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Postby YourBlankFile » 03 Apr 2008, 06:12

Hey there. Trying not to steal Kawaiicaps' thunder, but I'm in a bit of a music rut, My 12 gigs of albums are kind of getting stale and I need something to spice it up. Current things I've been listening to for reference:

3 Inches of Blood
Blind Guardian
King Geedorah (or MF Doom)
Daft Punk
The Flaming Lips
The Mountain Goats (Thanks to Kathleen for this one)
Motion City Soundtrack

As you can tell from that sampling... My music tastes are a bit broad.

Feel free to recommend new or old stuff.

If you like a band a lot, and want to recommend them, Pick an album that you feel captures the bands feel the best and I'll explore from there.

Thank you LRRCommunity in advance for being so awesome : )
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Postby Woland » 03 Apr 2008, 06:33

As your tastes are broad I encourage the following

Gnarls Barkley (I've already gone on record on this forum as a huge fan and I stand by it) -- either album is good, though the first, "St. Elsewhere" is slightly better, if you weren't subjected to "Crazy" every four seconds on the radio summer before last.

Great Big Sea-- This is a Newfoundland band and their best stuff is their traditional Newfoundland music. they have some newer songs, but I wouldn't really recommend those. "The Hard and the Easy" (if I'm thinking of the right one) is a good album

The Juno Soundtrack if phenomenal

Lightning Bolt - "Wonderful Rainbow" and "Hypermagic Mountain" are superfantastic. They are a noise band from New England and, as is the case with their shows (where industrial-strength headphones are the norm) the louder you play it the better it gets.

Muse -- "Absolution" Very sold, from start to finish

Neutral Milk Hotel "In The Airplane Over the Sea" because everyone needs to own this album. "On Avery Island" is also good, but not AS good.

Blind Melon - selftitled. A great trip to the past with that one.

Elliott Smith - "Figure 8" and "From a Basement on the Hill"

Anything by the Scissor Sisters (who are apparently working on a Broadway show, I hear. That should be awesome)

a compilation album "School House Rock! Rocks" is a series of remakes of the classic tv show songs done back in the ninties (Blind Melon is on there as well as Better Than Ezra, Pavement, and Ween, to name a few)

Everything Nick Drake ever recorded

The Mars Volta (I am particularly partial to "Frances the Mute")

And, because I don't mind being THAT GUY, I suggest you go back and enjoy Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping" I know it's more dated than a mummy at the zoo, but, trust me, I think this one was just a little bit ahead of its time. Plus you can pick it up for, like, nothing.

Shit, I need to get back to work.

If you don't go back and get Chumbawumba, I won't be hurt (or surprised).
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Postby AndyTheSkanker » 03 Apr 2008, 06:35

Well, I'll just go in a totally different direction =P

Streetlight Manifesto - Somewhere in the Between
Coheed And Cambria - Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Vol. 2 No World For Tomorrow
Dropkick Murphys - The Meanest Of Times
In Flames - A Sense of Purpose
Thin Lizzy - Greatest Hits (Start there and see if it sticks =P)
Korpiklaani - Korven Kuningas
NRV - Deceased (http://lambdarecords.net)

I could think of a few others, but my fingers are a little blistered
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Postby kkief02 » 03 Apr 2008, 07:05

Reel Big Fish: Monkey's for nothing and chimps for free

I <3 this album
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Postby AndyTheSkanker » 03 Apr 2008, 07:09

kkief02 wrote:Reel Big Fish: Monkey's for nothing and chimps for free

I <3 this album

Seconded.
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Postby Cake » 03 Apr 2008, 07:22

Andy hit it right on the nose. Dropkick Murphys. Sometimes I queue all their albums and just rock out. Also, check out Dawn of the Dude. They will rock your socks off. Dawn of the Dude is good listening when doing any of the following activities:

1) Driving to the beach
2) Getting in a fight
3) Great listening while taking a shit
4) Masturbating
5) Having sex (protected)
6) Moshing
7) Praying
8) Having sex
9) Having sex with a T-rex
10) Giving birth to a T-rex
11) Eating out a T-rex
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Postby Daco » 03 Apr 2008, 07:49

