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<p>Indie Rock:</p>

<p>Bloc Party
The Shins
Death Cab
Iron & Wine
Neutral Milk Hotel
Wilco
Arcade Fire
The Decemberists
The Muse
The Frames
Explosions In The Sky
Kaiser Chiefs
Caesars
etc</p>

<p>Old Stuff:</p>

<p>Bob Dylan
The Beatles (Who by the way ARE NOT overrated. They are perhaps one of the greatest bands of all time. Just look at the range in their music, their music got a lot better after the trip to India too.)
Random Classic Rock</p>

<p>The 80's:</p>

<p>Duran Duran
Erasure
The Smiths</p>

<p>Rap:</p>

<p>Kanye West
Jay-Z
Common
2Pac
Music from the East Coast - West Coast feud time of the early-mid 90's
MC Solaar (french rap)</p>

<p>Trip-Hop/Chillout/Acid-Jazz/IDM:</p>

<p>Thievery Corporation
Zero 7
Amon Tobin
DJ Shadow</p>

<p>I think every single one of you should check out Explosions In The Sky, it's perfect music to study to.</p>

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<p>I listen to more metal-y stuff. Nightwish, Within Temptation, Blind Guardian, Children of Bodom, Therion, For My Pain, etc. It's fun to listen to. The only bad thing is that few people in the US have even heard of these bands...</p>

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<p>Explosions in the Sky is amazing. If you're into instrumental, newer stuff, check out Mogwai, M83, The Album Leaf, Air (Some of it has voice), Mantioba, Sigur Ros, Dntel, and Stereolab.</p>

<p>Indie:
A Silver Mt. Zion, Godspeed You! Black Emporer, Marshmallow Coast, The Black Swan Network, Architecture in Helsinki, The Animal Collective, +/-, Q and not U, Wilco, Xiu Xiu, Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, Apples In Stereo, Her Space Holiday, The Unicorns, The Sunshine Fix, Snow Patrol, Ratatat, The Shins, Circulatory System, Death Cab, Postal Service, Of Montreal, The Arcade Fire, The British Sea Power, Pedro the Lion, Modest Mouse, My Bloody Valentine, Caribou, The Mars Volta, Defacto, The For Carnation, The Fiery Furnaces, Elf Power, The Decemberists, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, Blonde Redhead, Broken Social Scene, American Football, Camera Obscura, Armor For Sleep, Belle and Sebastian, Sufjan Stevens, etc. etc.</p>

<p>Rock:
Dream Theater (more progressive metal, but eh), Led Zepplin, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Pink Floyd, Tom Petty, The Replacements, The Black Keys, The Smiths, etc., etc.</p>

<p>Jazz:
Jaco Pastorius, Coltrane, Pele. That's all I need.</p>

<p>Rap / Hip Hop:
Hieroglyphics, Wu Tang, Handsome Boy Modeling School, etc. etc.</p>

<p>Whew. Yeah, I am a huge fan of music.</p>

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<p>dcfca- the beatles most certainly are "overrated." Without the byrds and other west coast bands, they would continue to do more lovey dovey "please please me" lps. If greatness is measured by how long 4 brits who hated each others guts could last, then they are a great group. If anything, their individual songwriting was superb, especially harrison. im not a huge fan of them either but at least the stones took risks. a journalist put it wonderfully (just remembering this off the top of my head so bare with me): the beatles want to hold your hand while the stones want to burn your house down."</p>

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<p>Rock and metal mostly for me, and I have a particular liking for power metal.
Favourite bands would be:
Sonata Arctica
Nightwish
Hammerfall
Iron Maiden
Tool
Mastodon
System of a Down
Blind Guardian
Dragonforce
Ensiferum
Lacuna Coil
Nine Inch Nails
Rammstein
Dir en Grey
Tristania</p>

<p>and outside of rock and metal... I tend to like some electronic stuff (Royksopp kick ass) and video game music. (Kenji Yamamoto and Koji Kondo's stuff mostly)</p>

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<p>pkarr5000-</p>

<p>Risks? The Rolling Stones play the same re-hashed, redundant sounding stolen, simplified blues riffs and put a girl's name to the song. The Beatles were innovators in every sense of the word. They, along with Bob Dylan, were the first to start to make introspective music that dared to venture beyond the bounds of popular music. Do you think The Rolling Stones would ever make a song like Helter Skelter? The closest they've come to going out on a limb was Paint It Black. The Beatles took influences from nearly every form of music they'd heard and incorporated it somehow into their songs. Sitar, blues, country, folk, rock and roll, you name it, the Beatles put it in their records. Just take a look at the White Album. Has there ever been a record that's incorporated so many different sounds in it? You're hard pressed to find one, especially looking through the Rolling Stones discography. Songs like "Rocky Raccoon" and "Piggies" for instance, do you think The Rolling Stones would have -dared- make songs about little piggies living piggie lives? Your criticism of them is moot, especially when you compare them to a trite band like The Rolling Stones. If anything the Rolling Stones was the least inventive band to make it out of the era. When you look at classic rock on a broad enough scale, The Rolling Stones are only remembered for their ability to last as well. Your point about the Beatles only being remembered because of their ability to stick together for such a long time carries no weight. Hell, the only reason we still talk about the Rolling Stones is their longevity, and their ability to still sell-out auditoriums to CEOs and the like.</p>

