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[seekingferret]

I have eight to ten hours of highway driving ahead of me this weekend as I travel to and from Hunt. Some fraction of that will be listening to daf yomi podcasts. For the rest I'd like to listen to some new music.

Recommend an album you think I'll like and I'll review what I get to after I'm back from Hunt.

Only request: I like Duckworth's "Time Curve Preludes" as much as the next guy, but try not to recommend me music that's too droney and repetitive or I run the risk of falling asleep on the road.

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[brainwane]

New temporally, or is new-to-you ok?

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[seekingferret]

Any kind of new is fine

[brainwane]

I am assuming/inferring that you have already listened to the back catalogues of: Vienna Teng, Dar Williams, Regina Spektor, Ben Folds and his collaborations, They Might Be Giants, The Presidents of the United States of America. And I know you are a Mountain Goats fan so I assume you have already heard all the I Only Listen To The Mountain Goats covers.

And there is a BBC Music "Introducing Mixtape" podcast https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p02nrw4q.rss that I like for finding new tunes.

Fairly ordinary recommendations:
* Billy Joel, "The Bridge"
* Tally Hall, "Welcome to Tally Hall" and "Good & Evil"
* Rosie Burgess Trio, any (sorry, can't check my albums at the moment)

But honestly the first thing that popped into my mind was that I think you would get a kick out of Steven Schultz's Stalin Claus Superstar: A Suplex Prune Hittite Fantasy if you can find it. A multi-hour concept album rock opera whose most memorable song title? is "Fuckin' Ancient Sumer".

And have you listened to Oscar Brand's album of US Presidential campaign theme songs? It's on Smithsonian Folkways and I adore it.

[seekingferret]

Thanks! I have put a Tally Hall album and the Oscar Brand album on my ipod.

[brainwane]

Cool - hope you enjoy. The one Tally Hall song I usually skip because it feels gross is "Two Wuv" which is creepy about the Olsen twins, if I recall correctly.