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This is a place to (duh) recommend music. If there's an artist you like, then you can share it with us and recommend some of their songs/albums.

Here's mine:
I recently bought 'Who Killed the Zutons?', the Zutons' first (and only, so far) album. I think it's pretty good. My favorites on the CD are Pressure Point, Zuton Fever, Don't Ever Think (Too Much), and You Will You Won't. You should check 'em out.

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Representin' since '98.

I've been listening to Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Machine. The album was completed back in 2003 but has been held hostage by her record company (think Yankee Hotel Foxtrot) ever since. It has recently escaped onto the internet and now you can find download links in the comments here.

My favorite track by far is the title track, "Extraordinary Machine".

It's not entirely legal, but since the record company has given it the black sheep treatment, they can't exactly claim to be losing revenue if you download it. That said, if you enjoy what you hear, and if they do come to their senses and release it eventually, please scratch their backs (and Ms. Apple's.. mmm) and pay for it.

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i bought Green Day's American Idiot. it is the best cd thaty green day has ever made. this one ranks right up there with The Clash's London Calling.

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very yes

I have to highly reccomend Bad Religion, they arn't your avrage punk band in that they rely more on the awsome vocals of Greg Garffin more than guitar. Another great thing about them is that they have free MP3s on their site.

I suggest Sinister Rouge as your first BR song.

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RIP Nathan "Buz" Buzdor

I love Green Day as well, but I think Dookie is better, with songs Longview and Basket Case, you can't go wrong. Foo Fighters are good also. Check out Learn To Fly, it's a great song.

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"Old man on the back porch! Old man on the back porch.." Thats the only green day song I've ever herd. Me? I really recommend "The King's Singers". Or mabey some music by Bill Brown.

Agreed. One of my favorite songs of all times is the acoustic version of "Everlong". Also, "Walking After You" is a great song. But I enjoy their louder stuff just as much.

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I was going to make a point of just ignoring this band, since they seemed to be another one of the weak-as-water "psychedelic" revival bands from Liverpool, in the vein of The Coral. But then I heard one of their songs in a pub, and it had a great King Crimsonish outro, so I might have to check this album out now

Not sure what I'd recommend really. So much of my record collection seems to be 60s/70s (something I direly need to address) and I don't want to go all "retro" on y'all. I guess Acid Mothers Temple are pretty spiffy. Japanese hard-rock-psyche-freakout music, with tracks hammering it out for twenty minutes at a time. They're not a band for short attention spans, of course

Oh, and a friend of mine played me Colonel Claypool's Bucket Of Bernie Brains, which was incredible. Les Claypool and Brain from Primus, Buckethead on guitars and Funkadelic's Bernie Worrell on organ. Wild stuff

Some of my favorite bands are Beck, Portishead, Cibbo Matto and Radiohead-- word.

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Um, I hate to tell you this, but that's not Green Day...that's the Presidents of the United States of America.

So, therefore, you've NEVER heard a Green Day song.


Oh, and Soce...Portishead=VERY YES.

Good stuff.

I feel stupid now...

Ooh ooh! David Grusin is really cool too! (West Side Story music)

I'm big on They Might Be Giants right now. They're cool.

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TMBG will always get you popular around here.

My cd player has been stuck on Nine Inch Nails for the last 2 weeks. Hurray for mp3 car stereos, no longer do I have to chose a single album.

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Return of the King Soundtrack. Oh yeah.

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hey stu, did you hear that NIN is coming out with a new album next month?

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RIP Nathan "Buz" Buzdor

I had heard that, I also was this (imagine me squinching my fingers real close) to getting tickets for their las vegas show in april.

Of course, they went on sale at 6:00 last friday. By 6:01 they were gone (more like 6:00 and 15 seconds). So I could go spend $300 a ticktet... but sadly I am just going to miss them, again.

*sigh*

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I guess I should recommend all the classic rock such as:
The Doors
The Who
Led Zepplin
The Greatful Dead
AC-DC
Guns 'n roses
Sweet
The Eagles
Ozzy
Metallica
Black Sabbath
The Rolling stones
Jimi Hendrex
Lynard Skynard
Deep Purple
The Beatles

I think that's it

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RIP Nathan "Buz" Buzdor

Bob Dylan is great too! I love all his stuff, yes, even some of Self Portrait. Donovan and Joan Baez are really great, too. As for more modern stuff, I like older Modest Mouse, The Briefs, Boyskout, Clorox Girls. Really, though, my domain is the 50's(doo-woop) and 60's.

For lots of great independent artist's you've probably never heard of, go to 3hive.com. Free downloads galore.

