[Almolfuncomma]

I'm looking for new music and I'm wondering if you can suggest any albums. Please and Thank You!

Here's a list of what I have on my Zune.(so you can also give me suggestions based on this) Favorite Albums in Red. Some artist I only have some songs and not full albums, those will be in quotes.

50 Cent
Get Rich or Die Tryin
The Massacre

Aaliyah
Aaliyah

Alicia Keys
Songs in A Minor
The Diary of Alicia Keys
As I Am

Amy Winehouse

Back to Black

Aretha Franklin
"respect"

Avril Lavigne
Let Go

Beastie Boys
Licensed to Ill

Beck
Odelay
Midnite Vultures
Sea Change
Guero
The Information
Modern Guilt

Beyonce
Dangerously in Love
B'Day
I am... Sasha Fierce

Billie Holiday
"Crazy He Calls Me"

Black Eyed Peas
Elephunk
Monkey Business
The E.N.D.

Black Star

Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star

Blondie
"One Way or Another"

Bob Dylan
Modern Times
"Like a Rolling Stone"
"The Times They are a Changin"

Bon Iver
For Emma, Forever Ago

Bowerbirds
"In Our Talons"

Built in Reverse
You in Reverse
Perfect From Now On

Cassie
Cassie

Ciara
Goodies
The Evolution

Cibo Matto
Viva! La Woman

Cinnamon Chasers
A Million Miles From Home

Civil Twilight
"Letters from the Sky"

The Clash
The Clash
London Calling

Cold Play
Parachutes
A Rush of Blood to the Head
X&Y
Viva La Vida or Death and All his Friends

Common
One Day It'll Make Sense
Be
Finding Forever
Universal Mind Control

Cornelius

Fantasma

CSS
"Music is My Hot Hot Sex"

Daft Punk
Discovery
Homework

D'Angelo
Voodoo

Danny Kaye
"Civilization"

Dave Matthews Band
Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King

Dr. Dre
The Chronic
2001

Eminem
Marshall Mathers LP
The Eminem Show

Eric B. & Rakim
Paid in Full

Evanescence
Fallen
The Open Door

Feist
The Reminder

Fiona Apple
Tidal
When the Pawn Hits the conflicts he thinks like a king
Extraordinary Machine

Flaming Lips
At War with the Mystics
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes

Fool's Gold
"Surprise Hotel"

The Fratellis
"Flathead"

Fugees
The Score

Gatekeeper
"Forgotten"

Glint
"Damaged Goods"

Gnarls Barkley
St. Elsewhere

Green Day
Dookie
Insomniac
Nimrod
Warning
American Idiot

Gwen Stefani
Love. Angel. Music. Baby.

Janet Jackson
Control

Jay-Z
Reasonable Doubt
The Blueprint
The Blueprint 2
Kingdom Come
The Black Album
American Gangster
The Blueprint 3

Jazmine Sullivan
Fearless

Jennifer Rush
"Destiny"

Jill Scott
Who is Jill Scot:Words and Sounds

John Legend
Get Lifted
Once Again

Justin Timberlake
Justified
Futuresex/lovesound

Kanye West
The College Dropout
Late registration
Graduation
808s & Heartbreak

Kelis
Kaleidoscope
Wanderlaner
Tasty
Kelis was Here

Kings of Leon
Aha Shake Heartbreak

Lady Gaga
The Fame

Lauryn Hill
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

LCD Soundsystem
Sound of Silver

Lil Wayne
Tha Carter III

Lilly Allen

Alright, Still
It's not me, It,s You

Lykke Li
Youth Novels

M.I.A.
Arular
Kala

Madonna
True Blue
Like A Prayer
Erotica
Bedtime Stories
Ray of Light
Music
Hard Candy

Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey
Butterfly
Greatest Hits
Emancipation of Mimi
E=MC2

Marvin Gaye
What's Going On
Midnight Love

Matias Aguayo
"Rollerskate"

Melanie Fiona
The Bridge

Michael Jackson
Off the Wall
Thriller
Bad
Dangerous

Miles Davis
Kind of Blue

Milla
The Divine Comedy

Miss Li
"Bourgeois Shangri-La"

Missy Elliot
Da Real World
Miss E So Addictive
Under Construction
This is not a Test
The Cookbook

Mos Def
Black on Both Sides
The New Danger
The Ecstatic

N.W.A.
Straight Outta Compton

Nas
Illmatic

Neko Case
Middle Cyclone

The Neptunes
Clones

Nirvana
Bleach
Nevermind
In Utero

Notorious BIG
Ready to Die
Life After Death
Born Again

Outkast
Southernplayalisticadillaxmuzik
ATLiens
Aquemini
Stankonia
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

