Intellegent Rock/Indie/Alternative?

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  • Cropduster84
    Cropduster84 Posts: 1,283
    Biffy Clyro
    Sigur Ros
    Tom Waits
    Scott Matthews
    My Bloody Valentine
    Jim Noir
    The National


    not really sure if any of these are appropriate though.....
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  • JordyWordy
    JordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    Azwethinkweiz wrote:
    Everybody should listen to these amazing albums:

    Clann Zu - Rua
    Website/Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/clannzu
    Released: 9 September 2003
    Genre: Alternative Rock
    File size: 78,13 MB
    Bitrate: ripped with EAC@320kbps VBR
    Track list:
    1. Words for Snow
    2. Five Thousand More
    3. Hope This Day
    4. All That You've Ever Known
    5. Everyday
    6. All the People Now
    7. Rí Rá
    8. Lights Below
    9. Crashing to the Floor
    10. You're Listening to a Dead Man Speak
    http://rapidshare.com/files/107232628/CZrua.rar
    pass: dijeli.org

    Clann Zu - Black Coats & Bandages
    Website/Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/clannzu
    Released: 1 June 2004
    Genre: Alternative Rock
    File size: 75,00 MB
    Bitrate: ripped with EAC@320kbps VBR
    Track list:
    1. Black Coats & Bandages
    2. There Will Be No Morning Copy
    3. So Complicated Was the Fall
    4. An T-Éan Bán
    5. One Bedroom Apartment
    6. From an Unholy Height
    7. Án Deirdreadh Scéal
    8. From Bethlehem to Jenin
    9. You'll Have to Swim
    10. A Sudden Intake of Breath

    http://rapidshare.com/files/107245015/coats_bandages.rar
    pass: dijeli.org

    nice....surprised ive never even heard of this band!
  • Evolution6579
    Evolution6579 Posts: 624
    Morphine!
    I know they don't really fall into the complex category but they are NOT grunge and you will fucking love them.

    Band members

    * Mark Sandman - 2-string slide bass, vocals, organ, tritar (3-string slide guitar), guitar, piano
    * Dana Colley - baritone sax, tenor sax, double sax, triangle
    * Billy Conway - various percussion (1993-1999)
    * Jerome Deupree - various percussion (1989-1993; 1998-1999)

    Morphine's instrumentation was quite unusual: Sandman's primary instrument was a two-string bass guitar (with both strings usually tuned to a 5th or octave interval) played with a slide (though on the group's records he added touches of guitar, piano, electronic organ, and other self invented guitar instruments such as tritar (three stringed guitar). Colley played primarily baritone saxophone, along with soprano or tenor saxes, and the rare bass saxophone, and he sometimes played two saxes at once, a la Roland Kirk; he also played occasional percussion, and Dobro on a B-side.

    Other bands to check out:
    Hum - one of the best non-"grunge" bands of the 90's!, very layered sonic textures
    Failure - spacey rock, very textured sound also
    Low - very minimalist arrangements, guitar, bass and drums, male and female vocalists
    Lake Trout - new age jazz with rock tendencies
    Muse - everyone calls them "Radiohead rip-offs" but they are their own band. I love the incorporation of piano in their music.

    Those bands are very awesome and, even if they don't fall in line with what you are looking for, if you give them a chance you'll like them.
    Chicago 8-23-09

  • Gardenparty
    Gardenparty Posts: 1,910
    Archers of Loaf
    Jets to Brazil
    Gomez
    Bear Vs. Shark
    Cursive
    Pinback

    all come to mind
    “I know this song so well, I can smoke a cigarette, have a drink, brush my teeth, take a shit, and mow the lawn while singing it. But I'll only be doing a couple of those things during this version.”
  • MarkerInTheSand
    MarkerInTheSand Posts: 191
    Definitely check out The National.
    makes much more sense to live in the present tense

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  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    Gardenparty wrote:
    Archers of Loaf
    Glad to see some lover for the Archers.
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  • Jack_C_Gregory
    Jack_C_Gregory Posts: 540
    The Mars Volta
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    Evolution6579 wrote:
    Morphine!
    I know they don't really fall into the complex category but they are NOT grunge and you will fucking love them.

