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Just go look up some Metal Church or Black Flag. Just branch out, find what you love, and go with it. Oh and by the way, look up some Overkill while your at it.


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Just go look up some Metal Church or Black Flag. Just branch out, find what you love, and go with it. Oh and by the way, look up some Overkill while your at it.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_music

Very brief but actually pretty good. Welcome to the underground.

Check the broadcast section. They aren't gonna tell you what station. But any college station is going to be playing real music. You have to find it yourself. DIY. Do it yourself.

Try MaximumRocknRoll Radio. Turn it up loud

Listen to TIM MINCHIN!!
dont be offended too much tho

Wow, well I migth not be in with the "inn" crowd when it comes to musical choices, but here are some bands I find worth lisening to.
- BattleLore
- Amon Amarth
- Sabaton
- Enslaved
- Wolves Like Us

Radiation wrote:http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_music

Very brief but actually pretty good. Welcome to the underground.

Check the broadcast section. They aren't gonna tell you what station. But any college station is going to be playing real music. You have to find it yourself. DIY. Do it yourself.

Try MaximumRocknRoll Radio. Turn it up loud

Good to see MRR is still alive and kicking, I still have stacks of their publication from back in the Tim Yohanah days .
I'll have to look back in on their goings on...

Trondheim wrote:Wow, well I migth not be in with the "inn" crowd

What does tavern music have to do with this?

There is plenty of good rap music at the moment, personally i am not a fan but Tyler the Creator / Odd future Wolfgang are pretty brave/unique musically and lyrically.

Plus don't be bashing Eminem, his first album is great, the lyrics are actually hilarious in a totally puerile and reprehensible way.

Oh and you haven't heard garbage music 'till you've worked in a supermarket. Their playlists are compiled by Satan himself. Suffice it to say th songs are so bad Enrique Englesias' 'escape' is IMO the pick of the bunch

Perkustin wrote:There is plenty of good rap music at the moment, personally i am not a fan but Tyler the Creator / Odd future Wolfgang are pretty brave/unique musically and lyrically.

Plus don't be bashing Eminem, his first album is great, the lyrics are actually hilarious in a totally puerile and reprehensible way.

Oh and you haven't heard garbage music 'till you've worked in a supermarket. Their playlists are compiled by Satan himself. Suffice it to say th songs are so bad Enrique Englesias' 'escape' is IMO the pick of the bunch

I actually like the first few Eminem albums, made me chuckle quite a bit, but as far as most Rap/Hip Hop...haven't heard much that I like since the mid 90's...it all just seems a bit "cookie cutter" now.

Modern music can be awesome, just not the crap you get on the radio/tv.







And if you want proper good music(listen to the full song btw, quite a lot of changes in there ):

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:

GalacticDefender wrote:Lady Gaga said Iron Maiden was her favorite band. Weird, huh?

Not really.



Quote Gene Simmons: "She's not Lady Gaga, she's really Lady Kiss. I love the vibe, the big mouth and the big visuals. She's the most exciting thing to happen since us."

Quote Slash: "The person people would probably be surprised to find that I like is Lady Gaga."

And there's lots more

Wow is Gene Simmons really that full of gak? There are tons more bands who are more exciting than KISS.

Cheesecat wrote:

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:

GalacticDefender wrote:Lady Gaga said Iron Maiden was her favorite band. Weird, huh?

Not really.



Quote Gene Simmons: "She's not Lady Gaga, she's really Lady Kiss. I love the vibe, the big mouth and the big visuals. She's the most exciting thing to happen since us."

Quote Slash: "The person people would probably be surprised to find that I like is Lady Gaga."

And there's lots more

Wow is Gene Simmons really that full of gak? There are tons more bands who are more exciting than KISS.

Gene Simmons IS that full of gak...but you have to look at things from his perspective .
During the 70's..a lot of "Mainstream music" was ( arguably) very dull...particularly live concerts.( Hence the punk backlash)...
KISS...in it's early years introduced an element of showmanship and theatrics into musical performance that was seldom seen prior to them.

