Music Recommendations

• "White And Nerdy" and "Amish Paradise" by Weird Al Yankovic
• "Pray" by MC Hammer

Really want to buy some new music, but can't decide what to get... I love MUSE, pink floyd, pendulum, early radiohead and M83 amongst others (yeah yeah mainstream, I know). Seeing as you guys tend to have the best music taste around, I thought I'd ask here!

If you like Muse/Radiohead/Pink Floyd, try groups like King Crimson, Van Der Graaf Generator, early Yes and Peter Gabriel-era Genesis, if you don't know them already.

For Pendulum, there are a lot of quality drum n'bass acts out there. A few names : Blu Mar Ten, Makoto, Paradox/Alaska (Dev Pandya), Rockwell, LTJ Bukem... Also try these labels : Good Looking Records, Audio Blueprint and, for more current stuff, Ingredients Records, Exit Records (there are many, it's the one with the Kanji on top of the logo), Integral Records, Shogun Audio, Critical Music...

If you like M83 I don't really know what to recommend you. Maybe try more stuff on their earlier label (Gooom) ?

Sooo I've got some iTunes credit floating around, and I'd like to branch out a little more. Normally I'm a soundtrack and classical music junkie who's also taken a shine to Nox Arcana and, to a lesser extent, Midnight Syndicate. Symphonic metal sounds like it would be up my alley, but I'm not a big fan of the vocals (I'd rather listen to the voice as an instrument than as a vehicle for lyrics). Any advice, tropers?

I rather like Therion's vocals, but I'm not sure if that's what you want. However if you want Metal that treats the voice as an instrument, try Diablo Swing Orchestra. It's a mix of swing jazz, classical influences and Heavy Metal.

-gives Therion a listen-

Oooh, me liiikey.

Shower me with whatever comes to mind when you hear the words "hauntingly beautiful". Songs by a band, or symphonic background score, it doesn't matter.

Balligomingo, definitely. Hell, Delirium and Enigma do that kind of thing regularly as well... Ambient in general is a good genre for it. Some Emilie Autumn ("Swallow" definitely fits) qualifies as well, although she's more just plain haunting most of the time.

More traditional (not to mention non-electronic) choices would include Sarah Mc Lachlan and Enya.

And if you want to get traditional in another sense of the word, there's a very talented, mostly flute-oriented group called Andes Cosmos that plays Latin American tribal music. Their stuff is very much in the neighborhood of "hauntingly beautiful".

• "La Vie en Rose" as performed by the Wynton Marsalis Quintet & Richard Galliano.
• "Halcyon + On + On" by Orbital.
• "Finished Symphony" by Hybrid.
• "Tam za tumanami" by Arkona.
• "After the Inquisition: Children of the Stone" by Therion.
• "Two Silver Trees" by Calexico.
• "Canigas d'Agua" by Axial.
• "Mount Harissa" by Duke Ellington.
• "Seven Swans" and "The Transfiguration" by Sufjan Stevens.

This one's easy but almost anything by Dead Can Dance works for me as "hauntingly beautiful". Especially the albums "Into the Labyrinth" and "Within the Realm of a Dying Sun"...

Seconding Dead Can Dance.

Also, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina is the definition of 'hauntingly beautiful'. If you are not averse to listening to really 'old' music.

As for me... Could anyone suggest to me something from the tradition of 20th century classical music that synthesizes atonality and tonality and is it's nature very rhythmically active. Stravinsky needs not to be noted. But any other composers akin to him?

Forgot Loreena Mc Kennit when I was recommending "hauntingly beautiful" music in my last post. She fits the bill, especially if you like Irish music.

Schitzo: Nox Arcana.

Shadow Gallery is a definate must.

Recommending Mudvayne's "end of all things to come" album.

I need More music like this. Be it actual jazz bands or just soundtracks.

I want to hear some 80's Thrash Metal that places around a 9 on Mohs Scale Of Rock And Metal Hardness.

^^You might like Herbie Hancock's Headhunters album. Here's a song.

I'm looking for some uplifting electronic music. By uplifting I mean cheery but not sugary sweet tastes like diabetes filled stuff.

edited 2nd Apr '12 6:56:23 PM by Phyi

Orbital: Orbital II (aka The Brown Album) and In Sides. Hybrid: Wide Angle.

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@ King Nerd:

@ Schitzo: Seconding Meta's recommendation, plus Al Di Meola's and Pat Metheny's discographies in general.

@ King Nerd: For Thrash: Go for the early records of the Big four. Each offers different things. I'd say start with Megadeth's stuff, but that's just me be being a Droog.

To Start, check out Peace Sells but Who's Buying then either Killing is my Business and Business is Good or Rust in Piece, then get Countdown to Extinction or So Far so good..So what (with countdown, this is where they went from Thrash to a more straight foward style, but it's still a good listen to).

For Anthrax, get the albums Spreading the disease through Persistence of time.

For Slayer, everyone mentions Reign in Blood, but there's also South of Heaven, Seasons in the Abyss and Hell awaits

For stuff that's not the big four: How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today by Suicidal tendencies is a good crossover thrash album. Beneath the Remains, Arise and Schizophrenia by Sepultura are good mixes of thrash and death metal. The Legacy and New world Order by Testament are good records too. Check out the Sadus discography too. There's some overlap with Technical Death metal, but it's all good stuff.

For bands that I don't have albums to recommend for in particular (mostly becuase I haven't gotten around to buying them):

• Exodus
• Overkill
• Nuclear Assault
• S.O.D and M.O.D for crossover thrash
• Voivod (becomes more Prog influenced later in their career)
• Kreator
• Annihilator
• Sarcófago

Also, Metal Church's Self titled album has some thrash influences, but also a lot more NWOBHM sound to it. Check out Coroner's early stuff if you want thrash. Their later stuff is where they started experimenting, so you'd probably enjoy that too, but for just trash, it's their first albums.

Cool suggestions, but I'm looking for more "CRAZY FUCKIN' SAX N BRASS" kinda music.

• Swing:
  • Duke Ellington, particularly Far East Suite. Here's "Amad".
  • Count Basie... um, all I have by him is his collaboration with Duke Ellington, First Time: The Count Meets the Duke. Here's "Jumpin' at the Woodside".
• Latin jazz:
  • Dizzy Gillespie: Afro. (Here's "Manteca", though not the same version from that album.)
  • Tito Puente: Dance Mania (Here's "Cuando tu ve".)
  • Quincy Jones: Big Band Bossa Nova.
• Free jazz for true craziness:
  • John Coltrane's Ascension.
  • Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz.
• Nujazz:
  • Jaga Jazzist: A Livingroom Hush and The Stix. (Here's "Airborne", although "Day" and "Another Day" are probably more indicative of their overall style.
• Soundtracks:
  • Grim Fandango. The game is Film Noir meets Day Of The Dead, so the soundtrack is a mix of jazz and Mexican music. Here's "Casino Calivera".
  • Sonic Unleashed is a real hodgepodge of jazz, funk, techno, rock, and world music. So some of it is what you're looking for (like the Shamar hub music, or the night miniboss music) and some of it's wildly different but still cool.
  • The Incredibles. Michael Giacchino channels jazz and John Barry's 007 soundtracks frighteningly well. Here's the end credits music.

edited 3rd Apr '12 11:35:03 AM by MetaFour

Thank you, Meta Four.