# Can anyone recommend any good bands to me? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 21, 2001, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-any-good-bands-to-me/69565 "2001-06-21T05:08:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Pnuk\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Pnuk\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pnuk_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2001, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-any-good-bands-to-me/69565/21 "2001-06-21T12:59:29Z")
I think I’m in love with **Just a Girl**. 🙂 Oh, and if you like Less Than Jake, then check out Reel Big Fish, Catch22, Mustard Plug, MU330 and Link 80. and I’m gonna see Weezer in a month! Yay me! Oh, and if you like loooong, prog rock songs, then check out ‘In the court of the Crimson King’ by **King Crimson**. It’s nothing short of revolutionary. ---
**Author:** ![Gregor\_Samsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2001, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-any-good-bands-to-me/69565/22 "2001-06-21T13:09:24Z")
You gotta love [Mojo Nixon](http://www.mojonixon.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Chum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ab097/32.png) [@Chum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chum)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2001, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-any-good-bands-to-me/69565/23 "2001-06-21T16:23:02Z")
Thank you, Badtz Maru, for listing Squirrel Nut Zippers. They are absolutely amazing. I’ll just list some of my favorite CDs 1. Bloodhound Gang - One Fierce Beer Coaster 2. Tori Amos - Under the Pink and Little Earthquakes 3. System of A Down (totally awesome, kind of hard) 4. Beck - Odelay 5. Rufus Wainwright (great voice, wonderful songwriting) 6. Bjork - Post 7. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life 8. Squirrel Nut Zippers - Hot and Perrenial(sp) Favorites 9. Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler 10. Fiona Apple - Tidal 11. Presidents of the United States of America (old) 12. Sublime 13. No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom 14. Weezer (blue) I would probably die if I didn’t have these CDs. They are all amazing. ---
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2001, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-any-good-bands-to-me/69565/24 "2001-06-21T21:16:48Z")
Nope, that isn’t it… Not that one either… Yuck, I didn’t even know I had that one… Ooohhh. Yes. Here they are… Okay, my prescription for a pretty good summer off is… Heard of [Placebo](http://www.thebsh.com/intro.htm)? Get their new album titled “Black Market Music”. To make it even better get their previous two albums, “Placebo” and “Without You I’m Nothing”. Very, very good. Get “Galore” by [The Cure](http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/default.asp?oid=28&ctgy=artists&sf=the+cure). It has a bunch of their singles on it. Think of it as a sampler. One word, [Orgy](http://www.orgymusic.com). Hee, hee. I love that band. Okay, go out and get ‘em. I’ll be tracking down your purchases, so you better pick some good ones… Oh, yeah, I also second “Post” by Bjork. Amazing stuff. I wish I still had it… ---
**Author:** ![Edwardina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Edwardina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edwardina)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2001, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-any-good-bands-to-me/69565/25 "2001-06-22T01:25:35Z")
P.J. Harvey Tom Waits Massive Attack ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2001, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-any-good-bands-to-me/69565/26 "2001-06-22T02:01:28Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by N3A3M3 \* > songs that aren’t in English are automatically more interesting to me_\* OK. Well if by that you mean you like to listen to a voice but not necessarily care about lyrics: **R.E.M.**.'s first album _Murmur_, which is very aptly titled, and marvelous. Look into their other early albums, too. **Cocteau Twins** **Stereolab** For something in a foreign language, I’ll get really weird here and suggest _Where Young Grass Grows_ by **Huun-Huur-Tu**. Tuvan throat singing at its most accessible. No, really! Back to English, and I’ve mentioned these in a different thread recently on indie groups: _The Noise Made By People_ and _Work and Non-Work_ by **[Broadcast](http://www.mtv.com/sendme2.tin?page=/bands/broadcast/bio.jhtml)**, and anything by **[Edith Frost](http://www.edithfrost.com)**. Kinda hard to put these two in the same sentence because they’re very different acts, but two of my favorites. And while you’re over there checking out **Massive Attack** , try **Portishead** too. Get _Dummy_ first. ---
