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The Music Banter Essential Guide to Music
Welcome to the Music Banter Essential Guide to Music! What this guide is all about is being a very quick and easy resource for someone looking to get into a particular artist. Each artist will have 5 recommended tracks and one recommended album all of which are representative of this artist, so that a new listener has something solid to go on, rather than having to trawl through reviews etc. The beauty and simplicity of it is that it is all done by votes and recommendations from fellow forum members. This means you! Anyone can participate in any of the artists' voting. Each week, or two weeks, an two artist will be chosen. Any member can then list 5 tracks and one album that you feel is that artists best work and would be a good place for a new listener to start out. Here are the rules: 1) Please submit five tracks that you feel are the artists' best - they can be hits, album tracks, b-sides, rarities...anything you want, really - but please include the releases on which the songs appear. The five songs with the most votes will appear on the list. 2) Please submit one album that you feel is the artist's crowning glory, their classic album, if you like. Whichever album gets the most votes will appear on the list. Live albums are allowed but compilations are not allowed. 3) Please submit two artists which you feel have a similar sound, either from the same era or genre, that would give an indication of how the artists sounds and also would be a good suggestion for further artists to explore. The top two or three will be posted, depending on number of votes. 4) Please include a brief line or paragraph that explains exactly why the artist means so much to you. The best of these will be included as quotes beneath the artists' names, on the list PLEASE NOTE THAT, ALTHOUGH IT'S NOT COMPULSORY TO INCLUDE ONE, QUOTES PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE WITHIN THE LIST. SONG AND ALBUM RECOMMENDATIONS ALONE WILL NOT GIVE USERS THE FULL PICTURE. TELL US WHAT AN ARTIST SOUNDS LIKE, WHY YOU LIKE THEM AND WHAT KIND OF INFLUENCE THEY HAVE ON TODAY'S ARTISTS. 5) Polls will be open for a week, after which I will collate the votes and transfer the results to the list. I shall also re-edit the first post of the artists thread to show the full write up. 6) Polls will be launched twice a week. 7) Every artist must receive at least five sets of votes. If, after a week of polling, a particular artist has not received five or more sets of votes, then that poll will still remain open but will not get onto the list until another chance comes around, possibly a few months later. Each entry is set out in the same way. Here is a key to the information you can expect to find... "Quotes will appear before and after recommendations. These quotes are by MusicBanter.com users, offering some additional information on the artist, or personal testimonies as to why a particular artist means so much to them. Each entry can feature a maximum of four quotes, but some may only feature one, depending on the quantity, quality and relevance of the quotes submitted." - name of user who submitted the quote ALL-TIME TOP FIVE: Song recommendations are collated from the top five songs, as voted for by MusicBanter members. In some polls, tie-breaks may occur, in which case two songs may be placed together, or ranked in relation to which order tied songs received their maximum number of votes. RECOMMENDED ALBUM: Again, album recommendations are determined by votes and, in the event of tie-breaks, multiple titles may be recommended. (POLL VOTERS, AS DESIGNATED BY SONG TITLES BY THE ARTIST IN QUESTION: This is a list of every user that participated in the poll.) ------------------------------------------------------ The List The artists below have either had their votes (click to see), due to have a vote or the poll is still open. If you want to suggest any artist to be included then please PM me. AC/DC 2Pac 808 State Aerosmith Al Green Alanis Morissette Alicia Keys Allman Brothers Band Band, The (This poll will begin on Oct 31st) Arcade Fire Beastie Boys Beatles Bjork Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Blondie Blue Oyster Cult Blur - Read the guide http://www.musicbanter.com/general-m...tml#post524559 Bob Dylan Bob Marley Bob Seger Bon Jovi Bruce Springsteen (This poll will begin on Oct 29th) Bryan Adams Buddy Holly Camel Cat Stevens Charles Mingus Clash, The (This poll will begin on Oct 27th) Coldplay Cranberries Cream Creedance Clearwater Revival Cure, The Daft Punk David Bowie - Read the Guide http://www.musicbanter.com/general-m...tml#post523627 Deep Purple Def Leppard Dire Straits Doors, The Dr. Dre Dragonforce Eagles, The Electric Light Orchestra Elton John Elvis Costello Embrace Eminem Fall, The (This poll will being on Oct 17th) Flaming Lips, The Foo Fighters Frank Zappa (This poll will being on Oct 13th) Genesis George Harrison Godspeed You Black Emperor Green Day Guns 'n' Roses Huey Lewis and the News Jack Johnson James Brown Janis Joplin Jay-Z Jethro Tull Jimi Hendrix John Coltrane John Lennon Johnny Cash Joss Stone Joy Division (This poll is open http://www.musicbanter.com/general-music/33471-mb-essential-guide-poll-joy-division.html ends Oct 10th) Kaiser Chiefs Kansas Keane Killers, The King Crimson Kings of Leon Kinks, The Kiss Led Zeppelin (This poll will begin on Oct 15th) Linkin Park Lynyrd Skynyrd (This poll is open http://www.musicbanter.com/general-m...d-skynyrd.html ends Oct 12th) Madness Madonna Manic Street Preachers Marvin Ga.ye Meat Loaf Megadeth Metallica (Poll is open http://www.musicbanter.com/general-m...tml#post528214 ends Oct 14th) Michael Jackson Miles Davis (This poll will begin on Oct 21st) Missy Elliott Modest Mouse Poll is closed. Artist failed to get enough votes. Monkees, The Mostly Autumn Motorhead Muse My Bloody Valentine My Chemical Romance Neil Young Neutral Milk Hotel Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Nick Drake Nirvana Notorious B.I.G. Oasis Ocean Colour Scene Papa Roach Paul Weller (This poll will begin on Oct 25th) Pavement Peter Gabriel Pink Floyd (This poll is closed http://www.musicbanter.com/general-m...tml#post526332 results to follow soon) Pixies, The Placebo Pogues, The Prince Pulp (This poll will begin on Oct 23rd) Queen R.E.M. Radiohead Rage Against The Machine Ray LaMontagne Red Hot Chili Peppers Rolling Stones Rush Sheryl Crow Sigur Ros Simon and Garfunkel Smashing Pumpkins Smiths, The (Poll is open http://www.musicbanter.com/general-music/33563-mb-essential-guide-poll-smiths.html#post528759 ends Oct 16th) Snow Patrol Spock's Beard Stereophonics Steve Wonder (This poll will begin on Oct 11th) Sting Stone Roses Stranglers, The Strokes, The Supertramp Syd Barrett Talking Heads Thelonius Monk Thin Lizzy Tom Waits U2 Van Halen Velvet Underground Ween Weezer White Stripes, The (This poll will begin on Oct 19th) Whitney Houston Who, The Wings Wishbone Ash Yes Zombies, The Zutons, The ZZ Top |
Wow, holy shit. This is a great idea. I only wish I would have thought of it sooner. And put it in the right forum.
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Maybe you should have then.
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Yeah I've already seen that. It's a different thing altogether.
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John Martyn. Yes I am a fanboy.
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Anyone actually up for this then?
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Sounds cool to me.
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Yeh. I may only be able to do a couple artists though...I am missing a lot of albums from key artists.
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We all do the artists, we all vote for the tracks and album. You can also comment on how important the artists are and what they mean to you etc and the most interesting quotes get included.
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