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* Why music?
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What's so important about moving air? Why do we feel so much from so
little? The reason is the way the brain uses its senses to wonderstand
the world around it. Brains use large amounts of inner connected
components that serve very abstract uses. By routing information to
different parts using a high amount of innerconnectedness it can process
information in a exponential amount of ways. By sending carefully
choosen information to send to the senses you can take advanged of the
way it processes information to show whats really going on under the
hood and to cause it to route data in ways it normally wouldn't. Music
guides the geist through this chaotic complex world and shines light on
many parts of the mind and universe.\\
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"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of
energy, frequency and vibration." - Nikola Tesla

* Psychedelic
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** The Doors
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If you don't know who they are than you disapoint me. About the closest
I have to an all time favorite. When I was first learning guitar a
family friend showed me The Doors and showed me how to play a doors rift
on guitar. At first it look me to get deeper in their music but they
have always been with me no matter where I go in life. A lot of artists
haven't continued to bring me joy as my taste changes in the same way as
The Doors. If you asked me my favorite doors song I would say all of
them.\\
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If you dig The Doors please check out Ray Manzarek's solo work. His solo
album The Golden Scarab is my pick for one of the most criminally
underrated albums of all time.

** Robin Trower
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Many people call him a Jimi Hendrix copy but he they are wrong. While
there are crossovers he does have his own style that is different From
Jimi. His old albums, new albums... are all master pieces. He only
continues to age like wine and is still making new music to this day
without selling out or sounding dated.

** Jimi Hendrix
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This list isn't complete without him. Jimi is like Santa, Jesus, Abraham
Lincoln... its a requirement you know who he is. Just take a look at
every artist after he got big. Jimi's greatness leaked into all music.
His influence can't be stopped by any granfalloon borders. His influence
quickly leaked into even countries that were cultural isolated from the
west. Check out Super Djata Band to see what I mean.\\
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Most places say he died from overdose but that is a lie! He was murdered
by his manager who was upset that Jimi wanted to take a break from fame
and focus on himself instead.

** Babe Rainbow
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A fun little viby modern psychedelic band. Also one of the few modern
bands that have well put together albums not just great singles but
shitty albums. There music is fun to listen to and a good choice to
bring you out of a bad mood.

** Levitation Room
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Another great modern psychedelic band. I got to see them live once. The
way their guitarist plays finger style really caught my eye. I often
have their songs stuck in my head even if I haven't heard any of their
stuff for months and I don't even realize its them until I listen to
them again.

** Sugar Candy Mountain
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Its one of those great bands I forgot that exists but when I run into
their music again it always brings me great joy.

** King Gizard and the Lizard Wizard
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A very unforgotable name indeed. You may not like some of their music
but they fill quite a bit of area so don't give up on them so fast. A
lot of their songs feel a bit gimmicky for my taste but still a great
band.

** The Black Angels
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Good skateboarding music. Heavy and dark. Very nice indeed.\\
Update: *FINALLY GOT TO SEE THEM LIVE* Very good band to see live.
101 out of 99.

** Strawberry Alarm Clock
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Its just pure 60's psychedelic extract. They got viby stuff what more
can I say.

** Frank Zappa
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Go check out Frank Zappa. Thats a threat.

** The Beatles
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/The Beatles exist/

* Progessive
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** Gentle Giant
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A band very few know of yet it has a cult following. They are a must for
any prog rock fans. They mix in so many sounds and really push the
limits of rock in a way even other prog bands never did. I may even dare
call them my favorite prog rock band.

** Camel
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Another prog band nearly no one knows about. Go listen to their album
Moonmadness right now. Thats a requirement!

** The Moody Blues
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Its commonly believed that they started prog rock. They are known for
their big sound and use of classical music theory. I already called
Gentle Giant my favorite prog rock band so I am going to call The Moody
Blues my favorite prog pop band. Many people don't know that prog pop
actually exists and prog pop is what The Moody Blues is. Go listen to
The Moody Blues right now! Some of their albums are a bit slow going but
thats because they are carefully created works of art. Their most well
known album Days of Future Passed is said to be one of the greatest
concept albums of all time.

** King Crimson
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They are very commercially successful for prog standards. How could you
not like a band with a name like that!

** Van der Graaf Generator
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They sound almost early Genesis. They have a strange natual darkness
that always stands out to me.

** Hatfield & The North
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I really dig their album The Rotters club. That album has a special
place in my heart and is easily one of my favorite albums of all time!!!
Wanta hear the crazy story behind it? There isn't one, I just really dig
it.

** Emerson, Lake & Palmer
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The band was started by a few law firm owners. You believed me didn't
you? They actually just have a boring name. Their music isn't boring so
go check them out! Also a lot of people hate this band for no reason.

** Caravan
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Most of these bands are British but this one is the most British. Your
welcome.

** Magma
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They write concept albumns about a race of aliens called the Kobaïan.
The lanauge they sing in is the lanauge the Kobaïan speak so not very
many people actually know what they are singing about. Yes, the aliens
are real.

