A music site you HAVE to check out!

[Matt]

Check this out, what a great find... have a play!

http://www.pandora.com

[Bobo]

Wow, good... the site made it to my famous list of bookmarks. :cool

[ArTee63]

That's cool. :P

[Bobo]

Damn, this is getting expensive... my list of "must buy" CD:s is growing as we speak. :lol:

Again thanks, Matt... what an amazing site. :cool

[The Big Banana]

Agreed. Already heard 4 groups that I want the cds for that I hadnt ever heard of before tonight.

[Bobo]

Same here... many good bands I have never heard of. :cool

[Valk]

I typed Valk and the Ugly Fat Chicks but I didnt get any results. :(

[Bobo]

Only silence, Valk? Maybe it was brain wave genome based? :lol:

[Valk]

No it said:

This music is too innovative, too dangerous and so unique that there is nothing like it. :mrgreen

[Bobo]

:lol: Well I knew that, the sample You posted here was impressive. As You noticed, I automatically gave You a honest answer without even suspecting it being "home made". It was cool, my friend, and I mean it.

[Matt]

Valky post a link to your work in this thread sweetheart, I'd love to have a listen.

[Matt]

I'm glad you all like the site, I think you'll all agree it's probably the best free site you've been to in loooong time.:D

[Bobo]

Yep, but after CC of course! :wink:

[Valk]

Well, I dont have any serious recordings yet. That soundbite I posted wasnt serious at all and wasnt in the style I normal write.
I think I have a couple of great ideas but they havent develloped into complete songs yet.
And I dont wanna post something serious that isnt completely done.
I hope you understand Matty.

[Bobo]

:lol: The Pandora site experienced "unexpected technical difficulties" and is totally jammed right now. I guess the flood of penis stretchers crashed their server! :lol: I bet this was Matt's revenge to the site that slowed CC down! Priceless! :lol:

[Matt]

lol bobo :D

And yes Valky, I understand.. I would still love to hear rough stuff (maybe I did in another thread, I don't remember).

[Valk]

lol. If you dont remember then it didnt make a very impression. :lol:

['TheBugKahuna']

I want to listen to your shit too.

[Bobo]

lol. If you dont remember then it didnt make a very impression. :lol:
You asked our opinion like it was something You just Googled, You didn't give any hints of it being Your work. "Would You dance to this" was the question... and my answer was something like "no, but it would be good background music for a cocktail party" or something similar. Notice: I didn't know it was Yours! I could have answered "that's some deep'n smelly crap" but I didn't, because it was all good. Post away, my friend, don't be shy.

[Valk]

That was intentional.
If someone who knows you asks for your opinion on something he/she has made, your opinion is (almost) always more positive then if it were a strangers work.
Thats why I dont like posting my stuff on the internet, because everyone can dress up their posts with lots of smilies to make their opinion very possible while they might hate it.

[Bobo]

I can assure You my answer was honest, I had no clue You're composing music, my friend!

How did You do it? I mean... what equipment? Did You use real instruments or some sort of program? I'm really interested because I feel my brains are full of new music, but all I have is my acoustic guitar and that's not a band.

[Valk]

It all came out of this baby:

http://users.design.ucla.edu/~badgerow/RD-700.jpg

Its a digital piano with lots of other sounds.
I played the music parts myself (one by one ofcourse) and recorded in a sequencer (Cubase).
I just used some basic sounds.

Drums
Bass
Strings (in the background)
Piano.

The only sound altered was the piano which was distorted heavily.

[Bobo]

Ok, I suspected something like that. It sure isn't easy, so I can honestly say not just anyone can do what You did.

[Valk]

Its not my best work by far. Most of my work are actual 'rock' songs with real instruments, structures and real lyrics.
I'm not trying to brag here. I'm no music genious who writes songs that will be rememberd for decades but I do think I'm better in writing songs then an average muscian. But ofcourse thats highly subjective.

[Bobo]

I'd love to hear some of Your other work too, my friend.

