Total Non Punk Junk

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Nathan Loud

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

Taylor Swift

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.

Nathan Loud

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

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

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.

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

Emahoy Tsegue Maryam Guebrou soothes me soul

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.

moodymcphatter
Michel Polnareff

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.

Johnny Sick I love this song so much.

Nathan Loud

Haack for life

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

sicboy short answer- yes.

sicboy

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

sicboy absolutely

CCR rule

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

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.

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

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

Johnny Sick Yeah, I've heard the Italian version. Kraftwerk would do something similar.

Ryan Leach
Yes, Kraftwerk also did the same thing with "Pocket Calculator" , which in Italian became "Mini Calcolatore"

Johnny Sick Thee Spivs too