Music Help Needed

[Dr. Paes]

World Inferno Friendship Society

Minuit - New Zealand electronic band
Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punk
Xavier Rudd - Multi-instrumentalist guy. Blues'n Roots/Alternative. Sings hippie songs and plays the didgeridoo.
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Swedish avant-garde metal band.
Circus Contraption - One-ring circus, vaudeville and dark cabaret troupe.

You know, I absolutely love how half those bands don't let lala play full songs, because I *totally* want to buy their music when I have no idea what it is.

[Triple Zero]

List Likely incomplete, and not necessarily reflective of what I like:

[Anything mentioned in this thread, ipso facto]

Alice in chains,  A perfect Circle,  Aphex twin,  nirvana,  ICP,  Eminem,  Kidrock , Aerosmith,  Journey,  Kansas,  America,  Boston,  Trans Siberian Orchestra,  Savatage,  Full Circle,  Kenny G,  Kenny Loggins,  Yonni,  Enya,  Weird Al Yanchovich, Al Green, Green Day, Green Jelly, Tenatious D, Spoon, Puscifer, Tool, St. Vincent, Them crooked vultures, Queens of the Stone Age, Morphine, InIsOut, Pink Floyd, Squirrel Nut Zippers,
26 MPH, Throat Culture, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Stevie Wonder, eddy murphy, white snake, better than ezra, less than jake, jimmie eats world, jimmy's chicken shack, dead kennedys, drop kick murphys, floggin molly, death, writhing youth, christian death, cake, NIN, manson, Mahavishnu Orchestra, :wumpscut:, blind melon, alanis moressette, sarah mclaughlin, RHCP, Jane's Addication, Cat Stevens, Yoseph Islam, Cream, Velvet Revolver, Audioslave, powerman 5000, electric light orchestra, supertramp, davinvi's notebook, natural 7, Bach, Sibileus, Rob Zombie, White Zombie, Cannibal Corpse, Cradle of Filth, Ministry, Train, Travis, Seven Nations, the cure, Deadsy, King Missle, Meatpuppets, tantric, Days of the New, stained, Pig Dick, Arterial Spray, metalica, offspring, linkin park, evanessence, ray charles, john coltrane, count bassie, miles davis, wynton marcelis, mars volta, at the drive in, black flag, henry rollins band, anti flag, minutemen, dead milk men, Dr. Rocket and the Moon Patrol, STP, Pearl Jam, Rush, Zwan, Smashing Pumpkins, Chris Issacs, David Bowie, Jonny Cash, Iggy pop, The Clash, The deftones, daft punk, orbital, grand master flash and the furious five, korn, limp bizkit, sneaker pimps, butthole surfers, filter, lit, everclear, sugar ray, 311, DVDA, mxpx, third eye blind, blink 182, matchbox 20, bare naked ladies, dave mathews, Santana, Eric Clapton, Muddy maters, George Thurogood (sp?), henry Tucker, Screamin Jay hawkins, Marvin Pontiac, Devil Makes Three....

Dude, you already said "main stream", no need to spell it out.

Anyway, my suggestion for you is, I recently came across this pretty awesome band from the early 90s. Some really catchy basslines and tunes, coupled with some of the most hard-hitting lyrics ever. I forget, it was "Backstreet Guys", or something. I'll look it up and post the exact name. I really think you'd dig it.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I said "haven't heard before" not "tragically mainstream".

How about if you post a complete list of everything you've heard before, and then those of us who don't have time to keep up with what's mainstream and what's not can post music that's not on your list?

List Likely incomplete, and not necessarily reflective of what I like:

[Anything mentioned in this thread, ipso facto]

