Anyone got any eclectic music they would recommend?

There is a such thing as a most talented band. Might not be understood or agreed with, but yeah. There's a band more talented than any other out there.
And my thing is, if a band has fans they don't "suck". Music is made to please an audience, and if it's doing so, it's serving it's purpose. Whether it's new kids on the block or led zepp. All a matter of opinion, but as long as someone appreciated it, it's good.

 

A couple of Aussie bands that don't seem to have cracked mainstream Amercian market.

Wolfmother and Powderfinger

Wolfmother's myspace site
http://www.myspace.com/wolfmother

Powderfinger are the best Australian rock band of the last 20 years. While Jet, Franz Ferdinand and others have made inroads in the USA, ask almost any Australian and you'll be told that the finger is twice the band these guys are.

I'd be really interseted in some review of Powderfinger's albums by any americans on this site. How they haven't cracked the American market is beyond me, however I think they are in part comfortable with their home town roots and have probably not tried for globalisation like they could have.

Let me know what you think.

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Couldn't find clips of Stumblin and Passenger which are probably my two fave songs by the guys.

 

I started ripping all my old cd's into iTunes a few days back, and it brought me to a band who I think was much underappreciated

I Mother Earth

that's about as eclectic Funk Metal as I can get

Rain Will Fall
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One More Astronaught
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Anyone listening to bands like Atreyu should give these guys a listen too

Funeral for a Friend
All That Remains
Killswitch Engage
Bullet for my Valetine
Mudvayne
Chiodos

if Progressive Metal happens to be your thing

 

lol gloat, i was waiting for your response. chill out, don't get mad and cry like Thrice does in their songs. They are pretty awful. Should I start calling you "the artist in the ambulance?" all those bands you listed are pretty terrible.

\And good to see you went thru all that effort, going to my myspace just to find something to diss on. Congratulations.

 

and heck ya @ puck. I've seen all that remains, their drummer is AWESOME

and AMEN to Cruds.