Recommend Music

[Brian Ellis]

How about Ott's Carmina Burana? You may have heard little bits of it used in publicity clips, but the whole work is one of the outstanding pieces of 20th century music (and I say this as being more of an amateur of baroque music).

[KvHagedorn]

Ott? do you mean Orff? Yes, Carmina Burana's a good piece.. it's been featured in several movies as well.

[Brian Ellis]

Yes I mean Orff, sorry! My mind must have been well orff target: I ott to know better

[DukeP]

Ween.
Especially their album Ween: The mollusk.

Very strange, very melodic, somewhat disturbing..

~~DukeP~~

[Umfriend]

May I suggest:
- Joy Division (esp. "Closer", when you are alone and can spend a few hours relistening)
- Crass ("Christ, the album")

[az]

Purcupine Tree is quite trippy - esp. Voyage 34. Synesthesia (also porcupine tree) is also good.

I quite franky can't understand what people find so great about Norah Jones. I find her music quite boring honestly. Maybe I'm missing something, or it's just not my taste

AZ

[Taz]

Ozric Tentacles - Live At The Pongmaster's Ball
Global Communication - 76 14
William Orbit - Strange Cargo Hinterland
Michael Hedges - Strings of Steel

A variety of musical styles there

[Umfriend]

Anybody listened to any of these suggestions? One could start a Recommended Music Review Thread.

[Taz]

Originally posted by Umfriend
Anybody listened to any of these suggestions?

I've just listened to a Porcupine Tree track, Metanoia III to be precise, interesting, sounds like a band called Gong

AZ, if you like them you'll probably like Ozric Tentacles as well, also have a listen to some Gong preferably in it's Pierre Moerlen's incarnation

[az]

Umfriend, that was the purpose of this thread - maybe starting a review thread keeps it cleaner. Good idea

AZ

[Topha]

Björk is nice, if you like her style

[Ant]

Latest CDs added to the collection....

Transplants - Transplants
White Stripes - Elephant
Cooper Temple Clause - See this through and leave
Placebo - Sleeping with ghosts

[Drizzt]

Adding to the list a few:
Espen Lind
Down Low
De Andre'

[The Rock]

Porcupine Tree are excellent!! Especially their non-psychedelic stuff. Their latest disc "In Absentia" is fantastic. Other amazing Porcupine Tree albums to get are "Signify", "Recordings", "Stupid Dream", "The Sky Moves Sideways", "Lightbulb Sun". These guys sorta picked up where Pink Floyd left off and took it into another direction. Fantastic band that not many people have heard of.

For the hard rock/metal people, find the following songs:

Paradise Lost - Perfect Mask
Paradise Lost - Erased
Paradise Lost - Small Town Boy (cover of the Bronski Beat tune Az mentioned, but much improved over the original)
Testament - Down For Life (I used to hate these 'old school' guys, but this song is ok)
Rammstein - Iche Will
Rammstein - Zwitter
Rammstein - Du Hast (classic)
Cemetary - Silicon Karma

For the melancholic and depressed:

Asche and Spencer - Under The Stars (Monsters Ball soundtrack)
Raison D'etre - the disc "In Sadness, Silence, & Solitude". Not for suicidal people.
Pieter Nooten & Michael Brook - Sleeps With The Fishes

Damn I have weird taste in tunes. I'm probably the only guy I know that listens to George Carlin in the car.