I (Need) New Music (In My Life) - A Not So Humble Request For Input · 1:16am May 19th, 2020
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I "need" more/new music in my life
Any suggestions?
I'd be open to y'all marsupials' recommendations.
You can toss links/references from the bottom of your brain bone.
Or try to dip into lemur sauce.
I'd be thankful either way.
As for mesa; eclectic interests are eclectic.
For reference...
My favorite artists of all time include:
-Radiohead
-Pink Floyd
-Simon and Garfunkel
-Beatles
-The Arcade Fire
-Petra
My favorite albums of all time include:
-The Suburbs by The Arcade Fire
-Band on the Run by McCartney and Wings
-Since I Left You by Avalanches
-OK Computer by Radiohead
-Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective
-Days of Future Past by The Moody Blues
-LO:FI VS. SCI:FI by Deitiphobia
Back in 2011 During My Renaissance of Horsewords, I Listened To:
-the Arcade Fire
-Naked and Famous
-Octopus Project
-LCD Soundsystem
-Avalanches
-Apocalyptica
As of Right Now, My Favorite Genres/Tunes to Listen to (Especially While Writing) Are:
-Synthwave
-Dark synth
-Mall Soft
-Sound Blaster 16 Orchestrations
-Late 80s/Early 90s Pop Music
If you're feeling generous, go ham. If not, that's cool too. I'll only get fatter either way.
Burp
-SS&E
See, I want to offer you something, but I'm pretty sure you'd hate my usual listening choices. Most of my go tos are Fall Out Boy, Panic, and a bunch of their periphery and that's a pretty far cry from anything I would wager you would enjoy.
Crazy songs: Suction Cup Man theme, Axel F Crazy Frog
Good songs: Other Friends, Black Catcher Black Clover, Blackfire, Beyblade Burst, Turbo, Rise themes, Evolution by EXILE and Korn, Peace Sign My Hero Academia
Aight. I can offer stuffs.
Glass Animals, for starters:
(Above one is a personal fave)
Cold War Kids and New Politics, can't go wrong with them:
For some excellent funk mashups, Rollomatik:
Motherfucking Black Keys. 'Nuff said.
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I've more. Maybe in a bit. Just a suggestion for now.
~Skeeter The Lurker
I'm currently addicted to ILLENIUM.
I would also recommend Crywolf.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The new gens gotta recommend only new gens.
Cavetown (This is Home, Hug all ur friends, Meteor Shower. [Meteor Shower gives off first chapter Austraeoh vibes.])
Hollow Coves (Anew, Patience, Shoreline, The Woods)
Flatsound (i exist I exist i exist [BP])
Beowulf (Savior, tryumph, alcoholic paradise, Today is a Gift)
Crywank (Memento Mori, Hikikomori)
Low Roar (Bones, I’ll Keep Coming. [These are the Death Stranding guys. In relation to MLP it’s the baby anti-abortion things in the game that gave temporary relapse rise to the RD cum jar meme])
Cold Weather Company (Clover)
Matt Maeson (Dancing After Death, Cringe, Straight Razor)
Minecraft Volume Alpha (mmmhmm)
Mobble (beautiful brain)
Scruffpuppie (ego)
Teen Suicide (no, the moon)
Sleep Party People (I’m not Human at All)
Stalaggh (Projekt Misanthropia ( ͡ᵔ ͜ʖ ͡ᵔ))
Elvis Depressdley (Wastes of Time, Survivors’ Guilt.)
Flatfoot 56 (Winter in Chicago [Because the interactive pony won’t let go of IWTCIRD])
And please, let us not forget PhillyPu, Alex S, Forest Rain, and Sim Gretina.
Cacti is pretty nice.
If you're feeling a bit adventurous you can try listen to some Japanese/English hybrid rap by DemonDice.
Saint Motel has a lot of good songs, here's a recent one I listen too.
Caravan Palace is one of my favourites, here's the one most recent in my music list.
Mystery Skulls is a gem, here is a B movie esq music video that I like.
If you don't like the songs I linked here I still suggest looking into the artists further since they all tend to have a good variety of style.
Queen, Abba, Weird Al Yankovich?
Mostly I might listen to a lot of music, but its usually only a couple tracks per group.
P.S. please do not advertise that image again I am crying
I think I have a few that might be up your alley.
Have some instrumental goodness:
Go listen to the () album by Sigur Ros.
