The Expand Your Horizons Thread

Mr E

I'm always looking for new music to listen to, and thought of doing this thread. I've seen this done on a few forums in the past (including forums on boards.ie) but not sure if its been done in Alt/Indie.

Fire up your ipod (or MP3 player of choice), stick it on random/shuffle, and do the following:

1. List the first 5 tracks that come up (the most honest you are, the more fun it'll be!)
2. List the first 5 recommendations for other Alt/Indie fans (even if you have to go through 20-30 tracks to find 5). Look for stuff that people may not be familiar with (but you like).

The lists can cross over obviously (if you have REALLY good taste in music).

This thread could dry up very quickly if it was limited to one post per person, so lets make it one post per person per day.....

My first 5:

1. Rent Day Blues (The Frames)
2. Fading Out (The Golden Hour)
3. Lemon Meringue (Poe)
4. La Pour Ca (Nada Surf)
5. Lightbulb Sun (Porcupine Tree)

My first 5 recommendations:

1. Fading Out (The Golden Hour)
2. Lightbulb Sun (Porcupine Tree)
3. Daisychains (Youth Group)
4. Fall Behind Me (The Donnas)
5. No One Really Wins (Copeland)

rororoyourboat

Cool Idea! Roysh:

First Five:

Here Comes Your Man - Pixies The Sick Note (Live) - The Dubliners (?) Hoppípolla - Sigur Rós Mood Indigo - Nina Simone A Brand New Sound - Jimi Hendrix (Does that count, it's a snippet from an Interview?? )

Tracks I would like to recommend:

This Car Climbed Mt Washington - Damon & Naomi (From a deadly album called More Sad Hits) Tipp City - The Amps (A Kim Deal side-project from the 90s - brilliant!) Disappearing Ink - Deerhunter You Belong - Hercules and Love Affair Stack Shot Billy - the Black Keys

Mr E

Mine for today:

First 5:

Silent to the Dark (Electric Soft Parade)
Mesmerized (Lifehouse)
Rhiannon (Fleetwood Mac)
Christmas 22 (Blink)
Sunrise (The Devlins)

Next 5 recommendations:

Silent to the Dark (Electric Soft Parade)
Clouds (The Jayhawks)
Suicide Way (Woodstar)
Ammyl (Killing Heidi)
I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance with You (Black Kids)

Twee.

Good idea!

First Five:
All My Friends - Broken Social Scene
Cats in a Bag - The Luyas
Do It Again - Queens of the Stoneage
Chump - Green Day
Into Eternity - Jens Lekman

Five Recommendations:
Be Gentle With Me - Boy Least Likely To
Agoraphobia - Deerhunter
Jogging Gorgeous Summer - Islands
Kanske Ar Jag Kar I Dig - Jens Lekman
Section 12 (Hold Me Now) - The Polyphonic Spree

I'm in a chilled-happy mood today

Heisenberg.

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X-Calibre

Random 5:

1. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead - Inland Sea
2. Red Light Company - The Architect
3. Pendulum - Show Down
4. Blur - Girls and Boys
5. Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want

Recommended 5:

1. The Books - Tokyo
2. The Dodo's - Jodie
3. Explosions in The Sky - Catastrophe and The Cure
4. The National - Without Permission (from The Virginia EP)
5. Amadou & Mariam - Masiteladi

homerun_homer

5 Random

Chips & Dip - Spoon
Little Billie, Little Brother - Kilians
Hero - Bloc Party
Children of Kellogg - Clinic
If I can Dream - Elvis Presley

5 random reccommendations

Unforgettable Season - Cut Copy
Come to This- Sleepy Jackson
Be Safe - The Cribs
Howl - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Giddy Up - The Hives

fortuneg

Random 5:

Flying Lotus - Dance Floor Stalker
Unkle - Keys to the Kingdom
Aesop Rock - Coffee
Justice - Stress
Mr. Scruff - Hold On

Hmm, my iPod appears to be on a bit of a dance/hip-hop buzz today.
Lets see if we can tease a few indie tracks out of her...

