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Kizzume
11-03-2012, 09:46 PM
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Beatles - White Album
Radiohead - OK Computer
Nirvana - Nevermind
Madonna - Like A Prayer
Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection
Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
Beck - Sea Change
Yes - Fragile
Moonraker - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Captain Obvious
11-03-2012, 10:01 PM
Live - Throwing Copper
The Verve Pipe - The Verve Pipe
Buzz Poets - Buzz Poets
Buzz Poets - Alcohol Abuse Live (great campsite music)
Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe
Beck - Odelay

GrassrootsConservative
11-03-2012, 10:05 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFgkAEQo2NU


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U1CV-lz08c


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq4kY75-1HY

GrassrootsConservative
11-03-2012, 10:10 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4DBWqoSupc


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZAKk3kxI1o


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93rpRyoiTYs

BooHoo
11-03-2012, 10:35 PM
Any album by Queen ;)

Trinnity
11-03-2012, 10:41 PM
Pretty Hate Machine. Ten perfect songs.
Several Led Zep albums
Pink Floyd: Animals, Wish you were here.

GrassrootsConservative
11-03-2012, 10:42 PM
News of the World and Jazz would be good albums to start with... from Queen, that is.

Trinnity
11-03-2012, 10:44 PM
Jethro Tull: Aqualung

GrassrootsConservative
11-03-2012, 10:46 PM
Did anyone try the albums I posted?

Kizzume
11-03-2012, 10:56 PM
Did anyone try the albums I posted?

Almost all you post is grunting screaming cookiemonster-vocal metal, can't stand almost any of it--or at least any of it that I've heard so far (including in other threads). Do you listen to anything that's remotely musical, or is it all noise?

Captain Obvious
11-03-2012, 10:57 PM
Incubus - Make Yourself
Phantom of the Opera - Original Soundtrack
Cake - Fashion Nugget

Deadwood
11-03-2012, 10:59 PM
Tommy - The Who
Beatles - Sgt Peppers
Beatles - Abbey Road
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold, Brothers in Arms, Sultans of Swing -greatest hits
Loreena Mcinnett - The Visit, Mask and the Mirror, The Book of Secrets
Cream - Disreali Gears
London Philharmonic - Borodin; The Prince 2003
Berlin Symphony Orchestra - Tchaikovsky; War of 1812 with cannon

Kizzume
11-03-2012, 10:59 PM
I definitely need to check out more Cake.

GrassrootsConservative
11-03-2012, 11:01 PM
Almost all you post is grunting screaming cookiemonster-vocal metal, can't stand almost any of it--or at least any of it that I've heard so far (including in other threads). Do you listen to anything that's remotely musical, or is it all noise?

It's all very musical, it all has a rhythm. Listen to Ghost, the vocals there are clean. :) You can understand the lyrics and everything.

Kizzume
11-03-2012, 11:01 PM
Stravinsky - Rite of Spring
Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition / Night on Bald Mountain
Raiders of the Lost Ark - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Tron - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Kizzume
11-03-2012, 11:04 PM
It's all very musical, it all has a rhythm. Listen to Ghost, the vocals there are clean. :) You can understand the lyrics and everything.

Thanks--that was one I hadn't checked yet. Took a little glimpse and it sounds pretty good, I'll have to give it more of a listen.

I've known a few people that ONLY and I mean ONLY listen to noisy, grunty stuff.

GrassrootsConservative
11-03-2012, 11:10 PM
Thanks--that was one I hadn't checked yet. Took a little glimpse and it sounds pretty good, I'll have to give it more of a listen.

I've known a few people that ONLY and I mean ONLY listen to noisy, grunty stuff.

I like it because it makes me feel powerful when I listen to it. I know that probably sounds really absurd, but it's true.
Some people like happy, some people like sad, some people like... whatever... chill if you wanna call it that.
I like heavy music, it soothes me in a way I can't explain. But it's all musical, rhythm, tempo, vocals (even if you don't enjoy them), but I know how you feel. I used to deny that Rap was music until someone very important to me explained what music is.

Captain Obvious
11-03-2012, 11:14 PM
I definitely need to check out more Cake.

I really dig that cheezy tex-mex, talk-sing style. There's a word for that singing style, but I can't remember it.

I could almost list most of their albums as completely listenable all the way through.

GrassrootsConservative
11-03-2012, 11:16 PM
Oh and I do listen to other stuff, a lot of Tool, A Perfect Circle, Lacuna Coil, Coheed and Cambria, Led Zeppelin, Buddy Guy, Phil Collins, The Offspring, even (sorry to admit) some Insane Clown Posse if I'm in the mood.

