danlo's Recommendations

[danlo]

Part 1: British bands,

Pink Floyd*+
Camel*
King Crimson*
Jeff Beck (and the Jeff Beck Group)*+
Bush*
Led Zepplin*
Cat Stevens
Brand X
Al Stewart
Dave Mason+
The Kinks
Donovan
Gentle Giant#
The Zombies
The Hollies
The Who*
The Police (and some solo Sting stuff)
David Bowie#
Beatles (and various solo albums)*
Badfinger
Eric Clapton (Yardbirds, Cream, Blind Faith, Derek & the Dominos)*
Procol Harum
Lindesfarne
Big Country
Squeeze
The Climax Blues Band
Yes*+
Dire Straights
The Strawbs
Emerson, Lake and Palmer#
Beck
Roxy Music#
Eric Burdon and the Animals
Manfred Mann and his Earth Band
Jethro Tull#
The Rolling Stones#
The Fixx
Traffic (and The Spencer Davis Group)#
The Moody Blues (and the great spin off effort: Blue Jays)#
ELO
Black Sabbath+
Deep Purple#+
Herman's Hermits (:P I'm joking!)
The Alan Parsons Project#+
Genesis (preferably Gabriel Genesis)#
The Dave Clarke 5
Humble Pie
Van Morrison
Uriah Heep
John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers+
Fleetwood Mac (pre: Buckingham/Nicks)
Sawyer Brown
XTC
Sex Pistols
The Cure
The Cult

*: if danlo was forced to pick a top ten
#: rounding off the top 20, if forced
+: I have seen

[Edinburghemma]

ELP- Brain Salad Surgery- !!!!!!
Genesis- Lamb Lies down on Broadway!!!!

[danlo]

Its one o'clock and time for lunch,
When the sun beats down and I lie on the bench,
I can always hear them talk.
There's always been Ethel:
"Jacob, wake up! You've got to tidy your room now."
And then Mr Lewis:
"Isn't it time that he was out on his own?"
Over the garden wall, two little lovebirds
- cuckoo to you!
Keep them mowing blades sharp . . .

I know what I like, and I like what I know;
getting better in your wardrobe, stepping one beyond your show.
Sunday night, Mr Farmer called, said:

"Listen son, you're wasting time; there's a future for you
in the fire escape trade. Come up to town!"
But I remembered a voice from the past;
"Gambling only pays when you're winning."
- I had to thank old Miss Mort for schooling a failure.
Keep them mowing blades sharp . . .

I know what I like, and I like what I know;
getting better in your wardrobe, stepping one beyond your show.
I know what I like, and I like what I know;
getting better in your wardrobe, stepping one beyond your show.
When the sun beats down and I lie on the bench,
I can always hear them talk.
Me, I'm just a lawnmower-you can tell me by the way I walk

[Edinburghemma]

[danlo]

I would have listed U2 (and they would have made my top 10) but they'd be real pissed to be listed under "British"

[danlo]

Part 2, Hard to catagorize bands,

Ottmar Leibert and Luna Negra: Ottmar mixes classic flamenco guitar with Samba, Rhumba, Merenge and Bossa Nova rhythms and wanders off in his own unique New Mexican style (totally instrumental)-Solo Para Ti features two guest apperances by Carlos Santana. Your Ottmar primer: Nuevo Flamenco, The Hours Between Night and Day, Opium & Innamorare.+

The Mahavishnu Orchestra: The amazing John McGlaughlin on double neck guitar, Jan Hammer (yes the Miami Vice theme guy) on keyboards, Jerry Goodman on electric fiddle, Rich Laird on bass and Billy Cobham on drums. IMHO Billy Cobham is, along with Neal Peart, the best drummer in the world! This is very intense totally instrumental Jazz/Rock fusion with some small hints of classical. You must listen to Birds of Fire & The Inner Mounting Flame.+

The Gipsy Kings: Fantastic dancable rythms from a 5 guitar Spanish (Basque/Andeluvian) group who sing.

