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It seems clear of late that I am capable of enjoying music that I wouldn't have expected of myself. Which means there is a whole wide world of music out there that I could be enjoying but am not (yet). SO. This is where you come in!

I am sure that you, Dear Readers, listen to music, and have opinions about the music you listen to. I am sure you have musicians or singers or bands that you particularly like. And it is entirely possible you enjoy proselytizing on behalf of these music groups. If that is you, then, well! I have a request!

Please tell me the name of a musician/band that you think I should listen to (no matter how well-known or not)*, what CD of theirs I should start with, and, for in case it's a style of music I'm not very experienced at listening to yet, which one song from that CD I should listen to several times on repeat so I can learn how to like it before tackling the whole CD.

Please don't load up a comment with tons of recs, because then I will just get overwhelmed! Stick to one a person (mmmmmaaaaaybe two), and we'll all be happy.

And do not hesitate even if you are a lurker or don't talk to me very often or whatever. My journal is always open!

And then, over the course of however long it takes me, I WILL give a good honest try to the things I get recced in this post, even if it's something I'm skeptical about, because if you like it then it must have something about it worth liking. And then it is entirely possible (nay, probable, given my tendency towards verbosity WHICH YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED *COUGH*) that I will write up posts on my opinions.

Okay? Okay!

*And make no assumptions about what I must already know. I mean, yes, I'm familiar with the Beatles, but ANYTHING ELSE is fair game. My friends are always laughing at me for how utterly clueless I am about popular stuff.

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Cool, something very different! "postmodern bubblegum pop" -- that sounds awesome! ADDED TO LIST.

If you get through your list and want more Very Different things, get back to me! :D I tend to go through phases of thinking, "Okay, there must be some good music in this genre" and then pushing through until I find it. (I am currently trying to decide if I like Muddy Waters or not. ...because I am doing a Chicago Blues phase, for possibly-obvious reasons.)

Awesome, WILL DO! And dude, that is a way of approaching musical genres that is pretty foreign to me. (like, I am sitting here currently being very relieved that certain genres haven't been recced to me yet, because I am ~biased~. Except I know that the point of this whole exercise is to get over more of my biases! *flails*)

Yes, I decided to be nice and not start by rec'ing hip-hop or Icelandic death metal. :P (Or even better, Icelandic hip-hop!)

I used to be like that, but I went through a huge "learn about musical genres" project a few years back, and what I learned is that the things that determine whether I will like a song/musician or not don't seem to line up with what genre they get sorted into by other people. So I'm poking at my no-likey genres and finding the stuff that does work for me!

I'm not Sophia! Rec me Icelandic hip-hop. I can probably offer something equally bizarre in return.

*g* Well, when it comes to Icelandic hip-hop, there is basically only one group, and that is Quarashi. (No, literally, only one group.) They aren't necessarily the band I would pick to rec to somebody who doesn't like hip-hop, but if you're already used to, oh, that sort of, '90s style white-boy rap, they're pretty good! And they do real hip-hop, not slick commercial stuff; they have a knack for using catchy samples that aren't the same old samples everyone else uses. Mr. Jinx is the song that seems to have been closest to going mainstream, but I like most of the stuff from that album okay. When I'm in the mood for '90s white-boy rap. :D

Awesome, thanks. I will check it out. Um... in return, I will link you when I post my Rosh Hashanah playlist in a week. Including delicious things like the Hebrew translation/cover of Leonard Cohen's "Who By Fire" and a jazz quartet's swinging Avinu Malkinu.

http://seekingferret.dreamwidth.org/50079.html Rosh Hashanah playlist with some commentary

...okay apparently this is a thing I am doing now. Mika vids:

A vid about how wonderful Ten and his companions are!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1hZuv-TxtU&list=PLECD65C264CDCB5DB&index=31

A vid about how INCREDIBLY TRAGIC Torchwood is! Moral compromises! Etc!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJk4UC-MnFQ&list=PLECD65C264CDCB5DB&index=28

I should also note, Sophia, that I don't go looking for Mika fanvids because I have decided that the two characters in the Lollipop video are Ivy and Kinkaid, and Mika is my mental casting for Harry Dresden anyway, so I just pretend all his vids are Dresden Files fanvids already. :D

:DDDDD AWESOME

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