But more often then not when I go out the music I play is the music I post here. At heart I am a metalhead, it's how I was raised. My parents listened to shit like AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest, Def Leppard, you know the drill. I kind of took up their taste in music, just taken to a different extreme, I suppose.

GrassrootsConservative
11-03-2012, 11:19 PM
I really dig that cheezy tex-mex, talk-sing style. There's a word for that singing style, but I can't remember it.

I could almost list most of their albums as completely listenable all the way through.

Comfort Eagle is CAKE's best album, and I think you might be talking about Ska.
Most Ska has the same type of vocals, I mean.

Kizzume
11-03-2012, 11:19 PM
I like it because it makes me feel powerful when I listen to it. I know that probably sounds really absurd, but it's true.
Some people like happy, some people like sad, some people like... whatever... chill if you wanna call it that.
I like heavy music, it soothes me in a way I can't explain. But it's all musical, rhythm, tempo, vocals (even if you don't enjoy them), but I know how you feel. I used to deny that Rap was music until someone very important to me explained what music is.
I was trained in music and it's hard to throw away that training in order to listen to a type of music. Notes are really important to me, and when those are taken away, it's hard for me to think of it as music. I have a hard time with a lot of rap as well. I know that technically they're music but it's hard for me to think of it that way in my head. The thing I don't like about most rap is that if you listen to it without thinking about what the words mean, like if it was just gibberish lyrics, it's not very interesting, the words are absolutely *crucial* for it to make its point--don't get me wrong, there are some rap songs I really get into, especially when I can clearly understand the lyrics.

My mind is racing most of the time about stuff I'd rather not think about. When I hear grunty screaming cookiemonster-vocals metal with guitars that have so much distortion that notes aren't really a thing anymore, it makes me feel anxious and uncomfortable, something I take medications to try to calm.

Captain Obvious
11-03-2012, 11:19 PM
ICP is great for it's comic value.

Captain Obvious
11-03-2012, 11:22 PM
I was trained in music and it's hard to throw away that training in order to listen to a type of music. Notes are really important to me, and when those are taken away, it's hard for me to think of it as music. I have a hard time with a lot of rap as well. I know that technically they're music but it's hard for me to think of it that way in my head. The thing I don't like about most rap is that if you listen to it without thinking about what the words mean, like if it was just gibberish lyrics, it's not very interesting, the words are absolutely *crucial* for it to make its point.

My mind is racing most of the time about stuff I'd rather not think about. When I hear grunty screaming cookiemonster-vocals metal with guitars that have so much distortion that notes aren't really a thing anymore, it makes me feel anxious and uncomfortable, something I take medications to try to calm.

This was probably 25 years ago, but I was involved in the band scene for a while in my day. Buddy of mine was into this progressively hardcore musician career route. He went to Fla then to CA, cut a few CD's but never got anywhere with it.

Anyway, I was never into the real hard stuff and I was hanging out at one of his rehearsals and during a break I jumped up behind the mic and started grunting out some shit just to fuck around. They wanted me to consider singing for them.

Yeah, right.

Kizzume
11-03-2012, 11:25 PM
This was probably 25 years ago, but I was involved in the band scene for a while in my day. Buddy of mine was into this progressively hardcore musician career route. He went to Fla then to CA, cut a few CD's but never got anywhere with it.

Anyway, I was never into the real hard stuff and I was hanging out at one of his rehearsals and during a break I jumped up behind the mic and started grunting out some shit just to fuck around. They wanted me to consider singing for them.

Yeah, right.

The last band I was lead vocalist in we at least got a couple songs recorded:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sGynpntuTU

But I'm mucking up the thread a little, sorry...

Captain Obvious
11-03-2012, 11:28 PM
Hah - your thread dude.

You have a pretty distinctive voice and it sounds like you can use it. Smithereens-ish?

Not a bad tune at all.

BooHoo
11-03-2012, 11:28 PM
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Beatles - White Album
Radiohead - OK Computer
Nirvana - Nevermind
Madonna - Like A Prayer
Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection
Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
Beck - Sea Change
Yes - Fragile
Moonraker - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

I like quite a few of the ones you listed. I also really love anything by Duran Duran, The Cure and Adam Ant lol

BooHoo
11-03-2012, 11:30 PM
I was trained in music and it's hard to throw away that training in order to listen to a type of music. Notes are really important to me, and when those are taken away, it's hard for me to think of it as music. I have a hard time with a lot of rap as well. I know that technically they're music but it's hard for me to think of it that way in my head. The thing I don't like about most rap is that if you listen to it without thinking about what the words mean, like if it was just gibberish lyrics, it's not very interesting, the words are absolutely *crucial* for it to make its point--don't get me wrong, there are some rap songs I really get into, especially when I can clearly understand the lyrics.

