Music recs?

[severity_softly]

I have iTunes gift cards and I can't decide what to buy. Any music recs? As long as they're not country, rap, really bad "adult contemporary", or teen pop stars/boy bands/etc, I'll give them a listen!

Comments

[darkhawkhealer.livejournal.com]

Define 'really bad adult contemporary'?

[severity-softly.livejournal.com]

Don Henley. Percy Sledge. Air Supply. Richard Marx. Celine Dion. Micheal Bolton. Clay Aiken (or any of the AI kids, really).... Um... Shit like that.

[mcgarrygirl78.livejournal.com]

Don Henley rocks!!!!

[darkhawkhealer.livejournal.com]

How about instrumentals?

Nuttin But Stringz is hip hop violins. It's cooler than it sounds, I swear!

In fact...there's a youtube video ripped off of a segment they did on the Noggin channel (warning: there's a copious amount of cute going on).

I listen to strings when I'm writing Reid. So, Yo-Yo Ma or even Paul Dateh are really good. He's got a self-titled album out on iTunes, that I haven't gotten a chance to buy yet (destitution does not suit me, for serious); but if it's anything like his youtube stuff, it's definitely on my list.

[innerslytherin]

DON HENLEY IS NOT really bad "adult contemporary"! WTF bitch, he's an EAGLE!!!!!

*glares*

[mcgarrygirl78.livejournal.com]

I have been buying a lot of songs there recently, there is a great song by Rainbow called "Since You Been Gone" that I love.

[severity-softly.livejournal.com]

Cool! I'll go listen to the sample!

[mouthpeace.livejournal.com]

The New Pornographers!
And Noah and The Whale!
And Rufus Wainwright!
:D

[darkhawkhealer.livejournal.com]

And Rufus Wainwright!

Oh! Word!

And also, Allison Crowe! Especially the song "Skeletons and Spirits"!

[mouthpeace.livejournal.com]

Rufus Wainwright is the love of my life. If he wasn't gay, I would marry him right this very second.

[windbringer1.livejournal.com]

WORD. Allison Crowe!!

She does this FANTASTIC COVER of "Never Loved a Man".

[severity-softly.livejournal.com]

*G* I am trying to go give them all a listen, but I'm being distracted above! Never fear, I will! I've heard good things about RW before, too. :)

[mouthpeace.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he's definitely in my top one :)

[severity-softly.livejournal.com]

OOOH, I REALLY like Noah and the Whale! :D Thank you! *bounces*

[mouthpeace.livejournal.com]

*clapclap* YAY :) I'm so glad you like it.

[coffeecocktails.livejournal.com]

- Phoenix Foundation: New Zealand band, who make poppy-rocky-electronicy-moody deliciousness. It is hard to describe. Kind of like Zero 7, but with weirder accents :-D

- Feist? If you like Feist, Gin Wigmore is awesome.

- Whoever ^^ said Rufus Wainwright: yes!

[severity-softly.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I actually have one Fiest song on a fan mix, and it's pretty cool.

Thanks!

you may be sorry you asked

[odogoddess.livejournal.com]

Weezer - Buddy Holly
Belly - Gepetto
David Bowie - Never Let Me Down
" - Beat Of Your Drum
Adam Ant - Strip
" - Navel to Neck
Cardigans - Love Fool
Pixies - Here Comes Your Man
Poe - Haunted
The Posies - Love Comes
Soul II Soul - Back To Life
Boy George - Love Is Love
The Presidents of the USA - Lump
Enya - Amarantine
" - It's In The Rain
" - Smaointe
" - Athair Ar Neamh
Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Sattelite
The Pretenders - Brass in Pocket
Evanescence -Fields Of Innocence
Cake - Perhaps (Perhaps, Perhaps)
Concrete Blonde - Walking In London
" - Someday
Bad Astronaut - Linoleum
The Breeders - Driving On Nine
The La's - There She Goes
Ministry Of Magic - Here In Your Car
" - The Bravest Man I Ever Knew
Habib Koite - I Ka Barra
" - Din Din Wo

those are from today's playlist If you prefer older stuff, I can rec that, too.

Are you like me -- hate contemporary country, don't mind the older (Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson)? Or do you hate all country?

Re: you may be sorry you asked

[severity-softly.livejournal.com]

I do like older country, but probably not enough to buy. I'd listen to it if it was given to me, though, for sure!

I actually have several on your list! (I have Strip on cassette tape, rather than CD/MP3, but my car has a tape deck, so I actually do listen to it LOL). I'll check the others out. Thanks!

Things currently on my mp3 player which I love:

[windbringer1.livejournal.com]

Norah Jones.
Iron & Wine
The Weepies
Great Big Sea (their live album is called Road Rage)
Tempest (Celtic hard rock! Electric guitar etc!)
Duffy's Rockferry album--"Sugar & Honey" and "Mercy"
Tegan & Sara
The Juno Soundtrack
Rachmaninov's Piano Concertos, particularly the second one.
Palestrina's Missa de Beata Virgine (or really any Palestrina. It's Italian church vocals; the harmonies are so gorgeous they raise the hair on my neck. Also it makes me think of Rossi, LOL)
"All the Weird Kids Know"--Built by Snow
"Sit Down"--James
"Let there Be Morning"--The Perishers
"Blessing"--Maura O'Connell
Carbon Leaf's "Indian Summer" album. Best pickmeup ever.
"If I ever leave this world alive"--Flogging Molly
"Unsent Letter"--Machine Gun Fellatio

Re: Things currently on my mp3 player which I love:

[severity-softly.livejournal.com]

I'm going through the list, and so far I'm really digging Built by Snow. Thanks so much! :)

[norinoricat.livejournal.com]

Ray Lamontagne- Trouble (whole album is REALLY good)
Stars
The Ahn Trio (A piano-violin-cello trio who do a lot of modern classical music, VERY good)
Muse
Adele

These are some of my favorites.

[severity-softly.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I've always really liked Muse. They remind me so much of a certain era of Radiohead sometimes, so I'd always avoided them, but ampling them on iTunes, it sounds like it's not all like that. :)

[ldybastet.livejournal.com]

I'm bad at reccing music to others because it seems like I have weird taste. So instead I'm just going to say: YAY! ADAM ANT!!! :D

[severity-softly.livejournal.com]

LOL! He is awesome. :)