Opening the box - the Pandora thread

[Guardian of Takhisis]

I've been meaning to start this thread for awhile now so here it goes. This kind of goes along with my whole discovery theme that I've been staying on since I started posting here. A few years back I was at work and I heard a song by 12 Stones playing in another part of the factory. I had never heard any of there stuff on the radio so I asked the guy that was listening to it what station he was on. He said that is was a website called Pandora. He told me that you go the site and it plays only the music like what you want to listen to without anything you don't. I must say it sounded pretty good because I know we all have a particular station we listen to but it doesn't always play what we want to hear. Sometimes they only play the new stuff by a certain artist or they don't even play your music because that type of station doesn't exist. So a couple months later I went to the website and it asked me what type of artist or genre did I like. My choice was....

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[YOUTUBE]YyyACnGDa8c&ob=av2n[/YOUTUBE]I didn't choose that song just the artist because the only song I had heard by them was Piece by Piece off the Punisher soundtrack. I wanted to hear more of them but no radio station played them. I saw them in concert but I was so new to them I don't remember any of their songs. Wished I would have payed more attention because all of their songs that I heard are awesome.

I started listening to it all the time on my computer especially when I was playing Diablo II. For some weird reason all the music synched up with all the fighting I was doing. Then I heard that you could use Pandora on your smartphones so that was one reason why I got a smartphone this past Christmas. I listen to it all the time at work and I can say I've only thumbed down a few songs. Now here's the reason why I started this thread. What I want to know is if you have also discovered Pandora radio. I'm sure most of you have but if you haven't then you should give it a listen. I also want to know if you've come upon any artist that you have never heard of while listening to Pandora or you've come across a new song by one of your favorite artists that you never heard. Here's a few songs and artist that I've discovered while listening to it.

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Eisbrecher.
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I had never heard of them and I'm pretty sure it chose them because I said I liked Rammstein.

Another one is

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Apocalyptica
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I'm not sure what the first song they played on my Pandora was but I instantly liked them when I heard it. I had heard of this band but had never listened to any of their music. The one song "I Don't Care" featuring the lead singer from Three Days Grace I had always thought was a Three Days Grace song until I saw it marked as Apocalyptica.

My last one for this post is

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HIM
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This is kindof the same thing Apocalyptica. I had heard of this group but never listened to any of the music. I definitely enjoyed this song marked it as a like but I haven't heard anything else by them except for the lead singers vocals on Bittersweet by Apocalyptica.

I have to pay attention to my Pandora because there's more I want to post but I can't think of their names or the songs but when I do believe me I'll be back to share and I want you to also.

 

[Guardian of Takhisis]

Here's one more. Never heard of the band but when the song came up I definitely enjoyed it. Hope to hear more by them so I think I'll update my list and put them as a band I want to hear more of.

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[Guardian of Takhisis]

I think I know how SSC felt in his dubstep thread because no one was posting in it. lulz. I found a few more the other day to add to this thread. I hope that some of the bands that I'm putting down are ones that other people haven't heard and getting them to listen to new music.

Here's the first one.

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Birthday Massacre. Really good band. I think another one of their songs have come up on my pandora but I don't remember. I really enjoy this song.
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Here's another.

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Thousand Foot Krutch. This song cam on my pandora and I absolutely loved it. Really got me moving while driving in my car into work the other day.
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I'll keep posting as I find more even if no one else does.

 

[RicoLen]

Pandora is great, especially since the radio stations pretty much suck. Here's one I found and loved. Every time I think I've got a handle on who's who in the Symphonic Metal genre I inevitably find another band with multiple albums out and a great sound that I somehow completely missed.

This is Visions of Atlantis - Seven Seas. This is a pretty cool video made from Pirates of the Caribbean too.

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