Post the last "wow" experience you had with music

[jpgray]

I just got Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden, and maybe I'm in the honeymoon phase, but it's a really impressive piece of work.

[WindRavenX]

1. "Transatlantacism" Death Cab for Cutie

In fact, the entire album is mind-blowing.
Or, "Bye" by Elliot Smith.

[two gun sid]

2. SOAD. Toxicity. Chop Suey!

I haven't heard anything since then that makes me wanna tear some shit up.

[RetroLounge]

3. Jet - Get Born

Love that album!

RL

[Wickerman]

4. Camper Van Beethoven - New Roman Times

great allegory of the Bush times.

[Jessica]

34. I wanna check that out ...

Aren't they Cracker, only newer & more bluegrass?

[jandrok]

5. Patty Griffin's debut album - "Living With Ghosts"

Woman lays her soul bare for all to see. Painful, haunting, beautiful, joyous, it's all there. Acoustic and spare, it amazes me every time I listen to it.

[dolo amber]

6. Antony and the Johnsons

Sorta piano-bar stuff...but not. Unbelievably moving. Y'know what, RandomKoolzip should tell you about 'em since he's the music writer and all (and I'm clearly not) and we listened to them at his crib last weekend...

All I'm sayin' is they make my soul happy. :)

[RandomKoolzip]

9. Yup.....

Antony is a leader in the Gay cabaret scene in New York City who just happens to have one of the most glory-inflicting throats since time began. Scribes from Mojo, Spin, etc. have been throwing the name "Nina Simone" around like silly string when talking about this dude, but to my ears, he's more like Bryan Ferry with out the archness and 12 times the soul-raping vibrato. As a songwriter, I don't think he's really found his feet, and my personal quibbles with the pace of his songs (tortuously glacial) are something I doubt I'll get over soon, but if the human voice doing things humans can't do is your individual bag, Antony and the Johnsons is well worth the 17.99.

[BurtWorm]

12. Is he the guy who toured with Lou Reed?

The guy who made Lou Reed say something like "If I sang like this guy, I would have sold out long ago"?

[RandomKoolzip]

15. Same guy.

Lou was letting him sing "Candy Says" while he stood back and played guitar.


It's funny, tho...I found the Antony and the Johnsons Cd back in 2000, and thought it was cool in a sub-Radiohead vein, but didn't really get that into it. Now he's got this new CD out and the record company is obviously putting bookoo bucks into promoting him, and it feels like I'm on some bandwagon by sangin' his praises.

It's not perfect, but it's good.

[terrya]

56. I'll add to this...and thank dolo amber for recommending them to me.

I bought their cd, "I Am a Bird Now" last Friday. And I am loving it. Antony has a voice that aches with emotion...some nice, nice stuff. Plus, he's got some terrific guests on the cd...Boy George, Rufus Wainwright (on my favorite track, "What Can I Do"....and Lou Reed.

Go out and buy this cd. :-)

[gristy]

7. Listening to the Roach Sisters in a concert 24 years ago

A wonderful experience. Just wonderful.

[erinlough]

8. last wow experience

came because of the situation and the music. I volunteer with an international drum and bugle corps. Last summer the top corps did a tour of California and had an indoor concert. Hearing all of their music inside with only drums and brass and so "in your face" was awesome and took my breath away. I was crying by the end.

To those of you who are not aware of drum and bugle corps,,,,just ignore this post. (I know not many people are)

[RandomKoolzip]

10. Karate's version of B. Dylan's "Tears of Rage."

[enigmatic]

11. It was actually w/ a DU member..

lininginphotographs sent me some of his stuff to play on my station and I was really blown away at how great it was; "A Better Tomorrow" is a hella great song...

Another recent one was probably listening to Richmond Fontaine's (my favorite band) ned record "Post To Wire"; another classic from Willy and the guys..

[asthmaticeog]

13. The re-recording of Cheap Trick's "In Color"

They apparently decided to re-do the whole album a couple of years ago, and did so with Steve Albini producing. It rocks so gloriously fucking hard it crushes the original like a bug. It hasn't been released, and it may never be, but it HAS been leaked. Try to run it down, it's worth it.

[RandomKoolzip]

16. I heard about that....

The last Trick record had some Albini-produced tunes on it, but the songs themselves were dreadful.

Seeing how early Cheap Trick is somewhere hovering over the "3" or "4" spot on the list of my all-time favorite bands, I'd pay to hear "In Color" done in the style of their first (best) album with my everlasting soul.