Alice in chains,  A perfect Circle,  Aphex twin,  nirvana,  ICP,  Eminem,  Kidrock , Aerosmith,  Journey,  Kansas,  America,  Boston,  Trans Siberian Orchestra,  Savatage,  Full Circle,  Kenny G,  Kenny Loggins,  Yonni,  Enya,  Weird Al Yanchovich, Al Green, Green Day, Green Jelly, Tenatious D, Spoon, Puscifer, Tool, St. Vincent, Them crooked vultures, Queens of the Stone Age, Morphine, InIsOut, Pink Floyd, Squirrel Nut Zippers,
26 MPH, Throat Culture, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Stevie Wonder, eddy murphy, white snake, better than ezra, less than jake, jimmie eats world, jimmy's chicken shack, dead kennedys, drop kick murphys, floggin molly, death, writhing youth, christian death, cake, NIN, manson, Mahavishnu Orchestra, :wumpscut:, blind melon, alanis moressette, sarah mclaughlin, RHCP, Jane's Addication, Cat Stevens, Yoseph Islam, Cream, Velvet Revolver, Audioslave, powerman 5000, electric light orchestra, supertramp, davinvi's notebook, natural 7, Bach, Sibileus, Rob Zombie, White Zombie, Cannibal Corpse, Cradle of Filth, Ministry, Train, Travis, Seven Nations, the cure, Deadsy, King Missle, Meatpuppets, tantric, Days of the New, stained, Pig Dick, Arterial Spray, metalica, offspring, linkin park, evanessence, ray charles, john coltrane, count bassie, miles davis, wynton marcelis, mars volta, at the drive in, black flag, henry rollins band, anti flag, minutemen, dead milk men, Dr. Rocket and the Moon Patrol, STP, Pearl Jam, Rush, Zwan, Smashing Pumpkins, Chris Issacs, David Bowie, Jonny Cash, Iggy pop, The Clash, The deftones, daft punk, orbital, grand master flash and the furious five, korn, limp bizkit, sneaker pimps, butthole surfers, filter, lit, everclear, sugar ray, 311, DVDA, mxpx, third eye blind, blink 182, matchbox 20, bare naked ladies, dave mathews, Santana, Eric Clapton, Muddy maters, George Thurogood (sp?), henry Tucker, Screamin Jay hawkins, Marvin Pontiac, Devil Makes Three....


or, we could agree that if it's played on the radio, or you hear people talking about it in public places like starbucks, it's likely in the "mainstream" category. Contrary to what Kel may think, Sublime is mainstream. So, if you would like, I can change my OP to read "...likely haven't heard."

That list is a bit of a large block of characters for easy parsing, do you mind putting each band on its own line so I can more easily scan it and determine what you have already listened to? In return I will post the contents of my entire iTunes library for you to compare notes with.

Perhaps, for simplicity, you could post a list of bands you have heard and enjoyed, which would allow me to do some comparison and determine what I think you might be likely to enjoy.

I don't listen to the radio, I don't go to Starbucks, and I don't have time to sit listening to skinny-pants wankers talk about what's popular, so I have no idea how to determine what is or is not "Mainstream". If I have heard about it from a friend, it may well be "Mainstream", so it is possible that I have nothing to recommend to you. I did listen to the radio as recently as 1999, so some of the formerly mainstream music I enjoy may predate your knowledge of mainstream, and may actually have re-entered the realm of obscure.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Oh, here; actually, here is my entire music library; perhaps you will find something in it that is not mainstream and which you have never heard before:

