Total Non Punk Junk

JessVex

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

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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.

Guy Lombardont

Loving this comp of church basement private press gospel music

Some real gems hallelujah!

https://www.discogs.com/release/29880925-Various-Love-Hides-All-Faults?srsltid=AfmBOooZv_52vIeUtxH7Bve8ZGgd0bppEBM1t07STLiHQjwFX0K-rKVv

darby crash ribosome

I like this song a lot for some reason...

Started listening to stuff like this when I need to study

And I listen to Jimmy Buffet and Steely Dan when I drink beer by myself at home.

Sid_Delicious

Always listening to IDM/ambient/techno/downtempo/whatever you wanna call it. Headphone music at its finest.

Black Dog Productions, Orbital, Skee Mask, Four Tet have all been getting a lot of play time lately.

Also shout out to Moby. All That I Need Is To Be Loved goes as hard as any Vatican Commandos song. Also shout out to Vatican Commandos

SwissCheeseBack

Nathan Loud

Haack for life

sicboy

Question for the non-punk rockers. Is CCR good?

Mystery_Ship

sicboy short answer- yes.

Nathan Loud

sicboy

Travelin’ Band is pretty punk, in my very humble and correct opinion.

Randall

sicboy absolutely

Ben Lyon

CCR rule

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A comp of Mali in the 1970's. Track 3 an overt James Brown tribute.

Sukebe_GG

I dip my toe into various non-rock, especially jazz but additionally:

African music is a constant eye-opener. An early foray was some tapes of an African music radio show of a housemate that made me realize how vast and varied it is. I realized it was easy to get lost in forever...I still have hundreds of files from an African Tapes blog on an external HD...
Salsa! The wondrous KXLU in LA had a great mainly salsa show on Saturdays and Sundays that for perfect hangover recovery listening. Although Mexico not really a salsa country, while living there I got to see some legends like Celia Cruz and Willie Colon, and also Tito Puente in a tiny club in Tijuana. Also saw this great Cuban group (Son 14):

Vinnie Vacuum

just recently discovered this...kinda psych/folk/baroque pop (think scott walker-lite)

Johnny Sick

Ryan Leach

I am Italian, and I know Michel Polnareff very well because, in the 1960s, he also became very famous in Italy. At that time, it was common for foreign artists to reinterpret their hits in Italian for our music market. Polnareff did the same with his iconic "La poupée qui fait non", which in Italian became "Una bambolina che fa no no no", winning over Italian audiences as well. Similarly, many Italian artists adapted their songs for foreign markets, recording versions in French, English, Japanese, German, or Spanish to reach a wider audience

This is the Italian version by Michel Polnareff

Allez Al

CCR are awesome. Only downside, Fogerty had a habit of pronouncing certain words weirdly and repeating them a lot. Great econo rock.

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