Bands

[Otis redding]

What band's do you truly like nowadays, is it old music or do you dig the new sound's that are coming thorugh, are you happy in your own space or do you like change?

[WashingtonIrving]

I mostly listen to old stuff to be honest, I just prefer it. Right now I'm developing a Leonard Cohen obsession, I've already got a Neil Young one, and I really dig very old blues like Son House, Robert Johnson and the like. Quite simply I haven't heard a new song that has made me think 'wow' for a long, long time. Not that I've gone out of my way or anything, but any new band people have recommended to me as amazing haven't impressed me too much.

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I bet you don't know how to spell contridiction.

[Lodestone]

I think that the alternative music scene is really thriving now.

I still listen to a lot of alt-pop artists who really came to prominenece in the late nineties or very early noughties but who are still making music--The Divine Comedy, Belle and Sebastian, Elbow, Ed Harcourt, Rufus Wainwright, Goldfrapp and so on. Similarly, in rock and metal, Radiohead, Muse, The Mars Volta--they're still going. When bands like that start to drop out, there'll be a big whole left in my music purchasing.

Still, there's enough new music always appearing for me to still feel good. The Hype Machine (hype.non-standard.net) keeps me up to date with alternative music worldwide. Def Jux are constantly turning out stunning new rap. Bands like the Guillemots (shortlisted for the mercury prize!) and The Format are still emerging. I can only think that Sufjan Stevens will continue in the ascendancy. Along with that, alt-folk in the States is finally coming into its own, with Bright Eyes still going strong, but bands like the Ditty Bops and Rose's Pawn Shop starting to emerge.

Judging by the music world's reception of The Pipettes and the Puppini Sisters, a new wave of retro is just on the horizon. After Franz Ferdinand et al plagiarised their early eighties record collections and then dug up the corpse of Britpop, ate it, shat it out, ate it again, vomited it up and called it new there was always going to be another retro surge, but I think it's starting to go in a good direction.

The only sad thing is that I think post-rock is very much a dying genre. When I hear new post-rock acts now I just want to go and listen to Godspeed. Still, I think Sigur Ros will continue to astonish.

[Jen the Phantom Hobbit of]

Nightwish always rule.

I dunno ifthey class as a band or not, but Adiemus are the besty. I know it's technically Karl Jenkins and a few singers, but it's always labelled under Adiemus, instead of just his name like other works (Armed Man, Reqiuem, Imagined Oceans, Diamond Music) and he tends to use the same singers and similar stlye.

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The voices in my head tell me I'm not insane ... but everyone else does.

[Cain]

This year I are been mostly listening to... The Hype Machine, like Lodestone.

Most of the bands on heavy rotation on my machine are ones that I hadn't even heard of last year, Like Casey Dienel (female singer/songwriter/piano player), Hello Saferide, You Say Party! We Say Die!, The Charade, The Knife, Skye Sweetnam, The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, Voxtrot,¡Forward, Russia!, We Will Build, Union of Knives Band of Horses, the Pipettes, Damn the Lion, Feist, The National, Rogue Wave, the Clientele, Halo Benders, The Hourly Radio, Tigetcity, Islands, Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan (also Mercury Nominated), Lucky Soul, Ms. John Soda, Camera Obscura, some new stuff from Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire, Belle and Sebastian, Franz Ferdinand.

Some of the stuff is really, really good.

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I hold an element of surprise

[Captain_Spanky]

I listen to a healthy mix of old and new, with by cd buying roughly a 50/50 spilit between old bacnds/albums and ones that have recently come out. Lately I'm listening to:

Opeth
Faith No More
Ministry
Nevermore
Peeping Tom
Devin Townsend
Strapping Young Lad
Trivium
Metallica
Pink Floyd
Coheed and Cambria
Dresden Dolls
Pantera
Tool
Mr Bungle
Primus
Mastodon
Mushroomhead

So a lot of modern music there at the moment actually, if late 80s onward is modern then it all is! Oh well.

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Beatrice - Darling. Dearest. Dead.

[Lodestone]

Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan (also Mercury Nominated)

It was great to see Isobel on that shortlist; I've been following her stuff for years. Have you heard the extraordinary album of Billie Holiday covers she did with Bill Wells?

[Otis redding]

Altough still listening to Floyd, zep and the who. Like Primal screams new album and exterminator. Also Lily Allen is growing on me, chavtastic. Still listening to supergrass, radiohead, libertines, Beta Band, massive attack, portishead, and off course Oasis. wahey

[Pan]

steps

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"Last time you gave me a pie, I cut into it, and birds flew out of it, hitting me in the face and chin. I was confused. It was a trick pie"

[j mac]

check out six star hotel. next big thing, I'm telling you.

www.myspace.com/sixstarhotel

[Power Metal Dom]

Yngwie Mamsteen
Power Quest
Dionysus
Johnny A
DragonForce
Cacophony

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Like flames on fuel...upon power metal I drool
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[LeopardSkinQueen]

The also Mercury-nominated Richard hawley is wonderful, as is the Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan album. I can't wait for the new Patrick Wolf album. The new Ed Harcourt is pretty good, as is the latest Jim Moray album. I still love last year's Mercury winner, Antony and the Johnsons, and have been listening to a lot of Belle & Sebastian of late.

