Who are your favorite bands?

[Train Wreck]

I need more music, but I'm maxed out on the bands I'm familiar with.  I need some ideas of other music to try out.

Bands I've been listening to the most lately are Lifehouse, Cold, the Cure, the Smiths, U2, Depeche Mode, and Billy Idol (soon to release his first new album in 10 years, hope it's good).

[Abagadro]

Modest Mouse is a good newer one. The one single has been overplayed to death, but their albums are pretty varied and have good deep tracks.

[schild]

http://www.f13.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=5910#5910
http://www.f13.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=5943#5943

Edit: Oh, and as for newer bands, I've been digging The Killers. Hot Fuss is the name of their record. Like $8.99 at Best Buy and Amazon has a cute little story about them up.

[UD_Delt]

Check out Ben Harper and Robert Randolph if you like guitar+blues/gospel.

lap steel guitar = win

[Ardent]

Spock's Beard has a brand new album coming out in January.

From the sound clips, it looks to kick you, your family, and your neighbor's dog's ass from here to Poughkeepsie.

The two best albums I bought this year were Marillion's Marbles and IQ's Dark Matter.

[Train Wreck]

Hmm... maybe it's time to be a necro poster again.

I haven't heard of any of these bands before.  I guess I spend too much time in my own little world.

[UD_Delt]

Don't feel bad. No one has heard of most of the bands that everyone else is posting unless you are very much into whatever the flavor-of-the-month name for that style is.

Not to bash I'm just honestly not sure how to differentiate between techno, house, industrial, emo, goth, what-have-you...  Yeah, I'm getting old and out of touch...


Edit: Modest Mouse I have hear of but can't place the song right now...

[Mr_PeaCH]

Bands I've been listening to the most lately are ... the Cure, the Smiths, U2, Depeche Mode, and Billy Idol

o.O

Holy crap, thank you very much for rehashing the nightmare that was "pop music" in the 80s.

[schild]

Nightmare compared to what? The 70s? The 90s? Please.

[Mr_PeaCH]

Well for me the 80s were the 'formative years'... I'm sensitive.

Hold me?

[Rasix]

Edit: Modest Mouse I have hear of but can't place the song right now...

We all float on...


Heh, I'm probably one of the few people that doesn't give a singular crap about music.  I haven't bought a CD in probably over 2 years.  The only ones I tend to listen to are from the Clash, Jimmy Hendrix Experience, and Beck (can't even remember the names of the CDs). I listen to radio, but 90% of the time it's so bad I either just tune it out or listen to NPR. Since my last hard drive wipe, I haven't downloaded a single MP3.

I just find it hard to care about music when I hate 99% of what's currently being shoved down the radio at me.  It's made me so damn turned off at the entire form of entertainment I can't bother to find something that I don't consider absolute crap.  

Damn, I went from hip to lame in a span of 2 years. WTG me.

[Train Wreck]

Not to bash I'm just honestly not sure how to differentiate between techno, house, industrial, emo, goth, what-have-you...  Yeah, I'm getting old and out of touch...

Edit: Modest Mouse I have hear of but can't place the song right now...

It was so much simpler when things were either Rock or Alternative.

I've probably heard a lot of the stuff, I just dont know what it's called or who it's by.  I finally took the time to track shit down -- a few tracks were by Cold, one called Amber by 311, and Wait by Earshot.  Cold was the only one I'd heard of before.

[Sky]

I listen to a huge variety of music from all eras, I just love music. Currently I'd say my favorite band is Iron Maiden, but it'll be different next week.

Zep, Floyd, Willie Nelson, Slipknot, AC/DC, Sum 41, Clapton, Mudvayne, Slayer, Charlie Patton, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Sabbath, Portishead, The Distillers, Fear, Big Bill Broonzy, I love 'em all. Whatever fits my mood is my favorite at that time.

[toma levine]

If you feel out of touch with modern electronic music as I often do, here's a useful guide:
Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

[UD_Delt]

I just find it hard to care about music when I hate 99% of what's currently being shoved down the radio at me. It's made me so damn turned off at the entire form of entertainment I can't bother to find something that I don't consider absolute crap.

Amen to that. Cleveland radio is fucking horrible. I'm pretty sure Clear Channel owns every single channel here except the two college radio stations that only come in half the time and you're at the whim of whichever student DJ happens to be on.

I've pretty much given up on radio myself and I'm kicking myself that a year ago when I replaced my car cd player I didn't get one that was XM or Sirius ready.

There is still a lot of good music being made and right now I'm much into what's considered the jam band scene. I've always been a fan of more classic rock, blues and jazz and that's the style of music you get out of a lot jambands:

ie...

Ben Harper
Gov't Mule
Jack Johnson
Robert Randolph
Moe
OAR
Bela Fleck
Galactic
Medeski Martin & Wood
G. Love & Special Sauce
Keller Williams
and any of Les Claypool's 300 bands...

[Samwise]

I've been on an Evanescence kick for a while now.  There, I've admitted it.

Scrolling through my top rated list in iTunes, other bands that stick out:
Beatles
Cake
Dido
Iron Maiden
Lunatic Swing
Marcy Playground
Rob Zombie
Seadogs
Silly Wizard
System of a Down
White Stripes

[Train Wreck]

Bands I've been listening to the most lately are ... the Cure, the Smiths, U2, Depeche Mode, and Billy Idol

Holy crap, thank you very much for rehashing the nightmare that was "pop music" in the 80s.

