Let's do this again.

This worked out really well for me last time; I got to hear a bunch of cool bands and revisit some old ones I had nearly forgotten about. So I'm gonna ask again: Write down a band and give a few (around three or so, not hard-and-fast) must-listen songs by that band. I'll start off.

Atmosphere
- Always Coming Back Home to You
- Bass and the Movement
- Godlovesugly
- Reflections

Blackalicious
- First in Flight
- Make You Feel That Way
- Release
- Day One

Black Star
- Respiration
- Brown Skin Lady
- Definition

Coldplay
- Don't Panic
- Shiver
- Spies

etc etc etc.

The idea is for you to preview these bands by listening to these songs, and decide whether you want to listen to more. If not, you at least might end up with their few good hits. :)

I'd like to see more Beta Band, UNKLE, Minus the Bear, Franz Ferdinand, Hanson Boy Modeling School, as well as some more diverse genres - I need more good soul and gospel music, especially. Oh yeah, good modern jazz like MMW would rule too.

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Medeski Martin & Wood
- Bloody Oil
- Reflector
- Midnight Poppies/Crooked Birds
(all off the new album)

Lounge Lizards
- Yak
- Scary Children
- John Zorn's S&M Circus
(more awesome new jazz)

The Walkmen
- Thinking of a Dream I Had
- My Old Man
- The Rat
(good indie rockish band)

also, Atmosphere is good.

Beta Band
- Pure For
- Dry the Rain
- Out-side

UNKLE
- Bloodstain
- Unreal
- Guns Blazing
(these aren't necessarily must listen to, but I know I've already suggested the ones I know are musts to you, so here's some different ones :P)

Gorillaz
- Feel Good Inc.
- El Manana
- Every Planet We Reach is Dead

MC Lars
- Hey That's Me
- Mr. Raven
- Hurricane Fresh

The Lawnchairs
- Generation Y
- An Asteroid Anytime
- Generic Feeling
(all of their songs can be downloaded free on their website)

MC Chris
- Ratz
- Fett's Vette (the universal gateway song that gets people into MC Chris)
- DQ Blizzard

more jazzy craziness

Garage a Trois
- Plena for my Grundle
- Hard Headed Rio AKA Rio Cuca Dura
- Interpretive Ape Dance

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I'd like to see more Beta Band, UNKLE, Minus the Bear, Franz Ferdinand, Hanson Boy Modeling School, as well as some more diverse genres - I need more good soul and gospel music, especially. Oh yeah, good modern jazz like MMW would rule too.

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I am not cool enough for this thread.

What about some Simon and Garfunkel, like The Boxer?

What the... what is this place? Where is my Tangerine Dream?

Seriously, I don't know any of those bands... except Coldplay.

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I'd like to see more Beta Band, UNKLE, Minus the Bear, Franz Ferdinand, Hanson Boy Modeling School, as well as some more diverse genres - I need more good soul and gospel music, especially. Oh yeah, good modern jazz like MMW would rule too.

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I am not cool enough for this thread.

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Well, there goes the theory of you and Mike being the same person.

Mike is too cool for this thread.

IN: This thread.

No, check it out. I can do it.

Chicago Fantasy Players
- Hypoxia
- In the Good Old Days
- Very Jealous

Blizzard Brigade
- Dodger Collector
- Where Are They Now
- Gremlin Grendel
- Lupus Very Solitary

Liberty Hunt
- Skyward Earthworm
- Irrefutable
- Gratuity Included

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I'd like to see more Beta Band, UNKLE, Minus the Bear, Franz Ferdinand, Hanson Boy Modeling School, as well as some more diverse genres - I need more good soul and gospel music, especially. Oh yeah, good modern jazz like MMW would rule too.

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I am not cool enough for this thread.

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I'm too cool for it :tongue:

Kishi, you'll have to send some of that stuff to me on AIM or something because I can't find any of it on Limewire http://bando.smallcave.net/html/emoticons/confused.gif

It's just that indie and obscure. And underground. Yeah.

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I gave up limewire to collect albums and believe me, it was so worth it. If an artist makes that great of music, then they deserve the respect for their listeners to at the least pay for their hard work(it's harder to write a song that goes together with all the other instruments).

I think Kishi made those up.

The Mad Capsule Markets:

W.O.R.L.D
Fly High
Jesus is dead

Hundred Reasons:

Cerebra
What you get
I'll find you
If I could

Hell is for Heroes:

Slow Song
Five Kids Go
Three of Clubs
I can climb mountains

Madness:

One Step Beyond
Our House
Baggy Trousers

The Specials:

A message to you Rudy
Ghost Town
Nite Klub

Glassjaw
- Siberian Kiss
- Piano
- The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports

Hawthorne Heights
- Niki FM
- The Transition
- Screenwriting an Apology

Smile Empty Soul
- Silhouettes
- Therapy
- With this Knife

Thursday
- This Side of Brightness
- Paris in Flames
- Jet Black New Year

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Hundred Reasons:

Cerebra
What you get
I'll find you
If I could

Hell is for Heroes:

Slow Song
Five Kids Go
Three of Clubs
I can climb mountains

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Pop, Truth with Elegance and Drowning utterly devastate those few, and though I do love Cerebra, if you want an early song then the Different Demo is where it's at.