Mystery skulls, Steam Powered Giraffe, techno swing
Rando
Classic
Rolling Ash
Goodbye Love Song
London Bourough
London Bourough
Desole
Saturnz Burn
Momentary Bliss
Jong Inai
Yakuza Hat Kid
LoZBoTW
Disney Stargirl - Oldschool
It's Terror Time . . . again
Where is Carmen Sandiego????
Sorry . .. . . not sORRY
YOuR dRUNk
I dunno where this came from, but I like it . . . kinda
Life of an SCP
Melancholic Angry Dwarf
Blast from MY past
. . . . Don't Judge me
. . . . . Fine, you can Judge me for this
Evil Queen Lullaby
Communication
Candance being a Zealot
Summer
Summer again
AppleJack being Applejack
Simple and Clean
Abomination
Im Still Here
Speakeasy
Sound of Silence
You will Cry, depending on your childhood or if you play a certain game
Mario Party
UNder Pressure
Lifelight
Gumball + Halloween
Adventure Time - One Last Song
Los Los Los
rHYTHM And its Essay
Hands of Gold
NO 5
Magic
Deltarune
This Trinity Going to War
Everything Gumball (I especially recommend watching this one until the VERY END)
Oldschool Singa
Tirn Na nOg
Star Wars Violin Melody
Melodies of Life
Classic
I'd love to help, but...
[glares at every single fucking music blog I've ever done]
I doubt I'd be able to.
Unironically the entire discography of Homestuck. Volumes 7-10 are probably the peak, but I want to especially call attention to some of the individual artists' solo albums, particularly Strife! by Joren "Tensei" de Bruin, Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido by Michael "Guy" Bowman, and Symphony Impossible to Play by Clark "Plazmataz" Powell. Despite what my pic and username may imply I never really got into all the deep fandom craziness with fantrolls and theorycrafting and smearing grey makeup everywhere, but I am a huge dork for the music, and I doubt I'd ever have been as big a fan of the comic as I am if not for its killer tunes.
A few random favorites for you to sample:
Time On My Side, by Tensei
Lies With the Sea, by Michael Bowman
Carne Vale, by Malcolm Brown
Savior of the Dreaming Dead, by Malcolm Brown (a remix of a song originally by Toby Fox)
Lotus (Bloom), by Seth "Beatfox" Peelle
[Edit: Post revised to include artist names on the albums and songs.]
For easy-sounding stuff with really subversive lyrics, you can never go wrong with Steely Dan. Since Weezer is covering almost everybody these days, you can get your early-90s pop and Wings/Radiohead fix in one place. Also, you should listen to some Rush and pay your respects to the late, great Professor of Percussion, Neil Peart.
Friendly PSA: please put [artist - song name] for the videos you post so that if it is blocked in our country or when Youtube inevitably takes it down in 3 month's time, we will have a fighting chance to find it again.5264929
A man of impeccable taste and culture I see...
If that is your sort of thing and you want more psychadelic, there is Black Angels:
The Prodigal Sun
You On The Run
Black Grease
Young Men Dead
What about Black Revel Motorcycle Club?
Red Eyes And Tears
Love Burns
Ain't No Easy Way
Took Out A Loan
Windows
For synth gubbins, there is Scandroid:
You might have heard, or heard of both of these already.
Jeff Buckley: The amazing album Grace. This is Hallelujah, from a live performance.
Massive Attack, Inertia Creeps from the album Mezzanine. There's a lot of excellent music on this album.
I am bad with links so I am just going to write it.
- Gogol Bordello. Check out their song "Wanderlust king" is a good entry point for the group.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EHfNGxy4R8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XIV5-axhFM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNMGMV1gHso
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFJM9LH2iEY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjC8UIeJD9I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-egHX1NzrA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fwprytzQxI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NUjCcHbUjo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUSeZZxWaBc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnhJ6Ina2hs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Avlh980k4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1uKcI0C670
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65ibUvpkig8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ny1gDXKSYo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euLPaggvpkk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ76zSOjhYo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAJE0BsSj5g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcS-McOrW9E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB1lRUyn3Vg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDofVBbPcjw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cogz6NYUfKk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZOug_c657c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFUAG_1775U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YEm4AL_MRI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VloFDKLrI2g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMhK2enxy4g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2WOulFB3So
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbe5dkUSYho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6Gv3s9z3M0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvFYw6Q83Do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxjljjWgPww
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IF1dv01WPw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW5ga5MmnhY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ8y87YQDX4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYAhl1_m47o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xseSsQcbLM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5D8Bieylck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idB2mtdUjQ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=malJUMz2A9Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfRwdGzS1m0
hard mode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH3MpiGm_Y4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLTDkG-TMVU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGskemRVgcM
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I've been listening to a lot of Murder by Death as of late. They're a dark country band with a pretty unique sound, and I found this first song through a Destiny trailer.
