All i want you to do in this thread is list some bands which you think are good and deserve to be recognized. I'm trying to see what the people of UMR like. no comments, just bands

I'll start it off:

Taking Back Sunday
Hawthorn Heights
The Killers
Brand New

only the bands that are less well known, and in no real order:

Cowboy Mouth
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
Flogging Molly
The Sound and the Fury
One Degree Difference
A-Ha
Brujeria
Chimaira
Ella Fitzgerald
Highwaymen
Lamb of God
Paul Revere and the Raiders
Mushroomhead
Pete Townshend
Rachmaninov
At the Drive-In

I like Sergei Rachmaninov, composer of four piano concertos, an excellent second symphony, and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and Symphonic Dances, op. 45, two of the best pieces of music I've ever heard.

Here are some of mine (in alphabetical order)

Ben Folds
Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals
Bob Marley
Jack Johnson
moe.
Phish
Pink Floyd
Radiohead
Rage Against the Machine
Robert Randolph & the Family Band
Simon and Garfunkel
String Cheese Incident
The Beatles
The Flaming Lips
The Presidents of the United States of America
Tool
Trey Anastasio
Umphrey's McGee
Wilco
Zero 7

all of my mp3s are sorted by genre... when i first moved to school i think my two biggest directories were "ska and punk" and "classic rock"... after my music tastes changed when i got to school i was exposed to alt. rock that was actually good, so that directory (and also my "hip hop and top 40" directory... gotta throw a party every once in a while!) grew tremendously........ randomly going through my alt rock playlist right now

(hed) P.E.
2 Skinnee J's
AnchondO (put on a great concert at our house last st. pats, not a lot of people came though which is too bad they had a great set)
At the Drive-In
Bad Ronald (white hip hopsters who rhyme about getting blitzed. plus Let's Begin is the ultimate party song)
Basement Jaxx (part of my newfound love of electronic music)
Breaking Benjamin (one of those grungy rock bands who actually has talent. overlooked for shitty ones like "puddle of mudd" and "nickleback")
Chapeaumelon (i don't even know what language this is. i think spanish. check out their cover of my generation "mi generacion!")
Daft Punk (same as basement jaxx)
David Bowie (thanks to the Life Aquatic soundtrack!)
Disturbing the Peace (great st louis rock band played our house st pats 2001. check out their cover of bjork's hyper-ballad)
Dropkick Murphys (who doesn't like irish drinking rock)
Hot Action Cop
OPM
Phish (i just recently started adding them to my playlist)
Pomeroy (played our house st pats. 2002 and then Freaker's Ball 2002 GREAT jam band. i think they are somewhat popular now)
Radiohead (what can i say, kevin jr.)
Royksopp
Steriogram (these guys are good)
United States of Electronica (daft punk meets junior senior)

and last but not least, i think my favorite band for the longest time has been

Zebrahead

in total i have 851 mp3s in the genre... but i've still got at least 6 whole albums sitting in my download directory i haven't even had a chance to sample yet. this is compared to ~350 in hip hop and ska and punk, 250 in classic rock and 150 in classic hits

also, i'm a little curious on what media players you all use to play your .mp3s... i've seen people use winamp, i've seen people use WMP i've seen people use others..... i used to have winamp3 because of its sidecar thing you could have saved playlists in so i could easily click from list to list, but recently i found out that winamp5 uses like 1% as much system resources and i got this awesome plugin called "dynamic link library" that opens a window where you assign "roots" which are either a directory or a play list. so now i don't have to re-save a playlist just because i add a song to my alt rock directory. it automaticaly refreshes that directory. on top of that i have a search bar on top, so if i want to jam out to ... the two soul coughing songs i have... i can just type it in the search bar BAM! it's great i highly recommend it

