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The first itunes purchase- (thanks to smoochy, by the way) happened to fall on wicked's shift.

She bought a tom waits album.

Just thought you might wanna know where it went, smoochybear. Much dancing around jumping on the couch, singing, "In the morning i'll be gooooone"

Incidentally, i was truly discouraged by the haphazard selection in the rest of the itunes store.

No julia darling. One cindy lee berryhill song, and it's NOT "Unknown Master Painter." WTF?

i need some new music, but i need some places to start. *sigh*

And it has to actually be in the itunes store.

NO smoochy, it will not be beatles. Or u2.

And i'm not a straightedger.

Anybody got a recommendation? i won't tell you what i'm into- it might bias what you recommend!

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  • I've foregone listening to music in favour of podcasts. Do yourself a favour and subscribe to The Rock and Roll Geek Show, Accident Hash, Coverville and the Vinyl Podcast if you are after some music-heavy podcasts.

    (I know that's not what you are after at the moment, but go, do it now. You might just like it.)
  • Bluegrass Invasion!
  • a random explosion of bands from my head, and some of my favorites:

    Hootie and the Blowfish
    Led Zeppelin
    REM
    Pixies
    Everclear
    ZZ Top
    Garbage
    • .. you can also check out

      Queens Of The StoneAge,
      The White Stripes,
      Kaiser Chiefs,
      Millionaire,
      Interpol,
      Deus,

      Some stuff I feel in love with a long time ago

      Royksopp`s - Melody AM
      REM,
      Pearl Jam,
      Tool,

  • Just checked, and it's one of the few Australian artists they have there. Anything by the Gurus is good.
    • One fantastic album and a handful of good songs. The album of course is Stoneage Romeos. "Death to a Dance Beat" as one old friend put it, when she and her SO gave it to me. "You can't bury love, gotta dig it up." Yummy.
  • That you won't like. Because I have spent 20 years practicing liking music that girls generally don't.

    Hm... I see they have decent selection of Dance Hall Crashers.

    Oooohhh... Rancid.
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  • You have some Heather Nova, right? Heart and Shoulder and Truth and Bone are seriously good, IMO, but she also has a very nice song on the Serendipity soundtrack, Like Lovers Do. From the same disc, Moonlight Kiss is also good. You might check out Angus Macleod's disc The Silent Ones, at www.torquil.net [torquil.net]. Some good stuff there. For jazz vocals, check out Kate McGarry; I have her recent Mercy Street. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals are more blues. There is some good stuff on their disc Nothing But Wate
  • i gave up on the itunes site after 10 minutes. i cannot determine how to find out what songs are available.

    hence these suggestions are blind bling flailings.

    '13 Songs' by Fugazi.
    'Passion' by Peter Gabriel.
    • okay, anyone who recommends fugazi gets friended.

      some of the dschord stuff has been showing up in itunes. thankfully.

      i've been into fugazi... well, since 1988... i've got everything they've put out (oh make sure to check out some of the live series [fugaziliveseries.com] disks). i'll make sure the dragon gets a nice sampling of fugazi... she may just like them.

       
  • For heavens sake, don't leave me hanging like this. As if it is sufficient to say "a Tom Waits Album". Like they were interchangeable or something...

    *grin*

    Pix

    ps - I recommend the barenaked ladies as a possible future purchase...
  • I make almost no excuses for my musical tastes. Selections from my iTunes Purchased stock:

    Jimmy Eat World - Futures (album)
    Andy Stochansky - Five Star Motel (album)
    Green Day - American Idiot (album)
    Beck - Hell Yes - EP (album)
    Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People.
    Various - Spider-Man 2 (soundtrack)

    Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat
    Buckcherry - For the Movies
    Nick Drake - Pink Moon
    Nick Drake - Black Eyed Dog
    Breaking Benjamin - Rain
    Breaking Benjamin - Firefly
    Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter
    Hum - Stars

    Bits in my
    • futures was okay... but i still firmly believe that clarity was their best album (jimmy)... well... static prevails is pretty good too.

      hum... mmm, yeah... she thinks she missed the train to mars, she's out back counting stars

      yeah... i likes hum.
  • Social Distorion,

    If Eminem is the Punk Rock of rap, Social D is the Counry of Punk Rock.

    Mike Ness is a great individual.

    -Ab
  • So let me suggest these: The Weakerthans for their varied styles of rock and lyrics that will always leaving you going 'I know those words, but what does it mean?'

    Also, That Dog is another good rock band I enjoy.

    Oh, and Moby is always good for when you want to get movin'.
  • Sade - Diamond Life (though her greatest hits is also good, as is Lover's Rock).
    Joy Division - Closer, Unknown Pleasures
    Portishead - Dummy, s/t
    Depeche Mode - Violator
    DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
    Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do (but also Selected Ambient Works vols. I & II, Polygon Window, Classics)
    TMBG - Flood, Apollo 18
    Air - Moon Safari, Talkie Walkie
    Daft Punk - Homework, Discovery
    Prince - Sign O' the Times, 1999, Purple Rain

    That should cover the stuff that people generally agree on with the hip-hop a
  • It doesn't help to answer your question in the short term (that shouldn't surprise anyone who's perused my comment history), but I use a service to help me find music I don't already know about: AudioScrobbler. [audioscrobbler.com] I run an iTunes plugin that uploads track info on everything I play into a profile on their servers. [www.last.fm]* It lets me compare against people with similar tastes and see who they listen to that I don't, in the hopes that I will thus discover something I didn't know I was looking for.

    *Yes, if the app did it
  • Very old, but haunting with a literary bent:

    Alan Parson's Project
    Tales of Mystery and Imagination

    Not sure if it's available at any of those new-fandangled 'online music shops', but definately one of my favorites. You'd have to get past the decidedly '1970s' feel though.

    In the modern, I would suggest 'Coldplay' and even 'The White Stripes' (raw, but catchy).

  • http://www.tmbg.com/ [tmbg.com] flash required.
    if itms doesn't have tmbg then THEY SUCK
  • other than the fact i think they're great. since you gave no parameters, i won't explain any of this music.

    boards of canada - geogaddi
    fugazi - 13 songs
    björk - homogenic, post
    -ziq - royal astronomy
    pop will eat itself - this the day... this is the hour... this is this!
    die warzau - engine, convenience
    mr. bungle - california
    future sound of london - lifeforms
    • mr. bungle - california

      *grins* Heh. You just gave me an idea -- artist/album recommendations, one for each twin:

      Good: Jim O'Rourke - Eureka
      Wicked: Super Furry Animals - Radiator
      Evil: Mr. Bungle - California (what the man said ;)

      For the record, if I were to recommend something I thought the Dragon might be into, it'd be Cerys Matthews' Cockahoop. But I'm probably miles off the mark here.

    • crap, i just saw that slashdot doesn't like the micro sign i used in -ziq. i can't find a version that works. pretend that before the dash, you can see a lower case greek mu so that the pronunciation of the band is nearly indistinguishable from the word "music." great IDM. here's the amazon link to the band/album i meant: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000 00JPV7/qid=1125114573/sr=8-1/ [amazon.com]. i can't give you an itunes link because i don't use itunes.

  • There are no Beatles on ITMS, but everyone has all those CDs anyway. No real George Harrison either.

    Of course, plenty of U2, those posers

  • I've collected a list of free (legal) electronic pop [slothradio.com] songs that might be useful if you like that kind of thing.

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