Need new music!

[DK]

Hundred Reasons are one of my favourite bands, i've seen them live 4 times, they kick ass live.

I will recommend these people:

Hip Hop:
Common
Nas
Roots Manuva

Punk:

Alkaline Trio (don't listen to a lot of punk, I must admit.)

Others (cba to catagorize for each lot anymore):

Ayreon: Just...really smurfing awesome band. Rock/Metal Opera is the best way to describe it. It's just awesome. Some of it sounds like it's from a video game, it's epic stuff. All the albums tell a story. Best to listen to them all in one go

Nick Drake: Really, REALLY good singer/songwriter from the 70's. Acoustic stuff, autumnal songs, really. Sort of folky/even a little bit psychadelic. Listening to the three albums he released in order just shows his descent into depression and he eventually ended up killing himself, which is a shame because he was fantastic.

Explosions in the Sky: Awesome post-rock band, for the most part all instrumental music, it's awesome chilled out rock.

Polysics: ghetto japanese punk/electronic band. They're totally mental and awesome.

The Mad Capsule Markets: because they are my favourite band and they rule. :D

[jrgen]

I dislike Pandora because it only recommends music that has no similarities with the band you choose.

[escobert]

No, I chose Nas and it gave me Nas.
Also AZ is a freaking awsome MC, check him out ^_^

[Rainecloud]

Artists I can recommend that I enjoy listening to are Our Lady Peace, Vanessa-Mae, Katie Melua, Clannad, David Bowie, The Corrs, and the simply awesome Lene Marlin.

[Xander]

Going on the stuff you like, Nightmare of you are very good. Also hellogoodbye.

Also go to http://www.last.fm and you can use the similar artists thing if you want to find similar artists. There's a million bands I'd recommend but I don't know if you'd like them!

[Jack]

Throwing Muses and any related bands.

Trust me, you'll thank me later.

[-N-]

In no way do Pandora and last.fm even come close to solving the "Find me new music I like" question. The databases are incompletely indexed and the algorithms aren't robust enough. As a wise man from another forum once said, "Everyone gets a giant boner over this site the first time they are on it - then they realize its like having a really annoying roommate who owns the stereo."

A mapping site like http://www.liveplasma.com/ would serve you better the more eclectic your taste in music becomes. It's not that much better, but it's more thorough in terms of mapping and indexing, and is a lot more complete than Pandora since it isn't trying to be a radio station.

[Xander]

In no way do Pandora and last.fm even come close to solving the "Find me new music I like" question. The databases are incompletely indexed and the algorithms aren't robust enough. As a wise man from another forum once said, "Everyone gets a giant boner over this site the first time they are on it - then they realize its like having a really annoying roommate who owns the stereo."

Speak for yourself, I found absolutely loads of new bands I now love thanks to LastFm along with a whole bunch of people who can recommend you stuff, and communities. It's not all about a database, though I would say that about Pandora maybe. LastFM is a community which can really expand your music tastes.

[DK]

Speak for yourself, I found absolutely loads of new bands I now love thanks to LastFm along with a whole bunch of people who can recommend you stuff, and communities. It's not all about a database, though I would say that about Pandora maybe. LastFM is a community which can really expand your music tastes.

QFT. :D

Although most of the tags on Last.Fm are smurfing stupid, it's still a good site.

[~SapphireStar~]

Eep, come on guys, dont go nuts at each other! Ive looked at every site offered in this thread and I thank you all for thm. I bought myself a Hundred Reasons CD from ebay just know and Im looking into hellogoodbye. Just put a bid on this album:

[DK]

Which HR cd?

[~SapphireStar~]

Kill Your Own

[Yuffie The Failure]

CROSSFADE~~~ they rule their my fav band at the time ?

[DK]

Kill Your Own, while a good CD, is the weakest HR release IMHO. Ideas above our Station is still my favourite HR album.

[Xander]

Don't worry, we ain't getting nuts, it's just part of the discussion. Seriously LastFM changed my life, that sounds crazy but it kinda did! I can't imagine not knowing all this new music and some of these people... ;__;

Oh and thats a good hellogoodbye CD, their EP. I love it