Music Suggestions!

[and36]

Hey guys!

So, music is pretty much my life. I write and play music, and when not doing that im always looking for

new music to listen too! I dont care what genre, i love it all! and i figure who better to ask then you guys?

So give me your favorite artists/bands e.t.c! and i'm defiantly willing to recommend some as well!

[Sneesee]

Well...

I love music, but have a very wide variety of what I like. However, I just went to the Warped Tour a few weeks ago, and was introduced to some really awesome bands I'd never listened to before. If you like more hardcore speed metal type stuff, then there were a couple of bands I liked.

~A Day to Remember

~The Devil Wears Prada

~Winds of Plague

~Asking Alexandria

Now, for a different flavor from the same concert, I also liked:

~Blood on the Dancefloor

~Black Veil Brides

~Vonnegutt

~Hellogoodbye

Some other bands I've been liking lately are:

~The Downtown Fiction

~30 Seconds to Mars

~Sublime

~Pepper

Some classic bands I love are:

~Metallica

~Megadeth

~Def Leppard

~Motley Crue

~Foo Fighters

~Red Hot Chilli Peppers

~Depeche Mode

~The Cure

~Marillion

That's all I could think of right now. I hope this gives you some ideas of stuff to look for in music.

[Guest]

Try some Dream Theater and see where that takes you. Jukesy is a fun program for finding new stuff.

[VoOs]

Great topic! *rubs palms excitedly*

My favourite band is BUCK-TICK, a Japanese rock band formed in 1983. Their style incorporates various genres of music, including rock, alternative rock, gothic rock, industrial, electronica, dark wave, power pop and retro rock n' roll. They kick absolute ass live and their vocalist has the single sexiest voice on the planet. This is a fact and not my personal opinion. Uh.

Anyway! Here are some examples (Warning: weird Japanese shit ahead):

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[LittleGoldfish6]

Here's a ramdom sampling of things I like to listen to,

-E.S.A (stands for Electronic Substance Abuse..i recommend the album The Sea and the Silence)

-Project Pitchfork

-Electric Six

-Les Baxter (this is tiki lounge music to the MAX and I love it)

-Decree (both albums Fateless and A moment of Silence are top notch)

-Mind.In.A.Box

-This Morn' Omina

-Rasputina

-Laibach

Hmmm i better watch this thread myself...i might be able to find some new tunes also!

[count tiszula]

It would be remiss of me not to mention tht recently a new version of Novak's "Eternal Longing" has appeared on YouTube; all scrunchiness fans will want to hear this.......

[Guest]

Good Sweeney Todd recordings are a gem. And by good, I essentially mean anything on youtube that isn't Depp. As great as all the cast are, none of them are proper singers and all of them do it wrong. Except perhaps Bonham Carter, but the real cast is still better.

[sillystarsmoons]

Coldplay

Red Hot Chili Peppers

The Beatles

[and36]

Thanks for all the great suggestions guys! keep em coming! I have a 2 TB hard drive that needs filling lol

[black_mage]

Since you want something obscure,

might be pretty obscure to you if you're not finnish. It's a classic

[doggo]

Good pick, black_mage

a couple of my favourites:

Kiyoharu

Tindersticks

[March Hare]

Deine Lakaien! Always Deine Lakaien. And Patrick Wolf. And Modest Mouse. And Luka Bloom. Definitely Luka Bloom, he has one of the best voices in the world. Also Diorama if you like a more Gothic type kind of thing. Enjoy

[tma]

Shawn Colvin

classic Sting

U2 (Some more than others)

Sarah Brightman

And for *Incred. violin mix of Classic & Rock fusion* - David Garrett - SOOO good!

and I am Head over Heels in LOVE with Solas

There's also a Ton of CCM music that I Adore (Christian Contemporary) but I know that that will depend on a person's faith path (which is a personal thing), so I'll offer up group/singers names only if asked. Anyone who'd like suggestions- just PM me.

[Enkidom]

I'd second a recommendation of any of Sneesee's classic choices (particularly Marillion, Kayleigh is one of my all time favourite songs), and also add:

Puddle of Mudd

Linkin Park (rock/rap fusion)

The Cult

The Sisters of Mercy

Bauhaus

System of a Down

Type O Negative

The Jesus and Mary Chain

Psychedelic Furs

The Pixies

Disturbed

Sum 41

Pink Floyd

Roger Waters' solo stuff

David Bowie

[iheartsneezn]

Belle&Sebastian

Boy Least Likely to

Margot & The Nuclear So & So's

The Wombats

Ray Lamontagne

MGMT

The Scene Aestetic

[cuneas]

I have wide-ranging tastes, so I'll categorize them:

CLASSICAL:

Wagner

Anton Bruckner

Monteverdi

Puccini

Beethoven (especially the "Fidelio" opera)

JAZZ:

Ella Fiztgerald

Frank Sinatra

ANY Gerschwin composition

Barbra Streisand, but only when she sings standards and showtunes. I'm not all that fond of her pop stuff.

Barbara Cook

Michael Feinstein

Barry Manilow (yes, I consider him jazz)

ROCK/POP:

Jim Steinman

Billy Joel

Bruce Springsteen

Melissa Etheridge

Queen

David Bowie

The Grateful Dead

The Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" songs (though oddly enough, not really most of their other stuff)

Sugarland (probably my favorite recent group)

Yo La Tengo (my favorite obscure indie band)

Any of the music on "Glee"

SOUL/R&B:

Ray Charles

Michael Jackson

Prince

Eminem (I'm not usually much of a rap fan, but I've become quite fond of his work recently)

BROADWAY:

Anything Andrew Lloyd-Webber

Anything Sondheim

The musicals of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime, Once On This Island, Seussical, etc.)

