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duh 
"catpurrs"
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 Posted - 12/21/2007 : 08:00:45
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I work 3rd shift, digitizing artwork for embroidery machines. I joined the crowd and got headphones so I can listen to music while working. On a search for free music, I found jango.com.
I'm enjoying discovering artists I've been previously unfamiliar with, and others that I heard of but hadn't listened to, in addition to some previous favorites such as k.d. lang, Alicia Keys, Des'ree, Sarah McLachlan, U2.
New favorites now include Faithless and Fiona Apple and The Killers.
Recommendations would be appreciated. |
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Sean 
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 12/21/2007 : 11:48:01
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Big Bill Broonzy and Mozart? 
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Cheese_Ed 
"The Provolone Ranger"
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Posted - 12/21/2007 : 12:18:48
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Originally posted by Se�n
http://www.music-map.com/
What, no Scandinavian Death Folk Metal suggestions? |
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ChocolateLady 
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 12/21/2007 : 12:26:42
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You're in the USA so you can use www.Pandora.com
Sign up with them and then tell them the names of artists or songs you're listening to now, and they'll find you lots of things you might like. If you don't like one of the songs, you can thumbs down it and they'll slowly learn your tastes. Marvelous site and I wish they'd hurry up and let me use them again.
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 12/21/2007 : 13:43:14
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
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Originally posted by Se�n
http://www.music-map.com/
Oooh! Cool site!
Actually these are BOTH very cool sites, and -- just under the wire -- it's the deadline day for nominating for the Webbies ... which I have just done. BIG THANKS!!
I did also, just for the record, nominate those other sites some of you suggested, plus a few of my own.
But these 2 music sites seem to me to be precisely in the spirit of the web.
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 12/21/2007 : 14:55:30
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| I'm surprized that Pandora didn't have any webbies before. I adored the site when I could still get it to stream. By the way, my son found http://soundpedia.com/ which is another way to listen to music over the web. Unfortunately, it hasn't been able to stream lately and I haven't been able to use it. But you could listen to whole albums with this, but not download them - which I liked. They also have music videos. Their ads can be a touch of a pain, but otherwise, when the site was working well... Maybe for next year, if they iron out the bugs. |
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 12/21/2007 : 15:45:09
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Do you want to narrow it down by genre first, or do you really want ANY suggestions people might have? I could recommend plenty, but it wouldn't necessarily sync up with what you've been listening to recently.
Maybe if you first mentioned what you DON'T like, so I'll know what to rule out. |
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 12/21/2007 : 16:23:36
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| One thing I can tell you right away is that if you have an Amazon.com account, you should start rating all the albums you like and dislike. I've been doing that for a while (marking things on my wishlist, too), and the recommendations have gotten amazingly accurate. It really does seem to have figured out my taste in music, so now I take all the recommendations very seriously and most of them have been dead right. |
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Wheelz
"FWFR%u2019ing like it%u2019s 1999"
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Posted - 12/21/2007 : 19:33:01
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You mentioned some female singer/songwriters -- in that vein, I've been liking Regina Spektor a lot lately.
If you like the Killers, check out Franz Ferdinand and Modest Mouse.
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 12/21/2007 : 19:43:51
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Originally posted by Wheelz
You mentioned some female singer/songwriters -- in that vein, I've been liking Regina Spektor a lot lately.
My goodness! A Cubs fan AND a Regina Spektor fan! Could you BE more perfect?
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Wheelz
"FWFR%u2019ing like it%u2019s 1999"
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Posted - 12/21/2007 : 19:46:00
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
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Originally posted by Wheelz
You mentioned some female singer/songwriters -- in that vein, I've been liking Regina Spektor a lot lately.
My goodness! A Cubs fan AND a Regina Spektor fan! Could you BE more perfect?
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TitanPa
"Here four more"
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Posted - 12/21/2007 : 20:28:35
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Originally posted by duh
I work 3rd shift, digitizing artwork for embroidery machines. I joined the crowd and got headphones so I can listen to music while working. On a search for free music, I found jango.com.
I'm enjoying discovering artists I've been previously unfamiliar with, and others that I heard of but hadn't listened to, in addition to some previous favorites such as k.d. lang, Alicia Keys, Des'ree, Sarah McLachlan, U2.
New favorites now include Faithless and Fiona Apple and The Killers.
Recommendations would be appreciated.
Fiona Apple was also a favorite of mine. And then I heard her speak at the Grammys when she won an award. She turned me off. Why cant people just accpet an award, thank the people they need to thank...then leave. hehe.
Have you heard Republica yet? They pretty cool.
Plus I use LimeWire. I like the set up.
Lastly you should sign up with MySpace if your not already. You can search music groups by what music groups they sound like or who inspired them.
Thats where I found my favorite new group TaxiDoll |
Edited by - TitanPa on 12/21/2007 20:31:32 |
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 12/22/2007 : 01:58:12
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Originally posted by Cheese_Ed
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Originally posted by Se�n
http://www.music-map.com/
What, no Scandinavian Death Folk Metal suggestions?
Well, seeing as you asked...  Here are some bands that duh might like to check out:-
Death Metal
Cannibal Corpse
Necrophagist
Aborted Fetus Devourment
Prostitute Disfigurement
Guttural Secrete
Cryptopsy
Disembowellment
Black Metal
Dark Funeral
Abyssic Hate
Satanic Warmaster
Darkest Hate Warfront
Ave Lucifer
Doing Nuns in the Butt for Satan
Doom Metal
Ornaments of Agony
Rot in Despair
Church of Misery
Castle of Pain
As I Die
Hope this helps. 
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duh
"catpurrs"
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Posted - 12/22/2007 : 07:57:24
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Originally posted by 14-0
Do you want to narrow it down by genre first, or do you really want ANY suggestions people might have? I could recommend plenty, but it wouldn't necessarily sync up with what you've been listening to recently.
Maybe if you first mentioned what you DON'T like, so I'll know what to rule out.
I want to broaden my horizons, so yeah, I really am interested in what you like to listen to.
I will give Sean's suggestions a listen. The worst that could happen is that I will bash my brains to bits against the walls.
I decided to mostly ignore personal opinions and politics of the performers (barring those that are card carrying members of the klan, etc). For example, I find that Pink sings a lot the way I talk. She's to the left and I'm to the right, but I'm plain spoken like she is and I feel a sense of kinship.
I don't want to become one of those old people who complains about contemporary music; what a sad way to age.
Someone suggested Mozart; I've been a lifelong listener to classical music although I don't qualify as an aficionado. I never find Mozart to be boring. I've rarely been able to listen to classical on the radio while driving; just because it bears the classical label, doesn't mean all of it is interesting.
In fact, since my daughter moved out of the house three years ago, I have listened to any kind of music very rarely. I used to hear what she played, and like it. So, it is lots of fun to be picking it up again.
My husband is a music fancier and takes his mp3 player with him everywhere. It is nice, on the few occasions that he and I find ouselves in the car together, to be listening to good music together. His understanding of music is much more profound and sophisticated than mine.
Which brings me to...lyrics. Sean, when you listen to your selections, do you understand the lyrics, or do you look up the words? Do the lyrics even matter?
If one listens to violent or obscene lyrics, do they have a depressing effect on the psyche? Will I develop an urge to take up illegal and antisocial hobbies? I guess I should consider those things; it took me a long time to develop my current somewhat stable state of mind and I'd hate to sacrifice it to Art.
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Recommend Music for me to listen to?