Models for the Programme and Sick Happy smash Three of Clubs and Slow Song out of the arena too, especially when performed live.

• Daedelus
  • Playing Parties
  • Dearly Departed
  • Astroboy
  • Soulful of Child

Well, I was going to add Pop, but I dunno. I figured those would be easier to download as an Introduction to HR, 'cause they're mainly singles and all. I was just listening to Pop, actually. I wanted to add Kill the Silence to the HIFH list, but then I already had four. Sick Happy is good as well, but it slipped my mind when I was making the list. But I haven't heard that much of them, so I could only give what I know B) The last time I saw them live was ages ago, and the main thing I remember is sitting on the floor at the side of the venue with the singer from Kinesis stood in front of me.

Pop needs to be listened to by all because PAUL NEEDS LOVE JUST LIKE COLIN >=(

Also, Sick Happy is the most insane song ever live.

Last time I saw them, despite having jumped around like an energizer bunny hooked up to a car battery, Justin still had the energy to jump on James' back and scream out the last few lines as well as ride him around while he was still playing the bass.
Combine that with Joe throwing drumsticks into the crowd, and the roadies tossing water bottles all over the place, and the crowd screaming along and just generally being insane, it was the best damned thing ever.

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xD So does Larry. Larry is cool. And yeah, HIFH was a great live show, as were all the Hundred Reasons shows i've seen. They're great live, I love it, no flashy lasers or any crap like that, they just play loud and hard and passionate and it's great. In fact, I went deaf in my right ear for about a year after seeing Hundred Reasons the second time, I think because Andy's bass was turned up so loud and it was right next to my ear.

Damnit, I didn't get Paul and Larry mixed up did I? I can't remember properly...agh.

I've only seen Hundred Reasons once, that was the Astoria gig just before the Shatterproof release and tour, XFM Award show gig I believe, I was really lucky to get a ticket.

That and they were supported by thisGIRL, Coheed&Cambria and Thrice, oh jesus that was a good gig.

I've seen HIFH about five times though, and it gets better every time XD

Anyway, as ever, I should suggest some Ok Go.

Get Over It
Unrequited Orchestra of Locomotion
Hello, My Treacherous Friends
Return

Then there's stuff from the new album which isn't even out yet, so I'll put that separately.

Oh Lately It's So Quiet
Television, Television
Crash The Party
The House Wins

Nah, Paul is the singer on Pop, well the main singer anyway. Larry does the "No excuses, will make this worth it time again" bit. But he's just cool.

The best HR gig I saw was at the birmingham academy with some random pop-punk band who I missed, Kinesis and Sparta for support, and that was awesome as well. I saw them when they had Biffy Clyro for support as well, that was ace. It's the same with HR actually, they get better every time I see them. Actually I think the Biffy Clyro gig was for the shatterproof release. Oh wait, it was after. Yeah, never mind.

I'll do about 3 or 4 per artist or band because I'll be writing this post all day if I don't.

Evanescence
Hello
Give Unto Me
Field of Innocence

System of a Down
Lost In Hollywood
Mr. Jack
CUBErt

The Dresden Dolls
Girl Anachronism
Jeep Song
Miss Me

Tori Amos
Lust
Playboy Mommy
Gold Dust
Seaside

Nightwish
Phantom of the Opera
Stargazers
Kuolema Tekke Taiteilijan

Brand New
Guernica
I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don't
Good To Know If I Ever Need Attention... (freaking long title, even by my standards)

Schoolyard Heroes
Bury The Tooth Of The Hydra... (again, too long to remember)
The Klaw
Michael Dudakoff - American Ninja

The Strokes
Late Nite
Is This It
Hard To Explain
The End Has No End
(I'm still working on the list, I'll get back to the third song later. Or someone can help me. My Stroke music collection is limited)

I'll add more later.

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The best HR gig I saw was at the birmingham academy with some random pop-punk band who I missed, Kinesis and Sparta for support, and that was awesome as well. I saw them when they had Biffy Clyro for support as well, that was ace. It's the same with HR actually, they get better every time I see them. Actually I think the Biffy Clyro gig was for the shatterproof release. Oh wait, it was after. Yeah, never mind.

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Biffy Clyro were supporting on the Shatterproof Tour, I remember because I stole one of the posters. I was gonna go see them at the Astoria on that tour, but the ticket was like, £20 or something, and I had less of an urge to see them at that time.

