Music Recommendations

I'm spending a lot more time listening to music in my new job, and I'd like to expand my collection.

That's where you come in.

I need some recommendations. For reference, here are a few group I listen to:

Rock/Pop:

• Rush
• Green Day
• Third Eye Blind
• The aforementioned Queensryche
• The Police
• The Cars
• The Who

Jazz (ish):

• Rippingtons
• Lee Ritenour
• Bruce Hornsby

Industrial/Whatever (I don't keep up on the labels...)

• BT
• Orbital
• Robert Miles
• Stereo MC's
• The Crystal Method

Comments

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  What, no hip hop?
  
  - Anything Biggie
  - Jay-Z
  - Mos Def
  - Common
  - Talib Kwali
  
  No funk?
  
  - George Clinton
  
  

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  I miss Dream Theater! :) and Deep Purple.
  
  

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
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• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  Forgot one:
  
  Moody Blues

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
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• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  I'm going to recommend a Canadian band that kind of has a Rush sound(they've even opened for them), they are called <a href="http://www.widemouthmason.com">Wide Mouth Mason</a> and I recommend their first <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000025N8T/qid=1097183560/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/702-0793594-2916805">self titled album</a> to start. You should be hooked after that.
  
  

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  Pat Metheny Group

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  Blues:
  Susan Tedeski
  
  Weird:
  They Might Be Giants
  Crash Test Dummies
  Flaming Lips
  Bare Naked Ladies
  
  Misc:
  Moby:Play
  

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
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• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  If you like Orbital you may really enjoy David Bowie "Earthling", which was his attempt to meld rock and Drum'n'Bass/Jungle. Sample the song "Little Wonder" to get a feel for it.

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  Daniel Auger suggested Earthling.
  
  Similarly, 1. Outside is very interesting... thrashy/techno concept album. You'll recognize one of the tracks as the closing music from Se7en (Heart's Filthy Lesson)
  
  I'd like to recommend:
  
  Anything by VAST. Especially the first two albums.
  
  Anything by Rob Dougan - but he has only one album (Furious Angels). You can listen to the entire album online at http://www.robdougan.com
  
  Anything by Hooverphonic.
  
  

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  Two rock bands that I'd suggest- Dredg (Leitmotif) and Mars Volta. Both have a good rock edge but are excellent examples of where music has come in the past 15 years. It's bands like these that make me look forward to the music coming up instead of reminiscing about the past.

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  Miles Davis
  
  The re-release of Bill Cosby & Quincy Jones
  The remix of the above.

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  Pink Floyed (!!!)
  Bad Religion
  Dire Straits
  Blue Oyster Cult
  Joe Satriani
  Eric Clapton (the unplugged album)
  

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
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• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  Industrial/Whatever
  
  Underworld
  Deep Dish
  Tiesto
  Paul Van Dyk
  John Digweed
  Sasha
  The Chemical Brothers
  Massive Attack
  Fatboy Slim
  Royksopp
  
  Rock:
  Coldplay
  U2

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  Jazz-ish:
  Pat Metheny
  David Sanborn
  
  Real Jazz:
  Miles Davis' second quintet (with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams) especially:
  Filles de Kilimanjaro
  Sorcerer

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
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• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  I've been finding some local (seatle) music great to listen to at work of late.
  
  The Postal Service
  http://www.subpop.com/bands/postalservice/downloads.php has one excelent CD out. You can hear a sample on that site.
  
  I would also recomend "Death Cab for Cutie"
  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/artist/glance/-/174497/ref=m_art_dp/103-3420526-3206232
  
  Thier two most recent CD's are great.
  
  Lastly I would give Modest Mouse http://www.modestmousemusic.com/ a listen.

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  Oh... and "Cake" too. Time to get thier new album. :-)

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  I'd second the Dream Theater.
  
  Lacuna Coil is an italian band that is very good as well.

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  I have been doing alot of Jazz listening lately and a few of my favs are:
  
  Steve Oliver
  Dave Koz

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  The Tragically Hip: a Canadian band that's HUGE in Canada but unfortunately not in the US.

