Music Paralysis of Plethora

So, I need help. I received $50 in iTunes Music gift cards for Christmas, which I have been dying to get– I need some new music, and badly. But now that I have it…. I’m overwhelmed. Too many choices, too many amazing shining pearls of beautiful sound.

So, here’s the plan: Tell me about music that I might like. Or that you like. Or that you’d like me to like. Or even music that you hate. But help me narrow the choices down!

8 Responses to “Music Paralysis of Plethora”

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hehe…I hear ya. My list is pretty eclectic, but here’s the short version:

Hit & Run Bluegrass
Corinne Bailey Rae
The Eurythmics
Aqua
Flyleaf
Fountains of Wayne
Bill Haley and His Comets
John Hartford
The Living End
Paris Combo
Peter Schilling
Rammstein
The Dresden Dolls

Mallorn - January 4th, 2007 at 1:26 pm

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Vienna Teng… I haven’t heard her third album closely but i liked the first two very much.

sleepysnoopy - January 7th, 2007 at 9:45 pm

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Thanks for the suggestions (I need more)!

I bought a Living End album… they’ve mellowed over the years, but.. so have I, I guess.

Aqua is cute, but I think it might drive me mad over time. Do you have a single, or a whole album?

The Dresden Dolls is scary!

Corinne Bailey Rae sounds nice. 🙂

Vienna Teng is very soothing. Reminds me of a rainy day.

Paradoxdruid - January 16th, 2007 at 9:46 pm

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Yea, I think I got The Living End from you. I only have the two or three songs that you had.

I have both Aqua CDs…. 😀

I have both Dresden Dolls CDs too…. 😀 :-D:-D Speaking of whom, apparently NPR is doing a story on All Things Considered on them this afternoon (1/17)

Glad you like Corinne Bailey Rae. She’s made it pretty big with that CD. Did I hear she’s even up for a grammy for it?

Mallorn - January 17th, 2007 at 9:56 am

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this is pretty off the flow of what you guys have been talking about, music-wise, but lately I’ve been adding a lot of musicals/soundtracks to my iPod and have been surprised by how much I’ve been enjoying them. I guess after the holidays I went through almost a month of listening primarily to soundtracks I had uploaded — Little Shop of Horrors, Aladdin & Lion King (yes, Andrew, I can see why you like ‘To Die For…’!), Fiddler on the Roof, West Side Story. I think it may be my music theory background that makes me really love ‘musicals’ — they are the modern American version of opera, really…

Meg - February 22nd, 2007 at 4:02 pm

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hehe…I’m listening to Jekyll & Hyde right now!

I really like musicals, but they consume more brain power ’cause I always want to sing along. I can only listen while doing mundane tasks 🙁

Mallorn - February 23rd, 2007 at 9:08 am

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One of my favorite CDs–scratch that, CDs are going the way of the Dodo– One of my favorite albums is Me First & The Gimme Gimmes: Are a Drag, which is wonderfully delightful punk covers of songs from Broadway musicals.

And I agree that musicals are “American Opera”. They’re fun– but like Mallorn, I tend to accidentally sing or hum along out loud to the good songs– they have a shunt straight to the cerebral cortex.

Paradoxdruid - February 23rd, 2007 at 11:08 am

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I wanted to assert a correction here — you actually “tend to accidentally sing or hum along out loud” to just about any music, not specifically musicals, silly 🙂

teisha - February 24th, 2007 at 6:55 pm

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