Recommended 5:

Florence & the Machine - Drumming Song
Amusement Parks on Fire - Out of the Angeles
Sigur Rós - Starálfur
The Whitest Boy Alive - Done With You
50 Foot Wave - Dog Days

Time Magazine

Random 5
The Bled - Red Wedding
Finch - Chinese Organ Thieves
Director - Reconnect
Tool - Triad
Mic Christopher - That's What Good Friends Do

Recommended 5
Biffy Clyro - There's No Such Thing As A Jaggy Snake (Most will know them, but most know Sigur Rós too)
Grammatics - Polar Swelling (Far from great quality)
Powderfinger - (Baby I've Got You) On My Mind
Fugazi - Combination Lock
Colour of Fire - 9 Volter

DerekD Goldfish

Random 5
Prefab Sprout- Whoever you are
Tom Waits- Shoreleave
Cocteau Twins-Hitherto
Pulp-Lipgloss
The Stooges-Little Doll

Recommended 5
Rapeman- Monobrown
The Cure- One Hundred Years
The Fall-No Xman for John Quays
Fatima Mansions - Popemobile to Paraguay
Sandoz-Limbo

Placid_Casual

Random 5

The Immediate - Don't You Ever
The National - Start A War
The Shins - Young Pilgrims
Nick Drake - Hazy Jane I
Pulp - Pencil Skirt


Recommended 5

The National - Start A War
The Shins - Young Pilgrims
Nick Drake - Hazey Jane I
The Beach Boys - You Still Believe In Me
Elliot Smith - Waltz #2

sineadgalway

Random 5:

Love Dog - TV on the Radio
Letting Go - Nitin Sawhney
Honey Honey - Feist
Misread - Kings of Convenience
Feels Like Home (Yellowsoul) - Phontaine

Recommended 5:
Goodnight, California - Kathleen Edwards
Holiday - Joan as Police Woman
Rollercoaster Ride - The Whitest Boy Alive
Emer's Dream - Colm Mac Con Iomaire
Let Go - Frou Frou

PrivateEye

Awesome thread.

Five randoms. Pardon the add-ons,felt they were neccessary, I've probably broken the rules.

1:The Clash-Tommy Gun (If you dont have Give 'Em Enough Rope and London Calling you're doing music wrong)

2:Rilo Kiley- We'll Never Sleep (God Knows We'll Try) (I used to listen to this band a lot more, but I lump them in with the other 'teenage years bands'. This album (Takeoffs and Landings) is a perfect indie-pop album,still)

3:Against Me!- Tonight We're Gonna Give It 35% (By far my favourite band, despite releasing two terrible albums in a row now their early material means the world to me. Fans of bands as diverse as The Gaslight Anthem and Refused will love Against Me!( and probably already do!)

4:Mr.Oizo- Bruce Willis Is Dead (He did so much more than a Levis ad. Ed Banger Records in general, bar Uffie, is fantastic)

5:Christy Moore- St. Patricks Dance In San Fernando (Everyone who listens to folk music should know Christy inside out. His more recent material, including covers as diverse as Moz and Dylan, is magic. The man carries so many stories.)


Five choice-cuts:

1: Billy Bragg- The Saturday Boy (God I love this song, beautiful. 'She became a magic mystery to me, and we'd- sit together in double 'istory twice a week' Reminds me of somebody, think it reminds everyone of somebody *wipes tear*)

2: Au Revoir Simone/Phoenix- Sad Song From 1901 (Au Revoir Simone- Sad Song. Near perfect. Phoenix- 1901. Near perfect. Both together? THANK YOUU)

3:Cat Power- Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground (Was between this and her cover of The Auld Triangle!)

