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Hi AAG,

This is simple!

Three:

Stop Making Sense — Talking Heads

Conferring with the Moon — William Ackerman

6 and 12 String Guitar — Leo Kottke

XOXO

Chuck

P.S. The second is as good a dreamy fuck music as you can get!

P.P.S. Uh, don’t put the Talking Heads on while you’re flying on the plane, or you might accidentally flail/punch the person next to you.

Ah, a trip to the south. I have to live here, so I don’t understand why people travel here, but hope we treat you well.

Amazon’s MP3 Album of the Day has added SO much music to my library. Usually just 2 bucks for a whole album. I have bought things for 2 bucks that I never in my wildest dreams would have paid 9 bucks for.

My recommendations?

Rush - Moving Pictures

Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend

Pink Martini - Hey Eugine

Elvis Costello - My Aim is True

(And my favorite Metallica album is S&M)

Headstones. Start with “Teeth and Tissue”

The Dresden Dolls.
Lily Allen
Muse
Tool
A Perfect Circle
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Concrete Blonde
Bowie, Zeppelin, CCR (Oldies but goodies)
John Hammond

Everyone to whom I’ve introduced Beirut has loved it. It’ll grow on you… and I don’t know if it’s immediately sing-along material, but it’s certainly uplifting.

My second favourite band lately has been Arcade Fire. Also goes over quite well.

I could recommend many more but I won’t so as to not clog the comments. I’ll get in touch with you soon (hopefully before you leave) to see if I can be of more assistance musicwise.

Try the John Buttler Trio - something mellow and funky for your trip home again.

Duncan Sheik - On a High

That song makes me want to pack up a couple of suitcases, climb into the convertible I don’t have, and drive off toward sunny beaches with no intention of ever coming back. EVERY single time I hear it.

try Linkin Park. Hybrid Theory is one of my faves. And I just bought Seether. it’s making it’s way into my head.

Check out emusic.com as well… Much good jazz and classical, and a very different purchase model.

There’s also a lot of good, legitimate free stuff. Kristin Hersh has an album up (kristinhersh.cashmusic.org), and 50 Foot Wave has a few bits up. There are plenty of programs and free concerts available through archive.org. And each year, SxSW posts a *huge* sample of music. Search for “sxsw bittorrent”.

Not free, but check out Grayson Capps. Fun!

Someone beat me to it, I was going to recommend emusic as well, although, amazon’s prices are fairly comparable.

As someone who rides a bus to work, NO, NO, NO, NO, wearing headphones in an attempt to regain a little personal space is NOT rude. Tapping someone on the shoulder or attempting conversation with someone who is wearing headphones and/or reading a book is!

I suggest going to the library and using their free CDs instead of purchasing individual songs. And as for taste? I have horrendous taste in music (Fergie Furg gonna love you long time) and suck at guessing other people’s tastes. I’m musically disabled

I love your writing so. hard.

Srsly. Somuch. I lol.

You’ve probably never heard of them, but try Clutch. I personally like the album ‘Slow Hole to China’, which is very rockable and singable and off that album ‘Guild of Mute Assassins’ best, but I pretty much love everything they’ve ever done, as well. If that album isn’t to your taste, then try their newest ‘From Beale Street to Oblivion’, which is more rock/blues.

I also second the suggestion of Dresden Dolls, and I’d add Soul Coughing, ( Best album ‘El Oso’ ), Portishead, ( Best album is the self-titled ), Gnarls Barkley, ( ‘St. Elsewhere’ ) and finally anything Les Claypool has touched, primarily Primus. ( Best album… umm… all of them. )

Have fun on vacation!

Uh, yeah, anyway I love Clutch.

I found a pair of headphones that sit down so snugly into my ear canals that I cannot hear any outside noises.

Sorry, no music advice as I am stuck back in the Rolling Stones era of rock, having gravitated/sunken to country and western over the years.

But please do tell more about these headphones/earbuds, I am in serious need of a good pair, thanks.

Rise Against, Five Iron Frenzy, Reel Big Fish,

hahaha I’m waiting on my first mp3 player to ship to me, and I’m 39. You are not the last person under 7 to get one, I am!

Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker
John Hiatt - anything
Pink - Rock Star (because you are!)

Lots of good suggestions here… Talking Heads and Rush were two of them… to add to some of the harder rock-out ones, I’d suggest Coldplay, Rob Zombie, Nine-inch-Nails, Theory of a Deadman, Nickelback…

More mellow stuff like Maroon 5 too…

Keane! The Killers! Dream Theater! Armin van Buuren! Green Day! Opeth!

The “Into The Wild” OST, featuring mostly Eddie Vedder.

OMG!

You really are the Official Angel-Faerie of Teh Internets!

I thought that I was the last person on earth who still likes to rock the house to Metallica and Soundgarden.

A HARD ROCKING, hot, sex positive, sex blogger chick!

I am in lurve now!

Modest Mouse

Just don’t go walking on a bike path in these head phones or someone like me who has been trying to get past you for 5 minutes will run you over!

