The Shining - Badly Drawn Boy
Richard - Bratmobile
Mud Football - Jack Johnson
Lincoln Highway Dub - Sublime
Breathe - Telepopmusic
God, Pennies, The Boy - Smashing Pumpkins
Deja Vu - Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz (an oldie!)

these are some of the songs I've been listening to a bunch lately

get busy - sean paul
bossman - beenie man


man, i'm from the midwest we don't a whole lot of new ish out here.

definitely going to back up your choice of sparta and desaparecidos. at the drive-in is quite possibly my favorite band.

"american hearts" or "just a simple plan" - PIEBALD (i GUARANTEE you will like, if not LOVE this band)
"you file" - Denali (or anything by Denali) (if you like indie girl rock and something to chill to)
"self improvement: lesson one" - slowride
"canaries" or "we are both writers" - kind of like spitting
"swing, swing" - the all-american rejects - i used to work for this band's label and they're some great guys with a really catchy single out now
"sunshine" - the damn personals (they rock like its detroit and 1967)
"where we breathe" - boys night out
"jude law and a semester abroad" - brand new
"my only cure" - recover
"deadbolts" - thrice (went to high school with these guys)
"i wrote this down" or "stop internet romance" - limbeck (went to high school with this band too....were in an apple imac commercial about two years ago)

whew.
keep me talking about music. its my life and my job.
xo

for today: some midwest "nerd-rap" from the boys of Anticon:


Atmosphere - "FREE OR DEAD" or "Like Today" etc
Eyedea - "Red Wiped With Blue"
Sage Francis - "Embarrassed"

Try anything that says "anticon" on it when you search on kazaa - some intelligent hiphop out of Minneapolis.

PS - josie, word on the ATDI, so I'll also say download "Hulahoop Wounds" by At the Drive-In

Anything Norah Jones...Love her she's hot and she is a UNT Alumni!!!!! Go Norah

It comes with a SH*TLOAD of spyware and will probably screw me over in the end, but I use Limewire. If you download "adaware" from Download.com it takes all that stuff away...and isn't too bad.

I used to use Kazaa/Kazaa lite too.

I don't think anyone has mentioned my gal ANI!!!!!

Ani DiFranco that is....she is the Shizit!!

Try her songs "Swan Dive", Untouchable Face (F*ck You), and "You had time"

Ad-aware is good, but doesn't get rid of everything - you're much better off using kazaa lite if it's available to you. Spyware is removed, as well as download restrictions and etc.

www.k-lite.tk

I had no idea she attended UNT. In fact, I had no idea she was from Texas either. I am a huge fan of her music.

Jay-Z--Brush Your Shoulder Off... can't stop playing that.
Nick Lachey--This I Swear... I really love the instrumental part in the beginning.

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I cant live without any of my Blink182...some good summer recommendations: Reckless Abandon, Roller Coaster, M&Ms...they always put me in a good mood

Queen -You're my Best Friend
DMB-The Maker
Wyclef&Eve - Your Love (reggae mix)
Alien Ant Farm - Glow
Toto - Africa

I guess those are my Must Downloads! :D

"Let's get it started" Black eyed Peas.


It's been playing in my head for the past 5 days!

I am hanging my head in shame at the fact that I started this thread. I have always been anti anti anti downloading...but I will download indie bands/techno that don't have cds out, or have been specifically loaded to the web to be distributed. Otherwise, IMHO, it's stealing. Since it's my thread I feel it's my responsibility to say "NO downloading!!! Go out and buy the frickin' cd!" Or have a friend send it to you. Not quite as bad.
Ok now at least I have a clear conscience ;)

And if you have a gun to your head and have to download Black Eyed Peas (although you really should buy the cd because the entire thing has a pretty unique sound) download "Get Retarded" which is the uncensored version.

or you could just download their earlier stuff, before they started to suck

"Hot", "BEP Nation", "Weekend" etc

Let's get it started? :confused:
Or let's get retarded ;)

The real original version is Let's Get Retarded. The Let's get it started version sucks IMHO!

I have never heard this version before. So, they just changed the lyrics within the same song?

modest mouse - float on

The music sounds a little different and there's a woman singing for a big part of Let's Get Retarded. I turn off the radio during let's get it started personally, because I hate having one of my favorite bar songs ruined.

