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I was curious if anyone could give me some suggestions on some new music to listen to? Any replies are appreciated. What I am into right now includes Classic Rock, Ninties Alternative, and Grunge, and Fusion Jazz. Though as of late my rock tastes are beggining to feel a bit stale, and I would definatley appreciate reccomendations for good Rock Bands.

Well if you want to get to the roots of grunge and 90s alt I would suggest the Ramones, The Misfits The Clash and other punk contemporaries. Take a look at some harder rock Metallica, Guns N Roses and Slayer if you want to see what evolved from the Classic Rock, by which I think you mean Zeppelin and the like.

What I listen to mostly right now is:
Danzig
Anthrax
Hank Williams III
Prince
Third Eye Blind
The White Stripes
The Misfits
Led Zeppelin
DJ Dan

Classic rock:

Lynyrd Skynyrd
Cheap Trick
Kansas
Boston

Fuck it, just get the soundtracks from Supernatural and Guitar Hero.

Listen to Johnny Cash.

That is all.

What the hell is 'fusion jazz?' Jazz and...what, exactly? Jazz encompasses so much already.

Johnny Cash has some good songs. My favorite is the one in the opening credits for the Dawn of the Dead remake.

here is a short list of some good bands:

Blue Oyster Cult is an excellent band. "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" for the win!
Jefferson Airplane has some good songs. The song "White Rabbit" comes to mind.
Kansas
Led Zeppelin
Styx

My tastes tend to be toward the heavier side of music, but some recommendations for the more general audiences:

In Extremo - Heavy metal and bagpipes.

Haggard (not to be confused with Merle) - Excellent symphonic metal band

Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus - Finnish heavy metal band. Unfortunately, a bit difficult to find outside of Finland. Some of their songs can be found on youtube, though.

Lordi - Fun hard rock, also Finnish

Jonathan Coulton - Nerd rock

Mary Prankster - Baltimore's punk rock sweetheart

The Dollyrots - Lighter fare, pop-punk

Zaia wrote:What the hell is 'fusion jazz?' Jazz and...what, exactly? Jazz encompasses so much already.

Jazz and anything that is "not jazz", a rather silly label if you ask me...

I would suggest looking for all the following bands in youtube to see if you like them:

Get Jeff Walker's Und Die Fluffers - Welcum to Carcass Cuntry, it's a load of country songs played heavier.

As for other stuff, I cannot recommend Deftones any harder. They're just amazing songwriters in my opinion, they never sit all in one camp, they just do their own thing and they've not made an album I didn't like.

Crowbar are a NO band that have an awesome sound as thick and fat as they are. If you like grunge you might like them.

Down - a similar but slightly lighter band/supergroup. One of the best bands ever in my humble opinion. Usually my tastes are a lot heavier than Down, but they really are the bitch's tits.

Corrosion of Conformity - similar to down but not quite as good.

You could also try out the first, third or fourth korn albums, see if you like their stuff.

Thank you for all of the replies, I will definatley check out the stuff listed so far.

J wrote:

Zaia wrote:What the hell is 'fusion jazz?' Jazz and...what, exactly? Jazz encompasses so much already.

Jazz and anything that is "not jazz", a rather silly label if you ask me...

'k, that's what I thought. *nods sagely and scampers off*

Zaia wrote:What the hell is 'fusion jazz?' Jazz and...what, exactly? Jazz encompasses so much already.

Fusion tends to be a segment of music which blends aspects of jazz (such as soloing over forms or different aspects of improvisation) and other genres, generally rock or funk (or more recently, hiphop and electronic music.)

Bands who might fall under that category include:
1. The Mahavishnu Orchestra
2. Chick Corea (More specifically, albums such as Light as a Feather)
3. Return to Forever (lead by Chick Corea)
4. The Headhunters
5. Billy Cobham
6. John McLaughlin

If you're into instrument-heavy stuff, you can't go wrong with Yes and Led Zeppelin (see sig :S.) I'm enjoying Dire Straits, Blue Oeyster Cult, and the Eagles whenever the come onto the radio, it seems.

Another mention goes out to Trans-Siberian Orchestra (who have achieved their greatest fame making hard rock remixes of Christmas instrumentals,) but they're not a very mainstream sort of thing.

Saurencaerthai wrote:

Zaia wrote:What the hell is 'fusion jazz?' Jazz and...what, exactly? Jazz encompasses so much already.

Fusion tends to be a segment of music which blends aspects of jazz (such as soloing over forms or different aspects of improvisation) and other genres, generally rock or funk (or more recently, hiphop and electronic music.)

Bands who might fall under that category include:
1. The Mahavishnu Orchestra
2. Chick Corea (More specifically, albums such as Light as a Feather)
3. Return to Forever (lead by Chick Corea)
4. The Headhunters
5. Billy Cobham
6. John McLaughlin

And let's not forget Allan Holdsworth, Ali di Meola and Pat Metheny.

