Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]
Welcome to Raftel. We hope you enjoy your visit.


You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free.


Join our community!


If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features:

Username:   Password:
Add Reply
Recommend An Artist
Topic Started: Jul 12 2007, 01:07 AM (827 Views)
Lord Pancake
Member Avatar
Drinker of Milkshakes
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Band: Procol Harum
Genre: Progressive/Psychedelic/Symphonic Rock
Song Recommendations: A Whiter Shade of Pale, Grand Hotel, Conquistador, Good Captain Clack, pretty much any of their songs
Notes/comments: I started listening to this band because I read that one of their songs inspired a Douglas Adams book. I am not disappointed. The lyrics are AMAZING.

Band: The Darkest of The Hillside Thickets
Genre: Punk/Geek/Horror Rock, Powerpop
Song Recommendations: Please God No, The Innsmouth Look, A Marine Biologist, 20 Minutes of Oxygen
Notes/comments: A large portion of their songs are tongue-in-cheek tributes to the works of HP Lovecraft, but I recommend them whether you've read it or not.

Band: 1349
Genre: Black Metal
Song Recommendations: Sculptor of Flesh, I Am Abomination, Chasing Dragons

Band: Ween
Genre: Alternative/experimental Rock
Song Recommendations: The Mollusk, Ocean Man, Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down)
NAME: Lord Pancake
STATUS: Domestic E-terrorist
CRIMES: Felony TL;DR, Intent to Incite Lulz, Conspiracy to Commit Pwnage, Fail Evasion, Aggravated Win
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Fighter
Member Avatar
Keeper of Time
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Band: Shock Stars
Posted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Huzzah
Member Avatar
broke through Heaven... who the hell do you think he is!?
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Band/Artist: DJ Fresh
Genre: D&B, though he mixes it up a bit every now and then
Song Recommendations: Nervous (Probably the best example of what he does best) Throw (Another great song, this time showing something a lot more contemporary)
Notes/comments: I'm pretty sure this guy honestly replaces Pendulum as the greatest D&B artist there is. I didn't make note of it before, but he delves a very little bit into Funk with some of his stuff.
"Won't it be dull, when we rid ourselves of all these demons haunting us to keep us company?"
Posted Image
sXe since 10/22/07
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
keyblade kitty
Member Avatar
Replacement Captain
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Band Name: Hellogoodbye
Genre: Pop / Powerpop / Indie
Song Recommendations: All Of Your Love
I Saw It On Your Keyboard
Here In Your Arms

Band Name: Sherwood
Genre: Indie / Pop / Rock
Song Recommendations: Song In My Head

Band Name: Red
Genre: Rock / Ambient
Song Recommendations: Breate Into Me
Let Go

Band Name: Flyleaf
Genre: Rock
Song Recommendations: All Around Me
Fully Alive
I'm So Sick
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Huzzah
Member Avatar
broke through Heaven... who the hell do you think he is!?
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Band/Artist: Pain
Genre: Technically, it's "Industrial Metal" but I'm more likely to call it Metal with some techno sounds going on in the background.
Song Recommendations: Not Afraid To Die, Pslams Of Extinction
"Won't it be dull, when we rid ourselves of all these demons haunting us to keep us company?"
Posted Image
sXe since 10/22/07
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
smurfdude
Member Avatar
Navigator
Band name: Jimi Hendrix (The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Band of Gypsies)
Genre: Blues, funk, jazz, rock.
Notes/comments: If your looking for a good guitarist look no further. James Marshall Hendrix is the man that makes many moods out of 6 strings. Everything he touches turns into a masterpiece (a few good examples listen to Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode and Bob Dylans All Along the Watchtower then listen to Jimi's. They are both good songs but Jimi took them above and beyond.) I have limited space so just go listen to him.
Songs Recomended:Power of Soul, Spanish Castle Magic, Foxy Lady, Wild Thing, Wind Cries Mary, Purple Haze, Fire, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Stepping Stone,
I Dont Live Today, Burning of the Midnight Lamp, Castles made of Sand, If 6 was 9, Little Wing, Love or Confusion, Voodoo Child.