AndyTheSkanker wrote:Korpiklaani - Korven Kuningas

never expected this to come up here
good band and good album btw

i like white zombie (Astro Creep 2000) and republica's albums is cool
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Postby DicyDax » 03 Apr 2008, 07:55

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Postby AndyTheSkanker » 03 Apr 2008, 08:18

Daco wrote:
AndyTheSkanker wrote:Korpiklaani - Korven Kuningas

never expected this to come up here
good band and good album btw

i like white zombie (Astro Creep 2000) and republica's albums is cool


Never rule anything out. =P. Wooden Pints is pretty epic, as is Vakirauta, but the new album is pretty epic too.
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Postby browncoat » 03 Apr 2008, 08:25

- Orden Ogan - Vale
- All Cowboy Bebop Soundtracks you can get your hands on (I have 7 CDs, I think.)

These come to my mind spontaneously.
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Postby JohnyMcmuffin » 03 Apr 2008, 08:31

Geoff Berner-Whiskey Rabbi

Anything by Ratatat

Ben Folds-Rockin' the Suburbs or Songs for Silverman

Any CAKE album

Skankin' Pickle-Skafunkrastapunk is my favorite, but Sing Along with Skankin' Pickle is a good, but rather different album

And I would say for for Everything Goes Numb by Streetlight Manifesto before somewhere in the between, but get both if you can
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Postby Sable » 03 Apr 2008, 08:44

Well, here's my list.

Who's Next - The Who (1971)
Endless Wire - The Who (2006)
Tommy - The Who (1969)
Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan (1975)
Modern Times - Bob Dylan (2006)
Infidels - Bob Dylan (1983)
Bringing Down the Horse - The Wallflowers (1996)
Rebel, Sweetheart - The Wallflowers (2005)
Boston - Boston (1976)
August and Everything After - Counting Crows (1993)
So Long, Astoria - The Ataris (2003)
Under a Violet Moon - Blackmore's Night (1999)
Wishmaster - Nightwish (2000)
Once - Nightwish (2004)
Dark Passion Play - Nightwish (2007)
The Dirty Boogie - Brian Setzer Orchestra (1998)
Eliminator - ZZ Top (1983)
Eye to the Telescope - KT Tunstall (2004)
Let's Face It - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (1997)
Machine Head - Deep Purple (1972)
MTV Unplugged - 10,000 Maniacs (1993)
Perfectly Good Guitar - John Hiatt (1993)
The Rose - Mediaeval Baebes (2002)
Under the Table and Dreaming - Dave Matthews Band (1994)
Useful Music - Josh Joplin Group (2000)
20020220 - Nobuo Uematsu (2002)

Edited to add, because I like to babble:

Cat Empire - Two Shoes (2005)
Nickel Creek - Nickel Creek (2000, I think)
Let The Wind Blow High - Enter the Haggis (1998)
Kill the Moonlight - Spoon (2002)

...Wow...Uh. Well, there you have it.
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Postby Kawaiicaps » 03 Apr 2008, 08:58

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This is a great album with a little bit of everything on it. pm me and I can send it to you.
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Postby Woland » 03 Apr 2008, 09:06

DicyDax wrote:Image
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I think the movie ruined this album for me.

Or I never liked it from the beginning.

I just can't tell anymore
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Postby YourBlankFile » 03 Apr 2008, 09:16

Wow. I'm amazed Korpiklaani came up. I started listening to them earlier this year. I'm still sifting through some of these recomendations but please keep em coming : ) Some of these I already have or know of, but there a fair amount that have me intrigued : )
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Postby Kawaiicaps » 03 Apr 2008, 09:19

Cake wrote:Andy hit it right on the nose. Dropkick Murphys. Sometimes I queue all their albums and just rock out. Also, check out Dawn of the Dude. They will rock your socks off. Dawn of the Dude is good listening when doing any of the following activities:

1) Driving to the beach
2) Getting in a fight
3) Great listening while taking a shit
4) Masturbating
5) Having sex (protected)
6) Moshing
7) Praying
8) Having sex
9) Having sex with a T-rex
10) Giving birth to a T-rex
11) Eating out a T-rex



you are fucked up
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Postby Cake » 03 Apr 2008, 09:21

I WISH I could take the credit for coming up with that. That's what the band themselves say about their music.
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Postby DicyDax » 03 Apr 2008, 09:24

Woland wrote:
DicyDax wrote:Image
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I think the movie ruined this album for me.

