Enlighten me
 

So I took the plunge today and bought an 80GB Microsoft Zune media player. I also bought a 120GB external harddrive that I am dedicating solely to music. There's no way that my music collection can fill 120GB (or even 80 for that matter), so here's my proposal.

I admit it, for those who have known me on here, I can sometimes have slightly sh*tty taste in music (I like it, but 3rd person perspective can be a b*tch sometimes). So with 80 gigs, I have plenty of room to explore pretty much any and all types of music.

I want to expand my musical peripheral, so please, "share" with me your "recommendations" (wink, wink) for some music that you think any music lover should have in their collection.

(And Ethan, yes, I'm willing to give Bright Eyes another shot, so have at those "recommendations").

I'd like to have some of everything on there. Classical, Rock, Ska, Rap, whatever. If you think it's good, please recommend it. Any and all recommendations are welcome:beer:

Well, what do you listen to now? (just as a reference point)

A little bit of everything. Underground rap, rock, metal, screamo, some country, ska, nu-metal, adult contemporary.

Dont mind all that, just recommend anything that you think is good:)

Get to my Fall thread & download my Fall starter kit

http://www.musicbanter.com/editors-p...ld-fall-2.html

You'll probably think they're sh*t but at least you'll be able to say they're sh*t with experience.

Well, here are the artists I've been delving into recently:

Porcupine Tree
The Mars Volta
Against Me!
Cold War Kids
Blaqk Audio
Portugal. The Man (think this was Jackhammer's doing :))
And of course if you don't listen to Tool... have at it.

Thanks. Porcupine Tree, Cold War Kids, Blaqk Audo, and Portugal are new to me, I'll have to give them a listen. Any specific albums or songs that you would recommend from them?

Bright Eyes "Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground"
Nick Drake "Bryter Layer"
Joy Division "Unknown Pleasures"
Radiohead "OK Computer"
The Cure "Disintegration"
The Smiths "The Queen is Dead"
Neutral Milk Hotel "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"
Pixies "Doolittle"
Dinosaur Jr. "You're Living All Over Me"
Bob Dylan "Blood on the Tracks"
Elliott Smith "XO"
The Flaming Lips "The Soft Bulletin"
Morrissey "Viva Hate"
Okkervil River "Black Sheep Boy"
Linda Perhacs "Parallelograms"
Beck "Odelay"
Modest Mouse "The Lonesome Crowded West"
Belle and Sebastian "Dear Catastrophe Waitress"
Built To Spill "There's Nothing Wrong with Love"
Manic Street Preachers "The Holy Bible"
Magnetic Fields "69 Love Songs"
Daniel Johnston "Songs of Pain"
Vashti Bunyan "Just Another Diamond Day"

Err... I would upload some comp.'s for you, but I don't know what the rules are. Am I safe doin' that?

Why do I get the feeling you've been waiting to do this for years now? :O

they're fine , just no full albums

I'm pretty ignorant to Avant Garde and american folk. Any suggestions?

Folk:
Phil Ochs "I Ain't Marching Anymore"
Pete Seeger "God Bless the Grass"
Bob Dylan "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan"
Woody Guthrie: basically any compilation there's tons of them floating around.

compilation removed... :(

oojay I have some advice; make sure you get a decent pair of headphones.

I get the feeling that someone is on Apple's payroll.

Haha, I can't prove that, but what I do know is that he goes around posting that on loads of different forums.

I always found that They Might Be Giants are easy to listen to regardless of mood so I'll recommend them.

Other than that I'll recommend you check out The Band, The The, !!!, and Chumbawamba's earlier more punk material.

I did find more people talking about it, but is seems to be static buildup on the headphone cords.

Sonic Youth
Dinosaur Jr.
Parliament
Battles
Polvo
Dr. Dre
N.W.A.
Slint
Bellini
Thingy
Unwound
Seki
Haymarket Riot
June of 44
Durian
Faust

If you want any of these just pm.

Get soulseek.

I'd just go through all the top 50/100/500 lists from various magazines, and download them off google(Search megaupload/album you want).

I did, I can't stand sticking little rubber bits inside my ear canal.



And thanks to everyone for all their suggestions. I've still got to DL the Zune drivers and re-rip all my CD's (my old HD with all my music on it crashed), then I'll check them all out.

what kind of earphones?

Rock:
RIVERSIDE

Metal:
GOJIRA

Punk:
GALLOWS

Reggae:
DUBMATIX

World:
TRANSGLOBAL UNDERGROUND

Indie:
FEIST

Ambient:
ELUVIUM

Post Rock:
GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT

Dance:
FREESTYLERS

Soul/Funk:
FAT FREDDY'S DROP

Folky:
Timber Timbre- "Cedar Shakes" and "Medicinals"
Woods- "At Rear House"
Dyad- "Who's Been Here Since I've Been Gone"

Try Holy F*uck Lo-fi lo-fi improvisational electronica band.
Songs
Lovely Allen
Choppers
The Pulse