FITZZ wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:

GalacticDefender wrote:Lady Gaga said Iron Maiden was her favorite band. Weird, huh?

Not really.



Quote Gene Simmons: "She's not Lady Gaga, she's really Lady Kiss. I love the vibe, the big mouth and the big visuals. She's the most exciting thing to happen since us."

Quote Slash: "The person people would probably be surprised to find that I like is Lady Gaga."

And there's lots more

Wow is Gene Simmons really that full of gak? There are tons more bands who are more exciting than KISS.

Gene Simmons IS that full of gak...but you have to look at things from his perspective .
During the 70's..a lot of "Mainstream music" was ( arguably) very dull...particularly live concerts.( Hence the punk backlash)...
KISS...in it's early years introduced an element of showmanship and theatrics into musical performance that was seldom seen prior to them.

70's mainstream music is dull? I wouldn't call Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, etc boring to listen to.

No, neither would I...but what I'm talking about is performance...the actual concerts..
A lot of the bands were a bit " dull" watching them live..that's what I'm getting at.
KISS ...in the context in which Simmons is refering, put on a " Show".


If you saw Sabbath live...you saw this...




If you went to see KISS...you got this..

FITZZ wrote: No, neither would I...but what I'm talking about is performance...the actual concerts..
A lot of the bands were a bit " dull" watching them live..that's what I'm getting at.
KISS ...in the context in which Simmons is refering, put on a " Show".

Yeah, I can agree with that most of the time it's just watching musicians playing awesome songs in front of a screaming crowd who can barely hear anything. You might get a few guys jumping about making weird

hand gestures/body movements but that's about it.

If you want a show, go to rammstein live :3

Soladrin wrote:If you want a show, go to rammstein live :3

I'm not a fan of Rammstein unfortunately.

Cheesecat wrote:

FITZZ wrote: No, neither would I...but what I'm talking about is performance...the actual concerts..
A lot of the bands were a bit " dull" watching them live..that's what I'm getting at.
KISS ...in the context in which Simmons is refering, put on a " Show".

Yeah, I can agree with that most of the time it's just watching musicians playing awesome songs in front of a screaming crowd. You might get a few guys jumping about making weird hand gestures/body

movements but that's about it.

Exactly, there where plenty of bands with more musical talent then KISS...but Performance wise...KISS blew them away...
That's one of the reasons that in the 80's you had so many bands copying KISS' theatrics...KISS filled stadiums and made millions ...these other bands wanted to do the same.

Cheesecat wrote:

Soladrin wrote:If you want a show, go to rammstein live :3

I'm not a fan of Rammstein unfortunately.

Soladrin wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:

Soladrin wrote:If you want a show, go to rammstein live :3

I'm not a fan of Rammstein unfortunately.

Spoiler:

There's lots of fire.. and he lights himself on fire.

I guess I wouldn't mind going to a band I dislike, if they light themselves on fire. Also why the spoiler text?

No offence Soldarin but that first song you link + the video looks and sounds like a Tim and Eric's Awesome Show parody of modern music. Which isnt necessarily a good thing.

Cheesecat wrote:

FITZZ wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:

GalacticDefender wrote:Lady Gaga said Iron Maiden was her favorite band. Weird, huh?

Not really.



Quote Gene Simmons: "She's not Lady Gaga, she's really Lady Kiss. I love the vibe, the big mouth and the big visuals. She's the most exciting thing to happen since us."

Quote Slash: "The person people would probably be surprised to find that I like is Lady Gaga."

And there's lots more

Wow is Gene Simmons really that full of gak? There are tons more bands who are more exciting than KISS.

Gene Simmons IS that full of gak...but you have to look at things from his perspective .
During the 70's..a lot of "Mainstream music" was ( arguably) very dull...particularly live concerts.( Hence the punk backlash)...
KISS...in it's early years introduced an element of showmanship and theatrics into musical performance that was seldom seen prior to them.

