Non-Rock/Metal artists/groups/bands you like?

[Kirk's Muppet]

I kinda like some of Utada Hikaru's stuff, I plan to get her English album but I'm not sure how good it is. I loved Deep River though. I like The Beatles but I guess they're considered Rock. Some artists like Kelly Clarkson and Robbie Williams are pretty respectable to me.

[asholle]

Kelly Clarkson could be considered rock. I like her music too.

[Kirk's Muppet]

Kelly Clarkson's just pop... right?

[PeEpHoLe_10]

Im only just starting to get into stuff like Miles Davis, Frank Zappa and so on. Real good stuff. Jazz Fusion pwns too.

[lionelhutz88]

-Radiohead

Lately Ive been trying to chalenge my self into listening to jazz. I need to start.

[Riva]

Why aren't Frank Zappa and Radiohead rock?

[Cocaine]

Why aren't Frank Zappa and Radiohead rock?

They are. They're both less general than the term "rock", but they're closer to it than anything.

I personally listen to a shitload of hiphop.

[rata]

jimmie cullum, norah jones, Miles Davis, Mishka adams, buddy rich, guilty souls, ted serota's rebel souls...

obviously their all jazz....




maybe a little bit of micheal jackson. (his an idiiot though)

[Riva]

Why aren't Frank Zappa and Radiohead rock?

They are. They're both less general than the term "rock", but they're closer to it than anything.

That's what I thought.

Well, my non-rock/metal list would be:

808 State
Abba
Ah Ha
Al Di Meola (though he suppose he is rockish)
Alabama 3
Albert King
Alex Lloyd
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Apocolyptica
The Animals
Arcade Fire
Area 7
BB King
Beastie Boys
Bee Gees
Beethoven
Bjork
Black Eyed Peas
Bloodhound Gang
Buddy Guy
Butch Walker
Camel
The Cat Empire
Circle Takes The Square
Coheed And Cambria
Coldplay
Daft Punk
Dandy Warhols
Depeche Mode
DJ Shadow
Django Reinhardt
Easy Star All-Stars
Edan
Esbjorn Svenssons Trio
Frank Sinatra
Fryderyk Chopin
Funkadelic
Grinspoon
Haiku D'Etat
Jaco Pastorius
Jedi Mind Tricks
John Coltrane
John Lester
John Patitucci
John Williams
John Williamson
The Killers
Kitaro
Kool And The Gang
Kraftwerk
L7
Michael Jackson
Massive Attack
Michael Manring
Mike Oldfield
Mike Patton Vs The X-Ecutioners
Miles Davis
Various Ministry Of Sound tracks
Minor Threat
Misfits
Monty Python
Morphine
Nine Inch Nails
Nobuo Uematsu
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
O.S.I
The Offspring
Ozric Tentacles
Pilotdrift
Portishead
The Prodigy
Quasimoto
The Ramones
Richard Wright
Rick James
Robbie Williams
Sex Pistols
Sigur Ros
Sonic Youth
Sound Tribe Sector 9
Stray Cats
Thelonius Monk
Tiamat
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
UNKLE
Victor Wooten
Wheezer
Wham
William Orbit
The Wrens
Zero 7

Hardly an exhaustive list, though.

[Six Foot Revolver]

Most of it is punk/pop punk.

88 Finger Louie
A Tribe Called Quest
Bane
Break the Silence
Buddy Guy
Daft Punk
Danger Doom
Dead Kennedys
Dropkick Murphys
Flogging Molly
Gorillaz
Helmut Walcha
Hot Cross
Lars Frederiksen & The Bastards
Leftover Crack
Lit
Los Lonely Boys
Martyr AD
Minutemen
NOFX
Operation Ivy
Pennywise
Propaghandi
Rancid
Reel Big Fish
Refused
Reggie & The Full Efect
Streetlight Manifesto
Sublime
Terror
The Offspring
The Ramones
Tiger Army
Zero 7

[PepsiMetal]

I listen to my cousin's beats, which are better than most hip hop stuff out there on tv.

Other than that, I used to listen to pop punk/power pop 2 years ago like Good charlotte, green day, blink 182, sum41, etc.. Haven't listened in a while though. Still like Rancid, which are punk or pop punk too.

I listen to Johnny Cash of course. And some other great country artists like Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, etc..

I like some of BB King's stuff as well.

Ehh, stuff like that. :)

[Dave de Sylvia]

Butch Walker
Well well well :smoke:

I like lots of non-R&M stuff; mainly pop, classical and soul, but I'm in to bits of everything.

