Looking for new music, any suggestions?

[Nouw]

Spoiler: Gorillaz

The songs they make are extremely varied, especially in their latest album Plastic Beach. This is why it's kinda hard to give them a genre however 'Alternative Hip-Hop' or 'Trip-Hop' seems to be in the favour.

Spoiler: Daft Punk

A French house duo that continues to create masterpiece after masterpiece. Refer to Tron:Legacy.

 

[Trilaanus]

Always glad to spread the word.

Blue Oyster Cult is a lite-metal band that started in the early 70s, though they were active under other names since 1967. They are most famous for a 1976 song titled Don't Fear the Reaper and also brought us the greatest song about a rampaging Japanese monster in Godzilla(1978).

Most of BOC's catalog includes songs that tell epic tales of the Occult, science fiction and dark fantasy epics, many based on the works of popular authors such as Michael Moorcock and John Shirley. Also the occasional true story tune such as Then Came the Last Days of May and Hot Rails to Hell or just plain old tributes to rocking out like Cities on Flame With Rock and Roll.

Some specific favorites include:
Veteran of the Psychic Wars about a world where wars are fought with psychics instead of guns
The Vigil, about a UFO cult waiting to be taken to the stars
The Great Sun Jester where a man becomes a cosmic god-like entity
Heavy Metal: The Black and Silver, the only song I know of about a Black Hole
All the songs that eventually went into their Imaginos album to make a story about a man chosen by the 7 gods of fate to assist them in directing the history of the world.

Heck they even have a song about the world's first jet-propelled fighter plane with ME262.

Give em a try.

 

[Death Prophet]

Anything by AC/DC obviously, but ive found an odd enjoyment of a fictional band in Infant Sorrow!



Quite remarkably Russel Brand is a great singer, who knew.

 

[Fanta Grape]

The Strangers
Nirvana
The Beach Boys
The Monkeys
The Kinks
The Doors
Frank Sinatra
The Chordettes
Journey
David Bowie
Queen

Get to know the classics first

The only one in this list that I haven't already got on CD/iPod is Journey. Are they good? And you'd be surprised how much I listen to things like Queen, Bowie and the Beach Boys

Good to know you have taste!

Journey's pretty good. You know, they did 'Don't Stop Believing'?

Okay, I'll give you some more bands then.

The Unicorns - Canadian indie rock - "I was born a unicorn"
Islands - Canadian indie rock - "Rough Gem"
The Divine Comedy - Indie pop rock - "Happy Goth"
The Libertines - British Rock - "What Katie Did"
The Coral - Rock - "Dreaming of You"
Ball Park Music - Australian pop - Ifly
Devotchka - Rock? - How it Ends

and a couple of soundtrack songs...

 

[Everin]

Good to know you have taste!

Journey's pretty good. You know, they did 'Don't Stop Believing'?

Okay, I'll give you some more bands then.

The Unicorns - Canadian indie rock - "I was born a unicorn"
Islands - Canadian indie rock - "Rough Gem"
The Divine Comedy - Indie pop rock - "Happy Goth"
The Libertines - British Rock - "What Katie Did"
The Coral - Rock - "Dreaming of You"
Ball Park Music - Australian pop - Ifly
Devotchka - Rock? - How it Ends

Oh, I actually have heard Journey, but just that song, which is under 'unknown artist' in my ipod. Cheers
and from what ive heard of these bands so far they are quite good im listening to dreaming of you at the moment

 

[Offworlder_v1legacy]

Try some Weezer:


But try to avoid the Raditude album, it's not great, but anything else is awesome. It's a pretty diverse range of rock.

 

[mechanixis]

Homestuck music, son!

Spoiler: A few samplings, but its all over the spectrum. It's generally a lovely blend of electronica and chiptune.

Alternatively, Radiohead.

Spoiler: Experimental Alt Rock at its best. My favorite band of all time.

I'm into the weird shit.

 

[Everin]

Try some Weezer:
But try to avoid the Raditude album, it's not great, but anything else is awesome. It's a pretty diverse range of rock.

I have to say Weezer is pretty good, and anyone else reading this should listen to them too but thanks for the suggestion

 

[Sleekgiant]

These to start you off, also listen close to Lupe, it actually has a good message.

 

[blankedboy]

Spoiler: Industrial

Spoiler: IDM

https://inkbunny.net/submissionview.php?id=55431
That last one's a real braindriller, listen it out at least to the drum solo.
Same with that one. It's alot more breakcorey though.

Spoiler: Prog Metal

Spoiler: Rock-ish stuff

^That one's called Kiri by Monoral, it's the best quality version on Youtube so I got that one.

Spoiler: ...Panzerballet.

Ignore the thing at the start of that one, it's not the actual song.

Spoiler: Me because I need exposure

That'll keep you busy for a while

 

[Tanis]

Silversun Pickups

Scissor Sisters

Imogen Heap

 

[philzibit]

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[gNetkamiko]

My suggestion would be any of the albums by Ayreon. They (or, should I say, he, as it started with one guy) practically revived the Rock Opera genre back in the early '90s.

Each of the Ayreon albums is a series of songs that come together to tell a story, and the entire list can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayreon

As is explained in the wiki article, they combine traditional instruments in rock music with instruments more native to folk and classical music, which I've found to be very appealing.

I definitely recommend Ayreon for sci-fi/medieval/psychology geeks as well as people who like all forms of rock-n-roll.

 

[Rommel_23]

http://youtu.be/niqrrmev4mA?hd=1

Music starts at 2:00 =]. Its so close to gay porn but it isn't, I promise!
Gaga, FTW

 

[Harry Mason]

The most brilliant and most criminally ignored musical genius of our generation.
Amon Tobin.

 

[Pinky]

Look into Canadian indie Because it's rad and different.
I posted these on a different topic the other day :0 blar har har

Broken Social Scene... [link]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0BkgakEKVk[/link]

Arcade Fire... [link]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH_7_XRfTMs[/link]

Stars [link]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgocyn8Jw-E[/link]

 

[Brett450]

Poets of the Fall.

http://youtu.be/0f_hewSrAH4

 

[Ikaruga33]

Queen kiss guns and roses AC DC


Classics

 

[Dark Knifer]

System of a down.

Spoiler: Because they are awesome