Recommend me an album/Name an album.

Alako wrote: »

Hello!

I need recommendations please for music to listen to whilst studying as have grown tired of current stock and don't have time to go music hunting!

It needs to be mostly instrumental, or just non-evasive vocals.

I'll listen to anything really,

Bibio (ambivalence avenue - heavy rotation)
Royksopp (same with Senior)
Shadow Dancer
Richie Hawtin
Flying Lotus
The Field

A nice bit of techno usually helps me concentrate.

I actually got pretty productive listening to Music for the Jilted Generation the other day : )

I don't listen to techno so much but I like a lot of electronic music, can't recommend Aphex Twin, Autechre, Boards of Canada and Telefon Tel Aviv enough :cool:

Alako wrote: »

I like classical but no idea what album to get.. I hate 'Advertisement classical'... cornetto ad etc. Lyric plays some non-descript plinky plonky music the odd time, but I never catch who it is.

A few things I got really into while revising before my Leaving Cert are Górecki's 3rd Symphony and some Arvo Pärt stuff. Put some of this on, get to work, and maybe halfway through the piece, if you're like me, you'll go "Hang on, this music is incredible!!". I think I would've found it tough if I'd just properly listened from the start, 'cause I'd never listened to classical properly before. YMMV though





Górecki's a bit harder to find 'cause the first movement of the 3rd symphony is like 25 minutes long, but the first half is the bit you should try out I reckon, just an amazing sequence building and layering;



It's by far his most famous piece, so there are always really cheap CDs of the whole symphony in the classical sections of Tower Records and the like, if you like that movement you should definitely pick it up (there's a soprano in there with the string orchestra, all the words she sings are taken from graffiti on the walls of concentration camps!). I don't think classical singing is quite as distracting as singing in popular music?

And just because it's ****in' unreal;

Hey folks



Heres what im looking for,something along the lines of Mercury Rev,Beach House,Beach Boys/Brian Wilson,Flaming Lips,Sparklehorse,Mazzy Star,Polyphonic Spree.......


You get the idea.....or at least i hope you do! the above has been referred to as "Dream Pop",not a great name for a genre but maybe it helps(i remember some journalists trying to push "Orch Pop" around the time of "Deserter Songs",now that was bad)


Basically stuff that has that "big" sound,oh and ive tried Spiritualised God knows how many times but i just cant get into them before anyone mentions them,loads of people i know who's opinion i really respect love them but i just dont get it



Hope you guys get what im looking for,just going through a major Mercury Rev phase at the moment after the gigs last week,i need more of this kind of thing.......



Cheers....go for it!




Oh and i finally got round to the last Deerhunter tonight,love it,ordered off Amazon after it finished,theyre not a million miles from what im going for either,if i can get even one new band to love out of this ill be eternally grateful;)

was going to suggest gorecki but was beaten to it. what is useful for me is music that like a couple of those mentioned above is music that is not too needy. the kind of stuff you can dip in and out of along the way but occasionally grabs your attention and reminds you it's there.

other stuff i'd suggest are
mike oldfield tubular bells
gershwin's rhapsody in blue
the blue notebooks or memory house by max richter
brahms german requiem.
beethoven's piano sonatas

4Sheets wrote: »

Without reading the whole thread maybe they where mentioned but menomena's albums should be in any serious music fans arsenal and I would recommend their albums as my favs of all-time!

Mines is possibly my favourite album of last year...I'll be interested to see what they come up with now that Brent Knopf has left to concentrate on Ramona Falls...
I love this video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga0ohgZFVqc

(ps: any chance some nice person could help poor feeble-minded me to embed YouTube vids properly? I enter the link between the

4Sheets wrote: »

Ah man..didnt know they disbandied I was under the impression they where coming back with a long overdue album..ah well...Roman Falls it is and that video looks awesome!

Don't panic! The other two lads are still Menomena (from Wikipedia)...

"On January 7, 2011 it was confirmed by Pitchfork that Brent Knopf had left group to focus on his other musical project Ramona Falls. Knopf will be replaced by Paul Alcott for Menomena's upcoming tour dates. Both Knopf and Danny Seim addressed the matter in an interview posted on the Portland-based Local Cut blog two weeks later. Seim mentioned that he and Justin Harris will continue to make music as Menomena, stating, "We lost a major creative force in Brent, but thankfully, Brent’s not Kurt Cobain, and we’re not Nirvana. Brent’s more like Peter Gabriel and we’re more like Genesis. And everyone knows how much better Genesis got after that talentless hack Gabriel quit. Waitaminute…""

They tweeted at the end of last month that they're back in Portland to record a new album...Good news!

Thanks for the YouTube help...Derp!

Hi guys,
just wondered if anyone has any new music songs/album recommendations they could recommend for those of us doing some travelling this summer?

I'm going Interrailing for 4 weeks myself and would love some new music to take with me.
I have the new Bon Iver one, I'm also a huge 'National' fan so anything along those lines or not would be great!
thanks

Piglet85 wrote: »

Hi all,

I've recently taken up running, and it's only since I've started trying to put a variety of good up-tempo playlists together that I've realised I listen to a lot of mid-tempo to slow stuff! Ideally I'm looking for quite fast stuff and although I do love a bit of indie rock, I'm finding it relatively difficult to come up with as big a selection as I'd like. I'm sure there's loads of really obvious ones that I'm not thinking of though! Anyone have any suggestions/recommendations? Thanks!

Hey,
You've probably heard of LCD Soundsystem's 45:33...I used to find it great to run to, but got bored of it due to overuse...one long track that ramps up gradually, then slows down at the end too...part of the Nike Original Run series...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/45:33

I find Queens of the Stone Age good for short high intensity runs...

This may sound preposterous, but if you're doing long runs or training for a marathon, audiobooks can be bloody brilliant...two hours whizzes by...

If I think of more I'll get back to you...

true, have to agree

Joy Formidable - A Balloon Called Moaning

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

Belle And Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister

Foster the People......im LOVING their album Torches right now!!