Saurencaerthai wrote:

Zaia wrote:What the hell is 'fusion jazz?' Jazz and...what, exactly? Jazz encompasses so much already.

Fusion tends to be a segment of music which blends aspects of jazz (such as soloing over forms or different aspects of improvisation) and other genres, generally rock or funk (or more recently, hiphop and electronic music.)

Bands who might fall under that category include:
1. The Mahavishnu Orchestra
2. Chick Corea (More specifically, albums such as Light as a Feather)
3. Return to Forever (lead by Chick Corea)
4. The Headhunters
5. Billy Cobham
6. John McLaughlin

Seems kind of superfluous, since you could micro-analyze any genre and break it down to all the different influences if you wanted, but whatever makes you happy. It's all just 'jazz' to me.

Zaia wrote:

Saurencaerthai wrote:

Zaia wrote:What the hell is 'fusion jazz?' Jazz and...what, exactly? Jazz encompasses so much already.

Fusion tends to be a segment of music which blends aspects of jazz (such as soloing over forms or different aspects of improvisation) and other genres, generally rock or funk (or more recently, hiphop and electronic music.)

Bands who might fall under that category include:
1. The Mahavishnu Orchestra
2. Chick Corea (More specifically, albums such as Light as a Feather)
3. Return to Forever (lead by Chick Corea)
4. The Headhunters
5. Billy Cobham
6. John McLaughlin

Seems kind of superfluous, since you could micro-analyze any genre and break it down to all the different influences if you wanted, but whatever makes you happy. It's all just 'jazz' to me.

I suppose, as much as you could analyze any genre. Perhaps these labels are less use to some people these days because it is much more common practice, but at the time, what the aforementioned groups were doing was a distinct offshoot from the conventional rock, funk, and jazz genres. But hey, if people gladly lump everything from 1600-present that involves many western acoustical instruments as "classical," it's not a big deal to disregard designations for a much smaller segment (no malice behind this statement is intended, by the way.)

Saurencaerthai wrote:

Zaia wrote:Seems kind of superfluous, since you could micro-analyze any genre and break it down to all the different influences if you wanted, but whatever makes you happy. It's all just 'jazz' to me.

I suppose, as much as you could analyze any genre. Perhaps these labels are less use to some people these days because it is much more common practice, but at the time, what the aforementioned groups were doing was a distinct offshoot from the conventional rock, funk, and jazz genres. But hey, if people gladly lump everything from 1600-present that involves many western acoustical instruments as "classical," it's not a big deal to disregard designations for a much smaller segment (no malice behind this statement is intended, by the way.)

I'm sure there wasn't any malice intended. Would be pretty silly if there was, seeing as you probably remember I'm in the minority of those who know the specific difference between pop-culture "classical" and actual "classical" since I'm a professional musician myself.

JLTucker wrote:Johnny Cash has some good songs. My favorite is the one in the opening credits for the Dawn of the Dead remake.

Ah, I think it's called 'The Whirlwind'. I'm really fond of 'Hurt' however - I listened to it twenty odd times today.

Ford Prefect wrote:

JLTucker wrote:Johnny Cash has some good songs. My favorite is the one in the opening credits for the Dawn of the Dead remake.

Ah, I think it's called 'The Whirlwind'. I'm really fond of 'Hurt' however - I listened to it twenty odd times today.

And to think it was originally written by Trent Reznor.

But yeah, Cash's music in his later years is just hauntingly beautiful, particularly the last entries in the American series.

Ford Prefect wrote:

JLTucker wrote:Johnny Cash has some good songs. My favorite is the one in the opening credits for the Dawn of the Dead remake.

Ah, I think it's called 'The Whirlwind'. I'm really fond of 'Hurt' however - I listened to it twenty odd times today.

Isn't it called The Man Comes Around? And YT should shut up, Reznor's a fantastic songwriter.

Rye wrote:And YT should shut up, Reznor's a fantastic songwriter.

Oh, I agree. The Downward Spiral especially is an awesome album, but it was just a shock hearing Johnny Cash singing it. "Isn't that a NIN song? Holy shit!"

YT300000 wrote:

Rye wrote:And YT should shut up, Reznor's a fantastic songwriter.

Oh, I agree. The Downward Spiral especially is an awesome album, but it was just a shock hearing Johnny Cash singing it. "Isn't that a NIN song? Holy shit!"

I remember when I first heard Cash's cover that Trent Reznor had said something about how he'd felt more depressed than he ever had in his life because the album hadn't sold as well as he'd hoped, but that hearing that Johnny Cash had covered a song of his totally got him out of his depression.

No idea if that's true or just rumour, but I thought it was interesting.

Something to that effect. Nowadays, whenever he speaks of Hurt, he refers to it as a song that isn't his anymore, as Cash maintained the meaning and emotion perfectly, despite being in a totally different genre, age, etc.