Music.

[Link092]

Heya folk. I'm going to be messing around with my computer for a bit, gonna try out some new hardware I got. I was building a new computer, and in about a month, I'll be able to finish it off with a heatsink fan, repaired case (all of my jacks are broke due to rough handling from the cat) new DVD-ROM/writer, and a good hard drive.... and a wireless connector card...... -possibly- might get a new case with better circulation if I can afford it...

anyways, I was hoping I can get a good list of music to try listening to while my computer is down. it's about time I check out some other bands, plus find my charger for my MP3 player. I like just about anything... so long as it's not extreme in the "derogatory" apartment......

anyways, hope you guys have good suggestions.

[Interia_Discordius]

Going to need to know the basic genre of music you like and a basic time frame... at least... (Classic, current, whatever) before I'm comfortable in linking stuff. I have too much otherwise to suggest.

[Thief Of Navarre]

Hmmm, you said anything!

Pop; Keane
       The Kooks
       The Killers
       Razorlight
       The Frattellis (rock?)
       The Kaiser Chiefs

Rock;Bon Jovi
        Staind
        Wolfmother
        Rammstein
        Apocalyptica
        Metallica
        Iron Maiden (excellent surgestion Ted!)

Indy; Silversun Pickups
       
Classical; (hoo boy a lot here!)
             Wagner's Der ring das nibelungen (the ring)
             Beethoven's Sonata 14
             Chopin's Grand Valse (well pretty much anything melodic by chopin)
             Carmina Burana
             Bach
             Gussepe Verdi
             Mozart
the list goes on..

***EDIT** Time constraints might take Wagner off the list; its about 12 hours long in total

[Eyvind]

Time constraints might take Wagner off the list; its about 12 hours long in total

I quite enjoy listening to long pieces, whether it's a single song or a concert. It makes the listening experience more smooth and flowing than a playlist of random, shuffled songs.

On that note, I recommend Alive 1997 and Alive 2007 by Daft Punk. Discovery is also quite enjoyable to listen to, especially if you have seen Interstella 5555 and keep the story going in your head as you listen. As individual tracks, most of Daft Punk's other works are great too.

Children by Robert Miles is probably my favourite electronica track.

As far as rock goes, I love many individual songs from a plethora of bands: AC/DC, Aerosmith, Guns 'n' Roses, Kiss, Radiohead, and the list goes on. I enjoy classic rock much more than essentially any other, except perhaps hard rock and metal.

Lordi is wonderful. So is Rammstein. Many other hard rock and metal bands have made single or few great songs, and I have some lying around but they are simply too numerous and I don't think I can remember any on the spot.

The problem with rock for me is that so much of it is just inharmanic bashing on drums, screaming (or, alternatively, mumbling) in microphones, and whatever horrible act they perform on those poor guitars, all equalized and amplified so horribly I can't imagine anyone truly enjoying hearing it.

And what the fazookas is speedcore anyway?

I also enjoy ethnic music, but ethnic music is quite hard to come by and when I do find them I rarely care what they're called or who made it since it's generally irrelevant. So no help there, I suppose.

If you want good classical music, your best bet is looking for classical music in general. Whatever you find will be good, courtesy of time and circumstance.

[miltonyorkcastle]

And what the fazookas is speedcore anyway?

Hundreds of musical notes a minute, specifically produced from one electric guitar.

[Eyvind]

Hundreds of musical notes a minute, specifically produced from one electric guitar.

Great, thank you. Silly of me to think that my question was rhetorical.

[miltonyorkcastle]

Ahh, the wonders of internet interaction with people you don't know and text without voice inflection, facial expression, and other forms of body language. A place where rheotircal questions are taken seriously and serious questions are taken rhetorically.

*eats a soul strand for good measure*

[Eyvind]

*reimburses soul strand based on bug*

[miltonyorkcastle]

**takes some antibiotics to kill the bug and further derails the thread**

[Hellblazer]

**and for good measure just decides to erradicate the bug carrier, shifty eyes and runs away**

[ycleption]

Here are some random things I like, in no particular order:

VNV Nation - industrial, with a lot of hard to define music too, interesting and profound lyrics.

Les Yeux Noir - Gypsy music, Eastern European Folk, with a little Klezmer thrown in. Balamouk is their best album.

Loreena McKennit - NeoCeltic, with Middle Eastern flair on some albums

Apocalyptica - Cello Metal (some of their stuff, particularly their songs with lyrics get a little silly I think, but I love their work that brings out the real cello quartet sound)

Carl Orff - Because everyone needs a copy of O Fortuna to pull out at opportune moments.

