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Title: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: Marty on February 20, 2010, 03:16:21 AM

Obviously, there are the classic and well-known things like Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Queen, the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, etc. That's not the purpose here; it's to help you listen to music you, possibly, would never otherwise have heard.

Classical:

Stravinsky - Rite of Spring, Firebird. Two fantastic pieces that completely break away from the classical stereotype of ballets, and are wonderful pieces of dissonance and melody.

Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No. 2 - made semi-famous by Fantasia 2000 (it's the tin soldier).

Mozart - Canzonetta sull'aria - a SPECIFIC recording by All Angels from the album 'Into Paradise'.

Country:

Brad Paisley - well, anything by Paisley, but I'd recommend 'Me Neither' from the album 'Who Needs Pictures?'. A very innovative country guitarist with a great sense of melody and humour.

Fusion:

Shawn Lane - the album 'Powers of Ten', specifically the opening and closing tracks - respectively Get You Back and Epilogue (For Lisa). The former has a great melody and a FANTASTIC closing solo - this guy is in the fastest five guitarists of all time, and he uses melody too. Epilogue is a slow, mournful tune.

Rock:

Eric Clapton - anything by this guy. He was in Cream, Derek and the Dominoes (hint: Layla) and tours solo. Amazing blues-rock guitarist who knows you don't need to play fast to play well.

Jimi Hendrix - similar. Anything by The Jimi Hendrix Experience is worth listening to - if only to find what didn't work. Purple Haze, Little Wing, Angel, Hey Joe, Voodoo Chile, Highway Chile, Red House, Crosstown Traffic (featuring Hendrix on the Kazoo) - all great tracks.

Muse - very big in Britain, but not so much elsewhere. Their earlier albums (Showbiz, Origin Of Symmetry) are very progressive and experimental in style - but the tunes and singing are great. Their last album (ie not their most recent), Black Holes and Revelations, tends more towards a mainstream sound, but keeps quite a lot of their experimental melody. Absolution (before Black Holes...) is a bridge between the two styles. Their latest album, Uprising, doesn't really sound like Muse so I'd probably steer clear of it.
Key tracks: (Showbiz) Cave, Sober. (Origin of Symmetry) Plug in Baby, Citizen Erased, Dark Shines. (Absolution) Time Is Running Out, Hysteria. (Black Holes...) Starlight, Map Of The Problematique, Assassin.

Dire Straits: some brilliant songs, some rubbish. One track that springs to mind for brilliant is Sultans of Swing.

Weird Al Yankovic: no original material; he covers other peoples' songs and changes the lyrics to be amusing. Very funny.

Jon Gomm: not quite 'rock' but I didn't know where to put him. He's a percussive guitarist - ie, he plays guitar, sings, and hits the guitar to make drum sounds. Awesome. You could do a lot worse than watching Hey Child or Wait in Vain on YouTube. In a similar genre, you could also chack out Air Tap (http://www.youtube.com/v/AbndgwfG22k&rel=0) by Erik Mongrain.

There are so many more things in this genre...just explore!

More to come later...feel free to post your own!

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: MrT© on February 20, 2010, 08:13:09 AM

Umm Marty, what about Supermassive black hole by muse?

You need to add another band:
Lemon Jelly ;D. Nice Weather for Ducks, is a good song. The whole album of '64-'95 is awsome.

*goes and searches in the darkest corners of itunes libary for more great bands*  

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: Marty on February 20, 2010, 09:38:50 AM

MrT, I'm well aware that there are other great bands out there. There's only so much I can post about right now.

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: BFM_Shivrz on February 22, 2010, 02:04:15 PM

I've heard of Eric
Clapton! I learned one his songs on piano :D
And StarZ sang it in choir :D

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: BFM_Hydra on February 23, 2010, 05:39:18 AM

Quote

Weird Al Yankovic: no original material; he covers other peoples' songs and changes the lyrics to be amusing. Very funny.

