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[jnagyjr]

Has anyone made a list of all the bands/albums mentioned over the past 5 years? Back when I started reading this I never thought I'd be able to (or want to) listen to all the music that gets talked about both in the strips and in the news posts. now I realize some of the bands/albums don't exist in reality so that's a given right there.

But if anyone has such a list, I'd love to get a copy. I'm looking to expand my musical horizons past what I usually listen to. Right now I'm just checking out an old Mogwai album (Happy Songs for Happy People). Don't really "get it", but that's fine. Maybe that's its charm?

Anyway, enough about that. Thanks in advance!

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Now playing: Happy Songs For Happy People - Mogwai - Ratts Of The Capital
via FoxyTunes

[Jackie Blue]

You never thought you'd be able to listen to all the bands mentioned in QC.

Jesus, dude.  There have probably been less then 100 bands mentioned, certainly less than 500.

Earlier this year I was dared to name 1000 bands that I like and did 700 before I even started to slow down.  I own or have owned albums by at least 800 bands.

[jnagyjr]

I started reading QC several months after it started, so I didn't know what to expect with regards to that first off, and secondly my life doesn't revolve around music. I'd be lucky to remember 800 different bands much less to have listened to that many. I understand that I have been, in the past, musically sheltered but geeze dude, give me some slack.

That and I've been out of the QC loop for about two years. Just now catching up on missed strips.

[Jackie Blue]

My life doesn't revolve around music either.

It revolves around drinking Scotch and banging young girls.  DUH.

[öde]

This seems like a very odd way to go about finding music! Jeph used to have a recommended listening page, but that's been replaced by the music blog. That's a bit wordy though, so maybe you'll want to just look in some of the many many threads here where people want to know what music they should listen to and listen to some. Then you can go by genre/label to find more music you like. Happy listening!

[jnagyjr]

Nice to know that not everyone here is a dick. I was going to be sorely disappointed if zerodrone was going to be the only personality type.

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll check out the music blog and surf the other threads as well. Never really been exposed to "indie" music so I figured after 5 years it was time for something different. Most of my collection is Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne and Led Zepplin (those are the three biggest names, in terms of completeness of collection, in my library).

Anyway, thanks again!

[Jackie Blue]

I'm not a dick.

Pigfucker.

 

[benji]

I'm pretty sure you can still get to Jeph's recommended list somehow, though I can't remember exactly how.

[WriterofAllWrongs]

It wouldn't be that it wouldn't be that bad of an idea if QC stopped telling jokes about of Montreal a long while back.  All the names mentioned are pretty starter indie, so if people were so inclined to start getting into the indie scene, it would certainly cut back on the number of "Recommend me indie/electronica/blahblah" threads this forum gets.  The problem is that there's no real place to put it.  Stickying it would be a bit much maybe, and you'd have to talk to jeph about putting it anywhere on the site. 

[Jackie Blue]

People don't get the "why so serious?" routine you do straight away, you do come across as an asshole in these threads to people who don't know you.

I know, but in this case I really don't see what's dickish about being confused that someone thinks they won't ever have enough time to listen to less than 100 bands.  I mean that's like saying "I never thought I'd be able to watch every episode of The Sopranos..."

[jimbunny]

I still don't think I'll be able to see every episode of Dr. Who. But then, I don't think you can find some of them anymore, so I'd be right.

[Be My Head]

I still don't think I'll ever be able to listen to every single one of Frank Zappa's albums...

[jnagyjr]

People don't get the "why so serious?" routine you do straight away, you do come across as an asshole in these threads to people who don't know you.

I know, but in this case I really don't see what's dickish about being confused that someone thinks they won't ever have enough time to listen to less than 100 bands.  I mean that's like saying "I never thought I'd be able to watch every episode of The Sopranos..."

