Your Favorite Music Genre and Related Artist

Adeel · Fri 21/06/2013 14:00:10

So much recommended, so much to listen yet

Keep suggesting, folks! Oh BTW, don't forget to tell about your favorite genre and artists.

Ponch · Sat 22/06/2013 03:27:24

These are the songs that are currently in my morning workout mix. They are tragically lame and I love them all.

Adeel · Sat 22/06/2013 09:12:22

So I listened to some of the mentioned songs:

Quote from: selmiak on Thu 20/06/2013 21:14:07
sad music you say?
soap & skin - the sun all her tracks sound like written by a sad child forgotten in a cold dark house in an even darker forest
soap & skin - wonder imho her most melodic melodramatic piece

Soap & Skin - The Sun is good one. I liked it. "Wonder" is also a good one but I prefer "The Sun". BTW, just listened to your recommended accoustic track - failed to impress me (such hard is my taste

)

Quote from: Problem on Thu 20/06/2013 05:29:19
I've always been into alternative rock and similar genres, but the older I get, the more diverse my musical taste gets. My taste seems to be quite similar to Sunny Penguin's though. Radiohead have already been mentioned, and these guys never fail to amaze me, no matter how often they change their musical style.

Speaking of amazing sad songs, there's one particular Radiohead song I keep coming back to, and that's Pyramid Song. This might be my favourite song of all time, there's really nothing like it.

Sunny Penguin & awakening also recommended Radiohead. Therefore, first of all I downloaded it. My say on this song is: While the song start really nice and music is enjoyable, it soon turns into something unpleasant which ruins the overall mood. Therefore, this song became no-no for me. I'll download other songs of Radiohead and try them.

Quote from: Eric on Thu 20/06/2013 05:37:02
Quote from: Adeel S. Ahmed on Wed 19/06/2013 19:24:19sad music (preferably violin) and sad way of singing (I don't like rap at all).

This is off-topic for the thread at hand, but since you asked, here's a track listing for a mix tape I made a few years ago that was designed to take the listener on a museum tour of different kinds of sadness and then lead you out again:

1. Johnny Cash (featuring Nick Cave) - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

I don't think it's off topic. I listened to the first song. It's nice. I am going to listen other songs as well.

Quote from: Phemar on Thu 20/06/2013 15:12:40
Quote from: Adeel S. Ahmed on Wed 19/06/2013 19:24:19
Would you guys recommend me any good song you like most? I like listening to those songs which have sad tone, sad music (preferably violin) and sad way of singing (I don't like rap at all).

Adeel I'd highly recommend Andrew Bird. One of the most underrated artists there today.

http://www.fromthebasement.tv/artists/andrew-bird/performances/

Phemar, may you please name me some songs of Andrew Bird which you like most (so I can download it by searching it), owing to the fact that I am downloading all recommended songs from Beemp3.com.

Thank you for suggesting. Keep suggesting more and don't forget to tell about your favorite genre and artists while I keep downloading and listening

P.S: Guys, please don't use Youtube videos / links. As it is blocked in my country (curse the government), hence I see nothing but a large blank area.

Phemar · Sat 22/06/2013 12:41:12

Sure thing. Some of my favorite Andrew Bird's are:

- Fake Palindromes
- Banking on a Myth (if you can find the live version from Fingerlings II, it's awesome)
- Imitosis
- Heretics
- Danse Caribbe
- Give it Away
- Lazy Projector
- Lusitania
- Sifters
- Effigy
- Tenuousness (the live version I originally linked, and the studio version)
- Twistable, Turnable Man Returns
- How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm

Ponch · Sun 23/06/2013 23:28:03

Quote from: Adeel S. Ahmed on Sat 22/06/2013 09:12:22
P.S: Guys, please don't use Youtube videos / links. As it is blocked in my country (curse the government), hence I see nothing but a large blank area.

With that in mind then, here are the songs I posted:

ZZ Top - La Grange
The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated
Karl Jenkins - Adiemus
The Cult - Fire Woman
Andrew W. K. - Party Hard
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Runnin' Down A Dream
The Romantics - What I Like About You
Ronnie Montrose - Sidewinder
Origa - Rise
Streets of Fire Soundtrack - Nowhere Fast

monkey424 · Tue 25/06/2013 13:04:08

My fav music genre - eclectic.. hard rock, jazz, funk, hip hop, dance, techno, punk, heavy metal, upbeat, downbeat, whimsical, mainstream, alternative, old school, new school, Zappa, RnB, country, everything!

Some of my favorite artists and songs:

Jane's Addiction - Three Days
Faith No More - Easy
Frank Zappa - Montana
The Smiths - How Soon is Now
Pixies - Monkey Gone To Heaven
Gorillaz - Rock The House

Aussie artists:

Machine Gun Fellatio - The Girl of my Dreams
Gerling - Hot Computer (Summa Laptop Remix)
Resin Dogs - Jazz Crime
360 - 'Throw It Away' feat. Josh Pyke
Crowded House - When You Come
Dave Graney - That's The Way It's Gonna Be
Mental As Anything - Berserk Warriors

san.daniele · Thu 27/06/2013 19:10:37

Quote from: Phemar on Thu 20/06/2013 15:12:40
I'd highly recommend Andrew Bird.

100% agree (have to admit I have no idea what he's been doing the last years).

Reading through this topic it seems we're all pretty much stuck in the 90s (guess that's why were in this forum in the 1st place

).

