Music recommendations?

thanks all, am familiar with Portishead, Sigur Ros, Massive Attack, Cowboy Junkies and a few others suggested, but some new names here as well. think i might go with Seitse's edgy Britney suggestion for starters - she's got musical chops and street cred the others can only dream of.

Taken by Trees (My Boys)
Broadcast (Before We Begin)
Stars (Calendar Girl)
Feist (1 2 3 4)
Brazilian Girls (St. Petersburg)
The Dirty Projectors (Stillness is the Move)
Fever Ray/The Knife (Triangle Walks)
Metric (Live It Out)
The xx (Crystallized)


Sure, my suggestions are a bit all over the place but it's 2009 FFS, listen to a song on myspace and see if it's your thing or not. 🙂 Suggested song listenings are in parentheses.

ABBA.

And T-Rex.

You can't get better than them.

Originally posted by shavixmir
ABBA.

And T-Rex.

You can't get better than them.

Originally posted by Blackamp
i'm looking for something along the lines of, say, Mazzy Star's 'Fade into You', Low (e.g. Silver Rider), Last Town Chorus's version of Bowie's Modern Love - i.e. female vocalist melodic vaguely "alternative"-y pop/rock, preferably fairly recent (2000+)...

any suggestions, please?

Dead Can Dance
Cocteau Twins
My Bloody Valentine
Slowdive

As far as more recent stuff goes, maybe you should try Mojave 3.

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
Dead Can Dance
Cocteau Twins
My Bloody Valentine
Slowdive

As far as more recent stuff goes, maybe you should try Mojave 3.

Originally posted by yo its me
ABBA are good, and Nina Simone bought her greatest hits recently my kids call her CD The Cool One!

Originally posted by Blackamp
ABBA are too arty for me, but i like NS.

Originally posted by Blackamp
have listened to most of that. like Loveless, Souvlaki Space Station etc. less into CT and M3. although i have t admit the only CT i have is Heaven or Las Vegas - not really mcot. Lush can be good, Curve less so imo.

Magic Dirt.
Paradise Motel.

Originally posted by Blackamp
ABBA are too arty for me, but i like NS.

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
You should definitely try Cocteau Twins' Treasure, too. I like Lush, Curve is still on my to-listen-list. Lycia is pretty good too, if you're looking for modern music with female vocals, but then we're getting into darkwave territory.

Originally posted by DrKF
I recently went back to the Cocteau Twins after several years of not listening to them at all. I'd forgotten ]quite how powerful her voice is, and how influential they were... (sorry to say, but bands like Lush come up short when you listen to the Cocteau Twins.) Anyone who doesn't know them should try them.