What!! Much of his material IS completely his own! :)


By the way, Muse has become SUPERMASSIVE here...

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: Fraggle on February 23, 2010, 10:17:33 AM

Quote from: BFM_Hydra on February 23, 2010, 05:39:18 AM

By the way, Muse has become SUPERMASSIVE here...

.........That's because they're SUPER-AWESOMENESS! :keke:

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: MrT© on February 23, 2010, 10:25:41 AM

Quote from: BFM_Fraggle on February 23, 2010, 10:17:33 AM

Quote from: BFM_Hydra on February 23, 2010, 05:39:18 AM

By the way, Muse has become SUPERMASSIVE here...

.........That's because they're SUPER-AWESOMENESS! :keke:

Wow. So much truth in one thread. A First! :XD:

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: jim360 on February 23, 2010, 01:14:01 PM

A few other pieces that I think belong to the list:

Beethoven's 9th Symphony: Most people will know this by ear, at least the main melody of the final movement (It's the "Ode to Joy"). But the whole symphony is a brilliant piece, opening in despair at the horrors and pains of the World, then we realise that there is still Hope, and oh how wonderful it is!

A truly wonderful symphony. The biggest disadvantage is that, at 65 minutes long on average, you must be prepared to give up an hour's Halo racing.

Beethoven's 5th, 6th, and 7th symphonies are also well worth a listen - in full. As are his concerti for piano and voilin, etc. - indeed most of Beethoven's work is worth listening to. But if you listen to anything of his, make it the 9th symphony.

Beatles - Sgt. Pepper Album: In many ways their best album, full of musical experiments, that has had huge influences on modern music.

Faure, Requiem:  A piece that is full of hope, even in the dark setting that is, after all, its main theme. A Requiem is a service held after someone's death. Many musical versions of this are full of great sadness and despair. Faure's is different and all the more special for it.

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: Fraggle on February 23, 2010, 01:19:25 PM

Quote from: BFM_three60 on February 23, 2010, 01:14:01 PM

Faure, Requiem:  A piece that is full of hope, even in the dark setting that is, after all, its main theme. A Requiem is a service held after someone's death. Many musical versions of this are full of great sadness and despair. Faure's is different and all the more special for it.

I'm right with you there 360... I adore the Requiem.

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: BFM_Hlao on February 23, 2010, 01:29:47 PM

Thank you, Marty! Someone who agrees with me about Muse's new album!

They don't sound like them anymore... :undecided:

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: StarZ on February 23, 2010, 01:34:40 PM

Quote from: BFM_Fraggle on February 23, 2010, 10:17:33 AM

Quote from: BFM_Hydra on February 23, 2010, 05:39:18 AM

By the way, Muse has become SUPERMASSIVE here...

.........That's because they're SUPER-AWESOMENESS! :keke:

FACT!  :neckbeard:

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: BruinX on February 23, 2010, 01:36:38 PM

Quote from: BFM_StarZ on February 23, 2010, 01:34:40 PM

Quote from: BFM_Fraggle on February 23, 2010, 10:17:33 AM

Quote from: BFM_Hydra on February 23, 2010, 05:39:18 AM

By the way, Muse has become SUPERMASSIVE here...

.........That's because they're SUPER-AWESOMENESS! :keke:

FACT!  :neckbeard:

it is so very true, saw them live  at the Big Day Out, man they put on a show!

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: Marty on February 23, 2010, 01:58:24 PM

Jazz

First thing that has to be said about jazz: there are lots of different styles of Jazz. I'll go through them in (roughly) chronological order.

Dixieland & The Big Band Era:

Duke Ellington: Quite a famous name - listen to anything you can find on him if you can. Some key tracks: Take the 'A' Train, Don't Get Around Much Any More; Satin Doll. Quite simple tunes, but very enjoyable.

Other names to look into: Paul Whiteman, Bix Beiderbecke, George Olsen.

