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El F, if I sent you a few discs of Bach/Mozart/Haydn/Schubert/Beethoven solo piano music, would you play it for them? No need to water it down with that Baby Einstein stuff. Their brains hear it a lot better than ours, anyway.

You can do much better for your children than Baby Einstein. And the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

I would take Neil's shittiest record over the Peppers' finest hour for sheer originality and integrity. And I never, ever need to hear "Under the Bridge" or "Take it Away" again.

If it were not for their early 90s output (which even then I found to be occasionally fun, but never mindblowing), their music of the last 5-7 years has been completely average, uninteresting, and undistinguishable from all the other crap on the radio. In a word: RHCP is easy, comfortable, inoffensive music for people with neither the means nor the inclination to find music that isn't forcefed to them by the majors and the radio stations in their pay.

Buddy: I listened to more new music in the last 24 hours than you have in the last six months. And even if I hadn't, it doesn't change the fact that the RHCP are washed up and mediocre radio garbage.

Who still listens to the Chili Peppers?

exactly It's a shame, b/c considering the bands Kyle loves -- Explosions in the Sky, Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Loscil, Clogs, et al -- he's basically already listening to (contemporary) classical music. You can't tell some people anything tho....

Is this all 700 years of classical music you were calling snoozy, or something specific you were wanting to sound ignorant about? np Mice Parade: Mokoondi Rich, you would love this if you haven't heard it.

Not huge on Midlake myself - kind of a snoozer. Which of course makes sense if Kyle loves it. np Radian: Juxtaposition

Not only is I Can Hear the Heart... their best record, it's one of the best records anyone made in the 1990s.

Brooklyn Vegan love

edit: check out The Books if you haven't before. Either "The Lemon of Pink" or their most recent record "Lost & Safe" are great. They will likely be the next performers in my series.

The Books - Thought for Food

I cannot stop playing this record.

What are some of your favorite (4-5) records of his? Dude has so much music I have no idea where to begin.

Another record I am chomping at the bit to hear.

So, some of you might know that I've been trying for the past few months to put together a concert series here at Lincoln Center, where I work. The idea, in a word, is to present classical music people alongside what I'm calling "contemporary instrumental" artists -- i.e., indie rock, electronic, laptop, etc., performers, to show that it's really one big continuum of music and that everyone has something to learn from each other. Just last week, I officially confirmed the first date--on Monday, September 18. The performers will be Glenn Kotche and Nels Cline, playing alongside a young pianis

NYC too

Nels and Glenn will be playing NYC at Lincoln Center on Monday Sept. 18. Ticket onsale info and more to be posted soon.

Me too. Far and away their favorite album of mine. NP:

A Hawk and A Hacksaw - s/t

My Morning Jacket - The Tennessee Fire

Rapidly gaining on OK Computer as maybe my favorite record of all time.

Stealth factor. You goin to Os Mutantes or New Pornographers or Will Oldham soon? That (and a bunch of classical stuff no one cares about) is all I gots.