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Fizban140
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So I have been kind of lazy with music recently, about 2 years ago I started to broaden my musical interests...which ended up in me just listening to Indie Rock. Anyways I went to Korea for a year and got back in September, completely disregarding all new music for that entire time. Did I miss any big indie rock? I tried to pick up some of the big stuff like Arcade Fire and The Decemberists.
Now more importantly, I want to get more into other genres of music. I should start by saying that I hate most of what I hear of the radio, most rock on rock stations, and all country ever. According to itunes my most listened to music is Ra Ra Riot, The Most Serene Republic, TV on the Radio, Radiohead, Grizzly Bear, The Dodos, MGMT, Menomona, Beirut, The National. Stuff like that is what I listen to almost all the time, although I do enjoy The Protomen and Trail of Dead.
Now with that I want to listen to different music also, I was quite impressed by the soundtrack to Brutal Legend so I am going to use that as a starting point. I am not even quite sure what the intent of this thread is, I just want to see some music I might not have considered I guess. There is just so much music out there I am going to miss the majority of it if I just use pandora or whatever.
Also I was impressed by some underground rap I guess, but most rap to me is pretty boring and standard, not creative and not for me. I am not opposed to anything popular, just has to sound good.
Now more importantly, I want to get more into other genres of music. I should start by saying that I hate most of what I hear of the radio, most rock on rock stations, and all country ever. According to itunes my most listened to music is Ra Ra Riot, The Most Serene Republic, TV on the Radio, Radiohead, Grizzly Bear, The Dodos, MGMT, Menomona, Beirut, The National. Stuff like that is what I listen to almost all the time, although I do enjoy The Protomen and Trail of Dead.
Now with that I want to listen to different music also, I was quite impressed by the soundtrack to Brutal Legend so I am going to use that as a starting point. I am not even quite sure what the intent of this thread is, I just want to see some music I might not have considered I guess. There is just so much music out there I am going to miss the majority of it if I just use pandora or whatever.
Also I was impressed by some underground rap I guess, but most rap to me is pretty boring and standard, not creative and not for me. I am not opposed to anything popular, just has to sound good.
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Bonobo - downtempo
Justice - french techno
Sol - Rap
Mr. Lif - Rap
POS - Rap
Matt & Kim - random uptempo stuff
Cold War Kids - like the stuff you already listed
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes - crazy fun music
Vampire Weekend - yes, in the vein of what you already listen to, but their latest album is great.
The XX - downtempo indie-ish
Band of Horses - their old album, not the new one
Just going based on some of my likes, as well as stuff my GF likes (her tastes nearly mirror yours based on the above). Try some of these and let me know what grabs you and I can supply more.
KEXP - Music that matters is also a great podcast for finding new stuff.
Passenger for a little singer/songwriter awesomeness:
White Lies...have no idea what genre they are, alt-rock, 80ish sound? but I fell in love with them
Explosions in the Sky..."Post-Rock" (Just about everyone that gets put in that genre and half the people that listen to it hate the label post-rock but whatever. humans have a need to classify things. deal.)
Sigur Ros...absolutely no idea how to classify them genre wise but they are the best thing.
Mynabirds...kind of an R&B/slightly country kind of feel??
And finally I'll throw in Hammock for some ambient.
Track list is here - obviously check out those bands and particularly the albums the songs you like are on as some of the bands have been around a LONG time and have had their sound change over the years.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Br%C3%BCtal_Legend
A lot of what you'll be wanting is frequently called NWOBHM (the older stuff... Judas Priest, Motorhead, Budgie, etc.) if you want to get all super genre specific or was heavily influenced by the NWOBHM bands, like the thrash stuff, etc. My personal favorite bands on the soundtrack are Judas Priest, Megadeth, Testament, and Children of Bodom although most of the bands on that soundtrack find their way into my playlists on a regular basis.
For some bands not on the soundtrack, but similar (primarily on the heavier end as that's what I really like) check out Exodus, Kreator, Pantera, Bonded By Blood, Fueled By Fire (their second album), Gama Bomb, Exhorder, Lamb of God, and Flotsam and Jetsam. Also early Metallica, obviously.
The skit on Blame Game is fantastic, too.
Big indie rock, hit up:
Wavves' King of the Beach
Joanna Newsom's Have One on Me
Deerhunter's Halcyon Digest
Jay Reatard died while you were gone, I think...if you didn't pick up Blood Visions, or his Matador Singles, you should. Especially if you liked the Brutal Legend soundtrack.
hey you stop reading my mind
and then writing them as posts
Anyways cool music
Warpaint is a very cool rock band
shoegaze?
Sleigh Bells is a cool noise punk aggressive thing that sounds very raw and exciting
Kids & Explosions is a dude from Toronto "who makes songs by stealing other people’s songs and making them worse"
rapraprap
Deltron 3030 is the coolest rap opera concept album set in the year 3030
Also this last one is a long shot maybe but I am in love with Dr Octagonecologyst right now so
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mt3vZHDiM8
Souls of Mischief are great, too.
Soal, tell me more. I think we should have musics together.
Some other fun stuff:
I liked everything TWMJR posted too, oh and Deltron 3030 is awesome.
Pick up all their albums now.
(links to come after i get back from class)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z24nM-K5jlI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x-cIeM8s5k&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FXnF07uPyY&feature=related
PS3 Trophies
Pysche Origami rules
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI6iZJOntY8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIZxemPgT3s
Instrumental hip-hop:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT0gRc2c2wQ
Weird math-rock?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpGp-22t0lU
Garage rock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOdHND_wt0k
'Stoner rock'?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Yr1-BBMaMA
Proto-punk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M52Wo2GveLo&feature=fvst
I don't really know what this falls under ('indie?'):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JkBiP7rPt0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X66k0BL5faQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f43WbnN2tBU&feature=fvst
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrM4UjaQmY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsHITZRCgqs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDBZZ3uvimE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DssIHZfptxI
(this song is amazing and I highly recommend you watch the entire thing)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm7LL55EUrQ
keyboard: same deal- great for playing with headphones.