I will add links when I get around to it. I've put the year or approximate year of when things came out.
Spanish language rock, salsa, folk rock, and ¡Sosa!:
Maná- a Mexican band from Guadalajara who are very popular. My favorite Maná songs are off of "Cuando los ángeles lloran" and include "Selva Negra, " "El Reloj Cucú," "Como un perro enloquecido"and "Déjame Entrar." I'm also a fan of their early hits like "La Chula."
Albita- No Se Parece a Nada(1995), Dicen Que (1997)- if you like salsa and merengue, you must look up Albita; she has an incredible voice-- she's a Cuban-American from Miami (no she's not a lesbian, she's bi) -Que Manera de Quererte
Mano a Mano: Silvio Rodriguez and Luís Eduardo Aute live in concert
Mercedes Sosa -Pequena, Todavia Cantamos, Todo Cambia, ¿Sera Posible El Sur?
Gypsy Kings -flamenco rock, from Spain
Celtas Cortos -where are they from anyway? En Estos Dias inciertos... ...en que vivir es un arte.
Gloria Estefán-Abriendas Puertas
Ottmar Leibert and Luna Negra -Nouiveau Flamenco -from Spain
Rock-Women Artists
Beth Ortin (1997) -Trailer Park -okay, maybe it is sappy, but I love it: She Cries Your Name, I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine, Don't Need A Reason
Laurie Anderson- the Great performance artist: Home of the Brave, Excellent Birds (with Peter Gabriel), Walk the Dog, Mach 20, Puppet Motel
the Story-- the Stillpoint (Jonatha Brooke and the Story)
Jane Siberry -taxi, Calling all Angels, performance artist: Everyone reminds me of my dog. The Speckless Sky, Map of the World
Grace Jones -Warm Leatherette, she was in a James Bond movie: very tall and formidable black woman with a strong jawline that breaks barriers and bounds
Linda Thompson- sang with Richard Thompson; has dysphonia
Michelle Sharp Shocked --When I Grow Up, I wanna be an old woman
Kate Bush-Red Shoes (she came before Tori Amos)
k.d.lang- Season of Hallow Soul, Constant Craving -kinda country
Sarah McLachlan--early stuff, when I was younger; I did go to the Lilith Fair. I'm really proud of what she has done --opening up the music industry to listen to women singers and rockers -for a change; quite a different strategy compared to Ani Difranco who just said "fuck you" to everyone until she made enough to create her own label
Ani Difranco-Dilate, Not a Pretty Girl, Napoleon--the anti-popularity popular rock singer
Suzanne Vega - World Before Columbus, Birth-day, Hold me like a Baby, Luka,
Julie Brown: I like em Big and Stupid, Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun, Earth Girls Are Easy
Cyndi Lauper: Girls Just Wanna have fun, Boy Blue
Liz Phair -When they do the double dutch, that's them dancing....
Sinead O' Conner--Universal Mother
Cibo Matto (1996)-- Italian for food madness; their album"Viva! La Woman" is dedicated to food; Birthday Cake:"Extra sugar! Extra salt! Extra oil and MSG!"; they also do a swell atomic delicious remake of The Candy Man
Rock-All Other Artists
R.E.M.-How the West Was Won, Orange Crush With Eyeliner, Bang and Blame
Guadalcanal Diary -Always Saturday
David Bowie (1997)- EartH ling--jungle rock with a 70's twist (What they @#$@?)
Francis Cabrel -from France, folk rock: his latest is wonderful; if you hated his earlier stuff, you'll hate his latest; I've only got "Samedi Sur...[whatever]". Okay I don't understand a word of it (except for what the Gypsy Kings sings in Spanish as backups on the first song), but I want to hear everything else he's done.
Richard Thompson- 52 Vincent, Shoot Out The Lights (with Linda) and everything else....
Fountains of Wayne (1997)- Oh, baby, please leave the biker, break his heart.
Donovan -Barabajagal, what's your name now?
Over the Rhine- Eyes Wide Open, Like a Radio, Gentle Wounds, from Cincinnati, 'Til We Have Faces; they broke up
3 Mustaphas 3 -Shopping
Johnny Clegg and Savuka --Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World from South Africa
weezer (1995)-that guy went to Harvard: great lyrics: Sweater Song
The Police/ Sting - Synchronicity-my favorite song when I was 8
Timbuk 3- My Future's So Bright, I've Got To Wear Shades
Robyn Hitchock and the Egyptions- It took the Holy Roman Empire just to keep you by my side (...satisfied).
Other than Rock (world, blues, country, fusion, space, classical):
Yma Sumac- Mambo!- the last of the Incan Princesses (yah, right!); probably Amy Cumac (spelled backwards from New York City); anyway she REALLY DID have a 5-octave vocal range
Sheila Chandra-the Zen Kiss; Indian-English; vocal percusion, sings in 4 languages
Eric Satie (1866-1925)- 3 Gymnopedies and other piano works
Dead Can Dance-- also, Lisa Girard's Mirror Pool
Cirque du Soleil -Alegria, soundtrack to the circus artists
Ayub Ogada-Kenya
Geoffrey Oryema -Beat the Border, Exile; Ugandan
Tuatara (1997) -with Peter Buck from REM
Dzintars: Songs of Amber--Latvian Women's Choir
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - the world's greatest Qwaali singer who died in August 97, he had diabetes
Bach: The Goldberg Variations: played by Glenn Gould, the only piece of work the neurotic, obsessive compulsive brilliant man ever recorded more than one for reasons mostly unknown.
