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i really bored with everything on my ipod and looking to buy new cds.  anyone bought stuff that they really love lately? or want to recommend some classic cd that everyone should own? tia.

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Here's what's on my wishlist right now. I have a pretty eclectic taste in music, so maybe some of these will suit you. :)

There are a couple really great songs on KT Tunstall's album Eye to the Telescope. I esp. love Suddenly I See & Black Horse & the Cherry Tree.

Also...

Hide & Seek - Imogen Heap
Mushaboom - Feist
Soy Diferente - India & Cheka
Dirty Harry - Gorillaz
Sun Is Shining - Bob Marley
Gold To Me - Ben Harper
It Ain't Me Babe - Joaquin Phoenix & Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line soundtrack)
Better Life - Keith Urban
Yes I Do - Rascal Flatts *****Good Stuff***** :)
Love Me Like That - Michelle Branch & Sheryl Crow
More Than A Feeling - Boston :)
Close To Me - The Cure
Galang - M.I.A.
Celebrate - Wyclef & Patti Labelle



Enjoy!


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gnarls barkley gnarls barkley gnarls barkley gnarls barkley! seriously, it's such a great cd, sorta hiphoppy sorta djish all fun. you can listen to some songs on myspace if you wanna check it out.


here's the bands ive been flipping to lately on my player:


le tigre - girl rock, lots of guitar.
soul position - excellent excellent underground hiphop, rhymes are amazing and beat is even better.
bahamadia - underground FEMALE rapper.
nirvana unplugged - still one of the best live albums ever.
ramones - just plain fun listening.
imogen heap - both new and old albums, really really awesome girl and piano.
sinead lohan - like tori amos but even better imo, girl and piano.


are you looking for one main type of music...or are you open to anything?



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Well I know you lean towards hip hop and I lean towards folk or something, but my suggestions...

Classics...
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Summerteeth, Being There
Billy Bragg and Wilco - Mermaid Avenue
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde, Blood on the Tracks
Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man, American IV: The Man Comes Around, Unearthed
Neutral Milk Hotel - Aeroplane Over the Sea

I'm totally not up on new music and am kind of in the situation as you are, but some favorites from last year...
M.I.A. - Arular
Boy Least Likely To - The Best Party Ever
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
Smog - A River Ain't Too Much to Love
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
The Streets - The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living

-- Edited by Maddie at 23:25, 2006-05-22

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i am rediscovering my love for the album "the bends" by radiohead.

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erin wrote:

i am rediscovering my love for the album "the bends" by radiohead.
Love The Bends! Its such a great album.

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Oh. My. I love music.

Here are some albums I've been listening to a lot these last couple weeks:

  • Brazilian Girls - S/T --> This band sounds like you're listening to a bunch of different radio stations all at once because they sing in so many different languages, and also because they mix genres a lot. I love love love them. Check out "Corner Store" and "Don't Stop."
  • Broken Social Scene - S/T --> Their instrumentals are amazing. I love "Windsurfing Nation."
  • Spoon - Gimme Fiction --> Probably the best all-around album of last year. Their songs are so catchy and insightful. "Summon You" is beautiful.
  • The Sounds - Dying to Day This To You --> Still in my rotation a couple months after I first listened to it. It's got the greatest dance tunes on there.
  • David Bowie - The Ziggy Stardust Soundtrack --> Everyone needs to listen to Bowie. I like this album because it's live, and it's cute to hear him joke around with the crowd.
  • The Clash - London Calling --> Another must-have album. They are wonderful.
  • Rancid - Life Won't Wait --> A relic from my punk years that I still can't get enough of. They even sing love songs on here!


I can suggest more, but I really should stop now before it gets out of hand.

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some newer stuff (from the past few years) that i've been into lately:

nolita- keren ann
anything by imogen heap (love. her. voice.)
anything by M.I.A. (coolest chick around)
since i left you- the avalanches
destroy everything you touch- ladytron (one of my favorite songs right now)
fate is the hunter- kate earl
transatlanticism- death cab for cutie (i don't think i will ever get sick of this album)
rabbit fur coat- jenny lewis and the watson twins
love is hell- ryan adams
another vote for gnarls barkley, brazilian girls, and spoon


a few classics:

blue- joni mitchell
give up- the postal service
grace- jeff buckley
buena vista social club
greatest hits- bjork
phrenology- the roots


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thanks for all the input, if anyone has any other suggestions i'd love to hear them.


