Music Page

As I mentioned on my interests page, this page is never updated. I basically made it freshman year of college when I made my webpage, and then never took the time to update it since then. So, these are some bands and soundtracks that I liked in high school and in the beginning of college.

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Bands

TKK logoMy Life with the Thrill Kill Kult. I was so into this band and knew so much about their music that I made my very own page dedicated to this band. Up there you will see my own discography as well as a list of links of better Thrill Kill webpages than mine.

garbage picGarbage is a very cool band with an awesome offical website! I got into this band my freshman year in high school and I still love their music. Songs you've probably heard of theirs are "Stupid Girl", "I think I'm paranoid", "Special", and a few others. If you heard them back in 1995 when I started listening, you may have heard "Queer" or "I'm only happy when it rains".

nin chrome logoNine Inch Nails is powered by Trent Reznor. The music is sort of industrial techno, but I'm sure you've heard some of NIN's songs before, like "Head Like a Hole", "Closer", "Hurt", or from the newest album Fragile, "Into the Void." My favorite albums are Pretty Hate Machine and Fragile.         >Take the Nine Inch Nails Purity Test! I didn't design this test, but I stumbled upon it and I think it's great if you're a NIN fan. I scored a "Four Inches" on it.

ratm picRage Against the Machine is a rhythmically excellent band. Sure, their music can be a little loud and very vulgar at times, but to me it's worth it. I like the band for their music including the vocal rhythm. Probably their most popular song is "Bulls On Parade".
remR.E.M. is one of the best and most classic of the modern bands. They've been around for 20+ years and are still producing excellent music. Some of my favorite R.E.M albums are Eponymous, Monster, Automatic for the People, and Up, but I like all of them!

DNA picRusted Root is about as folk music-esque as my music tastes will span. Even though they can be very folky and country-ish, they are a superb band, especially the drums! Rusted Root is one of those bands that's really good about using a lot of instruments effectively and musically, and they acutally give the percussion a much bigger role than just the backbeat. (You can see why I like them!) Their best album is without a doubt When I Woke. Probably the song you heard the most of is "Send Me On My Way".

And here is gusterGuster. Guster is another band that is really good musically. It combines instruments very well, especially the percussion. When people told me that the drummer didn't use sticks, I didn't believe them until I saw them live! It was quite a sight to see those cymbals ringing just from the slam of a hand. This band is definitely best when seen live.

leftfieldLeftfield is a british techno/club band. Very cool band, with a very cool website. It uses music on the intro page, but uses it well, which is rare. :) I got into this band from the Trainspotting soundtrack. Leftfield's music is very techno, but more in a relaxing or spacy sort of way than a dance way. Still, the songs aren't too slow, and nor are they too repetitive. (A common problem with techno.)

Project NIMProject NIM
I actually heard of this band because they played at Yale...very often...because that's where a couple of them went to school. It's sort of hard to describe what genre the music is in. I'd say general rock or pop. When I last checked, they put out three albums, A Tower of Babel, Evenings Pop and Curve, and Where the Nothings Live.

MorphineMorphine
A great band. Just a set of drums, a baritone sax, and a slide bass (plus the occasional guitar, organ, or something else). I'm usually big on bands having lots of instruments and activity, but this band did it with just these few, but key, instruments. I hate myself for never seeing them perform before Mark Sandman died. A good album to get if you want to sample Morphine is Like Swimming, because I think it has the most variety, though it is painfully short!
As for now, those are all of the bands I care to write about. But in addition to those bands, there are a number of bands that I really like that you should check out. Some of them are:

Soul Asylum
Live
Matthew Sweet
Blues Traveller
Dave Matthews Band
Violent Femmes
Machines of Loving Grace
Primal Scream
Deep Blue Something
Belly
Fatboy Slim



Soundtracks


Here's a list of some of the soundtracks I own.

