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.
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Mogwai |
Batcat |
Post-Rock, Experimental, Ambient |
Matador, 2008 |
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Punk Rock: |
Chemikal Underground, 1999 |
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Cody |
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Scotland's Shame |
Matador, 2008 |
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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. |
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Harry Nilsson |
Blood, Sweat and Tears |
Without Her |
Rock-Jazz Fusion |
Columbia, 1968 |
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Blood, Sweat and Tears |
Variations on a Theme by Erik Satie |
Columbia, 1969 |
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I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know |
Columbia, 1968 |
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Spinning Wheel |
Columbia, 1969 |
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Thelonious Monk (p), -w- Sonny Rollins (ts), Ernie Henry (as), Oscar Pettiford (b), Max Roach (d) |
Brilliant Corners |
Jazz, post-bop |
Riverside, 1956 |
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Thelonious Monk, -w- John Coltrane (ts), Ahmed Abdul Malik (b), Shadow Wilson (d) |
Monk's Mood |
Blue Note, 2005 |
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Evidence |
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Crepuscule with Nellie |
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Alice In Chains |
Dam That River |
Rock |
Columbia, 1992 |
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All Secrets Known |
Virgin, 2009 |
There's no coming back to the place we started from..... | |||
Down in a Hole |
Columbia, 1992 |
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Lessons Learned |
Virgin, 2009 |
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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 |
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Samskeyti |
XLed, 2007 |
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Hafsól |
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Góðan daginn |
XLed, 2008 |
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Olivier Messiaen |
Alissa Margulis (violin), Francesco Piemontesi (piano) |
Theme et variations for violin and piano |
Classical, 20th century, chamber music |
EMI Classics, 2008 |
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August Burns Red |
Marianas Trench |
Metal, metalcore |
Solid State, 2009 |
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Lamb of God |
Hourglass |
Epic, 2004 |
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Mastodon |
Circle of Cysquatch |
Metal, Progressive |
Reprise, 2006 |
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Bad Brains |
Right Brigade |
Rock, Hardcore |
Caroline, 1983, 1990 |
remixed by Ric Ocasek (The Cars) | |
Joshua's Song |
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