[maestro]

I'd like to expand my collection and hear some new music. I was wondering if some of you could give me some good artists or tracks that would perhaps give me a preview of what their genre of music is like. The more precise the genre the better (House, D&B, Metal, Death Metal, Vocal Jazz, etc). Any input you could give would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Braver]

dude, that's way too broad....tried the search function? there have been lots of threads for lots of genres.

 

[chase]

the mars volta - de-loused in the comatorium
people are calling it prog rock

the tea party
their newer stuff (the interzone mantras) is rock. but some stuff(splendor solis, the edges of twilight) is probably closer to instrumental rock. some is kinda blues-ish. those 2 albums are pretty diverse. they have a couple songs that are just guitar instumentals.

 

[Braver]

ah what the hell,

progressive rock:
Yes - Fragile
ELP - Tarkus
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic
Spock's Beard - V
Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream

70's 'classic' rock:
Pink FLoyd - Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You were here
Neil Young - Harvest
Led Zeppelin - 4

rock circa 1980 (New Wave, World-Beat):
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
Peter Gabriel - 3, Passion
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
King Crimson - Discipline

postrock:
Godspeed You! BLack Emperor - Slow Riot For The New Zero Kanada
Sigur Ros - ()

jazz:
Coltrane - Blue Train, Giant Steps
Miles - Kind Of Blue, Workin'
Brubeck - Time Out
Mingus - Ah Hum
Getz - Jazz Samba
Monk - Straight No Chaser
Billy Cobham - Spectrum (fusion)

instrumental rock:
Bozzio Levin Stevens - Situation Dangerous
Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien

singer/songwriter:
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Aimee Mann - Lost In Space (and go rent the movie Magnolia)

electronica-induced rock:
The Gathering - Souvenirs
Ulver - Perdition City

 

[maestro]

Woohoo, thanks!
Anyone else?

 

[markl]

Why not burn yourself some of the CDs from chadbang's thread, the one where he asked Head-Fiers to help compile? Forget what it was called, maybe someone else remembers...

 

[usc goose]

moderately old school rap (post nwa / pre p. diddy)

snoop - doggystyle
dre - the chronic
biggie - ready to die
2pac - all eyez on me


ska (3rd wave or so)

reel big fish - turn the radio off
save ferris - it means everything
buck-o-nine - twenty eight teeth
goldfinger - goldfinger


trance

robert miles - dreamland
paul oakenfold - tranceport
paul van dyk - out there and back

 

[Carlos3]

Grunge

Alice In Chains - Dirt
Mother Love Bone - Apple
Nirvana - In Utero
Pearl Jam - Ten
Soundgarden - Louder than Love


Metal

Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Slayer - South of Heaven (a bit on the 'death' side of 'metal')
Tool - Undertow


Industrial

Kidneythieves - Zerospace
Ministry - The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral


Drum and Bass

The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land

 

[noiseunit]

well, ill chip in with some good intro material from my favorite genres.

HipHop (new + older essentials):

Dilated Peoples - The Platform
Cannibal Ox (if you can find it) - The Cold Vein
Del tha Funkee Homosapien - I Wish My Borther George Was Here
Deltron 3030 - Self-Titled
El-P - Fantastic Damage
Digital Underground - Sex Packets
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
De La Soul - AOI: Bionix
Ultramagnetic MCs - Critical Beatdown
*Ol' Dirty person - Nigga Please
(*fantastic album, but ya gotta like ODB or you'll hate it most likely)

Turntablism/Collaborative HipHop efforts :

Dan the Automator - A Much Better Tommorrow
Mixmaster Mike - Anti-Theft Device
Peanut Butter Wolf - My Vinyl Weighs A Ton
Cut Chemist/Shortkut - Live at Future Primitive Sound Session
Handsome Boy Modeling School - So....Hows Your Girl?

Electronic:

Peace Orchestra - Self-Titled
Kruder & Dorfmeister - K&D Sessions
Funki Porcini - Fast Asleep
Funki Porcini - Hed Phone Sex
Plastikman - Consumed
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Dust Brothers - Fight Club Soundtrack
Biosphere - Cirque
Howie B - Folk
Nightmares on Wax - Smoker's Delight
The Herbaliser - Blow Your Headphones


Those listed span a wide array of sub-genres as well...more info can be found on most, if not all of these albums at www.allmusic.com (AMG all music guide... very useful).

edit: speeling

 

[KR...]

For Metal :

Doom Metal :

Candlemass - Nightfall
My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans
Funeral - In Fields of Pestilent Grief
Skepticism - Farmakon

Power Metal :

Angra – Rebirth World Tour – Live in Sao Paulo
Lost Horizon - A Flame to The Ground Beneath
Symphony X - Divine Wings of Tragedy
Lorien - Secrets of the Elder

Black Metal :

Nokturnal Mortum - Goat Horns
DarkThrone – A blaze in the Northern Sky
Mayhem – De Mysteries Dom Sathanas
Satyricon - Nemesis Divina

Folk Metal :

Mago de Oz - Finisterra
Finntroll - Jaktens Tid
Cruachan - The Middle Kingdom
Empyrium - Songs of Moors and Misty Fields

Death Metal :

Opeth - Still Life
Death - Sound of Perseverance
Obituary - Slowly We Rot / Cause of Death
Vehemence - God Was Created

Weird Metal that cannot be labeled:

Ulver - Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven & Hell
Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape
Arcturus - Masquerade Infernale
Love History - Anasazi

 

[truant truism]

trip-hop-
portishead- dummy
morcheeba- who can you trust
dj shadow- ...endtroducing

alternative pop/rock (vague, I know)-
pixies- surfer rosa
soul coughing- el oso

ambient techno-
shpongle- are you shpongled
orbital- orbital 2

 

[Czilla9000]

Ummm.........what about classical?

Dvorak Symphony #9 "From the New World"

Beethoven Symphonies #5 and 7 and 9

Mussorsky-Ravel "Pictures at an Exhibition"

Stravinsky "The Rite of Spring"

Tchaikovsky "1812 Overture" and "Marche Slave"