A Tribe Called Quest
Adam Sandler
Agent Cain
Alanis Morissette
Alfred Scholz; London Philharmonic Orchestra
Alice Cooper
American Hi-Fi
Amy MacDonald
Antony & The Johnsons
Arcade Fire
Baby Music
Baird, Julianne & McFarlane, Ronn
Band Of Horses
Bangles
Barenaked Ladies
Beastie Boys
Beck
Belly
Ben Allison
Ben Folds
Ben Heppner,James Morris,Deborah Voigt
Benedictine Monks Of Santo Domingo De Silos
Bettie Serveert
Billie Holiday
Björk
Black Heart Procession
Blink-182
Blondie
Blue October
Boney M_
Bonnie Raitt
Born Heller
Born Ugly
Breezy
Brendan James
Cake
Carissa's Wierd
Carl Orff
Carla Bruni
Carmina Piranha
Cat Power
Caveman Shoestore
Cesare Cantieri; London Festival Orchestra
Charlie Haden_ Family And Friends
Chris Isaak
Chris Pez
Cinderella
Coldplay
Compilations
Concrete Blonde
Connie Francis
Conny Froboess
Cramulus
Creative Disorder
creativity_in_a_wasteland_1.mp3
Curve
Cyndi Lauper
Damien Rice
Dan Deacon
David Bowie
David Byrne and Brian Eno
Death Cab For Cutie
Deb Talan
Depeche Mode
Devendra Banhart
Dido
Douglas Spotted Eagle
Downloads
Dr. Richard Feynmann
Duran Duran
E S P or b u s t
Earfatigue Productions
Eastern Eagle Singers Of Canad
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Christa Ludwig, Etc.; Karl Böhm_ Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus
Elliott Smith
els960w3.mp3
Elton John
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Elvis Costello With Burt Bacharach
Elvis Costello; Brodsky Quartet
Emily Van Evera, Germaine Fritz, Richard Souther
Eminem
Emma Roberts
Erasure
Eric Clapton Salute
Eurythmics
Eve 6
Eve's Plum
Everclear
Faryl
Fashion Nugget
Fine Young Cannibals
Fiona Apple
Five For Fighting
Fleetwood Mac
Frank Black
Frida Hyvönen
Frost Heaves
Fuel
Garbage
George Michael
Gerund
Giant Ant Farm
Gideon Kramer & The LSO
Giuseppe Sinopoli_ New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Giuseppe Verdi
Godsmack
Grand Fatal
Grandaddy
Green River Ordinance
h-legend.rar
Halloween Sound Effects
Harper
Harvey Danger
Heather Nova
House Of Heroes
Hypatia Lake
Ian Bostridge
Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake
Incubus
Ini Kamoze
Interpol
Iron & Wine
Iron & Wine With Calexico
Ja Rule
Jane's Addiction
Janet Baker; John Barbirolli_ Hallé Orchestra
Janis Joplin
János Kovács_ Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra
Jarboe
Jem
Jenni Frost
Jerry Blue
Jewel
Jill Sobule
Joanna Newsom
Joe Sibol
John Mulaney
Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit
Jolie Holland
Jolly Mon
Joni Mitchell
Josephine Foster
Josephine Foster & The Supposed
Joy Division
Judas Priest
Judy Collins
k.d. lang
Kate Walsh
Katy Perry
Killing Joke
Kimya Dawson
Komar & Melamid and Dave Soldier
Kristin Hersh
KRS-One
KT Tunstall
Lady Sovereign
Leona Naess
Leonard Bernstein_ New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Cohen
Linkin Park
Lipps, Inc_
Liz Phair
Loudon Wainwright III
Lynn Conover
Macy Gray
Madagascar
Madonna
Manchester Orchestra
Marcia Ball
Marcy Playground
Margot & the Nuclear So and So's
Marilyn Manson
Marin Alsop
Marjana Lipovsek
Mary Youngblood
Matchbox Twenty
Mazzy Star
MGMT
Mix Compilation
Moby
Modest Mouse
Mojo Nixon
Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg, Jürgen Jürgens
Morrissey
Most Unwanted Music.asf
Mott the Hoople
Muse
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood
Neil Young
Nelly Furtado
Nephlim Modulation Systems
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Nickelback
Nico
Nirvana
No Curses Here
No Doubt
Noah and the Whale
Noe Venable
Noe Venable Boots
Nola
Norah Jones
Oliver Knussen; London Sinfonietta
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
Paolo Conte
Patsy Cline
Patti Smith
Paul McCreesh; Gabrieli Consort & Players
Pearl Jam
Peter Murphy
Pimsleur
Pink
Pink Feat. Peaches
Pixies
Pizzicato Five
PJ Harvey
Poe
Portishead
Portland Symphonic Girlchoir
Prince
Psychic Emperor
Puddle Of Mudd
Queens Of The Stone Age
R.E.M_
r9np5izw.mp3
Radiohead
recorded and narrated by Charles M. Bogert
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Regina Spektor
Remy Zero
Ren & Stimpy
Repeat_The_Question_Repeated.mp3
Rhapsody
Ribbons
Richard Cheese
Richard Marx
Richard P. Feynman
Robert Shaw_ Robert Shaw Festival Singers
Rodrigo Y Gabriela
Rogue Wave
Romulus & Remus
rosemary record.mp3
Sarah Brightman, Placido Domingo, Etc., Lorin Maazel; English Chamber Orchestra, Winchester Cathedral Choir
Sarah McLachlan
Sergei Prokofiev
Şevval Sam
Shakira
Shelley Short
Sheryl Crow
Sibylle Baier
Sinéad O'Connor
Six Organs Of Admittance
Sixpence None The Richer
Smile Empty Soul
Snow Patrol
Sofia Loell
Sonya Kitchell
Soul Coughing
Spokane
Squashing Kiwis
Staind
Staples, Inc_
Stars Of Track And Field
Stevie Wonder
Sufjan Stevens
Sugar Ray
Superdrag
System Of A Down
Talking Heads
Taraf De Haïdouks
Ted Nugent
The Amps
The B-52's
The Breeders
The Cake Sale
The Calling
The Costello Show Feat. The Attractions & Confederates
The Cranberries
The Cure
The Decemberists
The Dresden Dolls
The Eye in the Pyramid
The Flaming Lips
The Fugees
The Magnetic Fields
The Murmurs
The Offspring
The Pogues
The Postal Service
The Raveonettes
The Sea And Cake
The Shins
The Smiths
The Strokes
The Sundays
The Toadies
The Weepies
The White Stripes
The World is Bound by Secret Knots
Third Eye Blind
Throwing Muses
TISM
Tom Waits
Tori Amos
Tracy Chapman
Trevor Pinnock_ English Concert
U2
Uncle Kracker
Unknown Artist
Various
Various Artists
Velocity Girl
Vertical Horizon
Vienna State Opera Orchestra
Violent Femmes
Voice Memos
Weezer
Wiener Philharmoniker • Sir Georg Solti
Will Hoge
Wyclef Jean
Wyclef Jean Feat. The Refugee Allstars
XTC
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yo La Tengo
younger_brother_-_the_last_days_of_gravity-2007-ncr.rar
Yuri Temirkanov; New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Ziggy Marley
Zoe