Pulp Fiction. An great movie, and an excellent soundtrack. I can't think of anyone who doesn't like this soundtrack or wouldn't like it if they listened to it. Somehow it has lots of songs that just about everyone likes. Moreover, it contains some of the good original dialogue from the movie. Italicized titles are dialogue excerpts.
Song Artist
Pumpkin And Honey Bunny
Miserlou
Dick Dale & His Del-Tones
Royale with Cheese  
Jungle Boogie Kool & the Gang
Let's Stay Together Al Green
Bustin' Surfboards Tornadoes
Lonesome Town Ricky Nelson
Son of a Preacher Man Dusty Springfield
Zed's Dead, Baby
Bullwinkle Part II
The Centurians
Jack Rabbit Slims Twist Contest
You Can Never Tell
Chuck Berry
Girl, You'll be a Woman Urge Overkill
If Love is a Red Dress (hang me in rags) Maria McKee
Bring in the Gimp
Comanche
The Revels
Flowers on the Wall The Startler Brothers
Personality Goes A Long Way  
Surf Rider The Lively Ones
Ezkiel 25:17  

Song Artist
Burn The Cure
Golgotha Tenement Blues Machines of Loving Grace
Big Empty Stone Temple Pilots
Dead Souls Nine Inch Nails
Darkness Rage Against the Machine
Color Me Once Violent Femmes
Ghostrider Rollins Band
Milktoast Helmet
The Badge Pantera
Slip Slide Melting For Love Not Lisa
After the Flesh My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult
Snakedriver The Jesus and Mary Chain
Time Baby III Medicine
It Can't Rain All The Time Jane Siberry
The Crow. This soundtrack got me interested in several bands, including The Violent Femmes, Machines of Loving Grace, Rage Against the Machine, The Cure, and My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult.
Without this soundtrack I wouldn't have opened a whole window of my music taste. Though you probably have to like a certain type of music (industrial/goth/metal) to like this soundtrack, it is an excellent soundtrack for its genre.

Trainspotting. A disturbing but really good movie with an awesome soundtrack. Since this movie was jam-packed with stellar music, they came out with a second volume to the sountrack. The second volume had a lot of re-mixes (that weren't so great) and a lot of "music inspired by the movie" (so it wasn't really in the movie) but it also had some essential pieces that were left out of the first volume, like "Dark and Long" by The Underworld, "Think About the Way" by Ice MC, and "Come Together", by Primal Scream. This is the list of the songs on the first volume.
Song Artist
Lust for Life Iggy Pop
Deep Blue Day Brian Eno
Trainspotting Primal Scream
Atomic Sleeper
Temptation New Order
Nightclubbing Iggy Pop
Sing Blur
Perfect Day Lou Reed
Mile End Pulp
For What you Dream Of Bedrock featuring KYO
2:1 Elastica
Born Slippy Underworld
Closet Romantic Damon Albarn

Song Artist
Stayin' Alive Bee Gees
How Deep is Your Love Bee Gees
Night Fever Bee Gees
More Than A Woman Bee Gees
If I Can't Have You Yvonne Elliman
A Fifth of Beethoven (Based on Beethoven's 5th Symphony) Walter Murphy
More Than A Woman Tavares
Manhattan Skyline David Shire
Calypso Breakdown Ralph McDonald
Night on Disco Mountain (Based on "Night on Bald Mountain") David Shire
Open Sesame Kool & The Gang
Jive Talkin' The Revels Bee Gees
You Should Be Dancing Bee Gees
Boogie Shoes K. C. And The Sunshine Band
Salsation David Shire
K-Jee M.F.S.B.
Disco Inferno The Tramps
Saturday Night Fever. This movie was made so that it could have a good soundtrack! Think of your favorite 70s songs, and most of them will be on this disk.


Song Artist
Rock Is Dead Marilyn Manson
Spybreak! (short one) Propellerheads
Bad Blood Ministry
Clubbed to Death (kurayamino mix) Rob D
Prime Audio Soup Meat Beat Manifesto
Leave You Far Behind Lunatic Calm
Mindfields Prodigy
Dragula (hot rod herman remix) Rob Zombie
My Own Summer (shove it) Deftones
Ultrasonic Sound Hive
Look to Your Orb for the Warning Monster Magnet
Du Hast Rammstein
Wake Up Rage Against the Machine
The Matrix. This soundtrack is amazing, but like The Crow, it's mostly the same type of music, (techno, industrial) and you have to be into that sort of music in order to enjoy the soundtrack. Plus, some of the songs (maybe because it's the techno genre) can be pretty repetitive, but most are very good.


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