Music Recommendations

Setting aside my qualms about Pixies' recent work, I approve of the above recommendations,particularly Belle & Sebastian (oh, if only you were gay, sexy frontma- FORGET I SAID THAT) and Caribou, who is quite odd.

A few more suggestions:

• Chvrches: Socottish electro-pop outfit with possibly the most amazing synth sounds in the genre right now—all vintage analogue, all godly, especially on "Science/Visions". Excellent hooks, cryptic but oddly heartfelt lyrics, and a kind of dorky charisma. Very theatrical live lighting.
• Factory Floor: Glowering, intense, noisy yet highly danceable industrial techno with a distinct late-70s flavour. Collaborated with Chris and Cosey. Pretty legit.
• The Haxan Cloak: Dark ambient/soundscape impresario. Recently recorded a beast of an album with the extreme metal duo The Body.
• Young Fathers: Ambitious and atmospheric Scottish hip-hop trio with some great poignant lyrics and low-key hooks. May well become huge later on, although the world is a cruel and terrible place.

Also, I'm not totally familiar with Forest Swords or Metronymy, but I've heard a lot of good things. Elbow, Midlake, The Horrors and Pink Mountaintops are less my speed, but they might be worth a look. And Lykke Li is pretty cool, but one fears the fangirl tides.

edited 9th Jun '14 12:36:13 AM by JHM

I need your mad-scientist-and-mad-science-ish themed songs, preferably with a little sinisterness to them. ..... (What's He Building In There by Tom Waits is a good example.)

"Weird Science" by Oingo Boingo is an obvious choice.

If "industry gone mad" is close enough to mad science for you, then "Giants" by Five Iron Frenzy.

Emily Howell and the Cybraphon are real-life musical projects which some might consider mad. Emily Howell is a computer program that composes original music. The Cybraphon is a steampunk-looking robot that performs music... and its creators went the extra step and programmed it to be a moody narcissist, to boot.

Tom Waits is pretty one-of-a-kind in a lot of ways.

You might find the atmospheres explored in Nurse With Wound's early releases edifying in spite of the relative dearth of discernible vocals, particularly Homotopy to Marie, Merzbild Schwet, To the Quiet Men from a Tiny Girl and Ostranenie 1913.

I'm trying to look for music that is really chaotic and all over the place. I don't care whether it is vocal or instrumental.

edited 24th Jun '14 3:48:44 AM by classifiedzerogoki

I'm not sure whether this is what you're after, but the less melodic styles of Death Metal are full of chaotic songs. Take this for example:

edited 24th Jun '14 4:40:55 AM by CardsOfWar

I'd recommend some Amon Düül I stuff (do not confuse it with the group who shared a common past with them and which is more famous, called Amon Düül II). If you want disorganized stuff.

What I want is music that is something with a similar spirit or subject manner to Oingo Boingo 's Weird Science or Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. .....

Some recommendations for very hectic, chaotic music:

• Ahleuchatistas, Even In The Midst
• Alternative TV, Vibing Up The Senile Man
• Albert Ayler, Spiritual Unity
• (...And The) Native Hipsters, There Goes Concorde Again
• Peter Brotzmann, Machine Gun
• Bugskull, Snakland
• Cardiacs, The Seaside
• Caroliner, The Cooking Stove Beast
• clipping., midcity
• Crawling Chaos, The Gas Chair
• Current 93, Horsey
• DDAA, Live In Acapulco
• Deerhoof, Milk Man
• Death Grips, Government Plates
• The Dead C, The Dead C
• The Flying Luttenbachers, Destroy All Music
• Fushitsusha, Origin's Hesitation
• The Goslings, Grandeur of Hair
• The Hafler Trio, "BANG" - An Open Letter
• Hella, Hold Your Horse Is
• H.N.A.S., Melchior (Aufmarsch Der Schlampen)
• I Wrote Haikus About Cannibalism In Your Yearbook, Discography
• Jackie-O Motherfucker, Liberation
• Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt
• To Live and Shave in L.A., The Wigmaker in Eighteenth Century Williamsburg
• Matmos, The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of The Beast
• Melt-Banana, Mx Bx 1998/13,000 Miles at Light Velocity
• Merzbow, Batztoutai With Material Gadgets
• Mr. Bungle, Mr. Bungle
• Nocturnal Emissions, Drowning in a Sea of Bliss
• Nurse With Wound, Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella
• of Montreal, The Early Four Track Recordings
• The Olivia Tremor Control, Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One
• The Pop Group, Y
• The Residents, The Third Reich 'n' Roll
• Royal Trux, Twin Infinitives
• Sissy Spacek, Sissy Spacek
• This Heat, This Heat
• Throbbing Gristle, D.O.A.: The Third and Final Annual Report
• Trumans Water, Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox & Ass
• Venetian Snares, Songs For My Cats
• Void, Sessions 1981-83

If this doesn't make your head explode then I am not doing my job right.

edited 25th Jun '14 12:45:42 AM by JHM

Is there any songs that is similar to this?

I've been trying to get into metal, as I quite like the dirty, aggressive instrumental styles, but I cannot stand the vocals of any of the groups I've found yet. If anyone knows any artists who make purely (or at least dominantly) instrumental metal, of any type or hybrid, I'd be grateful.