Or I never liked it from the beginning.

I just can't tell anymore

You motherfucker! The film kicked so much ass, I couldn't take a dump for 3 days!
HURR DURR!
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Postby Woland » 03 Apr 2008, 09:58

DicyDax wrote:
Woland wrote:
DicyDax wrote:Image
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I think the movie ruined this album for me.

Or I never liked it from the beginning.

I just can't tell anymore

You motherfucker! The film kicked so much ass, I couldn't take a dump for 3 days!


I got the movie while I was in Russia for a hundred rubles from a shady corner market, but it was a good transfer. The problem was that I watched it with my host father smoking something out of his hooka. I mean, we usually just smoked tobacco out of the thing but I think he had heard about this movie when it came out (he was still a Soviet then) and had this messed up dream about getting high and watching it. It would have been nice if he had told me ahead of time...

so it's like a food-aversion, if you like. I have a food-aversion to Pink Floyd's The Wall.

I get that this might rub someone the wrong way (or just be a good starting point for some fun forum screaming) but this isn't the place for it so, if anyone wants to keep up the Floyd love/hate, start a new post and we can leave this one for music.
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Postby Alja-Markir » 03 Apr 2008, 10:12

MONO - You Are There

Japanese post-rock group, utterly stunning musical ability, entirely instrumental, very powerful and beautiful music. They're hard to describe, and really I don't think I can do them justice. They are simply mind blowingly good musicians.

Ratatat - Classics

Started as two guys with guitars and distortion pedals, these guys have a sort of funky, groovy, laid back kinda video-game era inspired soun that rocks my sock. Very catchy stuff, also instrumental, and they've only gotten better with time. Music to rock out to.

The Clientele - Strange Geometry

A modern British group that sounds straight out of the 1960s, they have a very intricate and delicate sound that is strong on melody and is just entirely dreamlike. While some folks took issue with their early works featuring significant reverb and intentionally degraded sound and voice recording, their style has come into it's own and become a very powerful, nostalgic experience.

The Weather Station

While I don't have any of their albums, this Toronto based band is very haunting, very emotional, and very different. Named for Canada's far flung Weather Observation Stations isolated deep in the frozen northlands, the music borders on folk and traditional sounds, with some rather startling vocals, lyrics, and banjo mixed into strange, more modern structures and forms. It evokes a sense of obsolesence and isolation, much like it's namesakes, once manually operated by lone men and women, now given over to the march of automation and technology.

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Postby emma » 03 Apr 2008, 10:16

Woland wrote:The Juno Soundtrack if phenomenal


Ugh. That album has so much potential but it is terrible. I hate Kimya Dawson so much. She is one of those artists who people call indie because she sings offkey and badly, and who people call talented because her lyrics are inane. There are a few good songs on that album, but seriously, Kimya Dawson and the Moldy Peaches need to never make another song, ever.


Also, download Pop-Up, by Yelle. It is French, and it is electro, and I am completely in love with it/the singer because she is adorable.
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Postby TheRocket » 03 Apr 2008, 10:34

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Respect for Andy - positive 20
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Postby Sable » 03 Apr 2008, 10:44

Hey, now.
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Postby AndyTheSkanker » 03 Apr 2008, 11:00

TheRocketSiobhan wrote:Respect for Sable - negative 40
Respect for Andy - positive 20

Wait, where'd I pick up 20 points?
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Postby TheRocket » 03 Apr 2008, 11:04

AndyTheSkanker wrote:
TheRocketSiobhan wrote:Respect for Sable - negative 40
Respect for Andy - positive 20

Wait, where'd I pick up 20 points?


Streetlight and Dropkick.
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