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I always heard about the Black Keys and never paid any attention to them but then I saw them play when I saw a taping of The Colbert Report and they were actually better than I thought!

I'm also fairly out of touch with the new music scene. I was at a pub the other day and it was playing all newer ish music and I was using Shazam for just about every song that came on.

Even stuff that I consider new like Imagine Dragons... is from 2012...

make it hard to spot the general by working like a soldier
 
Banquero

Driving down the freeway in the middle of the night listening to the Black Keys is a wonderful experience my friend.

Gold on the Ceiling is my all time drive around song. Nothing cooler than that song seeping out of your car doors.
"Decide what to be and go be it." - The Avett Brothers
 

To be honest I am impressed that someone who is almost 70 yrs old would like to keep in touch with modern music.

Kanye West is decent, I would recommend listening to My Dark Twisted Fantasy Album,Arcade Fire - The Suburbs album, Big Black - Songs About fucking, Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend, The band Swans whole discography,Nomeansno - Wrong album. The albums I recommended are pretty mainstream and have really good reviews. I think it would be pretty fucking rad to see an ex-banker listen to punk music.

Kanye West is the only hip-hop artist I added but I would recommend Danny Brown and Busdriver - both are really appreciated and lyrically creative.

EDIT: I would recommend creating a last.fm account, last.fm looks into your favorite artists and offers suggestions about other artists depending on your taste.

 

Kanye may be a bit avant garde for someone who likely hasn't listened to rap before (i.e. former BB CEOs), but I agree that My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was incredible. I think Atmosphere would be a very good way to branch into hip hop - When Life Gives you Lemons, Paint that Shit Gold is a fantastic album and a very easy listen.

I marginally prefer Funeral over The Suburbs, but bother are incredible. I do love Bon Iver, though its a shame they only made two albums before hanging em up.

 
Punchey

Atmosphere would be a very good way to branch into hip hop - When Life Gives you Lemons, Paint that Shit Gold is a fantastic album and a very easy listen.

Fuck yes, Atmosphere is amazing. Doesn't get nearly the credit he deserves.

If you like some mellow indie-ish stuff: Phosphorescent and Horse Feathers.

 

Bon Iver? I didn't hear about that?

But anyway, I hope you pronounce their name with a french accent. ;)

 

I'm impressed with your eclectic list of music... that Dark Twisted Fantasy Album is amazing. Kanye may be an awful celeb but that album is brilliant from the production to lyrical content.

 
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I think Spotify is way better than iTunes. They have so many different playlists (current top 100, what's trending in the US, Europe, etc), and you can also take a song you like and turn that into a radio station (it'll generate songs similar to your initial pick). Although all of the music is streamed, you can download your playlists to your device to play offline and you can follow other people/their playlists. You can get it for free, but the premium (no ads every 30 minutes) is $10 a month. You can also just make an account on Spotify to look at all of their lists (which are generally pretty accurate of what's currently popular) and get the songs on iTunes if that's more your thing.

Anyway, what's mainstream popular right now is: Taylor Swift (she actually elected to take her music off Spotify because she wants more money), Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran, Bruno Mars, The Weeknd, etc.

Hope that was somewhat helpful.

 

Mastodon. Porcupine Tree. Candlemass. Orchid. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats. Agalloch. Orphaned Land. Dark Tranquillity. Fates Warning. Dream Theater.

@DickFuld Your fandom will surely elevate these bands....choose wisely!

Metal. Music. Life. www.headofmetal.com
 
In The Flesh

Mastodon. Porcupine Tree. Candlemass. Orchid. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats. Agalloch. Orphaned Land. Dark Tranquillity. Fates Warning. Dream Theater.

@DickFuld Your fandom will surely elevate these bands....choose wisely!

Going to have to add: Opeth, Electric Wizard, Tool, and this entire thread here: http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/any-metalheads-on-wso

 

cinemechanica sharon jones and the dap kings charles bradley and you will know us by the trail of dead bosnian rainbows jaguar love Trinidad james Siriusmo Wax Tailor Russian Circles

 
Punchey

Deadmau5, Avicii, David Guetta

It's what the kids listen to so it must be good! They are so talented, the way they stand up on stage and press buttons

Avicii and David Guetta are average but Joel Zimmerman (deadmau5) puts a ton of work into his music...a lot more than most artists.

"When you stop striving for perfection, you might as well be dead."
 

I thought the list was okay but then Nickelback threw me off.

OP I'm in a 60s era jazz phase right now so can't help you much.

Sounds like Spotify is the way to go, I use Pandora but hadn't seen it mentioned yet and I trust WSO more than myself on those things

 

My recently played artists from Spotify:

  • Run the Jewels
  • Ought
  • Real Estate
  • Mac Demarco
  • Broken Social Scene
  • Cloud Nothings

But as for a band suggestion, I would check out the Twerps. A local band, they play jangly indie rock (Think the Go-Betweens). Well worth a listen.

 

Try black keys, alt j, queens of the stone age, cold war kids, kasabian. Warpaint is good too (if you don't hate women)

 

Check out James Blake he's similar to that Hozier dude. Try out Arctic Monkeys. Wish I could +1 for the Black Keys recommendation. I'd just fuck around on pandora, spotify or some shit like that to find similar artists.

