Music you have discovered through more non-convetional methods

Trevorus · #1 12-29-2008, 11:51 PM

Anyone found some cool music through some other method rather than radio, or things like pandora.com? What soundtracks have made you buy music, or what show had a song that you had to hear again.

Metal Gear Solid 3 on PS2, Starsailor has a song called "Way To Fall" on the soundtrack, and it's an amazing song. It also is a perfect fit for the point in the game.

Joey3313 · #2 12-29-2008, 11:57 PM

The Tony Hawk games (3 especially) all had some great music...I played them a ton when I was a kid, and it introduced me to some great bands that I never would have heard of otherwise.

Just scrolling through my iPod, there are songs by Millencolin, Lagwagon, and Bad Religion, all of them off of Tony Hawk games.

Trevorus · #3 12-29-2008, 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Joey3313

The Tony Hawk games (3 especially) all had some great music...I played them a ton when I was a kid, and it introduced me to some great bands that I never would have heard of otherwise.

Just scrolling through my iPod, there are songs by Millencolin, Lagwagon, and Bad Religion, all of them off of Tony Hawk games.

Burnout 3: Takedown had some of the same for me. Little bit of punk rock and other stuff. That's one of the games that concentrated on the soundtrack. Actually, the more recent GTA games have had some good soundtracks.

groooooove · #4 12-30-2008, 12:30 AM

there are some bands ive never heard of untill i saw them play at a festival, and really enjoyed it, then got into their stuff. (groovesect, deep banana blackout..)

d(r)umbass · #5 12-30-2008, 12:41 AM

Full Throttle soundtrack - the band is called The Gone Jackals and the soundtrack was actually available as an album.

Also the soundtrack for the game Interstate 76 - an absolute must have (and learn a few songs) for any funk lovin' bassist out there

Arion Salazar on the bass

LzeroKI · #6 12-30-2008, 01:10 AM

Senior year of high school I was watching the Globe Opinion video (a skate video, not a band) with my roomate and a few freinds and heard this awesome chilled out track over the outro, I found out it was by The Album Leaf, a side project of former Locust member Jimmy Lavalle. Jimmy's music started my whole shift in musical tastes from heavier stuff to more relaxed ambient/electronic stuff. The Album Leaf's records are now my most listened to stuff.

baalroo · #7 12-30-2008, 01:59 AM

The 28 Days Later soundtrack got me started on GY!BE and turned me into a real post-rock nut for awhile. Also, I first heard Bear vs. Shark while playing Saint's Row, which was odd because I listen to a lot of that kind of stuff and somehow had never heard them.

I also must admit I got interested in Valiant Thorr after hearing the track on Guitar Zero.

Depth_Charge · #8 12-30-2008, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Trevorus

Anyone found some cool music through some other method rather than radio, or things like pandora.com? What soundtracks have made you buy music, or what show had a song that you had to hear again.

Metal Gear Solid 3 on PS2, Starsailor has a song called "Way To Fall" on the soundtrack, and it's an amazing song. It also is a perfect fit for the point in the game.

Mainly from movies.
Pump Up The Volume by The Mars Volta has been in my collection since hearing it on "My Stepmother is an alien" during the seduction scene. Not sure if it's the music or the memory that moves me, but I keep the tune as a keepsake nonetheless

I also scoured the local shops years back to find this soundtrack, which is in the Conan the Barbarian movie:

http://www.imeem.com/donjahrah/music..._battle_music/

tplyons · #9 12-30-2008, 05:50 PM

Movies a lot, and video games. Madden '06 had a few good ones, and of course Kasabian's Clubfoot in one of the Tony Hawk games.

alapantera · #10 12-30-2008, 07:23 PM

I think i was looking through a Shopko add flyer. Saw one of those little square pictures of KT Tunstall's first cd. Not usually one to listen to the radio, i wondered who she was. Checked her out on youtube, and bought the album. Since that's the only time that's ever happened, it's probably the weirdest way I've discovered an album.

DoomandHeavy · #11 12-30-2008, 10:54 PM

I started to listen to Jethro Tull after i read an interview with Steve DiGiorgio

tplyons · #12 12-30-2008, 11:20 PM

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I started to listen to Jethro Tull after i read an interview with Steve DiGiorgio

I do that a lot. I find who artists I like like to listen to. That's how I found Josh Rouse.

Damakun · #13 12-31-2008, 12:01 AM

For me, the music to the Marble Cliff zone in Sonic the Hedgehog was very entrancing. Led me to a band from Japan called Dream Come True. Love their stuff. The keyboardist composed the music to that game.

Also, "Goodbye To You", in what history will note as the most rocking hi-NRG female contraceptive commercial in America, led me to The Veronicas. These chicks rock !

Just one more example : at one time, my "handle" was pizzacatto - cause someone else has already taken pizzacat. My buddy happens across an eBay auction for Pizzicato Five and says "Hey ! Guess what !" Long story short, I find some of the coolest music ever.

sonic assassin · #14 12-31-2008, 12:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Joey3313

The Tony Hawk games (3 especially) all had some great music...I played them a ton when I was a kid, and it introduced me to some great bands that I never would have heard of otherwise.

