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erbie627erbie627 Posts: 14
edited March 2008 in Other Music
I have an itch to try some new bands. I am hoping some fellow PJ fans can point me in a good direction. Here is what I normally like.

Early Nine Inch Nails, PJ obviously, Alice In Chains, GNR, Queen, Pink Floyd, Jane's Addiction, Blind Melon, Tom Petty, Neil Diamond. Anyway that should give you the jist of my likes. I really prefer a group that has excellent musicians, guitar based sound with lyrics like Off He Goes, rather than Eddie's Hard Sun.

Anyway, I am so far out of the loop I don't know where to begin. Nickleback isn't the worst band in the world but who out there might get me excited and give me someone to want to go see at Summerfest or Lollapalooza.

Thanks in advance for the help.
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  • chittychitty Posts: 609
    Try Wintersleep-Welcome to the Night Sky
    I honestly have listened to it non stop for at least the past month. Great cd, and their previous one is good as well. Guitar based, good lyrics.....
  • restlesssoulrestlesssoul Posts: 6,951
    chitty wrote:
    Try Wintersleep-Welcome to the Night Sky
    .
    best "new" band out. period

    try black mountain from vancouver.
    the church is a cool band.
    the national.
    the new matthew good is pretty fab.

    download
    THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE - tepid peppermint wonderland vol 1

    check that group out....my god.
    Van '98, Sea I+II '00, Sea '01, Sea II '02, Van '03, Gorge, Van, Cal, Edm '05, Bos I+II, Phi I+II, DC, SF II+III, Port, Gorge I+II '06, DC, NY I+II '08, Sea I+II, Van, Ridge , LA III+IV' 09, Indy '10, Cal, Van '11, Lond, Van, Sea '13, Memphis '14, RRHOF '17, Sea I+II '18, Van I+II, Vegas I+II '24
  • pjfan85pjfan85 Posts: 124
    The Supersuckers - Pretty Fucked Up
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAZk59HxWAM

    The Trews - So She's Leaving
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZwqJANDwv4

    Wintersleep - Jaws of Life
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE8O_Zo0srY
  • DEEPDEEP Posts: 274
    erbie627 wrote:
    I have an itch to try some new bands. I am hoping some fellow PJ fans can point me in a good direction. Here is what I normally like.

    Early Nine Inch Nails, PJ obviously, Alice In Chains, GNR, Queen, Pink Floyd, Jane's Addiction, Blind Melon, Tom Petty, Neil Diamond. Anyway that should give you the jist of my likes. I really prefer a group that has excellent musicians, guitar based sound with lyrics like Off He Goes, rather than Eddie's Hard Sun.

    Anyway, I am so far out of the loop I don't know where to begin. Nickleback isn't the worst band in the world but who out there might get me excited and give me someone to want to go see at Summerfest or Lollapalooza.

    Thanks in advance for the help.
    Neil Diamond or Neil Young??
  • restlesssoulrestlesssoul Posts: 6,951
    erbie627 wrote:
    I really prefer a group that has excellent musicians, guitar based sound

    wintersleep
    Van '98, Sea I+II '00, Sea '01, Sea II '02, Van '03, Gorge, Van, Cal, Edm '05, Bos I+II, Phi I+II, DC, SF II+III, Port, Gorge I+II '06, DC, NY I+II '08, Sea I+II, Van, Ridge , LA III+IV' 09, Indy '10, Cal, Van '11, Lond, Van, Sea '13, Memphis '14, RRHOF '17, Sea I+II '18, Van I+II, Vegas I+II '24
  • erbie627erbie627 Posts: 14
    Come on don't we all love Sweet Caroline?
  • LONGRDLONGRD Posts: 6,036
    I've been listening to a lot of female acts lately.
    Cat Power (her last three albums are amazing, including You Are Free, Eddie is guest vox on a couple of tracks + Dave Grohl did drums on a few tracks too :) )
    The Knife
    Feist
    Brazilian Girls
    Amy Whinehouse ;)

    others: Mike Doughty (formerly of Soul Coughing = try them they are good)
    Mike Patton's Peeping Tom and Lovage side projects (formerly of Faith No More = NOT one hit wonders...they are great!!!)

