Your absolute favourite musical artist.

no no no, changed my mind again: Jim Croce!!!!

Lil B

(hatas gon hate)

Charles Mingus. It isn't just that he's a phenomenal player or the fact that his composition's were boss, but he had a way of making all his groups sound so, so right. His ability to assemble these obscure players and got them to play in just the right way is astounding. I don't think there are a lot of artists who've gotten other musicians to express a vision so masterfully. I defy you to find a Mingus track that doesn't groove like crazy.

If you put a gun to my head i would say Jimi Hendrix (I might not mean it though).

But really what a silly question.

Two names instantly come to mind, Animal Collective and Autechre.

But if I had to choose one, it'd be Autechre. I've been listening to them for a lot longer, I trust them more :P (even though I like AC's recent output a lot more than Ae's)

Tangerine dream..

keep on dreamin', the fans will quote..

imolt...

Autechre

For sheer consistency over the years and managing to say fresh

Obel....

It used to be cLOUDDEAD, but then they broke up, and it's hard to call a band your favorite when they only make two albums.

So Matthew Friedberger (The primary half of The Fiery Furnaces) is definitely my favorite. They are consistently good (minus the latest album) and his two solo albums were phenomenal.

I take back that cLOUDDEAD bit, because I've always like Boards of Canada more.

1. Matt Friedberger

2. Fiery Furnaces

3. Boards of Canada

In other words. What my Last.fm tells me I like. :L

Its too hard.

Tha Blue Herb for sure. and Plaid? yeah. and...

Ron D CORE!!!

all hail the daddy of synth

That's a tough question... I would say Tim Hecker, followed by Stars Of The Lid.

  On 9/22/2010 at 7:49 AM, Enter a new display name said:

That's a tough question... I would say Tim Hecker, followed by Stars Of The Lid.

a shaken grandfather clock

1 person: jaco, but rdj is so close

1+: Ae

  On 9/21/2010 at 6:45 AM, HerculesCzar said:

Charles Mingus. It isn't just that he's a phenomenal player or the fact that his composition's were boss, but he had a way of making all his groups sound so, so right. His ability to assemble these obscure players and got them to play in just the right way is astounding. I don't think there are a lot of artists who've gotten other musicians to express a vision so masterfully. I defy you to find a Mingus track that doesn't groove like crazy.

mingus is the best! read beneath the underdog if you ever get around to it...oh and turn the fuckin mic on!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9stYGxxcujg

also the robert christgau tom waits page is lol worthy

The Heart of a Saturday Night [Asylum, 1974]

Last time he was an urban romantic with a good eye who you would have figured for a Ferlinghetti fan if you'd thought about it. This time he begins to sound like a Ferlinghetti imitator, and while nostalgia for past bohemias sure beats nostalgia for past wars, it's still a drain and a drag. I mean, there might be more coverable songs here if maudlin melodies didn't merge with neon imagery in the spindrift dirge of the honky-tonk nicotine night. Dig?

Foreign Affairs [Asylum, 1977]

With his genre sleaze and metaphorical melodrama, Waits is a downwardly mobile escapist who believes that Everyman is a wino and Everywoman an all-night waitress who turns tricks when things get rough. The problem isn't the subjects themselves, but that for all his self-conscious unpretentiousness he inflates them. Which I guess is all we can expect of a schoolteacher's son who's been searching for his own world since he was old enough to think.

http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Tom+Waits

  On 9/22/2010 at 4:12 PM, Scrambled Ears said:

also the robert christgau tom waits page is lol worthy

I'm pretty sure every famous musician I listen to has received negative reviews from Robert Christgau for at least part of their career.

christgau needs to die in a fire

Selected Ambient Works Volume II [sire, 1994]