Panic at the Disco
A Fever You Can't Sweat

Paramore
Riot
Brand New Eyes

Pharrell
In My Mind

Phoenix
Wolfgang Amadeus

Primal Scream
XTRMNTR

Public Enemy
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

Radiohead
The Bends
Ok Computer
Amnesiac
Hail to the Theif
Kid A

Regina Spektor
Begin to Hope
Far

Rihanna
Rated R

The Rolling Stones
Beggars Banquet
Let it Bleed
Exile on Main Street
Sticky

Run D.M.C.
Raising Hell

Santigold
Santigold

Slick Rick
The Great Adventures of Slick Rick

The Strokes
Is this it
Room on Fire

The Dream
Love vs Money
Love Hate

Timbaland
Shock Value
Shock Value 2

A Tribe Called Quest
Peoples Instinctive
The Low End Theory
Midnight Marauders
The LoveMovement

Tv on the Radio
Return to Cookie Mountain
Dear Science

U2
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground

The White Stripes
White Blood Cells
Elephant
Get Behind Me Satan
Icky Thump

The Who
"My Generation"

Wilco
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Will. I. Am
Songs About Girls

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Fever to Tell
Show Your Bones
It's Blitz

[Mowselelex]

Rolling Stones "Some Girls" "Sticky Fingers"

[SQiTmhuY]

Albums

"Melody" by Sharleen Spiteri
"Fresh As A Daisy - The Singles - James
"Soft Core" by My Robot Friend
"Greatest Hits" by Texas
"Millennium Collection (Greatest Hits) - Lone Justice
"Howl" by Black Rebel Motor Cycle Club
"Cease To Begin" by A Band of Horses
"The Divine Miss M" by Bette Midler
"Revolver" by The Beatles
"Red Octopus" by Jefferson Starship
"The Lion and the Cobra" by Sinead O'Connor
"One for the Road" by The Kinks
"Super Nature" by Goldfrapp
"Hot Fuss" by The Killers


I've been buying singles as opposed to albums. If you want some suggestions, just say so.

[errolurberozy]

I would start looking for teh roots of the music you listen to, or artists that continue the original flavor.

Led Zep has some strong blues roots, and so does the Rolling Stones (Exile on Main Street, the Stones, is almost pure Blues, unless I am mixing titles).

Other things you may want to try are:

Groove:
Zero 7
St Germain
Jamiriquai
Greyboy (freestylin')
Groove Collective
Trippin' (the Groove Merchant Collection)

You can go Funk with:
Sly and the Family Stone
Parliment

Classic R+B with more Aretha, James Brown, Al Green, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding and the like.

Blues withe Sonny Rollins, Buddy Guy, Stevie Ray Vaughn, John Lee Hooker, or even more "fun" bands like Blues Traveler, Reverend Horton Heat, and some others. A classic overdriven steel guitar sound can be had from The Black Keys as well.

Rock? Some new stuff has caught my attension, but you need to sample.

Muse
Silverchair
The Doves
Kaiser Chiefs
Mutemath
Nada Surf

I also recommend the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Saw them at the Bowry live, very good group in person, a little slower on their albums!!

And some other classics like Supergrass can have you screaming along to a punk flavor (akin to the Clash at times, but whinier like Smashing Pumpkins with a HEAVY english accent!)

I got more to choose from, but what may help is being more specific about what you are in the mood for now, and what "flavors" you want to add to your musical pantry.

[theonsushv]

Considering the amount of Beck you hi-lited, I'm shocked you don't have Mutations. A bit more upbeat than Sea Change - but definitely the prototype for that album.

I'm more into rock/alternative/indie than R&B/Hip Hop, but based off your highlighted albums, we seem to have similar tastes there. Some other stuff you might like, in no particular order:
-Jamiriquai - seconded
-Kings of Leon - "Only by the Night" - different sound than the other album you own, IMHO
-Vampire Weekend - World beat and Paul Simon re-interpreted by smarmy Columbia grads. Damn Catchy.
-MGMT - kind of a 70's retro rock sound. If you like Phoenix, I think you'll like them.
-The Postal Service - 80's new wave meets modern Electronica.
-Death Cab for Cutie - any album after 2003, if you like The Postal Service (same singer)
-The Killers - the lead singer may be an egotist, but he delivers. You seem to like modern bands with a retro-80's sound - then this band is up your alley. If you like The Killers, then you'll probably like
-Kaiser Chiefs - I'm pretty sure every song they write is purposely ripping off its sound from a different band from the 80's each time. I still like them.

Some other bands, whose new singles I've liked, but have yet to listen to a complete album:
-Silversun Pickups - heavy guitars, kind of Smashing Pumpkins-esk.
-Muse - English Alt/Rock
-Bell X 1 - Irish alt/rock
-Metric - Canadian indie band with an 80's new wave sound

[tadacia]

I will have to check... My "Silverchair" may be "Silversun"...


Sorries!!!