** Yes
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One of the first prog bands I got into. Don't let their commerical
success scare you away. They are indeed very wonderful.

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** Can
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The greatest Krautrock band of all time. tbh its one of those bands I
really need to listen to more.

** Amon Duul II
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Another great Krautrock band. They have a bit heavier sound than Can.

** Pink Floyd
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Pink Floyd is not a prog rock band.

* Funk
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** Parliament Funkadelic
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The funkest band in the list. More funk than you can handle! p-funk is
some pretty strong stuff. Its lethal. Its actually two bands but its
members kept going back and forth and they forgot were each band started
and ended.

** Sly and the Family Stone
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A vey influential funk band ineed. They were mixed race and gender, and
they were an important part of the civil rights movement. Also their
single Thank You is the first song ever released with slap bass which
was played by Larry Graham.

** Graham Central Station
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Larry Graham created it so that means its 100 percent funk. Larry Graham
is the enbodiment of funk so anything he touches gets turned into pure
100 percent organic funk.

** Cymande
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This one is quite different than any of the funk bands on this list and
really is its own thing. Their name is a calypso word for dove which is
a symbol of peace and love. You can hear the peace and love in their
music and it flows into the ear and through rest of body. This is a band
that truly transforms their geist into energy and vibrations for rest of
the world to hear.

** Lafayette Afro Rock Band
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Another band that is so funky its lethal! They were not that well known
during their time recording but have gained much more of a following
now. Do check them out if you think you can handle so much funk!

** Average White Band
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Its hard to believe a bunch of white dudes can get so funky but they did
and its real funky!

** Jaco Pastorius
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Jaco Pastorius is one of the greatest bassists of all time. He played
for Weather Report and released some really funky solo work.

** Billy Cobham
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Billy Cobham is one hell of a drummer. He played for Miles Davis and
Mahavishnu Orchestra. You need to listen to his solo work now (thats a
threat). He also had influence on many prog artists including King
Crimson.

** Shuggie Otis
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His dad had a band and personally knew many very well known artists so
Shuggie grow up around them and learned guitar at a very young age. He
played in his dads band as a little kid and they would make him dress
like a old man so they could sneak him into bars to play with the band.
As he got older he got countless offers from some really big artists to
play in their band but he gave them all up and instead produced his own
albums and remained a small artist so he could make the music he wanted
to make.

** Janko Nilovic
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Holy fuck I forgor this dude existed for a while but dam his music is
funky!

** Eddie Hazel
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The first lead guitarist for Funkadelic. His Hendrix like playing is
very badass. He is known for his guitar playing on Maggot Brain though
he also has a great solo album which became rare not long after its
release and is often not talked about much to this day.

** Gil Scott-Heron
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As of writting this He is an artist I discovered more recently. I dig it
so far. He writes songs that are political which is quite based.

** Mandrill
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Not really my favorite funk band but still funky. And funky is good.

* Japanese stuff
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They get their own section even though not all this artists play the
same style because 1: this list is going to get messy, 2: they are
better than the other artists, 3: some of these artists I discovered
like yesterday or an hour ago as of writing this so I don't know what to
say.

** Kikagaku Moyo
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The best psychedelic band of all time. *THE BEST.* You will be ruined
for all other psychedelic music once you hear them. Sadly they broke up.

** The Pillows
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Best known for making the soundtrack for FLCL. Go watch FLCL (thats a
threat). Their music is killer and I dig it.

** Ginger Root
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Ginger Root is the bomb. I got to see them live and let me tell you it
was easily one of the best artists I have ever seen live. So much
energy!!!

** Pacific album
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This album was made by multiple artists. Its one of the best albums I
have ever listen to. Good music for when skateboarding around town
buzzed on kratom on a clear warm day without a single worry in sight.

** Unsorted short but ever growing list of Japanese artists
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- T-SQUARE
- Masayoshi Takanaka
- Naniwa Express
- Casiopea
- Haruomi Hosono
- Shigeru Suzuki
- Tatsuro Yamashita

* Jazz
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Jazz is about the best music. A lot of this is more on the fusion side
btw (:

** Allan Holdsworth
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My pick for greatest guitarist of all time. This dude learned guitar
himself and jesus mother fucking christ he can play. Not only can he
play fast but we can still play with at least as much geist as Jeff
beck, play the most harsh finger breaking far apart scales, all while
leaving Joe Satriani and Steve Vai in the dust. *Guitar was his side
hobby.* His main thing we brewing. Dam this fucker got a hell ton of
autism.