It's quite an easy-listening style, with not much improvising (not MUCH, but still a fair bit).

Swing:

Generally slightly faster and livelier than Dixieland, and focused more on brass than on woodwind instruments.

Louis Armstrong: ANYTHING by this guy. Check out the Hot Fives and Hot Sevens collections, as well as his All Stars. A wonderful singer (such a distinctive voice!) and an incredibly influential trumpet / cornet / flugel horn player.

Benny Goodman: Equally, listen to anything by this guy. He played clarinet.

Other key names: Count Basie, Duke Ellington (again), Coleman Hawkins, Django Reinhardt.

Kansas City Jazz:

We're starting to get slightly less 'easy listening' and more into an improvised music. It's still not very dissonant, but it's more experimental.

Key Names: Count Basie (again), Coleman Hawkins (again), Lester Young.

Bebop:

Now we're getting to the 'acquired taste' jazz. Bebop is fast, furious, and wildy experimental. The players thought that they'd, effectively, change the entire rules of music. And, once you start looking past the dissonance and to the musicality, it works. Also, where as the previous styles used quite large bands, bebop used trios, quartets or quintets (in general).

Charlie Parker: One of the inventors of Bebop. Tracks like Bird of Paradise, Moose the Mooche, Cherokee, and just anything he played. A genius of an alto saxophone player.

Other names: Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Charile Christian.

Hard Bop:

An extension of Bebop, Hard Bop was ever so slightly simpler and slower (in general) but is still noise to quite a few people.

John Coltrane: Probably the pioneer of Hard Bop, his album Giant Steps defines the genre. Key tracks are Giant Steps (composed as a technical exercise but it still sounds great) and Mr P.C.

Also try and find a version of Work Song played by Nat Adderley in 1960.

That'll do for now.

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: BFM_Mil on February 24, 2010, 02:59:48 AM

Isn't Muse Super-Massive everywhere now? |:

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: McSkittles on February 25, 2010, 07:35:10 PM

I've heard many of those, including Beethoven, Muse(pre-Twilight as well) and Jimi Hendrix.

I'd also recommend the 5th Symphony by Beethoven, Risque by Cute Is What We Aim For, Secret Crowds by Angels & Airwaves, anything by ELO(Electric Light Orchestra), 1234 by Feist, anything by Jason Mraz, anything by Jimmy Eat World, Heaven by Los Lonely Boys, anything by Mutemath, anything by U2, anything by Owl City, anything by Paramore, anything by Relient K, anything by Sara Bareilles, anything by Taking Back Sunday, and thats all I can think of for now ;D

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: Marty on May 05, 2010, 09:12:19 AM

Thread revival!

More Jazz:

Modal Jazz: if you read what I wrote about Bebop three posts back, you'll know it's frantic, fast and crazy. Modal was the reaction to it: from going to the extreme in fast, complex music, Modal Jazz brings it right back. It's simple, slow and leaves much more 'space' than bebop.

Miles Davis: In particular, the album Kind of Blue and the track So What. 'So What' is the apex of Modal jazz: it has just two chords, each lasting for eight bars. Beautiful tune, with fantastic solos.

Modern Jazz: quite another form of acquired taste, more similar to Bebop than anything else. "Modern Jazz" is a very broad term, covering everything from "Free Jazz" to "Swing Revival", really, so it's hard to pcik out key tracks here, so I'll stick with key artists.

Pat Metheny: A brilliant guitarist who has done many solo albums and collaborations with the likes of Joni Michell. Worth checking out.

Michael Brecker: An inspired tenor saxophonist who also plays the E.W.I. (Electronic Wind Instrument) which sounds crazy and brilliant - it's a synthetic saxophone which you can do any amount of weird and wonderful things with.

Swing:

Paul Anka: Specifically, I was thinking of his album Rock Swings which features various Swing covers of Rock/Grunge songs - including It's My Life (Bon Jovi), Wonderwall (Oasis) and Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana). Very funny and brilliant music too.