llegs -- i love sun is shining, i'm going to check out some rascal flats too. i've heard of them b/f, but i'm  not too familar with their sound, how would you describe it.


relrel -- i've been abusing the gnarls barkley for awhile. the great thing about living by yourself is you can play a cd over & over and no one complains. i also dug up an old bahamadia cd i had that i realized was not on my ipod. i also have a le tigre cd in my cart, so i'm going to buy it


erin/metric -- i love the bends. one question if you had to pick an essential radiohead cd what would it be? i have the bends & hail to the theif. i want to expand my collection, but i can't really go crazy. if you had to choose b/t kid a & pablo honey which one would you buy?


maddie -- i have a lot of the stuff you listed so there's some overlap in our tastes, and i always enjoy your picks.  for someone new to dylan's music, which of the two albums you suggested do you think would be a better intro?


bestwhensimple -- i picked up the david bowie album and the clash album. i'd love to hear some more recs, if you get a chance. also i'm going to try and find the sounds at target. the last couple of times i was there they had it, and i kept hemming & hawing about buying it, but since you recommended it, i'll give it a try.


sfcaligirl -- i also really enjoy seeing your picks. i'm going to check out the ryan adams cd.


thanks for the advice.



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honey, I can't believe you're new to Dylan! I hate to be the stereotypical college student, but Dylan is like my soulmate. Anyway, although I think it's lame to buy greatest hits CDs, The Essential Bob Dylan is really good. If you want to buy a real album I'd go for Highway 61 Revisted. I don't know why I didn't list that in my previous post. It has my favorite Dylan song of all time on it (Don't Think Twice, It's All Right).

Also, to jump in on the Radiohead thing, I have to vote for Pablo Honey solely for Creep. Best unrequited love song ever.

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Maddie wrote:
honey, I can't believe you're new to Dylan! I hate to be the stereotypical college student, but Dylan is like my soulmate. Anyway, although I think it's lame to buy greatest hits CDs, The Essential Bob Dylan is really good. If you want to buy a real album I'd go for Highway 61 Revisted. I don't know why I didn't list that in my previous post. It has my favorite Dylan song of all time on it (Don't Think Twice, It's All Right).

Also, to jump in on the Radiohead thing, I have to vote for Pablo Honey solely for Creep. Best unrequited love song ever.


"don't think twice, it's alright" is my all-time favorite dylan song too! (although it's pretty hard to pick favorites since everything he does is genius.)

this is my favorite verse (good lord, he is SUCH a great songwriter):

I'm walkin' down that long, lonesome road, babe
Where I'm bound, I can't tell
But goodbye's too good a word, gal
So I'll just say fare thee well
I ain't sayin' you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don't think twice, it's all right



-- Edited by sfcaligirl at 21:41, 2006-05-23

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Maddie wrote:

honey, I can't believe you're new to Dylan! I hate to be the stereotypical college student, but Dylan is like my soulmate. Anyway, although I think it's lame to buy greatest hits CDs, The Essential Bob Dylan is really good. If you want to buy a real album I'd go for Highway 61 Revisted. I don't know why I didn't list that in my previous post. It has my favorite Dylan song of all time on it (Don't Think Twice, It's All Right). Also, to jump in on the Radiohead thing, I have to vote for Pablo Honey solely for Creep. Best unrequited love song ever.
yeah, i'm a total novice. i feel like fire & brimstone should rain down on me for not owning any dylan albums.  but then again that's the thing i love about music, there's always something to discover. 

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Maddie wrote:

It has my favorite Dylan song of all time on it (Don't Think Twice, It's All Right).
MADDIE!! Have you ever heard Susan Tedeschi's cover of this song? It literally stopped me in my tracks the first time I heard it. I love listening to other people's covers of Dylan songs, and this one is especially good.

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honey wrote:

erin/metric -- i love the bends. one question if you had to pick an essential radiohead cd what would it be? i have the bends & hail to the theif. i want to expand my collection, but i can't really go crazy. if you had to choose b/t kid a & pablo honey which one would you buy? 

I would say Pablo Honey.


If your interested, check out some great Canadian bands... Metric (the album "Old World Underground" in particular ), Bedouin Soundclash (sort of a reggae sound, they're great), and Matt Mays with El Torpedo (i love the song "on the hood")


Also I like Colin Hay who used to be in the band Men at Work. He does amazing acoustic stuff- check out the song Beautiful World. I am really getting into Death Cab for Cutie, as per Smash and Halleybird's rec. And Ted Leo and the Pharmascists are kinda cool too.