70's mainstream music is dull? I wouldn't call Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, etc boring to listen to.

They weren't really mainstream though, all of those bands got extensive Airplay on FM when AM still ruled the radio. Now they're mainstream because the mainstream music of the 70's (pop & disco) cannot hold up at all in today's world compared to those bands you listed. Black Sabbath was the red headed step child of Hard Rock, Rolling stone called their first 3 albums "trash" effectively and it was because they didn't play the game with the media, and suffered because of it. Look at Rush, they weren't mainstream until very recently and still aren't for the most part. Any "mainstream" Pink Floyd fan can name a handful of songs, a true dedicated fan can rattle off Syd Barret era music like a champ. Jethro Tull was a side act at best for a lot of people, even though they freaking rule. Deep Purple was one of the best bands of the era (along with Rainbow). BOC was the gak. KISS was cheesy but they could still make pretty decent music.

Here's one of my favorite Black Sabbath Tracks, completely and almost lost to history...almost:

South Park actually addressed this issue in the newest episode:
You're getting old.

It's pretty hilarious.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s15e07-youre-getting-old

Much of 70's mainstream was pap and to make matters worse novelty songs would top the charts.

Some of the crap made the Osmonds look cool!

Karon wrote:Hip-Hop or Rap (they are the same damn thing) has fallen off recently, the vast majority is just gak.

The old artists are still making good records for the most part (Wu-Tang, Ice Cube, Bone Thugs, soon DMX)

All the so called "Hip-Hop" in today's thinking, is all trash.

That's so wrong, hip-hop, true hip-hop is an infusion between instrumentals and beats. Hip-hop is more about the background music and poetry, which may or may not discuss issues within the black community/politics/society/hardship. so, that being said, I'm guessing you've never heard of nujabes, jurrasic 5, immortal technique, or ski beatz then?

Nujabes, with cise starr doing vocals




Here's a list of good hip-hop artists:
Nujabes
Jurassic 5
Ski beatz
DJ ezasscul
Taku
Immortal technique
14
Godsense
Hai le
Common market
Foreign exchange
Gold panda

Stormrider wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:

FITZZ wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:

GalacticDefender wrote:Lady Gaga said Iron Maiden was her favorite band. Weird, huh?

Not really.



Quote Gene Simmons: "She's not Lady Gaga, she's really Lady Kiss. I love the vibe, the big mouth and the big visuals. She's the most exciting thing to happen since us."

Quote Slash: "The person people would probably be surprised to find that I like is Lady Gaga."

And there's lots more

Wow is Gene Simmons really that full of gak? There are tons more bands who are more exciting than KISS.

Gene Simmons IS that full of gak...but you have to look at things from his perspective .
During the 70's..a lot of "Mainstream music" was ( arguably) very dull...particularly live concerts.( Hence the punk backlash)...
KISS...in it's early years introduced an element of showmanship and theatrics into musical performance that was seldom seen prior to them.

70's mainstream music is dull? I wouldn't call Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, etc boring to listen to.

They weren't really mainstream though, all of those bands got extensive Airplay on FM when AM still ruled the radio. Now they're mainstream because the mainstream music of the 70's (pop & disco) cannot hold up at all in today's world compared to those bands you listed. Black Sabbath was the red headed step child of Hard Rock, Rolling stone called their first 3 albums "trash" effectively and it was because they didn't play the game with the media, and suffered because of it. Look at Rush, they weren't mainstream until very recently and still aren't for the most part. Any "mainstream" Pink Floyd fan can name a handful of songs, a true dedicated fan can rattle off Syd Barret era music like a champ. Jethro Tull was a side act at best for a lot of people, even though they freaking rule. Deep Purple was one of the best bands of the era (along with Rainbow). BOC was the gak. KISS was cheesy but they could still make pretty decent music.