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
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• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  Good Indie Pop
  
  The Shins
  The Weakerthans
  The Wannadies
  The Grays (hard to find)
  Jellyfish
  Ed Harcourt
  The Libertines
  Death Cab for Cutie
  Saturday Looks Good To Me

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  Eric, instead of seeking new music, let it come to you.. plug this into your aggregator http://www.mp3blogs.org/rss.php
  
  It aggregates a bunch of mp3 blogs that have sample mp3's with them.. its a really interesting way of getting to get some background information on some music while also getting a wide array of genres.
  
  Kevin (Undernet #c# phool)
  http://www.phool.org
  

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  If you like Old Rush & Alex Lifeson Listen to
  The White Stripes
  http://www.whitestripes.com or for mp3 downloads of live concerts get some here
  http://www.whitestripes.net/downloads.php
  

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  You gotta listen to Dream Theater.
  It's a must have. ;)

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  In the Rock/Pop category I would say Lucia (www.luciamusic.com). In the Industrial/Rock category i'd say KMFDM (www.kmfdm.com and www.kmfdmradio.net for a live radio of all their songs and related bands songs).

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/bsblog/archive/2004/09/10/25200.aspx

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  If you like concept albums check out the swedish band Pain of Salvation, try "BE" (their newest offering) or any other studio album (they're all good!).
  
  Try Porcupine Tree's "In Absentia" for a progressive mix between Third Eye Blind and Rush.
  
  I'll give Dream Theater their 4th recommendation also. Once again, if you're a fan of concept albums you can't go past "Metropolis Part II: Scenes from a Memory".

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  Oingo Boingo

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  METALLICA ... FOR ALL !

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
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• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  On electronic music from europe you can listen to:
  
  - BrothomStates - Claro
  - Client - Client
  - Console - Rocket in the Pocket
  - Console - Reset the Preset
  - Oi Va Voi - laught through Tears
  

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
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• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  As I'm a Sax player, and since you like Lee Ritenour, I would recommend anything with Michael Brecker (including his stuff in the the Brecker Brothers band).

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  Here was a survery performed by the Register about what IT people are listening too.
  
  http://weblogs.asp.net/jamessteele/archive/2004/08/11/212989.aspx

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
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• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  On that "Industrial/Whatever" category... Look into:
  
  Shpongle (if you like BT...)
  Rob Dougan
  Juno Reactor
  Deepsky
  Massive Attack
  
  If you only check one of these out, make it Shpongle -- "Are You Shpongled?" is the place to start.
  

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2004
  Blues:
  Sonny Landreth
  Howlin' Wolf
  Robert Lockwood, Jr.
  
  Other:
  The Iguanas
  
  Jazz-ish:
  Liquid Soul
  
  

• Anonymous
  October 08, 2004
  you've never heard of these guys before, but if you like queensryche i think you'll really enjoy Caroline's Spine. band out of Oklahoma.

• Anonymous
  October 08, 2004
  How about some King Crimson?

• Anonymous
  October 08, 2004
  If you want a good ska/punk album, and you like Green Day, then you have to pick up "10,000 maxed out slappy hours..." (I can't remember the exact name but you can't miss it.) Also, Fugazi's "13 Songs" is a masterpiece.
  
  For modern stuff, there is some pretty cool indy rock like the Shins, Wilco, and Interpol. Also, Radiohead's "Hail to the Thief" and "OK Computer" are amazing albums.

• Anonymous
  October 11, 2004
  Search Engine Watch had a pointer to http://www.musicplasma.com/ a few months ago. It's a very nice way to explore music relationships.

• Anonymous
  October 11, 2004
  For trance, try Underworld (Born Slippy, but especially Jumbo -- gawd I love that song)

• Anonymous
  October 12, 2004
  Well, seeing Queensryche and Rush paired with more straight forward rock bands has kind of thrown me for a loop.... so I will recommend the following bands:
  
  Rock with an interesting edge:
  King's X
  Joe Satriani
  
  And a little more progressive:
  Fates Warning
  Messhugga
  
  And just plain cool:
  Apocaliptica - (Metallica done on cellos!)
  

• Anonymous
  October 14, 2004
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• Anonymous
  October 24, 2004
  How about some so called "World Music"? You won't be disappointed by this stuff.
  
  Fela Kuti (try "The best best of Fela Kuti" available on Amazon)
  
  Yerba Buena
  
  Salif Keita
  
  Angelique Kidjo (try her first album "Aye")
  
  Tony Allen (No Discrimination or NEPA album)
  
  Also try and get your hands on a compilation called "Nigeria 70".
  
  
  

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