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<p>have you listened to any of their albums after 1966? Different people have different definitions of "classic rock" but they all agree the stones had a major part in not only inventing it but re-inventing it. I dont know where you are going with your point about the beatles taking influences and incorporating them into their songs. the only reason they did that was because of the press and the fact that they did do that doesnt make them greater. look at magical mystery tour. yes its a big "**** you" to the critics and people who (like dylan fans) interpret their lyrics to the point where it wasnt music anymore. mere pressure. you dont understand what rock would be if exile on main street was not released. I'm getting goosebumps just imagining what music would sound like had that record not been released. what is the definition of risk? it is having a few scrawny rich english dudes absorbing a foreign country and making the grittiest, not to mention, the best, country-rock album that country had ever heard. that is the very definition of going out on a limb. not singing about piggies or walruses (is that the correct plural form). that is so contreversial, it makes me want to **** my pants right now. thinking about the beatles (especially the group that released womanizer crap) makes me pity anyone who dare likes them. If you don't see Mick Jaggar prancing on stage like a baboon with diarreha while still wanting to listen to his horny yelps when I mention the word rock, you dont have a pulse. the beatles poured false teenager love notes into the hearts of adolescent girls while jaggar and the stones yelled and screamed the truth, not caring what anyone thought of it. the stones experimented too, look at "2000 light years from home" but they, along with graham parsons, created the genre of country-rock. To lose the stage prescence and overall leadership of Brian Jones and still go on to record Let it Bleed, Get Yer Ya-Ya's out, Sticky Fingers, AND exile the next 4 years is just mind boggling. Instead of crying over who got to play what or who got more songs on an album, they played (and saved) rock. If you still dont think The stones play the same re-hashed, redundant sounding stolen riffs, listen to "dead flowers" (on sticky fingers) and tell me you would have known that was a british group. that's not only risk, that's balls </p>

<p>their decision of making money off of what they did 40 years earlier should not reflect the music they made in their prime, only the stupidity of people who pay that much money to watch drunken 70 year old men dance.</p>

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<p>pkarr5000-</p>

<p>If you want to talk about classic rock, don't even mention the Rolling Stones. The whole point is, they weren't doing anything unique. The Rolling Stones weren't anything new, that's the point I'm trying to make. Furthermore, bands like Led Zeppelin completely blow them out of all comparison; the Rolling Stones can't compete with them - no way, no how. Led Zeppelin was a unique band that, like the Beatles, had an eclectic approach to music-making, and actually made music that required some amount of talent and originality. If the thought of no Exile on Main Street scares you, then Christ knows what the thought of no Led Zeppelin IV or the White Album would shape music into today. If you don't see Jimmy Page with a double-neck Gibson blasting out the solo to Stairway when you think of rock, I don't know if you have a pulse either. You're making the Rolling Stones sound like the end-all of classic rock bands. That's the complete opposite of what they were. They were the most generic sounding band of the era - they hardly contributed anything to the genre itself, but gathered what we know now as the identifying sounds of a classic rock song (a blues based riff, some good drumming behind it, a lead singer belting out meaningful lyrics) and meshed them into a very bland, generic album - Exile on Main Street. To compare this to the Beatles is ridiculous. Secondly, to say that the Beatles only wrote teenage love songs is -completely- bogus. What is anything from Yellow Submarine, Revolver, or Magic Mystery Tour? Sure, love was a constant theme throughout the Beatles' music, but it wasn't their sole focus. If you want to talk about the truth, and who saved rock, look no further than Led Zeppelin. They were responsible for putting the British Invasion on the map - no one denies that. The Rolling Stones simply rode the wave of popularity at the opportune time. Now, after telling me to listen to "Dead Flowers", I suggest you take a gander at "Love You To" by the Beatles - does this sound like a typical British band? The Beatles are not overrated. They are acknowledged with setting up a foundation and a reference point for the next 40+ years of music to come, and rightfully so. They will continue to spread their influence to any band that comes out from this day on.</p>

