Music Help Needed

[E.O.T.]

I said "haven't heard before" not "tragically mainstream".

How about if you post a complete list of everything you've heard before, and then those of us who don't have time to keep up with what's mainstream and what's not can post music that's not on your list?

List Likely incomplete, and not necessarily reflective of what I like:

[Anything mentioned in this thread, ipso facto]

Alice in chains,  A perfect Circle,  Aphex twin,  nirvana,  ICP,  Eminem,  Kidrock , Aerosmith,  Journey,  Kansas,  America,  Boston,  Trans Siberian Orchestra,  Savatage,  Full Circle,  Kenny G,  Kenny Loggins,  Yonni,  Enya,  Weird Al Yanchovich, Al Green, Green Day, Green Jelly, Tenatious D, Spoon, Puscifer, Tool, St. Vincent, Them crooked vultures, Queens of the Stone Age, Morphine, InIsOut, Pink Floyd, Squirrel Nut Zippers,
26 MPH, Throat Culture, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Stevie Wonder, eddy murphy, white snake, better than ezra, less than jake, jimmie eats world, jimmy's chicken shack, dead kennedys, drop kick murphys, floggin molly, death, writhing youth, christian death, cake, NIN, manson, Mahavishnu Orchestra, :wumpscut:, blind melon, alanis moressette, sarah mclaughlin, RHCP, Jane's Addication, Cat Stevens, Yoseph Islam, Cream, Velvet Revolver, Audioslave, powerman 5000, electric light orchestra, supertramp, davinvi's notebook, natural 7, Bach, Sibileus, Rob Zombie, White Zombie, Cannibal Corpse, Cradle of Filth, Ministry, Train, Travis, Seven Nations, the cure, Deadsy, King Missle, Meatpuppets, tantric, Days of the New, stained, Pig Dick, Arterial Spray, metalica, offspring, linkin park, evanessence, ray charles, john coltrane, count bassie, miles davis, wynton marcelis, mars volta, at the drive in, black flag, henry rollins band, anti flag, minutemen, dead milk men, Dr. Rocket and the Moon Patrol, STP, Pearl Jam, Rush, Zwan, Smashing Pumpkins, Chris Issacs, David Bowie, Jonny Cash, Iggy pop, The Clash, The deftones, daft punk, orbital, grand master flash and the furious five, korn, limp bizkit, sneaker pimps, butthole surfers, filter, lit, everclear, sugar ray, 311, DVDA, mxpx, third eye blind, blink 182, matchbox 20, bare naked ladies, dave mathews, Santana, Eric Clapton, Muddy maters, George Thurogood (sp?), henry Tucker, Screamin Jay hawkins, Marvin Pontiac, Devil Makes Three....


or, we could agree that if it's played on the radio, or you hear people talking about it in public places like starbucks, it's likely in the "mainstream" category. Contrary to what Kel may think, Sublime is mainstream. So, if you would like, I can change my OP to read "...likely haven't heard."

OK,

          the only interesting thing I see in that list is possibly the Henry Rollins band. Ever checked out his first few? like 'Henrietta Collins & the wife beating child-haters "drive by shooting" e.p.?' -classic. o.k, so most of that stuff you listed is listenable, BUT BASICALLY TOTALLY MAINSTREAM!! be it crap or rocks out.

GO TO

          some band pages on myspace and start surfing around. you'll probably like most of what you find.

ALSO

          Diamanda Galas is a great springboard into...

[Payne]

For The Record, this is every artist I have with full albums or "greatest hits", many of them are complete collections of every studio album. I could make this list hella longer with single tracks and music I have on my drive that I haven't sorted yet.

