I realised while wandering about, listening to mp3s, I should listen to more music. More to the point, a larger range of music. So here's my resolution, from January 1st until the end of 2007, I will listen to 365 albums, and since I can only think of about 3 I want to listen to, it's up to you bastards.

So, give me a few, I'll build a list in this thread, then come 13 days from now, I'll start listening.

(note: I figure I'll build the list, then randomise. In the name of variety, and so I don't have to listen to scythes music all through my post new years/birthday hangover period).

U2 - The Joshua Tree
Bruce Springsteen - The River
Jeff Wayne's The Musical War Of The Worlds
Queens Of The Stone Age - Queens Of The Stone Age
Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convinience Or Give Me Death
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell I
Kings Of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
INDK-Kill Whitey
The Decemberists - Her Majesty
Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Herbie Hancock - Headhunters
The Specials - Specials
Mission of Burma - The Obliterati
Westbound Train - Transitions
The Slackers - Redlight
Blue Man Group - Audio
Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution - A Call To Arms EP
Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Zeroscape - ...And If The Is The End I Will
Forefather - Ours Is The Kingdom
Erik Claptön - The Shooty Man
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
Portishead - Dummy
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
The Band - The Band
Fairport Convention - What We Did On Our Holidays
Manic Street Preachers - the Holy Bible
Boa - Get There
Akvarium - Navigator
Splin - Reversible Chronicle of Events
Armor For Sleep - What to Do When You Are Dead
Brand New - Deja Entendu
*Callahan - Don't Say a Word (EP)
Emanuel - Soundtrack to a Headrush
*Kincaide - Landscape Verses
*Lythic Blue - Bring Me My Monocle, I Want to Look Rich (EP)
Murder By Death - any album
Protest the Hero - Kezia
Stiletto Formal - Masochism in the Place of Romance
With Broken Wings - Tonight is The Night My Heart Stops
Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys,
If I Should Fall From Grace With God by the Pogues
Graceland by Paul Simon,
Purple Rain by Prince,
Marquee Moon by Television
High, Low, and In Between by Townes van Zandt
Sigur Rós - ( )
The Beta Band - The Three E.P.'s (if you only take one from my list, let it be this one!)
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
Gomez - In Our Gun (or anything else by them)
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Methodrone (again, any one of their albums would do)
Zero 7 - When It Falls
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
ethel - ethel
The Velvet Underground - White Light / White Heat
Pink Floyd - Meddle
38 Special - Special Forces
Ozzy Osbourne - Ozzmosis
Van Halen - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
Rush - Gold Rush
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Bob Seger - Greatest Hits
Van Halen - Best of Both Worlds
George Thorogood - Greatest hits
Johnny Cash - Greatest hits (I dislike greatest hits albums, but I'll leave those few there)
Boston - Boston
Electric Doormat - Evil Genius
Eric Johnson - Live From Austin, TX.
Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd
Porcupine Tree - Voyage 34
Queen - Classic Queen
Rush - All The World's A Stage
The Eagles - Hotel California
The Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium
The Who - Quadrophenia
Triumph - Livin' For The Weekend: The Anthology
Semisonic - Feeling Strangely Fine
Yes - Close To The Edge
John Williams – Schindler's List
Basil Poledouris – The Hunt for Red October
Stellar Kart – All gas. No Brake.
George Gershwin – The Piano Rolls
Hans Zimmer - The Da Vinci Code
London Symphony Orchestra & Wyn Morris - Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Queen - The Best of Queen
Steely Dan - Aja
Todd Rundgren - The Best of Todd Rundgren
Elvis - Elvis's Greatest Hits
DHT- Listen to Your Heart
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Global A Go Go
Mary Prankster - Tell Your Friends
