1 song to convince someone to listen to your favorite band

[Chaotic42]

Most of the obscure 'favorite' stuff being linked here is pretty much nailed in this brief segment:

Baby Driver Honest Trailer

Hah. Basically.

 

[BUTCH1]

Time for Pink Floyd is good

Won't Get Fooled Again for The Who
Satisfaction for The Rolling Stones
You Shook Me All Night Long for AC/DC
The Weight for The Band
Don't Fear the Reaper for BOC
Born to be Wild for Steppenwolf
and of course
Honey for Bobby Goldsboro

Looks like a playlist for the most burned-out AOR we've been beaten over the head with for the last 30 years. Kids must think the Stones were a 3-song band. How about the Who Love reign over me?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDbAtWpoA6k

 

[zinfamous]

God damn I wish there was some video of this

 

[KMFJD]

or

 

[IronWing]

God damn I wish there was some video of this

I hadn't heard that track before. Nice.

 

[Humpy]

 

[rh71]

Youtubers

 

[nakedfrog]

Looks like a playlist for the most burned-out AOR we've been beaten over the head with for the last 30 years. Kids must think the Stones were a 3-song band. How about the Who Love reign over me?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDbAtWpoA6k

I actually heard that in a thrift store last weekend, I was kind of amazed.
Of course, before that they'd played Dylan's "Maggie's Farm".

 

[DigDog]

can we do the opposite?

can we, say, stop people from listening to The Pixies ?

i've been listening since 1987, you guys only know Where Is My Mind from Fight Club. pls go away.

i don't want you to listen to frank zappa. i certainly don't want you to listen to david bowie. if somehow you haven't come to find quality artists through curiosity, i certainly don't want you to come in following the hype.

 

[nakedfrog]

I don't expect most people to become fans of my favorite bands, but sure, I'll put a couple here (skipping Pink Floyd)

Cake - Commissioning a Symphony in C
They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng

But I've been digging this more modern rock/bluegrassy stuff, so I'll put some of it here too.

The Dead South - Banjo Odyssey
Greensky Bluegrass - Burn Them
Trampled by Turtles - Wait So Long
The Native Howl - Into the Darkness

 

[clamum]

CKY - Disengage the Simulator (fav album: Toss-up between Volume 1 and Infiltrate.Destroy.Rebuild)

The Queers - Like a Parasite (fav album: Punk Rock Confidential)

Nikola Sarcevic - Soul for Sale I like "Married" the most but this one is maybe a better choice for single song? (fav album: Roll Roll and Flee)

Against Me! - Up the Cuts (fav album: New Wave)

Oh, and I couldn't help adding another from an artist who I think is underappreciated. It's EDM music, maybe not your cup of tea, but even I like it: Mord Fustang - Drivel

 

[nakedfrog]

can we do the opposite?

can we, say, stop people from listening to The Pixies ?

i've been listening since 1987, you guys only know Where Is My Mind from Fight Club. pls go away.

i don't want you to listen to frank zappa. i certainly don't want you to listen to david bowie. if somehow you haven't come to find quality artists through curiosity, i certainly don't want you to come in following the hype.

You are just the worst kind of person.

 

[snoopy7548]

can we do the opposite?

can we, say, stop people from listening to The Pixies ?

i've been listening since 1987, you guys only know Where Is My Mind from Fight Club. pls go away.

i don't want you to listen to frank zappa. i certainly don't want you to listen to david bowie. if somehow you haven't come to find quality artists through curiosity, i certainly don't want you to come in following the hype.

The Pixies are my second favorite band of all time! I listen to all of their albums; my favorite might be Tromp Le Monde, but Bossanova and Doolittle are very close seconds. I don't dislike any song by them.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Meh, everybody knows Opeth these days as they have more or less gone mainstream over the last 10-15 years or so.

So instead, I will recommend ADHD from Iceland. They are figgin addictive.
http://adhd-music.com/

 

[Oyeve]

A Promise - Echo and the Bunnymen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rGOl4jdogs

 

[DigDog]

You are just the worst kind of person.

nah pal; those musicians are there for you to find. you want good stuff, go looking for it.


hoping i don't do more damage than good...

the following are albums which i consider exceptional, even though they are off the radar and those braniacs at Rolling Stone will not put them on the 100 best albums list.
in no particular order

1. Belzebubba - dead milkmen
2. Ooh Crickey, it's Lawnmower Deth - lawnmower deth
3. Dealing With It - d.r.i.
4. the ten albums, from 1 to 10, of Masada - masada
5. [REDACTED]
6. [REDACTED]
6. [REDACTED]
7. Asteroid and others - emmanuel top
8. Killing God - ultraviolence
9. Teenager Of The Year - frank black
10. Existence Is Futile - revocation
11. Realms Of Chaos - bolt thrower
12. Naked City - naked city

just because something isn't here, don't mean that it's good. it's just that you already should know it exists. there's things which are good, you know they exist, but you don't know they are good - those also are not here.
also there's nothing not in english, nothing that you need a special skill to appreciate, and i'm sure i have other motives but i can't think straight right now.

