Hello lovely people, please could you recommend me a song you like? I am trying to expand my music taste. Plus, I like listening to new songs
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I LOVE music. So itâs like asking a gourmet to restrict to recommending only ONE meal. Nearly impossible. I will name two:
Otis Redding âSitting at the dock of the bayâ
Queen âI want to break freeâ
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Ooh, tough question! Iâve been digging few Saintseneca songs lately (May Day, Falling Off, Fed Up with Hunger). I woke up with Sea Powerâs Burn, Baby, Burn (off the Disco Elysium soundtrack) in my head; thatâs pretty fantastic. Then to mix it up, I just started learning guitar, and one of my first assignments was the song Four Strong Winds; though this isnât my go-to music style, Iâd rec the Johnny Cash version. (Heâs covering Ian and Sylvia, whose original is very 1960s and not really my thing.)
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(I like Four Strong Winds!)
How about âWell Dressedâ by Hop Along
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Oh, shoot, such a good rec, Iâm mad I didnât think of it! (Hop Alongâs entire discog is pretty all-time, imo.)
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A toughie. Iâm gonna throw at you (catch them if you want to) two tracks from the anime film Paprika, though I donât have enough net access right now to link to them. âParadeâ and âThe Girl in Byakkoyaâ. Artist: Susumu Hirasawa.
EDIT - Got some time now. Here are the links and some other besides. This may be a bit of a dump⌠I actually really like these, but in my usual âcrowdâ (inasmuch as a I have a âcrowdâ, which I really donât), this is not very appealing for themâŚ
Soramimi cake - a very silly song! I love it because itâs silly!
Kagayaku Sorano Shijimaniwa - by Kalafina
My Pace - by Sunset Swish. So dreamyâŚ
Silent Christmas - from Ghost Hunt
Honey honey - by Seamo. Another song that is really quite silly, and just lifts my spirits somewhat.
Hildaâs song from âThe Adventures of Horusâ. Itâs just beautifully sungâŚ
Kimi to Koi no mama de Owarenai - by Kuraki Mai. A guilty pleasure.
Maze - from the Noir OST. An interesting medieval-flavoured piece.
Secret Game - from Noir. A tearjerker. YMMV.
Wareta Ringo - by Taneda Risa.
(I held back. No, really, I did.)
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âFever Riftâ by Comaduster. For a sense of what youâre jumping into: Iâd describe the album itâs from, and this song in particular, as âhorror electronicâ.
Itâs constructed primarily with artifacts, samples, and errors that electronic artists are typically taught to remove from a work. The whole thing is built with âthe wrong thingsâ, and then masterfully mixed as carefully as possible without ruining the mission statement in the process.
Song is about someone in the aftermath of destroying themselves for the opportunity to perform terrifying acts of magic, and realizing that sacrificing their body, energy, and sanity might not be enough to satisfy the contract they have entered with unknown powers.
Anything from the album In the Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson.
Edit: Possibly the best album ever.
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Failure. Radiohead. Uh⌠Iâm out.
(Also, thereâs always intermittent music recommendation posting on What are you listening to? but itâs currently 1300 messages long so you may want to jump to the bottom!)
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Given that, to me, most of this is just so much noise, I wonât give any specifics other than to say, some great music can be found within these - Country (ballads) and Country Gospel, and not forgetting some of the Old Time music.
For music which isnât noise, apart from âSecret Gameâ and âHildaâs Songâ which I mentioned, may I also recommend
Renata Scotto singing âSenza mamma o bimboâ
Grace Bumbry singing âLes Tringlesâ from Carmen
Grace Bumbry singing âCasta Divaâ
As a shoutout to country-ish,
There wonât be no country music - C. W. McCall
âŚI actually donât know what genre the above fits neatly in. But itâs timeless.
Nightwishâs âSwanheartâ may also fit the bill of non-noise. Or it may not.
When I was a teenager, I listened incessantly to BeeGees and Joe Dassin and ballads from the 60âs, 70âs and 80âs and I thought anything heavier than that was noise. Ah, foolish old me, Iâm so glad he grew up. There are certainly very noisy pieces around which I dislike, and punk in particular will never be my scene, but I find that even noisy music can be surprisingly melodic or interesting. Take the OST for Parasyte, for instanceâŚ
EDIT - Personally, this recording of Jerusalem with everyone singing along always moves me deeply.
Need for Speed Most Wanted Soundtrack
Wow, I hated this 
at least until the rock guitar joined.
I donât like that the singer never takes a break, theyâre vocalising all the time.
But the majority reason I donât like it (which controls any others) is the production of the vocal. The quietest and loudest parts of the vox are all the same volume, and theyâre all going all the time. Little rasps and nuances that should be a fraction of the chorus-screaming volume (2:33), and would have been in the 80s and 90s, are the same volume as chorus-roaring volume. This is hardly unique as a production trend to this song as of the 2000s, but the trendâs had the strongest effect on rock and folk music. I mean, pop music often gets away with it with a lot of other production heaped in, on and around. But in this song, for ages itâs just one womanâs voice and a guitar, and itâs like sheâs screaming in my ear even when sheâs making chokey, whispery noises.
So that is how this production ghoul reacted to this song.
-Wade
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That was really interesting! I donât usually pay attention to that sort of thing, so it was neat to read your thoughts. I wouldnât at all mind if you were to keep sharing your opinion of other tracks suggested.
Thatâs kind of you @Giger_Kitty . I donât want to be too much the old man yelling at the clouds 
I will contribute a music suggestion to this topic soon enough. And I feel like itâs a good idea for me to check everyoneâs suggestions with an open mind.
I make a lot of music myself, my main act being electronic (Aeriae). Maybe because of that, I particularly value the human sound in music thatâs meant to sound human. Rock music, live music, pop music etc. Thatâs why vocal production that takes away from the human elements of a human performance get up my nose.
-Wade
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Rather than contemplating the impossible pressure of picking just one thing, Iâll turn to Bach, then pick one thing.
This is BWV 614 Das alte Jahr vergangen ist (âThe old year hath passed away.â) For all Bachâs virtuosity, maybe this is ultimately my favourite piece of his. It is all done in three minutes. Itâs originally for the organ but I particularly like Arthur Blissâs piano arrangement, which I share here, played by Antony Gray.
In it I experience hope, sadness, wistfulness, beauty. I couldnât get away with saying âdarknessâ but I find the movement of the few low chords on the piano against the top really frisson-making (passage from 36-48 seconds). Theyâre almost the kind of dark chord turns that appeal to people who like heavy metal today. The whole thing is minimal, melodic, chromatic, sort of hard to anticipate. Music academics came up with the idea that some of the tinkly ornaments are Bach waving goodbye to the old year with his fingers on the piano.
-Wade
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Well, hereâs what I happen to be listening to now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0nlJXooIVc
Iâm pleased to have induced a visceral reaction I like having my ear screamed in, haha
The selling point for me is also the change at around 2:15, which also marks a shift lyrically as the singerâs unwell mother comes into focus.
I have a similar complaintâprobably relatedâabout breathy vocalization that I imagine is meant to indicate sincerity, also quite prominent during that period.
Edit: and I live in Louisiana, of course
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Rush, without a doubt.
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Might be worth checking out this thread also.
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