That wasn't so much the case as is finding every band that's been mentioned (positively or otherwise) at least once. I just want to branch out of the metal/rock/christian/opera/techno/space rock scene, ya know? I figured I'd take a page or two from my single most favorite (and the one I recommend the most) web comic and listen to the music the artist/writer apparently knows something about. No biggie, subscribed to the music blog and will start trolling for music recommendations in the forums as recommended earlier. Should have thought of that, but thought there'd be some sort of central list, especially if there really are so few bands actually mentioned.

I really didn't mean to cause any drama. I hate drama. Especially Internet drama. *cue in the gov't funded death robot*

[Wasteroo]

...metal/rock/christian/opera/techno/space rock scene...

Wait, what? Is that supposed to be a single compound genre, or multiple ones?

I doubt that you intended the former, but that would still be pretty cool.

[jnagyjr]

yeah, it would be pretty cool but no, I didn't intend the former. I'm just tired of the same old tired genres that I've grown up listening to. I want something different and good. I hate to say it though, I can't find anything positive or negative to say about the first Mogwai album I got. Happy Songs for Happy People is just, and I hate to say it, ironic.

[Xaris3514]

yeah, it would be pretty cool but no, I didn't intend the former. I'm just tired of the same old tired genres that I've grown up listening to. I want something different and good. I hate to say it though, I can't find anything positive or negative to say about the first Mogwai album I got. Happy Songs for Happy People is just, and I hate to say it, ironic.

I can give you a good list of my favorite (mostly underground) metal bands if that helps?

[kifsteve]

Here is the link to Jeph's recommended listenng (not the blog):
http://questionablecontent.net/rl.php

[Dimmukane]

He probably wouldn't dig too much metal.  Maybe a few of the lighter ones, but he doesn't sound like a guy who'd be into metal.


He might like Danava, though.  Just to throw something out there.

[Xaris3514]

He probably wouldn't dig too much metal.  Maybe a few of the lighter ones, but he doesn't sound like a guy who'd be into metal.


He might like Danava, though.  Just to throw something out there.

The lighter stuff is where I shine, considering that my favorite bands are either power metal, progressive metal or both.

[MrBlu]

800 bands...?

I don't think I've hit 600 yet. Possibly, but I doubt it...

[look out! Ninjas!]

My Itunes library has 702.

[WriterofAllWrongs]

I feel dwarfed.  I've only got 128.

<:c

[Xaris3514]

You feel dwarfed? Try around 50.

[Nodaisho]

Less than 100, but that is discounting stuff I never listen to.

[Dimmukane]

I've got a lot, but I'll be buggered if I can spit out the names of every single one of them.  I'm more prone to remembering album titles than band names.

[imagist42]

Wow. I guess I've got 190? That's what I get when I count the subfolders (sorted by artist) in my music folder. A whole lot more than I thought.

My Windows Media Player library (which contains only the music I actually expect to listen to if it comes up on random shuffle, because that's the library I sync to my Zen, which I usually have on random shuffle!) has 155 separate artists.

[Be My Head]

168 here (has this become a music dick comparing competition?)

I don't think you need to listen to as much music as possible, if you're content with what you have then I say keep it that way. But some personality types like to be constantly finding new music. For me it's a hunt to find better music than what I currently have.

[Xaris3514]

168 here (has this become a music dick comparing competition?)

I don't think you need to listen to as much music as possible, if you're content with what you have then I say keep it that way. But some personality types like to be constantly finding new music. For me it's a hunt to find better music than what I currently have.

The only reason I expanded from when I had like 5 bands was merely so I wouldn't get bored of what I have already.

[jnagyjr]

yeah, it would be pretty cool but no, I didn't intend the former. I'm just tired of the same old tired genres that I've grown up listening to. I want something different and good. I hate to say it though, I can't find anything positive or negative to say about the first Mogwai album I got. Happy Songs for Happy People is just, and I hate to say it, ironic.

I can give you a good list of my favorite (mostly underground) metal bands if that helps?

Thanks, that'd be nice. Something that isn't mainstream is always welcome.

[jnagyjr]

Here is the link to Jeph's recommended listenng (not the blog):
http://questionablecontent.net/rl.php

Thanks for the list! Now I've got a place to start shopping from.

