In a blatant change of subject...

[conuly]

I've decided I'd like to cultivate an eclectic taste in music. Because I've found there's very little I don't like, that's why.

Go ahead. Suggest your favorite artists, genres, songs, whatever. The more unusual, the better.

(Oh, and on that note, I've also recently discovered that I rather like (surprise, I really don't dislike much when it comes to music) Rosie Ledet. Why, I cannae say. But I rarely can.)

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[azarias.livejournal.com]

Dedicate a few hours to make a run through www.cdbaby.com

Especially look for Joe Lima. Mmm, Joe.

[ciara-belle.livejournal.com]

My taste isn't too obscure, actually.

Right now, I'm mainly listening too:
Franz Ferdinand and The Killers (always! ;D)
Badly Drawn Boy
Gaelic Storm
Green Day

My iTunes has large amounts of Irish music and show tunes, actually. And a bunch of other random stuff.

[panda-cookie.livejournal.com]

Of course, I will recommend Motley Crue, but I also recommend Bjork, Tori Amos, PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Blondie, Hole, Le Tigre, Gewn Stefani, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Shonen Knife, Ramones, Sam Black Church, Marvin Gaye, Marty Stuart, and on and on. I just sat here trying to think of some rap artists, but I'm drawing a blank, as of now.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

I'm not so much recommendy right now, but...

audiography might be interesting. :)

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

Cool, I just joined. Although this wasn't directed towards me, thanks:)

[thetwistedsista.livejournal.com]

Ooh music..I'm quite varied in tastes. I can't really name bands at the momen,t but my favourite song at the moment is Teardrop by Massive Attack. It's a beautiful song ((you know-this makes the 3rd entry of yours I've commented on today!))

Eclectic, I gots eclectic!

[takaal.livejournal.com]

Two fun internet feeds for you:
www.radiobastet.com (http://www.radiobastet.com), vintage vinyl Bellydance music (by radiobastet)
and
www.mysticradio.com (http://www.mysticradio.com), relaxing New Age (with a heavy Celtic emphasis)

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

I am currently fangirling all over a Polish band - Chylinska. Love love love.

Traditional Romani music is also love. I have loads of it at home, but none here, and that is sad. ;;

[sicpuppy.livejournal.com]

Mr Bungle.

That is all

[emerlee.livejournal.com]

Carbon Leaf is a good band. They're kind of alt-pop-rock. It's hard to describe their sound- it's just one of those things you have to hear.

Loreena McKennitt does beautiful ballads and instrumental pieces, most with Celtic or Eastern influences. She has put a few poems to music, like "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes, but most of the songs she composes and writes her self. She's awesome.

And of course, Trans-Siberian Orchestra. They're pretty much a classical band with electric guitars and electric violins. I've been in love with their work for about two years and I've gone to their concert every time they were in the area. They mostly do Christmas music, but they also have an album that focuses on Beethoven and his works.

[sporks5000.livejournal.com]

sleepytime gorilla museum is interesting, as is the band deadbolt.

I listen to them both because other people can't stand them.

*grins*

[mortaine.livejournal.com]

Leonard Cohen. Rocks. My. Socks.

[leora.livejournal.com]

I like many things. Most of them are fairly well-known. Some of the more obscure artists I like are Three Merry Widows (they only have one album, afaik, Which Dreamed It?), Kerri Anderson (because of a few particular songs such as "Labyrinth" and "I Will Disappear"), and there are a few particular Marillion songs I'm quite fond of, especially "Kayleigh".

[bastardsword.livejournal.com]

In no particular order or format:

Komeda (good pop. no, really, GOOD. or: no, really good. Mmm, comma fun!).

Cibo Matto.

Deltron 3030 (in response to the poster above who couldn't think of a rap group).

The Decemberists. Django Reinhardt. Rufus Wainwright. Martha Wainwright

LAL. mn-l. caribou (formerly manitoba). Black Mountain

Actually, if you want ecletic taste in music, may I suggest visiting The Hut (http://tofuhut.blogspot.com/) and skimming down the list of mp3 blogs and having fun?

