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Expanding my Musical Horizons
stavesacre
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This may belong in another forum, but I figured since I am asking for some help I can justify it here. I feel the need to get out of the rut I am in with regards to my music. I've listened to pretty much the same things for the past.... 5 years. Granted, I enjoy it, but I'd like to see what else is out there that may or may not be "main stream" enough for radio.
Reason for this is, I read a thread about "The Greatest Album of all Time" and was pretty annoyed that I hadn't heard any of them. I think Sgt. Pepper was listed, and a few others. Some of them I am sure just wouldn't be my cup o' tea, but like I said, I want to expand my horizons so to speak.
Let me list a few of the bands that I pretty much keep in constant rotation in my play list, which should give a bit of ground to work with:
Tool
APC
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Dick Dale (only recently realized who he was, and only have Pipeline and Miserlou suggest more if you know any)
Killswitch Engage
Gorillaz
Audioslave
Led Zepp
Black Sabbath
The Majority of cheesy 80's rock/metal hits
Wolfmother(only really hit off with Mother and Colossal)
Pendelum
Johnny Cash
I apprecaite and will take to heart just about any serious suggestions. ;-)
Reason for this is, I read a thread about "The Greatest Album of all Time" and was pretty annoyed that I hadn't heard any of them. I think Sgt. Pepper was listed, and a few others. Some of them I am sure just wouldn't be my cup o' tea, but like I said, I want to expand my horizons so to speak.
Let me list a few of the bands that I pretty much keep in constant rotation in my play list, which should give a bit of ground to work with:
Tool
APC
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Dick Dale (only recently realized who he was, and only have Pipeline and Miserlou suggest more if you know any)
Killswitch Engage
Gorillaz
Audioslave
Led Zepp
Black Sabbath
The Majority of cheesy 80's rock/metal hits
Wolfmother(only really hit off with Mother and Colossal)
Pendelum
Johnny Cash
I apprecaite and will take to heart just about any serious suggestions. ;-)
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Sadly I'm blocked at almost all corners of the web. When I get home (in December) Ill try to remember that site. What is it?
edit: maybe not. Try Pandora.
You said you like Gorillaz - I like Gorillaz too. This can lead all sorts of interesting places.
The first CD was produced by Dan the Automator, who has had his hand in all kinds of projects. Him and Del the Funky Homosapien (the rapper on 'Clint Eastwood' and several other Gorillaz songs) did a project together called Deltron 3030 that's pretty awesome. Dan the Automator is also behind Handsome Boy Modeling School, and many other projects.
The second Gorillaz CD was produced by DJ Danger Mouse - who along with Cee-Lo recently put together the Gnarls Barkley album. Danger Mouse also collaborated with MF Doom (who rapped on one of the songs from Demon Days) for the Danger Doom project.
And of course the lead singer from Gorillaz is from Blur, so you could always check them out.
Let's look at the rest of your list.... lots of stuff I'm not real familiar with....
You have Black Sabbath on there - there's always the Ozzy solo albums, and of course Dio did three albums with Sabbath (the first two are excellent) so you could check out Dio's solo stuff (as with Ozzy, earlier is better).
Well, anyhow you get the point. Getting into something radically different is hard, but slowly expanding is easy; after a few years you may find yourself listening to music that is very different that where you started.
I'd be pretty surprised if similar sites didn't exist for pretty much any style of music.
I'd look at collaborations, too. Like you like metal, Anthrax did a song with Public Enemy, so check out Public Enemy, etc.
I also like to look for bands who play covers of songs I like, preferably from a different musical genre, and then check out those bands.
The butt rock (80's "metal") is a harder fit, as it's mostly dead. Even artists from the period who are still doing modern works aren't creating the same kind of music. You could look into some of the lesser-known artists from the 80s, though, like Love and Rockets etc.
iTunes is fantastic for exploring, as often you only need 30 second snippets to figure out if you're going to dig something or not. You can dismiss artists that don't sound at all interesting and take note of ones that do. emusic.com is also good for this, although they have more indie and less mainstream stuff.
Hrm? I'm using pandora right now, I definitely don't pay for it.
mainstream, blues and folk influenced, and heavy at times.
I like.
Pandora is only liscenced to people in America.
Everywhere else is fucked.
Oh, I thought registering meant paying. So, yeah, never mind, it's free. But you have to pay anywhere outside the US? That sucks. Primary consumer market FTW!