These are the bands who, when they dropped an album, you stopped whatever you were doing and listened to said album in its entirety. Aside from Linkin Park for me, there was Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Slapshock, and Rivermaya. The latter two are bands from the Philippines.
Architects A$AP Rocky Abandoning Sunday Above-Ground Ab-Soul Adam Lambert Akon Alan Jackson Alex & Sierra The All-American Rejects Andrew McMahon In the Wilderness Angels & Airwaves Architects Ariana Grande As It Is Asking Alexandria Athel Atlas Genuis Atreyu Attack Attack! (US) Audioslave Augustana Avril Lavgine B.o.B. Basement Beartooth The Beattles Billy Currington Birdy The Black Dove Society The Black Eyed Peas Blake Shelton Blessthefall Blue October Blue Sky Archives Blur Bon Jovi Born of Osiris Boston Manor Bowling For Soup Box Car Racer Boys Like Girls Brad Paisley Brand New Breaking Benjamin Bring Me The Horizon Bruno Mars BTFL Bullet For My Valentine Cam Canaan Smith Care Bears on Fire Casey James Cash Cash Cassadee Pope The Chainsmokers Chamillionaire Chevelle Chickenfoot Childish Gambino CHVRCHES Circa Survive The Civil Wars CKY Close Your Eyes Cole Swindell Common Counting Crows Crown the Empire Crystal Castles Curren$y Cute Is What We Aim For Daft Punk Dan+Shay Dance Gavin Dance Darius Rucker Dashboard Confessional Danny Brown Daughter A Day to Remember Dead by Sunrise Death Cab For Cutie Destroy the Runner Duece Dierks Bentley The Dillinger Escape Plan Disturbed Don Borco Donnie Trumpet and The Social Experiment Dr. Dre Drive Like I do The Early November Ed Sheeran Eisley EL-P Eminem Enter Shikari Eric Paslay Escape the Fate Evanescence Explosions In the Sky Far East Movement Fetty Wap Finch Five Finger Death Punch Flyleaf Foo Fighters For Today Forever, The Sickest Kids Fort Minor Four Year Strong Foxing Frank Ocean Frankie Ballard The Fray Free Throw The Front Bottoms Fun. The Gaslight Anthem General Larry Platt George Ezra Gerrard Way Gym Class Heroes Grey Daze GRiZ Halsey Handguns Hellogoodbye Hey Monday High School Sucks Hit The Lights Hunter Hayes I Prevail I See Stars Imagine Dragons Incubus Innerpartysystem Issues Jake Owen Jana Kramer Jon Bellion Jonah 33 Julia Nunes Justin Timberlake Kanye West Keane Keith Urban Kelsea Ballerini Kendrick Lamar Kenny Chesney Kids In the Way Kids These Days The Killers Killer Mike Killswitch Engage Knife Party Knuckle Puck Korn Lady Antebellum Lana Del Rey Lazerbeak Lecrae Lee Brice Less Than Jake Life On the Sideline Linkin Park LMFAO The Lonely Island Low Level Flight Maddie and Tae Major League Man Overboard Manchester Orchestra Matt Kearney Matt and Kim McCafferty Melanie Martinez Metro Station MGMT Modern Baseball Modest Mouse Moose Blood Blackstar Clipse Muse MxPx My Chemical romance The Naked and Famous Nas The National Neck Deep Neutral Milk Hotel Nirvana No Doubt NSync Oasis Of Monsters and Men The Offspring Old Dominion One Direction (#NoShame) OneRepublic Our Last Night OutKast Owl City Pete Yorn Phantom Party Pierce the Veil Pink Floyd Plain White T's The Police Porcupine Tree The Postal Serivce Puddle of Mudd Queens of the Stone Age R.E.M. Real Friends Red Hot Chili Peppers Reflection Eternal Rihanna Rise Against Rougue Wave Royaltides Run 2 Cover Rush Sadistik Saliva Sam Hunt Saosin Scary Kids Scaring Kids Scotty McCrerry Seaway Seether The Semester Review Set Your Goals Shinedown SHINee Sick Puppies Sigur Ros Silversun Pickups Simple Plan Sing It Loud Skrillex A Skylit Drive Sleeping With Sirens The Smashing Pumpkins Smile Empty Soul Snow Patrol The Spill Canvas Spraynard Staind State Champs Stellar Kart Steven Wilson The Story So Far Suguarland Sum 41 Switchfoot Taking Back Sunday Taylor Swift Third Eye Blind This Wild Life Thomas Rhett A Thousand Horses Tigers Jaw Title Flight Tom DeLonge Solo Music Tommy Lee Toro Y Moi A Tribe Called Quest Trophy Eyes Twenty One Pilots Twista Tyler Farr Weird Al Yankovic The Who With Confidence The World Is a Beautiful Place and I am No Long afraid to Die The XX Yellowcard You Blew It! You+Me Zao Zayn Harry Styles 12 Stones The 1975 2Pac 30 Seconds to Mars +44 5 Seconds of Summer 50 Cent And I know I forgot a lot, especially rappers.
