Alternative, Post-Punk and Rock music recommendations please!?

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Hey there. I'm really into alternative, post-punk and rock music and I would like some help finding some different bands and artists to listen to. 

I'd prefer old than new (maybe around 70's-late 80's), that are NOT on the list and it would be GREATLY appreciated if you kindly leave some recommended songs along with the name of the artist.

You're probably thinking "Oh my god, another question asking for a music recommendation, just search for some music on a song searching engine yourself!" But I want to know your opinions so I can expand my music library with music I can really relate to and enjoy.

I know that my list is ridiculously long, but I REALLY hate those really shitty overrated bands that people recommend in almost every Yahoo Answers music recommendation question so I thought I should list some of them down so you can avoid listing them. 

You can recommend less popular songs that you feel are really good by artists that are on the 'They're okay' and 'Have only listened to a few songs' section of the list as well!

Again, please, no punk, metal or techno or any other genre for the time being (you can see what sort of bands and artists I DO NOT WANT recommended at the bottom of this post).  


Favorites:

Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
The Beatles
Brandon Flowers
Electric Guest
Foster The People
Julian Casablancas
The Killers
Miike Snow
Modest Mouse
Neon Trees
Pomplamoose
Queen
The Strokes
Telekinesis
Temper Trap
Vampire Weekend
We Are Scientists


They’re okay:

Cage The Elephant
Gotye
Kaiser Chiefs
Maroon 5
Matt & Kim
MGMT
Of Monsters And Men
OneRepublic
Rooney
Weezer


Have only listened to a few songs:

Bloc Party
Blur
The Click Five
Dananananaykroyd
David Bowie
Death Cab For Cutie
Depeche Mode
Eric Clapton
A Fine Frenzy
Flaming Lips
Foals
Franz Ferdinand
The Fratellis
The Fray
The Gorillaz
Hot Chip
Imagine Dragons
Jack White
The Jezabels
Joy Division
Kasabian
The Kooks
The Libertines
M83 
Mumford & Sons
Muse
The Naked and Famous
Nirvana
OK Go
Passion Pit
Peter, Bjorn & John
Phantom Planet
The Police
The Postal Service
Pulp
Radiohead
The Ramones
Razorlight
Sex Pistols
The Smashing Pumpkins 
The Smiths
Snow Patrol
Sons Of An Illustrious Father 
Sting
The Teddybears
Tokyo Police Club
Toto
Two Door Cinema Club
The Velvet Underground
The Verve
Walk Off The Earth
The White Stripes
The Wombats
Yellow Ostrich


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NONE OF THESE!!!!!!:

AC/DC
The Academy Is...
Alkaline Trio
The All-American Rejects
All Time Low
Asking Alexandria
Avenged Sevenfold
Avril Lavigne 
Black Sabbath
Blink-182
Boys Like Girls
Breaking Benjamin
Breathe Carolina
Cobra Starship
Coldplay
Cute Is What We Aim For
Fall Out Boy
The Foo Fighters
Fun.
Green Day
Gym Class Heroes
Hadouken
Hawthorne Heights
The Heavy
Hoobastank
Jimmy Eat World
Linkin Park
McFly
Metro Station
My Chemical Romance
New Found Glory
Panic! At The Disco
Paramore
Plain White T’s
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Relient K
Simple Plan
Smash Mouth 
Sum 41
Taking Back Sunday
30 Seconds To Mars
Three Days Grace 
The Used 
You Me At Six
We The Kings

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...or any other bad overrated artists

Provehito In Altum · Accepted Answer

Sorry, if I repeat any bands - tried to read through all but sure I may have listed some you mentioned, so just ignore :)