** Mahavishnu Orchestra
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People will think your crazy if you tell them to check out this band,
people will think your crazy if you rock out to this. But its the bomb.
It showed me a side of music I haven't gone into before than. I was
listening to Led Zeppelin and that shit before I discovered the depths
of fusion and prog waiting for me. The best parts of life is when you
discover something new and fall deep into the depths of a rabbit hole.
Thats when the world opens up and you start to think differently and
open your mind. Thats why its good to try new things. I wouldn't be who
I am today without that push from Mahavishnu Orchestra. They are a
different breed of jazz fusion than the stuff most fusion fans are use
to. Its much harsher and almost meaner. they dis into parts of the geist
other artists stay far away from.

** Miles Davis
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You jazz peeps already know Miles Davis. If your a song writer of any
style that haven't checked out Miles yet give him a try. His music is a
good example of how to use space in music to open things up and close
them down. Compare his works and you will see what I mean. While I
haven't dug into his stuff much I really dig his album Bitches Brew. Its
very different than the smooth easy on the ear stuff people often think
of when it comes to Miles Davis. Its closer to Mahavishnu Orchestra.

* Rock/Alt/Punk
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** Talking Heads
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*You need to listen to the Talking Heads.* Now, its a requirement. Its a
funky silly litte band. The front man David Byre is rocking with autism
so its a given its going to be a good band. There is no band that sounds
anything like them. They have no right to be as funky as they are!

** Ween
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A wonderful little silly band. Best known for their album The Mollusk
which influenced the creation of SpongeBob Squarepants. *If it
influenced SpongeBob so it gotta be good!* They have other great music
though that album really stands out to me. This silly little SpongeBob
album is somehow one of the greatest pieces of music of all time! It can
easily compare to the prog and fusion stuff on this list. The mood
changes quickly but in a very musical way that paints an entire
landscape of many different colors.

** Morphine
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A really wonderful little treo. Their front band Mark Sandman plays a
bass with only 2 strings tuned in 5ths and he plays it with a slide,
their saxophonist Dana Colley can play two saxophons at once, and their
drummer is just a total vibe.

** Joy Division
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This band reminds me of my CS teacher who had a bow tie and worked at a
standing table with borderline too many monitors plugged into a little
mac book. Every morning when I walked in normal music was never playing,
it was often a mix of alt rock and EDM that was quite fitting for a
programming class. He gave everyone rubber ducks so we can have an
inanimate object to use to ask for help. He always called himself a
lizard person and was a Doctor Who fan. I assume this is a universal
experience and everyone had a CS teacher like this. He must have been a
standard issue factory made CS teacher because if a mad man with a bow
tie who jams out to Joy Division isnt your average CS teacher I dont
know what is a average CS teacher.

** The Clash
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One of the first bands I really got into. I listened to them a lot when
I was first learning guitar. They got a good sense of humor to.

** Ramones
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When I was little one of my sisters friends had a dad who was a fan of
the Ramones. He gave me a data disk full of pirated music which included
a lot of stuff by the Ramones. I instandly became a Ramones fan. I dont
listen to them much lately but they will always have a place in my
heart.

** Dr.Feelgood
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This is a mean ass band. Their music was a rebellian against the prog
rock and glam rock music that was becoming big at the time. Pub rock
bands like Dr.Feelgood went fuck it all and instead played mean raw
drunken rock n' roll. This is the kind of music I listen to when
skateboarding or when I need to get shit done.

** ACDC (Bon Scott era)
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I know what your thinking /its that band with songs that always sound
the same and has sore throat sounding vocals/. Well they were not always
like that. In their early days they had a better vocalist: Bon Scott.
And they fucked around with different sounds a lot more.\\
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These are the Bon Scott era albums:

- High Voltage
- TNT
- Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
- Let There Be Rock
- Powerage
- Highway to Hell

Powerage and Let There Be Rock are my favorites out of all of them.
Powerage was my first CD I ever got and I keep going back to it all the
time. Its their best album by far. RIP (rock in pleace) Bon Scott.

** ZZ Top
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I dont listen to them much anymore but they had a big influence on my
guitar playing. One of my favorite albums by them is Tejas. Its a very
underrated album. I dig the darker more ambient tone of Tejas. Also go
listen to their first album. Its completely killer!

* Other
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** Jeff Beck
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While many think Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitarist of all time many
more enlighted people pick Jeff Beck. Not that Jimi is bad or anything
but holy fuck Jeff Beck can really play guitar. He puts soooo much geist
into his music and makes the guitar sing in a way no one else can. I
still have my own pick for greatest guitarist though.

** Tipsy
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I was in a music store with some friends and one of their records was
playing in the store. Later, I wished I bought it so I went back and
they no longer had the record. They don't have very much released and
seem to be dead. They don't seem to have much of a following and they
website is down. You can find it
[[https://web.archive.org/web/20130826202218/http://tipsy.org/][here]]
on the wayback machine.

** Messer Chups/Messer Fur Frau Muller
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A russia band I discovered recently as of writing this. I dig them so
far but I haven't checked out much of their stuff.

** Silver Apples
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They are a electric band that uses DIY synths made from miltary surplus
radio gear along with other shit. Not really something I would care to
jam to much but still a good band.

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