Non-guitar music you like

[idiotbear]

Oooh, yeah. Waits.

And Rufus Wainwright.

[Stereordinary]

I'm with you guys on Massive Attack, Amon Tobin, Boards of Canada and Goldfrapp.

But the big one for me is: SKINNY PUPPY

[TheMilford]

I was listening to a lot, a few months back...:

Arvo Part
Bartok's String Quartets
Beethoven's 9th
Eric Satie (via Reinbert de Leeuw)

[sookwinder]

Best ever and I mean BEST EVER Tom Waits gig/recording is live in Sydney at the state theatre, 2nd May 1979.
The bootleg of the gig is called "Cold Beer On a Hot Night".  If you are getting this you should try and get the Japanese released re-mastered version from 2002, on the "right stuff" label.  (I sort of know someone who had something to do with this release )

It is just the perfect TW gig.

[tsalwel]

I was listening to a lot, a few months back...:

Arvo Part
Bartok's String Quartets
Beethoven's 9th
Eric Satie (via Reinbert de Leeuw)

one of the best satie players

d

[dc]

lots of great non-guitar music on thte ol' iPod these days: Harold Budd, Diana Krall, Frank Sinatra, Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Depeche Mode, Skinny Puppy, Dead Can Dance, Pink Martini, Lisa Germano, Lisa DeBenedictis...sure i'm forgetting somebody.

you really can't beat a great melody, no matter what instrument it's played on -- not that i'll be giving up the guitar anytime soon.

[Orang Goreng]

Most music I've listened to in the past years would qualify as "non-guitar music", even though much of it has some guitars.

My favourite artist is probably Barry Adamson, has been for some years now (I even wrote the final bits of my PhD thesis while listening to one of his albums exclusively...helped me get through some rather dire spots).

I have to show some love for Roni Size as well. I haven't followed what he's been up to lately, but I just love some of his stuff.

A.S Dragon is a French band I like. I saw them back up Bertrand Burgalat in Paradiso (Amsterdam) some years ago. Great gig. There's a live album, "Bertrand Burgalat meets A.S Dragon", which I'd highly recommend.

Of course there's Serge Gainsbourg, though one of his albums I have is utter crap. Some others are brilliant though.

I could probably go on forever, so I won't.

[Coronado]

I think Morphine is my favourite non-guitar band. In fact is one of my favourite bands!

Massive Attack, Bjork and I'll add Henry Mancini.

[Orang Goreng]

I think Morphine is my favourite non-guitar band. In fact is one of my favourite bands!

I love their music, but their lyrics tend to be so naff that they irritate the heck out of me. That band could have used a mumbling singer.

[mjet]

But the big one for me is: SKINNY PUPPY

I liked some of their earlier stuff (Bites, Remission etc) up through Cleanse Fold and Manipulate. I saw them in around 1990 (Too Dark Park) and it was one of those shows where you leave the hall and say "what the hell just happened in there?". If anyone ever wants to know what heroin can do to musicians, send them to a Skinny Puppy show and tell them to hold on! Amazingly creative yet disturbing at the same time.

The lads now:

[Stereordinary]

Yes, yes, too true.  Still, I love most of their catalog up until "The Process".  Rick Rubin produced that album and basically ruined it with... guitars.
I saw them recently on their "Greater Wrong of the Right" tour.  They're healthier and surprisingly energetic for how old they are and what they've done to themselves.  (For any of you who are curious, rent "Ain't it Dead Yet?")  I must admit, it was the best concert I've ever been to.

Oh and Morphine!  Morphine is classic!  Fantastic!

[donnyII]

Daft Punk
Missing Time
NWA

[tremolite]

I'm a huge jazz listener. Mostly classic Blue Note, Impulse!, and Prestige recordings... anything engineered by the great Rudy Van Gelder. And anything with Vibraphone. I absolutely love all of Bobby Hutcherson's Blue Note records. I like classical as well... Ligeti, Part, Reich, Adams, Bartok, Debussey, Ravel, Shostakovich, Kronos Quartet. And I've been known to listen to:
Autechre, Aphex, BOC, Broadcast, Budd, Ulrich Schnauss, Legion of Green Men, System 7, Bochum Welt, Mouse on Mars, Jan Jelinek, To Rococo Rot, Clan of Xymox, early Tangerine Dream, Thomas Koner, ABC, Astrud Gilberto, Bark Psychosis, ambient Eno, Durutti Column, Seefeel, Talk Talk, Pell Mell...

[Ludger]

The Books - www.thebooksmusic.com
Fennesz - "Endless Summer"

[nealescott]

some favourite stuff that doesn't explicitly feature guitars...

tom waits
arthur russell
erik satie
john cage
hot chip
ennio morricone
cat power
broadcast
matmos
aphex twin
gogol bordello
why?
dj shadow
metric
stars of the lid