Good bands still worth listening to

[alenhard]

What the crap has happened to most music being made these days? It's a bunch of freaking garbage. So who do you guys still listen to?

[alenhard]

When I'm sitting here at work I've got to have some live Dave Matthews Band playing or I'll go nuts. One of the last great jam bands.

[stiltman]

Music is controlled now. It takes millions of $$$$$$$$$$ to get a song played on the radio now, so music lables make the band/song popular by how much they think will be on they're return of investment. Thus, almost all main stream music stations all play the same ole crap..

Personally, I listen to just about everything from Uriah Heep to talk radio. With my current listening habit turning more to talk radio (espesially sports simulcasts)

[flaninacupboard]

try coldplay, radiohead, a perfect circle, nine inch nails, tool, green day, queens of the stone age, system of a down, the smashing pumpkins, zwan, some old marilyn manson (like mechanical animals, potrait of an american family and antichrist superstar) throw in some garbage some pitchshifter some supergrass and some deftones. quite a variation there, there's something for everyone.

[jeex]

try coldplay, radiohead, a perfect circle, nine inch nails, tool, green day, queens of the stone age, system of a down, the smashing pumpkins, zwan, some old marilyn manson (like mechanical animals, potrait of an american family and antichrist superstar) throw in some garbage some pitchshifter some supergrass and some deftones. quite a variation there, there's something for everyone.

mostly good stuff... most of those bands are lightyears better than the crap'and'half out now.. atleast the majority of the rock music out now isnt that "nu metal, rap rock" bullshit.. they're making an effort.. but it is still lame ass whiny boy music..

[Craig Tucker]

try coldplay, radiohead

If you feel like slitting your wrists , particularly radiohead.

[rendalunit]

I like that band KMFDM a lot (their song "juke joint jezebel"'s in tgpo's kung fu 2 movie ) Also like Static X, Ministry, Frontline Assembly and 16 Volt

[pacmania_2001]

I like most Australian rock/punk/alternative bands. Bands like 28 Days, John Butler Trio, Powderfinger etc.

[housepig]

not a huge amount of current stuff rocking me, except for the new Jurassic 5 album. And Unicorn - Unicorn rules.

but otherwise : Black Flag, Corrosion of Conformity, Throbbing Gristle, Can, Faust, Magma, Man Is The Bastard, Bastard Noise, Namanax, Miles Davis, Mongo Santamaria, Tool, AC/DC, Ed Rush & most of No U Turn records, Masaru Sato's soundtrack to Yojimbo, Dead Can Dance, Ani Difranco, Concrete Blonde, Beastie Boys... I'll stop there...

[Faustus]

I've noticed overtime that my music (rock) has become very cloned these days. I can't really stand listening to the radio most of the time these days. It sounds like all the same garbage. There are exceptions however, some very good ones, there are also some that sound like everyone else but pull it off better. Of course that could be the fact that I'm getting a little older speaking, but I don't think so. I think the entire music industry is very watered down these days. I basicly either listen to CDs or Talk radio these days, cause unless its something I want to listen to then I'd rather just either laugh or learn something depending on my mood. Then again my music taste has always been a little off from everyone elses that I know so maybe thats part of it. Maybe I should write up like my personal top CDs list or something.... hrm.

[jeex]

Maybe I should write up like my personal top CDs list or something.... hrm.

no that would be lame.

not a huge amount of current stuff rocking me, except for the new Jurassic 5 album. And Unicorn - Unicorn rules.

but otherwise : Black Flag, Corrosion of Conformity, Throbbing Gristle, Can, Faust, Magma, Man Is The Bastard, Bastard Noise, Namanax, Miles Davis, Mongo Santamaria, Tool, AC/DC, Ed Rush & most of No U Turn records, Masaru Sato's soundtrack to Yojimbo, Dead Can Dance, Ani Difranco, Concrete Blonde, Beastie Boys... I'll stop there...

this isnt a blog, that was uncalled for.

mood =

[tgpo]

I like a little bit of everything.

KMFDM, Orgy, Space, Fountains of Wayne, Deftones, CKY, Blink 182, Spacehog, Whitetown, ZZ Top, The Beatles, Rittelin Kids, Everclear, Lit, Green Day, Sex Pistols, Polaris, 311, Weezer. All good stuff. Rap, Hip Hop, R&B, Country, & Pop = crap

[sterno]

I listen to a lot of different things, but most of the time music is just background noise for me. I listen to the radio in the car, but I could never tell you what was playing. All I ever notice is "these commercials go on forever", and "damn it, how can all five of these stations be in commercials at the same time".

Minor observation/commentary: Country music has seen this huge explosion in popularity over the past few years. As with all things, you have some people who rant and rave about how great country is and how every other type of music completely sucks. What they all conveniently ignore is that the point where country music took off was when people started making country music sound like generic pop music, but with mostly acoustic guitars and a country/western accent. At first, it was always marketed as "young country" or "modern country" or something like that, now it's just "country" and nobody ever plays the more traditional country/western.

[rhegedus]

Alice In Chains, Rage Against The Machine, Guns & Roses, Pride & Glory, Stone Temple Pilots, Terrorvision, The Hives..........

[rhegedus]

Minor observation/commentary: Country music has seen this huge explosion in popularity over the past few years. As with all things, you have some people who rant and rave about how great country is and how every other type of music completely sucks. What they all conveniently ignore is that the point where country music took off was when people started making country music sound like generic pop music, but with mostly acoustic guitars and a country/western accent. At first, it was always marketed as "young country" or "modern country" or something like that, now it's just "country" and nobody ever plays the more traditional country/western.