Rusted Root - either: Welcome to My Party, or When I woke
The Duhks - The Duhks
Bon Jovi - These Days
Lucinda Williams - Live at the Fillmore
Dar Williams - End of Summer
Ratatat - Ratatat
Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Iron & Wine and Calexico - In The Reins
Rufus Wainwright - Poses
Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing
Tori Amos - The Beekeeper
The Ditty Bops - Moon Over The Freeway
Madeline Peyroux - Careless Love
Mindy Smith - Long Island Shores
Tom Waits - Closing Time
Ben Harper - Both Sides of the Gun
Charles Webster - Born on the 24th of July
Fragile State - Voices From the Dust Bowl
Koop - Waltz for Koop
Chris Coco - Heavy Mellow
Mali Music - Mali Music
Leftfield - Leftism
Jeru Tha Damaja - Wrath of the Math
Avalanches - Since I Left You
Any album by Fila Brazilia
Charles Webster - Born on the 24th of July
Fragile State - Voices From the Dust Bowl
Koop - Waltz for Koop
Chris Coco - Heavy Mellow
Mali Music - Mali Music
Leftfield - Leftism
Jeru Tha Damaja - Wrath of the Math
Avalanches - Since I Left You
Any album by Fila Brazilia
shel silverstein - freakin at the freaker's ball
###### sparrer - two monkeys
###### sparrer - shock troops
an ivor biggun album, i'll let you choose.
dead boys - we've come for your children
the pagans - everybody hates you
paul fenech - screaming in the tenth key
offspring - smash
Green Day - Kerplunk!
Green Day - 1,039 Smoothed-out Slappy Hours
Avenged Sevenfold - Waking The Fallen
Tool - Lateralus
Tool - 10,000 Days
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
Slipknot - Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)
Linkin Park - Live In Texas
Incubus - Light Grenades
Incubus - Alive At Red Rocks
Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death
Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
Killswitch Engage - Alive Or Just Breathing
Nickleback - All The Right Reasons
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Third Eye Blind - Blue
The Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy up the Girl
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Pearl Jam - Ten
Incubus - Morning View
Bon Jovi - Cross Road
Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left To Lose
Michael Giacchino - The Incredibles (from the movie)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
The Aggrolites - Dirty Reggae
The Toasters - Dub 56
Hepcat - Right on Time
Operation Ivy - Energy
The Clash - London Calling
Bad Brains - I Against I
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love
Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection
Curtis Mayfield - Roots
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Pixies - Doolittle
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
U2 - Achtung Baby
The Velvet Undergroud - Loaded
Tom Waits - Bone Machine
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
The Specials - The Specials
Parliament - Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome
Elvis Costello - Armed Forces
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Sly & the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On
mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister
body count - body count
crucifix - dehumanization
cal hopkins amish armada - cal hopkins amish armada
chaos uk - the best of chaos uk
g.g. allin and the criminal quartet - carnival of excess
oxymoron - best before 2000
toy dolls - dig that groove, baby
templars - return of jaqcues de molay
the romper stomper orchestra and band - romper stomper
the pist - ideas are bulletproof
the meatmen - stud powercock: the touch and go years
the knights of the new crusade - my god is alive! sorry about yours
the exploited - the massacre
the casualties - the early years 1990-1995
riot 99 - stanley knife
reagan youth - a collection of pop classics
the pogues - rum, sodomy, and the lash
mojo nixon - the real sock ray blue
the feederz - ever feel like killing your boss
fantomas - the director's cut
mr. bungle - mr. bungle
mr. bungle - california
dayglo abortions - feed us a fetus
clit 45 - tales from the clit
circle jerks - group sex/wild in the streets
the germs - mia
adolf and the piss artists - heroes EP


