What Kind of Different Music Should I Listen To?

I like most all kinds of music, but I'm always looking for something new. So, I want to know about some different bands or musicians that you like alot but maybe nobody else has ever heard of.

Mainstream stuff doesn't count. I want to know who's different but good and what kind of music they play.

I'll give you a few examples:

Dave Alvin - rock/folk/blues
Southern Culture On the Skids - "alt" country
New Math - 80's New Wave

So, what's your best kept secret band or musician?

Thanks.

-(a different) Craig

I just listen to anything on the radio basically. In my mind you can't go wrong with Linkin Park.

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Soil - Scars

I would say Rammstein, but everyone's heard of them now. Soil's good and not overplayed yet.

Definately a hard rock/metal thing though. Sounds like you might prefer lighter music.

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Actually, just about anything. One of my favorite groups was the Ramones, so loud and fast is OK.

Thanks.

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listen to edgewater

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I used to listen to mainstream pop and rock and still do but have been expanding my horizons as I have gotten older, mainly out of boredom. A friend of mine lent me an album from Chic Corea called "Return to Forever" originally recorded in 1973, no less. I had never even heard of Chic Corea but found it to be an excellent cd and now will investigate his other music.

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http://www.kodo.or.jp/

Listening to them is not for everyone but, man, if you EVER get a chance to see them live DO IT!!!

p.s. Try the remix album if you can find it, probably they're most accessible music to western ears.

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(re)discover Frank Zappa

Lots of his albums to choose from, too, and each is very different from the next.

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My all-time favorite album is 'Bible of Dreams", by Juno Reactor. It's electronic, but not the annoyingly repetitive techno dance kind of electronic - it's much more relaxing. Let's see if I can find a link... Here you go... (Amazon.com link)

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Aphex Twin - Avril 14th
Aphex Twin - Trip Hop & Acid Jazz
A perfect Circle
Alexisonfire
Ayumi Hamasaki - A song for XX
Beatles
Billy Talent - Line and Sinker
Black Eyed Peas
Black Sabbath
Bob Dylan
Bob Marley
Congo Natty
Death Cab for Cutie
Donovan
Eagles
Elton John
Elvis Presley
Emiliana Torrini
Eric Clapton
FOo Fighters
Frou Frou
Green Day
Guns n Roses
Incubus
Infected Mushroom
Jimi Hendrix
John Mayer
Led Zeppelin
Maroon 5 - This Love
Metallica
Micheal Jackson
Minibosses
Neutral Milk Hotel
Nirvana
Norah Jones
Offspring
Orbital - The Box
Louis Armstrong
Pearl Jam
Pink Floyd
Postal Service
Queen
Rage Against The Machine
Red Hot chili Peppers
Reel Big Fish
Rolling Stones
Rush
Sean paul
Simon & Garfunkel
Smashing Pumpkins
Soulsides
Soundgarden
Sublime
System of a Down
The Cure
The Darkness
The Doors
The Strokes
The Tea Party
The Who
THursday
Tool
Tori Amos
Yellowcard
uhh...music from various nintendo and video games...
zen buddhist music...relaxing stuff...yoga...
umm..all kinds of jazz music, swing, etc...
various asian pop...
disco of course...not all, but some classics
A lto of spanish / mexican guitar whatever..that is good...
classical music is always awesome
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata is awesome
among many others...
Mozart is a genious, but so is Choplin, Tchozckhy (sp?) and a lot of others I cant spell
Lots of good hip hop out there, i wont name it all sicne most of it is like...one band releasea a good song, the rest sucks...so i would be here all day naming everything...try watching mtv or something...
Hmmm....oh, right, anythign that is just piano...piano is beautiful...there are a lot of good piano pieces...
Reggae is also good
Jungle , i like.
Infected Mushroom was pretty good techno, there are others...I'm still searching
Weezer?
hmm
Animals - House of the rising sun
Andrea Bocceli & Sarah Brightman - tiem to say goodbye (con te partio or somethign li ekthat)
Alice COoper
blood hound gang...
Barry White of course....
Benni Benassi - Satisfaction lol
uhh....Cake - I will survive
Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4
CHuck Berry - Johnny B Good
Daft Punk Harder Better Faster and One more time
Dust Brothers
Frank Sinatra
Green Velvet - La La land
Guess Who - No sugar tonight / no time
Kiss - detroit rock city
Jewel
Heart - Barracuda
Harvey Dangerfield - Flagpole Sitta
Oasis - Wonderwall
Outkast - Hey Y a
Page and Coverdale - Absolution BLues
The Original Cast - One Tin Soldier
niel diamond - sweet caroline
Queens of the stone age - no one knows
primus - kalamazooo
phish - waste
............sam robers - brother down.....uhh..sic transit gloria - glory fades...
stone roses - bye bye badman / breaking into heaven
The Police - Roxanne
War - Low Rider
Train - tears of jupiter
Wayne Marshall - Legalize Ganja
Wild Cherry - Play that funky music

There's lots out there.

