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Trying to expand my musical horizons...

Doney4SureDoney4Sure Posts: 16
edited April 2006 in Other Music
Listening to Kings of Leon a lot right now...love The Tragically Hip, Pearl Jam...anyone have any recommendations for me?
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  • EchoesEchoes Posts: 1,279
    Well, if you are trying to expand your musical horizons, and not just listen to more rock bands, I suggest some

    Electronic
    Dntel
    Boards Of Canada
    Squarepusher
    Venetian Snares
    Mum

    Metal
    Cryptopsy
    Morbid Angel
    Blind Guardian
    Emperor
    At The Gates

    Experimental
    Animal Collective
    Merzbow
    Sonic Youth/Jim O'Rourke
    Boris/ Sunn O)))
    Keiji Haino

    Folk
    Elliot Smith
    Nick Drake
    Shugo Tokumaru (exprimental folk)
    Chrisitne Fellows
    Tenhi

    Some pop and rock, I guess
    Built To Spill
    Pavement
    The Mountain Goats
    Matthew Good
    Pixies
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  • Doney4SureDoney4Sure Posts: 16
    Thank you for the suggestions...I've got a bit of listening ahead of me.
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  • MemomanMemoman Posts: 21
    SPOON!

    Spoon, by far my new favourite band (understanding the obvious exception of course).

    Their "Gimme Fiction" and "Kill The Moonlight" albums really opened my music world! They gave me back faith in today's music!

    I came in to the forum today looking to post this exact same post, thanks man.

    ooh ooh oooh... don't forget My Morning Jacket, excellent stuff.
  • DelythDelyth Posts: 2
    you should try pandora.com itl find loadsa stuff youl either really like or really hate always worth a shot tho init!
  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,228
    If you think Kings of Leon are good check out My Morning Jacket. Best band from Kentucky EVER .... not saying much i know :D

    Echoes had some pretty good suggestions.

    HEre are some of mine:
    My Morning Jacket- It Sill Moves
    Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
    At the Drive in- Relationship of Command
    Built to Spill- Perfect from now on
    Dinosaur Jr- You're living all over me or Where Ya been(later is probably an easier first listen)


    Those are all rock driven bands.

    Would you like to try some jazz?

    I love:
    Kind of Blue-Miles Davis
    Round Midnight- Miles Davis
    A Supreme Love- John Coltrane
    Empyrean Isles- Herbie Hancock
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  • EchoesEchoes Posts: 1,279
    intodeep wrote:
    If you think Kings of Leon are good check out My Morning Jacket. Best band from Kentucky EVER .... not saying much i know :D

    I would counter that by simply stating that Slint was also from Kentucky, and Spiderland is leagues ahead of anything MMJ ever did.

    On the other hand, you have a great list there too. Some great jazz.
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    intodeep wrote:
    If you think Kings of Leon are good check out My Morning Jacket. Best band from Kentucky EVER .... not saying much i know :D

    Echoes had some pretty good suggestions.

    HEre are some of mine:
    My Morning Jacket- It Sill Moves
    Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
    At the Drive in- Relationship of Command
    Built to Spill- Perfect from now on
    Dinosaur Jr- You're living all over me or Where Ya been(later is probably an easier first listen)


    Those are all rock driven bands.

    Would you like to try some jazz?

    I love:
    Kind of Blue-Miles Davis
    Round Midnight- Miles Davis
    A Supreme Love- John Coltrane
    Empyrean Isles- Herbie Hancock

    I miss Dinosaur Jr :(
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  • floyd1975floyd1975 Posts: 1,350
    Nothingbetter wrote:
    I miss Dinosaur Jr :(


    They're touring.
  • EchoesEchoes Posts: 1,279
    they are getting back together from what I hear
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  • All Those YesterdaysAll Those Yesterdays Posts: 2,723
    Doney4Sure wrote:
    Listening to Kings of Leon a lot right now...love The Tragically Hip, Pearl Jam...anyone have any recommendations for me?

    The Black Keys http://www.theblackkeys.com go to the music section and listen to a few.

    Just got into them myself.


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    natureboy46 wrote:
    Grinspoon
    The Superjesus
    Powderfinger

    All rocking Australian bands.

    AGREED!

    Grinspoon and powderfinger are awsome! I'm not sure but has the superjesus broken up now that sarah's gone solo?? Speaking of going solo, if your into powderfinger you should check out Bernard fannings solo album tea and sympathy. Its really good.
  • psycosmicpsycosmic Posts: 504
    Echoes wrote:
    Well, if you are trying to expand your musical horizons, and not just listen to more rock bands, I suggest some

    Electronic
    Dntel
    Boards Of Canada
    Squarepusher
    Venetian Snares
    Mum

    Metal
    Cryptopsy
    Morbid Angel
    Blind Guardian
    Emperor
    At The Gates

    Experimental
    Animal Collective
    Merzbow
    Sonic Youth/Jim O'Rourke
    Boris/ Sunn O)))
    Keiji Haino

    Folk
    Elliot Smith
    Nick Drake
    Shugo Tokumaru (exprimental folk)
    Chrisitne Fellows
    Tenhi

    Some pop and rock, I guess
    Built To Spill
    Pavement
    The Mountain Goats
    Matthew Good
    Pixies

    i second that...
    get some jazz too...
    and hip hop (you're missing out on so much if you dismiss a whole genre just because of what is played on mtv)...
    how about classical, or world music?

    i find threads like these really difficult (and they pop up quite often) since i don't really know what kind of music you might enjoy...

    but here's what i do when i want to "expand my musical horizon"... i either start to check out one of those bands i always wanted to check out but never got round to (you KNOW those bands... no matter how huge your music collection is, there are always some bands that get mentioned all the time and you have a faint idea what they sound like but never actually listened to them)...
    or i just read up on a band i'm currently enjoying a lot and try to find out what their influences are, whom they get compared to, etc...

    just like the poster who said you should check out my morning jacket because you like kings of leon... if you start to like my morning jacket you should check out radiohead and neil young (i know, lame example, but you know what i mean...)
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  • Man_Of_The_HourMan_Of_The_Hour Posts: 330
    Modest Mouse, start with The Moon And Antarctica, they're great and as indie as it gets this side of Built To Spill ;)
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  • psycosmicpsycosmic Posts: 504
    Man_Of_The_Hour wrote:
    Modest Mouse, start with The Moon And Antarctica, they're great and as indie as it gets this side of Built To Spill ;)

    be careful with that "indie" thing... the purists will jump on you and call "sell-out" quicker than you can say "good news for people who... ARRRGH" :D

    i don't care what kind of label bands are on though... it's the music that matters...
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    psycosmic wrote:
    be careful with that "indie" thing... the purists will jump on you and call "sell-out" quicker than you can say "good news for people who... ARRRGH" :D

    i don't care what kind of label bands are on though... it's the music that matters...

    Haha, yeah you're right. I meant their sound, not the business side of it.

    It seems you don't like "Good news..." Why's that?
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  • psycosmicpsycosmic Posts: 504
    Man_Of_The_Hour wrote:
    Haha, yeah you're right. I meant their sound, not the business side of it.

    It seems you don't like "Good news..." Why's that?

    no no, i love bad news so it's all good news to me :D

    i was also just pointing out that just because a band is on a major label or very popular doesn't mean they're selling out...
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