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Which album should I buy if I like this song . . . .?

post #1 of 18
9/23/09 at 11:13pm
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First I want to thank everyone who has made music suggestions in various threads over the last few months. I have been lurking and tried out many of your choices, and have stumbled onto some very nice, new (to me) artists.

I’ve only listened to a few songs from each artist. Since I’m not familiar with these new (to me) people, if I tell you a song I like from them, would you suggest the CD of theirs you think I should buy first (not necessarily the one the song is from)? Thanks

Dead Can Dance - Windfall
Infected Mushroom - Cream
Thievery Corporation - The State of the Union
Kate Bush - Army Dreams
Over the Rhine - All I Ever Get for Christmas is Blue
The Dresden Dolls - Coin-Operated Boy
James Zabiela - Darkness
Green Carnation - Alone
Opeth - To Rid the Disease
Mariana’s Trench ?
Melody Gardot - Goodnight
Ali Farka Toure - Naweye Toro
Amy MacDonald - Poison Prince
Missy Higgins - Where I stood
Damien Rice - everything I’ve heard
Death Cab for Cutie - everything I’ve heard
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post #2 of 18
9/23/09 at 11:59pm
There are gobs of Kate Bush threads, and justifiably so! Go fish! (search) But in the meantime, The Dreaming is where I'd say to start.

As for Dead Can Dance, the lp I've known to be the high-water mark is Into the Labyrinth. It's quite good, but I'm no diehard fan.
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post #3 of 18
9/24/09 at 12:06am
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Originally Posted by Justin Uthadude View Post
First I want to thank everyone who has made music suggestions in various threads over the last few months. I have been lurking and tried out many of your choices, and have stumbled onto some very nice, new (to me) artists.

I’ve only listened to a few songs from each artist. Since I’m not familiar with these new (to me) people, if I tell you a song I like from them, would you suggest the CD of theirs you think I should buy first (not necessarily the one the song is from)? Thanks

Mariana’s Trench ?
I'm pretty sure Mariana's Trench is from August Burns Red album Constelations(sp) great band, great album(exstince ftw)

though I may be getting a name confused(I'm pretty sure we have a sp on the first word, marinas trench or something is the song name, i'm to lazy/tired to look up the spelling now), or it might be a different song under the same name, so I'd double check before making any purchases.
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post #4 of 18
9/24/09 at 12:15am
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Originally Posted by catachresis View Post
.....As for Dead Can Dance, the lp I've known to be the high-water mark is Into the Labyrinth. It's quite good, but I'm no diehard fan.
I've actually never paid attention to what I'd call electronic music before, but I'm kinda likin' it. Thanks for the suggestion. On the other hand maybe I'm too old, but I can't seem to find value in what seems to be called 'trance'.
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post #5 of 18
9/24/09 at 12:51am
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Originally Posted by Justin Uthadude View Post
I've actually never paid attention to what I'd call electronic music before, but I'm kinda likin' it. Thanks for the suggestion. On the other hand maybe I'm too old, but I can't seem to find value in what seems to be called 'trance'.
Weeellll. . . . if you rephrase trance a little, you can call it a variant of Classical Minimalism. Old people like me like classical music because it has timeless beauty and doesn't have to go in for prostate exams every couple of years. Something like Steve Reich's Tehalim is not too far away from DCD. DCD can also be seen as an 80s development of that cool progressive folk movement from the 70s that included bands like Pentangle. Last, in a fit of desperation, you could hook it up to David Gray's White Ladder, a slightly trip-hoppy collection of anthems that even Stereophile editors have confessed make old men who drink too much single-malt cold-call old girlfriends in the wee hours.
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post #6 of 18
9/24/09 at 12:59am
I would recommend:
Thievery Corporation - Mirror Conspiracy, Abductions and Reconstructions
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Damien Rice - O
Melody Gardot - My One and Only Thrill
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post #7 of 18
9/24/09 at 1:58am
If you like "Cream" by Infected Mushroom, I'd imagine that sonically the album IM the Supervisor would be most similar. Cream was B-side to that album's lead single.
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post #8 of 18
9/24/09 at 2:59am
If Death Cab, then Ben Gibbard side projects, e.g., Postal Service.
If Damien Rice, then Glen Hansard (and the Frames).
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post #9 of 18
9/24/09 at 3:47am

Nice list - these are great

OK, this is a good way to get to know some terrific artists! Man I spend alot of time in the music biz on lists (writing them, sharing, talking about, etc.) and love em!!

as for the artists you listed, my recommendations would be:

Dead Can Dance: Spiritchaser
Damien Rice: O
Death Cab for Cutie: Plans (to start - GREAT sounding too) and the newer release: Narrow Stairs - their indie stuff is solid as well
James Zabiela: Renaissance The Masters Series
and check out Asad Rizvi if you feel James Zabiela, or Mr. C. (NOT the hip-hop DJ) or DJ Three

and userlander nailed it w/ his Thievery pick! I saw them ROCK it at Windows on the World before the towers were no more + we built the sound system there! what a dream, a nightmare

anyway - happy record hunting!!!
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post #10 of 18
9/24/09 at 9:52pm
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Thanks everyone for all the superb suggestions. I’m on it.
I’ve gone in a very short time from “what else might I like?” to “where’d all this great stuff come from?”