Donovan - folk/hippie music. "A gift from a flower to a garden" has got to be the most hippieish album title ever.

Mideaval Baebes - What the group name sounds like. Some albums considerably better than others, I think "the rose" is the one I like best.

Sierra Leone's Refugee All-stars - Again, what it sounds like.

Chuck Berry - the original and the best rock'n'roll star.

Tristania - Melodramatic and over the top eurometal.

Secret Garden - Tranquility itself.

Tori Amos - Just awesome.

Also, if you're looking for smaller or independent artists well off the beaten path, I'd highly recommend Magnatune: license music and MP3 download - you can listen to anything before you buy, and the musicians get half of what you pay.

[Thief Of Navarre]

Loreena McKennit - NeoCeltic, with Middle Eastern flair on some albums

Apocalyptica - Cello Metal (some of their stuff, particularly their songs with lyrics get a little silly I think, but I love their work that brings out the real cello quartet sound)

Carl Orff - Because everyone needs a copy of O Fortuna to pull out at opportune moments.

Tristania - Melodramatic and over the top eurometal.

In order of appearance: yes, yes, O fortune yes & hmmm yes!

And even if 12 hours of wagner isnt your thing you could condense it to one part of gotterdammerung; The ride of the Valkyries... epic soprano action & it makes you feel as though you starred in Apocalypse Now

[Serissa]

Japanese drum music by Ondekoza
 
 Southwestern Indian flute music by Carlos Nakai

[lonnarin]

Tom Waits: The man more Dylan than Dylan
YouTube - Tom Waits "Downtown Train"
YouTube - TOM WAITS "Going Out West"
YouTube - Tom Waits - 16 shells from a Thirty-Ought Six
YouTube - Tom Waits - I don't wanna grow up

Moonsorrow: Finnish viking black metal, with strange perfectly harmonious classical and celtic interludes.
YouTube - Moonsorrow - Jotunheim [1 of 2]
YouTube - Moonsorrow - Jumalten Kaupunki - live at tuska
YouTube - Moonsorrow Jumalten kaupunki

Front Line Assembly: wicked Industrial
YouTube - Front Line Assembly - Millenium
YouTube - FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY Dead Planet
YouTube - FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY Maniacal
YouTube - Front Line Assembly - Liquid Separation
YouTube - FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY Mindphaser

Burning Spear: Best reggae man, bar none.
YouTube - Burning Spear - Marcus garvey
YouTube - Burning Spear - Hail Him
YouTube - Burning Spear - I Stand Strong

Steve Roach: Ambient god, this music is alien contact
YouTube - Steve Roach & Vir Unis - Born of Fire
YouTube - Steve Roach and Robert Rich - Fearless
YouTube - Steve Roach - Infinite Shore

Samael: Swedish black metal turned industrial
YouTube - Samael - Slavocracy
YouTube - SAMAEL - Telepath
YouTube - Samael - Jupiterian Vibe ( so doomy it's like a corathite anthem!)
YouTube - Samael - On Earth

Laibach: ?!?!?!?!!  I still don't know.  they're insane. They like Beetles covers.
YouTube - Tanz Mit Laibach
YouTube - Laibach - Across the Universe
YouTube - Laibach - Rossiya
YouTube - Laibach - God is God
YouTube - Laibach - B Mashina
YouTube - Laibach - geburt einer nation
YouTube - Laibach - Sympathy For The Devil (live)

Willie Bobo: music so smooth, you'll get some lovin with it
YouTube - Willie Bobo - Sixty Two Fifty
YouTube - Willie Bobo - Timbale Groove
YouTube - Willie Bobo - Trinidad
YouTube - Willie Bobo - Kojak Theme (Album version)

Sly and the Family Stone: Funk at its best
YouTube - EVERYDAY PEOPLE/SLY & FAM STONE
YouTube - Sly & The Family Stone - Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself
YouTube - Sly & The Family Stone - Family Affair (Live)

Stratovarius: Neoclassical metal
YouTube - Stratovarius - Black Diamond
YouTube - stratovarius - kiss of judas
YouTube - before the winter- Stratovarius
YouTube - stratovarius - season of change

Amon Amarth: AAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHH!!! ODIN!
YouTube - Amon Amarth - Runes To My Memory
YouTube - Amon Amarth - Cry of The Black Birds
YouTube - Amon Amarth- Fate of Norns
YouTube - Amon Amarth "Twilight Of The Thunder God"

Dethklok: Who cares if they're not real?  They're metal.
YouTube - Dethklok-Go Into The Water
YouTube - Dethklok - Go Forth and Die
YouTube - Dethklok - Awaken

[Link092]

Going to need to know the basic genre of music you like and a basic time frame... at least... (Classic, current, whatever) before I'm comfortable in linking stuff. I have too much otherwise to suggest.

