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Zhavric · May 17, 2006, 11:26 am

So, we have the thread for the fossils. Time to step into the now.

What new bands are you listening to? Show us something that we may not have heard yet... or tell us why the popular stuff is worthy of being popular.

I live in Columbus, OH and am lucky enough to have CD101, the world's greatest independent alternative radio station. While they do play the occasional old or retarded song, the vast majority of their music is awesome.

They play bands like Franz Ferdinand, OK go, placebo, the Strokes, The Yeah Yeah Yeah's, and many more. They also play a lot of independent music and local music.

So, give us some bands & songs.

phoenix_fire · May 17, 2006, 11:47 am

Switchfoot rocks. Take your pick. I personally like "Ammunition" and "Stars" a whole lot. Also anything by Kutless. The "Strong Tower" cd is one of my all time favorites, with the title song and the song "Take Me In" standing out as absolute favorites. I've only heard one of Demon Hunter's cds but I loved all of it. Just about anything by the Newsboys. I've listened to Casting Crowns so many times I've memorized it. Thousand Foot Krutch and Pillar are also fine choices to rock out to. I have Train's "My Private Nation" cd and love it, especially "Calling All Angels". Sanctus Real's song "Everything About You" is awesome. So many bands, so little time.

Kite · May 17, 2006, 12:13 pm

Rob Dougan's Clubbed to Death and Juno Reactor's Mona Lisa Overdrive are some of my favorites. Also, some of SOAD's new stuff is pretty good, I particularly like Tentative.

phoenix_fire · May 17, 2006, 12:30 pm

Matrix fan? Me too.

Kite · May 17, 2006, 12:32 pm

Oh yeah. Techno-symphony ftw.

CliveStaples · May 17, 2006, 12:46 pm

Oh, dear Lord. Franz Ferdinand? The Strokes? How stereotypical of you. Are you one of those quasi-recently out-of-college guys who is "Independent" because he listens to Modest Mouse and their derivatives (e.g., Franz Ferdinand)? You probably also think that older rock (but not the classic stuff) is too "simple" or "polished", right?

System and Station is a good local band. I like the Seaworthies.

On the national scene? Hmm. Weezer probably doesn't count as new, but I like them. I like the Dandy Warhols, a little bit of The Ataris, and the Gorillaz (if they count as "new"). I think most of the Indie music scene is crap, but at least they're experimenting.

Rive · May 17, 2006, 12:53 pm

New music i listen to?

As i lay dying
It dies today
Killswitch Engage
DragonForce
Trivium
Iron Maiden (old sure, but they still come out with new stuff)

PatrickHenry · May 17, 2006, 01:59 pm

Bob Seeger, "Call me a relic, call me what you will
Say I'm old-fashioned, say I'm over the hill
Today's music ain't got the same soul
I like that old time rock 'n' roll"

Zhavric · May 17, 2006, 02:38 pm

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Quote by: CliveStaples

Oh, dear Lord. Franz Ferdinand? The Strokes? How stereotypical of you. Are you one of those quasi-recently out-of-college guys who is "Independent" because he listens to Modest Mouse and their derivatives (e.g., Franz Ferdinand)? You probably also think that older rock (but not the classic stuff) is too "simple" or "polished", right?

ANIME IS TEH SUC... er... sorry.

Reflex.

No... I just whipped out a bunch of other bands that I've been into lately on another thread about classic rock.

I listen to cd101 because they don't suck and because they play music that I like. Beyond that, the fact that they're independently owned, support independent and local music is just a bonus. I always thought Modest Mouse sounded like pussies. Franz Ferdinand derivative of them? I'm not hearing it. I'd need to listen to more Modest Mouse I guess. I think World Leader Pretend is a better band than both groups anyway.

A lot of the other stuff I listen to is kinda out there. Have you ever heard of Martin Dosh? I saw him in concert once. His stuff is pretty cool.

I saw him touring with Andrew Bird who's also an aquired taste.

Of late, I've been on a huge Maura Picotto kick. I listen to his stuff while I work out.

