Need music suggestions!

[MojoRisin69]

Hi,

Last year I have only listened to almost the same songs/albums/artists/bands and I want to listen so something new. The problem, I don't know where to start and how to discover. There a hundreds of bands that look interesting but I can never listen to them all. What I tried is look here on besteveralbums for the best albums by years, didn't really help because the top 10 doesn't mean I like those albums because they are ranked as best.

If someone could give me some recommendations based on this list of bands I listen to:

The Doors
The Beatles
The Beach Boys
Jimi Hendrix
Santana
George Harrison
Ramones
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Johnny Cash

A selection of bands I listen most to. As you can see it is a lot of music from the 60 and 70s, that doesn't mean I like them all, for example, I never really listen to The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd or Bob Dylan. The only song I really like from Pink Floyd is Money.

To keep things short, I need some recommendations, based on that list, or if it would make things any easier I can list some of my favorite songs and you can give recommendations based on those songs.

If you want some more info please ask. (Sorry for my bad English)

Thanks!

[Vsaville]

Doors - la woman
Beatles - all
Beach boys - pet sounds
Ccr - green river

[badseed]

I mean... based on that list, your next bet is probably Led Zeppelin, maybe some Queen? Television if you're feelin edgy?

[Antonio-Pedro]

[carpents]

If you want to stretch your wings some and get more recent, maybe try the White Stripes or the Black Keys?

I would say Elephant or Icky Thump from the White Stripes or Brothers from the Black Keys.

If you're really stuck on the old stuff, Black Sabbath started off with like 4 or 5 incredible albums. Either The Man Who Sold the World or Ziggy Stardust from David Bowie are essentials too. Electric Warrior by T Rex is a classic. And of course Led Zeppelin, the first two are great.

[CharlieBarley]

It seems you like psychedelic rock so I would suggest these albums:

Love - Forever Changes
Other Love Albums
Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
After Bathing At Baxters
Anything by The Byrds (Mr Tambourine Man is a good start)
The Who - Sell Out
Tommy
Live At Leeds (The Who had a few psychedelic songs like Magic bus and I Can See For Miles but not really any psychedelic albums but they are worth checking out)
The Who - Who's Next/Quadrophenia
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Workingman's Dead
Aoxomoxoa
Europe '72 (A live album)
Early Steve Miller Band (but all their albums are great)
13th Floor Elevators - Psychedelic Sounds Of..
Traffic albums
Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking/Liege & Lief
Jethro Tull - Aqualung & Thick As A Brick (more prog rock albums but touched with psychedelia)
Moody Blues - Days Of Future Passed (try other albums)
Fleetwood Mac - early stuff (but try Fleetwood Mac(1975), Rumours, Tusk and Tango In The Night too)

Also there is funk music inspired by psychedelia like Parliament and Funkadelic. Maggot Brain is excellent.
Also check out Sly & The Family Stone, Earth, Wind & Fire, early Kool & The Gang and Curtis Mayfield. Pure class all of them.

Do you like Stevie Wonder? His 70s albums are excellent, esp Innervisions and the double album Songs In The Key Of Life. And Talking Book.

The 70's also had Progressive Rock and Krautrock.
Jethro Tull, Yes, Van der Graaf Generator and the excellent King Crimson. Two good albums by them are In The Court Of The Crimson King and Red.

For Krautrock there is Can, Neu and the experimental Amon Duul ll. Their album Phallus Dei is good.
Can's Tago Mago and Ege Bamyasi are great.

Then there is punk music. 70s punk. You like Ramones and they are the Godfathers of punk.
So start with The Stooges and Iggy Pop. And the debut by MC5 - Kick Out The Jams.
Stooges good albums are The Stooges (1969), Raw Power and Fun House.
Then you go British and check out Never Mind The Bollocks by The Sex Pistols along with The Clash by The Clash. Buzzcocks' Going Steady. Damned Damned Damned by The Damned. And Siouxsie and The Banshees first few albums. Also Sham 69, UK Subs and Stiff Little Fingers.

Reggae was big in the 70s too. Check out Bob Marley, Toots & The Maytals and Jimmy Cliff to start with.

Then you got post punk. Start with The Cure (early stuff. Pornography is good. That's a good album), Joy Division, Public Image Ltd (Metal Box). Early U2 if you like them. And Bauhaus are terrific. Best to start with a singles collection 1979-83 is great.

