MUSIC & Brown Students

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<p>Rather, prospective Brown students. Although current ones are welcome to join! </p>

<p>Okay, let’s assume we’re all gonna get in. XD We’re in this together!</p>

<p>So, let’s find concert buddies! (I know that there’s at least one venue nearby – my friends and I walked from the campus to Providence to see Spoon play, and it was a 15-ish minute, scenic walk.)</p>

<p>I know lotsa people say they listen to “everything,” and mmm I guess I haven’t heard EVERY GENRE IN THE WORLD but I like a looot of stuff and I’m open to a lot. I like everything from death metal to alternative to opera to rap to techno to hardcore… and my favorite thing EVER is funky combinations of the things I like. (Opera death metal? Check, Tristania. Hardcore-death-metal-rap-techno? Check, The Electric Bloodbath.) </p>

<p>My absolute favs by genre. We’re not allowed to post YouTube links but we can provide… hmm… things to search for on YT that might yield videos:</p>

<p>**Metal<a href=“prog,%20death,%20folk,%20etc.”>/B</a>: Opeth (Ghost of Perdition), Agalloch (…And the Great Cold Death of the Earth), Dream Theater (lolz) (Fatal Tragedy), Pain of Salvation (Iter Impius)
**Alternative/mainstream <a href=“lol%20contradictory?”>/B</a>: The Dresden Dolls (Backstabber), Death Cab for Cutie (I Will Possess Your Heart), The Dear Hunter (Red Hands), The Postal Service (Nothing Better)
Singer/songwriter: Damien Rice (9 Crimes, Rootless Tree [couldn’t pick one!]), Jeff Buckley (Hallelujah)
Hardcore/post-hardcore: Thrice (For Miles), Between the Buried and Me (okay, they went more prog/DM, but they’ve still got some elements of hardcore) (Sun of Nothing), Battle of Mice (Sleep and Dream)
Techno/trance: Basshunter (I Can Walk On Water, I Can Fly)</p>

<p>So yeah, I’ll stop. Post your favorites; connect with like-minded Brown wannabes; discover new stuff? We can plan imaginary concerts that we’ll attend, lol.</p>

<p>/goes back to last-second prepping for SAT IIs</p>

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<p>My faaaavorite bands/artists are: </p>

<p>Motion City Soundtrack (<3)
Death Cab for Cutie
Mat Kearney
The Decemberists
Damien Rice
The Feeling
The Verve Pipe
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's
The Fray
The Beatles
Simon and Garfunkel
James Taylor
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young</p>

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<p>Yay, nice list! I've never heard of The Feeling or Margot et. al; I'll check them out on YouTube. (:</p>

<p>We should see DCFC together at Brown! Haha, DCFC (w/ Shins!) was my second favorite concert ever... which surprises people who are used to seeing me in, like, Megadeth and Cannibal Corpse shirts. Lol.</p>

<p>And Damien Rice... I need to see him before I die. Too bad Lisa lefttt... :/ but he is frickin' FANTASTIC.</p>

<p>I like the limited Decemberists I've heard... same with MTC. I thought The Fray's album was solid, too, and I didn't expect to like it! </p>

<p>And ahhhh, The Verve Pipe does 'The Freshmen'!!!! That's one of my all-time favorite songs!!!! '90s alternative at its best.</p>

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<p>YES '90s alternative just defeats all over the music, haha. The Freshman is like....ghhhhh. I adore that song. </p>

<p>I just saw The Decemberists in Baltimore last month and they were fantaaaastic. I've never seen Death Cab, but I'd love to! I've seen Motion City 3 times, Margot once, The Feeling twice, The Fray twice, Mat Kearney once. I am a concert junkie :)</p>

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<p>Poseur, good call making this thread.
I have different tastes than you two but here's my list in no particular order</p>

<p>Immortal Technique
Ben Folds Five
Phish
Dispatch
Jack Johnson
Atmosphere
Slightly Stoopid
Damien Marley
Missy Higgins
U2 (more of their older stuff)
Kaiser Chiefs
The Rolling Stones</p>

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<p>A Perfect Circle, Brand New, Cave In, Charles Mingus, Derek Trucks, Dizzy Gilespe, Dredg, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Explosions in the Sky, Glassjaw, GYBE!, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Eat World, Joe Bonamassa, King Crimson, Lawrence Arms, Led Zeppelin, LITE, Louis Armstrong, Mae, Mastodon, Maynard Ferguson, Miles Davis, Minus The Bear, Mogwai, Oliver Nelson, Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, Queen, Rory Gallagher, Russian Circles, Semisonic, Soundgarden, Spaceman 3, Spiritualized, Stage, Stone Temple Pilots, Telescreen, The Beatles, The Who, Third Eye Blind, Thrice, Tortoise</p>