I'll figure out the "anything by this band" ones later (hey, I've got a year).

download slsk and browse somebody's files, you'll find plenty of new music.

You apparently missed my point. I'm going to listen to 365 albums next year. I know there's plenty of music around, this just seemed a good way to do it (plus, I like albums)

no, you apparently missed the point... here is what you do: you search for an album/song/artist that somebody that you're interested in. after finding said album, download it and browse the user's files who had the album, chances are if they have one thing you like, they'll probably have more.
this is much more efficient than asking a bunch of random people who all have completely different tastes in music what you should be listening to. one person might suggest bach, another... some mathcore band, and you might even end up with some boy bands or something.

if you do wish to just simply ask people what you should listen to, it might help to first tell us what kind of music you like.

EDIT: after reading this again, i just want to say that i didn't mean to be an ass, it just kind of came out that way. sorry

Bruce Springsteen - The River (*)

Jeff Wayne's The Musical War Of The Worlds

Chris Thile - How To Grow A Woman From The Ground (*)

Queens Of The Stone Age - Queens Of The Stone Age (*)

Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convinience Or Give Me Death

Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell I

Kings Of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak (*)

That'll do for now. It's an eclectic mix of some albums I enjoy listening to not just for standout tracks, but as entire albums. Ones with asterisks are my absolute faves.

All 4 albums by The Decemberists.

Unfortunately, only 3/4 of them are available in Australia without fuss. :\ But it's worth it.

INDK - Kill Whitey!
Choking Victim - No Gods, No Managers

Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb
Miles Davis - The Complete Birth of the Cool
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Herbie Hancock - Headhunters
The Specials - Specials
Mission of Burma - The Obliterati
Westbound Train - Transitions
The Slackers - Redlight
Blue Man Group - Audio
Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution - A Call To Arms EP (good luck finding this one, I can send it too you if you'd like)

Porcupine Tree - Up The Downstair (2005 edition)
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Zeroscape - ...And If The Is The End I Will
Forefather - Ours Is The Kingdom
Erik Claptön - The Shooty Man (Let me know if you need a hand getting hold of this one)

Negramaro- Mentre Tutto Scorre

Obscure Italian band, does a lot of British-in-th-70s sounding stuff.

Here is a video of one of their more famous songs.

Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
The Band - The Band
Fairport Convention - What We Did On Our Holidays
Manic Street Preachers - the Holy Bible
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
Portishead - Dummy
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Less Than Jake - Hello Rockview

Boa - Twilight
Boa - Get There
Akvarium - an interesting band that got their start in Soviet Russia
Splin - another good Russian band; sorry about the link, I couldn't find anything in else English

xander

David Bowie - Greatest Hits
Kill Bill Volume 1 Soundtrack

Flogging Molly - Within a Mile of Home
Brian Setzer Orchestra - The Dirty Boogie

Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales
Jim Gaffigan - Beyond the Pale
Royal Crown Revue - Mugzy's Move

Rammstein - Reise, Reise
Belle and Sebastion - The Life Pursuit

Starsailor - Silence is Easy
Nightwish - Angels Fall First

...and I just thought of a few more...

DeVotchKa - How It Ends
Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike
Balkan Beat Box - Balkan Beat Box
Bedouin Soundclash - Sounding a Mosaic
Sondre Lerche - Don't Be Shallow
Hepcat - Push 'n Shove
Tower of Power - Soul Vaccination: Live

some of these, no doubt, you've heard already. the starred ones are local bands that i'd probably have to send you myself if you were interested.

Arcade Fire - Funeral
AFI - any album
Alexisonfire - any album
Armor For Sleep - What to Do When You Are Dead
Brand New - Deja Entendu
*Callahan - Don't Say a Word (EP)
Emanuel - Soundtrack to a Headrush
(International) Noise Conspiracy - Armed Love
*Kincaide - Landscape Verses
*Lythic Blue - Bring Me My Monocle, I Want to Look Rich (EP)
Murder By Death - any album
Protest the Hero - Kezia
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
Rise Against - Siren Song of the Counter-Culture
Stiletto Formal - Masochism in the Place of Romance
Thursday - War All the Time; A City By the Light Divided
Underoath - They're Only Chasing Safety; Define the Great Line
With Broken Wings - Tonight is The Night My Heart Stops

Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys, Rum Sodomy and the Lash and If I Should Fall From Grace With God by the Pogues, Graceland by Paul Simon, Purple Rain and Sign o' the Times by Prince, Marquee Moon by Television and High, Low, and In Between by Townes van Zandt all come highly recommended by Sierro.

That's just what I can think of off the top of my head 'cause I'm on vacation and don't have my CD collection close at hand.

