songs that just aren't metal but are really great

[Static]

PINK FLOYD-PIGS(THREE DIFFERENT ONES)

Dude. You just won.

 

[Dev]

Annihilator - Crystal Ann
Transatlantic - Stranger In Your Soul
The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are
Ulver - The Whole Perdition City album

 

[Chaostar]

Any DREDG song from El Cielo !!!!! :hotjump::hotjump::hotjump:

Try Same Ol' Road, Sanzen, Triangle, 18 People Live In Harmony.....

This band is really amazing

 

[ginkgothian]

Camel-Lady Fantasy

 

[Static]

Whoa! Dude, you won too!

Camel \m/

 

[Spod2508]

Paranoid Android by Radiohead
Patience - Guns N Roses
18 And Life - Skid Row
Hotel California - The Eagles

 

[alphamale]

Slowdive - Alison, Here She Comes
Nick Cave - Are You The One I've Been Waiting For, As I Sat Sadly By Her Side
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Red House Painters - Katy Song, Have You Forgotten
Bark Psychosis - The Loom

 

[maximilian]

Queen - Don't Stop Me Now
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Brompton Oratory

 

[Masters Apprentice]

Good non-metal artists and songs? Hmmm!!! I'll try my best.

City Of Caterpillar(A Little Change Can Go A Long Ways), Indian Summer(Orchard), Moss Icon(Mirror), Radiohead(Exit Music[For A Film]), Heroin(This Time), Godspeed You! Black Emperor(Moya), Converge(Homewrecker), Pink Floyd(Shine On You Crazy Diamond I - V), Kaospilot(School Of Assasins), The Swords Project(City Life), The Microphones(Map), Unwound(Off This Century), Mogwai(My Father My King), Agoraphobic Nosebleed(Glass Tornado), Orchid(Aesthetic Dialectic), Glenn Branca(Symphony #2), Explosions In The Sky(Snow And Lights), yeah I think you get the picture

 

[Verago]

Van Der Graaf Generator - almost everything (my fav. band at the moment )
Peter Hammill - all of his 70´s stuff + later 90´s stuff

Jethro Tull - Aqualung / Thick as a Brick

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Noonward Race

 

[plattopus]

I listen to so much non-metal stuff I could name thousands of good songs, but these are a few pop songs I like:

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
A-Ha - Take on Me
Radiohead - heaps of songs
Anathema - All of A Fine Day to Exit
Sigur Ros - heaps of songs
Chroma Key - Colorblind, America The Video, S.O.S.
Porcupine Tree - Piano Lessons, Even Less, Pure Narcotic, Radioactive Toy
Tori Amos - Winter, Mother

I could continue for a long time but I won't.

 

[Useful Idiot]

Camel - Air Born
Camel - The Final Encore
Pink Floyd - Dogs
Pink Floyd - Echoes
Gordian Knot - Some Brighter Thing
Gordian Knot - Rivers Dancing

 

[narcisco]

Kays Choice- I'm not an addict

Bruford- Palewell Park

Jaco Pastorious- Portrait of Tracy

 

[Till Fjalls]

Hmmm, a few ones I agree with ( or have heard at least ) so far...

Anyway, here's what I think:

1)Yes-Close To The Edge (Actually, this is as metal as rock can get I think...)
2)Porcupine Tree-Trains
3)Anekdoten-Karelia
4)Anekdoten-The Old Man and The Sea
5)Don Caballero- Slice Where you Live Like Pie

Actually, this is quite a tough decision. I listen to as much non-metal as I listen to metal these days...But I don't actually like either better than the other. Good music is good music to me...Though I never thought I see the day when I listened to as much or more of prog/rock than metal...

 

[Deafbystereo]

I listen to probably more non-metal than metal, but here are a few of my favourite non-metal bands:
Kyuss, Eleven Pictures, Satanic Surfers, Bombshell Rocks, Fugazi, Clutch,
Death by Stereo, and ermm....the police.

 

[DreamingofUr]

Rush-Xanadu
Camel-Air Born
Dream Theater-Trial Of Tears(live)
Porcupine Tree-Baby Dream In Cellophane
Cranberries-Daffodil Lament
Steve Vai-For The Love Of God
Led Zepplin-Since I've Been Loving You(live)
Van Halen-5150(cheesy as hell but awesome geetar!)
Pink Floyd-Dogs

 

[Black Dragon]

Personal faves:

BÖC-Don't fear the Reaper, Take Me Away, In the presence of another world

Pink Floyd-Dogs,Sheep

Dire Straits-Sultans of Swing, and one other that I can't think of namewise

Montrose- Space Station #5

Caravan-Nightmare(killer violin solo )

Camel-Lady Fantasy

Rush-about 20 songs

Orange Goblin-Land of Secret Dreams

The Stones-Gimme Shelter

9000 others, I just don't feel like typing.

 

[warsofwinter]

95% of the metal I hear these days is shit anyway... well I can't really say that but most of them just copy other bands.
The Beatles
Nirvana
A perfect Circle
Tool ( don't concider these guys metal, experimental rock at it's finest)
Phish
Pink Floyd
Rush
Yes
Radiohead

 

[warsofwinter]

Actually, this is quite a tough decision. I listen to as much non-metal as I listen to metal these days...But I don't actually like either better than the other. Good music is good music to me...Though I never thought I see the day when I listened to as much or more of prog/rock than metal...

Nor did I .. we used to be such hardcore metalheads dude .. But I've found music outside the genre (as a whole) that I cannot compare to music inside but can still enjoy just as much or more .. like radiohead's new album for example .. good music ... too many bands in metal these days are tryin way too hard to be like there influences.
I've heard 50 In Flames copys... there must be 100 of the same for At the Gates .... barely any of these bands pull it off .. and if they do it still sounds like the bands they are trying to be like which makes them shitttttttttttttttty..

 

[taken by the reaper]

Hmmm, a few ones I agree with ( or have heard at least ) so far...

Anyway, here's what I think:

1)Yes-Close To The Edge (Actually, this is as metal as rock can get I think...)
2)Porcupine Tree-Trains
3)Anekdoten-Karelia
4)Anekdoten-The Old Man and The Sea
5)Don Caballero- Slice Where you Live Like Pie

Actually, this is quite a tough decision. I listen to as much non-metal as I listen to metal these days...But I don't actually like either better than the other. Good music is good music to me...Though I never thought I see the day when I listened to as much or more of prog/rock than metal...

Porcupine Tree - Trains

..cant believe i forgot that one...that is possibly the greastest non-metal acoustic ever