Music recommendations please!
 

Hi, I am a rabid Foo Fighter fan, and also like Nirvana. I've been trying to get into other music, but it's very difficult as most other stuff sucks. Some bands I've tried recently, and hated, include:

-The Pixies
-Sonic Youth
-Pearl Jam
-Radiohead
-Led Zeppelin
-KISS
-Alice In Chains
-Soundgarden
-Stone Temple Pilots
-Dinosaur Jr.
-Mudhoney
-Fu Manchu
-Metallica

There's bound to be others that I'm forgetting, but this should give you some idea. Basically I'm dying for some hot new music to listen to, but the more and more I try, the more I get discouraged and start to think "Is there ANYTHING out there that I'll like?"

Basically if any of you good people could give me some suggestions of new music to try I'd greatly appreciate it. It can be "grungy" or not, but please keep in mind what I like (which is obviously very limited!) and what I do not (based on the above list).

Thanks for any help!


P.S. What does my man Dave Grohl see in Lemmy Kilmister?!? Man that Lemmy has an AWFUL voice! Damn!!!

I'm glad that you hated a lot of those bands *coughledzeppelincough* and am a little dissapointed you hated some others. :[

Anyway:

www.myspace.com/circletakesthesquare
www.purevolume.com/snakesstrikefirst
www.myspace.com/hotcross
Immortal Tecnique
www.myspace.com/thefalloftroy
www.myspace.com/kenotia

If that isn't your style try:

Cat Power
Neutral Milk Hotel
Belle and Sebastian
Bright Eyes
Animal Collective
The Smiths
The Go Team
Sigur Ros
Explosions in the Sky
The Arcade Fire
Bob Dylan
The Blood Brothers
Broken Social Scene
The Decemberists
Deerhoof
Devandra Banhart

All great musicians.

im not a very good recommendator but listen to these two bands

quietdrive
asking abby.

hope you like them

What kind of monster are you?

how about sublime?

You like the Foo's and Nirvana but hated PJ, AIC and Soundgarden?

Strange.

Give the Meat Puppets and Screaming Trees a go for starters. Tried Guns n Roses, other then their hits? What about ACDC? Though hating Lemmy's voice will probably be an indication of whether you'd like these guys or not.

Most people who like the Foo Fighters love Mr. Bungle and Fantomas;)

:love: :love:

& Bungalow pretty much listed every thing I was going to list soo..I second his list.

Check Out The Mars Volta :)

the residents
primus

remember weird is good

Death from above
Evans Blue

Foo Fanatic, how bout you tell us what you disliked about those bands you listed, so we can better understand your taste and have some basis for recommendation.

Or to answer the bigger question, what the hell does anyone see in Dave Grohl?

Try Alice in Chains again and again and again until you like it.

If you like Nirvana, you have to like Alice in Chains :p:.

Thanks for the replies
 

Thanks for all the replies guys, I guess I have some listening to do. As for the guy who doesn't like Dave Grohl I do not see how this is possible: Grohl is awesomely talented, a nice guy, and has a great sense of humor. . . what's not to like?

You hated Fu Manchu, you are dead to me

Mediocre efforts.

Awesome talent, but hasn't used it in a while. Not really since his drumming for Probot, though I don't really follow all his work. Grohl is the kind of guy who you respect for being multi talented but don't like because he bites off more then he can chew. I would much rather see him do high quality drumming for most of his career and maybe a bit of on the side guitaring, compared to being good at a few things but spectacular at nothing.

I also thought In Your Honor was poor and overated to the extreme.

How can you dislike the Pixies? Give them another try, my god. Get the album Surfer Rosa.

Same applies to Radiohead and Sonic Youth, they just take a bit of listening to

mindless self indulgence

burzum
mayhem'
sameal
gorgoroth
emperor
anaal Natrakh
immortal
dimmu borgir

and for fake black metal with midgeets cradle of filth >.<

The Killers
The Stroke
311
Less Than Jake
Beck
Dropkick Murphys

There are some people who will never be able to apreciate those bands. Some will listen for a couple seconds and then tune-out, turned off by the "experimentalism" and the stigma that goes with it. Others will listen carefully and simply not like what they hear. A lot of people's ears are tuned to and conditioned for pop and other mainstream sounds, and anything else sounds too off-kilter. This is not an insult to those people, simply what seems to be a fact. Being a Nirvana fan and not liking Pixies doesn't compute though. They are one the biggest influences on Cobain and the guys and you can really hear it in the way they blend pop-structure and tunefullness with the abrasive agression of thrash and punk. Listen to "Debaser" and tell me you can't hear nirvana in there. Feel free to dislike them, but keep in mind they have greatly affected you never the less.

Is this kid going to get back to us on whether or not he likes the music?

Anybody listen to Depeche mode?

I've been sick, hence the delay.
 

I was sick yesterday which is why i haven't been listening to any music, however I did try Alice in Chains again and still REALLY hate them (That guy's voice is disgusting!). I'll try some more suggestions tommorrow (it takes a while to download as well [it's legal in Canada, btw!]), and we'll see how that goes.

On a side note I'm planning on taking guitar lessons (for the 3rd time!), and even though not much music inspires me it should be something to do with my spare time, and plus it can't hurt my chances with the ladies right?!

Keep the suggestions rolling and, imo, I heard Nirvana in Mudhoney a lot more than I did in the Pixies (most/all Pixies' songs were off Surfer Rosa).

Thanks guys.

Not on purpose

check out "Shaped Like a Gun".

also try 'Melvins', since members of Nirvana played in bands with melvins members (e.g. Fecal Matter)

Disgusting !!!??!!! Layne Staley was one of the greatest singers of the 90s. So much grungey emotion and power in his voice.

Oh well. Each to his own :). But IMO if you want a singer that sounds like Kurt Cobain, listen to Stone Temple Pilots. Plenty of Nirvana fans mistake the STP song Creep, for a Nirvana song because Scott Weiland sounds quite like Cobain in it... but more versatile.

You might want to listen to Dirt or the Greatest Hits if you want more grungey music (but unfortunately the Greatest Hits doesn't have Down in a Hole on it). Or if you want more variation, try the Jar of Flies EP.

I suppose you might want to listen to songs like "Heaven With You" and the whole Jar of Flies EP if you dislike his vocals.

In fact, maybe you should just listen to the Jar of Flies EP for getting into Alice in Chains. It's brilliant. ;)

Broaden your horizons, listen to L7.

The Melvins make God look overated.

Love Melvins.

:( Motorhead >>> Foo Fighters

I wish liking particular music actually had something to do with the effort you put into it, but, alas, it seems to me that you just "like what you like" no matter what you do, and that's the end of it. Sad really.

I do.

Sometimes some bands just require a lot more listening to like. And sometimes you find out that you're listening to the wrong music by the band.

I never thought much of Nirvana until I heard more songs like Aero Zeppelin, Heart Shaped Box and Lake of Fire (despite it being a Meat Puppets cover). Now I like Nirvana - don't get me wrong, I prefer most other grunge bands like Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots and possibly Pearl Jam (need to listen to more of that). But nevertheless I now like Nirvana.

Woah ^

Here I was thinking I was the only one who liked Nirvana the least out of the major Grunge bands (excpet STP), though still liking them.