Music recommendations

class of 1991-1994, your grunge-themed prom has arrived.

but speaking of which - whoever showem's partners were at the quiz seemed to have some pretty good taste. they should post some reccomendations.

Just had 3 fantastic cds arrive yesterday myself.

Soul Revolution by Cornerstone Roots
Home, Land and Sea by Trinity Roots and the best one is
Future Far I by Phantom Power.

A few new(ish) bands whose debut albums I REALLY REALLY recommend:

Kings of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood
For a debut album it totally rocks! They are a bunch of bearded southern lads from the US. If you like Creedence Clearwater, The Black Crowes, Rolling Stones - you will absolutely love them.

The Zutons - Who killed The Zutons
From Liverpool The Zutons style is hard to describe. Kinda like The Coral but really original. The tunes are pretty manic and full of energy. Also some nicer slow ones like Confusion. Excellent first album.

The Stands - All Years Leaving
Another Liverpudlian group of lads, whose music is a modern day version of The Beatles with some Dylan, Byrds and a bit of The Coral thrown in too. Its pretty accoustic in sound, lots of nice guitar riffs. "Outside your door" is wicked. Thoroughly recommended if you are a Beatle nut. They have supported Oasis and the Coral in the past.

Snow Patrol - Final Straw
Group of very cool Glaswegian lads who have firmly made their mark on the UK Indie Rock scene. "Run" I heard once and was completely captivated by it, it really tugs at the old heart strings - you never tire of playing it over and over again. The lyrics on the album are intelligent and well written - most will be able to relate to them.

You know I hate to correct you darling but Snow Patrol were all born in Belfast - they merely live in Glasgow.

Went back to England on the weekend and picked up the following new albums which I recommend

Maroon 5 - Songs about Jane (similar style to Snow Patrol)
Nattasha Bedingfield - Unwritten (sister of Daniel)

Maroon 5 is a decent band (very popular in US and Canada) and they're coming to Munich really soon...within the next few weeks I think.

All time Fav songs: Chris Isaak - Wicked Games and baby did a bad bad thing , Sade - By your side. currently addicted to: Blue Eyes - Cary Brothers

Dont wish to sound anal:


Final Straw is excellent but it is Snow Patrols 3rd album. Debut album was in 1997 called "Songs for Polar Bears" followed in 2001 by "When it's all over we still have to clear up".

Anal bloke logging off.

A few years back I had 100+ CD's stolen when my house got burgled*. I made the decision at the time not to go out and buy the same albums over again as I wanted my music collection to keep expanding. I just add some of the old ones when I find them on special offers and such.

*The reason I didnt use the insurance money to replace them...I wasnt insured!

Also sods law that a couple of nights before this happened, I sorted my albums out, put all my favourites in to my rack and all my cheezy pop in a pile. So when Billy Burglar came along, he just picked up my rack and left me with the cheese!! Kind of explains my tastes today I suppose.

So

Just bought Bon Jovi - Keep the Faith.

One of their best tracks ever IMO is 'Dry County' - 9.53, great song!!

@ Johnny English - yeah I knew that. Stupid of me to group them all together - wasnt thinking straight.

@ 3 Lions - I lurrrve Bon Jovi - Jon was my heart throb for years - havent listened to them for a while but got all there old albums.

The Perceptionists. They kick arse. Nice political rap from the Definitive Jux label (thats rjd2s label). They remind me a little bit of non phixion actually.
Anyway they got 2 songs out (but apparently you can legally download them from the labels site, I just cant find out where yet)
Memorial Day and Medical Aid (available on the DJX Presents III album, I dont own it yet, but I have it on order)
They will have a mix tape out soon, and an album shortly thereafter.

A few of my fav's...

Anything by the Tragically Hip or the Matthew Good Band
Coldplay - Rush of Blood to the Head
The Tea Party - Tangents
Garbage - Version 2.0
The Muse - Absolution
Feeder - Comfort in Sound
Nelly Furtado
Michael Jackson - Greatest Hits Vol. I and Prince - the Hits (good ones for dancing around the flat...not that anyone actually does that... )

For all you Brit pop fans out there!
Two highly recommended albums were released on the 1st of November.

1. Travis - Singles

2.The Verve - This Is Music: Singles 92-98

just to let you know...

Dan

Oh! Thanks dan_84...

The Verve is very good! I fogot that one on my list...

Just saw an REM video on MTV last night. Note to self: dig REM back out of the collection.

I've got the new REM album playing right now in fact, it is more mellow and very introspective so suits my mood. I like it.
What I have been listening to a lot at the moment are those free CDs that you get sometimes with the British "newspaper" Daily (Hate) Mail. This week's selection ("Saturday Night Sunday Morning") had some great old tracks on it such as "Handbags and Gladrags" from Rod Stewart and the truly glorious "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" from Soft Cell.
It has been hard not to sing along out loud on the U-Bahn this week
This weekend brings a Bridget Jones Soundtrack.
Katrina

Just heard "Wonderful Night" off Fatboy Slim's Palookaville. Wow. Instant new favourite song for the month.