Ringside - DAYGLO, STRUGGLE, TIRED OF BEING SORRY, etc 
Elevation
The Anix - WARNING SIGNS, SLEEPWALKER, IN THE DARK, LONG WAY OUT
Black Lab - ANYTHING (this version http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=Ygw5rBgCp… ), BRING IT ON, THIS NIGHT, WEIGHTLESS,etc 
Apoptygma Bezerk - IN THIS TOGETHER
Walk The Moon
Phoenix - LISZTOMANIA,1901, LASSO, ROME 
Trevor Hall - BRAND NEW DAY, SING A SONG, MOUNTAIN, HOUSE 
Ashes Remain 
Vega4
Ryan Star - (11:89 LP) BRAND NEW DAY, LAST TRAIN HOME, BREATHE, LOSING YOUR MEMORY, etc 
Needtobreathe - THROUGH SMOKE, LAY 'EM DOWN 
The Veer Union 
Pop Evil
Emphatic
Art Of Dying
Otherwise 
10 Years 
The Gaslight Anthem 
12 Stones 
Thousand Foot Krutch 
And You Will Know Us By The Trail of the Dead (aka Trail Of The Dead) - CATERWAUL 
Stone Sour 
Five Finger Death Punch 
Cold - WICKED WORLD, BLEED
Yellowcard 
Imagine Dragons - IT'S TIME, DEMONS, etc
Rev Theory 
Ghost Of August 
Red - FACELESS, LET IT BURN, etc 
Anberlin
Lumineers - HOY-HEY, STUBBORN LOVE
Aranda 
Sent By Ravens 
Evans Blue 
Disciple
Young Guns
Semi Precious Weapons
3 Doors Down 
Lifehouse
Yellowcard
Kevin Rudolf - Let It Rock
Seether 
Redlight King
The Offspring
Skillet
Saving Abel
Volbeat
City Archaic 
Snow Patrol
Spoon - GOT NUFFIN
Florence + The Machine - SHAKE IT OUT, NO LIGHT-NO LIGHT, DRUMMING SONG 
Muse
Mona - CLOAK AND DAGGER, TEENAGER, PAVEMENT 
Matchbox 20
Deftones
Taproot
Sons Of Sylvia
Badly Drawn Boy
Eels
Garbage
Damien Rice - ROOTLESS TREE, 9 CRIMES 
Evenscance
Owl City
Michael Franti & Spearhead

BANDS THAT HAVE BEEN AROUND A WHILE, BUT MIGHT CHECK OUT: 
Collective Soul 
The Calling
Rusted Root
Moby
Filter 
Goo Goo Dolls (their older stuff was more Punk) 
Shinedown 
Soundgarden 
Bush 
Hinder 
Creed 
Cavo 
The Veils - SIT DOWN BY THE FIRE 
U2 (couple lesser known) - HAWKMOON 269, EXIT, '40'
Remy Zero 
Duran Duran
Pearl Jam
Pinback

OLDIES BUT GOODIES: 
The Cure 
INXS 
The Clash 
Chalk Farm
Rhythm Corps
Modern English
Love & Rockets
Echo & The Bunnymen
Paul Kelly & The Messengers
Dishwalla
Slade
Live 
Jesus Jones 
Smashing Pumpkins 
Queensryche 
Depeche Mode
Jars Of Clay
REM
Phish

A GREAT TRICK TO REMEMBER: Within Amazon in MP3 catergory, enter the name of band you like; click on an album; when the page opens, under that album's tracks it will say" Customers who bought..."; it is a list of other albums you might like. Sometimes you have to scroll through a bunch before U get lucky, but a lot of times it can worth the search :)

Mystique · Answer

Rock: Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Bad Company, The Rolling Stones, Eagles, Scorpions, Journey, The Who, ELO, The Cars and listen to more David Bowie, Eric Clapton and the Police

Post-Punk: The Cure, Talking Heads, New Order, Joy Division, The Stranglers

? · Answer

OOOOOOOOOOh.

Public Image Limited, The Slits, Gang of Four, Swell Maps, The Raincoats, New Age Steppers, Animals & Men,

Craig · Answer

Check out The Dickies, Dickies are from the 70's and early 80's. They're hard to categorize, some say pop, I think they're just weird, but really good.

Furia [cowBELLZ] · Answer

but I like Jimmy Eat World....
lol anyways:

The Chameleon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-vP0Qbe7Ao
Magazine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVqLj0Micl0
Ra Ra Riot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKGfQCOyCCA
As Tall As Lions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2eptJ8SU9Q
Real Estate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HWcViTXdYc
The Fratellis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBaxde247Mw
Cog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T01Q7dXZEWs
Television
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfwoYEcpQhU

Other bands:
-Birds of Tokyo
-The Books
-Henry Cow
-Animal Kingdom
-Sleepy Jackson
-The Raptures
-Foxy Shazam
-Moving Mountains
-Pure Reason Revolution
-My Bloody Valentine
-Suicide
-MuteMath
-Enchant

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