[Freeky]

Apop, Floyd, and Skinny Puppy 

If you like the music along the lines of Apoptygma Berzerk you should check out VNV Nation. Their best album is "Judgement"

They don't give a damn about any trumpet-playing band...

It ain't what they call rock and roll.

[-Kel-]

here's some songs for you! hahahahahahahaha!!!!!

"Baby Girl" by Sugarland (2004)
"Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On" by Mel McDaniel
"Back Home Again" by John Denver
"Back In Baby's Arms" by Patsy Cline
"Back In The Saddle Again" by Gene Autry (1939)
"A Bad Goodbye" by Clint Black / Wynonna (1993)
"Ballad Of Forty Dollars" by Tom T. Hall
"The Ballad of Ira Hayes" by Johnny Cash
"The Ballad of Jed Clampett" by Flatt & Scruggs (1962)
"The Bargain Store" by Dolly Parton (1975)
"Barroom Buddies" by Merle Haggard / Clint Eastwood
"Battle of New Orleans" by Johnny Horton (1959)
"The Beaches of Cheyenne" by Garth Brooks (1995)
"Beautiful You" by The Oak Ridge Boys
"Because Of You" by Reba McEntire / Kelly Clarkson (2007)
"Beer For My Horses" by Toby Keith / Willie Nelson (2003)
"Before the Next Teardrop Falls" by Freddy Fender (1975)
"Behind Closed Doors" by Charlie Rich(1973)
"Be My Baby Tonight" by John Michael Montgomery (1994)
"A Better Man" by Clint Black (1989)
"Big Bad John" by Jimmy Dean (1961)
"Big Iron" by Marty Robbins (1959)
"Big River" by Johnny Cash
"Blame It On Your Heart" by Patty Loveless (1993)
"Blanket on the Ground" by Billie Jo Spears (1975)
"Blessed" by Martina McBride (2001)
"Blood Red And Going Down" by Tanya Tucker
"Blue" by LeAnn Rimes (1996)
"Blue Christmas" by Elvis Presley (1957)
"Blue Christmas" by Ernest Tubb (1948)
"Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain" by Willie Nelson (1975)
"Bluest Eyes In Texas" by Restless Heart
"Blue Suede Shoes" by Carl Perkins (1955)
"Blue Moon Of Kentucky" by Bill Monroe (1947)
"Blue Yodel (T For Texas)" by Jimmie Rodgers (1928)
"Busy Man" by Billy Ray Cyrus (1998)
"Bobby Sue" by The Oak Ridge Boys
"Boondocks" by Little Big Town (2005)
"Boot-Scootin' Boogie" by Brooks & Dunn (1992)
"Born Country" by Alabama
"Born To Fly" by Sarah Evans (2000)
"A Boy Named Sue" by Johnny Cash (1969)
"Brand New Man" by Brooks & Dunn (1991)
"Breathe" by Faith Hill (1999)
"Brother Jukebox" by Mark Chesnutt (1991)
"Broken Road" by Rascal Flatts
"Butterfly Kisses" by The Raybon Brothers (1997)
"Bye, Bye" by Jo Dee Messina (1998)
"Bye Bye Love" by The Everly Brothers (1957)
"By the Time I Get to Phoenix" by Glenn Campbell (1967)

[President Television]

List Likely incomplete, and not necessarily reflective of what I like:

[Anything mentioned in this thread, ipso facto]

