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The Ready Room => Off Topic => Topic started by: rad4Christ on January 28, 2005, 01:15:17 PM

Title: Musical Influences
Post by: rad4Christ on January 28, 2005, 01:15:17 PM

I post alot in IRC link to bands I listen to, music I like. I can't help it, music is a big part of my time. I thought we should start a thread dedicated to those lesser known artists that you really think are worth a listen. It can be any genre, but please provide links to artists (or even labels) where they can actually be listened to.



I guess I'll start. Before I post any links though, understand I am not trying to "evangelize" with this. Some artists are indeed Christian bands, others may not be, but I am providing these links b/c of the music, not the message. Please give these artists equal weight before dismissing them. Open mindedness and all that...


Electronica (SynthPop):
Joy Electric[/i] - WebPage (http://www.joyelectric.com) - Ronnie Martin, considered by most to be the cutting edge in his field, has been putting out record since the early nineties.
Elkland[/i] (formerly Goat Explosion) - WebPage (http://www.elkland.net/) - Great sound, reminiscent of some great synth
The September Equation[/i] - WebPage (http://www.theseptemberequation.com/)
Soviet[/i] - WebPage (http://www.sovietmusic.net/) - A Personal favorite, really great energy, fun concerts as well.
Travelogue[/i] - WebPage (http://www.artoftravelogue.com/) - Only have one song from them, but it's smart and melodic. Very well worth the listen.

Indie Rock/Pop:
Starflyer59[/i] - WebPage (http://www.sf59.com/) - Brother of Ronnie Martin, Jason Martin and SF59 have really evolved their sound as an influential artist over the last 10 years. Well worth a listen, you may quickly become an avid fan.
Pedro The Lion[/i] - WebPage (http://www.pedrothelion.com/) - By far my favorite artist, his simplistic music style combined with his brutally honest lyrics of human life, religion, and relationships, David Bazen is an absolute genius as an artist.

Harder stuff:
Demon Hunter[/i] - WebPage (http://www.demonhunter.net/) - Definitely my favorite hardcore artist, DH has made a wave. It's on the RE: Apocolypse Soundtrack, but the melodies and crushing guitar mixed with the heavy drums (by Jesse Sprinkle, personal favorite) makes this an awesome sound.
Showbread[/i] - WebPage (http://www.showbread.net/) - Just ran into this band about a month ago, but the energy they exert in their music (and in concert) is unbelievable, and reminiscent to good old rock. Check these guys out, you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Record Labels:
Velvet Blue Music[/i] - WebPage (http://www.velvetbluemusic.com/) - Run by Jeff Cloud, the backup for Ronnie Martin of Joy Electric, and guitarist of Starflyer59, this label has a great varietu of indie music.
Tooth And Nail[/i] - WebPage (http://www.toothandnail.com/) - The label JE and SF59 are signed to, I've been a dihard fan of most of what they've released. Based out of Seattle, this label has produced some of the best overall artists to date IMO.
Solid State Records[/i] - WebPage (http://www.solidstaterecords.com/) - A sublabel of T&N, this is for the hardcore and emocore fans. Showbread and Demon Hunter are just some of the artists on this label.
Deep Elm Records[/i] - WebPage (http://www.deepelm.com/) - Originally discovered this label with Brandtson, this label has some really great artists, most falling into the "emo" category. I'd recommend Brandtson, Planes Mistaken for Stars, Appleseed Cast, muckafurgason, and this beautiful mess.


Browse, listen, post your thoughts, but most importantly, expand your music library. Add some for me and others to check out.

Title: Musical Influences
Post by: Malevolent on January 28, 2005, 02:16:07 PM

The only one I really know anything about is Demon Hunter. I heard the song off of the RE: Apocalypse soundtrack and it wasn't too bad at all.

Title: Musical Influences
Post by: Anarki3x6 on January 28, 2005, 03:09:10 PM

ill be sure to check them all out :) my music tastes span in every possible known direction... i'd post some links but theres too much good stuff out there...

and im lazy. i'll post stuff after dinner  ^_^

OK time for some random tuneskis:

Apocalyptica: Web Site (http://www.apocalyptica.com/home/) - Basically... some good metal with cello, some of the coolest stuff i've seen.. so its like classic+metal. One of their first albums was "Apocalyptica plays Metallica in 4 Cello" so its the 4 guys playing metallica songs on cellos, its really amazing.