    Band members

    * Mark Sandman - 2-string slide bass, vocals, organ, tritar (3-string slide guitar), guitar, piano
    * Dana Colley - baritone sax, tenor sax, double sax, triangle
    * Billy Conway - various percussion (1993-1999)
    * Jerome Deupree - various percussion (1989-1993; 1998-1999)

    Morphine's instrumentation was quite unusual: Sandman's primary instrument was a two-string bass guitar (with both strings usually tuned to a 5th or octave interval) played with a slide (though on the group's records he added touches of guitar, piano, electronic organ, and other self invented guitar instruments such as tritar (three stringed guitar). Colley played primarily baritone saxophone, along with soprano or tenor saxes, and the rare bass saxophone, and he sometimes played two saxes at once, a la Roland Kirk; he also played occasional percussion, and Dobro on a B-side.

    Other bands to check out:
    Hum - one of the best non-"grunge" bands of the 90's!, very layered sonic textures
    Failure - spacey rock, very textured sound also
    Low - very minimalist arrangements, guitar, bass and drums, male and female vocalists
    Lake Trout - new age jazz with rock tendencies
    Muse - everyone calls them "Radiohead rip-offs" but they are their own band. I love the incorporation of piano in their music.

    Those bands are very awesome and, even if they don't fall in line with what you are looking for, if you give them a chance you'll like them.



    I second Hum...they are amazing! It's been too long since I pulled them out, actually.
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  • Nevermind
    Nevermind Posts: 1,006
    Heres some good shit

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=mEJL2Uuv-oQ
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    gleemonex wrote:
    Godspeed You! Black Emperor... are great if you like instrumental music.
    This, because they're the best band in the world.
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  • Evolution6579
    Evolution6579 Posts: 624
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    I second Hum...they are amazing! It's been too long since I pulled them out, actually.
    Hell yeah! I think more people should check them out.
    If you like Hum, you should check out Failure. They remind me of a cross between Hum and Sunny Day Real Estate.
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  • Todd76
    Todd76 Posts: 1,469
    Edit: OOOPS - double post
    In my world everyone is a pony,
    and they all eat rainbows and pooh butterflies!
  • Todd76
    Todd76 Posts: 1,469
    the Decemberists - the Crane Wife and Picaresque are 2 must have albums

    Okkervil River - have become one of my favorite bands since seeing them open for the New Pornographers

    Battles - if you're looking for "complex" their album Mirrored is fantastic

    Beirut - definitely an acquired taste....but I love 'em
    In my world everyone is a pony,
    and they all eat rainbows and pooh butterflies!
  • frusciante89
    frusciante89 Posts: 125
    Drive-By Truckers I cant recommend enough, and the Hold Steady are both great, intelligent,loud rock and roll
  • Vedder Lukin Good
    Vedder Lukin Good Posts: 25
    Band of Horses-Everything All the Time

    Interpol-I just recently discovered them and I can't stop listening to their stuff.
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  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    frusciante89 wrote:
    Drive-By Truckers I cant recommend enough, and the Hold Steady are both great, intelligent,loud rock and roll

    Drive-By Truckers are all kinds of awesome.
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    Drive-By Truckers are all kinds of awesome.

    Agreed!
    "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
  • lisam
    lisam Posts: 75
    I love Modest Mouse. I seen them this year at the Oz V festival and despite having a shitty time slot and the worst sound drop outs ive ever heard they were awesome.

    I also really really like The Killers
    Shot me with your funk gun
  • Super Vedder
    Super Vedder Posts: 1,531
    Todd76 wrote:
    the Decemberists - the Crane Wife and Picaresque are 2 must have albums



    Beirut - definitely an acquired taste....but I love 'em

    What he said ^

    Also ive just found out about and been listening to DeVotchKa - A Mad and Faithful Telling, they have a sound going on that is similar in parts to Beirut, its nice!

    Get the new Nick Cave lp Dig Lazrus Dig its awesome.
    Black, the greatest without a doubt........
  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Super Vedder wrote:
    What he said ^

    Also ive just found out about and been listening to DeVotchKa - A Mad and Faithful Telling, they have a sound going on that is similar in parts to Beirut, its nice!

    Get the new Nick Cave lp Dig Lazrus Dig its awesome.

    Devotchka's Transliterator is one of my favourite songs of the last year or so.
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.

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