My mind is racing most of the time about stuff I'd rather not think about. When I hear grunty screaming cookiemonster-vocals metal with guitars that have so much distortion that notes aren't really a thing anymore, it makes me feel anxious and uncomfortable, something I take medications to try to calm.

Cookie Monster vocals LMAO!!!! Too funny!!

Kizzume
11-03-2012, 11:33 PM
Oh, another one:

Blade Runner -- Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (get the REAL one by Vangelis not the orchestra one)

Deadwood
11-03-2012, 11:33 PM
I was trained in music and it's hard to throw away that training in order to listen to a type of music. Notes are really important to me, and when those are taken away, it's hard for me to think of it as music. I have a hard time with a lot of rap as well. I know that technically they're music but it's hard for me to think of it that way in my head. The thing I don't like about most rap is that if you listen to it without thinking about what the words mean, like if it was just gibberish lyrics, it's not very interesting, the words are absolutely *crucial* for it to make its point--don't get me wrong, there are some rap songs I really get into, especially when I can clearly understand the lyrics.

My mind is racing most of the time about stuff I'd rather not think about. When I hear grunty screaming cookiemonster-vocals metal with guitars that have so much distortion that notes aren't really a thing anymore, it makes me feel anxious and uncomfortable, something I take medications to try to calm.

I feel the same way about heavy metal, but respect those who do like it.

I have never been able to get into rap at all and wonder why it has to always be played so fucking loud.

Anything else is a go, classical, jazz, pop and rock...although I have a hard time with military bagpipe music....one song and I'm usually done.

I like good banjo work and love a well played steel peddle guitar. I have absolutely no musical background whatsoever...

In told this story to IgetitAlready:

I have a deep baritone voice and decided I wanted to learn to sing. A German woman, classical songstress agreed to give me some lessons. I think she was a bit in love with me because she hated teaching and especially adults. So I went to her place and she played a note on the piano and asked me to sing it. I did. Then she played another note and again I sand it. This happened several times and each time she would go "hmmmm, interesting."
When she was done she turned to me and asked "who told you, you were a bass?" I looked at her not understanding and she continued "You sang each note perfectly...one octave low."
"What's an octave?" I asked. I think that was where she stopped being in love with me.
I tried out for a Barbershop Shop Singer's group who said they could teach anyone. They kicked me out a month later. Staying in key for me is like walking from Nome to Cleveland....in the winter......naked.

I listen and when no one is anywhere around I sing along. The only song I can sing all the way through and stay sort of in key is the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Consequently I am not in big demand for sing alongs and avoid kareoke at all cost.

Captain Obvious
11-03-2012, 11:36 PM
I have never been able to get into rap at all and wonder why it has to always be played so fucking loud.

http://a248.e.akamai.net/origin-cdn.volusion.com/swdny.jaovj/v/vspfiles/photos/Patch%2048-2.jpg?1315466364

GrassrootsConservative
11-03-2012, 11:37 PM
cookie monster vocals lmao!!!! Too funny!!

:rofl:

Kizzume
11-03-2012, 11:45 PM
I listen to so many types of music, it's easier for me to say what kind of music I don't like than what I like. I don't like:

Screaming, grunting, cookiemonster-vocals metal
Gangster rap, especially the ak-47 N-word every 4 words bling bling bitches and hoes variety
Most opera, but there are exceptions
Trance--the type of dance music that sounds like a skipping record or CD, where it does the same thing for 2 minutes and finally an instrument changes a little bit
Most NEW country--especially the bands that use voice pitch correction, to me that has no place in country music that's supposed to be so down-home.

But just about everything else, including music from all over the world, I can usually get into. Some African music I'm not so hot on, they like to use the same chord progressions over and over again...

Captain Obvious
11-03-2012, 11:51 PM
African/tribal stuff is all about tempo and percussion.

I'm not a musician, but I'm a drummer and I can get into that shit - especially the hybrid stuff when it's mixed with metal or whatever.

BooHoo
11-04-2012, 12:11 AM
I also love jazz and big band, swing music. What I listen to depends on my mood. Even though I generally like 80's music, there are days I can't tolerate it. I'm also not a fan of rap but I like Beastie Boys.

GrassrootsConservative
11-04-2012, 12:16 AM
I also love jazz and big band, swing music. What I listen to depends on my mood. Even though I generally like 80's music, there are days I can't tolerate it. I'm also not a fan of rap but I like Beastie Boys.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkwTCWmHbpg
9:07

By the way did you hear MCA died?

KC
11-05-2012, 01:31 AM
A few personal favorites that are 100% perfect through and through, imo.

