bands pushing the musical boundaries

musicismylife78
musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
edited June 2008 in Other Music
bands like tool

radiohead

mars volta

basically bands who with each new album are experimental and push the boundaries of music and sound.

who else would you include?
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  • AlBorland
    AlBorland Posts: 117
    I'd say My Morning Jacket. They could have easily keep churning out spacey southern rock tunes, but they've really expanded their horizons with these last couple of albums.
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  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    The Mars Volta without a doubt
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  • boroff89
    boroff89 Posts: 786
    Tool pushes musical boundaries? How? How does making essentially the same song and same album over and over push any boundaries?

    The Mars Volta and Radiohead I would agree with. Arcade Fire certainly does. Thrice has begun to.
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  • Pauk
    Pauk Posts: 1,084
    I don't really think there are musical boundaries anymore. There's a niche for every market and I can't really think of a single taboo in music other than contraversial topics. Bands may do some strange/new things but I wouldn't say they're making the unacceptable acceptable.[/pedant]
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    The bands pushing the musical boundaries aren't the ones you'd expect (ie, anyone connected to the so-called post-rock genre). That pretentiously named band that's something to do with liking trains is a case in point. They're to Godspeed!, etc, what an artist such as Tracey Emin is to Marcel Duchamp: a tenth-generation, washed out, state-approved, formulaic mockery of what was once a great idea.

    However, THE HUB always seems to make music that isn't only sonically experimental but loaded with a kind of social relevance you can't bullshit:

    http://www.myspace.com/thehubnyc
  • geishagrrl
    geishagrrl Posts: 130
    Battles
    http://www.myspace.com/battlestheband
  • hguz73
    hguz73 Posts: 245
    the mars volta without a doubt..unique
  • pjoasisrule
    pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    Nickelback
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  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    geishagrrl wrote:
    Battles
    http://www.myspace.com/battlestheband
    Fuck yeah! Talk about pushing musical boundaries,.. polyrhythms ! Don Caballero is awesome as well.

    Afrirampo,.. the Mars Volta is an excellent suggestion,..
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  • South of Seattle
    South of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    Tommy Guerrero
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  • restlesssoul
    restlesssoul Posts: 6,952
    id say QOTSA to an extent. they definately challenge you. at least on the newest one.
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  • restlesssoul
    restlesssoul Posts: 6,952
    geishagrrl wrote:
    Battles
    http://www.myspace.com/battlestheband


    they are fucked up. i DLd that stuff about a year ago and man was it weird.

    there is a difference between challenging the boundaries and being shit. to each their own though.
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  • pjoasisrule
    pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    MGMT, havent heard a band combine this many genres since Sublime
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  • South of Seattle
    South of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    Chris Cornell :D
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  • PJ-Sin
    PJ-Sin Posts: 348
    Meshuggah, with out a doubt. Try listening to that and tell me they aren't in a class of thier own.

    Also I would have to say Opeth, they are just amazing.
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  • Grasshopper
    Grasshopper Posts: 137
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    Nickelback


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  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    restlesssoul wrote:
    they are fucked up. i DLd that stuff about a year ago and man was it weird.

    there is a difference between challenging the boundaries and being shit. to each their own though.
    So you can't handle it? ;)

    Battles is tame. As a matter of fact a lot of Don Caballero/other post rock and math rock fans think they're too poppy. Too commercial. And to be honest when you compare them to their former projects and contemporaries they are really poppy.

    Ruins & Koenjihyakkei - Math rock/Zeuhl. Now Koenji, there's a band you'll hate :D
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  • pjoasisrule
    pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    Grasshopper wrote:
    This is how you remind me of an av-er-age band

    Calling them average is too positive. Worst band ever might be better way of putting it.
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  • meme
    meme Posts: 4,695
    I would add Jack White.
    ... and the will to show I will always be better than before.
  • Matt Lukin
    Matt Lukin Posts: 647
    The Books

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