Sing me a song

[katiefoolery]

I need new music.  I look at my iTunes library and I laugh - laugh! - at how unvaried it is.  At how I listen to the same songs over and over again until I tire of them.

The only problem is, I have no idea what sort of music I want to try and quite frankly, the thirty second sample the iTunes music store provides doesn’t help that much.  What if it’s the worst thirty seconds that song has to offer?  Or what if, conversely, it’s the only good bit and the rest is all rubbish?

So I was thinking about it last night (in between reading my flist, checking two messageboards, chatting on msn and collaborating on making icons and sig images...) and I decided that I need recommendations.  I’m really quite tragic when it comes to music.  I grew up with classical and I love it, but I stand on the borders of everything else and don’t know where to start. I need help!

Please, recommend me your favourite song.  It doesn’t matter who sings it or what genre it is.  Don’t worry about second guessing me and working out what you think I’ll like - I don’t even know what I’ll like until I try it.  :P  I need variety; I need to try new things and you’re the people to help me.  Pretty please?

Comments

[nesmith.livejournal.com]

Baba O'Riley by the Who.

Hell, ANYTHING by the Who.

[(Anonymous)]

I will get Damons music harddrive, it has 12 gig of Mp3's if you cant find something on that then you are beyond hope

[funaga.livejournal.com]

Favourite song? How can you ever pick one? :|

"Get To Me" by Train
"Should've Listened" by Nickelback
"They Weren't There" by Missy Higgins
"Ophelia" and "My Skin" by Natalie Merchant

[rilla06.livejournal.com]

I'm like you, I stand on the edge of genres :P Well, right now I'm listening to The Corrs. Oh, now it's The Beetles... erm...

I don't have a favourite song :(

Oh now I'm listening to Avril Lavigne...

(hurrah for shuffle :P)

[morbane.livejournal.com]

Rasputina - it seems somewhat necessary to adore a group of sarcastic Canadian rock cellists.

Blair Giles Band - Has a website (http://www.blairgiles.co.nz/BUILD/index.shtml), so not TOO obscure. Main singer has a lovely voice. My favourite song is probably 'Barricade'. Of the MP3s available I'd suggest 'Army' and 'Goodbye to Jesse'. Lovely melodies.

Jeff Buckley - 'Grace' album is neat. Also 'Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk'.

Also I'm somewhat fond of Kris Delmhorst, maybe because the album I have of hers has TWO songs about trains. She's sort of folky.

Oh. And for a completely different genre, www.jonathancoulton.com. You NEED songs about evil geniuses, mathematical equations, how to cheer up Pluto since its loss of planetary status, and above all monkeys.

Please counter-recommend. I haven't updated my playlists in ages.

[cat-eyes-el.livejournal.com]

Well, I listen to all kinds of things, and currently have 'Stick to the Status Quo' from High School Musical stuck in my head *plots to kill Kathleen, damn her and her ipod!*

Anyway, my iPod has a lot of Disney music and music from musicals, which I think is good. So yeah, that's my suggestion.

If you want to be cool follow one simple rule, don't mess with the flow oh no, stick with the status quo AARRGGHHHHH

[nikkidynamo.livejournal.com]

Well I attempted to get it down to ONE recommendation but with over 5000 songs it was just too hard so:

Ani Difranco : What if no ones Watching?
or : Little Plastic Castle
Counting Crows: Angels of the Silences
Ben Harper: Diamonds on the Inside
VNV Nation: Beloved
Wolfsheim: Once in a Lifetime
Tori Amos: Happy Phantom

Let me know if you like them!

[jessentwistle.livejournal.com]

The songs I always come back to... Lightening Crashes by Live, Fishermans Daughter or London Still by The Waifs, Good People by Jack Johnson... cant think of any others right now...

[decryption.livejournal.com]

My top 5 songs of the moment:

And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Caterwaul
Mogwai - Glasgow Mega Snake
Regurgitator - Pretty Girls Swear
Sean Lennon - Queue
Mindless Self Indulgence - Shut Me Up


Lots of loud guitars, aw yeah :p

[blindmouse.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I could pick one favourite song, but... OK, maybe:

'Crime of the Century', by Supertramp.

Also, noticed The Waifs got a look in a little above. I've been on a bit of a Waifs binge for most of this year, so I can heartily reccommend... almost anything they do.

[purpletigress.livejournal.com]

I'll just go for my top 5 songs of the moment, because these things always change with me and my favourite songs of all time are probably things you already know. Anyway:

1. Keep it Loose, Keep it Tight - Amos Lee
2. Things between People - Holly Throsby
3. Ants Marching - Dave Matthews Band
4. Mountains O' Things - The Dukhs (a very cool band I've just discovered)
5. Prime Time Deliverance - Matthew Good Band

[(Anonymous)]

Jon Anderson - olias of sunhillow, and if i can ever find the CD ill be very happy, also anything else by Jon Anderson.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Thank-you muchly!

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

But... when am I going to have time to go through that much music? Honestly.

P.S. Learn to log in.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Thank-you muchly! I was hoping people would have more than one favourite song, actually, but I didn't want to be too greedy in asking. :D

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

I think about the top ten most-played songs on my playlist are the Corrs. :D

Shuffle is indeed a splendid thing.

[mysterikat.livejournal.com]

Hey Bunne,

I will give you a list of my fav albums (single songs are just too darn hard!)

1. Anything by Tori Amos (she is my goddess! that woman is incredible)
2. The Lotus Eaters - Wendy Rule
3. Any Johnny Cash
4. Extraterristrial Live - Blue Oyster Cult (love a good dose of early 80's rock)
5. Fumbling Towards Ecstacy - Sarah McLachlan
6. either of the Evanescence albums
7. anything by Morcheeba (nice and laid back, very groovy)
8. again, anything my Portishead
9. anything by Lamb (its all good!)
10.and currently on rotation in my car is the 2007 Annual from Ministry of Sound (great driving music - the 2006 is great too!)

i also like Air, Tricky, Ben Harper, Massive Attack, Orbital, HillTop Hoods, and heaps of middle eastern or african music.

Hope thats helpful!
MK

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Thank-you muchly, good Morbane!

Gah, I have nothing to counter-recommend! The dire state of my playlist is the whole reason for this post. :P

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Sooo.... are you recommending that or not?

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Thank-you! I can imagine that was quite difficult, with five thousand songs to choose from.

*is impressed*

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Thank-you muchly!

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Thank-you muchly! Loud guitars have a lot going for them, really. :D

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Thank-you muchly, good Blindmouse.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Thank-you muchly! :)

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

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