I need to expand my music collection

[craigjm]

I have a fairly eclectic taste in music but find myself recently wanting to listen to lots of new stuff. So.... list here what your top 10 all time favourite songs are to give me some inspiration

[otherman]

I'd recommend downloading the one of the indie rock playlists

[JohnStitch]

Have a listen to a band called Archive. An English collective, huge in Europe but not very well known in UK (yet). Been going since the trip hop years in the 90's and have gradually become more progressive rock/electronic. Difficult to categorise as their music is so diverse, but they have written some of the most beautiful songs I've heard, whilst also being able to really give it some. One of the best bands I've ever seen live (have travelled to Paris to see them twice)

Standout song for me is 'Again' (must have posted the live video from Eurockeenes on here hundreds of times over the last few years). Try listening to the latest album "With Us Until You're Dead" or either of the Controlling Crowds albums.

A few links to some of their best stuff:

Bullets: http://youtu.be/V6nbFZtxAL4

Again (live in Lyon): http://youtu.be/0kdDNz27P4I

Lights (live in Athens): http://youtu.be/hwFvDlqw_LI

Wiped Out: http://youtu.be/Ao8O7TWQVsU

...and the obligatory Eurockeenes video: http://youtu.be/7ZTjzPPGAQM


Can you tell I'm a bit of a fan?

Edited by JohnStitch on Sunday 16th June 21:07

[Malam]

Ten songs I like..

1: When Doves Cry- Prince
2: Death Rides A Horse- Russian Circles
3: F*ck Your Enemy- Superjoint Ritual
4: Inca Roads- Frank Zappa
5: Long Gone Day- Mad Season
6: Working Man- Rush
7: Psychic Hearts- Thurston Moore
8: Persephone- Wishbone Ash
9: bh I'm Sexy- Dark Lotus
10:Party Of Special Things To Do- Captain Beefheart

[uncinquesei]

Recently I have been enjoying the work of:
The Joy Formidable
Public Service Broadcasting
On a heavier but no less melodic tangent, F%$#ed Up. Far far better than the angry 6th form punk band name would suggest.

[Malam]

And another ten

1: Southern Man I Am- Southern Isolation
2: Semaphore- Kinski
3: Anthems Of A Seventeen Year Old Girl- Broken Social Scene
4: Evil Woman- Spooky Tooth
5: For Your Love- Humble Pie
6: Demon Cleaner- Kyuss
7: A Thousand Forms Of Mind- Mudhoney
8: Stream Of Consciousness- Dream Theater
9: Explosive Mouth- T Rex
10:The Chamber of 32 Doors- Genesis

[CommanderJameson]

I can't possibly list my top 10. I have 8000 tracks in my collection and what I enjoy most changes like the weather.

So I'm going to tell you things that I think are different and interesting and occasionally fun.

Open the doors of perception, and check out these albums:

Blasted Mechanism: Mind At Large
Tesseract: Altered State
Noidz: The Great Escape
Burial: Kindred EP
Qntal: Qntal IV: Ozymandias
Pitch Black: Rude Mechanicals
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Murder Ballads
Public Service Broadcasting: Inform - Educate - Entertain

[craigjm]

Some good stuff so far chaps keep them coming!

[The Don of Croy]

I don't have an all time top ten, but have been spending rather too much time listening - nay discovering - the oevre that is The Small Faces. Keep coming back to it too - if you like early Who stuff, Kinks etc then you'll be well at home.

Massively under-rated IMHO.

Also have a big thing for Squeeze - sadly faded from frontline UK music scene, but for good poppy storytelling songs they really were ace. (Somebody will be along shortly to tell me about a sell out tour happening right now)

At the other end of the scale, do you Rundgren? Todd has covered most bases, from Beatle's homage to stadium rock.

If you fancy a live show, see George Thorogood in London next week. Raw slide guitar blues based R & B (think 'Bad to the Bone') is even better in the flesh.