If you can't find any of this stuff and are interested, email me.


Bob Dylan fans...I love the song Things Have Changed. He's so great. I love Bob. The Hurricane is so good, too.



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lately I've been really into Imogen Heap and Nada Surf...


ETA: this post reminds me that I wanted to buy the Dixie Chicks' new album which dropped today. I've always loved them and I respect the hell out of them for the way they stuck to their guns over that stupid Bush bruhaha. Brass balls on those women.



-- Edited by sephorablue at 23:12, 2006-05-23

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Have to promote for my sis on this one..My sissy & her hubby's sophomore album "Folksthrowingrocksinthecountry". CDbaby.com has the tracks. Or some of them I think. I like it. :) (www.chasemissy.com) They are playing with Lyle Lovett in August (hehe..Lyle Lovett...I actually listened to some of his last CD, not bad,compared to the one my mom bought like 10 yrs back). My sis is like folk, rock, country..get the name? ha! I like it anyway.


I like anything Indigo Girls, Dar Williams, Lucy Kaplansky, anything folky..no William Hung for me:)



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mirbear wrote:

(hehe..Lyle Lovett...I actually listened to some of his last CD, not bad,compared to the one my mom bought like 10 yrs back).  I like anything Indigo Girls, Dar Williams, Lucy Kaplansky, anything folky..no William Hung for me:)-- Edited by mirbear at 23:47, 2006-05-23

lyle lovett is my secret obsession (don't tell anyone!). his live (crap, i actually typed lyve!) album is totally amazing and hysterical. don't ask me what its called cause i don't have a freaking clue, sorry.


i saw lucy kaplansky play at the world cafe live in the fall and she was amazing! just her and a guitar on a empty stage. awesome.


 


honey: just to throw a bunch of hiphop stuff out there....jean grae, soul position, prefuse 73, blackaliscious, gangstarr, blackstar, murs, buck 65, jurassic 5, lateef and the chiefs (maroons). if you ever want a mixed cd of anything that you're interested in hearing let me know...the bf has got a billion cd's most of which are hip hop/dj stuff.



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relrel wrote:


 i saw lucy kaplansky play at the world cafe live in the fall and she was amazing! just her and a guitar on a empty stage. awesome.  


That's so cool. I saw her with Dar Williams & Richard Shindell @  Birchmere in Alex, VA...that "Cry Cry Cry" thing along w/Julie & Buddy Miller. They are hot, too, but I think Julie has been sick. Her bro died in an accident & I think she has fibromyalgia, too. No fun.


How funny, they actually played with Lucy last August...I missed it, because my evil boss said it wasn't imp't. Hmm..if it was her sister...I'm sure her mind would have changed. NO way I am missing this year...I'll just say my plane got delayed:)



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sephorablue wrote:
Maddie wrote:
It has my favorite Dylan song of all time on it (Don't Think Twice, It's All Right).
MADDIE!! Have you ever heard Susan Tedeschi's cover of this song? It literally stopped me in my tracks the first time I heard it. I love listening to other people's covers of Dylan songs, and this one is especially good.


So I'm actually a bit of a Dylan purist. To me, Dylan is like a god, and you just can't improve upon perfection. I hate pretty much every Dylan cover ever. Exceptions are Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower and Peter Paul and Mary's Blowing In the Wind. However, I will check it out.

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Albums/Songs I think every music collection should have


A Little South Of Sanity ( Live) by Aerosmith


Anything and Everything by The Grateful Dead if a Dead novice musy have St Stephen,China Cat Sunflower, Me and My Uncle, Black Peter and Casey Jones


Let's Stay Together-Al Green


Fallin-Alicia Keyes


Bring The Noise-Anthrax and Public Enemy


Songs for Silverman-Ben Folds


Rebel Yell-Billy Idol


Barrel of a Gun -Depeche Mode


Tiny Dancer-Elton John


Tell Her This-Del Amitri


Anything by Janis Joplin afvorites include Bobby McGee,Cry,A Women Left Lonely,Buried Alive in the Blues ,Down on Me, Oh, sweet Mary,Workme Lord


You're Still you, You Raise Me Up-Josh Groban


Lenny Kravitz


The Jazz Singer-Neil Diamond


Barry Manilow


You Can Call me All, Me and Julio down by the Schoolyard, Fathers and Daughters, Still crazy after all these years-Paul simon


Upstairs at Eric's- Yaz


 


Ok I have seriously eclectic taste in music


 



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