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[AlteredBeast]

As a reference point, Here is my current top 25 most played songs from iTunes from the past few months:

America 3:33 Simon & Garfunkel
And I Love Her 2:31 The Beatles
Hold On 1:52 John Lennon
Paper Boats 6:39 Nada Surf
Ave, Lucifer 2:21 Os Mutantes
Rough Gem 3:36 Islands
I Wish I Was The Moon 3:34 Neko Case
Ready To Die 1:42 The Unicorns
Do You Realize?? 3:32 The Flaming Lips
Destroying Angel 4:26 Sneaker Pimps
I Went Hunting 3:10 Alisdair Roberts
Oh! 2:27 The Breeders
In The Morning Of The Magicians 6:18 The Flaming Lips
Blackest Heart 2:52 Neva Dinova
Too Late or Too Dead 4:29 90 Day Men
Dig A Pony 3:38 The Beatles
I'm Only Sleeping 3:01 The Beatles
President 3:57 I-am-X
Band On The Run 5:13 Paul McCartney
Jenny Wren 3:46 Paul McCartney
Tuff Ghost 2:57 The Unicorns
Save Me 4:34 Aimee Mann
Don't Let Me Down 3:18 The Beatles
While My Guitar Gently Weeps 4:45 The Beatles
She's A Ghost 3:24 Cocoon


Running a script I downloaded tells me that my top 20 most played bands or artists (unabashedly) are:

1 461 The Beatles
2 184 Elliott Smith
3 132 Neva Dinova
4 125 The Unicorns
5 93 The Flaming Lips
6 92 Neko Case
7 84 U2
8 81 The Strokes
9 79 R.E.M.
10 79 Radiohead
11 75 Sneaker Pimps
12 69 The Mars Volta
13 67 John Lennon
14 63 Nada Surf
15 55 Death Cab For Cutie
16 53 Beck
17 52 Jack Johnson
18 52 Aphex Twin
19 51 Paul McCartney
20 50 Simon & Garfunkel
21 50 Aimee Mann
22 50 The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
23 48 U.N.K.L.E.
24 47 Mac Salvador
25 46 Muse
26 44 Red Hot Chili Peppers
27 43 The New Pornographers
28 42 Os Mutantes
29 42 Dredg
30 41 Midnight Oil
31 41 Josh Clayton-Felt
32 40 I-am-X
33 40 Lost
34 36 The Cure
35 35 Yuzo Koshiro
36 35 The Good Life
37 34 The Beach Boys
38 33 The Shins
39 32 Coldplay
40 31 Eagle*Seagull
41 29 Daft Punk
42 29 Toad The Wet Sprocket
43 28 DJ Shadow
44 27 Travis
45 27 SEGA
46 27 Islands
47 25 Bright Eyes
48 25 The Breeders
49 24 Spoon
50 24 Wilco

Remember, I am a product of the 80's and therefore, I listened to alot of what I deem good 80's music. I also love classics.

Anyone got any suggestions based on this list on what I would like? I recently picked up Sean Lennon's new CD and it is pretty good.

Any help wold be greatly appreciated. If anyone wants to post their lists, too, I would definitely enjoy what you guys have been listening to lately.

 

[Jake.]

i'm sorry, you can't be saved.

 

[AniHawk]

Solsbury Hill?

 

[Wes]

No Kinks?

 

[Kevtones]

here:

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
Animal Collective - Feels
Asobi Seksu - Citrus
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Stereolab - Emperor Tomatoe Ketchup
Bonnie Prince Billy - I See A Darkness
Sleater-Kinney - Call the Doctor
The Beta Band - Hot Shots II
Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher
Sonna - Smiles and the World Smiles With You
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mountain Flame
The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Ride - Nowhere
LCD Soundsystem - 45:33
Scott Walker - The Drift
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Menomena - Friend & Foe
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Boredoms - Super Ae
Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
Dr. Octagon - Dr. Ecoctagonologyst
Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
The Jesus Lizard - Goat
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes
Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk at Cubist Castle
Built to Spill - Theres Nothing Wrong With Love
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
Mouse on Mars - Iaora Tahiti
Mr. Bungle - California
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Liars - Drums Not Dead
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
The Knife - Silent Shout
Mercuy Rev - Deserters Songs
White Flight - White Flight
Tortoise - Millions Living Now Dead
Aesop Rock - Labor Days
Hot Chip - The Warning
Ween - The Mollusk
Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Mogwai - BBC Sessions
Talkdemonic - Beat Romantic
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
Jeff Buckley - Grace
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
Arches of Loaf - Icky Mettle
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
Do Make Say Think - Winter Hymn..
DJ Shadow - Entroducing
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People

Should keep you busy

 

[ZeoVGM]

Well uh, the new albums by Of Montreal, Fall Out Boy, and The Shins are really good. All I've been listening too.

