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Boingo_Babe

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I like Elliott Smith and the Postal Service. Smith was a freaking genius.

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Ugh I'm thrilled with some of these bands... Love the Tangerine Dream Bot, it actually sounds like you're under the water in some of their songs which is really quite neat. I checked out just a few of Wombat's but I really like Elis and Pyramaze... they sound a bit like Dream Theater, Vanden Plas, and Evergrey mixed together (love all three of the bands ). The other one that's beginning to grow on me is Electricians suggestion of Shiny Toy Guns... they're a bit odd, but they remind me of Depeche Mode, but much more pop-ish, which I like. Thanks for the suggestions, can't wait to slowly collect more music ...

I have found a few new bands in the past few weeks. One being Vanden Plas which is a progressive metal band much like Dream Theater. Another band I've come to enjoy is The Panic Division. They use some electronic in the backround, and have some great vocals. My last band that I found about 2 years ago before they had a cd out is called Dropping Daylight. They use a mix of metal with piano/keyboard to create a very unike sounding rock band. I am a big fan of this band and highly recommend them!
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I love the postal service (I wish they would hurry up and make another CD!) but I've never considered them to be obscure. Everyone I know is aware of death cab as well as the postal service.

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Another Dream Theater-esque band I just discovered is Icycore. A tad tricky to find, but very very cool stuff, I'd say give em a shot if you dig DT. They are up on myspace.

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It's funny that Shiny Toy Guns was mentioned. I stumbled upon their CD in the iTunes music store yesterday and liked what I heard. Then today I check the free single of the week and guess who it is? you can get it here

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ECHO wrote:
It's funny that Shiny Toy Guns was mentioned. I stumbled upon their CD in the iTunes music store yesterday and liked what I heard. Then today I check the free single of the week and guess who it is? you can get it here 


lol... just downloaded that this afternoon
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Ok... You want obscure, I have one which is obscure, but with a twist, and then another artist I just found via a friend of mine, Loretta, from back in my Ohio State days on MySpace. And I will say, even the first group has a personal connection to myself. Here ya go.

First, how many of you remember a song, Smoke on the Water? The group was Deep Purple, and it was released in 1973. One of the members of the band was Richie Blackmore. Well, these days, he is playing with a group called Blackmore's Night, which plays, as Richie puts it... Renn and Roll. The personal connection... Some months ago, Richie and I had an extended discussion regarding things like their web sites, the SCA, their albums and such.

The second one is an group from here in Columbus, The Azoic, which is a electronic dance/industrial EBM group. You can also find the group on MySpace, with Kristy's personal page located here.

Blackmore's Night is one of those groups I have been playing so much I have been rubbing the bits off my harddrive. Unfortunately, some of the songs right now are more painful than an icepick to my heart, given the lyrics and how they applied to my friendship with Lisa/Spammy (one of them set me to a few minutes of howling/crying yesterday). It may be a few weeks before I can play them without problems.

As for The Azoic... well, the past year or so, I have been really getting into artists like DJ Tiesto (sp...cannot get the dots on the e), Miss Kittin, Alice Deejay, and others. Of course, if you ever took at my Yahoo Launch rated songs listing (start at my personal web page profile, go to music, and go from there), you would find I like songs that pretty much the whole spectrum. But being a local group, I may see if I can find some more of their music, or **GASP** go to one of their performances, if they ever do one locally.

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Mmmm.....Blackmore's Night....dern fine stuff! Thanks for the history, always interesting.

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Titanium.wombaT wrote:
Mmmm.....Blackmore's Night....dern fine stuff! Thanks for the history, always interesting.

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My sentiments eggzactly on Blackmore's Night. As for the history...Anytime.

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BTW... I have found some videos up on YouTube and collected them into a playlist. This includes quite a few Blackmore's Night videos, the one Azoic video I can find (I think I know where it was filmed, but am going to have to check with Kristy sometime to see if I am correct), some Bananarama, Nena, Tiesto, and a few others. You can watch it at:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A5DC8415DD8DE607

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Just got my new The Azoic CDs from Kristy. They are "Illuminate" and "forward...".
They ROCK! (need a head bobbing emotie with head phones on here) I was like a little kid on Christmas morning, and could not get the package open and the CDs ripped fast enough. Even my wife... um... complaining... could not spoil this mood.

BTW... I was rather surprised to find that I topped out the listeners to this group up on last.fm. If that was a single with multiple mixes and I now have three... hehe.

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A tidbit of trivia from the days of Deep Purple I learned some years ago...

The first time Smoke on the Water was publicly played was in Japan.
When they opened with that familiar riff we all love there was a power outage on stage (was drawing too much power or something) and the fade that is part of that signature riff was born. It was such a huge hit with the fans, they had to force that affect in future perfomances...

and now you know....the rest of the story.

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Came across a great semi-new artist.

Amy Winehouse.

She's something of an anomaly in the music world today. She sounds like nothing else around. Imagine a cross between Ella Fitzgerald, Ronnie Spector, and 60's female soul/R&B. Sprinkle in some jazz and great lyrical content and you have Amy Winehouse.

Just bought her new album Back to Black. "Rehab" and "You Know I'm No Good" are two of the highlights of the album, but honestly there are only one or two tracks that are a bit weak....and even those aren't too bad. All I can say is, go out and buy it. It is one of the best albums of the last few years. At the very least, give it a listen and see what you think.

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ooooh, stumbled upon a new yummy band (imho). Kinda indie/electronica/euro-80's good stuff.

White Rose Movement
http://www.myspace.com/whiterosemovement

again I say, thank you Pandora!

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