Broaden My Horizons Please... Musically

[adrina]

It's time for an alteration in my musical universe. I'm rebuilding my car stick this weekend. I want upbeat music - nothing maudlin and nothing with a freakin' broken heart.

I am a fan of classic rock, 80s alternative Britpop, some pop (not too bubblegummy), old timey music from the 40s and 50s, jazz, some classic. I'm not a particular fan of harsh sounding music - harder rock, punk etc. For country, it depends.

I don't keep track of the newest and latest so I really don't know all what is out there. I'd love to get some suggestions. I'll take a listen to everything... even if it's not my normal, I'll at least give it a try.

Help?

 

[MichelleSugarBaby]

Take a look on youtube at the most popular songs by 'the muffs'..... might be up your street and quite different

 

[Radiohead]

Upbeat?

Ew.

Depends on what you mean by upbeat.

 

[Disgustipated]

Bloc Party - Helicopter

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

If you like classic rock, you'll like the new country.


No one is more upbeat than Darius Rucker, well maybe Toby Keith, but he's too patriotic for you...


Here's something fun from an upbeat album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MOavH-Eivw

 

[Radiohead]

I'm rebuilding my car stick this weekend.

Ahem, wha?

Gearbox, mayhaps?

Also, whats the last album you bought, at least to give a timeframe on what you wouldnt have heard.

 

[adrina]

Take a look on youtube at the most popular songs by 'the muffs'..... might be up your street and quite different

Thank you but no.

Upbeat?

Ew.

Depends on what you mean by upbeat.

Upbeat ranges from acdc thunderstruck to some Katy Perry stuff. Stuff that sounds upbeat, potentially inspirational or even just optimistic.

Bloc Party - Helicopter

A bit too much. But thank you for the suggestion. I hadn't heard that.

If you like classic rock, you'll like the new country.


No one is more upbeat than Darius Rucker, well maybe Toby Keith, but he's too patriotic for you...


Here's something fun from an upbeat album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MOavH-Eivw

If you're thinking country, think of things like Red Solo Cup, Beer For My Horses or Fancy.

Ahem, wha?

Gearbox, mayhaps?

Also, whats the last album you bought, at least to give a timeframe on what you wouldnt have heard.

Alas I no longer have my manual transmission. My new car is an automatic. I miss driving the standard sometimes. There's nothing like it for controlling the engine.

Pink. Truth about love.

I just don't much keep up on current music. I never really have. But I've been very fortunate to have various people in my life introduce me to some interesting music over the years.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I purchased my S10 in '94 and drove it until 2013...



The new F150 is an automatic, but for the first year, when coming to a stop, I found myself reaching for the clutch and panicking a little bit when I could not find it.

 

[oggbashan]

For different classical music try these:

Donizetti: Arias from L'Elisir D'Amore and Don Pasquale; Piano Music.

Offenbach: But not Tales of Hoffmann.

Gilbert and Sullivan

 

[Nipples_Mcgee1]

Rolling Stones.

https://youtu.be/O4irXQhgMqg

 

[AlotLikePsyche]

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I can use more upbeat, optimistic music in my life, too.

 

[Radiohead]

Upbeat ranges from acdc thunderstruck to some Katy Perry stuff. Stuff that sounds upbeat, potentially inspirational or even just optimistic.

Fine, be my Mistress for christmas.

You're american, so that doesnt help

Brainless poppy stuff is by tendancy upbeat, and people will beat me, but Taylor Swift is good.

Oh, Blur's last album - The Magic Whip.

Sally Saltmann's Heart Thats Pounding is not on streaming from what I have been told.

I could mostly give you happy songs, but like one per album of whoever. Anything thats good tends to not be defined as happy, cause it means something.

Honestly, if you really want happy, I'd listen to the most poppy stupid station in your area... hate 95% of what they play, and you'll find something.

Even all the pretty young girls I listen to, sing about life, and overemotional or not, the sad songs are the better ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViftZTfRSt8

And if that doesnt make you happy, you must be dead.

