so, here's the deal: i'm finding my current music collection a little stale. seeing as several of you are fellow music enthusiasts, i figured i'd ask you if you could recommend me a new artist or two that i may not be familiar with, keeping in mind that i despise almost all of the shit that's on mainstream radio right now (especially rap) and mainly listen to 70's/80's rock. hell, i may even give a prize if someone comes up with an awesome selection*.

i'll even give you a list of some of my favorite bands to work with (and no, you can't win by naming any of these)

70's/80's:
Bon Jovi
Dire Straits
Foreigner
Heart
Journey
Fleetwood Mac/Stevie Nicks, etc.
INXS
Chicago
Kansas
Queen
Phil Collins/Genesis
U2
Van Halen
Eddie Money
38 Special
The Police/Sting
Starship/Jefferson Airplane
Cheap Trick

Others:
Smashing Pumpkins
Blink-182 and spinoff bands thereof
Red Hot Chili Peppers (especially their older stuff)
Johnny Cash
Hawthorne Heights
Goo Goo Dolls
Rascal Flatts
Garth Brooks
lostprophets
Gin Blossoms
Story of the Year
The Fray
AFI

*does anyone else think it might be a good idea to have contests on here where you give away care packages and shit? like we tried to do on TG a while ago, but never got it really going.

fucking POISON!!

most of the shit i'd recommend you already listen to i'm sure, like pumpkins and floyd and skynrd and all that kinda shit. all my other suggestions are mostly metal so i doubt you'd like 'em. crotchduster is funny. slayer is deadly. venom is classic and satanic.

aww shit well i'mma have to go through a bunch of 70's, 80's stuff you didn't mention JUST in case you haven't heard them, though I suspect you already have.

Deep Purple - House of Blue Light, Perfect Strangers, & Nobody's Perfect albums. . .ALL winners!

80's hair bands - Ratt, Cinderella, Dokken, Warrant, Whitesnake, Faster Pussycat, etc. . .I don't know!!

you could ask these guys here.

http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/messages/index.php

Buzzcocks, Ramones

You know what you're talking about man...

I'd also go for The Foo Fighters, and of course Genesis, but not with that Phil Collins piece of SHIT singing. Peter Gabriel pwned him.

Judging from your list, I think you'd really like "The Greater of Two Evils" & "Vol. 8 - The Threat is Real" by Anthrax.
I'd also recomend "The Spine" by They Might be Giants. If you're not familiar with TMBG then "A Users Guide to They Might Be Giants" would be a good place to start.
Some old Slayer albums might do you some good too. Just make sure they were recorded before 1992. MOST everything they've done since then sucks IMO.
I second the Foo Fighers recomendation.

80's:

Billy Idol
Def Leppard
Duran Duran
Scorpions



Other stuff:

Collective Soul
Filter
Live
Matchbox 20
Offspring
Stabbing Westward
The Verve
The Vines
Wallflowers

I forgot to add anything by Disco Rick and/or The Dogs.

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If you like they might be giants after listening to them, or even if you don't, try listening to Ween. A good ween album is Chocolate and cheese, and I particularly like The Mollusk. Another guy who deserves a look is tom waits, and his album Rain Dogs is a good choice. If you've never heard the talking heads, go download their album 77 immediately or :kill: :skull:

Ween ftw, The Mollusk is one of my all time favorite albums, mainly due to it's theme. If you enjoy that theme as well, check out Mastodon's Leviathan album. They don't sound like 70's, 80's rock they are prog metal but still I recommend to anyone. ( white whale holy grail. . .l ) :jam:

I've heard of Tom Waits before. He's the hobo who plays lounge music. Great stuff!

also check out Joy Division, Depeche Mode, Fugazi, The Cure, Sebadoh (I once stood 2 feet from Lou Barlow's ass!!)

and don't forget to look for this song. " Juke Box Hero " I think it's called I heard it on the radio tonight at work I don't really know how it goes because it's hard to hear the radio but it sounds like one of those lost 80's hits.

You might like Night Ranger's " Sister Christian " as well. . .

I'll have to look through my brother's cd collection it sounds like you have the same tastes in music as him, he grew up on 70/80's music like dat.

edit: ok i just thought of a few more.

Bob Seger, Billy Joel, Billy Idol, George Thoroughgood and the Destroyers, Hank Williams Jr, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Bangles, Bananarama, Great White, Slaughter, Skid Row fo sho' mang!, Belinda Carlisle, Bad Company, Madonna's " Live to Tell " ( arguably her best all time song check it out if you haven't heard it ) ABBA, Pretenders, Scorpion, BADLANDS!!!, Danger Danger, Enuff-Z Nuff, Firehouse ( i'm kinda against that one but eh it fits ) Steve Winwood, Robert Palmer, Van Morrison, Allman Brothers, Grand Funk Railroad, Who, Asia, Pat Benatar, Boston, The Guess Who, Mott the Hoople, Cream, Gamma, Dinosaur Jr., The Flaming Lips, Shellac, uhhh. . .Joe Satriani's The Extremist and Flying in a Blue Dream albums, for eddie van halen fans. Bang Tango. . .well that's about it for now!

:comp:

2nd edit: i realize you probably heard a lot of them already but i ain't no mind reader so i just dropped some shit. :smoke:

Fu, you are a great man...

Dream Theater, One of the most amazingest bands I've ever heard, Im glad I got into them, it even made want to practice gutiar two hours a day :francis: :jam:

So far I've stuck with the 2 hour practice sessions for about 3 weeks.

haven't had a chance to listen to much yet, but a lot of what you suggest is right on.

side note: if any of you had suggested "big country," you'd be winning the contest now.

Primus, either ya love or hate 'em. "Sailing the Seas of Cheese" is IMO the only good album they have though. "American Life" would be the best song on that one.

"Permanent waves" by Rush was the first real rock album I ever heard, and I still listen to that album almost daily.

"Live at Pompeii" is a movie Pink Floyd made in a private live session at the ampitheatre in Pompeii. They were recording "Dark Side of the Moon" when they did it, and there is alot of studio sessions and interviews in the movie. It's out of print, but can be found on Ebay, and I got all the audio tracks long ago from, uherm, Limewire. :unsure: The version of "Echoes" in that movie changed my life forever, and is still awesome even long after i quit smoking. :yes: