What do you listening to when it's not dance orientated?

Jay D

Just wanted to compile a nice playlist to be honest of non dance related tunes that one would listen to when not hopping around the dance floor or bedroom!!

Lately been listening to all sorts, haha, even as far as The Corrs, hardcore shít.

Have you got a couple of songs that put you in great form?

joker77

In no particular order:

Damien Dempsey, The Stone Roses, Bat for Lashes, Aretha Franklin, Doves, Elbow, Jurassic 5, Pixies, Luke Kelly, Sia, Glasvegas, The Dubliners, Tegan And Sara, The National, Roots Manuva, The Strokes, The Streets, Artic Monkeys, Sigur Ros...... and a lot more besides!

jtsuited

Radiohead, Debussy, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Steve Reich, Arvo Part, Pink Floyd, some bits of the old motown stuff, eels, grandaddy, etc. etc.

Pandoras Twist

Brand New, Distillers, Bell x1, TV in the Radio, Tegan and Sara, Bloc Party, The Strokes, Queens of the Stone Age, Santagold, MIA, A perfect circle, Foo Fighters, Florence and the Machine, Incubus, THe Shines, Shiny Toy Guns, Sia

old gregg

Radiohead, Biosphere, Sigur Ros, Thirty Seconds To Mars, Pixies, Deep Purple, Lamb Of God, In Flames, Tangerine Dream, Nick Cave, Foo Fighters, Shostakovich, Dreadzone, Yes, Cancer Bats, Entia Non, Lostprophets, Gladiators

Radiohead would be the big one for me

Zascar

I actually listen to very very little non dance music however recently I dug out a whole load of CD's which were my staple when I was in my teens. Stuff like Rage Against the Machine, Nirvana, Metallica, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Greeen Day etc - I was a dirty rocker back then

Apart from that I have one directory of 'easy listening' music I dip into once in a while - its just full of totally random tunes with some fairly embarrasing stuff in there I'm sure

Presume by dance you mean any electronic, ambient etc?

Bands I would listen to include Simple Minds, Depeche Mode, Steely Dan, Joe Jackson, Roxy Music/Brian Ferry, The Police, Stone Roses, Something Happens, the Mission, UB40, pretty much any New Romantic, in fact pretty much most things from the 80s, and fairly random stuff then like maybe Soundgarden or Jane's Addiction or some goth collection...

Scubadevils

Outside of electronica (and by that I'll include all forms from ambient to techno) I listen to the likes of...

The Cure, Cocteau Twins, The Smiths, Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, Wilco (new to me though but loving the one album I have), Can, Spiritualized, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Primal Scream... to name a few. Oh and some jazz (very selective) and classical.

The Stone Roses would have been an old favourite and The Happy Mondays actually but I have been to too many parties now where I have been scarred by numerous people singing along to 'I Wanna Be Adored' at 3am. There was a house party behind my house a few months ago and they pretty much sang the whole of the first Stone Roses album and that pretty much killed it for me

The Smiths and The Cure go right back to when I was about 12 so that's over 20 years listening to them now :eek:

Scubadevils

jtsuited wrote: »

Radiohead, Debussy, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Steve Reich, Arvo Part, Pink Floyd, some bits of the old motown stuff, eels, grandaddy, etc. etc.

I bought an Arvo Part CD a few weeks ago and had to bring it back which is rare for me, I normally put it aside and go back another time - I love 'In A Landscape' but couldn't get into the minimal piano in most of the other pieces... you know the 'bing................dong...bing, bing, bing......... boing (for 6 minutes) It might click another time, maybe I should have given it a bit longer.

jtsuited

Felixdhc wrote: »

I bought an Arvo Part CD a few weeks ago and had to bring it back which is rare for me, I normally put it aside and go back another time - I love 'In A Landscape' but couldn't get into the minimal piano in most of the other pieces... you know the 'bing................dong...bing, bing, bing......... boing (for 6 minutes) It might click another time, maybe I should have given it a bit longer.

haha that can happen alright with arvo. i think a lot of those experimental dudes just do that stuff to show how avant-garde and inaccessible they can be.

MikeHoncho

I listen to a lot of other music outside the Electronica / Dance spectrum. I would say its about 50/50 really. Stuff like Radiohead, Animal Collective, Stevie Wonder, Talking Heads, Blur, Interpol, Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Bat For Lashes, Explosions In The Sky, Battles, Tortoise, Yeah Yeah Yeah's, TV On The Radio.

I like some 90's gangster rap as well. Cant beat a bit of Doggy Style etc. There are other things like LCD Soundsystem and The Knife but they kind of fall under Electronica really.

SteveDon

For me at the moment its a lot of reggae.

Also listen to a lot of thrash metal, the late 80's early 90's kind of stuff.

VinylJunkie

Oasis, Kasabian, & some more modern Reggae type like Rebelution.

electrogrimey

I'd say I'm about 60% non-dance, although it depends on the environment. I've a backround in classical, trad, and jazz, so I listen to a lot of those, but otherwise some of the favourites would be:

Julie Feeney, Flaming Lips, Kings of Convenience, Ben Folds Five, Battles, Wilco, Yeasayer, Fleet Foxes, Tom Waits, Beck, Broken Social Scene, Modest Mouse, The Postal Service, The Bad Plus, Bojan Zulfikarpasic (any of you jazz heads, seriously check this guy out. His albums Koreni, and Bojan Z Quarter are some of the best jazz I've ever heard), Iron & Wine, and of course Radiohead.

ED E

joker77 wrote: »

In no particular order:

Damien Dempsey, The Stone Roses, Bat for Lashes, Aretha Franklin, Doves, Elbow, Jurassic 5, Pixies, Luke Kelly, Sia, Glasvegas, The Dubliners, Tegan And Sara, The National, Roots Manuva, The Strokes, The Streets, Artic Monkeys, Sigur Ros...... and a lot more besides!

Eughh, saw them live. Almost as bad as those emo ten yr olds that supported Franz.

ED E

g5fd6ow0hseima

Interpol,
The National,
Múm,
Radiohead,
Neil Young,
Joy Division,
Echo & The Bunnymen,
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club,
Battles,
God Is An Astronaut,

rcaz

The Flaming Lips, Radiohead, Deerhoof, My Bloody Valentine, Wilco, Sonic Youth, Gorillaz, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Stravinsky, Steve Reich, Pärt, Penderecki, Gorecki, Ligeti... [Edit because I forgot hip hop!] DJ Shadow, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, A Tribe Called Quest, Deltron 3030, Ghostface Killah, De La Soul - I'm just off a big hip hop kick. Surprised I forgot to mention any of it.

I try to listen as widely as possible - I listen to most of the first half of that list for plain enjoyment, and classical for college (though as the syllabus gets more modern, I start to enjoy it more), and at the moment I'm really working on 'getting into' jazz and swing stuff. When I think I'm getting pretty used to jazz, I want to get some more reggae and dub stuff. There's no excuse for not knowing about all kinds of music

Táck

loads of hip hop for me, amongst others...

the pharcyde, tupac, gang starr, tribe called quest, nwa, outkast, naughty by nature, public enemy, nas, the fugees, interpol, doves, keane, the streets, the doors, pink floyd, the beatles, the republic of loose early stuff, kate bush, jamiroquai, spoon, the cure, star****er, paolo nutini, the verve, the smiths and morrissey, depeche mode, cinematic orchestra, bob marley, tiiki taane, tears for fears, ub40, supergrass, to name but a few...

and possibly one of my favourite albums of all time, the lost in translation soundtrack.

jtsuited

very credible tastes round here so....(snobs!!!).

notable exceptions being Zascar (RHCP????) and VinylJunkie (Oasis and Kasabian...sweet jesus)!!!!:p

Zascar

Ahahahaha yeah well I was young and foolish what can I say Ah no it's just that one or two of their songs have special memories attached to them from when I was younger so I kinda have an excuse...

Pandoras Twist

It'd be the same for me. Wouldnt listen to the likes of the foo fighters now but when I was 12 dear lord I worshipped them so the music holds a certain sentimental value

g5fd6ow0hseima

Back when I was about 12 I was mad into Linkin Park and the likes, here's a tune that always makes me laugh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gEyJ5bw_x8

Pandoras Twist

Any one else remember Sum41? *cringe*

colin29

I was a hip hop head from the eighties and still have a love for it but can't stand most of what comes out now, the underground stuff is what I like, El-p(Company Flow, funcrusher plus lp is one of my favourite albums) and pretty much anything on Def Jux records, Gangstarr, Dead Prez, early Wu Tang, Jurassic 5, DJ Shadow, Blackalicious, too many to mention to be honest.
Also love traditional Irish music, I play the Uilleann pipes, bodhran, whistles etc.
When I started DJing it was only rap music I would play, didn't get into house music until about 14 years ago when I started working in a nightclub/bar in Cork and fell in love with the music.

Jay D

some very good suggestions/likes among these, some dodgey ones too haha but what do you expect...

R.Shackleford

Amani Howling Stepladder wrote: »

Back when I was about 12 I was mad into Linkin Park and the likes, here's a tune that always makes me laugh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gEyJ5bw_x8

HAHA yes! Loved that song. used to spend hours watching mtv2 on sky before it went digital waiting for it to come on! good times!

ItsAWindUp

Bob Marley, The Specials, Stone Roses, Madness, Primal Scream, Happy Mondays, Snoop Dogg, Roots Manuva