anyone know any songs that would you would associate these with..?
 

ok, i really like songs like oasis - champagne supernova, mr. e's beautiful eyes, the red, and most stuff by nirvana. i like incubus a lot too, there's more but you get the idea. maybe i'm just weird but there's something about these songs that they have in common. if you think you have any idea about what i'm talking about, then would you care to name a few you think i might like? if you don't have a clue about what i'm saying, then nevermind, i'm probably just weird :P thx

all the bands have attractive singers?

Well, you are from Tennesee, so ya got to be wierd - just kidding.

It seems to me that all of these songs have a sort of "grand quality" to them. I not sure if you know what I mean by that, but I get what you mean about their being a thread amongst them. This may be off beat, but do you like Queen, much of their music (though different) has this same quality to me. Do you like Radiohead - "fake plastic trees" comes to mind. I'll put more thought into it and see what I can come up with.

U2 where the streets have no names and the canyon behind her by dredg

yes, lots of dredg would be good.

IE:

Of the Room
Yatahaee
It Only Took a Day
18 People Live in Harmony
Scissor Lock
Sorry But It's Over (surest bet judging by aforementioned songs imho)
Whoa is Me

So yeah.... almost the entire El Cielo album

Also:

The Apex Theory - Bullshed
The Apex Theory - Drown Ink
The Apex Theory - Apossibly
The Apex Theory - Come Forth
The Apex Theory - That's All!
The Apex Theory - Bravo
The Apex Theory - Aisle Always
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - How Near, How Far
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Another Morning Stoner
Deftones - Digital Bath
Deftones - Change (In the House of Flies)
At the Drive-In - Hourglass
At the Drive-In - Napoleon Solo
At the Drive-In - Transatlantic Foe
At the Drive-In - A Devil Among the Tailors
At the Drive-In - Non-Zero Possibility
At the Drive-In - Quarantined
At the Drive-In - Invalid Litter Department
Glassjaw - Piano
Glassjaw - Majour
Glassjaw - Ape Dos Mil
Glassjaw - Two Tabs of Mescaline
Glassjaw - Radio Cambodia
Glassjaw - Cosmopolitan Bloodloss
Glassjaw - When One Eight Becomes Two Zeroes
The Blood Brothers - The Shame
The Blood Brothers - The Salesman, Denver Max
Taking Back Sunday - Great Romances (Of the 20th Century)
Taking Back Sunday - Timberwolves at New Jersey
Taking Back Sunday - There's No 'I' In Team
Taking Back Sunday - The Blue Channel
Hopesfall - Decoys Like Curves
Hopesfall - Escape Pods for Intangibles
Interpol - Obstacle 1
Interpol - PDA
Interpol - Obstacle 2
The Living End - Staring at the Light
The Living End - Second Solution
The Living End - Blood On Your Hands
The Living End - Prisoner of Society


...ok, so maybe some are a stretch, but I feel for the most part they make sense...

i'll try some of these, thx guys

Beth Orton

try some oleander, U2, and Better Than Ezra

Oleander is the only one I would argue against in the list mentioned so far...of course, I've only heard one single from them and that was so long ago I don't remember its name, so you can discredit my thought if you like.

They all seem to be just intellectual and thought provoking songs to me. Maybe thats not what you're driving at, but that is how I always viewed them, and in terms of intellectual music, there's always good old Coldplay, and the new-to-the-mainstream Snow Patrol.

actually, cold play is in that list of music i was trying to post here - just forgot to put them ;) i'm gonna try to find some shit by snow patrol, thx bro