Phillip Glass -modern orchestral
mari boine- Famuzela, Radiant Warmth --Sami (Laplander from Norway)
Gillian Welch- Revival -it's kinda country
Leon Redbone -he lives near Druid Hills, did you know that? -bluesy
The Jody Grind - One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Treasure, also from Atlanta; several members of the band died in a car crash, the lead singer survived and has regrouped in Atlanta
Billy Holiday, Bessie Smith
bossa nova in general
Hun-Huur-Tu--60 Horses In My Head- throat singers from Tuva (northern China/Mongolia area), they sing multiple notes at once; and, they can sing on the in-breath!
Queen Latifah Internet Radio
www.gogaga.com --Internet-only radio; GoGaGa has radio's most eclectic playlist; they have a show called Music for Cubicles so Go GaGA Already!
WNNX-99X in Atlanta, has a decent commercial, alternative rock station, I listen every other week until I get sick of their playlist which is very, very short or until I get sick of their commercials which are stupid and long.
WFMN in Chicago has a decent commercial, classical music station; and I choose it over other stations because sometimes it comes in as clearly as regular radio can!
Movies My fav. actresses: Geena Davis, Tilda Swinton; actor: Johnny Depp)
Dead Man (1995) with Johnny Depp- if this is your kind of movie, you'll love it; if not, it will seem long and boring. set just after the Civil War; takes place out west
Leningrad Cowboys Go America - about a band, very funny in a deadpan sort of way; if you like Dead Man, you'll like this one and vice versa
Until the End of the World (1994?) - a must see, sci-fi/fantasy, takes place all over the world, kind of long, wierd
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)-w/ Geena Davis, action
The City of Lost Children (1996)-french film, very funny, good bit of action, very creative; a must see; about a crazy man who is trying to steal children's dreams
Delicatesson-very funny, 'bout an apartment complex going crazy
Brazil--very wierd, I liked it a lot: Would you believe that I saw it back to back in the theatre with Delicatesson
Baraka - no dialogue: kind of like that movie, how do you spell it?: Koyayannasquatsi which was scored by Phillip Glass; Baraka was scored by Dead Can Dance
Freaks (1936-9) black and white movie, circus theme, very strange; it is strange too to see people (very human people) with such deformities because "modern" medicine (at least in the US) has prevented many of these freaks...and perhaps we are less tolerant of them as a result
Orlando- based on Virginia Woolfe's novel, with Tilda Swinton, she is trying to make gender points; a little long, wierd ending
Female Perversions (1997)-very strange, with wonderful dream imagery and great material to discuss regarding feminism and gender roles, with Tilda Swinton
Get On the Bus-- Spike Lee, about a group of black men traveling to the Million Man March; every man is different, but they find common ground through the course of the film, the plot isn't realistic, but every man is believable and representative of some black stereotype...fun film
Cat on a Tin Roof (1996)- fun, great roof scenes with cat
Prospero's Books- great water imagery, based on Shakespeare's last play: The Tempest, nudity, dancing, alto-soprano singing
Spitfire Grill --will make you cry, bout a young woman trying to set up a new life in a small town (in Maine?)
Go Fish -- a classic; small-budget flick made by a group of friends in Chicago; they get better at acting as the movie progresses; fun movie.
Home of the Brave: the movie of Laurie Anderson's USA tour, complete with her own body percussion
The Accidental Tourist: with Geena Davis as a wildly dressed dog trainer: the guy writes travel books about how to travel so that you feel you've never left home: how to find American-style toilets, people who will speak English, and hamburgers
Books
Snow Crash--a cyberpunk classic -a must read. excellent, excellent, the main character's name is Hero Protagonist; neighborhoods of the future are franchised...and have their own security forces, codes and standards of living...
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver; also the sequal Pigs in Heaven, both are very funny, you never guess what is going to happen, very lifelike, not so booklike; I really like this one; your mother would like The Bean Trees...at least mine did...
Bedrock by Lisa Alther -lesbigay fiction, small town/big city
Terminal Cafe by Ian McDonald - science fiction; takes place Nov. 1, the Day of the Dead. humans have the ability to resurrect the dead who "live" in segregated areas called necrovilles...
Memory Mambo by Achy Obejas, latina lesbian fiction
Slow River by Nicola Griffith lesbian sci-fi with enviro-chemist main character
Ammonite, Nicola Griffith's first novel, lesbian sci-fi with anthropologist main character
Dune by Frank Herbert, a classic science fiction with ecological twists
Ender's Game ... Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card --Card was my favorite sci-fi/fantasy author after I got bored with the Xanth series by whathisname; Card will always be a Great storyteller ... of American and could-have-been and might-yet-be history
PastWatch: the Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card -sci-fi about anthropologists of the future who go back and change the colonization of the new world so that slavery and genocide do not forever infect the history of the Americas
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1974) by Robert A Caro -about the guy who made New York City and state what it is today; the political/activist end of city planning, whereby development is individually directed, the antithesis of democracy, what rich, arrogant patronage of the poor is all about..."helping people" who cannot rule themselves...a neocolonialism
The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel by Edward Abbey--misanthrope environmentalist
Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley by Katherine Frank- a biography of a cool African anthropologist
Quotes:
En Estos Dias Inciertos... ...en que vivir es un arte. -Celtas Cortos
I always prefer to believe the best of everyone. It saves so much trouble. --Rudyard Kipling
May I be lost from sight while trembling from time to time in the pure silver of a mermaid's gooseflesh burning up my spine! --Bella Akhmadulina top of this page | Spanish-language Music | Music--Women's Rock | Rock --Other Artists | World and Other Music | Internet Radio | Movies, Books | Quotes | home | Pictures at an Exhibition | Yahoo | Dogpile This page was created Sept. 1, 1997 and may be maintained very, very infrequently. As always, you can write me at: cwaddick@mindspring.com in order to complain about what I've published here.