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Brand New
Guernica
I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don't
Good To Know If I Ever Need Attention... (freaking long title, even by my standards)

The Strokes
Late Nite
Is This It
Hard To Explain
(I'm still working on the list, I'll get back to the third song later. Or someone can help me. My Stroke music collection is limited)

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It's "Ok, I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don't", and "Good To Know If I Ever Need Attention All I Have To Do Is Die", I have the names imposed upon my mind along with the lyrics for every song.

Personally, I'd suggest "The Quiet Things That No-One Ever Knows" over Guernica, and "Jaws Theme Swimming" over Good To Know, I love both songs the songs you suggested, but the two I've pointed out are a touch easier for people to get into over yours.

And The End Has No End is probably the greatest Strokes song ever.

I havnt heard all her songs but..
Björk
Jóga
Play Dead
Isobel

The Rasmus
No Fear
Time To Burn
In My Life

Nightwish
Phantom Of The Opera
Dead Boys Poem
Dark Chest Of Wonders

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I just downloaded it, because I only bought Is This It today, and I agree. I like Last Nite just a bit more though, it's such a good song.

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ok

Medeski Martin & Wood
- Bloody Oil
- Reflector
- Midnight Poppies/Crooked Birds
(all off the new album)

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Nice.

Saw MMW at the Newport Jazz Fest a few days ago. Holy crap. Probably
the best day of my life. I'd say some must hear songs are
Dracula
Bubblehouse
and my favorite, the song that they ended with at the Jazz Fest, Queen Bee.

Their studio stuff is horrible compared to their live stuff, so if you want
MMW, get some lossless bittorrent shows from bt.etree.org or get some
live MP3 shows from www.nugs.net

Also, eest, you should check out some stuff by Zorn, Medeski, Ribot and
Martin. They've done a few shows together and they always come out
awesome.

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yea, my roommate has some of that collaborative stuff, which reminds me:

Sex Mob
- Holiday of Briggan
- Oddjob's Pressing Engagement
- House of the Rising Sun

Schoolyard Heroes;
Centaur - Half-man, Half-motorcycle
Bury The Tooth Of The Hydra And A Skeleton Army Will Arise
Sincerely Yours, Jonathan Harker
Nothing Cleanses Quite Like Fire

Xiu Xiu
I Love The Valley, Oh
Bunny Gamer
Clown Town

Coheed & Cambria
Welcome Home
Three Evils (Embodied in Love and Shadow)
Delirium Trigger

Tiger Army
Calling
Incorporeal
Through The Darkness
Annabel Lee

Yeah, I agree with Kishi. Just turn it to the classic rock station every once in a while and you'll basically have stuff I would suggest.

EDIT: I lied.

Live
Rattlesnake
All Over You
Pain Lies on the Riverside

Others will come hurray!

You don't HAVE to post all crazy weird made up bands, if you don't want. Here, I'll give some more "mainstream" ones to get more people into it. :D

Cee-Lo Green
- The Art of Noise
- Gettin' Grown
- Die Trying
- All Day Love Affair

Actually, turns out Cee-Lo isn't as mainstream as I thought he was. All my friends have heard about him and listen to him a lot, so I thought that was true across the board. Guess not.

Incubus
- Drive
- Pardon Me
- Aqueous Transmission

Definitely a well-known band.

Led Zeppelin
- Whole Lotta Love
- Since I've Been Loving You
- Stairway to Heaven
- Houses of the Holy
- Trampled Underfoot

Hard to narrow them down, because they're so classic.

Madlib
- Slim's Return
- Funky Blue Note
- Young Warrior

Actually, you may not have heard of them.

Queen
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Another One Bites The Dust
- Fat Bottomed Girls
- Somebody to Love
- Under Pressure

Queen is awesome.

See? Not that hard. Don't feel intimidated; submit what you like. :D

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Queen
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Another One Bites The Dust
- Fat Bottomed Girls
- Somebody to Love
- Under Pressure

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That list is ALMOST perfect, but you need Killer Queen.

And Loverboy. B)

Edit: Wtf and Don't stop me now.

I've heard of Cee-Lo, but I travel in some eclectic musical circles.

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:D

Audiovent
- Underwater Silence
- I Can't Breathe
- When The Rain

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Xiu Xiu
I Love The Valley, Oh
Bunny Gamer
Clown Town

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Good list, but I'm guessing you've only heard Fabulous Muscles?

Okay, now my suggestions.

Set Fire To Flames
1. Fukt Perkusiv/Something About Bad Drugs, Schizophrenics And Grain Silos
2. Sh*t-Heap-Gloria of the New Town Planning
3. This Thing Between Us Is A Rickety Bridge Of Impossible Crossing/Bonfires For Nobody

Animal Collective
1. April And The Phantom
2. Kids On Holiday
3. Grass
(And bascially, the whole 'Feels' album. So good.)