Juliette & The Licks - American Boy

The CD is just being released in California on Fiddler Records, entitled "Like A Bolt Of Lightning" I managed to d/l American Boy as an MP3 and got 30 second clips of two of the other songs from their management's website.

Best thing I have heard in years!

http://www.julietteandthelicks.com/

American Boy can be downloaded at:

http://scenestars.net/songs/rachel/AmericanBoy.mp3

Sin

Going through a bit of a rockabilly revival at the moment to the undoubted joy of my neighbors.

Hasil Adkins
The Cramps
King Kurt
Demented are Go
Guanabats

Otherwise anything and everything

@Sin
Juliette and the licks are great!
The singer is Juliette Lewis know from films like "Gilbert Grape" "Natural Born Killers" and "Kalifornia"
She's got lots of attitude.

I am just now listening to the live cd from Evanesence... It's quite good.

Other than that I like all kinds of quality music but I tend to listen to guitar based rock. Beatles, Zeppelin, Alice in Chains, Pink Floyd, Stereophonics etc...

--- Dingus

Here's my chance to pwn all 3 pinned topics...

Universal Audio - Delgados - good album; Everybody Come Down is a great road-trip bubblepop song; and I like pop.

Morning Star - Flunk - more pop than the 1st, but good; and err, I like pop. Guess they call this 'folktronic'.

Live at the Temple Bar - Various - house, urban, soul, hip-hop. Prolly hard to find over here; self-produced house label from the fantastic Temple Bar in Santa Monica, CA (if yer in the nachbarschaft - check the place out).

Chick Corea - The complete "IS" sessions

Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage

just bought Gwen Stefani's new solo album and i love it. i never cared too much for No Doubt, but this is really different.

TV on the Radio. Hell Is For Heroes, Crash Tokio

I have heared a song on BBC radio 1 while am in England called Somebody told me by the killers - Listen here on their web site (www.thekillers.co.uk) heared it a couple of times now and really like it. Due for release in England mid Jan (debue single for band). lyrics are a bit strange though!

Already ordered the album as that also is getting excellent reviews

like it... wonder how long they'll be around though, with lyrics like "17 tracks and I've had enough of this game"?!

Streaming on the internet we've had Radio Wazee (or from Winamp) playing in the office for the past six months. They call themselves a modern alternative rock station - just about right. No chat, no BS, just various non-mainstream rock tracks.

Some highlights:
Caviar - Tangerine speedo
Goo Goo Dolls - Give A Little Bit
The Crimea - Lottery winners on acid

PP

Sounds a lot like what you'd hear on Radio Paradise. That's my favorite internet station. Also no blah blah and no commericials. Latest excerpt from the playlist:
5:41 am - Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Mondo Bongo
5:37 am - Leon Russell - Out In The Woods
5:33 am - Ellen Reid - Send Me Home
5:29 am - Hevia - Busindre Reel
5:25 am - Leo Kottke - World Turning
5:21 am - Los Lobos - Peace
5:16 am - The Church - Ripple
They call it eclectic rock

Then again, just listening to Wazee, and they're playing Megadeath. Not my thing, and much too loud for work. Radio Paradise is much more mellow.

My all time favourite albums:

Radiohead - Ok computer and The Bends
Granddaddy - The sophtware slump
Tom Mcrae - Just like blood

and a mixture of Coldplay, Mercury Rev, Sigur Ros, Spiritualized, The Waterboys, Lambchop, The Handsome Family, The Flaming Lips, Snow Patrol, Damien Rice, Portishead, Lamb etcetcetc... (basically anything depressing)

currently loving The Killers - Hot Fuss

favourite music of all right now though is Fabric 19 - Andrew Weatherall - speaker destroying electrotech with balls of steel!

My faves at the mo are:

The Killers - Hot Fuss

Razorlight - Up all Night

Snow Patrol- Final Straw

Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

Scissor Sistors - Scissor Sisters

Blümchen

depending on where your tastes lie, keydeck, these are the ones that did it for me in 2004 ...

Indie
The Killers - Hot Fuss
(Playing the Muffathalle on 26 February '05)

Hip-Hop
Kanye West - The College Dropout

Electronic/Dance
Mylo - Destroy Rock and Roll

ooh! ooh! I'm there!

@worm
definitely going with a mate or two ..will pick up tickets next week

Def. love The Killers - Hot Fuss, would like to go but won't be in town.

Also
Hot Action Cop
All American Rejects - Too Far Gone
Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams
The Killers - Mr. Brightside

I'm also really liking 'Country Falls' by Husky Rescue at the moment. It's very very nice 'chill' type music out of Finland, with lots of breathy vocals and really melancholy slide guitar. Very popular in England at the moment as this years 'dinner party album' a la Moon Safari/ Dummy/ Big Calm etc.

@acockerel - cool! It's gonna be a blinder!

evil nine you can be special too

Yep...me too...I was 'okay' with No Doubt...but this is quite funky. Hope she keeps it up!

I wasn't sure if I should post here or in the random clicking thread, but decided for here. Mods, feel free to move if you wish.

