Music: Recommend some!

Mmm...video game music....

My most recent favorites: The Yoshida Brothers (from the Wii commercials) playing on their cat gut guitars. That "Ring of Fire" and "Folsom Prison" guy who's famous. I think some of the Fallout stuff is from The Inkspots, a band I used to listen to when the Seventies was the air I was breathing...yes, I was single digits then, but still wore out several needles* grooving to them, Herman's Hermits & the Beatles.

*ancient relic, sort of a mundane laser. :P

Some delicious copypasta, right out o' my MySpace page and tweaked slightly to keep it up-to-date.

Nine Inch Nails
Muse
Incubus
Pendulum
Basshunter
Queens of the Stone Age
Molotov
The Mad Capsule Markets
Les Claypool
Bob Marley
Led Zeplin
Jimi Hendrix
Rob Zombie
The Doors
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Journey
Faith No More
Celldweller
Rage Against the Machine
Foo Fighters
The Gorillaz
The Pillows
Billy Idol
Billie Holiday
Unkle
Frank Sinatra

Rage Against the Machine, One Day as a Lion, Shaolin Temple of Boom, Old Metallica, Lamb of God, Shadows Fall, Disturbed, Godsmack, Maximum The Hormone, Tool, Alitheia, NIN, Chevelle, Dethklok, System of a Down, Serj Tankian, Powerman 5000, Gogol Bordello, Primus, Sublime, The Offspring, Chimaira, Killswitch Engage, Bad Religion, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Anthrax, Pantera, Bob Marley & the Wailers, John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra, Flobots, Scars on Broadway, Deftones, Static-X, Hatebreed, Incubus

::facepalm:: Kassidy...its Led Zep[b]pe[/b]lin you goon. Gee's...in my hippy youth I'd beat you up for that mispelling... :P

Lets see...what do I listen to.
Actually its easier to say what I DON'T listen to. I can enjoy pretty much anything. Most rap and most country are about the only two genres I can't get into, although there are a couple people from each I enjoy.

Some of my favorites:
Rush
Led Zep[b]pe[/b]lin
Oingo Boingo
MC Chris (nerdcore rap and hip hop...yeah!)
Captain Dan and the Scurvvy Crew (PIRATE rap! How could you go wrong?)
Deep Forest

An AWESOME album I just discovered is called "Rogues Gallery". Its various artists singing Sea Chanteys! Although the only two you'd probably recognize is Sting and Bono. Its fantastic.

Also, have any of you ever heard of the "Music Genome Project"? Basically the idea is you tell someone a band you really like and they can say, "Have you ever heard of XXX? Very similar style."

Well they took this idea and set up a sweet website for it. Its basically a radio station that you set up yourself.
Make a 'channel' by listing a band or music you like and the program will play things that are similar. You can then click on whether you like it or not and the program will try to include or remove it depending what you picked.
Thus it learns what you like, eventually narrowing down the channel to artists you should really look into.

[url]http://www.pandora.com/[/url]

Aw... Yeah, you're right, I epic failed at spelling the name of an awesome band. Sorry, I guess I thought that they'd tried to pull a "Haha, we purposely misspelled our name!" thing like Def Leppard. xP

[i]Pandora's turned me on to some nice albums, which I try to order at About Music in town, to which he sometimes replies, "Why didn't you just order it online when you were there?" to which I think, damn, man, it's the pleasure of the purchase, not the price tag, and you're making it not as fun. But that's just me.[/i]

One of my favorite trends from Pandora are Reggae "Dubs," generally referred to as versions & samples, it became a genre in itself, and is my favorite of fillers between more contemporary songs. If that new doo-hickey of yours can insert a certain group of songs like pepper in your scrambled eggs, check out [i]Studio 1[/i] or, I think, [i]Island Records[/i].

Then put [i]Ghost Town[/i] from the Specials on there, and the entire album Cure for Pain from Morphine mixed with a healthy dose of Cowboy Junkies and Leonard Cohen mixed in for that down home sorrowful effect. Then when you've got yourself in a good moody simmer, ease in some [i]Atom Heart Mother[/i] and [i]Wish You Were Here[/i]. Listen to "If" several times, until you get choked up a bit. Then when you've pretty much had enough of sitting still, try a bunch of songs off The Harder They Come soundtrack. Jimmy Cliff, Toots & the Maytals and a few others off there will pick you up enough to get all the dishes done!