[GlictStiply]

No you probably had it right. They are both bands worth trying out. The latest Silverchair album - Young Modern - from the few singles I have heard - seems pretty good.

Interestingly Silverchair started off as a band of Australian 14-15 year olds making grunge-style rock. The music labels picked up the band to market them as some sort of grunge era boy band. Everyone in the US forgot them in a few years (except, as perhaps as some sort of joke).

To my surprise (and probably the music labels), they are in fact a real band, and capable of making some very good music - more so as they are pushing 30 now. Apparently they have put out a number of albums in Australia - Young Modern being the first one to get real airplay in the US for a decade.

[sat23neus2]

Thank You everyone for the suggestions and I will get back to each of you, after I go through everything, ASAP!!

[Adollobdeb]

About two weeks ago, I did my annual "Best of the Year" downloads. I go through lots of magazines, websites and other media to cull the "best" music of 2009. I'm not a radio person, so much of my music purchases are based on recommendations. I don't buy very many CDs any longer, especially new bands. If you are interested in buying singles and album tracks from iTunes or whereever else, you might want to check some of these out:


"My Girls" - Animal Collective
"Bear" - The Antlers
"Years (By One Thousand Finger Tips)" - Attack in Black
"I and Love and You" - The Avett Brothers
"Daniel" - Bat for Lashes
"Velvet" - The Big Pink
"The Golden Rule" - Billy Clyro
"Blood Bank" - Bon Iver
"French Navy" - Camera Obscura
"Solo" - Chew Lips
"The Rake's Song" - The Decemberists
"Seasun" - Delorean
"Fables" - The Dodos
"Fixin To Thrill" - Dragonette
"Home" - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
"If I Had A Heart" - Fever Ray
"Dog Days Are Over" - Florence & The Machine
"Rabbit Heart" - Florence & The Machine
"No You Girls" - Franz Ferdinand
"Generator (first floor) - Freelance Whales
"Swim Until You Can See Land" - Frightened Rabbit
"hellhole Ratrace" - Girls
"Lust for Life" - Girls
"Horseshoes and Hand Grenades" - Green Day
"East Jesus Nowhere" - Green Day
"Peace Maker" - Green Day
"See The Light" - Green Day
"Two Weeks" - Grizzly
"Sea Within A Sea" - The Horrors
"Sticks 'n' Stones" - Jamie T
"Heading For NoWhere" - Jets Overhead
"Weathervanes (In The Way)" - Jets Overhead
"Bang Bang (featuring Adam Levine)" - K'naan
"Fire" - Kasabian
"Bad Romance" - Lady GaGa
"The Fear" - Lily Allen
"F*ck You" - Lily Allen
"Not Fair" - Lily Allen
"Never Had Nobody Like You" - M. Ward
"Heartbreak" - The Magistrates
"Keep It Goin Louder" - Major Lazer
"Daylight" - Matt & Kim
"Lessons Learned" - Matt & Kim
"Bicycle" - Memory Tapes
"Help I'm Alive" - Metric
"Quiet Dog" - Mos Def
"Resistance" - Muse
"Uprising" - Muse
"Undisclosed Diaries" - Muse
"I Belong To You" - Muse
"Gifted (feat. Kanye West, Santogold & Lyjje Li)" - N.A.S.A.
"This Tornado Loves You" - Neko Case
"Magpie to The Morning" - Neko Case
"Enter Me, Exit You" - Office
"Young Adult Fiction" - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
"I Understand Now" - Patterson Hood
"Lizstomania" - Phoenix
"1901" - Phoenix
"Black Hearted Love" - PJ Harvey
"Panic Switch" - Silversun Pickups
"Shark In The Water" - V V Brown
"Cousins" - Vampire Weekend
"Pale Bride" - The Von Bondies
"Percussion Gun" - White Rabbits
"Wilco" - Wilco
"Hooting & Howling" - Wild Beasts
"Crystalised" - The XX
"Zero" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
"Heads Will Roll" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Some other good artists / tracks I downloaded that weren't on "best of" lists"

"C'est beau la bourgeoisie" - Discobitch
"Fuzzy" - Collective Soul
"You" - Collective Soul
"Welcome Again" - Collective Soul
"Airstream Driver" - Gomez
"Out of Control" - Kizzy Star
"Revolver" - Madonna
"Celebration" - Madonna
"All The Young Dudes" - Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs
"Your So Vain" - Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs
"We Are Golden" - Mika
"Touches You" - Mika
"Waitng (featuring Alison Moyet)" - My Robot Friend
"Robot High School" - My Robot Friend
"Difficult for Weirdos" - Robbie Williams
"Do You Mind?" - Robbie Williams
"Blind" - Toni Childs
"Because You're Beautiful" - Toni Childs
"No Line On The Horizon" - U2
"Unknown Caller" - U2
"I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight" - U2
"Stand Up Comedy" - U2
"Hopes and Fears" - Will Young