Reminds me of the scene in The Blues Brothers, when the band pull up at Bob's Country Bunker. Jake asks the manager's wife what sort of music they usually play there:

Wife: "We've got both kinds, Country and Western!"

[binks120]

wow the blues brothers what a great film
i digress there is only 1 band and only ever has been 1 band
Transvision Vamp oooh i can see wendy now


but really i listnen to all kinds new old classic to rockbut vamp is tops followed by madness oasis u2 extreme u no the stuff

[Faustus]

Same here, I'm pretty widely varied. Some band I like include.

Tori Amos, System of a Down, Korn, Sting, Slip Knot, Napalm Death, Thrill Kill Kult, Pink Floyd, Pantera (wish they'd put something new out), Nine Inch Nails (all time fav), KMFDM (owns all), I like some pop every once in a while but very rarely, some electronic dance, some Techno, and even the rare Rap song. Also I like a few country songs, nothing usually from after I was born (Johnny Cast)... mostly I despise the entire genre. Some movie soundtracks, some random classical, and movie scores are even better.

Theres alot more but I may get to cryptic and lose everyone in strange bands that put out like one album or something.

[OneCardShort]

Black Sabbath, and that includes the Tony Martin era which I listen to more than the Ozzy years, AC/DC, Queensryche, Deep Purple, Rush, Metallica the early years only the albums with cliff, everything after master of puppets is garbage. Van Halen of coarse, Armored Saint, Accept, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Scorpions, UFO, W.A.S.P., Guns 'n Roses, Ozzy, Motley Crue, Great White, Quiet Riot which I listened to today on the way to work, various other 70's and 80's metal and rock bands, some oldies.

For me the music died in '92. One of the only new bands to get my attention is Black Label Society, they have a song called Genocide Junkies which makes me turn the dial to 11.

And God save us from the bubble gum music all over the radio these days. Plus if He could make that whiney bitch music like Green Day and Pennywise, Radiohead , grunge bands go away that would be great too.

[Will Hay]

The Smiths, Del Amitri, Coldplay, The Smiths, Elvis, The (short lived) Seahorses , The Hothouse Flower's, Travis, The Smiths, The Lemonheads, REM, Morrissey, The Doors.
Oh, and The Smiths too.
Will

[rhegedus]

The (short lived) Seahorses ,

Very good, but not as good as The Shirehorses

[Doggiedaddy]

Old rockers never die, they just loose more brain cells every day.
Ozzy lives, kinda?? But at least he is rich as crap!

[rhegedus]

At what point in his career did Ozzy start talking like the f*cked up one from Police Academy?

[Will Hay]

try coldplay, radiohead

If you feel like slitting your wrists , particularly radiohead.

I've had to suffer shit like this for liking the Smiths for twenty years.
Will

[Doggiedaddy]

At what point in his career did Ozzy start talking like the f*cked up one from Police Academy?

Day one I think, he just did not sing that way then. I attended a party for him in SF after a Winterland concert in the mid 70's and he was like that then???? The dude has a golden spoon shoved somewhere, no matter what he does he just keeps getting richer and more stoned!!

PS: OneCardShort, nice short list and Ronnie James Dio of course. With a honorable mention to Rammstien for new crap.

[OneCardShort]

Speaking of Ozzy stoned, reminds me of an episode of The Osbornes I just saw when Ozzy goes to the dentist. Of course, Ozzy being Ozzy asks for the NO2 then tells the nurse to turn it up he can't feel anything! After she turns it up several times Ozzy starts looking like a zombie, not responding to questions, his eyes just completely glossed over. They give him a cup to wash out his mouth and he puts it up to his eye and tries to drink! At first I thought he was trying to make a joke because it looked like the gag in the movie Airplane but when I realized it was for real I lmao. It was the funniest thing I've seen in a while.



Doggiedaddy wrote:

and Ronnie James Dio of course

Dio, another staple in my audio diet. Heaven and Hell, Mob Rules, Dehumanizer, Lock Up the Wolves, Holy Diver, Dream Evil, Last in Line and from Rainbow-Man on the Silver Mountain. Two of my favorite Sabbath songs, Die Young and Falling off the Edge of the World he's on vocals, and man, that Geez is just too awesome on bass on those songs. The bass on those songs get me pumped.

[g_shocker182]

I love the show Osbournes but all it really does is make fun of Ozzy and the fact that he never knows whats going on.

[hoyboy]

Powderfinger, grinspoon etc

[flaninacupboard]

what's wrong with making fun of him....?
I remember watching him try and cook microwave popcorn in a grill

i think my favourite line from the show was
"what do you mean...... i mean....... bubbles?! i'm meant to be the prince of ******* darkness!"

[i-on-s]

I like harder type bands myself like Killswitch Engage, Soilwork, Inflames, from autumn to ashes, god forbid, everytime i die, lamb of god, superjoint ritual and some chimaira also sometimes and stuff of that nature and if you like music of that sort also check out my band Samadhi we have a cd out on Tribunal Records.

[i-on-s]

[quote="flaystus"] Pantera (wish they'd put something new out)


ouch didnt you hear pantera broke up? it sucks but it is true dime bag and vinnie are in another band and phil said he was sticking with SJR and not to even think about another pantera album.