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for everyone who listens to indie, alternative rock, emoy music.

I have a friend and he’s my best friend, and his birthday is on wensday, and i want to get him some music. the problem is he has just about everything under the sun. here are some of the bands he listens too: The Spill Canvas, Kill Hannah, Bayside (he loves them), Blink 182, Alkaline Trio, We Shot the Moon, Mayday Parade, The Apathy Eulogy, Danger Is My Middle Name, Motion City Soundtrack, and like 100 others that most people havn’t ever heard of. Can you think of any bands like these that he might not have heard of that are really good? He gave me The Promise of Redemption for my birthday a few months ago and i need something just as meaning full to give. Any ideas at all? i’ll be stealing his i-pod on monday or tuesday to make sure he doesn’t have it yet. so any ideas would be great!

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hockeymaniac500 offline Verified User (1 year, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 24 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (7 minutes after post)

What about Tickle me pink?
I don’t know how to post a video in the reply, so I’ll give you a link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPvoAv…

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closed offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 53 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (12 minutes after post)

go for some Brit bands that haven’t had much airplay here yet

The Enemy
The Wombats
The Pigeon Detectives
The Fratellis
Razorlight
The Aliens
The Go! Team
The Klaxons
The Guillemots
Maxïmo Park
The Courteeners
Scouting for Girls
The Zutons
Milburn
Keane
Biffy Clyro
The Twang
Babyshambles
The Editors
Reverend and the Makers

how’s that list? lol

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (17 minutes after post)

yeah, I know…lol

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hockeymaniac500 offline Verified User (1 year, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 24 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (19 minutes after post)

humbug11 wrote:
he has tickle me pink, great suggestion by the way, i like them alot.and cailean you are my hero.

That really surprises me. Are you from Colorado?
What about For Love of Ivy? They have a couple of albums,
Skyfox is great, I don’t believe they have an album out yet though.

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Laina1312 offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (27 minutes after post)

How about Fall Out Boy? Finger Eleven, Queens of the Stone Age, Rise Against, Three Days Grace, Billy Talent, Marianas Trench, illScarlett, Sum41, Ten Second Epic, Interpol, The Used, Alexisonfire, The Redjumpsuit Apparatus, like that kinda thing?

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hockeymaniac500 offline Verified User (1 year, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 24 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (30 minutes after post)

Alright, because not a lot of people know about them, they are still fairly local.
Here, I’ll keep listing bands, I’ll keep it to the lesser known bands though.
All 7 said
American Hi-Fi
All Time low.
Ceasars
The Exies
The Fold (absolutely amazing)
Single File
Sublime
Wolfmother
311
3Oh!3(not for everybody)

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (34 minutes after post)
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Laina1312 offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (35 minutes after post)

Who’s that?

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (36 minutes after post)

The Pigeon Detectives

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Laina1312 offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (37 minutes after post)

Cool.

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hockeymaniac500 offline Verified User (1 year, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 24 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (37 minutes after post)

Oh, cailean, how do you put the video in the comment?

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Laina1312 offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (37 minutes after post)

[YouTube:url]

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hockeymaniac500 offline Verified User (1 year, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 24 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (38 minutes after post)

cool thanks. And they are really good, are they on itunes?

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (39 minutes after post)

I’m not sure. I don’t use iTunes

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hockeymaniac500 offline Verified User (1 year, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 24 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (41 minutes after post)


Original on YouTube.com
One of my favorite songs ever.

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Laina1312 offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (42 minutes after post)

Also:
Nickelback, Paramore, Green Day, 3 Doors Down, Plain White T’s, Busted, Daughtry, Train, Black Eyed Peas, Maroon5, Trapt, State of Shock, and Simple Plan.

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Laina1312 offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (43 minutes after post)

Title and artist?

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hockeymaniac500 offline Verified User (1 year, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 24 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (44 minutes after post)

Gravity by The Fold.

Laina1312 wrote:
Title and artist?

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (44 minutes after post)

I think some suggestions have strayed a bit from the indie, alternative, emo post.

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hockeymaniac500 offline Verified User (1 year, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 24 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (45 minutes after post)

cailean wrote:
I think some suggestions have strayed a bit from the indie, alternative, emo post.

Really? like who? I consider most of these bands alternative.

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (46 minutes after post)

Finger Eleven, Rise Against, Nickleback, Black Eyed Peas, Maroon 5 etc

The Fold sound really good!

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Laina1312 offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (47 minutes after post)

If it’s good music, does it really matter? Especially since I named all those?

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hockeymaniac500 offline Verified User (1 year, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 24 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (48 minutes after post)

cailean wrote:
Finger Eleven, Rise Against, Nickleback, Black Eyed Peas, Maroon 5 etcThe Fold sound really good!

