So I listen to a lot of mainstream music (Green Day, RHCP, The Offspring, etc.). I'm trying to get into some good non-mainstream bands as I am tired of it. So recommend me some good bands, maybe a song or two from them. My iPod is in desperate need of good music! All help is appreciated.

inb4nightwishanddreamtheater

The examples you gave are pretty generic modern, alternative rock, however Green Day had three albums years ago that were pretty different than the ones today, my favourites are Dookie and Insomniac.

I'm going to list artists that i think you might like, their best albums (in my opinon), and some of their better songs

You may not like this post if you are 1) close minded and only listen to ROCK, EVERYTHING ELSE SUCKS, I HATE COUNTRY AND RAP, and 2) if you only like top 40 radio (though some top 40 is in here)

Continuing into the alternative rock world:

[ Harder music]

Ministry
- Albums: Psalm 69, Land of Rape and Honey
- Songs: Lava, Bad Blood, Just one fix, Fucked, NWO, Scare Crow

Static-X
- Songs: Burning Inside, Loser, Push It, Structural Defect

Fear Factory
- Songs: Cyberwaste, Edgecrusher, Obsolete, Invisible Wounds

[ Grunge / stuff that sounds similar ]
Alice in Chains
- Albums: Facelist, Dirt, Alice in chains (self-titled album), jar of flies
- Songs: No excuses, get born again, rotten apple, nutshell, i stay away, got me wrong, man in the box, down in a hole, rooster

Soundgarden
- Albums: Superunknown, Down On The Upside
- Songs: Black hole sun, pretty noose, burden in my hand, outshined, fell on black days

Stone Temple Pilots
- Albums: Thank You, Shangri - La Dee Da, Core
- Songs: All in the suit that you wear, big empty, crackerman, creep, dancing days, days of the week, interstate love song, lady picture show, no way out, plush, pretty penny, sex type thing, sour girl, Vaseline, wicked garden

Pearl Jam
- Albums: Yield, Vitalogy, Vs.
- Songs: daughter, animal, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, black, better man

Garbage
- Albums: Bleed like me, Garbage (self-titled album), Version 2.0
- Songs: breaking up the girl, milk, the trick is to keep breathing, push it, i think i'm paranoid, when I grow up, the world is not enough

- Other artists: Nirvana, Faith No More, Smashing Pumpkins

[ 90s Alternative ]

Lit
- Albums: A Place in the Sun
- Songs: Miserable, my own worst enemy

Sugar Ray
- Albums: 1459, Floored
- Songs: Every Morning, falls apart, Someday, Anyone, Speed home California

Sublime
- Albums: Sublime (self-titled); their other album 40oz to freedom sucks complete ass
- Songs: Badfish, Date rape, Doin' Time, Pool shark, Same in the end, Santeria, Seed, What I got, Wrong way

Blind Melon
- Albums: Blind Melon (self-titled)
- Songs: (I like every single song on the self-titled album, srsly): seed to a tree, soak the sin, i wonder, no rain

- Other artists: Gin Blossoms, The Cranberries

[ Other shit from the 90s and Trip hop ]
Rage Against The Machine
- Albums: The Battle of Los Ageles, Renegades (a cover album, but good), Evil Empire
- Songs: Testify, Guerilla Radio, Calm Like a bomb, sleep now in the fire, maria, ashes in the fall, tire me, without a face

Massive Attack
- Songs: Black Milk, Inertia Creeps, Angel, Karmacoma, Protection, Radiation ruling the nation, tear drop

[ Adult Alternative / Blue eyed jazz ]
Feist
- Songs: "1, 2, 3, 4", Inside and Out, La Sirena

Gabriella Cilmi
- Songs: Sweet about me, echo beach

Duffy
- Songs: Mercy, Stepping Stone, Breaking my own heart

- Other artists: Imogen Heap, Gil Scott-Heron, Kate Nash, Rachael Yamagata

[ Real Punk Rock ]
Minor Threat
- Songs: Bullshit, Straight edge, out of step, screaming at a wall, in my eyes

Black flag
- Songs: Damaged, Depression, Can see you, drinking and driving, retired at 21, my war, fix me, nervous breakdown, white minority

Dead Kennedys
- Albums: Bedtime for Democracy, Plastic Surgery Disasters
- Songs: Triumph of the swill, anarchy for sale, chickenshit confirmist, chemical warfare, police truck, too drunk to fuck, california uber alles, holiday in cambodia, mach-o-rama, and more and more, just check it out

Dead Milkmen
- Songs: Methodist coloring book, punk rock girl, takin' retards to the zoo, "I hate you, I love you", gorillagirl, beach party vietnam

- Other artists: Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop and the Stooges

[ Hiphop / Rap / Hardcore R&B / etc ]
Raekwon (the chef)
- Albums: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
- Songs: Ice water, rany dayz, wisdom body, guillotine

- Other artists: Ghostface Killah, 2pac, Notorious B.I.G., Ice T, Ice Cube, DMX

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And I have a lot more in mind from many genres

I didn't spell check this post aside from a quick glance over, i just did it up from memory =D so some song titles and album titles might be slightly off, I suggest googling around and also checking thepiratebay, you should listen to an entire album before saying you hate it.

stuff that you may or may not like depending on your taste.

early foo fighters (colour and the shape, there is nothing left to lose) base some lighter stuff with grunge influence from nirvana.

