The "Recommend me some new music?" Thread

Why not look up the people who make your favourite music and find out who they listen to themselves? Always works for me.

Zero1986 wrote: »

I propose a new stickied recommendation thread since so many people are starting threads like these.

Yeah I was thinking the same. Ooh, my first sticky, can't wait :pac:

hidinginthebush wrote: »

Check out Music Map you put in an artist name and it gives you suggestions.

There is also Music Plasma which does more or less the same thing.

-Vega- wrote: »

a thread for this is a bad idea. Not enough people look thru threads, some people read thread titles and will recognise the song mentioned and post in it, rather than troll thru 100 pages of what about this song and what about that song.

Please just leave my thread where it is because I promise you, it wont get answered here.. and thats the point of this forum. I actually might have found something if you left it where it was, is this forum about helping its users or making everything nice and tidy?

A thread for this is a great idea. People that want to talk about finding new music can come here and see what others want, and ask for requests themselves. If people aren't going to bother posting, that's a problem with the people, and not with the forum, right?

In the last month or so we've had loads of threads asking for recommendations, they always get maybe one or two responses and then die out. Having that many almost-empty threads coming through here to die makes for a messy forum that's hard to manage. Why not just have it all in one/

This forum, as far as I'm concerned, is about making a nice and tidy collection of threads that are easy for users to navigate through. Having stickies on popular topics means all similar discussions are in the same place, so people looking for those discussions can find it all at once. Which makes perfect sense to me.

I can't listen to anything right now, but when I get home this evening I'll have a listen to some stuff and see if I can make any recommendations. But Vega, you're looking for music similar to Hans Zimmer, one of the most popular film composers ever. Why don't you check out his other work and see if you like any of that too? He's done a lot.

-Vega- wrote: »

for example, not ONE on topic response so far. These people will never get suggestions posted back unless its by the mod who actually has to crawl through this thread which could end up at 50 pages.

Weren't you just proven wrong by hidinginthebush?

-Vega- wrote: »

Sticking to my guns.. wont find what im looking for here now.

You're looking for Gypsy music right? So, rather than complaining, why not be a bit proactive and do as I've just done - go here and search for "gypsy music". That'll give you links to a bunch of articles to read through and give you artist names like Django Reinhardt, Joscho Stephan and Damian Draghici. Plug any of them into a YouTube search and you'll get a load of videos to browse.

hidinginthebush wrote: »

anything like like this

That's Dubstep (or at least some variant of it). From a metal perspective it's gained a lot of exposure through Korn's recent album, The Path of Totality.

There is lo'ts of great new music about and I could just list the obvious stuff like Alabama Shakes, Django Django, Spiritualized , Jack White (which are all good) but I'd prefer to mention other new stuff which I think will be among the year's best albums.

Beth Jeans Houghton and The Hooves of Destiny - 'Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose' is an excellent album. It reminds me of Neil Hannon's finer moments at it's best. Not a dud song on the album. Liliputt is a fantastics song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWeE_u28myo

Cloud Nothings - A thrilling album, 'Attack on Memory', and could end up my favourite of 2012. Produced by Steve Albini. It's intense post punk with a rage and ferocity that makes stuff from the likes of The Men seem like The Carpenters. Wasted Days is belter of a song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIitQNXVgb8

The Radioactive Grandma - Sure Delorentos have made their best album yet, but I think the self titled debut album from The Radioactive Grandma will be the best album from an Irish band in 2012. It's packed with great tunes. Certainly 'Don't look down' is one of my favourite songs of 2012.
http://soundcloud.com/theradioactivegrandma

Finding new music that thrills you is a treat and all the above deserve to be listened too

Smell Badda wrote: »

I'm trying to create a compilation of songs that give a shout out to the bands contemporaries, peers or influences. I have 3 songs so far.



Alabama 3: Woke Up this Morning.
I have a long version of this where a lot of blues artists get a mention.

Scooter - Back in Ireland
He rallies through a hell of a lot of acts on this one.

Arthur Conley - Sweet Soul Music
And once again a mention of many of his peers in soul.


It's a tough one but any help with track suggestions would be great.

That Jigga song is exactly what you're looking for.

The only other one that I can think of is Eminem's list of the top rappers in the game. His number one is Redman.

It also helps that it's one of Eminem's best songs.

I got a list here's the order of my list that it's in.
It goes, Reggie, Jay-Z, Tupac and Biggie, Andre from OutKast, Jada, Kurupt, Nas and then me.