Bands everyone else seems to like, that you tried to get

Fugazi…not kidding

Iron and Wine

Elvis Costello

Radiohead

COLDPLAY

Originally posted by bearman:
Pavement
Bjork
Rage Against the Machine
Beck
Bright Eyes
Wilco
System of a Down
Dashboard Confessional

Wow, I agree with all of those…

Originally posted by bearman:
Perhaps I need to give them another shot.

no its fine, just didnt think i would see that name on here!

mariah carey

Ted Nugent
Brian Eno (Solo)

Just to be on the safe side it would seem that one should steer away from any future Flaming Lips or Mars Volta purchases…?

I started this same thread on another forum. I'll have to remember what my others were, but top of the list was…

Bloc Party

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Fugazi…not kidding

Iron and Wine

Elvis Costello

Radiohead

Fugazi I get. But Iron and Wine? I thought you'd love him. How about Calexico? Are you a fan?

And, cough choke, Elvis? Really? What's not to love? Melodies, lyrics, attitude (early), longevity, he's got it all!

Oh yeah, I have never seen the talent or interestingness of Patti Smith.

new pornographers
rhett miller/old '97's
o.a.r.
ladytron
arcade fire

Most of the bands in this thread with a few exceptions.

Just to list a few.

Arcade Fire
The Decemberists
Sleater Kinney
CYHSY
Flaming Lips
Bjork
Radiohead (Except Amnesiac which I kind of like.)
The Polyphonic Spree
Modest Mouse
Bright Eyes
Guided By Voices
Elvis Costello
Starsailor
System Of A Down - I really hate them!
Gangsta Rap
Babyshambles
The Darkness
U2 (If it weren't for Bono, I'd place them on the lower list.)
Queen
Weezer
Ween
Pearl Jam
All Grunge…except Nirvania were fair
Metallica!!!
Rage Against The Machine
Coheed & Cambria…and almost all Alternative (ie, HFS crap)

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Dishonorable Mentions:
(Not as offensive as above)

The New Pornographers
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
Steven Malkmaus
Death Cab For Cutie
Supergrass
The Kaiser Chiefs
The Foo Fighters
..AYWKUBTTODead
Wilco

Okay, some that I like that others do not:

Flaming Lips: Check out Transmissions from the Satillite Heart, it is amazing. Check out the layering of instruments, and all the fun things going on. Fav song, Pilot can from the queer of god. Check out the dense guitars and all the fun stuff they are doing, it is amazing.

Bloc Party. I hate this cd. It is poorly mixed in my opinion. The material it has underneigth is amazing. They are a great band, but they were wimps and got someone to mix their album to where it sounds so annoyingly compressed that I despise the record. If you are willing to listen to the songs and not the stupid overcompressed mix it is a great album. It took me several listens to figure this out.

There are others that I can also talk about but these two came to the top of the list.

ps. I have seen over 1000 bands live (IIRC).

Kiss
The Mars Volta
The Dickies
Flaming Lips
Sufjan Stevens
The Descendents (w/ exception of milo goes to college)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Iron Maiden/Judas Priest/Def Leppard/any 80s british metal
REM
Talking Heads
New Pornographers
Arcade Fire
Agent Orange
Interpol
Pearl Jam
Spoon
The Hold Steady
Decemberists

phew! that felt better! :)

Metallica
U2
Boston (yeah Im that fuckin old)

The Dictators

Originally posted by andyrichter:

Iron Maiden

phew! that felt better! :)

BITE YOUR TONGUE, MORTAL.

Maiden rules all others. Maiden doesn't ask, Maiden takes. All must bow down to the mighty Iron Maiden and be grateful for it.

He's not indie, but I never could fiqure out why people like Jimmy Buffet.

I guess I had left my TV on VH1 Friday Night. When I woke Saturday, I had 30 mins of The Top 20 on TIVO. On a whim I wathced it on FF. So I'll throw, Train, Staind, Natasha Beddington(?) and James Blunt on this list as they seem to be popular at the moment.

Others:

Green Day
The Stokes
Eagles

New Pornographers

Broken Social Scene