Here's one of my favorite Black Sabbath Tracks, completely and almost lost to history...almost:

I'm pretty sure most of those bands (except Rush) were pretty popular back in the 70's at least with the general public. Also mainstream has nothing to do with being critically acclaimed or fans only knowing a

handful of songs it's a word that can be used to describe a dominant, well known group (it has several definitions) which I think bands like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, etc would have been in the 70's.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mainstream

Cheesecat wrote:
I'm pretty sure most of those bands (except Rush) were pretty popular back in the 70's at least with the general public. Also mainstream has nothing to do with being critically acclaimed or fans only knowing a

handful of songs it's a word that can be used to describe a dominant, well known group (it has several definitions) which I think bands like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, etc would have been in the 70's.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mainstream

Thick as a Brick, by Jethro Tull got to number 1 one the record charts. Close to the Edge, by Yes, got to 3. Rush has more consecutive Gold/Platinum than anyone other than the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

I think it's safe to say, they were pretty big. Just because they got beat out by disposable Pop songs on the radio back then, doesn't mean they weren't popular.

Mike Noble wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:
I'm pretty sure most of those bands (except Rush) were pretty popular back in the 70's at least with the general public. Also mainstream has nothing to do with being critically acclaimed or fans only knowing a

handful of songs it's a word that can be used to describe a dominant, well known group (it has several definitions) which I think bands like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, etc would have been in the 70's.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mainstream

Thick as a Brick, by Jethro Tull got to number 1 one the record charts. Close to the Edge, by Yes, got to 3. Rush has more consecutive Gold/Platinum than anyone other than the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

I think it's safe to say, they were pretty big. Just because they got beat out by disposable Pop songs on the radio back then, doesn't mean they weren't popular.

Well being Canadian, I didn't know if they were popular outside their home country. Thanks for the clarification.

As far as genres go, I'll listen to anything. (I do have my preferences though in Rock, Metal, and Industrial)

however, I really rarely ever listen to music pre 2000's

I have a whole theory on this... *ahem*

before the public had access to the internet, the only way to get music from an artist was to buy an album, whether it was a vinyl, cassette, or a CD. And thus the only way for artist and bands to sell was to produce a good album. You heard a single on the radio, (or saw a music video on MTV) and you liked the single. Guess what? now you went out and bought the album for that single, and from there, you now have the full album. If you didn't enjoy the album, obviously you wouldn't go out and buy another album from the same artist. If you did like the album, then you may very well consider buying the next album that artist puts out.

Now comes in the internet. Artists and bands still get their music playing on the radio and the tv. what has changed is how people get that music. (Keep in mind that I'm going to be talking about legitimate forms of downloading music such as rhapsody and itunes) No longer does anyone have to buy a full album, if you hear a song on the radio, or watch the music video on MTV, now you can just download that one song you heard and enjoyed.
here's where my theory kicks in, because people generally don't have to buy a whole album from an artist/band and can instead buy individual songs, I think that artists caught onto that and produce good singles, and not so much good albums anymore. I remember hearing a song from Paramore* and though it was cool. I borrowed the album from a friend of mine and in all honesty, I though most of the album was just sh%t. So there you go, that's my theory as best as I can explain it. Artists no longer have to produce good albums to sell, only good singles to sell. You obviously get more songs in an album than in one single, and that's about all I have to say

feel free to challenge what I said, agree with it, or comment


I probably lost some credibility for saying I listened to them...

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:

FITZZ wrote:
For the most part I stick with my tried and true old punk roots.

Sadly, from a technical standpoint most old punk had much less effort put into it than said bubble gum pop

I think that this is really untrue. There are a lot of early punk bands that were just like pop bands; writing songs to make them money. But the majority of early punk didn't sound like the Ramones or the Sex Pistols (like the Fall, Wire, Flipper, Pere Ubu, Wipers, Stooges, Gang of Four, Suicide, the list could go on and on).

The only good pop music came before the early 70's, before record companies turned it into a commodity to make money. For every terrible mainstream band there are two awesome underground ones (and probably 20 awful underground ones). The bad thing about music today is you really have to put time into finding the good stuff, you're not just going to hear it on the radio.

look up "Symphonic Metal". It will open up a new world of music.