A few of us have a few bands that it seems only you know, and the rest of the world just shrugs to the name of. Gimme your list of musicians that your mates don't know about. I feel I need to expand my tastes to something/one I haven't heard.

Gomez - been around for ages. Beautiful music by beautiful nerds.
Alabama 3 - Brixton born artists who created the Soprano's theme tune. Particularly like their acoustic Last Train to Mashville album.
MF Doom - alternative rap that is only described by his critics as 'unique' and 'genius'.
4hero - acid jazz experimentalists
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Best modern classical themed music ever. Perpetiuum Mobile is soul touching.


..you get the idea. Now you try it.

Arovane - Autechre-like melodies, I guess. 'Theme' should tell you if you like it
Izmar - http://www.legaltorrents.com/index.php?fuse=10 get it legally there. "delightfully groovy, beautifully programmed jazzy techno/chillout"
edIT - glitchy yet easy IDM

I'll check out 4hero now.. I still like Kruder&Dorfmeister :)

You crazy crazy man. Everyone's heard of MF Doom.

4hero started dipping into trance in their later stuff, as apposed to their earlier soft-beat vibes. Incidently, 4hero - Les Fleur (a remix of Minnie Ripperton) is quite astounding.

Arovane - Theme is pretty damn good btw! Nice one luv.

My Darkest Hate - Death Metal
Kataklysm - Death Metal
The Berzerker - Industrial Metal / Grindcore

Those bands are godlike.

ALKALINE TRIOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Bled
venerea
Ten Masked Men

Big E, Funk Bus, and Cellar Door.

Chimera
Finntroll (not many listen to metal that I know)
Jag Panzer
Narnia
Quo Vadis
lots of others but you probabl heard of them

For some hip hop

Gortex
Necro
Ill Bill

Danger Mouse And Jemini, heard it from Luke
Hieroglyphics, nice hop-hip
Günther
Capone-N-Noreaga, ah you may know this1 anyway old gangsta rap couldnt be better

Death from Above 1979
Download - Romantic Rights
Metric
Combat Baby

Atom and his package
The Flaming Lips
Zao
Extol
T Rex
Ben Folds Five (Ben Folds)

the flaming lips are good ^__^

Basically every shanty band.

pretty much anything i listen to noone knows about

Oh, forgot my list but already 2 of the bands I was gonna put have been mentioned :P

Ten Masked Men - exaggerated metal
FinnTroll - troll metal
Burzum - black metal
Kalmah - death metal
Amon Amarth - death metal

A lot of people have heard of them, but I don't really listen to anything else :O

Dream Theater
Poets of the Fall

Some of my local bands:

The Bleeding Alarm http://www.purevolume.com/thebleedingalarm Post Hardcore / Indie / Rock
Stutterfly http://www.purevolume.com/stutterfly Metal / Alternative / Post Hardcore
Cry of the Afflicted http://www.purevolume.com/cryoftheafflicted Hardcore / Alternative / Punk

Oh...and...this is necessary:
http://www.purevolume.com/dirtydevilz

yes

Nina Simone ---Jazz
Serge` Rachmaninoff ---Classical
Ynwgie Malmsteen ( single best guitarist EVER!!! ) ---Unique Rock, I prefer his flamenco guitar to anything, but...
Adam and his package ( funny s.o.b ) No real designation
The Laziest Men on Mars ( all your base are belong to us......) ---Techno
William Orbit ---Techno
Aria ---Classical vocalists/techno ( freggin smooth stuff there)

you tell them spec.

Thanks for your input so far peeps. Been fun checking out stuff i've never heard of. Ain't had time to check out all of them, or they're just hard to find, but i'll give 'em a gander when I can.

The Bled & Berzerker - I don't understand this music at all. What kind of frame of mind do you get into to appreciate it?
Yngwie Malmstreen - Good guitarist, reminds me alot of Iron Maiden. Not really my vibe no more though.
Zao - Makes me tired thinking the amount of energy they put into their tunes. Good stuff though, I like.
Chimera - Nice solid beats with a calming effect. Groovy.
Atom & his package - ..I see what you mean ... s'what Ben Folds would be like if they were japanese.
Alkaline Trio - Good stuff, but I've heard it all before to be honest. Just seems repackaged.

Zao has a song ("La resistance" or something) on Flash Flash Revolution (http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/ -- it's a flash version of the game "Dance Dance Revolution"). They're alright.

* The Hidden Cameras; some canadian gay church-folk band : http://www.thehiddencameras.com/
* Ultrasport; finnish indiepop, obviously influenced by 'Beellee & Seebbaasstiaan' : http://www.ultrasport.org
* Xiu Xiu; drummachine, bipolar disordered voice and a few riffs : http://www.killrockstars.com/bands/factsheets/xiuxiu/
* Xinlisupreme , Japanese noise, brings a mix of My Bloody Valentine, Jesus & Mary Chain and Merzbow.
* Coil, the ancestors of dark ambient : http://www.brainwashed.com/coil/main.html
* Current 93, occult neo-folk : http://www.brainwashed.com/c93/
* Blonde Redhead, experimental/prog rock, pixies on a lazy sunday afternoon : http://www.4ad.com/artists/blonderedhead/
* ...
* lots of singersongwriters all over the world

'n sync

Dynamite Hack
Nikki Hurst www.nikkihurst.com
Andy Roy
The Solution
a whole bunch of 80's stuff

quote:The Berzerker - Industrial Metal / Grindcore
uve got to be kidding me, worst band on earth by a mile!

I like alot of the local bands. SOme of my pals aren't so into the local scene, but I'd rather pay $5 to see a band I really like in a small venue than $30 or more to see some MTV band that needs the money for more coke.
Check these out if you wanna:
www.thehdb.com - The Hairy Drain Babies. Local punk outfit, reminicant of Dead Kennedys.
www.theteethband.com - The Teeth. Absolutely insane local band. Uncatogorizable...crazy guitar, short songs with screaming, but definetly not metal.

Both these sites have more than a few free downloads of songs so check em out.