Do you mean that you don't like the "growled/screeched" vocals, or that you don't like the vocals of bands that use cleans exclusively either? It would also help to know what sorts of metal you are after. Something like this is very different to something like this: bit.ly/1pIO4lQ. (While neither of the songs I linked are instrumental, I would highly recommend them both.)

edited 2nd Jul '14 2:41:49 AM by CardsOfWar

You might like Tempel's album On the Steps of the Temple.

Electrical Lass: Behold, I come bearing tidings of great joy. :D

• Inevitably, Skullcrusher Mountain and The Future Soon, by Jonathan Coulton
• Transylvania Polygnostic University Fight Song and - close enough? - The Illuminati Polka, by Tom Smith
• To life, to life (I'll bring them), from A Shoggoth on the Roof
• The Future's So Bright (I've Gotta Wear Shades) by Timbuk 3
• Rock Reflections of a Superhero - Doctor Octopus by Crack the Sky
• I Am A Scientist by The Dandy Warhols
• I Am A Scientist by Guided by Voices
• Why Do We Do It? and Lab Coat by C.O.G.
• My Evil Plan To Save The World by Five Iron Frenzy
• The Clockyard, Building Steam, The Secret Life of Dr. Calgori by Abney Park
• The Doctor's Wife and The Watchmaker's Apprentice, by The Clockwork Quarter
• And finally: The Madblood Battle Anthem, from Narbonic, by Jeffrey Wells

Bentusi:

• Try Apocalyptica?
• Epica has two albums, The Score and The Classical Conspiracy, which are both largely instrumental.
• You might also seek out Trans Siberian Orchestra; they are not purely instrumental, but they quite a lot of instrumental songs. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
• And I found this group, which seems quite thorough though their formal list hasn't been updated for a few years.

Ok, someone please, please, please find some good Post-Metal bands that don't have a super sludgy sound to them. That is, not Isis, Pelican, Cult of Luna, The Ocean, etc. But more along the lines of Irepress (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR-WO3sNfR4) Or Junius (Please, please, more Junius) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3ACTY5i8k8

Requesting a recommendation for metal bands with a bass or low baritone singer, preferably heavy, power, prog, or doom. I already know Type O Negative and Reverend Bizarre.

Not asking for a music recommendation exactly, but a music service recommendation:

Anyone got comments/opinion on the following music streaming services?

• Pandora
• iHeartRadio
• iTunes Radio never mind, I can't use this on Android
• Rhapsody
• Spotify
• Slacker
• Milk Music

Are there certain styles of music one is better or worse for? For example, I've noticed that Pandora has very little J-pop/anisong.

edited 23rd Jul '14 10:39:37 PM by GlennMagusHarvey

I'd recommend Rdio. It's a paid service, but it's not expensive and has a comprehensive library, and you can find plenty of artists you didn't even know about simply by association with genres you like (unless you want to listen to Led Zeppelin - for some reason, they have nothing from them but an audio interview there). In terms of genres... I'm not sure, but the one thing I've looked for and couldn't find on Rdio was J-Rock (except for X Japan). I think they might have J-Pop, though.

Oh, and it works on Android.

As for me, I'd like some classic heavy metal recommendations. Like, 70s and early 80s (NWOBHM and similars, even early thrash metal). But not the bigger ones like Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, even though I like 'em; I mean those bands that usually fly more "under the radar", like Budgie, Riot or Angel Witch.

edited 30th Jul '14 11:29:22 AM by AndyLA

I can't exactly claim a deep knowledge of metal(All of these guys are on Spotify after all, then again, so are Riot and Angel Witch), but for Black Sabbathy stuff that's not Black Sabbath, there's Pentagram, Saint Vitus, Pagan Altar, Witchfinder General and for a proto-thrash type band there's Metal Church.

edited 4th Aug '14 8:38:12 PM by Alichains

Seconding these.

Satan (UK)

Hyksos (USA)

Sortilege (Fra)

High Power (Fra)

Legend (US and UK, both are great)

Acid (Belgium)

Diamond Head

More (UK)

Tyrant (pre Saint Vitus, demo in 1979)

Holocaust (UK)

Black Death (USA)

Raven (UK)

Aceium (Canada)

Witchkiller (Canada)

Brocas Helm

Griffin (USA)

Manilla Road

Cirith Ungol

Max Lynx

Overdrive (Swe)

Rat Attack (Hawaii)

Heavy Load (had an album in the late 70's)

Tokyo Blade

Tank (UK)

Vault (Netherlands)

Dark Age (USA)

Martyr (Netherlands)

edited 4th Aug '14 6:44:12 PM by StillbirthMachine

Anyone can point me to some industrial metal bands similar to Breach The Void (mostly referred as "cyber metal")? Now that it and Sybreed disbanded, I've nowhere to go...

(tried Neosis and Neurotech already)

I'm looking for things that are twofold:

1. Are very upbeat, and are unlikely to remind me of death, and

2. Aren't just generic pop music.

Would you like some classical music? Or some J-pop?

Classical music might be nice. I don't think I'd like J-pop, though. Anything else is fair game, though.