Haha, yeah, good suggestions.

EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY.

Minus the Bear
Streetlight Manifesto
Big D and the Kid's Table
A Silver Mount Zion
Godspeed you Black Emperor
Cousin Oliver
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Dream Theater
Against Me!
Assemblage 23
Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution
Mr. Bungle


Gorrillaz new album, Demon Dayz, is just amazingly funkadelic.

Frank Zappa.

one album you definately need is

Scorpions - Fly to the Rainbow

Hell yeah!

All fantastic suggestions, especially Against Me (one of my favorite bands), Streetlight Manifesto, Silver Mt. Zion (just bought one of their CDs) and Big D. If you want some great, catchy, "anyone-can-enjoy" pop rock, check out Jets to Brazil.

Have you heard much Minus the Bear?

I know not the rest you presented, but you are a good, good man.

BEWARE: Daft Punk's new album sucks a lot!

Yeah, they're really good. I was about to go see them in Baltimore about a month ago, but it fell through. That would've been a great concert. My fav songs by them are Fine + Two Pts. and Houston We Have Uh-Oh.

Zully has a good taste in music - you should really give Freed a try, any album, but my favorites are Jeremiah Freed and Slowburn.

I've honestly never heard anything like Jeremiah Freed...my favorite modern band, since most of them suck. I've thought long and hard about what sounds similar, and come up with nothing. Unlike most artists people love and think are unique, but really aren't, Freed is. Just go download a few songs off your favorite P2P software...they won't care as long as their name is getting out a little more. Probably. Then go buy a CD when you realize how much better it is than most of the other rubbish in this thread.

Oh, and Sonata Arctica is some really great power metal. Epic, melodic. Not entirely unique (a lot like Edguy sometimes, haven't heard many other power metal bands) but just...nice.

Devil's Only Friend
Train Come Crashing
Reflect Your Light
Slowburn
Sweet Girl
Leave Me Where I Lay
Off the Bottle
Don't Go Hungry
Riding Home

All good Freed tracks.

And if you like Freed, you need to listen to American Minor. Well, you need to listen to them anyway.

Sonata Arctica is not power metal.

American Minor = WIN
classic rock thats not so classic....;)

You've got PM's.

after reading every band name mentioned in this thread I can recognize half, like all that I recognized, and appricaite the others on good faith of taste. It's my opinion that music needs a less comercialized medium, cause radio, tv, and labels are all owned. The result produces a progressive underground arena and a superficial radio arena. With all the college bands and garage bands, it's a wonder we don't have another zeppelin or rodger waters. Who's the next Beatles? Bands that put out more commerical hits than not?

Most of my folk icons are dead or dying along with their noble genre. Sorry this isn't a list but a testamony instead, I don't think we've had a fresh icon since Kurt Cobain died. No doubt, some really beautiful and inspiring music has come along since, but the biggest folk idol in america right now is eminem. We need a new zeppelin. A new Beatles, a new The Who, a new artist to affect people on a grand scale, whom nobody doesn't know. C'mon, Serj, viva la revelution

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it'll be me, just you watch.
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Eh? The songs I've heard from them (only a few albums) sound rather power metalish to me. But then I haven't heard much power metal...some of their songs are similar sounding (at least the genre or style or whatever) to some of Edguy's, which I was quite sure was power metal.