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: Drift on May 12, 2010, 03:37:17 PM

Good suggestions everyone! I suggest anything by james taylor.
 jim croce's-you don't mess around with Jim,
 The weight and the night they drove old dixie down, by the Band.
Brandy-looking glass,
Gustav holst's The planets-be prepared to give up over an hour listening to these beautiful pieces-  . 
Wynton Marsalis.
The Flobots have some nice progressive music along with an amazing trumpet and string section(not sure what strings they have with them).
If you aren't extremely opposed to hip-hop and all the language that comes with it over- by Drake is good.I love the beginning and the end.
I really enjoy Miles Davis -Human Nature . I wouldnt mind  having the music for it. I would love to learn it for trumpet .
 ANYTHING AT ALL BY MICHAEL BUBLE IS GOOD! Fellin' Good is a great song with a fantastic big band/swing feel to it.
 Ghost train -Eric whitacre     if performed by my high school's wind symphony or a professional band is great.
Lassus Trombone-Henry fillmore  is an extremely fun piece to listen to.
American Barndance-Richard Saucedo  My favorite piece to play.

BILLY JOEL!!!!!!   listen and be amazed. "scenes from an Italian Restaurant" , "good Night saigon", "and so it goes" are just a few great songs by him.


I guess thats it for now. I'll post more when I think of them.

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: Tåndêm on June 16, 2010, 06:41:58 PM

Quote from: BFM_Marty on February 20, 2010, 03:16:21 AM

Rock:

Eric Clapton - anything by this guy. He was in Cream, Derek and the Dominoes (hint: Layla) and tours solo. Amazing blues-rock guitarist who knows you don't need to play fast to play well.

Jimi Hendrix - similar. Anything by The Jimi Hendrix Experience is worth listening to - if only to find what didn't work. Purple Haze, Little Wing, Angel, Hey Joe, Voodoo Chile, Highway Chile, Red House, Crosstown Traffic (featuring Hendrix on the Kazoo) - all great tracks.

Dire Straits: some brilliant songs, some rubbish. One track that springs to mind for brilliant is Sultans of Swing.

Very nice listing. (I omitted Muse - I know a fair few people who hate them and they're major rock lovers. I like them, personally, but I find that it's kinda 50/50. I'd call them their own subgenre, personally)

Imma throw in some songs. I find them to be staples of my musical diet, but then again that might be personal opinion.

Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky
  - - It's got quite the Christian message to it, but I know a couple of anti-Christians who love the song, so that kinda tells you something about how good it is.
Ronnie James Dio - Holy Diver
  - - Dio's stuff might be under the radar, but he was one of the best voices in Metal (until stomach cancer had it's victory, RIP Ronnie). And he's got quite a career record - Rainbow,           Elf, he was even with Black Sabbath for a bit.
Black Sabbath - Iron Man
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
  - - It's...Ozzy. Come on. Do I really NEED to explain this?  EVERYONE loves Ozzy.
Metallica - Enter Sandman
  - - Quite possibly one of their greatest hits. Starts out kinda calm, then starts building noise up until KABOOM!
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
  - - Led Zeppelin's best selling song. BEST. SELLING. Fun fact: They spent a long time trying to figure out what this song was about, then the guy who wrote it spilled the beans - it             wasn't about anything at all. Dude was making it up on the spot.
Eagles - Hotel California
  - - Calm. Deep. Moving. Makes me think of LA. Which is good, because it was about the dark side of SoCal lights, fame, etc.
Nightwish - Ever Dream
  - - I SWEAR THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST SONGS EVER WRITTEN. It runs freakin' chills down my spine, and not many songs do that. It's both happy and unhappy at the same time,          somehow. It's...AMAZING.

I probably have more. I can't think of them.

