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Geek Culture / Looking for musical suggestions. I like everything.

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DJ Almix
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Posted: 17th May 2011 06:19
Although there is a catch, I'm looking for melodic music!

Quote: "A melody (from Greek μελῳδία - melōidía, "singing, chanting"[1]), also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones which is perceived as a single entity. In its most literal sense, a melody is a combination of pitch and rhythm, while, more figuratively, the term has occasionally been extended to include successions of other musical elements such as tone color. It may be considered the foreground to the background accompaniment. A line or part need not be a foreground melody."


Quote: "Melodic Imitation is a term that covers various genres of non-classical music which are primarily characterised by the dominance of a single strong melody line. Rhythm, tempo and beat are subordinate to the melody line or tune, which is generally easily memorable, and followed without great difficulty. Melodic music is found in all parts of the world, overlapping many genres, and may be performed by a singer or orchestra, or a combination of the two."


and,

no dubstep or pop music please.

I will take anything from techno to celtic to classical to metal to country to old school rap.

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Happy Cheesecake
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Posted: 17th May 2011 07:58 Edited at: 17th May 2011 08:05
How about the Butthole Surfers? I've taken a liking to them, not my favorite band by far, but their name is worth mentioning alone. Pepper is one of their better ones.

Hey, you might like them.

[edit] Actually, the songs are mostly explicit, and their album covers are as well, so be warned. I wouldn't think it's too bad, personally, but y'know, mods can do what they want, so take it down if necessary I guess, haha.

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Posted: 17th May 2011 09:25
Atmosphere is the only rap group I listen to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS_3pED-wJo
Awesome stuff. (the beginning's not great, and the last verse is just a cool-down, but it's gold!)

The strokes are pretty awesome:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXaHy814cEA

The Cold War Kids have some really intense songs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rfDvpfC2bw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrrGKR8Xii4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLTO3_-9ROk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyhkQzPLjcA
(aaand the next one's a live/unplugged before-show preformance)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrTQ6OtoqfQ

or spoon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-S4nM5m_Kg

orrr if you like ska, streetlight manifesto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ije7d6xckSs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-UTPKL-UGY

the offspring are awesome:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yxbXsQ5yCc

uhhh others are Andrew Bird, Leftover Crack, Oasis, White Stripes, uhh etc.


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nackidno
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Posted: 17th May 2011 09:33
Ray Lamontagne
Bon Iver
Rival Sons (Recently discovered them)
Jimmy Gnecco
Modest Mouse
Broken Bells

Some bands that I really like that I think is a bit underrated, might want to check them out, especially Jimmy Gnecco.

Jeku
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Posted: 17th May 2011 09:37 Edited at: 17th May 2011 09:39
Yah, I recommend Pepper as well. I just listened to it again after all these years and noticed the resemblance to Beck's song Loser (another awesome song).

Here's another good Beck song (Girl).


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Posted: 18th May 2011 01:06 Edited at: 18th May 2011 01:07
If I had the time to create a full, proper list, I would. But I can't.

So:

Scorpions - Hard Rock / Heavy Metal
Porcupine Tree - Progressive Rock
Demon Hunter - Groove Metal / Metalcore
Thousand Foot Krutch - Rapcore / Nu Metal
TobyMAC - Rap
Becoming the Archetype - Progressive Death Metal
Magic Hammer - Dance / Power Metal
Phish - Country
Daler Mehndi - World
Hawthorne Heights - Emo
Procol Harum - Soft Rock
The Showdown - Death Metal
Emery - Post Hardcore
Living Sacrifice - Groove Metal / Death Metal
Beastie Boys - Rap
George Thorogood - Blues
311 - Ska / Rap
Family Force 5 - Dance / Crunk
Gorillaz - Rap / Indie
Cage the Elephant - Indie Rock
KJ-52 - Rap
Static-X - Industrial Metal / Sludge Metal
Bill Haley - Rock and Roll / Blues
Albert King - Blues
Ghazal - World (I couldn't find a youtube video, so here's their last.fm page http://www.last.fm/music/Ghazal)

I'm not going to bother posting any others. If you want to see what else I listen to, just look at my last.fm profile.


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Posted: 18th May 2011 01:26
If you don't mind country, I can point your way to literally any of the best of the best, given I only listen to country and always will.

My favorite country artists are actually not very well known. They are a Canadian group called Dry County...

Note to any who listen... The lead singer has probably the deepest voice you may ever hear lol.

This song is called Mexicoma... it's really just a silly song but its damn catchy and for a good laugh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4We4NrDLxA&playnext=1&list=PL294CFD8EB1E35C3B

Some of there more serious songs are...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KsYqut4OVY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=webH_xgDwzw&playnext=1&list=PL294CFD8EB1E35C3B

This is probably their most popular song... It's pretty funny too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juPFC9DkL6s&feature=related

And my all time favorite song of any song that has been and will ever be made... though my guess is that most won't like it because it is a very slow, sad song. However, it's great...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg-47VNQI7c

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Posted: 18th May 2011 01:45
Bossa Nova, all composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim:

Corcovado
Wave
Desafinado
Chega De Saudage (No More Blues)

Jazz:

Misty
How High The Moon
All The Things You Are
Autumn Leaves

The last one is an instrumental, since I think it'd interest some of the guitar (and improvisation) enthusiasts around here.



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Posted: 18th May 2011 03:30
Well I'm into musicals () but I suspect that's a bit tame for most people, so you should totally look into the angsty rock-musical Rent. (There's nothing nasty there but it's probably NSFW)

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Posted: 18th May 2011 16:05
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Posted: 18th May 2011 16:10 Edited at: 18th May 2011 16:11




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Posted: 18th May 2011 17:55
If you want something a bit funky with some awesome lyrics, then have a look at 'That Handsome Devil'. Both their albums (maybe 3 now) are great, but I especially like these songs:

Rob the Prez-o-dent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVAigUxiBbI

Viva Discordia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sqiba2Bkuk&playnext=1&list=PLAA59AEB660AA61C8

Mexico:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfrThZcz7G0

James Dean:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL6D5-a2cFo

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Posted: 18th May 2011 18:44 Edited at: 18th May 2011 18:49
I randomly recommend some Johnny Cash. I'm not generally a fan of the genre he fits into (sort of country/blues) but there's a particular quality to both his voice and the tempo of the songs which just really works.

Tracks like "Ring of fire" are a particularly good example

Also, someone I've been listening to recently who seems pretty interesting is Tom Vek

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Posted: 18th May 2011 19:43 Edited at: 18th May 2011 19:43
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Posted: 18th May 2011 20:03 Edited at: 18th May 2011 20:52


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Posted: 19th May 2011 05:40
Oh, God! No one has mentioned...

Coheed and Cambria!



My personal favorite band
They've got a lot of good stuff, those songs up there show their range a good bit.

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