There are few modern acts that constantly put out great music like Beatles, Stones or Tom Petty did for a very long time.
The White Stripes are the closest to do that. Wolfmother are great but they have released one album so who knows what they have in mind for the future.
Swedish band Mando Diao's first record was great but since then, not as good. The Soundtrack of our Lives were awesome live, but their studio material bore me.
***Some say you should live each day like it was your last... but who wants to live each day in wild panic and extreme death anxiety?
The universe, look at the hugeness of it... it is a dizzying thought that little ol' me is the centre of it all!***
I like In Flames. That's about as modern as I get. They have/have written some great melodies which I don't hear in music of that genre. For some reason I have not been as "varied" in my listening habits of late. However, I did listen to a Dave Weckl track and some classic Soul/R&B on XM radio at work today.
I've noticed a few good bands making the transition from Garage group, to Album groups based in Australia. One is called "Vandalism" & they're from Melbourne. They don't have an Album out as yet.
Mind you, they're a House/Techno/Rock act.
There is no such thing as a risk, when you don't have EVERYTHING you want
Lacuna Coil, Paradise Lost, Nightwish, Evanescence, Muse, Travis, Placebo, Magyar Posse, .
Hungarian ones, not like you care, but still: Eleven Hold, Hiperkarma, Black Out, 6test, Ákos.
