Alright guys, I've done this on the other site before, but now I'm trying it here. I need music suggestions! Preferably stuff that you are like CRAZY into, that you love. Gimme your best shit. Old, new, somewhere in between, any genre, lay it on me! I'm bad at finding new music so I need help lol
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some of their songs have gone viral on tiktok in recent years like freaks and disco https://open.spotify.com/track/3XE5zs01fLQTtY5wjpKIbh?si=bZaWzz9qR6e_mTMIxk4Tdw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A1ef0hDatnLSDDxXMb8Gfbs
It’s ok (to punch nazis)
https://youtu.be/V6RGA3HyN3c?si=oM780IPCuxMwGcBq
The English Beat
Spirit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MId3KYmvsXI
The Moody Blues - To Our Children’s Children’s Children
Porter Robinson - Nurture
Grateful Dead - any live recording
M83 - Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
Air - Moon Safari
https://youtube.com/@chomps-music?si=t4XIbRF4ixXkizpI
https://youtu.be/H7fBFtif9H4?si=WWJlYCmgAGKNUIcQ
https://youtu.be/wnrvWXvN78Y?si=94a7FRUzSgwyr0F9
https://youtu.be/dKKfVPfOwZ4?si=3kxtvk03M1O8AJKx
https://youtu.be/NZegMf2p1J4?si=G8MD5dDGb5Q43Knk
https://www.youtube.com/c/SurvivalSpheres
Not Ska bands I rec are Saint Motel and Studio Killers!
https://open.spotify.com/album/5UpFCX4FXDQ6WhKIVRYBVY?si=9ebbbca354e24bcb
If you havnt heard The Protomen, i defo recc.
Fav band.
https://youtu.be/kK0KPuH32mc?si=BHXxwJDmGn0157j4
https://youtu.be/G87p148EOjo?si=RB9pYeeJxu16tqhe
https://youtu.be/jrLJYU5jHjc?si=NIjRjITmqsMkTcU5
Eclectic: King Gizzard and the Lizzard Wizzard, every album is a different genre than the last and they nail it every time.
Beast in Black: metal but not scream-o or too symphonic.
I can’t do lofi when I work (it’s too chill!), so I love this synthwave playlist that has a good balance of energy and not distracting:
https://youtu.be/s0uOJGNtL78?si=G_a6beM1PI5UKDJI
https://youtu.be/yVdYLiEU8GU?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/T2GFq5SQhdQ?si=H-rqL6V94ta6yIgv
Fiona Apple has been a looong time favorite. Clutch, White Stripes, Fountaines DC, Radiohead, Lola Young, Ray Bull, Psychomanteum.
https://open.spotify.com/track/0VR5AyYpxKGonWLd8lEBzL?si=a936c88e563f4e19
the stations show the song, artist and album along with how many times it’s been scrobbled to lastfm. So you literally see how popular a song is.
https://scrobblerad.io
I can't get enough of them!
https://open.spotify.com/album/6C94jCru824UBNHDD3QbMm?si=ZWcKfgbiTCu-JFDM2umzcA
Why?
Soccer Mommy
Eliza McLamb
Big Thief
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Feist
Toe
Trust Fund Ozu
Young Jesus
Warpaint
feeble little horse
Alvvays
I could go on and on!
I am 75 and just discovered him in 23. Blown away.
I have another one for you. You said “any genre”. So this is old—-from the 70s. Prog group that was in the David Bowie Midnight Special. CARMEN. With an E. Acid Flamenco rock. Check out Fandangos in Space from the Bowie show.
Gotts Street Park - Tell Me Why
Leon Bridges/ Khruangbin - Mariella
Chet Faker - Low
https://youtu.be/kdnwUTkpkc8?si=wxOFGAGYN4D8F759
https://youtu.be/Uzt76E4-zXU?si=ivjd5QOE2TkfHrto
*any Hermanos Guitierrez
Peppier:
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! - Fireproof
Heartless Bastards - Revolution
*any Bombay Bicycle Club
https://youtu.be/AMwt5sTlRuE?si=EmD0wjdWjhWz7zXl
https://youtu.be/T4Bn91tOEd4?si=qIROyWKF03mZsTFw
https://youtu.be/iDeoYk7oxN4?si=ClkpFatdUndyu8qu
So I’ll start with my college era which was mostly lofi indie/rock and darkwave (esp 80s goth!)