[usnbfs.livejournal.com]

Týr, Corvus Corax, Elvenking, Eluveitie, Eläkeläiset, Filia Irata, Saltation Mortis, Asmegin

[robotliliput.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking today about the wide variety of music we will have in our new apartment. My roommates jsbachgirl and foot_laser like all kinds of random stuff, from Radiohead to death metal to disco. I love anything that has pure pop goodness in it, from the Beatles to Robbie Williams, with various stops along the way for tasty indie pop like the Shins and Sunset Valley.

The Posies' debut album "Failure" is one I think everyone should own. Sweet-voiced boys and guitars, and the production is just raw enough.

Peter Gabriel's albums are fantastically intense. I can't decide between "Security" and "Up" as my favorite.

Bjork is always a winner. My favorite album of hers is "Post".

You can download, for free, the complete albums of Mk Ultra, my very favorite band no one has heard of, at their website:

http://www.mkultra.com

I especially like the song "Coffee Girl" from "The Dream is Over". But if you wanted to hear me play (yes, I bugged the band enough so that they would let me write string arrangements on one of their songs, I'm shameless like that) you could download the song "Double Flame", and listen especially for the viola (me) and cello (a friend).

One of my favorite bands of all times is The Zombies. They only had a few radio hits back in the 60's and then split up to do different things, but their albums are full of wistfull, melancholy songs as well as R&B covers and tasty pop tunes. The song "Beechwood Park" is a favorite of mine.

"Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis" by the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams is a piece I think everyone should listen to in the dark at least once in their life. And if you like envisioning cartoon chase scenes in your head, put on the second movement of Prokofiev's 5th Symphony.

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

They Might be Giants and Jonathan Coulton.

You can download free songs of Coulton's from his website.

IKEA!

suggestion

[scottrossi.livejournal.com]

i would suggest the following artists:

melissa ferrick
weezer (pinkerton, blue album)
dido (no angel album)
radiohead (hail to the thief)

[rantinan.livejournal.com]

Hurrm, ok here's a few of my favorites.
Iced Earth: progressive metal. "days of purgetory" is their best value offering, a double cd of goodness for single album price. Melodic, heavy and fast.
TISM: Humour band responsible for the "everyone has had more sex than me" song that went round the web about 6 months ago. They can be a little hard to get outside of australia, but are worth it, thye are so very very funny.
Tripod: even harder to get outside australia, insanely funny geeky band. songs about smurfs, starwars, robots, lego and so on. Plus parody songs of celebreties. AIM me if you want me to file send you a bunch of em, or alternatively it is possible (although dificult) to dig arround on the triple J radio staiton web site and find em. Most of their recorderd work is "song in an hour challenge" material, songs that were written in an hour from fairly random topics.
therion: a death metal band that went gothic. Vovin is their best album to date in my opinion, i likes it alot. A lot of violins and gituars, and nifty choral vocals.
Spiderbait: insane quirky australin pop. No music should be this infectiously happy, but it is. Even when singing aobut conjunctivitis.
Kuyss. Blusey, heavy distorted, with thundering bass. Music to serously rock out too.

[mizemm.livejournal.com]

Some of my favorite artists:

Bobby McFerrin
Dar Williams
Apoptygma Berserk
Indigo Girls
Alison Kraus
Lebo M
Bulgarian Women's Choir
Animaniacs
Libana
Three Sheets to the Wind
Queen
King's Singers
Veggie Tales
Metallica
Evanescence
Jewel
Rebel Voices
Beastie Boys
The Flirtations
Stevie Nicks
Natalie Merchant
Reilly & Maloney
Barenaked Ladies
Afro Celt Sound System
Paul Simon
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Blink 182
Me First & The Gimme Gimme's
Palestrina
Lords of Acid
Ladytron
Garmana
Joan Jett
Sarah McLaughlin
Squeeze


Some of my favorite songs (if they are by a favorite artist, I left it out of the above list):

