NTD Best Recommended Band

[GL]

It's pretty common to grow your CD collection through the recommendations of your friends or someone who's pimping their band or whatever, and sometimes you get surprised by what they say you'll probably like. So, what band do you like the most you wouldn't have known about if someone hadn't recommended them to you? This can't be one you found out about by searching through the band's thanks list on the albums or saw them live while attending another one's concert and picked up a CD, this has to be a group that someone else recommended to you based on what they think you'll like.

[HNT]

I would say that Art Brut, THe NEw Pornographers, and Vampire Weekend are all at the top of that list. Oh yeah, and MArgot and the Nuclear So and So's. All really sweet bands

[The Walking Dude]

I have numerous all recommeded by my best mate who shares very similar tastes to me

Let's start with The Cramps and their numerous "children"

Tiger Army
Zombie Ghost Train
Nekromantiks

Rockabilly by psycho's- hence the genre's subtitle 'Psychobilly'
mix a cup of Punk, a tablespoon of 50's and 60's rock and or roll and a litre of blood and this is what you get. The GOO GOO MUCK!!!!!!!!!

Another standout is Roky Erikson, a totally bizarre accoustic singer songwriter who spends his days now in an asylum,but with his bands the Aliens and 13th Floor Elevators sure knew how to make music,also with a healthy inspiration from the 50's.
Anyone familiar with the Return of the Living Dead soundtrack will know his 'Burn the Flames' . To quote one of my fave bizarre lyrics "THE SQUARE ROOT OF ZERO,IS SOMETHING SMALLER THAN ZERO" from his song Anthem(I Promise) which is on the Gremlins have Pictures album. It's hard to find but seek it out

[GL]

Since I forgot mine, it would undoubtedly be King Diamond. He's in my top 5 all-time favorite artists, yet if it wasn't for my cousin turning me onto him whenj I was just starting to getinto music, I wouldn't have known about him. I've never heard anything about him through any of my usual music channels, he's hardly promoted through the video channels and he would more than likely be one of the throusands of bands that I know off through Blabbermouth that have been reported to be working on new albums yet I have nothing to base his sound on. While my collection is huge, it's impossible for me to count the number of bands in the genres I listen to that are like that, where the only information I have on them is through Blabbermouth reporting on a new album release but has nothing else availiable. He would be just like those countless numbers of bands that I know of, yet had my cousin not introduced me to him, I would never know of his genius and brilliance.

[7]

A couple of my favorite bands, The National and Esoteric, were exposed to me through a few of my friends.

[7]

I just bought the newest Arsis album, We Are the Nightmare . . . HOLY SHIT!

GL, if you don't have this album - go buy it now. Honestly, it blows Slaughter of the Soul out of the water, and that is one of my favorite albums.

[GL]

I've heard the album, and I still prefer Slaughter of the Soul, but it's still on my list. Not that it's long enough already, but I've liked their past work so this one is going in the collection at some point. I'm just saving up for the new Testament and Judas Priest first. Those are higher priorities right now when it comes to purchasing CDs.

[abraxas]

My cousin introduced me to bands when I was about 8-9, his brother was a Metal head, he would sneak into his brothers room and listen to his records. One day he said come listen to this, we were the same age, he put on Number of the Beast from Iron Maiden.

I got into KISS around that time when I sneak into my brothers room and play his KISS, and Elvis albums.