Boom Bip - Roads Must Roll
Dabrye - The Lish

Beck "Debra"
Toots and The Maytals "54-46 Was My Number"

Martin Sexton: "Gypsy Woman" (acoustic)

Mastodon: "Mother Puncher" (Metal)

One makes you kind of mellow and smiley, the other makes you want to kill. It's good to mix it up a little.

Just what I happin to be feelin' today.

Carolyn's Fingers - Cocteau Twins

GusGus - Your moves are mine

Landmine - Jonatha Brooke

Winter - Tori Amos

Sigur Ros: Olsen Olsen- sort of a combination of a Cure/Joy Divsion bass/drum line, meticulously constructed string melodies from a Mozart waltz, a beautiful flute solo straight out of a Miyazaki/Hisaishi soundtrack and vocals from an Icelandic Cocteau Twins. Absolutely epic with a very rousing/cinematic finale.

Love: Alone Again Or- a compendium of great California pop circa 1967. It's got the darkness of the Doors without the pretense, an incredible song structure and arrangement that equals the Beach Boys at their peak and some amazing Tijuana-style horn work. It's an incredible song that most people haven't heard.

Deep Purple - Highway Star
Jethro Tull - Hymn 43

Jump, Little Children - Overkill
The Frames - What Happens When the Heart Just Stops

Nada Surf - Blizzard of '77/or/Fruit Fly
Elbow - Any Day Now

The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
Joy Division - Atmosphere

'Lazyhead and Sleepybones', by They Might Be Giants. Simply the most beautiful song they've ever recorded and I'm convinced that if everyone in the world heard this song and understood it we would have a good chance at achiving world peace.

I don't know what to pick for a second one, maybe 'Djed' by Tortoise so that everyone would have the same WTF moment 14 minutes into the song that I did.

Picket Fences - Brother Ali - Beatiful song, one of the most touching rap songs I have ever heard.
Throw Back - Royce Da 59 - Royce has flawless flow.

Josh Groban - Remember When It Rained
Tori Amos - Winter

Travis - The Humpty Dumpty Love Song
Tammany Hall NYC - Andy Climb Down

The Shins - "New Slang"

Belle & Sebastian - "Seeing Other People"

Good call on the Sevendust and Massive Attack.

Definately depends on the mood, but:

1. Failure - Daylight (probably my favorite song ever)

2. Vast - Touched

Some good choices there .. as well as some obscure names. (which I think is the intention of this thread .. to tickle the curiousity of other music fans.)

two bands that I am like a drug pusher in trying to get everyone to listen to them ..

Van Der Graaf - Cat's Eye / Yellow Fever (Running)

The Waterboys - Pan Within

.. but there are so many under-appreciated and lost and defunct bands that I wish I could get other music fans to listen to .. just once would be enough to hook them to the brilliance of some of these guys. (eg, It's Immaterial .. The Associates .. tindersticks )

Yes...you've just got an excellent choice right there!

Great band to see live also

Feeder - Love Pollution
Mojave 3 - Some kinda angel

Exactly, that's why I like these typse of forums so much. I can't begin to count how many great bands I've discovered over the past year from here.

I Saw Your Face - Justin Guarini

A Hundred Years - 5 For Fighting

Seeing The Waterboys in concert (in San Francisco two years ago) was such an intensely emotional experience for me. It is one of two concerts only by any band where I've stood with tears in my eyes overcome with emotions brought on by the music.