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Sat Dec-18-04 03:16 PM
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Good music suggestions to convert one who listens to Usher |
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I have a friend who listens to a lot of Usher, Alicia Keys, Destiny's Child, Ashlee Simpson, etc etc...
Is there some way I can sort of ease her into liking better music? Maybe I can do it into a series of CDs, one after the other with a little time in between to get used to them? If so, give song suggestions. I have a lot of music on my computer, but am not sure where to even start! HELP music junkies!
I refuse to believe she is beyond our help.
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Sat Dec-18-04 03:18 PM
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is that alicia keys is the shit...don't lump her in with the rest of that crap...
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Sat Dec-18-04 03:18 PM
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i'm just giving a general picture of what she listens to!
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Sat Dec-18-04 03:21 PM
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3. Nothing wrong with Keys or DC |
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I like listening to some of their songs in fact.
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Sat Dec-18-04 03:22 PM
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4. It is if that's ALL she listens to |
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I'm trying to get a little diversity going.
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Sat Dec-18-04 03:23 PM
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5. I kind of like their new(ish) duet |
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Sat Dec-18-04 03:27 PM
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6. What DOESN'T she like? |
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It might be helpful to know if your friend has any definite dislikes in music. First tip: She needs to ditch the Ashlee. Wean her with some Weezer. http://homepage.mac.com/rondavis/iblog/
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Sat Dec-18-04 03:32 PM
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7. I don't know her tastes well at all... |
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She lives across the hall from me...
In my house...
But still, I don't know her musical tastes because she listens to the same three CDs over and over and over and over.
She's our exchange student, teehee
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Sat Dec-18-04 03:37 PM
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8. Well, you don't have to convert her |
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Edited on Sat Dec-18-04 03:41 PM by mvd
I like a lot of pop myself - but diversity is good. I like some Usher songs, Alicia Keys, and Destiny's Child from the Survivor album on back. Even like a couple Ashlee Simpson songs, but she's definitely not a fave of mine. At least Ashlee's better than that amateurish Diana DeGarmo CD and the boy-band-lite Jesse McCartney.
Are you looking for obsure suggestions or more mainstream suggestions?
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Sat Dec-18-04 03:55 PM
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10. I know you won't agree with all of it, but.. |
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Edited on Sat Dec-18-04 04:16 PM by mvd
I have a tentative favorite CDs of 2004 list you can start with. As one person said, though, we like what we like. There is no "best" music. This list could diversify her, though.
Top 20:
U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb Penelope Houston - Pale Green Girl Bonnie McKee - Trouble Patti Smith - Trampin' Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous A.C. Newman - Slow Wonder The Corrs - Borrowed Heaven Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose Green Day - American Idiot Avril Lavigne - Under My Skin Maria Mena - White Turns Blue Butterfly Boucher - Flutterby Vanessa Carlton - Harmonium Elliott Smith - From a Basement on a Hill Holly Williams - The Ones We Never Knew R.E.M. - Around The Sun Steve Earle - The Revolution Starts.. Now Donnas - Gold Medal Diana Anaid - Beautiful Obscene Abra Moore - Everything Changed
Honorable mentions:
Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus Wilco - A Ghost Is Born Mindy Smith - One Moment More Katy Rose - Because I Can Indigo Girls - All That We Let In Hanson - Underneath Mary Lou Lord - Baby Blue Finn Brothers - Everyone Is Here Gwen Stefani - Love, Music, Angel, Baby Interpol - Antics P.J. Harvey - Uh Huh Her Collective Soul - Youth
Guilty pleasure of the year: Lindsay Lohan - Speak
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Sat Dec-18-04 04:28 PM
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Yes, this is more of an attempt to not have to listen to her CDs over and over from across the hallway. You have a good list there that I will use.
Oh, and I know you just put Hanson on there because you're talking to me ;)
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Sat Dec-18-04 04:29 PM
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13. Oh my god, you're going to think I'm weird |
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But I love Jesse McCartney, he can sing to me anytime he wants :D
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Sat Dec-18-04 03:40 PM
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You like the music you like and she can like the music she likes. Why must we try to change peoples tastes? The only one you listed that i wouldn't go out of my way to hear is Ashlee.
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Sat Dec-18-04 04:27 PM
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11. Not trying to change her |
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Trying to diversify her a bit so I don't have to listen to the same 3 CDs over and over and over and over again.
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Sat Dec-18-04 04:29 PM
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start off with some easily accessible stuff like Marvin Gaye's Best Of work then more her into Stevie Wonder and then onto the Beatles etc. Get em started on the most easily accessible stuff then move to the more obscure.
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Sat Dec-18-04 04:43 PM
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15. Old Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Suicidal Tendencies, Slayer |
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Sepultura, Slip Knot, A Perfect Circle, Tool, Tenacious D, Black Sabbath, Sum 41, Ozzy Osbourne.
If she has any taste in music she should enjoy all those bands. ;)
Actually I don't think a lot of women like those bands, except for maybe A Perfect Circle. It's high testosterone stuff. But you never can tell. I know there have been a few all female heavy metal bands.
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Sat Dec-18-04 06:16 PM
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Sat Dec-18-04 06:43 PM
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27. Oh no love, Heavy Metal always |
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Mercyful Fate, Metal Church Pantera, Slayer, Soulfly, Fear Factory, Slip Knot, Damage Plan, old and I mean old Metallica and lots more Just saw Slayer two nights ago. and the all time greatest to me....JUDAS PRIEST, I love you Robert!! thus my name.............
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Sat Dec-18-04 05:22 PM
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16. Portishead, Morcheeba, Jamiroquai............................... |
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just off the top of my head.
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Sat Dec-18-04 05:22 PM
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17. I think Usher and Keys are very talented performers |
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DC are a puff piece but I still bob my head everytime one of their songs comes on the radio.
May I ask how old your friend is?
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Sat Dec-18-04 06:22 PM
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Sat Dec-18-04 06:22 PM
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19. Give her some Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles, can't go wrong there |
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Sat Dec-18-04 06:26 PM
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Sat Dec-18-04 06:27 PM
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22. SLAYER, SLAYER, SLAYER, Pantera, Soulfly to name a few |
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Sat Dec-18-04 06:33 PM
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24. That's not easing her into anything |
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That's replacing crappy R&B heaches with metal headaches. I don't see the difference.
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Sat Dec-18-04 06:44 PM
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28. You never know until you try n/t |
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Sat Dec-18-04 06:33 PM
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23. Robert Randolph Family Band |
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kickin ass music for Fri and Sat nights...Robert Randolph voted top 20 guitarists of all time by rolling stone...like that matters ;-) http://www.robertrandolph.net/
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Sat Dec-18-04 06:34 PM
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I have a lot of his music. :)
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Sat Dec-18-04 06:39 PM
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tour turned me on to him when he opened for Clapton. Ran into crew morning of concert and they all told me to not show up late and miss Randolph..were they right!
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Sat Dec-18-04 06:45 PM
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Its worked miracles on many, My sister, 2 best Friends, 3 girlfreinds,.... etc.
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Sat Dec-18-04 06:48 PM
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Sat Dec-18-04 06:50 PM
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Also Tricky, Roni Size, Barry Adamson, Portishead, Morcheeba....most of the stuff to come out of the UK's trip-hop/dub/downbeat scene would probably be good.
And some female jazz vocalists, perhaps. Nina Simone, Bille Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, and so on.
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