Celldweller: Web Site (http://www.celldweller.com/) - Industrial/Metal/Technoey music?? I guess thats the category it seems to be for me. One of the best industrial bands i've found.

I'll post more when I get off my arse.

Title: Musical Influences
Post by: AzubahF on January 29, 2005, 10:16:05 AM

Slick Idiot (http://www.slickidiot.com) -- Industrial / Metal band, formed by 2 ex members of KMFDM (another industrial band, that used to be good until the 2 guys quit to form slick idiot)

Gary Numan (http://www.numan.co.uk) -- Industrial / Synth god Gary Numan (you know, the guy who made that cool "cars" song way back in 1980?)... still making albums and still ahead of his time after 25+ years

Uncle Big Time (http://www.unclebigtime.com) -- ok so I'm a whore... my band... Industrial / Metal

Title: Musical Influences
Post by: Mr.Bill on January 29, 2005, 11:23:36 AM

Dream Theater (http://www.dreamtheater.net/) I'm sure some of you have heard of Dream theater, I think the best way to put their style is Rock opera, it's like mettalica, but better, in every way. and I don't even like metalica!

Title: Musical Influences
Post by: Anarki3x6 on January 29, 2005, 12:53:14 PM

:o nice AzubahF, that slick idiot band is great, and I especially LOVE KMFDM

Dream Theater is also nice mrbill, nice music :)

edit: im dumb and dont know how to spell theater correctly.

Title: Musical Influences
Post by: Bait-Boy on January 29, 2005, 10:38:09 PM

Personally, I have music from System Shock 2 playing on windows media player
 ^_^

Title: Musical Influences
Post by: EmperorPenguin on January 29, 2005, 11:24:04 PM

I always liked Joy Electric, though I haven't played my stuff in a while.  I heard Unelectric was actually a great album Rad?

Oh, and thanks for beating me to the punch with Apocalyptica, Anarki.  Reflections and Cult are both fantastic albums.  Many of you will probably find their Metallica covers more enjoyable than the original.  Unforgiven, for example, is really good.

Title: Musical Influences
Post by: Owen on January 30, 2005, 09:24:27 AM

ELECTRONICA
The Prodigy
Juno Reactor
These two have been left off for a while, and I'm very certain that alot of people have chosen to forget how good they are, Prodigy in particular with the newest album having low sales, but having a really good sound IMO

INDIE
Kasabian
The Unicorns
The Zutons
Stutterfly (I think they count as more Indie than Emo)
Badly Drawn Boy (again, more Indie than Emo)
Some are up and coming, Some have just made it, others are struggling to keep it.

HARDER STUFF
Truth or Dare
Firestar
Life Support
Orgy

Title: Musical Influences
Post by: Niteowl on January 31, 2005, 09:55:34 AM

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Title: Musical Influences
Post by: Legionnaired on January 31, 2005, 12:12:02 PM

Danu - One of the best Irish bands in the world. Closes the show every year at the Dublin, OH Irish festival, the best Irish festival in the world outside of Ireland.

Nickel Creek - Awesome Irish band, more poppy than Danu, with a mandolin that's just plain scary.

Yankee Celtic Consort - Local Irish band that can hold it's own with some of the better ones.

Hmm, lets see...

Dreamtheatre, hell yes.

Jethro Tull - Plays standing on one foot. How cool is that.

James Taylor - A bit more country, but if you're a fan of that acoustic guitar crap ( :D ) you might want to check him out.

Title: Musical Influences
Post by: DruBo on January 31, 2005, 04:09:09 PM

Legionnaired: I've been told I look like a younger James Taylor.

Anyway, here goes.


Jawbreaker (http://www.midheaven.com/artists/jawbreaker.html): Mid-90s indie rock band sometimes unfairly credited with the invention of emo. (They're much better than that.) Broken up since '96 but with 4 studio albums, 1 live album, and one b-sides collection there's plenty of them to occupy. BobTheJanitor is also a fan if I recall.

David Byrne (http://www.davidbyrne.com/): Former Talking Heads frontman. Brilliantly odd lyricist.