"Veering between an eerie beauty and an almost nightmarish desolation," intoneth Frank Owen. "Imbuing machine music with spirituality," saith Simon Reynolds. And, most incredibly, "Always a groove going on," quoth J.D. Considine. I mean, what are these dudes talking about? Not that ambient-techno wunderkind Richard James is offensive--when I played all two-and-a-half hours of this at a quiet thermal spring in Puerto Rico, the worst any of the attendant pensioners could say about James's nightmarish desolation was "interesting." And smack dab against Eno's instrumental box--well, if James really gets "physically ill if [his] music sounds like anybody else's," that's one consumer object he'd best not sully his expanded consciousness with. Thing is, James is rarely as rich as good Eno, not to mention good Eno-Hassell or Eno-Budd. One piece here does the trick (no titles or track listings--too Western, y'know--but it is, how crass, the lead cut) by folding in a child's voice (or is that one of his electronic friends?). In general, however, these experiments are considerably thinner ("purer," Owen wishes) and more static ("pulse dreamily," Considine dreams) than the overpriced juvenilia on the import-only Volume I. Anyway, a lot of Eno's "ambient" music could also be described as bland wallpaper. When Kyle Gann or (please God) Tom Johnson pumps a minimalist, I wonder whether I'm missing something. Otherwise I believe my own ears--and pull out David Berhman's On the Other Ocean/Music From a Clearing when I need deep background. B-

...my favorite though is

The Dark Side of the Moon [Harvest, 1973]

With its technological mastery and its conventional wisdom once-removed, this is a kitsch masterpiece--taken too seriously by definition, but not without charm. It may sell on sheer aural sensationalism, but the studio effects do transmute David Gilmour's guitar solos into something more than they were when he played them. Its taped speech fragments may be old hat, but for once they cohere musically. And if its pessimism is received, that doesn't make the ideas untrue--there are even times, especially when Dick Parry's saxophone undercuts the electronic pomp, when this record brings its cliches to life, which is what pop is supposed to do, even the kind with delusions of grandeur. B

where he has a chip on his shoulder because someone in a studio tried to make something sound better

Chumbawumba

  On 9/19/2010 at 7:17 PM, spratters said:

Cool. Just an idea is fine. I'm working on something and one name from all will be helpful.

 

 

You never know you may all benefit from it.

What's all this now? Am I part of some deranged social experiment?

  On 9/22/2010 at 4:12 PM, Scrambled Ears said:

  On 9/21/2010 at 6:45 AM, HerculesCzar said:

Charles Mingus. It isn't just that he's a phenomenal player or the fact that his composition's were boss, but he had a way of making all his groups sound so, so right. His ability to assemble these obscure players and got them to play in just the right way is astounding. I don't think there are a lot of artists who've gotten other musicians to express a vision so masterfully. I defy you to find a Mingus track that doesn't groove like crazy.

mingus is the best! read beneath the underdog if you ever get around to it...oh and turn the fuckin mic on!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9stYGxxcujg

I went through a phase a couple years ago wherein I tried to read/watch everything about Mingus I could. That clip is great, although the documentary it's featured in is mostly shit.

You may have seen it, but here's my favorite writing of his:

http://www.mingusmingusmingus.com/Mingus/cat_training.html

  On 9/21/2010 at 11:32 AM, imolt said:

Tangerine dream..

 

keep on dreamin', the fans will quote..

 

imolt...

at first i was thinking favourite SINGULAR artist. i might change mine to TD also.

  On 9/22/2010 at 7:35 PM, HerculesCzar said:

  On 9/22/2010 at 4:12 PM, Scrambled Ears said:

  On 9/21/2010 at 6:45 AM, HerculesCzar said:

Charles Mingus. It isn't just that he's a phenomenal player or the fact that his composition's were boss, but he had a way of making all his groups sound so, so right. His ability to assemble these obscure players and got them to play in just the right way is astounding. I don't think there are a lot of artists who've gotten other musicians to express a vision so masterfully. I defy you to find a Mingus track that doesn't groove like crazy.

mingus is the best! read beneath the underdog if you ever get around to it...oh and turn the fuckin mic on!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9stYGxxcujg

 

I went through a phase a couple years ago wherein I tried to read/watch everything about Mingus I could. That clip is great, although the documentary it's featured in is mostly shit.

 

 

You may have seen it, but here's my favorite writing of his:

 

http://www.mingusmingusmingus.com/Mingus/cat_training.html

havent seen the full doc but thanks for the heads up to avoid it. the cat toilet training article is great...this holiday season I wanna try his recipe for egg nog...sounds incredible but challenging