Some jazzy type bands with either such individual styles or worldbeat styles that it's hard to throw them in the jazz category:

The Pat Metheney Group+
The Rippingtons
Lee Rittenour
Return to Forever
Weather Report+

New Agey Recommendations:

George Winston+
Michael Hedges
David Lanz
Kitaro
Enigma
Deep Forest
Enya
Robert Whitesides Woo
Sunrise
William Ackerman+
Spyro Gyra
Tangerine Dream
Shadowfax


Amazing intrumental stuff from long ago--I can't really describe it---but if you don't listen to these two albums in your lifetime you will be seriously deprived (totally wild music that WILL make you dance):

Reveberi by Timer
Cruise Control by The Dixie Dregs

Native American Music:

R. Carlos Nakai (flute)
Robert Mirabal (flutes and damm good rock & roll)+
Willie Twofeathers (Shaman healing songs)+

Obscure but very good rock groups that kinda fell off the face of the earth,

Capt. Beefheart (they didn't fall off Foul's earth )
The Nice
Rhinocherous
Atomic Rooster
Captian Beyond*
Armageddon* highly recommend the song Silver Tightrope
Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks
Kaptian Kopter and the Twirlybirds (guitarist Randy California from Spirit)
Vandergraff Generator*
Horslips
H. P. Lovecraft
Ultimate Spinach
Steeler's Wheel (Gerry Rafferty's old group)
Fairport Convention*
Renissance*+
Richie Havens (*famous as opening act at Woodstock)
Boz Scaggs*

*recommend
+: I have seen

[Chrysalis]

You can't go wrong with Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Yes, Rolling Stones, Genesis, Black Sabbeth and Deep Purple( Although have to say, saw them in concert last year when they were in London and was disappointed. Never a good sign when the main act gets out played by the support-Lynyrd Skynyrd in this case.) And Uriah Heep is a name I haven't heard in ages. Some of their stuff was good too

[danlo]

They're prob starting to get too old and in the way. I saw DP here during their Perfect Strangers tour (what was it? 6-8 years ago?) and Richie Blackmore tore the roof off!

[Chrysalis]

Yeah maybe-although LS were all pretty old too! I think it was more because the line up had been changed so only a couple of the original members were on stage and they didn't seem to be that organised as a whole. It was good to see but not the best gig I have ever been to. You still can't beat some of the music they have made over the years though

[matrixman]

danlo, you and Ur-Vile are so far the only other two people I know of around here who appreciate Big Country. This band has been so mislabelled, misunderstood and altogether ignored in North America that it's criminal. Big Country's time has passed, but it's at least nice to know that you (and Ur-Vile) have not forgotten them.

[Vain]

Hey, I enjoyed Big Country.

[matrixman]

Vain! Okay, make that three other folks who like Big Country...

[danlo]

Part 3: North American bands,

(disclaimer: I may include some British bands by accident, Australian & Jamaican bands may also be mentioned)

Neil Young with Crazy Horse*+
The Pat Travers Band#+
Rush#+
Tool*
Alice in Chains*
Soundgarden*
The Eagles
Steely Dan
Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young) (and solo works including Manassas)+
Buffalo Springfield
The Byrds
Poco
Pantera
Rob Zombie
Judas Priest
Midnite Oil
AC/DC
Metallica*
Godsmack
Dream Theater#
Stone Temple Pilots
Cracker
Audioslave
A Perfect Circle
The Greatful Dead+
The Allman Brothers*+
The J. Geils Band+
Little Feat
Lynrd Skynyrd (pre-plane crash version)+
Kingfish
Jimi Hendrix
Big Brother & the Holding Company (featuring Janis Joplin)
Steppenwolf+
The Freddie Jones Band#
Meat Loaf
Bob Seeger
George Throughgood and the (Delaware) Destroyers+
Iron Maiden
Van Halen
Bruce Cockburn
The Doors
Pearl Jam
Smashing Pumpkins
Dave Matthews Band
Cowboy Junkies
Dead Kennedys
Beach Boys
Santana#+
System of a Down#
Jefferson Airplane/Starship
Heart+
The Band
Bob Dylan
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention+
Spirit#
Todd Rundgren (and Utopia)*
The Nelsons ( no joking!)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
The Traveling Wilburys (half US/half UK)
The Marshall Tucker Band#+
ZZ Top+
Joni Mitchell
Bonnie Raitt+
Quicksilver*
Joe Satriani#
Stevie Vai+
Stevie Ray Vaughn
The Pretenders+
The B-52s
Jan & Dean
Billy Joel
Tracy Chapman
Joan Armatrading (might be UK)
The Talking Heads#
Hot Tuna
New Riders of the Purple Sage
Jackson Brown+
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band*+
Melissa Etheridge
The Ramones*+
Elvis Costello
Creedance Clearwater Revival
Alice Cooper
R.E.M
Lou Reed (and the Velvet Underground)
Patti Smith (not to be confused with Patti Smyth)
Aerosmith+
Jimmy Buffett
Chicago
The Red Hot Chili Peppers#
The Average White Band
The Doobie Brothers
Joe Walsh (and the James Gang)
The Grass Roots
Johnny Winter+
Molly Hatchet
Cheap Trick
The Black Crows
The Deftones
Live
Eric Johnson
The Outlaws

