Blow my mind with music

chuck steak

What is some music that has blown your mind, or inspired you, recently?

I'm in quite the music listening lull and have no idea what to look into. The last two albums that I really got into were Eminem's Relapse and Them Crooked Vultures. Before that, In Rainbows was probably the last thing I really dug.

So recommend me some stuff to check out please. I don't care about genres, but preferably something that isn't too bizarre or hard to get into (I know this somewhat contradicts loving In Rainbows and Them Crooked Vultures, but whatever).

Tam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3-PZvA_Jjs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRtHYiWmsoA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEBGCOCxLgA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Eb651s_o1Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui38waRcJ2U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=triXuH2Cr5I

Zampanov

The Mars Volta. Check out their Bedlam In Goliath album, good stuff.

Murder By Death. I recommend starting with In Bocca Al Lupo, or Red of Tooth and Claw albums to start.

Shazkar Shadowstorm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH68Dpw3SsA

The Crowing One

Poor performance, unfortunately:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4kTei0XrCs

Six

This album has been on constant rotation for me lately

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecp-nD5aXIs

This one's also pretty great

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ-M_8pY6TI

chuck steak

Zampanov wrote: »

The Mars Volta. Check out their Bedlam In Goliath album, good stuff.

Murder By Death. I recommend starting with In Bocca Al Lupo, or Red of Tooth and Claw albums to start.

I've listened to The Mars Volta in the past, with mixed results. I really liked some if it, but in the end I just didn't have the patience to sit through all of the stupid boring crap. Is that album structured better or is there still 2 minute intros of birds chirping?

AresProphet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDHW8bsHB0w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmO3yMS9eYo&feature=related

This whole album (The Dark Third) is gripping from start to finish. It's indescribable. There's a lot going on and it comes together in a very tightly-knit whole.

Yes, that's where my av came from.

(edit second vid had sound problems so I replaced it. Audio's from the album some guy just put it over edited live footage)

Hey Ashtray

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j79nOQV3D3w

edit: Oh hey Chuck Steak

mechaThor

Mr. Bungle is wicked awesome

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwWQYg7aS5o

The music video is really good too, but a little on the deranged side if you're easily freaked out by stuff. I should note the video is exclusively fan made.

Hlubocky

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS-ItyyVQJE
Crank it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZY29LirBRM
I love the beat and melody of this song, and Dan has a great voice.

McKid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-_NsAKNeao

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ft5r_Bus-0

Something kind of heavier. Progressive death metal at its finest

Zampanov

chuck steak wrote: »

Zampanov wrote: »

The Mars Volta. Check out their Bedlam In Goliath album, good stuff.

Murder By Death. I recommend starting with In Bocca Al Lupo, or Red of Tooth and Claw albums to start.

I've listened to The Mars Volta in the past, with mixed results. I really liked some if it, but in the end I just didn't have the patience to sit through all of the stupid boring crap. Is that album structured better or is there still 2 minute intros of birds chirping?

There's a lot less of the ambient sound thing on Bedlam In Goliath. Also, their newest album, Octahedron, has a lot more mellow and radio-friendly-length tracks. They call it their "pop" album. It's really good too.

And Murder By Death is a band like Johnny Cash would have made if he grew up with punk and country in equal doses and then decided to add a cello player. They're great. Edit: Here: http://murderbydeath.bandcamp.com/album/red-of-tooth-and-claw

You can listen to some of their albums there for free and/or buy them.

lifeincognito

Ronald Jenkees.

FightTest

My favorite band as of late:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpR_UPYanAc

My long-time favorite band:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leD_6ND7w9g

(Holy shit Firefox is euro as hell trying to tell me 'favorite' is misspelled and demanding a 'u' in there.)

ps - if you missed the hype-wave around them Arcade Fire is pretty incredible.

2868

Melvins.

Sheep

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEqNL5zaYGo

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The new Joanna Newsom triple album is awesome. This is probably my favourite song off it right now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nz0t7K1prY

The last Belle Orchestre album had some really nice stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD2kTL1R9A8

Land of Talk are generally great, but this song in particular is just so nice to listen to. And the video is really cool as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m53--yTPQNk

Not new, but one band that's always inspired me is Electrelane. I don't know exactly how or why, but their music had a huge influence on me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlSfPmqiplY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQGaARSgjT8&feature=related

And there's always Shad for a quick pick me up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jhn3X8gGEA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0YKwFkTqdw&feature=fvw

And you can't go wrong with some of The Knife's music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrjwqXwyzNU

And I know you mentioned In Rainbows, but I have to listen to this song every couple of weeks just because.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9IODJdi3GA

Robman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsrhhxcbqE0

.kbf?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDlC7oG_2W4

Erios

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM__lPTWThU

Oh hay it's some metal.