[asthmaticeog]

26. I'll try to remember that...

If I can remember to burn a copy from my friend who has one before my next trip to Chicago, it shall be done. *ties string around finger*

[BurtWorm]

14. I sat up and paid attention to Of Montreal

just a couple of nights ago. Never heard them before, but they popped up on the front page of Rhapsody and I listened to their new album Sunlandic Twins. The first three songs really hooked me. They're not the greatest band I ever heard, but I liked what I did hear.

But the previous wow experience was only a few moments before when I put on Amina's Nomad. What a great voice! And then last week or the week before it was the great Brazilian singer Elis Regina's voice. Wow!

I'm a sucker for music, maybe.

[Lindsey]

17. Coldplay: "A Rush of Blood to the Head"

eventhough I can't listen to it now because it reminds me too much of my ex-girlfriend :-(

[Zerex71]

18. When I was playing a few weeks ago at a club.

I was tearing up John Coltrane's rendition of "Afro-Blue" so hard my ribcage felt like it was about to explode, and after I sat down, this African guy came up, all serious and wide-eyed, shook my hand, and gave me a napkin on which was written, "YOU ARE THE BEST ANYWAY". Man, that was something.

[Dora]

35. Nothin' like love from the audience

Way to go. I trust you were burning.

[Zerex71]

37. Thanks for the kind words. I think I was burning. ;)

It felt great, and it doesn't come often. Still too much work to go yet.

[mark414]

19. about 5 minutes ago

when i heard gang starr's 'take a rest'

[mark414]

38. KICK for bigwillq

heyy will :hi:

[bigwillq]

39. Thanks man!

:pals:

[MrScorpio]

20. LEAVING THIS PLANET by DAMN!

They took the Charles Earland classic and blew it the fuck UP!

It's the BOMB!

[driver8]

21. Saturday night...when I see the Bangles!

I know...I'm a geek...but these ladies rock!! I have seen them before and they can play! Plus, their harmonies are amazing and Vicki Peterson is so hot the way she plays guitar.

[Beer Snob-50]

57. I didn't realize they were still playing!

Are the members the same as in their heyday?

[Droopy]

22. Muse "Absolution"

Excellent. I have a new favorite band.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

24. Muse is great !

I love " Hysteria " . I would love to hear a symphony orchestra play that . Actually all of their songs done to orchestral would sound great .

[ghostsofgiants]

27. I had that moment after listening to all three Muse albums

Amazing band.

[Jamastiene]

23. Get Free

by the Vines. I'm not easily amused when it comes to music. An awful lot of what gets called great punk isn't all that to me. The Vines are great to me though.

[The Magistrate]

25. It Was Some While Ago, Sir

The first time one of my children played Cake's "Cool Blue Reason" in my hearing....

[ghostsofgiants]

28. The Mars Volta - "Frances The Mute"

Especially the 8 part "Cassandra Geminni".

[Catchawave]

29. The first time I saw Phantom of the Opera on Broadway.

It was a multiple orgasmic experience :smoke:

[wideopen]

30. bela fleck and the flecktones

saw them in concert from the fourth row,center stage. Victor wooten in incredible.

[phusion]

59. Wooten is scary good, huh?

He's absolutely amazing. At the Telluride Bluegrass Fest he is known to play 2 or 3 times a day all weekend and you can usually catch him jamming w/ all kinds of people.

And I love the tricks he does w/ the bass like throwing it around his back, etc.

[luvLLB]

31. Cottonfields and Crossroads with Henry Garza on guitar...

I am an old SRV fan, and Garza's playing sat me up and made me say "WWWOOOOOOWWW! If you have not heard it, you should.

[bertha katzenengel]

32. The two instrumental cuts of Danny Elfman's on the "Chicago" soundtrack

I love the music of that era. Can't get enough.

[fudge stripe cookays]

33. Yesterday on KFOG

for new releases Thursday, they played a new band that jumped out and wanted me to like them.

4 lads from Liverpool who sound like a cross between the Clash and Joe Jackson, called "The Dead 60s."

I don't like much anymore, so this was a nice surprise. Their album isn't even out yet, but I'll take a look in a few weeks and see if that's changed.

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[leftofthedial]

36. Listening to Walt Wilkins' Mustang Island

[eyepaddle]

40. Steve Vai's Live "I know you're there"

Simply superlative.