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Give roots reggae a try...

Sly and Robbie
Toots and the Maytals
Peter Tosh
Burning Spear
Israel Vibration
Jimmy Cliff
Black Uhuru
and of course, Bob Marley, a man who was IMHO, a living prophet.

Really listening to reggae is a tremendously interesting peek into the society of the West Indians. A society that most outsiders never cared to know, never dared to know. Their struggles, their fears, their beliefs, and self pride all come out in their songs.

Pop music is for the brain dead. Gimmee something that stimulates the thinking parts of my cocount.

Ordin

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Here's my list of some of my Favorite Albums:

King Crimson - "Red"
Crazy 8's - "Big Live Nut Pack" and "Dogapotomus World"
Monti Anmudson and the Bluebinos - "The Obvious Rock"
Pixies - Any of their albums are good but my favorite is
"Doolittle"
Queens of the Stone Age - "Songs for the Deaf"
The Bears - "The Bears"
The Beat Farmers - "Van Go"
Van Halen - "Fair Warning"
Rush - "Moving Pictures"
The Clash - "London Calling"
The Who - "Who's Next"

Jim Skinner

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Thanks. Lots of neat stuff so far (some mainstream, too, but it's all good). Keep 'em coming.

And meanwhile, check out...

Peter Case (folk)
X (punk/new wave)
Blasters (!!!!!) (AMERICAN music rocks!)
Dead Milkmen (punk/new wave)
Cry, Cry, Cry (folk)
Joan Jett's cover of "Love Is All Around" (Theme from the Mary Tyler Moore show)
Kinky Friedman & the Texas Jewboys (Kinky is running for governor of Texas in 2006 -- his motto, "How Hard Can It Be?")

-(a different) Craig

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-Louis Jordan. He did a lot of very cool swing and early proto-rock stuff. Lots of humor and innuendo in many of the songs.

-Steely Dan/Donald Fagen

-Disturbed (fairly mainstream, but 'Believe' is one of the few CDs that I routinely listen to the entire thing)

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I was going to say Met*llica but their Lawyer just called and left me a lawsuit notice. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Here goes with my current list.

Linkin Park
Tool
Evanescence
BB King
King Crimson
Dave Brubek
David Sanborn
Sue Foley
Debra Coleman
Shannon Curfman
Johnny Lang
Brian Setzer
The Beatles (and some solo works)
Frank Zappa
Van Halen (esp. with Dave)
Pink
Pink Floyd
Liz Phair
Jet
Blink 182
The White Stripes

Plus the Four Seasons with readings by Patrick Stewart.

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Apocalyptica "plays Metallica by four cellos" - If you like Metallica you'll love these guys. Four cello players that do Metallica covers.

Bad Brains "Quickness" or "I against I"
Burn "Burn" or "Cleanse" or "Last Great Sea"
Clutch "A shogun names Marcus" or any other album by them!
Dispatch (any album by these guys)
Hatebreed "Satisfaction is the death of desire" (Very heavy music)
Junior Brown "Guit with it"
Minor Threat "Minor Threat: Compilation"
Fugazi "Repeater"
Nothingface "pacifier" or "an everyday guide to..."
Operation Ivy "Energy Compilation" (album has about 30 songs on it)
Sasha Lazard "The myth of Red"

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kaseri said:

Bad Brains "Quickness" or "I against I"
Minor Threat "Minor Threat: Compilation"
Fugazi "Repeater"

Kaseri, Awesome selection of hardcore!! Bad Brains is the most unknown, and ultra-influential bands of all time. As a matter of fact, I'm spinning I Against I right now.

There are a couple bands I'd add to your list, if someone really wanted to get into hardcore. That would be Black Flag, the Minutemen, X, and the Dead Kennedys.


Ordin

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Man you have no idea the bands I have seen.

I would also add the following:

Dag Nasty
Gorilla Biscuits
Sick of it all
Sam Black Church
Eye for an Eye
Bad Trip

More to come as I look through my old records... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

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Anthrax - heavy metal
Slayer - heavy metal
Exciter - heavy metal
Kraftwerk - electronic pop music
Pink Floyd - uncategorisable
Cheap Trick - pop
Van Halen - hard rock

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There's a good band called Fatwall Jack that does good blues tunes kinda homestyle. The CD is Girl Next Door. It's a different take on traditional Blues, and is catchy and has more energy, like a Chicago Blues band might. The lead singer has a fun voice.