Recommended Albums / Artists to listen to that are not "Main stream"

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#3204974 10-Mar-2024 08:06

If you can track it down, there’s an 80’s band called Keats that produced a single album of the same name. I’ve always liked it.

https://open.spotify.com/album/5kRrl6dkcQv4ASzwGyE2Cn?si=wBPpU3pbRkCovnsiQyZbFA

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#3204986 10-Mar-2024 09:21

Fields of the Nephilim

there’s not really anything like them. Most people I speak to have never heard of them. They are my favourite band

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#3204998 10-Mar-2024 10:16

Ge0rge:

(Yes, I have a thing for powerful female singers 😂)

i'm guessing alissa white-gluz might be your taste. lead singer for arch enemy who played here last year i think it was. shes done some very good colabs (eg "The Wolf You Feed").

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#3205001 10-Mar-2024 11:02

Excellent post, thank you.

Johnk:

I am sitting here listening to some of my usual playlists and just wonder what else is out there that I don't know about.....

I am keen to expand my horizons and listen to something new (to me), what are you go to Artists, or Albums?

I enjoy almost all music apart from "mainstream" pop. Born in the mid '80s and grew up listening to a mix of grunge, rock, nu-metal, and rap.

Hit me with what tickles your ears.

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#3205002 10-Mar-2024 11:04

December last year, my wife & I went to the Michael Fowler Center to see The Teskey Brothers. Absolutely brilliant.

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#3205003 10-Mar-2024 11:08

tweake:
Ge0rge:

(Yes, I have a thing for powerful female singers 😂)

i'm guessing alissa white-gluz might be your taste. lead singer for arch enemy who played here last year i think it was. shes done some very good colabs (eg "The Wolf You Feed").

Yes, huge fan of hers, as well as the likes of Charlotte Wessels from Delain and Brittney Slayes from Unleash the Archers - who are touring NZ this year!

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#3205008 10-Mar-2024 11:32

For a bit of a mix:

Heilung - Neo-pagan ethnic music using a mix of ancient European languages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVbc_Fwbt50

Agnes Obel - Pop / neo-classical

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlIRIZSZtuc

Within Temptation - Symphonic metal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3nb_r18ug0

Vienna Teng - Pop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ULXgJ18xuY

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#3205079 10-Mar-2024 14:20

Thanks for all the recommendations!

I have made a Spotify Playlist and I will try to keep adding songs into it as more get put in here.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6it5RowsKE0pfNmc7aUXfT?si=EBTgXWAmQGiqDfZzf4aaAQ&pi=a-azu2VEHnTeas

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#3205097 10-Mar-2024 16:27

The Beths might still count as being outside the mainstream, despite winning the 2023 Silver Scroll? Anyway, I still meet kiwis who haven't heard of them and they're my favourite all-time band, so I reckon they deserve a mention.

Other bands I enjoy with an Indie Rock/Pop sound a bit like The Beths include Coast Arcade and Beach Bunny.

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#3205152 10-Mar-2024 20:36

Joy Division - Love Will Tear us apart

Joy Division - Atmosphere

Lord Echo - Thinking of You

Lord Echo - Just do You

Rhian Sheehan - Traveler

Rhian Sheehan - Boundaries

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#3205172 10-Mar-2024 22:02

Similar age to the OP...

Try -

How To Destroy Angels (Trent Reznor's wife for a lack of a better description)

Fink (British former dubstep producer who went sing/song writer with a band)

Scroobius Pip (Essex spoken word with beats behind him, some of the early stuff with Dan le Sac)

But then a lot of off-shoot bands from my favourite artists on top of this.

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#3205174 10-Mar-2024 22:15

Alejandro Escavido

Alison Krauss

Deadman

Gillian Welch

Little Big Town

Shelley Fairchild

The Jayhawks

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#3205201 11-Mar-2024 06:30

Yo La Tengo - difficult to categorise

Wilco - should be mainstream bur aren't as far as I am aware

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#3205207 11-Mar-2024 07:52

Gen Xer here too, grew up with 80's Pop, Grunge, Metal, 90's Hip hop and Rap, a bit of everything really! :)

These days I am in love with Amigo the Devil (Murder Folk), Devil Makes three (Blue Grass??), Trampled by Turtles (folk), Bridge City Sinners (Grunge Folk).

If you know of the Dead South who recently toured here then they all sort of branch off that... Not Mainstream by my definition but all readily available on Spotify, You Tube etc.

Doing your best is much more important than being the best.

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#3205208 11-Mar-2024 07:57

Nick cave & the bad seeds is another good band

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