Reccomend me some music

[MrMojo]

Well, I just got an iPod for Christmas. I put the stuff I liked on it, but it was only 2 gigs!

I think I need some music reccomendations.

I like Pink Floyd, Queen, Blue Oyster Cult, Classical music, Jazz, and APC's first cd (Mer de Noms).

I've tried Led Zepplin and Tool, but didn't really like them.


So, what other bands would I enjoy?

Thanks in advance.

[jetpack42]

George Benson

Dido

[kgb]

Bjork.

[arghmisfit]

The Libertines.

[Marie]

Asylum Street Spankers

[BlueMech]

Mindless Self Indulgence, Nightwish, Rhapsody, Pantera. I dunno. I just listed the last 4 bandsi just heard.

[Schlo-mo]

The Libertines

Great recommendation =o]
I love the Libs. Also try the new stuff from Baby Shambles, The single Killamangiro is amazing.

I'll make a list for you: Bloc Party, TV on the radio, The Kinks, The Unicorns, The stills, The shins, Camera obscura, Godspeed you black emperor!, The Smiths, Blonde Redhead, Q and not U, Hot Hot Heat, weezer, Desaparacidos, Cursive, Azure ray, explosions in the sky, sigur ros, the album leaf, devendra branhart, sufjan stevens, The Zutons, The coral
All the bands in that list are quite varied, from rock to experimental, to folk etc
If you like electronic stuff you might like Ratatat, listen to the Song Cherry.
For rap and hiphop try Deltron (aka Del tha funky homosapien), Jedi mind tricks, Aesop rock, de la soul, The Streets....

[Pontemonti]

Hmmm...looks like you may like some (other) progressive rock:

Porcupine Tree
Their earlier albums sound a bit like Pink Floyd...they don't really do that anymore...two recommendations could be:
In Absentia and Signify

Yes
The prog rock kings! :) Just some of their great albums:
Close to the Edge, Fragile, Relayer, Magnification, The Yes Album

Opeth
Damnation (and if you like the heavier stuff: Deliverance, Blackwater Park, Still Life...practically anything by them is awesome as it all sounds pretty much the same...hahaha)

RPWL
Started out as a Pink Floyd cover band...I haven't listened much to them - I've only got "Stock" which is pretty good.

Chroma Key
I can't get enough of it:
Dead Air for Radios
Edit: http://www.chromakey.com/
Click on Audio and you will be able to stream the album (not sure if it's the entire thing, but it almost seems so) and buy the download edition (high-quality MP3s, without stupid copy protections) :)

The Flower Kings
I never really understood everything on their albums, but the song "The Truth Will Set You Free" is just totally awesome. 30+ minutes of...great music :D

[gruve24]

STEELY DAN !!!!!!!!!!
STEREOLAB !!!!
anything from the NAKED MUSIC series, NUDE TEMPO vol.1
DJ MARKY Movement !!!
Zero 7 umm..both albums I guess
The Faces (oohh la la album) = AMAZING
Beatles, box set, or white album, and Rubber band soul
Phoenix both albums !!
Donald Fagen, 2nd album Kamakiriad
any UK Imports
anything thats UK GARAGE
any early 90's drum & bass = Jungle*
AMY WINEHOUSE - do yourself a favor and get her album !!
Ian Pooley
YES = AWESOME !!!
ALMAN BROTHERS !!!!! = AAAMMMZZIINNGGGG
Weather REPORT = AAMMMAAAZZIINNGG

[Prometheus|ANJ]

Hehe, I started a list the other day with music I think others might wanna check out, and maybe find something new they like. I made the list short so it's easy to go through, just the mainstream hit or a song I like from each artist.
Here's what I got so far.

(You might wanna skip the list cuz I got Tool on it... I like Pink Floyd too though, and so does my brother and we pretty much share music taste.)

