Takin a break from rap...some suggestions

[[sepehr]]

Ya im doing that so, can any of you guys reccomend really good albums that are non rap, it can be any kind of music.

and white boy i kno u did the same thing so can u tell me some of the music u found that was really dope?

Tnx.

[Entreri117]

Listen to some tracks of Sting's new album "Sacred Love".

IMO nearly all of Sting's music is good...especially his older stuff.

[davida.b.]

AFI, Slayer, Weezer, and Rooney. Those are some bands i reccomend you start out with

[Lincoln]

He's some great albums I've been listening to lately:

Prince - Purple Rain
Peter Frampton - Frampton, Frampton Comes Alive
Jimmie Vaughan - Do You Get The Blues?
The Beatles - The White Album
Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA, Born To Run
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline, Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde On Blonde
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood, Soul To Soul, In Step
Muddy Waters - Folk Singer
John Lee Hooker - Real Folk Blues
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust, Let's Dance, The Man Who Sold The World, Aladdin Sane, Heroes, Station To Station
Derek & The Dominoes - Layla (And Other Assorted Love Songs)

Try some of those out.

[Trauma-san]

Brian Wilson - SMiLE www.smilethealbum.com

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

Billy Joel - An Innocent Man

[*Jamal*]

Michael Jackson

[-CaliKid-]

^Michael Jackson- off the wall
Jacksons- destiny
Jacksons- triumph

[MANBEARPIG.]

John Mayer- Heavier Things
Norah Jones- Come Away With Me, the new album...title slips me
Musiq- Aijuswannasing, Soulstar
Van Hunt- Van Hunt
The Used


and much more!

[Suffice]

aight, for some nice rock, try these bands:


Radiohead - OK Computer; Hail to The Thief; Kid A

Coldplay - Rush of Blood to The Head

Muse - Absolution; The Origin of Symmetry

Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

No Doubt - The Singles

Garbage - Garbage; Version 2.0

Queen - A Night at the Opera

Smashing Pupkings - Mellon Collie

Nirvana - In Utero; Nevermind

the White Stripes - Elephant

[Danté Williams]

Listen to some tracks of Sting's new album "Sacred Love".

IMO nearly all of Sting's music is good...especially his older stuff.

I was immediately gonna say Sting and then read your post.

I'mma big Sting fan, got all his records but I think the worst you can do is tell someone to listen to "Sacred love". That CD is boring!! Except for "Inside" and "Sacred love", and maybe that Mary J Blige duet, the rest is straight garbage.

Better get "Ten summoner tales" if you wanna get some easy listening CLASSIC pop tunes, "...Nothing like the sun" if you're into more variety, "The dream of the blue turtles" if you're in a jazzy mood, or even "Brand new day" if you're into newer pop. Don't forget "Mercury falling", great album; I would not recommend "The soul cages" since is hella dark and depressive... ultimately great, but very dark and slow.

But if you're not that much into Sting, just download "Fields of gold: The best of Sting" and you'll be screaming at his next concert.


PS.- And if after that you're not into Sting, listen to Prince. The other genius.

[Timmeeeehh]

Or try some jazz/blues that kind of music, real relaxed music.. Like Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Chris Botti... Smooth 

[Trauma-san]

Any Oasis Album.  Hell, any Oasis Song. 

[Throwback]

Clocker - Clocker
Jahmirrahman - Alright
DJ Roog - Voodooz

if you cant find it, ill hook u up.

[Kill]

soul stuff:

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On, I Want You
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life
Smokey Robinson - A Quiet Storm
Bill Withers - Menagerie
Al Green - I'm Still In Love With You
Otis Redding - The Immortal Otis Redding (posthumous, but great)
Barry White - Can't Get Enough

funk stuff:

Parliament - Mothership Connection, The Motor Booty Affair
Sly & The Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin' On
Zapp - I, II, or III
Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove, Maggot Brain
Rick James - Street Songs
James Brown - In The Jungle Groove, Hell, Payback


jazz stuff:

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue, Sketches Of Spain, Milestones
John Coltrane - Stellar Regions, The Last Trane
Charlie Parker - Now's The Time
Sonny Rollins & Dizzie Gillespie - Sunny Side Up


rock stuff:

Nirvana - Nevermind, In Utero
Led Zeppelin - IV
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland, Are You Experienced
Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon, The Wall, Wish You Were Here
Neil Young - After The Gold Rush
Deep Purple - Made In Japan
Guns 'N Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Sublime - Sublime, 40 Oz To Freedom
John Frusciante - Niandra Lades And Usually Just A T-Shirt, Shadows Collide With People


reggae & ska stuff:

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Catch A Fire
Max Romeo & The Upsetters - War Inna Babylon
Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come
Burning Spear - Man In The Hills
Anthony B - Smoke Free
Desmond Dekker - King Of Ska
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Bass Culture
Cocoa Tea - Kingston Hot
Specials - More Specials
Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse
No Doubt - Beacon Street Collection, Tragic Kingdom
Skatalites - From Paris With Love


trip-hop and downbeat stuff:

Portishead - Dummy, Portishead
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Anja Garbarek - Smiling & Waving
Morcheeba - Who Can You Trust, Big Calm
Lamb - Between Darkness & Wonder
Thievery Corporation - Richest Man In Babylon
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing, Private Press
Coldfinger - Lefthand

and of course any Beatles album

most of these artists got greatest hits and best ofs, some got like 100 of them (James Brown eg) so you might start out with those as well...i just listed great albums...so yeah that's sum stuff i like...i pointed out personal favs in bold and my fav personal favs in bold and red....peace

[akaDRooPY]

definately listen to: Rustic Overtones - Long Division or any of their albums