[img]http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a365/pceth/store-related/AtomHeartMotherCover.jpg[/img]

Ivan Mládek - Jozin z Bazin

[quote="ronzoni"]Ivan Mládek - Jozin z Bazin[/quote]

Best. Song. EVER.

And the video is pretty good too!
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV2NpPqIHnw[/url]

[size=18]Half-Life 2 sound track[/size]
They Might be Giants
[size=18]Abney Park[/size]
Tom Waits
The Presidents of the United States of America (POT USA)
Goldfinger
Daft Punk
Joan Jett
[size=18]Modest Mouse[/size]
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Rathkeltair
Fountains of Wayne
Queen
The Killers
The Eagles
[size=18]Frank Sinatra[/size]
Aqua
Billy Idol
David Bowie
Bright Eyes
The Strokes
The Postal Service
Leonard Cohen
Neutral Milk Hotel
Bloodhound Gang
[size=18]Franz Ferdinand[/size]
Bowling for Soup
James Brown
[size=24]Leonard Nimoy >.<[/size]

put on some Marven Gaye, also I feel its my personal duty to link you up with some of the hottest freshest nerdcore hiphop from the scene:

[b]Top Tier Nerdcore[/b]
Jesse Dangeriously
MC Frontalot
Optimus Rhyme
MF Doom
YT Cracker
Deltron 3030

[b]Indie Nerdcore Classics and Unknown Artists[/b]
Zombies! Organize!!
Whoremoans
Beefy
MC Hawking
MechP
Sudden Death

[b]Non Nerdcore Rappers Who Are Good or Novel[/b]
Lady Sovereign
Louis Logic
Gym Class Heroes

[b]Not Even Rappers[/b]
Daft Punk
RJD2
Ratatat
Moloko
The New Pornographers
Menomena
Mclusky
The Buzzcocks
The Avalanches

DISCLAMER: I HAVE NO TASTE

I recommend trying some of the stuff from the non nerdcore categories at least, I selected a wide range of stuff so you would have some options.

also you should have a method for sampling this stuff, I suggest the crude but effective searching youtube for the artists, you can find and stream most songs that way.

[quote="I_Vomit_Candy"]
[size=24]Leonard Nimoy >.<[/size][/quote]

Ballad of Bilbo Baggins?

[quote="MrJoe"]put on some Marven Gaye, also I feel its my personal duty to link you up with some of the hottest freshest nerdcore hiphop from the scene:

[b]Top Tier Nerdcore[/b]
Jesse Dangeriously
MC Frontalot
Optimus Rhyme
MF Doom
YT Cracker
Deltron 3030
[/quote]

Have you tried MC Chris or Captain Dan? You should...

How about we go for that classic cover of "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" by you know who?

[img]http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/w/william-shatner/album-the-transformed-man.jpg[/img]

[quote="seth lustig"][i]... which I try to order at About Music in town, to which he sometimes replies, "Why didn't you just order it online when you were there?" to which I think, damn, man, it's the pleasure of the purchase, not the price tag, and you're making it not as fun. But that's just me....[/i][/quote]

Ok, now I feel like a jerk. Several days after this I hear About Music is closing. Their announcement has caused quite a stir, which I can understand being in business for quite a while now. Totally sad but believable. It's got to be insanely tough trying to compete with the online prices & big box store exclusives for music. But, it never looked like they were striving to keep ahead of the times, if it is even possible.

[b]GZA The Genius[/b], Liquid Swords(Good intro for rap/hip hop)

[b]Jeff Buckley[/b], has the most overplayed version of [i]Hallelujah[/i] you'll ever hear.

[b]Amy Mann[/b], Mellow, but still rocks. Married to Sean Penn's brother, I don't know why thats important. But it is.

[b]Bob Dylan[/b], just not his old stuff. His recent albums have some really good songs on them. Or look to the 80's if you want some religion.

[b]Joy Division[/b], [i]Love Will Tear us Apart[/i] is just a great song.

[b]Julee Cruise[/b], remember the woman singing in Twin Peaks? [i]Questions in a World of Blue[/i], [i]The World Spins[/i], etc. Pretty haunting stuff, depends on your mood that day I guess.

[b]Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds[/b], wide range of sounds, but if you give some of his tracks a listen you might like them. Has a murder ballad album called...uh...Murder Ballads.