Hi everyone

I have just been getting some Ani Difranco lately and i am realising that there is a whole bunch of people out there that i just havent listened to before.

Can you people be so kind as to take a couple of minutes and either suggest some bands, people, etc of people i should maybe sit up and take notice of?

For example i have two Ani Difranco albums now; Out of Range & Educated guess.
Is there any other album i should get in full or songs i should definitely have??

or

Steely Dan , since its been on this part of the org previously. Is there a certain album i should get or even a top 10 songs.

Please suggest anyone and any songs.

Educate me.


any genre. i like all.

thanks so much

First off, Steely Dan is an excellent choice for starters!!!! A couple of good albums are "Aja" and "Pretzel Logic" but any of their "greatest hits" albums would be good too.

Another recommendation (in my opinion) is Todd Rundgren. If you like all different styles of music, just listening to Todd will get you as many as you can think of!!!! He has a new album called "Liars" which is his best work in 15 years! A few other Todd gems are "Something/Anything", "A Wizard A True Star", "Nearly Human", and "2nd Wind". Unfortunately, the last two may be in cutout bins as Todd has always been a maverick and doesn't get all the acclaim of more popular artists. But you get to save money!!! Check out E-Bay and you may find some of his work pretty cheap, and you should not be dissapointed!

Marc

schoolsinsession said:

We did this thread just like week, no?

There are a lot of good suggestions here: http://www.prince.org/msg/8/96358

cool thanks stlrnut

keep em coming pleeze.

i aint giving up till i have 10 different artists

hiya there! i thought i'd make a list of some artists or groups you might like. i love music so hopefulyl this will be helpful for you too or anyone here on the org for that matter. feel free to drop me a line if you enjoy these.


1. tori amos
2. kate bush
3. happy rhodes
4. emily bezar
5. p j harvey
6. bjork(ex-vocalist of the sugarcubes)
7. diamanda galas
8. beth gibbons(former vocalist of portishead)
9. hope sandoval & the warm inventions
10. tanya donnelly
11. blackmore's night(ritchie blackmore's band)
12. concrete blonde
13. lacuna coil
14. cocteau twins
15. danielle dax
16. doro
17. danzig(early albums like the first two)
18. portishead
19. pink floyd
20. the cure
21. metallica
22. siouxsie & the banshees
23. tool
24. type o negative
25. cat power
26. alice in chains
27. berlin
28. rufus wainwright
29. hole
30. depeche mode
31. patti smith
32. bob marley
33. peter murphy
34. jimi hendrix
35. nine inch nails
36. cat stevens
37. mira
38. the doors
39. sinead o'connor
40. janis joplin

Juliana Hatfield.

If you like Ani Difranco you might like Joni Mitchell or Bob Dylan.

I always like to suggest Tom Waits as someone great who is mostly undiscovered.
His rough singing turns many people off, but his songwriting (both lyrics & melody) is among the best.
Small Change is a great album with great songs, very mellow, mostly piano & strings and singing. Pretty easy to listen to.
Swordfish Trombones is very weird, sounding like nothing else in this world. Not so easy to like on the first listen, but has done nothing but grow on me.

Any Steely Dan collection is worth having, like A Decade of Steely Dan.

tory305 said:

Wooooo. you have gone to town on this list!!! haha. i will be kept going for a while with that.

any more?