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

[emluv.livejournal.com]

Someone on my friends list was having iTunes downloading issues. Apparently somewhere in your settings you can fix it so it doesn't download everything from your computer automatically, but lets you manually indicate what to transfer. (And likewise, if you delete something from iTunes, it won't automatically delete it from your iPod the next time you synch up.)

[cookie2697.livejournal.com]

If you like Postal Service you might want to check out Death Cab for Cutie...if you haven't already, of course. They have the same lead singer/songwriter, only where Postal Service is electronic and bubbly, Death Cab is acoustic guitar-y and occasionally depressing - though good. I like Death Cab more than Postal Service, actually.

You want FIVE though? *shrieks and hides* I don't know if I can find that many.

Have you listened to Muse at all? I love them dearly, and though I've had their CD for 6 months, I'm listening to it compulsively right now in a way that I never really have before.

[tasyfa.livejournal.com]

Muse was what I was going to say, lol. They're Aussie, not British, but it's not *that* far removed, eh? ;-)

Four more, huh? How about The Perishers? I don't know if you saw any of what I posted about them a while ago - they opened for Sarah McLachlan when I saw her, and I like their CD, Let There Be Morning, very much. I think you'd enjoy it.

Lacuna Coil is another one you might enjoy; they remind me somewhat of Evanescence except more synth-based, less goth. The female singer has an amazing voice.

Anna Nalick, in case you've missed Anne and I both rambling about her lol.

Um.......that's where I run out of ideas. I don't think you'd be into much of what else I'm listening to these days, LOL.

I must, however, applaud you for choosing to stay open-minded musically. My dad used to be someone I could share music with - it was one of the few areas where we intersected that my mom doesn't share - and he has stopped listening to anything new, or even trying to. It pisses me off and makes me sad, so I'm going to hold *you* to it since I can't do anything about him! Also, I know of a few barely twentysomethings who loooooove Rufus Wainwright, so you're not really behind there. :D

[angelicus.livejournal.com]

Having the same issue with space that you have, here's what I messed around with until I got a simple system in place. First, it's important to assign each song a category (alternative, rock, etc.) and a rating. That's probably the most time consuming thing to do. But once you do that, you can create smartlists. Then you can remove songs from your ipod (it won't delete them from your itunes library) and move different smartlists onto your ipod depending on your mood.

If you go to your ipod properties in itunes when it's connected, you can change the settings so it will manually update instead of automatically update. Then you have complete control over what goes on and off your ipod.

Hope that helps a litte.