<p>To name a few... but I won't be around next year.</p>

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<p>Does one have to be the Class of '13 to get in on this?</p>

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<p>Nope.
And anyone here a fan of Girl Talk or Norwegian Recycling?</p>

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<p>itsgametime--I LOVE Jack Johnson and Dispatch. I actually aaaaalmost put Dispatch on my list.</p>

<p>And I love the Kaiser Chiefs, too--they were my first concert!</p>

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<p>itsgametime, your list is all over the place! And omg, U2 is like... the most prolific, amazing band ever. I even like their new stuff! Immortal Technique is excellent too. I've heard of Girl Talk and a few of my friends went to see them a few months ago, but I dunno any of their stuff. </p>

<p>MM, aww, you're a senior? D: I wanted to meet you, lolz. I looove GY!BE and King Crimson (ITCotCK = best album of the '60s?! I believe so) and Explosions in the Sky. And Porcupine Tree ahhh why didn't I mention them?! Definitely in my top 10. Plus of course no human can dislike Pink Floyd... although I like the Gilmour-era stuff (The Division Bell, for example) more the the Waters stuff (The Wall.)</p>

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<p>I have a very eclectic movie taste, but I don't like everything. My favorite bands would probably be:
The Format (so sad they broke up, but I hear one of their band members formed a new band that's pretty solid)
The Dresden Dolls
The All-American Rejects (will always have a place in my heart).
The Beatles
Clutch
The Decemberists
Green Day
Jason Mraz
Motion City Soundtrack
Muse
My Chemical Romance
Panic at the Disco
Regina Spektor
and I'm a big musical buff. I always tell people, if you listen to a mix that I've made, you'll find a song that you love and a song that you hate. No one seems to have the same taste as I do.</p>

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<p>Solid list... I looove Muse and Regina Spektor. </p>

<p>And I'm totally the same way about mixes. Musical exchanges between me and my friends are... interesting. (:</p>

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<p>Wow, Rosarita...you're totally my music buddy, haha</p>

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<p>:D</p>

<p>Classical stuff: Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Dvorak, Chopin, Poulenc, Berlioz, Debussy, Shostakovich etc.</p>

<p>Other stuff: White stripes, avett brothers, ben folds (five!), sean lennon, david bowie, bright eyes, the beatles, beck, yo la tengo, os mutantes, the flaming lips, rhymefest, sigur ros, violent femmes, girl talk, bob dylan, etc.</p>

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<p>cor magnon is definitely my music buddy
hi 5 :D</p>

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<p>Poseur, the fact that you appreciate The Division Bell makes me think you're a person worth knowing, seriously.</p>

<p>I constantly fight with my friends about how The Division Bell is way underrated.</p>

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<p>Classical: Stravinsky (seeing rite on tuesday :D), Satie, Chopin, Ravel, Debussy, Carter, some Mahler/Sibelius/Tchai/
others: Yeah yeah yeahs, bon iver, suf, new buffalo, camera obscura, arcade fire, random techno/dance/house, damien rice, vamp weekend,</p>

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<p>the ones i listen to the most out of my itunes library:
(conveniently in alphabetical order :P)</p>

<p>Andrew Bird
Arcade Fire
Beirut
Ben Folds (Five)
Bon Iver <--- he's my favorite lately
Broken Social Scene (and all their friends)
Bright Eyes
DeVotchKa
Eels
Elliott Smith
The Flaming Lips
Fleet Foxes
Flight of the Conchords
Gomez
Great Lake Swimmers
Interpol
Iron & Wine
The Jealous Sound
John Vanderslice
Kanye West
The Killers
Laura Veirs
Maria Taylor
Mates of State
Modest Mouse
The Mountain Goats
The New Pornographers
Okkervil River
Page France
The Polyphonic Spree
Postal Service
Radiohead
Rilo Kiley
The Shins
Sigur Ros (amazing)
The Strokes
Sufjan Stevens (incredible)
Sun Kil Moon
These United States
Third Eye Blind (first album only)
The Watson Twins
The Weakerthans (so good)
Wilco
Wolf Parade</p>

<p>wow sorry about this list haha. if someone else likes all of these i'll be so happy</p>

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<p>Hmm for me it would be,</p>

<p>Sun Kil Moon
Snow Patrol
Maroon 5
All American Rejects
Athlete
The Calling
Chris Brown
Coldplay
Dido
The Fray
Goo Goo Dolls
Guillemot
HelloGoodbye
The Hoosiers
Imogen Heap
James Blunt
Jet
Justin Timberlake
Keane
Kid Rock
Lifehouse
Lost Prophets
Oasis
Placebo
Razorlight
Take that
The Verve
Muse
Modest Mouse
Radiohead
Damien Rice</p>

<p>Slightly Eclectic</p>

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<p>Sufjan Steeeeeeeeeevens </p>

<p><strong>drool</strong></p>