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Jdurg:
Tool - Really "odd" music about pretty much everything.  Fairly dark and morbid, yet artistically incredible.  My favorite band ever and they put on probably the best shows on earth.  It's just sad that they tour VERY infrequently.  Makes it pretty damned special when you can actually go see a show.

Alice In Chains - In retrospect, a really sad band.  When you think about the heroin issues that Layne Staley dealt with, and how it affected all of his songs, it really makes the music they put out so emotional and psychologically devastating.

A Perfect Circle - Maynard James Keenan, the frontman for the band Tool, is also the frontman for this band.  APC is a lot like Tool, but MUCH more melodic and much more upbeat.  Basically, they're Tool with an optimistic look on life.

Pink Floyd - Very "spacious" and mind-funky type band.  Classic music and it is really good for just spacing out and clearing your mind.

shmokes:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones is probably the best album made in the last five years. 

Some other relatively new albums worth listening to:

Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth (though you'll probably like 2001's Is This It more)
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
The Garden State - Soundtrack (seriously, every song on this album is great and it'll introduce you to a bunch of great bands)
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
The Killers - Hot Fuss (there's a newer album out, but I haven't had time to listen to it yet)
The Honorary Title - Anything Else but the Truth (this album is amazingly good -- band's not famous yet, but will be if the studios don't kill their sound)
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm


While I can't vouch for it, Pearl Jam's newest album is supposedly killer, as is Radiohead's (which you can legally download from their website for any price, including $0.00), but I haven't had a chance to listen to either of them).  Also, any album of Built to Spill is spectacular.




havic626:
thnx everyone for all your suggestions............some good stuff out there that ive overlooked.  Just out of curiosity, how many gigs is your guys mp3 collection?

shmokes:
Mine is 31 GB.  Almost exclusively 192 kb/sec variable bit rate encoded MP3s.  If anyone tells you that they can hear a difference between that and something encoded at a higher bit rate (or no compression at all) you definitely know two things about him.  One, he is lying.  Two, he is pretentious.  :)

Even 192 is probably overkill.  160 is all you need.

patrickl:

--- Quote from: shmokes on March 16, 2008, 10:32:03 am ---Mine is 31 GB.  Almost exclusively 192 kb/sec variable bit rate encoded MP3s.  If anyone tells you that they can hear a difference between that and something encoded at a higher bit rate (or no compression at all) you definitely know two things about him.  One, he is lying.  Two, he is pretentious.  :)

Even 192 is probably overkill.  160 is all you need.

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It does depend on your audio installation and quality of your ears though. Even at 192 kbps you lose the high end of the frequency spectrum (above 16,000 Hz). If your speakers or headphones aren't capable of producing these frequencies then you won't hear the difference. Even though there actually is a difference. Same if you ears cannot detect frequencies above 16000 Hz.

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