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If you like Oasis or the Beatles, you might like The Redwalls.
If you like Keane/Coldplay/Snow Patrol/Travis, you might like The Perishers.
If you like Lync or Sonic Youth, you might like Love as Laughter.
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Dixie Chicks (HUGE FAN=ME) then you might like Court Yard Hounds
if you like magnetic fields or jens lekman, you may like geographer
if you like sigur ros, you may like Peter Broderick
Cranberries/ Dolores O’Riordan you might like Holly McNarland.
if u like pink Floyd then go to the real thing b/c these imatators are just that!!
the roots, check out the knux. just discovered their album. slick hip-hop duo. great stuff.
The edginess and uniqueness of Bjork then Blue Foundation might be for you.
Fave tracks of theirs:
Eyes On Fire**
As I Moved on
Sweep
EOF is actually quite entrancing, I could just close my eyes and put it on repeat. The intro was the hook for me, everything else was just gravy...I liked it SO much I did this
bruce springsteen and the bouncing souls, listen to the gaslight anthem.
This is actually a solo artist but, if you like Emerson Hart/Joshua Radin you might like Cary Brothers he's got an AMAZING sound!
If you like Gorillaz or The Streets, try dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip
http://www.myspace.com/lesacvspip
if you like indie rock with a touch of the beach boys and beatles, and the modern stylism of beck, check out chester french
new way to find good music that you'll like. www.musicovery.com
you choose your favorite musical era (10th century to present)
pick genre
pick popularity level (hit, non-hit, discovery)
they then give you a listing and you select from what type of mood you're in.dark, positive, calm or energetic. you can only listen to songs but i still thought it was really cool. try it.
...say anything, try you, me, and everyone we know
....no use for a name and lagwagon, check out the swellers
yeah very similar to nufan from what i heard on there... not super original, but very listenable
if you like amy winehouse/joss stone's nod to soul and funk and want to hear a male voice that's like a modern day (white) otis redding....try out jamie lidell. it's the kind of stuff that makes you grab a hairbrush and get your lip sync on.
beck and ima robot you'll like LCD soundsystem
if you like norah jones/jack johnson/john mayer, check out amos lee
if you like kanye west and common, try rhymefest on for size
If you like toytronic music, look up Rockabye Baby! There are quite a few CDs of entirely instrumental (I think) renditions of rock songs. Each album covers a different group-Radiohead, The Smashing Pumpkins, etc...
There's a band called Pianosaurus... no longer a band, that was a band entirely made up of toy instruments. I never successfully tracked down their music and never heard any of it at that. If someone finds their stuff let me know.
this reminds me of that band, SELF. they had an album called Gizmodgery. it was all really cool songs done with toy instruments, along with a cover of "What a Fool Believes." solid gold.
if you like indie rock...check out the bon savants
if you like john mayer, check out roark. really good songs on the myspace, im thinkin about picking up that album. he's local, too
I'm not sure how inclusive this is, but it's a band "relationship" mapper: http://audiomap.tuneglue.net/
if you like the ataris, check out quietdrive
For a Bjorkesque voice with a folkish/classical backing, listen to Joanna Newsom. The song "Emily" off of "Ys" is tops!
okay bjorkesque is enough to make me check her out!
you'd love it
if you like beck but want something more pop, you might like bicycle...
if you like indie rock with a catchy piano rock twist, check out small leaks sink ships. their debut album comes out in february.
If you like Michael Hedges, try Eric Mongrain and Kaki King.
Any kind of ska you gotta check out the Ghost Town Locals--http://www.ghosttownlocals.com/
if you like rilo kiley, have you ever gone towards a more alternative country sound? tanya donelly is a good choice. recognize her name? she was part of the breeders.
if you like feist/emiliana torrini/rachel yamagata, you might try out inara george or bird & bee (a side project of hers?). think modern-day karen carpenter, but way less depressing. she's also been compared to a female nick drake.
if you like fall out boy, you might as well kill yourself.
i think this is hysterical
haha. that was funny. poor fall out boy. they are just hated on here cuz theyre popular. theyre not bad. but that was funny
Nah, I dislike them because I think they're bad.
well i guess everyones got their haters. by no means are they my favorite band, but they're catchy, fun, don't seem to be hurting anyone...i got nothing against em.
sheep. if those were the guidelines we ALL used to choose our music, we'd all like the same things. this proves to me that YOU are part of the construct. you drone.
so....you think people should pick their favorite music out of stuff they don't have fun listening to?
and i never said i listened to them that much. they dont get that much play on my ipod, but i listen sometimes to a song or two.
