Current favorite - Little Toy Gun by honeyhoney
The song I haven’t been able get out of my head for the past three days - Good Morning Sunshine.
“Declaration” by David Cook.
Yes, the David Cook that won American Idol last season. He’s debut CD is excellent and he rocks it. It’s the first AI winner CD I’ve bought and I can’t wait for his next one.
Cool.
Mine …
Rise Against - The Good Left Undone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGxLPV19tO4
I love the opening lyrics from RA’s “Behind Closed Doors” …
Chairs thrown and tables toppled,
Hands armed with broken bottles,
Standing no chance to win but,
We’re not running, we’re not running.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DJQitF9YDk
Prayer of the Refugee is also pdg.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOtNqDyyX2c
Because top 40 “sucks the sweat off of a dead marines balls”.
BK,
It’s a phenomenom best explained by the concept of the Long Tail ( see link below) where people listen to the music that they actually like, that they may have found on their own, and not what top-40 radio charts are telling them to like. That model has reached it’s end point and is in decline.
Example: There has never been an ambient-dub tune that has made it into any top-40 chart in the world. But their are many fans of ambient dub all over the world. And there are web sites and blogs devoted to it. You can go to iTunes or other online music sites and search for ambient dub tracks, down-load them and listen to your hearts content.
“Ambient” wha? I think I have it as interior lighting in my car, but other than that, I’m clueless. Now Huh-Mung (or Hmong, as the case may be) rap? That’s a different story. I heard a bunch of it in that Clint Eastwood movie (Gran Torino) and I could definitely get behind that.
BK
“Do we all just try to come up with the most obscure, non-money making bands we can find out there?”
**Are you replying to me? I don’t think Paul McCartney is an obscure non-money maker. **
Not replying to you, skipper. Just appending on to end of the thread (at that point) and also to what Mr. Fleck says is something to do with “longtails.”
I like longNECKS, by the way. But I think this “longtail” phenomenon may be something I might like to write a web site article or two about.
BK
Since I saw the movie several weeks ago I have played this song a lot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoLc43YuuTw
This version is even better:
Just appending on to end of the thread (at that point) and also to what Mr. Fleck says is something to do with “longtails.”
I like longNECKS, by the way. But I think this “longtail” phenomenon may be something I might like to write a web site article or two about .
BK,
I would suggest, that you read Chris Anderson’s book, “The Long Tail”, It’s a great read, and what I was talking about will start to make sense.
The Long Tail concept has already started to change dramatically whole businesses and industries. The Music business is perhaps the best example of this. It no longer tends to revolve completely around top-40 lists, as it did years ago. Back then, you more or less had to have a top 40 hit to be “successful”, now you don’t. There are bands and musicians who have carved out a very successful niche for themselves completely away from the whole concept of Top-40 Radio and without the backing of a major label.
Unbeknownst to me I was way out in the Long Tail with music years ago. I was very fortunate to have a music station in the Toronto back in the late 70’s and early 80’s - CFNY, that tossed out the whole concept of top-40 radio and they played what the DJ’s wanted to p-lay and want listeners wanted to hear. It was not uncommon to listen to the following bands in sequence, in say 1980 - The Sex Pistols, Brian Eno, Neil Young and then Genesis, and these are well known bands/musicians - you could sub in more obscure similar artists such as, The Buzzcocks, Aphex-Twin, Tim Buckley, and Gentle Giant. So their in one short snippet you had, punk, ambient, folk-rock and prog-rock all played back-to-to back . . . And so it went as you listened to CFNY over the years. It played cutting edge new music, but also played many off top-40 classics as well. Those more obscure tracks on an album that never get played.
What you say makes perfect sense, now that you cited the whole thing about exploring the vast number of niches out there and exploiting them to accomplish your aims, whatever they may be. And I’m definitely going to read that book, so thanks!
Do you suppose I can download it to my Kindle? 
BK
It’s over a year old now but it still gets me going every time I hear it.
Radiohead, 15 steps:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WedRDYmtvX4
I ***LOVE ***In Rainbows! My favorite track is probably Jigsaw Falling. But I like them all.
Yeah, basically, there isn’t a bad song (or even a not great song) on that record!
Right now, this song makes me run faster.
I think I’ll add that one to the mix. I have lose yourself already (of course) and a couple of others but I didn’t have that one.
I also like this one for warm up/down.
Long Beach Dub Allstars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcaXDIY4r0A