4: The National- Start A War (Beautiful, nuff said)

5: The Shangri Las- Give Us Your Blessing (kick ass 60s (amirite!?) pop band from the states everyone should listen to. You cant get Eddie Rockets delivered to your house, but you can play the Shangri Las really loud)

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Mr E

Next 5:

Maria Mena - What's Another Day
Josh Rouse - Rise
Emm Gryner - 89 Days of Alcatraz
White Lies - Unfinished Business
The Donnas - Don't Break Me Down

5 Recommended:

The Donnas - Don't Break Me Down (not a great recording, but I like this band - good to turn their stuff up loud...)
Pete Murray - Chance to Say Goodbye (Aussie singer with a knack of writing hooky folk/pop/rock)
Manic Street Preachers - You Love Us (easy to forget their great old stuff)
Blackfield - Blackfield (great song - I love anything Steve Wilson does)
Nada Surf - Inside of Love (4 albums on my ipod, so these guys are going to come up alot - one of my favourite Nada Surf songs)

cherryghost

Good idea!

My first 5:

1. Sit Down, Stand Up (Radiohead)
2. We Don't Understand You (Apes & Androids)
3. Start! (The Jam)
4. Choo Choo (Arctic Monkeys)
5. You Owe Me an IOU (Hot Hot Heat)

My first 5 recommendations:

1. Sit Down, Stand Up (Radiohead)
2. You Owe Me an IOU (Hot Hot Heat)
3. My Delerium (Ladyhawke)
4. For Tomorrow (Blur)
5. Frontier Psychiatrist (The Avalanches)

jefreywithonef

Random 5
Dinosaur Jr - Poledo
Minutemen - Toadies
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Blues From A Gun
Jens Lekman - If I Could Cry (It Would Feel Like This)
Pearl Jam - Sonic Reducer

Recommended 5
Rory Gallagher - Tattoo'd Lady
Black Francis - Bad News
Arthur Brown - Fire
Quiet Village - Circus of Horror
Husker Du - I Apologize

Placid_Casual

Random

Gorillaz - M1A1
Pixies - La La Love You
Queens of The Stone Age - First It Giveth
The Beach Boys - Slip On Through
Pearl Jam - I Am Mine

Recommended

Fleet Foxes - Blue Ridge Mountains
Guillemots - Trains To Brazil
Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy Jr.
Fionn Regan - Bunker Or Basement
Love - Orange Skies

kagni

First 5 random tracks....

Out There In The Night - The Only Ones
Desire - Talk Talk
1000 Tons Of Megaton - Roland Alphonso
We know the night - The Replacements
Herculean Bellboy - Young and Sexy



First 5 recommended...

Desire - Talk Talk
Herculean Bellboy - Young and Sexy
10 Gallon Ascots- tapes 'n tapes
Spin - Th' Faith Healers
Lost Coastlines - Okkervil River

JerryHandbag

Random 5
Queens Of The Stone Age - In My Head
John Denver - Looking For A Space
Zwan - Honestly
Doves - Snowden
Gemma Hayes - Ran For Miles

Recommended 5
Billy Corgan (with Robert Smith) - To Love Somebody (yeah, the Bee Gees song!!)
Low - Death Of A Salesman
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Blaise Bailey Finnegan III
Friendly Fires - In The Hospital
Foals - Electric Bloom

SauceMonster

Random 5:
Travel Song - Someone still loves you Boris Yeltsin
St. Rosa and the Swallows - The Thermals
1952 Vincent Black Lightning - Richard Thompson
Calling Lightning Pt.2 - Howlin' Rain
Headless Horseman - The Microphones


Recommended 5:
Travel Song - Someone still loves you Boris Yeltsin
Calling Lightning Pt.2 - Howlin' Rain
Sold! To the nice Rich Man - The Welcome Wagon
The Rifle - Alela Diane
Black River Killer - Blitzen Trapper

lordgoat

My Shuffle will be all Neil Young today so i'll leave that out for now.

Recommendations:

Elliott Smith - Junk Bond Trader
The Wrens - This Boy is exhausted
Dexys Midnight Runners - Plan B (yes the have more songs than come on Eileen)
Wilco - Theologians
The Band - The Night they drove old dixie down.


(Plus one to the saturday boy by billy bragg, the trumpet solo in it is one of the most perfect sounds in any music i've listened to)

krustydoyle

Great Idea...