**Author:** ![frock75](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@frock75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frock75)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2001, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-any-good-bands-to-me/69565/27 "2001-06-22T02:46:12Z")
Woooohoooooo!! A thread i can sink my teeth into!! I second the notion of Placebo. Excellent band. It probably goes without saying that if you like Placebo, you will probably be a Cure fan as well. Good call dlgirl! On the same vibe, you couldn’t go wrong with Nine Inch Nails “Pretty Hate Machine”. I’m also a big Smiths fan, but I think they are an aquired taste. Another band that i find amazing is Soul Coughing. I’m not sure how big they are around the country, but they’ve done ok on the East coast. A good funky band. One of my favorite albums is Dada’s “puzzle”. The only radio hit they ever had is “Dizzkneeland”, but the rest of the album is so much better. To list a few others: The Pogues(Irish, with a punk attitude), Ministry, The Pixies, Cracker(always a good time), G Love and Special Sauce, Bad Religion, Fugazi, Therapy?, and finally Fishbone(ska, skank whatever they’re calling it these days) Hope some of these bands make it into your collection and let us know what really turned you on. It’s a great when you introduce someone to a band you enjoy. ---
**Author:** ![zeroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/839c29/32.png) [@zeroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zeroth)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2001, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-any-good-bands-to-me/69565/28 "2001-06-22T04:20:41Z")
Bad Religion [harmonic intelligent punk] Banco de Gaia [epic ambient/techno] Belly [Tanya Donnelly is my god] Bjork [same for Bjork] David Bowie [sex on a stick … oh and good tunes too] BT [danceable intelligent techno] Cake [acoustic/electric weirdness] Chainsuck [industrial with angelic voiced singer] The Chemical Brothers [butt-shaking dance] The Crystal Method [their album “Vegas” IS sex as far as I’m concerned] The Cure [I have all their stuff and I still want more] Delerium [kind of like a goth Enigma] Die Krupps [metally industrial type stuff] DJ Rap [grrl power hiphoppy dance] Dot Allison [wonderful wonderful music+voice] Eat Static [alien obsessed trance/techno] Elastica [distorted brit-rock] Enigma [like a non-goth Delerium 😉] Anything by Christopher Franke [especially the Babylon 5 stuff] Front Line Assembly [and anything by Bill Leeb, which includes Delerium] Front 242 [“Up Evil” and “Off” are excellent technoy industrial dance] Garbage [I love bands with female singers] Green Day [everything from 39/Smooth to Warning] Information Society [“Peace and Love Inc.” is great, late 80s techno] Juno Reactor [great, great trance] KMFDM [“Nihil” is _amazing_] Kittie [heavy metal by teenage girls] David Lanz [great pianist and composer, “Skyline Firedance” is excellent] Lagwagon [excellent melodic punk] Leaetherstrip [industrial/ebm] Limp Bizkit [a guilty pleasure] Massive Attack [“Blue Lines” is wonderful, trip-hop] Sarah McLachlan [I’ve cried just from her music. Buy “Mirrorball.” Trust me.] Medesky, Martin and Wood [eclectic free-form jazz] Moby [his new album, “Play,” is excellent] Morcheeba [guitar based trip-hop, excellent] Nine Inch Nails [do I really need to explain?] NOFX [my favorite punk band] The Offspring [early stuff is great, started falling off with “Americana” IMHO] The Orb [funky ambient stuff] Orbital [“In Sides” is excellent, mature techno. Same for “Middle of Nowhere.”] Orgy [good technorock, hot lead singer] A Perfect Circle [Maynard James Keenan. Need I say more?] Pigface [the “who’s who” of industrial] Plastikman [minimalist acid, kind of an acquired taste] Primus [Les Claypool amazes me] The Prodigy [took a lot of flack for “Firestarter,” but I still love them] Rammstein [disturbing German metal/industrial] Rancid [punk with great basslines and horrible-yet-good singing] Republica [lyrically kinda stupid, musically excellent IMHO] The Sisters of Mercy [gothy 80s rock … sorta] Sixpence None the Richer [their self-titled album is AMAZING] Skinny Puppy [industrial, weird] The Smashing Pumpkins [no explanation needed I hope] Sum 41 [neo-punk ala Green Day/Blink 182] Switchblade Symphony [“Bread and Jam for Frances” is like goth trip-hop, weird but great] Tool [Maynard James Keenan again] U2 [older stuff I like, newer stuff I’m undecided on] Underworld [great great techno with vocals] Weezer [heavy melodic rock] Wumpscut [German industrial/ebm, very dark and sinister] Yanni [I know I’ll get flamed for that one, but I like his stuff a lot] This is basically a summary of my CD collection. Hopefully you’ll like at least something I listed. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2001, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-any-good-bands-to-me/69565/29 "2001-06-22T04:28:49Z")
Bah. You need only buy **Tragically Hip** albums to know what rock music is meant to be. Purchase the following CDs and listen to them three or four times: Up to Here Road Apples Fully, Completely Day for Night Phantom Power After listening to these incredible works of rock and roll genius, you will wonder how other rock bands get it so WRONG by comparison. Trust me on this one. You’re in for a revelation. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_A\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@Just\_A\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_A_Girl)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2001, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-any-good-bands-to-me/69565/30 "2001-06-22T05:13:33Z")
If you’re into industrial rock and heavy stuff…I strongly suggest KMFDM. They totally rock. Go download “Dogma” by them…super cool song. Pnuk Guy…How YOU doin?? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ColonelMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f6c823/32.png) [@ColonelMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelMoose)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2001, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-any-good-bands-to-me/69565/31 "2001-06-22T05:43:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Spritle \* > \*\*I am **ColonelMoose** ’s personal music whore. > > Every suggestion in all if his(?) posts are Dead on (get it? “Dead” on?) (and Toots Hibbert doing “Take Me Home Country Roads” is just too wonderful.)\*\* ::bats eyes:: Ya like me, ya really really like me! No, I’m touched, really. Thanks. But, more importantly, I committed a little boo-boo. The Floyd show that I referenced above actually is 4/29/70, from the Fillmore WEST. My bad. Few more things: > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Zeroth_ > **Medesky, Martin and Wood [eclectic free-form jazz]** Yes, yes, yes! Please check these folks out, especially their live stuff. > [@](#): > > **Lagwagon [excellent melodic punk] > NOFX [my favorite punk band]** Why is it that all I could think of when I read this was NOFX making fun of Lagwagon on their live album? I’ll be damned if I can remember all of it, but whatever they say is pretty funny. ---
**Author:** ![William\_B.Davis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/87869e/32.png) [@William\_B.Davis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/William_B.Davis)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2001, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-any-good-bands-to-me/69565/32 "2001-06-22T06:26:54Z")
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**Author:** ![William\_B.Davis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/87869e/32.png) [@William\_B.Davis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/William_B.Davis)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2001, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-any-good-bands-to-me/69565/33 "2001-06-22T06:29:05Z")
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**Author:** ![Gregor\_Samsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2001, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-any-good-bands-to-me/69565/34 "2001-06-22T13:26:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RickJay \* > \*\*Bah. You need only buy **Tragically Hip** albums to know what rock music is meant to be… \*\* I concur in spades. I would add, however, that if you’re only going to buy one **Hip** album, make it _Fully Completely_. ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2001, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-any-good-bands-to-me/69565/35 "2001-06-22T13:37:49Z")
