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[JediBendu]

Is it just me or is the term "underground" being utilized rather frivolously in this thread?

[jnagyjr]

Here is the link to Jeph's recommended listenng (not the blog):
http://questionablecontent.net/rl.php

Thanks for the list! Now I've got a place to start shopping from.

Keep in mind that Jeph likes a lot of electronica, which may or may not be your thing. Of that list I'd especially recommend Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Spoon (although Telephono/Soft Effects is my personal fave), Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Xiu Xiu (newest album=classic). Have you ever listened to Sonic Youth, you might like them. Start with Sister and work backwards and forwards from there.

I'd guess I only have around 200 bands in my collection, but when I like an artist I buy everything they've ever put out. Twenty-five bands probably count for almost a third of my collection. I should really start weeding out the bands for which I only bought one album and were like, yeah whatever.

I actually used to listen to a lot of trance/techno/electronica but that tapered off after a few years because of not being able to really get into the scene (nor being able to find albums in my local music shop, this was in the days before Amazon). I've actually started to listen to more recent stuff and am finding myself missing the music that came out of the mid- to late 90s. Even after 10 years or less, the scene has changed a lot from what I'm hearing.

[jnagyjr]

yeah, it would be pretty cool but no, I didn't intend the former. I'm just tired of the same old tired genres that I've grown up listening to. I want something different and good. I hate to say it though, I can't find anything positive or negative to say about the first Mogwai album I got. Happy Songs for Happy People is just, and I hate to say it, ironic.

I can give you a good list of my favorite (mostly underground) metal bands if that helps?

Thanks, that'd be nice. Something that isn't mainstream is always welcome.

Well, here goes:

Battlelore (power metal, some melodic death metal)
Blind Guardian (power metal)
Conception (progressive metal)
Derdian (power metal)
Dio (traditional metal, power metal)
Dream Theater (progressive metal)
Epica (symphonic power metal)
Galneryus (neo-classical metal, power metal)
Iron Maiden (traditional metal)
Kamelot (power metal)
Korpiklaani (folk metal)
Machinae Supremacy (progressive metal)
Masterplan (power metal, progressive metal)
Megadeth (thrash metal)
Sonata Arctica (power metal, progressive metal)
Tyr (folk metal)

As you can probably tell, I like a lot of power metal and progressive metal and you might like at least a few of the bands I've listed. I would especially recommend Kamelot, Galneryus, Machinae Supremacy and Masterplan.

Thanks, I'll start listening to those as soon as I get back from work (graveyard shift is awesome where I work).

[jnagyjr]

Is it just me or is the term "underground" being utilized rather frivolously in this thread?

Your icon reminds me of someone I used to converse with on LiveJournal.

[jnagyjr]

I'm just relieved to not be relegated to the local forum idiot. (: Now if I can keep it that way, I'll be doing real good.

BTW, about halfway through that metal list. Some really nice stuff so far.

[jnagyjr]

Woah, those bands are all good to one degree or another. I'm gonna have to stop listening to them for a bit or else I'm gonna go trying to buy their albums.

Thanks for the links!