I’m looking to expand my music collection, but I’d like to have ideas of peoples favorite artists and albums. I don’t want to just purchase music willy nilly hoping it will be good, ya dig?
Any specific genres?
just get on youtooob and start lookin. one persons favorite could repulsive to anothers
No specific genre. My music taste is very eclectic, and I’m genuinly interested to see what other people like.
I’m not shy I’ll shoot you some ideas out. These are all CD’s I would replace if they were lost. I tried to hit a variety of choices and left out some of the more obvious choices from the Rolling Stones, Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, etc.
- Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Annie Lennox - Diva
Cranberries - No Need to Argue
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe
Motels: All Four One
Maria Carey - MTV Unplugged (I can’t stand any of her other overproduced pop crap but this is quite the performance by a good singer)
Mellisa Etheridge - Yes I Am
The Who - Live at Leeds
A few Best Of collections that I like
Allman Bothers Band - A Decade of Hits
Tears for Fears - Tears Roll Down
Crosby, Still, Nash & Young - So Far
The Doors - The Best of
I know this is mostly older music, but you asked and I’m older so . . .
The ‘newest’ CD’s in my ‘permanent’ collection is:
Linkn Park - Meteora
Fiona Apple - When the Pawn. . .
Artists who I have the most CD’s by;
The Who
Bruce Cockburn
Off topic:
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
One of the best Sig lines I have read in a long time.
The Clash - London Calling
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Texas Flood
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Hot
Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
Paul Simon - Graceland
Squeeze - Singles
Los Lobos - How will the Wolf Survive
Peter Gabriel - Plays Live, So
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense, More Songs about Buildings and Food, …
Lloyd Cole - Don’t Get Weird on Me
to name a few
Camel - Music Inspired by the Snow Goose
These are some of my favorites. If you only pick one of these, Nightwish would be the one. I just heard of them a few days ago, but I already love their music.
Nightwish - Once
Disturbed - Indestructible
Sick Puppies - Tri Polar
Five Finger Death Punch - War Is The Answer
Three Days Grace - Life Starts Now
Flipsyde - We The People
Shinedown - The Sound Of Madness
These are some of my favorites. If you only pick one of these, Nightwish would be the one. I just heard of them a few days ago, but I already love their music.
Nightwish - Once
Disturbed - Indestructible
Sick Puppies - Tri Polar
Five Finger Death Punch - War Is The Answer
Three Days Grace - Life Starts Now
Flipsyde - We The People
Shinedown - The Sound Of Madness
Grizzly Bear- yellow house
Burial- Untrue
The Field- From here we go sublime
Benga- diaries of an afrobeat warrior
Queens of the stone age (any album)
Bon Iver- For Emma, long ago
The Knife- Silent shout
Fever Ray- fever ray
Leonard Cohen- best of
Dirty three- ocean songs
Crystal Castles- Crystal Castles (2010)
Pantha Du prince- This Bliss
The national- boxer
This list covers some really good indie rock, dubstep, minimal tech, electro and folk.
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Tubular bells-mike oldfield
if you are ecclectic youll love this one
…saw them a few months back in a club in downtown Oakland. There were maybe 30 people there.
Old and In the Way - Old and In the Way (try not hopping on your unicycle to Jerry Garcia’s banjo playing)
Lou Reed - Rock ‘n’ Roll Animal (The total opposite of the live Velvet Underground double album, yet not)
Gillian Welch - Revival (Revival is a revelation)
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers (1976) (note the old fashioned meaning of “to be straight”)
Natalie Merchant - Motherland (an absolute must if you’ve ever tried raising a teenage girl)
J S Bach - The Well-Tempered Clavier (played by Glenn Gould - listen for his muttering while playing)
Led Zeppelin- IV or Houses of the Holy
Radiohead- OK Computer
Jack Johnson- On and On
Sublime- 40 oz to Freedom
Eric Clapton- Unplugged
Nirvana- Mtv Unplugged in New York
The Black Keys- Chulahoma
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Grateful Dead- Workingmans Dead
Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
Presidents of the United States of America- self titled
Alice in Chains- Unplugged
Supertramp- Breakfast in America
Jethro Tull- Aqualung
Nine Inch Nails- Pretty Hate Machine
Portishead- Dummy
Pearl Jam- Ten
Peter Frampton- Frampton Comes Alive
Just a couple good ones.
Reading through these makes me really excited to go find new music this weekend! Three Words: Half Price Giftcard.
Thanks for the suggestions, and feel free to keep things going.
Some of my favorites:
Hypnotize by System of a Down
It’s Frightening by White Rabbits
Weezer (blue album) by Weezer (duh 
)
1984 by Van Halen
Two Lefts Don’t Make a Right… But Three Do by Relient K
End of Silence by Red
The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance
Absolution by Muse
Number Ones by Michael Jackson
Metallica (the black album) by Metallica (duh again!)
Grand by Matt & Kim
Songs About Jane by Maroon5
The Essential Johnny Cash by Johnny Cash
For Freedom by Jimmy Needham
The Very Best of the Eagles by The Eagles
Recollection by Creedence Clearwater Revisited (when the got back together to tour, they changed their name… sorta…)
Response to off topic post: Thanks? lol, naturally it wasn’t me who said the words of wisdom, but I am glad you like it.
Putting us (Ezas and SpazD) back on topic:
Everyone says they have a wide variety of tastes in music.
Most don’t. You do.
The only music I actually avoid (not even that I don’t like it, just that I prefer other genres) is country. Everything else I can get into, given the right moment.