Don't judge me.. they were good when they were with nitro. If you would have seen them before they sold out to interscope and whored themselves on mtv. Saw them live with Tiger Army, one of the few bands that sounds just as amazing live, as they do on albums.
NIN has been pretty mainstream since Closer, Radiohead since Creep. Mainstream = popular = a lot of people like it. You have at least 2 interests in common with a substantial number of people and say
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people have sucky tastes in music nowadays.
Getting dangerously close to insulting your own tastes there. Even if they aren't "mainstream", which is a subjective term, they're very popular bands and the point still carries.
They still play music on MTV? /sarcasm, I see what you're getting at.
I wonder sometimes what would happen if people had access to a wide variety of music from birth, how tastes would sort out... I was exposed to a lot of 70s-80s rock, Christian contemporary (ew ew ew ew ew), some jazz, and eventually classical when I took up the musical life. Looking at what I listen to now... it's all extensions of my rock, jazz, and classical roots. My favorites tend to blend traits from 2 or more of the above, hence my fascination with various progressive and post-rock outfits. There's other stuff I listen to - I'm slowly building a blues and hiphop collection for example - but I always come back to the same broad categories of music.
I'm currently obsessed with Atreyu (well, three of their songs, anyway). >,< Yay, stuff to add to my "To Listen To" list when I need more new-to-me stuff to obsess over.
Hyadain from Niconico/YouTube/etc. though because I'm a huge dork.
In no particular order because I can't pick: Finntroll Eluveitie Fairyland Ensiferum And uhm, Epica or some other female fronted band like Nightwish before they became le suck. /nod xD