Turbonegro - Apocalypse Dudes (personal favorite)
Turbonegro - Scandinavian Leather
Turbonegro - Party Animals
Finch - Say Hello To Sunshine
Outkast - ATLiens (personal favorite)
Outkast - Aquemini
Black Star - Black Star
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
Howie Day - Australia
The Kinks - Preservation Act 1
The Kinks - Preservation Act 2 (personal favorite)
mc chris - Dungeon Master of Ceremonies
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antartica
Nas - Illmatic
The Presidents of the United States of America - The Presidents of the United States of America
Run D.M.C. - Raising Hell
Wintersun - Wintersun

I have a limited selection, but I can give you a few suggestions you might not be acquainted with:

38 Special - Special Forces
AC/DC - Stiff Upper Lip
Ozzy Osbourne - Ozzmosis
Van Halen - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge


Anything else and I'd be afraid you've heard it already. Plus it would just be more AC/DC and Van Halen anyway.

Definitely agree with Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys and Funeral by Arcade Fire.

You're looking for variety? Try some of these...

Sigur Rós - ( )
The Beta Band - The Three E.P.'s (if you only take one from my list, let it be this one!)
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
The Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
Gomez - In Our Gun (or anything else by them)
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Methodrone (again, any one of their albums would do)
Zero 7 - When It Falls
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
ethel - ethel
The Velvet Underground - White Light / White Heat
Pink Floyd - Meddle

Rush - Gold Rush
Def Leppard - Hysteria
AC/DC - Back in Black
Bob Seger - Greatest Hits
Van Halen - Best of Both Worlds
George Thorogood - Greatest hits

Johnny Cash - Greatest hits
Alabama - Greatest hits collection
Hank Williams - Greatest hits

All I can think of. For now



Nothin' wrong with that

Boston - Boston
Electric Doormat - Evil Genius
Electric Doormat - Go-Karts of Ft. Wayne
Eric Johnson - Live From Austin, TX.
Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Porcupine Tree - Voyage 34
Queen - Classic Queen
Rush - All The World's A Stage
Rush - 2112
Rush - Hemispheres
The Eagles - Hotel California
The Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium
The Who - Quadrophenia
The Who - Tommy
Triumph - Livin' For The Weekend: The Anthology
Semisonic - Feeling Strangely Fine
Yes - Close To The Edge

I better stop...
Some oldies, some goodies, and a shitload of concept albums. For the win.

John Williams – Schindler's List
Basil Poledouris – The Hunt for Red October
Stellar Kart – All gas. No Brake.
George Gershwin – The Piano Rolls

Hans Zimmer - The Da Vinci Code
London Symphony Orchestra & Wyn Morris - Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Queen - The Best of Queen
Steely Dan - Aja
Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy
Steely Dan - Two Aganist Nature
Todd Rundgren - The Best of Todd Rundgren
Elvis - Elvis's Greatest Hits
DHT- Listen to Your Heart

Pink Floyd - Meddle
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
Pink Floyd - Obscured By Clouds
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Global A Go Go

Mary Prankster - Tell Your Friends

Rusted Root - either: Welcome to My Party, or When I woke

The Duhks - The Duhks

Bon Jovi - These Days

Lucinda Williams - Live at the Fillmore

Dar Williams - End of Summer

Ratatat - Ratatat


Begemotike - I Am Awesome

My ten favorite albums are, in no particular order:

Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Iron & Wine and Calexico - In The Reins
Rufus Wainwright - Poses
Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing
Tori Amos - The Beekeeper
The Ditty Bops - Moon Over The Freeway
Madeline Peyroux - Careless Love
Mindy Smith - Long Island Shores
Tom Waits - Closing Time
Ben Harper - Both Sides of the Gun

-Pufer

hrn, what a pain, I edited this this morning yet it's still how it was last night (maybe I forgot to hit "accept edit" or something).

Anyway, in the name of variety, I'm only taking one of each band. Mainly because I don't want to listen to 17 pink floyd albums (and I already have one myself)

In that case choose "Her Majesty The Decemberists" by The Decemberists.

It's the best one, if you had to only choose one.