After that, I tracked down their albums and spent basically a couple nights delving through all of it, and adding it to various playlists. This one's a bit faster, I'm actually brainstorming an animatic set to this.
I also spend... What is probably a bit too much time compiling playlists based around characters, moods, or planned stories. I'll post these links, which will hopefully give you a bit more variety.
This one's mostly about driving and staying on the move. You actually got me into Arcade Fire a couple blogposts back, and they've been appropriately added to this.
This one is about flight, and features the Ace Combat 7 soundtrack heavily, as well as a good bit of post-rock.
I spend a lot of time thinking about Celestia, and this playlist is mostly for songs that I personally think she'd enjoy. They're happy, they're regretful, they're about learning and meeting new people.
This one's about Tempest Shadow, and directly related to a story I have planned in the future. Lots of rock, lots of war songs.
And this one, finally, is the unofficial soundtrack to a story I'm currently writing, more or less in order. Lots of dark country like Murder By Death, mixed in with boss fight themes, and a general tone of "We've made a lot of mistakes."
If you ever get around to listening to these, Skirts, I hope you enjoy them. You're an inspiration to me, and one thing I spend a lot of time doing is searching for music, so this seemed like a good opportunity to pay that back a little.
If you happen to like acoustic guitar, try anything by Ewan Dobson or Estas Tonne. Both are awe-inspiring musicians and composers alike.
Ronald Jenkees is excellent.
Steam Powered Giraffe is unique.
If you want weird... try Empire of the Sun:
If you want Disney, but metal, and metal/vocal covers in general, these two guys, Jonathan Young and Caleb Hyles, will absolutely blow you away:
Probably A Decade alone on the Alps by Cathedral Ring, or Leave me No Light by April Rain. Also maybe A Different Arrangement by Black Marble.
That's a very appreciable list of references.
Out the top of my lemur head, I can think of two things:
Maybe you'd like something non-English for a change. One of my favourite rock albums is "Blood Group" (Группа Крови) by a Russian band called "Kino" (Кино). There is a lot of nifty music from that time and place. It's a piece of my childhood, so even if I don't understand the lyrics, it's, well, special to me.
Nicolas Varien Kaeler has undergone vast changes in his music style. Maybe it's not the kind of Synthwave you are looking for since it's very reminiscent of early 2010s poni musik (reminds me of the VA-11-HALL-A soundtrack, too), but maybe it is up to your palate. I like it for the listening to on afternoons to wrap up work days.
Keep on the Kaizo ride, and all.
That's a lot of references. Unfortunately, I am not familiar with most of them so I will ignore them in favor of my tastes.
Some songs I have recently gotten into are;
Stick Up - grandson
Captains All - Aurelio Voltaire
Yuve Yuve Yu - The Hu
Blood // Water - grandson
The Straight Razor Cabaret - Aurelio Voltaire
The Stage - Avenged Sevenfold
Classic country music such as Marty Robbins and Johnny Cash
Over the Hills and Far Away - Nightwish
There are more, but I wanted to suggest a variety of sounds. And again, this is not a list of what you should or shouldn't like, this is a list of some things I like.
So, probably not Taylor Swift then?
Guess I'll be of no help
Long Lankin by Steeleye Span
Allison Gross by Steeleye Span
The Tricks of London by Steeleye Span
Fog on the Tyne by Lindisfarne
Matty Groves by Fairport Convention
John Barleycorn by Traffic
Hourglass by Squeeze
Toye by Amazing Blondel
Men and Women by Uncle Bonsai
My Father's Shoes by Cliff Eberhardt
Hello Cruel World by E
Fitting in With the Misfits by E
Looking at all the recs above and soon below, you really opened the floodgates!
How about we start with something you inspired!
Time Lapse - L.M. & FritzyBeat
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GUNSHIP - Tech Noir
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Madeon - Finale
Madeon - Dream Dream Dream
Madeon - Borealis
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The Midnight - Los Angeles
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In case you're
crazyinterested in songs about Megaman and Castlevania by a band punching way out of their league:The Megas - History Repeating/One Last Time
The Megas - The Belmonts (Skulls) - 04 Vampire Killer (feat. Amanda Lepre)
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Nice.
I now have but one question:
Turn Blue, was that a good album or not?
~Skeeter The Lurker
Im a twenty-something man with the musical tastes of both a mid-level music student and a teenage girl c. 2009, so hell knows if you've got any taste similar to mine.