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I have way too much, or not enough music

but top favorites are:
a perfect circle
311
pearl jam
incubus
tool
(hed)p.e.
staind


but when i get a little crazy

slayer
slipknot
meshuggah
mushroomhead
mudvayne
manson
spineshank


i have something like 2 weeks of music and it really depends on my mood so those have been my most recent moods, mellow to metal

i like:
Britney Spears
N'Sync
Nickelback
Garth Brooks
Pink
No Doubt
Blink 182
Good Charlotte
Christina Agulera
Los Lonely Boys
Simple Plan
Ricky Maritn
Abba
Mr. T's rap music
the A*Teens
Kriss Kross
Cleopatra
Enrique Inglacias
50 cent
R Kelly
Snoop Dogg


oh wait, music i like...

beatles
elvis
system of a down
queen
alien ant farm
michael jackson
REM
cake
tenacious D
beastie boys

The Sound and the Fury
Cold
Tool
Tai Mai Shu

Against Me!
Alexisonfire
And You Will Know us by the Trail of Dead
Bear Vs. Shark
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Blood Brothers
Clutch
Dag Nasty
Death Cab for Cutie
Death From Above 1979
Fugazi
Godspeed You Black Emporer
Hoover
Hot Water Music
Jurassic 5
Minus the Bear
Murder by Death
Murder City Devils
Mustard Plug
Piebald
q and not u
Queens of the Stone Age
Refused
Rilo Kiley
Rise Against
Snapcase
The Aeffect
The Faint
The Impossibles
The Meatpuppets
These Arms are Snakes
Thursday
Tiger Army

Good call. I don't know of many other people on campus who like the hard stuff.

I like many, many bands but here a few straight off my playlist:

(hed) p.e.
30 Seconds to Mars
40 Below Summer
Apartment 26
Blindside
Bush
Chevelle
The Deftones
Dry Cell
Earshot
Fear Factory
Finch
Flaw
Ill Nino
Incubus
Killswitch Engage
Mudvayne
Mushroomhead
Noise Therapy
Nonpoint
Primer 55
Ra
Saliva
Sevendust
Skillet
Soil
Soundgarden
Spineshank
Stone Sour
Strata
The Used
Underoath

Yep, thats pretty much what I like. Pretty much everything on that list and similar bands.



my library

i forgot so many

30 seconds to mars, American Head Charge, Audioslave(rage better but very good), Avenged Seven Fold, Beastie Boys, Blindside, Blur, Bob Marley, Bright Eyes, Cake, Chimaira, CKY, Coal Chamber, Coldplay, Deftones, Disturbed, Earshot, Flaw, Foo Fighters, Franz Ferdinand, Glassjaw, Gorillaz, Greenday, (hed)p.e., Ill Nino, Incubus, Interpol, Janes Addiction, Junior Senior, KMFDM, Korn, Led Zeppelin, Lojic, Marcy Playground, Manson, The Mars Volta(awesome band), Meshuggah, modest mouse, mudvayne, mushroomhead, mxpx, NIN, Nirvana, Offspring, Our Lady Peace, p.o.d., papa roach, pearl jam, pink floyd, powerman 5000, primus, prodigy, queens of the stone age, Radiohead, Rage, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Reel Big Fish, Rob Zombie, Rooney, the roots, sevendust, silverchair, slayer, slipknot, smashing pumpkins, spineshank, sr71, staind, static x, stereomud, sublime, system of a down, taproot, Tool, transplants, trust company, urge, used, velvet revolver, verve pipe, weezer, white zombie, yeah yeah yeahs, black label soceity, zwan.

went through my library yea, but i felt i had to

A Static Lullaby
Anberlin
Armor for Sleep
As Friends Rust
Boy Sets Fire
Blue October
Brand New
Brazil
Daft Punk (dance)
Dashboard Confessional
Deap Poetic
From Autumn to Ashes
Further Seems Forever
Hawthorne Heights
Ozomatli (hispanic, but good)
Postal Service
Senses Fail
Story of the Year
Swishahouse (hip-hop)
Taking Back Sunday
The Academy Is
The Starting Line
The Used
Thrice
Thursday
Yellowcard

I have to support my friends metal band from Salem. It's "Beneath the Flesh." I can't remember much of their stuff cause I was drunk and dizzy from all the headbanging. It must have been good if my neck was sore for a couple of days.

Cool. You've just made my awesome list. Are you more of a fan of the early pop stuff, or the later more lyrical stuff?