**Mahaloth **- Please check out Armed Forces by Elvis Costello.
After reading through this thread I am very interested in your opinion.
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I’ve not even heard of it to blow your mind further.
I’m gonna find Moving Pictures and listen to it. I’ll report back after I’ve listened to it a few times and attempted to take it in.
I will check it out. I have never heard a single song from him as far as I know.
Nashville Skyline by * Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash
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Candy-O by The Cars
Ghost in the Machine by* The Police*
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Rush - Moving Pictures
I actually began listening to this in early December, but I’ve been flooded with music that I wanted and haven’t gone back to review it.
Buckle up, it’s another one that I dislike.
Yeah, so Rush are popular? I found absolutely nothing on Moving Pictures that…well, moved me at all. It was one forgettable song after another forgettable song. I’ve probably listened to the album 7-10 times and I can’t think of anything positive to say. While not actively hostile, it is an entirely forgettable and boring album.
I’m finally deleting it from my Ipod. I was more dutiful on listening to this one than almost any other album. I have no idea why.
Albums released lately Mahaloth has listened to and liked:
Delain - Interludes
Within Temptation - Hydra
There are others, but those are on my regular listening list right now.
I still have Elvis Costello to listen to and am still very open to all suggestions. 
We had a thread not long ago discussing Elvis Costello—but I’m deliberately not going to find & link to it here, because, if you didn’t see it then, better you should read it after you’ve listened to some EC and formed your own opinions.
I’ll go ahead and warn you, I really like Elvis Costello. 
You’ll probably get a lot of different suggestions, but I still say Get Happy!!. Can’t really go wrong with any of his first 6 albums, though (I’m not including the country covers album Almost Blue among these).
I know it has been 9 months, but I haven’t had much time for the internet for a while and am genuinely curious to find out if Mahaloth has continued his musical odyssey or if things just petered out.
What’s up Maha? Listened to anything new to you lately?
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OK, so five years on I think I’m ready to try some new stuff. My current favorite musical artists are:
Nightwish
Within Temptation
KMDFM(less recently)
U2
Coldplay
Kamelot
Many others, but those are on my phone right now. I like many others, though.
My docket of things to listen to:
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN - This is my current listen. Need to spend some time with this before sharing thoughts.
Kanye West - Never heard a Kanye song before. Going with College Dropout first.
I have never heard hip hop or rap at all. I mean, I have heard some funny Eminem songs from 15 years ago and Weird Al’s White and Nerdy, but I know nothing of the genre.
I am 100% open to recommendations.
I left off with Elvis Costello - I was not impressed.
If you are going to dive into hip hop I think Kendrick and Kanye are great places to start. If you want to go further may I make 3 suggestions of other places to get going?
- Wu Tang Clan. There is a TON of music that these guys made. Start with Enter the 36 chambers. If you like it we can recommend others
- Tribe Called Quest - Start with The Low End Theory
- OutKast - I think start with Stankonia, though ATLients or Aquemeni are good choices too, Stankonia is their most pop friendly album.
If you like any/all of the above let us know. I LOVE hip hop and am having a hard time holding back not recommending 50 different albums. If you think you want to try “gangsta rap” also, let us know, it’s different from anything suggested so far.
Hip Hop can be difficult for people who have never listened to it before. It does things differently than other popular music and does them this way on purpose. You will see what I mean. I STRONGLY recommend that you at least occasionally go to genius.com and read the lyrics along with the music while you are listening.
Oh also, did you like/listen to Blur? You like U2 and Coldplay so you might like them (Blur and U2 were influences on Coldplay).
If so, and you want to stay in a Hip Hop vein, check out Gorillaz. It’s brit pop hip hop fusion. Good though. Get the first album first.
If you HAVEN’T listened to Blur. Do that too.
This thread was a very interesting read. If you like coldplay, you should check out Radiohead’s albums The Bends and OK Computer.
I would also recommend The Stone Roses self titled first album and Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust. Both of these got a little love earlier in the thread, but not as much as I would have expected.
The first Black Sabbath album, self titled, is also worth a listen or two.
In the other thread I had Fields of the Nephilim as my last iconic artist (after Nightwish). If this doesn’t do the trick for you, nothing else I can say.
If you really want to give Kendrick and Kanye a good listen, check out the podcast discussed at length here: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=848917 A great intro if you don’t know their stuff.
There are at least two general approaches to listening: there’s hopping quickly from one thing to the next while “giving a listen” to hundreds of things, and there’s sticking with one artist or composer or album and really “living in it” for some time.
The secret: neither approach is good enough; you need some of both.
For new(to me) music, I tend to listen through the album once without making a decision. At the end, I consider if I want to listen to it again or if I found nothing worthwhile in it.
There are artists that I have had grow on me. I though U2 was generic pop garbage. It took multiple listenings to the Joshua Tree before I realized it is a great album. I even like the “deep cuts” in it. Even liking them, I admit that probably 70% of their music is not that great. But, for me, 30% is a pretty good score and I can make playlists of greatest hits and have a solid 20+ songs. I guess I’m a fan.
Coldplay was generic garbage to me. It took Viva La Vida to persuade me otherwise. (I still find them to be extremely hit-or-miss).
Then we have artists I listen to, love, and grow with. Within Temptation is like this. As they evolve album to album, so do I. Alice in Chains is also like this. Even with their new singer and huge break, I appreciate and have grown older with them.
One thing I have learned to be is totally open to all genres. I used to immediately reject Country and Rap, two genres I am totally ignorant of. Hip-hop is kind of in there with rap, too.
I’m going to start with:
Kendrick Lamar
Kanye
Blur(because of the U2 similarity?)
What Blur album should I try to find? I’ll buy physical disc if they don’t have mp3s on sale anywhere reasonable.
Parklife, or maybe The Great Escape
Allmusic recommends Parklife. It’s their only 5-star review for them. I guess that will go in my queue.
My knowledge of country is pretty hit-and-miss, but I do hope you add Chris Stapleton’s album Traveller to your list. And while he’s more southern/roots rock than country, Jason Isbell is, for my money, the best songwriter out there right now; his last three albums (Southeastern, Something More than Free, The Nashville Sound) are all essential listening.