[Grimm]

I can't seem to get into all the mainstream stuff, and believe me i've tried.i kinda like greenday, mainly coz their rythm is actually really good.but i seem to be going further back in time with my whole music section outside rock and metal.
ie:Moody Blues.

[-The Frank]

Murder city devils, johnny cash, explosions in the sky,victor wooten ect,

Theres plenty more but cant think of em at the moment

[StreetlightRock]

Uuummmmm.....

Lots of Ska and older Punk (Some of my favroute bands are in the genre - Everyone should be listening to the Streetlight Manifesto and The Clash), the occational alt/indie stuff, etc. O.S.I, Aeon Spoke, The Arcade Fire, Justin King, The Verve, etc

[Hodgetts]

Most of it is punk/pop punk.
Zero 7

Punk is rock. It's a type of rock.

[rata]

That's what I thought.

Well, my non-rock/metal list would be:

808 State
Abba
Ah Ha
Al Di Meola (though he suppose he is rockish)
Alabama 3
Albert King
Alex Lloyd
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Apocolyptica
The Animals
Arcade Fire
Area 7
BB King
Beastie Boys
Bee Gees
Beethoven
Bjork
Black Eyed Peas
Bloodhound Gang
Buddy Guy
Butch Walker
Camel
The Cat Empire
Circle Takes The Square
Coheed And Cambria
Coldplay
Daft Punk
Dandy Warhols
Depeche Mode
DJ Shadow
Django Reinhardt
Easy Star All-Stars
Edan
Esbjorn Svenssons Trio
Frank Sinatra
Fryderyk Chopin
Funkadelic
Grinspoon
Haiku D'Etat
Jaco Pastorius
Jedi Mind Tricks
John Coltrane
John Lester
John Patitucci
John Williams
John Williamson
The Killers
Kitaro
Kool And The Gang
Kraftwerk
L7
Michael Jackson
Massive Attack
Michael Manring
Mike Oldfield
Mike Patton Vs The X-Ecutioners
Miles Davis
Various Ministry Of Sound tracks
Minor Threat
Misfits
Monty Python
Morphine
Nine Inch Nails
Nobuo Uematsu
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
O.S.I
The Offspring
Ozric Tentacles
Pilotdrift
Portishead
The Prodigy
Quasimoto
The Ramones
Richard Wright
Rick James
Robbie Williams
Sex Pistols
Sigur Ros
Sonic Youth
Sound Tribe Sector 9
Stray Cats
Thelonius Monk
Tiamat
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
UNKLE
Victor Wooten
Wheezer
Wham
William Orbit
The Wrens
Zero 7

Hardly an exhaustive list, though.

and i thought this bands are

Apocolyptica --- is a neo-classical metal?
Bloodhound Gang --- funk rock?
Coldplay --- pop rock?
The Killers --- garage rock?
L7 --- alternative rock?
Nine Inch Nails --- industrial ?

dont mean to bash you, but arent they?

cool choices though:thumb:

Zero 7
Sigur Ros
Portishead
Massive Attack
Depeche Mode
DJ Shadow
Bjork

i didnt know your into trip hop?:) oh well

[Watchman]

Punk is rock. It's a type of rock.

Yeah, but I think it can be safely assumed that the point of the thread is artists who don't fit into Rock & Metal as a forum here.

[Timmi]

suomipunk like klamydia, kylähullut, larhäryhma and stuff

jazz, especially modern jazz and fusion

reggae when it´s summer

classic stuff from wagner, vivaldi and beethoven

[BeaZ]

I listen to some trip hop on occasions, Portishead, Massive Attack and Lamb.

[Kingofdudes]

Some non-R&M artists I have been digging lately.

A Tribe Called Quest
Nas
DJ Shadow
X-Ecutioners
Nobuo Uematsu
Yasunori Mitsuda
John Coltrane
Squarepusher

[Carn]

pff. Imogen Heap, frou frou, zero 7, zagar, colorstar, the prodigy, autechre, chemical brothers, underworld, lamb, portishead, brubeck, morcheeba, dj shadow, squarepusher, skalpel, jakalope, blockhead, miles davis, galactic, alot of movie and game soundtracks, ozric tentacles, jaga jazzist, karizma, nils petter molvaer, sigur ros (dont really call it rock), stanton moore, thievery corporation, tori amos, blablabal.

[i am the robots]

Non-rock/metal I listen to? Hmmm, aside from metal, I am absolutely in love with hardcore punk, I also used to be a whore for industrial and alternative (I kinda still am anyhow).

[Jacaranda]

Nope. I only listen to Metal and Rock because I'm a true fan.

