NEED MUSIC RECOMENDATIONS!!!!!

[MiniMandaRuth]

Okay people, I'm way into punk rock, electric music, rock, and pretty much everything else.

My favorite bands/groups/singers are:

Bob Dylan

The Who

Ray Charles

Ladytron

The Caesars

The Clash

The Dead Milkmen

and that's about it. I have access to iTunes and stuff. Help! I have 40 dollars worth of cardage to use!

Mini

[Omphaloskepsis]

1. Check your PM..

You might like:


Lali Puna
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Rilo Kiley
Styrofoam
The Go Find
The Postal Service
Valencia

[ghostsofgiants]

18. Some very good calls, sir

[havocmom]

2. There's an Austrailian artist you may like: Paul Kelly

Really great poet with much feeling in his music. Might wanna track down some bits to listen to. If you can't find anything, PM me and I will see if I can get you some links to listen to. My daughter is a big Kelly fan, going to his shows when he is in LA.

[bbernardini]

3. Porcupine Tree, Mike Keneally, The Samples, Stuart Davis, Mieka Pauley

[sakabatou]

4. The Seatbelts

The Pillows
Cool Joke

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. If you like all those, you'd probalby like Lloyd Cole and the Commotions

Rattlesnake was their best disc

[New Earth]

6. oooooo lookie here

VNV Nation, Angels & Agony, Blutengel, System Syn, Project Pitchfork


#1 recommendation is always VNV Nation though, those 2 cuties in my sig :loveya:

[Metta]

7. These get it for me.

Dylan: Blind Willie Johnson. An excellent single disc reissue of original masters from this seminal bluesman preacher on Sony Legacy, 65516. Also, any of Yazoo's many excellent collections of rural good time or sacred and string band music from both the black and white traditions. My favorites are any volume from their sacred releases; How Can I Keep From Singing and The Half Ain't Never Been Told.

Ray Charles: T-Bone Walker. Many good collections. I check www.allmusic.com. And Louis Jordan, without a doubt. His best work is on a well filled single disc from M.C.A. He was as popular as Nat King Cole and Bing Crosby in the '40s. His producer, Milt Gabler (who is also Billy Crystal's uncle), taught Bill Haley about Louis Jordan. B.B. King acknowledges him as an influence, too.

For the rest, I'd contact Paul at Paul's cd in Pittsburgh, www.paulsstore.com. His page doesn't say much but he and his all knowing staff will cover you. I've always been happy with them. :toast:

[GrpCaptMandrake]

8. Pop the 40

on the Drive By Truckers. You will *not* be disappointed. Take "Southern Rock Opera," "Decoration Day" and "The Dirty South." Amazing!

Edit: bad typing

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

9. robyn hitchcock

if you like dylan,give him a try-though he's a bit more on the surreal side

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

10. Just off the top of my head

Focus
Tangerine Dream
Birtles, Shorrock & Goble
Edgar Froese
Harry Nilsson
Head East
Johnny Cash
Johnny Winter
Laura Nyro
Loggins & Messina
Melanie Safka
Molly Hatchet
Ozark Mountain Daredevils
Queensryche
Roger Miller
Roy Orbison
Steve Vai
Styx
Free
Procol Harum
The Blue Man Group
Robin Trower
Toad The Wet Sprocket
Ulrich Schnauss
Uriah Heep
Wet Willie
Whitesnake
Yes

[MiniMandaRuth]

11. I LOVE Johnny Cash.

One of more... infamous moments with my mother was when we were walking through the dressing room of some store.

And we were singing Ring of Fire at the top of our lungs the entire time.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

13. He's a part of American music history

It's a pity the old standards and ballads he used to sing seem to be lost to the latter generations.

I met a lot of great musicians during my almost 20 years in Nashville, but I missed shaking his hand. A real personal disappointment.

[evlbstrd]

12. Check out the Zappa catalogue on iTunes.

Tonight I'd recommend "Apostrophe," "Bongo Fury," and "Uncle Meat." Tomorrow, it will be something else.

[bif]

14. My discoveries for the year

AndI spend a lot of time looking into new music.

The Southland
Aquabats
Air Liquide
Blackfield
Daniela Mercury
Page France
Zuco 103
Be Good Tanyas
Jorane
Midwest Product
I Am The World Trade Center
Fridge
Clue to Kalo
Mates of State
The Consatantines
Tabla Beat Science
Gunjan
Malkit Singh
Hans Raj
Mint Royale
Lake Trout
Cantoma
Karsh Kale
Jolie Holland
Lhasa
Ollabelle
Rachael Yamagata
Caribou
Brazillian Girls
Paula Cole
Poi Dog Pondering
Slowdive
Nouvelle Vague
Tahiti 80
Blue Merle
Spacemen 3
Flunk
DJ Cheb I Sabbah
Tortoise
Scala
Kid Loco
Porcupine Tree
Joy Zipper
Carina Round
Zero 7

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

15. If you don't have it, Patti Smith's "Horses" is genius. It was reissued in

November (because it's 30 years old(!)) with a bonus live recording of the album in July that is absolutely fantastic.

[Lochloosa]

20. Great Call....one of favorites.

My wife hates it though

[datasuspect]

16. narcocorridos

de chalino sanchez y lupillo rivera.

orele compa!

[ghostsofgiants]

17. Bright Eyes, City and Colour, Elliott Smith, Iron and Wine, The Mescaleros

Head Automatica, Closet Monster, Billy Talent, Death From Above 1979, Idiot Pilot, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Propagandhi, The Weakerthans. Feel free to scour my last.fm page for stuff.

Edit: OH, The Lost Patrol! Their first album, "Songs In The Key Of Resistance" is amazing.

[Lochloosa]

19. Try these

Lyle Lovett
MoFro
Guy Clark
The String Cheese Incident
Donna the Buffalo

[RandomKoolzip]

21. Oooooh! Here's some of my recent favorites:

Stuff I've gotten from iTunes Music Store recently;

Mylab: "Master Korean Musicians of Canada"
Mott the Hoople: "Roll Away the Stone"
Frank Black and the Catholics: "Western Star"
Chomsky: "Gravitate"
Strapping Fieldhands: "The Author is in Her Ear"
John Martyn: "Solid Air," "Over the Hill," "Bless the Weather"
Terry Reid: "Brave Awakening"
Roky Erickson: "Click Your Fingers Applauding the Play"
Troubled Hubble: "14,000 Things to be Happy About"
The Dicks: "Rich Daddy"
Daniel Johnston: "Greivances"
The Be Good Tanyas: "Littlest Birds"
Antibalas: "Indictment"
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti: "Let's Build a Campfire There"
Graham Parker: "You've Got to be Kidding" (If you're a fan of Dylan, Parker will be right up your alley, especially his early stuff)
Half Japanese: "Acupuncture"
Hound Dog Taylor: "Let's Get Funky"