h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Thelonious Monk - I'm Getting Sentimental Over You

From 'Live at the It Club - Complete'. To my ears, one of the best recordings the great piano man *ever* made. Stride meets standard with oodles of swing. (And you can even hear a telephone ring...)

The Music of The Spheres -- 67 MHz meteor radar (Roswell, NM)

http://science.nasa.gov/audio/meteor/meteorburst.m3u

And for a variation -- Naval Space Surveillance Radar (Kickapoo, TX)

http://science.nasa.gov/audio/meteor/navspasur.m3u

Space rocks!

Abdelli - new moon

http://abdelli.com/
http://realworldrecords.com/abdelli/

Does anybody know of any percussion ensemble CD's? Rather than rock, electronica, world, etc., I'm thinking something like Blue Man Group, but without the rock band as on their DVD. Or something like the college music schools do in their perc. ensemble concerts, e.g. new compositions specifically for perc ensemble. I can't find much.

I know Dutch band: Slagerij van Kampen http://www.slagerijvankampen.nl/

Something weird my younger son left for me to listen to: it's Paul Anka, yes, THE Paul Anka, you've never heard of Paul Anka, have you? Anyway, he's singing "Black Hole Sun"

B.B. King - Sneakin' Around

Steve K., I was gonna suggest Slagerij van Kampen, too, but Pheloxi beat me to it. Here's some more, if you can find them (I'm not sure about the availability of some):

- Jazz drummer Art Blakey made several albums which focused on percussion, such as 'The African Beat' on Blue Note.

- Frank Zappa recorded a few percussion-only tracks, such as 'The Clap' (on 'Chunga's Revenge') and 'The Black Page' (Zappa In New York'). And IIRC, one of his former drummers, Terry Bozzio, has been performing solo in the not-too-distant past.

- Fatala, a band from Guinea. Their album 'Gongoma Times' (on Real World) is really good.

- If you're more classically-minded, then Edgar Varèse's 'Ionisation' might appeal to you. Greek composer Iannis Xenakis has also written percussion pieces.

Good luck, and enjoy!

And now it's

Benny Gordon - You Can't Stand Alone

Fab uptempo soul.

And

Dave Hamilton - Cracklin' Bread

instrumental funk with rock sensitivities (if those last two words aren't an oxymoron ).

A mash up of Galvanize and Eye of the Tiger. Tis good!

abdelli - among brothers

Soul Coughing - "How Many Cans?"

now it's "Disenchanted Lullaby" by Foo Fighters

Dust My Broom -- Elmore James

Slide guitar, baby!

Willie Dixon's Help Me as done by Harry Manx

The music from the many andventures of winnie the pooh...altogether now, "The wonderful thing about Tiggers...."

Pheloxi, Nite owl -

Thanks for the tips on percussive music acts, like Slagerij van Kampen. I found some info on them by Googling, and even a few used CD's here in the states, sounds pretty good . A good example of something I would never have heard of except for H2G2 - I rely too much on Amazon . I'm still looking at the other acts, but glad there's something out there ...

Simple Minds

Hector Zazou - strong currents

80s music