Literally, almost everything. and to be specific as to what I don't like, it's based on what ever I think I don't like.... I know I don't like "three six mafia" and other.... "relatively stupid" stuff like that. things I do like usually include a guitar and/or drums. so literally, almost everything,... but I do have a preference for rock and metal seeing that that mostly preoccupies the space on my MP3, but that's besides the point.


and thanks for the big list. I'm gonna go check them all out....

I do know I plan on buying the new Staind album, as well as the new Guns 'n' Roses album (Chinese Democracy) and AC/DC (Black Ice)....

and to give you an Idea of how random my MP3's are, here is a sample from the list:

Take on me - A-ha
The phrase that pays - The academy is...
Voodoo - adam Vox
voodoo - godsmack
jaded - Aerosmith (dude look like a lady!)
original fire - audioslave
rock and roll fantasy - bad company
yellow submarine - The beatles
satifaction - Benny Benassi & the biz
We didn't start the fire - Billy Joel
Sabbath, bloody sabbath - Black Sabbath
I shot the sheriff - Bob marley
(don't fear) the reaper - Blue Oyster cult
good times roll - the cars
my favorite game - the cardigans
in the morning and amazing... - Circa Survive
Lux Aeterna - Clint Mansell
Speed of sound - Coldplay
Zombie - the Cranberries (yay, Irish people!)
don't shot shotgun - Def Leppard
I speed at Night - Dio (woot!)
Land of confusion - (both genisis and Disturbed)
Cry for eternity - Dragonforce
Sweet dreams (are made of this) - Eurythmics
lose control - evanesence
I ran - Flock of seagulls (and I ran... I ran so far away....)
The pretender - Foo fighters
Take me out - Franz Ferdinand
Bad to the bone - george thorogood
Still alive - GLaDOS & Jonathan Coulton
Anhedonia - Teh graduate
knockin' on heavens door - GnR
Patent Pending - Heavens
Flight of Icarus - Iron Maiden (and all their other songs.... :p)
Centerfold - the J. Geils band
ask the lonely - Journey
Mr. Brightside - the killers
coming undone - Korn
Bonzo's Montreux - Led Zeppelin
Achilles Last Stand - Led Zeppelin (Achilles Last strand? )
Rock and Roll - Led zeppelin
Black Dog - Led Zeppelin
good times bad time - Led Zeppelin
(all of the othe rLed Zeppelin songs)
Hanger 18 -megadeth
she-wolf- megadeth
Gypsy - Mercyful fate (think of Jay and Silent Bob...)
Turn the Page- Bob seger -and- metallica...
astronomy - remake by metallica
Bread fan - Buggie(SP?) and Metallica
Straight to video- MSI (mindless self indulgence.... some songs are okay...)
Songs by Nirvana
Songs by Ozzy Osbourne (pre-TV career...)
Songs by Pink FLoyd
Silent lucidity - Queensryche
anybody listening - Queensryche
killing in the name of - rage against the machine
Songs by Rammstein FTW.... zwitter... (heh)
Songs from Rob zombie
walk this way - run DMC and aerosmith
primo victoria- sabaton
songs by the scorpions (rock ya like a hurricane...)
minor you major me - sister sin  
45 - shinedown
paralyzer - finger eleven
blurry -puddle of mudd
1979- Smashing pumpkins
ALMOST every Staind song out there.... fav is excess bagage and it's been awhile.
Chop suey! - SoaD
MakeDamnSure- taking back sunday
Invisible man - Theory of a Deadman
denim destiny - Thunderlip
Woman - wolfmother
joker and the theif- wolfmother
8675-309/ jenny - Tommy tutone
the greatest hits of ZZ top
hundreds of thousands - Tony MacAlpine
Me wise magic - van Halen
all the other Van Halen songs.
do what your daddy say - voltera
Thunder kiss '65 - White Zombie
seven nation army - White Stripe (oh noes!)
duck and run -3 doors down
better life - 3 doors down


other good bands:
tonic
Steven miller band
three days grace
the ramones
Motley Crue
the recontuers
mastadon
Karunesh - A Journey Of The Heart
Bird's Eye View
Guitar vs piano
Santana! (into the night and smooth....)



heh... tooo little time to post it all...

[Pseudonym]

Hop onto youtube and type in "Gurrumul Yunupingu" into the search engine. Best thing we (as a nation) have produced since Joe Dolce.

[Thief Of Navarre]

Adds 'All along the watchtower - Hendrix' to Link's list >:]