Being from Ohio, I have to give mad props to The Black Keys.

And sometimes it's just fun to geek out with They Might Be Giants, Devo, and Moxy Fruvous.

On the local scene, mad props to Shadowbox Cabaret, Kelp, and the Whiles.

EDIT: I keep trying to get Kevin Browning to listen to Peeping Tom and Wolfmother, but I don't think he'll listen to me. See what you can do. I think he'd dig them. He may even like Dungen if he can get past it being is Swedish (I think...).

Milton Bradley · May 17, 2006, 03:09 pm

My lack of knowledge of new music is basically a self imposed exile.

It's not that I have anything against new music, I just don't have a way to hear it without being exposed to the media barrage that goes with it. Without a mute button to make the commercials go away, I think the whole process has become cost prohibitive. I am simply not willing to expose myself to that kind of psychological torture on a regular basis. I 've had my share of forced entertainment, and have chosen to suffer in silence rahter than listen to the manufactured hype again, and again.

bishop · May 17, 2006, 04:15 pm

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Quote by: zhavric

Of late, I've been on a huge Maura Picotto kick. I listen to his stuff while I work out.

geigh... picotto's descended into complete cheese, and he was cheesy to begin with.. guy's the paul oakenfold of italian hardhouse.. he was alright when i saw him live - about 5 years ago..

i've been listening to pretty much nothing but electronic music for about 13 years now (i used to make it as a hobby too).. tons of genres underneath the umbrella of electronic music and i listen to nearly all of it - just none of the headsplitter hardcore, or fruitcake epic trance.. one that i like pretty much is the orb's newest album (okie dokie).. saw them live a month or two ago and they were incredible. little fluffy clouds may be an older song, but they remix it differently everytime they play it. this time the kompact bias was imposed and it had some solid thump to it. other than that one, i've been on a jungle kick lately, and klute, goldie and teebee have been getting lots of play in my stereo.

**Chris the Chees** · May 17, 2006, 08:05 pm

Zhavric, if you like that stuff check out: -

British Sea Power
The Libertines
Idlewild
interpol
the levellers
manic street preachers
my vitriol
New radicals (though not so knew anymore)
ocean colour scene
pulp
radiohead
snow patrol
starsailor
stereophonics
suede
semisonic
james
the arcade fire
aqualung
babyshambles
biffy clyro
black rebel motorscyle club
blur
the cranberries
elastica
echo and the bunnymen
the music
sans trauma

I have taken these from a list of bands I plan on playinmg next time I DJ. Not all of them are new, but they are all good and they are all of that kind of scene.

**Chris the Chees** · May 17, 2006, 08:21 pm

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listens to Modest Mouse and their derivatives (e.g., Franz Ferdinand)?

Err...?

Franz Ferdinand are part of a post-punk trend which has been going for a lot longer than Modest Mouse. they are far more like a derivative of bands like the Smiths, radiohead, pulp, suede, the more recently the libertines, etc. Stuff like Franz Ferdinand are just the new wave of the 'brit pop' sound of the mid nintys.

phoenix_fire · May 17, 2006, 11:36 pm

"Breaking the Legs of Sheep", "Absolute", "Treason", and "One Thousand Apologies" under songs. By Kids in the Way, Thousand Foot Krutch, Kutless and Demon Hunter respectively.

Zhavric · May 18, 2006, 08:53 am

British Sea Power - Will have to check them out.

The Libertines - Very cool.

Idlewild - Will have to check them out.

interpol - Saw them with The Secret Machines. They both ruled. "C'mere" for teh win.

the levellers - Will have to check them out.

manic street preachers - Will have to check them out.

my vitriol - Will have to check them out.

