A new corollary

[angela_o]

I've always said that stuff expands to fill the space available. Well, apparently music expands to fill the iPod space available as well. I thought that 4G sounded like so much when I opened my lovely early birthday surprise, but I'm closing in on 70% filled up already. Ah, the decisions! What do I exclude? What must I have? It's tough I tell ya. Plus, I still need to figure out if there's a way to keep iTunes from downloading everything to the iPod when it synchronizes the folders. Hmmm.

Anyway, I now enlist suggestions from all of you. My musical finds that I've loved in the past few months have been Keane (Hopes and Fears), Frou Frou (Details, my latest love), Rufus Wainwright, and The Postal Service. I know, I'm really behind the times with some of these, but I figure much better late then never right? I'm bound and determined not to be one of those people who ages and refuses to listen to new music and thus gets stuck with a finite pool of listening choices with nothing from past their middle 20's in the queue. So, what five bands/singers would *you* recommend I check out? I'm primarily a British alternativeish kind of gal, but I'm open to all suggestion. A brief description of the singer/group's sound/music would be a great help.

Please, rec away!

Comments

[angela-o.livejournal.com]

I do have a little Death Cab, mostly random songs that showed up in soundtrack albums. I know I have at least one track from the Wicker Park soundtrack which also has The Postal Service cover of Against All Odds. I'll have to check Death Cab out a little more. As for Muse, what type of music do they perform? I'm not familiar with them although I've seen the name.

Don't worry. Five was a suggestion nto a requirement. lol It's not a test. Relax. Breathe in. Breathe out. (Which reminds me, Breathe In is the second track on Details. Ah, synchronicity. :))

[cookie2697.livejournal.com]

Muse is definitely alternative-rock, but they're very darkly classical sounding. The front man was OBVIOUSLY classical music trained before he went rock. There's some great piano in there, as well as some good strong rock songs. I don't think you can really go wrong with any of their stuff, but my favorites are: Hysteria, Butterflies and Hurricaines, Falling Away With You, Stockholm Syndrome, and Thoughts of a Dying Athiest (not to mention their huge single Time is Running Out).

Death Cab is kind of the same for me, by the way. I only have about 4-5 songs by them that I really know *well*, but pretty much all of them I obsess over. LOL. They'd be: Tiny Vessels, A Movie Script Ending, The Sound of Settling, Photobooth, and A Lack of Color. I like them and recommend them. I have a bunch more downloaded, but I haven't fallen in love with any others - yet ;) When I get bored with my music I go through them and find something new ;)

[angela-o.livejournal.com]

I've got A Movie Script Ending from the soundtrack. Thanks for the other reccomendations. I'll see if I can scare up some Muse to check them out as well. :)