well..im bored..i need some new unique music to simulate my mind..anyone recommend a unique musican..i mean it dosen't have to be avant garde(it would be lovely if it was)..but just some one unique sounding well to you at least.

You might like It's a Wonderful Life (2001) by Sparklehorse. I think it's one of the most underrated rock albums of the decade..




A Virginia boy, Mark Linkous, moves to L.A., founds an overlooked alt-rock band and moves back to the mountains. Then he starts playing strange ballads so scruffy and imagistic that Tom Waits and PJ Harvey cameo on his new album. Linkous has a cracked, untricky voice, the perfect medium for the slow, elegiac songs of Sparklehorse's third album. He sings about the interior world in terms of the outside one - emotions and sense as beauty and entropy, display and decay. Waits' hoarse whisper motivates the creepy shuffle "Dog Door," and Harvey harmonizes on the haunting "Eyepennies." The music is as stately and deep as good loam, built around a few measures repeated stolidly with a kind of back-country resignation. Nothing here becomes anything else: Even the noise stays noise - "King of Nails" crashes lightly, full of cymbals and feedback; "Comfort Me" is skewed-key near-pop. Musing, eerie and oddly lovely, It's a Wonderful Life is almost minimalist - it captures fleeting moments in a few chords and peculiarly evocative phrases.

- Rolling Stone, 8/30/01

I also really like the Sparklehorse debut vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot. I read an interview in which Thom Yorke said that this 1995 album was the inspiration for OK Computer (which he first heard while riding in a taxi in Cairo). Sparklehorse later opened for Radiohead on the opening leg of the European OK Computer tour in 1997.
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Stax said:

i will try this thank you..i'll give you my opinion after i have downloaded it..

new as in recent artist or just new to you?

lilgish said:

whichever..dosen't matter..currently im musically bored..

weepingwall said:

cool. I'd like to hear what you think. For me, it's a rainy day disc.

weepingwall said:

I do the same thing. I've discovered so many cool artist's/songs from this forum. Not sure if you'll like this guy but I go to the site at least once a week just to watch the Soobax video. You should check out the EPK too. K'naan

Been a gap in my visits here so I may have may have missed you guys covering this one, I'm sure you did:
Jada. Has a bit of the Kittie thing going on.

Maybe not unique (Though I find that tribal/hip-hop mix and the social consciousness of K'naan uniquely refreshingly) but worth a listen if you just want to hear someone different.

weepingwall said:

oh...didn't see the avant garde part. Maybe I should read more carefully. You can still bookmark for another day.

anon said:

to be honest it dosent matter if its avant garde..im interested in your choice..i'll check it out

weepingwall said:

o.k. but don't hold me accountable for some of those lyrics (if you read them). Because it's Jada Pinkett and because they sound good, it's worth checking out.