"Man of La Mancha" (my favorite music in the world, BTW)

"Porgy and Bess"

"The Light in the Piazza"

"The Pajama Game" (the first music I ever heard...my Grandmother played it for me in my cradle)

Elizabeth Swados' "Runaways"

Cult Flops in general

[flower]

Well, I don't think they are very obscure but I love stuff by: Two Door Cinema Club, The Fray, Mat Kearney, Modest Mouse, Young the Giant, Arcade Fire, The Kooks, Muse, Metric, Franz Ferdinand, Pearl Jam, OK Go, Spoon, LCD Soundsystem, Ingrid Michaelson, Radiohead, Adele, The Bravery, Phoenix, Lykke Li, Rogue Wave, The Black Keys. And of course, very well known Coldplay, One Republic and U2.

[dude18323]

Parachute and Third Eye Blind (I guess not everyone's heard of them...)

[Marceline]

My favorite band of all time is Rammstein. They're a bit out-there. German industrial metal with some creepy lyrics translations. But they're great. I'm going to see them in May next year.

I also love Tegan and Sara. Most of you have probably heard of them. Kind of indie-rock, twin sisters. Their lyrics are very deep and amazing.

More stuff I like: Asking Alexandria, Deadmau5, Skrillex, My Chemical Romance, The Black Keys, Florence + The Machine, Avenged Sevenfold, Eisbrecher, t.A.T.u., Lena Katina, The White Stripes, Muse, La Roux, and Lady Gaga.

Typical teenage girl who doesn't like rap.

[SomethingClever]

hmmm... love a lot of those mentioned, what hasn't been said?

State Radio, The Decemberists, Amanda Palmer, Dispatch, Ingrid Michaelson, Rubblebucket, Regina Spektor, Dessa, Cat Stevens, Phish, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Mika, Old Crow Medicine Show, Fleet Foxes, Blitzen Trapper, Pomplamoose, Tracy Chapman, Punch Brothers, Crooked Still. I think a lot of these are pretty obscure, especially the really bluegrassy ones... Also some might be pretty new-england centric, but I tried to pick ones with more national/ international reach...

[March Hare]

Fuck yes Rammstein.

Also the New Pornographers, they're so happy.

Chris Smither is one of the best bluesfolk singers out there and you may like Kult, a Polish band. Noir Désir and Manau are also good (French rock and French/Breton hiphop).

[cuneas]

Since I've been exploring a lot of new music lately I'm going to update my entry

CONTEMPORARY POP

Adele

Cee Lo Green

Bruno Mars

Usher

Ne-Yo

Lady Antebellum

Taylor Swift

Coldplay

Maroon 5

And in a "so bad, it's good", unintentionally funny kind of way, Train (I don't know what the Hell is wrong with them, but they're a riot)

JAZZ

Diana Krall

Rod Stewart (specifically, his standards albums. I'm not fond of his rock stuff)

Eartha Kitt

Sophie Tucker

Julie Wilson (for those who don''t know, she's a great cabaret singer who specializes in standards and showtunes, and who didn't become really famous until she was an old woman)

ROCK

A LOT of Indie Rock acts, ESPECIALLY Jonathan Coulton

Led Zeppelin (I used to not like them, but they've grown on me a lot)

A few of the better Heavy Metal acts, particularly Iron Maiden, Van Halen, Alice Cooper and Metallica

Early career Chicago (I used to hate all their stuff, but some of the early, Terry Kath-era stuff has wormed its way into my heart)

BROADWAY

"Next To Normal"

"Once" (I'm going to see it on my birthday)

"Catch Me If You Can" (I saw it, and it deserved more success than it got)

Kurt Weill in general (I've been listening to his stuff all day)

EASY LISTENING

Liberace (I know he's seen as something of a joke today, but listen to his actual music...it's surprisingly really good)

Phil Collins

Enrique Iglesias

Zamfir (yes, the panflute guy. Sue me, his music's pretty)

[March Hare]

Maybe I've said this before, but if you like Rammstein, you'll probably like Eisbrecher as well.

[AbigailAnarcki]

Saetia is my fave band. I love low key bands, they were around 2 years and mainly did shows, thats how theyre album was made. Some studio stuff. I love a lot of different post-hardcore, metal, horror-punk, psycobilly. Thats my stuff, Saetia is like Post-hardcore but not many can take it (or like it)

[VividBubbles!]

Well, I probably won't say anything that hasn't been mention before but whateves.

Okay, so, I love all sorts of music but I listen to the more "mainstream" radio stations so sorry if I'm not giving out a huge, wide-range of bands and singers and stuff.

Okay, so

Paramore ( )

Maroon 5

The Wanted

Coldplay

Blue Oyster Cult

Led Zepplin

Eminem

Lady Gaga

Taylor Swift

Cher Lloyd

The Fray

Lady Antebellum

AC/DC

Adele

Avril Lavigne

Aerosmith

B.o.B

The Beatles

Calvin Harris

Carrie Underwood

Christina Aguilara

Christina Perri

Colbie Calliet

Demi Lovato

Fall Out Boy

Flo Rida

Foo Fighters

Foster the People

Fun.

Guns n' Roses

Green Day

Gym Class Heroes

Jason Mraz

Journey

Karmin

Katy Perry

Kellie Clarkson

K'naan

Metallica

Neon Trees

One Republic

Owl City

Pink

Plain White Tee's

Styx

Shinedown

Hehehe. ^Long list.