[Poison Tom 96]

1) Sonne by Rammstein

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJlvy_x9yfo

2) Wait And Bleed by Slipknot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARn9E87DNLg

3) Call To Arms by The Defiled

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaHdzo2__Gw

4) Hail Destroyer by Cancer Bats

http://youtu.be/d2j-xR_wSAQ

5) Afraid To Shoot Strangers by Iron Maiden

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwxN9NkaJUA

6) Sorry You're Not A Winner by Enter Shikari

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wngyXhTx4pc

7) Prince Of The Land Of Stench by Nekrogoblikon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1VJFXA65v0

8) Surfacing by Slipknot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHK61szUXmw

9) Du Hast by Rammstein

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlOAMKTj0hU

10) Dein R3.ich by Caliban

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOwxRzW5mhE

Edited by Poison Tom 96 on Sunday 23 June 19:42

Edited by Poison Tom 96 on Wednesday 3rd July 07:48

[ClassicMotorNut]

Some of my faves:

• The Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel
• Rave On - Buddy Holly
• Bat out of Hell - Meat Loaf
• Telegram Sam - T. Rex
• Up the Junction - Squeeze
• Dreamin' - Blondie
• Sloop John B - The Beach Boys
• The Mighty Quinn - Manfred Mann
• Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran
• Wild Thing - The Troggs

[marcosgt]

TOP 10? Impossible

10 drawn at random?

Witchita Linesman - Glen Campbell
Only the Good Die Young - Billy Joel
Guns of Brixton - The Clash
Love Vigilantes - New Order
Night You Murdered Love - ABC
It Doesn't Have To Be This Way - Blow Monkeys
Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
Gay Bar - Electric Six
Wild Horses - The Rolling Stones
Lying Eyes - Eagles.

Ask me again and I'd give you a totally different 10

M.

[Hackney]

Kraftwerk - Computerworld
Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch
One Dove - Breakdown
Orbital - Chime
Battles - Atlas
The Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be
The Chemical Brothers - The Golden Path
Portishead - Machine Gun
Death in Vegas - Aisha
Hot Chip - Over and Over


To be honest there could be a thousand others.

[JimbobVFR]

Just based on recent tracks I've played/scrobbled to last.fm I'd suggest having a listen to some Frank Turner.

[anonymous-user]

Sinatra - It was a very good year
Nice & Smooth - Sometimes I rhyme slow
John Martyn - Small Hours
Bob Dylan - One too many mornings
Slim Smith - Rain From the Skies
Jerry Butler - Find Another Girl
Tom Greenwood - Silent Running
Herb Alpert - Rotation
LFO - LFO
Cannonball Adderly and Miles Davis - Autumn Leaves

[CaptainPeanut]

If I fancy something new I tend to go to WE7 (now Blinkbox Music) and either search for an artist I like to see what similar artists it recommends or pick one the existing stations. Always tends to throw up some new stuff I've not heard before.

[Meeja]

Impossible to do a "Top Ten"

But ten that have played on my laptop this evening (hotel whilst away from home working, and Winamp playlist of "a few faves" that has a couple of hundred tracks in it.

1. Air (French Band) - All I Need
2. Jakatta feat Seal - My Vision
3. Propaganda - Duel
4. Mr Natural - Do You Feel What I'm Thinking
5. Train - Drops of Jupiter
6. Tori Amos - Silent All These Years
7. Mercury Rev - As The Dark Is Rising
8. Dubstar - Not So Manic Now
9. Unklejam - What Am I Fighting For?
10. Moby - Raining Again (Steve Angello mix)

[ben lee]

Don't know if you'll be a fan or not but I'm currently hooked on Deaf Havana and Death Cab for Cutie.
Might be worth a look if you like that sort of music.

[drab]

not a top 10 but 10 nonetheless:

blue swede - hooked on a feeling
suede - stay together
talking heads - pulled up
bowie - sweet thing
alice in chains - man in the box
weezer - buddy holly
rush - limelight
bill withers - grandma's hands
cast - live the dream
ted nugent - stranglehold

[myles1972]

Liane La Havas is a good listen.