Ha, thanks!
Oh and I guess I should have mentioned some of my favorite bands, as jackhammer suggests. I like many different genres including rock (punk, hardcore, post-rock/instrumental, indie, prog, psych, mod/psych pop, etc), industrial (mainly what's considered post-industrial and industrial rock), hip-hop and trip-hop/instrumental (hate the top 40 stuff...beats matter most), electronic (IDM, experimental, house, breaks, downtempo etc). Here are a few favs from various genres:
Punk/hardcore/indie rock:
Fugazi
Dillinger Four
On the Might of Princes
Hot Cross
City of Caterpillar
mewithoutYou
The Casket Lottery
Sunny Day Real Estate
Juno
Charlottefield
Bad Astronaut
Descendents
Misfits
Burning Airlines
Faraquet
Fireside
Bear vs. Shark
Cursive
No Knife
Knapsack
Seven Storey Mountain
31Knots
Polvo
June of 44
Shipping News
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
At the Drive-In
Built to Spill
Pinback
Sebadoh
Band of Horses
Les Savy Fav
The Shins
Pixies
Neutral Milk Hotel
Snuff/Guns n Wankers
Swingin' Utters
Rise Against (lost interest with last 2 albums)
Prog & classic rock:
The Blue Effect/Modrý Efekt
Black Bonzo
Invisible
Genesis
King Crimson
Pink Floyd
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso
Premiata Forneria Marconi
Museo Rosenbach
Il Balletto di Bronzo
Änglagård
The Mars Volta
Van Der Graaf Generator
Wishbone Ash
Jimi Hendrix
Yes
Arachnoid
Ripaille
Pentacle
Eloy
Spring
Rush
Yezda Urfa
Post-rock/instrumental:
Cougar
Tortoise
Lateduster
Maserati
Pivot
Russian Circles
Irepress
Lymbyc Systym
Benevento Russo Duo
Rumah Sakit
Sleeping People
Tera Melos
60s/70s Psychedelic Pop/Mod/Pop Rock:
The Beatles
David Bowie
The Kinks
Love
Small Faces
The Pretty Things
McDonald and Guiles
The Zombies
Tages
Metal & other rock:
Dead Horse
Tool
Melvins
Faith No More
Mr. Bungle
Tomahawk
Failure
ISIS
Mastodon
Deftones
Suicidal Tendencies (pre-Art of Rebellion)
Ween
Industrial:
Skinny Puppy
Download
Ministry (pre-Filth Pig)
Meat Beat Manifesto
Electronic:
Eight Frozen Modules
Plaid
Aphex Twin
Super_Collider
Venetian Snares
Chris Clark
Amon Tobin
Hip-Hop/Trip-Hop:
Prefuse 73
Sixtoo
Odd Nosdam
Flying Lotus
Conrad Newholmes
Beastie Boys
Cannibal Ox
Aesop Rock
Wax Tailor
Blockhead
DJ Vadim
Antipop Consortium
Phew!