    EDIT: I thought you meant "New Bands" to follow but you meant "New bands to follow"
    ADD: Radiohead and 311 to my list!!! both incredible and I'm glad they're still around.* you already mentioned NIN and Oasis is bad if you like Brit pop-rock sound plus they got a lot of albums for you to really critique them.
    PJ- 04/29/2003.06/24,25,27,28,30/2008.10/27,28,30,31/2009
    EV- 08/09,10/2008.06/08,09/2009
  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    Cat Power is a good recommendation.

    Others

    Drive-By Truckers
    Gillian Welch
    Iron & Wine
    Band of Horses
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

    http://www.last.fm/user/merkinball/
    spotify:user:merkinball
  • DaytimeDilemmaDaytimeDilemma Posts: 2,008
    MARS fucking VOLTA.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNp95D4MFWM
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1myYoE5blE&feature=related

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI1MXxk46ZM
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj9IFwiU7q8&feature=related
  • dharma69dharma69 Posts: 1,275
    I have to give a nod towards
    Spindrift
    Black Angels
    The Whigs

    But particularly Spindrift.
    "I'm here to see Pearl Jam."- Bono

    ...signed...the token black Pearl Jam fan.

    FaceSpace
  • DEEPDEEP Posts: 274
    erbie627 wrote:
    Come on don't we all love Sweet Caroline?
    That's cool...I thought you meant Young
  • red mosred mos Posts: 4,953
    Wilco is a great band, and alot of pj fans follow them too although musically they are two different bands entirely.
    Albums I'd recommend by them
    Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
    A ghost is born
    Sky Blue sky

    Wilco isn't new they have been around since the mid 90s but I recently just discovered their greatness. I mean I really sat down and gave them a chance and bam! I understand why people are huge fans.
    PJ: 10/14/00 06/09/03 10/4/09 11/15/13 11/16/13 10/08/14
    EV Solo: 7/11/11 11/12/12 11/13/12
  • dharma69dharma69 Posts: 1,275
    How could I forget....if you favor the guitar and don't mind a strong female voice leading the way...

    (my best wok as a videographer) Nico Vega!!!
    "I'm here to see Pearl Jam."- Bono

    ...signed...the token black Pearl Jam fan.

    FaceSpace
  • BrainOfJHABrainOfJHA Posts: 698
    Howlin' Rain!
  • IMMine2129IMMine2129 Posts: 16
    Envy on the Coast

    is very new and an amazingly good band. A bunch of tempo changes, good riffs, excellent vocals. May be a little too new for most peoples tastes. But the kids got an excellent voice and they are amazing live. Their shows are almost pearljam-esque, though I'd never propose that they were in the same category as Eddie
  • direwolf74direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    Wintersleep
    Cuff the Duke
    The National
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

    -Tom Waits
  • gleemonexgleemonex Posts: 848
    Wintersleep and The National are probably the two bands that blew me away the most in 2007. Welcome to the Night Sky and Boxer are two of the best albums that were released last year. I have a feeling, as many people who have posted in this thread already did too, that Wintersleep is pretty much everything you are looking for in a new band. They're incredible musicians with great diversity in their music.

    Cat Power and Iron & Wine are great suggestions if you like mellow acoustic singer/songwriters.

    Explosions in the Sky is a fantastic instrumental band.

    The New Pornographers, The Dandy Warhols, and Brian Jonestown Massacre are all good bands that you could probably get into as well. They're significantly more "poppy" and upbeat than most of the stuff you listed but give 'em a shot and see if you like it.
    “Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’” - Kurt Vonnegut
  • Yellow LedbellyYellow Ledbelly Posts: 3,749
    [quote="restlesssouldownload
    THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE - tepid peppermint wonderland vol 1

    check that group out....my god.[/quote"]
    Went searching for something to download, but only found youtube vids, which sound pretty damn good....got links to DL's?
    All I have to do is revel in the everyday....then do it again tomorrow

    They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
  • hendrix78hendrix78 Posts: 507
    BrainOfJayHunter wrote:
    Howlin' Rain!

    Seconded. Their new album is great. Also check out Comets on Fire. Same lead singer/guitarist as Howlin Rain.

    Mars Volta are awesome, but not as accessible as Pearl Jam.

    The Black Keys are one of my favorite new bands of the last 10-15 years.

    They're not that "new", but I've been really into Spiritualized lately.

    Another great band that not many people know are the Bevis Frond. They're not really new, either. It's really one guy, Nick Salomon. He's a great musician. On many of their albums, he plays all the instruments and he is an incredible guitarist. Their style is sort of like Syd Barrett meets Jimi Hendrix.
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