Modern rock bands you guys like?

CPicard wrote: Melt Banana (same as aboce, they're touring since the 90's).

Dungen

HolyMoly wrote: CPicard wrote: Melt Banana (same as aboce, they're touring since the 90's). I've been interested in checking them out - do you have a favorite album you'd recommend for starters?

To say the truth, I've been listening to them for... three months, maybe? So far, I've only listened to :
 - Cell-Scape (2003)
 - Bambi's Dilemma (2007).
 - Lite Live ver0.0 (2007)

i've been quite surprised: I was expecting something harsher, but an album like Bambi's Dilemma is close to some 90's punk-pop bands!

Ooh, I forgot to mention Deerhoof.  I like them quite a bit.  They're on PA, but they have pretty low ratings so far.

THE BLACK PARADE.

Edited by Gallifrey - March 25 2012 at 01:11

HolyMoly wrote: Ooh, I forgot to mention Deerhoof.  I like them quite a bit.  They're on PA, but they have pretty low ratings so far.

infocat wrote: A few people have mentioned My Chemical Romance.  What are your thoughts on their 2010 release, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys.  My only other MCR album is their debut, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love, which I didn't like much on first listen, but grew to like it later.  (Only had that one for a couple of years.)  Anyway, I found Danger Days to be one of the most disappointing albums I've ever bought.  Very mediocre pop-rock songs that sound like they were written by a record producer, not a rock band.

Danger Days is okay, it's an album I'll blast out in the car on the way to and from work but rarely play at home. Its four or five good tunes are spread a little too thinly for a 15-track album but still fun to scream along with as I'm driving through town. The problem for home listening is the concept's storyline only exists off the record so it doesn't hang together like The Black Parade, which lessens the effect of listening to it as whole. The Black Parade just works - it's flawed but it works, and for that I wouldn't change a thing. 

When you say modern rock bands I am assuming ones post-2000 and not on PA.

I really got into the Arctic Monkey's first 3 albums.

Clever lyrics and mostly energetic and very, very catchy stuff. I was hooked.

Their 4th and current album however Suck it and See is a major disappointment IMHO.

They had the opportunity to "do a Radiohead" and go in a different direction but they just went backwards on this release.

Here's hoping their next album is different....and as good as the first 3.

Although they are known all over the world, i just returned to hear them again and i am thrilled.
Jane's Addiction.

The Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, Radiohead, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, Dinosaur Jr., The Arcade Fire, Fleet Foxes, Nirvana, Black Mountain. I realize some of the bands in my list are considered Prog Related or Crossover, but whatever.

Edited by Fox On The Rocks - March 28 2012 at 15:31