A long weekend…
Feb. 9th, 2009 03:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guenievreWell, really it wasn’t that long. In fact, I wish it had been longer, as I didn’t get as much done as I planned, but enough thinking about that.
As I was blockaded in my sewing room for much of the weekend, I listened to a lot more music than usual. And as a confession? My music taste hasn’t really changed that much since, well, high school. This is kind of sad. Not to mention it was getting a bit repetitive…
So, people with better music taste than I, what should I be listening to that’s come out in the last 5-10 years, since I quit listening to the radio? My taste in music runs slightly angsty, leaning heavily on Tori Amos and Better than Ezra, but ranging as far as Disturbed/Korn/etc into the “harder” rock side of things… not so much into folksy, definitely not into country at ALL.
(And yes, I know about Pandora, but I’m hoping for more personal suggestions…)
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Date: 2009-02-09 09:09 pm (UTC)::notes Radiohead and Muse for further investigation::
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Date: 2009-02-10 02:20 am (UTC)Out of my musicbox.
NOW.
(Hee!)
Try Pink.
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Date: 2009-02-10 02:31 am (UTC)Pink is not so angsty, but fun! ;-)
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Date: 2009-02-11 04:06 am (UTC)I'm partial to Apocalyptica, which you probably already know since they're more than five years old.
Also might be worth checking out:
Harder gothic rock: Lacuna Coil, Nightwish, Naio Ssaion
More pop rock: Alex Bach, Fallout Boy, Weezer (not new, but the new stuff they've come back with is pretty good)
Downright pop: Natasha Bedingfield, Finger Eleven, Panic! at the Disco, Tatu
Celtic: Capercaillie, Wolfstone
Hope there's something there to interest you.
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Date: 2009-02-09 10:21 pm (UTC)I've personally mostly gotten into folk/Celtic like Nickel Creek or the Wailin' Jennys or Hem.
I get my newish music from the online radio show "Radio Paradise" which plays lots of stuff, including Bob Marley and 70's Classic Rock and Singer-songwriters and indie bands.
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Date: 2009-02-09 09:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-09 09:53 pm (UTC)taylor swift "Romeo and Juliet" (which i think is called love story, or something)
anything by the Tractors. they do boogie woogie country. great piano
hmmmmm. most of the angsty stuff i know is older....
i am quite fond of nickel back, their latest made me spew my drink... i dont know the title but the lines "so much hotter when you never pull it out.... you look so much cuter with something in your mouth" sung in a growl on the radio is a bit of an attention getter (they say they are talking about a girl dancing with her thumb in her mouth. really)
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Date: 2009-02-09 10:13 pm (UTC)Joan as Police Woman
TV on the radio
My Morning Jacket
Ray LaMontagne (because some day you'll get old like me)
Try that.
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Date: 2009-02-09 10:15 pm (UTC)*The Whitlams
*Jonathan Coulton
*Franz Ferdinand
*Helium Vola
*Lily Allen
*Nellie McKay (first album, I didn't like her second much)
I don't know how well these will fit, but some may worth listen to a sample or two...
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Date: 2009-02-09 10:17 pm (UTC)How 'bout Bethany and Rufus, Jose Gonzalez or Vienna Teng?
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Date: 2009-02-09 10:30 pm (UTC)You are also welcome to come over anytime and look at my CD collection (gasp CDs)
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Date: 2009-02-09 10:37 pm (UTC)AND Im going to write down some of these suggestions Im not familiar with :)
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Date: 2009-02-09 11:24 pm (UTC)Abney Park, Azam Ali, Arcade Fire, Autumn, David Bowie, Concha Buika, Clan of Xymox, Concrete Blonde, Creed, The Cure, Dead Can Dance, Depeche Mode, Enigma, Fuel, Ricky Lee Jones, The Last Dance, Annie Lenox, Loreena McKinnett, Mediaeval Baebes, Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, Prince, Qntal, Queen Mary, Rasputina, Romeo Void, Siouxie and the Banshees, Skinny Puppy, The Sisters of Mercy...
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Date: 2009-02-09 11:26 pm (UTC)How could I forget Tearwave?
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Date: 2009-02-09 11:45 pm (UTC)It's not new, but it's new to you. They totally rock. give the old rockers some time and see if you don't totally fall in love w/Led Zep, The Who, Pink Floyd... :)
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Date: 2009-02-10 06:09 am (UTC)If you're looking for something a bit less hardcore but still w/ some angst, I really like Disturbed. Their best album imo is 10,000 Fists.
Although they've been around for a good while now, Metallica's latest, Death Magnetic, is a great listen.
On the more gothy side of things, Ego Likeness is quite good. They're a husband and wife team, and they are artists to the core. Aside from the music they both write (from poetry to ghost stories to children's books), and he does artwork as well.
For some good boisterous Celtic rock, Dropkick Murphy's is always good, as is Flogging Molly.
And finally, for something recent that is unlike anything else out there and VERY intelligently done, check out the White Stripes.
I have examples of all of this if you'd like me to make you a mix to see what you might like out of all this.