So I have 15 Free iTunes Downloads...

Apr 24, 2004 at 5:49 PM Thread Starter Post #1 of 8

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Thanks to Pepsi and a $10 gift certificate, I can download up to 15 songs for free from iTunes. I've decided to take this opportunity to try out some new bands/music styles that I haven't noticed before (read: I couldn’t think of anything off the top of my head). So I need your help (well actually suggestions). Suggest a song and if it interests me, I’ll try it out.

Here are a few bands that I do like:
Pavement, Nirvana, Wilco, Stereolab, Nick Drake, Radiohead, GSYBE!, Miles Davis, The Clash, Beck, The Who, and many other bands that I'm not going to ramble on about right now.
 
Apr 24, 2004 at 6:42 PM Post #2 of 8
look for:

Calexico
Tom Waits (start with "Rain Dogs")
Yo La Tengo
Guided By Voices
The Walkmen
Wrens
Q and not U
Fugazi
Amon Tobin
Four Tet
Blur
Dismemberment Plan
Broken Social Scene
Ass Ponys
New Wet Kojak


those are just off the top of my head



edit: if you're into God Speed, then check out the offshoot A Silver Mt. Zion, their album "He has left us but..." (too lazy to write the whole title) is much better than the GSYBE! stuffs imo
 
Apr 24, 2004 at 8:12 PM Post #3 of 8
Good job, now he's even more confused with the plethora of fantastic artists you listed. And while they are great, he has 15 songs to choose from; altogether, we have over 20 artists.

I'd recommend at least 'The Rat' from The Walkmen's new LP and 'Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl' from Broken Social Scene's LP You Forgot It In People.

As well, if you would like to hear intelligent indie rock, a la Pavement, get the song 'Timorous Me' by Ted Leo and the Pharmacists off the album The Tyranny of Distance.

It's all personal preference, though... most of the original bands you mentioned are great, but I know too little of their actual material to recommend individual songs. How bout 'Teenage Wasteland' from The Who? That's a classic. The song 'Exit Music (For a Film)' by Radiohead is my favourite of theirs.

Good luck, and just take some chances... it's more fun that way!
 
Apr 24, 2004 at 8:21 PM Post #4 of 8
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Originally Posted by Trounce
Good job, now he's even more confused with the plethora of fantastic artists you listed. And while they are great, he has 15 songs to choose from; altogether, we have over 20 artists.

I'd recommend at least 'The Rat' from The Walkmen's new LP and 'Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl' from Broken Social Scene's LP You Forgot It In People.

As well, if you would like to hear intelligent indie rock, a la Pavement, get the song 'Timorous Me' by Ted Leo and the Pharmacists off the album The Tyranny of Distance.

It's all personal preference, though... most of the original bands you mentioned are great, but I know too little of their actual material to recommend individual songs. How bout 'Teenage Wasteland' from The Who? That's a classic. The song 'Exit Music (For a Film)' by Radiohead is my favourite of theirs.

Good luck, and just take some chances... it's more fun that way!



Hey I'm not confused by the list of bands.
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I actually have some cds from a few of the bands sleepkyng mentioned.

But as Trounce does say, I'm looking for songs not bands. Ideally I'd like songs that give me a good taste of the band (so there can be future cd buying goodness).

Also, I already have most of the material from the bands I mentioned (well other than Miles Davis and various Radiohead EPs, due to the fact that I just don't have that much money) so I won't really need any recommendations from the bands I mentioned. Though Baba O'Riley and Exit Music are great songs.

*edit*
typos, and then more typos
 
Apr 24, 2004 at 8:25 PM Post #5 of 8
I know that just picking 15 new songs can be very difficult and I can't probably help you much but I definitely second the reccomendation of "Anthems for a Seventeen-Year Old Girl" One of the best pop experimental hybrid songs I've heard.
 
Apr 26, 2004 at 3:22 PM Post #6 of 8
Well 'The Rat' is an album only song on iTunes (gg Reprise
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) and the rest of the suggestions are apparently a bit too indie for iTunes or something as I can't find any of the bands...

I've only got 4 more days to use these free downloads (well the 5 free songs from Pepsi expire, the other ten don't) any more suggestions?
 
Apr 26, 2004 at 3:46 PM Post #7 of 8
well 15 songs, 15 songs...
hmmm


so like a mixed tape?

