FrenchyFungus

Welcome to the Modern Rock recommendation thread! In theory it will build in time, and is designed to give everyone a quick easy insight into a lot of bands. Add your suggestions about what bands should be added and what album is a good place to start.

First of all, what is defined as Modern Rock. Well hopefully, you know what Rock music is, so the bit that may need defining is "Modern". Anything after about 1990 goes in here, before that is generally put in either Classic Rock, the 80s forum or Alternative & Indie.

It's a funny one though, and the lines between Modern Rock and some other forums, especially Alternative & Indie, are pretty blurred. If a band is on this list though, it's fine to discuss them in here.



Ok, this list is going to be much like that of the metal forum... we're going to try to sub-genre as best as possible, simply so people can link styles they like to new bands they might not have heard of.

Now, the main thing here is that we don't want ANY metal, punk, emo, nu-metal, classic rock etc bands. They don't belong in this forum. Some of course will borderline, but we'll judge them on their individual merits.

So please, put suggestions in this format:

Band Name (as a link to official website or MySpace if possible!) (Suggested album listening) - Sub-Genre.

Now, all final decisions on everything in this thread will be mine and UtBDan's, so there

I'm also gonna give FrenchyAwards by reddifying the albums that I personally recommend.


The Frenchy Award in all it's Moognificence (<3 Carmel)


Many thanks to Alix_D and Lazy for the previous thread.

Frenchy

So here we go:

Singer/Songwriters
John Mayer (Room for Squares/Heavier Things)
Ben Harper (The Will to Love/Diamonds on the Inside)
Jack Johnson (On and On/Brushfire Fairytales)
Matthew Good (White Light Rock & Roll Review/Avalanche)
Lenny Kravitz (Are You Gonna Go My Way?/Mama Said)
John Frusciante (The Will to Death/Shadows Collide)
Dave Navarro (Trust No-one)
Jeff Buckley (Grace)
Chris Cornell (Euphoria Morning)
Kelly Jones (Only The Names Have Been Changed
Courtney Love (America's Sweetheart)
Billy Corgan (The Future Embrace)
Mark Lanegan (Bubblegum/The Winding Sheet)
The Nightwatchman (One Man Revolution)
Tenacious D (Tenacious D)

Soft/Pop-Rock
Turin Brakes (The Optimist EP/Ether Song)
John Butler Trio (Three/Sunrise Over Sea)
Goo Goo Dolls (Dizzy Up The Girl/Superstar Car Wash)
Counting Crows (August and Everything After/This Desert Life)
Semisonic (Feeling Strangely Fine)
Matchbox 20 (Yourself or Someone Like You)
Everclear (So Much for the Afterglow)
3 Doors Down (The Better Life)
SR-71 (Now You See Inside)
Sleeping at Last (Ghosts)
Dave Matthews Band (Everything, Crash)
The Thrills (So Much for the City/Let's Bottle Bohemia)
The Frames (For the Birds/Set List)
Bush (Sixteen Stone)

Misc/Alt Rock (your middle of the road rocky stuff)
The Exies (The Exies/Head for the Door)
Paris Texas (Like You Like an Arsonist)
The Presidents Of The USA (Self-Titled/Self-Titled II)
Lit (A Place in the Sun)
Hole (Live Through This/Celebrity Skin)
Auf Der Maur (Auf Der Maur)
Kings Of Leon (Aha Shake Heartbreak/Because Of The Times
Third Eye Blind (Blue/Third Eye Blind)
American Hi-Fi (American Hi-Fi/The Art of Losing)
Jets to Brazil (Orange Rhyming Dictionary)
Mute Math (Mute Math EP)
Our Lady Peace (Naveed/Clumsy)
Black Market Radio (Suicide Parlor)
The Flaming Lips(Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots)
The Tea Party (Edges of Twilight/Triptych)
Sloan (Action Pact/Pretty Together)
Zwan (Mary Star Of The Sea)
Garbage (s/t, Version 2.0)
Veruca Salt (American Thighs)
Paw ( Dragline, Death to Traitors )
Butthole Surfers (Independent Worm Saloon, Locust Abortion Technician)