(Howver I am aware that few share my love for "guitar weenie" rock!) :P

[Sugarcoated]

41. Absolutely Patty Griffin (obviously)

I went to see her for a Borders appearance when she was promoting "1,000 Kisses" and it was very impressive. A friend urged me to go with him when she came for a show a few months later. I was totally charmed by her, amazed by that gift of a voice. Her lyrics hammer you. My friend John kept saying listen for "Tony, you gotta hear Tony". She did Tony. I had to learn to play every song she's written.

And Aimee Mann. I heard "Calling it Quits" a few times on the radio, noticed the exceptional lyrics, then a few days later "Make a Killing" and I was on the hunt. I picked up a sort of greatest hits compilation "Aimee Mann: The Ultimate Collection" (I regret buying this as they screwed her on it) but, oh, man! It was like hearing a female Beatles. Next was "I'm With Stupid" and fahget abou it! I've seen her six or seven times, gonna see her in Princeton this Summer. Patty at least a dozen times. As Emmylou Harris has said 'I would travel far and wide to hear that heartbreakingly beautiful voice'.

I saw them both on the same bill in Pittsburgh last year - dream come true. I only wish they did a few songs together.

[NoSheep]

42. Friday night, I was given a copy of a Prince early studio recording.

He plays everything but the saxaphone. It's amazing! My friend bought it in Amsterdam several weeks ago. I also get wowed everytime I hear my new love, Gillian Welch.

[sakabatou]

43. When my friend toook me to a Black Mages concert

[goodboy]

44. Keller Williams...the guy's an amazing one man band...

www.kellerwilliams.net

[eyepaddle]

58. No doubt about it,

Keller is SOLID.

They've been playing his stuff on XM Musiclab (my personal favorite music channel on XM) and I have been impressed. I dinn't realize he was a one man band though!

[goodboy]

60. he does everything you hear live, using a sampler. he'll play an 8

bar pattern, loop it,. and move onto the next instrument.

[NewJeffCT]

45. Not since "Head Like a Hole" from Nine Inch Nails

or "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from Nirvana...

Somewhere in that time frame.

[AngryAmish]

46. Seven Nation Army

[XNASA]

47. I've been revisiting "Unknown Pleasures" as of late.

It's one of the best records I've ever heard in my life. So that's my most recent 'wow'.

[Ron Green]

48. Played Horace Silver's "Silver Serenade" the other night, and the drummer

just opened up a wonderful transparent groove with the tune. He's rather new to jazz drumming, although he's been playing for many years, and this was the first time he found such a feel. I went "wow" on that one.

[redqueen]

49. Mogwai

[AllegroRondo]

50. Carmina Burana - at the STL Symphony

if you have the chance to see this performed live, GO FOR IT.

[Bossy Monkey]

51. Was very pleased w/ latest Steve Wynn record, but last WOW

was when the Swimming Pool Qs came to town a couple years back and kicked off the show (in front of me, my also 40ish friend, and several dozen 50-somethings waiting to dance to "Big Fat Tractor") with a blazing, transcendent version of a new song, "Light Arriving Soon." Unfortunately, the version on the record is a pale shadow, so you'll just have to hope they come to your town and go see them. I turned to Paul and said, more or less: If they'd sounded like this 20 years ago, we'd have to go to a stadium to see them right now!

Was also bowled over by The Mountain Goats at the same venue, but I don't know about Wow.:P

[frictionlessO]

52. GarageBand2 for Mac, just Wow'd me about 10 minutes ago.

It is excellent, take it for a spin it'll make a loop junky out of you!

[sallydallas124]

53. was watching

a documentary a few days ago about jazz bass player Milt Hinton. His technique & ability - awesome.

[LostinVA]

54. Listening to the entire "American Idiot" CD at one sitting

WOW. And, I still think that, even after listening to it a zillion times since then.

[Coyote_Bandit]

55. The "Hurt" Video

by Johnny Cash

[Az]

61. A Japanese group we discovered recently called Eccentric Opera

The orchestration and layers quality of their works are truly breath taking. Its hard not to get a chill up you back listening to them. Astounding.

[RT Atlanta]

62. 'Exile on Main' and 'Pet Sounds'

I'm a little late to the game, but was introduced to both late last year and have been listening to both regularly since them. Simply amazing!

[Ellipsis]

63. Mindy Smith, kinda country but not, ...shes got IT.

[MrScorpio]

64. I said "WOW" when I saw this

http://www.geocities.com/davidbassin/freefall.html