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Suggest me some music please!
Lardalish
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Ok, so I have been listening to a few bands recently and they're really about the only bands in their genre that I listen to. So I come to you all to see what all you might suggest!
First up, The Offspring, been listening to Splinter and Smash recently and I really like it, but I don't really have anything else like em, any suggestions?
Next Up! Flogging Molly. Now, I know about the Dropkick Murphies but I never really cared for them, not entirely sure why but I havent. I did recently discover the Young Dubliners which is another band which I am greatly enjoying, so things along those lines.
And lastly for now, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. This one is mostly the fact that I dont know the names of Swing / Big Band groups, I just love the style and its all pretty great stuff.
So yeah, any suggestions would be awesome, Ill hop on iTunes and check em out! Thanks guys!
First up, The Offspring, been listening to Splinter and Smash recently and I really like it, but I don't really have anything else like em, any suggestions?
Next Up! Flogging Molly. Now, I know about the Dropkick Murphies but I never really cared for them, not entirely sure why but I havent. I did recently discover the Young Dubliners which is another band which I am greatly enjoying, so things along those lines.
And lastly for now, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. This one is mostly the fact that I dont know the names of Swing / Big Band groups, I just love the style and its all pretty great stuff.
So yeah, any suggestions would be awesome, Ill hop on iTunes and check em out! Thanks guys!
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flogging molly -> check out the pogues, real mckenzies, blood or whiskey
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
and, hmm, Hunter Valentine
Ok, the last two I only suggested because I'm totally adoring them right now, but Big Sugar is seriously damn good if you like swing, I find. Not quite the same, more like reggae meets rock meets blues, but s'good.
Rum Sodomy and the Lash is a quintessential album.
As for Bad Religion, Ill look for them too, I liked that one song they had on Guitar Hero, Infected I think? I dont remember.
Ill give a look for the other ones too, thanks for the suggestions so far! Keep em comin!
Jordan of Elienor, Human Shaman
Something my friend introduced me to recently is Emilie Simon's music. Again, quite different from bands like The Offspring, but if you search YouTube for her live performance of "Swimming" (it is over 6 minutes long, close to seven minutes), you might enjoy it. Like an experimental rock sort of sound.
Faithless is really great for some nice and provoking tech-flo beats and melodies. Their album, "Sunday 8PM" is very very good, as well as select songs from their newest, "To All New Arrivals."
Finally, Cibo Matto is maybe somewhat well-known, but if you get a chance to listen to "Sugar Water," "Sci-Fi Wasabi," or "Clouds," you might really enjoy them (they are a two-girl group, one of which ~ Miho Hattori ~ is in the group, Gorillaz).
Check them all out if you get a chance, mm! ^_^
"It's always sunny after a rainy day."
I picked up a used copy of The Toasters - Skaboom! at some little mom & pop operation about 8 years ago and it still sneaks it's way into my stereo from time to time.
The newer stuff is way better production quality though.
THE AQUABATS!
http://www.theaquabats.com
http://www.myspace.com/theaquabats
FASHION ZOMBIES!
SUPER RAD!
POOL PART!
They are one part super hero, one part rock n' roll, and 3 parts TOTALLY AWESOME! So that makes them have FIVE PARTS RAD AS HECK!
Also, they contain elements (over their long and elaborate discography) of all the different kind of music you've mentioned, they don't like to pigeon-hole themselves to genres, so their music is all over the place. Also, they're currently signed to the lead singer of Offspring's record label, "Nitro Records" and he contributed lyrics to a song on their third album (before they were on his label).
For more Swing/Jazzy type stuff check out the Squirrel Nut Zippers.
Oh it's such a nice day, I think I'll go out the window! Whoa!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7Y9MwyLrGE
I've gotten addicted to them lately.
Paramore: Born for This
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m645A5KKHzk
That might be a little softer than what you're looking for.