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWWmsWPbM2pKT?si=i4P3EwL3T7G2S_dIvwg42g&pi=u-Ulzncn8uRRaY
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3YCYmAwOdF2UFcQJOQ1GRz?si=T3iRrTd7QcuBoEDCQ4LL6A&pi=u-s_lylfywT7uV
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1E4lh6BchsC4jS?si=XcUUusi2Sm-yIlleNmeuvg&pi=u-l2rrd86lSwWC
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5jKkHPUXGZHitWujNXQREE?si=ZwmVbbRPQmeBgV_YlvKXTw&pi=u-WjvSsi0rS4uC
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Kgkkup7w9qvGxGJGa75PS?si=f18cuksARaCXYfXNN49mrw&pi=u-59HQ-JRtT5-V
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX11ghcIxjcjE?si=lv4FwYBiRAeW0AeNnNAwQA&pi=u-gkLykQmYTVuM
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX11ghcIxjcjE?si=lv4FwYBiRAeW0AeNnNAwQA&pi=u-gkLykQmYTVuM
https://open.spotify.com/album/6NNgZE7QZi5mvDkA6aJsuF?si=R0_tL2htTgSdZZUJzIN7TQ
https://open.spotify.com/album/6vQB3ZBxnQPP3jQcGV2qzg?si=b454jYDrQxCSD36_hyoAUg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5UAS9kMn9TMG76IclUybwb?si=W_YRYA-4Q5ysCpSbTFEaLw
https://open.spotify.com/album/3nHpBmW5wJXGeC3ojBkpey?si=lnvtTCZGTtGcKrldrWD34Q
https://open.spotify.com/album/6ctiVzuLDrwlsHkgsatIqg?si=EIxGcyi3Ss-b2CXg4tanOg
You could also give Billy Strings a try. He makes wonderful Americana music and is a breath of fresh air compared to modern pop country.
https://youtu.be/u3w4FCTcfME?si=Iti24X-BJWPBRtTl
Snarky Puppy
Steven Segal - yes, the actor.
His politics are repulsive & acting lackluster. His voice isn't special, but he can shred a guitar, and write some interesting music. Two pieces worth a listen are
Don't You Cry and Goree (The Island staging point for much of the slave trade.)
Others to explore...
Boston
ELO
Anita Baker
Bob Seger
Sly and the Family Stone
John Mayer
If it was released on the Motown lable between 1960 and 1985, give it a listen.
Disco gets a lot of disrespect, but there was some really fun stuff in that genre
Film Soundtracks (the best films can have a great soundtrack - so can the worst):
Chocolate
First Knight
The American President
Porgy and Bess
Urban Cowboy
Forest Gump
Composers/arrangers
Tchaikovsky
Debussy
Tim Janis
David Huntsinger
Dan Fogelberg - Phoenix
Craig Morgan, A Whole Lot More To Me cd
Bon Jovi, Lost Highway album
Explore the music of
John Denver
Gordon Lightfoot
Stanley Jordon
Three Dog Night
Doobie Brothers
Spyro Gyra, Morning Dance album.
Al Hirt, Sugar Lips album
Anything by
Coltrain
Muddy Waters
BB King
Pete Fountain
Everything Glenn Miller ever recorded.
Same with everything written by George Gershwin.
Bonny Raitt - Nick of Time album
Jackson Browne - Running on Empty
Carole King - Start with the Tapestry album and go from there.
Dan Fogelberg's Innocent Age double album
Tony Bennett - The duet albums
Frank Sinatra
Go to YouTube and take a gander at all the Stairway to Heaven covers. Pay special attention to those by
Stanley Jordan
Dolly Parton
Heart - The Essential Heart, 2 cd set
https://youtu.be/kq2BCYAKDNc?si=jouxKu9i_MuLBeqC
https://youtu.be/7zIOeQ-tu_c?si=RSH3QOjab8B_HDZo
https://youtu.be/LcSdIQfNlKY
When my son was in high school, he'd share it with friends, saying it's impossible to listen to without feeling happy.