 

[AlteredBeast]

here:

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
Animal Collective - Feels
Asobi Seksu - Citrus
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Stereolab - Emperor Tomatoe Ketchup
Bonnie Prince Billy - I See A Darkness
Sleater-Kinney - Call the Doctor
The Beta Band - Hot Shots II
Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher
Sonna - Smiles and the World Smiles With You
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mountain Flame
The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Ride - Nowhere
LCD Soundsystem - 45:33
Scott Walker - The Drift
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Menomena - Friend & Foe
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Boredoms - Super Ae
Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
Dr. Octagon - Dr. Ecoctagonologyst
Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
The Jesus Lizard - Goat
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes
Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk at Cubist Castle
Built to Spill - Theres Nothing Wrong With Love
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
Mouse on Mars - Iaora Tahiti
Mr. Bungle - California
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Liars - Drums Not Dead
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
The Knife - Silent Shout
Mercuy Rev - Deserters Songs
White Flight - White Flight
Tortoise - Millions Living Now Dead
Aesop Rock - Labor Days
Hot Chip - The Warning
Ween - The Mollusk
Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Mogwai - BBC Sessions
Talkdemonic - Beat Romantic
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
Jeff Buckley - Grace
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
Arches of Loaf - Icky Mettle
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
Do Make Say Think - Winter Hymn..
DJ Shadow - Entroducing
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People

Should keep you busy

I have heard most of these bands/artists (+1 for including Mr. Bungle), but have not heard most of these songs. Will blow some iTunes cards on some of these. Thanks man!

 

[Celery&Lager]

Does your iPod smell of naphthalene?

 

[Kevtones]

No problem

There is everything from post-rock to hip hop on there. If you're a big fan of post rock, which I think you are (?), please check out Talk Talk, they're final two albums are the forerunners of the genre and their other album I listed (The Colour of Spring) is the best 80s record not named Spirit of Eden or Daydream Nation. It sounds 80s but absolutely rocks.

 

[AlteredBeast]

well, I don't like Hip-Hop but loved Dr. Octagon when I got the album many years ago.

"Oh SHit, there's a horse in the operating room! **** it..."

I love that stuff. To tell you the truth, I have probably only heard 15-20 songs on that list.

and Evangelos, do you say that because of my appreciation for the classics?

I love good new music, but there is something warm about The Beatles, especially Abbey Road, Let it Be, and the White Album.

 

[Kevtones]

Also, out of the records I listed, if you like the beatles and older stuff, check out Olivia Tremor Control and Of Montreal, they're basically more modern equivalents and f*cking awesome. Mahavishnu Orchestra also rocks and is very underappreciated.

 

[Nick]

With your taste, I recommend tracking down the new Panda Bear album. It's a great listen.

 

[iced lightning]

some free music by muah & a ton of recommendations under my influences:

http://www.myspace.com/electricsalmon

 

[Pikelet]

Sounds like you might like Arcade Fire

 

[itsinmyveins]

Artist: Tiger Lou.
Record: Is my head still on?

You will, without a doubt, love it. If you don't you're a heartless SOB

 

[shuri]

Alec Empire - Intelligence and Sacrifice

 

[alistairw]

Also, out of the records I listed, if you like the beatles and older stuff, check out Olivia Tremor Control and Of Montreal, they're basically more modern equivalents and f*cking awesome. Mahavishnu Orchestra also rocks and is very underappreciated.

Mahavishnu are indeed very awesome! I believe the album is "The Inner Mounting Flame" though; not "Inner Mountain Flame".

AlteredBeast, you will love The Crayon Fields. I guarantee it.

http://www.myspace.com/thecrayonfields

 

[Tieno]

(album) Pink Floyd - Pulse

It's incredible.

 

[Triumph]

I would recommend The Black Keys to you, but I don't know if you like the bluesier stuff from your lists. However, they kick ass.