New radicals (though not so knew anymore) - Not bad.

ocean colour scene - Will have to check them out.

pulp - Will have to check them out.

radiohead - Most horrifically over-rated band EVER. Maybe they have talent, but I've never been able to get past the lead singer's voice. He only knows two notes: whiny and emo.

snow patrol - Meh... I like what I've heard so far.

starsailor - Will have to check them out.

stereophonics - Very cool.

suede - Also cool.

semisonic - Have a CD of theirs. Haven't heard anything from them in a while.

james - Eh...

the arcade fire - Cool.

aqualung - Also cool.

babyshambles - Will have to check them out.

biffy clyro - Will have to check them out.

black rebel motorscyle club - Just not my sound, but not for lack of trying.

blur - I liked "Song number 2", but couldn't really get into much more of them.

the cranberries - The stuff that's not horrifically overplayed is excellent. What ever happened to them?

elastica - Not bad.

echo and the bunnymen - *channels Wayne* WE'RE NOT WORTHY! WE'RE NOT WORTHY!

the music - Also cool

sans trauma - Will have to check them out.

**Chris the Chees** · May 18, 2006, 10:51 am

Ok then albums to check out by said bands: -

British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power (better than the second album)

Idlewild - The remote part

the levellers - Levelling the land

manic street preachers - Holy Bible, Generation Terrorists, Gold Against the Soul

my vitriol - Fine Lines

ocean colour scene - Marchin' Again

pulp - Greatest Hits (has all their best songs)

starsailor - Love Is Here

james - Gold Mother (1991 release)

babyshambles - Down in Albion (same guy as in the libertines, also check out Dirty pretty Things, another libertines split band)

biffy clyro - Blackened Sky

blur - Try their early stuff like the great escape

the cranberries - No Need to Argue (Haitus)

sans trauma - Unsigned band no albums as of yet, free legal music here

phoenix_fire · May 21, 2006, 01:35 am

And of course, who can forget the Christian rock classic: Jesus Freak by dcTalk. Always on the faves list.

Quote:

What will people think when they hear that I'm a Jesus freak?
What will people do when they find out it's true?
I don't really care if they label me a Jesus freak:
There ain't no disguisin' the Truth.

G. Adams · May 21, 2006, 02:56 am

The Cooper Temple Clause, Hard-Fi, Arctic Monkeys, Muse (not so new any more but who else makes baroque-rock?), Garmana, Editors.

BTW, Manic Street Preachers turned shite after Design for Life. Starsailor are awful. Pulp and OCS rock.

**Chris the Chees** · May 23, 2006, 08:19 pm

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Quote by: G. Adams

The Cooper Temple Clause, Hard-Fi, Arctic Monkeys, Muse (not so new any more but who else makes baroque-rock?), Garmana, Editors.

BTW, Manic Street Preachers turned shite after Design for Life. Starsailor are awful. Pulp and OCS rock.

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Manic Street Preachers turned shite after Design for Life

BS! Lifeblood is the best album I bought all 2005 (except perhaps Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream). Oh and If You Tolerate This (1998), is a much better song than A Design For Life (1996). Indeed the entire This is My Truth Tell Me Yours album is better than Everything Must Go.

Avixious · Jun 5, 2006, 01:11 am

I know porcupine tree, definately a great underrated band! Ive listened to stupid dream the most too, try up the downstairs, a great album as well.

I don't listen to very much modern music, only some local artists like Devin Beu and Logan Heftel.

May 17, 2006, 11:26 am	#1 (permalink) (top)
Zhavric SUSPENDED (1 Week) Posts: 3,571	Modern Music So, we have the thread for the fossils. Time to step into the now. What new bands are you listening to? Show us something that we may not have heard yet... or tell us why the popular stuff is worthy of being popular. I live in Columbus, OH and am lucky enough to have CD101, the world's greatest independent alternative radio station. While they do play the occasional old or retarded song, the vast majority of their music is awesome. They play bands like Franz Ferdinand, OK go, placebo, the Strokes, The Yeah Yeah Yeah's, and many more. They also play a lot of independent music and local music. So, give us some bands & songs.