Syntax: Artist : Songname / another songname (maybe album)

Swedish ----------------
Cornelis Wreesvijk : Fredrik åkare och Cecilia Lind
Thåström : Briggen bluebird av Hull / 800 grader (ºC) / Märk hur vår skugga
Mikael Wiehe : Flickan och Kråkan
Adophson & Falk : Blinkar Blå


Old ----------------
Leslie Gore : You don't own me (alb:Bad Reputation)
Dolly Parton : Jolene
Boney M : Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday


Misc ----------------
Steve Earle : John Walker's blues (Live better?) (alb:Jerusalem)
Kate Bush : Army Dreamers
Tori Amos : Caught a lite sneeze / Precious things
Portishead : Roads
Johnny Cash : Hurt
Staind : Black rain / outside
Rob D : Clubbed to death (kurayamino remix)


You might wanna skip these then -------
Guano apes : Lords of the boards / open your eyes
Cranberries : Zombie
Apocalyptica : ?
Monster Magnet : SpaceLord Motherfucker (live)
Tool : Sober / Aenema / Eulogy / Third eye
Type O Negative : Christian woman / Bloody kisses
Nine inch nails : Downward spiral album (can't pick a fav here 'cept maybe Heracy)


(Classic and mod/sid/game not included yet. Game music is 75% of what I listen too, currently going through sid remixes here (http://remix.kwed.org))

[Pontemonti]

Beatles, box set, or white album, and Rubber band soul
Some excellent suggestions there! :) When it comes to The Beatles, I would say Abbey Road. That's my favorite... Let It Be...Naked! is also really good. Heck, it's all good.

Another one I forgot about:
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
and of course:
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (either the original or the re-recorded 2003 version)

[mos667]

Aphex Twin - Awesome ambience music, I'm big on it :)
Apocalyptica - Awesome heavy metal esque instrumental awesome awesome. Awesome.
Boards of Canada - Don't know how to describe it...uh...electronic..stuff? It's good! :)
Chrono Trigger Soundtrack, remixes and originals - Excellent jazz remixes, and great originals. Plus it just touches you in a good way if you played the game :)
Covenant - Heavy beat industrial music, good stuff.
Garbage - Rock-esque with female singer that makes rape sound so innocent!
Massive Attack - Good stuff to listen to while drawing, heavy on the instruments and creepy vocals. Great stuff
Nightmares on Wax - Heavy on the beats, mostly instrumental stuff. A lot like Massive Attack.
Portishead - Delicious! Fabulous undescribable vocals put ontop of nice beats. Lots of emotion in their songs, really great stuff.
Thievery Corporation - Don't really know how to describe them, fun to listen to :)
VNV Nation - More industrial stuff, great sound.
Wumpscut - This may not be something you would like, it might :) Very German group.

http://www.digitallyimported.com/
This website hosts many different internet radio stations, great to find out music that isn't mainstream but still kicks ass. Chillout is good :)

[nicolas]

DJ Shadow (turntablist)
Cut Chemist (turntablist)
Mix Master Mike (supreme turntablist)
Asian Dub Foundation :D (a mixture of Rock/Dub/with asian influences)
Buck 65 (turntablist/MC(songwriter (awesome lyrics)
Sixtoo 6.2 (experimental turntablist/MC)
The Clash (especially the older stuff(but before Mick Jones left)) :D :D
John Frusciante (Guitarist/songwriter without comparisson)
Kid Koala (turntablist)
King Prawn (ska/hip-hop/pink)
NoFX (Fun Pink, I love these guys >:D )
System of a Down (don't know waht they fall under....but it's the shit!!!)

Anyway, this is just whats in my I-tunes.....maybe theres something for u in there....

cheers & happy new year

NIC

[nova]

DJ Shadow (turntablist)


yup, i second that. also, UNKLE. don't listen to it too much, it can be depressing :)

[wassermelone]

Great recommendation =o]
I love the Libs. Also try the new stuff from Baby Shambles, The single Killamangiro is amazing.

I'll make a list for you: Bloc Party, TV on the radio, The Kinks, The Unicorns, The stills, The shins, Camera obscura, Godspeed you black emperor!, The Smiths, Blonde Redhead, Q and not U, Hot Hot Heat, weezer, Desaparacidos, Cursive, Azure ray, explosions in the sky, sigur ros, the album leaf, devendra branhart, sufjan stevens, The Zutons, The coral
All the bands in that list are quite varied, from rock to experimental, to folk etc
If you like electronic stuff you might like Ratatat, listen to the Song Cherry.
For rap and hiphop try Deltron (aka Del tha funky homosapien), Jedi mind tricks, Aesop rock, de la soul, The Streets....

