freekyE

I guess i have to be the one to step up and represent for the punk scene...

bands ill love till i die

Bad Religion (lead singer taught evolutionary biology at cornell univ)

NOFX (lead singer started legendary label FAT WRECHORDS)

The Pogues (lead singer is possibly the ugliest man to ever live........amazing band though)

Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies (all cover punk band..... you aint heard a denver song till its sung by these guys)

Social Distortion (mike ness is the second coolest man to ever live)

Minor Threat (i just love 'em)



..ok so there are a few other bands i love that arent punk rock and havent been mentioned..

Johnny Cash (the coolest man to ever live)

Megadeth (i often thank god that mustaine was kicked outta metallica cause this band may never have happened.....and metallica sucks.....always have)

The Beatles (come on....)

Marilyn Manson (he's our generations alice cooper... and the music aint as bad this time)

so there we go a few i like that i think everyone should at least listen to once.....



oh yeah btw......IM THE THIRD COOLEST MAN TO EVER LIVE!!!! lol

Rincewind

I have a few of her CD's, I also enjoy Enigma, or the Narada Decade CD's if I'm in a newagey mood. Although, the majority of my music collection lies in the Celtic, Folk, Jazz/Fusion area (over 80 CD's). I'm invested heavily in the Chieftains (I have all of their albums + 7 original LP's) and Shaun Davey. Jazz is Monk (Jr), Davis, Coltrane, & Brubeck. I'm working on filling in my vyn jazz collection, but I'm not trying too hard

EDIT: haha, I have a few Loreena McKennitt CD's as well.

Edit: Some "techno" music is very compositionally rich and intellectualy engaging. Some of it really jogs my mind. Not quite like the 9th or anything, but I listen to some stuff that approaches that for me.

Also, I have been known to enjoy 'rap' I'm not really interested in the hardcore stuff (unless the lyrics are smart and the rhymes are quick), but more of the g-funk and whimsical. Like Dr. Octagon. Jamiroquai is great. He made it worth watching Napoleon Dynamite to the end. (yeah, I know he's not rap )

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Rincewind

Johnny Cash is good (I only have MP3's of him though). So is Kenny Rogers, Hank, Nelson, Brooks (both of 'em), and Glenn Campbell. Pat Humphries has some really catchy folk-lesson songs out as well. I'm not really fleshed out in country music, though. But I'm getting there.

EDIT: Check out http://www.ishkur.com/music/ for a comprehensive guide to electronic music. It's a fun site. Crank up the 303's

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ScratchMonkey

Which reminds me: Who here owns vinyl? I've got a couple big stacks from my college days.

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AzzMan

My mom game some old Sabbath vinyls, original copies, in good condition to me.

And alot of electronica (techno is a subgenre) is VERY engaging, not much of it is even danceable. Aphex Twin for example.

As for good rap, if ANYONE in this thread has not heard Busdriver, Del the Funky Homosapien or Deltron 3030, I highly advise them all to check all 3 out this very instance.

munchkin

I'm completely lost when it comes to dance music and electronica, but I'd like to get an appreciation for it. Any suggestions?

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freekyE

as far as electronica id suggest..

orbital
aphex twin
the dust brothers (they did the fight club soundtrack)
paul oakenfold
underworld (later stuff)
the crystal method

these are all pretty mainstream, so you should be able to find them anywhere you get music
if you like any of those then start looking around at other DJs cause even the lowliest unpopular DJ can sound pretty good


if youre interested in the roots of electronica and want to hear what people call the first techno then check out "kraftwerk"

leejo

I do! I have about 1000 lps, a Sota Comet turntable, Audioquest PT-9 tonearm, Audioquest Emerald phono cable, and a Grado Sonata cartridge, all sitting in a storage center right now.

Mateo

I'm not big on rap either....Dr. Octagon is fantastic though. I usually listen to the stuff on the fringe, where something interesting/cool is being done: Quasimodo, Lateef/Lyrics Born, Mike Ladd, Forest Fires Collective, Sage Francis, DJ. Spooky, DJ Krush, etc.

You know, sometimes I think I'm Indie Pete from Diesel Sweeties: If other people like it, it must suck.

leejo

With rap, I like Snoop, NWA, Public Enemy, Chuck D, Ice Cube, Dre, etc.

I think they're fantastic musicians and the production value is top knotch.

Mateo

Wow, where to start.

DJ Tiesto has a set of discs called In Search of Sunrise. #3 and #4 are about as good an introduction into the state of trance as you can get.

Other DJ luminaries are Paul Oakenfold (bit to commercial for me-Great Wall is his best IMO), Sasha (His Global Underground discs are classic), John Digweed (Try Global Underground 006-Sydney), and on the house side, anything by Deep Dish.

Sasha and Digweed also did a series called Northern Exposure. The first is a double CD which leans on the more spacey side. The second, was broken up into East and West discs. This set should be essential listening for....well, just about everyone. The last one in the series (Expeditions) was also good, but not as good as the others.

For techno, on one extreme you have semi-melodic stuff like orbital and Underworld (I disagree with the later recommendation-Get dubnobasswithmyheadman-it's an acidtrip in a box!), and at the other end, Autechre, Aphex Twin, etc. and lots of stuff inbetween.

House, well, I generally don't listen to house, so I'm no help there. Deep Dish is as close as I get.

There is a great Podcast, Space Music with TC, that you should check out for an introduction to Chillout/ambient/space.

Drum and Bass is the bastid child of hip-hop and techno. It ranges from jazzy stuff that's quite good as background music (LTJ Bukem), to stuff that sounds like drills left on tabletops. The first Metalhedz collection is as good an introduction as any.

Mateo

Leejo is straight out of M-F Compton!

freekyE

sasha and digweed are fantastic.... i just figured id mention the mainstream ones first

ive only heard one dj spooky cd (cant remember the title) and it was pretty good. are they all good or should i check out certain ones?

man, i grew up in so cal, so i was there when dre and snoop were makin it big but i still have to say public enemy and ice cube are the top boys on the west coast.

Rincewind

The k is silkent. The k is sileknt.




Check out the link I posted above Munchkin. You can listen to audio samples of the different genre's of electonica. It's a fun guide to browse through.

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