Non-TP types you're enamored with I would have to go with: Townes Van Zandt Gram Parsons (arguably an influence on *many* TP artists) Merle Haggard https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27506#msg-27506 Sun, 12 Apr 2026 07:44:25 -0500 Phorum 5.2.23 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27743#msg-27743 Re: Non-TP types you're enamored with https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27743#msg-27743 hoip chiggs Trouser Press Sat, 01 May 2010 01:57:46 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27667#msg-27667 Re: Non-TP types you're enamored with https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27667#msg-27667
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Great choice of blonde, Honor Society. Plus you inspired me to work hard this smester and earn all As -- so I can join my school's Honor Society. Hail Honor Society!



Post Edited (04-29-10 08:58)]]> hoip chiggs Trouser Press Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:56:13 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27620#msg-27620 Re: Non-TP types you're enamored with https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27620#msg-27620 zwirnm Trouser Press Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:01:07 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27619#msg-27619 Re: Non-TP types you're enamored with https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27619#msg-27619 Well, add to that Richmond Fontaine.]]> Aitch Trouser Press Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:36:58 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27575#msg-27575 Re: Non-TP types you're enamored with https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27575#msg-27575 Jermoe Trouser Press Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:44:28 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27574#msg-27574 Re: Non-TP types you're enamored with https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27574#msg-27574 Anything by springsteen,dylan especially bootlegs and unrealased stuff.
ALso all of their musical cousins- little stven, nils lofgren, southside johnny, steve forbert etc.
Most alt country that would be on the outskirts of tp music /
Pop music, blues and 90s hip hop.
Anything by artists from the 50s that came out afterwards after their commercial sucess. examples- 60s n 70s everly brothers, dion, del shannon
Weird cover versions- good or bad i find them all interesting .
A great pop song that has the elements of basic rock n roll- example jessies girl- rick springfield. 867-5309- tommy tutone.
Have an appreciation for billy joel and realize that we dont have a modern day equivalent of him and i think thats a bad thing.
Partially out of irony but i tell you barry mannilow is good at what he does and has some great tunes .
old soul artists especially the lesser known songs by the bigger artists or the lesser known artists same thing with garage rock]]> rebelwithoutaclue Trouser Press Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:59:44 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27573#msg-27573 Re: Non-TP types you're enamored with https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27573#msg-27573
"Standin on your mama's porch
You told me that you'd wait forever
Oh and when you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never"

Too bad that damned guitar line is driven into the ground by the middle of it. "This Time" has a nice melody, too.

Always surprised The Sensational Alex Harvey Band isn't in here. Maybe I just can't find it.]]> blasmo Trouser Press Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:32:03 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27571#msg-27571 Re: Non-TP types you're enamored with https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27571#msg-27571 ira Trouser Press Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:09:11 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27568#msg-27568 Re: Non-TP types you're enamored with https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27568#msg-27568 SkeletonJack Trouser Press Mon, 26 Apr 2010 02:55:53 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27546#msg-27546 Re: Non-TP types you're enamored with https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27546#msg-27546


Post Edited (04-25-10 10:56)]]> nosepail Trouser Press Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:54:01 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27544#msg-27544 Re: Non-TP types you're enamored with https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27544#msg-27544
I have one Smashing Pumpkins record (Siamese Dream, of course - the Boston of 90s alternative rock). I've never found the need to own any more.

]]> Michael Toland Trouser Press Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:45:09 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27543#msg-27543 Re: Non-TP types you're enamored with https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27543#msg-27543
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Uh-huh is the best Mellencamp.

For some reason I always forget that Uh-Huh was the album where Mellencamp started taking control of his own career and began to get interesting. "Jackie O" was a great song. Also one of the few songs I could ever play on an instrument, since it was just one of the preset tunes on a Casio and I stumbled across it one day while hitting some buttons.]]> breno Trouser Press Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:34:34 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27542#msg-27542 Re: Non-TP types you're enamored with https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27542#msg-27542 totaji Trouser Press Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:57:03 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27541#msg-27541 Re: Non-TP types you're enamored with https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27541#msg-27541
And I'd like to vote my support for Shudder to Think and the Smashing Pumpkins.]]> SkeletonJack Trouser Press Sun, 25 Apr 2010 07:32:33 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27536#msg-27536 Re: Non-TP types you're enamored with https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27536#msg-27536 Tom T Hall (he's all I care to listen to about 25% of the time)
Fela Kuti
Elton John
Charley Pride
John Scofield
Howlin Wolf
Van Morrison
AC/DC
Randy Newman
Loudon Wainwright
Outkast
Pete Seeger
Sufjan Stevens (he's got any entry but I'm not feeling the love on the board)

p.s. Uh-huh is the best Mellencamp.
p.p.s. Shudder To Think DOES really suck.