May 17, 2006, 11:47 am	#2 (permalink) (top)
phoenix_fire Paladin Location: Narnia Posts: 4,277	Switchfoot rocks. Take your pick. I personally like "Ammunition" and "Stars" a whole lot. Also anything by Kutless. The "Strong Tower" cd is one of my all time favorites, with the title song and the song "Take Me In" standing out as absolute favorites. I've only heard one of Demon Hunter's cds but I loved all of it. Just about anything by the Newsboys. I've listened to Casting Crowns so many times I've memorized it. Thousand Foot Krutch and Pillar are also fine choices to rock out to. I have Train's "My Private Nation" cd and love it, especially "Calling All Angels". Sanctus Real's song "Everything About You" is awesome. So many bands, so little time. Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. -- Song 8:6

May 17, 2006, 12:13 pm	#3 (permalink) (top)
Kite Evil Overlord Location: A Geofront, somewhere in Antarctica Posts: 938	Rob Dougan's Clubbed to Death and Juno Reactor's Mona Lisa Overdrive are some of my favorites. Also, some of SOAD's new stuff is pretty good, I particularly like Tentative. I know your type. You think, "I'll just get me a costume, rip off the neighborhood kids." Next thing you know, you've got a jet shaped like a skull with lasers on the front! -The Monarch

May 17, 2006, 12:30 pm	#4 (permalink) (top)
phoenix_fire Paladin Location: Narnia Posts: 4,277	Matrix fan? Me too. Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. -- Song 8:6

May 17, 2006, 12:32 pm	#5 (permalink) (top)
Kite Evil Overlord Location: A Geofront, somewhere in Antarctica Posts: 938	Oh yeah. Techno-symphony ftw. I know your type. You think, "I'll just get me a costume, rip off the neighborhood kids." Next thing you know, you've got a jet shaped like a skull with lasers on the front! -The Monarch

May 17, 2006, 12:46 pm	#6 (permalink) (top)
CliveStaples Banned: Troll Location: Oregon Posts: 170	Oh, dear Lord. Franz Ferdinand? The Strokes? How stereotypical of you. Are you one of those quasi-recently out-of-college guys who is "Independent" because he listens to Modest Mouse and their derivatives (e.g., Franz Ferdinand)? You probably also think that older rock (but not the classic stuff) is too "simple" or "polished", right? System and Station is a good local band. I like the Seaworthies. On the national scene? Hmm. Weezer probably doesn't count as new, but I like them. I like the Dandy Warhols, a little bit of The Ataris, and the Gorillaz (if they count as "new"). I think most of the Indie music scene is crap, but at least they're experimenting.

May 17, 2006, 12:53 pm	#7 (permalink) (top)
Rive little light of mine Location: In the shadows Posts: 127	New music i listen to? As i lay dying It dies today Killswitch Engage DragonForce Trivium Iron Maiden (old sure, but they still come out with new stuff) what are they gonna do when the lights go down? Without you to guide them all to Zion? What are they gonna do when the rivers overrun? Other than tremble incessantly

May 17, 2006, 01:59 pm	#8 (permalink) (top)
PatrickHenry 9/11: Inside Job Location: Hawai'i, Big Island Posts: 10,437	Bob Seeger, "Call me a relic, call me what you will Say I'm old-fashioned, say I'm over the hill Today's music ain't got the same soul I like that old time rock 'n' roll" "Arms in the hands of the citizens may be used at individual discretion for the defense of the country, the overthrow of tyranny or private self-defense." -- John Adams

May 17, 2006, 03:09 pm	#10 (permalink) (top)
Milton Bradley BANNED Location: Ohio Province, Rep. of Comerica Posts: 7,320	My lack of knowledge of new music is basically a self imposed exile. It's not that I have anything against new music, I just don't have a way to hear it without being exposed to the media barrage that goes with it. Without a mute button to make the commercials go away, I think the whole process has become cost prohibitive. I am simply not willing to expose myself to that kind of psychological torture on a regular basis. I 've had my share of forced entertainment, and have chosen to suffer in silence rahter than listen to the manufactured hype again, and again.