Some Good Albums Overall:

No Line On The Horizon - U2
21st Century Breakdown - Greenday
The Fear - Lily Allen
Softcore - My Robot Friend
The Boy Who Knew too Much - Mika
The Resistance - Muse
Under the Covers Vol. 2 - Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs
Lungs - Florence & The Machine
Collective Soul ak.a. Rabbit album - Collective Soul

[PZXjoe]

Here's a "Best Tracks of 2008" list:

"Perfect" - Army of Me
"Sweet Dreams" - Beyonce
"Single Ladies" - Beyonce
"Mountains" - Billy Clyro
"Strange Times" - The Black Keys
"Furr" - Blitzen Trapper
"Set In Stone" - Catfish Haven
"Bruises" - Chairlift
"Everyone Here is a Cloud" - Cloud Cult
"Viva La Vida" - Coldplay
"Into The Nightlife" - Cyndi Lauper
"Same Ol' Story" - Cyndi Lauper
"Wasted Years" - Damone
"Disclaimer" - The Dears
"Dawn of the Dead" - Does It Offend You, Yeah?
"Mercy (feat. The Game" - Duffy
"The Imagination Stage" - Eric Matthews
"Pjanoo" - Eric Prydz
"Beat It" - Fall Out Boy
"I Don't Care" - Fall Out Boy
"Sun Is Shining" - The Fireman
"White Winter Hymnal" - Fleet Foxes
"Ragged Wood" - Fleet Foxes
"Love Yourself" - The Fleshtones
"House Jam" - Gang Gang Dance
"The '59 Sound" - The Gaslight Anthem
"Old White Lincoln" - The Gaslight Anthem
"Geraldine" - Glasvegas
"Daddy's Gone" - Glasvegas
"Run" - Gnarls Barkley
"Lately" - The Helio Sequence
"Hallelejuah" - The Helio Sequence
"Stay With Me Tonight"- Houston Calls
"Headphones" - I'm From Barcelona
"White Boy" - James
"Hey Ma" - James
"Under The Waterfall" - James
"I Want To go Home" - James
"Let It Rock" - Kevon Rudolf & Lil Wayne
"Losing Touch" - The Killers
"Human" - The Killers
"Spaceman" - The Killers
"Crawl" - Kings of Leon
"Bulletproof" - La Roux
"Roll Out (feat. Wyclef Jean)" - Labelle
"My Poke Face" - Lady GaGa
"My Delirium" - Ladyhawke
"Corner Phone" - Land of Talk
"The Age of Understatement" - The Last Shadow Puppets
"Shine" - Laura Izibor
"Bleeding Love" - Leona Lewis
"Lollipop" - Lil Wayne & Static Major
"Wait for You" - Lindsey Buckingham
"Gift of Screws" - Lindsey Buckingham
"Miles Away" - Madonna
"Buriedfed" - Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
"Never Want to Dance" - Mindless Self Indulgence
"I'm Amazed" - My Morning Jacket
"sleepyhead" - Passion Pit
"Please Don't Leave Me" - Pink
"Boots of Chinese Plastic" - The Pretenders
"Deliverance" - Quitedrive
"Can You tell Me" - Ra Ra Riot
"Salute Your Solution" - The Raconteurs
"Dear Sound" - The Raveonettes
"Feel Like New" - Rookie of the Year
"What Is Love" - Rookie of the Year
"Black & Gold" - Sam Sparro
"L.E.S. Artistes" - Santogold
"It Was You" - Sharleen Spiteri
"Don't Keep Me Waiting" - Sharleen Spiteri
"Day Tripping" - Sharleen Spiteri
"Ghost Town" - Shiny Toy Guns
"Lost Boy"- The Subways
"Life In A Northern Town (live) - Sugarland
"Homecoming" - The Teenagers
"That's Not My Name" - The Ting Tings
"Titus Andronicus" - Titus Andronicus
"Golden Age" - TV On the Radio
"Oxford Comma" - Vampire Weekend
"A-Punk" - Vampire Weekend
"Love Is Noise" - The Verve
"Violent Sensation Descends" - Violens
"Where Do You Run To?" - Vivian Girls
"Right Hand On My Heart" - The Whigs

[RjkVwPcV]

Q-Tip - "The Renaissance"...... best rap album of 2008.

[rujeltaoser]

The ‘blackholes and revelations’ album: my fav song - Starlight.

http://muse.mu/media-player/singles/31/starlight/

[DialOne]

Brooklynrider what do you think of this song for your 2009 list.

Say ahh by Trey Songz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeQBj5hYiIw&hd=1

for albums what about It's Blitz by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix by Phoenix, XX by The xx, The Ecstatic by Mos Def, So far Gone by Drake, Meriwether Post Pavilion by Animal Collective, and The Eternal by Sonic Youth.