 

[PROOP]

Everyone's contributions so far are good ones. If I could add a few, it would be (the bolded ones are must gets):

Menomena - Friend and Foe
Clap you Hands - Some Loud Thunder
Malajube - Trompe-l'oeil (it's a French Canadian band, but don't let that turn you off)
Klaxons - Myth of the Near Future
Beach House - ST
Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block
Swan Lake - Beast Moans
Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City
Be Your Own Pet - (any album)
Boris - Pink
Calexico/ Iron and Wine - In The Reins



BTW, the new Of Montreal album is ****ing awesome. It took me a lil' while to warm up to it, but now it gets almost constant play. My favorite line of the album goes like this
"Eva, I'm sorry, but you will never have me,
to me you're just some faggy girl,
and I need a lover with soul power"


Also, as mentioned above, Asobi Seksu - Citrus is an amazing album.... think a j-poppy My Bloody Valentine Album.

 

[Powerslave]

IRON MAIDEN

 

[Alucard]

Everyone's contributions so far are good ones. If I could add a few, it would be (the bolded ones are must gets):

Menomena - Friend and Foe
Clap you Hands - Some Loud Thunder
Malajube - Trompe-l'oeil (it's a French Canadian band, but don't let that turn you off)
Klaxons - Myth of the Near Future
Beach House - ST
Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block
Swan Lake - Beast Moans
Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City
Be Your Own Pet - (any album)
Boris - Pink
Calexico/ Iron and Wine - In The Reins



BTW, the new Of Montreal album is ****ing awesome. It took me a lil' while to warm up to it, but now it gets almost constant play.

Mmm. The In the Reins EP is faaaaaantastic...so powerfully sad sometimes too.

 

[speedpop]

If you're a big fan of post rock, which I think you are (?), please check out Talk Talk, they're final two albums are the forerunners of the genre and their other album I listed (The Colour of Spring) is the best 80s record not named Spirit of Eden or Daydream Nation. It sounds 80s but absolutely rocks.

Always good to snoop in these music threads when I'm bored. Just grabbed Laughing Stock and it's blowing my mind.

 

[DieNgamers]

For classics: Check out The Kinks! Albums: "Village Green Preservation Society" and "Arthur".
And: David Bowie (albums for starters could be "Hunky Dory", "Ziggy Stardust" and "Station to Station.")

 

[bud]

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are pretty good.

 

[vatstep]

If you're going to be influenced by Kevtones, please don't let him know. It only makes him more determined to pimp Talk Talk in every music thread that exists.

It's true.

 

[pringles]

Check out Jump, Little Children. "Magazine" and "Between the Dim and the Dark" are their best albums imo.

 

[LordMaji]

Pink Floyd "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" (this album sounds like a different band "The Pink Floyd Sound")

Also scope out

Syd Barrett "The Madcap Laughs", "Barrett", & "Opel"

it's awesome stuff.

Also David Bowie's "Best of Bowie" is a good all around album.

 

[7Th]

I'll play safe and just recommend what anyone with something near to a good taste may enjoy:

Joanna Newsom - Y's

Cornelius - Sensuous

The Divine Comedy - Victory for the Comic Muse

Guillemots - Through the Windowpane

Nikaido Kazumi – Nikaido Kazumi no Album

 

[Hyoushi]

I'm swooping in here to viral market my best friend. He's releasing his solo debut soonish:

http://www.myspace.com/andmachinesaidbehold

 

[bud]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jiqVcEiL90Q

I don't really know if the rest of their songs is any good but this is a great song

 

[Xrenity]

The View - Hats Off to the Buskers

 

[Jill Sandwich]

May I recommend Ice Cream EP by New Young Pony Club - it's new, but very electric 80's

 

[Manmademan]

Pandora is made for people with problems like yours. Exploit it

 

[GrundlTerror]

From what you wrote down I think you'd like Grandaddy.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mEHwkWyWD0Q

 

[Kevtones]

If you're going to be influenced by Kevtones, please don't let him know. It only makes him more determined to pimp Talk Talk in every music thread that exists.

And you're only helping :lol

 

[IJoel]

I bought last night Army of Anyone's album, and am starting to really like it. It's a band formed with the DeLeo brothers from Stone Temple Pilots, so it has some of that sound.

