n0bben

In the heat of the moment i forgot to mention one of the best discoveries i ever made. Finnish rock band Poets Of The Fall, their song Late Goodbye was featured in the end titles of Max Payne 2. I loved it so i checked their frist album "Signs Of Life" and it completely blew my mind, i loved every single track. This year they released their follow-up "Carnival Of Rust", yet another great album, not really quite as good as the first imo, but it has many highlights and they are at the same level as all the fantastic tunes from the first album.

If you haven't heard em, this is probably exactly what you're looking for. Melodic, emotional, "poppy" if you wish, rock. Just a lot beautiful music, no bullshit.

I guess the suomi dudes on here are familiar with them, it seems like they're huge in Finland but here in Sweden no one has ever heard of them.

Poets Of The Fall - Signs Of Life
Poets Of The Fall - Carnival Of Rust

quote:

Originally posted by n0bben I always found it hard to find quality rock bands, but those i like i really, REALLY like. Basically i want to expand my horizons a little, and i might as well turn to you people for some guidance. My favorite bands, as of now: Bloc Party The Verve Foo Fighters Smashing Pumpkins Radiohead Oasis Coldplay A Perfect Circle Refused U2 (Snow Patrol is also good, but i so wish they would have another singer that didnt sound like someone taken from a american high school movie or something..) Anyone care to help me out here?

To get back to the original question, we have fairly similar tastes it seems. I'd highly recommend looking at some of the following bands:

The Stone Roses
Keane
The Cranberries
Death Cab for Cutie
New Order
The Cure
The Counting Crows
Guster
Collective Soul

I think with your tastes listed, these bands would match fairly well.

___________________

i'de also recommend
The Prize Fighter Inferno - My Brother's Blood Machine

it's Claudio Sanchez's solo project. It's a blend of acoustic and synth pop electronica beats. Concept album, tells the story of a troubled family and two brothers who have a machine that take the souls of those who do wrong.

This has been done many times, but I always like to see what other ppl listen to. Lately as far as Rock:

Porcupine Tree
Blackfield
Buckcherry (I'm listening to their 1st CD again)
Led Zeppelin

quote:

Originally posted by n0bben I always found it hard to find quality rock bands, but those i like i really, REALLY like. Basically i want to expand my horizons a little, and i might as well turn to you people for some guidance. Anyone care to help me out here?

Good band doing the rounds right now is Wolfmother, reminds me a lot of early Black Sabbath and Led Zep, both of which wrote some of the best music in the 70's.
I still listen to a bit of Nirvana, Stone Roses and U2 once in awhile.
From the 80's... bit hard to recommend one I'd favour out of the lot so I'll start typing and you can go looking for them.
Depeche Mode, Police, Concrete Blonde, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Duran Duran, Eurythmics, The Cure, Sisters of Mercy, Crowded House, Noiseworks, New Order and Fields of the Nephilim.
I guess I could also throw Ministry into the mix there too, one of my favorite bands ever
And anything by Jello Baifra and Henry Rollins in their many guises, but thats maybe a bit more punk/hardcore than rock.

I mostly listen to Industrial, Darkwave and EBM these days mixed in with a bit of D&B and Trance once in awhile.

quote:

Originally posted by Lilith Fields of the Nephilim

Carl McCoy yea?Amazing dark atmospheric rock indeed! "Elizium" is one of the best rock albums ever made. So,transcedental and deep.



Anyway i understand that you wanted some more mainstream rock bands. I find these ones very related to the ones you mentioned but maybe you allready know them:

Arcade Fire- "Rebellion"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdOM...related&search=

Doves- "Black & White Town"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRir5AyF6dQ

Interpol- "NYC"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeSw8VoEltY

British Sea Power- "Carrion"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZty...related&search=

Lali Puna- "Micronomic"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrrzf_DYP1Q

Last edited by PETRAN on Dec-03-2006 at 04:34

Saybia !

quote:

Originally posted by PETRAN Carl McCoy yea?Amazing dark atmospheric rock indeed! "Elizium" is one of the best rock albums ever made. So,transcedental and deep.

The #2 album The Nephilim is worth owning alone as well just because theres not a bad song on the whole lot, especially "Last exit for the lost"
Carl has one of the sexiest voices in rock <3

quote:

Originally posted by n0bben I always found it hard to find quality rock bands, but those i like i really, REALLY like. Basically i want to expand my horizons a little, and i might as well turn to you people for some guidance. My favorite bands, as of now: Bloc Party The Verve Foo Fighters Smashing Pumpkins Radiohead Oasis Coldplay A Perfect Circle Refused U2 (Snow Patrol is also good, but i so wish they would have another singer that didnt sound like someone taken from a american high school movie or something..) Anyone care to help me out here?

Heh theres a lot of bands thrown around in this thread and the majority aren't anywhere near what you are looking for so ill try and name some that are relevant.

Vega4 - Very much like Snow Patrol
Fields - A new band that don't even have an album out yet but there are tracks out on the net, have a similar style to Bloc Party to a certain extent.
The Fray - They have been mentioned already but have a likeable piano rock sound and are worth a listen (I'm assuming that Sweden is similar to the UK in the fact these guys haven't had any radio airtime unlike America where they are pretty big).
Razorlight - Their lastest self titled album has been huge and im a big fan of it.
Hard-Fi - Maybe a bit more of a UK Indie sound than the bands you named but a good band nethertheless.
Liam Frost - Upcoming artist who has a lot of buzz surrounding him. Very listenable
The Kooks - Absolutely massive album. Fantastic band

Ok Theres a few to check out. Ill give another list now which arent exactly what you asked for but if you like the ones i suggested you may like these too :

Little Man Tate
Milburn
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly.
Larrakin Love
Guillemots
Editors
Yellowcard
Damien Rice
Straylight Run

___________________
EDM Blog
Hybrid - Break My Soul + Mixes
BT - These Hopeful Machines
Gorillaz - Stylo

nickelback
fuel
trapt

___________________

quote:

I doubt people are dancing in their cars listening to trance, or walking around with an MP3 player. It's just fun to listen to it.

quote:

Originally posted by SMC Finnish rock band Poets Of The Fall If you haven't heard em, this is probably exactly what you're looking for. Melodic, emotional, "poppy" if you wish, rock. Just a lot beautiful music, no bullshit.

Thanks for your effort, but i don't know. Tried some of their tracks and they sounded a bit like Nickelback. Perhaps i forgot to mention that i absolutely despise anything that sounds like them.

I suppose it's a bit hard to make recommendations seeing as the bands i listed are pretty different (indie, britpop, hardcore etc). I think i might like some of the bands DRM mentioned though!

what about Third Eye Blind? check out god of wine, graduate, motorcycle drive by, wake for young souls,