Catachresis – I just found a David Gray song entitled Sail Away; nice!

Userlander – your sig makes me smile. My mobile is a clip and pk3 or Kramer 75’s. My portable is laptop to SR60, and I just got a millet hybrid looking for cans and thinking strongly of DT880, and you’ve got 880s looking for an amp =^)
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post #11 of 18
9/24/09 at 10:34pm
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Originally Posted by Justin Uthadude View Post
Thanks everyone for all the superb suggestions. I’m on it.
I’ve gone in a very short time from “what else might I like?” to “where’d all this great stuff come from?”

Catachresis – I just found a David Gray song entitled Sail Away; nice!

Userlander – your sig makes me smile. My mobile is a clip and pk3 or Kramer 75’s. My portable is laptop to SR60, and I just got a millet hybrid looking for cans and thinking strongly of DT880, and you’ve got 880s looking for an amp =^)
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These DT880s are s-w-e-e-t!! LMK if you decide on them and might want to buy used at a good price (but basically new -- just got them yest. ). I like these so much I'm pretty sure I'm upgrading to the 600 ohm version as soon as I get a suitable amp.
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post #12 of 18
9/24/09 at 11:02pm
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Originally Posted by Justin Uthadude View Post
Thanks everyone for all the superb suggestions. I’m on it.
Catachresis – I just found a David Gray song entitled Sail Away; nice!

Userlander – your sig makes me smile. My mobile is a clip and pk3 or Kramer 75’s. My portable is laptop to SR60, and I just got a millet hybrid looking for cans and thinking strongly of DT880, and you’ve got 880s looking for an amp =^)
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You made short work of that, Justin. Just recommending White Ladder got me onto the ebay to look at used copies. The impulse to go get it is competing with creepy memories of creepy romance with a bad girlfriend in Dublin, 1999. David Gray was on the stereo. Too much cheap red wine was involved. There was a dimmed room, a hard sofa, and--I'm ashamed to say it--one of those psychedelic, fibre-optic afro lamps. Mark my words, that sort of thing is bound to end in tears. And it did.

I prayed to Baby Jesus, and he told me if I studied hard and ate my greens, one day I would have DT880s. Thank you, Baby Jesus!
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post #13 of 18
9/25/09 at 1:21pm
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.......creepy romance with a bad girlfriend in Dublin, 1999. David Gray was on the stereo. Too much cheap red wine was involved. There was a dimmed room, a hard sofa, and--I'm ashamed to say it--one of those psychedelic, fibre-optic afro lamps. Mark my words, that sort of thing is bound to end in tears. And it did.
Good thing Jackson Browne wasn't on the stereo or instead of tears, you mighta had this:

Someone's going to have to explain it to me
I'm not sure what it means
My baby's feeling funny in the morning
She's having trouble getting into her jeans
Her waist-line seems to be expanding
Although she never feels like eating a thing
I guess we'll reach some understanding
When we see what the future will bring
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I told her I had always lived alone
And I probably always would
And all I wanted was my freedom
And she told me that she understood
But I let her do some of my laundry
And she slipped a few meals in between
And the next thing I remember, she was all moved in
And I was buying her a washing machine
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post #14 of 18
9/25/09 at 3:04pm
. . . And--truly--something on the order of the Jackson Browne song ended up being one of the factors involved, but it was never quite so clear, and that inherent, enduring, unassailable ambiguity made it 'ugly, Ugly, UGLY' by the end. Wagnerian even: there was a kind of Gotterdammerung and people playing, "Who's on Top!" of the funeral pyre. Somebody suggested I needed a change of scene, and not without some rending and tearing, I found myself back in Alabama (and, believe me, it's a relief but an ambivalent one to wake up one day and find oneself in Alabama).
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post #15 of 18
9/25/09 at 3:20pm
Well "Damnation" by Opeth since you liked "To Rid the disease". If you liked that, you might like Porcupine Tree, based on your preference for the Damnation Track, I'd say start with Lightbulb Sun and Stupid Dream.
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