 

[haunts]

http://www.pandora.com

 

[Duck of Death]

Everyone's contributions so far are good ones. If I could add a few, it would be (the bolded ones are must gets):

Menomena - Friend and Foe
Clap you Hands - Some Loud Thunder
Malajube - Trompe-l'oeil (it's a French Canadian band, but don't let that turn you off)
Klaxons - Myth of the Near Future
Beach House - ST
Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block
Swan Lake - Beast Moans
Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City
Be Your Own Pet - (any album)
Boris - Pink
Calexico/ Iron and Wine - In The Reins



BTW, the new Of Montreal album is ****ing awesome. It took me a lil' while to warm up to it, but now it gets almost constant play. My favorite line of the album goes like this
"Eva, I'm sorry, but you will never have me,
to me you're just some faggy girl,
and I need a lover with soul power"


Also, as mentioned above, Asobi Seksu - Citrus is an amazing album.... think a j-poppy My Bloody Valentine Album.

Great recommendations.

For those who haven't listened to Bloc Party, you can actually listen to the entire album A Weekend in the City on their MySpace page.

 

[Dilbert]

You need to discover Big Star in a big hurry. You can get two albums -- #1 Record and Radio City -- on a single CD these days. There is absolutely no excuse for not listening to them.

Oh yeah -- better than the Beatles. I said it.

 

[Duck of Death]

Didn't Big Star do the song that was used for the intro for That 70's Show?

 

[pizzapizza64]

The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America

Great album if you like Elvis Costello, Say Anything, and rock n' roll in general. Some of the best lyrics I've heard in a while.

 

[pizzapizza64]

You need to discover Big Star in a big hurry. You can get two albums -- #1 Record and Radio City -- on a single CD these days. There is absolutely no excuse for not listening to them.

Oh yeah -- better than the Beatles. I said it.

Sheesh, I love Big Star as well. I'm a big Paul Westerberg fan, and he kind of ... showed me the beauty of that band.

 

[Jugendstil]

Alec Empire - Intelligence and Sacrifice

I fully endorse this recommendation.

 

[Foreign Jackass]

I really love the Beach House song Apple Orchard. Is the rest of the album like this?

 

[jedimike]

My rekindled love for music started at this website... (and GAF of course)

http://gorillavsbear.blogspot.com/ lots of free mp3's to sample

Like you, I was a product of the 80's and I didn't stray very far from my aging collection.

I can personally vouch for the following artists and I'll even include a favorite song...

Of Montreal - Wet and Rusting
The Shivers - The Road
The Shins - Phantom Limb (reminiscent of classic 4 man bands)
The Apples in Stereo - Energy (Very Beatles like)
Andrew Bird - Spare-Ohs (f'in amazing!)
Cat Power - Lived in Bars
Destroyer - "Your Blood" or "Painter in Your Pocket"(sounds gruesome, but it's not...)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Cursed Sleep (I love this song)

Other great albums... not one song really sticks out though. Both albums are good throughout.

Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
Band of Horses - Everything All the Time

..and try this song from Panda Bear Comfy in Nautica

 

[jedimike]

I really love the Beach House song Apple Orchard. Is the rest of the album like this?

Here's some live Beach House to check out...

http://gorillavsbear.blogspot.com/2007/01/beach-house-live.html

 

[ToxicAdam]

You need to download everything from the last Cardigans album, "SuperExtraGravity".


You can start with "Give Me Your Eyes" and "I Need Some Fine Wine ..."

 

[Armitage]

It seems you've got plenty of specific suggestions so mine is: listen to some genres you never have before. Drop the bass, guitars and drums and start listening to DnB or glitch or classical or jazz or trance.

 

[kennah]

Margot and the Nuclear So and So's http://www.margotandthenuclearsoandsos.com/
Meligrove Band http://www.meligroveband.com/ http://www.myspace.com/meligroveband
Golden Dogs http://www.thegoldendogs.com/ http://www.myspace.com/thegoldendogs/
Elliot Brood
Wailin Jenny's
The Duhks
Rilo Kiley (The singer was the love interest in The Wizard)
Paper Moon http://www.myspace.com/papermoon/
Squirrel Nut Zippers (Swing, very fun)
Tegan and Sara
Moneen
Sarah Slean

And as much as I'm loathe to post it.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEUnvnhi5V0

I'd suggest more, but my iPod is far and I am lazy.