# $50 to spend on iTunes. Help me choose **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 28, 2007, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-to-spend-on-itunes-help-me-choose/420777 "2007-09-28T04:28:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-to-spend-on-itunes-help-me-choose/420777/1 "2007-09-28T04:28:30Z")
I got a $100 certificate for iTunes. I already spent my first $50 on: Lisa Gerrard - The Silver Tree Black Tape for a Blue Girl - Mesmerized by the Sirens BTFABG - Ashes in the Brittle Air Slowdive - Souvlaki Mira - There I Go Daydreamer The 2 Black Tape albums are there for completionism, mostly. I do have a full shopping cart with: Chapterhouse Lovesliescrushing Lush Slowdive Soul Whirling Somewhere Ulrich Snauss Les Nouvelles Polyphonies Corses Arvo Part Delerium Bel Canto for way more than my budget. Still, those are all maybes and I am really wanting to hear something new and interesting. So shoot this way, shoegazers and goths. What should I listen and buy? ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-to-spend-on-itunes-help-me-choose/420777/2 "2007-09-28T05:04:53Z")
Look up Happy Rhodes, especially **Many Worlds Are Born Tonight**. If you want to hear full songs before buying the album, go to [http://www.wretchawry.com/happy/samples](http://wretchawry.com/happy/samples) and you’ll find several (authorized by her) full length songs from that album. The other two albums on iTunes are older. **RhodeSongs** is a compilation which gives a pretty good overview from her first 5 albums (she has 11 total). **Rhodes II** is her 2nd album, released in 1986 (and yeah, she did paint that cover…I own the original…it scares the cat). She has a new album called **Find Me** , her first in 9 years, but it won’t be on iTunes for several weeks, since she just sent the original 5 CDs to CD Baby, which will put the songs from it on iTunes, last week. I mention her because lots of her fans are also fans of Lisa Gerrard (and Dead Can Dance), BTfaBG (and other Projekt music), Delerium and Bel Canto, and others that you named. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-to-spend-on-itunes-help-me-choose/420777/3 "2007-09-28T05:07:42Z")
I agree with Eq. Based on your choices in the OP, you’d love Happy. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-to-spend-on-itunes-help-me-choose/420777/4 "2007-09-28T05:41:23Z")
Interesting. Closer to Bel Canto than anything else on my list, I would say. Definitely worth the listen. Thanks for the tip. I am probably more in a Cocteau Twinish kinda mood right now, though (although I am blown away by The Silver Tree). ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-to-spend-on-itunes-help-me-choose/420777/5 "2007-09-28T05:50:01Z")
Velvet Belly Life Without Buildings Mary Margaret O’Hara Rosie Thomas Jane Siberry ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-to-spend-on-itunes-help-me-choose/420777/6 "2007-09-28T06:17:19Z")
Velvet Belly has only one song on iTunes and it sounded promising. Life Without Buildings. Are you kidding me? That’s somewhere between Rita Mitsouko, Punk Siouxsie and the Banshees and Tony Basil. All of which I like, btw, just not what I am looking for right now. Mary Margaret O’Hara, Rosie Thomas, Jane Siberry. They are all around the “girl with a guitar” genre. Some of those are marked for future consideration. All in all, interesting finds that I wasn’t reaching on my aimless clicking starting from the bands I already knew. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-to-spend-on-itunes-help-me-choose/420777/7 "2007-09-28T06:20:33Z")
You might find some music you like in [my podcast](http://suspended-in-gaffa.com). On each show page I have short clips of each song in that particular podcast so you can sample before downloading the entire hour-long show. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-to-spend-on-itunes-help-me-choose/420777/8 "2007-09-28T06:26:24Z")
[QUOTE=Equipoise] You might find some music you like in [my podcast](http://suspended-in-gaffa.com). On each show page I have short clips of each song in that particular podcast so you can sample before downloading the entire hour-long show. [/QUOTE] Nice. Will defo check it out in the morning. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-to-spend-on-itunes-help-me-choose/420777/9 "2007-09-28T10:35:30Z")
Anything by anyone affiliated with the Gay Pimp, Jonny McGovern, but especially “The Bad Bump” by Linda James. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-to-spend-on-itunes-help-me-choose/420777/10 "2007-09-28T11:05:06Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Anything by anyone affiliated with the Gay Pimp, Jonny McGovern, but especially “The Bad Bump” by Linda James. [/QUOTE] huh? Only two albums on iTunes. One is disco, the other is more New Wavish. Nothing by Linda James. Do any of them have anything that would be near shoegazing? ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2007, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-to-spend-on-itunes-help-me-choose/420777/11 "2007-09-30T02:21:26Z")
Over the Rhine Caroline Lavelle