Music Suggestions Please!!

[havic626]

Well here is the deal, for the past............about 13 years of my life ive been listening to metal and not really anything else (mostly Norwegian Black Metal).   Im starting to get a little bored of it and im looking for new stuff to listen to, now i am open minded and i do give things a chance.  I have found a new taste for some indie music, classic rock and some old 80's stuff and opera.   I would like if you would, for people out there to suggest 5 or so bands or artist that you think i should be listening too.  But i do ask one of one thing, please no rap that consist of "smoking chronic", "having lots of ho's", "i have the best stuff and you dont" kinda rap.   thnx everyone

[Samstag]

I don't listen to the radio much but I hear some band called "Hannah Montana" is all the rage these days.

[havic626]

I don't listen to the radio much but I hear some band called "Hannah Montana" is all the rage these days.

  Hannah Montana??   
my daughter loves that show, that rico kid is the scariest mofo ive ever seen

[saint]

Aqua
E-Rotic
Enya
Loreena McKennitt - (try The Book of Secrets, particularly The Highwayman)
Infernal (Must listen to "From Paris to Berlin")
Crash Test Dummies
Tori Amos
Bunch of 80's stuff of course.

--- saint

[mpm32]

Check out Flogging Molly.  One of my favorite bands right now.

[ChadTower]

Enya?!

 

Seriously.  Enya, saint? 

I'll agree with everything else saint said - not necessarily because they float my boat but because they are worth checking out.

[JMB]

Not sure how musically in the dark you are but:

Older:
The Clash
Pixies
The Police
The Smiths
The Cure

Newer:
Spoon
Wilco
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
The New Pornographers
Pinback

[shardian]

I'll list my all-time fav 5, do with it as you will.

Disturbed
Machine Head
Primus
Ben Folds Five
and of course, The Beatles (Abbey Road is the ---Cleveland steamer---).


If you seriously want to listen to some new wave stuff, check out Depeche Mode.

[myntik1]

I'm a big old school punk fan and indie hip hop (not to be confused with rap)

My 2 hip hop suggestions are:
Louis Logic and JJ Brown - early Beastie's style hip hop with excellent word play - search for Classy McNasty on youtube
Atmosphere - rock type hip hop - do a search for Smart Went Crazy on youtube

[Glaine]

I like listening to stuff from all over.

Theres a band in Norway I really like a lot called Kaizers Orchestra, very much worth checking out. Ompa Til Du Dor & Eving Pint were good albums.

Theres a guy called Nullsleep who does really nice 8-bit techno, you can find some of his albums for free on archive.org.

And in Japanese Rock theres bands like Larc En Ciel and Asian Kung Fu Generation, or Polysics if you don't mind something experimental sounding - they make awesome funny music videos (like Black Out Fall Out).

[Zero_Hour]

I'd suggest -

Apex Theory
The Black keys
Clutch
G. Love & Special Sauce
Fugazi

[TOK]

I don't know that you can drop right into the pop from black metal. 

Meshuggah has a new CD out, just in time for you, and they're not tuned so low anymore that you can barely tell whats going on. Interesting non-standard timing and progression, they're the kind of band musicians like.

There is also a punk influenced, kind of poppy band called Against Me! that I tried to hate because I don't like pop/punk, but I really like it. Its real enough that it doesn't sound like a kiddie band like Sum 41 or Blink 182.

My old school suggestion would be Four Of A Kind by DRI. Probably my most played CD of all time. Had the original on cassette, wore it out, then bought the CD. The 80's is a wealth of great hard rock. Iron Maidens Killers and Number of the Beast are must haves.

So hard just to make 5 pics. I suggest getting Sirius and channel surfing. I can never go back to regular radio or just having an MP3 player.

[saint]

Enya?!

 

Seriously.  Enya, saint? 

I'll agree with everything else saint said - not necessarily because they float my boat but because they are worth checking out.

enya good. Makes good background music when I'm working and need to concentrate.

[saint]

OH! And Christmas time - Trans Siberian Orchestra.

[ChadTower]

enya good. Makes good background music when I'm working and need to concentrate.

Enya is standard library production music whenever NBC wants to suck women in to a "very special episode".  They slow the shots down, pipe in Enya, and boom it's dripping with estrogen and cheese.  I hadn't noticed it myself until my wife pointed out like 4 different things they had done with it in one season.

[HaRuMaN]

Tool
Incubus
Foo Fighters
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Cake
Poe
Portishead
Sneaker Pimps

[HaRuMaN]

There is also a punk influenced, kind of poppy band called Against Me! that I tried to hate because I don't like pop/punk, but I really like it. Its real enough that it doesn't sound like a kiddie band like Sum 41 or Blink 182.

A couple of weeks ago I went to see the Foo Fighters in concer (who were awesome, btw).  Against Me! opened up for them, they weren't too bad, but I found myself growing tired of listening to them pretty quickly.  Serj Tankien took the stage right after them, he was pretty good, very lively and animated, but his is definately a weird style of music.  I like SOAD, so it's not too much of a stretch to like his music.

[abrannan]

Aqua
E-Rotic
Enya
Loreena McKennitt - (try The Book of Secrets, particularly The Highwayman)
Infernal (Must listen to "From Paris to Berlin")
Crash Test Dummies
Tori Amos
Bunch of 80's stuff of course.

--- saint

Saint, get out of my music collection! 