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: Infërnö on June 17, 2010, 12:13:02 PM

ok, the only song i can think of that anyone would need to listen to cos it is a classic sort of rock song in my opinion:

House of the Rising Sun - The Animals

is the only song that i could possibly say that hasnt already been said...

maybe :  Sweet child o' Mine - Guns N' Roses

it's a taste thing.

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: Marty on June 17, 2010, 12:25:36 PM

I'm not a huge fan of Sweet Child...'cos of Axl Rose. I don't think his voice suits that song at all. Slash is great on it, if slightly over-doing the Wah-Wah pedal.

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: Duck on June 17, 2010, 12:37:41 PM

Quote from: BFM_Hlao on February 23, 2010, 01:29:47 PM

Thank you, Marty! Someone who agrees with me about Muse's new album!

They don't sound like them anymore... :undecided:

Totally agree, they just lost it with their latest album and when they called some of their songs a symphony they'd totally lost me :P

Songs I would add:

Hoppipolla - Sigur Ros

They're a band from Iceland and the guys voice is amazing. (I think it's been used on the BBC a lot)

Paganini - 25 Caprices for Violin (If this hasn't already been said. :O just listen to it! :D )

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: Marty on June 18, 2010, 04:43:41 AM

Quote from: Duck on June 17, 2010, 12:37:41 PM

Paganini - 25 Caprices for Violin (If this hasn't already been said. :O just listen to it! :D )

I believe there are only 24 Caprices, but hey. They are very good, and have spawned some good variations themselves - notably the 24th Caprice and its variations by Brahms and Sergei Rachmaninoff, of which the 18th is the most famous and the least recognisable as a variation - largely because it's the exact same melody played backwards.

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: Duck on June 18, 2010, 04:55:10 AM

Quote from: Duck on June 17, 2010, 12:37:41 PM

Paganini - 25 Caprices for Violin

Haha, woopsy, typo! :LOL:

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: Tåndêm on June 19, 2010, 01:38:12 PM

Quote from: BFM_Marty on June 17, 2010, 12:25:36 PM

I'm not a huge fan of Sweet Child...'cos of Axl Rose. I don't think his voice suits that song at all. Slash is great on it, if slightly over-doing the Wah-Wah pedal.

I know a fair few people who hate Axl's voice in general.

I personally think he's a great singer, even if he is a bit of a jerk off-stage.

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: Bob Marley on July 04, 2010, 05:04:58 PM

Primus


CKY

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: BFM_Elkric on July 17, 2010, 09:58:58 AM

Thank you a lot for starting this kind of thread Marty! I don't know much about Jazz, or singers, so those suggestions are greatly appreciated. And thanks for the other suggestions everyone. :)


-Altan. They are an Irish folk and traditional music group. I discovered a song by theirs a couple of years ago, but it wasn't until recently I started to go through their music. I've only listened to two album so far which is "The Blue Idol" and "The Best of Altan: The Songs", and then some other songs from other albums. The song "Daily Growing" is one of my favorites.

-Sofie Reed. A singer from Sweden who lives in the USA. The only album I've heard of is "Baby Boo Got Gone". Great songs. "Owl" is a personal favorite.


That is two suggestions. I recommend you to check them out.

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: BFM_Elkric on August 23, 2010, 10:47:57 AM

I recently discovered a Jazz artist called Grant Green. I do not know how well know or famous he is.. But he sure got some amazing songs.

Some of my favorite songs: 'Round About Midnight, Sookie Sookie, Cantaloupe Woman and Reaching Out.

'Round About Midnight really is a song you should listen to before you... Leave.

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: Archer on August 24, 2010, 01:50:10 PM

I have to compliment Marty on the jazz selections.  Everyone should listen to a little real jazz....as opposed to "smooth jazz" or "lite jazz".

And not meaning to be overly or overtly provincial, but an American that doesn't know anything about jazz is missing out on a huge chunk of our country's history.  This is an artform that we invented and yet it is an artform that we routinely ignore.