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<p>they werent doing anything unique???? did you not read my post? </p>

<p>zeppelin cant compete with stones because they are two completely different bands during different periods, one, yet another group that was at each others throats, just a continuation of the yardbirds and the other i have already spent 10 minutes describing to you. that overplayed radio song you call stairway to heaven makes me want to vomit. zepp didnt save rock, they destroyed it. powerful playing but such an annoying hippie voice to accompany it is not great music. yet another popular generic band, congratulations. instead of listening to such mainstream cookiecutter music, dwelve into black sabbath, hawkwind. yes, in love you to, it sounds like an imitating british band. yellow submarine is boring and sounds like a stoned nursery rhyme, revolver is a step forward. i already told you about magic mystery tour. I dont think you are getting my point about unique. here, since im apparently not making any sense, go google both bands and tell me who's unique and who isnt. if its one thing the stones have that the beatles dont, it's uniqueness and style. they go to india and come back as drugged up potheads with groovy melodies. thats not unique, perhaps influential, but not unique. having your frontman turn on millions of women just by standing and singing without even moving while one of the most underrated guitarists jams proves how rebellious and dangerous they were. afterall, their music did influence a LOT of punk bands. a song like paint it black in 1966???? revolver was that year and the beatles were doing gentle melodies like norweign wood and michelle which are very smooth but not progressive. the stones saw the druggies and cruised by (with the exception of jones), releasing gimme shelter in 1969. that is unique. in an era where everyone held a doobie in one hand and wrote lyrics with the other, the stones kept rocking. that is unique. in 1964 the rolling stones were one of the first groups to abandon uniforms. that is unique. you could write a book on how jaggars stage precense and sexuality influenced rock for decades. look at bowie, bolan, morrison and other frontmen all taken by one member of the stones. to say the rolling stones did NOT have a major part in molding what is known today as classic rock is absurd. ask anyone. they shaped it, revived it, and ultimately killed it. the beatle's main theme was love and peace, the stones' destruction. while the beatles, with the help fo other groups, directly influenced the hippie years, the stones influenced bowie and iggy and the entire genre of punk. i started this post not liking either bands, especially the beatles, but just thinking about how unique and different the stones were (in what they sang back then compared to just another british invasion band) has really changed my views of them. for that era, those few years, they were unique, they had a certain style, an arrogant way of rocking, that has seperated them from any other group.</p>

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<p>SOMETHING CORPORATE.</p>

<p>And broadway shows. Especially Phantom and Rent.</p>

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<p>i listen to anything that sounds good, excluding rap and R&B.</p>

<p>My favorite bands:
the appleseed cast
anah aevia
norma jean
the number twelve looks like you
converge
the dillinger escape plan
into the moat
bright eyes
the chariot
refused
circle takes the square
orchid
goo goo dolls
and much more....</p>

<p>classics:
vivaldi
pachelbel
tchaikovsky
brahms
beethoven (i love moonlight sonata)
bach
dvorak</p>

<p>i listen to a lot of instrumental, techno, and foreign music as well</p>

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<p>Well let me preface this by saying that dcfca and I could pretty much be...the same...:</p>

<p>My favorite artist of all time: MC Solaar (I have all his albums except his ultra-rare self-titled one...gotta order that off amazon when I get back from Chile....)</p>

<p>I also (really) like: Thievery Corp, Zero 7, Amon Tobin, DJ Shadow, Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs, The Beatles, Kanye West, Jay-Z</p>

<p>A few more recommendations: </p>

<p>Indie Rock: The Strokes (don't know if they really count as Indie anymore...oh well)</p>

<p>Up-and-coming indie rock: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah</p>

<p>Chill-out: Brazilectro Series, Bebel Gilberto, Saint Germain</p>

<p>Hip-Hop: Nas (Illmatic would probably fall under the "war of the coasts" thing), Lil Flip (gotta "rep" for Texas), Nach Scratch (great great great Spanish rap, discovered him in Chile)</p>

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<p>How can I pick my favorites out of so many great bands!</p>

<p>I listen to anything that has a good beat and awsome vocals. I love old rock n'roll (Connie Francis is one of my facs)
I totally love country being from Alberta (Adam Gregory, Allan Jackson, George Straight, and the guy from australia who's name totally escapes me)
I also like Hop Hop and R&B. I love Ciera and Shawn Desman.</p>

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<p>Mostly LYnyrd Skynyrd</p>

<p>Some Creedence.</p>

<p>Thats about it.</p>

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<p>I like some indie bands, death cab, snow patrol, etc. I REALLY like Jimmy Eat World. My favorite song is "Kill". Fall Out Boy is good too. And obviously GREEN DAY is up there, but not my fav.</p>