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[raspberrypie]

okay, i want music. band recommendations, if you want to email me music that would be lovely, whatever works. i've been listening to seawolf a lot lately, and feist, and lily allen, and mother mother, and whatever they play on WTMD (local college NPR thing), and billie holiday, dandy warhols, and everything... no real preference, it looks like

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[liquidv]

Go Betty Go and Stefy

[raspberrypie]

what sort of music is it? also, i forgot to say congrats on the PhD pursuit! i admire people who go after higher education; it takes a lot of work and dedication.

[liquidv]

Stefy is kinda Eurythmics meets Berlin. Go Betty Go is maybe like a grittier Go Gos

and thanks

[raspberrypie]

ooh. well, i like all of those referenced bands, so thanks. will see if i can't find them someplace soon.

[beckaandzac]

Since I am constitutionally incapable of keeping up with popular music, I imagine I will not be much help, but I tell everyone to listen to Rilo Kiley and Beth Orton, to give a chance to anything Hanson did after 1997, and to check out Sarah Harmer, Sarah Slean, and Old 97s. I may upload some music sometime soon, but God knows I might forget.

Also, I'm currently in love with Regina Spektor (Begin to Hope, in particular), and I've found that I like the Arctic Monkeys in much the same way I like Lily Allen: they're catchy and funny and British.

[raspberrypie]

they play regina spektor, beth orton, and rilo kiley on WTMD fairly often, so i know i like them. any CDs you'd recommend? if you do upload, i'd be greatly appreciative of any of their songs i might be able to sample. the arctic monkeys are great, too, also heard on that radio station... i think the song was "flourescent adolescent" or something of the nature. couldn't find their CD even in an independent record shop though, so i guess that's coming from itunes or amazon... if you want i can copy my lily allen CD for you, it's great.

[beckaandzac]

Well, Begin to Hope is the Regina Spektor album I'm most familiar with, so I can heartily recommend that one. My favorite Rilo Kiley album is probably The Execution of All Things, although a bunch of my favorite songs are on More Adventurous ("It's a Hit" is the one I've been listening to a lot lately). There's a Beth Orton "best of" called Pass in Time, which has a lot of good stuff on it, but for individual albums, I'd say start with Central Reservation ("Sweetest Decline," the song the lyrics in my icon are from, is on that one). I'm really surprised about the Arctic Monkeys. I know we regularly stocked them at B&N, and I'd gotten the feeling they were quite popular in general.

I bought the Lily Allen CD last February and listened to almost nothing else for most of the spring. It is fantastic. :)

[grocible]

Lately, I've been listening to a ton of Carbon Leaf and Nightwish - two very different bands. Oh, and Collective Soul. I can share some if you wanted.

[raspberrypie]

i love carbon leaf, have two of their CDs... who're nightwish? collective soul i've been in the mood for since i heard them in a shop someplace, so sure! anything you feel up to sharing. do you like starsailor? they remind me of carbon leaf in some ways.

[grocible]

I recognize the name Starsailor, but I'm pretty sure that I don't know who they are. Just checked my iTunes library, and there's nothing there.

Nightwish are a Finnish metal band, but like a symphonic metal - similar to Lacuna Coil or Evanescence, but not.

If you'd like, send me address and I'll make you some CDs of some of the stuff that I've been listening to quite a bit lately.

jason at scubajason dot com