 

[pointless]

get on youtube, find something you like, follow the suggestions down a rabbithole until you find something new (to you) and interesting. discovery is half the fun.

that's how found frankie cosmos, alvvays, magazine and others.

and no, i don't expect you to like any of that. you can if you want, but taste is a personal thing. find your own shit.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

Current era so-called 'new country' is turning out some cracking, even rockin' songs with some incredibly talented and self-assured singers - a couple of the absolute best have to be:

Rascal Flatts - 'Yours If You Want It.' And the pop hit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIwKZLcQM0E

And,

Luke Combs - 'Hurricane.'

As for 'chill' or 'uplifting' music the world of 'progressive' music, and some I guess 'trance' is also producing very advanced and interesting music, Alex H and Gregory Esayan being among the leaders there although there are a LOT of notable singers and musicians, including some really REALLY outstanding male voices among the ex-operatic female singers.

Jonathan Mendelsohn is probably the stand-out male voice but there are more than just two or three around right now - his work with Dash Berlin and Alexander Popov has produced half a dozen stunning songs: 'Steal You Away,' 'Better Half of Me' 'World Falls Apart...' These are really stunning.

And then there is the exquisite 'Illenium Said The Sky' with Cristina Soto.

And Katrin Souza Incepto - the remixes are astonishing.

Tritonal -Satellite feat Jonathan Mendelsohn is one of the most staggering, stunning and capable vocal renderings anywhere at anytime:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egw1IRUwyzs

and this mix, for a different (REALLY out there) emotional spin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOD8rQdz0Mg

And probably the most avant garde mix of all, the incomparable Florence Welch squeezes fluid out of pussy right here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAvdqEsobaw

 

[trysail]

Previously posted elsewhere but why reinvent the wheel ?

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This is an ( admittedly ) eclectic and mixed list of symphonies, concertos, ballet scores and operas. I had to compose its analogue once upon a time to prevent myself from inadvertently purchasing multiple copies of stuff I already owned. Any list is going to betray the preferences of its compiler; it's obvious that I have an affinity for the Romantic orchestral composers, the Italian operas, the Russians and the incomparable Beethoven. I've got no problem with J.S. Bach— I'd rather hear him fart than any of the noise that goes by the name "rap" ; unfortunately, he ( and the Schuberts and the Hadyns and the "Baroques" ) just doesn't set my soul afire.


Richard Wagner
Das Rheingold
Die Valkyrie
Siegfried
Gotterdamerung

Giuseppe Verdi
Rigoletto
Requiem
La Traviata
Aida

Georges Bizet
Carmen

Giacomo Puccini
Tosca
Madama Butterfly
La Boheme

Richard Strauss
Salome
Also Sprach Zarathustra

Bedřich Smetana
Má vlast ( contains "The Moldau" )

Antonín Dvořák
Slavonic Dances
Symphony #9 in E minor ( the "New World Symphony" )

Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt suite ( contains "In The Hall of The Mountain King" )

Ralph Vaughn Williams
Symphonie Antarctica
A Sea Symphony
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Fantasia on "Greensleeves"
The Lark Ascending

Igor Stravinsky
Firebird Suite
Petrushka
Rite of Spring

Ottorino Resphigi
The Pines of Rome
The Fountains of Rome

Jan Sibelius
Finlandia

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

Gustav Holst
The Planets

Maurice Ravel
Daphne & Chloe
Bolero

Claude Debussy
La Mer
Afternoon Of A Fawn

Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring
Rodeo
Fanfare For The Common Man
Billy The Kid Suite

Johanne Strauss
The Danube

Leoš Janáček
Sinfonietta
Taurus Bulba

Manuel de Falla
The Three Cornered Hat

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade
Capriccio Espagnol

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony #1
Symphony #7
Symphony #9

Sergei Prokofiev
Peter and The Wolf
Symphony #6 "Classique"