**Q AND NOT U** **Q AND NOT U** **Q AND NOT U** **Q AND NOT U** **Q AND NOT U** **Q AND NOT U** **Q AND NOT U** How about **Q AND NOT U** And my standard answer of Jets to Brazil, Luna or Burning Airlines. ---
**Author:** ![riserius1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@riserius1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/riserius1)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2001, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-any-good-bands-to-me/69565/36 "2001-06-22T14:16:40Z")
I would be remiss if I failed to mention the greatest unknown band of all, that being XTC. Their ouvre has included almost every style imaginable(and a few that probably shouldn’t be imagined). Their early stuff is edgy, quirky and insanely catchy. As you move through their catalogue, they slowly but steadily morph into a much more mature band. Still insanely catchy. Recommends by XTC: White Music Drums and Wires English Settlement(still their best!) Nonesuch Apple Venus Vol 1. Wasp Star (apple Venus vol 2.) Note these are in chronological order, not in order of quality. If you want kind of a sampler of some of their best, try: Upsy Daisy Assortment or Fossil Fuel ---
**Author:** ![William\_B.Davis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/87869e/32.png) [@William\_B.Davis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/William_B.Davis)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2001, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-any-good-bands-to-me/69565/37 "2001-06-22T14:57:29Z")
XTC.Good Choice. I like the Skylarking album. ---
**Author:** ![Searching\_For\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Searching\_For\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Searching_For_Truth)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2001, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-any-good-bands-to-me/69565/38 "2001-06-22T15:15:54Z")
You HAVE to listen to the Beatles’ “1” CD. It’s awesome! And Rammstein’s not in English! Good semi-new and new stuff… I love Everclear, Incubus, Green Day, the Offspring, No Doubt, Sugar Ray, Papa Roach, Primus, POD, Foo Fighters, Rage Against the Machine, Kittie, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Staind, the Deftones, Static-X, Disturbed, Vast, Powerman 5000, Boiler Room, Godsmack, Fuel, Lit, Stone Temple Pilots, Dust for LIfe, Alice in Chains, 3 Doors Down, Union 13, A Perfect Circle, Sevendust, Cold, Santana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Cold, Third Eye Blind, Matchbox 20, Fastball, Vertical Horizon, Stone Temple Pilots, Hootie and the Blowfish, A Newfound Glory, Sum41, Linkin Park, Blink 182, SR-71, Fenix TX, Elwood, Kottonmouth Kings, Cowboy Mouth, Jars of Clay, Lisa Loeb, Natalie Imbruglia…etc etc etc ---
**Author:** ![Lockfist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/838e76/32.png) [@Lockfist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockfist)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2001, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-any-good-bands-to-me/69565/39 "2001-06-22T17:38:52Z")
> [@](#): > > I love Everclear, Incubus, Green Day, the Offspring, No Doubt, Sugar Ray, Papa Roach, Primus, POD, Foo Fighters, Rage Against the Machine, Kittie, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Staind, the Deftones, Static-X, Disturbed, Vast, Powerman 5000, Boiler Room, Godsmack, Fuel, Lit, Stone Temple Pilots, Dust for LIfe, Alice in Chains, 3 Doors Down, Union 13, A Perfect Circle, Sevendust, Cold, Santana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Cold, Third Eye Blind, Matchbox 20, Fastball, Vertical Horizon, Stone Temple Pilots, Hootie and the Blowfish, A Newfound Glory, Sum41, Linkin Park, Blink 182, SR-71, Fenix TX, Elwood, Kottonmouth Kings, Cowboy Mouth, Jars of Clay, Lisa Loeb, Natalie Imbruglia…etc etc etc By “etc etc etc” do you mean "whatever else is playing on the radio and MTV right now ? Yikes **Searching For Truth** I think you need to search a little harder. You just rattled of the whose-who of Corporate rock. Thats not being very helpful ! I would suggest a few bands, but our friend **N³A³M³** already said they didnt like metal. Too bad, because there are some great bands out of Sweden these days: In Flames Opeth The Haunted The Crown Dark Tranquility Arch Enemy At The Gates The Hellacopters Rock on ! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-any-good-bands-to-me/69565.md?page=1)