Great list! Bolded some of my favorites

If you try some of those bands also try:
Metric, Mum, Now Its Overhead, Neutral Milk Hotel, Dirty Three, Folk Implosion, British Sea Power, Notwist, Spoon, the Decemberists, Calexico, Tullycraft, Mountain Goats, The Flaming Lips, Television, John Vanderslice, Broken Social Scene...

I know I am missing a bunch but thats some good stuff =D

[Sketch]

here's my current list of favs....

Hip Hop:
DJ Nu-Mark(dj from Jurrassic5)
K-OS
Madvillain(MF Doom and Madlib)
Murs
Anything by the Neptunes(especially JT :S )

Electronic:
Ratatat
Bonobo
old Prodigy

Rock/Alternative/Folk/Whatever you want to call it:
The Shins
Maroon5
AC Newman
Menomena!
David Gray
Modest Mouse(especially their older stuff)
The Police
The Killers
Wilco

[Prehistoric]

i'm kind of on a Supergrass rant right now.

check 'em out. they rock!

[MuffinMan]

cANNIBAL CORPSE!
the most hardcore gore metal band EVER!

[peterhurman]

libertines is a good choice. i cant believe americans have heard of them i thought british bands never got played in the states.

my choice would be -

white stripes
stone roses
i quite like kasabian at the moment
guns n roses
the ramones
the transplants
oasis
sex pistols

[USER777]

when u liked the libertines u will LVOE Razorlight.. they kick ass big time. my definite brit-rock-alternative favorite atm... :tihi:

[itchy_tasty]

nine inch nails - the fragile two discs of musical goodness

[MuffinMan]

Mushroomhead....the best metal band out of cleveland.
seriously, they have an awesome combination of blues, motown, ambient and metal. the piano stuff in their music is superb. i've been listening to them since 8th grade. dude, most of their really good stuff is on a bunch of these self published albums that you can only get in cleveland at their local record shop...
they are still an undergound band, rarely pop out of the ground. i have their first real self titled album "XX", it's great. i also go their "debut" (XIII) album...it's alright. but their older stuff kicks ass. i think you can try and get their albums on ebay, or some online music store that may have them. most of their albums were released only in ohio, cleveland. i've been there and picked up the "XX" album... they signed a contract with universal records and are touring and playing more music for the next album that will come up next year.

i highly recommend them.

[bosquejo]

progressive rocks bands:

* marillion (http://www.marillion.com)
* transatlantic (http://www.transatlanticweb.com)
* spock's beard (http://www.spocksbeard.com)
* genesis
* pink floyd
* iq (http://www.gep.co.uk/iq/)
* neal morse (http://www.nealmorse.com)
* dream theater (http://www.dreamtheater.net)
* pain of salvation (http://www.painofsalvation.com)
* enchant (http://www.theoasis.cc/)
* tomas bodin (http://www.tomasbodin.com)
* the flower kings (http://www.flowerkings.se/)
* ayreon (http://www.ayreon.com)
* an evening with john petrucci and jordan ruddess (http://www.dreamtheater.net/disco_projects.php?s=petrucci_rudess)
* liquid tension experiment (http://www.dreamtheater.net/disco_projects.php?s=lte1)
* office of strategic influence (http://www.dreamtheater.net/disco_projects.php?s=osi)

and if you love middle-age/celtic folklore these are your bands (not prog rock):

* blackmore's night (http://www.blackmoresnight.com/)
* the wishing tree

[robo midget]

I beseech you to try Tool again but this time have the lyric book handy. Even if the style isn't your cup of darjeeling the lyrics are freaking awsome!

