[Davey]

Catherine Wheel - Chrome (the song and album)

'Cos if I had some time
I'd use it this time
Escape to something beautiful
'Cos underneath the steel and rust and oil and shit
There's chrome, just shining chrome.....
(pause a few moments for guitars, lots and lots of lovely shiny guitars)
A mirror finish of my own
Alive inside this chrome, home, home, home...

 

[Vicious Tyrant]

I got started in opera by watching "Magic Flute" on video - the one by Bergman.

 

[MD1032]

Another very high recommendation for "Scenes From A Memory" by Dream Theater. IMO, you haven't lived until you've heard Dream Theater. You'd never believe metal could sound so good.

Otherwise, check out some classic rock. Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Eagles are all safe bets.

 

[Etrips]

Just wanted to thank everyone who has put in their advice in my quest in finding more music.

Gratefulshrink - I am not exactly sure what type of music I am looking for as I am trying to expand my music out of the three genres that I usually listen to.

 

[Girdag]

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Originally Posted by MD1032 Another very high recommendation for "Scenes From A Memory" by Dream Theater. IMO, you haven't lived until you've heard Dream Theater. You'd never believe metal could sound so good.

I dunno...I liked them for a bit...but Pain Of Salvation blow them away, in my opinion. Get 'Remedy Lane', and listen to Undertow, or Trace Of Blood. I don't think I've ever heard so much emotion in metal before - not the whiny emo kind, but raw, powerful emotion. The whole album is an absolute masterpiece.

I'm currently getting into the indie-pop scene, so would choose a mix of songs to get people into it. Main ones would be:

The Unicorns - Child Star
Islands - Rough Gem
Final Fantasy - This Is The Dream Of Win & Regine
Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us!
Heypenny - Parade
Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels)

All are brilliant, brilliant songs, and illustrate the indie-pop scene very well.

 

[asmox]

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Originally Posted by Girdag I dunno...I liked them for a bit...but Pain Of Salvation blow them away, in my opinion.

Pain of Salvation does blow DT away, but don't get Remedy Lane.. get Entropia or The Perfect Element I instead. Then get Remedy Lane sometime later on.. and then get everything else.

 

[fierce_freak]

Agree with Pain of Salvation blowing DT away.

Also agree with the guy that said The Fragile is the best album ever...well, I'm not so sure what my favorite album is anymore, but when someone asks that's the answer they get.

I recommend (not all of the same genre, so don't stop if the first turns you off):

Despised Icon - Bulletproof Scales off of The Healing Process Album
Burst - Where the wave broke off of Origo
Between the Buried and Me - More of Myself to Kill off of Self Titled
Dillinger Escape Plan - The Mullet Burden off of Under the Running Board
Dog Fashion Disco - 9 to 5 at the Morgue off of Anarchists of Good Taste
God Lives Underwater - Dress Rehearsal For Reproduction off of Life in the So-Called Space Age
Into the Moat - Empty Shell off of The Design
Ion Dissonance - Play Dead and I'll Play Along off of Solace
Mastodon - Blood and Thunder off of Leviathan
mewithoutYou - Gentlemen off of [A-->B] Life
ohGr - Water off of Welt
Opeth - Bleak off of Blackwater Park
OSI - OSI off of Office of Strategic Influence
Pain of Salvation - Martius/Nauticus II off of Be
Pelican - Red Ran Amber off of The Fire in our Throats will Beckon the Thaw
Porcupine Tree - Synesthesia off of Up the Downstair
Remembering Never - For the Love of Fiction off of Women and Children Die First
Silverchair - Tuna in the Brine off of Diorama
Strapping Young Lad - Oh My ****ing God off of City
Sunna - Forlorn off of One Minute Science
Agony Scene - Scars of Your Disease off of Darkest Red
Dave Weckl Band - Wake Up (i like the live version best)
Future Sound of London - Divinity off of Isness
Polyphonic Spree - A Long Day Continues,We Sound Amazed off of Together We're Heavy
Tool - The Grudge off of Lateralus
VAST - Touched off of Self Titled
Wilco - I am Trying to Break Your Heart off of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
xBishopx - Old Habits off of Suicide Party
Live - The Dolphin's Cry off of Distance to Here
Meshuggah - In Death - Is Life off of Catch 33

Alright, alright, I'll stop...I think I could go on for awhile

 

[Etrips]

lol thanks guys and or gals.

 

[gratefulshrink]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Etrips Just wanted to thank everyone who has put in their advice in my quest in finding more music. Gratefulshrink - I am not exactly sure what type of music I am looking for as I am trying to expand my music out of the three genres that I usually listen to.

Here are some more random suggestions, then, that may tap into your own predilections:

Classic Rock -- Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Velvet Undergound - first album

Jazz Rock -- Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

60's Jazz -- John Coltrane - Live at the Village Vanguard
Charles Mingus - anything live with Eric Dolphy
Sun Ra - anything, but be forewarned....

Post-War -- Glenn Branca
Morton Feldman
Arvo Part
Terry Riley

Indie Rock -- Sonic Youth
Yo La Tengo

Krautrock (60's/70's German rock music with churning rhythms -- predated electronica) -- Can

Medieval Chant -- anything by Ensemble Organum on the harmonia Mundi label; any recording of Hildegaard van Bingen (11th century female mystical composer)

Bach -- solo violin
solo piano
cello suites

Beethoven -- late piano sonatas
late string quartets

 

[Ahriman4891]

Some of my recent discoveries:

Angra - Temple of Shadows, Angels Cry, and Holy Land - sunny (for the lack of better epithet) Brazilian rock/metal. Fast, energetic.

Ulver - Kveldssanger - stark, chilly Norwegian folk.

Quite a contrast when listened back to back, but fun

Angra hit me immediately, especially the Temple of Shadows album. Kveldssanger takes a bit more time to grow on you, but when it does

 

[guynamedjohn]

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Originally Posted by gratefulshrink Bach -- cello suites

That's what made me say omg, I like classical music. Shostakovich's cello concerto no. 1 too. I guess I like the cello.