Music Recommendations

I'm looking for Three Discords With Optional Truth in Uncommon Time with frequent Song Style Shifts, Hummable Melodies, and Short But Sweet song structuring.

edited 21st Jan '13 12:02:31 PM by porschelemans

There are a number of post-punk and early "progressive hardcore" bands that may be worth a look for you: This Heat, Gang of Four, Meat Puppets, Minutemen, Wire, Mission of Burma, Ludus, Scritti Politti, Talking Heads, Savage Republic, Family Fodder, The Pop Group, Androids of Mu, The Residents, Pere Ubu, The Passage, Alternative TV, even early DEVO—all of these groups have major aspects of what you're asking for and come at them from wildly different angles.

My suggestion is that you start with Entertainment! (Gang of Four), Meat Puppets II, Chairs Missing (Wire), Versus (Mission of Burma), Fear of Music (Talking Heads) and Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are DEVO! before diving headlong into the really freaky stuff.

I also think that you might like some of the more laid-back, song-oriented math-rock groups like They Promised Us Jetpacks, Battles and Ungdomskulen, plus some harder but more concise acts like Hella, but that's a big "if."

Another big "if" would be some of the more esoteric Elephant 6 stuff, which has everything but the "punk" element down. Of that crop, I would recommend Of Monteral's Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies and The Olivia Tremor Control's epic Black Foliage Animation Music Volume One, both of which are chock full of great hooks and treat song structures like so many peppers and radishes to be diced and thrown in the proverbial salad.

edited 31st Jan '13 1:17:50 AM by JHM

Somebody, please tell me how to find music similar to this epic awesome fabulous INTENSE electronic piece from the Portal 2 OST:

Sounds like IDM. I'm not that familiar with the genre, but I know of Autechre and Martin Horntveth.

I like to find some music similar to this.

I'm going to a metal show mainly to see Anthrax and Exodus pretty soon, but I may as well get a feel for the openers.

Can I get some High on Fire and Municipal Waste recommendations? Last.fm says their most popular songs are Fertile Green and The Art Of Partying. They don't sound too bad, but I wanted to know if this is what can be expected of them.

I have no idea about Municipal Waste albums, but everyone should hear Terror Shark at least once https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn9_EQ2ykyo

I've been thinking of getting into the Legendary Pink Dots, but they've got so much stuff I don't know where to start. Can anyone recommend a good gateway drug album?

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I've recently come to the conclusion that perhaps rock isn't so bad, though I'm still more into pop.

Can anyone recommend me some pop-like rock. Or some pop with rock-like pronounced guitar.

80s Queen. Michael Jackson, Elton John, The Bee Gees.

Buzzcocks, Blur, The Beatles, The Trudy etc.

On the spectrum from rockish pop to popish rock:
Toto, U2, The Cure, Fleetwood Mac, Counting Crows, a good portion of The Clash's discography, Prince

Are there any clean renditions of Handel's Hallelujah that has an organ and choir?

In addition, what songs are there that incorporate pipe organ into modern music (besides The Phantom Of The Opera theme)?

Sorry, I just like pipe organs.

edited 8th Apr '13 11:24:38 PM by WaxingName

:P

I'm looking for good examples of the whole "two voices and a guitar" genre (I can't be bothered to learn what it is properly called, because I get a lot of results, such as Americana, folk, country, rock and bluegrass). It is alright if there are two guitars as well. I have been on this whole The Milk Carton Kids & The Civil Wars binge, but they have only so many songs, and it's easy to run out of them, so I need new duos to follow.

Some good old-school rap? Trying to broaden my horizons, there's only so much Eminem I can cram into my playlists.

Try some Run DMC

edited 14th Apr '13 6:41:36 PM by porschelemans

Digible Planets are also good.

Gang Starr

Public Enemy

Anybody have any recommendations for extra-sinister and/or bombastic pipe organs, more along the lines of Samael than Bach? I have a bunch of Nox Arcana and a smattering of Castlevania.

Since I didn't get an answer the last time.

Perhaps The Welcome Wagon or Lily & Madeleine.

EDIT: Wait, what am I thinking? The Welcome Wagon is great, but it's not really what you're looking for. Hmm. Gipsy Kings?

edited 16th May '13 3:07:06 AM by MetaFour

@Khan: You might wanna try Kings Of Convenience. They're an indie folk pop duo.*

Their cover of Manhattan Skyline

I am content, for now.

*goes to hunt Kings of Convenience discography*