The thread where you talk about non-metal music you like.

Heres an Aussie band Karnivool thats been getting plenty of spins lately. They have a unique sound, to me they sound like Incubus or Dredg at times. edit: the song doesn't start until about 2:15 in

 
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I realized I listen to more non-metal than I thought....just not very often:

10 Years
3 Doors Down
AFI
Alice in Chains
Andy McKee
Audioslave
Authority Zero
Bush/Institute
Chevelle
CKY
Coheed & Cambria
Cold
Dark New Day
Dave Matthews Band
Days of the New
Eve 6
The Exies
Foo Fighters
Fuel
Joe Satriani
Led Zeppelin
Live
Matchbox20
A Perfect Circle
Rise Against
Seether
Shinedown
Smashing Pumpkins
Staind
STP
Soundgarden
Temple of the Dog
Tool
Unwritten Law
Wolverine (not sure whether they are prog rock or metal)
 
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They could be singing the Postman Pat theme and I'd still be watching the music vids....
 
Add N to X
Air
Alice in Chains
Animal Collective
Aphex Twin
Arcade Fire
Autechre
Battles
Bauhaus
Beck (before he got stale)
Beirut
Belle & Sebastian
Big Black
Bjork
Bloc Party
Boards of Canada
Bob Dylan
Brian Eno
British Sea Power
Broken Social Scene
Butthole Surfers
Can
Captain Beefheart
Cocteau Twins
Coil
Colour Haza
Comets on Fire
Cowboy Junkies
Daniel Johnston (hehe)
David Bowie
Dead Can Dance
Dead Kennedys
Deerhunter
Die Form
Dinosaur Jr.
Dismemberment Plan
Einsturzende Neubauten
Elliot Smith
Eyeless in Gaza
Faith and the Muse
Faust
Frontline Assembly
Fugazi
Gang of Four
Gary Numan
Goldfrapp
Gorillaz
Grizzly Bear
Husker Du
Interpol
Iron & Wine
Jane's Addiction
Jesus & Mary Chain
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers
Joy Division
Killing Joke
Ladytron
LCD Soundsystem
Leonard Cohen
Liars
Lou Reed
Marilyn Manson (fuck off, lol)
Miranda Sex Garden
Misfits
Modest Mouse
Mogwai
Morphine
My Bloody Valentine
Naked Eyes
Neutral Milk Hotel
New Order
New York Dolls
NIN
Nirvana
No Age
Of Montreal
Oingo Boingo
Panda Bear
Paul Simon
Pavement
Pearl Jam (early to mid period)
Pere Ubu
Pink Floyd
PJ Harvey
Placebo
Portishead
Public Image Ltd
Radiohead
REM
Ride
Roxy Music
Sigur Ros
Silver Jews
Siouxsie & The Banshees
Sisters of Mercy
Skinny Puppy
Slint
Smashing Pumpkins
Sonic Youth
Soundgarden
Spoon
Squarepusher
Swans
Talking Heads
Team Sleep
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
Television
The Beatles
The Chameleons UK
The Clash
The Cramps
The Cure
Decemberists
The Fall
The Frogs
The Jesus Lizard
The Knife
The Moldy Peaches
The New Pornographers
The Pixies
The Replacements
The Residents
The Sea and Cake
The Smiths
The Stooges (or Iggy & The Stooges)
The Teardrop Explodes
The White Stripes
This Mortal Coil
Thom Yorke
Thomas Dolby
Tom Waits
T-Rex
TV on the Radio
Velvet Underground
Venetian Snares
Wall of Voodoo
Ween
Wilco
The Wipers
Wire
Xiu Xiu
XTC
Yo La Tengo

and that's just the music that's in my "rock" section on my computer. many more but I don't have the motivation.
 
