Recommend some music

Rambler

Dalayan Beginner
I got an ipod for myself for christmas and I'm away from my music collection at the moment because I'm visiting my parents for christmas.

With that said, I've gotten a lot of stuff already, and wish to get more. They include:

- Greenday Live
- OLP
- CCR (best of)
- Korn (best of)
- Disturbed
- In Flames
- Fall Out Boy
- The Used
- Alexisonfire
- Oasis
- Sum 41


Basically does anyone have any suggestions that sort of fit into that genre? Or hell, how about music that doesn't fit into those genres? I'm always on the look out for some good punk bands (don't bother naming the popular bands, I have most of it already), and I've gone ahead and secured Beethoven's very greatest, as well as Chopin's. Any other classical music that is very very mellow and would be great music to just sit and listen to without getting all amped up? I have a lot of faster / harder music that gets my blood flowing, but not enough mellow music to calm me down.

Thanks for the suggestions ahead of time, if anyone actually has any.
 
Bachs Cello Suites.
Sublime music, really. Get Heinrich Schiff doing them if you can, much more passionate than Yo Yo Ma in my opinion.
 
Mogwai
Mono (post rock from Japan)
Sigur Rós
Múm
Amina


All are post-rock, a sort of instrumental-driven style using instruments used typically for "rock" (ie guitar, bass, drums), though Sigur Ros and mum have their own additional instruments (piano, strings, some weird thing that I have no idea what it is). Amina is a string quartet who plays with SR kinda often.
 
Might want to look at blonde redhead too.
Also Arcade Fire
and um, I'll list some of my favourites:
Nick Cave
The Birthday Party
Failure
A Beautiful Machine (kinda heavy shoegazer)
PJ Harvey (is this desire is my fave album from her)
The Gentry (local Portland band, some good stuff, they have MP3s around)
Tom Waits
Salt
Prokofiev ~ Alexander Nevsky
That's all for now
 
Sweet. I'll look into all of these at some point in time. A reference to the genre helps me gauge if I'll like it or not much better though.

Although I guess that would defeat the whole purpose of expanding my music collection past rock / metal / punk.
 
Ah the "music suggestion" thread!

This is not a post to show musical knowledge, or change your minds. It is, rather, a couple or so categories with some must haves. That's a great way to broaden your knowledge and tastes.

Rock: You've already got this going so I'll skip it and get to stuff you probably don't know at all.

Singer Songwriter (I'm guessing this category isn't for you):

Ani Difranco "..." - Buy any album, she's incredible.
Alana Davis "Blame it on me" - Mellow stuff, and well written.
Loudon Wainwright III "Career Moves" - Singer songwriter live album, funny stuff.
Luka Bloom "Turf" - Mellow stuff again.

Wierd/Sexy (Just take the label and like it!):

Massive Attack "Mezzanine" This is a must purchase.
Portishead "Dummy" Must purchase
Dead Can Dance "Into the Labyrinth" Buy the DVD actually, the video for "Sprirt Dance" alone is worth it.

Well I'll stop there for now, or I will just become another post of lengthy stuff. But if you really want to check out some different things that aren't obscure, look into that.

Eredhel
 
Eredhel said:
Ah the "music suggestion" thread!



Massive Attack "Mezzanine" This is a must purchase.
Portishead "Dummy" Must purchase
Dead Can Dance "Into the Labyrinth" Buy the DVD actually, the video for "Sprirt Dance" alone is worth it.

These are awesome. Especially Massive Attack and Portishead.
I'll add '12 rounds' ~ My Big Hero to this.
 
Punk

Charta 77 dl the english titles cause the rest is on swedish.


Rock / metal

Lacuna coil

Avantasia

Nightwish

Rainbow (old and good)

Old Him records ( razorblade romance )

The 69 eyes

Within Temptation ( Enter album)

Queenryche

HELLOWEEN ( Very old and awsome shit)

Well you heard this before Iron Maiden early albums.



Well now im out of sugestions gimme 5 more mins and i get 20 more bands i like ^^
 
Bah... why did you get an ipod... sound quality is meh and the batteries are notoriously failing and can't be replaced easily
www.iriver.com

either way, look up "Iced Earth" for some pretty good metal (noticed korn and disturbed). Stuff beyond and including the 92 album of 'night of the stormrider' is good stuff after they replaced the lead singer. The most recent "The Glorious Burden" is a kick ass compilation of songs referring to great battles in history.
 
Ramblo, I heartily recommend I Mother Earth... Seeing as how you're Canadian, you should have at least heard of them. Their my favourite band of all time, and you should check out One More Astronaut (Their big hit), The Universe in You, Used to be Alright, No one, etc...

http://pandora.com is also a cool site for this kind of stuff.
 
