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onewheelwizzard:
I don't know how many rap fans there are on these forums, but those who are reading this absolutely need to find a rapper named Louis Logic.  He's frighteningly good.

You know all those people who never listen to rap but "respect Eminem for his lyrical talent?"  They've never heard of Louis Logic (but then, since he's not very well known, "respecting him for his lyrical talent" doesn't get you any cred, so nobody would mention him anyway).  This guy makes Eminem look like a hack, though.  it's uncanny.

Se7en:
Ahem. He IS a hack.

muffy:
Yes, yes...all of what QHD said!
Also, Be Your Own Pet, for all their uber-cool posturing and press friendly appearance are floating my proverbial boat right about now.

And as it's been a while, I feel I can safely plug The Pipettes once again, who have just been signed, so hurrah.

Also, glasses - that is the bestest avatar ever!

Merkava:

--- Quote from: Kai ---

Tenacious D - I don't know how you wouldn't know em, but for the two of you that don't: Jack Black and Kyle somethingorother play two acoustic guitars and write songs about Satan and weed and shit. It fuckign rules.
--- End quote ---


I wish they'd make another album. :(

And some linkage for the bands I had listed...

Mock Orange (They completely remade themselves once they got to The First EP. They sound like nothing else out there. I highly recommend the band; Mind is Not Brain is my favorite record of 2004)

Bear Vs. Shark

Retisonic

Kimone (I didn't mention them before. They're very atmospheric and a knack for fairly complex songcraft)

Destroyer (didn't mention these guys either. They're great. Dan Bejar is one crazy lyricist and they write some darn good rock songs. Check out the stuff on the site and try and find their album Streethawk: The Last Seduction)

KharBevNor:
Tenacious D also made some of the greatest videos in the history of Rock and Roll. There are a good few bootlegs floating around containing songs by them that didn't make it onto the album, though be careful, as at least half of them are mis-labelled songs by Wierd Al or Green Jelly or someone equally improbable, p2p being what it is.

Now, to list some more bands nobody will listen to:

Orange Goblin Unsung heroes of Stoner Rock, their earlier albums are filled to the brim with seventies tinged, weed-smelling tracks about taking drugs and reading Lord of the Rings, neatly wrapping up the melodic end of the UK stoner scene dominated by doom metal and pure sludge bands like Iron Monkey and Electric Wizard. Recently they went through a big line-up shake-up and changed into a more Misfits-inspired punk outfit. Good shit whatever.

Recommended tracks: 'Magic Carpet', 'Saruman's Wish', 'White Night Cyanide', 'Crown of Locusts', 'You'll Never Get to the Moon in That'.

Bal-Sagoth It may just be that Bal-Sagoth embody everything you most loathe about metal: They are insanely pretentious (track names are sentence length and sprinkled with Conan The Cimmerian/Lovecraft style names, the singers stage-name is Lord Byron) insanely cheesy (They perform dressed as fantasy characters, waving swords and wearing chainmail, they sing about witch-queens and barbarians and space knights and Hyperboreans) and liberally sprinkle their music with both black metal influences and vastly cheesy keyboard.

But fuck, do they KICK ASS. All fantasy nerds, this is your music. Each album is a well-written stock fantasy novel told in song. Brilliant!

Recommended tracks: You do need to sit down with the lyrics sheet and absorb an album, but for individual tasters try 'The Dreamer in the Catacombs of Ur', 'To Dethrone The Witch-Queen Of Mytos K'unn (The Legend Of The Battle Of Blackhelm Vale)', 'Behold, The Armies of War Descend Screaming From the Heavens', 'In the Raven-Haunted Forests of Darkenhold, Where Shadows Reign and the Hues of Sunlight Never Dance', and 'Blood Slakes the Sand at the Circus Maximus'. (I wasn't joking).

Anyway, now I'm off to read some Harry Potter.

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