In addition to Miles Davis (Kind of Blue is fabulous), you might also check out Dave Brubeck's "Time Out". 

Also, anyone that has ever watched any of the animated "Charlie Brown" specials will already be familiar with jazz pianist Vince Guarladi.  The sound track to "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is fantastic.  I listen to it year 'round.  There is also a "Best of" album that is great if you don't want to have to buy a lot of albums.

If you have access to the Ovation cable channel, you will be able to see all sorts of shows about American jazz history including artists [many that Marty already mentioned] and labels [specifically Blue Note].

On more of a rock note, I'd suggest a sampling of Rush, Yes, and The Oneders.

Regards,
Archer

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: Marty on August 26, 2010, 05:37:11 AM

Quote from: BFM_Archer on August 24, 2010, 01:50:10 PM

Everyone should listen to a little real jazz....as opposed to "smooth jazz" or "lite jazz".

Couldn't agree more, Archer! Smooth jazz and 'easy listening' are all well and good, but you're missing out almost all of the jazz from 1940 onwards.

Incidentally, here's a little bit of Jazz History for you. The cut-off where most people stop liking jazz made after that date is 1942. Before then, you had swing and the 'crooners' (e.g. Frank Sinatra); after it you had bebop - a totally different art form.

In the eyes of many jazz musicians in the late '30s and early '40s, jazz had grown stale. It had started out in New Orleans jazz as an almost completely improvised music form: no parts were written down other than the tune and the names of the chords played beneath. As it moved into the Big Band sound, it becomes a LOT harder for everyone to improvise - it can work when you're playing with ten good musicians, but past that - and many big bands had more than thirty musicians - they tend to work against each other unless the parts are written out, with maybe the odd solo - and even that would probably still be written out beforehand. When big bands evolved into the crooner stage, solos and improvising were effectively dead - all focus was on the singer. The creativity of jazz was gone.

At this point, certain musicians in New York (foremost amongst them Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie) started working on a way to put jazz firmly back in the hands of the virtuoso musicians, rather than the predictable singing it had become. They studied advanced classical harmony - notably the works of Stravinsky - and began making jazz more complicated and difficult to play, thereby forcing 'jazz musicians' to become synonymous with 'virtuoso musicians'. As the harmony became more complex, the size of the bands dropped from thirty to between three and seven (four or five was probably the most common number of musicians - a drummer, double bassist, pianist and one or two front-line instruments). Tunes became faster - sometimes rocketing from the swing average of 120 beats per minute to 300 beats per minute (5 beats per second). Instead of the verse-chorus-verse structure that the crooners favoured (and later developed into all the other forms of popular music today, including metal, dance, pop and funk), they played the tune once or twice and then launched into solos - fast, furious and complicated solos. Bebop was born.

The thing was, bebop took about two years to develop - from 1942-44. Coincidentally, the Musicians' Union called a strike over royalty payments so that no recordings were made in the years 1942-44. This meant no-one but the people who made it got to hear bebop evolve - before the ban, they heard swing; after they heard bebop. Without the ban, more people would understand where bebop came from, and therefore maybe more people would appreciate it.

Such is life.

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: OBOLeader on September 02, 2010, 02:44:31 AM

Time to add some rock and metal to the mix  ;D :winkgrin:

Avenged Sevenfolds A little Peice of hevan is worth a good long listen..
Disturbeds Down with the sickness is really good, ablit a little.... crazy
Reds Breathe into me... really great song
Van Halens panama is one of my favorites
Ac/Dc Back in black, enough saif
Ozzy Osbourne too many great songs by him, but look at his prince of darkness album
And finally.... metallica... enter sandman.. SO BEAST

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Post by: Bleak on December 24, 2010, 06:41:30 PM

I have some stuff of my own to add.

The whole  Images and Words album, by Dream Theater. It's got a lot of very well-written songs on it, which in and of itself isn't all that common in a lot of Prog rock.
Twilight of the Thunder Godby Amon Amarth. Great melodic death metal, with somewhat intelligible lyrics plus a lot of great riffs.