[quote=mbavsmfin]I don't wear watches bro. Because it's always MBA BALLER time! [/quote]
 

What do you like about that song? Songs across different genres and different styles you might take interest in:

Heavy Soul- The Black Keys

Iron Sky Paulo -Nutini

Love Me Again -Paul NewMan

Reflektor- Arcade Fire

The Sun is Shining- Bob Marley & the Wailers

Uptown Funk - (Some guy) and Bruno Mars

My Silver Lining- First Aid Kit

Too much- Drake

Come with me now- the kongos

Bright lights- Gary Clark Jr.

Lehman Brothers-Martin Tungevaag

 

Guide to metal

Beginner

In Flames Five Finger Death Punch Alter Bridge Before the Dawn Trivium Machine Head Dark Tranquility Scar Symmetry

Intermediate

Arch Enemy Amon Amarth Dissection Opeth Children of Bodom In Mourning Insomnium At the Gates Be'lakor

Advanced

Behemoth Bloodbath Belphegor Anaal Nathrakh Hypocrisy Marduk Emperor

 
LeverageMill DickFuld:

Found my new theme song fellas:

"Turn Down For What?" -- DJ Snake & Lil Jon

Blasting at full volume right now. Love this.

lmaoooooooo

http://www.youtube.com/embed/6pNpWT1emO4?feature=oembed

http://www.youtube.com/embed/6vYnas6q3Sg?feature=oembed

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http://www.youtube.com/embed/0cC8M04TKqU?feature=oembed

http://www.youtube.com/embed/gqIfGyxMZ0w?feature=oembed

http://www.youtube.com/embed/bBk4hf6_YAk?feature=oembed

CoCo? This isn't the hood--this is WSO, the furthest thing from it. There is also a new music video for CoCo that is produced by Busta Rhymes (I think).

 

Other good ones I found:

"Say Somethting" -- A Great Big World

"Low" -- Flo Rida (feat. T-Pain)

"Wasted" -- Tiesto

"Stay" -- Rihanna (feat. Mikky Ekko)

"Sail" - AWOLNATION

Everything I've heard so far from the Black Keys and White Stripes.

Thanks guys.

 

I don't really listen to much music in specific, mainly just Pandora. The playlists that I tend to use are :

Motion City Soundtrack MC Chris Die Antwoord The Beatles Mac Miller

And then the last record I bought was The Violent Femmes. I strongly recommend any one that likes music of any kind to pick up that album. It's that good.

make it hard to spot the general by working like a soldier
 

I don't know why no one has mentioned this yet, but anything by "The Lonely Island" is good. And by good, I mean amazing.

make it hard to spot the general by working like a soldier
 
Skinnayyy

I don't know why no one has mentioned this yet, but anything by "The Lonely Island" is good. And by good, I mean amazing.

I second this. +1 SB
"Decide what to be and go be it." - The Avett Brothers
 

My latest and greatest list of stuff I've been listening to:

Wilco (catch them live if you can, it'll change your life) The Avett Brothers Of Monsters and Men 90's hip hop (NAS, Mos Def, Tribe Called Quest, etc.) Grouplove - Fucking great Walk The Moon - Not the new album, it kind of sucks Various Blues Artists (if you guys like the Black Keys, which I do, listen to Junior Kimbrough, their inspiration) Early Robert Palmer Various Jazz Fusion artists like The Weather Report, Steely Dan, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, Jeff Beck...) Paul Simon's Graceland with my kids in the car - they love it (along with their favorites - The Who, The Ramones, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers)

Also, I made a New Year's resolution to listen to all 500 of Rolling Stone's top 500 albums of all time this year from 500 to 1. I'm on number 474. Some of them are difficult to get through, others are fantastic. Spotify on desktop is great for this since you can pick any album that they have and listen from start to finish without paying a dime.

"Decide what to be and go be it." - The Avett Brothers
 

Atmosphere Kendrick Lamar Passenger Oasis CCR James Taylor Steve Miller Band Kygo Chance the Rapper Coldplay Faul Boston

I strictly play fire through my headphones.

Also, Dick, a suggestion. Instead of using iTunes, use services like Spotify or Soundcloud, which are either free or subscription based and have all the same music as iTunes, and as I mentioned they are either cheaper or completely free.

"My name's Ralph Cox, and I'm from where ever's not gonna get me hit"
 

You might be Interested in:

Leave the world Behind- by Axwell, steve angello, Sebastian Ingrosso, Laidback Luke

Calvin Harris- Electronic

Swedish House Mafia- Electronic

Jack White -(The guy from the white stripes)

The Raconteurs - (Another Jack white Band)

Cage the Elephant

The Gorillaz

================================ You might want to check out this free music streaming service called Spotify. Its pretty good at providing suggestions, and you can build playlists directly on it.

 
 

By the way, if any of you are looking for a good festival, Shaky Knees Festival May 8-10 in Atlanta has a killer lineup... The Strokes, Avett Brothers, Wilco, The Pixies, Ryan Adams, Mastodon, Neutral Milk Hotel, TV on the Radio, James Blake, Interpol, Manchester Orchestra, Flogging Molly, Milky Chance, The Kooks, Minus the Bear, The Mowglis, Mac Demarco, Old Crow Medicine Show, and tons more.

"Decide what to be and go be it." - The Avett Brothers
 

This has to be the most odd couple collection of music suggestions I have ever seen.

Follow the shit your fellow monkeys say @shitWSOsays Life is hard, it's even harder when you're stupid - John Wayne
 

Full albums:

The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream

Todd Terje - It's Album Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUOIvT9hzD8

Flight Facilities - Down To Earth

Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBixa08BPQA

Future Islands - Singles

St. Lucia - When The Night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HPMK9Uxq3I

The 1975 - Self Titled LP

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
 

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