or similar source but had never heard before


i'll start with:
the black keys.

1/9/2011 1:07:39 AM

arcade fire
band of horses


/hipster

1/9/2011 1:24:51 AM

Ben Graves (i'm sure most English majors like "Direction")

1/9/2011 1:39:56 AM

None


I should probably not say anymore

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1/9/2011 2:47:20 PM

ronald jenkees
regina spektor
pretty much anything on Cafe Del Mar albums

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1/9/2011 2:53:34 PM

mika is the only one that comes to mind

1/9/2011 3:16:52 PM

Cage The Elephant
Muse
Phoenix

1/9/2011 3:42:04 PM

Looks like Pandora is slowly converting all of its listeners into hipsters.

1/9/2011 3:56:21 PM

Only hipsters don't have enough culture to discover out new music on their owns

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1/9/2011 4:46:52 PM

after the burial

1/9/2011 4:57:58 PM

nothing

because pandora has never once shown me something i had not heard of before

granted i only used it like twice in its early days. but i was unimpressed.

1/9/2011 8:51:19 PM

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"regina spektor "

same

Also Adele, then I QUICKLY got annoyed with her voice after thumbs upping a few of her songs.

1/9/2011 9:04:01 PM

Music elitism itt.

1/9/2011 9:33:58 PM

i dont give anything ive never heard a chance

1/9/2011 9:34:43 PM

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"nothing because pandora has never once shown me something i had not heard of before"

1/9/2011 9:35:17 PM

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"Music elitism itt."

this.

i found arcade fire, ratatat, september, k-os, & the blow. i find a lot of my music via commercials/tv actually. examples: basia bulat, citizen cope, feist, florence + the machine, ingrid michaelson, massive attack, phoenix, shiny toy guns, tim myers, tom mcrae, & yael naim. i'm a little late to the party with most of them but i don't care.

1/9/2011 9:51:14 PM

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"i find a lot of my music via commercials/tv actually. examples: massive attack"

ok, I am normally not a music snob, but you need to be shot for this

1/9/2011 9:59:51 PM

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"i dont give anything ive never heard a chance"

1/9/2011 10:01:40 PM

Shark Quest
El Ten Eleven
Linus Loves

1/9/2011 10:08:30 PM

why does it matter where it comes from? a lot of people like those artists i listed, and i just hear about them really late. seriously?

1/9/2011 10:14:26 PM

because they were around for probably 20 years before pandora, if not more and were really well known

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1/9/2011 10:17:32 PM

1. i didn't find them on pandora. 2. i'd never heard of them until the show house. 20 years ago i was 8 & my first real musical preference was tool. 3. so what??

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1/9/2011 10:18:32 PM

sorry, were around 20+ years before House

1/9/2011 10:20:22 PM

shark quest is an interesting one, just because they're local

the massive attack thing is a little shameful, though

1/9/2011 10:24:58 PM

lol i really don't understand why you people care so much. if you're trying to make me feel bad for some reason, it's not going to work. i don't care. i like the one song that is in the house intro thing & didn't hear it until then. the end.

1/9/2011 10:27:00 PM

not trying to make you feel bad, its just odd because everyone I knew listened to them all the damn time... especially when Tricky got big and was all over the place for about 3 years and that led more people back to Massive Attack

1/9/2011 10:28:34 PM

if you were younger i'd understand, but you and i are the same age and mezzanine was right in my fucking wheelhouse

1/9/2011 10:33:43 PM

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"i like the one song that is in the house intro thing & didn't hear it until then. "

1/9/2011 10:42:03 PM

Atmosphere
The Grouch

1/9/2011 10:47:38 PM

This thread is also a pretty good example of why no one who uses the word hipster knows what the fuck they're talking about

Bands that are in damn car commercials are getting labeled hipster music

Jack Kerouac called Neal Cassady a hipster in 1950 and I bet he wasn't talking about fucking Band of Horses

1/9/2011 10:50:12 PM

my musical tastes have changed a lot since i was young. i've hung on to tool though. i would not have liked bands like massive attack back then. that type was not my cup of tea.

1/9/2011 11:09:21 PM

maybe you should give up on tool and move on to something worthwhile

1/9/2011 11:10:15 PM

nope. never.

1/9/2011 11:13:22 PM

I, too, was surprised when "the house theme song" was played on my pandora station. Music retardation or my young age, I would of never known it was massive attack.

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1/9/2011 11:15:35 PM

Quote :

"WOULD OF NEVER"

1/9/2011 11:22:24 PM

wait, is Band of Horses in a car commercial? I don't really watch tv.

1/10/2011 12:02:47 AM

They were in a commercial four years ago

1/10/2011 12:11:41 AM

Cool Calm Pete

1/10/2011 12:12:36 AM

well i'll be jiggered, i had no idea.

1/10/2011 12:13:37 AM

how many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

1/10/2011 12:26:35 AM

of course someone like you would ask that question

1/10/2011 12:28:30 AM

found the greatest jukebox ever here in Atlanta... quarter plays and they have everything. For example, four Richard Hell/The Voidoids albums

1/10/2011 12:32:30 AM

but only two of the hell albums are worth listening to

in similar news, i found an original copy of blank generation today

1/10/2011 12:45:10 AM

I dont even like him that much, but just the fact that they have 4 of his albums on there blows my mind

1/10/2011 12:56:27 AM

dodge and fuski.

1/10/2011 1:11:38 AM

Hiromi
Pelican

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"because pandora has never once shown me something i had not heard of before granted i only used it like twice in its early days. but i was unimpressed."

You really have to use it actively for it to make good suggestions. The more you rate and the wider variety of music you rate, the more suggestions you'll get that are likely to match your interests.

I was really bummed when I found out pandora was blocked at my new job due to bandwidth issues.

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1/10/2011 1:23:22 AM

^use your phone!

yeah for all the pandora haters, when it discovers songs/bands i haven't heard of, it's when i'm lazy and dabbling into genres i barely know, pandora does a pretty decent job of playing good shit i haven't heard of.

it's also really good at pulling random live versions of classics i've never heard. i hadn't heard any of the led zeppelin bbc sessions

1/10/2011 1:44:20 AM

there was a tremendous amount of press when the zep bbc stuff came out on cd

i own that shit, and i'm not huge on zep

also jukeboxes should only have 45s in them; although i respect the ability to pull deep cuts, quality b-sides are just as good, if not better

the only pandora station i've ever really liked is based on "cut yr hair" by pavement

that station has never played a song i didn't like

1/10/2011 2:00:27 AM

^i was 7 when they came out brosef.

1/10/2011 2:42:49 AM

I didn't learn about Massive Attack until the group was featured in one of the Pure Moods albums; also some other artists may come to mind but I thought "Walking on Air" by Kerli was good after it showed up.

1/10/2011 2:55:31 AM