SteveL Loc: Reading, OH

I am looking to expand my music playlist to include a greater variety of genres and musicians. I am turning to the collective insights and tastes of this forum to ask for suggestions. Please respond with up to 3 songs that you really like that you feel I should listen to - any genre of music is fair game. I intend to listen to all suggestions and see which ones I like. My goal is to expose myself to other genres/styles/musicians to be more well rounded in my music tastes. In your suggestions, please list song name, musician, and genre if possible. Thanks.

stanikon Loc: Deep in the Heart of Texas

"Unchained Melody" / Righteous Brothers / Pop
"One in a Row" / Willie Nelson (original version) / Country
Beethoven's "Fifth Symphony" / Boston Philharmonic / Classical

gmontjr2350 Loc: Southern NJ

What It's Like - Everlast - Rock/Soul???
Remember the Name - Fort Minor - Rock/Rap
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley - ???

These can be found on YouTube.
Hallelujah is a Leonard Cohen composition that has been covered over and over, but the Jeff Buckley version stands out for me.
At 71 years old now, I find myself listening more and more to my "kids" music. I need something fresh.

George

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

Beck's Bolero - Jeff Beck - Instrumental Rock
1952 Vincent Black Lightning - Richard Thompson - Folk Rock
The New Pornographers - Dancehall Domine - Indie Rock

Najataagihe

“Cheek to Cheek” - Pete Fountain - light jazz, not Dixieland

Theme from “Shaft” - the British Ukulele Orchestra - Who knows?

“Run Back to Mama” - Bill Chase - Power Brass

“Riding With the King” - B. B. King & Eric Clapton - Blues

“In The Sweet By and By” - Bill Pearce- Gospel trombone feature

“Would Jesus Wear a Rolex” - Ray Stevens - Novelty


Three??!

Good Heavens, man, my wife’s playlist is 12 pages long!

Even our dance band has 140 charts in the performance book - out of 400 in the files.

What kind of music do you like and what can’t you stand?

Moi <~~~ will help anybody expand their musical horizons

Laramie Loc: Tempe

John Hiatt - Have a Little Faith in Me
James McMurtry - Choctaw bingo
Adrian Belew - Young Lions (album)
Alison Krauss - Anything. Everything you can find (not a song name)
Bonnie Raitt - Angel From Montgomery
John Prine - Angel From Montgomery
Cowboy Junkies - I;m So Lonesome I Could Cry. any many more
Gillian Welch and / or David Rawlings - anything
Hank and his grandson Hank III (at least his country stuff)
Jonathan Richman - Monologue about Bermuda and I Was Dancing at the Lesbian Bar - really!
k.d. Lang - Hallelujah
Leon Russell - A Song for You
Little Feat - Feat's Don't Fail Me Now
Lyle Lovett - If I Had a Boat
Robyn Hitchcock - Madonna of the Wasp
Ry Cooder - All of his early albums
Sonny Landreth - everything
Spanic Boys - Strange World
Tom Waits - his later stuff
Van Dyke Parks - G-Man Hoover
That enough?

Wallen Loc: Middle Earth

Some of my favorites:
Glorious - Working with Lemons (happy hopeful song)
Tomorrow Child - David Soul (hopeful song)
One more year (of daddy's little girl) - Ray Sawyer/Dr. Hook (very sad song)
Times of your life - Paul Anka (introspective)
Only friends - The Lettermen (wishful)
Life itself will let you know - Anthony Quinn (Nice father and son song)
Father and Son - Cat Stevens (Life guide?)

Also try:

80's New Wave
-99 luftballons
-Tenderness

Bouncy Oldies:
-Downtown (Petula Clark)
-Dont Sleep in the Subway

Soft Rock:
-Born to touch your feeling
-I am sailing

Hard rock:
-Wishmaster (Nightwish)

There's really too many good music in every genre.

cdayton

For awesome piano, look up Yuja Wang on YouTube. She redefines what virtuoso means in playing the piano.

hippi Loc: Sedalia MO

Buddy Guy Skin Deep Blues
Albert King I will Play the Blues for you Blues
Albert Collins Ice Pickin Blues

ClarkJohnson Loc: Fort Myers, FL and Cohasset, MA

Blues:

Messin’ with the Kid - Junior Wells

Dust My Broom - Elmore James

Can’t Be Satisfied - Muddy Waters

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

George Jones--“He Stopped Loving Her Today”
Joe Bonomassa (sp?) anything instrumental
Travis Tritt--“Take It Easy"

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

Hi Steve,

I have posted hundreds of music suggestions. Here is a link to my posts:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/user-topic-list?usernum=55120

Good luck in expanding your collection,
Mark

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

From the classical world:

Two of the classical world's greatest vocal pieces:

Laudate Dominum by Mozart: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljvTwbxrylc I imagine this being sung inside a great cathedral...

O mio babino cara by Puccini - this is sung by a contestant in "Holland's Got Talent" who at the time was 8 years old. She taught herself to sing opera from listening to Youtube. She won (this was 2013) and has performed in multiple countries. She stunned the judges, so this is a really neat video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUyRfMbtW2k

A great piano piece played by Khatia Buniatishvili (who is not only talented but is very beautiful) - Grieg Piano Concerto #1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMq7sKePlQ0


If you like piano concertos probably considered some of the best are:

Mozart Piano Concerto #21 (theme song from the movie "Elvira Madigan") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1FEvl2lcUo&t=1517s

Beethoven Piano Concerto #5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDXWK3W477w&t=419s

If you like the piano, look up any of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas on Youtube - Moonlight and Appassionata are two of my favorites.

But then there is the violin:

Beethoven Violin Concerto played by Hillary Hahn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cg_0jepxow&t=542s

Bruch's Violin Concerto #1 played by Joshua Bell - one of the most outstanding violinists - everything he does is great: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h88cW8KuzI&t=1439s

I could go on.... and on!

Po1949

Vincent Black Lightning 1952 by Richard Thompson , British folk
Clay Pidgeons by Blaze Foley , Outlaw Country
Madman accross the water, Brandi Carlile version, Rock

Mark Sturtevant Loc: Grand Blanc, MI

I will suggest some modern examples of popular music. There is actually good stuff out there (but not on the radio!)

The 1975 "Chocolate"
Caro Emerald. Has a very old-school sound. Try "Riviera life" first.
Vienna Tang "Level up". I still choke up on that one.
LP "Lost on you" and "Night like this"
The Black Keys "Fever"
Keane "Everybody's changing"
Family of the year "Hero"

Country music? I very much like these.
Andrew Combs. Try "Nothing to lose" and "Foolin' "
Train "Bruises"
Lindi Ortega "Cigarettes and truckstops"

Indian pop music (?!) Nothing specific. Just sample some. There is lots of international music. African, K-Pop ...

Jonathan Coultan A multi-talented musician that makes very funny songs. Try "Code monkey", and "Re: Your brains". That one is about a zombie negotiating a business deal with its intended victim.