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: Archer on December 27, 2010, 12:50:25 PM

Quote from: Sandoz on December 24, 2010, 07:57:50 PM

Nickel Creek - This is a band someone showed me a while ago. They incorporate a bluegrass-esque quality to their music, which has been known to stretch into the rock, pop, and country genres.
Suggested songs: "Spit on a Stranger", "Smoothie Song" (A purely instrumental song), "Toxic" (A Britney Spears cover. ;D)

Oh yes!  Also check out their songs "Seven Wonders", "Green and Gray", "Brand New Sidewalk", "When In Rome", "The Lighthouse's Tale", "Sweet Afton", and "The Fox".

Rumor has it that when they first hit the bluegrass scene, many of the old timers were very impressed by the mandolin work done by Chris Thile.

Very good choice to add to this thread!

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: Joel on December 30, 2010, 07:44:35 PM

Quote from: BFM_MrT© on February 23, 2010, 10:25:41 AM

Quote from: BFM_Fraggle on February 23, 2010, 10:17:33 AM

Quote from: BFM_Hydra on February 23, 2010, 05:39:18 AM

By the way, Muse has become SUPERMASSIVE here...

.........That's because they're SUPER-AWESOMENESS! :keke:

Wow. So much truth in one thread. A First! :XD:

lol of course muse is awsome

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: BFM_Edison on January 21, 2011, 12:14:30 PM

Basically all the albums from Ayreon. Really good stuff, which is described as rock operas in that the albums detail a story in some way, and each of the albums are connected to the others in some way. I've basically been listening to the albums nearly non-stop for the past week over 8 hours a day on average. Just that good.

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: Bob Marley on February 05, 2011, 10:38:07 PM

CKY

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: OBOLeader on February 12, 2011, 09:12:20 PM

Coal Chamber-Dark Days       Their old stuff, can be found on the albums chamber music and The Best of Coal Chamber
Breaking Benjamin-Crawl        Good all around song. Great vocals and guitar, with some well placed "scream"
Three Days Grace-Pain           Totally awesome song. Starts with just singing, then comes the beast guitar!

Title: Re: Music You Should Listen To Before You...Leave.
Post by: Lº§tMyMiNÐ on March 03, 2011, 04:05:50 AM

Hello, everyone! Lº§tMyMiNÐ here.

If I may throw in some suggestions here, I'd like to start by saying that I prefer no particular genre over another, but I usually tend to gravitate more toward rock, metal, and grunge. However, here's some songs that I've really enjoyed, one of which I'm listening to right now:

[Partially Revised!]

Dick Dale and His Deltones - "Misirlou"
Days of the New - "Running Knees"
Samuel Barber: "Adagio for Strings"
Novadriver - "Blackout" (Instrumental)
Overseer: "Supermoves"
Iron Maiden: "Wasted Years"
Jimi Hendrix: "All Along the Watchtower"
Nine Inch Nails: "The Day the Whole World Went Away"
Rush: "Limelight"
VAST: "Touched"
Boston: "Peace of Mind"

Just to name a few...

- Lº§tMyMiNÐ

Addendum: Removed the R.A.T.M. song, and my accidental quote of my own post.

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Post by: Lº§tMyMiNÐ on March 15, 2011, 03:59:31 AM

Also, if anyone here hasn't heard of this, check out the soundtrack for the Half-Life 2 mod, entitled: "Dear Esther," composed by Jessica Curry. I'll also post a link, where you can go ahead and download this astounding, superb soundtrack from ModDB, below:

http://www.moddb.com/mods/dear-esther/downloads/dear-esther-soundtrack (http://www.moddb.com/mods/dear-esther/downloads/dear-esther-soundtrack)

The soundtrack itself is, quite frankly, superb. It is a beautiful, melancholic, and sometimes weird soundtrack that, like the mod it was made for, is a bit of a journey on its own, but one that is well worth the trip. I personally give it a good, solid 9/10 rating, simply because it is just that good.

