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minkles:
I'll give three.

Neutral Milk Hotel- I can't explain, not even to myself, just why Neutral Milk Hotel is the best band ever, and the best there ever will be.  The sound of Jeff Mangum's voice sends me into a dreamlike state, transcending anything I would have thought capable of a mortal man.  In the Aeroplane Over The Sea as a whole communicates much more than the sum of it's parts.  I sometimes feel as if the meaning of life is contained in it.  I've listened to the album at least a hundred times, just in the last year, and it blows me away every time.  I've gone thrugh Neutral Milk Hotel mania.  I've downloaded early demos and countless bootlegs.  I spent the entirety of a day once just listening to it all.

Akron/Family- I've introduced this band to a lot of people, and I seem to be the only one who finds them revolutionary.  I think they are to me what Radiohead are for a lot of people.  This is some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard, and at the same time, it's very unique.  Though they're usually compared to Devendra Banhart, Animal Collective, and the like, I think they sound like a stripped down, experimental Radiohead, without the traces of pretention that prevent Radiohead from achieving perfection.  The fact that most people haven't heard of them, and many don't like them makes them feel even more like MY band.

Belle and Sebastian- Belle and Sebastian is a perfect pop band, but subversively so.  Stuart Murdoch has a very beautiful and soothing voice which complements the lush arrangements.  But their music is also filled with irony.  A quintessential Belle and Sebastian moment is on "Dress Up In You", when Stuart gently croons "They are hypocrites so fuck them too."  And "The Stars of Track and Field", for some reason, sounds to me like it could be a great punk song.  The fact that it's done as a light, airy pop song makes it all the much better.  But even without this irony, Belle and Sebastian's delightful twee sounds great on it's own.  And as I am a generally pleasant person with a tinge of subversity, it really speaks to me.

snarkydoormat:
My band is Pain of Salvation.

They're a Swedish progressive metal band who have been putting out concept albums since 1997. They've often been compared to Dream Theater, Pink Floyd, etc. with vocals evoking anyone from Freddie Mercury to Mike Patton.

Why are they MY BAND?

Well it comes about from my personal situation when i discovered them. My Issues, if you will.

Their two best albums, The Perfect Element and Remedy Lane, deal with depression. The former deals with general depression and feelings of being unable to escape one's heredity/given legacy/etc. It also shows the main character learning to own up to his mistakes, to stop blaming others. The latter is more specific, dealing with a relationship breaking down.

Two years ago, when I first heard this music, I was mired in both.



The albums are not uplifting in any sense of the word. They involve the main characters attempting to improve their situations, yet failing. Instead these albums provide a sort of Walpurgisnacht (the night in which Evil is purged, usually taking all the Good along with it). In addition, several lyrical passages have been extremely poignant and offered me a sort of comfort.

The songs "Morning on Earth", "Reconciliation", and "The Perfect Element" off "The Perfect Element" and "Ending Theme", "Undertow", "Waking Every God", and "Beyond the Pale" off Remedy Lane fit this description.

Furthermore, Daniel Gildenlow, singer, songwriter, and guitarist for Pain of Salvation, has crafted some of the most watertight concept albums, surpassing even the likes of Roger Waters and Pete Townsend, in my opinion. Both of these albums share a few common structural elements, such as a mid-album "Song of (short-lived) Hope" as well as a 10-minute epic track that wraps up the album, both in terms of the concept as well as being a musical tour-de-force (in the good way, IndieTits fans).

These albums will change you. I believe that these albums helped me stay functional throughout the past tow years.

end.

TrueNeutral:
The Eels.

The goddamn Eels, man.

E writes what he feels down and puts it to music. It doesn't get any better than that. I've listened to so much E and Eels stuff that sometimes I feel like I actually know the guy.

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