Have fun with it though but don’t go deaf on us but I am sure you are smart enough to avoid that.

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=9135482

These are the headphone I ended up with.

Rammstein is great for getting carried away too…and Kings of Leon. Sex on Fire is the sexiest song I have ever heard (I’m sure plenty wouldn’t agree, but I love it)

There is so much I could recommend, but I think you’re going to use that remaining space pretty quickly!

I’m not so great at recommending music to which to rawk. Mellow, eclectic, quirky — sure. Rawk out? Not so much.

The New Pornographers tend toward a fun, bounce-about type of sound, i.e.: “Sing Me Spanish Techno,” the video for which can be found on youtube. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDUHJNVjpS0)

Modest Mouse, as I think someone mentioned above, is great.

The National is one of my more recent favorites — Any of the songs from Boxer would be a good place to start.

Spoon: “The Underdog” and “I Didn’t Come Here to Die” are two of my favorites.

Devotchka: “Queen of The Surface Streets,” “Transliterator,” “How It Ends.”

A note about eMusic — they provide DRM-free music, which, personally, I believe to be a good thing, but a number of major record label folks disagree with me. Thusly, it’s a haven for classic jazz and blues, and smaller-label indie-ish groups, which is fine by me, but it might not be the best direction to go if you want the latest Metallica album.

Blues or jazz or simply the Beatles. O Brother Were Art Thou soundtrack makes for a nice change of pace. Handel or Bach for a twist classical side.

When you get into you ignore the world zone, do not make eye contact. Stay in your zone of self. Have fun.

Empire by Kasabian - loud and proud. Everyone in the world should own this album.

The Seldom Seen Kid by Elbow - I don’t have the words to explain just how amazing this is.

Neon Bible by Arcade Fire and Fleet Foxes by Fleet Foxes are both beautiful and brilliant.

Faded Seaside Glamour or You See Colours by Delays are, quite simply, the sound of summer set to music. I never fail to smile when I hear anything from either album.

My own i-pod was bought as a Valentine’s gift almost 3 years ago by my now ex and I totally understand what you mean when you say yours has changed your life. Mine is my most precious posession and I never, ever go anywhere without it.

Have a wonderful holiday and enjoy the sountrack to it, whatever that may turn out to be.

Muse - Absolution - infact, their entire collection is good.
Kings of Leon - Only by the night

Elbow
Kaiser Chiefs

Birds of Tokyo - an aussie band, very nice!

It’s off the subject at hand, but do you post the winners of your swag contests?

No, I’ve never done that. But if someone wants to out himself or herself in the comments or via email, I’m happy to publish it. –aag

Echoing Erin and Jay, Muse is one to listen to loud and in ear.

I also second the flail alert, air drumming in economy doesnt go down well

If you want some cool New Zealand music, here is a list for you
Rock -
Shihad/Pacifier - http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=22031241

WETA - http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=412200034

Other
Liam Finn - http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=47789778

OpShop - http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=22022170

Goldenhorse - http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=15265603

Anika Moa - http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=165357924

Plenty of others, but just a few to get you started

Cheers

Lush: De-Luxe (awesome weird song)

The Main Drag: A Jagged Gorgeous Winter

Any Mazzy Star, Jack Johnson, Muse (as mentioned) and if you’re hankerin’ for an odd mix of music, The Devil’s Rejects soundtrack will deliver some good tunes :-)

Enjoy your trip and your musical silence

Since I enjoy all of the bands you’ve mentioned, I’ll toss out a few others:

Rush - decades of awesome music. Moving Pictures is an awesome album, as is A Farewell to Kings.

Pearl Jam - Hard Rock / Grunge style. Many good albums, but my current favorite is Binaural.

Collective Soul - Hard rock with an upbeat attitude. Album of choice: Hints, Allegations and Things Left Unsaid.

Apocalyptica - four cellos playing Metallica covers, though they do some of their own songs as well.

Screaming Trees - although the band no longer exists, they made a couple of good albums which are definitely rockable.

Safe travels on your trip.

limewire.com

File sharing (optional) so it’s all free downloads.

Save your pennies for holiday fun!

CAKE.

Srsly.

Trust me.

I apparently have a similar taste in music to you. here are some more recent bands that you might not know.

Panic! at the Disco (yes, there is supposed to be an exclamation point there). if nothing else, they have the best song titles. for example: Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off. Here’s a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kkbTNmg40c

Dresden Dolls — gothic, theatrical and a little bit weird. OK, a lot weird. But really cool. Check out this link for a cool cover of Black Sabbath’s War Pigs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DkQvez3Ip8

My Chemical Romance — another theatrical rocker. Reminds me of Queen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5nw1-_5-Vk

The earbuds that you picked are good. But when you are sitting around the house, these headphones are unbelievable. http://www.headphone.com/guide/by-manufacturer/grado/grado-sr-60.php

So, then no one who wrote a comment over 100 words won, correct? I mean, the other entrants have no way of knowing if only those who followed that rule won if you don’t reveal the winners.

