Ready for some completely different music than what i mostly listen to, but what?
 

Here i'll explain...

Not long ago i'd only listen to rap and Michael Jackson and not any other kind of music, it's not that i didn't enjoy or like other kinds of music (i know and hear so many different music,Bob Dylan,Bruce Springsteen,lots of 80's music,Phil Collins,Eric Clapton ,and lots of singer/songwriters in general) but the thing is, when i'm by myself i never listen to any other stuff than Rap and MJ.

Recently i've decided to give Robbie Williams' latest cd a chance cause i kept hearing "Advertisting Space" on the radio and liked it alot...now i enjoy his Intensive Care cd immensely, and i've come to the point that i'm gonna listen to lots 0f other music , cause for one...i'm getting kinda tired of rap lately....i need something different. I also enjoyed several songs from Seal .

sooo....well...just name any artists that you all think i should check out...could be anything...but if there's something similar to Robbie latest cd, tell it!!!!

I can always apreciate good sounding songs with storytelling lyrics about the more
not so happy things in life as well, tragedies, songs that can give you the chills, i definitely apreciate such things, with dark beats or just melodies, i'm open for it all.

days of the new, alice in chains, oasis, radiohead, rage against the machine, alkaline trio, metallica's black album is very listener friendly

Gorillaz
Nine Inch Nails
Green Day
Rage Against the Machine

GOOD LZ
Green Day
White Stripes
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from the last paragraph it sounded that you would like emo, im not into it, but there is a whole forum in this place dedicated to it.

Every time some one listens to Michael Jackson, it kills little boys.

Try 'Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea' by PJ Harvey, one of her more user-friendly albums, and it shows off what a great songwriter she is.

That last comment wasn't exactly funny,nor does it make any sense.
But thanks though for those bands, i'm gonna check it out.

night wish
within temptation
dark new day

Hmmmm..well i've tried several of them,listen to snippets on Amazon.com
But it's just not my cup of tea,really...

I haven't tried out PJ Harvey yet though, but Nightwish, Dark new day,
Green day,white strips...it's just not the style i enjoy i guess, i think i'm gonna have to try something like singer/songwriters maybe.

I'm not into metal at all, and neither hard-rock,but songs like Nothing else matters from Metallica for example i can definitely enjoy.

I need music about life,things in life, tragedies, (for a change no songs about love and only positive things)dark,sad songs, political..anything, just as long as the music is not to loud, loud in the sense of that it's too 'hard rock'ish"

While looking on Amazon i found a solo album of someone from Pink Floyd, Richard Wright,
great cd, but too bad he only sings on a few songs, cause the music is just great, but i really want to hear someone sing ,you know.

Oh and ArmyofMe, who's Emo? where do i find it on the forum?

Eman, very creepy singer
Coheed and Cambria

Emo as in the music style, but if you like the more singer/songwriter, maybe try some 70's and 80's music like aerosmith, the cure, def leppard, journey, the B-52's (if you have ever watched family guy they sing the intro song, Rock Lobster) Or if you want some more "out there" music with less of the weirdness or screaming, try Cake or the Red Hot Chili Peppers (make sure you listen to "the distance, by cake). If you don't like one please check out some of the others, I am trying to touch all of the bases and the more well known bands that I know.

Sry about that MJ comment, I got bored at about post 35 of 50 last night.

Oh! Try this song, if you ca find it Babe I'm Gonna Leave you by Led Zeppelin, its hnot too heavy, but if you want no heavy at all... it has a really driving beat and his voice may give it a little bit of a heavy feel.

So the music style is Emo? Still don't get it really...anyways...i know Aerosmith , good band definitely, but haven't checked enough music from them yet, i only know their singles.

But yesterday i was on Amazon and looking for James Blunt, good cd...but i got damn tired of his "You're beautiful" song on the radio and i don't dig his voice much...then i checked 'similar artists' and saw Rob Thomas there with his album "Something to be" and damn, that's a great cd from what i;ve heard from the snippets.

I'm glad that your problem was solved (even if I didn't help to much).

Emo - emotional, the fairly new genre of song that has mostly sound the same, but most have VERY good lyrics and nice to awesome singers. nearly all of the songs of this genre have a very depressed, "my life sucks so lets jump off this bridge" feel.

No its not, fairly new genre my ass, its been around since the 80s, and depressing? Nope, even if its typically poetic, confessional and sad a good amount of the songs have to do with the scene or political things. For instance Joshua Fit For Battle have a song called "12 Years Of Catholic Skool And This Is What I Learned" which attacks homophobia.

parading your hate justified by 2000 year old writings
by straight white males
which feed the opression the "sinful" are subjected to
dismissing equal rights as special rights
let a man love a man
let a woman love a woman

or how about Pg. 99's Punk Rock Is In The Wrong Hands?

I am a prisoner in a war of idiots. The stomping feet of waltzing hypocrites pave the way of a brave tomorrow. Choke the throat of passion and sorrow. Kill my drifting breeze of thought. I have been captured. I have been caught. I am a prisoner in a war of scowls, coughing youth from its bowels. I am doing fine. I am feeling well, deep inside my dark well cell


Obviously theres and I wanna jump off a bridge feel to it. :rolleyes:


Emo is short for emotional/emotive hardcore. It comes from the 80s hardcore movement. It had passionate and really intense vocals and a more melodic delivery. Theres not alot of song structure and typically its very diverse in style going from whispering to screaming, which can also be said for the guitaring. That was kind of the style going on the in the 80s. Then came screamo in the 90s with harmonized, and faster guitars screaming vocals and more melodic breakdowns.


Emo/Screamo Bands: Circle Takes The Square, Indian Summer, Moss Icon, City Of Caterpillar, Ampere, Hot Cross, Dag Nasty, Orchid, Nation Of Ulysses, IWouldSetMyselfOnFireForYou

If you feel the need to educate someone on a genre, make sure you actually have an elementary understanding of it.

Your definition of emo sounds like a bias opinion.