can anyone recommend me some good music? (read: not crap!)

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im kinda going in circles with what i lissen to and am looking for something maybe not a diffrent style, but just stuff i might not have lissened to already.

i mostly like hardcore (desperate measures, strech armstrong, good clean fun, good old school 80's stuff) punk (bad religion, bouncing souls, rise against, strike anywhere) 80's (suggest anything...i LOVE the 80s!!) and folk (johnny cash, amanda rogers, one line drawing)

but dont tie yourself to thiose generes, i like some crap-punk, and some hip hop (read: not rap)

anyways help me out!

edit: some good japanese pop is good too!
 
Go exploring. Check out stuff you've heard of all your life but never really heard. One advantege to this is much of it may be available to borrow at your local library at no cost.
 
AC/DC
Hot Hot Heat
The Streets (Wierd, but good British Hip Hop)
Iron Maiden
MC Cris (Anyone who watches Adult Swim should already know him :) )
Goldfinger
Lucky Boys Confusion
Rage Against the Machine
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Sublime

If you like anime music, try the soundtrack to Noir, and really anything by Yuki Kajiura
 
Travis - Love Will Come Through
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
A-ha - Take on Me
Any NOFX song
Blink182 - Not Now
Grandmaster Flash - The Message
Rick James - Give It To Me Baby
Michael Jackson (Pre-Molester) - Thriller
Styx - Mr.Roboto
Also, look up the Garden State soundtrack, all those songs are good... Hope that helps! I'm looking for songs too, to put on my iPod!
 
[quote name='punqsux']
edit: some good japanese pop is good too![/quote]

Well I am not an expert by any means but I like The Pillows (they do the themes on Fooly Cooly). Ride on a Shooting Star is a fun song.

some hip hop (read: not rap)
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I'm guessing you mean no gangsta rap (not a fan of that myself). I think old school Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff is awesome. Also, Doug E. Fresh is pretty cool.
 
O yeah, some more
Our Lady Peace
Yoko Kano (I think) - Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack
^^^With the Seatbelts
The Ramones - Spiderman
The Who - Batman
Less Than Jake - Laverne & Shirley...sounds good!
 
[quote name='Slipknot9762'](not crap) meaning-"not cRAP"[/quote]
Meaning not Slipknot
 
yeah, I forgot the Pillows. I've got the imported FLCL soundtrack, and outside of the wierd japanese skits from the show, the music is really good.
 
Unearth is a great metal/hardcore band. Atreyu fits right in with them as well. In Flames, Soilwork, Killswitch Engage are great metal bands. Metal's all I listen to, so I can't really recommend anything else. Except for Maiden. They're 80's, they're metal, they're awesome.
 
[quote name='GuilewasNK'][quote name='punqsux']
edit: some good japanese pop is good too![/quote]

Well I am not an expert by any means but I like The Pillows (they do the themes on Fooly Cooly). Ride on a Shooting Star is a fun song.[/quote]

I will second the Pillows. It's awesome J-Rock, and it's pretty hard, all things considered. It is J-rock though, so don't expect death metal. If oyu like them, you should check out Dir En Grey.

I think a Japanese death metal group would be awesome.
 
The Mars Volta - they have a couple of members from At The Drive-In (another good band)

Badly Drawn Boy - kinda folksy, pop, rock, etc.
 
[quote name='Slipknot9762'](not crap) meaning-"not cRAP"[/quote]

while i utterly despise rap acts(acts being all they are) like 50 cent or eminem or something, but theres some good groups out there like grand buffet, the roots, jurassic 5, the o. i try to give everything a chance, because in pretty much every kind of music, theres something worth lissening to.

im downloading a couple mc chris and trapt songs right now. ill report back on how those go. please dont post any bands that regular the radio. im pretty much forced to lissen to the radio at work, and the best thing on it right now is 311's cover of love song. and 311 sucks donkey balls
 
The Toadies is something different. Alternative on the grunge side. Rubberneck is a good album and kinda funny too, since all the songs deal with some type psychosis. Pyromania, serial killing, obsession, etc. The first couple tracks are iffy but it takes off after Possum Kingdom.
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toadies rock XoD ive had the cd rubberneck for prolly 10 years now lol. i saw them in 2002 right before they broke up, did they ever get back together?
 
[quote name='punqsux'][quote name='Slipknot9762'](not crap) meaning-"not cRAP"[/quote]

while i utterly despise rap acts(acts being all they are) like 50 cent or eminem or something, but theres some good groups out there like grand buffet, the roots, jurassic 5, the o. [/quote]

NOW I see what you are saying. I have to agree with Big Nick, A Tribe Called Quest and Outkast are pretty cool. I also recommend De La Soul (especially their first album "Three Feet High and Rising").
 
