Here’s a list of some bands I like. Suggest some good albums to download by other bands so I can have some new music to listen to on my trip this week from Texas to Arizona. I usually use itunes and Amazon to download music.
Bands I like.
Dire Straits
Eric Clapton/Cream
Genesis
The Police
Queen
Rush
Yes
The Rolling Stones
Green Day
The Killers
Yeah, I like a lot of other music as well. But, music like this is good driving/work out music so that’s what I fill my ipod with.
What else should I get? Got a nice $50.00 Amazon gift at my going away party!
I’m not actually a big fan of all these bands/albums but they fit into the stuff you like pretty well (either because they influenced bands you like or sound like bands you like). I’ve marked the stuff I like with asterisks.
Better than Ezra - Friction, Baby
Boston - Boston
Deep Purple - Machine Head*
Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion*
Dredg - Sang Real
Erasure - Chorus*
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here*
Pulp - Common People*
The Refreshments - Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy
Silverchair - Freakshow
The Smiths - self-titled
Status Quo - On the Level
Chris Rea - The Road to Hell*
The Who - Who’s Next*
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
Godsmack - Godsmack
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Misfits - Walk Among Us
Guns & Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Metallica - Metallica (Black Album)
Green Day - American Idiot (if you don’t already have it, it’s a theme album that should be listened to from beginning to end.)
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison is great to listen to from beginning to end as well.
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs was awesome for crossing from West Texas into New Mexico. Extrapolating, one can only assume it’d be equally appropriate for most regions of Arizona.
One of my few areas of self-appointed expertise. Suggestions:
Graceland, Paul Simon: Toe-tapping, infectiously (almost aggressively) upbeat, and without a bad track.
Creedence Clearwater Revival, Greatest: I’ll admit I don’t know individual albums, having been raised on the greatest hits, but you buy yourself an hour of singing, in my case, horribly off-key. Always, always comes on during our tours, usually 5 or 10 times.
Dan Bern, New American Language: A lesser-known artist (but who isn’t when compared to the above?) but a GREAT album that I think deserves a wider audience. Lyrically very intelligent, witty, poignant, and sometimes completely hilarious. It’s like Dylan if he didn’t take himself so seriously.
This American Life: I recommend downloading a few of these from NPR. After 4 or 5 albums, I can always use a break, and Ira Glass soothing me with weird stories always does the trick.
London Calling, The Clash: 19 tracks—all brilliant. The Classic punk album, in my opinion (and many other people’s)
It looks like you have a pretty strong Rock ‘n’ Roll bent, so I’ll second “Back in Black” and mention the first Kings of Leon CD as something you might enjoy. It’s called “Youth and Young Manhood.” It’s scrappy, raw, and has a timeless quality about it. It’s like “Louie, Louie” for 40 minutes. Sticky Fingers is my favorite Stones travel CD and, if you haven’t checked out early Black Sabbath (Paranoid is a great place to start, though Vol. 4 is a gem in it’s own right), I’d recommend that too. Zeppelin fits into your tastes too and I think II and III hold up best on a long drive.
All but two of the groups you cite are from over 30 years ago. Are you interested in new bands with a retro sound?
–Duffy, Rockferry
–Jet, Get Born
–Shannon Curfman, Loud Guitars and Big Suspicions
–Nikka Costa, **Everybody’s Got Their Something
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