JCC Song Shuffle

No, I think it's actually good to at least try to teach yourself to appreciate different works of art. There has been plenty of stuff that I've liked pretty much immediately, but there has also been a lot I've heard that I really didn't like at first, but grew to appreciate (even love, in some cases). It actually bugs me a little that I can't appreciate jazz... I feel like I should have been able to train myself to at least appreciate it a little bit... lol.

I think I may have to see it live, at some point... seeing things performed live almost always gives me an appreciation (or more of an appreciation) for it... ties me to it more personally, I guess.

 

That's very true. I guess maybe a better way of saying it, instead of "try", would be "to force yourself to like it". Part of it has to come naturally, at least at some point. But the live exposure part helps a lot too, and not just for music... a lot of visual art is that way too (seeing it in person).

 

Believe it or not harps, your idea that you may appreciate it more when you go see it live is actually supported by recent research!

Hearing Music as Beautiful Is a Learned Trait

 

Totally makes sense... to some people, music is background noise, and to really hear it takes effort in concentration. To others, it's front and center... almost to the point that it takes serious effort to pay attention to what is going on outside of it--people probably experience both at different times, but I'm sure there are some who experience one more than the other.

I'm adding "see live jazz" to my 2013 shortlist.

Oh, and...

And You and I - Yes
Stoickholm Syndrome - Yo La Tengo
Deja Vu - Crosby Still Nash & Young
Llama - Phish
Intruder - Peter Gabriel
Lions - Tones on Tail
Open Book - Gnarles Barkley
Taking a Fall - Elliott Smith
Working Class Hero - John Lennon
Minor Waltz - Asylum Street Spankers

 

I call anything "early jazz" that came BM (Before Miles).

I tend to find most modern jazz intolerable. It's sort of purposely difficult and esoteric; it all started with Bitches Brew, I think, when it became hip to measure the greatness of jazz in direct proportion to how nasty it sounded. Anything up through the sixties though is generally pretty great.

 

Oh I love Bitches Brew, actually. And a lot of the jazz rock that came out of that. But that's way over the hill now.

 

Mariee Sioux - Homeopathic
Com Truise - Dreambender
CSN&Y - Wooden Ships
Goldfrapp Monster Love
a bunch of podcasts SHUT UP!!

 

I swear I'm going to start a podcast thread one of these days.

 

Thanks for the recommendation; I bought a couple of the Cream BBC Sessions tracks from iTunes last night (SWLABR and Tales Of Brave Ulysses... will probably get some of the others at some point). This performance of SWLABR is a beast... even with the annoying voiceover by the BBC host at the start and finish... haha.

 

Surf Wax America - Weezer
Blood and Thunder - Mastodon
Dazed and Confused - Led Zeppelin
Polly - Nirvana
Cry Baby Cry - The Beatles
Crack Hitler - Faith No More
FBLA - Helmet
The Fool On the Hill - The Beatles
Whatever - Godsmack
Sympathy For the Devil - The Rolling Stones

 

All My Rowdy Friends - Elliott Smith
Peace Frog - The Doors
I Talk to the Wind - King Crimson
Fog - Radiohead
Moonchild - The Flaming Lips
O My, My - Ani DiFranco
Revolution - The Beatles
Can't You Hear me Knocking? - The Rolling Stones
Hairspray Queen - Nirvana
Chosen One - The Flaming Lips

 

That's a frigging great set, Todd.

 

Soul Coughing - Idiot Kings
The Black Keys - Hell of a Season
The Misfits - Die Die My Darling
Beastie Boys - Just a Test
Alice in Chains - Over Now
Velvet Revolver - Sucker Train Blues
Howard Shore - The Hill of Sorcery
Audioslave - Show me How to Live
NIN - Right Where It belongs
Radiohead - High and Dry

 

The Last Remaining Light - Audioslave
Speechless - Helmet
Them Bones - Alice In Chains
Glass Onion - The Beatles
Drop Dead Legs - Van Halen
Angie - The Rolling Stones
Brain Stew - Green Day
Sad But True - Metallica
Acknowledgement - John Coltrane
The End - The Beatles

 

FBLA II - Helmet
Brain of J. - Pearl Jam
Polythene Pam - The Beatles
Home - Foo Fighters
Surprise! You're Dead! - Faith No More
Aerials - System of a Down
Witchdoctor - Clutch
Lose Yourself - Eminem
Lady Madonna - The Beatles
Flushings - Helmet

 

Bring the Light - Smashing Pumpkins
Fortunate Son - CCR
Armitage Shanks - Green Day
More Than a Feeling - Boston
Ghetto Box - Rancid
Engel - Rammstein
Rockin All OVer the World - Jon Fogerty
Here - Luscious Jackson
Break on Through - STP
Headup - Deftones

 

Edgar - Butthole Surfers
Let's Take it to the Stage - Funkadelic
Got to Be Free - The Kinks
Oh My Lover - The Detroit Cobras
Souljacker Part 1 - Eels
Junk Bond Trader - Elliott Smith
Toccata - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
The Sun - Burning Spear
Moving in Stereo - The Cars
She's Your Baby - Ween

 

Piano Quintet in A Major, D. 667, "The Trout": II. Andante - Colorado String Quartet & Emmy Verhey
Mon Dieu - Edith Piaf
Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) - Bob Dylan
Mescaline - Abel Koreniowski (A Single Man Soundtrack)
Call It Off - Tegan and Sara
Dance in the Dark - Lady Gaga
The Good Times Are Killing Me - Modest Mouse
Swans - Camera Obscura
Tristan und Isolde (Prelude) - Richard Wagner
We Used to Wait - Arcade Fire

 

In the Arms of Sleep - Smashing Pumpkins
Only In Dreams - Weezer
You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC
Machine Gun (Live) - Jimi Hendrix
Abraham Lincoln - Clutch
You Really Got Me - Van Halen
Got Me Wrong - Alice In Chains
Good Morning Good Morning - The Beatles
You're Crazy - Guns N' Roses
Gratitude - Beastie Boys

 

Europe Endless - Kraftwerk
Will anything happen? - Blondie
Joan - Erasure
A century of fakers - Belle and Sebastian
The London boys - Marc Almond
The sweetest condition - Depeche Mode
Generation 2nd floor - Freelance Whales
Lie to me - Depeche Mode
My heart - Smith Westerns
Siren song - Erasure

 

Hear My Train A Comin' (Live) - Jimi Hendrix
Vaccination - Helmet
The Art of Self-Defense - The Jesus Lizard
Blow Up the Outside World - Soundgarden
12 Ounce Epilogue - Clutch
Honky Tonk Women - The Rolling Stones
Across the Universe - The Beatles
Fazer - Quicksand
I'm So Glad - Cream
Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival

 

Born On the Bayou - Creedence Clearwater Revival
F No. 9 - Bulletboys
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
Scentless Apprentice - Nirvana
Angie - The Rolling Stones
Aerials - System of a Down
Moving - Kate Bush
We Gotta Live Together (Live) - Jimi Hendrix
Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones
Back In the USSR - The Beatles