Then there's the 80s and Hip-Hop. Run DMC, Public Enemy, Eric B and Rakim and early Beastie Boys are all good stuff. NWA came later and are well worth checking out. As are Wu-Tang Clan. Enter The Wu-Tang rules.

And Grunge in the 90s. Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Alice In Chains.

That might be enough to go with. I hope at least a few of these whet your appetite, if you don't know their music. Let me know how you get on man.

[CharlieBarley]

How could I forget Led Zep and Black Sabbath and David Bowie?

Other guys remembered.

I agree that Black Sabbath's first 5/6 albums and all of Led Zeppelin's albums are worth checking out, particularly the first 6.

Bowie has an incredible catalogue. My favourite albums of his are

Hunky Dory
Ziggy Stardust
Diamond Dogs
Low
Aladdin Sane
Man Who sold The World
Station To Station
Scary Monsters

And his last 2 albums

The Next Day
Blackstar

You might like Genesis too. Personally I don't like early Genesis but I am in the minority on this site cos they are very popular here. Peter Gabriel's solo work I like.

I don't know as much about music past 2000 but others on here do. White Stripes are cool. And Arctic Monkeys.

[PurpleHazel]

[indieshins]

Based on The Beatles and Beach Boys, maybe Elvis Costello?
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[MojoRisin69]

Wow, I didn't expected this many replies! Ok, I can't reply to every single post so I will summarize it.

Based on some replies, obviously I have to listen to Led Zeppelin. Crazy enough I haven't really listened to them like those other bands I mentioned but I'm sure I have heard a few songs of them in the past. I will begin with some of their biggest hits and after that listen to some full albums.

Ofcourse I have heard several songs of Queen but I think they are not my kind of taste. It's fun to hear sometimes songs like "We Will Rock" or "We are the Champions", but those are definitely not songs I will listen when I'm in the train to school for example. I don't know if Queen has also other songs, more rock like the Doors, please let me know and I will try those aswell.

"If you want to stretch your wings some and get more recent, maybe try the White Stripes or the Black Keys?" For now, I rather discover music from the 60s and 70s.

Black Sabbath, yes! The first song I heard of them was "War Pigs". Just recently I heard Paranoid, the song, not the album, amazing aswell. I definitely gotta listen to to the whole album and maybe more.

Damn Stover75, what a list. I don't know where to start listening, haha. I know some songs of "The Who" and the "Steve Miller Band". Last summer I heard for the first time the song "Living in the USA", holy shit I was hooked! I hope they got more songs like that.


Ok next, David Bowie. DONT JUDGE ME, haha, but the reason I really never gave him a chance is because that guy looked so weird all the time. I mean, that make up he had, crazy hair, clothes etc. I understand that was his style, and I'f im correct in the 1980s it was mainstream to do things like that, but I don't like it at all. (overall, I'm not a 80s fan). But I will give his music a chance if someone can give me advise to what songs I should listen to, based on my lists.

And thanks to everyone else, I have noted the albums/songs/artists.

I don't know if someone know the band "Faces" with Rod Stewart. My dad advised my to listen to them, and surprisingly, I really like'd them. Pure rock, not to heavy, a real "garage band" if I can call them like that.

To end I can give a lists with some of my favorite songs to really make clear to what music I listen to now thesedays.

The Doors
L.A. Woman (my favorite song), Riders on the Storm, Love Her Madly, Been Down So Long, Break on Through (first 1960s rock song I heard as a kid...I was hooked after that!), Light my Fire, The End, Soul Kitchen, Roadhouse Blues, Peace Frog, Land Ho!.

The Beatles
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (song), A Day in the Life, Baby, You're a Rich Man, Come Together, Oh! Darling, I Want You (She's So Heavy) (my favorite Beatles song, that last part is so damn good), The End, Let it Be, I've Got a Feeling, One After 909, Get Back, Don't Let me Down, The Long and Winding Road.

The Beach Boys
Wouldn't It Be Nice, Let's Go Away for Awhile, Sloop John B, Pet Sounds (song), Good Vibrations, and some other rock'n roll songs from their early albums.

Jimi Hendrix
Foxy Lady, Are You Experienced?, Purple Haze, Voodoo Chile, Hey Joe, Voodoo Child.

Ok that's enough lol. (This is a just summary of one of my favorite songs from those artists, It doesn't mean I haven't heard their other songs).

Thank you!