Bands/Artists that Give You Hope

Seems like there's a ton of negativity on the boards lately (and for once, I'm not the source of it). So let me try and introduce some lightness and hope to these forelorn times with a list of bands or artists that give hope to the idea that good music still exists, and is out there if you're just willing to look for it:

Belle and Sebastian Death Cab for Cutie / Postal Service Arcade Fire Modest Mouse (I really want to get their new album) Wilco Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Kaiser Chiefs

Now you make list, yes? :D

Errmmm... not many currently. There's a few around that Give me Hope the death penalty will be re-introduced, but here goes:

Union of Knives Ladytron µ-Ziq Go Team! Banco de Gaia Martin Grech

And I still live in hope the new Radiohead album will be good if it ever gets released. As does my persistent belief and hope that Kraftwerk will produce another good album in the new millennium.

Mazzy Star

Arcade Fire (at their best moments) Pearl Jam Black Keys Doves (their last two records have been great) Derek Trucks and his band Robert Randolph and The Family Band (their cds are fine-see them live!!) Neil Finn/Crowded House (they have a new cd scheduled to drop in June) Rufus Wainwright

That is what I loved about working at a record store. The ability to be in the know and find the deep stuff that would never get a huge amount of attention

Burt Reynolds wrote:

And I still live in hope the new Radiohead album will be good if it ever gets released.

Amen! I wanna see them tour too!

Killing Joke New Order Napalm Death Discharge Jesu

The Clientele Durutti Column The Lucksmiths The Orchids

Snorri xxx

I find that blasting some New Order is good for the soul.

Depeche Mode New Order Recoil Pet Shop Boys

Maybe with Porl back, the Cure's new album will give me some hope (that is, if they use a different producer this time who isn't so clueless). I wish I had hope about the the album for Smashing Pumpkins, but I think this is all a hoax.

Great White Journey Barbara Striesand Cher Warrant Phil Collins Boston Emo Bands U2

That is hope that they all show up to a "Save the World" concert that later gets hit with a meteor.

Burt Reynolds wrote: and hope that Kraftwerk will produce another good album in the new millennium.

Then again Burt, it starts to be very embarrassing to agree with you, such a genetically anti-French Englishman...

This blue-eyed boy that wants to be wrote: Recoil

+1

The Whip The Burnside Project Freebass

I've no idea whats im meant to be listing, so i'll just say that Talking Heads are the best group to ever come out of America.

David Rovics

www.davidrovics.com

Swan Lake The National Beirut Final Fantasy Bloc Party (the only English one I could think of :\ohwell: )

No hope: Arcade Fire

For me they include the following not all of which are actively making music at the moment and deliberately not in my order of preference

Richie HawtinCabaret VoltaireRoni SizeIggy PopFaithlessSquarepusherDJ PierreTwo Lone SwordsmenEcho And The BunnymenThe Clash and spin off'sDepeche ModeBasement JaxxNitzer EbbJuan AtkinsStone Roses and spin off'sHardfloorAirHuman LeagueJeff MillsChemical BrothersLCD SoundsystemDovesAutchereLaurent GarnierOrbitalDaft PunkBrian EnoKosheenDerrick MayTodd TerryPrimal ScreamThe KillersUnderworldPIL/Sex PistolsDurutti ColumnAphex TwinCarl CoxBlondieElectribe 101/Billie Ray MartinKraftwerk/Karl BartosEwan PearsonJD/NO and spin off'sPublic EnemyLadytronBeastie BoysMobyEnnio MorinconeKenny LarkinAfrika BaambaataJamesFunk D'VoidLFOKen IshiiThe RamonesACRMr ScruffArt Of NoiseCarl CraigLeftfieldMassive AttackHybridRun DMCThe ShamenMolokoUNKLEDave ClarkeNightmares on WaxColdcutFelix Da HousecatGoldfrapp808 StateFrankie KnucklesSlamEverything But The GirlHappy MondaysKevin SaundersonGrandmaster FlashDJ ShadowLionrockSouxsie And The Banshees and spin off'sJohn FoxxMantronixFSOLMarshall JeffersonDrexcyia

Cheers!

uff...a lot, but now on my mind are:

NO Kaiser Chiefs Doves Depeche Mode Modest Mouse The Cure Muse U2 Pearl Jam Dave Matthews Band Interpol Yeah Yeah Yeahhs Death Cab For Cutie

Jiphy wrote:

Burt Reynolds wrote: and hope that Kraftwerk will produce another good album in the new millennium.

Then again Burt, it starts to be very embarrassing to agree with you, such a genetically anti-French Englishman...

Actually i did meet a nice and not arrogant French bloke ONCE, and was seeing a very sexy French lass for a couple of months.

Burt Reynolds wrote: and was seeing a very sexy French lass for a couple of months.

With what Binos?

new order tracy bonham tori amos george strait the pooh sticks the fray joy division isolation ward nina nastasia