I second most of what GooeyToast put in their post - also I'll pick a few random suggestions which I've mainly gotten into in the last year or so (with recommended albums of the band/singer to try out in brackets):
Yo La Tengo (I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One, I am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass)
Animal Collective (Feels)
The Decemberists (Picaresque, The Crane Wife)
The Wrens (The Meadowlands)
Eels (Electroshock Blues, Blinking Lights and Other Revelations)
Low (Things We Lost in the Fire)
Elbow (Cast of Thousands)
Spiritualized (Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space)
Sufjan Stevens (Seven Swans, Illinois)
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GNOME, people do have the right to their own opinion. :]
I suggest this and any songs by Bitch Alert, The 69 Eyes and The Rasmus.
I had to listen to the likes of Hawthorne Heights, My Chemical Romance, Taking Back Sunday, and dozens of other emo/screamo bands for almost an entire year, as I carpooled with a friend of mine who listened to those bands, and I would have to say it is some of the worst music I've heard in my life.The entire culture seems to be based upon conforming to a group in order to be nonconformist, and the music is really representative of that: so much of it sounds far too similar. Of course, people who like it won't agree, but it's not like I could convince anyone of it, since I have little to go on but my own experience.
Anyway, as for music to recommend I don't think many people know about: Of Montreal is a really cool band from Athens, Georgia. Another local band I like a good bit is Venice is Sinking, though they're not nearly as famous. The former is some sort of Indie Pop, I guess, kind of like Neutral Milk Hotel. The latter is more of a rock/alternative band.
Caesars, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, and Poets of the Fall are three rock/alternative rock bands I really like from Europe. They're all pretty unique, though not great enough to achieve any sort of mega-fame. The Caesars had a song in the first, or one of the first, iPod commercials--Jerk It Out.
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Everyone is entitled to have their own opinion, and their opinion doesn't suck just because you don't share that opinion. So yeah, knock it off.
Carry on. :mog:
Sufjan Stevens, Explosions in the Sky, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Badly Drawn Boy, Yuri Lane.
I don't know, those are some of my favorite artists that came to the top of my head.
I will second Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Explosions in the Sky from Gooey, and also Moonsorrow because they are great.
Lykathea Aflame are a good band, too. Enslaved are valid, probably my favourite metal band at the moment. Sigh are also great, they do not constrict themselves to genre at all, and experiment in their songs almost on a whim.
Nick Drake is fantastic folk/acoustic guitar music from the seventies. His last album, Pink Moon, is amazing, and one of the best emotive pieces of music I've ever heard, and pretty much pisses on every band out there today trying to claim that they have "demons" that they let out in their music. Utter pap.
Dälek and Early DJ Shadow, (like, Endtroducing..... and The Private Press) are both extremely valid examples of how great hip hop can be when the people making the music don't stick to the conventions and actually PUSH BOUNDARIES and try different things. Endtroducing..... had some of the most atmospheric and beautiful musical soundscapes that I've ever heard in my life. Building Steam with a Grain of Salt still brings the hairs on my neck up.
Then you have Dälek, which sounds like the result you'd get if you took Godspeed You! Black Emperors darkest soundscape moments, put a heavy industrial slant on that and then mixed in a beat and an Emcee. I've never heard anything else like it in my life, it's great.
Best band mentioned in this thread so far.Originally Posted by DK
I don't think Many people have heard of Under the Influence of Giants. Very good band, one of my favorites.
I've heard of them, but I haven't listened to them. Who do they sound like?
Great band but Witchcraft is betterBest band mentioned in this thread so far.
No matter how much you and Sigmund Freud want it to be, 'mother' is not a curse word.
Private Press came out in like '02 to Endtroducing's '96 release, so I dont' think that's so much a recommendation of early DJ Shadow as it is just DJ Shadow himself 8)
Amon Tobin and NWA. Gangsta gangsta!
I Am Ghost - Gothic Punk
Rise Against - Hardore Punk
Three Days Grace - Alternative Rock
Lucky Boys Confusion - Punk
Children of Bodom - Metal
Spineshank - Metal
Gob - Punk
Hellogoodbye - Power Pop
Zebrahead - Punk
A Kiss Could Be Deadly - ElectroPunk
Lonestar - Country
Yeah. Listen to that stuff. Good is what it is.
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Fair call. Those two being standout examples, rather than The Outsider, then.Private Press came out in like '02 to Endtroducing's '96 release, so I dont' think that's so much a recommendation of early DJ Shadow as it is just DJ Shadow himself 8)
I agree with a lot of what Dan said. And yeah, Under the Influence of Giants is pretty good too. Although I think they're only real good song is Mama's Room.
I'll go ahead and recommend Medeski Martin & Wood's End of the World Party (Just In Case) CD. I thought it was really interesting stuff. I might even go as far as to say...neato.
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