QotD: 40 iTunes
Posted July 16th, 2005 @ 09:22pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Question: As well as you might know me, how would you recommend I spend a $40 iTMS gift certificate?
My Answer: I'm looking to discover some new music. I like R.E.M., Live, Toad the Wet Sprocket, and bands like that. I'd rather not explore entirely new realms of music, but tunes along the lines of those or only slightly different might be nice.
BTW, thanks Aaron. A more formal "thank you" will follow, but "yes, I got my email" now. 🙂
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Posted 16 Jul 2005 at 10:12pm #
You should check out O.A.R.
Posted 16 Jul 2005 at 10:31pm #
Billy Joel, new Gorillaz album, Jack Johnson. 🙂
Posted 16 Jul 2005 at 10:59pm #
Rebel, Sweetheart by the Wallflowers is a really great album. Anything from Tom Petty is good. The Vanity Project is also good.
I also really like REM and if you know anything about them you know that they have a backup band to fill in keyboards, drums, and backup guitar. That band is called The Minus 5. In fact Peter Buck helps on their records every so often. They are on iTunes and seem to be pretty good.
Posted 17 Jul 2005 at 10:05am #
I am not one for recommending new music... but you should check out http://musicplasma.com/ . Its a visualization search system for like music. Stick in REM, and it will produce a visualization of all the music that people who liked REM also enjoyed.
Posted 17 Jul 2005 at 10:06am #
And yes I know I didn't really answer the question.
Posted 17 Jul 2005 at 10:31am #
My Recommendations: Damien Rice, The Frames, Weakerthans, Snow Patrol, Postal Service, Iron and Wine, Mountain Goats, M.I.A., Death Cab for Cutie...to name but a few of my most liked recent CDs.
Posted 17 Jul 2005 at 10:46am #
Based purely on the artists you just mentioned, I'd say try the Decembrists, and if you don't own Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over The Sea you might want to give it a try.
Posted 17 Jul 2005 at 11:25pm #
Since it's iTMS, and you can download a single song rather than an entire album if you want, I recommend Looking at the World from the Bottom of a Well by Mike Doughty. He's the vocalist formerly of Soul Coughing, but his newer stuff is more poppy/accessible (at least, I mentally associate it with the bands you mentioned, Toad, REM, etc). That one song is really good, but the rest of the album has its ups and downs. I liked Soul Coughing better, overall.
Posted 20 Jul 2005 at 9:54am #
Hey Erik, try Glen Phillips solo stuff it is cool and if you already like toad it's the same singer/songwriter with different musicians. Also try a scottish band called Idlewild they worship REM and are kind of a mix of them and Coldplay.
Posted 25 Jul 2005 at 12:59am #
I like those bands too, so you might like Fountains of Wayne. Stacy's Mom and Bright Future in Sales are particularly good tracks. $2 down...