May 17, 2006, 08:05 pm	#12 (permalink) (top)
Chris the Chees Moderator Location: Wales Posts: 2,203	Zhavric, if you like that stuff check out: - British Sea Power The Libertines Idlewild interpol the levellers manic street preachers my vitriol New radicals (though not so knew anymore) ocean colour scene pulp radiohead snow patrol starsailor stereophonics suede semisonic james the arcade fire aqualung babyshambles biffy clyro black rebel motorscyle club blur the cranberries elastica echo and the bunnymen the music sans trauma I have taken these from a list of bands I plan on playinmg next time I DJ. Not all of them are new, but they are all good and they are all of that kind of scene. Society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, […] no obstacle whatsoever intervenes at this moment except ignorance to prevent such a state of society. Robert Owen

May 17, 2006, 11:36 pm	#14 (permalink) (top)
phoenix_fire Paladin Location: Narnia Posts: 4,277	"Breaking the Legs of Sheep", "Absolute", "Treason", and "One Thousand Apologies" under songs. By Kids in the Way, Thousand Foot Krutch, Kutless and Demon Hunter respectively. Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. -- Song 8:6

May 18, 2006, 08:53 am	#15 (permalink) (top)
Zhavric SUSPENDED (1 Week) Posts: 3,571	British Sea Power - Will have to check them out. The Libertines - Very cool. Idlewild - Will have to check them out. interpol - Saw them with The Secret Machines. They both ruled. "C'mere" for teh win. the levellers - Will have to check them out. manic street preachers - Will have to check them out. my vitriol - Will have to check them out. New radicals (though not so knew anymore) - Not bad. ocean colour scene - Will have to check them out. pulp - Will have to check them out. radiohead - Most horrifically over-rated band EVER. Maybe they have talent, but I've never been able to get past the lead singer's voice. He only knows two notes: whiny and emo. snow patrol - Meh... I like what I've heard so far. starsailor - Will have to check them out. stereophonics - Very cool. suede - Also cool. semisonic - Have a CD of theirs. Haven't heard anything from them in a while. james - Eh... the arcade fire - Cool. aqualung - Also cool. babyshambles - Will have to check them out. biffy clyro - Will have to check them out. black rebel motorscyle club - Just not my sound, but not for lack of trying. blur - I liked "Song number 2", but couldn't really get into much more of them. the cranberries - The stuff that's not horrifically overplayed is excellent. What ever happened to them? elastica - Not bad. echo and the bunnymen - channels Wayne WE'RE NOT WORTHY! WE'RE NOT WORTHY! the music - Also cool sans trauma - Will have to check them out.

May 18, 2006, 10:51 am	#16 (permalink) (top)
Chris the Chees Moderator Location: Wales Posts: 2,203	Ok then albums to check out by said bands: - British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power (better than the second album) Idlewild - The remote part the levellers - Levelling the land manic street preachers - Holy Bible, Generation Terrorists, Gold Against the Soul my vitriol - Fine Lines ocean colour scene - Marchin' Again pulp - Greatest Hits (has all their best songs) starsailor - Love Is Here james - Gold Mother (1991 release) babyshambles - Down in Albion (same guy as in the libertines, also check out Dirty pretty Things, another libertines split band) biffy clyro - Blackened Sky blur - Try their early stuff like the great escape the cranberries - No Need to Argue (Haitus) sans trauma - Unsigned band no albums as of yet, free legal music here Society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, […] no obstacle whatsoever intervenes at this moment except ignorance to prevent such a state of society. Robert Owen

May 21, 2006, 02:56 am	#18 (permalink) (top)
G. Adams Fyrdman Location: Middlesbrough UK Posts: 4,152	The Cooper Temple Clause, Hard-Fi, Arctic Monkeys, Muse (not so new any more but who else makes baroque-rock?), Garmana, Editors. BTW, Manic Street Preachers turned shite after Design for Life. Starsailor are awful. Pulp and OCS rock. Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. Winston Churchill

Jun 5, 2006, 01:11 am	#20 (permalink) (top)
Avixious Molten Ash Posts: 36	I know porcupine tree, definately a great underrated band! Ive listened to stupid dream the most too, try up the downstairs, a great album as well. I don't listen to very much modern music, only some local artists like Devin Beu and Logan Heftel.