POLL: best artist on my iPod

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i don't know who half these people are

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Husker Du 14
Human League 11
Harry Belafonte 9
Herbert 5
Harry J. All Stars 5
The Hold Steady 4
The House of Love 4
Hot Chocolate 3
Hampton Grease Band 3
H.P. Lovecraft 3
Holy Fuck 2
Hot Chip 1
The Hives 1
Hayden 1
Hella 1
Hey Rosetta! 0
Health 0
Hot Hot Heat 0
Hearin Aid 0
Heidi Barry 0
Hortense Ellis 0
Horseback 0
The Holloways 0
Hollins and Star 0
Helmuth Zacharias 0
H. Andrews 0


rent, Thursday, 11 December 2008 15:20 (seventeen years ago)

Harry J. All Stars

Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 15:21 (seventeen years ago)

Harry J. Allstars

the next grozart, Thursday, 11 December 2008 15:23 (seventeen years ago)

Hot Chocolate

beyonc'e (max), Thursday, 11 December 2008 15:23 (seventeen years ago)

belafonte

yungblut, Thursday, 11 December 2008 15:29 (seventeen years ago)

Human League

Trik Turner Fan Club President (Tape Store), Thursday, 11 December 2008 15:48 (seventeen years ago)

Husker Du.

System (call all destroyer), Thursday, 11 December 2008 15:49 (seventeen years ago)

herbert

lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2008 15:51 (seventeen years ago)

House of Love

nate woolls, Thursday, 11 December 2008 15:52 (seventeen years ago)

Helmut Zacharias (January 27, 1920-February 28, 2002) was a German violinist. He started having lessons at the age of 4. At 6 he played at the cabaret Faun in Berlin and had his first radio broadcast five years later. In the 1950s he was considered to be one of the best jazz violinists of Europe. He played together with many other famous artists, including Yehudi Menuhin and had his own TV show from 1968 to 1973. He died in 2002 in Tessin, Switzerland.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Helmut_Zacharias_1965.jpg

apparently involved in the underground swing movement, swing having been classed as "verboten!" by hitler...

rent, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:03 (seventeen years ago)

Harry Belafonte, of course! And I hope he is part of the half that you know, if not get on that shit.

samosa gibreel, Thursday, 11 December 2008 19:12 (seventeen years ago)

i have a passing familiarity with belafonte the personality, and seemingly always have...but i've never really dug into his stuff. any recommendations for a starting point?

rent, Thursday, 11 December 2008 19:49 (seventeen years ago)

your Ipod

Granny Dainger, Thursday, 11 December 2008 19:49 (seventeen years ago)

i think christmas music/tracy morgan when i think belafonte.

rent, Thursday, 11 December 2008 19:54 (seventeen years ago)

my name is crap jones (PappaWheelie V), Thursday, 11 December 2008 20:07 (seventeen years ago)

The Hampton Grease Band released this, their debut and only album, in 1971, to almost universal disinterest and, even, active dislike. It was, famously, the second worst selling album in Columbia history. It might not have helped that Columbia's marketers, doubtless confused by the dadaistic hippy rock weirdness of the Hampton Grease Band, pitched it to stores as a comedy album. ...Lyrically, certainly odd -- Hampton often sang "found lyrics" from whatever text was at hand, like an encyclopedia entry about Halifax or the back of a can of spray paint. As it says in the cd booklet liner notes, the HGB were "an intensely musical group with an intensely non-musical singer".
Speaking of the liner notes, they're hilarious, full of great stories, like about the time the HGB was playing live, and their drummer suddenly stood up and froze in place, holding that pose for over an hour as the band finished their set without drums and most people left the venue! Somehow these gonzo guys got to open for the likes of Beefheart & the Magic Band, the Allmans, Country Joe & the Fish, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Alice Cooper -- and then somehow got signed to a brief, illfated stint on Columbia Records that produced this album.

Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Thursday, 11 December 2008 21:29 (seventeen years ago)

Harry J All Stars, then Belafonte. That guy is cool.

If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 12 December 2008 13:31 (seventeen years ago)

The Holloways?! Jesus H, save yourself.

sister s (ledge), Friday, 12 December 2008 13:34 (seventeen years ago)

yea halifax is aweseom xxp i think that's all i have by them but that blurb makes me want to hear more

rent, Friday, 12 December 2008 14:51 (seventeen years ago)

the holloways is one of the groups i have no idea about at all, prob from some comp i suppose.

rent, Friday, 12 December 2008 14:52 (seventeen years ago)

your Ipod

― Granny Dainger

lol.

rent, Friday, 12 December 2008 14:53 (seventeen years ago)

H.P. Lovecraft.

chap, Friday, 12 December 2008 14:53 (seventeen years ago)

Hot Chocolate

mr. anephric (the anephric project), Friday, 12 December 2008 15:54 (seventeen years ago)

Well, the incomparable Music To Eat is among my alltime top 40 LPs, so Hampton & Co. it is. (Husker Du come close, with Hot Chocolate in 3rd place - or lower, depending on which Hot Chocolate they are, US or UK.)

Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 12 December 2008 16:10 (seventeen years ago)

Heart Herbert. However, honestly, having heard, hmmm, half here.

derelict, Friday, 12 December 2008 16:16 (seventeen years ago)

If the Heidy Berri album happens to be Love, the first half is exceptional singer-songwriter with artsy 4AD production that would appeal to many fans of both Joni Mitchell and Kate Bush. Her preceding album (something about waves) is okay if you can stomach a milky voiced singer who regularly sounds about an eighth-step flat. And the later albums never grabbed me.

But the first half of Love...[puts it on].

derelict, Friday, 12 December 2008 16:25 (seventeen years ago)

listening to Hayden right now so heck I'll vote for him.

Ludo, Friday, 12 December 2008 20:47 (seventeen years ago)

Can't go wrong with the Human League, ever.

ilxor, Saturday, 13 December 2008 03:37 (seventeen years ago)

H.P. Lovecraft?

D'Andrelo, the gay white ex-con (Pillbox), Saturday, 13 December 2008 03:59 (seventeen years ago)

heidi berry not barry

voted for house of love

Minister for Compression Issues (electricsound), Saturday, 13 December 2008 04:01 (seventeen years ago)

The right answer is probably Belafonte or one of those jazz dudes I haven't heard, but for me its a toss up b/w Husker Du and my underdog favorites House of Love. Hmm.. I'll go with them, if only for their first two albums. Actually, Babe Rainbow is underrated, so that too.

lol wrote this before ^ was posted

D'Andrelo, the gay white ex-con (Pillbox), Saturday, 13 December 2008 04:03 (seventeen years ago)

Hot Chocolate, easy. (Do wish I still owned my copy of Music To Eat, though.)

(Can't stand Belafonte's Xmas album, which my wife can't stop playing this time of year. His banana boat stuff is okay, I guess. I'd definitely take Human League over him, though.)

xhuxk, Saturday, 13 December 2008 04:20 (seventeen years ago)

Husker Du. But I don't know who most of those folks are.

Whitey on the Moon, Saturday, 13 December 2008 06:41 (seventeen years ago)

H.P. Lovecraft?

― D'Andrelo, the gay white ex-con (Pillbox)

negotiable, Saturday, 13 December 2008 15:42 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Saturday, 20 December 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Sunday, 21 December 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)


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