[MuffinMan]

how about "Bright Eyes"?
OMG this dude is awesome. listen to the song "waste of paint"

[Barts]

Everyone should be listening to

I Killed The Prom Queen

They are a really awesome band


www.ikilledthepromqueen.com

[MuffinMan]

listen to Marilyn Manson
his songs are awesome, don't be fooled by his disturbing image or themes of satanism. really his music is fucking genius, no...he's a fucking genius. my favorite songs so far are these songs:

The Dope Show
Beautiful People
Tainted Love
Rock is Dead
Sweet Dreams
Coma White

well, i like most of his songs, i dunno about his new album, the rest of his stuff kicks ass, starting from his first album all the way to "antichrist superstar"

golden age of grotesque, that album is one to steer away from, but it's your choice...

[bracomadar]

Even if you don't like country music, try some Johnny Cash, TRUST ME. I have friends who NEVER listen to country, but love Johnny Cash. The songs "The Wanderer" and "Hurt" are really good, but so are some of his older ones that are sometimes overlooked. He does some dark songs, but also some funny ones. He's got something for everyone. I’ve listened to a lot of singers over the years and personally I think he’s the best singer/storyteller there ever was. Also, Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR), has a lot of good stuff. Also, a friend just told me about this new guitarist called Kaki King who does some cool things. Here's a video if anyone wants to check her out...
http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/KakiKing/video/KakiKing_PlayingWithPinkNoiseVidFull_ref.mov

[MuffinMan]

Even if you don't like country music, try some Johnny Cash, TRUST ME. I have friends who NEVER listen to country, but love Johnny Cash. The songs "The Wanderer" and "Hurt" are really good, but so are some of his older ones that are sometimes overlooked. He does some dark songs, but also some funny ones. He's got something for everyone. I’ve listened to a lot of singers over the years and personally I think he’s the best singer/storyteller there ever was. Also, Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR), has a lot of good stuff. Also, a friend just told me about this new guitarist called Kaki King who does some cool things. Here's a video if anyone wants to check her out...
http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/KakiKing/video/KakiKing_PlayingWithPinkNoiseVidFull_ref.mov

she's cute, and damn good for someone who can play an acoustic guitar by finger picking.

[cotron]

braco- I second the johnny cash mention... I don't listen to country, but I've got a whole slew of his songs. it's just good music.... it's nice to find people that transcend boundaries and can relate to almost anyone. "best of the sun years" is a really good album to get into his stuff.

werd

[bat]

BOC rules. Pink Floyd and Ministry rock. And the Genitorturers are awesome as hell.

[Rebecca]

have you tried MusicPlasma.com, its a virtual search engine, and if you type in the name of the bands you like, it will come up with bands similar to it, and even the popularity of the band, and you can hear a little snippet of that bands music :confident

ps :O ive not been on that site for aaaaages, so i dont know if it still exists LOL
but its worth checking out.

[The Artist]

Hiphop
Numark (his stuff is pretty chill)
Jurassic 5
Jean Grae
The Roots
Visionaries
Swollen Members

Electronic
Zero 7
Moby
Ferry Corsten
Armin van Buuren
any of that Cafe del Mar stuff

[AndyLC]

The Pillows
Franz Ferdinand

[MuffinMan]

The Pillows
Franz Ferdinand

the pillows is a great japanese rock band, my brother listens to them all the time.

[Inkfish]

here is some random albums from my playlist, pure :heart:
Muse: Origin of symmetry
Morrisey:you are the quarry
Goldfrapp: Black Cherry
ohgr: Sunnypsypop
Koop: Walz for koop
moloko: Statues

[talbot]

Reverend Horton Heat
The Replacements
Cowboy Junkies
The Pixies
Jesus and Mary Chain
(old) Joe Cocker
Roy Orbinson
Otis Redding
Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble
Cream
The Who
Faces (Rod Stewart’s first band)

[acuna_read]

for electronic you wont beat 'Air', a Frnech band. THe successors to Jean Michael Jarre and Mike Oldfield.

A new UK band called the 'Futureheads' are good too, and you cant go wrong with 'The Killers' as many will agree!

For more relaxing/thought provoking stuff listen to 'Damien Rice', and 'Willy Mason'.

[mollyduker]

I might have missed these bands on the list but "The Servant" (my sister got me hooked on them) and "Cake". They both rock.

[Undertow]

yup, i second that. also, UNKLE. don't listen to it too much, it can be depressing :)
been listening to Lyrics Born and Lateef & the Chief for the past 4 days non stop.