[Kingofdudes]

Nope. I only listen to Metal and Rock because I'm a true fan.
Dude me too, my last post was just a joke lol

[Mars Volta]

Why is this thread written out (first post, not replies, haven't read them all yet) like it would be strange to like something that isn't rock or metal?
I didn't think people on here only liked the one genre :confused:

I like Tori Amos (see picture), Kate Bush, Bjork, Jazz, Blues all sorts.

[Shadius]

Yeah, but I think it can be safely assumed that the point of the thread is artists who don't fit into Rock & Metal as a forum here.

I assumed he was talking about artists which have little or nothing to do with rock. It makes the thread far more interesting than huge lists of bands which are blatently rock bands, but happen to be pop as well, or are punk.

I listen to some trip hop, Massive Attack and Portishead occassionally. I have DJ Shadow's Entroducing, which is pretty cool. Radiohead's Kid A and Amnesiac arn't rock albums, so I'll include them here. Pop is far enough removed from rock in most cases, I listen to the odd pop song that my girlfriend is into, KT Tunstall, for example.

Other than that, everythings either Progressive, Metal, Rock or Pop. The odd punk band.

[Kirk's Muppet]

Yeah, I really meant bands that have nothing to do with Rock/Metal. Punk, Hardcore, Emo, etc. are pretty much on the Rock side.

I also like Jazz Fusion too, like Shawn Lane; but I can never get into pure Jazz.

[christianrocker]

coldplay....but its rock i guess...and i love classicla stuff like beethoven bach and wagner

[Brew]

Some non-rock/metal stuff I like:

DJ Shadow
Grooverider
Mr.Scruff
Miles Davis
Jaco Pastorius
Nobuo Uematsu
Aphex Twin
The Crystal Method
DJ Hype
Jackson C Frank
John Lee Hooker
KT Tunstall
Joss Stone
The Blues Brothers
The KLF
La-Stish
Nintendude
Portishead
The Prodigy
Typher
Zero 7
Capdown


I like alot of Ska and Reggae aswell.

[Txus]

Well for me:
Portishead
Massive Arrack
Miles Davis
Atmosphere
Tricky
Infected Mushroom
Skazi
Talamasca
Ulrich Schnauss
Morcheeba

[i am the robots]

I guess we need examples?

Some hardcore/punk/pop punk I like:
Dead Kennedeys
(old) Beastie Boys
Minor Threat
Black Flag
Kill Your Idols
Bad Brains
The Misfits
Letdown
Carpenter Ant
Municipal Waste
A Town Sluts
Agent Orange
Circle Jerks
AFI
Green Day
Strike Anywhere
(old) Pennywise
Limp Wrist

Other:

Nobuo Uematsu

[Lord Abortion]

The Smiths
Joy Division
Radiohead
The manic street preachers
Daft Punk
The misfits
Nobuo uematsu
Buddy Rich's Big Band
Oasis
Blur
Pulp
Apocalyptica
Gotham Road/Michale Graves
The Clash
The sex pistols
Ian Dury and the blockheads
Morrs Day and the time
The Jam
ocean colour scene

...some more, I may have to check

[Mustainekilsemos]

The Smiths
Kanye West
Jay-Z
Green Day
The Offspring
The Beatles
The Eagles
Ludacris
Eminem
Lil' Jon
and thats it i think

[MidnightRider]

Johnny Cash
Waylon Jennings
Hank Williams Jr.
David Allan Coe
Kenny Rogers
John Denver

Mainly just a bunch of old country artists.

[Dragon_Prince]

The Smiths
Kanye West
Jay-Z
Green Day
The Offspring
The Beatles
The Eagles
Ludacris
Eminem
Lil' Jon
and thats it i think

:rolleyes:

[Shattered_Future]

Well for me:
Portishead
Massive Arrack
Miles Davis
Atmosphere
Tricky
Infected Mushroom
Skazi
Talamasca
Ulrich Schnauss
Morcheeba

If you get a chance, could you send me some of their stuff? AIM: ChildrenOfFilth6.

You will be rewarded greatly...I've been trying to find stuff by this band with no success.

My list goes on and on of non R+M related bands. I like some punk, a dash of techno, jazz, a bit of funk, and whatnot.

[GenuineImitation]

Other than rock and metal, I listen to punk, some jazz and some classical music. I have been hearing a lot about trip-hop and I am starting to get curious.

[i am the robots]

:rolleyes:

Yeah, how dare he have broad tastes.

[Angry Balled Fists!]

I guess we need examples?