I'd throw in some

Taproot
Deftones
20 dead Flower children
Deadlights
Mushroomhead
Sub Dub machinegun
TOOL
Hed(pe)
Spineshank
Ill nino
SOulFly

and Menudo!
 
Bah... why did you get an ipod... sound quality is meh and the batteries are notoriously failing and can't be replaced easily

I agree for the most part, but iriver's selection of flash players is AWFUL. I wanted to buy an iriver, but after looking at 1gb players for $150, and seeing the iPod nano come out (4gb for $230), I just couldn't pass that up. The interface of an iPod is far and away the best thing -- the major downfall is using iTunes and no FLAC support, but, honestly, FLAC on a 4gb player is just overkill. I haven't experienced the sound quality being poor since I hook it up to headphones, but I'll take your word on that.

Also, when/if the nano's batteries start going to crap, I'll ebay it and recoup some of the cost and buy a new one :p
 
While I do agree that it is a bit lame that iriver is slow to go above 1gb flash players, but they seem to be moving in a different direction then apple is.

The new U10 flash player they put out looks ingenious, and not only does it have superior sound quality, but it has text, video, any file storage capacity, photos, playlists, voice recording, and the screen IS the player.
I am by no means suggesting a U10 over a nano at this point because of the equivelant price yet lower capacity of the U10, but just to illustrate how iriver is moving about its players.

I purchased a 256mb player from iriver 2 years ago, and just recently a 20gb iriver personal media player (pmp-120). The pmp itself came out before I even purchased my 256mb flash player with a price tag of ~500, but it had features which recently apple claims to be revolutionary (video support, line-in recording).
The player itself has a recargable battery which can be removed fromt he player with a switch, and batteries are offer on the website for $20. The hard-drive in the player is upgradable and is only restricted to how large of a toshiba 2.5" drive you can find (100gb i think is max now).

In my opinion, iriver is trying to make really nice media players which are very user oriented with features, to when they have a way to put something new, the next generation of players incorporate all features. Apple on the other hand has the marketing and seems to be leaking features to simply put out a new player and get people to buy them, as well as limiting the upgradability of the players so that any fault would warrant buying another player entirely.
 
iriver seems to be the true enthusiast's device. 100gb of storage is awesome -- but ask your mom how much music that actually is and see a glazed look on her face. I overheard this pregnant woman discussing iPods with her family (husband or brother, her mother, child) and they truly understood the device's purpose -- to play music. iPod's are for dummies, sure, but it sure does its job well. In my case, even though I have somewhere near 50gb of music and well over 300gb of video, that I'll stick stick with a decent size flash drive. In a few years when my nano is borked, hopefully there will be a 8 or 12gb nano or something out -- enough to house all the music I actually know and like.

But yeah, it's super lame how apple forces you to upgrade by having shitty, nonreplaceable batteries. :( Then again, the iPod is a lifestyle, amirite.
 
My turn, time for some heavy stuff.

Amon Amarth
Ensiferum
Norther
Hypocrisy
Strapping Young Lad
Devin Townsend Band

You really don't need anything else.
 
even though it's a month after you've posted... I'll go ahead and do this because you probably haven't heard of most of what I can suggest. Have to spread the word somehow even though it's spreading pretty fast to those in the know.

Get nearly anything from Subnoize Records.
Kottonmouth Kings
OPM
Kingspade
Subnoize Souljaz
Big B
Saint Dog
Phunk Junkeez
Humble Gods
Judge D
Mower

Most of those are falsely considered rap. Even though most are they all combine a LOT of different music styles. Each band on that website has a couple songs for you to download to sample. I highly recommend doing so. If you hate rap but only like metal or just hate rap... go look at Mower... they are not rap but hardcore metal.

Also http://www.deadprez.com/ these guys are pretty cool, if you like rap anyways.

TATU's newest album is actually pretty good. It's not as 'clubby' as, or as bad as,their first album. How can you go wrong with two hot russian women?

Bad Religion is a good band, but I think you may already have them.

Slightly Stoopid, http://www.slightlystoopid.com/ , is a band I've just recently discovered. I have heard a little of them but from what I've heard I like.

This next link is for either the geek in us or for nostalgia - www.ocremix.org it's a site dedicated to people remixing/covering video game music ranging from the Arcades on up to present platforms.

Rehab is another good band people should look into.

this next band I absolutely LOVE http://www.scarsoflife.com/home.aspx
Scars of Life just absolutely rule. It may sound a bit emo from time to time, like Avenged Sevenfold, but the music itself drowns out that feeling. An absolute must.
 
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