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[child_radical]

The Music Recommendation Meme

1. Toss up a post of bands/artists that you're listening to now. Tell us all who they are and what genre they hail from or who they remind you of.

2. Be in awe of one anothers musical tastes/discuss examples or notes tossed up by other folk.

3.  Have fun and just spread the love of music, for it can save the world, ya.

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[child_radical]

Well I got a few acts that I recently started to listen to in addition I'm gonna push one group from the last time once more.

The Knux - electronic/rock influenced hip-hop group. Very catchy tracks and their raps are clever. Le example I'm presenting is a leaked track from their upcoming album called Run.

Noisettes - I was more interested in how they sound like they're harking back to the early days of rock pioneers like Buddy Guy but keeping it current. Though, I cried tears of blood hearing that this was chosen for the Twilight soundtrack. Good song, though.

ONE OK ROCK - If there's anything I can link these guys to it would be Taking Back Sunday, only they tend to go beyond the impossible and have damn near all of their songs, even B-Sides turn out to be freaking awesome. Recently the put out a Double A-Side single Re:make/NO SCARED. Don't be surprised that they show up at a convention next year due to the second single being used for the Black Rock Shooter game.

[byweavinglives]

I have what is commonly termed by authorities and most anyone who rides in my car for more than 5 minutes as 'an Everclear problem.' I love this band (the 90's and early 00 incarnation, anyway) and what Art Alexakis has done to them recently makes me weep tears of shame and loathing. (Mostly loathing). Allow me to highlight some tracks rarely lauded for reasons I don't understand! Unemployed Boyfriend, in which a creep creeps on a girl in a creepy way. Also! You Make Me Feel Like a Whore which I think I mostly love because the music video makes me think of pinkfuckingpro's first job.

On a slightly less obsessive and 90s note, I've been listening to a lot of Pearl and the Beard who are awesome with songs like Oh Death, and Twice Today, which features some really beautiful harmonic work.

I also dig on some serious classics, like the Andrews Sisters, Vera Lynn, Cab Calloway, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and I'm always listening to them.

I also listen to a lot of Annie Lennox and Diana Krall, because I dig on contraltos.

[greedful_cheat]

Since I'm not a big music person, I probably don't have much which is unique or even current, so I'm just going to try to throw out some of the stuff I'm listening to lately.

OOO Combo Medley - A medley of the main character's seven character songs from the canon which greedful_cheat comes from. Some of the parts have similar tone to me at least, but again, seven different songs in there. I'm personally fond of what would be the last three songs featured in the medley (Tajadol | "Time Judged All", Shauta | "SHOUT OUT", and PuToTyra(nosaurs!) | "POWER to the TEARER").

A River of Tears | (In Reverse) - A pair of leifmotifs for Doctor River Song from Doctor Who. I'm not sure which is the proper forward or reverse, but these leifmotifs are supposed to give a feel of the relationship between River and the Doctor, and how their timelines are never running the same directions. They're beautiful and haunting and oh so awesome.

Black Sheep - Metric - This song is part of the Scott Pilgrim vs. The World soundtrack as the song which Clash at the Demonhead

[misterblackbird]

Not gonna lie, I kind of seriously like that Nyan Cat mix. Which is just bizarre to say, but I do.

[greedful_cheat]

That's exactly how I feel. I don't know why it's so catchy, but it is. I find it is something you can put on to have some nice background noise, and not distract you.

[bakurakrazie]

I like your last three links a lot. It was so good in Pilgrim, though, because my god, Envy Adams' voice.

Also, I feel like you might enjoy this video.

[misterblackbird]

OMG GOTAN PROJECT. YES. Also, yes, Poe, Joy Division, and even the Buggles.

In a Gotan Project-like vein, I will link you to Beats Antique, "Caterpillar". ("Battle" is also good, but it's a very different sound.)

[misterblackbird]

WEEPING. I know of them because this local college radio station had this all-night program called "Afterhours" where they'd play all kinds of weird, but generally vaguely remixed or electronic, music. And Gotan Project turned up a lot. I love 'em.

Well, yeah, but that's how Joy Division works. If that happens, it's doin it rite.

[misterblackbird]

So, okay, like, just about everything on Cain's playlist goes for me too. I'll also say up front that right now I have a bizarre weakness for almost anything with some weirdness and some heavy beats to it. Really, I seem to like obnoxiously dramatic music at the moment. Ergo, here are some things I have been seeking out and looping a lot:

One exception: the Killers, "Spaceman". Can't explain this one, but the lyrics get to me. And I listened to it a lot while working on projects my last semester at school. It's kind of a victory march for me anymore, I guess.

Poe, "Control". The whole album is good, a lot of people know "Haunted," but I secretly like this one. Go figure.

More dramatically speaking, E. S. Posthumus, "Tikal" is kind of fun. Maybe because I see something akin to the Riders of Rohan when I hear it--? Go figure. Beats, again.

Corvus Corax, "Filii Neidhardi". "The thin, monotonous piping of an unseen flute"--let me plai it for u. (No, really: this track makes me think of Lovecraft in the right ways

[child_radical]

Caru I blame you for the nightmares.

Or maybe it was that poorly cooked hamburger.

[misterblackbird]

It was the hamburger.

I am free from all Aphex Twin-related responsibility.

(In other news, there's another Aphex Twin track--although, good job, Caru, you've forgotten which one--in which an unearthly screech near the end of the track is actually an image embedded into the sound, which can only be seen by mapping the soundwaves in a certain way. So those creepy faces are going right into your earholes as you listen. You're welcome.)