Random Selections

Radiohead- Creep
Cold War Kids- Red Wine, Success!
The Ramones- Endless Vacation
Manic Street Preachers- If You Tolerate This....
Ryan Adams-How Do Keep Love Alive

Reccommendations

Little Dragon- Constant Surprises
Planxty- The Jolly Begger
Primordial- Empire Falls
Ryan Adams and The Cardinals- Cobwebs
Slow Club- When i Go?

snazzy

This will keep me busy checking out music all evening!

Shuffle:
Pure Morning --> Placebo
Umbrella --> Rihanna
The Finish Line --> Snow Patrol
The Righteous and the Wicked --> RHCP
Spin --> Taking Back Sunday


Recommendations:

Betterman --> John Butler Trio
Nature Boy --> Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Every Little Earthquake --> Little Boots
We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives --> Los Campesinos!
Rainbows In The Dark --> Tilly and the Wall

Twilighter

First 5:

Brianstorm - Arctic Monkeys
Sheila - Jamie T
Vertigo - U2
You Rock My World - Michael Jackson
Be Good or Be Gone - Fionn Regan

Recommend:
Heads Will Roll - Yeah yeah yeahs
Put a penny in the slot - fionn regan
rehab - paolo nutini (covering amy winehouse)
that golden rule - biffy clyro
new romantic - laura marling

Music-and-booze

Random 5

Crosses - Jose Gonzales
Supply and Demand - The Hives
On a Plain - Nirvana
Atmosphere - Joy Division
All You Got - Tegan and Sara

Recommended 5
Everyone's a VIP to someone - The Go! Team
Between the bars - Elliot smith
I Love You - Dandy Warhols
Soon - My Bloody Valentine
Red Cave - Yeasayer

Rabbit Heart

Random

1. Micachu - Guts
2. Halo - Beyoncé
3. Muckquaikerjawbreaker - Biffy Clyro
4. The Bends - Radiohead
5. Bucky Done Gun - M.I.A.

Recommendations
1. Auburn And Ivory - Beach House
2. Too Young To Love - The Big Pink
3. Starry Eyed - Ellie Goulding
4. Scarlet Fields - The Horrors
5. Diamonds, Fur Coat, Champagne - Suicide

Piglet85

Love this thread, great idea!

My first 5:

Bonnie Prince Billy - Love Comes To Me
Django Reinhardt - Believe it, Beloved
Gomez - Tijuana Lady
Tricky - #1 Da Woman
Camper Van Beethoven - Take the Skinheads Bowling


5 Recommendations:

Metric - Help, I'm Alive
The Coral - I Remember When
The Mars Volta - Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of)
Toasted Heretic - LSD (Isn't What it Used To Be)
Iron & Wine - Die

NapoleonInRags

Random 5

Halcyon + On + On - Orbital
One of These Things First - Nick Drake
Head Home - Midlake
Bricks of Our Home - The Cave Singers
Be Thankful For What You've Got - Massive Attack

(would be happy with that lot as recommendations too!)

Recommended 5

Another Radio Song - Okerrvil River
Upward Over the Mountain - Iron and Wine
Statued - Adem
My My - Menomena
Bottom of the Lake - Builders and the Butchers

deisedude

First Five
Duke Special- Ballad of a Broken Man
Kings of Leon- Pistol of Fire
We Are Scientists- Lethal Enforcer
The Chalets - Red High Heels
Bloc Party- This Modern Love

Recommended Five
The Velvet Underground- After Hours
Bell X1- I'll see your heart and i'll raise you mine
Nine Black Alps- Intermission
Josh Ritter- Vapour Trail (From the Cake Sale album)
Led Zeppelin- No Quarter

Joe_Dull

Shuffle:

Angel of Death - Slayer
She's Electric - Oasis
Vultures - John Mayer
Damage Done - Dark Tranquillity
Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros - Flight of the Conchords

Recommendations:

That Golden Rule - Biffy Clyro
L'envol - Babylon Circus
The CN Tower Belongs to the Dead - Final Fantasy
Rubber Lover - Marmaduke Duke
Instant Music - The Pillows