Your favorite music
 

I want to broaden my musical horizons.

Please reply with:
1. Your favorite artist/singer/songwriter
2. The first song you've heard of by this artist
3. How did you come about discovering this song
4. Your current favorite song by this artist

Feel free to share more than one of your favorite artists.

Please, please, please... I cannot stretch this enough... PLEASE... no rap, unless it's about something other than "my **** is big, I do drugs, I have lots of money, I have bitches, I have guns, I don't like cops, etc..."


I'll go first.

1. Elliott Smith is my favorite singer/songwriter of all time.
2. "Miss Misery"
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsixXCnYVfA"]Elliott Smith - Miss Misery - YouTube[/ame]

3. This song was featured in "Good Will Hunting," one of my all time favorites.
4. "Between the Bars"
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXB-dZsMLrI"]Elliott Smith-"Between the Bars" from "Either/Or" - YouTube[/ame]



Your contribution is greatly appreciated.

Since I'm still up.

1. Iron & Wine (Sam Beam)
2. Such Great Heights (written by The Postal Service?)
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCYWymG9fSs"]Iron and Wine - Such Great Heights HD - YouTube[/ame]

3. Limewire search result
4. Trapeze Swinger (7+ minutes)
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWUCgYRzleQ"]Iron & Wine - Trapeze Swinger (Live @ Other Music, Pt. 3) - YouTube[/ame]

LOOOL! And nothing that repeats. Or is really simple. AAAAAAnd genre eliminated.

1. Rush
2. Subdivisions
3. My dad purchased a new Signals album (on cassette) because he had just gotten a new vehicle that had a tape player. I was ~9 years old at the time.
4. They have over 130 original songs, so this would be hard. I can say that Signals is my favorite album though. Every note of every song on that album is perfect.


I'm at work, so I can't see your YouTube links or post any myself, but some other more modern songs I like that you may not have heard (off the top of my head) would be...

Profugus Mortis - The Beauty of this Form
Equilibrium - Mana
DevilDriver - Desperate Times
Eluveitie - Inis Mona
In Flames - Dialogue with the Stars
Korpiklaani - Karhunkaatolaulu

I just noticed you listed The Postal Service. Other bands like them that I like would be The Decemberists and Of Monsters and Men.

For The Decemberists, some good songs would be:
Any song off of the Picaresque album
O Valencia!
Summersong
July, July!
Shanty for the Arethusa
The Chimbley Sweep
The Rake's Song
Rox in the Box
Down by the Water

And for Of Monsters and Men, the entire My Head is an Animal album is awesome. I think they might actually play some of their songs on the radio. I've grown so far out of touch with pop culture, I have no clue what's mainstream and what's not anymore.

My favorite artist would probably have to be Devin Townsend. He is a musical genius in every sense of the word... I love him because he has songs that touch each and every emotion.

My favorite song by him
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm8uxb8Cwtk"]Devin TOWNSEND - Bastard - YouTube[/ame]

The album that this track is taken from, Ziltoid the Omniscient, it was *literally* a solo album. He did everything himself, for the drums he used software called "Drumkit from Hell"
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5BqyluKkk0"]Devin Townsend - Hyperdrive [HQ] - YouTube[/ame]

For rap, you cannot beat Eyedea. In my eyes, he was more of a poet, no new music from him though he passed in 2010.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIeuPrZwHj0"]Eyedea - The Dive - YouTube[/ame]

He wrote this at age 19...
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q87e6zNRJ3s"]Eyedea - Even Shadows Have Shadows (HD Quality) - YouTube[/ame]

This was written at 13!
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU1X7Pt2JrU"]Eyedea & Abilities - Ode to Hip Hop (13/14yrs old it was written) - YouTube[/ame]

He was probably the sickest freestyler/battler as well

Devin Townsend is the shit.

"Welcome to A&W, can I take your stinking order?"

@SoCal909, I've been listening to so much Devin Townsend in the last week. I have Ziltoid in my car and like to listen to it in its entirety when I'm on long drives. But since this thread, I finally sat down and listened to all of Terria from beginning to end. I was only familiar with "Canada" and "The Fluke" even though I had the whole album on my computer. Good stuff.

I'm listening to music on shuffle right now. Strapping Young Lad just came on it reminded me of this.

Haha sick man! I have every single album by him from strapping/devin townsend/devin townsend project. I've been listening to a lot of accelerated evolution lately. Have you heard any of the newer stuff? Addicted/Deconstruction/Ghost/Epicloud?

I like guitar music.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwFpV80ASjw"]Chet Atkins Dark eyes - YouTube[/ame]


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9ZYLvcAFXQ"]Django Reinhardt - Django's tiger - YouTube[/ame]

I just listen to Bayside and Senses Fail radio stations on Pandora. Works very well for me.

I have not. I've had random Strapping Young Lad songs, Terria, and Ziltoid on my computer for forever. I'll have to complete the collection.

Aaaaa!

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkcUwaOMDig"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkcUwaOMDig[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQi48T4YWh4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQi48T4YWh4[/ame]

Definitely. Ghost has more of a Terria feel to it, it is very much a relaxing album, very mellow stuff. Addicted has some great songs on it but I can't say that the album is one of my favorites, has a different flavor to it. Deconstruction is a damn good album, and Epicloud is up there as well.

Ghost is amazing IMO
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmGpVN7xag0"]Devin Townsend - Ghost - YouTube[/ame]

haha i came here to make fun of the no rap thing and also point out the other music thread that is probably hundreds of pages by now but i see there are some townsend fans. that guy is a fucking monster and the best part is that its not a big genre. once, i saw dtp, scale the summit, cynic and btbam for fifteen bucks. that show ripped my face off for sure.

on a side note, getting to see the black dahlia murder on saturday.