sunny day real estate, braid, christie front drive, deseparacidos, kids near water, mineral, spy versus spy, gene, urotsikudoji, suction, waterpistol, every band on Deep Elm (except camber and seven storey), silver sun, aereogramme, oceansize, far, hopesfall, jawbreaker, eels, refused, reuben’s accomplice, texas is the reason, symposium, lemonheads, reno kid. they just came to me as i typed, but there are around, say, 450 other bands that i think make truly good music.
man, I sure do love Moon and Antarctica. It has always been my favorite Modest Mouse cd, and now that they’re publicly played, they kind of lost their edge.
Surprise! Surprise! Classical, like that too - but for work I like the faster stuff. I have an autographed Paul Oakenfold poster on my wall and I could listen to Daft Punk’s “One More Time” for about 4 hours straight.
One time I bought a CD by this band, just because I liked the cover art so much. The CD was “Diary.” I had never heard of them, and had no idea whether they had a following.
My personnal favourite is “Soda Stereo”, from Argentina. They broke up about 15 years ago, but their last album “El ultimo concierto” is rock at its best.
Also from Argentina, with a strong ska flavour, are the “Fabulosos cadillacs”.
Good is Mexico’s “Mana”, especially their album “Suenos liquidos” (the n being an “egne”). Shakira PRIOR to her conversion to English is also fun.
Although not rock but “vallenato”, excellent, is Carlos Vives, my favourite album being “Tierra del olvido”.
ah I feared whiteoctave might like all those underground punk things. All the choirboys try to rebel the mass hymns with the heaviest stuff but not as far as rap because it’s so nasty. Conversely I have not once in my life bought a cd by a white person.
That’s a bit racist