Recommend me some other music please.
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I've mainly always been into dance/electronic music but as much as I love it, I've began yearning for something else for whenever I feel I want a little break from dance. It can be from any year, (a mixture of old and recent stuff would be great) and I'm also open to both male and female artists/bands.
Here's the genres of music I mainly want recommendations for:
Rock - I never really had the chance to get into rock growing up, since my mother always hated it.
Hip Hop/Rap - I've always found myself liking some hip hop when it's actually decent but I find this pretty rare. Would love some quality hiphop/rap without all the "****, hoes, guns and bitches" type stuff that we get from mainstream rappers these days.
Reggae - I've always really liked reggae when I have heard it but I've never known where and how to find music within this genre.
R&B/Soul - Some REAL decent stuff, instead of Chris brown/Ne-Yo/Rihanna.
Pop - By pop, I mean songs from pop albums that were actually pretty good but were never released as singles and aren't that well known.
and just ANYTHING really, any song or any other genre YOU think is good, I will at least give it a listen, even if i don't end up liking it.
Thank you
Here's the genres of music I mainly want recommendations for:
Rock - I never really had the chance to get into rock growing up, since my mother always hated it.
Hip Hop/Rap - I've always found myself liking some hip hop when it's actually decent but I find this pretty rare. Would love some quality hiphop/rap without all the "****, hoes, guns and bitches" type stuff that we get from mainstream rappers these days.
Reggae - I've always really liked reggae when I have heard it but I've never known where and how to find music within this genre.
R&B/Soul - Some REAL decent stuff, instead of Chris brown/Ne-Yo/Rihanna.
Pop - By pop, I mean songs from pop albums that were actually pretty good but were never released as singles and aren't that well known.
and just ANYTHING really, any song or any other genre YOU think is good, I will at least give it a listen, even if i don't end up liking it.
Thank you
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Stylo with the late great Bobby Womack.
God bless you and him always!!!
Holly
For Rock, The Rolling Stones or The Faces.
Reggae means Legend by Bob Marley.
Dirty Mind, Controversey, 1999, Purple Rain, Around The World In A Day, Parade, Sign O The Times, Black Album & Lovesexy.
Later Works
Come, The Gold Experience, Symbol Album, The Rainbow Children, 3121, Lotusflower & Art Official Age.
Park Life - Blur
Night Nurse - Gregory Isaacs
Hunky Dory - David Bowie
Gish - Smashing Pumpkins
Shaun Escoffery - In The Red Room. Best soul album of the year, bar none.
Sean McCabe - It's Time. Soulful house with class. Dance music that will make you smile, dance and never want to listen to badly produced EDM ever again.
Soul Togetherness 2014 - Compilation of all that's been great in soul and modern day dance floor classics.
Smoove and Turrell - Broken Toys. Grown up UK soul at it's finest.
Lack Of Afro - Music For Adverts. Eclectic UK soul, dance, funk
There are some great album tracks on The Saturdays Chasing Lights album that were never singles such as Lies, Work, Chasing Lights. In fact most of their albums have non-single tracks that are better than their singles.
Don't Let Me Stop You from Kelly Clarkson's All I Ever Wanted album is brilliant and should have been a single.
If you like quirky pop music then how about listening to Stefy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq3wYJzE8T8
or The Bird and the Bee (by Greg Kurstin the guy who gave Lily Allen/Ellie Goulding their No. 1's),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HRMLLXzKlw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWYoIoqJURA
Donkeyboy (especially Caught In a Life album)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr_zSyBB8AU
DRI Smoke Rings album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z6TL1TfkK8
If you like luscious dream-pop then try Say Lou Lou
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEAu0DooDOc
Dead Heat from Diana Vickers second album is brilliant and also should have been a single.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7Zs1IutSZE
Goldroom Fifteen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFtpvdTUWYc
If you like really saccharine pop then there's Bonnie McKee American Girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uh6VZF0R5U
Or you like Acoustic Pop then there's loads from Tina Dico
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcnHAC0uZa0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4td-zWwzZLI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwPJB4rSTn4
Swiss Lips Something In The Water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_tIYmfemOk
Catchy dance pop like AME Play The Game Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAbCYkE2QMM
Aly & AJ's Insomniatic album is a brilliant guitar pop album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SL-abDHcQE
Fauxliage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6A-KH7m2sg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jmqq9yO0fY
Delerium - Stopwatch Hearts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlYly9FTlHQ
Conjure One Extraordinary Ways
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11xt6Fu7xFM
I think I'll stop now.
It's very laudable that you're looking for something outside of current mainstream pop. I think too much of it is formulaic and repetitive. You've got a huge task on your hands, though - nigh on 60 years of modern pop / rock music to cover and an awful lot of different musical types.
However, within the genres you listed I'll pick out a few artists. In most cases it's worth searching out all these artists' "Best Of" or "Greatest Hits" albums to get a feel of their career as a whole rather than individual albums. You can progress from there if you like what you hear.
Rock - this comes in many forms from soft to hard to unlistenable. Good entry points would be Queen for accessible pop-orientated rock and for harder rock Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and AC/DC.