Brit-Rock
Ash (1977)
Muse (Absolution/Origin of Symmetry)
Placebo (Sleeping With Ghosts/Once More with Feeling)
Travis (The Man Who/The Invisible Band)
Snow Patrol (Final Straw)
Keane (Hopes And Fears)
Stereophonics (Word Gets Around/Performance & Cocktails)
Reef (Glow/Getaway)
The Seahorses (Do It Yourself)
Feeder (Yesterday Went Too Soon/Comfort in Sound)
Manic Street Preachers (The Holy Bible/Everything Must Go)
Biffy Clyro (Puzzle/Blackened Sky)
Sleeper (Smart)

Grunge/90s
Alice In Chains (Facelift/Jar of Flies)
Mudhoney(Superfuzz Bigmuff/Under A Billion Suns)
Nirvana(Nevermind/In Utero)
Pearl Jam (Ten/Pearl Jam)
Soundgarden(Badmotorfinger/Superunknown)
Screaming Trees (Sweet Oblivion/Dust)
Mad Season (Above)
Temple of the Dog (Temple of the Dog)
Green River (Rehab Doll/Dry As A Bone)
Mother Love Bone (Apple)
The Black Crowes (Amorica/Southern Harmony and Musical Companion)
Stone Temple Pilots (Core/Purple)
Meat Puppets (Meat Puppets II)
Collective Soul (Dosage/Collective Soul)
Silverchair (Neon Ballroom/Frogstomp)
Faith No More (Angel Dust/The Real Thing)
Smashing Pumpkins (Gish/Siamese Dream/)
Melvins (Stoner Witch, Houdini)

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Garage Rock
The Strokes (Is This It?/Room On Fire)
The Hives (Your New Favourite Band)
The Killers (Hot Fuss)
The Vines (Highly Evolved)
The Pattern (Real Feelness)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Fever To Tell)
The White Stripes (White Blood Cells/Elephant)
The Raconteurs (Broken Boy Soldiers)
The Dirtbombs (If You Don't Already Have a Look)

Post-Rock
65daysofstatic (The Fall Of Math/The Destruction Of Small Ideas)
Red Sparowes (At the Soundless Dawn)
God Is An Astronaut (All is Violent, All is Bright)
Mogwai (Zidane: The Soundtrack)
Slint (Tweez)
Explosions In The sky (Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever)
God Speed You! Black Emperor (Yanqui U.X.O / F#A#OO)
Russian Circles (Enter)

Revival Rock
The Darkness (Permission to Land)
Silvertide (Show and Tell)
Wolfmother (Wolfmother)
Secret Machines (Now Here is Nowhere)
Jet (Get Born)
The Datsuns (Outta Sight/Outta Mind/The Datsuns)
The Mooney Suzuki (Alive and Amplified)
The Answer (Into The Gutter/Never Too Late)

Funk Rock
Incubus (S.C.I.E.N.C.E/Make Yourself/Morning View)
Jane's Addiction (Ritual De Lo Habitual/Nothing's Shocking)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (Blood Sugar Sex Magik/Californication)
311 (Music/Soundsystem)
Primus (Sailing On The Seas Of Cheese, Suck On This)
Bootsauce (Bull)
Wide Mouth Mason (Stew/Rained Out Parade)
Toast Machine (Rock Wattage EP)

Hard Rock
Audioslave (Audioslave/Out Of Exile)
Foo Fighters (Foo Fighters/The Colour And Shape)
Queens Of The Stone Age (Rated R/Songs for the Deaf)
Tool (Aenima/Lataralus/)
A Perfect Circle (Mer De Noms/Thirteenth Step)
Cave-In (Antenna)
Chevelle (Wonder What's Next)
Velvet Revolver (Contraband/Libertad)
Fuel (Sunburn/Something Like Human)
Audiovent (Dirty Sexy knights in Paris)
Mad at Gravity (Mad at Gravity)
Mad Capsule Markets (OSC-DIS)
Kyuss (Blues For The Red Sun/Welcome to Sky Valley)
Breaking Benjamin (Saturate)
Saliva (Every Six Seconds/Survival of the Sickest)
Big Wreck (In Loving Memory / The Pleasure and the Greed)
Finger Eleven (The Bluest Of Grey Skys/Tip)
Billy Talent (Billy Talent)
Nickelback (The State/Silver Side Up)
The Tragically Hip
Alter Bridge (One Day Remains)
Slash's Snakepit (Aint Life Grand, It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere)
Bullets And Octane (In The Mouth Of The Young)
CKY (Infiltrate•Destroy•Rebuild)
Fu Manchu (California Crossing)
Zico Chain (Food)

