Help! Need More Triumphant New Rock or Obscure.

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Foo Fighters
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There Is Nothing Left To Lose
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Aurora

Listening to There Is Nothing Left To Lose in my car stuck in traffic the other day and its one of The Foos most underrated. Attacked by 'Rock critics' for being to poppy.They were compared to Journey and they had unfortunate singles. Good on a mainstream level but the so-called filler of this album was where the audio gold could be found. Take Aurora.Trumphant Rock. I don't know if this is a genre but it should be, because it's certainly a favorite of mine. Triumphant Rock builds and builds, pulses and pounds and crashes down so hard the millions of tiny shards disentegrate on impact (feedback to fade out) but with just enough gaps to grab you, pull you near, shove you away or kick your ass and show you what it can do. So, what new, overlooked or obscure Triumphant Rock can you recommend?

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SatisfiedMind614 says Aurora is brilliant...my favorite FF song ever I think...That is a tough category...Dave Grohl is one of the few guys who can pull of that arena rock sound without sounding lame...let me get back to you on that one

Permalink posted 11/02/2006
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sugarbaby says One of my favorite Foo songs too :) While not terribly obscure or overlooked, I think "Time Is Running Out" or "Plug In Baby" by Muse would fall into this category (also panned by the critics and most music snobs.) "Attractive Today" and "Everything is Alright" by Motion City Soundtrack might also qualify. And there is always "Under Pressure" by Queen & David Bowie...

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cbowers says Great MOG minds think alike :) Thanks Sugarbaby, I'll check out MCS and I've been meaning to check out Muse for awhile now. Thanks. Hey Blair, you got some picks for me yet?

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SatisfiedMind614 says The only one that comes to mind is Supergrass...the song "Pumping On Your Stereo" to be specific...give it a spin and see if i am close

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cbowers says Great pick. I've got that on actually.

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SatisfiedMind614 says Its only 11:30, plenty of more time to pretend to be working...i will ponder this and hopefully come back with something

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Heli0tr0pe says Right on Sugarbaby!!! I was about to say pretty much anything by MUSE, and you done took the cake. What else (my fave Foos album by far is "The Color and the Shape," incidentally)...wow, I do love me some "Triumph Rawk." Queen is up there, for sure. Rush as well - "The Analog Kid" maybe? The ending section of Pink Floyd's "Animals" album. Dream Theater's LP "Metropolis Part 2," which I've just gotten into recently. "The Yes Album" for sure, especially "Starship Troopers." Soundgarden's "Head Down." The ending of Elliott Smith's gorgeous song "Stupidity Tries"...it builds, it takes off, it flies away. And also my previously mentioned guilty pleasure, Extreme's "III Sides to Every Story." (Go ahead, laugh, whatever...but if you're curious, it can be found on Amazon for about $2. It's symphonic, it's triumphant, it's really worth a chance.)

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Heli0tr0pe says And once you've had your veggies, eat your Meat: "Bat Out of Hell" and "Paradise by the Dashboard Light."

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sugarbaby says OOoooOOOoo-good suggestions. Dream Theater and Rush especially. Methinks I sense a playlist forming...

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cbowers says thanks guys, I've been meaning to get back to Rush & Dream Theater. BOH is a classic that deserves a revisit too.

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Heli0tr0pe says Ooh ooh! Blue Oyster Cult, "Astronomy" (their 6-minute epic that few have heard, though Metallica did cover it awhile ago.) Beautiful song, and the ending really takes off and blasts it into space too.

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stevejones says I'm still not 100% clear on the definition of "Triumphant" (does it include "Anthemic" for instance?) but I'd highly recommend The Waxwings' "Keeping the Sparks," Moodswings/Pretenders "State of Independence," and The Rave-Ups "She Says (Come Around)" along these lines. Assuming I'm "getting it," that is.

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Heli0tr0pe says Also the 1st Secret Machines album - pretty majestic stuff. Some Big Music on there...much of this stuff has been more on the proggy, metallic tip, but - "Big Music" is how I've always referred to my guys who write the huge, Broadway-style melodies, dudes like Ben Folds, Jason Falkner, Neil Hannon of the Divine Comedy and darling little Rufus Wainwright - his song "I Don't Know What It Is" is triumphant to the Nth degree. HUGE, sweeping, epic song. Check that one out too.

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