Hip Hop/Rap - I'm not a fan of modern hip-hop because there's a lot of that "n*gga-ho-b*tch" rubbish going on. Old school is best - from its roots in Grandmaster Flash to the likes of Public Enemy (whose two seminal albums "Fear of a Black Planet" and "It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back" are essential listening)
Reggae - Bob Marley is the obvious choice. I'm not a fan so I don't really have any other recommendations here
R&B/Soul - Best to go way back for the good stuff - Sam Cooke, Curtis Mayfield, Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, James Brown, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Nina Simone, Smokey Robinson, Isaac Hayes
Pop - Well that's just about everything from Abba to the Zutons (alphabetically speaking!) Probably worthwhile doing a Google search for the top 100 artists of all time or something similar and seeing what takes your fancy.
Incidentally there's a good book called "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" with recommendations of good stuff from the past six decades. Obviously 1001 albums is a lot to trawl through but it's a good starting point to check out a few names you recognise and go on from there.
Wild Nothing - Shadow
Múm - Green Grass of Tunnel
Beach House - Myth
Balmorhea - Days
Soul/r'n'b - Mayer Hawthorne
Robyn - Pop, dance, electronic type music.
Burning Spear, Heptones, Mighty Diamonds, U-Roy, Culture, Abyssians, Marcia Griffiths, Dr Alimantado, Big Youth, Lee Scratch Perry, Joe Higgs, Augustos Pablo - in no particula order
try this best albums list for suggestions, I have all the 70s ones and there isn't a bad one even if I might prefer other albums by the same artist.
http://www.mojo4music.com/15098/50-greatest-reggae-albums/
goes away to hunt out King Tubby meets Rockers uptown
I'd recommend Caro Emerald.
The 60s and 70s were probably the most inspiring periods for most of the genres you listed.
Just to take one genre - R&B/Soul, you could do a lot worse than listen to people like Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin or Sam Cooke. They are all classic 60s soul artists who broke the mould but that was the decade for quality soul.
Moving right away from soul I'd give someone like Joni Mitchell, arguably the greatest female singer songwriter since the war. She's made some classic albums and written countless great songs. She's listed in US music mag Rolling Stone's 100 greatest artists of all time.
I know a lot about 80's soul, jazz funk, R&B.
I could be here all day posting YouTube links.
Groups such as Change, SOS Band, 52nd Street, Kleeer, Total Contrast, Slave, The System, Loose Ends etc. are good bets.
I have posted various stuff in this thread:
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1913721&highlight=
You can look at the discograpy in the following links.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_%28band%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_S.O.S._Band
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52nd_Street_%28band%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleeer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Contrast
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_%28band%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_System_%28band%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loose_Ends_%28band%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Jam_and_Terry_Lewis
A few examples in no particular order.
Stepping Out- Slave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C27S9ZZlh4k
I Can't Take Losing You - The System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAULFoIeq6Q
X-Periment - The System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79eQUgXbHvA
Kleeer - Seeekret (Funk 1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ennZBlDDIzM
Total Contrast - Jody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj5KXgVPo-A
Change Change Of Heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co0vdyvioL8
WEEKEND GIRL (Original Full-Length Album Version) - SOS Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BvuSzxcE5o
52nd Street - Tell Me (Extended Vers.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ck25PGjlLc
LOOSE ENDS HANGIN ON A STRING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8FYy5YfK7k
We are only scratching the surface here.
Others.
Alexander O'Neil
Cherrelle
Cheryl Lynn
Howard Johnson
Stephanie Mills
George Benson
Imagination
Jeff Lorber
Janet Jackson
Nona Hendryx
Full Circle/First Circle
A rare one.
Tia Monae (Sabrina Johnston) - Don't Keep Me Waiting (Special Club Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LednX4txf8E
Early house music.
Nitro Deluxe
Kenny Jammin' Jason and Fast Eddie Smith
Nitro Deluxe - This Brutal House (UK Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnqJ7ojAPro
Kenny Jammin Jason With Fast Eddy Smith - Can U Dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZxGElvaea0
You might also want to check out Kraftwerk (one of the main pioneers of electronic music).
They were using vocoder and voice recognition/computer speech type systems before most of us DS posters were born, way back in the 70's/early 80's. In those days of course very few people had a PC, the internet (as we know it) hadn't been invented, no mobile phones or other such devices etc. and these guys were doing all this.
Kraftwerk - Computer Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtWTUt2RZh0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_II_Soul
Soul II Soul - In The Heat Of The Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hviDVw5lZKs
Soul II Soul - Love Enuff (Album Mix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMpl35k5xFg
^If you want something rock-y but not funky then try Radiohead,they have some great songs.
And some criticism of it.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQa4DL17Aug
Seriously, I'd just go to youtube and go for a band you liked then try all the linked videos at the side. You'll eventually hit something you like. That's probably less of a needle in a haystack approach than asking random people for their favourites.
Here's some songs I like all the same....;)
Talking Heads
LFAS
Charles Bradley
Some playlist