[Valk]

Maybe you will someday.

I dont have any quality recording at the moment, dont know if my voice is suitable enough to be commited to tape and my songs are only first drafts.
I do have some recordings but these are only to get an idea recorded so I dont forget it.

I plan on making a CD in the future and will make sure you get a signed copy! :lol: :roll:

[Bobo]

:lol:

Well, You should have more confidence on Your talent, man. Don't be shy... let me be the judge. :twisted:

[Valk]

Yes, I know, but I'm a perfectionist when it comes to music. I'm not good at many things so the couple of things I do have a feeling for, tend to become very serious with me.

[Bobo]

Perfectionist. That sounds familiar. Say no more, I know what You're saying.

[Valk]

I have it only with a couple of things, so I'm probably better off then you. :D

[Bobo]

I'm a perfectionist in everything, and that's why I demand too much of myself. I can't finish any projects "about there", they always have to perfect to the smallest detail. What a curse that is. :x

[Valk]

So when you for example cook a meal, does it need to be the most delicious, perfect meal there is?

[Bobo]

Well, my skills don't give me the opportunity to do something like that, so I'll just have to accept "my best". If I cook for myself only, it doesn't have to be perfect (but I still try my best)... but if I cook for someone else, it must be as perfect as possible with my skills.

I don't even dream of making a "perfect" meal myself because I've been to some amazing restaurants and I understand not just anybody can learn that, one must be gifted that way. That's why I always trust the professional chefs when I want to offer something special to my guests, because my own cookings can only be served to my enemies.

But if I'd have the skills, I wouldn't settle for anything less than perfect.

[Valk]

Okay, what are the things you are a perfectionist in then? (apart from work)

[Godma]

Good idea for a site, but the stuff in their database is (at the moment) really, really limited. Couldn't really find anything relavant to the searches I made.

[Bobo]

I was surprised they don't have all the bands I know, but hundreds of bands I've never heard of. But I've still managed to find loads of good bands I've never heard of that I will definately check out, some variety to the top-50 crap that is playing on all radio stations.

BTW, sometimes it doesn't know a certain band, but after a while it does... for example "the Roots" was a total mystery to them earlier today but now they do know the band. Weird...

[Valk]

Its down again...

I had the exact opposite of Godma. I search for a song and the related songs were almost exactly the same as the original one. Maybe some people like to hear an hour of the same sort of songs but I dont.

[The Big Banana]

I noticed as I started to throw aussie bands at it that they werent in there. The screaming jets, Eskimo Joe, Regurgitator, Resin Dogs... they didnt even have Cold Chisel.

[Matt]

because my own cookings can only be served to my enemies.


LOL that made me laugh.:lol:

[Spike]

I'm listening to Black Moustache as they recommended.

[Valk]

So they recommend Black Moustache when you type in 'Back Street Boys'?

[Spike]

No. Try again. They've recommended Adult & Enon now.

You were right earlier - their recommendations sound like poor imitations of what I liked originally.

The Lords of Acid now.

[Valk]

The majority of people doesnt really have a diverse taste that they actually like more then 1 or 2 different genres, so this approach is probably the best.

Currently listen to Miles Davis Radio. :cool

[Spike]

Pandora stopped working - they wanted me to expend some effort signing up!!!

So I've fired up Media Player - I've got 26gb to listen too.

Astral Projection is currently playing, then maybe a bit of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club followed by some Leaves' Eyes or maybe Philip Glass.

Who's Miles Davis? Your neighbour? Tell him to turn his radio down if it's annoying. :lol:

[Bobo]

Black Sabbath radio here. :cool

[zeolite]

I just heard about a similar site: http://last.fm. You type in the name of a band you like and it tells you the names of bands that other users who listened to the band you like also listened to. Unlike Pandora, it doesn't play any of the tracks for you (as far as I can tell) but it's still fairly useful.