That said, here's some bands/artists I listen to that I'd love to see get more love:
Tell Me You Know - GOOD KID
Falcon 9/Felling Lonely - Ben Levin
We Intertwined - The Hush Sound
ES - Crying
Henrietta - Fratellis
Battle Dancing Unicorns with Glitter - Five Iron Frenzy
Hope people like em!
I've been going through American Murder Song, Lord Huron, and The Hush Sound quite a bit. One of those might be your speed. Seeing that you like Arcade Fire, you would probably like the album Vide Noir of Lord Huron's stuff best and The Hush Sound's Like Vines as starting points. I also like Cavetown. You might like them; I could see it fueling some Flash Sentry stuff. Everything else I've been cycling through lately has been Gorillaz (which were already suggested) and metal (Epica and Nightwish) which doesn't seem to be your thing?
There's also anything by Florence and the Machine. That's always some of my favorite stuff.
I'm sure everything I suggested is on Youtube, but all the links I find seem to go down super quickly or just end up not working when I try and go back to them.
I have to mention that a lot of the music that I listen is rather eccentric, such any music by Iannis Xenakis. Also the only genres I am well versed in are jazz fusion, 20th/21st century classical music, and progressive rock. Either way, I hope this is helpful.
Project Dolphin - "Dynamic Burst"
Project Dolphin - "Approaching Fast"
Project Dolphin's Band Camp
Outback - "Airplay"
Outback Playlist
Dick Dale - "Miserlou"
Dick Dale - Tribal Thunder
Dick Dale - Unknown Territory
Joni Mitchell - "Jungle Line"
Joni Mitchell - "Shadows and Light"
Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Expresso II
Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Time is the Key first four tracks
Frank Zappa - Jazz From Hell
Frank Zappa - "Montana"
Frank Zappa - "Muffin Man"
John Zorn - Simulacrum
John Zorn - Midsummer Moons
John Zorn - Interpretation of Dreams
Some Classical Musical
Johann Sebastian Bach - The Musical Offering, BMV 1079
Alexander Scriabin - Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, Op. 60
Frank Zappa - London Symphony Orchestra Vol. I & II
Some Extra Eccentric Music
John Cowell - "The Tides of Manaunaun"
Iannis Xenakis - Metastaseis
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It is no Thickfreakness, Rubber Factory, or Magic Potion, but it is not bad. Personally I prefer the gritty, raw, lo-finess of those three the best (it is what drew me to them in the first place), but I understand it is not for everyone.
Dan Auerbach has some lovely independent stuff that is remisecent of those earlier albums:
Mean Monsoon
Street Walkin'
How about some down tempo trip-hop from Bonobo?
Black Sands
Animals
Kiara
We Could Forever
All In Forms
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Oh god yes. Mezzanine is absolutely delicious.
Angel
Risingson
Queen of hearts: Juice Newton.
The Entire half life 2 soundtrack.
Everyday is a winding road: Sheryl Crow.
Black water: Reuben and the Dark.
Atomic: Blondie.
Memory Replaced: Josh Woodward.
Heart of glass: Blondie.
Fast as you: Dwight Yoakam.
Ordinary morning: Sheryl Crow.
Yeah that's my list. Have a good one!
https://youtu.be/PWt2waUyoLg
Personally I prefer the blues.
I'm pretty late to this, but synthwave / retrowave / outrun is right up my alley, and the vast majority of music that I listen to, so I have a few individual pieces to recommend;
I'm a big sucker for rallying and other types of motorsport like the British and German Touring Car leagues in the 1980s and 1990s, and evidently I'm not the only one who thinks the high-speed competition in racing of some 20-30 years ago fits very, very well with the general theme of the synthwave genre.
Bruh, your latest musical interests while writing and so on are the same as mine.
I'll be back here later to give you some song links.
As I said prior, I am back to give some song links, lemur boy!
Synthwave and 80s style music:
90s party music:
2000s party music:
2000s Hip-Hop/Rap:
90s rock/indie:
Happy hardcore/Electro/House/ect
Hard Rock/Metal:
Classical:
Video Game Music:
Okay, this is getting rather long, so I'll leave it here. I adore music, used to play a few instruments before moving years ago, and have lots to share! This should cover a good mix of genres and styles.
Edit:
This whole album is fantastic!
I suggest the following
Paradise Theater by Styx
The Monkees 1987 album Pool It! (Also the single That Was Then, This Is Now)
Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds
The Protomen - Act II: The Father of Death
The Protomen: The Cover Up