Band Name: Bob Marley (and the Wailers)
Genre: Reggae
Notes/comments: Listen to the soothing sound of Bob Marley and let your soul be at peace mon :)
Song Recommendations: Jammin, Three Little Birds, Dont Worry Be Happy, One Love, I shot the Sheriff

Band Name: The Beatles
Genre: Rock N Roll!!!
Notes/comments: The four headed monster that saved rock and roll and revolutionized music. Pretty much all of there early songs were happy love songs but as the fab four got more into who they really were they grew up along with there music.
Song Recommendations: While my Guitar Gently Weeps, Strawberry Fields Forever, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Eight Days a Week, Something, Hey Jude, With a Little Help from my Friends, I've Just Seen a Face, Let it Be, Day Tripper, Cant Buy Me Love.
Posted Image

Love come shine over the mountains. Love come shine over the sea. Love shine on my baby, then I'll know exactly who's for me.
"Hey Sendo should people read Hajime No Ippo?"
Posted Image
--> Hajime No Ippo manga <--
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Huzzah
Member Avatar
broke through Heaven... who the hell do you think he is!?
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Band Name: The Hush Sound
Genre: ... Alt Rock? I guess.
Notes/comments: Well... You know that sort of Cabaret sound that Panic! had on their first album? That's what a lot of The Hush Sound does. Except better. They have a sort of piano-pop going on, with a trumpet and alternating male/female lead vocals (and both Bob Morris & Greta Salpeter are talented vocalists).

As for recommendations... how about the entire album Like Vines? Seriously though, give the songs A Dark Congregation, Lions Roar and Wine Red a listen to get the best idea of what it is I was trying to get at in the notes/comments- because I really didn't do the band justice.
"Won't it be dull, when we rid ourselves of all these demons haunting us to keep us company?"
Posted Image
sXe since 10/22/07
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Huzzah
Member Avatar
broke through Heaven... who the hell do you think he is!?
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Band name: Anberlin
Genre: Alternative Rock
Notes/comments: Just listen to this song.
Anberlin - *Fin
Anberlin - A Whisper & A Clamour
"Won't it be dull, when we rid ourselves of all these demons haunting us to keep us company?"
Posted Image
sXe since 10/22/07
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Lord Pancake
Member Avatar
Drinker of Milkshakes
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Artist: MC Frontalot
Genre: Rap/Comedy
Notes/comments: This is the guy that performed the credits song for the Penny Arcade game, which is linked below if you haven't heard it. He's also a very clever and talented lyricist. Also, he is both nerdier and more street than you've ever even thought about being.
Song Recommendations:
It Is Pitch Dark
Crime Spree (It's a fan video, but all the other videos I looked at had shit audio quality)
Final Boss (The aforementioned PA song)

Artist: Tom Waits
Genre: Jazz/Rock/Folk/Blues/GODDAMN EVERYTHING
Notes/comments: This guy may be my favorite individual performer. He's certainly one of the most talented and versatile musicians in the business. Also, he has a voice that sounds like golems fucking. So that's cool.
Song Recommendations:
God's Away On Business (This video features what appear to be emus, because that's how Tom Waits rolls.)
Table Top Joe
Kommienezuspadt (Featuring a man on a train, for some reason)

Artist: Leonard Cohen
Genre: Folk/Rock
Notes/comments: This guy is one of my favorite lyricists ever. All of his songs are poetry. Listen to them just for that.
Song Recommendations:
There Is A War
Everybody Knows
First We Take Manhattan

Band: Placebo
Genre: Rock/Alternative
Notes/comments: I usually don't like vocalists like the one that this band has, but for some reason I like this one. Maybe it's the imaginative lyrics or just the style of music, but this band just works for me.
Song Recommendations:
Lady Of The Flowers
I Know
Taste In Men