https://youtu.be/RvyXV-rYA2o?si=kegjTHedvrFlRqmR
Here's my recent top 7 albums in no order
3D Country - Geese
For You - Tatsuro Tamashita
A Long Vacation - Eiichi Otahki
Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!? - McKinley Dixon
On the Way Home at Dusk - Tomo
Struggler - Genesis Owusu
Wallsocket - The Underscores
An entire album of original music made for the Guardians of the Galaxy video game.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfFUsQguwcDmj6sFGnrr1rWEsANGModwT&si=V99gi-_qlMkAO7PO
songs:
Condensation - Sports Team
She's Leaving You - MJ Lenderman
Water Underground - Real Estate
Pompeii - Bastille
https://youtu.be/rsrEXwozK-Y?si=z8gOoV9jyMeB5uO3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3eXiwRg79A
2 A Quick One Before The Worm Devours Appalachia
3 I Found
4 Angel (Massive Attack)
5 Scorn (Portishead)
5 Pain (Boy Harsher)
6 Everything In Its Right Place
7 Be Somebody (Thousand Foot Krutch)
8 Dove - Doll Ver
9 I Want It All (Cameron Grey)
10 PORNSTAR
12 Crywank Are Posers
13 Greedy (Plasterbrain)
14 Dirty Cash
15 Suffer With Me
16 Frame By Frame
17 Die Your Daughter
18 Momento Mori (Crywank)
19 D.A.N.C.E
20 IDKT/ I Didn’t Know That (The Books)
https://youtu.be/ekt6PELAcEg?si=2pWVRPgm7zRVOMvK
For a fun song, “Play that song,” by Train
🤘🤘🤘
They are a loooooooot of fun
Freaking amazing, old stuff, new stuff, stuff you will not hear other places, DJs who are musicheads.
Willow’s “empathogen”
beabadoobee’s “this is how tomorrow moves”
Dominic Fike’s “sunburn”
half alive’s “give me your shoulders”
dodie’s “build a problem”
lorde’s “solar power”
https://youtu.be/IaLJbIxQ6hY?si=Ct76LUc7P30FH80a
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ60rAdTLVNuCAWD8W3dZTLBXbSPda-DX&si=sjR9xvZcIsVQnn8B
Trombone Shorty
Jon Batiste
Dr John
The Meters
The Neville Brothers
John Boutté
Rebirth Brass Band
Tank & the Bangas
Big Freedia
The Soul Rebels
Anders Osborne
The Hot 8 Brass Band
Corey Henry & the Tremé Funktet
Spillways - Ghost
Novacaine - Fall Out Boy
All Hallows - Aviators
The Space Between - Koethe
The Hounds - The Protomen
Out of Time - The Megas
I have been head over heels in love with this album since my first listen.
Julianna Barwick - Nepenthe
ya like what like & ur not sure just why
Im currently into
Holly GoLightly & the Brokeoffs
You can't buy a gun when you're crying
Circa 2007
- also really enjoy traingazing by Sam wills and honey mooncie because it feels so romantic 🥹
- anything laufey 🌹
- leon bridges - coming home
- Hayley kiyoko + music videos 👩🏾🤝👩🏿
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=DafO1SSHf50&si=wZ3m6jHH5SpvEha4
check out the band “Honeyglaze”
also just in general, download BBC Sounds app and leave it tuned to channel 6
Willin Little Feat
Sweet Jane. Lou Reed (Rock andRoll Animal Live)
https://youtu.be/3ev-i7qHRPo?si=RoMqSbpTTUAVFUsW
Also, Aimee's solo single, Revolution.
Mustard Service
Cheeze
Gesu no Kiwami Otome
Femtanyl
chelmico
Nathy Peluso
and I've been getting sucked back into the sailor moon live show soundtracks which slap thematically
The Hu, Alien Weaponry, The Pretty Reckless, Beneath The Silence, Patty Gurdy, Devil Electric, Doll Skin, Brass Against, Bloodywood, Motanka, Voyager (Australia), Lyrre, DeadBlondeStars, Disrule, Teenage Bottlerocket, Dance Hall Crashers.
So stupidly good!
Fictional rock band “Old Gods of Asgard” performed by non-fictional band “Poets of the Fall”
The songs are highlights of Remedy’s Alan Wake and Control but great standalone as well
https://youtu.be/RxOTKRoPhIo?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/kR0paYEld-4?si=ucwbeJ2xgu5-Z8zw