Title: Musical Influences
Post by: AzubahF on February 01, 2005, 03:50:02 PM

Sulpher (http://www.sulpher.co.uk) -- Industrial / Metal band feat. members of Gary Numan's current live lineup... reminicent of old school Ministry

Alternative Tentacles (http://www.alternativetentacles.com) -- Record label run by Jello Biafra, the original singer for Dead Kennedys.  Features lots of cool artists, and lots of Jello's side projects and spoken word stuff.  Check out LARD under the bands section... one of the coolest bands ever, basically a collaboration between Jello and Ministry.

Title: Musical Influences
Post by: DruBo on February 01, 2005, 03:53:00 PM

Bwahahaha Jello Biafra. He's crazy.

You know the "reunited" DKs have a robot drummer now.

Title: Musical Influences
Post by: Iconoclast on February 01, 2005, 05:42:16 PM

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Jethro Tull - Plays standing on one foot. How cool is that.

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Jethro Tull <3, flute ftw

The original 'metal' band.  ^_^ - aqualung is probably one of my favorite songs.

Title: Musical Influences
Post by: AzubahF on February 01, 2005, 11:04:35 PM

robot drummer?  drum machine or something?  the reunited dead kennedys are a bunch of BS.  they play shows and use old pics of the band on their promotions to make people think Jello is back with them.  he's been screwed out of a lot of royalties too.

but yeah, Jello is pretty sweet.

Title: Musical Influences
Post by: -Lancer- on February 02, 2005, 02:00:12 PM

metal (mostly from the 80's)
Motley Crue
Scorpions
Metallica
Skid Row

Rock(also mostly from the 80's)
Bon Jovi
Aerosmith

I also listen to alot of hip-hop, but i know its not a popular music around LM so i won't bore you guys by naming rappers

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Apocalyptica: Web Site - Basically... some good metal with cello, some of the coolest stuff i've seen.. so its like classic+metal. One of their first albums was "Apocalyptica plays Metallica in 4 Cello" so its the 4 guys playing metallica songs on cellos, its really amazing.

Arent they a Metalica tribute band?

Title: Musical Influences
Post by: Keyser59 on February 02, 2005, 06:24:10 PM

Jethro Tull, Rush, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Bad Company, Boston, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Allman brothers, Jeff Beck, Cream.

Although all these guys are pretty mainstream, they're not as popular as they used to be. They're more tailgating material, since the accepted steady dose of rap and country is used in parties nowadays. I still rock out to them though.  ^_^

EDIT: Please don't use indie as a genre. There is no sound that really define what Indie is, and it has been used way too ambiguously. The first thing I think of when I hear Indie is guitar pop, so more specific genres can be applied folks.  :)

Title: Musical Influences
Post by: LowCrawler on February 02, 2005, 07:49:09 PM

MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK

SUBLIME

AUDIOSLAVE

SOUNDGARDEN

Soundgarden is my all time favorite anything ever. Even more fun than an evening with Bill and Archi on the server... I looooooooove my Soundgarden.

Title: Musical Influences
Post by: Iconoclast on February 02, 2005, 08:39:16 PM

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Jethro Tull, Rush, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Bad Company, Boston, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Allman brothers, Jeff Beck, Cream.

Although all these guys are pretty mainstream, they're not as popular as they used to be. They're more tailgating material, since the accepted steady dose of rap and country is used in parties nowadays. I still rock out to them though.  ^_^

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Aye, I could add a few more to that list as well. Probably some of the best music exist in the classic rock genre. My friends always kid me about listeneing to "your parents music" - insert rant here.  <_<

Title: Musical Influences
Post by: ThoraX on February 03, 2005, 03:14:03 AM

Demon Hunter's cool... ill have to listen to more of their songs..

My favorite band right now is..
In Flames (http://www.inflames.com)
They've got alot of cool songs that i love to listen to. The ones I love the most are Man Made God, Evil In A Closet, Cloud Connected, The Jester's Dance, Land of Confusion, Free Fall..
i could list more, but those are the ones i'd recommend.  :ph34r:

Title: Musical Influences
Post by: rad4Christ on February 03, 2005, 05:26:52 PM

My, look how this thread has grown! I'll get to listening to some of this stuff as soon as I can. For most of you, read the first post, and edit yours with LINKS to sites and songs....