Band: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Genre: Rock/Alternative/Blues
Notes/comments: This is my current favorite band. This will change in two days, but that's not the point. Listen to them to give meaning to your pointless life. Also, they did an entire album wherein all the songs were about murder. If you don't not find this even a little bit awesome, you are not a proper barometer of awesomeness.
Song Recommendations:
Song of Joy (You know, there a sad songs and angry songs and happy songs, but I think this is the first song to genuinely inspire fear in me. Which is awesome.)
Breathless
Saint Huck

Band: Bright Eyes
Genre: Indie/Folk
Notes/comments: I don't know what to say about this band. But I like them. A lot.
Song Recommendations:
True Blue
At The Bottom Of Everything
Soon You Will Be Leaving Your Man

And NOW I'm done.
NAME: Lord Pancake
STATUS: Domestic E-terrorist
CRIMES: Felony TL;DR, Intent to Incite Lulz, Conspiracy to Commit Pwnage, Fail Evasion, Aggravated Win
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
xenogears96720
Member Avatar
1st Mate
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Oh god, Pancake, Bright Eyes? That's like the most depressing band ever. They're talented, don't get me wrong, but every song I've heard by them contains about as much fun as a Coldplay album.

Band: Maximum the Hormone
Genre: Death Metal/Metalcore/Pop Punk (They're kind of all over the place, but enjoyably so.)
Song Reccomendations:
-Chu Chu Lovely Muni Muni Mura (Pop Punk, with lots of nonsense lyrics. VINYL VINYL VINYL SEX.)
-Zetsubou Billy (Metalcore, with some nice melodic bits randomly scattered in it like the seldom-found chunks of chicken in Campbell's soup.)
-What's Up People! (Thrashy!)

Band: Finntroll
Genre: Swedish Folk Metal, focusing on Trolls
Song Reccomendations:
-Trollhammaren!
-Svartberg
-Midnattens Widunder
Posted Image
Most Random, Quick Wit and Queen of the C-Box 2009.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Lord Pancake
Member Avatar
Drinker of Milkshakes
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
xenogears96720,Oct 3 2008
03:48 AM
Oh god, Pancake, Bright Eyes? That's like the most depressing band ever. They're talented, don't get me wrong, but every song I've heard by them contains about as much fun as a Coldplay album.

That's mostly what they do, though there are a few exceptions. I probably like them a lot more because I don't actually find a lot of their "depressing" songs all that depressing. That said, trying to be extremely happy while listening to them is like trying to be extremely angry while listening to John Mayer. It just doesn't happen.

Also:

Quote:
 
Swedish Folk Metal, focusing on Trolls


That is so awesome that I wasn't aware it actually existed.
NAME: Lord Pancake
STATUS: Domestic E-terrorist
CRIMES: Felony TL;DR, Intent to Incite Lulz, Conspiracy to Commit Pwnage, Fail Evasion, Aggravated Win
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
xenogears96720
Member Avatar
1st Mate
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Lord Pancake,Oct 2 2008
11:55 PM
Also:

Quote:
 
Swedish Folk Metal, focusing on Trolls


That is so awesome that I wasn't aware it actually existed.

Well now you know.
Posted Image
AND KNOWING IS HALF THE BATTLE.
GEEEEE-EEEEEEYEEEEE JOOOOOOOOE
Posted Image
Most Random, Quick Wit and Queen of the C-Box 2009.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Huzzah
Member Avatar
broke through Heaven... who the hell do you think he is!?
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Band: Symphony X
Genre: prog metal
Recommendations: Communion & the Oracle, Egypt

Comments: This band makes great background music.
"Won't it be dull, when we rid ourselves of all these demons haunting us to keep us company?"
Posted Image
sXe since 10/22/07
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
ZetaBoards - Free Forum Hosting
Create your own social network with a free forum.
Learn More · Register for Free
« Previous Topic · Music · Next Topic »
Add Reply