Broadening my musical horizons

[landon]

So I'm tired of listening to the same old stuff, anyone have any good suggestions of new music I/others can listen to? And if possible a link to samples of the music, like on mp3.com, etc.

[Wezas]

Bela Fleck

Buy it at the store.

Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise.

- Arkans

[Latrinsorm]

Avril Lavigne - Under My Skin
Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night (a bit too ballad-y at times)
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Avril Lavigne - Live Acoustic EP
U2 - Joshua Tree
U2 - Achtung Baby
U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
Delbert McClinton - Honky Tonk'n Blues (also a bit too ballad-y at times)

That should hold you for awhile. :)

[Tsunami]

Tiny Tim

Tiptoe Through the Tulips is particularily good.

[Chelle]

Dope Show

by Marilyn

[Warriorbird]

Cirque du Soleil, Tego Calderon, Flogging Molly, Allison Krauss

[Delaroz]

Pick up some Sinatra. I'm always amazed at how many moods the man can affect. Hell, I've had Mack the Knife in my head for weeks.

[Sean]

Originally posted by Warriorbird
Cirque du Soleil

I have to say after going to a lot of their shows the music is definitly a high point.

[AnticorRifling]

Informer by Snow.


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Barbershop quartet music
Anything by the ratpack, as a group or solo
Classical guitar
Classical piano
Classical orchestra
Opera
Musicals

^ all of which is currently on my playlist

[Meos]

L.M. Gottschalk

[Warriorbird]

Prince Paul...Handsome Boy Modelling School

[Nieninque]

Liar - Megadeth
Who are you - The Who
Telling Lies - David Bowie
Brilliant Disguise - Bruce Springsteen
Banned from the edge of the world - Sleater Kinney
Leave (Get out) - JoJo
Dont Come Back - Human Nature
I hate everything about you - Evanescence

That just about covers it.

[Eiderfleur]

Originally posted by Nieninque
Liar - Megadeth
Who are you - The Who
Telling Lies - David Bowie
Brilliant Disguise - Bruce Springsteen
Banned from the edge of the world - Sleater Kinney
Leave (Get out) - JoJo
Dont Come Back - Human Nature
I hate everything about you - Evanescence

That just about covers it.

ROFLMAO Nieninque You crack me up!

:heart::heart::heart::heart::heart:

[Warriorbird]

Lateef the Truth Speaker

[Delaroz]

Originally posted by AnticorRiflingAnything by the ratpack, as a group or solo

:heart: Anticor. Not in a gay way or anything.

Originally posted by Warriorbird
Prince Paul...Handsome Boy Modelling School

word.

[Numbers]

Anything by Pink Floyd.

[Mistomeer]

Originally posted by Eiderfleur

Originally posted by Nieninque
Liar - Megadeth
Who are you - The Who
Telling Lies - David Bowie
Brilliant Disguise - Bruce Springsteen
Banned from the edge of the world - Sleater Kinney
Leave (Get out) - JoJo
Dont Come Back - Human Nature
I hate everything about you - Evanescence

That just about covers it.

ROFLMAO Nieninque You crack me up!

:heart::heart::heart::heart::heart:

It'd be funnier if Sleater Kinney didn't suck.

[Nieninque]

I never even heard of them. I just wanted the name of the song :D

[Valthissa]

[i]Originally posted by AnticorRifling
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Barbershop quartet music
Anything by the ratpack, as a group or solo
Classical guitar
Classical piano
Classical orchestra
Opera
Musicals



Anticor's suggestions fit with my idea of expanding one's musical interest.

go to an Opera - Madame Butterfly is easy to enjoy

I love musicals - you can see Clint Eastwood sing horribly in Paint Your Wagon, Marlon Brando in Guys & Dolls.

Dixieland Jazz

Benny Goodman (Swing)

If you haven't heard Leo Kottke play Busted Bicycle run, don't walk, to your local store and get a CD with a live performance

Discover some early rock/jazz fusion with something like Mahvishnu Orchestra, say Birds of Fire

Slide Guitar? maybe Sonny Landreth

Archive.org has about 10,000 live recordings. You can see what the Grateful Dead sounded like (you can't get the sense of the crowd, oh well) the December 31st shows from the mid seventies are something.

Bluegrass? start with Bill Monroe and work forward

there are some sites like http://www.allmusic.com
once you find something you like you can see similar artists

Jazz Piano? Art Tatum

for something interesting try a guy named Stomu Yamashta his Go live features Steve Windwood and Al Dimeloa

I'm leaving out so many paths you can take...

I even like Hank Williams Sr.

and while I worte this I listened to Nat King Cole...

and thanks to the other posters - I'm going to learn something about modern popular music :)

C/Valth

[Back]

Originally posted by Stanley Burrell

Originally posted by Warriorbird
Prince Paul...Handsome Boy Modelling School

word.

New HBMS, White People, just came out.

[Anebriated]

Jack Johnson - pretty much all of his music is very laid back in a sort of dave matthews way but imo better.

[Kuyuk]

IM me and I'll link you to all my music for downloads, if you have a fast connection anyway. You can download or laugh at whatever I have. I have a lot of "interesting" soundstracks and whatnot.


K.