/r/musicsuggestions

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A place to ask for music suggestions and help others discover something new.

Please read the rules before posting:

  1. Be Polite
  2. No Spam
  3. There are two types of contributions we expect in this community. Requesting suggestions and giving suggestions. Please make requests in posts and give suggestions on comments.
  4. Please keep your suggestions relevant to the request. You may also share with our community in our weekly pinned “Recommendations” post.
  5. If your suggestion is your own music or playlist please mark your post as self promo

Hopefully this will insure that your suggestion gets seen by the right people and everyone’s searches will hopefully be more fruitful.

If you can, try to stay away from trending/Top 100 songs. Most of us are probably aware of them.


If you're after Anime instead of music, there's a subreddit for that! (/r/animesuggestions has what you're looking for.)

/r/musicsuggestions

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Looking for dark orchestral music?

I don't know how else to really describe it, except maybe ritual music you might hear in a Satanic temple or that mansion from Eyes Wide Shut.

Songs similar to --

Lisa Gerrard - Gloradin

Jocelyn Pook - Masked Ball

Stuff like that.

0 Comments
2024/05/01
11:06 UTC

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Songs about reminiscing your beauty

Suggest songs with theme of reminiscing the past and your beauty gone with it. On top of my head, something like Memories from Cats Musical, or Lana del Rey's Young and Beautiful. TY!

1 Comment
2024/05/01
10:43 UTC

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Music Similar to Cyberpunk 2077 OST

Hello, I'm looking for songs similar to some tracks in Cyberpunk 2077 OST. A few tracks to mention: Voodoo Boys theme, Atlantis, Contra La Luna, Apex Predators, Valentino's theme. I believe what I'm looking for is along the lines of industrial techno and dark ambient but correct me if that's wrong. Where can I find similar music? Which genre(s) are these music?

0 Comments
2024/05/01
10:00 UTC

5

What are the most powerful and emotional songs that you know ? (Espacially Metal/rock)

9 Comments
2024/05/01
08:05 UTC

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Nostalgia song but you werent there and didn’t listen to it as a kid

Does anyone have a song that makes them feel fuzzy or nostalgic but you have no real life relation to it. Mine is web in front by archers of lost but I wasn’t alive in 1993 and found this song three years ago. I just feel it in my stomach when I listen to it and I almost feel like it’s making me sad/nostalgic for something that I didn’t experience. It’s a bit hard to explain

8 Comments
2024/05/01
07:41 UTC

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James Brady & Champagne Jam - New Song - Hippie Champagne

0 Comments
2024/05/01
07:21 UTC

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Any songs similar to Solitude by Black Sabbath?

I'm looking for song recommendations that are slow and soothing with minimum instruments used.

I have Solitude by Black Sabbath, Lay it Down Slow by Amazing Grace, Dust in The Wind by Kansas.

Need more of these kinds of songs (preferably from rock artists) to help me go into Zen Mode.

1 Comment
2024/05/01
07:15 UTC

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What good reggae songs to dance to with friends when extremely drunk?

My friends are really into reggae songs when we hang out and dance when they get the buzz. The songs they dance to consist of artists like Rebelution, Stick Figure, Tribal Seeds, Inner Circle, and Kolohe Kai.

It would be better if you could suggest individual songs rather than the name of the artists since some of them tend to focus on chill vibes rather than a "disco party" (e.g. Bob Marley).

Some of the reggae-esque songs I have in my playlist that they enjoyed are; 1) Skrillex - Make It Bun Dem, 2) Sublime - Santeria, 3) Alfons - Ganjaman, and 4) Skindred - Nobody. These particular songs aren't reggae but are somehow "danceable" for them while keeping a little bit of that reggae vibe.

You can also recommend similar songs from above even if they're not reggae-specified but still have that style.

Thank you in advance!

20 Comments
2024/05/01
06:44 UTC

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I want a songs that you’d play if you were driving off into the distance at night. Think movie vibes. I’ll be very selective and choose 30 songs to make a playlist with.

I’ll put the playlist link here when I’m done!

11 Comments
2024/05/01
06:35 UTC

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Best album from start to finish?

What are your thoughts on the absolute best album(s) and why? What makes an album great?

26 Comments
2024/05/01
06:03 UTC

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You are watching a beautiful summer sunset on LSD, you get 1 song. Go

10 Comments
2024/05/01
05:57 UTC

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Is there such a thing as "mechanical" music?

What I mean by this is like... music (preferably without lyrics) that uses stuff like gears, clanking metal, drill sounds, hissing steam (etc) to create music. There could still be traditional instruments in between (honestly, I think having all the instruments be machines would sound a little painful).

