your shortlist

[amethysted_ink]

The best music evokes emotions, it gives you that rush of relating, an indefinable feeling of identifying. It makes you soar, it makes you think, it makes you human. Often it's the lyrics that do it, but sometimes it's the music itself that taps into your soul. Something about the arrangement of the instruments and the vocals is transcendent

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[anonymous]

the mars volta
modest mouse
the decemberists
bright eyes
cursive
two gallants
yeah yeah yeahs
tegan and sara
metric
bloc party
the arcade fire
at the drive-in
bearvsshark
led zeppelin
the cure
foreign born
interpol
the kinison
man man
neutral milk hotel
pink floyd
sufjan stevens
ugly casanova
vhs or beta
black kids

also...

[anonymous]

band of horses
nirvana
death cab
the beatles
gogol bordello
rage
queens of the stone age
wolfmother

[amethysted_ink]

Ooh, i forgot to add Metric. definitely on my shortlist

[ohgrpup]

The only bands that strike any real emotion with me any more are...

mewithoutYou (hands down)
American Nightmare
Converge
Poison the Well
Explosions in the Sky

When it comes to specific songs, I can get moved hardcore by Shiny Toy Guns, Metric, and a few others...but as a whole, for a band, not many do it for me any more.