A
A Perfect Circle
Adam Ant
Aerosmith
Alanis Morissette
Alice Cooper
Alice In Chains
Alkaline Trio
Anthrax
Aphrodite
April Wine
Aretha Franklin
Art Garfunkel
Audioslave
J.S.Bach
Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Bad Religion
Beastie Boys
Ben Harper
Beth Orton
Billy Idol
Björk
Black Sabbath
Blind Melon
Bloc Party
Blondie
Blur
Bob Dylan
Bob Marley
Boney M.
Buddy Holly
Capercaillie
Cat Stevens
Chris Cornell
Counting Crows
Cypress Hill
David Bowie
Django Reinhardt
Don McLean
Dropkick Murphys
Dusty Springfield
Eddie Vedder
Electric Six
Elvis Costello
Elvis Presley
Eminem
Eric Clapton
Eurythmics
Feeder
Fiona Apple
Florence and The Machine
Foo Fighters
George Harrison
Good Charlotte
Gordon Lightfoot
Gorillaz
Grandaddy
Green Day
Guns'n'Roses
Gustav Holst
Handel
Heather Nova
Idlewild
Immortal Technique
Jamiroquai
Janis Joplin
Jimi Hendrix
John Lennon
Johnny Cash
Kate Bush
Led Zeppelin
Lemon Jelly
Leonard Cohen
Less Than Jake
Machine Gun Fellatio
Machine Head
Manic Street Preachers
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Miles Davis
Millencolin
Modest Mouse
Mos Def
Neil Young
Nickelback
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
Nofx
Oasis
Orff
Paul Weller
Pearl Jam
Phil Collins
Pink Floyd
Primal Scream
Public Enemy
Queens of the Stone Age
Radiohead
Rage Against the Machine
Rancid
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Runrig
Scatman John
Scott Miller & The Commonwealth
Screaming Trees
Sepultra
Sex Pistols
Simon and Garfunkel
Smashin Pumpkins
Snow Patrol
Soundgarden
Stereophonics
Steve Earle
Stone Temple Pilots
Sublime
Subsystem (Rev. St. Syn's music)
Sum41
Suzanna Vega
Temple of the Dog
Tenacious D
The Beach Boys
The Beatles
The Bluetones
The Charlatans
The Chemical Brothers
The Cigarettes (Local unsigned Edinburgh band I used to drink with)
The Clash
The Corries
The Corrs
The Cure
The Decemberists
The Dust Brothers
The Flaming Lips
The Hives
The Jam
The Kinks
The Kyoto Nohgaku Kai (Super traditional Japanese Noh music)
The Lemonheads
The Offspring
The Pixies
The Prodigy
The Rolling Stones
The Smiths
The Stone Roses
The Stranglers
The Traveling Wilburys
The Undertones
The Verve
The White Stripes
The Who
The Wombats
The Wu Tang Clan
The Yardbirds
The Ting Tings
Therapy?
Thin Lizzy
Tom Waits
Tomahawk
Tori Amos
Tracy Chapman
Unified Theory
Wall of Voodoo
Weezer
Wolfstone

Various Artists:

Three Classical compilations
Two Punk compliations
Soundtracks from the Bond movies and The Matrix
Cains Verwirrung compilations (all five)
A few mix CD's I or others have made
And a selection of different tracks Paul Weller is influenced by called "Under the Influence"

[E.O.T.]

HERE'S AN ANGLE

          find a genre or niche of music and drown yourself in it. Like, focus on early disco or late '90's drum'n'bass or maybe 50's-60's classical. Take in an era/ movement of human expression and process that. then move on.

OR MAYBE

          make a list of every music release considered to be either a "joke" or un-listenable and, equally, surround yourself with this stuff and see what YOU think. Then turn the radio back on.

[Payne]

I like both of those ideas.

I find I can never delete any music though. I have a fuckton of terrible terrible music in my single songs folder that Fred sent me ages back that makes me claw out my eyes in horror and stick nails in my ears threatening to never hear anything ever again, but I can't delete it. I sometimes even listen to it when I'm writing rants - For The Hate.

[E.O.T.]

WHAT YOU REALLY NEED

          is to lose yourself in freejazz for the next six months. My wife and I saw Nina Simone on her last tour and I'm convinced that EITHER she was SUN RA in drag or SUN RA was her in drag, I can't decide. But if you follow that musical trail you'll be occupied for at least half a year and you'll discover so much about modern music in the process that your friends will think you suck and you'll have a mind altering awakening.

ALSO

          i'm looking to get a full back tattoo and I'm wanting suggestions. I'm currently thinking of the movie poster images for "the Crow" or maybe an m.c. escher.(?)

[Xooxe]

I hardly ever seem to find genres, albums, or artists that I wholly enjoy - usually just fleeting songs, but here are a few artists/bands:

Idiot Flesh
Big Rude Jake
Gabriela Kulka
Man Man
Psapp
Thanatopsis
Ernest Ranglin
Clutch
Diamanda Galás
Kaizers Orchestra
Shiina Ringo (椎名林檎)
Leningrad (Ленинград)
Plaid

[BabylonHoruv]

I read this whole thread. Giggling and holding on for dear life.

