The Music Recommendation Thread

[Snow]

Cream specifically the Crossroads Live Version. But this is good too.
http://www.zippyvideos.com/1360264081339796/cream_-_sunshine_of_your_love

Listen to the guitar rifts from clapton at about 1:58-3:50. He's awsome.

 

[Mr. Dictator]

My one reccomendation for Hip Hop would be Saul Williams. I really love his music, and i'm a metal/industrial guy!

how many albums does he have out? i really love his spoken poetry the most

 

[BCLG100]

For classic rock lovers:

Dire Straits, Steely Dan, Rush, Fleetwood Mac, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, The Beatles, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Heart, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Simon & Garfunkel, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Kaiser Chiefs, The Eagles, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Kansas, Queen, Steppenwolf, Sting & The Police, The White Stripes, Tom Petty, Audioslave, Yes, Nirvana, The Animals, Bob Dylan, Bryan Adams, Eric Clapton, Yardbirds, Foreigner, Genesis, Johnny Cash

I cant really call the Stripes or Chiefs classic rock really, Some of them kind of dance around the outskirts of rock and roll but still a good list

 

[Phlegmak]

Um, I lost track of who's supposed to recommend what so I'll just name two songs that are in my brain right now:

Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition #6

Morbid Angel's Dawn of the Angry

Pictures at an Exhibition #6 was played very often on The Smurfs.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

All I listen to is progressive rock and the genre Rush created.

 

[ComradeDavo]

how many albums does he have out? i really love his spoken poetry the most

I'm not sure, I only have his current self titled release. I know he's making a new album at current with Trent Reznor producing.

All I listen to is progressive rock and the genre Rush created.

Some prog influenced bands to check out...

Tool (try the songs Stinkfist, Eulogy, The Grudge, Schism, Vicarious)
Oceansize (try the songs Amputee ,one out of nONE, Music For A Nurse)
Amplifier (try songs Motorhead, The Consultancy)

 

[MamboJoel]

Jeff Buckley / Rachmaninov

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Tool are prog influenced? Prog Archives calls them Progressive Metal. There was a couple of their songs there (Forty Six & Two, The Patient and a 30 second extract of Vicarious).

 

[mrtn]

Well, progressive metal means metal influenced by progressive rock, so.
But then again I find genres quite meaningless, I could as well call Tool progressive Industrial if I wanted...

Davo, I'm checking out those two other bands.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I'm sorry.

 

[ComradeDavo]

Well, progressive metal means metal influenced by progressive rock, so.
But then again I find genres quite meaningless, I could as well call Tool progressive Industrial if I wanted...

Davo, I'm checking out those two other bands.

Amplifier like to rock out alot Oceansize are about creating musical landscapes and so forth, mebbe a bit harder to 'get into'.

Tool are prog influenced? Prog Archives calls them Progressive Metal. There was a couple of their songs there (Forty Six & Two, The Patient and a 30 second extract of Vicarious).

Those 2 songs are both very good

 

[Tenochtitlan]

I cant really call the Stripes or Chiefs classic rock really, Some of them kind of dance around the outskirts of rock and roll but still a good list

I didn't say they were classic rock, what I meant is that people who like classic rock might also like them. I was just recommending it

 

[Mr. Dictator]

if we're on the subject of prog how bout

pelican - i think theyre prog

Mastadon - kinda hard to get into, but worth it

Porcupine Tree - YES, but a little heavier

and, what the hell, i also recommend

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Pioneers of Prog

 

[Chukchi Husky]

King Crimson are the pioneers of prog, but the original line up had Greg Lake. Pelican are progressive metal. Can't find anything for Mastadon. Porcupine Tree are strange because Steven Wilson doesn't call the band progressive.

One progressive metal band I'm interested in but can't find any CDs of them is Riverside.

 

[Mr. Dictator]

King Crimson are the pioneers of prog, but the original line up had Greg Lake. Pelican are progressive metal. Can't find anything for Mastadon. Porcupine Tree are strange because Steven Wilson doesn't call the band progressive.

One progressive metal band I'm interested in but can't find any CDs of them is Riverside.

yes, i know king crimson was the pioneers of prog, but ELP were also a pioneering band. and yes, i know Pelican is progressive metal, but its still progressive, and porcupine tree is prog through and through

ive never heard of riverside but ill check it out

anyone here ever get Dream Theater's new cd, i did but was a tad dissapointed at times

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Steven Wilson created Porcupine Tree.

I'm trying to get all of Dream Theater's CD, but I can't find all of them for sale. Their new CD shows a Muse influence (Rick Wakeman calls them progressive rock).

 

[Mr. Dictator]

yes, i know steven wilson created porcupine tree, but what does that have to do with anything?

youve listened to it havent you? its a modern yes, hell they even toured with them

maybe steven is one of those types who is just making what is "pop" to his ears, which is prog to us

sort of how radiohead makes experimental pop

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I listened to some Porcupine Tree, but only a few songs. They didn't sound a lot like Yes. Someone I know who has some of their CDs calls them the modern Pink Floyd.

Steven Wilson says his music is very simple, and that prog is complex.

 

[mrtn]

I've listened to Porcupine Tree a lot. I'd call most of their music some kind of prog. Wilson is also behind a band called No-Man, more soft electronic music.
When it comes to prog most Swedish prog was horsehockeye, as they thought that three commies playing the recorder (had to look that up, I'm meaning the flute) was progressive, especially if they sang about the working class.
Some of the bands made good music though, you can for example look up Träd, Gräs och Stenar, Älgarnas Trädgård and Samla Mammas Manna.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Isn't Opeth Swedish?