[quote name='punqsux']toadies rock XoD ive had the cd rubberneck for prolly 10 years now lol. i saw them in 2002 right before they broke up, did they ever get back together?[/quote]

I dunno. Their only song that gets air time is Possum Kingdom. Maybe because of the subject matter. But I think the best song on that album is I Burn. It just oozes with sexual energy and seductiveness. For a song not about sex it's probably one of the most seductive rock songs in recent memory.
 
well ill reccomend some good punk(hardcore and just plain punk rock)

-DRI
-AFI
-the offspring
-thrice
-the misfits
-the adolescents
-TSOL
-ten foot pole
-H20
-the Ramones
-the clash
-pennywise
-anti flag
-bloodhound gang
-the used(could be classified as emo in a few of their songs)


ska
-less than jake


emo
-grey matter(actually on my top 5 list)
-jimmy eat world
 
if you never picked up the Paint It Black album that came out last year, you totally need that. if you don't know, it's called "CVA". the singer is the guitar player from kid dynamite and lifetime, and it sounds a lot like kid dynamite, but a little rawer and a little angrier.

mono (from japan, not the techno group) put out an album last year called "one step more and you die". they have that whole mogwai, godspeed you black emperor thing going on, but i like them more than both of those bands. the ebst song off the record is called "com(?)", but might be a chore to download because it's a bit under 15 minutes.

mirah puts out some really good stuff on k records. a friend introduced me to her and described her as a female onelinedrawing, which i find to be a fairly valid comparison, although her stuff is a bit more eclectic. if you want to check out one of her songs, i suggest "cold cold water", off the album "advisory committee".

i'd say something about rocket from the crypt, but i'm guessing you know who they are.

another band that i'm guessing you know is terror, but if you don't know them, and like real hardcore (not unearth or any other crappy band that the kids call hardcore) then you need to pick up something of theirs. i haven't heard the new cd yet, but "lowest of the low" is absolutely great.

if you'd like anymore suggestions i'd be happy to oblige.
 
Stone Temple Pilots (definitely a goodie)
Velvet Revolver (kinda hardcore, good stuff)
Audioslave
The Strokes
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Jane's Addiction
Jet (I expect good stuff for years to come)
Franz Fredinand (same as above
Def Leppard
Lynard Skynard
AC/DC
Led Zeppelin
 
On the folk-rock tilt try the Nadas; awesome band from my area. They were Playboy's "best band you've never heard of" a few years back and have been getting some press in Rolling Stone recently. You can listen to some tracks from their "Transciever" album on Amazon. I've been rediscovering Toad the Wet Sproket recently too' not quite 80's but early 90's anyway. For kinda pseudo hard rock maybe try Breaking Benjamin. My current fave punk band is Alkaline Trio, all their stuff is good. Looks like you've got a lot of music to check out Punqsux, good luck!
I've picked some ideas for new music from this tread too, so thanks all.
 
[quote name='goldengraham']Stone Temple Pilots (definitely a goodie)
Velvet Revolver (kinda hardcore, good stuff)
Audioslave
The Strokes
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Jane's Addiction
Jet (I expect good stuff for years to come)
Franz Fredinand (same as above
Def Leppard
Lynard Skynard
AC/DC
Led Zeppelin[/quote]

way to read.

[quote name='punqsux']please dont post any bands that regular the radio.[/quote]

way to spell lynyrd skynyrd wrong, too.
 
[quote name='iheartmetal']what you need is some really good castle metal. something that conjures up dragons and swords!
Check out Dimmu Borgir, Vehemence, As Hope Dies, Unearth (mentioned before), Undying, Bloodrose, With Passion, Dead to Fall, The Year of our Lord, oh the list goes on and on... but check out these for sure
http://www.dimmu-borgir.com/
http://www.withpassionmetal.com/
http://www2.lut.fi/~evmikkol/ (Bloodrose)[/quote]


gotta remember Old Mans Child, Agathodaimon, and Cradle of Filth- 3 of the best black etal bands of all time. and for power metal, try Sentenced(love oreinted metal) and Iced Earth.

www.agathodaimon.de
www.cradleoffilth.com (you can dl their new song Gilded C*nt there.)
http://www.oldmanschild.tk/
www.icedearth.com
 
[quote name='Slipknot9762'](not crap) meaning-"not cRAP"[/quote]
That expression is tired.

I will add some more hip hop; hopefully I can change some perceptions of the genre for those who have prior adversity. I have reccomended these before so they have descriptions too.

