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My List of Music
A list of songs and albums I recomend listening to
Created: 2025-03-19

Without music life would be a mistake. (Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum. - Friedrich Nietzsche)

Music is international, we don't need to understand the lyrics to enjoy it. We don't need lyrics at all. Maybe it is universal too.

Here is a list of songs and albums that I really like, that I'd recomend you to listen to. There are a lot more songs that I like, but this list is about special songs, they have something different in my opinion. I'll also include some intresting or rare songs, that maybe are not exactly good but are rare or intresting.

The list is incomplete and I'm adding more songs from time to time. I'll try to keep this list updated.

Introduction to my music preferences

I started to listen to music when I was 14. I would download songs via some p2p program like Ares or EMule. One of the first band was Oasis, and then Green Day. Today I like them but not as much as before.

Then when I was 15, some friends persuaded me into listening to Heavy Metal. Some of the first songs I downloaded were by Iron Maiden, Run to the Hills and Two Minutes to Midnight. One day a friend lend me a CD with a mix of songs. If I remember correctly, it had Dream Theater, Symphony X, Rammstein, and AC/DC. And I recall watching and listening to the S&M album by Metallica in a friend's house.

In the beginning, I would only listen to international bands and none from Argentina. I don't know why I thought that argentine music was bad (it is NOT). Several years later someone mentioned me Hermética, and that led me to discover and enjoy V8 - Hermética - Almafuerte. And years leter, I would listen and enjoy Charly García, some songs by Luis Alberto Spinetta, and bands like Los Abuelos de la Nada, Bersuit Vergarabat, and others.

Now, I have a strong preference for music before the year 2000, and usually I prefer the first albums of each band. It's like it feels to me that bands change their style and I not like them as much as before.

I like listening to covers, I like different versions of the same song or with a different voice. I also like live versions because of the same idea, live music is sometimes a bit different than the recorded version. There is a website called https://secondhandsongs.com/ where you can find who composed the song and find covers of it.

Special mention to some artists

If I have to choose some specific artists and bands, that somehow had a bigger impact in me, those are:

Ronnie James Dio, Marty Friedman, Tarja Turunen, Dream Theater, Rammstein, Rainbow, Megadeth, Judas Priest, Pink Floyd.

And from Argentina:

Ricardo Iorio, Claudio O'Connor, Charly García, Los Abuelos de la Nada, Luis Alberto Spinetta.

Rock

Argentinian Rock

Heavy Metal

Argentinian Heavy Metal

  • Hermética
    • This is the best band from Argentina, ever. Only 3 albums and the 3 of them are good.
  • Almafuerte
  • Ricardo Iorio
    • He would be the father of argentine Heavy Metal. He founded V8, then Herética, then Almafuerte, and then he played a solo artist.
    • His style, in particular with Almafuerte, was kind of folk heavy metal. Using ideas from argentinie folk music and tango.
    • His lyrics are very good (since Hermética).
  • V8
    • I think V8 is important because of history, but I strongly prefer Almafuerte, or even better, Hermémtica.
  • Rata Blanca
    • The guitarrist, Walter Giardino, was in V8 for a few months. In the song Buscando Razón by Hermética, the lyrics is about V8 rejecting Walter because he wrote "love ballads".