One final note before I sign off: it is saved in MP4 format.

- R e l o a d

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Post by: Bob Marley on March 17, 2011, 11:21:12 PM

MOD SUN   (Movement On Dreams, Stand Under None)

MN Rapper and about to win the Rolling Stones cover contest.....


friend base.

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Post by: BFM_Elkric on July 07, 2011, 01:51:48 PM

Kate Covington. Performance name is Erutan, with her album Raindancer. Also called Katethegreat19 on Youtube.

Kathryn Tickell.

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Post by: Marty on August 27, 2011, 02:18:07 PM

Eldbjørg Raknes: a highly contemporary Norwegian vocalist. Her album Solo features just her voice - she records multiple takes to create chords and percussion sounds through singing. There's not much of her on YouTube or anywhere else (one of her close friends was a teacher of mine), but what there is shows how fantastic she is.

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Post by: BFM_Elkric on September 01, 2011, 06:26:02 AM

Priscilla Ahn.

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Post by: Bob Marley on October 08, 2011, 02:16:30 PM

Grateful Dead.

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Post by: BFM_Elkric on October 09, 2011, 09:49:00 AM

Laleh Pourkarim.

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Post by: Bob Marley on October 13, 2011, 07:12:12 PM

Quote from: BFM_Elkric on October 09, 2011, 09:49:00 AM

Laleh Pourkarim.

Listening to "Live Tomorrow"

I am diggin' this to the fullest!!


Now listening to "Salvation"

Right off the bat, got a vibe of my man Marley in there :).  She knows what she is doing.



Does she play the instruments as well or no?

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Post by: BFM_Elkric on October 14, 2011, 05:13:45 AM

Quote from: Bob Marley on October 13, 2011, 07:12:12 PM

Quote from: BFM_Elkric on October 09, 2011, 09:49:00 AM

Laleh Pourkarim.

Listening to "Live Tomorrow"

I am diggin' this to the fullest!!


Now listening to "Salvation"

Right off the bat, got a vibe of my man Marley in there :).  She knows what she is doing.



Does she play the instruments as well or no?

I'm not sure, but I think that in most of her albums, she plays most of the instruments.

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Post by: HLN Rockhpc on October 14, 2011, 08:41:38 PM

If Airtap got mentioned:

Andy McKee - Rylynn
www.youtube.com/v/JsD6uEZsIsU&rel=0&autoplay=1

Andy McKee - Drifting
www.youtube.com/v/Ddn4MGaS3N4&rel=0&autoplay=1

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Post by: Marty on October 15, 2011, 02:24:32 AM

Quote from: ROCKHPC on October 14, 2011, 08:41:38 PM

If Airtap got mentioned:

Andy McKee - Rylynn
www.youtube.com/v/JsD6uEZsIsU&rel=0&autoplay=1

Andy McKee - Drifting
www.youtube.com/v/Ddn4MGaS3N4&rel=0&autoplay=1

I should be going to see Erik Mongrain this month!

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Post by: -shiNe! on October 20, 2011, 12:33:14 AM

Quote from: ROCKHPC on October 14, 2011, 08:41:38 PM

If Airtap got mentioned:

Andy McKee - Rylynn
www.youtube.com/v/JsD6uEZsIsU&rel=0&autoplay=1

Andy McKee - Drifting
www.youtube.com/v/Ddn4MGaS3N4&rel=0&autoplay=1

Totally agree! McKee does amazing stuff with his guitar, like with the tapping as he plays and at the end of Rylynn. I have him on my iPod :D
700th post!!

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Post by: BFM_Elkric on January 25, 2012, 02:03:48 PM

First Aid Kit.
A song: The Lion's Roar.

Gaelic Storm.
Swimmin' in the sea.

The Majority Says with the song 114.