I hope you don’t mind me asking.

You’re writing is too cute. And believe me, you are not the only person who has recently invested in their first MP3 player. Great move, though!

For the love of your computer, don’t use limewire. While okay for a rare music file there are much safer and faster to get music for free.

As to songs/band you might like:
-Rage Against the Machine is good if you like something that is politcally-ish motivated (my particular favourites are: Sleep Now in The Fire, Renegades of Funk) - Also Tom Morello is God or something
-Along similar lines is System of Down (favourites being: Cigaro, Hypnotise, BYOB)
-Red Hot Chili Peppers, kind of surprised this hasn’t been mentioned yet (favourites being: Give it Away, She Looks to Me, Tell me Baby, 21st Century)
-Blues Brothers (anything really - mainly cause they are that great)
-Barenaked Ladies (Call and Answer, It’s All Been Done, Pinch Me)

Those are all that come mind, maybe I should have gotten my MP3 player out.

Anyways, cheers.

Hello AAG

I’m a classically trained musician and a snob to boot, can’t stand mp3s, and find CDs barely acceptable, so we aren’t compatible musically.

Something you really need to pay attention to: The loud noise from earbuds that come with mp3 players RUIN one’s hearing PERMANENTLY! So T*U*R*N I*T D*O*W*N! (Too many caps? Probably. But I want to get this message across.)

Yrs in pervery, Adrian

So. I am now officially the last person in the world sans mp3…

Thanks, AAG. Thanks.

I love my iPod and hate talking to random people when I’m happy with myself.

Try some Paul Thorn. He’s awesome!

As everyone seems to be leaving you suggestions, I just thought I would leave you one of my own which seems to fit well with your tates

http://www.youporn.com/watch/148402

you may already have it of cousre…

happy listening

Actually, bearing in mind your recent “crossing the 40 threshold thoughts” having one of these gizmos makes you suddenly “hip” !! Or I felt that for a while anyway…

No Circe, you’re not the only one. I’m woefully technologically challenged. I think I’m the only one who still travels with a portable CD player. It’s a bit bulky, but it serves the purpose of shutting out chatty seatmates…I use earplugs til we get to cruising altitude.

AAG, my musical suggestions are totally old-school. Clapton, CCR, Eagles, Seger, a little Brian Setzer Orchestra thrown in for good measure. All quite sufficient for rocking out via dance or vocals.

Some of the rockinest bands that I think you’d like if Metallica and Soundgarden are a starting point:

*Velvet Revolver
*Clutch
*Audioslave (Chris Cornell sings for these guys too, or he did till last year when they broke up)
*Monster Magnet
*Down

and for some Heavy Metal
*Opeth
*Gojira (’From Mars To Sirius’ is an amazing album)
*Mastodon
*Pantera

I find http://www.allmusic.com/ a great website for reading reviews of albums and gaining recommendations to other bands that you might like, hope that helps :)

Didn’t I mention Audioslave? “Show Me How To Live” has been shaking my snot loose this morning. :) –aag

Cake
Dresdon Dolls
Coheed and Cambria
Theory of a Dead Man

And seriously. Limewire. Free. Don’t HAVE to share. EASY.

Thanks, those earbuds look perfect.

No John Coltrane? Download some of his late better half, Alice. Especially Journey in Satchidananda.

No, I got him. CDs were in the car. :) –aag

As a former record store clerk, my first question would be, “what music do you HATE?” But seeing that you like metal (or at least rockin’ guitars) and jazz:

Charles Mingus
Thelonius Monk
Ornette Coleman
Monster Magnet
Mastodon
The Black Keys
Boris
Wire
Fantomas
Mr. Bungle
Kinski
Circle

I still don’t own an MP3 player. But I do have over 3,000 songs on my iTunes, over 700 CDs and over 500 vinyl LPs. So yeah, I have a problem :)

i love all music, but have been way into original sounds lately…so i’d suggest these folks:

Drakkar Sauna (smart sexy & sometimes hilarious)

Split Lip Rayfield (thrash grass)

Truckstop Honeymoon (folk-trash)

you can find them all on myspace…and beyond!

of course all you really need to know is: Lamb of God…if you listen to nothing else of thiers look up the song called “omerta”

oh and limewire is perfectly fine as long as you have a good antivirus package already installed. oh and set it to where you dont automatically share downloaded files

Nobody mentioned these:

Blur
Incubus
Dirty Vegas
Thievery Corporation
Modern Jazz Quartet
Dave Brubeck (mellow ’50s jazz)

My kids gave me an iPod two Christmases ago, but I never used it and it’s misplaced now.

Concrete Blonde, baby. Having a cold makes it even easier to wail along with Johnette Napolitano.

Also, if you like Coltrane and jazz/funk/fusion, check out Billy Cobham (one of the greatest drummers known to mankind). His album Total Eclipse will change your world. Seriously.

Try some Dream Theater. I think you will be pleasantly surprised.