Alice in chains,  A perfect Circle,  Aphex twin,  nirvana,  ICP,  Eminem,  Kidrock , Aerosmith,  Journey,  Kansas,  America,  Boston,  Trans Siberian Orchestra,  Savatage,  Full Circle,  Kenny G,  Kenny Loggins,  Yonni,  Enya,  Weird Al Yanchovich, Al Green, Green Day, Green Jelly, Tenatious D, Spoon, Puscifer, Tool, St. Vincent, Them crooked vultures, Queens of the Stone Age, Morphine, InIsOut, Pink Floyd, Squirrel Nut Zippers,
26 MPH, Throat Culture, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Stevie Wonder, eddy murphy, white snake, better than ezra, less than jake, jimmie eats world, jimmy's chicken shack, dead kennedys, drop kick murphys, floggin molly, death, writhing youth, christian death, cake, NIN, manson, Mahavishnu Orchestra, :wumpscut:, blind melon, alanis moressette, sarah mclaughlin, RHCP, Jane's Addication, Cat Stevens, Yoseph Islam, Cream, Velvet Revolver, Audioslave, powerman 5000, electric light orchestra, supertramp, davinvi's notebook, natural 7, Bach, Sibileus, Rob Zombie, White Zombie, Cannibal Corpse, Cradle of Filth, Ministry, Train, Travis, Seven Nations, the cure, Deadsy, King Missle, Meatpuppets, tantric, Days of the New, stained, Pig Dick, Arterial Spray, metalica, offspring, linkin park, evanessence, ray charles, john coltrane, count bassie, miles davis, wynton marcelis, mars volta, at the drive in, black flag, henry rollins band, anti flag, minutemen, dead milk men, Dr. Rocket and the Moon Patrol, STP, Pearl Jam, Rush, Zwan, Smashing Pumpkins, Chris Issacs, David Bowie, Jonny Cash, Iggy pop, The Clash, The deftones, daft punk, orbital, grand master flash and the furious five, korn, limp bizkit, sneaker pimps, butthole surfers, filter, lit, everclear, sugar ray, 311, DVDA, mxpx, third eye blind, blink 182, matchbox 20, bare naked ladies, dave mathews, Santana, Eric Clapton, Muddy maters, George Thurogood (sp?), henry Tucker, Screamin Jay hawkins, Marvin Pontiac, Devil Makes Three....

Dude, you already said "main stream", no need to spell it out.

Anyway, my suggestion for you is, I recently came across this pretty awesome band from the early 90s. Some really catchy basslines and tunes, coupled with some of the most hard-hitting lyrics ever. I forget, it was "Backstreet Guys", or something. I'll look it up and post the exact name. I really think you'd dig it.

[Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ]

i actually listen to the backstreet boys ON PURPOSE and LIKE IT

[Doktor Howl]

i actually listen to the backstreet boys ON PURPOSE and LIKE IT

That's because you're a bad person.

[Reeducation]

    Cobalt : It's black metal rooted but they combine many many genres into it and make it sound totally fucking great. Best album from them is Gin.

    Converge : It's Converge! One of the best metal bands out there. If you can adjust your ears. The screamer/singer can be quite odd at first.
   
    Khanate : "Ultra Doom". First two albums are the best ones. Sick shit.
   
    Psyopus : Like fast guitars and total mayhem? Hardcore/Metal/Math/Grind
   
    Cephalic Carnage : Metal. In so many ways. Try the album Xenosapien.
   
 

[.]

VNV is interesting.  I don't here any trumpets though.   

Took me a while to get back. VNV is more club type music, as is Apop, and in fact the lead singer for VNV was in Apop for a while, so if you actually listened to both bands, not so much in depth, there are a lot of parallels in lyrics.
You want trumpets you should stick to Mighty Mighty Bosstones.

[Triple Zero]

i actually listen to the backstreet boys ON PURPOSE and LIKE IT

(THAT DOESNT MATTER

I DIDNT SAY THEY SUCK

JUST VERY VERY MAINSTREAM

WHICH

I MEAN COME ON

THEY ARE)

(they cant hear us in parentheses right)

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Who are the "Backstreet Boys"? 

[BabylonHoruv]

Who are the "Backstreet Boys"? 

A boy band from the 90's. 

http://www.thebackstreetboys.com/us/home

[AFK]

    Cobalt : It's black metal rooted but they combine many many genres into it and make it sound totally fucking great. Best album from them is Gin.

    Converge : It's Converge! One of the best metal bands out there. If you can adjust your ears. The screamer/singer can be quite odd at first.
   
    Khanate : "Ultra Doom". First two albums are the best ones. Sick shit.
   
    Psyopus : Like fast guitars and total mayhem? Hardcore/Metal/Math/Grind
   
    Cephalic Carnage : Metal. In so many ways. Try the album Xenosapien.
   

Converge ar one of the worst metal bands out there.  They would be THE worst if it weren't for the existence of Five Fingered Death Punch and Slipknot.