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Don't forget epitonic.com and betterpropaganda.com. Those two have all the music your favorite neighborhood hipsters enjoy.

You wanna know an awesome band? Guitar Wolf. Not only are they one of the best rock 'n' roll groups of all time, but those guys can still rock out and play amazing shows for cheap after eighteen years. That and they starred in one of the greatest movies of all time. Imagine the Ramones playing faster, louder, and in Japanese!

If you're much too boring and pretentious for Guitar Wolf (;)), then I'd move over to that oh so cool avant-garde music that people like John Zorn do so well. Or even some of that Godspeed You Black Emperor! insipired postrock stuff.

And then there's Sonic Youth. I love this band. Sonic Youth is such a great band because they made everything from "cutting-edge noise music" to alt-radio hits. That and they have great positive attitudes about their music. They don't see themselves as the end-all to rock like bands like the Stones do. Rather, they see themselves as part of a greater movement and are such music aficionados. I actually had the pleasure of attending a music discussion featuring the members and actually meeting Thurston Moore last fall, and I was just blown away about how modest they were.

As for current bands/performers, I really like 3 Doors Down and Velvet Revolver. They are proof that rock is not dead. I also like the Muzik Mafia, Gretchen Wilson, Big & Rich, and the lesser known "family" members of the Mafia, like "southern rapper/urban country singer" Chance. As for non-current stuff, I love me some James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Cream, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Led Zeppelin, Boston, Pink Floyd, Rush, etc..

Right now, I'm listening to Shooter Jennings' (his dad was Waylon Jennings, famous for a lot of stuff, including being the narrator for Dukes of Hazzard), new album. It's pretty good. He kinda sounds like what you'd get if you mixed Jackson Browne with Waylon Jennings. If you like the idea of folk rock meets outlaw country, you'd probably like this album.

Last week, I got it, plus the new Motley Crue album (which is pretty much a "greatest hits album with some new material" kinda thing, although I think the stuff was all re-recorded), Velvet Revolver's Contraband (cus I dropped the first one off the deck at my house and CD + 10 foot fall onto concrete =CD over!. It's a good album, solid rock, but that's what you get when you take one of the best BANDS and add Scott Weiland), and Tommy Lee's Never a Dull Moment (because Tommy Lee rocks).

Some people say I buy a lot of music.

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I've always thought Sixpence None the Richer never got the attention they deserve. Sure, there was a time where you couldn't go 5 steps without hearing "Kiss Me", but most of thier stuff is a lot darker and deeper than that. I'd recomend 'Paralyzed' (from Divine Discontent) as an example. Plus it just sounds kick-butt.

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I can't remember my legs! - Strong Sad
I reject your reality and substitute my own. - Adam Savage

While I would suggest "Empire" as a starting point so far as albums go, I think any of you anti-Bush kids should start with the song "Let Them Eat War". It just makes me so mad!

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Modest Mouse
Red Hot Chili Peppers
311
Trapt
Green Day (Their older stuff I like better)
Foo Fighters
They Might Be Giants
Daft Punk
New Found Glory
Sum 41
Brand New
Weezer
The Strokes

There are some of my favorites.

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Recently I've been listening to (Nonstop) Modest Mouse's Good News For People Who Love Bad News, which is now officially my favorite albums out of all the (Decent) ones I own. They have some cool stuff, especially if you're weird like me.

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Uuum..i reccomend Pink Floyd and Blue oyster cult, for those who dont know blue oyster cult, their best are : Dont fear the reaper, This aint the summer of love, Godzilla, The red and the black and Burnin' For you

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Sister, now that we're grieving
Our fingers will falter
Our lungs will be leaking
All over each other and without even speaking
We'll know that it's over and smile and go greeting
Whatever comes next

Black Blade, Flaming Telepaths, and The Marshall Plan are also very good.

Uhh, those are BOC songs btw, not bands.

I absoltely love The Smashing Pumpkins. Siamese Dream is probably my favorite album. Rage Against the Machine rocks and if I may go classic, i will say that AC/DC is another of top three greatest bands.

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"Sorry, musta got a toenail caught in my throat!"

im aware...jeez..i messed up ok?

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Sister, now that we're grieving
Our fingers will falter
Our lungs will be leaking
All over each other and without even speaking
We'll know that it's over and smile and go greeting
Whatever comes next

Sorry for the necromancy, I forgot a band to recommend.

I agree with Madefromthebeststuff that Rage is awxome and I highly reccommend both Less than Jake (for a great time, it's easy listening) and Lagwagon.

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RIP Nathan "Buz" Buzdor