None of those bands are pop bands (with the exception of a few Billy Idol songs, such as Name Without A Face.  But he also had Rebel Yell.).  80's pop is stuff like Michael Jackson, Debbie Gibson, Cindy Lauper.  The bands I mentioned were considered Alternative, though that has since been broken apart fifty which-ways.

Just because I like the band, it doesn't mean I like most of their songs.  If I'm lucky, there will be more than three songs on the entire album that I enjoy.  Such is the way things are when they come out with hit material but have to drudge up nine more songs to put it out.

[HaemishM]

Rush. No other bands compare. But if you need otheres, I've lately been on Evanescence, Coldplay, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and I just replaced my old tape version of Faith No More's "Angel Dust" on CD. For a kick in the "What the hell is this?" try some Tom Waits.

[schild]

If you feel out of touch with modern electronic music as I often do, here's a useful guide:
Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

Unfortunately, the guide completely ignores Synthpop. Written off as amatuerish crap.

[Jamiko]

The Secret Machines

I can't stop listening to this album, it is really really good.

[Shockeye]

Husker Du, Sugar, Archers of Loaf, Supersuckers, Ben Folds, Weird Al Yankovic, Fig Dish, Steve Earle, The Monkees, Folk Implosion, Matthew Sweet, Reel Big Fish, Ween, Replacements, Muffs, Reverend Horton Heat, etc etc.

[Morfiend]

Just to list some thing different I really like the "Queen of the Damned" soundtrack. It is all original music written by Jonathan Davis, the lead singer songwrite for Korn, and performed by people like David Dramain of Desturbed, Marilyn Manson, and Tricky. Great album.

I also REALLY REALLY like the Spawn soundtrack. Its all kind of metal/alternative metal remixed by DJs, but not in a dancey remix kind of way, its all remixed to make it darker. Love it.

And, Tool. I love Tool. Go buy Aenima if you dont have it.

[Paelos]

The Rolling Stones, and I'm surprised they weren't mentioned to this point. AC/DC, Metallica (but not new), The Talking Heads, Bob Seger, Led Zeppelin, Steve Miller Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and Jimi Hendrix Experience.

[Merusk]

Amen to that. Cleveland radio is fucking horrible. I'm pretty sure Clear Channel owns every single channel here except the two college radio stations that only come in half the time and you're at the whim of whichever student DJ happens to be on.

Yeah, Cleveland radio sucked when I was groing through high school there.  Before that WMMS was a good station, but that was before the dark times, before Clear Channel.   Fucking a if they'd just transfer the format of WEBN here in Cincinnati up there it'd be a good rock station again.  The End was a pretty cool alternative station when it was up there, but it only lasted about 2 years before it went under and became a hip-hop station.

Radio is dead. your only hope is to find a station that puts out a decent stream or find a satellite radio station that doesn't make your ears bleed.

[Ardent]

If you're into prog, there are a ton of great bands out there that you would enjoy. These bands can keep going despite zero radio play because their fan bases are smaller, but incredibly rabid. For example, two of the bands I mentioned eariler (Marillion and IQ) have been around and successful for over 20 years, yet most people have never even heard of them.

Just to start, you can try:

Porcupine Tree
Dream Theater
Transatlantic
Shadow Gallery
Frogg Cafe
Glass Hammer
Echolyn
Opeth
The Flower Kings
Ayreon
Kevin Gilbert (not active because he's kinda dead, but still brilliant)

EDIT: Prog is progressive rock, e.g. early Genesis, Yes, Pink Floyd et al.

[Paelos]

WTF is prog?

[El Gallo]

Zep, Nirvana, Metallica, Floyd.  Rock 4 evah.

[Train Wreck]

If you feel out of touch with modern electronic music as I often do, here's a useful guide:
Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

From the guide:

If you hate the guide, then you obviously didn't take it with a pound of salt like you were supposed to. Go take your anal-retentive sense of humour elsewhere.

If you don't have any interest in it at all, then go away. I obviously didn't make it for you. Must everything on the internet conform to your stupid, meandering, fastidious interests?

Want to talk to me about it? Sure. But I can't guarantee you that I'll reply. Maybe if you say something stupid.

Don't know if I care about the guide, but I think I like this guy.

[schild]

From the guide:

Must everything on the internet conform to your stupid, meandering, fastidious interests?

Yes.

[Fabricated]

http://www.youhavebadtasteinmusic.com/

[Krakrok]

N0FX

[Trippy]

Bands I've been listening to the most lately are Lifehouse, Cold, the Cure, the Smiths, U2, Depeche Mode, and Billy Idol (soon to release his first new album in 10 years, hope it's good).

Try anything from REM up to and including Automatic for the People.

[Ardent]

Try anything from REM up to and including Automatic for the People.

"Find the River" would make my Top 5 list of favorite songs ever recorded.

[Trippy]

None of those bands are pop bands (with the exception of a few Billy Idol songs, such as Name Without A Face.  But he also had Rebel Yell.).  80's pop is stuff like Michael Jackson, Debbie Gibson, Cindy Lauper.

Depeche Mode had "People Are People" which was a huge pop hit. Billy Idol also had "White Wedding" and "Dancing With Myself" both also huge pop hits. And U2's Joshua Tree one of the top selling albums if not the top selling album the year it came out.

[Shockeye]

Depeche Mode had "People Are People" which was a huge pop hit.

I always preferred "Personal Jesus".