the Squirrel Nut Zippers

http://youtube.com/watch?v=m1DISNYj0QU

I do love a good Jaco solo.

I've listened to Squirrel Nut Zippers before and it's one of those little odd things that I've known about but don't listen to

[Kgoodrich]

Originally Posted by uethanian

o man i love introducing people to my music. i have a whole slew of just intonation/microtonal stuff that i give everyone.

harry partch (can't be described in words)
glenn branca (electric guitar orchestra)
lou harrison (music for justly refretted guitar)
michael harrison (justly tuned piano)
ben johnson (microtonal string quartet)
any and all classical indian music (ravi/anoushka shankar is a must)

there's no songs i could really name in particular...most of this stuff can be found on itunes. give it a try...i can ASSURE you it will 'expand your musical horizons'

I'm almost scared to try and find this stuff.

[CHILDISHGAMBINO]

I found some of that stuff on youtube. Definitely different. I really liked Michael Harrisons stuff. What is "justly" tuned piano?

[uethanian]

Originally Posted by CHILDISHGAMBINO

I found some of that stuff on youtube. Definitely different. I really liked Michael Harrisons stuff. What is "justly" tuned piano?

oh i so have this one

conventional piano, as well as regular guitars and basses and the like are all tuned to 12-tone equal temperament. this means the octave is divided into 12 equal spaces (for the sake of convenience and modulation). mathematically, it is a logarithmic system of building a scale. but when a scale is equal tempered (and any number of spaces is possible), the natural mathematical 'purity' of the intervals is lost.

'just intonation' refers to any tuning that has simple, whole number relationships between intervals. this includes the natural harmonic series. almost all cultures on earth used just intonation at one point (and many still do). some of the earliest written records of it are by Pythagoras, although it existed long before. the ear is natural attracted to these perfect intervals, even if the math behind it is not understood.

for instance, a perfect fifth in just intonation is a 3:2 relationship between the higher and lower note. in 12 tone equal temperament, the perfect fifth is (7 times the 12th root of 2):1

so what michael harrison has done (and lou harrison as well with guitar) is retuned an instrument that is conventionally equal tempered to a just intonation scale. acoustically, the instrument gains resonance, and harmonic richness. being justly tuned also limits modulation, so in that way it dictates the style of composition quite a bit (things end up sounding modal or ancient).

[TortillaChip520]

Scoop by Marcus Miller:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NHdN_O5k3WM

i love playing (well TRYING to play) this song!

[Philbiker]

Jane Kelly Williams. Amazing, magical songwriter. Perfect voice, great production and musicianship on her records. Listen to some of her songs on her almost unused Myspace page

[werbo1]

i've been digging this version of John Henry for a while now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54GNI2K3-ec

And as far as rap goes, Jaylib is where it's at right now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-V7gesEpKQ

[Kgoodrich]

Originally Posted by TortillaChip520

Scoop by Marcus Miller:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NHdN_O5k3WM

i love playing (well TRYING to play) this song!

not usually a big miller fan but that has changed my mind a bit! thank you.

[Kgoodrich]

Originally Posted by werbo1

i've been digging this version of John Henry for a while now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54GNI2K3-ec

And as far as rap goes, Jaylib is where it's at right now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-V7gesEpKQ

mmmm.....blues