songs that just aren't metal but are really great

[Neurotomania]

ok so every metalhead, no matter how much of a diehard, has a couple of songs they love that just aren't metal in any way - what are yours?

my suggestion would be =

agents of oblivion - endsmouth

mmm. depressing.

 

[fadingessence]

Sigur Ros, Antimatter, Coldplay, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Current 93, Norah Jones (fuck if I know why), Porcupne Tree, Radiohead and...Camel!


then again i'm not really a metalhead...because I think of metalheads as people that only listen to metal....and even opeth really isn't metal in that sense...

 

[segaszivos]

Porcupine Tree - Pure Narcotic (Highly Reconmended)
Nine Inch Nails - March of the Pigs
Queen - Bicycle
U2 - In God's Country
Nirvana - All Apologies
Guns 'N' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle

You'll have heard those, but if you haven't you should try them. Especially the PT song.

 

[segaszivos]

Zwan and Smashing Pumpkins, Faith No More (Angel Dust album)

 

[illbeleavinnow]

I can't pretend to be a hardcore metal fan. I love rock just as much if not more. So to recommend a few songs would be impossible. Rather I'll give you albums from my favorite rock bands.

ELP - Tarkus and Pictures at an Exhibition (Pictures is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)
The Who - Quadrophenia (thx pie ) and Tommy and Who's Next
Led Zeppelin - II, [Utitled] (aka IV), Physical Graffiti
Beatles - White album, Sgt. Peppers
Paul Simon - Negotiations and Love Songs (if you don't know Paul Simon and are a hard rock fan, I don't suggest him )

There are tons more, those are some of my favs.

 

[midwintertears]

Radiohead -Streetspirit

 

[taken by the reaper]

The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge


hmm...so emotional

 

[nevershine]

Take on Me
Owner of a Lonely Heart

 

[Stormwatch]

The Beatles (almost any song, although Helter Skelter is really a heavy metal song), Imagine, Patience (G N' R), Ride On (AC/DC), Desolate Ways (Morbid Angel), Phoenix Rising (Annihilator), The Crystal Ship (The Doors).

My favourite though - CUPS AND CAKES! By Spinal Tap!!! "Cups and cakes, cups and cakes, oh what good things mother bakes, you gotta take tea come and take it with me what a gay time it will be."
Brings a tear to my fucking eye!

 

[Beth]

The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge

 

[thebleakaffinity]

Downloading Agents of Oblivion now...

I recommend:
The Cure - Disintegration, Homesick, Lullaby (the first two are some of the most depressing songs ever)
The Smashing Pumpkins - Thirty-three, Mayonaise, x.y.u.
Zwan - Settle Down

edit: Oh yeah, almost forgot nine inch nails. I recommend And All That Could Have Been, The Fragile, and Just Like You Imagined (GREAT instrumental). Sorry for the long list of stuff, I definitely urge you to check out all these bands, even if you've heard them on the radio before and didn't like them, most the songs I've recommended are album cuts.

 

[MetalManCPA]

Fire In The Head - The Tea Party
Bailamos - Enrique Iglasius
Oh Father - Madonna
The Core - Eric Clapton
Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
Hyperactive - Thomas Dolby
Deep Purple - Rat Bat Blue
Boston - Smoking

...to name a few of MANY gathered over the years

 

[Scourge of Malice]

Some great songs abd bands in here.. Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Zeppelin, Zwan.. great music... also the faint, mogwai, floyd, my bloody valentine

 

[svenske kocken]

Bruce Springsteen - The Price You Pay
Bruce Springsteen - Reason To Believe
Bruce Springsteen - Frankie
Bruce Springsteen - Racing In The Streets
Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City
Bruce Springsteen - Wreck On The Highway
Bruce Springsteen - No Surrender

 

[Brian T. Ghammet]

Here's 15 great songs in no particular order. :Spin:
1. Camel/ Nimrodel
2. No-Man/ Angel Gets Caught in the Beauty Trap
3. Bill Frisell/ High Plains Drifter
4. Nils Petter Molvaer/ Dead Indeed
5. ELP/ Take a Pebble
6. Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman / Song X
7. Nightingale/ Eternal
8. Nektar/ A Tab in the Ocean
9. Steve Hackett/ Mechanical Bride
10. Ulver/ Porn Pieces or the Scars of Cold Kisses
11. John Zorn/ Spillane
12. Dmitri Shostakovich/ String Quartet No. 8
13. Porcupine Tree/ Dark Matter
14. Renaissance/ Mother Russia
15. John McLaughlin/ Mediterranean Suite

 

[illbeleavinnow]

I can play Take a Pebble on piano, that takes skill. *boasts some more*

I love that song, has got to be my favorite keyboard-led ELP song (except maybe Trilogy). And yes I know Keith was the leader but there are many guitar-led songs too.

Damn you listen to some good stuff Brian.

 

[deathbearer]

Wumpscut-War
Mindless Self Indulgence-Faggot
Tori Amos-precious things
Ani Difranco-the million you never made..
Fugazi-suggestion
...many more, to many to list..

 

[Celestial-Voyage]

Camel - La Princess Perdue

 

[arborist]

King Crimson-Epitaph
Jethro Tull-Songs From the Wood
Poco-Rose of Cimmarron
Procol Harum-A Salty Dog
Pink Floyd-Free Four
Queen-Spread Your Wings
ELO-Turn to Stone

more to come....

 

[MasterOLightning]

Anything Dream Theater.
Porcupine Tree - Trains, Piano Lessons, Baby Dream in Cellophane, lots of others.
The first Boston album in its entirety.
Elliott Smith. (I doubt any of you have heard of him. Not metal, not rock. Singer/songwriter type.)
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.
And there's lots of rock songs. I used to be all about classic rock.