r/MusicRecommendations

trying to discover new music outside my usual 🎶

i love music and i’ve been wanting to branch out and discover new artists. i’m not picky at all so i’ll listen to anything. i enjoy storytelling, chill, emotional, jazzy, fun songs like raye, olivia rodrigo, and gracie abrams.

drop your favorite artists, underrated songs, or even just one song you think everyone should hear. i’m trying to build a really good playlist :)

thank you in advanced!!

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u/pinkwave-music307 — 10 hours ago

[Music Theme Thursdays] Song recommendations on the theme of 'Blue'

Hey folks, starting today I'll be sharing a weekly post asking for recommendations on specific theme. I have a long list of themes I'll be working off but I'm open to contributions from the community once I figure out the best way to capture them.

This weeks theme is 'Blue'. It can have Blue in the title, in the lyrics, make you feel blue or evoke any connection at all...

I'll start with

Blue Monday - New Order
Blew Away - Smashing Pumpkins

u/_Mhoram_ — 9 hours ago

I want to create a new ‘Gym Workout Motivate’ playlist as I listen to my current one on repeat all the time, and it’s time to mix it up a little. What songs do you recommend I add?

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u/Greeen_Eyess — 12 hours ago

Give me a single relatively mellow ,cutting-edge/avant garde / experimental track you know of.

Just choose your best track to me, only 1 track.

instrumental would be better , but abstract vocal also good.

Would listen to some and give my personal rating(not need to take seriously on that point is ok, I would not make any downvote on suggestion, so don't downvote my comment as a respect.)

***someone request for explanation what 0 point represent: that track is just not enough experimental/ cutting edge / avant garde or not greatly scratch the itch only on electronic music only***

***don't give me spotify link ***

winner(best track to me) at this movement : "Why Don't You Eat Carrots" - Faust

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u/ingressgame — 13 hours ago

Looking for Orchestral music recommendations

Top three favorite orchestral pieces :
Glassworks, Phillip Glass
Music for 18 Musicians, Steve Reich
Suite in E flat, Gustav Holst (might be mostly a nostalgia thing bc I played clarinet in band and we played this but I have loved holst since I was a child and listened to the planets on my leap pad lol)

Please recommend me stuff that is similar as in like crazy rhythms and I like minimalism, thank yoooou

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u/Vivid-Use-3845 — 17 hours ago

Who has background vocals like My Chemical Romance?

I think they are pretty unique in this way. Their harmonics and melodies always stood out to me as impressive. But are there any others? Any genre. What comes to mind?

And shoutout to the talent of mcr.

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u/probablebrisk — 13 hours ago

looking for "rage" type songs

I was listening to miss the rage by carti, bad boy by juice and off the map by sofaygo. I absolutely love the beat and I'm wishing to hear more like these but I haven't found much that I likes after combing through YouTube for a while

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u/wattsun_76 — 15 hours ago

Punk music for female in 30's

EDIT: I should have titled this rock music for woman in her 30's 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️ i did not proof read the stupid title before posting

Hi all,

I am trying to update my music. I like pop rock, pop punk, classic rock, alt rock, emo, grunge rock, punk rock, but its getting harder to relate to the lyrics as I age (am 33) and everything I like is just so damn dated. I was listening to Mannequin Pussy today, and I was into the sound but the lyrics are just too young for me to connect to. I also like Lambrini Girls but have the same issue. Can anyone recommend good rocking music for the aging 😭 ?

I have pretty basic taste, I like all the usual suspects for my age group, I like the big hit 90's stuff and dad rock stuff...I specifically like led zepplin, the beatles, the doors, jimmy eat world, coheed and cambria, green day, blink 182, the used, my chemical romance, prize fighter inferno, hole, nirvana, pearl jam, modest mouse, the misfits, bikini kill, all american rejects, pavement, cake, violent femmes, the white stripes, offspring, taking back sunday, good charlotte's first few albums, fallout boy, original Panic at the Disco, fall of troy, thursday, thrice, alkalin trio, the white stripes, linkin park, kings of leon, dashboard confessional, Evanesence, no doubt, smashing pumpkins, meat puppets, space hog, rage against the machine, garbage, Nathaniel Rateliff and The Nightsweats....you get the point. I like a smattering of hip hop and rap, but rock is my main genre

Please help me upgrade. I want the same energy, but I want something *new* and more mature. Bonus points if someone can point me in the direction of a mid thirties punk band with female lead vocals. Would also love dad rock album reccomendations, or maybe album reccomendations for 90's/2000's bands that came out with banger albums later in their career. A lot of my music taste was shaped by radio hits, I will 100% admit it. Let me know if I missed out somewhere, please!!!

*ska need not apply

Thank you!!!