Some hardcore/punk/pop punk I like:
Dead Kennedeys
(old) Beastie Boys
Minor Threat
Black Flag
Kill Your Idols
Bad Brains
The Misfits
Letdown
Carpenter Ant
Municipal Waste
A Town Sluts
Agent Orange
Circle Jerks
AFI
Green Day
Strike Anywhere
(old) Pennywise
Limp Wrist

Other:

Nobuo Uematsu

Nice list :)

[Josh]

i listen to a bit of:
Green Day (mainly their older stuff, it's way better)
Alkaline Trio
Billy Talent
Travis (sort-of rock, i guess)
Bob Marley (& the wailers)
Lostprophets (whatever you class them as)
Simon & Garfunkel / Paul Simon, more poppy than rock
i have a few random rap & hip-hop songs,
and i own 1 Sum41 album.

but mainly it's just R&M i listen to.

[repcak]

non rock/metal bands... wow thats difficult; a lot of ppl mentioned Joy Divison, Depeche Mode... for me they are rock, not 100% rock but still a categorie of rock.

my non-rock/metal bands:
Ministry (industrial metal)
nine inch nails (industrial synth pop *g*)
skinny puppy (industrial)

[repcak]

The Smiths
Joy Division
Radiohead
The manic street preachers
Daft Punk
The misfits
Nobuo uematsu
Buddy Rich's Big Band
Oasis
Blur
Pulp
Apocalyptica
Gotham Road/Michale Graves
The Clash
The sex pistols
Ian Dury and the blockheads
Morrs Day and the time
The Jam
ocean colour scene

...some more, I may have to check
:rolleyes:

[i am the robots]

Nice list :)

Thanks mang :).

[Riva]

Yeah, how dare he have broad tastes.

I think it's the fact he listed The Beatles and The Eagles as non-rock groups.

[Doop]

Outkast
N.W.A.
Manic Street Preachers
No Doubt >.>
Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Beastie Boys
Dead Kennedys
Regan Youth
Circle Jerks

[Assault_on_357]

I personally listen to a shitload of hiphop.

Ditto, Mostly South-Style Rap/Memphis Rap

[Lord Abortion]

:rolleyes:
Are you looking for a fight?

[slaughteredfirst]

Hans Zimmer
Eminem
Victer Wooten
P-Funk
Classical music (I listen to it when its on you know?)
Johnny Cash
Miles Davis

eh I guess thats it

[drumman]

Ooooh Oooooh! I'd rather not list EVERY band, as it could easyly fill a whole page because I listen to everything subtract rap/hip-hop and country.

But I love to zone out to some nice trance, drum n' bass, jazz, blues, and classical.

In general, any person who's name starts with "DJ" or has the word "trio" in it :)

[JonG]

I listen to some other people than rock/metal.

Albert King
BB King
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Bob Marley
Buddy Guy
Curtis Mayfield
Death Cab For Cutie
Derek Trucks Band
Dr. John
Earl Hooker
Elliott Smith
Eric Sardinas
Freddie King
George Benson
Herbie Hancock
Howlin' Wolf
James Brown
Jimmy Cliff
John Lee Hooker
Keb Mo
Lonnie Johnson
Magic Sam
Matisyahu
Jimmy Thackery
John Mayall
Miles Davis
Minutemen
Mississippi John Hurt
Muddy Waters
Otis Redding
Otis Rush
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Peter Tosh
Robert Johnson
Robert Nighthawk
Robert Randolph
Stevie Wonder
Taj Mahal
T-Bone Walker
Walter Trout
Willie Dixon
Woody Guthrie
Yonder Mountain String Band

[Vinternatt]

I like listening to alot of jazz bass players, being a fretless holder myself.

Jaco Pastorius, Victor Wooten, Marcus Miller and the likes.

[Whale and Wasp]

john williams \m/

[classicrockman]

I listen to some other people than rock/metal.

Albert King
BB King
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Bob Marley
Buddy Guy
Curtis Mayfield
Death Cab For Cutie
Derek Trucks Band
Dr. John
Earl Hooker
Elliott Smith
Eric Sardinas
Freddie King
George Benson
Herbie Hancock
Howlin' Wolf
James Brown
Jimmy Cliff
John Lee Hooker
Keb Mo
Lonnie Johnson
Magic Sam
Matisyahu
Jimmy Thackery
John Mayall
Miles Davis
Minutemen
Mississippi John Hurt
Muddy Waters
Otis Redding
Otis Rush
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Peter Tosh
Robert Johnson
Robert Nighthawk
Robert Randolph
Stevie Wonder
Taj Mahal
T-Bone Walker
Walter Trout
Willie Dixon
Woody Guthrie
Yonder Mountain String Band
What he said...mostly blues artists. BB King is awesome in concert. Can't believe he's 80 years old.