I've been looking through "Industrial" artists, such as Z'EV, Throbbing Gristle, etc (basically going through the wiki page for Industrial music) but many of these sound too experimental or rough for me.

At the risk of sounding like a normie, I'm looking for something more "vanilla," that is - traditionally appealing - just with a bunch of cool, tech-y, mechanical and industrial sounds added in. Nothing too off the rails.

Actually, for a good example of what I'm talking about, look up Tower of Guns' soundtrack, specifically "Evaluation" and "Induction," I'm looking for more stuff that sounds like this.

15 Comments
2024/05/01
04:47 UTC

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What’s your go to songs when feeling sad?

I like let me be sad by I prevail and yesterday by the beetles.

20 Comments
2024/05/01
04:39 UTC

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What is a “Tik Tok Song” that’s actually really good?

8 Comments
2024/05/01
04:38 UTC

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Songs about a higher calling

What are some songs about hearing the voice within or answering a higher calling? Any genre is good.

Two I like are Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel and Southern Cross by CSN.

0 Comments
2024/05/01
04:37 UTC

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What songs do you listen to. When you just wanna breathe smoke?

What do you listen to when you just want the world to burn.

My two submissions…

Yer Blues - The Dirty Mac

https://youtu.be/JeFwaWFTGYU?si=sOe2vp_dw1_urWUn

Dead Bitches - FBG Duck

https://youtu.be/SKaJT8yWbGs?si=qpl4FjHys_7X1ipf

5 Comments
2024/05/01
04:23 UTC

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I got a tbi. Realized I don't know any music

I am 27 and I can't list the music I like. I don't have much I listen to that I'm passionate about, my phone is full of random music I know through friends or the internet but none of its mine? Before my brain injury, I used to sing and dance. I know music moved me to the point of synesthesia.

How do I find what music I like, when there's so much out there? Where do i start? I try to listen to the radio and it seems repetitive.

I don't know how to write this, I'm sorry.

7 Comments
2024/05/01
04:20 UTC

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What song perfectly encapsulates the feeling of depression for you?

Suggest me some songs that perfectly describe what depression feels like to you. I'll try my best to give suggestions a listen.

For me there is absolutely no contest. I've battled depression for as long as I can remember and for me the song that describes how it feels the best is shattered by currents. Its metalcore, but even if that isnt your cup of tea I would encourage you to give it a listen with the lyrics.

12 Comments
2024/05/01
04:19 UTC

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What’s the spooky old song that’s echoey the only lyric i can remember is “inside your(?) house”

2 Comments
2024/05/01
03:53 UTC

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Favorite "forgotten" song

Popular songs that have become niche or faded into existence. Mine is Air that I Breathe - The Hollies

167 Comments
2024/05/01
03:53 UTC

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Bands that sound like L'arc~en~Ciel or Luna Sea - IN ENGLISH

Both are 90s Japanese rock bands. But I'm looking for similar IN ENGLISH. Similar bands or the genre name, but not vague genres like "japanese rock", "visual kei" or "pop rock".

EXAMPLE 1: https://youtu.be/8gE7LxbxvZY?si=nujOHvNxfp4Jau1R

EXAMPLE 2: https://youtu.be/DRLkiX-NZzE?si=vT2G889BOks0FtK0

0 Comments
2024/05/01
03:49 UTC

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Songs like "June - A little messed up"?

1 Comment
2024/05/01
03:17 UTC

1

female cello suggestions

Bands like Tattle Tale, Rasputina. Also love “Strings” by Kristin Hersh.

3 Comments
2024/05/01
03:10 UTC

2

Minimalist song suggestions?

I love minimal music with strong vocals that carry the tune.

Examples include “save me” by Kimbra, “Fool Of Me” by Meshell Ndegeocello, “Do What You Gotta Do” by Roberta Flack, and “Harvest Moon” cover by Cassandra Wilson.

All these songs give me shivers. Would love some suggestions of something similar!

5 Comments
2024/05/01
03:03 UTC

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International Music

What are some of your favourite bands from outside of your home country?  (Mostly meaning  English native countries like the US and Canada and UK)

I kinda wanna see what countries people know most?

France - Gojira, Justice

Nigeria - Fela Kuti

Sweden - Opeth, Meshuggah, Dungen

Finland - Insomnium

Iceland - Sigur Ros, Bjork, Mum

Spain - Toundra

I spose there aren't a ton that I've listened to, but then to hit in the west it has to be in english or mostly instrumental ...

Anyways what are some of your faves?

14 Comments
2024/05/01
02:19 UTC

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Something that blends Spaghetti Western & Wuxia?

1 Comment
2024/05/01
02:13 UTC

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