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I don't know if this has been mentioned but I Mother Earth, early stuff from Dig and Scenery and Fish. Very good stuff. Canadian artists but they are available and worth the search.

Forgot to mention:

Built To Spill - (any album)
764 Hero - (if you like Modest Mouse or any other NW Band)
Postal Service
The Pale
Idiot Pilot
No-Fi Soul Rebellion

stop the robots covered most of my faves, so I'll toss out a couple smaller names:
-the juliana theory
-project 86
-norma jean
-zao

Garbage, Smashing Pumpkins, A Perfect Circle, The Mars Volta, Live, Metric, Tegan and Sara.

Stop the Robots wrote:

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The (International) Noise Conspiracy, 7 Year Bitch, A Flock of Seagulls, A Perfect Circle, Against Me, Alkaline Trio, Anti-Flag, Azure Ray, The B-52's, Backyard Bangers, Bad Religion, The Bangles, Basement Jaxx, Bear Vs. Shark, Beastie Boys, Beck, Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five, Ben Kweller, Bikini Kill, Billy Reid, Black Eyed Peas, The Black Keys, Blind Melon, Blondie, The Blood Brothers, Blue Man Group, The Blues Brothers, Blur, Booker T. and the MG's, Bratmobile, Campfire Girls, The Darkness, Dead Kennedys, Dead Milkmen, Deftones, Devo, Diablopop, Donkey Punch, Eagles of Death Metal, Eric Clapton, The Faint, Faith No More, Finch, Fischerspooner, Fitz of Depression, Five Iron Frenzy, The Flaming Lips, Frank Sinatra, Franz Ferdinand, Fred Astaire, Fugazi, G-Unit, George Clinton, Heavens to Betsy, Hot Hot Heat, Incubus, Infamous Menagerie, Interference, J-Kwon, Jay-Z, Jem, Jet, Kicking Giant, The Killers, The Kinks, Kreviss, Lagwagon, Less Than Jake, Live, The Makers, Marcy Playground, Maroon 5, The Mars Volta, Melvins, Metric, Michael Buble, Mike Patton & The Dillinger Escape Plan, Modest Mouse, Moneen, Mr. Bungle, Nancy Sinatra, The Network, Nikka Costa, Nirvana, No Doubt, NOFX, Oasis, The Offspring, Orgy, Outkast, Pantera, Papa Roach, Peggy Lee, The Pets, Polaris, Powerman 5000, The Presidents of the United States of America, PROBOT, Queen, Queens of the Stone Age, The Queers, Ramones, Rancid, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Reggie & The Full Effect, Rod Stewart, Rooney, Rush, Scissor Sisters, Sex Pistols, The Sly Caps, Smashing Pumpkins, Snoop Dogg, Soft Cell, Some Velvet Sidewalk, Son Ambulance, Static-X, Steve Burns, Super Natural, System of a Down, Team Dresch, Tenacious D, Third Eye Blind, Tom Jones, Tomahawk, Type O Negative, Ugly Kid Joe, The Unicorns, The Vapors, The Verve, The Vines, Violent Femmes, The Vogues, Weezer, The White Stripes, Witchy Poo, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Zwan

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well what he said minus ugly kid joe  the queers and frank sinatra those are just painful
Other than that pretty much those are the bands on my ipod

depeachmood wrote:

The Mars Volta

Very good suggestion. I should have thought of it.

and to assassin_bill, I can definitely see where you're coming from with that one.

Dredg - "Leitmotif" good progressive metal -a must have
Alexisonfire - emo+metal = good
Beloved - see above
Cradle of Filth - can be cheesy, but it's some good progressive black metal
The Cure - "Disintegration" highly recomended, easily one of my top 5 favorites.
Dillinger Escape Plan - "Miss Machine" only if you're up for bleeding ears, but still good
Fear Factory - good industrial metal, check out Archetype
Katatonia - "Viva Emptiness"  - incredible gothic metal - check out if you like lacuna coil
Lunatic Calm - "Metropol" - this is easily the best electronic album i own, dark, apochalyptic, yet beautiful, a must have even if you're into metal/rock
Meshuggah - "I" - must be heard to believe - 21 min of the heaviest epic metal ever!
Mudvayne - generic, but good metal
Mushroomhead - good metal with electronic influences
Norma Jean - cannot say how good this band is. nice chunky metal with punk influences
Opeth - easily the most influential band in the metal scene, nice melodic progressive death metal
Porcupine Tree - nice progressive rock
Rage Against the Machine - rap metal at it's finest
Sepultura - brazilian death metal - good
Slayer - the fathers of metal
Stabbing Westward - definetly check out if you like NIN, NIN with more rock influences
Symphony X - similar to dream theater - nice progressive metal
Tomahawk - heard about these boys through tool, kinda metalish
Tweaker - ex NIN drummer Chris Vrenna goes solo
Vex Red - British version of Stabbing Westward - still good
Woven - nice electronic influenced rock

well.. thats just a run through of my itunes library of stuff unmentioned so far...

Ares wrote:

Stabbing Westward - definetly check out if you like NIN, NIN with more rock influences

AHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA

Holy smokes! thanks! everyone for the recommendations! I never thought I'd get this kind of response   I'll seee what I can find of this at iTMS but I have a feeling that some record stores are gonna get cleaned out

Speaking of Corgan- I got a question.

If I absolutely love Zwan, but hate what I've heard of Smashing Pumpkins, should I just hear more of the Pumpkins? Or are they different enough bands to warrant this discrepancy? By the way, I'm lookin' at you guys, depeachmood and macmeister

shapoopy wrote:

Speaking of Corgan- I got a question.

If I absolutely love Zwan, but hate what I've heard of Smashing Pumpkins, should I just hear more of the Pumpkins? Or are they different enough bands to warrant this discrepancy? By the way, I'm lookin' at you guys, depeachmood and macmeister

I was like that for a little while.  If you're into Zwan a bit more right now, check out MACHINA for the Pumpkins stuff.  I never liked the really early SP like Gish and a lot of Siamese Dream, but it can be really great if you're in the mood.  Sometimes I go back and forth between who I like more, and I've basically decided that I love acoustic Zwan as much as I love matured Smashing Pumpkins.  I recommend the Greatest Hits album because they are all great songs.  My favourites are Stand Inside Your Love, 1979, With Every Light, Tonight Tonight, Thirty Three, For Martha, Perfect, and The Everlasting Gaze.  Enjoy!!!

depeachmood wrote:

macmeister wrote:

depeachmood wrote:

Garbage, Smashing Pumpkins, A Perfect Circle, The Mars Volta, Live, Metric, Tegan and Sara.

no love for zwan?

I love Zwan, but most people really didn't like them.  They played an excellent live show at the Wiltern that I saw.  I love Billy Corgan.

The end.

Zwan is the most boring band I have ever seen, and that's saying a lot (and I loved the pumpkins). Plus, the show I saw them at was supposed to have Turbonegro open, and Uncle Fester (aka Billy Corgan) had them kicked off the bill so it was just them and the Queens of the Stone Age (who were great actually). It had been a QOTSA and Turbonegro tour, and the dates following wer to be a Zwan and QOTSA tour, so this show was supposed to have all 3 bands playing. I was seriously pissed off, Turbonegro would have totally stolen the show that night, and I think Billy knew that.