Rap Rock
Rage Against The Machine (Self-Titled/Battle of Los Angeles)
Zebrahead (Playmate of the Year/MFZB)
(hed) pe (Self Titled)

Industrial Rock
Nine Inch Nails (Pretty Hate Machine/With Teeth)
Skinny Puppy(VIVISectVI)
KMFDM (UAIOE)

Other Recommendations
This is a short list of bands that either crop up in discussions in here, but who really fit much better in other sub-forums; or who used to be on this list, but I feel are more approriate in another sub-forum.
However I feel it's a good idea to list them anyway.

Classic Rock
Ac/DC (Back In Black)

Nu-Metal
Rammstein
Puddle Of Mudd (Come Clean)
Seether (Disclaimer)

80s, Shred & Progressive
Guns 'N' Roses (Appetite For Destruction)

Pop Punk
Offspring (Smash)
Green Day (Dookie)
Angels & Airwaves (We Don't Need to Whisper)
Sum 41 (All Killer No Filler)

Hardcore
Trivium (Ascendency)
Avenged Sevenfold (Waking the Fallen)


Alternative & Indie
Dinosaur Jr (Bug)
Sonic Youth (Daydream Nation)
Oasis (What's The Story (Morning Glory)?
Blur (Parklife)
REM (Automatic For The People)
Idlewild (The Remote Part)
The Cure (The Cure)
James (Laid)

Blues
The Black Keys (Rubber Factory)

Other
HIM (Lovemetal)

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pawnluv

oasis being alternative/indie

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Why did you put Led Zeppelin II next to Wolfmother?

DownInAHole.

^ That's the mistake. I saw it too. I just didn't post fast enough.

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rockon1824

Nice job. Here's one:

The Nightwatchman (One Man Revolution) - Singer/Songwriter

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FrenchyFungus

Indeed you do, have a cow.

Yeah, just my lame little sense of humour

So, as before, recommendations go in here.

Please gimme a link, a sub-genre and a recommended album.

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Alix_D

Nooo, you done gone destroyed my thread AND didn't include;
Hard-Fi - Stars Of CCTV (Brit-Rock)
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever people say I am, that's what i'm not (Indie)
Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up The Giro (Soft/pop rock)
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (Indie)

Two are Indie, but as you say, blurred line and they're rejected as much as accepted in that forum.


You b'stard.


Arctics: lebensraum
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cf...iendID=24780572

Goos:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cf...iendID=30603220

Hard-fi:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cf...iendID=18327016

Bloc Party:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cf...riendID=5152238

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DownInAHole.

Not having Dirt beside AiC is a sin.

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rockon1824

+1. As good as Facelift may be, it's not Dirt.

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FrenchyFungus

I was going to to go through all the pages of the last thread...and then I didn't, and just forot about your one on the end too.

link and all that?


Facelift > Dirt.

I thought having Jar Of Flies in there would be better than having Dirt too, to give more variety, and I was trying to keep it to 2 album per band.

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Alix_D

^ Was just working on a link when you replied, all done now

Dirt > Facelift anyday.

Also, fancy changing the credit from battleofla to Alix_D? It was my old account until I forgot my password in a spell away from UG

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DownInAHole.

No.

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blackflag49

Misc/Alt Rock:
Garbage (s/t, Version 2.0)
Veruca Salt (American Thighs)
Paw ( Dragline, Death to Traitors )
Quicksand (Slip, Manic Compression)

Brit-rock:
Sleeper (Smart)

Just some recs...

Edit: I added links

rockon1824

Tenacious D (Tenacious D) - Misc/Alt Rock

I'm guessing they are modern rock.

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FrenchyFungus

Goo Goo Dolls are there already.
I'll add Hard-Fi in the morning.

Not sure about the other two, I'd've personally put them in the A&I forum, but I'm not sure.

*ponders*

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Alix_D

Oops, i'm a bit blind.

They are indie and they would look best in A&I, but they were brought up a few times in the old thread so *shrug*

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Carmel

I'll pitch in with James.

Alternative rock. 90's feel to their music.

"Laid" is an interesting album to listen to.

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