[JonG]

I'm seeing February.

[classicrockman]

I'm seeing February.
We're cool. :cool:

[ATC]

Cafe Tacuba
Lila Downs
Elliott Smith
Soul Position
POS
Daughter Darling
Mountain Goats
Iron and Wine
Songs:Ohia
Carlos Vives
Juanes
Afro-Cuban Allstars
Woven Hand
Luna Amara
Nick Lannon
Lamb
Aphex Twin
Amber Asylum
Dead can dance
Lorenna McKennitt
Moya Brennan
Karine Polwart/Malinky
Chroma Key
Antony and the Johnsons
Dresden Dolls
M83
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Junoon/Salman Ahmed
Strings
Ely Guerra
Ozric Tentacles
Frou Frou
Collide
Skinny Puppy
Self
Atmosphere
Nas
Jamirouquai
Collide

[Dr. Jake Destructo]

Here's a list:

Ulver (Trip hop era isn't metal, of course)
Massive Attack
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Jeff Beck
Nobuo Uematsu
Sol Invictus
Chroma Key
Cypress Hill
Estradasphere
Funkadelic
Zappa
Horse the Band
Jurassic 5
moe. (Not sure if it's really R/M since it's pretty jazz influenced)
Team Sleep
Adrian Belew
Zack De La Rocha's solo attempt

That covers it.

[PeEpHoLe_10]

That's what I thought.

Well, my non-rock/metal list would be:

808 State
Abba
Ah Ha
Al Di Meola (though he suppose he is rockish)
Alabama 3
Albert King
Alex Lloyd
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Apocolyptica
The Animals
Arcade Fire
Area 7
BB King
Beastie Boys
Bee Gees
Beethoven
Bjork
Black Eyed Peas
Bloodhound Gang
Buddy Guy
Butch Walker
Camel
The Cat Empire
Circle Takes The Square
Coheed And Cambria
Coldplay
Daft Punk
Dandy Warhols
Depeche Mode
DJ Shadow
Django Reinhardt
Easy Star All-Stars
Edan
Esbjorn Svenssons Trio
Frank Sinatra
Fryderyk Chopin
Funkadelic
Grinspoon
Haiku D'Etat
Jaco Pastorius
Jedi Mind Tricks
John Coltrane
John Lester
John Patitucci
John Williams
John Williamson
The Killers
Kitaro
Kool And The Gang
Kraftwerk
L7
Michael Jackson
Massive Attack
Michael Manring
Mike Oldfield
Mike Patton Vs The X-Ecutioners
Miles Davis
Various Ministry Of Sound tracks
Minor Threat
Misfits
Monty Python
Morphine
Nine Inch Nails
Nobuo Uematsu
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
O.S.I
The Offspring
Ozric Tentacles
Pilotdrift
Portishead
The Prodigy
Quasimoto
The Ramones
Richard Wright
Rick James
Robbie Williams
Sex Pistols
Sigur Ros
Sonic Youth
Sound Tribe Sector 9
Stray Cats
Thelonius Monk
Tiamat
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
UNKLE
Victor Wooten
Wheezer
Wham
William Orbit
The Wrens
Zero 7

Hardly an exhaustive list, though.

Grinspoon are rock for sure.

[The_Riddler]

I like quite a few bands that I wouldn't consider rock....

The one that stands out most in Oingo Boingo- I really don't know what style of music they are, but it's great to listen to. Taking a trip into Danny Elfmans mind/band is great to experience, my favorite songs by them is "Just another day". I am sure most of you have heard of the band, but if you haven't, check them out.

[Dragon_Prince]

Yeah, how dare he have broad tastes.

Uhhm, well if you didn't know, the beatles are rock :O and they started it, so it was a bit funny to see them on there ;)
I listne to most of his list too, you know, but I wouldconsider more of those bands to be rock

[Spiritofmosa]

i can only think of sigur ros.. and other sub rock like apc and nin ??

[repcak]

Are you looking for a fight?
:rolleyes:

you've got it :D

[Kingofdudes]

i can only think of sigur ros.. and other sub rock like apc and nin ??
sub rock wtf? APC and NIN are both rock bands

[repcak]

sub rock wtf? APC and NIN are both rock bands

APC - yes
NIN - no, not really... it tends more to be not rock... (especially his earlier stuff)

[deejuks2]

Nope. I only listen to Metal and Rock because I'm a true fan.
:upset:

[Artemician]

Hmm.

Would you guys consider Godspeed You! Black Emperor a Rock band?

[Cocaine]

Hmm.

Would you guys consider Godspeed You! Black Emperor a Rock band?

From the little I've heard, I'd say no.