Honestly same, though not that extreme maybe. I always go through entire discographies for artists. Now, if we're talking about entire discographies that I know well it's a smaller number, but with most of my favorite artists that's the case. This would include LP, Enter Shikari, Coldplay, Michael Jackson, Panic! at the Disco, Goo Goo Dolls, blink-182, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Breaking Benjamin, the Cure, System of a Down, to name a few.
Linkin Park, Green Day, BMTH, Coldplay, CHVURCHES, Kendrick Lamar, Maroon 5, Future, System of a Down, Ariana Grande The next artists are: A Day to Remember Red Hot Chilli Peppers(3 albums more) Lana Del Rey
I don't think I listened to many (only the artists that I liked) I'm way too lazy for that 30 Seconds to Mars Allie X Against the Current Bad Omens Bring Me the Horizon Broods CHVRCHES Dua Lipa Lights Linkin Park (and all their side projects, Fort Minor, Dead By Sunrise) Melanie Martinez MisterWives Nothing But Thieves Phantogram Purity Ring PVRIS Starset System of a Down Tove Lo Vérité And I listened to everything from many unknown Indie artists that only have EPs and bunch of songs out. Elohim (she's amazing, I love all her songs) Luna Shadows (she has the most beautiful voice I ever heard) Fickle Friends (this band is amazing, they make great 80s throwback indie pop) machineheart Astrid S Transviolet Wafia Theia Kloe HANA Dusky Grey The Foxies Scavenger Hunt Annabel Jones Linger The proof that you are a real CHVRCHES fan
I wouldn't say just bands, but artists, so here it goes: Linkin Park Evanescence Avril Lavigne Pvris Nightwish (Finnish symphonic metal band) Epica (Dutch symphonic metal band) Delain (Dutch symphonic metal band) Paramore Imagine Dragons Breaking Benjamin Against The Current EDIT:Chelsea Wolfe Brand New Nothing But Thieves Still have to finish Bring Me The Horizon, CHVRCHES and Three Days Grace (if I'm in the mood to)
To be fair 100% of my 250 artist list above is artists I like or at least liked at one point. You just have to go searching and i'm sure you'd find a ton of more music you would like . And I don't mean this in a negative condescending way, there's just so much music out there that it's easy for me to fully find more and more artists I like Anything with Lauren's voice is a must for me
I have never seen someone like so much music I'm starting to feel like my music spectrum is very, very narrow.
Oh I personally know a couple who like music just as much as I do, however, most of these people are very restrictive when it comes to genres (One only listens to Scene Music, one Scene Music/Rap, one Pop Punk/Rap, ect.) so because I listen to every genre I know more music then they do by default but they are just as into music as I am. But yes, Music is my life and I listen to about 1000 artists or more honestly.
I normally say "Let's give this artist a try". If it makes the cut, which is to say if the album I choose to listen is good in general, I'll move to the other albums by that artist and I always have an approach of trying to become as much of a fan of that artist as I can possibly be, so that's why I listen to so few artists because I consider myself a big fan of almost all of them. A smaller part of the artists I listen to are those my father influenced me to listen, which are the cases of Pink Floyd, Keane and Alanis Morissette. From what I can remember only 3 of those artists came before the 2000s. What I listen to is mostly artists that I grew up listening to at a time I could turn on the radio and say that almost everything was good. Even with few artists I listen to my album to-buy list until the end of next year contains almost 30 records between CDs and DVDs.
