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Recommend me some music

Discussion in 'Sensorium' started by Cap'n CJ, Jan 24, 2010.

  1. Cap'n CJ

    Cap'n CJ Arrr! Veteran

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    So, for a couple of years now i've been a massive fan of Ayreon. But this thread isn't about Ayreon, amazing as it is.

    I found that while listening to it, I really enjoyed the... I suppose you could call it "folk-rock" bits of the Ayreon albums. I ended up looking up a singer I liked, then finding music from her band (Heather Findlay of Mostly Autumn).

    Thing is, i'm finding the folky rocky type music a little hard to track down as I don't really know who to search for. I'm after recommendations!

    And thus ends the most poorly written post since spambots invaded the BoM.
     
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    Midnattsol and Blackmore's Night are two that I know of - although I don't like either of them very much. Midnattsol are a great deal better than Blackmore's Night though.

    There's a band called Safe Home that I don't know very much about except that it's made up of two ex-Nightblooms members and are labelled folk rock. As The Nightblooms are fantastic, it stands to reason that Safe Home might be as well?
     
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    You can search here. From this list (apart from Jethro Tull, who are a must have) I would recommend Ougenweide and Malicorne.
     
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    Have a look and see if you can get a copy of the Budweiser USA Music Tour CD. There's everything on there!
     
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    BOC is right: Jethro Tull is a must have. But they were a "prog rock" band, with a hard edge as well (and some of there best stuff is hard rock). So if you are looking for their English-folk direction, I would stick with Heavy Horses, Songs From the Wood, Minstrel in the Gallery, and maybe Stormwatch - All from the mid-late 1970s. Great stuff, IMHO.
     
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    I'd been recommended Jethro Tull before, but i'd always kinda brushed them aside.

    I now realise the enormity of my mistake, and I apologise, not just to the people that recommended me them, but to the band, and to music in general.

    Edit: I also heard Alestorm for the first time today. Pirate metal... Somehow it works.
     
    Cap'n CJ, Jan 25, 2010
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    Alestorm is amazing. Check out the song Wenches and Mead; it's a classic.
     
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