damn, you'll hafta give me a minute or two to figure that one out

off the top of my head:

calexico: crystal frontier (non acoustic version)
Sufjan Stevens: Romulus
fugazi: epic problem
dismemberment plan: time bomb, spiders in the snow
Yo La Tengo: From a Motel 6
Tom Waits: Jockey Full of Bourbon


eh, i'm tired, but uh, if you want any more suggestions, lemme know
 
Apr 26, 2004 at 5:03 PM Post #8 of 8
The Notwist - Consequence from Neon Golden
Enon - Natural Disasters from High Society
Chris Whitley - To Joy (Revolution of the Innocents) from Rocket House
Lucinda Williams - Essence from Essence
Joe Henry - Edgar Bergen from Scar
Califone - Bottles and Bones (Shade and Sympathy) from Roomsound
Stephen Malkmus - Discretion Grove from Stephen Malkmus
Spoon - Believing Is Art from Girls Can Tell
Baaba Maal - Kowoni Maayo (Mi Yeewnii) from Missing You (Mi Yeewnii)
Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire - Case In Point from The Swimming Hour
Unwound - Look a Ghost from Leaves Turn Inside You
Mogwai - 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong from Rock Action
Idlewild - Roseability from 100 Broken Windows
Modest Mouse - Heart Cooks Brain from The Lonesome Crowded West
Pavement - Range Life from Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
Luna - Friendly Advice from Bewitched
Grandaddy - The Crystal Lake from Sophtware Slump
Built To Spill - I Would Hurt A Fly from Perfect From Now On
Silver Jews - Federal Dust from American Water
Sunny Day Real Estate - Days Were Golden from How It Feels To Be Something On
Yo La Tengo - Blue Line Swinger from Electr-o-pura
Eleventh Dream Day - Valrico74 from Stalled Parade
Black Heart Procession - A Heart Like Mine from 3
Cat Power - Say from Moon Pix
Liz Phair - Mesmerizing from Exile In Guyville
Stereolab - Tomorrow Is Already Here from Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Flaming Lips - Waitin' For A Superman from Soft Bulletin
The Boo Radleys - Ride The Tiger from C'mon Kids
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy from Blue Lines
Laika - Prarie Dog from Sounds of the Satellites
DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World from Entroducing
Tricky - Suffocated Love from Maxinquaye
Portishead - Roads from Dummy
Bjork - Hyper-Ballad from Post
Beth Orton - Stolen Car from Central Reservation
Cibo Matto - Le Pain Perdu from VIVA! La Woman
Vanessa Daou - Near the Black Forest from Zipless
Richard Davies - Amsterdam from Barbarians
Zap Mama - Rafiki from A Ma Zone
Bark Psychosis - A Street Scene from Hex
Elbow - Any Day Now from Asleep In The Back
Steve Wynn - Sustain from Here Come The Miracles
Starlight Mints - Cracker Jack from The Dream That Stuff Was Made Of
Nina Nastasia - Oh, My Stars from The Blackened Air
Ugly Casanova - Cat Faces from Sharpen Your Teeth
Wheat - This Rough Magic from Per Second, Per Second, Per Second...Every Second
Head of Femur - Curve That Byrd from Ringodom Or Proctor
Broken Social Scene - Almost Crimes from You Forgot It In People
British Sea Power - Remember Me from The Decline of British Sea Power
Songs: Ohia - I've Been Riding With the Ghost from Magnolia Electric Co
Holopaw - Pony Apprehension from Holopaw
Radiohead - There There from Hail to the Thief
Calla - As Quick as It Comes/Carrera from Televise
The Twilight Singers - Esta Noche from Blackberry Belle
The Wrens - This Boy Is Exhausted from The Meadowlands
The Shins - Young Pilgrims from Chutes Too Narrow
Sparklehorse - Someday I Will Treat You Good from Vivasubmarinetransmissionplot
Spiritualized - I Think I'm In Love from Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
PJ Harvey - One Line from Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
Neko Case - Deep Red Bells from Blacklisted
Sixteen Horsepower - Sinnerman from Folklore
Willard Grant Conspiracy - Notes From The Waiting Room from Everything's Fine



OK, maybe more than a couple. Hehehe, I make lot of compilations so have a whole list of songs I've used lately that I like a lot. A million more where those came from
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But more seriously, I don't have a iPod player so I've no idea if any of the above songs are available. But below is a listing of one of my comps that concentrates on American Indie Rock which might be more helpful if you don't know most of the artists listed above and it falls in line with some of the artists you mentioned....

1. Modest Mouse - Heart Cooks Brain from The Lonesome Crowded West
2. Pavement - Range Life from Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
3. Liz Phair - Mesmerizing from Exile In Guyville
4. Yo La Tengo - Moby Octopad from I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
5. Luna - Friendly Advice from Bewitched
6. Mercury Rev - Goddess On A Hiway from Deserter's Songs
7. Built To Spill - I Would Hurt A Fly from Perfect From Now On
8. Sunny Day Real Estate - Days Were Golden from How It Feels To Be Something On
9. Sparklehorse - Hundreds Of Sparrows from Good Morning Spider
10. Cat Power - Metal Heart from Moon Pix
11. Eleventh Dream Day - Stalled Parade from Stalled Parade
12. Silver Jews - Buckingham Rabbit from American Water
13. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See A Darkness from I See A Darkness
14. The Black Heart Procession - A Heart Like Mine from 3
15. Sleater-Kinney - Was It A Lie? from All Hands On The Bad One
16. The Dismemberment Plan - Gyroscope from Emergency & I
17. Neutral Milk Hotel - The King Of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1 from In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
18. Beulah - Emma Blowgun's Last Stand from When Your Heartstrings Break

More here.
 

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