Gustav Mahler
Symphony #5

Aram Khachaturian
Gayane ( contains "Sabre Dance" )

Aleksandr Borodin
Prince Igor ( contains "Polovtsian Dances" )

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1812 Overture
Nutcracker Suite
Swan Lake

Johann Sebastian Bach
The Brandenburg Concertos

George Frideric Handel
Water Musik

and last— but hardly least— the immortal

Ludwig van Beethoven
Bagatelle ( poco moto ) in A minor ( "Für Elise" )
Piano Sonata No. 8 ( "Pathetique" )
Piano Sonata No. 14 ( "Mondschein" )
Piano Sonata No. 23 ( "Appasionata" )
Symphony #3 ( "Eroica" )
Symphony #5
Symphony #7
Symphony #9 ( "The Choral Symphony," possibly the most magnificent piece of music ever composed. If the 4th movement doesn't make your pulse race, check to see if you've got one ).




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[Colonel Hogan]

My favorite classic upbeats:

Roll With It - Steve Winwood

Gimme Some Lovin' - Spencer Davis Group

Sweet Home Chicago - Blues Brothers

China Grove - Doobie Brothers

I'm Your Weatherman - Delbert McClinton

You Got What It Takes - Dave Clark Five

In The Mood - Glen Miller

 

[pointless]

i always forget about the dave clarke five, but i liked them quite a bit back when i was a kid.

this one in particular

 

[Colonel Hogan]

i always forget about the dave clarke five, but i liked them quite a bit back when i was a kid.

this one in particular

At the height of their popularity, I actually liked them more than the Beatles and the Stones. Loved Clark's rim shots on the drums.

 

[EternalFantasies]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DTNO0Mwhhg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQR6pKLd-ho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q1KfgJ8NB0


& especially this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAkPlKgKD8w

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I have four CDs in my truck for the drive to work. Currently they are Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mott the Hoople, Dinah Washington and Darius Rucker...

 

[Aglaopheme]

The Hoosiers, Kaiser Chiefs, The Fratellis, The Libertines, the Kooks. That vein may suit you.

 

[Adre]

Some interesting stuff from an eclectic grouping:


Rhiannon Giddens and the Carolina Chocolate Drops
Jason Isbell
St. Paul and the Broken Bones
Josh Ritter
Dawes
Alabama Shakes

 

[Halin24]

I'm probably too extreme now but if you have Spotify or something similar you could try these. If you're not Swedish and at least my age (50+) I can almost guarantee that you have never heard them before.

- Kebnekajse :
Barkbrödslåten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylS0H6zQDho

Horgalåten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_e7r0ABEHA

Both are instrumental, electric folkrock, quite happy and 'sparkling' when they get started.

- Folk och rackare :
Flickan går på golvet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvIsfsJslnM

Swedish lyrics, traditional folk tune but modernized. upbeat and melodic.

- Pugh Rogefeldt :
Hog farm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhgyvEJXz7c

För mig finns bara good ol' rock'n'roll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trzVA2lZCbs

Dinga linga Lena
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlnzxNnHF4o

Swedish lyrics, straight rock from late 60's.

- Nationalteatern :
Livet är en fest
https https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S_rlCH4Nrg

Swedish lyrics. Straight rock.The band was political, leftish, but this tune remained a party song for many many years.

Just a few suggestions...

I hope the Swedish letters doesn't cause any problems.

 

[stickygirl]

Turin Brakes

Bastille

KT Tunstall

all good. Hope you find something fresh x

 

[BotanyBoy]

If you really want to expand your horizons try some instrumental prog rock.

They have their heavier moments but don't really focus in on one genre or anything.

Music for musicians from an 8 string Jazz guitarist prodigy who decided to push his limits.

Animals as Leader - Behaving Badly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL2uoeza8tI

Besides, he's black, so now you have to at least give it a try or you're a racist Nazi Alt-Right fascist.