Just scrolling through my iPod, there are songs by Millencolin, Lagwagon, and Bad Religion, all of them off of Tony Hawk games.

thps 2, greatest soundtrack ever.

Bruce Lindfield · #15 01-02-2009, 07:39 AM

Music Education!

I go to Jazz classes regularly and Jazz Summerschool - where I have discovered some of my favourite tunes.

So the tutors will often bring along parts for the class to play that I would never get to hear about, any other way.

After Jazz Summerschool I always end up buying a stack of CDs of tunes that I have played or hear other people playing.

So for example - after the last one, I had "Moon Alley" by Tom Harrell going round in my head for ages - just had to buy the CD!

If I look at my CD collection I can see hundreds of albums that I would never have heard of, unless I had tried to play them as part of classes/educational events.

Otso · #16 01-02-2009, 08:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield

Music Education!

Weren't it for a university course in analyzing contemporary music I would have probably never developed any interest towards Webern's music.

Jools4001 · #17 01-02-2009, 09:04 AM

I was on a two week business trip to the Bay Area and had a holiday weekend to kill in the middle of it. So I went into San Francisco feeling sorry for myself, because nowhere in the world is much fun when you're on your own and starting to miss your wife.

I always find myself drawn to 'Lark in the Morning' when I'm in SF because I've got a weakness for acoustic 'folky' instruments and it helps pass an hour or so.

I left the shop and went into the courtyard at The Cannery in search of a beer and a sandwich. A singer/songwriter called Jill Knight was playing on the stage in the middle and as I arrived she launched into Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes". It's one of 'our' songs and I thought that she would never cover it with just her singing and an acoustic guitar, but she did a great arrangement of it.

I bought one of the CD's she had for sale on the strength of that, and found that although the studio versions of her songs were a bit more on the 'country' side than her live set (and a bit too country for my tastes) there are some killer fretless lines on it

baalroo · #18 01-02-2009, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Jools4001

I was on a two week business trip to the Bay Area and had a holiday weekend to kill in the middle of it. So I went into San Francisco feeling sorry for myself, because nowhere in the world is much fun when you're on your own and starting to miss your wife.

I always find myself drawn to 'Lark in the Morning' when I'm in SF because I've got a weakness for acoustic 'folky' instruments and it helps pass an hour or so.

I left the shop and went into the courtyard at The Cannery in search of a beer and a sandwich. A singer/songwriter called Jill Knight was playing on the stage in the middle and as I arrived she launched into Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes". It's one of 'our' songs and I thought that she would never cover it with just her singing and an acoustic guitar, but she did a great arrangement of it.

I bought one of the CD's she had for sale on the strength of that, and found that although the studio versions of her songs were a bit more on the 'country' side than her live set (and a bit too country for my tastes) there are some killer fretless lines on it

nice story, but wouldn't buying someone's album because you enjoyed their live show be just about the most CONVENTIONAL possible way to discover music?

Hoover · #19 01-02-2009, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Trevorus

Anyone found some cool music through some other method rather than radio ...?

I listen to the radio so infrequently that were I to discover any new music that way it would be very non-conventional! I get turned on to most new music via friends' recommendations. These days YouTube seems to me like the most non-conventional way of discovering new music, but apparently that's pretty commonplace.

Actually, the most non-conventional way of discovering new music I ever found was when I saw an ad in the Village Voice from some band looking for a guitarist, and they said "Our influences are" and listed three of my favorite bands...and one I'd never heard of. I figured "If this fourth band is even remotely like the other three I'd probably love them" so I took a shot and bought several albums by the mystery band. Turned out to not sound anything like the three other bands! but I was still right, I did love them.

Jools4001 · #20 01-03-2009, 05:51 AM

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Originally Posted by baalroo

nice story, but wouldn't buying someone's album because you enjoyed their live show be just about the most CONVENTIONAL possible way to discover music?

It most certainly is, but only if your idea of discovering new music in the most CONVENTIONAL way possible is flying half way around the world from where you live, impulsively going to SF to kill a few hours, just happening to pass by what is essentially a busking kind of gig at the very moment that a solo singer/songwriter starts to sing one of your favourite songs as the last song in her set.

If it's conventional that this song is the only reason you stop to listen instead of walking past and only stay to listen to the end because, despite the original song being a full band arrangement, she managed to do a really cool version with just her singing and playing an acoustic guitar.

If it's conventional to impulsively buy her studio album purely on the strength of hearing her perform a single song (even though you know that the album is all original and doesn't contain the song you stopped for in the first place), then finding that the album is not her singing and playing solo but has a band backing her which changes the whole vibe of her songs towards a country genre which you normally avoid like the plague but then discover it has a bunch of cool fretless bass (and upright bass on).

Seems a less conventional way of discovering some bass lines you really enjoy than hearing a film soundtrack or youtube clip to me