Add N to X
Air
Alice in Chains
Animal Collective
Aphex Twin
Arcade Fire
Autechre
Battles
Bauhaus
Beck (before he got stale)
Beirut
Belle & Sebastian
Big Black
Bjork
Bloc Party
Boards of Canada
Bob Dylan
Brian Eno
British Sea Power
Broken Social Scene
Butthole Surfers
Can
Captain Beefheart
Cocteau Twins
Coil
Colour Haza
Comets on Fire
Cowboy Junkies
Daniel Johnston (hehe)
David Bowie
Dead Can Dance
Dead Kennedys
Deerhunter
Die Form
Dinosaur Jr.
Dismemberment Plan
Einsturzende Neubauten
Elliot Smith
Eyeless in Gaza
Faith and the Muse
Faust
Frontline Assembly
Fugazi
Gang of Four
Gary Numan
Goldfrapp
Gorillaz
Grizzly Bear
Husker Du
Interpol
Iron & Wine
Jane's Addiction
Jesus & Mary Chain
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers
Joy Division
Killing Joke
Ladytron
LCD Soundsystem
Leonard Cohen
Liars
Lou Reed
Marilyn Manson (fuck off, lol)
Miranda Sex Garden
Misfits
Modest Mouse
Mogwai
Morphine
My Bloody Valentine
Naked Eyes
Neutral Milk Hotel
New Order
New York Dolls
NIN
Nirvana
No Age
Of Montreal
Oingo Boingo
Panda Bear
Paul Simon
Pavement
Pearl Jam (early to mid period)
Pere Ubu
Pink Floyd
PJ Harvey
Placebo
Portishead
Public Image Ltd
Radiohead
REM
Ride
Roxy Music
Sigur Ros
Silver Jews
Siouxsie & The Banshees
Sisters of Mercy
Skinny Puppy
Slint
Smashing Pumpkins
Sonic Youth
Soundgarden
Spoon
Squarepusher
Swans
Talking Heads
Team Sleep
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
Television
The Beatles
The Chameleons UK
The Clash
The Cramps
The Cure
Decemberists
The Fall
The Frogs
The Jesus Lizard
The Knife
The Moldy Peaches
The New Pornographers
The Pixies
The Replacements
The Residents
The Sea and Cake
The Smiths
The Stooges (or Iggy & The Stooges)
The Teardrop Explodes
The White Stripes
This Mortal Coil
Thom Yorke
Thomas Dolby
Tom Waits
T-Rex
TV on the Radio
Velvet Underground
Venetian Snares
Wall of Voodoo
Ween
Wilco
The Wipers
Wire
Xiu Xiu
XTC
Yo La Tengo

and that's just the music that's in my "rock" section on my computer. many more but I don't have the motivation.

You have excellent taste. You should dig into bands like This Heat, Gang Gang Dance, and Burial.
 
Man I love Final Fantasy soundtracks, and the piano arrangement albums, and the orchestra stuff. It's all so emotional
 
he new bands that I am listening to these days, Non-metal wise, are Kings Of leon. Fuck I actually think they are really fucking cool fuck

also MGMT makes me smile from time to time. Decent listen
 
let's see..

Been on a Magma kick again lately and that's gonna branch out into my other more 'different' prog I have like Island. I wish there were some Magma remasters with nice booklets, the only CD copies seem to be the first Seventh Records printings, from back in 1993. Magma is sort of like King Crimson mixed with John Coltrane mixed with Klingon opera (and oddly enough, that's not the lone Trek reference this post will have).

Bought 'Dandelion Gum' by Black Moth Super Rainbow from AQ and aside from the lame packaging I've been very much getting into the album. It literally sounds like drugs, candy, summer, and trees, but without being strictly gimmick. It's hard to explain.. you'll either catch the vibe or you won't. The songs are short and yet feel very completed and full of feeling, and the album seems to flow just how it should, without being too short. I also love all the old crazy analog keyboard and programming equipment used on it.

Used my Christmas Best Buy gift card to get Arcade Fire - Neon Bible and William Shatner - Has Been... I had only heard one song off the later and decided to be adventerous.. pretty good stuff... I can hear more potential than what is there, but there is a lot of good stuff there. Sort of indie rock mixed with chamber music mixed with American folk-rock..sort of. The male vocals are irritating on one or two songs and I wish there were some more extended instrumentals, but I highly enjoy most of the songs on there now.

The William Shatner album is also very good...it does contain the joking quality one would expect in a few songs, but also has some very serious ones, there is a lot of balance in mood and style on the album. It's very diverse in ways, but usually stays within the realm of hipster rock yet without the usual pretentiousness (because it's the Shat..any pretentiousness is goodness in that context). I hate Ben Folds and yet I enjoyed his production and writing on this album. Henry Rollins is on one song and it's slightly epic.


Magma reigns supreme!!!!!!
Its like King Crimson on supercrack.
 
I had a bit of an industrial break, but I started out listening to some Hocico again which is some of the best industrial period. Its really trance like industrial with black metal type vocals. Highly recommended. Also been listening to a band called Hecate which is like some wierd techno breakcore industrial black metal. The main chick is really hot, so it ended up being sorta appealing. Its really not that bad if you get beyond the breakcore part.