1. J-Live: Them That's Not - A triumph of both concept, delivery and content. J-Live discusses a "get rich quick" rapper much akin to most of the artists, rap or other, you see on mtv or hear on the radio all the time. His flow increases and decreases with the rise and fall of the rapper in the story. Also my second favorite rapper.

2. Common: Used to love H.E.R. - An extended metaphor, see if you can guess it before he divulges it in the last line of the last verse. Makes the song all come together in a way not always immediately apparent on a casual listen.

3. Cunninlyguists feat. Masta Ace: Seasons - A time line of hip hops rise and decline likened to the changing of the seasons spring-winter. You may not get many/most of the references if you aren't a hip hop fan, but you should be able to follow the ideas.

4. Blackstar (Mos Def and Talib Kweli): Thieves in the Night - Another comment on the industry and so much more. Mos delivers one of the best verses ever given in hip hop IMO.

5. Nas: Halftime - Nas defines the term flow in this song. Used to the slowed, dumbed down rhyme structure of most rap with a single rhyming word each line? Nas alliterates, rhymes three words in a row, and uses every poetic trick in the book. In fact you could pick just about any song from his first album "Illmatic" considered one of the top rap albums of all time, to illustrate this.

6. Zion I feat. The Grouch: Silly Puddy - Spiritual song with an almost techno beat, very catchy, especially the intro.

7. J-Live: The Fourth Third - J-live talking about a relationship that didn't work out. If you wanna hear a rapper capable of expressing deeper and more meaningful emotions and phrases than the typical, "I love you baby, wanna buy you nice things girl, will you be my girlfriend, etc" a la P. Diddy, this song is it.

8. Mos Def: Travelin' Man - Mos is pure charisma on the mic, nuff said.

9. Binary Star: Honest Expression - another song about the state of hip hop, its a popular topic. Great song with a Bruce Lee intro.

10. J-Live: Epilogue
 
[quote name='Mr. Anderson']Three words:

THE POSTAL SERVICE[/quote]

If he said No Death cab earlier, I doubt he's gonna like the postal service either.
 
[quote name='iheartmetal'][quote name='MorbidAngel4Life']


gotta remember Old Mans Child, Agathodaimon, and Cradle of Filth- 3 of the best black etal bands of all time. and for power metal, try Sentenced(love oreinted metal) and Iced Earth.

www.agathodaimon.de
www.cradleoffilth.com (you can dl their new song Gilded C*nt there.)
http://www.oldmanschild.tk/
www.icedearth.com[/quote]

how could i forget old mans child and cradle of filth![/quote]

I love Midian. best.cd.ever.
 
Ok besides Rock Star Club (the greatest rock band in the world) I'd recommend:

If you like punk:
Husker Du - Zen Arcade or New Day Rising
This is absolutly the one of the best bands ever. I realy shouldn't have to say much about them except that Zen Arcade is a double album recorded in 48 hours that is BETTER THAN EVERY OTHER PUNK ALBUM EVER.

Naked Raygun particularly Throb Throb
Naked Raygun was HUGE in Chicago in the 80's & they were notorious for having turned down many, many major label offers. Musicaly they were a very very good punk band, they had a very uncofortable to be macho during the Reagen years kinda sound.

If you like Hard Core:
The Mad Capsule Markets
The are a Japanese band that doesn't fall into the crap umbrella known as J-rock. The are a legitametly good hardcore band that does some experimentation with drum & base and pop.

IF you want to try a new sound completly try the following albums:
Ministry - The Land of Rape & Honey OR The Mind Is a Terrible Thing To Waste
Front 242 - Front by Front OR 6:21:3:11 Up Evil
Cocteau Twins: Treasure
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Susanne Vega - 99.9 farenheit degrees
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Murder Balads
The Birthday Party - Hee Haw

Back to the greatest band ever, Rock Star Club, I will make you a deal.
Buy ANY of there albums, listen to it for one month, if you don't like it I will give you DOUBLE your money back. - www.rockstarclub.com

This deal is for punqsux only.
PM me if you are interested
 
[quote name='goldengraham'][quote name='Mr. Anderson']Three words:

THE POSTAL SERVICE[/quote]

If he said No Death cab earlier, I doubt he's gonna like the postal service either.[/quote]

He said no Death Cab? Oopsie. Didnt see that. My apologies. Then go with some Flaming Lips. Cant go wrong with that. And of course the Beastie Boys.
 
Freezepop is bomb man, I really dig thier music

also, if you have any interest in techno at all, check out Da Rude's Rush and Sasha's 2 disc cd, I can't remember the name of it... hope you enjoy
 
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