Wonder if anyone here agrees with me, but to contribute to this thread: I believe that the new The Mars Volta album is pretty good.
Hmm

Oh shit I need to get this soon

Depends on my mood, so I'll just go over a sampling of artists.

For Blues...

Pinetop Perkins
Muddy Waters Band
B.B. King
Mr. Clapton
Henry Gray
The Howlin' Wolf Band
Bryan Lee
Jay Gordon
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Johnny Winter
Blind Boy Fuller
Bukka White
Ledbelly

Just to name a few.

For my classic rock...

Edgar Winter Group
The James Gang
AC/DC
The Zep
EVH (early works)
Steppenwolf
George Thorogood And The Destroyers
Cream
The Band
Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Early Sabbath (Ozzy)
Pink Floyd

To name a few.

For my 'recent' rock...

Los Lonely Boys
Alice in Chains
Bad Religion
Foo Fighters
Pride and Glory
Velvet Revolver
Guns 'n' Roses (early)
Tool
Pearl Jam
Incubus
Pushmonkey
Black Stone Cherry (Minus that shitty train song... they do a great version of Hoochie Coochie Man)
Priestess
Jet
Wolfmother
Queens of the Stone Age
Radiohead
The Good, The Bad, and The Queen
Phantom Planet

To name just about all of them.

For my metal...

Black Label Society (all of it)
Tool (mentioned twice as they aren't really metal or rock)
Megadeth (early years)
Judas Priest
Motorhead
Deep Purple
Killswitch (assorted)
Pantera

Not in a metal mood so I can't think of many off the top of my head =\.

As for individual artists (guitarists)...

Jeff Beck
Steve Vai
Joe Satriani
Stevie Ray Vaughan
B.B. King
Les Paul (yeah, the jazz player)
Trey Anastasio
David Gilmoure

There are a few more that I can't remember =\.

That's a sampling. I've still got my assorted easy listening albums, assorted funk, and a bit of Motown.

Edit: You won't find many bands that are big now in the list. In fact, you probably won't find many bands that have been big in the last 10 years on the list. It's because the quality of music has gone down.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8CQg999l2ks

^Pure, unbridled perfection

http://youtube.com/watch?v=u9VO-w3djsA

^Pure, unbridled awesome.

http://www.myspace.com/suitenoir

i engineered this band last night, truly awesome!

Try plugging the bands with thesixtyone.com :O Great site for indy bands.

Found a new group i love.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xk3E3PCj6Rg

The Flashbulb, amazing stuff.

Fucking awesome. Am d/l that right now.

Yet another discovery!
http://www.sgxmusic.com/hotga.htm
This album, i might just buy it. It's f-ing awesome.

So I been listening to Bedlam in Goliath nonstop

I did too for a few days.

I've been on a Big Audio Dynamite kick of late. My son is absolutely taken with their music...which shifts him off his fascination with The Hives thankfully. I sure miss BAD....started with a bang and ended with a whimper...

What's wrong with the Hives? :D Apart from the godforsaken screaming, that is.

Nothing other than him wanting to listen to them nonstop...

Also the terrible.

(Says the guy listening to Linkin Park - In The End as he types this.)

Credge man, you list is pretty much every band I listen to...great choices man.

Not sure if this has been brought up yet, but if anyone listens to music a ton, I suggest Pandora. It's completely free, all you do is enter the names of bands you like and then it will play that band and similar bands that it thinks you would like. Rarely does it plug in something I don't like. The only downside that I have found is that if you don't approve a song for a really long time, then it will eventually stop playing and ask you if your paying attention. But it takes like 2hrs or something to do that...

Someone posted this on another forum I visit regularly. I really like this song.

This is good too:
X Amount Of Words - Blue October
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zF_Pg66qeyc


Other favs:
Soundgarden - Burden In My Hand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDRZtMkeRbY

Blake Lewis Audition - Crazy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IewtVZ3LSI