The Genre & Style Hotdesk:

I'm looking for something that will totally blow my mind away. The band should be rather unknown, as I've heard most of the stuff which fits my taste in music. I want it to resemble Paul Westerberg, Ryan Adams along with Ben Folds and Jesse Malin.

thanks for the help! Gonna try and get my hands on some of these...

Another album for VickEE to try (although she might know about it already, as they've become fairly well known in the music press lately) would be The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America. She might also want to go back in time and try out some of Graham Parker's late '70s material, particularly the albums featuring The Rumour as his backup band.

OK, despite my finding the whole idea of genres stupid (and WTF are NDW and EBM?), I'll play.


808 State - Ninety (1989, Acid House)
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (1992, IDM)
Bad Brains - Bad Brains (ROIR Sessions) (1982, Hardcore Punk)
The Band - The Last Waltz (1978, Folk Rock)
Bauhaus - In The Flat Field (1980, Gothic Rock)
The Blow Monkeys - She Was Only A Grocer's Daughter (1987, Pop Funk)
Blur - Parklife (1994, Britpop)
Can - Tago Mago (1971, Krautrock)
Cocteau Twins - Treasure (1984, Dream Pop)
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (1972, Glam Rock)
Depeche Mode - Speak & Spell (1981, Synthpop)
Duran Duran - Duran Duran (1981, New Romantic)
Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief (1969, British Folk-Rock)
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (2004, Artwave)
Front 242 - Front by Front (1988, EBM)
The Human League - Dare! (1981, New Romantic)
James Chance & The Contortions - Buy the Contortions (1979, No Wave)
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy (1985, Noise-Pop)
Joni Mitchell - Blue (1971, Singer-Songwriter)
King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King (1969, Progressive Rock)
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley (1994, Stoner Rock)
Ladytron - 604 (2001, Electroclash)
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire (1973, Jazz-Rock)
Massive Attack - Mezzanine (1998, Trip-Hop)
Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West (1997, Indie Rock)
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991, Shoegaze)
Nightmares On Wax - A Word Of Science (1991, Downtempo)
Nirvana - Nevermind (1991, Grunge)
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967, Psychedelic Rock)
Portishead - Dummy (1995, Trip-Hop)
Primal Scream - Sonic Flower Groove (1987, C-86)
Ramones - Ramones (1976, Punk)
R.E.M. - Murmur (1983, College Rock)
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks... Here's the Sex Pistols! (1977, Punk)
Paul Simon - Graceland (1986, Pop)
Sisters of Mercy - Floodland (1987, Gothic Rock)
Slayer - Reign in Blood (1986, Thrash Metal)
Slowdive - Souvlaki (1993, Shoegaze)
Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements (1993, Abstract Pop)
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (1989, Madchester)
The Strokes - Is This It (2001, Garage Rock Revival)
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden (1988, Post-Rock)
Tarwater - Silur (1998, Indie Electronic)
Trio - Trio (1981, NDW)
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes (1983, Folk Punk)

List: 100 Great Genre Defining Albums, Count: 45

Hello! :)
I am looking for something similar to the Arcade Fire and Guillemots albums. Something powerful, and magical but it shouldn't be only instrumental. I need some good new voices too ;)

@spiteface

Do you know maudlin of the Well? It's not black metal, but it's atmospheric, dark and sometimes technical. Try Bath and Leaving Your Body Map.

@milkbone, re: NDW
NDW is Neue Deutsche Welle, New German Wave - not identical with German New Wave, mind; rather, a generation of Germans deciding that it isn't all that uncool to make pop songs in your native language and within a year or two in the early eighties flooding the market with so many dadaism-meets-carnival eightieser-than-leggings electropoprock trash singles that even today it's impossible to attend a German flea market and not find the stuff to make up eighty percent of every single record box to wade through ... classic tracks would be 99 Luftballons, Da Da Da, Goldener Reiter, Hurra, hurra, die Schule brennt, Major Tom, Sternenhimmel. Great stuff to make an arse of yourself with at karaoke.

@mrsaddy:
Frog Eyes - Tears Of The Valedictorian and Mumm-ra - These Things Move In Threes might be for you - exalted and majestic, quick, never-boring and hook-laden. Frog Eyes are a little more on the weird side, Mumm-Ra perhaps a little poppier. Alternatively you could just go back in time for some Roxy Music, their debut album for foppish theatre-pop à la Arcade Fire (well, it doesn't exactly sound like them, but the spirit's certainly there, it's the sound of silk ties smeared with make-up, icing sugar and a tiny drop of blood), later works for things as dancable as Guillemots.

God is an Astronaut - The End of the Beginning (2004)



An excellent album, no fillers at all!

I won't say anything else, other than to give it a spin.

@LucieAndCo thank You so much!!!!
Frog Eyes are amazing, and I just got the Roxy music CD you were talking about.
But I cant find Mumm-Ra anywere.
Anyways, thanks a lot! :) :*

Thanks Cylob and the corporation which is Lucie. :)

Cylob said:
I've stumbled on something which is much closer to Asobi Seksu...

Luminous Orange - Drop Your Vivid Colors (2005)



A Japanese take on MBV of the "Isn't Anything" era.



Will try soon, thank you. :)

Can anyone recommend some samba/bossa nova artists like Antonio Carlos Jobim?

Something along the lines of Jobim's "Wave" album.

Thanks