Judas Priest: Painkiller

Doc

Jazz!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEC8nqT6Rrk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz7-617UaYc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faJE92phKzI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrxn-QcKhjY

Zappa!
Skip to 1:40 for the start, listen to AT LEAST through the solo on the bass clarinet. It's one of the funkiest jams I've ever heard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uv3ia0cFWI

Jurassic 5 - this always takes me back:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgpDN-bARwc

Binary Star

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c7To97v2s4

Some metal - WARNING - I'm not that into clean vocals, so if growled/screamed stuff is a dealbreaker for you, move on:

At The Gates-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJme5uubkyQ

Who (mostly) later formed The Haunted-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahvvQEe4Gkk

Gojira - they had the best metal album of 2008, imo. Sort of hypnotic metal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xEYz74bMHA

Children of Bodom - way over the top swedish band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4mvcfBwCNQ

Who can also do some Vivaldi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iLIhLv8LuY

Speaking of over the top, Three Inches of Blood (WARNING - INCOMING FALSETTO):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66RQ0LONTwA

Scalfin

The Cowboy Beebop, Gurren Lagann, Baccano!, and Eureka Seven soundtracks.

Also, I put together a playlist of some of the stuff I think meets the OP requirements:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvSYajYByPY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yctfXIqugXc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K4RKM_hzzI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GroDErHIM_0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7cry-4pyy8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fx252AgYeM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfHb6ULYmwM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK_ShoOL2ao
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6Kf545Kg4s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvLiYLgsPaY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI76wS6tlKs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEUjZkD9WBk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrC8z8MK7HI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N23j1mxqkrI
Can't find my favorite recording (the original), so I'll go wit the one the artist made when she recovered
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAsV5-Hv-7U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_7C0QGkiVo
Because it's 4:37 AM

Edit: almost forgot a band I like. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIJTDwyQw5Y

Rainbulimic

Florence and the Machine

Her album is really great. So good. Highly recommend.

Kin Za Za - I am a Dance

Nice music, nice album. A little rare. Good if you're into that.

Brand New - Jesus Christ

This song is my favourite off of their album The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me. Highly recommend this album as well.

And now for something completely different!

The Hoosiers - Goodbye Mr. A

Who doesn't like a little "odd-pop"?

mysticjuicer

Put some Gnarls Barkley in your earholes. I can't recommend "the Odd Couple" enough as an album. The singer's got a voice I'm continually impressed with.

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If you don't already have it and you don't hate them, pick up the Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Blood Sugar Sex Magic" album. Everyone knows Give it Away and Under the Bridge, but the album is full of other great stuff.

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Audioslave's self-titled album (because they still mostly had Morello on his leash on that album) is great rock all around. Metric's latest, "Fantasies", has some absolutely excellent music on it. I also love Sam Robert's "Love at the end of the world", and "Chemical City". I hope you find something you like. (Please validate my life choices...)

SatanIsMyMotor

I've recently been blown away by the band Yeasayer. Check em out. Both of their albums are great.

Shiflett

I've been listening to a bit of John 5 recently

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbK6T1odWRY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikkkFr8-A3U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtOg8TUnKco

Arenow

I see great stuff here, very varied. I love So What by Miles Davis, it was cool to see it here.

Lately I've been VERY inspired by Rory Gallagher. Gotta love his irish blues.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkBYvscNKy8

I also really liked John Frusciante's last solo album. Have a taste of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9jsRZzjrgI

And then there's Phish and their jams. Cool stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKh4dTYc8VQ

MrMonroe

contemporary bluegrass!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXEJn-cMmlM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brQhbzlvLR4

Rent

Best music video I've ever seen of all time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w

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It's a shame OK GO punch so far above their weight with their viral marketing.

But on the other hand, they were a forgotten one hit wonder before they pulled that stuff. They're still forgotten commercially, but at least they can push a few albums. They really broke new ground there.

I maintain that the Radiohead video I posted is about as self-descriptive as you can get. That is, it's ALL I NEED.

Zombiemambo

Math rock is really interesting to me.

On one side of the spectrum:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuYzqd2ZRj4

And more towards the other:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iijmj5nB6I

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In that vein:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpGp-22t0lU&feature=related

msh1283

"Threads" -This Will Destroy You

Doc

Zombiemambo wrote: »

Math rock is really interesting to me.

On one side of the spectrum:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuYzqd2ZRj4

And more towards the other:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iijmj5nB6I

And all the way to the end of that same spectrum to the point of being extremely inaccessible:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGNb-YT5ECA

y2jake215

for the last day i have been playing Fang Island - Fang Island nonstop
mostly these 2 songs

Life Coach (excellent video by the way)

Daisy


you can listen to the whole album at their website here.
http://digital.fangisland.com/

GreasyKidsStuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt76QIX_5q8

odiug

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLJf9qJHR3E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huDIF--HmPU

Jean Claude Van Calm

I've been on a black keys binge, my neighbors have to be absolutely sick of hearing me blast this stuff.

Well, atleast I died doing what I love man... Ya know? Lip syncing - I love that shit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKXlgISd3iA

My Fav
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMVJRKGNLt0

I couldn't find the official video, but that shit is hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC2QIg7-2bc

And they've been mentioned before but srsly the mars volta fellas. I got hooked on them years ago through a similar thread. They have a lot of shit that's way out there but "The widow" is my favorite song in years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EkBYXKlC9M

Zombiemambo

And this has got to be the most pretentious form of music I've ever listened to, but it has an awesome atmosphere and it's great to chill out to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aLjup934Rk
That's less than half of the entire song.

Jubeh

The protomen to me are like a modern day queen. Though I'll probably get egged for saying that. I can't listen to the hounds without getting a jolt of energy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBcDoZnN8ac

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP2NePWJ2pQ