Others,

Clifton Chenier (cajun)
Alison Krause & Union Station (bluegrass)

Motown:
Stevie Wonder
Marvin Gaye
The Temptations
The Crusaders
The 4 Tops

Reggae:
Bob Marley and the Wailers
Peter Tosh
Jimmy Cliff
Steele Pulse

Oldies:
Roy Orbison
Dion & the Belmonts
Danny and the Juniors

*: if danlo was forced to pick a top ten
#: rounding off the top 20, if forced

German bands,

The Scorpions
The Michael Shenker Band
UFO
Uli Roth

Fun bands to dance to:
Stray Cats
The Mighty, Mighty Bostones
The Squirrel Nut Zippers
The Cherry Popping Daddies

Bobby Darin

Some cool mellow stuff:

James Taylor+
Linda Rondstad
Carole King
It's a Beautiful Day
Harry Nilson
Jesse Collin Young (and The Youngbloods)
Seals and Croft
America
Don McClean
Judy Collins+
Simon & Garfunkle (and Simon's solo stuff, especially Graceland)

+: I have seen

[Cate]

Now that's a real man, y'all.

[danlo]

Fun, quirky acts, and some others that deserve honorable mention:
Tom Lehrer
John Prine
Tom Waits
Loudon Wainwright III

Bad Brains
Indigo Girls
Los Lonely Boys

and the music gods will stike me dead if I forget the incomparable: Leon Russell!!!!

[[Syl]]

I'm with you on the Toms, danlo.

I actually had the elements song memorized at one time.

[Fist and Faith]

The Indigo Girls' Rites of Passage is among my favorite albums ever.

[danlo]

Big mistake: Godsmack definately UK

[sgt.null]

Godsmack is from New Hampshire, USA.

who is H. P. Lovecraft?

[danlo]

Well Sgt. You're right that they are a US band and I was right originally--friends on different occasions convinced me they were from the UK. However, according to Wikipedia, Godsmack is Boston based and all it's members are from Mass.

H.P. Lovecraft
Their exotic name seemed rather fitting for the times. Taken from the deceased, cult gothic fantasy/horror writer of the early 20th century, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Chicago's finest exponents of folk-rock are best remembered for their haunting musical tribute to the author's novella, the White Ship, the centrepiece on their brilliant debut album, released in late 1967. Like Lovecraft's writings, the group's music had a dream-like quality, encapsulating perfectly the peace-love vibe of the West Coast hippie scene.

Helmed by aspiring folk singer/songwriter, George Edwards, and classically trained keyboard player/singer, Dave Michaels, H.P. Lovecraft were a motley crew of talented musicians, formed in the spring of 1967. Yet, it was this diversity of musical backgrounds that also shaped the band's unique sound and set it apart from its contemporaries. In just a little under a year, H.P. Lovecraft produced two remarkable albums of musical ingenuity that stand as some of the finest pieces of music to emerge during the late 1960s acid-rock era. Sadly, H.P. Lovecraft never fulfilled their undoubted promise; the band's career derailed prematurely through a combination of poor management, internal frictions, exhaustion and substance abuse.-from the Mobius Strip webpage