Last year was a great year for music, I thought, with Sufjan Stevens, Cocorosie, British Sea Power and Kanye West albums all great. I loved The Arcade Fire and Final Fantasy albums too, and Art Brut are great dance-around-the-room shouty indie.

I am listening to plenty of Bob Dylan of late, especially Desire and Nashville Skyline, and lots of Gram Parsons. Oh, and the wonderful Vashti Bunyan as well.

The posthumous Johnny Cash album American V: A Hundred Highways is pretty great too.

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Come out and round up everyone that knows more than they do
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[Lodestone]

The new Ed Harcourt is pretty good,

That made me bounce for joy, it really did. Strangers was a monumental disappointment for me, and I feared he was going to go the way of the bland whiny indie rocker. But no! he's come back with cracking swamp rock and cabaret again. Phew.

Last year was a great year for music, I thought, with Sufjan Stevens ... and Kanye West albums

Have you heard the incredible Sufjan/Kanye mash-up called "Zombies Walk!!"?

I am listening to plenty of Bob Dylan of late

Preparing for August 29th, eh?

[LeopardSkinQueen]

Quoting Lodestone from 10:53, 23rd Jul 2006

I am listening to plenty of Bob Dylan of late

Preparing for August 29th, eh?

Preparing to pinch the boyfriend's copy, yes He's a wee touch fanatical, but a new Bob Dylan album is always an bit of an event and he's been pretty consistent with his last few. The horror days of Knocked Out Loaded and Saved! appear to be behind, thankfully!

I have never heard said mash-up, but I will be trying to track it down now.

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[David Bean]

I'm still a big fan of the only band I've ever seen live, They Might Be Giants. I also heard good things about The Divine Comedy yesterday from a new friend who described it as having a similar kind of concept (wacky folky poppy rocky goodness), so hopefully I'll be able to check them out soon.

Anyone who hasn't heard them would be well advised to check out my favourite St Andrews-based band, featuring my good friend Paul Everett (who signed my CD!), Submachine!

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Psalm 91:7

[Harry Giles]

Quoting David Bean from 01:40, 24th Jul 2006
I'm still a big fan of the only band I've ever seen live, They Might Be Giants. I also heard good things about The Divine Comedy yesterday from a new friend who described it as having a similar kind of concept (wacky folky poppy rocky goodness), so hopefully I'll be able to check them out soon.

*bouncybouncybouncybouncy*

My favourite band ever.

There are certain similarities to They Might Be Giants, but a lot of differences as well: TDC are much more into grace and style.

How are you planning to check them out? Want recommendations? Would you like a compilation?

TDC fans tend to get a bit evangelical

[LeopardSkinQueen]

Quoting WashingtonIrving from 02:15, 22nd Jul 2006
I mostly listen to old stuff to be honest, I just prefer it. Right now I'm developing a Leonard Cohen obsession, I've already got a Neil Young one, and I really dig very old blues like Son House, Robert Johnson and the like. Quite simply I haven't heard a new song that has made me think 'wow' for a long, long time. Not that I've gone out of my way or anything, but any new band people have recommended to me as amazing haven't impressed me too much.

I assume you have seen Son House in Festival!? He's totally amazing. I need to get more of his stuff.

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[WashingtonIrving]

No? Never heard of it. He's an interesting guy too, he completely retired from music for a while and had no idea his stuff was so popular. Death Letter Blues is almost the best blues song ever recorded for my money, just beaten by Howlin Wolf's Smokestack Lightning.

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I bet you don't know how to spell contridiction.

[LeopardSkinQueen]

Quoting WashingtonIrving from 19:44, 24th Jul 2006
No? Never heard of it.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BC ... ance&n=130

That's it. It features a myriad of folk, soul, country, gospel and blues singers. Son House talks about what he thinks the blues is, and there's live footage of him too. It is all round great. Also has Bob Dylan being booed, IIRC. It is a great documentary and well worth watching.

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Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew
Come out and round up everyone that knows more than they do
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[WashingtonIrving]

Oh is that the one where he went electric and pissed everyone off? Sounds cool.

Let me guess, the blues 'comes from in here. When you lost your job, then you got the blues. When you lost your woman, then you got the blues'.

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I bet you don't know how to spell contridiction.