Definitely listen through Futures then. it's dark, diverse and kind of epic in scope like Cities is. I'd go to Invented and/or Clarity after that based on Lowborn. Invented is very diverse like that record, while Clarity has that kind of ambient atmosphere in it.
Alphabetically: Anberlin Bombay Bicycle Club Chvrches Grizzly Bear From Indian Lakes Local Natives MuteMath Needtobreathe Purity Ring Vampire Weekend
Awesome, thanks Benjamin. I'm going to take your advice and check these records out first chance I get.
Personally I really enjoy ranking things, I keep reordering my list of favorite artists every once in a while. 1. Green Day 2. Muse 3. The Wonder Years 4. Brand New 5. Radiohead 6. Jimmy Eat World 7. The Front Bottoms 8. Modest Mouse 9. blink-182 10. Biffy Clyro Edit: I'll add a few more. The Mountain Goats, Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, Thrice, Manchester Orchestra, The Hives. But honestly, there are so many bands that I've just started to listen to which could end up in this list in a matter of months.
ill do a top 15 Motion City Soundtrack Thursday Every Time I Die Circa Survive Jimmy Eat World Fall Out Boy Bayside The National The Gaslight Anthem mewithoutYou Kanye West Copeland The Hotelier Against Me! Deftones yeah im pretty comfortable with that I suppose. some that just barely missed the cut: Brand New, Thrice, Yellowcard, The Cure, Death Grips, Converge, The Dangerous Summer, Sleater-Kinney
I figure a band needs to have certain amount of music out before I can really consider them a favorite. Most of these have stacked discographies. Mock Orange Weatherbox Polar Bear Club AFI Saves The Day Patrick Park Silversun Pickups Minus The Bear Good Old War Bayside Every Time I Die Motion City Soundtrack I quit. This is too hard.
AFI Alkaline Trio Bayside Thrice Black Sabbath Jawbreaker Norma Jean Killswitch Engage The Lawrence Arms Every Time I Die The Wonder Years letlive. Darkest Hour Bad Religion
1. My Chemical Romance 2. Fightstar 3. Nate Ruess (fun./The Format) 4. The Smiths 5. Copeland 6. Kamelot 7. Death Cab for Cutie 8. Imogen Heap 9. Motion City Soundtrack 10. Joshua Radin 11. John Mayer 12. mewithoutYou 13. Say Anything 14. Frank Turner 15. The Reign of Kindo Hellogoodbye, The Hotelier, Chad Perrone, Frightened Rabbit, The 1975 and Kanye West are all close. Also Eminem's a weird one for me because I love his first three albums so much but I hate what he is now so much.
no particular order except the first one kanye west copeland jimmy eat world bon iver kendrick lamar fall out boy passion pit chvrches danny brown sufjan stevens burial tame impala thrice radiohead
Weezer Relient K mewithoutYou Death Cab for Cutie The Beatles Copeland The Hold Steady Bleach Sherwood Jacks Mannequin
All of these are cool. Crazy to see just how diverse these are, seems like everyone has at least one band on their list no one else has.
I tried to do mine off the top of my head without looking at my Spotify or iTunes. If I forgot about anyone I probably don't like them as much as these. I like seeing mewithoutYou on so many lists though.
I'll add more to my list. I literally ranked every band in my itunes library. haha 11. Secret & Whisper 12. David Bowie 13. Emery 14. The Dear Hunter 15. Coheed & Cambria 16. Fair 17. The Postal Service 18. Anthony Green 19. William Beckett 20. I the Mighty Love all the mewithoutYou, Jimmy Eat World and Copeland love.
Brand New Portugal. The Man Poison The Well Glassjaw Manchester Orchestra Deftones Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos Tokyo Police Club Tool Say Hi (To Your Mom) Strfkr Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground Edit: Animal Collective That's all I could think of, but I'm sure there are a few bands that for some reason just don't come to mind.
I'd probably start with Numbers & Mumbles. It's one of my favorites and shows their signature sound that is still present almost 6 albums after its release. Plus Hooplas Involving Circus Tricks is just an awesome song.
Just started it, I really like Pop Music of the Future already so I could see this being something I play a lot more. I really like the kind of ambient tom and hi-hat thing going on near the end, always liked drum patterns and production like that.
The hardest thing about rating band's for me is trying to put a band that has 2/3 albums I love against a band that has 3/4 albums I love but also a few I don't.
That's my biggest problem too. Like, if Secret & Whisper put out a couple more albums I loved they'd probably be top 5, but I couldn't justify putting them above so many bands that have 5+ albums I really like.
If Fair released one or two more albums on the caliber of their first two they'd probaby make my top 10. Love seeing them mentioned in any case though. One of the best bands no one seems to ever remember.