you know, my first line about picking music out of things that aren't fun is half sarcastic, but honestly, some of the music out there proves to me that some people actually choose music not because they have fun listening to it, but only to be a pretentious music snob and think they are better than everyone else. this isn't directed at you or anyone here, i'm just saying in general. oh my goodness. there should just be a genre called pretentious rock. for people who think they are all that because they like this band that refers to some obscure turkish theater performance that only ran during the monsoon season in the early 1800's and have twenty minute songs that are made up of strange noises and where one of the band members, in fact, plays the clavicle. yes, the bone. then they go to the local pretentious rock show and pretend to have fun by looking like they're not having fun, when, in fact, they're really not having fun. then they sit around their barren apartments on hard chairs with their pretentious rock friends and discuss the rousing nature of that last song where minute-long gaps of silence are used as a metaphor to symbolize the despair of the poor mariner who lost his dog to the wrath of the sea and how the faint tingle of the triangle was so perfectly placed after the silence.
some people need to loosen up and realize that its ok to actually enjoy your life.
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Hahaha - I'm in the pretentious rock genre. I relate very closely to John Cusack in "High Fidelity".
I think it's because I think of music as very closely tied to poetry, and I don't read sucky poetry, you know? I like catchy bands too, but I want something that's at least remotely cerebral, like the vandals, rather than just mindless poppiness, which is what fall out boy seems like to me. But I do find myself feeling like an idiot singing along to the sometimes stupid lyrics of the ataris, because their music is catchy. :P
i agree with this kind of. i do need some mental stimulation most of the time when i listen to music. not that it cant be catchy, or simple. i just want it to be meaningful.
although once in a while i will listen to some super poppy music, i just find it to be less creative.
jp is right about not listening to music based on what other people like, or because you feel you need to impress people with your musical tastes, but i still just genuinely hate fall out boy. they are just way to commercial for me, and i hate everything they stand for.
when i hear their music it seems like they are trying to write these really deep lyrics, and sound like they are sooo into about whatever they are writing about, but it all ends up being so cliche and canned. and these guys are winning all of the mtv music awards. and it's not that i hate them for being successful. i wish some of the bands i really love could be more successful (heck i wish i could make millions by writing music). it just annoys me that they can be successful by writing all the same cliche garbage that a million other "punk" bands out there write.
Articulate... with no heinous spelling mistakes... Alex me thinks you switched to Firefox 2.0!
well thats a very good reason to dislike a band. i dont blame you. i guess i just dont feel very stongly about the "cliche" or "poppy" factor.
thank you for saying what i could not. I feel these people and the people who like boy bands and mindless pop (Enrique excepted) should be shot...
Enrique Iglesias?
if you like toast, try pooptoast. it's toast...with "poop".... on it.
That was stupid, yet funny. You're starting to grow on me boy! Noooooooo........
you may want to use one of those things that the inspection people use to remove your old sticker to scrape him off then
Hahaha.... Good idea.
if you can't get enough belle and sebastian, try out Pas/Cal
if you like modern piano rock mixed with bruce springsteen, look at the hold steady. i got their album, which came out today. be good and you may be rewarded.
i'm on track 3. so far, this is amazing.
check out MELEE.
i dont know what its like. i need to ftp some stuff soon for you guys
if you like jazz, funk, and hip hop, check out simple citizens
if you like the fray, check out augustana
have i mentioned edan on here? cool hip hop. reccommended.
any to share?
i can upload it. bear with me
i'm on vacation now, so i cant get it uploaded now since im on a laptop...none of my music is on here. but check this out while you wait...ill be home later this week
my bad he has a new myspace, that ones outdated
if you like mates of state, i've got another duo for you... matt and kim
if you like mates of state, i've got another duo for you... matt and kim
if you like elliott smith, try ryan lindsey
i only have room for bright eyes in my life for that particular sound, BUT if you like bright eyes and have room for a more processed/less angry act you should try out Samuraj Cities.
i don't really like bright eyes, but i do like that one song "lover i don't have to love" alot
how much have you heard? he has sooo many songs.
i think i have 3 of his albums in my itunes, but to be honest probably haven't given it really fair try.
i favor his EP's and live recordings to his albums.
yeah there are a ton of songs. im not a huge bright eyes fan, i prefer a bit more upbeat of a tune, but an occasional bright eyes song is great. "first day of my life" is featured on my summer mix. great song.
if you like belle & sebastian, i think you might like Great Lake Swimmers
if you like Beck, you might try a lesser known 90s artist named Chad VanGaalen
if you like notwist, portishead, mazzy star...try out "the evening episode"
oo I must check that out
if you like the male-female dual vocals of straylight run combined with catchy pop punk, try the hush sound. their new album is phenomenal!
If you like The Killers, you might like The Divorce
for that airy Polyphonic Spree feeling, try I'm From Barcelona
for modest mouse meets the strokes, try figurines
if you like four tet, you might like the octopus project
"nooo nooo no no no more mosquitos"
"nooo nooo no no no more mosquitos"
if you like sufjan stevens, try anathallo. then, if you like them, you might like margot and the nuclear so and so's.