The Galaxy Playlist

April 18/19, 2010

2 hours is not enough time....

Composer's name is listed where notable (i.e. Classical Performance, Jazz Performance).

For more information on any of the rock, pop and Jazz music featured on this program, I frequently utilize AllMusic , an excellent free database holding a huge plethora of information about music and the artists that make it.

Composer Performer Title Genre Label Notes
Mogwai
Batcat
Post-Rock, Experimental, Ambient
Matador, 2008
 
Punk Rock:
Chemikal Underground, 1999
Cody
Scotland's Shame
Matador, 2008
Orlando di Lassus
The Hilliard Ensemble
Prophetiae Sibyllarum
Classical, Rennaisance, music for small choral group
ECM, 1998
A lovely sample of a compositional style referred to as musica reservata, a method unique to the Renaissance but which anticipates 20th century musical advances.
Harry Nilsson
Blood, Sweat and Tears
Without Her
Rock-Jazz Fusion
Columbia, 1968
 
Blood, Sweat and Tears
Variations on a Theme by Erik Satie
Columbia, 1969
 
I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know
Columbia, 1968
 
Spinning Wheel
Columbia, 1969
 
Thelonious Monk (p), -w- Sonny Rollins (ts), Ernie Henry (as), Oscar Pettiford (b), Max Roach (d)
Brilliant Corners
Jazz, post-bop
Riverside, 1956
 
Thelonious Monk, -w- John Coltrane (ts), Ahmed Abdul Malik (b), Shadow Wilson (d)
Monk's Mood
Blue Note, 2005
 
Evidence
 
Crepuscule with Nellie
 
Alice In Chains
Dam That River
Rock
Columbia, 1992
 
All Secrets Known
Virgin, 2009
There's no coming back to the place we started from.....
Down in a Hole
Columbia, 1992
 
Lessons Learned
Virgin, 2009
 
Richard Strauss
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta, cond.
Also Sprach Zarathustra
Classical, post-Romantic era, orchestral music, tone poem
London/Decca, 1968
Composed and premiered in 1896, each section uses a chapter heading from the well-known book by Friederich Nietzsche, which had by then achieved a sort of cult status with younger Germans.
Sigur Ros
Inní mér syngur vitleysingur ("within me a lunatic sings")
Rock, Icelandic, ambient
XLed, 2008
 
Samskeyti
XLed, 2007
 
Hafsól
 
Góðan daginn
XLed, 2008
 
Olivier Messiaen
Alissa Margulis (violin), Francesco Piemontesi (piano)
Theme et variations for violin and piano
Classical, 20th century, chamber music
EMI Classics, 2008
 
August Burns Red
Marianas Trench
Metal, metalcore
Solid State, 2009
 
Lamb of God
Hourglass
Epic, 2004
 
Mastodon
Circle of Cysquatch
Metal, Progressive
Reprise, 2006
 
Bad Brains
Right Brigade
Rock, Hardcore
Caroline, 1983, 1990
remixed by Ric Ocasek (The Cars)
Joshua's Song

 

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