Rec me some music!

[dolorous_ett]

I love music, and I have lots of very nice CDs at home, but somehow I'm not in the mood for any of them. 

I seem to have lost touch with a lot of the friends whose music I used to pinch, and I am really feeling the lack of good music. 

So rec me anything you like and you think I would like too! Or perhaps even if you're pretty sure I wouldn't like it at all.

(here would normally follow a list of things I want/don't want, but I think that this is the attitude that has resulted in me being starved of nice things in the first place, so I'll just look pleadingly at you and hope for the treats to arrive.)

Comments

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

oh i lvoe doign this. first off, here's a new tagi created for my weekly music/youtube posts
http://erised1810.livejournal.com/tag/music+recs

i thnk ti's a good start. :)

[unlikely2.livejournal.com]

How about some 'Cowboy Junkies' ?
'Crescent Moon' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pbHXO-fjKw&feature=RecentlyWatched&page=1&t=t
Or, if you'd prefer an original video, 'Miles from our home'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaSGZ1GOkYE&feature=related

Of course the Cowboy Junkies can make even Leonard Cohen look cheerful but these are both relatively upbeat.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I don’t listen to much music, therefore I don’t have a huge and exciting collection to introduce you to, and I’m sure you probably own almost every CD I do already.

But there might be a few you don’t…

A friend who has a strange passion for eastern European rock and metal music with operatic leading female singers introduced me to Nightwish, who are Finnish, and have very bizarre lyrics and - until a split - an amazing singer. Try this one and ignore the fact that the video is rubbish.

Their version of Walking In the Air is also best described as “unique” - here it appears to have been used as the base of a LoTR vid, but crucially it isn’t live, which means that it has the singer harmonising with herself. Try not to wonder what the Nazgul are doing in there - and the Ian McKellan line is not in the original.

Something else entirely, Massenet’s Cherubin is a rather frothy French opera, but it has some sublime music. This is not my favourite interpretation of one of its more ‘extractable’ arias, but you get the general idea.

The waltz from Shostakovich’s Jazz Suite No. 2 remains the only piece of music of which I have written fanfic.

Kenny Rogers singing Coward of the County is just fab. The video - you’ll spot a theme here - isn’t.

As for Josef Locke, I don’t know that I have any excuse but that it’s genetic (and if you haven’t seen the film “Hear My Song” you really ought).

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

yay for eclectics! thank you i now have over ten songs by nightwish and still counting.
what kidn offic did yo uwrite forthat walz (if i have the right walz in mind at all that is)

[saralinda.livejournal.com]

I've been pretty addicted to John Mayer's "Continuum" album lately. I just played the song "Stop this Train" 3x in a row because it seems to sum up my feelings lately toward life.

Also, it is making me cry right here in the middle of the library. Drat. *sniff*

[tree_and_leaf]

I really like Element of Crime, a German band. Don't know what the video is like, though, as my connection is awful just now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dSJZSBs9NQ

They've done a lot of excellent songs, though.

I also rather like Jens Leckman, who is Swedish (but sings in English, mostly, and has rather evil but amusing texts).

[st-aurafina.livejournal.com]

Some quietly whimsical folksy pop? I have some uploaded at the moment.

Bell, Book and Candle by Eddie Reader.

Don't Point, Don't Scare It by Butterfly Boucher

Amazing by Alex Lloyd.

[aerama.livejournal.com]

Oh, an open book...*rubs hands gleefully*
Reading over this before hitting Post, I realized that these all default on the melodious/moody side. Be Warned. Also in almost all of them the video posted just isn't worth it. Just listen to the music. :)

Blue Eyes by Cary Brothers. I never saw this Garden State movie, but at least it has the song I wanted you to hear. I did find a live version out there where he - Cary - sounds the SAME as in the studio version, which to me = a good singer...but the backup singer in the first live clip I saw was just awful. So I abandoned that and went for studio. And this explanation is way too long.

Pass it On by the Coral.

Carry Me Ohio by Sun Kil Moon.

Shaday by Ofra Haza. The list on the side of this clip has live versions too.

[tunxeh.livejournal.com]

No idea what you like or what you already know about, so I'll rec CocoRosie (http://www.3hive.com/2007/04/cocorosie.php). Strange, jazzy, in a found-art sort of way, with an unusual backstory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CocoRosie) involving separated-and-reunited sisters.