Tsunami Bomb: Take The Reins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsYzwW4V-AQ
They remind me of old offspring.
Deftones: Shove it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sliDi-vL3g
I always think of them when I think of offspring...proabably because of them being around at the same time.
Also I like the Aquabats but I can't help but feel like they'd actually be more awesome if they didn't have the superhero thing going. Great music, though.
If you're into Jazzy stuff, have a look at Sister Machine Gun's Metropolis album. Best amalgamation of Jazz and modern hard rock I've ever heard. Particularly 'Temptation' and 'Living Without You'.
A.F.I.
Against Me!
Bad Brains
Choking Victim
Deftones
Green Day
Leftover Crack
Operation Ivy
Pennywise
Reel Big Fish
Refused
Streetlight Manifesto
Sublime
Edit: Splinter is Offspring's worst cd, Smash is good though. I'd highly recommend you find a way to get Ixnay on the Hombre, Ignition, and Americana.
ignition > smash > S/T > ixnay
the rest is bad
Disagree!
Ixnay>Smash>Splinter>S/T>Americana>Ignition>Conspiracy of One
But I've always been a sucker for the offspring, so my opinion may be a hair biased.
Also check out Bad Religion (Suffer), Pennywise (Straight Ahead or Land of the Free), Suicide Machines (War Profiteering Is Killing Us All), Descendents (Cool To Be You).
Dropkick Murphy's
Reel Big Fish
Muse
The Killers
DK
Misfits
Muse to follow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glx9SVaH2uw
Critical Failures - Havenhold Campaign • August St. Cloud (Human Ranger)
I would never contend that the Offspring have ever made a bad record.
Certainly there are a few really really good ones but the rest are "okay" at the very least.
Big D & The Kid's Table (Good Luck, Shot By Lammi, and How It Goes in that order... Strictly Rude's good too): Boston ska-punk-thrash
Street Dogs (Back to the World, Savin Hill): Boston punk
Mighty Mighty Bosstones (More Noise & Other Disturbances, Devil's Night Out, Don't Know How to Party... everything else is awesome too though): Boston inventors of ska-core
The Delegates (We All Taste The Same, The Diary of Hamilton Fish): Montreal ska-core
Social Distortion (Prison Bound, Mommy's Little Monster, Sex Love and Rock n' Roll): Cali punkabilly
The World/Inferno Friendship Society (Red-Eyed Soul, The True Story of the Bridgewater Astral League, Addicted to Bad Ideas): the best band EVER. NJ unclassifiable anarchist klezmer/punk.
Bad Religion - I knew about them but never really got anything, Im glad I have now
The Aquabats - how the hell did I make it this far in life without any of their stuff?
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Pretty good, alot more instrumental than BBVD.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - I like them, kind of a mellow background music for me. Terrible for late night driving though, haha
The Pogues - These guys are pretty excellent, glad I got turned on to them
Against Me! - Not bad, Ill deffinately listen to more of em.
Streetlight Manifesto - I love this band, been listening to them for a while
Catch 22 - I have Keasby Nights but I honestly dont know if its by manifesto or catch 22, either way its good
Reel Big Fish - Another of my favorites, seen em in concert a couple times
Ok, I think thats most of the ones I got or have heard before.
Thanks guys! I got like 9 CD's worth of stuff so Ill have some fresh tunes for a while now.
But if you've got more suggestions lay em on me! Im open to more!
I really like ska stuff, RBF, Streetlight, Less than jake, the mighty mighty bosstones, all that stuff, so maybe some others in that vein?
Jordan of Elienor, Human Shaman
The Aggrolites: An awesome, awesome, awesome (did I say awesome?) blend of funk and reggae music. They have some songs up on their MySpace. I recommend listening to "Free Time" and "Time to Get Tough" on there. If you like these guys, buy their self-titled album immediately. This album changed my life. These guys will be on Warped Tour this summer, so if you live anywhere close to where any such "Warped Tour" may show up at...well there ya go.
