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yea i searched. last thread i found was from 2005, so i thought i'd raise the question again, because there are always new bands on the rise, and i'm interested in what the new NS thinks. Any genre, be it metal, rock, jam, reggae, anything really.
Mine is in no particular order.
Led Zeppelin
Phish
The Beatles
Rolling Stones
Grateful Dead
finntroll
amon amarth
beatles
gorilla biscuits
four year strong
Styx, Guns N Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath
^ not really in any order
thing is if not that much effort goes into making a song it ends up sounding boring to someone with an ear for music (not in all cases). Take a band like Fall Out Boy or All American Rejects for example. A lot of people would argue that their music sounds good (if you're actually reading this, i don't like their music they're just examples). Thing is a lot of their music sounds the same because their chorus and generally the whole song consist of a handful of power chords. With a jamband (i listen to a lot of other music by the way) you get a group of guys who can improvise, and are very talented musicians. This helps in the studio as well as live. Each artist brings a little something to the table, whether it be a transitional drum part, or a face melting guitar solo. I'd listen to a Umphrey's studio album over any album by the bands posted by that girl earlier in this quoting bananza, just because listening to the same style of music in every song bugs me.
That being said Jam bands aren't the only good bands out there, but the main idea i was getting at was that effort and musical talent do in fact go along way into making music more enjoyable.
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modestmouse
wilco
the gorillaz
built to spill
bon iver
the shins
arcade fire
tv on the radio
almost in order
Led Zepplin
Iron Madien
Rolling Stones
Beatles
AC/DC
Maelstrom: Do you care to name the kind of music that your band plays? We at Maelstrom like to think of Heaven Shall Burn as a metalcore band: sort of taking the best stuff from metal and hardcore. What was the inspiration in choosing your musical style?
Matthias: We also think that we are a metalcore band, although we don't care that much about something like a "kind of music." Actually there's just good and bad music. Unfortunately you need to name the style of a band ...just to give the listeners a small hint what they have to expect. We always loved metal. I grew up with bands like Iron Maiden, Accept, Judas Priest, Slayer, Manowar, Anthrax and Metallica. Later we were fascinated by all the early 90s death metal bands like Dismember and such. One thing that always bothered us a bit was all those dumb as fuck lyrics. Okay, it's just entertainment, but we became kinda tired of it. That's why some of us got in touch with hardcore or even punk. I really don't think that there are more intelligent people, but some of the bands have lyrics that are much better than all this gore- and splatter-cliché. In the mid 90s this whole metalcore thing caught our attention. Belgian bands like Congress and Liar mixed the 80s thrash metal with hardcore attitude. That's what we liked... So I guess without these bands, bands like Heaven Shall Burn would not exist...at least not like they are now. Earth Crisis was also one of the most important bands for us...
There ya go!!
In no particular order: Three Days Grace, Nirvana, Pink Flyod, Talking Heads, Beatles and a lot more!
Grateful Dead (including all branch off bands futhur, Ratdog, Phil and Friends, the dead...)
tool
Moe.
Yonder Mountain String band
Phish
