Hey everyone,
So I'm 27, and I've been raising a baby for the last 18 months. She's starting to develop an interest in music (wants certain things on, shows disdain for some, likes to dance), and I realized that I haven't really updated my catalog in like 5 or 6 years.
I used to play in bands when I was in high school, and I kept up a bit after I graduated, and for whatever reason I got into that rut. I haven't become the stereotypical "this isn't music! In my day...", but I find it really difficult to find new artists that I'd like, I mostly pick up new albums by artists I already listened to for years and I know I'm missing out on some amazing stuff. I intend to play music in the house way more often, so I'm excited about the idea of hearing what the Escapists are into these days.
I'll just share what I like/have liked, but please don't feel like a recommendation has to in any way resemble what I'm into. In the past I've liked tons of things I never thought I would, so it would be great if people could share what they personally love (though if someone's on the same page as me, those recommendations certainly wouldn't hurt). Anyway, I'll shut up and get on with it:
My favorite artist, period, is Elliott Smith. You may know him from his many songs being peppered throughout the movie Good Will Hunting. I'll share "Between the Bars":
In that vein, I like Nick Drake, Simon and Garfunkel, Sufjan Stevens and some Bright Eyes.
I'm also a metalhead/hardcore kid at heart. My favorite band is Converge:
In that vein I like Cryptopsy, Dying Fetus, The Locust, Curl Up and Die, Ion Dissonance, Pig Destroyer, Between the Buried and Me, Blood Brothers, Cattle Decapitation, Cannibal Corpse (aging like fine wine), Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, Suicide Silence, The Chariot, and Cephalic Carnage to name some.
The other things I like I'll just call "alternative" to keep it completely simple and to avoid joining the pigeonholing committee. I don't like shoegaze as a genre, but "loveless" by My Bloody Valentine is one of my favorite albums:
I also like The Smiths/Morrissey, Aphex Twin, Pink Floyd, Blur, The Verve, Blonde Redhead, Radiohead/Thom Yorke, Sonic Youth, and The Velvet Underground.
I'm not at all averse to rap/hip-hop, but I prefer more socially substantial (I don't know how else to describe it) hip-hop like Common and Mos Def as opposed to gangster rap.
I kind of like some dubstep I've heard, but I don't know any artists other than Skrillex really. But I do like electronica/techno/trance/so on and so forth, also not knowing particular artists.
The only music I really cannot do is American country, or this hybrid someone has told me is called "hick-hop". I'm cool with like Johnny Cash, but so much modern country I've heard is pretty much top 40 pop with twang vocals and a lap guitar.
So yeah. A lot of that obviously is old, and that's fine in and of itself. But new great music is being made every single day, and I know that I've missed a lot of music over the years. So let's talk about the music we love, I'm sure that there's Escapists listening to things that I couldn't believe I've missed!
So I'm 27, and I've been raising a baby for the last 18 months. She's starting to develop an interest in music (wants certain things on, shows disdain for some, likes to dance), and I realized that I haven't really updated my catalog in like 5 or 6 years.
I used to play in bands when I was in high school, and I kept up a bit after I graduated, and for whatever reason I got into that rut. I haven't become the stereotypical "this isn't music! In my day...", but I find it really difficult to find new artists that I'd like, I mostly pick up new albums by artists I already listened to for years and I know I'm missing out on some amazing stuff. I intend to play music in the house way more often, so I'm excited about the idea of hearing what the Escapists are into these days.
I'll just share what I like/have liked, but please don't feel like a recommendation has to in any way resemble what I'm into. In the past I've liked tons of things I never thought I would, so it would be great if people could share what they personally love (though if someone's on the same page as me, those recommendations certainly wouldn't hurt). Anyway, I'll shut up and get on with it:
My favorite artist, period, is Elliott Smith. You may know him from his many songs being peppered throughout the movie Good Will Hunting. I'll share "Between the Bars":
In that vein, I like Nick Drake, Simon and Garfunkel, Sufjan Stevens and some Bright Eyes.
I'm also a metalhead/hardcore kid at heart. My favorite band is Converge:
In that vein I like Cryptopsy, Dying Fetus, The Locust, Curl Up and Die, Ion Dissonance, Pig Destroyer, Between the Buried and Me, Blood Brothers, Cattle Decapitation, Cannibal Corpse (aging like fine wine), Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, Suicide Silence, The Chariot, and Cephalic Carnage to name some.
The other things I like I'll just call "alternative" to keep it completely simple and to avoid joining the pigeonholing committee. I don't like shoegaze as a genre, but "loveless" by My Bloody Valentine is one of my favorite albums:
I also like The Smiths/Morrissey, Aphex Twin, Pink Floyd, Blur, The Verve, Blonde Redhead, Radiohead/Thom Yorke, Sonic Youth, and The Velvet Underground.
I'm not at all averse to rap/hip-hop, but I prefer more socially substantial (I don't know how else to describe it) hip-hop like Common and Mos Def as opposed to gangster rap.
I kind of like some dubstep I've heard, but I don't know any artists other than Skrillex really. But I do like electronica/techno/trance/so on and so forth, also not knowing particular artists.
The only music I really cannot do is American country, or this hybrid someone has told me is called "hick-hop". I'm cool with like Johnny Cash, but so much modern country I've heard is pretty much top 40 pop with twang vocals and a lap guitar.
So yeah. A lot of that obviously is old, and that's fine in and of itself. But new great music is being made every single day, and I know that I've missed a lot of music over the years. So let's talk about the music we love, I'm sure that there's Escapists listening to things that I couldn't believe I've missed!