Not to mention that they played a song on a children's show that is exclusively about bananas and how awesome they are. It's on their website if you want to take a gander.
The Phenomenauts: Kind of like the Aquabats, except they're intergalactic space pioneers who play rockabilly and new wave. If you like good rockabilly and you want to listen to music whose sole theme is space, check these guys out at their MySpace. I recommend "Mission"
I've been into them for years, and it still wakes me up at night, that I might not have found out about them. I have no idea what my life would be like if it weren't for them and their music.
Matt S, you have excellent taste. Two of my favorite bands. My band was going to open for The Phenomenauts in my hometown but randomly the date was canceled, so we're scrambling to figure out if they'll be able to play our city or not, cause we were super excited to play with them.
P.S.
I'm going to Warped Tour this summer JUST for The Aggrolites, cause on The Aquabats! CHARGE!! One Year Anniversary tour, they were the best opener ever. I've been in love ever since.
I forget how I found out about the Aggrolites though, I think I was just surfing around the web until I stumbled upon them. First song I downloaded was "Countryman Fiddle"... which has got to be the most addictive song in the world to listen to.
The Toasters are another good ska band, somebody mentioned them on the first page.
Yeah that's how I found out about The Phenomenauts too. They opened that whole tour. They put on such an amazing show. They're the perfect match for The Aquabats! in a live setting. I heard at some of the shows, The Phenomenauts dressed up as The Evil-Robot-Aquabats! and performed a really bad cover of Pool Party and then tried to kill The Aquabats! as part of the CHARGE!! tour, but they didn't do that at our show.
I ended up seeing The Phenomenauts the next two years as well for their tours, and both times Joebot 2.0 and I had really fun adventures. They're all cool guys, but Joebot 2.0 is hilarious and a really fun time.
It's a really cool (and FREE) online radio-type service where you can discover new music. You enter a band or song you like, and they play other music that has the same characteristics as the band/song you entered.
Check it out >
Also, if you like ska/punk/surf type music, check out Man or Astroman?--they're mainly instrumental, but good stuff nonetheless.
sublime - sublime.
goldfinger - goldfinger.
operation ivy - operation ivy.
operation ivy is a bit diff, sort of the origins of it all.
most of all, most of all
someone said true love was dead
but i'm bound to fall
bound to fall for you
oh what can i do
As for Offspring/Bad Religion, 90-style punk (my favorite genre): I can't recommend Pennywise enough, as it was suggested earlier. Their album, Full Circle is (in my opinion) the epitome of 90's punk. Straight Ahead is a solid album, hell I love them all, but Full Circle is their best I think. http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ee-9bO-OZLU&feature=related
As for Ska: I don't think it was mentioned, but the Voodoo Glow Skulls are one of my favorites. http://youtube.com/watch?v=qcTabQ5HPPs
xbl - HowYouGetAnts
steam - WeAreAllGeth
Love them though I may, I've always considered the VGS a fairly acquired taste -- though the instrumentals are great, their vocals are decidedly...non-lyrical. I'd call them more ska-metal than anything.
Yeah, maybe that was a bad suggestion. They are pretty "manic." Here's a "slower" song: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z0gTRpwx93o&feature=related, and http://youtube.com/watch?v=LSBnHk3OFAU&feature=related
xbl - HowYouGetAnts
steam - WeAreAllGeth
I am glad I was poking around in this thread. I am in love with Pandora. I have been looking for something that did exactly what Pandora does. Good reccomendation!!
As far as musical reccomendations, I personally think that Tenacious D is the greatest band in the universe.
having seen both catch-22 and streetlight live, you should forget about catch and just go with streetlight all the way.
Basically the lead vocalist left catch due to whatever and formed streetlight. I've jumped ship and now go wherever Tomas Kalnoky goes. He imo was the soul of catch-22 and i think streetlight is better than catch in all ways. Highly recommend all three of streetlight's albums.