Well, I've been purchasing a lot more music lately and we have some definite music fanatics on AG, so I decided to get a conversation going on the music I enjoy.
Right now, alternative rock to indie rock has been my thing. I'm going to post my playlist in just a moment. What I would like from you guys is suggestions! You can view what I already have and tell me if there is a band I'm missing out on.
Thank you guy!
Midnight Rider The Allman Brothers Band Snow Patrol Alpine Stars Broken Wings Alter Bridge Breaking Anberlin The Feel Good Drag Anberlin The Suburbs The Arcade Fire Wake Up The Arcade Fire Ready To Start The Arcade Fire Crying Lightning Artic Monkeys Sail AWOLNATION The Funeral Band of Horses Girl Beck Loser Beck Chemtrails Beck Misunderstood Better Than Ezra A Lifetime Better Than Ezra Desperately Wanting Better Than Ezra Beautiful Mistake Better Than Ezra Psychotic Girl The Black Keys Tighten Up The Black Keys Next Girl The Black Keys The Ghost Inside Broken Bells The High Road Broken Bells Aint No Rest For The Wicked Cage The Elephant Back Against The Wall Cage The Elephant In One Ear Cage The Elephant Shake Me Down Cage The Elephant Show Me What I'm Looking For Carolina Liar Comfortable Liar Chevelle Closure Chevelle The Red Chevelle Send The Pain Below Chevelle No Ordinary Morning Chicane Human Civil Twilight Letters From The Sky Civil Twilight Claire de Lune Claude Debussy It's Not You It's Me Coconut Records Felicia The Constellations Come Away Crash Kings Mountain Man Crash Kings You Got Me Crash Kings A Lack of Color Death Cab for Cutie Meet Me on the Equinox Death Cab for Cutie Tiny Vessels Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism Death Cab for Cutie The Boys Of Summer DJ Sammy Heaven DJ Sammy Why DJ Sammy I Just Want to Run Downtown Fiction First Breath After A Coma Explosions in the Sky Greet Death Explosions in the Sky Your Hand in Mine Explosions in the Sky Rhinestone Eyes Gorillaz Superfast Jellyfish Gorillaz Crawling In The Dark Hoobastank The Reason Hoobastank Dig Incubus Love Hurts Incubus Quicksand Incubus Stellar Incubus I Wish You Were Here Incubus Pardon Me Incubus Warning Incubus Passing Afternoon Iron And Wine Portland Oregon Jack White/Loretta Lynn Somewhere Only We Know Keane We Might As Well Be Strangers Keane All These Things That I've Done The Killers When You Were Young The Killers Fans Kings of Leon Notion Kings of Leon On Call Kings of Leon Pyro Kings of Leon Radioactive Kings of Leon Sex On Fire Kings of Leon Use Somebody Kings of Leon The Catalyst Linkin Park Empty Space & Where They Come From Linkin Park Jornada Del Muerto Linkin Park New Divide Linkin Park The Requiem_The Radiance_Burning in The Skies Linkin Park Robot Boy Linkin Park Waiting for the End Linkin Park I've Got Friends Manchester Orchestra Shake It Out Manchester Orchestra Daylight Matt & Kim Gold Guns Girls Metric Help! I'm Alive Metric Electric Feel MGMT Time To Pretend MGMT Kids MGMT Little Lion Man Mumford & Sons The Cave Mumford & Sons Collapse MuteMath Animal Neon Trees Decode Paramore Misery Business Paramore The Only Exception Paramore Sleepyhead Passion Pit 1901 Phoenix Where Is My Mind? The Pixies For What It's Worth Placebo Post Blue Placebo Blind Placebo Fat-Bottomed Girls Queen Bulls on Parade Rage Against the Machine **** The Police Rage Against the Machine Killing in the Name Rage Against the Machine Fell On Bad Days Rubyhorse You Will Leave a Mark A Silent Film The Royal We Silversun Pickups Lazy Eye Silversun Pickups Panic Switch Silversun Pickups Substitution Silversun Pickups Somewhere a Clock is Ticking Snow Patrol Crack The Shutters Snow Patrol Just Say Yes Snow Patrol Circular Memories Statistics Through Glass Stone Sour Plush Stone Temple Pilots What I Got Sublime Wrong Way Sublime Santeria Sublime Pawn Shop Sublime Caress Me Down Sublime Summertime Sublime Make **** Sure Taking Back Sunday Liar (It Takes One To Know One) Taking Back Sunday You Are So Last Summer Taking Back Sunday Cute Without The E Taking Back Sunday Your Own Disaster Taking Back Sunday Glass Vase Cello Case Tattle Tale Sweet Disposition The Temper Trap Deeper into You Trust Co. Downfall Trust Co. Falling Apart Trust Co. Hover Trust Co. Cousins Vampire Weekend The Kids Don't Stand A Chance Vampire Weekend Funnel of Love Wanda Jackson VCR The XX Crystalised The XX Only One Yellowcard Wasteland 10 Years
Ooohoohooh, I'm a music freak and indie is my main thing. Lemme see here . . . .