Looking for the theme music to something? There's a good chance these people have it. And you can request them to email it to you!

Also, someone posted this in the Random links section the other day. Register in no time at all and download to your hearts content. Great stuff.

Currently I'm listening to all sorts of stuff including some great tracks from Katie Melua, Jason Mraz, Jack Johnson & John Mayer. If you don't know 'em, look them up.

My TV playlist in work!! - If anyone wants one of these, PM me and I will gmail it to you. Theres about 3hrs 11minutes here.

A-Team
Batman (60's)
Batman (Movie)
Battlestar Glacactica
Benny Hill
Blakes Seven
Battle of the Planets
Juliet Bravo
Bright Eyes
Captain Pugwash
Dukes of Hazzard
The Fall Guy
Jim'll Fix it
Fraggle Rock
Inspector Gadget
The Goodies
Grandstand
The Hitman & Her
Howards Way
Joe 90
Kickstart - (Be my Boogie Woogie Baby)
Love Boat
Maybe Tomorrow - (The Littlest Hobo)
Metal Mickey
Miami Vice
Minder
Moonlighting
Mr Benn
Neighbours
The Family Ness
Never Ending Story
The Raggy Dolls
Breakin Away - Aufwiedersehn Pet
Thats livin Alright - Aufwiedersehn Pet
Pink Panther
Pot Black - (The Black and White Rag)
RentaGhost
Return of the Saint
Rocky I - Gonna Fly Now
Rocky II - Redemption
Some Mothers Do Ave em
Spiderman (Cartoon)
Camoflage
Star Trekkin
Star Wars
Star Trek - Enterprise
Supergran
Nobody Does it Better - (Spy who loved me theme)
Tales of the Unexpected
Terry and June
Airwolf
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Anamaniacs
Around the world in 80 days
Bucky O'hare
Cheers
Ship and Dale
Chorlton & the Wheelies
Dads Army
Dallas
Danger Mouse
Defenders of the earth
Doctor Who
Dogtanian
Duck Tales
Fresh Prince
Golden Girls
Happy Days
He-Man
Jamie and the Magic Torch
Knightmare
Kinghtrider
M.A.S.H.
Magnum
Monkey Magic
Monty Python
Muppet Babies
Mysterious Cities of Gold
Postman Pat
Quantum Leap
Roobarb & Custard
Teletubbies
The Banana Splits
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Flintstones
The Flumps
The Munsters
The Muppet Show
The Young Ones
Thunderbirds
Thundercats
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Top Cat
Ulysees 31
Vision on Gallery
Wac a Day
Wacky Races
WonderWoman
Yello-OhYeah - (Ferris Buellers Day Off)

*This is just the Themes

This is just the theme songs though right? Not the actual shows? (Hoping they are the actual shows though)

Check out these:

Patty Griffin - Flaming Red
Indigo Girls-Swamp Ophelia
Lucinda Williams- World Without Tears
Kathleen Edwards-Failer

My favourite is R&B mostly Soul.

As getting older i prefer older Stuff and one of my favourite Artists is Sam Salter.

I not sure if you would like but I love Brazilian Music...

Here are some people and albums you could look up on Amazon.com

Daniela Mercury-Axe

Ivete Sangalo-Axe

Cidade Negra- MPB/Reggae

Maria Rita-MPB(Popular Brazlilian Music)

Tribalistas-MPB

Marisa Monte-MPB

Bebel Gilberto-MPB

Vania Abreu-MPB

Falamansa-Forro

Gal Costa- Bossa Nova

Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - Greatest Hits

Pure Brasil-Varios Artist... There are five or six albums of different music

Trio Mocotу, Astrud Gilberto, - Samba, but very soft

Samba De Enredo Do Carnaval - Caranval Samba

The are so many types of music from Brasil you should look up some of this... They help to learn and improve my portuguese if that counts for anything...

my capoeira teacher said i looked like daniela mercury :S
so i dont like her hehe

axe camara

If you look like Daniela mercury... Than your very pretty... Can get your number. Just joking!!! hehehe . She has some really good music...

Love to play Leftfield- have a couple of albums Leftism and Rhythm and Stealth. You might know Phat Planet from the Guiness advert. And the music always seem to "fit" for different moods.

One of my favourites too is Goldfrapps Felt Mountain - very good for romantic evenings...it's different!

And I love to chill: Kruder and Dorfmeister the K&D Sessions is a real cool CD.

Lots more but they are my real top 3.

Mission of Burma - great post-punk
Naked Raygun - great punk, like punk was meant to be.
The Pogues- you should already know who they are
The Clash - i'll punch you if you don't like them
Johnny Cash - see above
X-Ray Spex - old school british punk with a female lead and a saxomaphone
Against Me! - folksy accoustic punk
1905 - just listen
This Bike is a Pipebomb - more folksy accoustic punk
The Life Aquatic Soundtrack - c'mon, it has portugese bowie covers and iggy pop!
Gangstarr - some of the best hip hop out there
Mos Def - also great
DJ Krush - is one of my heros
Massive Attack - blue lines!