I pretty much can just copy/paste any answer here as my own. In general I'd say I love good old guitar rock (I have to point out Pavement), but my intrest is very wide. I just can't stand electronical music of any kind, I need real instruments and voice to enjoy it.

There's phases when I really get drawn into single artist music (I think the English term is Singer-songwriter? German: Liedermacher; Italian: cantautore). Over the last years I keep coming back to Gisbert zu Knyphausen.

started with this song:
[embed=425,349]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlj7yXoY9LY[/embed]

song I'm constant-listening to right now is "Pull the Wool" by "G Love & Special Sauce"
[embed=425,349]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lll0SLmFgf8[/embed]

Eric · Thu 27/06/2013 20:52:47

One of my favorite genres is the spaghetti western soundtrack. I have over 5,000 tracks from these obscure films on a hard drive.

The stuff to listen to immediately, of course, are the Morricone scores for Leone films. However, Morricone did many other spaghetti scores. Some of my favorite tracks are:

- The title track from Companeros.
- Viva La Revolucion from Tepepa.
- The title track from Run Man Run.

Other favorites include Luis Bacalov (title tracks from Django, The Great Duel), Bruno Nicolai (check out 'Fuga Dall'Ovest' from Run Man Run), Benedetto Ghiglia (the title track from A Stranger in Town).

Adeel · Thu 27/06/2013 22:11:22

@san.diele: Please understand that youtube is blocked here in my country so I see nothing but a large blue space. Will you please tell me in black and white which are your favorites?

@Phemar, Ponch, monkey424, Eric: Thanks for your recommendations. I'll surely listen to them and tell you opinion about it. Even if it takes years, I'll post it here.

san.daniele · Thu 27/06/2013 22:15:22

Quote from: Adeel S. Ahmed on Thu 27/06/2013 22:11:22
@san.diele: Please understand that youtube is blocked here in my country so I see nothing but a large blue space. Will you please tell me in black and white which are your favorites?

i did

well your right, the 1st video wasn't specified. But I thought it didn't matter as I more or less took a random video from that artist.(btw. i think you shouldn't even try it out, like with all/most songwriters it's almost impossible to appreciate the song if you don't understand the lyrics. in this case German).

Adeel · Thu 27/06/2013 22:43:01

Quote from: san.daniele on Thu 27/06/2013 22:15:22
i did
well your right, the 1st video wasn't specified. But I thought it didn't matter as I more or less took a random video from that artist.(btw. i think you shouldn't even try it out, like with all/most songwriters it's almost impossible to appreciate the song if you don't understand the lyrics. in this case German).

So nice of you!

Okay, I'll not listen to the song you forbade. But I shall try the rest. Thanks for your feedback.

kaput · Fri 28/06/2013 04:48:06

Hi Adeel,

I didn't see before that you could not view youtube (I dunno if you are lucky or what as it is shit at most times lol). Here is what I posted earlier with some other songs worth listening to (which is what I came up with in my head at the moment - I'll maybe post more...). What I have tried to do is give you a decent list of song from bands worth listening to (aside from the great bands already:

Annie Lennox - Love Song For A Vampire

Johnny Cash - Folsom prison blues

Philip Glass - Mishima Opening

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Philadelphia

Radiohead - Karma police

Nine Inch Nails - We're in this together now

How To Destroy Angels - The Space in Between

Radiohead - No surprises

Modest Mouse - ocean breathes salty

David Bowie - Hearts filthy lesson

Pink Floyd - Comfortably numb

Queen - Bohemian rhapsody

pulp - common people

John Lennon - Jealous Guy

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - i'll stand my ground

Billy Idol - Rebel Yell

Metallica - Nothing Else Matters

The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Television

Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven

Bee Gees - Staying Alive

Gary Jules/Adam Lambert - Mad World

REM - Losing My Religion

Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper

Alice Cooper - The Ballad Of Dwight Fry

David Bowie - Ashes to ashes

Highwaymen - The highwayman

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

Killswitch Engage/ Dio - Holy Diver

Stone Sour - Say You'll Haunt Me

Snow Patrol - Run

Plan B - Missing Links the Radiohead mix (SiX DwArF video)

Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise

Elvis - In the ghetto karaoke

Tom Waits - Hoist That Rag

Coldplay - Speed of Sound

The Doors - The End

mkennedy · Thu 04/07/2013 20:58:40

Mostly into classic metal and thrash from the 80's. Stuff like old school Metallica before 1990, Iron Maiden, Dio to name a few. "Master of Puppets" was the greatest album of all time IMHO.

gameboy · Wed 17/07/2013 22:33:05

Some great stuff in this thread.

Here's a nice song from one of my favourite bands:

[embed=425,349]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtuVA4NOm0I[/embed]

And something I randomly stumbled upon on youtube. Damn catchy song, and so's the whole album.

[embed=425,349]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouuqJ0pkWvU[/embed]

...and some old awesomeness for good measure

[embed=425,349]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwTv62EcUsk[/embed]

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Since Youtube may be not accessible in some locations, here's what I've got to contribute. Ween is probably one of my favourite bands of all time. One of the most diverse pop/rock bands for sure. Their music is at times nonsensical, stupid, pointless, offensively bad, and at times damn beautiful.

The Beach Boys are great. So are The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Cream, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, The Who and many others.

Also, Willie Nelson is awesome.

qptain Nemo · Sat 20/07/2013 04:46:08

My favourite music is pretty much genreless or hard to classify. But if I had to pick one genre it'd probably be IDM. As such, a perfect example would be the genius of Igorrr