Title: Musical Influences
Post by: lolfighter on February 04, 2005, 10:32:53 AM

I considered the UT2k4 soundtrack to be quite crap at first, but some of the tracks have grown on me. Many of those may be from various mods, though...
They're in .ogg format, I guess Winamp plays those. If not, give DeliPlayer (http://www.deliplayer.com/) a spin, it's quite the excellent soundtracker (and free to boot, unless you want to use the streamrecorder).

Title: Musical Influences
Post by: devicenull on February 04, 2005, 07:34:00 PM

Let's see here
Metallica
Front Line Assembly
System of a Down

Thats pretty much what I listen too, all in ogg format, using foobar2000 ;)

Title: Musical Influences
Post by: AzubahF on February 04, 2005, 10:18:21 PM

FLA ... nice.  pretty solid industrial band.

also worth checking out, Die Krupps (i don't think they have a website anymore, broke up about 5 years ago).

Title: Musical Influences
Post by: DruBo on February 18, 2005, 04:40:07 PM

THREAD NECROMANCY

Because you should hear this song (http://www.sorryinadvance.com/media/iwts.mp3). Apologies for slightly less-than-perfect live recording, but the song's catchy and these guys need more fans.

Title: Musical Influences
Post by: LowCrawler on February 19, 2005, 11:25:26 AM

local h- toxic (http://www.localh.com/toxic.mp3)

its an awesome cover of the britney spears song, but rocked out and actually good.

Title: Musical Influences
Post by: duherman on February 20, 2005, 09:29:31 PM

You guys may laugh but I like remixes done by Deepforces. Here are couple links  of songs done by them.

Chemistry - Heartbeat (Deepforces Remix)
http://s3.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2L3WHVEXFIPRM1RQVNK75AF16G (http://s3.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2L3WHVEXFIPRM1RQVNK75AF16G)
Deepforces - Harder
http://s3.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2IITLZBNNJSX4201SIGVFU0F8B (http://s3.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2IITLZBNNJSX4201SIGVFU0F8B)
X - Cloud 9 (Deepforces Remix)
http://s3.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3OOYT5H6AAK673DW1XXLF98R1E (http://s3.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3OOYT5H6AAK673DW1XXLF98R1E)
Mario Lopez - The Sound Of Nature (Deepforces Remix)
http://s3.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1R70MA7PDHXIE1LIB1M6ZF9DQJ (http://s3.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1R70MA7PDHXIE1LIB1M6ZF9DQJ)

I also like Starsplash and Yoji Biomehanika. Here's the song you like LowCrawler, the chipmunk song.

Starsplash - Hardstyle
http://s3.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1W4E9I8KNGFDY0RQ629RCV0OKY (http://s3.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1W4E9I8KNGFDY0RQ629RCV0OKY)
Starsplash - Cold As Ice
http://s3.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1QHB1EWPBAJ8E3FCZY7COX0TSV (http://s3.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1QHB1EWPBAJ8E3FCZY7COX0TSV)
Starsplash - Free
http://s3.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3P4IKM03T4RZL2B9VC5PY0BIIJ (http://s3.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3P4IKM03T4RZL2B9VC5PY0BIIJ)

Title: Musical Influences
Post by: Temm on March 02, 2005, 11:12:42 PM

I'm into way too many bands to list them so here are some bands that I really dig lately.
Moneen (http://www.moneen.com)
The Junction (http://www.thejunction.ca)
The Vulcan Dub Squad (http://www.thevulcandubsquad.com)
All three of them are from Ontario.
Junction is chilling light music, Moneen is Punk-Pop, Vulcan Dub squad...hell I don't even know what they are.

Canadian Treasure... Broken Social Scene
zomg so good (http://www.arts-crafts.ca/bss/index2.html)
really innovative music... PM on irc for some songs courtesy of MageHosting.

Punk Cabaret... The Dresden Dolls
you heard me... punk cabaret (http://www.dresdendolls.com)

I also like Suzanne Vega....
shut up. (http://www.suzannevega.com/)

They aren't really mainstream here in North America I don't think...
The Von Bondies (http://www.vonbondies.com)

Synthpop Band... Freezepop
mmm...freezepops (http://www.freezepop.net)