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Music Recommendation Thread
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Recommend some music for everyone on the site. Who are your favourites? Who's underrated?
To kick off the thread, I recommend Sadistik. For anyone interested in rap/hip hop, this guy is on a completely other level. Check him out.
I need new music - what do you recommend?
To kick off the thread, I recommend Sadistik. For anyone interested in rap/hip hop, this guy is on a completely other level. Check him out.
I need new music - what do you recommend?
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From memory, the songs I put on were Captain Beefheart, Blue Oyster Cult, Johnny Cash, Kiss and Pat Benetar. Old rock stuff.
Good shout. For anyone else who's interested in rap/hip-hop that's on the positive tip, try: Blackalicious, Blue Scholars, Bus Driver, Jurassic 5 and Classified.
Check out 7L & Esoteric, Gangstarr (if you don't know him, which is just unlikely), Mos Def, Pharcyde (the early stuff), Atmosphere, Abdominal, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Eyedea & Abilities, Sage Francis (and his former crew Non-Prophets), Immortal Technique, Jedi Mind Tricks, Dilated People, People under the stairs.
I always thought I know my hiphop, but I've been to a party on saturday with a DJ who brought fucking brilliant rap tunes, and I really mean cream of the crop and I probably knew one, two tracks maximum. Damn, I wish I'd asked him for his playlist this evening.
/e: And of course, something that seems to be really unknown: Mickey Avalon. For example
http://www.lyricsmania.com/dipped_in_vaseline_lyrics_mickey_avalon.html this.
From an interview I hear that Mickey Avalon was piss poor whoring himself out for money to pay for rent and drugs and as answer to the question why he is making music, he said it beats sucking off fat dudes for a tenner.
Wicked list, dude. Mos Def, Immortal Technique and Pharcyde have never really flicked my bean, but Atmosphere, Abdominal, Sage Francis (sometimes) and Jedi Mind Tricks are absolutely top.
I've just been listening through Atmosphere's 'Sad Clown...' series, brilliant stuff. You listened to much else from the Rhymesayers label? I've seen Brother Ali a couple of times - he's ace. Some of P.O.S's stuff is really good as well. While I remeber: Chali 2na's album is big ... as is anything by Pacewon & Mr Green....Braintax too.
Man, it's not often I get to wax lyrical with someone about rap and hip-hop, as it probably shows!
True, I always have the feeling we are a dying-out species. At least in Austria hiphop is not really big.
Atmosphere is really good. I don't like every piece of work they do, but what I dig of them is outstanding imo. The tracks "sunshine", "you" or "Smart Went Crazy" are timeless for me
Pharcyde is a mixed pot too. While the new stuff is just shit (the members just left one by one) just rapping about marijuana full stop the old albums like Bizarre Ride to the Pharcyde are classics.
Immortal Technique is at times a bit too crude and vulgar for the true connoisseur, but he has some magnificent tracks. If you don'T know "Land of the Gun" or "Dance with the Devil" you should check them out. Latter one left me so taken aback when I listened to it the first time that I nearly cried lol.
Braintax is ace yea, along with the rest of his UK fellows Task Force, Mysthro, Jehst, Lewis Parker et al.
ah, good stuff.
I'm hesitant about identifying myself as a hip-hop fan as it inevitably involves the conversation that goes 'but not hip-hop like gangster rap....'.
oh yea lol. Whenever I am asked what kind of music I listen to I take a deep breath to explain myself after I say "rap" before they try to change the subject. I shouldn't have to do this, but rap is not popular enough so the average Joe knows the unpopular (and at the same time good) stuff, just what MTV brings. Sadly, but to the ignoramus rap is just about cash, drugs, hoes and violence, even tho they don't even know how deep rap goes to have enough knowledge about it to have an educated opinion.
It's an uphill battle.
1. METRIC
2. deadmau5
3. sick of sarah
4. uh huh her
5. VersaEmerge
6. hunter valentine (especially 'the stalker' i'm in love with that song)
7. sunshine underground
8. rise against
9. Brandi Carlile
10. holly miranda
11. jacks mannequin
Thats all i can think of just now, i tried to pick less obvious ones i love like muse and biffy
I quite like it
Though I don't really follow hip hop I quite love the Wild Style soundtrack :thumb:
And I think Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt, Léo Ferré, and The Modern Lovers deserve more recognition, though it is all old stuff.
Also, these guys are my friends so you should check them out: http://www.myspace.com/baybeatcollective
http://soundcloud.com/baybeatcollective
:cool:
I will soon inherit a jiggabyte of really good rap music by a friend. All listened to at tribe vibes, a radio show, from 8-10 each thursday on a local radio station and then researched artist and title and boom. Assorted list.
EDIT oh no wait I did it. listening people????
I'm listening to 'Sly - International' at the moment, it's pretty toe-tappy. You obviously like it so much you decided to add it twice!
It's also interesting to see the usernames you lot have chosen for Spotify: LankyBecca, lenjen1007 and Megehhhh.
Other big rock and roll bands of that era were Showaddywady and Darts from England.
Get involved! It's brilliant. For £5 a month you can get it advert-free as well - which is well worth doing because the adverts are about the worst I've ever been exposed to!
:eek: LIES!
same here!! its what, 3 mins of adverts out of every 30? it's like listening to a radio station that plays music just for you!
whoops its gone now. Lullaby is my favourite song right now, it reminds me of boyfriends in the summertime.
I was getting adverts about once every three songs. They were truly awful as well!
I've just added a bunch of stuff, though I've just realised that it's exposed my actual name in doing so - the anonymity of CptCoatHanger falls away!
can I just say there is some god AWFUL stuff on this playlist... bad site-ers... bad.
your stuff?
Although, its a big mix of music genres!