[tuna ketchup x]

Here is the link to Jeph's recommended listenng (not the blog):
http://questionablecontent.net/rl.php

Thanks for the list! Now I've got a place to start shopping from.

Keep in mind that Jeph likes a lot of electronica, which may or may not be your thing. Of that list I'd especially recommend Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Spoon (although Telephono/Soft Effects is my personal fave), Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Xiu Xiu (newest album=classic). Have you ever listened to Sonic Youth, you might like them. Start with Sister and work backwards and forwards from there.

I'd guess I only have around 200 bands in my collection, but when I like an artist I buy everything they've ever put out. Twenty-five bands probably count for almost a third of my collection. I should really start weeding out the bands for which I only bought one album and were like, yeah whatever.

[Be My Head]

If you go to Jeph's 2005 list he has an album called "Blackwater Park" listed there.





Yeah, listen to that.

Also, I don't know if he has it. But check out Portishead's self titled album.

[Harun]

and if you like Blackwater Park, listen to Enslaved's Vertebrae (I put in up in the mediaf!re thread, p. 91)

[Xaris3514]

yeah, it would be pretty cool but no, I didn't intend the former. I'm just tired of the same old tired genres that I've grown up listening to. I want something different and good. I hate to say it though, I can't find anything positive or negative to say about the first Mogwai album I got. Happy Songs for Happy People is just, and I hate to say it, ironic.

I can give you a good list of my favorite (mostly underground) metal bands if that helps?

Thanks, that'd be nice. Something that isn't mainstream is always welcome.

Well, here goes:

Battlelore (power metal, some melodic death metal)
Blind Guardian (power metal)
Conception (progressive metal)
Derdian (power metal)
Dio (traditional metal, power metal)
Dream Theater (progressive metal)
Epica (symphonic power metal)
Galneryus (neo-classical metal, power metal)
Iron Maiden (traditional metal)
Kamelot (power metal)
Korpiklaani (folk metal)
Machinae Supremacy (progressive metal)
Masterplan (power metal, progressive metal)
Megadeth (thrash metal)
Sonata Arctica (power metal, progressive metal)
Tyr (folk metal)

As you can probably tell, I like a lot of power metal and progressive metal and you might like at least a few of the bands I've listed. I would especially recommend Kamelot, Galneryus, Machinae Supremacy and Masterplan.

[Be My Head]

Those bands are supposed to be underground? 

The term "underground" is thrown about all too often these days, but what exactly does it mean? I was under the impression that Iron Maiden, Dream Theater, Blind Guardian, Epica, Kamelot, Megadeth, Dio,  and Sonata Arctica were all rather popular in the metal scene.

Nonetheless, I would agree that the OP should listen to them as they're probably a good sampling of different metal artists.

[Xaris3514]

Those bands are supposed to be underground? 

The term "underground" is thrown about all too often these days, but what exactly does it mean? I was under the impression that Iron Maiden, Dream Theater, Blind Guardian, Epica, Kamelot, Megadeth, Dio,  and Sonata Arctica were all rather popular in the metal scene.

Nonetheless, I would agree that the OP should listen to them as they're probably a good sampling of different metal artists.

Meh, to me, underground is basically anything that most people who think of as obscure, but yeah, Maiden, Megadeth and Dio probably aren't underground, but Dream Theater, Blind Guardian, Epica, Kamelot and Sonata are arguable for underground status. Besides, I listed bands like Masterplan, Machinae Supremacy and Derdian that even some metalheads have never heard of.

[Jackie Blue]

Dream Theater used to have full-page ads in Circus magazine.

Not exactly obscure there.

[Xaris3514]

Dream Theater used to have full-page ads in Circus magazine.

Not exactly obscure there.

Then why does the majority of people still listen to the shit that radio force feeds them thinking that its the pinnacle of musical achievement only to forget about their "favorite" artists a few years later?

[sean]

Most people are content with listening to top 40 music. Which is fine. I just don't want to hear it myself.