You seem to like indie in general. So I'll give you a wide range of recommendations.
Sigur Ros - get Agaetis Byrjun and ( ). They're post-rock, and awesome. Very texture-based, sorta like Explosions in the Sky.
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica, This is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About. Two fantastic indie rock albums. Moon is more experimental and lush whereas Long Drive is more classic, almost Pavement-esque guitar-driven indie with lots of other touches.
Radiohead - Kid A, OK Computer, Amnesiac. Radiohead is CLASSIC, and I'm surprised you don't have anything from them there. OK Computer and Kid A are the two best, but Amnesiac is also great.
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. Classic guitar-driven indie album, and if you like the Pixies I'm fairly sure you'll like it.
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation. Same as above. Sonic Youth were instrumental in the creation of alternative rock as a whole.
Beach House - Teen Dream. Beautiful smoky indie rock/dream pop. Teen Dream was one of the best albums of 2010.
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest. Another amazing 2010 album, Deerhunter debuted fabulously. highly recommended.
All right, if you like the bands/albums listed, I can give you more.
YESSSSSSSSS! You guys reminded me of some of the songs I wanted. This is exactly how I foresaw this going. Thank you guys!
thisisnot, it's funny you bring up Modest Mouse. They were my neighbors in college. I believe they still live in Oxford.
Parrot, I LOVE Instrumental rock. Check out Statistics. But I'd like for you to give me particular songs. I'll be honest, it's rare that I love an entire album.
Pablo, what genre is Sick Puppies? I've heard a bit about them.
Sick puppies are a lot of things. Songs like you're going down are more hard rock than alternative but songs like Odd One and All the Same are more alternative songs. The band is Australian but the Accent doesn't come up in songs.
I saw you had that one stone sour song on your list Asherlee. If you like a bit more heavier stuff and some death growls mixed in with mellow singing(The singer is also the singer for slipknot) you should check out songs like:
Devo: -Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! -Duty Now for the Future -Freedom of Choice -Oh, No! It's Devo -The Greatest Hits (these 2 if you don't want to bother with the others) -The Gratest Misses -Something for Everybody (from 2010)
Oingo Boingo: -Only a Lad -Nothing to Fear -Good for Your Soul -So-Lo -Dead Man's Party -Boi-ngo -Skeletons in The Closet(greatest hits)
Blondie: -Parallel Lines
The Cars: -The Cars -Candy O
The Police: -Outlandos d'Amour -Reggatta de Blanc -Zenyattà Mondatta -Ghost in the Machine -Synchronicity -The Police (greatest hits)
The B-52's: -The B-52's -Wild Planet -Whammy! -Bouncing off the Satellites -Cosmic Thing -Good Stuff -Time Capsule (greatest hits)
Red Hot Chili Peppers: -Californication -What Hits!? (greatest hits, they don't have very good albums in my opinion)
Some of this is actually considered "New Wave", but it's basically the same thing as alternative, well to me anyway. Most people either only like a few songs by the above artists, or don't like them period. I could also recommend some good Punk, which for some reason is considered Alternative...
I recommend Greatest Hits if either A) you don't want to get to into this band, B) you don't want to waste a bunch of money, or C) You want to start with that then, if you like the bands, maybe move on to the actual albums and the lesser known hits that also sound good.
You know, I really do like 30 Seconds to Mars. I love that epic type of alternative rock. The problem is they've gotten over-played in movies and commercials. It makes me SOOOO mad when a favorite song of mine ends up on a commercial. I don't know why, it just does. Prime example is Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition. On a dang Diet Coke commercial.
My stance on harder rock is varied. I really don't like it much. What I do enjoy are a few songs from various artists like 10 Years, Breaking Benjamin, Trapt, etc., that are more vocal than guitar.
...Just what is defined as Alternative nowadays? I see just in that last list alone a lot of non-alternative bands, like since when was Nickleback considered alternative, seriously? I don't even see any Punk, which is also considered alternative. To list some examples:
Agent Orange Black Flag Dead Kennedys Flipper The Ramones
