pearl jam and tool

That's all I listen to. I need new music, what should a guy like me put in my rotation?

A Perfect Circle.

Emmure.

Dunno. Try new genres? Arcade Fire a great bet. Depends on your tastes, really... Soundgarden?...

Soundgarden (they're in my avatar and username), Van Halen (with Diamond Dave), Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Queens of the Stone Age, Muse, Led Zeppelin, etc etc.

Originally Posted by Rhinosaur

Soundgarden (they're in my avatar and username), Van Halen (with Diamond Dave), Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Queens of the Stone Age, Muse, Led Zeppelin, etc etc.

I wouldn't quite go for the QOTSA nor Muse...


Rage against the machine have some good sounds. Also: Queen and Black Sabbath (you'd like particularly the song entitled The Wizard, perhaps). Ah, The Who, hehe.

Yeah Soundgarden, Live, Chilli Peppers - there are hundreds of good bands out there! John Butler Trio, Xavier Rudd.....

Yeah chili peppers!! BSSM is one of my favorite albums ever.

I love Queen and Sabbath!! The Who is ok, I haven't gotten too into them yet, but seeing as they're so important to rock music I'll probably end up checking out more of their work. QoTSA are a great band, imo with 2 of the best albums from 2000 on (A song for the Deaf and Lullabys to Paralyze). Muse my little bro turned me on to, they seem to have a rather large Queen influence which I like.

Wow I hate Pearl Jam, it's not that they make bad music(mostly), but my mom is obsessed with them. She listens to them every freaking day and talks about them all the time. It's quite irritating.

Maybe Breaking Benjamin or Chili Peppers are pretty good.

Pearl Jam mostly smokes the pole. I liked "Ten", but none of the albums after that. Kurt Cobain considered Pearl Jam wanna be grunge sellouts, and had a real dislike for Vedder. I like early PJ, but pretty much can't argue with what Kurt said. Soundgarden Pwns PJ so hard its not even funny. Cornell's lyrics are consistantly among the best ever in rock, and his vocals pwn almost all rock singers at every point in rock history.

Well to be perfectly frank, I don't really like either of those bands at all. But for your case, I would suggest learning a little more about grunge, maybe get into the roots of it. Do you like the more acoustic Pearl Jam songs? If so, find folk music of the 60s and 70s. Do you like their mid-harder stuff, or their attitude? Go with their contemporaries, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Mother Love Bone, Mad Season, Temple of the Dog, Mudhoney, etc, as well as supposed grunge roots bands like Husker Du and the Pixies, both of which I think you'd like. There was a lot of fantastic stuff in the early 90s, not just grunge, but indie (especially shoegaze), rave, metal, brit-pop, that sort of thing. If you like the era, try more bands from the time. Any genre! Listening to only one type of music is a sin!

Try and listen as much different music as possible. Here are some artists that came to my mind first.

Alice In Chains, Pantera, Pink Floyd, Sepultura, Black Sabbath, B.B King, The Beatles, Bad Religion, Danzig, Led Zeppeling, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Ozzy Osbourne, Dimmu Borgir, Bob Marley.

Hmmm, I'm going to add some detail:

A Perfect Circle: A must try really. With Maynard James Keenan on vocals, they're the perfect complement to Tool. As he put it himself, the band represents his more feminine side, with Tool as his masculine.

Rage Against the Machine: Definitely recommend RAtM to you. Vocals may be a bit different than Tool and PJ, but they make great use of extended technique in the guitar and bass, which is something I think any Tool fan can appreciate

Smashing Pumpkins: My personal favourite. So long as you can get into Billy Corgan's vocal style, I'm sure you'll like 'em. Great guitar work and lyrics. Overall incredible song writing

Alice in Chains: Definitely a must listen. Where Nirvana was more Punk inspired, and Pearl Jam influenced by classic rock (particularly the Who), AiC were very much more metal in style. Heavy riffs and haunting vocals. Fantastic band.

King Crimson: Maynard James Keenan, and indeed the rest of Tool will constantly cite King Crimson as their primary influence, and I really can't suggest them enough.

Those are my main suggestions, but I would also add: Mudhoney, Temple of the Dog, the Screaming Trees, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots and Mother Love Bone.

Glen Danzig was good in the Misfits as well as solo Ragabash, I agree with that.

If he likes any of what he's heard of rock music he's heard enough of both The Doors and Zepp to have made up his mind, so both of our suggestions are probably moot on that count. I honestly am no tool fan, and don't much care for APC either.

Temple of the Dog, as I mentioned in another thread, was a one off band formed as a rememberance of a friend of both Chris Cornell and Vedder.

Alice In Chains is the pwnage, seek it out.

The Pixies are not "supposed" grunge, but proto grunge, in that they came before and influenced much of what grunge would become. Same goes for Mudhoney, except that they weren't around quite as early as The Pixies IIRC. Either way, pick up "Wave of Mutilation" by the Pixies, its a good hits compilation.

Pantera. Can't go wrong.

Pearl Jam

The Pixies are not "supposed" grunge, but proto grunge, in that they came before and influenced much of what grunge would become. Same goes for Mudhoney, except that they weren't around quite as early as The Pixies IIRC. Either way, pick up "Wave of Mutilation" by the Pixies, its a good hits compilation.

As the Pixies are one of my all time favourite bands, I would suggest not picking up Wave of Mutilation, as it concentrates far too much on Surfer Rosa and Doolittle, and I think Trompe le Monde is far and away their best album. All their studio albums are good, though - it's worth picking them up (in any order, despite they all have unique sounds).

Judas priest, iron maiden, Saxon, motorhead, Pink Floyd, led zeppelin all great bands also listen to

Jeff Wayne's war of the worlds

I'm listening to that now lol.

Originally Posted by Racer X

As the Pixies are one of my all time favourite bands, I would suggest not picking up Wave of Mutilation, as it concentrates far too much on Surfer Rosa and Doolittle, and I think Trompe le Monde is far and away their best album. All their studio albums are good, though - it's worth picking them up (in any order, despite they all have unique sounds).

Well I defer to the expert then. I tend to hear a song I like from a band, then seek out some sort of compilation, then buy the albums individually. I liked everything I heard on Wave, but if you say Trompe le Monde is their best I'll have to get around to it sooner than I'd planned on.