[Jabba]

I hear ya man. I switches to listening to an Alternative Rock radio station and I really like the newer stuff..

Here are some suggestions to keep you busy (** indicates Greatness IMO)

Against_Me
**Airbourne
Daughtry
Green Day
Eddie Vedder
Everclear
**Extreme
Faith No More
**Jet
Joe Satriani
Linkin_Park
NickelBack
**Nuno Bettencourt
Papa_Roach
Puddle of Mudd
Queens_of_the_Stone_Age_
Radiohead
**Seether
**Sixx Am
Snow Patrol
The Tea Party
Three Days Grace
Velvet Revolver
Wintersleep
Wolfmother

[Chris G]

In no particular order:

Beastie Boys
Run DMC
Scorpions
U2
Joe Satriani
Beatles
Mozart
Green Day
Oasis
Pink Floyd
The Cult
Van Halen
Dire Straits

[Chemixtry]

I never get tired of listening to this stuff:
Enigma
Lacuna Coil
Three Days Grace
Rob Zombie
Six A.M.
Offspring
Korn
The Rasmus
Conjure One
Delerium
Duran Duran
Godsmack

[shardian]

Offspring

That is a must have album 

I used to pop that in if I was driving late at night. Definitely kept me awake.

[NiN^_^NiN]

Here is a few fav songs i like will let you see if you wanna see more from the artists







Love this one






Good one too


Best song ever

[RTSDaddy2]

Say what you will about Enya,  I will agree with Saint on that one.  Nothing in this world better to relax to.

If you can find them, Antigone Rising is a great, all female folk-rock / pop band...Cassidy, the lead singer, has one of the purest voices around.  Kelly Willis is another mostly unheard of country / folk singer that you might find interesting - why she receives so little airplay is beyond me.  If you really want eclectic music, there's always Kate Bush....again, just a masterful voice, but some really really strange - yet infectious - tunes at times.

As far as 80's music goes, there's always ABBA....nothing wrong with rediscovering the classics.

[TOK]

A couple of weeks ago I went to see the Foo Fighters in concer (who were awesome, btw).  Against Me! opened up for them, they weren't too bad, but I found myself growing tired of listening to them pretty quickly.  Serj Tankien took the stage right after them, he was pretty good, very lively and animated, but his is definately a weird style of music.  I like SOAD, so it's not too much of a stretch to like his music.

I hated them for nearly a solid month... I think I've heard their newest CD in its entirety a few times on Sirius by now. Then I started noticing that New Wave was sticking in my head all day after I heard it. Decent stuff.

System Of A Down has some awesome riffs and song structure, but I can't take Serge Tankians vocals. That warbling and moaning ruins every song for me. 

[havic626]

Here is a few fav songs i like will let you see if you wanna see more from the artists







Love this one






Good one too


Best song ever

DAMMIT YOU RICK ROLL'D ME!!!!!!

[NiN^_^NiN]

hehe i try but i like the song actually damn ppl rickrolling me now its stuck in my head for ages

[Level42]

Hey Chad, stop  -ing at other people's music preferences......it's just a matter of taste eh (you laughed when I mentioned Toto....I really wonder what's wrong with them).

But to stick to the thread....



uhmmm........Level 42 of course for the best 80's band. (www.level42.com)

And the best Dutch band at this moment IMHO: BLØF (www.blof.nl) Although the language could be a bit of a problem

O and for something completely different:
www.kraftwerk.com

[danny_galaga]

Hey Chad, stop  -ing at other people's music preferences......it's just a matter of taste eh (you laughed when I mentioned Toto....I really wonder what's wrong with them).

But to stick to the thread....



uhmmm........Level 42 of course for the best 80's band. (www.level42.com)

And the best Dutch band at this moment IMHO: BLØF (www.blof.nl) Although the language could be a bit of a problem

dutch? golden earring -radar love

best.night. driving. song. ever (",)

[Level42]

True. I guess that's about the best song from this little country ever.

Then again, there's also the amazing Smurf song. Music brilliance....


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5bqNjgQdMY[/youtube]


OMG, I am SO ashamed after seeing that !!!

[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]

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.

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.

[JMB]

how many gigs is your guys mp3 collection?

Probably around 300gb with between 500-700 cd's yet to be ripped.  I was an emusic.com subscriber when they had an unlimited download plan.

[shmokes]

It does depend on your audio installation and quality of your ears though.

People keep telling me that.  But the double-blind tests tend to say those people are blowing smoke. 

[Ginsu Victim]

Genesis (Gabriel-era)
Pink Floyd
Yes
Rush
Cacophony (Becker and Friedman)
Jason Becker
Marty Friedman
Yngwie Malmsteen (mostly just on "Rising Force")
Goblin
Emerson Lake & Palmer
Queen
any of Akira Yamaoka's Silent Hill soundtracks
Ennio Morricone

[shmokes]

im looking for new stuff to listen to

I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that while Pink Floyd and Queen are incredible (Rush is crap, though, of course) they don't really fit what he's looking for.  Same goes for Yes and Emerson Lake & Palmer.  That stuff is all 30 years old.

[patrickl]

It does depend on your audio installation and quality of your ears though.

People keep telling me that.  But the double-blind tests tend to say those people are blowing smoke. 

Well they say they did those tests.

I don't see why someone with above average hearing wouldn't be able to detect the obvious loss of quality. It won't work for everyone, but to say that no one can hear it is a bit far fetched.