[MesaBeige]

What's loaded in your cd six-player?

1. Romanza
2. Keiko Matsui
3. Spyro Gyra
4. Gypsy Kings
5. Zeppelin 4
6. Jethro Tull

How's that for a strange brew!

That was then March 2001 - Blues is now January 2003.

1. Stevie Ray Vaughn
2. Albert King
3. Buddy Guy
4. Lonnie Max
5. BB King and Eric Clapton
6. Hendrix

Oh yeah, 7th spot is the overhead DVD player - MIB.

Update January 2004

1 - Homemade mix of SRV/ Albert King
2 - Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
3 - Savoy Brown - Best of, Disc 2
4 - The Doors
5 - Train
6 - Open for Swapping

and overhead, the most popular DVDs by the kids lately have been Finding Nemo and Pirates

 

[MDX-Hungry]

Is that English?!?!

...LOL

 

[KK]

My changer still skips (and I'm waiting for the replacement) so I can't usually get through a disc without cursing at the changer. That said, I'm currently spinning:

1. Talking Heads: Sand in the Vaseline (retrospective compilation) Disc 1 (the early years).

2. Violent Femmes: Debacle (also a compilation)

3. Ken Burns Jazz Box (Disc 4/5: Miles, Getz, Brubeck, etc.)

4. U2: All that you can't leave behind

5. Santana: Supernatural

6. Radiohead: Kid A

 

[ghost]

Great idea for a post! Here's another odd mix

1. Balkans without Borders (new wave hits of Eastern Europe, forward by Andrei Codrescu)

2. Tuatara

3. Fear of Music - Talking Heads

4. Zappa

(say what you want about the Bose system, I was sitting in the car wash line one day listening to the marimba break in "St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast" - it just doesn't get much better)

5. Holst - the Planets

6. Patricia Barber - Cafe Blue

 

[TheWorm]

OK Don't Laugh

Guess who this car really belongs to!

• Baby Mozart
• Baby Bach
• Baby Beethoven
• Kenny Loggins (return to pooh corner)
• A couple of MP3 mixes (smash mouth, natalie merchant, dave matthews band, macy gray, creed, blink 182, matchbox 20, googoo dolls, sugar ray, everclear, sophie b hawkins, vertical horizon)

 

[ghost]

Well, you'll have smart kids! I confess to just evicting Backstreet Boys, it would be OK if they didn't want to listen to the same two songs over and over. Got them on a Warren Zevon kick now, might as well bring em up right.

For the little ones, you need to try the Baby Zappa CD - Raffi's ripped my flesh...

Hey Mesa, which Tull you listening to? I almost picked up Thick as a Brick a couple days ago, and figure it's time to introduce the boys to Aqualung.

 

[MesaBeige]

The New Mix

Cat Stevens
Errol Garner - Great Vintage Jazz Piano
Hiroshima
Santana - 1st album
Loius Prima
Clapton Unplugged

The just unloaded Tull was the best of - the remixed guitar on Locomotive Breath on this release is AWESOME.

In between last mix and this was the LOTR cd set.

 

[rlm32]

1.Aerosmith
2.Frankie Ruiz- La leyenda
3.Enrique Iglesias
4.Duran Duran- Decade
5.Enya
6. Gilberto SantaRosa- Oro Salsero
Eclectic mix with latin flavor!

 

[ghost]

Tunes for the day:

Kronos Quartet - Pieces of Africa

Paul Simon - Rhythym of the Saints

Peter Gabriel (OK it's a best hits, but I just love listening to "Big Time" while cruisin around)

 

[MHarnois]

I've got:

two Peter Gabriel home made CDs (mostly rare songs and soundtrack songs, thanks to IRC and Napster)

Pet Shop Boys - Bilingual

Michel Rivard - Un trou dans les nuages

Rush - Moving Pictures

 

[mdxmd]

Filter
B-52's
Enigma
Jesus and Mary Chain
Cranberries
The Cure - Remixes

 

[MDX Mom]

Great Thread!!!!

1. Buena Vista Social Club (This was the 1st CD I played in the truck, it was awesome!!!)
2. Eagles
3. Mariah Carey
4. REM
5. Rolling Stone
6. The Police

I haven't heard everything yet, the truck is 3 days old!!!

 

[ghost]

Good choices, Mom, love that Buena Vista CD! My 4-yr old sings along with that first tune. If you ever get a chance, check out the video documentary by the same name, Ry Cooder put it together.

Sounds like you're off to a good start!

 

[MesaBeige]

More Latin Flavor

Thanks MDX Mom,

You got me thinking about Buena Vista, so I'm now loaded up with latin. BTW, I picked up the video on Buena Vista and really enjoyed it.

1. Beuna Vista Social Club
2. Gypsey Kings - The Best Of
3. Cafe Cubana - a collection CD I picked up at Starbucks a couple of years ago - GREAT!
4. Putamayo presents CUBA
5. Cesario Evora - Cafe Atlantico
6. Gloria Estefan - Greatest Hits

I wish I could speak spanish, Cuban, and brazilian. Then I could understand what is being sung on CD's 2 through 5. I do love the music though. CD5 is excellent. Soulful ballads and really great sax work.

My MDX really cooks with salsa!

What other latin, particularly Cuban, music is recommended?

KOT!

 

[rlm32]

mesa beige

If you really like salsa, Gilberto SantaRosa is really a must. Other good ones are Ruben Blades (the earlier albums), Juan Luis Guerra y los 4-40. For merengue, Olga Tanon is pretty good.Of course, Gipsy Kings (you already have it). Try the Mambo Kings album, it's also pretty good.

 

[ghost]

Wow, nice set! I'll have to check out the Putayamo release, that's a great label. Thanks for the tips on the others, I'll check 'em out..

I've got one more good Cuban release for you - this is an elemental release (read unproduced) that a good friend of mine gave me. I recorded this from CD to cassette - and to be honest - *I've never used the tape player in the MDX (after what, after 4 months now - I've been too blown away by having a CD player!) Guess I should check it out...*

Anyway, the band:

Marc Ribot and Los Cubanos Postizos

don't know the name of the CD or where you'll find it, maybe check out CDNow.

Oh yeah, one more - some of Los Lobos got together with Mitchell Froom under the name of Latin Playboys. It's not at all like typical Los Lobos - the tunes are mixed in with mix in street noises and samples. Very interesting, pretty dissonant, worth checking out. The name of the CD is "Dose".

And thanks for getting me into this Cuban/Latin vein, I'll have to load up a Latin set tomorrow...

 

[MesaBeige]

Latin Sounds

Wow, thanks for the recommendations - keep them coming!

KOT with a latin beat!

 

[MDX Mom]

More Latin Tunes

A note from "MDX Dad"
PONCHO SANCHEZ ROCKS!
Be sure to get the CD with "Watermelon Man"
I really enjoy listening to it in my 'new' 1997 Honda Accord which MDX Mom used to drive.

 

[MDXNH]

1. beatles one

2. Frank Sinatra greatest hit ( my Daughters Fav)

3. Lenny Kravits Greatest Hits

4. Blues Clues the musical

5. Elmo (something or other don't know the name)

6. Seasme street abc

 

[MesaBeige]

Whoa

MDXNH,

now thats truly a mix!

KOT!