When it comes to the bolded part, you really have to be careful. There are a lot of artists who have bad/okay albums but their other albums are amazing. Sometimes it's good to at least check out 2-3 albums before you judge an artist and make sure if they have a lot of albums that they are on the opposite ends in terms of year released. Here's some examples in my own life: Architects- I was a late bloomer to architects, actually not discovering the band until their 7th and most likely last album When I decided to check this band out, I decided to go in Chronological order from the first album to the last album. In my personal opinion their first 3 albums are just okay and way, way weaker than their last 4 albums. But even after the 3 "okay" albums I decided to keep going and I'm so glad I did because their last 4 albums are some of the best metalcore albums I have ever heard in my life. Not even joking. The guitars, the drums, and the way the vocalist sings are all so unique for the genre of metalcore but that sound in my opinion didn't start peaking out until the 3rd album and came out full force in the 4th album. If I would have stopped at the 2nd or 3rd album I would have missed out on some of my favorite music ever. Rise Against- I personally don't like their first album The Unraveling. To me it's an awful album but I decided I would check out all their music and their other albums all the way up to and including End Game are some of my favorite albums ever to where they became a top 10 artist of all time to me. Kid Cudi- Thankfully with Kid Cudi I was a fan of his before his first album even came out. To me, his only good album is his first album. So if I happened to find him later on in my life and decided to check out any other album than his first and decided to ignore the rest of his music, I would have never found an album that sits in my my top 25 rap albums of all time list. Kendrick Lamar- Same situation as Kid Cudi for me where I found him before his first album Section.80 came out. He is in my top 5 rappers of all time but I only like 3 out of 4 of his albums. His hype was massive at the time of To Pimp a Butterfly's release, the one album I don't like. So if I happened to find him later in life and only listened to TPAB, I would have missed out on 3 of my favorite albums of all time. Drake- I don't like his music overall. I think he's overrated but he released one album which is actually decent and worth having in my discography. I would have missed out on that album, Take Care, if I didn't keep checking out his music. I had known Drake since his first mixtape and decided I would keep checking out his new releases even though I wasn't a fan of what I heard and now I have a an album that's a pretty solid effort worth listening to. I could go on and on with examples but I think I have made my point clear.
Architects is a band I could check out, not the 3 rappers because I was never into rap and the only pure rap song I like is Fort Minor's Remember The Name, I prefer rap incporated in nu metal/rap-rock. Which is the album that has the best chance of making me like Architects?
Those weren't musical suggestions. I would never suggest Kid Cudi or Drake to anyone They were examples and reasons of why you shouldn't sd what you said you do. "If it makes the cut, which is to say if the album I choose to listen is good in general, I'll move to the other albums by that artist." Give bands more chances and listen to more than one album to determine your thoughts on them because they can have both good and bad albums and you could be missing out on some of the best music of your life. That's what I really want you to understand. For Architects, definitely check out their latest album All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us. It's by far their best album, but their last 4 albums are all really good and worth at least one listen each to see if you enjoy the albums.
At this point I would never listen to any rapper besides Fort Minor, so I didn't take it as a musical suggestion. From the song I've heard from Architects, I think it's too heavy and I prefer songs that are metal, but still have some softer parts and, if possible, symphonic elements. I did that of giving more chances with Nickelback and it worked, but only two of their albums are really good to me and those are Dark Horse and All The Right Reasons. On the others almost only the singles are good.
(Ignore the : lol : emoji. It shouldn't be there and it won't let me delete it) Well take what you did with Nickelback and do that for every artist you check out Listen to multiple albums for artists you check out because you could be missing out on one of your favorite albums of all time if you don't Architects has some softer songs as well. Their 4th album The Here and Now is 50% clean vocals/50% screaming. So I suggest that album for you then