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Re: Getting a top 40 person into new music
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 1:38 pm
by Chankgeez
This thread is getting filled with great ideas.
Because she likes Top 40, try Top 40 from eras gone by. Some of it is actually good music.
Re: Getting a top 40 person into new music
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 2:24 pm
by D.o.S.
Check out Amy Winehouse's last album. The one with Rehab on it. That record is great.
Shades of Blue is Madlib remixing a whole bunch of Blue Note songs. Old jazz through a hip-hop kaleidoscope.
If she likes M83, maybe Boards of Canada? Geogaddi is tits.
Re: Getting a top 40 person into new music
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 2:58 pm
by Ghost Hip
I kind of skimmed this thread so excuse any repetition, but if I were trying to show a top 40 person new music I'd start in the same area. More pop music. Tegan and Sara, The White Stripes, Weezer... then when she likes something ask her what she likes about it, what does she want to hear more of. If she likes say the White Stripes, and she says she likes the voice (yeah, that's a stretch but whatever) then I'd suggest more unique kind of strained vocalists like Arcade fire, Bright Eyes, etc.
Then out of nowhere blast some Sleep or Deerhoof, just to keep them on their toes.
Re: Getting a top 40 person into new music
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 3:09 pm
by jfrey
PumpkinPieces wrote:Then out of nowhere blast some Sleep or Deerhoof, just to keep them on their toes.
Re: Getting a top 40 person into new music
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 5:03 pm
by jrmy
I'm going to see these guys tonight, and maybe she'll dig the female vox rock thing:
http://www.freeelectricstate.com/OH! Superdrag! Particularly the album "In the Valley of Dying Stars." Because it is simultaneously power poppy and one of the best albums ever. NO HYPERBOLE!
Re: Getting a top 40 person into new music
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 5:11 pm
by Rygot
Post Rock
Shoegaze
Bitches love shoegaze.
Re: Getting a top 40 person into new music
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 5:42 pm
by Achtane
bitches love triphop
triphop is sexin with rain hittin the windas music
Re: Getting a top 40 person into new music
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 6:03 pm
by alexa.
D.o.S. wrote:If she likes M83, maybe Boards of Canada? Geogaddi is tits.
This!
Also: Helios, Bonobo, Maybeshewill, 65daysofstatic, Dredg, Silversun Pickups.
Re: Getting a top 40 person into new music
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 7:25 pm
by Derelict78
Tool
and if you want to fuck with her through a few skinny puppy songs in.
Re: Getting a top 40 person into new music
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 10:38 pm
by jfrey
Ha! All you people suck - not really - but she totally dug like 70% of the prog rock. Everything except Dream Theater, Coheed, and Sieges Even.
Re: Getting a top 40 person into new music
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 10:42 pm
by Chankgeez
Well, I guess that means you know her better than we do and you're kindred prog heads.
Re: Getting a top 40 person into new music
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 11:29 pm
by D.o.S.
jfrey wrote:Ha! All you people suck - not really - but she totally dug like 70% of the prog rock. Everything except Dream Theater, Coheed, and Sieges Even.
Don't know Seiges even, but if she doesn't like DT or Coheed she can't be beyond saving.
Re: Getting a top 40 person into new music
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 12:34 am
by devnulljp
She pretended to like prog rock? Dude, she's totally into you.
Re: Getting a top 40 person into new music
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 12:54 am
by jfrey
Re: Getting a top 40 person into new music
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 1:20 am
by jrmy
jfrey wrote:Ha! All you people suck - not really - but she totally dug like 70% of the prog rock. Everything except Dream Theater, Coheed, and Sieges Even.
Damn! There you go - further proof that trusting your gut beats trusting the Interwebz.
Still, get her a copy of "In the Valley of Dying Stars." It's IMPORTANT!