What other music should I get?

[EliteRetard]

The "I hate music" thread along with the trip I'm going to be on suddenly made me want to get a ton of music. There are several songs that have important meaning to me, so I collected all the music from those artists first. Ive got an old 120GB MP3 player and realized that even at 320KBPS I've hardly used any space. So I just spent like 2 grand buying all the music I could think of. Over 2.5K songs and Im still only at like 20GB or something.

3 Doors Down
Adele
Blue October
Breaking Benjamin
Coldplay
Creed
The Cynic Project
Darren Hayes
Five For Fighting
Florence & The Machine
Foo Fighters
The Fray
Goo Goo Dolls
Green Day
Kamelot
Katy Perry (I just had to delete it all, OMG its so bad)
Linkin Park
Matchbox Twenty
Metallica
Miike Snow
Mind In A Box
Nightwish
Owl City
Pendulum
Phoenix
Queen
Scorpions
Shiny toy Guns
Sixx AM
Taeyang (WTF is this sh*t?! Still not as bad as Katy Perry)
U2
VNV Nation
Within Temptation
Wolfsheim
Young The Giant

For some reason Im not a big fan of "rock" music. Theres a few here and there that aint bad...but I dunno if anybody else is worth going for. I've got a lot of classical music, and now a crap ton of emo stuff...so what would ATOT reccomend thats not on my list already? Perhaps you can give me a youtube link so I can sample it before I buy it.

 

[Lifted]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=290647

 

[HamburgerBoy]

You're not a rock fan, even though the majority of the bands listed clearly fall into "rock" in some form or another?

What are you looking for in particular? Do you just want us to give a few of our favorites?

 

[EliteRetard]

Most of those are rock eh? I always figured rock was like Megadeath or Metallica (which I did download). I guess I don't understand music branding at all.

I dunno, I just can't think of any more music that I would like/tolerate. List your favorites, or perhaps something you think might go well with what I already have. Or just post something stupid...rick roll me. Im pretty certain theres some other music I like that I'm just not thinking of right now. Probably stuff Ive never even heard of as well...

 

[EliteRetard]

Oh I just thought of one...Corb Lund. Oh and Jhonny Cash. Durr...wasn't thinking country music. So much of it sucks so hard. Those guys have a couple good ones.

 

[EliteRetard]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=290647

That should be usefull, thanks.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Try:

Mogwai

 

[DigDog]

plenty of options here:

1) go with the classics; deep purple, morrisey, aretha franklyn, pink floyd, keith jarret, glen gould, black sabbath, whatever floats your boat. there's a reason they are so popular.
2) use musicmap: http://www.music-map.com/
3) pick a dozen albums at random (the further away from your musical style they are, the better - it's about discovering new stuff)
4) grab recommendations from here on AT or from other friends. my recommendations: emmanuel top/BBE (games, any single), frank black (teenager of the year) or pixies (anything), bolt thrower (realms of chaos), butthole surfers (independent worm saloon), lawnmower death (ooh crickey, it's lawnmower deth), bob marley (confrontation), deodato (prelude), eric dolphy (out to lunch), john zorn / masada (any in studio), keith jarret (la scala, personal mountains), dead milkmen (belzebubba), david bowie (never let me down, ziggy stardust the motion picture, the man who sold the world, low, station to station), tina turner (live in europe), the blues brothers soundtrack, star wars soundtrack, rocky horror picture show soundtrack, little shop of horrors soundtrack, sepultura(chaos AD), metallica (justice for all), black sabbath (paranoid), frank zappa (hot rats, apostrophe +anything else), iggy pop (blah blah blah), black flag (wasted), nofx (the longest line, white trash..), DRI (dealing with it), Tin Machine (Tin Machine), Racer X (anything), Buckethead (the coockoo clocks of hell), anything by vai, satriani, al di meola, paco de lucia, john coltrane (olympia concert), ministry (the mind is a terrible ...) , pavement (slanted and enchanted), ultraviolence (killing god), bob dylan (another side of bob dylan), anything (reeally, anything) by Elvis, paul simon (concert in central park), van hallen (diver down), everything in the Rolling Stone's top 500 albums , brian eno (the drop), ween, weird al (everything), phish (anything) grateful dead (anything), jimmy cliff (the power and the glory)etc..


and so on. i could really go on forever .

and i haven't even begun to quote the *weird* stuff

edit:

though everything listed here i find amazing, the one album that everybody loves regardless of what music they like, is ozzy's randy rhoads tribute album. so .. there.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Most of those are rock eh? I always figured rock was like Megadeath or Metallica (which I did download). I guess I don't understand music branding at all.

I dunno, I just can't think of any more music that I would like/tolerate. List your favorites, or perhaps something you think might go well with what I already have. Or just post something stupid...rick roll me. Im pretty certain theres some other music I like that I'm just not thinking of right now. Probably stuff Ive never even heard of as well...