Charles Webster - Born on the 24th of July (Down Tempo Electronica)
Fragile State - Voices From the Dust Bowl (Down Tempo Electronica)
Koop - Waltz for Koop (Acid Jazz)
Chris Coco - Heavy Mellow (Electronica)
Mali Music - Mali Music (World)
Leftfield - Leftism (Progressive Dance)
Jeru Tha Damaja - Wrath of the Math (Rap)
Avalanches - Since I Left You (Electronica)
Any album by Fila Brazilia (Genius)

two albums down, still need a bigger list though

shel silverstein - freakin at the freaker's ball
any ###### sparrer album (two monkeys or shock troops would be best)
an ivor biggun album, i'll let you choose.
dead boys - we've come for your children
the pagans - everybody hates you
paul fenech - screaming in the tenth key
offspring - smash

Green Day - Kerplunk!
Green Day - 1,039 Smoothed-out Slappy Hours
Green Day - International Superhits!
Green Day - Insomniac
Green Day - nimrod.
Green Day - Warning:
Avenged Sevenfold - Waking The Fallen
Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding The Seventh Trumpet
Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil
Tool - Undertow
Tool - Aenemia
Tool - Lateralus
Tool - 10,000 Days
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
Slipknot - Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)
Linkin Park - Live In Texas
Incubus - Light Grenades
Incubus - Alive At Red Rocks
Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death
Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
Killswitch Engage - Alive Or Just Breathing
Nickleback - All The Right Reasons
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Third Eye Blind - Blue
The Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy up the Girl
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Pearl Jam - Ten
Incubus - Morning View

Bon Jovi - Cross Road
Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left To Lose
Green Day - American Idiot
Green Day - Dookie
Michael Giacchino - The Incredibles (from the movie)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

The Aggrolites - Dirty Reggae
The Toasters - Dub 56
Hepcat - Right on Time
Operation Ivy - Energy
The Clash - London Calling (can't remember if this one has been said yet)

Champ, you're nuts.

i think we need to be friends.

though first, Nickleback needs to be removed from that list.

Say's you, carrot killer. Regardless, I go for a walk after work for 40 minutes or so every night, I need something to listen to. I'll be disappointed if you don't give me something that makes me want to kick down peoples fences while I'm walking.

Ross's music will work wonders for this though, I don't think I've listened to those albums specifically, but they're my kind of walking music

OK, now that I can take a look at my CD collection:

Bad Brains - I Against I
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love
Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection
Curtis Mayfield - Roots
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Pixies - Doolittle
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
U2 - Achtung Baby (if anyone has suggested another U2 album, throw it away and get this one; it's by far the best.)
The Velvet Undergroud - Loaded
Tom Waits - Bone Machine
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
The Specials - The Specials
Parliament - Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome
Elvis Costello - Armed Forces
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Sly & the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On

mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister

Maybe this will be the last one I add... (note: be open minded about the vocals, you'll know what I mean if you listen to them)

Why have I never talked to you before?

more from my collection:

body count - body count (get the copy with cop killer)
crucifix - dehumanization
cal hopkins amish armada - cal hopkins amish armada
chaos uk - the best of chaos uk
g.g. allin and the criminal quartet - carnival of excess (though, really, g.g. allin rocks and you should listen to all of his albums)
oxymoron - best before 2000
toy dolls - dig that groove, baby
templars - return of jaqcues de molay
the romper stomper orchestra and band - romper stomper (heh)
the pist - ideas are bulletproof
the meatmen - stud powercock: the touch and go years
the knights of the new crusade - my god is alive! sorry about yours (this one is funny, apparently its a christian punk band, which made me curious when i heard about it. i sometimes wonder, when their songs come on, if they're actually christian or just a joke)
the exploited - the massacre
the casualties - the early years 1990-1995
riot 99 - stanley knife
reagan youth - a collection of pop classics
the pogues - rum, sodomy, and the lash
mojo nixon - the real sock ray blue
the feederz - ever feel like killing your boss (you can google search this and download it off their website, i think)
fantomas - the director's cut
mr. bungle - either mr. bungle or california, each sound different
dayglo abortions - feed us a fetus
clit 45 - tales from the clit
circle jerks - group sex/wild in the streets
the germs - mia
adolf and the piss artists - heroes EP

you could also listen to the killed by death set of comp albums.

Jason Becker - Perspective
Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic
Chris Poland - Return To Metalopolis

All totally bodacious albums.