Hella- Hold Your Horse Is

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Evj%2BH8%2B2L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

the Mountain Goats - The Life of the World to Come

http://img.noiset.com/images/album/the-mountain-goats-the-life-of-the-world-to-come-cover-28987.jpeg

the Hold Steady -Separation Sunday

http://mediasnobs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/TheHoldSteadySeparationSunday.jpg

BooHoo
11-05-2012, 01:38 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkwTCWmHbpg
9:07

By the way did you hear MCA died?

I did....still can't believe it. He was so young!!!!

GrassrootsConservative
11-05-2012, 01:40 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfNxa3_GIDE

KC
11-05-2012, 03:16 AM
I definitely need to check out more Cake.

God, they're just so good. One of my favorites. My girlfriend took me to see them on New Years a couple years ago. Great night, one of the best shows I've seen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W92VXNHUf4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSypnaxAlP4

KC
11-05-2012, 03:18 AM
[video=youtube;Bq4kY75-1HY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq4kY75-1HY

Atheist is great. I've only heard Unquestionable Presence, I'll definitely be putting that one in my earholes sometime later.

KC
11-05-2012, 03:21 AM
Beck - Odelay

You just won the internet.

Personally, I can't wait to hear his next album. My friends and I will have to play it ourselves. Hope there's some guitar tabs, I hate trying to read sheet music.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/aug/09/beck-new-album-sheet-music

GrassrootsConservative
11-05-2012, 03:57 AM
Atheist is great. I've only heard Unquestionable Presence, I'll definitely be putting that one in my earholes sometime later.

You really ought to check out Suffocation as well. They're SICK if you like Technical Death Metal (like Atheist, just a little more brutal).

GrassrootsConservative
11-05-2012, 04:08 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ResvvzOu0Rs

oceanloverOH
11-05-2012, 06:49 AM
I can listen to nearly anything....like Kizzume, it's easier for me to come up with genres that I don't like....like most rap. There's no discernible melody (at least for me) and when I can decipher the words, they either make no sense or are filth.

My weakness is the 60s. Here's one of my favorite classic albums....as a teen I wore out TWO copies of Disraeli Gears!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1PTrgww3lE&feature=related

Edit: LOL, Fearandloathing! When I posted this, I hadn't read your post that Disraeli Gears was also one of your favorites! Great minds think alike!

oceanloverOH
11-05-2012, 06:54 AM
Another of my favorites from the 60s.....up till Pet Sounds, Beach Boys music was mostly just simple and pleasant. Pet Sounds was such a departure, such a breakthrough for them, making use of instrumentals and harmonies that just blew me away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGTdmLhKEBk

Larry Dickman
11-05-2012, 09:22 AM
The Doors- The Doors
Sex Pistols- Never mind the Bullocks
The Stranglers- Rattus Norvegicus
Repo Man soundtrack
Return of the Living Dead soundtrack
The Decline of Western Civilization soundtrack
Johnny Cash- Live a San Quentin
Antonio Vivaldi- The Four Seasons (almost any orchestra)
Electric Light Orchestra- Out of the Blue
Van Halen- Fair Warning
AC/DC- Back in Black
Adam and the Ants- Antmusic
Squeeze- Argy Bargy
Pearl Jam- Ten
The Cramps- Bad Music for Bad people

BooHoo
11-05-2012, 12:09 PM
The Doors- The Doors
Sex Pistols- Never mind the Bullocks
The Stranglers- Rattus Norvegicus
Repo Man soundtrack
Return of the Living Dead soundtrack
The Decline of Western Civilization soundtrack
Johnny Cash- Live a San Quentin
Antonio Vivaldi- The Four Seasons (almost any orchestra)
Electric Light Orchestra- Out of the Blue
Van Halen- Fair Warning
AC/DC- Back in Black
Adam and the Ants- Antmusic
Squeeze- Argy Bargy
Pearl Jam- Ten
The Cramps- Bad Music for Bad people

I forgot about Squeeze! Love them!

KC
11-05-2012, 12:15 PM
You really ought to check out Suffocation as well. They're SICK if you like Technical Death Metal (like Atheist, just a little more brutal).

Will do.

My metal tastes tend to vary a lot. I really like Cthonic, Iniquity, Death, Darkthrone, Burzum, Nile and Atheist, but I haven't listened to a lot of those guys since high school.

GrassrootsConservative
11-05-2012, 12:16 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nbB2tHpCwE

KC
11-16-2012, 08:08 PM
World's End Girlfriend- Hurtbreak Wonderland is perfect through and through imo. Katsuhiko Maeda is a genius.

I especially like this track, although all of them are good. Starts off slow and pretty, but the end result is so different from the beginning that you forget you're still listening to the same song. Then abruptly the song returns to a lull, only to comeback for one last hurrah.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYBulfbBstc

GrassrootsConservative
11-16-2012, 10:49 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUioRa6_Rck