Nonultrapopular music

[Jarre]

Re: Nonultrapopular music

Ok heres my lsit from the Uk of groups i like to listen to,. its very diverse as you'll see!!!

Arctic Monkeys
Direstraits
Pink Floyd
Santana
Rick wakeman
Micheal camillo
The Rat back (old school rave outfit)
Chemical brothers
Dido
Delireous
Orbital
Mark Eg & Mzone
Force & styles
Earl "Fatha" hines
Queen
Jools Holland
Robert Miles
FF music
Yes
Elephants memory (70's band)
Roger waters
Dave Gilmore
Moody blues
Ray davis (of Kinks fame)
Jethro tull (saw them last week in Peterborough)
Elton john
Ozomatli
ELO
The Wurzals (don't ask!!)
Sarah maclauclan (sorry can't spell her surname)
KT tunstall
Green day ( love Wake me up when september comes, very moving)
Sky

all the above I have listened to at some point in the last 3 weeks.

[711rocks]

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Mars Volta? I tried, bought a live album of theirs. Thing that got me, was that there was virtually no lyrics. Nearly all instrumental. Is that how all their music is? They reminded me a lot of Zep, only with less talent (sorry but noone can compare to Zep).

Anyone ever heard Monte Montgomery?

Oh no you didn't.

[Icemage]

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For those that are looking for something new, but related to what they already like, I recently got turned on to an interesting internet site:

http://www.pandora.com

Pandora is an internet musical genre research site, and the way it works is that you provide at least one song or musical artist, and if it's anywhere in their (quite large) library, they'll build a whole "radio station" for you based on that artist or song.

The songs that are chosen (streamed) for you have musical qualities which resemble your chosen artist/song. You can "expand" a radio station by adding more songs and/or artists.

In addition to the ability to choose artists or songs, you can vote on any song that is currently playing by clicking it's image and voting "I like this" or "I don't like this" - giving an "I don't like this" vote bans the song from that radio station and reduces the chance of similar songs appearing, while voting "I like this" makes it more likely that similar songs will appear on the playlist.

Check it out if you're in a musical rut. I've discovered some fascinating new music, and got a fresh look at some artists that I'd previously overlooked because of this.


Icemage

[Auron517]

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Yeah, "raps" gone that route, and I'm not happy about it either.

But check out Taleb Kwali, Black Star (Taleb Kwali & Mos Def), Common (Be is a great album.), and of course there's Gangstarr. Check those out, I've gotten a lot of enjoyment out of them.

Listen to tdh, he has an excellent taste in Hip Hop. I'll provide an additional list of great rap artists that haven't been mentioned.

A Tribe Called Quest
De La Soul
Boogie Down Productions
Nas
Cormega
Kanye West
GZA/Genius
The Roots
Blackalicious
Jurassic 5
Tupac
KRS-One

This is just a list composed from the top of my head. Good Hip Hop is out there, but for some reason, the bullshit that they play on BET has gone main stream, and the artists with actual talent slip through the cracks.

[711rocks]

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Lightning Bolt is boner.

[Hearshot]

Re: Nonultrapopular music

For those that are looking for something new, but related to what they already like, I recently got turned on to an interesting internet site:

http://www.pandora.com

Pandora is an internet musical genre research site, and the way it works is that you provide at least one song or musical artist, and if it's anywhere in their (quite large) library, they'll build a whole "radio station" for you based on that artist or song.

The songs that are chosen (streamed) for you have musical qualities which resemble your chosen artist/song. You can "expand" a radio station by adding more songs and/or artists.

In addition to the ability to choose artists or songs, you can vote on any song that is currently playing by clicking it's image and voting "I like this" or "I don't like this" - giving an "I don't like this" vote bans the song from that radio station and reduces the chance of similar songs appearing, while voting "I like this" makes it more likely that similar songs will appear on the playlist.

Check it out if you're in a musical rut. I've discovered some fascinating new music, and got a fresh look at some artists that I'd previously overlooked because of this.


Icemage

I use pandora, its really great. i run several stations at once and bounce back and forth through them throughout my workday. I even hear music i've never heard before but stuff i end up liking.

[Ciros]

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I'm a huge fan of Charlie Clouser, his music is excellent.