It's my turn for a music topic!

[METALMAN]

I'm in the mood for some new music at the moment. Please feel free to recommend me anything good as I do like most stuff.

For reference, among others, I like:

Belle & Sebastian

Ben Folds Five

Bob Dylan

Bright Eyes

Broken Social Scene

The Cribs

Death Cab For Cutie

The Decemberists

Idlewild

James Taylor

Jamiroquai

Johnny Flynn

Kings Of Leon

Laura Marling

Malcolm Middleton

Miles Davis

Neil Young

The Postal Service

Prince

Ryan Adams

Scott Walker

Sigur Ros

The Smiths

Stars

Steely Dan

Sufjan Stevens

Talking Heads

Weather Report

I'd like recommendations based on some of those I listed but I wouldn't be totally averse to trying something new. Thanks!

Edited December 16, 2008 by metalman

[YI]

Seeing as you know most of what I know, grrrrrr....

Dark Captain Light Captain (album - "Miracle Kicker")

Headlights (album - "Kill Them With Kindness" and "The Enemies EP")

The New Amsterdams (albums - "Worse For The Wear" and "At The Foot Of My Rival")

James Yuill (album - "Turning Down Water For Air")

The School (EP - "Let It Slip")

Grammatics (only seem to release singles at the minute, awesome though)

Paddy Milner (album - "Based On A True Story"...Ben Folds...if Ben Folds played cruise ships over the summer)

The National (albums - "Boxer" and "Alligator")

She Wants Revenge (album - "She Wants Revenge")

The Brand New Heavies (albums - "Brother Sister" and "Get Used To It")

I'll send you hte rest of Kyte's self-titled EP when I next catch you on MSN.

[ADG]

Aqualung (albums = "Strange and Beautiful" and "Memory Man")

Architecture In Helsinki (albums = "Fingers Crossed", "In Case We Die" and "Places Like This")

Calexico (album = "Tool Box")

Colin Hay (albums = "Man @ Work", "Are You Lookin' At Me?" and "Going Somewhere")

Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly! (album = "The Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager")

Iron and Wine (EP = "Woman King" and "The Sea and the Rhythm", albums = "The Creek That Drank the Cradle" and "Our Endless Numbered Days")

Jason Mraz (albums = "Waiting for my Rocket to Come" and "Mr. A-Z")

Motion City Soundtrack (albums = "I Am The Movie", "Even If It Kills Me" and "Commit This To Memory")

Panda Bear (album = "Person Pitch")

Snailhouse (album = "The Silence Show")

The Pillcrushers (album = "Welome to the World")

[tristy]

Jakob Dylan's (Bob's son) new album is pretty good, and sounds like what Bob would release if he was releasing his debut solo album in 2008.

[METALMAN]

Thanks for all these recommendations. There's a lot of things I don't know that I'll look into.

Those that I do know are:

The New Amsterdams - have a dozen or so odd songs

The School - have a couple of songs

The National - I have Boxer which I quite like

Aqualung - I have a few songs. Almost got the last album.

GCWCF - have a couple of songs

Iron & Wine - I have the Shepherd's Dog which I quite like

Architecture In Helsinki - never heard, but have heard good things.

Jakob Dylan - Heard a song somewhere. Plus is related to Bob Dylan.

So I'll begin with these and move into the unknown. Thanks again!

[Tarheels.]

If you enjoy the Panda Bear then you definitely need to listen to Animal Collective.

[Mr Evil Guy]

Yeah Animal Collective is the shit. Get Strawberry Jam. Also get Arch in Helsinki! Make sure you start with In Case We Die though.

Recommendations: Lucksmiths, Ballboy, Bon Iver, The Dodos, Magnetic Fields(some dislike, some love, the cool kids love , get Distortion or 69 Love Songs.), Clap Your Hands! Say Yeah!(Assuming you haven't.), Wolf Parade(Apologies to Queen Mary, it's wonderful), Fleet Foxes, if you like Bob Dylan that much get The Tallest Man on Earth.

Also, of Montreal and Vampire Weekend. No one hates of Montreal(well, if you download Hissing Fauna).

[YI]

Fuck, how could I forgot "Into It. Over It"? Especially seeing as I've been tagging and zipping up his stuff to upload for the 'Best Albums' thing. Basically it's a guy who recorded a song every week for a year, released them for free on his website (but the twat hasn't released them in one archive grrrr), and the vast majority of it is absolutely fucking AMAZING. I think it tails off a bit towards the end where he starts trying weirder stuff instead of writing the simple and catchy tunes where he's at his best. Basically he sounds near fucking identical to Ben Gibbard, but not in a weird forced way. His voice is amazing. A lot of his tracks sound DCFC'y, but he also has more Sunny Day Real Estate/Weatherbox big crunchy guitar style tracks.

But yeah, definite early DCFC vibe from a lot of his stuff. Here's some of his songs for you to get a feel, and get the archive when I up it;

Wk24: "Gear Isn't Expensive"

Wk02: "The Outcome Of All Our Lives" (sounds like its straight off "We Have The Facts...")

Wk04: "Anchor"

Wk26: "22 Syllables"

Wk45: "We Organised Your Life"

Wk44: "Southern California In The 80's"

[IAceI]

I second James Yuill. It's awesome.