Bands who rock but whom people may not think rock

[WeaselSlayer]

I adore Alice Donut.

[Caravan Ray]

mmmmmmm....donut

[fodroy]

And on a Decemberists note, Mariner's Revenge Song + Chimney Sweep + Infanta = Worth the price of admission.

i forgot to mention that if you're lucky enough to see them play the tain live, it's quite rockin'.

[furrypedro]

Is that the one where the dude pretends to be a big whale eating the whole audience?

I didn't know a thing about them til I saw that. I really love that Engine Driver song now.

[mkilly]

"Mariner's Revenge Song" is the one with the whale. "The Tain" is the one that's fifteen+ minutes long, based on an ancient Irish epic. I seen it twice, and it does rock very, very hard live.

[Damien Verrett (Jonas)]

Streetlight Manifesto skanks harder than anyone rocks.

[Adam!]

When a friend told me about Smoosh I figured them for a novelty act. The band is two girls -one a drummer and the other a keyboardist / vocalist- aged 10 and 12 respectively. Haha, I thought.

Well, today I saw one of their music videos, and by the time the second chorus kicked in I realized that these girls can rock harder than any keyboard/drum duo should have any right to, regardless of age. Turns out they've opened for Pearl Jam and Sleater-Kinney.

[fodroy]

holy crap.

just think what they'll be doing when they grow up. i still can't write songs as good as them and i'm 10 years older than they are.

[j$]

As I understand it, their parents are involved in the writing process, both of whom have music backgrounds, not that matters in the slightest, but don't worry too much, Fodroy.

Plus I heard them on the radio the other day. They do not rock. In the slightest. They have a keyboard, for god's sake! They're good, it's impressive, but that's not rock.

In other words, The new Artic Monkeys album is good, but not great. It sounds like a better Libertines to me - not enough variation and too much reliance on diminished and 6th chords to show what sophisticated musicians they actually are.

[fodroy]

yeah well, my mom helps me write my songs too...

[Adam!]

[Smoosh] do not rock.

I checked out their album, and yeah, other than La Pump they do not rock at all. Maybe they were being babysat by the guys from Death From Above when they wrote that one.

[GlennCase]

<a href="http://www.sonofsupercar.org/index.swf"target="blank">sonofsupercar</a>.

<a href="http://songfight.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1947"target="blank">RIP</a>

ROCK!

Glenn (DR FUNK)

[HeuristicsInc]

I pity the fool that thinks SOS did not rock.
-bill

[boltoph]

Bands who rock but whom people may not think rock

I love this opening line.

Do people think Kings of Leon rock?

Because I think they rock, damn hard! Especially their live performance, it blows away the albums. And the very first album, the EP, Holy Roller Novocaine. Love it!

[the idiot king]

Well, the list of bands that rock harder than Metallica is a fairly huge one.

Some that come to mind:

Mclusky - just one of the most incredible bands I've heard in a while. So intense and hilarious and unsettling and razor-sharp.

oh, yeah. the only live band i've seen who could out-heckle the hecklers.


i'll add xiu xiu to this, too. feeding reverb units into one another rocks so much more than a mesa with a gibson with all the mids sucked out.

[Reist]

They Might Be Giants rock pretty hard live. My ex-girlfriend and I had to leave early once because they were too loud for the damn club.

Don't they do music for homestar runner? Rock rock on!
I think this is them.
I think they did some music for Strong Bad Sings the album as well.

[catch]

Don't they do music for homestar runner?

They Might Be Giants have done every theme song for every show ever.

[Ratt Poizon]

Aw jeez, this thread could describe just about the entirety music collection... I'll come back to post after I've narrowed it down somewhat...and I'll try to keep it to the RAWK.

PW Long (post-Mule w/ MacMcNeilly) jumps to mind for some reason. Many would argue that his music is more bluesy than RAWK, but good golly did those guys put on a show...

PW Long definately RAWKS! I have no Idea how he plays guitar. It's like he's really drunk and just smackin' it around. I tried that once. it didn't work. also, I think i'd rather listen to phil collins than metallica. no joke.

[wormsweater]

Resurrecting a fairly dead thread here, but Mute Math definitely rock harder than you'd think. A Christian alt space-rock band with one of the best frickin' live shows imaginable. Live sampling, keytars, weird homebrew instruments: tightness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjKwHlzX2lE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pchHHrCXW4

[Märk]

I just (like 20 minutes ago) saw SLOAN play live. I've been a fan for years, but now I've seen them live. Their latest catalog of songs is kind of meh in my opinion, but MAN. They frikkin' rocked it out tonight. So good. SO GOOD. If you've never heard of sloan, p2p up some tunes from 'One Chord to Another' or 'Navy Blues'

[edit] to get you started, try http://sven.songhole.org/sloan

[Lunkhead]

I saw them live many years ago, and they were definitely awesome. I love how they trade off who's playing what, depending on who's song their doing. It blows me away that they can all drum, sing, play keys, write good songs, etc.

[Elias_Aquarius]

And how could I not mention Gogol Bordello? Holy crap, it takes some kind of miracle to get all the hipsters of Portland off their asses and dancing, and Gogol Bordello is that miracle. Fantastic! It's like being in an Emir Kusturica movie.

Indeed, brother. I saw those guys opening for Primus. My head could have exploded from the amount of sheer rock emanating from the stage.