Total Non Punk Junk

nonsenseorgan

Stickin' my neck out here...what gets you goin' beyond the realm of punk or rock n roll?

Soft spot for Broadcast. I like when they got weird too:

Sid_Delicious

nonsenseorgan broadcast can do no wrong. I ride especially hard for tender buttons

paperhose

nonsenseorgan I also very much enjoy broadcast. Guilty of calling everything I like "punk". Like pablo casals is the cello punk.

Allez Al

I'm a big soul and funk fan. I was reading about that stuff around the time of the early 00s funk revival, and 7"s were what I could afford so ended up with a lot of Desco, Soul Fire, Timmion etc 45s and... they really hold up for me.

Johnny Sick

Allez Al
I'm also a big fan of soul/r&b and funk, but only the kind from the '60s and early '70s, without forgetting Northern Soul. My collection of 45s is modest, but I make up for it with a vast selection of compilations that capture the golden age of these genres.
I also love exploring less conventional sounds, like exotica, with its evocative atmospheres, and library music, so diverse and perfect for any mood.

Al Dorado

I like the new Bria Salmena tracks. She's on Sub Pop and put out 2 EPs of spaced out country covers (i like the first one better). New tracks are pretty poppy. We're gonna see her in April. She & her bandmates were in Orville Peck's band when he was first getting attention.

Hermanos Gutiérrez is pretty great.

The new Fucked Up has some very Husker-esque tracks. Loved their early stuff, then they sort of lost me for a bit but now I'm back onboard.

sixbigboys

I don’t know a ton about it, but I like an innate love of 80s/90s dancehall. One of my favorite tracks of late:

Nathan Loud

Broadcast rules. The only bad thing I can say about them is that they're British. So sad what happened to Trish (RIP).

Other non-punk stuff, hmmm.

Philip Glass, Brian Eno, Krautrock, William Basinski, Phil Spector, Agnes Obel, Tim Hecker, La Monte Young, Terry Riley, etc. etc. Sorry if that all sounds basic.

So much stuff to love out there. A lot of non-punk music is still pretty punk, I dunno.

Nathan Loud

Philip Glass was once roommates with Moondog. Oh yeah, Moondog!

Wade T Oberlin

A like Robert Haigh and his Creatures of the Deep album. And Erik Satie. Lots and lots of jazz including vocal stuff. One record store employee I worked with recommended Chris Connor and she is truly amazing. Julie London… Dean Marin. The bio on Martin by Nick Tosches is completely worth your time- yes you.

SwissCheeseBack

Nathan Loud

Haack for life

terminalsunset

I've turned into a real "adult contemporary" kind of dork in my late 30s. Been digging the new Beak> album a lot. My wife and I listen to a lot of The National and the Hold Steady. Wilco. All of it. I'm not ashamed. I even like U2.

Love singer-songwriters, too, Leonard Cohen and Dylan are big obvious ones. John Prine. Been loving Terry Allen lately.

Country/acid country: Sanford Clark, Buck Owens, Sir Douglas Quintet/Texas Tornadoes, Merle, Graham Parsons, etc

Ruby

Taylor Swift

sicboy

I have a soft spot for all forms of music that sort of began via a DIY ethic....specifically music originally distributed via cassette tape out of the back of a trunk.....and preferably screwed and chopped

Ben Lyon

I've got a pretty healthy sized exotica collection. I like a lotta roots music. Old school/alt country, blues and folk stuff. Also Sun Ra/Ayler/Coleman avant-garde jazz stuff. Early ska. Early hip-hop.

JessVex

Here’s some obscure avant-garde/fusion Indo-Afro jazz/psych from late 60’s New Zealand. The 40 Watt Banana:

Rapid Adapter

I've really been digging Nyege Nyege Tapes for the last five years or so. A Ugandan label that seems to specialize in stuff that's half traditional, half futuristic. So many great releases. And they do a yearly festival.

moodymcphatter

Emahoy Tsegue Maryam Guebrou soothes me soul

moodymcphatter

I have a soft spot for the all 60s French yé-yé singers, especially Francoise Hardy. Serge Gainsbourg's Bonnie and Clyde album is so fun, with Brigit Bardot, also Initials BB, and Je t'aime... moi non plus with Jane Birkin.

Johnny Sick

moodymcphatter
Michel Polnareff

Mor

moodymcphatter Agreed! Also Serge's Histoire de Melody Nelson is such a treasure of an album.

moodymcphatter

Johnny Sick I love this song so much.

Ryan Leach

Johnny Sick For a few months, I played in a three-piece group with a friend. Her drummer was Don Bolles. I was playing bass and he was naturally on drums. This would've been 2008. He and I would practice, he'd written all the bass parts, and I'd ask him about Rob Ritter and Lorna Doom -- the latter went to my high school a couple decades before me. It was interesting. Don is an exceptional bassist. He had a Silvertone bass that I heard was subsequently stolen. He'd had it since the 1970s. I asked him how he'd gotten so good and he told me that cuz he didn't always have access to drums, he'd be on stimulants and playing along to records throughout most of the 1980s on that Silvertone bass.

I mention all of this because Don introduced me to early Michel Polnareff. And this song and the rest of the collection he'd regularly play along to. Damn near note perfect. He loaned me the LP and I could tell it caused him some distress, so I only kept it a week before giving it back.