I'm not trying to be genre-anal or anything. Check out some Alice Cooper, Rush, and Thin Lizzy for some 70's rock like Queen and Scorpions, and Manic Street Preachers, Pixies, and Thought Industry for some more alternative rock stuff. And for my favorite band, check out Fates Warning's Parallels, probably their easiest album to get into.

 

[EliteRetard]

Looks like I've got lots of listening to do, bunch of new stuff.
Thanks!

It looks like if I fill this thing with the best quality there will be about 850 hours of music non stop without ever hearing a repeat. Over 3 months at 8 hours a day. And this is just a crappy 120GB...LULz. To bad I dont have a FLAC player, modern storage capacity is just insane.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

120GB is crappy? Isn't 160GB the largest they have?

 

[EliteRetard]

Uh...I know Ive seen 3TB.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I'm pretty sure you're thinking of hard drives, not MP3 players. I know that there are general media playing things as well that get larger (500GB I think) but those are larger units with a broader purpose.

 

[SirStev0]

Don't let any of these hipsters try to get you with their dub steps.

 

[EliteRetard]

Do copyrights expire? I've been warned about asking illegal questions before, but what about music from something like an old 80s TV show? If I can't find a place to buy it would it be legal to aquire it other ways?

 

[Aluvus]

3 Doors Down

Try Daughtry or Fuel.

Adele

Try Amy Winehouse, Duffy, or Feist.

Matchbox Twenty

Try Semisonic, the Wallflowers, or Collective Soul.

Phoenix

Try Two Door Cinema Club, The Naked and Famous, or Spoon. Maybe Bombay Bicycle Club.

Queen

Try Alice Cooper, Def Leppard, or Boston. Maybe Judas Priest. Older Aerosmith.

In general:

* Rock is an extremely broad genre (and as pointed out above, many of your picks are either some flavor of rock or are fairly close). I find that genres in general are not terribly useful. Other than perhaps modern country, rap, and hip-hop, which tend to be very polarizing.

* Spotify will let you stream many albums for free (with ads). Rdio will let you stream many albums for $5/month (without ads, and I like their interface better). Both charge extra for mobile devices. Previewing albums on one of the two sites has saved me a fair amount of money.

* Pandora is a very good (and free) way of finding things similar to artists you already like.

* All Music is a good source for reviews of basically any kind of music. They also have a "related" tab on artist pages that lists similar artists, which I partially cribbed from for the suggestions above.

* Regardless of personal taste, you should at least try: the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Eric Clapton

 

[Aluvus]

Do copyrights expire? I've been warned about asking illegal questions before, but what about music from something like an old 80s TV show? If I can't find a place to buy it would it be legal to aquire it other ways?

In the United States, you can generally assume that works published before 1923 are now in the public domain. It used to be that copyrights had to be periodically renewed, but even that requirement is gone now. For most intents and purposes, copyright in the US is now effectively permanent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_in_the_United_States

Depending on the show, you might in principal be able to get the video legitimately and rip the audio out of it, but depending on the details that could technically be a DMCA violation.

 

[nsafreak]

On topic but off topic for this thread at the same time. I'm looking for some more techno/trip hop/trance/industrial/house/etc. music as of late and I was just wondering what you folks would recommend. Can be similar to what I already listen to or completely different. Current artists/DJs that I listen to:

Paul Oakenfold
Tiesto
Chemical Brothers
The Crystal Method
Deadmau5
Aphex Twin

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Do copyrights expire? I've been warned about asking illegal questions before, but what about music from something like an old 80s TV show? If I can't find a place to buy it would it be legal to aquire it other ways?

Not legal, but the chance of someone caring is most likely quite low. The abandonware approach works for me (if it's out of print or otherwise inaccessible and there's no chance of an artist "losing" money because of it, pirate).

 

[T_Yamamoto]

On topic but off topic for this thread at the same time. I'm looking for some more techno/trip hop/trance/industrial/house/etc. music as of late and I was just wondering what you folks would recommend. Can be similar to what I already listen to or completely different. Current artists/DJs that I listen to:

Paul Oakenfold
Tiesto
Chemical Brothers
The Crystal Method
Deadmau5
Aphex Twin

Look up mashups on sound cloud. Like 3lau Dr.brixx and people like that

 

[MayorOfAmerica]

Try The Budos Band. Thanks to a coworkers, they are one of more recent favorites.

 

[twinrider1]

Jellyfish

 

[EliteRetard]

On topic but off topic for this thread at the same time. I'm looking for some more techno/trip hop/trance/industrial/house/etc. music as of late and I was just wondering what you folks would recommend. Can be similar to what I already listen to or completely different. Current artists/DJs that I listen to:

Paul Oakenfold
Tiesto
Chemical Brothers
The Crystal Method
Deadmau5
Aphex Twin

Cynic Project, Mind In A Box, or Pendulum:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb8b0z8NRm0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2xAxZ7miYU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEPB7uzKuh4

Clan of Xymox, Cruxshadows, or Weird Lord Slough Feg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y47PxC9u6Kc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBCrn11u0EU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOQF6RDRIe0

Just to mix it up a bit