MUSIC LINKS
"If music be the
food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall,"
William Shakespeare,
Twelfth Night, Act I, Scene I
CLASSICAL
JAZZ
- Where else to start than Bird, Charlie
Parker? Easily the most influential jazz musician of
the century.
- A close second is Coltrane,
a man who borrowed heavily from Bird but made something
unique and beautiful from it.
- Milestones
is an excellent resource on the music of Miles Davis, the
man who, in my opinion, created the best single album of
the century, Kind of Blue.
- A discography of David
Torn, a highly original guitarist in the fusion
tradition.
- On the vocal side, who can compare with Ella,
Sarah Vaughn, and Lena
Horne, the three Sirens of modern jazz? (I still
haven't found a decent Sarah Vaughn page, yet...)
...still looking for good web pages on Mel Torme, Bill Chase,
Stanley Jordon, and Vince Guarldi. If you know of any, please email me.
POP/ROCK/FUNK
- The
Tori Amos Home Page
- The
Kate Bush Music Extravaganza
- Lyrics similar to Tori Amos, a vocal range some have
compared to Kate Bush, Happy
Rhodes is a singer-songwriter most have never heard
but should. I must admit that I haven't
heard her yet, but my cyberbuddy Robert Lovejoy
(Happy? Love? Joy? This must be the 30th anniversary of
the Summer
of Love!) insists she is worth a listen. I plan to
look for her stuff the next time I'm in the CD shop.
- Check out Thomas Dolby's music and videos at the
Home Page of The
Flat Earth Society. Dolby is one of the few true
geniuses who have ever worked in the pop music field.
This site features audio and video clips from Gate to
the Mind's Eye, Astronauts and Heretics, and all of
Dolby's other albums. A must-visit for Dolbyheads.
- By the way, Dolby is now CEO of his own silicon valley
sweatshop, Headspace.
They just released an astounding new product called Beatnik,
a plug-in for Netscape that adds high-quality music and
sound effects to Web pages that you control. Go there.
Get the plug-in. Take the walkthrough. You'll thank me
for the tip.
- Dr. Fiorella Terenzi's
Home Page. Dr. Terenzi is an astrophysicist and
performance artist, who takes radio sounds from distant
galaxies and shapes it into highly original music. She
also collaborated with Thomas Dolby on his recent
venture, The
Gate to the Mind's Eye, and he returned the favor
by appearing on her forthcoming CD-ROM, The
Invisible Universe. Dennis Miller describes her
as "a cross between Carl Sagan and Madonna."
She is supposed to be touring the States in late '95 and
early '96 -- don't miss her if you can. I won't.
- Onoweb
is all about Yoko Ono, a seriously underrated artist
stuck with the undeserved reputation for breaking up the
Beatles. Her music is not for everyone, but I like her.
Saw her live on her '96 tour, and wrote a review for the
folks who run this site. Yoko also has an Official Web Site here.
- Speaking of the Beatles, Frank Daniel's page Across
the Universe is an excellent compendium of
information on Beatles releases, mostly compiled from
USENET newsgroup postings. If you're a Fab Four fan, it's
worth a look.
- Speaking of the Fab Four, one must not forget the Pre-Fab
Four, a.k.a. The
Rutles.
- Speaking of the Rutles, a member of the Rutles, Neil
Innes, was a co-founder of The Bonzo
Dog Doo-Wah Band.
- The
Bell. A listing of sites devoted to Mike Oldfield.
Creator of "Tubular Bells," Mike in recent
years has been discounted as "one of those
New-Age-Windom-Hill types." Nothing could be further
from the truth. Although most of his albums go to #1 in
many European countries, none of them (except the
aforementioned TB) cracked the top 40 in the States. A
shame, really; he's a top notch guitarist and producer,
and on many of this albums, he is the sole mult-tracked
performer, mastering hundreds of instruments. I'd like to
see Yanni or John Tesh do that. (BTW, the man who
introduced the instruments in Tubular Bells I was Vivan
Stanshall, co-founder of the aforementioned Bonzo Dog
Band.)
- The
Mothership Connection. Funk your way from James Brown
to P*Funk.
- The
Buggles Home Page. At last! A page dedicated to the
greatest band in history. OK, I'm exaggerating. Sue me.
Certainly one of the best SynthPop groups to come out in
the 80's, and although they put out 2 albums (not
counting their work in Yes), they had a huge influence on
everyone from Thomas Dolby and Human League to the later
B-52s and Nine Inch Nails.
- The Unofficial Nine
Inch Nails Page. Trent Reznor, a former
Clevelandite like myself, is a one-man Hate Machine.
Alice-Cooper- meets- David-Bowie- meets- Kraftwerk for
the industrial 90's.
- The Bobs. The Official
Home Page of the first - and best - of the New Wave a
cappella groups.
- They Might Be Giants.
A group that should be selling more than they are.
- They Might Be Giants may very well have been influenced
by Tom
Lehrer, the Harvard Mathematics Teaching Fellow who
also wrote satirical and just-plain-wierd music in the
late 50s and early 60s.
- Bad
Songs They Say So Much. A list of the worst songs the
70s have to offer.
- Not quite jazz, funk, rap, poetry, R&B, or
soul, Gil
Scott Heron has been doing his own thing for over 25
years. If you haven't heard his "The Revolution Will
Not be Televized," "B-Movie," or
"Work for Peace," you've missed a great deal of
inciteful commentary on the state of the world today. His
music is hard to find, but worth it.
Still looking for links to decent pages about Was (Not
Was), David Baerwald/David + David, Nina Hagen, and Propaganda.
If you know of any, please let
me in on it.
MUSIC RESOURCES
There will be more added to this page as time permits...
Curator: Richard Arnold
Last Date Modified: 05/09/04