Fuck, Hubris made me poomp my pance so hard with the whole "mainstream" thing that I believe I may have prolapsed a little. That's not an entirely bad thing though, as my prolapsed rectum is prehensile and I'm currently typing with it to convey a form of pure hatred. Elitism does that to me.

The "Mainstream", whatever fucked up definition you've cooked up for it, is indeed a sewer. A place where all the "best" and "brightest" of contempory culture drop their toalies, and where finding the actual Good Shit requires swimming through a river of just plain shit. However, restricting yourself to only that which is not mainstream means that you are still defining yourself by it. You're just as fucking pathetic as those you despise.

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

I love the sheer magnitude of your spaggotry and douchbaggery, Hubris.

I have to defend Hubris here.  He didn't say only stuff which was not mainstream was good, he said he wanted things he had not heard, and that he had heard all the mainstream stuff.

[BabylonHoruv]

WHAT YOU REALLY NEED

          is to lose yourself in freejazz for the next six months. My wife and I saw Nina Simone on her last tour and I'm convinced that EITHER she was SUN RA in drag or SUN RA was her in drag, I can't decide. But if you follow that musical trail you'll be occupied for at least half a year and you'll discover so much about modern music in the process that your friends will think you suck and you'll have a mind altering awakening.

ALSO

          i'm looking to get a full back tattoo and I'm wanting suggestions. I'm currently thinking of the movie poster images for "the Crow" or maybe an m.c. escher.(?)

Do tyhe cover of the crow comic book, way better than the movie.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I read this whole thread. Giggling and holding on for dear life.

Fuck, Hubris made me poomp my pance so hard with the whole "mainstream" thing that I believe I may have prolapsed a little. That's not an entirely bad thing though, as my prolapsed rectum is prehensile and I'm currently typing with it to convey a form of pure hatred. Elitism does that to me.

The "Mainstream", whatever fucked up definition you've cooked up for it, is indeed a sewer. A place where all the "best" and "brightest" of contempory culture drop their toalies, and where finding the actual Good Shit requires swimming through a river of just plain shit. However, restricting yourself to only that which is not mainstream means that you are still defining yourself by it. You're just as fucking pathetic as those you despise.

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

I love the sheer magnitude of your spaggotry and douchbaggery, Hubris.

I have to defend Hubris here.  He didn't say only stuff which was not mainstream was good, he said he wanted things he had not heard, and that he had heard all the mainstream stuff.

Bullshit. Listening to top 40 radio will not expose you to more than a small portion of current "mainstream" music. NO ONE has heard all the mainstream stuff. Proof? EOT is a 40-year-old part-time DJ who worked in a large independent record store for YEARS, and until very recently he had never heard Marcy Playground. Heard OF them, sure, and sold hundreds of their albums, but never actually listened to them.

I bet I could riffle through just my own music collection and come up with at least a hundred "mainstream" titles this chode has never heard of.

I call musical idiocy on this one.

[Payne]

I have to defend Hubris here.  He didn't say only stuff which was not mainstream was good, he said he wanted things he had not heard, and that he had heard all the mainstream stuff.

Why do you "have" to? Is he not capable of defending himself?

[Triple Zero]

fuck you guys, my grandma died from mainstream.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Also, asking people for help and then ridiculing them when they fail to read your mind and don't give you the exact kind of help you wanted is a dick move.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Witness, the OP:

i recently suffered a virus that made me reformat my hard drive. now i have the tedious
task of rebuilding my music library.

I want to build it in a new direction from what i had, and i'd like recommendations.

My only criterion is that it be something i haven't heard before.

(my tastes are diverse, but my exposure is fairly limited, so it shouldn't be too hard for some
of you)

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that this guy was a total dick to Kel for absolutely no reason.

If it was up to me I'd consign him to 1000 years of nothing but Cypress Hill and Bearforce One.

[Payne]

Witness, the OP:

i recently suffered a virus that made me reformat my hard drive. now i have the tedious
task of rebuilding my music library.

I want to build it in a new direction from what i had, and i'd like recommendations.

My only criterion is that it be something i haven't heard before.

(my tastes are diverse, but my exposure is fairly limited, so it shouldn't be too hard for some
of you)

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that this guy was a total dick to Kel for absolutely no reason.

If it was up to me I'd consign him to 1000 years of nothing but Cypress Hill and Bearforce One.

I'd hit him with the Scatman John I have in my collection.

Forever.

[Triple Zero]

Yes, but some people are always talking something very shocking just to keep on blocking what they're feeling inside.