Music that stops you in your tracks

uglymusic

I have a little Sonos Play:One sitting on the kitchen windowsill. I stream music while I'm cooking.

But yesterday, I played John Coltrane's A Love Supreme while making pancakes. I couldn't concentrate on what I was doing. It isn't background music. 

What music stops you in your tracks?

Docfoster

Good question...

First thoughts on the tunes that always manage to command my attention:

Cymande “Bra”
Stone Roses “Fools Gold”
Fleetwood Mac “Stop Messin Around”
Gravediggaz “1-800 Suicide”
James Brown “Funky Drummer”
Happy Mondays “Kinky Afro”
Washboard Sam “Back Door”
Speedy J “De-orbit”
The Beatles “I’ve got a feeling”
Beastie Boys “Sabotage”
Lee Scratch Perry “Secret Labratory”
Ride “Taste”
Little Walter “Roller Coaster”
Dayeene “Alright”
Louis Armstrong “St Louis Blues”
Caveman “Fry you like fish”
Primal Scream “Loaded”
Cream “Crossroads” live
A Tribe Called Quest “What?”
White Lies “Death”

Probably background music (at best) for some!

phorize

Aswad-new chapter of dub(all of it!)
Anything by Bad Brains
Sidney Bechet-Blue Horizon
Maceo Parker- Southwick
Grant Green-Sookie Sookie
Ornette Coleman-The Empty Foxhole
Joy Division-Transmission
King Crimson-Elephant Talk
Blackalicious-Trouble
Megadeth-Holy Wars
Billie Holiday-Get Lost
The Lovin Spoonful-Jug Band Music
Flatt and Scruggs-Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Muddy Waters-Big Leg Women

i could go on...

phorize

Talking Heads-swamp

Docfoster

I’m noticing some vague overlaps here...
Maybe we could put together a ‘chews anthem playlist. :-)

cj66

End Of The Line...Travelling Wilbury's

Anything with a catchy or unusual drum beat or a real wrencher like Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

uglymusic

Docfoster said:

I’m noticing some vague overlaps here...
Maybe we could put together a ‘chews anthem playlist. :-)

We used to have a Chews Spotify playlist of better than the original covers, I think.

cj66

I think we only had a thread, don't remember a Spotify list 

uglymusic

I'm talking waaaay back before you were a regular, Chris.

uglymusic

Docfoster said:

Good question...

First thoughts on the tunes that always manage to command my attention:

Cymande “Bra”
Stone Roses “Fools Gold”
Fleetwood Mac “Stop Messin Around”
Gravediggaz “1-800 Suicide”
James Brown “Funky Drummer”
Happy Mondays “Kinky Afro”
Washboard Sam “Back Door”
Speedy J “De-orbit”
The Beatles “I’ve got a feeling”
Beastie Boys “Sabotage”
Lee Scratch Perry “Secret Labratory”
Ride “Taste”
Little Walter “Roller Coaster”
Dayeene “Alright”
Louis Armstrong “St Louis Blues”
Caveman “Fry you like fish”
Primal Scream “Loaded”
Cream “Crossroads” live
A Tribe Called Quest “What?”
White Lies “Death”

Probably background music (at best) for some!

I don't even know some of them, Ben.

uglymusic

phorize said:

Aswad-new chapter of dub(all of it!)
Anything by Bad Brains
Sidney Bechet-Blue Horizon
Maceo Parker- Southwick
Grant Green-Sookie Sookie
Ornette Coleman-The Empty Foxhole
Joy Division-Transmission
King Crimson-Elephant Talk
Blackalicious-Trouble
Megadeth-Holy Wars
Billie Holiday-Get Lost
The Lovin Spoonful-Jug Band Music
Flatt and Scruggs-Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Muddy Waters-Big Leg Women

i could go on...

Anyone with Ornette of their list has to get a thumbs-up from me! Although you've chosen one of the few of his albums I don't have.

I'll add an Ornette track to my list - Lonely Woman. I was lucky enough to hear Ornette, Denardo and Charlie Haden play it live at Ornette's 85th Birthday Concert at the Festival Hall. It sends shivers down my spine just thinking about it!

uglymusic

As you guys have given lists I'll need to give this a bit more thought.

But, for a start, almost anything by David S Ware. The mixture of free howling and deep musical knowledge is like no other. Such a shame he passed, like Coltrane, with much work still to be done.

ian

Docfoster said:

Good question...

First thoughts on the tunes that always manage to command my attention:

Cymande “Bra”
Stone Roses “Fools Gold”
Fleetwood Mac “Stop Messin Around”
Gravediggaz “1-800 Suicide”
James Brown “Funky Drummer”
Happy Mondays “Kinky Afro”
Washboard Sam “Back Door”
Speedy J “De-orbit”
The Beatles “I’ve got a feeling”
Beastie Boys “Sabotage”
Lee Scratch Perry “Secret Labratory”
Ride “Taste”
Little Walter “Roller Coaster”
Dayeene “Alright”
Louis Armstrong “St Louis Blues”
Caveman “Fry you like fish”
Primal Scream “Loaded”
Cream “Crossroads” live
A Tribe Called Quest “What?”
White Lies “Death”

Probably background music (at best) for some!

That’s a great eclectic mix.   If you don’t already listen to Cerys on Sunday mornings then I strongly recommend you do, you’ll love it.  Best show on the radio ever / anywhere.

ian

There’s stop you in your tracks but then there is the level above that which is music that totally subsumes you, obliterating everything bar the music and your experience of it.    There’s lots I could list but I’ll limit myself to one: Neil Young - Powderfinger  live version.

Docfoster

ian said:

Docfoster said:

Good question...

First thoughts on the tunes that always manage to command my attention:

Cymande “Bra”
Stone Roses “Fools Gold”
Fleetwood Mac “Stop Messin Around”
Gravediggaz “1-800 Suicide”
James Brown “Funky Drummer”
Happy Mondays “Kinky Afro”
Washboard Sam “Back Door”
Speedy J “De-orbit”
The Beatles “I’ve got a feeling”
Beastie Boys “Sabotage”
Lee Scratch Perry “Secret Labratory”
Ride “Taste”
Little Walter “Roller Coaster”
Dayeene “Alright”
Louis Armstrong “St Louis Blues”
Caveman “Fry you like fish”
Primal Scream “Loaded”
Cream “Crossroads” live
A Tribe Called Quest “What?”
White Lies “Death”

Probably background music (at best) for some!

That’s a great eclectic mix.   If you don’t already listen to Cerys on Sunday mornings then I strongly recommend you do, you’ll love it.  Best show on the radio ever / anywhere.

Thanks. Will give it a try.
In the meantime, I see your Cerys on Sunday mornings and raise you Radio Paradise.