'Spinning Away' by Eno & Cale
Bjork's cover of Peter, Paul & Mary's 'Leaving On A Jetplane'
Paul Winter's 'Concert For The Earth'
The Cocteau Twins' cover of 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight'
'Sandstorm' by Da Rude

[phibby.livejournal.com]

Some of my favorites (obscure and not):

Murray Head
Malice Mizer
Gackt
4 Strings
October Project
Kylie Minogue
Souad Massi
hitomi
Yoko Kanno and her band The Seatbelts

Soundtracks:
Cowboy Bebop (done by Yoko Kanno)
Sailor Moon (Yeah, I know what you're probably thinking, but SM actually has some really awesome music, especially when you get into the musicals and the more obscure CDs like Gasshou Kumikyoku, Symphonic Poem, and Orgel Fantasia)
Katamari Damacy

Individual Songs:
"Tunak Tunak Tun" by Daler Mehndi
"Dragostea din Tei" by O-Zone
"C'est la Vie - Watashi no Naka no Koi Suru Bu Bun" by Komatsu Ayaka

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

Wow, there are a few people who listed some obscure ones that I went "ooh! Ooh!" at. :-)

If I ever get this .mp3 project done, I'll torture you with it let you have a copy...so you can pick and choose what you like. I will have a bunch of recognizable popular tunes, but most will be stuff that not everyone has heard.

My favorite bands and musicians are listed on my interests, but I'll post a bunch of different ones for you.

- Moby (try various albums from various times: his sound varies widely, but it's almost entirely techno-fusion one way or another)
- Alan Parsons [Project] (If you like Pink Floyd but want to try something not so heavy or dark with lots of awesome instrumentals, try this...my favorite album of all time is Eye in the Sky...with a pale green cover with the Eye of Ra symbol)
- Pink Floyd (...of course)
- Utah Saints (excellent techno, deep and lovely, upbeat but not obnoxious, features Michael Stipe of REM on the Two album)
- ABBA (really, they had some good stuff that never made it to the charts)
- Fleetwood Mac (a classic!)
- Deep Forest )take some various cultural folk music and set it to a techno ambience...I LOVE their first three albums)
- Jan Hammer (upbeat pop/rock/jazz type music...did the Miami Vice theme)
- µ-Ziq/Mu-Ziq/Mike Paradinas (do you REALLY want WEIRD? harsh semi-melodic awesomely rhythmic electronic noise...and I love it! All but ONE song so far.)
- Aphex Twin (similar to µ-Ziq but more widely known)
- Mannheim Steamroller (NICE upbeat new age, they had some really excellent Christmas albums, and I LOVE their Fresh Aire series)
- Depeche Mode (I'm sure you're at elast vaguely familiar with them)
- Weird Al Yankovic (OK you probably know about this guy already ;-))
- Dirty Vegas (fairly easy technp-pop, did the "Days Go By" song featured on a Mitsubishi Eclipse commercial)
- Sisters of Mercy (my cold comfort music, "goth" rock)
- The Offspring (haha, lots of political punk)
- POD (I'm not sure how I'd classify these guys, but I was pleasantly surprised to see their album for sale at my favorite Christian bookstore. Whodathunk?)

OK I'll stop.

[thette.livejournal.com]

I'm fond of Swedish melodious punk ("trallpunk"), such as Dia Psalma, Ebba Grön, De Lyckliga Kompisarna, Köttgrottorna and Radioaktiva Räkor.

[aberrantangels]

Garbage and Vertical Horizon are as like unto gods.

[azarias.livejournal.com]

Dedicate a few hours to make a run through www.cdbaby.com

Especially look for Joe Lima. Mmm, Joe.

[ciara-belle.livejournal.com]

My taste isn't too obscure, actually.

Right now, I'm mainly listening too:
Franz Ferdinand and The Killers (always! ;D)
Badly Drawn Boy
Gaelic Storm
Green Day

My iTunes has large amounts of Irish music and show tunes, actually. And a bunch of other random stuff.