My tastes in music are pretty eclectic: Peter Gabriel, Tori Amos to Nine Inch Nails, The Offspring, Filter, The Dead Kennedys, Philip Glass, J.S. Bach, Ladysmith Black Mombazo, Nusurat Fatah Ali Khan.
Good Bands With Free Music on the Internet
- Here's Vienna Teng. Download "Between," then buy the album.
- Midsummer is a
beautiful and melodic Shoegazer band.
I especially like "Where the Waves" and "Clock in Amber."
- Another good (albeit darker) Shoegazer band is
A
Beautiful Machine.
Try "Breathe in Space" for it's haunting, almost minimalist melody.
"Home" is worth listening to as well.
- And here's Hidden
Agenda, the World's Most Evil Band,
responsible for such evil gems as "Kill Yourself for Satan," "The
Voices," and "Kurt Cobain is Dead, And I Wish It Were You."
And "She Stole My Squid" and "Keep on Rockin'" have to be heard to be believed.
My Top Ten Songs As Of This Particular Moment In Time
- U2: Bad (live version)
- Tori Amos: Pretty Good Year
- David Byrne: Hanging Upside Down
- Nine Inch Nails: Closer
- Big Head Todd and the Monsters: Bittersweet
- A Beautiful Machine: Breathe in Space
- Nirvana: All Apologies
- Peter Gabriel: Biko
- Warren Zevon: Angel Dressed in Black
- Genesis: Carpet Crawlers (Live version)
Honorable Mention
- Tori Amos: Sugar, Josephine, Little Earthquakes, Spark
- Laurie Anderson: Ramon, Strange Angels, Gravity's Angel
- Joseph Arthur: In the Sun
- Adrian Belew: Pretty Pink Rose, Big Electric Cat, I Am What I AM
- The Balanescue Quartet: Hanging Upside Down (see also: David Byrne)
- The Beatles: I Am the Walrus
- Blink 182: All the Small Things
- Blondie: Dreaming
- David Bowie: The Heart's Filthy Lesson, Ashes to Ashes, All Saints
- David Byrne: Ava, Ur, Dinner Music, Winter
- Chemical Brothers: Let Forever Be
- The Cranberries: Daffodil Lament
- Dead Can Dance: Rakim
- The Dead Kennedys: Holiday in Cambodia, Chemical Warfare
- Devo: Jocko Homo, Beautiful World
- The Dream Academy: Life in a Northern Town (best one-hit wonder ever!)
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Lucky Man
- Enya: The Longships, China Roses
- Eurythmics: Doubleplusgood
- Everclear: Santa Monica
- Filter: Hey Man Nice Shot, It's Over, World Today
- Front 242: Welcome to Paradise V1.0
- Peter Gabriel: Not One of Us, And Through the Wire, I Have the Touch, Zaar,
San Jacinto, Solsbury Hill, Here Comes the Flood, Shaking the Tree,
In Your Eyes
- Genesis: Supper's Ready, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Back in NYC
- Philip Glass: Runaway Horses, Kyoto's House, Knee Play #3, Opening, Closing, Serra Pelada
- Don Henley: The Boys of Summer
- Hooters: Satellite
- Jane's Addiction: Three Days, Mountain Song
- Jethro Tull: Moths, Skating Away, Ring Out, Solstice Bells, One Brown Mouse
- King Crimson: Vrooom, Discipline
- Ladysmith Black Mombazo: Hallilujah
- Ladysmith Black Mombazo & The Mint Julips: The Lion Sleeps Tonight
- Live: Selling the Drama
- Mahalinthi and the Mahotella Queens: Won't You Please Sing Along
- Marillion: Freaks, Lady Nina, Waterhole (Expresso Bongo), Blind Curve
- Midsummer: Where the Waves
- Nine Inch Nails: Head Like a Hole
- Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit, Heart Shaped Box
- Nusurat Fatah Ali Khan: Shamas-Ud-Doha, Badar-Ud-Doja
- The Offspring: Walla Walla, Why Don't You Get a Job?
- Mike Oldfield: Etude
- OMD: Genetic Engineering, Statues, Georgia
- Pearl Jam: Release
- Pink Floyd: Comfortably Numb, Time, Brain Damage, Wish You Were Here,
- Psychadelic Furs: The Ghost in You
- REM: This Light, This World, The Wrong Child, It's the End of the
World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine), Finest Worksong, Orange Crush,
Losing my Religion
- Tom Russell: Gallo del Cielo
- The Sex Pistols: God Save the Queen, Anarchy in the UK, Bodies
- Simon & Garfunkle: The Boxer, America
- Paul Simon: The Obvious Child
- Slowdive: Primal
- Stabbing Westward: Ungod
- Suzi and the Banshees: The Ghost in You
- Talking Heads: Burning Down the House, Life During Wartime
(Live), Road to Nowhere, Dream Operator
- Vienna Teng: Soon Love Soon, Between
- U2: Where the Streets Have No Name, Red Hill Mining Town,
Mothers of the Disappeared, Beautiful Day, Vertigo
- The Who: Who Are You?, Baba O'Riley, Don't Get Fooled Again, Love, Reign O'er Me
- Warren Zevon: Werewolves of London
My Top Ten Albums of All Time
- Peter Gabriel III (aka "Melt")
- U2: The Joshua Tree
- King Crimson: Discipline
- Nine Inch Nails: The Downward Spiral
- The Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
- Nirvana: Nevermind
- Filter: Short Bus
- Paul Simon: Graceland
- Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes
- The Offspring: Americana
Honorable Mention
- Tori Amos: To Venus and Back
- Laurie Anderson: Stange Angels
- The Balanescue Quartet: Possessed
- Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Adrian Belew: Young Lions
- Body Count: Body Count
- David Byrne: The Forest, Sounds from True Stories
- Peter Gabriel: Security
- Philip Glass: Mishima, Glassworks
- Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, A Trick of the Tail, Duke
- Jethro Tull: Songs from the Wood
- Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced?
- Jane's Addiction: Nothing's Shocking
- Live: Throwing Copper
- Mac Umba: Don't Hold Your Breath
- Marillion: Misplaced Childhood, B-Sides Themselves
- Peter Murphy: Deep
- Mike Oldfield: The Killing Fields, QE2
- Arvo Part: Kanon Pokajanen
- Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon
- REM: Green
- The Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
- Simon & Garfunkle: Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., The Sounds of Silence
- Slowdive: Just for a Day
- Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
- Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense, True Stories
- Vienna Teng: Waking Hour
- Pete Townshend: White City
- Andrew Lloyd Webber: Jesus Christ Superstar (London Cast)
- Yes: The Yes Album
- Warren Zevon: Mr. Bad Example
Updated: December 13, 2004.
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