Also, Dream Theater is on Roadrunner. They are owned by Waner Brothers. Do you see where I am going with this?

[WriterofAllWrongs]

Well, things don't have to be on the radio to be mainstream.  The Decemberists are not played on the radio, yet they are probably as close to mainstream that "indie" gets.  NoFX has not once signed to a major label, and they are insanely successful and known by people other than punk afficienados.  Hell, they've signed to Atlantic and Elektra, and are about as well-known outside of metal circles as Megadeth.

[Be My Head]

The majority of real music fans have heard and listened to Dream Theater. The majority of people who use music as background noise have probably never heard of any good bands. but we don't really count them do we?

Basically, you can blame it on ignorance or whatever, but people will listen to what they hear about from the mainstream media and not even realize that there could be more out there. You see this a lot in (stupid) music journalists who only write about uber famous bands and don't know shit about any other music.

Like I read an article stating that the only good Prog-Rock bands to come out since the 90s were Tool, The Mars Volta, and some other band who wasn't even Prog-Rock period . Blame the media for drilling this bs into people's heads all day.

P.S. Dream Theater are actually extremely famous...just to let you know. Despite the fact that they don't get played on the radio.

[Jackie Blue]

Then why does the majority of people still listen to the shit that radio force feeds them thinking that its the pinnacle of musical achievement only to forget about their "favorite" artists a few years later?

Because they enjoy it, probably.

Seriously, everyone, I have friends who listen to Top 40 music and I have tried playing them stuff I think is "better" and they honestly just don't like it as much.  Different people just have different tastes and I genuinely believe, especially in this day and age when nobody listens to the radio or gets their music from MTV, that people who listen to "Top 40" music - now more than ever - are doing it out of CHOICE and not because they're being spoon-fed music by the Evil Labels.  The Internet has rendered everyone a music expert, at least in potentia.

Like, for example, this girl I know, she's 18 and the only music she likes that I also like are The Millionaires and She Wants Revenge.  One day a couple weeks ago we were driving around and I was determined to play something she liked.

First, I tried some old Tricky - Pre-Millennium Tension - because she likes hip-hop and female vocalists.  She thought it was okay but said "Let's listen to something 'more girly'."  I don't know what that means, but whatever.  I played Regina Spektor.  She was "meh" about that too.  I played like 20 different things and she wasn't into any of it.  When you get down to it, it doesn't matter, either.

People have become so convinced that their taste in music or other art forms somehow defines them that they'll do anything to shore up that definition - usually involving paying money, at least indirectly, to Evil Corporations.

I prefer to listen to music in an ethical vacuum, personally.

[Dimmukane]

I'm a music fan (don't try to fight me on this), and I don't even like Dream Theater.  It happens.

[Jackie Blue]

I don't really like them either, honestly.  It's a band I could listen to maybe once every 5 years and then forget about.

[imagist42]

I think the implication is that everyone who's serious about music has heard them, not that everyone liked them.

Although that's probably just as erroneous.

[Be My Head]

Correct, if you make the effort to look for new music and "broaden your horizons" you're bound to have come across DT (whether you like them or loathe them). What I meant was that people who just listen to the same stuff off the radio or whatever wouldn't really have heard of them unless someone introduced them to DT or they found them by chance.

Not trying to start an argument, just saying that although Dream Theater is extremely popular that is only within fans of Progressive Rock, which incidentally, is almost never played on the radio.

[sean]

I have never listened to Dream Theater.

Please stop assuming silly things!

[Be My Head]

But you've heard OF them at least ; )

[Xaris3514]

I see your guys' point, but considering where I live (Kansas, the middle of fucking nowhere), people think stuff like Iron Maiden and Rush is obscure. I believe I have met a total of 4 or 5 people that have even heard of Dream Theater without me telling them about them. That said, I wouldn't exactly consider Dream Theater mainstream. They are probably somewhere between mainstream and underground.

[pinkpiche]

You can't really base a band's status on a local area..

But this thread sucks anyway so.