 

[Muse]

Let's call them one of my favorite bands (I can't narrow it down to one, I have dozens). This is the song I heard about in an interview of Bob Dylan IIRC, in Rolling Stone in the late 1960's:

The Incredible String Band - October Song (They put out many fabulous albums, this is from their eponymous first album)

 

[Ns1]

Meh, everybody knows Opeth these days as they have more or less gone mainstream over the last 10-15 years or so.

So instead, I will recommend ADHD from Iceland. They are figgin addictive.
http://adhd-music.com/

Well if we're gonna pick 1 song from Opeth, I would say "Bleak" is their most accessible.

 

[nakedfrog]

nah pal; those musicians are there for you to find. you want good stuff, go looking for it.


hoping i don't do more damage than good...

the following are albums which i consider exceptional, even though they are off the radar and those braniacs at Rolling Stone will not put them on the 100 best albums list.
in no particular order

1. Belzebubba - dead milkmen
2. Ooh Crickey, it's Lawnmower Deth - lawnmower deth
3. Dealing With It - d.r.i.
4. the ten albums, from 1 to 10, of Masada - masada
5. [REDACTED]
6. [REDACTED]
6. [REDACTED]
7. Asteroid and others - emmanuel top
8. Killing God - ultraviolence
9. Teenager Of The Year - frank black
10. Existence Is Futile - revocation
11. Realms Of Chaos - bolt thrower
12. Naked City - naked city

just because something isn't here, don't mean that it's good. it's just that you already should know it exists. there's things which are good, you know they exist, but you don't know they are good - those also are not here.
also there's nothing not in english, nothing that you need a special skill to appreciate, and i'm sure i have other motives but i can't think straight right now.

You're barking up the wrong tree here, I'm already always looking for new music. I'm talking about your asshole gatekeeper elitist attitude. It shouldn't matter how/why someone discovered a band, or if they did it "too late".

 

[soulcougher73]

Im not sure i have any 1 fav band, so too hard to pic a song. But as cliche as it is Comfortable Numb has to be one of the best song ever.

A new to me band i been listening to a bit recently is All Them Witches

 

[DigDog]

I'm talking about your asshole gatekeeper elitist attitude.

that's me, 100%

It shouldn't matter how/why someone discovered a band, or if they did it "too late".

hmm, yes it does. You're not going to get into things like Bolt Thrower or Dead Milkmen unless you have a weird edge. And if you do, you will find them.
I think (read: it's divine truth) that novices should not be exposed to artists that have specifically tried NOT to target them.

i've been in music as a professional. i'm tired of people listening to LITERALLY 5 seconds of my Hot Rats (Frank Zappa) tape and immediately condemning it as shit because it doesn't have a commercial production sound and doesn't have a kick in the first 3 seconds, and the hook within 5.

i've had innumerable times my tapes of bowie being kicked out of the stereo because everyone wanted to listen exclusively to 1. madonna 2. duran duran 3. some commercial crap italian singer which is the same exact music that was on rotation on the radio and ALL they deemed worthy of consuming, because their mind was like a trash can to be stuffed by the industry.
AND THEN having the same people show up when bowie dies and saying oooh major tom we're gonna miss you. really.

i'm not worried that you might like what i like. i'm concerned about the effect that i know for a fact will happen when people who don't know their head from their ass are exposed to good music.

 

[Ns1]

I think (read: it's divine truth) that novices should not be exposed to artists that have specifically tried NOT to target them.
.

basically John Frusciante's entire career outside of RHCP can be placed in this category.

 

[DownTheSky]

 

[DigDog]

basically John Frusciante's entire career outside of RHCP can be placed in this category.

what about WEEN

 

[Zeze]

YouTube it. I'm on my phone. You'll be glad you did.

Progressive Metal:
Dead Eyes See No Future - Arch Enemy
Bleak - Opeth

Folk pop:
Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran

K-pop:
Loving U - Sistar

I would destroy the lead with the might of all spilled semen of my life.