Music Recs Round I Have No Idea
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icepixieIngrid Michaelson
Pandora tossed her up on the Imogen Heap station I have, and I ended up liking a lot of her stuff. The songs I like tend to reside at the corner of pop/rock, singer/songwriter, and a melancholy piano style of music.
Corner of Your Heart (more of the melancholy piano)
Starting Now (on the rockier end of the singer/songwriter spectrum)
You and I (as above)
Keep Breathing (I think this was played on Grey's Anatomy at one point...? Anyway, it's by far the most radio-friendly of these.)
Kate Havnevik
So:Lo - This was another one that popped up on my Imogen Heap station. It's a bit less poppy and acoustic than the Michaelson songs.
Eddi Reader
Reader has a lovely, sweet-but-not-sacchrine voice. She does traditional Scottish songs/poems set to her own music, and also original pieces with a more contemporary singer/songwriter feel. Here's one of each:
Aye Waukin-O - From a poem by Robert Burns. It's extremely reminiscent of Kate Rusby's oeuvre.
Bell, Book, and Candle - I hear this was played on Charmed back in the day. Anyway, it's soothing and lovely, despite some rather depressing subject matter.
Happy Rhodes
Today I (re)discovered The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music, and while I was browsing through, I suddenly went, "...Oh." Because apparently my taste matches up really, really closely with these people's--I looked for at least fifteen of my favorite bands and artists, and every single one of them were on there. I am definitely going to be perusing their "contemporary folk" listing in the near future.
That said, I actually don't like Happy Rhodes all that much. It is not for lack of trying; she's basically a folkier Kate Bush, which should appeal to me like nothing else, and yet...eh. However, I quite enjoy Ra Is a Busy God, because yes, it is kind of weird, but it's also very listenable.
October Project
On that note, since they're one of of the main examples of "ectophilic" music on that site, have four of my favorite OP songs. They are dreamy and pretty but still have a beat, a little like a darker version of the Cocteau Twins singing in English. The first two are from their first, quieter, album, and the second two from their second, final-with-Mary Faehl, album, which was more assertive.
Return to Me
Now I Lay Me Down
Adam & Eve
Deep as You Go
Pandora tossed her up on the Imogen Heap station I have, and I ended up liking a lot of her stuff. The songs I like tend to reside at the corner of pop/rock, singer/songwriter, and a melancholy piano style of music.
Corner of Your Heart (more of the melancholy piano)
Starting Now (on the rockier end of the singer/songwriter spectrum)
You and I (as above)
Keep Breathing (I think this was played on Grey's Anatomy at one point...? Anyway, it's by far the most radio-friendly of these.)
Kate Havnevik
So:Lo - This was another one that popped up on my Imogen Heap station. It's a bit less poppy and acoustic than the Michaelson songs.
Eddi Reader
Reader has a lovely, sweet-but-not-sacchrine voice. She does traditional Scottish songs/poems set to her own music, and also original pieces with a more contemporary singer/songwriter feel. Here's one of each:
Aye Waukin-O - From a poem by Robert Burns. It's extremely reminiscent of Kate Rusby's oeuvre.
Bell, Book, and Candle - I hear this was played on Charmed back in the day. Anyway, it's soothing and lovely, despite some rather depressing subject matter.
Happy Rhodes
Today I (re)discovered The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music, and while I was browsing through, I suddenly went, "...Oh." Because apparently my taste matches up really, really closely with these people's--I looked for at least fifteen of my favorite bands and artists, and every single one of them were on there. I am definitely going to be perusing their "contemporary folk" listing in the near future.
That said, I actually don't like Happy Rhodes all that much. It is not for lack of trying; she's basically a folkier Kate Bush, which should appeal to me like nothing else, and yet...eh. However, I quite enjoy Ra Is a Busy God, because yes, it is kind of weird, but it's also very listenable.
October Project
On that note, since they're one of of the main examples of "ectophilic" music on that site, have four of my favorite OP songs. They are dreamy and pretty but still have a beat, a little like a darker version of the Cocteau Twins singing in English. The first two are from their first, quieter, album, and the second two from their second, final-with-Mary Faehl, album, which was more assertive.
Return to Me
Now I Lay Me Down
Adam & Eve
Deep as You Go
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Date: 2010-06-19 02:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-19 07:20 pm (UTC)Oh, that sucks. Does it help if you do a search for the artist or song and them play it that way?
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Date: 2010-06-19 10:14 pm (UTC)