Edit - So many recs already 😭🥰🙏 I appreciate you guys so much. I'll be working my way down the list. Keep em coming!!! Will be updating over the next few days as I do

Edit: I made a radio station from someone's L7 suggestion and found the Juliana Hatfield Three. I haven't seen anyone here mention them yet so I'll throw them back to you guys. I thought they were really good.

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u/J-ne — 1 day ago

Who are some jam bands and what’s their best album/live set?

I’m pretty uneducated on jam bands so chances are I haven’t heard it yet so throw the best you got at me

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u/Friedshreds — 1 day ago

Ugly cry songs made with pure emotion

I don't really know how to specify my criteria other than giving examples of what I mean. I've tried a handful of ugly cry/spiraling/suicide/sh playlists on spotify and while I nabbed a few nice tracks from those over time, nothing really hits like my main lineup:

Cacola - Death (my entire life revolves around this song I swear, I can't imagine what inspired this song other than the raw brain waves of dying and coming back to life 100 times a second, for years)

Post Malone - Laugh It Off (losing someone by keeping it all in)

Ren - Suic*de (specifically the last part)

Father of Death - Happy Jazz Shit (iykyk)

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u/AglassLamp — 22 hours ago

electropop female artists like Ninajirachi, Underscores and Tiffany day

need song recommendations with bouncy electronic beats and fun heavy synths, GLITCHES AND FEMALE VOCALS ARE HIGHLY APPRECIATED🌟 hyperpop, dance electronic, electrohouse, upbeat fun girly electronic music!! think sparkle glitter rave vibes... also pls no charlie xcx i tried that and couldnt get into her music

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u/iamdeactivating — 22 hours ago

Looking For: Teacher crash out/end of the year songs

Sassy songs-about things like: oh go away, I do not want to deal with you, you drive me crazy, you irritate/frustrate me, goodbye-so long etc.

School appropriate needed so no cursing.

Some songs I already have:

  • Pray for You - Jaron and The Long Road to Love
  • Leave (Get Out) - JoJo
  • Taylor swift: I forgot that you existed, You need to Calm Down, Shake it off, Bad Blood, Look What you made me do, Opalite, etc
  • Dont Speak-No Doubt
  • I'm Still Standing-Elton John
  • Help!- Beatles
  • Respect-Aretha Franklin
  • I Will Survive-Gloria Gaynor
  • Somebody that I used to know-Gotye
  • MAnic Monday-The Bangles
  • Rude-Magic
  • I'm Not Okay -My chemical romance
  • Bye, Bye, Bye-NSync
  • No Scrubs-TLC
  • Me Aginst the World-Superchic
  • Return to Sender-Elvis
  • Stressed Out-21 Piolets
  • 50 Ways to Say Goodbye-Train
  • Closing time-semisonic
  • Spiderwebs-No Doubt
  • We're Not Gonna Take it-Twisted Sister
  • I need some sleep-Eels
  • You Talk Too Much- Run DMC
  • American Pie-Don McClean
  • Get off my back and You CAnt take me-Spirit OST
  • Loosing my Grip-Hoobastank
  • Under Pressure-Queen
  • And a handful more.
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u/Versynko — 1 day ago

Looking for psychedelic music/bands

I'm looking for experimental psychedelic bands like the ones below. Microtonal music, weird time signatures and strange instruments are preferred.

  • King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
  • Tame Impala
  • Angine de Poitrine
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u/Pure_Block_5309 — 1 day ago

I'm trying to make a playlist for my fallout New Vegas character

So for some information about his character he has schizophrenia, really loved his mama, he tries his best to be kind but he is also violent because of his schizophrenia, he's crazy strong but really dumb. I mostly got the idea for his personality off of the song Psycho from Jack Kittle, I'd appreciate any recommendations I don't mind if they don't fit the same genre 🥹

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u/Moon_bird1375 — 21 hours ago

Songs about “hoes” but from a woman’s pov, not man

I realized in a lot of rap songs and hip hop or similar , most of the singers I hear (which happen to be male) sing about multiple different women or strippers etc and I want to listen to that music but about men 😂 there’s some catchy ones out there but I’m looking for something I can play after my boyfriends objectifying songs

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u/ConfuzzledLeo — 1 day ago

Songs about yearning for something that once was, but not in a romantic context?

As of late I've been looking for some more tunes for a playlist I have based off of a writing project.

I want something that's melancholic, maybe a little slow, and about (or can be interpreted as) long-term yearning, or missing somebody that you regrettably last saw years ago. But, I am not looking for songs about breakups, ex-lovers, etc. More of a former close friendship/found family type of bond.

Finding it quite hard to find any more songs that aren't explicitly about a romantic relationship, so I figured I'd post here?

I really like country, cowpunk, deathgrass, southern gothic, and just about anything from the 50s, but I'm open to any genre :]

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u/MUTTZ-GUTZ — 1 day ago