Lets see... a brief list :)

Faithless - Mass Destruction
Mathew Good - Hello Time Bomb
Mathew Good - World Called Catastrophe
Mathew Good - Rico
Mathew Good - Apparitions
The Tragically Hip - any of the older stuff (late 80's to early 90's)
The Trews - Tired of Waiting
Iggy Pop - The Passenger
Avril Lavinge - Knocking on Heaven's Door
Badly Drawn Boy - Silent Sigh
Beck - Golden Age
Beck - Guess I'm Doin Fine
Beck - Lost Cause
Beck - Already Dead
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
Hayden - Bad as it Seems
Hayden - Famous Blue Raincoat (Lenord Cohen cover)
Hayden - Trees Lounge
The Herbaliser - Sensual Woman (interesting)
Spirit of the West - Home for a Rest (lived the song :rolleyes: )
Violent Femmes - Add it Up
REM - Mad World

real love

kanye and rell.

Love this thread... I've been going nuts on Limewire lately

My must haves:

- "Somewhere over the rainbow/What a wonderful world"- Israel Kamakawiwo'o
- "Times like these" (acoustic version)- Foo Fighters
- "Wonderful"- Everclear
- "Shimmer"- Fuel
- "I'm movin on"- Rascal Flatts
- "Angel Eyes (Song for Dave)"- Buzz Poets
- "Motorcycle Drive by"- 3EB

So many more, but these are almost always the first to come to mind...

Fit, but you know it - The Streets
Dry your Eyes - The Streets -> the saddest song you'll ever here.
Beautiful - Meshell Ndegeocello
Dan Bern - I need you
Mofro - Air
Sahara Hotnights - Hot Night Crash

a few other good guys are:
Snow Patrol
The Wedding Present
They're both a little like Belle & Sebastian

Ohhhhh they have such better songs than those...like Dammit which is probably the most mainstream, but Toast and Bananas, Romeo and Rebecca, Time, Strings...come on!

Yes, of course ALL Blink182 is wonderful...but whats wrong with my picks??? :eek:

The fact that they are from the "Let's pander to 15 y/o teenybopper girls" series of CDs rather than the "Let's make songs that may sound alike but don't sound like everything else on the radio as well" series.

Does anyone use SOULSEEK here????

I'm not sure if you are familiar with their albums, but M&Ms is on the same disc as the songs you mentioned...I don't think anything Blink has done panders to anyone. There are so many so-called fans of Blink out there who refuse to let them grow up from who they were in 1994 and make something a little different. I've had this argument soo many times with my little sister who looks down on anyone who likes any recent Blink. They're men in their 30's with families now..of course things aren't going to sound the same as they did when they were younger! Like what you like, but I choose to love their new stuff and old stuff equally...and how can ANY Blink fan NOT love Reckless Abandon??? If you've ever been to a concert, they obviously LOVE this song.

Umm, yeah, sorry about this lol, for some reason I get really argumentative about this, probably because my sister and I end up in many discussions about them so its already played out in my head. Like whatever you like, but I always feel the need to defend my tastes!! (insecurity :rolleyes: )

Actually I am familiar with their CDs, as I own all of them, including Flyswatter - and you will note I did not critique M&Ms, but ROLLER COASTER? That's not one of their better songs and everybody knows it.

Everybody knows it huh? Damn I love that song!!! Makes me smile everytime I hear it :D

They Might Be Giants - "Experimental Film"
Spoon - "Me and the Bean"
Mates of State - "Proofs"

"Fit" is the best song ever.....

"Dry Your Eyes"....downloaded it the other day, thanks to this post. It really is the saddest song in the universe.

A good Toronto act, K-OS with two good songs:

His new one "Crabbuckit" or his earlier "Heaven only Knows"

You can listen to "Crabbuckit" online at his website:
www.kosexit.com/

I've heard Crabbuckit before - one of my LJ friends recommended it. It's got a fun beat.

His older stuff is better IMO - try "Anthem (Freeze)" or "Superstar (pts. 1,2,and 3)


If you like K-Os, you'll probably like Zion I as well.

Compare to "Don't Mug Yourself" by the Streets, which might be the funniest song ever . . . and a classic, if you can decipher the British.


PS - Mike Skinner (the scrawny white dude who is 'the Streets') is ugly even by British standards, but he's amazing

Maybe though I haven't listened to anything by Zion (well that I remember)... but I was sold on K-OS live act and club personality... just a great guy to hang with/listen to at the bar/club... but I'll have to look into Zion.

the full name is 'zion i' when you search - look for "warrior's dance", "cheeba cheeba" (the closest to K-Os, obviously no classical guitar though), "leh leh leh", etc