# I need some new tunes, man! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 6, 2013, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-tunes-man/652151 "2013-03-06T03:59:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-tunes-man/652151/1 "2013-03-06T03:59:29Z")
I like pop music from all eras, Prince, funky music, rock, some rap (not hardcore stuff), a little bit of heavy metal - pretty much everything but country. What have you got that someone like me would enjoy? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-tunes-man/652151/2 "2013-03-06T04:08:47Z")
[Someone like _you_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKUp2oOEFP8)? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-tunes-man/652151/3 "2013-03-06T04:28:12Z")
Do you want _new_ music, or just new to you? I’m a huge Prince fan, and I also like Mary J. Blige (almost all songs on _The Breakthrough_ are good), Mariah Carey (Google Play has _The Emancipation of Mimi_, which is awesome, for cheap), and Toni Braxton. Lately I have been listening to The Heist, which is kind of funky rap-ish, and that’s new. ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-tunes-man/652151/4 "2013-03-06T04:34:43Z")
Catchy technoish tune from Britain - “Slide Away” [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/w90WVCNSN4I/hqdefault.jpg "Slide Away - Darren Styles - Skydivin'") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w90WVCNSN4I) ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-tunes-man/652151/5 "2013-03-06T04:37:43Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-tunes-man/652151/6 "2013-03-06T04:55:35Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > Do you want _new_ music, or just new to you? I’m a huge Prince fan, and I also like Mary J. Blige (almost all songs on _The Breakthrough_ are good), Mariah Carey (Google Play has _The Emancipation of Mimi_, which is awesome, for cheap), and Toni Braxton. Lately I have been listening to The Heist, which is kind of funky rap-ish, and that’s new. Both, please! Well, I guess people wouldn’t know what’s new to me. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-tunes-man/652151/7 "2013-03-06T05:52:36Z")
I keep throwing this out there because when I discovered them I really liked them. **The Sheepdogs** , a band from Canada. (Aren’t you from Canada?) Listen to _I Don’t Know_ and go from there. You’d swear they’re from the late '60s, early '70s. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-tunes-man/652151/8 "2013-03-06T06:06:47Z")
[The Helio Sequence.](http://www.youtube.com/artist/the-helio-sequence) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-tunes-man/652151/9 "2013-03-06T06:49:51Z")
[Here Come the Mummies](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETHvSTT6PA8) - Terrifying funk from beyond the grave. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-tunes-man/652151/10 "2013-03-06T06:59:12Z")
[Funk + Hip Hop.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oFAcMItedc) [More of the same.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2MKMsK4BYU) ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-tunes-man/652151/11 "2013-03-06T09:08:42Z")
If you want some cool jazz, check out Dave Brubeck’s _Time Out_, possibly the best selling jazz album in history (apparently record keeping was sketchy in the 50s). IMO their best album was Live at Carnegie Hall, [which includes arguably the finest drum solo ever recorded](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbR8G6YNuUM), by Joe Morello in _Castillian Drums_. ---
**Author:** ![Hodge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-tunes-man/652151/12 "2013-03-06T13:12:52Z")
[AC Newman](http://www.acnewman.net/) ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-tunes-man/652151/13 "2013-03-06T14:05:42Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > [Someone like _you_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKUp2oOEFP8)? :eek: Only listened to this one so far (I’ll listen to all of them) - I like it! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-tunes-man/652151/14 "2013-03-06T14:13:25Z")
[quote=“LC\_Strawhouse, post:4, topic:652151”] Catchy technoish tune from Britain - “Slide Away” [/QUOTE] That’s not bad; I’ll have to listen a couple more times to see if it grows on me. ---
**Author:** ![CatherineZeta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@CatherineZeta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatherineZeta)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-tunes-man/652151/15 "2013-03-06T15:10:26Z")
You might like The Courteeners- I’ve gotten into them recently. [You Over Did It Doll](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5yQNpgeR8E) ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-tunes-man/652151/16 "2013-03-06T15:35:53Z")
You can never go wrong with a little (or a lot of) Ke$ha: C’mon Die Young Your Love is My Drug ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-tunes-man/652151/17 "2013-03-06T23:42:19Z")
I dunno, I’m in a surf rock band. I recently found out that I informed a reasonably musically well-rounded friend of mine that surf rock is even a _thing_. So, if you like metal style guitar wankery, meet it’s instrumental dad, Surf Rock!: Old Stuff: Look up The Ventures, all of their good stuff is gone from YouTube. [The Chantays](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omG-hZfN6zk) [Dick](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIU0RMV_II8) [Dale](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUrep3XOZsU) [The](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPBzDDGD3z8) [Centurians](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXCSCwGpt_0) Newer Stuff: [Man?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fFeWTYrtok) [or](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx1R79OFMfs) [Astroman?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEEBynamflM) (Maybe NSFW, a bad word is written on his shirt, and he says the same) [The Mummies](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr0StuubuaM) (And I’ll plug a friend’s band, but not mine)[The Really Rottens](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRFZFfSM7F4) ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-tunes-man/652151/18 "2013-03-07T00:00:12Z")
I had trouble keeping up with new music until I discovered Pandora. Just type in a few songs you already like, and it will throw stuff at you that you don’t even know. And, unlike the radio, you can look at your screen and see the name of the song and the band. Or click on one of their genre stations, and do the thumb-up, thumb-down thing per indivudual songs to fine-tune the station until it only gives you stuff you like. ---
**Author:** ![Crawlspace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Crawlspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crawlspace)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-tunes-man/652151/19 "2013-03-07T02:11:48Z")
**The Heavy** , a soul/funk band out of Bath, England probably can’t get over recommended and you’ve almost certainly heard some of their music on TV or in movies. I’m usually underwhelmed by late night talk show performances (doesn’t matter who’s performing), but these guys are just downright filthy: [Here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQKsKbXN1A4)they pretty much blow the roof off of Letterman (and get asked for an encore, supposedly the first time that happened) [Here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RARp3IFJEz4&feature=player_detailpage#t=12s)they return to Letterman with a new album. [Here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siOc50IALkY&feature=player_detailpage#t=23s)they make Carson Daly worth watching. Can’t find a good live performance, but [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29QMWYbtERk)is my favorite song of theirs. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-tunes-man/652151/20 "2013-03-07T02:28:30Z")
> [@CatherineZeta](#): > > You might like The Courteeners- I’ve gotten into them recently. > > [You Over Did It Doll](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5yQNpgeR8E) Ooh, I like that one! “You own a tank top, you own a tank top, you own a tank top…” 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-tunes-man/652151.md?page=2)