Recommend me! Music!

Floofy

So next wed I'm travelling down to London to have an illustration masterclass with Dave Gibbons! Major whoop! But my mp3 player's library has become a bit neglected and I really need some solid recommendations to make the travel go a bit smoother.

Things I Like:

Muse
Eels
Coheed & Cambria
Prodigy
Death Cab for Cutie
Bat for Lashes
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Queens of the Stone Age
Decemberists
The Arcade Fire
Rasputina
System of a Down


...that's all I can think of right now. Any suggestions?

TychoCelchuuu

Pandora.com!

Fuzzywhale

Pandora doesn't work over here unless you are creative with vpns as far as I know.

Ive been using last.fm and getting good results!

I don't have much to explicitly recommend besides:
The Postal Service
Franz Ferdinand
The Strokes

Naked-Celtic-Lady

Any of Mike Patton's bands:

I personally recommend;
-Mr. Bungle
-Faith No More
-Lovage (my god, Lovage is spectacular, makes you tingle in all the right places)

eternalbl

For electronic stuff I'd give Chemical Brothers and Photek a listen and go from there.

Last.fm is probably your best bet though. It'll play 100's of different artists based on what you put in. There's a lot of good music out there and last.fm and pandora are the best ways I've ever found to discover more of it.

urahonky

This is a great song, by a great band:

VAST - Touched

Though ignore the movie... Fuck I think I'm going to post the song without some shitty AMV on youtube soon.

Tarantio

Guster
Ben Folds
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
Screaming Trees
Bush
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists

Floofy

thanks for all the suggestions so far! Yeah Pandora doesn't work here too well thanks to copyright laws- lets you play a few and then tells you to bugger off if you're not American last time I tried it. Will definately be taking a look at last.fm, haven't tried it before.

A lot of suggestions of bands have been ones I've head on mix cds, gone "ooh this this good" at but not looked into further, which is probably a good sign (Someone still loves you Boris Yeltsin, The Strokes, Faith no More in particular) Franz Ferdinand I'm sort of on-off about, though I picked up their latest and I like quite a bit of it.

Will be looking into those recommended. and trying last.frm, thanks!

DirtyDirtyVagrant

Try killswitch engage.

Or would that be too hard?

Doc

DirtyDirtyVagrant wrote: »

Try killswitch engage.

Or would that be too hard?

While I don't like them (death to false metal), they might actually be your bag for "hard" stuff.

DirtyDirtyVagrant

Wait. False metal? Really?

Doc

DirtyDirtyVagrant wrote: »

Wait. False metal? Really?

Well, they are nu-hardcore-something other than metal-metal.

I've seen them live and I've listened to them quite a bit, so I'm not just trashing them for no reason. I guess a better way to describe my opinion is "I don't actively like/dislike them."

Alpine

Silversun Pickups have a new album out, Swoon, that's really good.