['TheBugKahuna']

I typed in Radiohead and I got this:

1 Coldplay 100
2 The Smashing Pumpkins 89
3 The Beatles 88
4 Modest Mouse 87
5 Muse 86
6 Pixies 82
7 The White Stripes 79
8 Weezer 75
8 The Flaming Lips 75
10 The Strokes 73
11 Nirvana 72
12 Sigur Rós 71
13 Red Hot Chili Peppers 69
13 Pink Floyd 69
15 R.E.M. 68
16 Wilco 67
16 The Cure 67
18 Massive Attack 65
18 Led Zeppelin 65
18 Belle and Sebastian 65
21 Queens of the Stone Age 63
22 Jeff Buckley 62
22 The Smiths 62
24 Portishead 61
24 Foo Fighters 61
24 Bright Eyes 61
24 David Bowie 61
28 Mogwai 59
29 Pearl Jam 58
30 Doves 57
30 Bob Dylan 57
32 Nine Inch Nails 56
33 Incubus 55
33 Badly Drawn Boy 55
35 Eels 54
35 Moby 54
35 The Velvet Underground 54
35 Sonic Youth 54
35 Rage Against the Machine 54
40 Joy Division 52
40 The Chemical Brothers 52
40 Jimi Hendrix 52
43 Ben Folds Five 51
43 Neutral Milk Hotel 51
45 The Doors 50
45 The Rolling Stones 50
45 PJ Harvey 50
48 At the Drive-In 48
48 DJ Shadow 48
50 Ben Folds 47
51 Grandaddy 45
51 The Beach Boys 45
53 Garbage 44
53 Manic Street Preachers 44
53 Pulp 44
56 Counting Crows 43
56 Talking Heads 43
58 Neil Young 42
58 The Beta Band 42
58 Johnny Cash 42
61 The Stone Roses 40
61 Audioslave 40
61 Miles Davis 40
64 Soundgarden 39
64 The Vines 39
64 Kings of Convenience 39
67 Ash 38
68 Cursive 37
68 Idlewild 37
70 Norah Jones 35
70 Gomez 35
70 The Police 35
70 Ben Kweller 35
70 Jamiroquai 35
75 Pedro the Lion 34
75 The New Pornographers 34
75 The Magnetic Fields 34
78 blink-182 33
78 Guns N' Roses 33
78 The Roots 33
78 Christopher O'Riley 33
78 Underworld 33
83 Feeder 31
83 Autechre 31
83 Ramones 31
83 Sneaker Pimps 31
83 Violent Femmes 31
88 Elvis Costello 30
88 Mercury Rev 30
90 Tricky 29
91 Faith No More 28
91 Soulwax 28
91 Spiritualized 28
91 The Wrens 28
95 Zwan 27
95 The Presidents of the United States of America 27
95 Do Make Say Think 27
98 They Might Be Giants 26
98 John Coltrane 26
98 Calexico

Most of those sound nothing like Radiohead. Don't take my remark as rudeness, Zeolite, please.

[zeolite]

Oh well. I posted it here after it was recommended by a friend. I've used it a couple of times and it seems to work quite well for less well known bands. So many people listen to Radiohead that if you listed all the songs people listened to straight after they listened to Radiohead then you'd get a huge mix.

[zwmusic]

I typed BACH and pissed myself laughing. :lol:

But I quite liked BEETHOVEN RADIO.

I also tried AMADEUS (for Mozart) and got "Rock Me Amadeus" by a nutty german band. :lol:

zwmusic as artist name gave me 3 choices, the first called THE MUSIC. Hmmmmm... the second ROXY MUSIC... Hmmmm... the third FIELD MUSIC... Hmmmm... :?

The best is yet to come, CONCERTO (by Pizzicato Five)! :lol:
CONCERTO by Cacophony is OK.

[Bobo]

"Field music"... :lol: We have a winner!!! :lol:

[ownd]

awsome site

[Rum_Runner]

Check this out, what a great find... have a play!

http://www.pandora.com
Bumb Just checked it out seems pretty good. Been here about ten minutes heard what I was looking for. They do want you to register after ten minutes though it is free though.