Post Edited (04-24-10 23:52)]]> nosepail Trouser Press Sun, 25 Apr 2010 01:43:18 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27535#msg-27535 Re: Non-TP types you're enamored with https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27535#msg-27535 -Some Pitchforkian stuff
-I don't obsess over Ryan Adams, but when he is on, I think he is one of the best right now.
-ELO
-I like Alkaline Trio alot, but I think I am phasing out of them. I listened to their last, and didn't feel the need to pick it up.
-I dig Hall and Oats, Billy Joel and Bryan Adams and have always. Not a deep cuts guy but still...
-Miles Davis]]> totaji Trouser Press Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:57:22 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27533#msg-27533 Re: Non-TP types you're enamored with https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27533#msg-27533
I forgot all about T.Rex! Thanks.]]> HollowbodyKay Trouser Press Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:13:26 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27532#msg-27532 Re: Non-TP types you're enamored with https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27532#msg-27532 Jay Trouser Press Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:35:00 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27530#msg-27530 Re: Non-TP types you're enamored with https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27530#msg-27530
And just looking at my iPod ...

Abba
Aerosmith (up through Rocks, with the song "Draw the Line" added)
Alice Cooper
Aretha Franklin
Be Bop Deluxe (Bill Nelson has an entry, but it focuses on his solo stuff; Be Bop is mentioned only in passing)
Chuck Berry
Def Leppard
Dionne Warwick
Dire Straits
Earth Wind & Fire (and a lot of other '70s funk as well)
Elton John
James Brown
Love
Lyle Lovett
Queen
Rod Stewart
Rush
Steely Dan
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Sweet
T. Rex
Van Halen

]]> Delvin Trouser Press Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:48:32 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27527#msg-27527 Re: Non-TP types you're enamored with https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27527#msg-27527
And bless you, Kay, for mentioning Mr. Wray.]]> erikalbany Trouser Press Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:05:10 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27523#msg-27523 Re: Non-TP types you're enamored with https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27523#msg-27523 (imagine a very brick-like font for that bit there, please). People like Townes Van Zandt and Gram Parsons are most certainly long-time denizens.

But if I had to roam further afield, I'm always digging things like …

From the ranks of "classic" rock (and although the first two should go without saying, I'm not letting that fact stop me):

The Beatles
The Stones.
ZZ Top
Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Kinks
Donovan
Steely Dan

...

And from The Land Of The Truly Neglected:

Link Wray doesn't have his own entry. I dig his stuff all kindsa fierce.

If the choking, ash-laden wasteland known as Madonna can have an entry, then I see no reason why Amy Winehouse should be getting the cold shoulder. Give her a break … she's 'ad a 'ard time 'uv it!

Komeda. How do they not have an entry while Whale does? Not that I have a thing against Whale. Butthead loves that chick from Whale … it's the braces, y'know?

Schtum. Grow is really fairly good stuff - think Jon Langford replacing Eddie Vedder in Pearl Jam and you're at least in the ballpark. No idea what ever happened to these guys.

Of course ... as of press time, The Clientele are ... missing. "Like a half-forgotten memory." Boo-hoo.

I was about to say "Hey! What about Los Straitjackets?" but I see they did get an entry. When the hell did that happen? All that stuff written there about "University Blvd" is dead on target. To hear that tune once is to have it welded on "heavy rotation" in your happy place forever. That tune is so damned suh-weet! Bravo Los Straitjackets!

…

And of course, there are certain bands that should be stricken from the ranks for being utterly worthless. Two of my three first ballot votes go to Smashing Pumpkins (who I loathe like a certain editor loathes Janes Addiction) and Shudder To Think. But it's not my call. Lucky for them.]]> HollowbodyKay Trouser Press Sat, 24 Apr 2010 05:12:25 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27520#msg-27520 Re: Non-TP types you're enamored with https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27520#msg-27520
many guys in the alt country dept- steve earle, to a lesser degree guys like ryan adams, joe ely , townes van zant etc.

matthew ryan- suprised he isnt an entry in trouser press. . ive ranted a couple of times how he is the best modern day sonwgwriter .

My not being emamored but being a fan of rap n hip hop kind of started from wanting to add to the genres of music and my not being too familar and partially a sense of irony]]> rebelwithoutaclue Trouser Press Sat, 24 Apr 2010 03:47:06 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27519#msg-27519 Re: Non-TP types you're enamored with https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27519#msg-27519 rhettlawrence Trouser Press Sat, 24 Apr 2010 03:35:28 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27517#msg-27517 Re: Non-TP types you're enamored with https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27517#msg-27517
Also listened to Mellencamp's most recent disc this morning and pondered how if his career had begun with Scarecrow, he'd most likely be a revered figure in alt-country circles, but he'll be forever saddled with having spent the decade prior to that as Little Johnny Cougar.]]> breno Trouser Press Sat, 24 Apr 2010 02:28:07 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27506#msg-27506 Non-TP types you're enamored with https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,27506,27506#msg-27506
Townes Van Zandt
Gram Parsons (arguably an influence on *many* TP artists)
Merle Haggard]]> erikalbany Trouser Press Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:20:03 -0500