Wednesday, July 15, 2009

It's Like Being Low

I'm slowly beginning to put together a play list for the La Luz race and I'm finding myself craving some of that wall of sound effect from Old School electronic and ambient music – Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Brian Eno, Fripp, Jarre, Laurie Anderson, Gary Numan, and Bowie's unparalleled Low. If you don't have Low on album or CD, do yourself a favor and go download "Crashing in the Same Car" and this song, which contains some of the greatest pop music lyrics ever written.



What are you craving aurally these days?
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16 comments:

  1. Gnomeself Be TrueJuly 15, 2009 at 7:16 AM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUp9pLEfwMY

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  2. Haiku MasterJuly 15, 2009 at 7:17 AM

    A silence so sound
    construction is abated
    by it's majesty.

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  3. moiJuly 15, 2009 at 7:25 AM

    Gnome: I love Adele. I just hope she doesn't slip into Joan Osborne-like obscurity.

    Haiku Master: You and Bowie would make quite the pair . . .

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  4. JennyJuly 15, 2009 at 7:25 AM

    After Adam Lambert sang several David Bowie songs, I've also been craving a little of the early stuff and youtube has been my juke box recently. But, our shop has a radio playing all day, so often by the time I get home, I'm looking for my other favorite kind of music,

    nothing.

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  5. Studio KaufmannJuly 15, 2009 at 8:31 AM

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  6. MommyHeadacheJuly 15, 2009 at 8:32 AM

    Well my mum is staying with me at the mo and what I am craving aurally at the mo is SILENCE

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  7. MommyHeadacheJuly 15, 2009 at 8:34 AM

    Although to chill out I do love J J Cale

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  8. Heather CherryJuly 15, 2009 at 11:13 AM

    Orally, cookies and cream ice cream. Aurally, I dunno...

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  9. czarJuly 15, 2009 at 11:21 AM

    Have you heard the CD where an acoustic group re-created Eno's Music for Airports note for note? It is most unbelievable. I heard a radio show once where they spliced a few sections together, and you couldn't tell the difference. Not sure you'd want to run to it, though. Even through airports.

    These days, I crave silence. Even when I'm in the car, radio goes off.

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  10. Gnomeself Be TrueJuly 15, 2009 at 11:40 AM

    Reminds me of a joke about aural sex that I had the good sense to forget some time ago....

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  11. Kymical ReactionsJuly 15, 2009 at 12:55 PM

    I'm craving some Soundgarden and Audioslave. I love Chris Cornell's voice. I heard an Audioslave song on the radio yesterday, and I went to dig out my CD and couldn't find it.

    :/

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  12. moiJuly 15, 2009 at 2:47 PM

    Boxer: I was lucky enough to be front row center at Bowie's Serious Moonlight tour stop in Phoenix. He was so beautiful. Still is.

    Emma: I remember last time your mum visited. Didn't you try to bury her in your garden?

    Heather: Eat to the beat, girl.

    Czar: No, I have to get that! One of these days, Eno is going to soundtrack my life.

    Gnome: Have you been listening to Iggy Pop by any chance?

    kmwthay: I always crave Chris Cornell. Oops? Did I just say that?

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  13. NYDJuly 15, 2009 at 6:02 PM

    Pretty much anything I can play or practice with on the guitar.

    For me music is the sauce I cover my activities with. What I listen to depends on what I'm doing.

    If you are going to put Robert FRipp on the list you might want to add a little Adrienne Belew. They go very well together.

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  14. moiJuly 16, 2009 at 5:39 AM

    NYD: For me music is the sauce I cover my activities with. Yes!

    In my next life, I'm going to be able to play like Fripp/Belew: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFvS1RcK7o8

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  15. PamJuly 16, 2009 at 7:38 PM

    Moi, if you are fan of Bowie at that period in time, may I recommend this book. For two reasons.

    http://www.amazon.com/Bowie-Berlin-New-Career-Town/dp/1906002088

    Reason 1: It tells the story of Bowie at the time of the album; and

    Reason 2: The author is my British niece's boyfriend!

    I need to go order a copy for me. Can't believe I haven't done that yet, book fiend that I am.

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  16. moiJuly 17, 2009 at 4:43 AM

    Pam: Very cool, thanks!

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