Pavement (Slanted & Enchanted, Crooked Rain) this is pretty hard to listen to at start it's an acquired taste

Radiohead (The Bends, OK Computer, Hail To The Thief, In Rainbows) I doubt you'll like the really electro stuff so i avoided that but all these albums are great

My favourite subject :) Ill list a variety of stuff, using polite's layout:

HIM
Albums - Razorblade Romance, Venus Doom
Songs - Bleed Well, Sigilium Diaboli, Right Here in my Arms, Heartache Every Moment

I could list so many more songs, but I imagine you'll listen to one and that's about it... They're a gothic band, quite melancholic.

CKY
Albums - Infiltrate-Destroy-Rebuild
Songs - Flesh into Gear, close yet far, escape from hellview, to all of you

If you've ever watched jackass, you'll probably know of these guys. Complex riffs, cool lyrics

Queens of the stone age
Albums - QOTSA, era vulgaris, songs for the deaf
Songs - 3s & 7s, i never came, if only, little sister, goin' out west

Foreign Objects
Songs - Test it out, Disengage the simulator

I think they called themselves Sci-Fi Death Metal. Sooo good, but you'd have to youtube them, and then maybe download them off limewire or something

69 eyes
Songs - Lost Boys, Still waters run deep, wasting the dawn, never say die

Clutch
Albums - Blast Tyrant, Clutch, Pure Rock Fury
Songs - Profits of Doom, Big News I + II, Pure Rock Fury, La Curandera,

The Cure
Songs - Friday Im in love, Lovecats, Inbetween days, Lets go to bed

Prince
Songs - Little Red Corvette, Purple Rain, Raspberry Berret,


I'll edit more in later. It would probably be easier to recommend you stuff if you listed more genres, as opposed to just 3 fairly similar bands. People off the top of my head that I'll expand upon when I do edit this - Justice, Pendulum, Mr Bungle, Dog Fashion Disco, World Under Blood, Black Sabbath, Desert Sessions, Eagles of Death Metal, Foo Fighters, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, System of a Down, Metallica, Muse, Placebo, Queen, Jack Penate, Adele, Duffy, Mark Lanegan, Gutter Twins, PJ Harvey, Last Shadow Puppets, Bon Iver, Icon and the Black Roses


Also, omghimoi

Uhh...

Foo Fighters/Nirvana/Rise Against/Red Hot Chili Peppers/Anberlin/Incubus/Alkaline Trio/MUSE

To name some.

[QUOTE USER="anthony" TIME="1236268795"]The examples you gave are pretty generic modern, alternative rock, however Green Day had three albums years ago that were pretty different than the ones today, my favourites are Dookie and Insomniac.[/QUOTE]

Hell yes. And of course, seemingly everyone I know that's a huge fan of Green Day, thinks their much earlier stuff is "good" but subpar in comparison, whereas IMO their newer songs are (with some exceptions) Top 40s shit that you'd get tired of in an hour. Give me some Brain Stew or Geek Stink Breath any day.

Polite called it

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Dream Theater

Learning to Live, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence



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Metallica

Master of Puppets, Dyer's Eve

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Megadeth


Hangar 18, Sleepwalker



Steely Dan

Bodhisttva, Reelin' in the years

Thanks for the suggestions so far guys. I'll be sure to listen to them all. And sorry for you little to work with but you should know that I'm really open-minded when it comes to music. I like most genres except country. I'll try to give you more bands to get a general feel on what I listen to when I'm on my computer (I'm using my iPod now, mind you).

M. Ward, going to a concert in Seattle tomarrow.

EDIT: And Andrew Bird, he's awesome.

Seriously, I can't see many bands.

Depends on your style really. Foo Fighters would be a good band.

EDIT: If you like some rap, Gangsta's Paradise is a cool song, but probably too known.

This little track is the only thing you will ever need:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-AoP3NOja0

The Meaning of Birth. This trumps life itself.

Say Anything is never a bad choice.

Get ...Is a Real Boy (including the re-release). Notable tracks would include:
-Yellow Cat (Slash) red Cat
-Belt
-Woe
-The Writhing South

Stuff's a lot less "mainstream". In the past several years they've released like two singles >_>
The newer album, In Defense of the Genre isn't as good. They've also got a bunch of old obscure stuff that you can probably torrent. <_<

well this seems like you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU

If not there is this for the videogame music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCFtBlKDIaM&feature=PlayList&p=4E3887549706C08F&index=0&playnext=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVGQIkYN2uI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9zZus_1_ag

Then there is Metallica and Led Zeppelin which kick the shit out of anything modern minus Tenacious D

[QUOTE]Then there is Metallica and Led Zeppelin which kick the shit out of anything modern minus Tenacious D[/QUOTE]

fusk year

Also, Guns n Roses.

Sorry, led Zeppelin sucks

lol but I gotta say they're better than the Rolling Stones.

[QUOTE USER="gameboy3333" TIME="1236563709"]Sorry, led Zeppelin sucks[/QUOTE]

sorry you were -100000'd for musical idiocy itt I'm pretty sure your musical opinion means nothing

[QUOTE USER="gameboy3333" TIME="1236563709"]Sorry, led Zeppelin sucks[/QUOTE]

Your taste in music sucks, and there's no way to deny it.