On September 28 2010 16:12 Sinensis wrote: You've been an enormous help. Thank you.
I would be curious if you're still feeling generous -- could I get your personal favorites as far as albums go? I listen to everything, so doesn't need to be genre specific.
I don't organize by album at all, I actually go into albums and delete songs I don't like from my library, so I can rarely give album recommendations.
If you want a few more random recommendations of good music:
1. Bonobo: Dial 'M' for Monkey is my favorite, but his others are also top notch.
2. Royksopp: Their new album Senior is my fav, their others also have amazing stuff too.
3. Beats Antique: Awesome and unique, Collide is probably fav, don't miss Contraption or Blind Threshhold either.
4. Ronald Jenkees, that guy from youtube, his first album was bad, but def get Disorganized Fun.
5. If you don't have it from Krush get Ki-Oku collab album, amazing.
6. Trentemoller-Last Resort, dear lord get this if you don't have it, Day9 and me agree it is....flat out fucking amazing.
7. Trillian Green- Metamorphoses, good luck finding that, I can upload it for you if neccesary. Acoustic trio of flute, drums, and cello, utterly unique and amazing.
8. The Avalanches- Since I Left You, sample mayhem, funnnnnnn.
9. Ratatat - Classics, I hope you already know Ratatat, they are nice.
10. Noisia - Split the Atom, also get Hustle Athletics.
11. Ott - Blumenkraft, It must have taken ages to make this album, its...dub.
Fuck I've recommended alot of shit, you can't possibly have looked at all...lol. Get back to me when you have and I can give you more.
What do you want out of music? If you want it to be a huge part of your life, I think at some stage you're going to want to get into classical. For that, I think the easiest entry points are the more contemporary stuff. A good example is Sibelius, try his 3rd Symphony for something which is extremely melodic and accessible. Bits of it have been 'borrowed' by film composers, so it will probably even seem familiar.
To give you some similar bands to the ones you've listed
Bad Religion. Haven't heard that much of them, but a cool punk band which isn't too far away is Agent Orange. Their first album Living in Darkness is mostly great.
A perfect circle/Tool: Try King Crimson's Red, for some proggy/grungy music with fantastic musicianship. Allegedly Kurt Cobain's favourite album, but regardless, pretty amazing.
Kasabian: If you like the kind of sneery/anthemic British rock they've got going, Oasis might do the trick, but it's hard to think of similar.
Nirvana: Try the Pixies' Doolittle for similar great pop song writing, or Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger or Superunknown for a more rhythmic/complicated version of the grunge sound.
Muse: No one's really similar to their classic stuff like Origin of Symmetry and Absolution (which I highly recommend if you don't have), but their later stuff is occasionally close to Queen.
As someone who likes punk it's well worth also checking out The Clash's London Calling.
Actually really liking Queens of the Stonage. Listened to the whole album.
Tube... that's... interesting. I'm just going to put it out there like modern art, it's possibly too sohpisicated for me to know whats so great >>
@Tal. Excited to try those bands. I'll be youtubing/ trying to see if any buds have them this weekend. King's Crimson red sounds especially interesting.
Actually really liking Queens of the Stonage. Listened to the whole album.
Quotsa <3 - if u like their style you should definetely check: "Kyuss" (favourite album: Blues for the red sun - fav. song: Green Machine) "Eagles of Deathmetal" (favourite album: Peace, love and Death Metal - fav. song: I only want you) and maybe "Brant Björk" (fav. album: jalamanta - fav. song: automatic fantastic)
Atleast those were the artists i listened to during my "Quotsa time"
Nowadays i generally look into many different genres. At the moment i really like "Veto", "Bonobo" and "Jamaica" which are all kind of "indi electronicish"
When i try to find new music i generally check last.fm for similar artists ...
I'd really encourage you to challenge yourself with different genres like Jazz, Classical, Reggae, and music from all different countries. When you revisit your old favorites later you might find your appreciation has grown. Give all the big names a try, like Bach, Mozart, Miles Davis, Count Basie, Bob Marley, Ravi Shankar etc... music that's stood the test of time.
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