Need new music, as if you haven't heard that before.

[mcsamms]

So pretty much I am looking for more music, but I don't know what to look for. To be honest I don't like much new music. Pretty much I went from not listening to anything specific to owning every Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Beatles, Radiohead, Metallica CD, and a good portion of Bob Dylan, Alan Parsons, Rush, Yngwie, Iron Maiden, John Lennon. The last new two CD's I picked up were Lacuna Coil's and Tool's new releases. But I am more or less at a loss for other bands to listen to.

I also listen to classical music, I have more Mozart then anything, but I find it hard to know what I am picking up when it comes to classical.

Anyone have some suggestions? I hate to make another one of these threads but I honestly don't know what to look for.

At least I don't listen to Limp Bizkit anymore

 

[Davey]

How far back does "new music" go? All the way back to 1991 with The La's, The Wedding Present - Seamonsters, and Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend?

Or 1992 with PJ Harvey - Dry, Television, Tom Waits - Bone Machine?

Or 1993 with Girls Against Boys - Venus Luxure No 1 Baby, Dead Can Dance - Into the Labyrinth, Catherine Wheel - Chrome?

Or 1994 with Pavement - Crooked Rain, Portishead - Dummy, Luna - Bewitched?

Or 1995 with Tricky - Maxinquaye, Yo La Tengo - Electr-O-Pura, Red Red Meat - Bunny Gets Paid?

Or 1996 with Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup, Dirty Three - Horse Stories, Cibo Matto - Viva! La Woman?

Or 1997 with Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On, Laika - Sounds of the Satellites, David Kilgour & the Heavy Eights?

Or 1998 with Eels - Electro-Shock Blues, Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs, Silver Jews - American Water?

Or 1999 with Black Heart Procession - 2, The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency and I, Cul de Sac - Crashes to Light, Minutes to Its Fall?

Or 2000 with Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica, P.J. Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea, Blonde Redhead - Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons?

Or 2001 with Califone - Roomsound, Spoon - Girls Can Tell, Bjork - Vespertine?

Or 2002 with The Notwist - Neon Golden, Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Songs: Ohia - Didn't It Rain?

Or 2003 with Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People, Over The Rhine - Ohio, Cat Power - You Are Free?

Or 2004 with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus, Electrelane - The Power Out, Willard Grant Conspiracy - Regard the End?

Or 2005 with Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs, My Morning Jacket - Z, The National - Alligator?

Or 2006 with Black Heart Procession - The Spell, Howe Gelb - 'Sno Angel Like You, Shack - ...The Corner Of Miles And Gil?

But forget all that above, the one I'm listening to right now has been in pretty heavy rotation around any place that I've called home for the last 10 years, and if that's not an endorsement, then I don't know what is. Might not do it for you, but ... Laika Sounds of the Satellites. Up above, under the 3 1997 choices, one of the best years in modern times for me. All 3 of those picks are desert isle discs for me, with a few more I could easily add from that year.

http://www5.head-fi.org/forums/showt...29#post2144829

 

[ComfyCan]

What I do on occasion when I'm looking for new music in a particular genre is listen to internet radio, assuming you have broadband.

You have very broad interests in music, as do I, which frankly makes it more difficult to make specific suggestions without giving a monster-list.

Based on your classic rock listings, if you haven't yet gotten into Yes, Emerson Lake & Palmer, The Who (particularly Quadraphenia), and Genesis, you'd probably like them. I'd start with Quadraphenia, Genesis-Seconds Out, and Yes: Close to the Edge.

If you like Lacuna Coil, you might also like Flyleaf. Evanesence is also very similar, but I'm sure you are familiar with them. Belly, Throwing Muses, and Veruca Salt are interesting alternative bands from the early 90's with female vocals. You would probably also like Alkaline Trio (no female vocals, but nice edgy rock). Blue October is another possibliity.

For classical, I just asked the same question so I'm no help there.

 

[mcsamms]

Thanks for the replies guys, already checking out some of these bands.

 

[sonicm]

You can try http://www.pandora.com/ also.

 

[redshifter]

try www.kexp.org
they have streaming music, no commercials, and they've introduced me to some stellar bands.

 

[bl4cksh33p]

I have much the same tastes, you might want to check out (and other bands the artist have been in):

Eric Clapton (Cream), Neil Young (CSNY), Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel


Maybe even:

The Hollies, Steppenwolf, Rod Stewart, and The Grateful Dead

 

[Enverxis]

well if you enjoyed Lacuna Coil, there's possibility that you'd like
---
The Gathering - Mandylion, Nighttime Birds, How to Measure a Planet?
Flowing Tears - Jade, Serpentine
Leaves Eyes - Lovelorn
Epica - The Phantom Agony
After Forever - Decipher
Ambeon - Fate of a Dreamer

And if you're looking for "good" new metal try
---
Opeth - Still Life, Blackwater Park, Damnation, Ghost Reveries (most accessible of their releases)
Atrox - Contentum, Terrestrials, Orgasm
Virgin Black - Sombre Romantic, Elegant and Dying
Moonlight - Inermis, Candra
Madder Mortem - All Flesh is Grass, Deadlands, Desiderata
Maudlin of the Well - Bath, Leaving Your Body Map
Therion - Theli, Vovin, Deggial, Secret of the Runes, Lemuria
Ram-Zet - Escape, Intra
Lumsk - Troll
Draconian - Arcane Rain Fell
The 3rd and the Mortal - Tears Laid in Earth
Forgotten Silence - Senyaan, KaBaAcH, Bya Bahame Neem
Tristania - Widow's Weeds, Beyond the Veil, World of Glass

Other music you may enjoy

Elend - The Umbersun, Winds Devouring Men, Sunwar the Dead
Dargaard - The Dissolution of Eternity, Rise and Fall
Alice in Chains - Dirt, Jar of Flies/Sap, Unplugged
Autumn Tears - Eclipse
Diana Krall - Live in Paris, Girl in the Other Room
White Zombie - Astro Creep 2000
Dark Sanctuary - L'etre las l'envers du Miroir
Brave - Searching for the Sun

Some you will like, some you wont.

 

[NiceCans]

as there have been other similar posted, I feel obliged to include my favorite internet radio which has introduced me to more new music than any other single source

www.radioparadise.com
I recommend their 192kb/s stream

 

[skudmunky]

In my quest for more music I found Dream Theater and I'm loving every bit.

 

[Feanor]

I use last.fm a lot. It can keep track of what you are listening to (via the audioscrobbler plugin), and give you recommendations based on that. It can also stream said recommendations or music similar to any artist you want in a personalised radio. The quality is only 128 kbps for the stream, which is not horrible but not good either.

 

[falang]

Here are some of my all time faves:

Illinoise by Sufjan Stevens

You Forgot it in People by Broken Social Scene

Andrew Bird and the Mysterious Production of Eggs - by Andrew Bird

A Ghost is Born by Wilco

American Water by the Silver Jews

Alligator by the National

Gimme Fiction by Spoon

Wowee Zowee by Pavement

Lonesome Crowded West by Modest Mouse