I would consider them all except Rise against alternative, and Rise against is amazing, so they get a free pass.

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (48 minutes after post)

I suppose not, I was just referring to the post.
humbug11 was looking for indie, alternative or emo that their friend had not heard of.

those bands are well known in North America.

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Laina1312 offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (49 minutes after post)

Again,

Laina1312 wrote:
If it’s good music, does it really matter? Especially since I named all those?

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hockeymaniac500 offline Verified User (1 year, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 24 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (49 minutes after post)

I could name a couple bands nobody knows, but wouldn’t fit unless you consider Ska alternative.

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (49 minutes after post)

lol, you win Laina

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Laina1312 offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (50 minutes after post)

Thanks. Lol

hockeymaniac500 wrote:
I could name a couple bands nobody knows, but wouldn’t fit unless you consider Ska alternative.

Me too. Lol

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Laina1312 offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (51 minutes after post)

Spiralfrog has Rise Against!! Whoo!!!

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hockeymaniac500 offline Verified User (1 year, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 24 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (51 minutes after post)

Ska is amazing. All I will say.

Laina1312 wrote:
Spiralfrog has Rise Against!! Whoo!!!

What is Spiralfrog?

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Laina1312 offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (52 minutes after post)

Spiralfrog.com is a free legal download site, where I get most of my music.

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (54 minutes after post)

www.xfmscotland.co.uk or just xfm.co.uk (London)

are sites where I hear the music. If you’re a member of the site you can get special offers like the last two I got from them….

The new Coldplay CD downloaded free
The new Charlatans CD downloaded free

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Laina1312 offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (55 minutes after post)

I live in Canada, would that work for me?

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (55 minutes after post)

don’t expect to hear much of the bands I listed above. these are alternative stations

I live in Canada too.

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Laina1312 offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (55 minutes after post)

Did I know that?

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hockeymaniac500 offline Verified User (1 year, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 24 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (57 minutes after post)

I live in Colorado, basically canada right? Haha. Just joking, and Spiral frog won’t work for me, I don’t have XP or Vista.

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (57 minutes after post)

erm, I dunno.

I did suggest it, knowing people here are in North America.

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Laina1312 offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (58 minutes after post)

hockeymaniac500 wrote:
I live in Colorado, basically canada right? Haha. Just joking, and Spiral frog won’t work for me, I don’t have XP or Vista.

What do you have?

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hockeymaniac500 offline Verified User (1 year, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 24 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (58 minutes after post)

Windows 2000, on a laptop from ‘01.

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Laina1312 offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (58 minutes after post)

Ah. You should upgrade.

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hockeymaniac500 offline Verified User (1 year, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 24 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (59 minutes after post)

Nah, I don’t use it for anything other than Itunes and a few websites.

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Laina1312 offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (1 hour, 1 minute after post)

Cool, then. I just my laptop, so for 800 dollars (that’s with taxes) I got a built in webcam, Vista, Windows Media Player and a whole bunch of stuff I haven’t even discovered yet. Not a bad deal, if I do say so myself.

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Laina1312 offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (1 hour, 1 minute after post)

Did I say Billy Talent?

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (1 hour, 3 minutes after post)

if you want real class…try Apocalyptica
3 cellos and drums doing classical to heavy metal (Metallica)

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Laina1312 offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (1 hour, 4 minutes after post)

What about the Red Hot Chili Peppers?
(I’m just going through what’s on my computer.)

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (1 hour, 5 minutes after post)

I know they’re really popular, but I think they sound the same all the time.
I need the bands to change tempo, style and sound to keep my interest

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (1 hour, 7 minutes after post)

I have a lot of “Various Artists” cds, so I wouldn’t know. Oh, these two I just like their names. Death Cab for Cutie (and) Get Cape Wear Cape Fly.

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Laina1312 offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
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I like Paramore alot right now.

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (1 hour, 8 minutes after post)

yep, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly is great. His name is Sam Duckworth and he’s also know as:

Get Cape, Cape, GCWCF, Slam Dunkworth, Shrimpy, Captain Sandwich, Super Sam and “Charlie Khoo”

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anyway, bed time. got physio early tomorrow.

have a good night!

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Laina1312 offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
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Night.

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Laina1312 offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (1 hour, 45 minutes after post)

What about Evenescence?

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Laina1312 offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (1 hour, 47 minutes after post)

Hedley

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barbyman wishes happy birthday barbyman.com

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Umm

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learningtobreathe wrote:
Umm

Lol.

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Laina1312 offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (21 hours, 43 minutes after post)

Get any ideas?

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (2 days, 21 hours after post)

Cool. :)

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