Best Wine Drinking Music

WINE TALK
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What’s your favorite album to kick back to over a nice bottle of wine? I’ll start…Kind of Blue, Miles Davis…simply sublime!

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Rush - Hemispheres

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Kind of Blue is a great choice.

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Acoustic Alchemy

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The meditative transcendental post-punk music of Lungfish. (see my avatar)

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Also the new Nick Cave album!

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I like such a variety of music and styles that I rely on Pandora to deliver that variety. From Enya to Dire Straits, Bach to Big Band. Just can’t handle Rap.

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For jazz I would go with Sonny Rollins’s “Don’t Stop the Carnival” or Dave Brubeck Quartet “Time Out.” For female vocalists I would select Etta James’s “Love’s Been Rough on Me” (an album she supposedly disliked in retrospect but my favorite of several CDs I own of her performances). If I’m in a really retrospective folksy mood I might put on “The Best of the Kingston Trio” (which includes “Raspberries, Strawberries” with its references to good wine AND “Scotch and Soda”) or “The New Christy Minstrels Greatest Hits” or something by Gordon Lightfoot or Glenn Yarbrough. If I’m in a classical mood I might choose Tchaikovsky’s Pathetique Symphony or Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet.”

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Currently hunkered down with a CdP and Beethoven Opus 111 Sonata 32. Like the Hemispheres Dick… gonna have to go dig out some of those tunes now… from that one and A Farewell to Kings.

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Depends on the mood. Kind of Blue is always a classic. Sometimes gotta get more modern with Medeski, Martin and Wood’s ‘Last Chance to Dance Trance’. Coltrane’s “Africa/Brass Sessions” often makes an appearance here as well.

But then…after a bottle or more…the epic moody rock songs come out:
Jane’s Addiction “Three Days”
The Cure “Standing on the Edge of the Deep Green Sea”

Or the epic “alternative” albums (yes, the WHOLE f’n album)
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead “Source Codes and Tags”
Afghan Whigs “Black Love”
Radiohead “Hail to the Thief”

But if it’s a beer night? Japandroids’ “Celebration Rock” is blaring to the heavens.

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Oh good gravy - gotta go with the following, but in no particular order:

  • The Blue Nile
  • Cocteau Twins
  • Peter Gabriel
  • Lloyd Cole & the Commotions
  • The Pretenders

I’ll leave it there.

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Good choice & I like it…:slight_smile:

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House

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Lately on the jazz front it’s Ahmad Jamal - Blue Moon and Gregory Porter - Be Good. Love me some Bad Plus - Made Possible too! Perfect wine drinking music.

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Tool - Aenima or Lateralus
Temple of the Dog
Mad Caddies - Keep It Going
Hot Water Music - Exister
DriveBy-Truckers - Decoration Day

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Doesn’t it depend on the humidity? [snort.gif]

Bruce

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I think classical music is best when I have to taste a flury of wines - but other than that - here are my go-to’s -

The Cocteau Twins -

The Durutti Column -

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…and Kick Out The Jams…at least that’s the rumor…

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I have to agree with this. I still remember a sublime drinking experience I had with a bottle of white wine and The Durutti Column’s Vini Reilly album on a warm spring day about twenty years ago. Even now I try to save that album for special occassions.

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Love to listen to “Kind of Blue”, or Ahmad Jamal’s “Live at the Pershing.” Haven’t picked up his new album yet, but this thread is a good reminder to do that!