Ok, if you so desire listen to some of these:
The White Stripes: I assumed they were totally overrated and crappy; as it turns out sometimes critics and idiotic hipsters are right. They rock. All the albums are good, the two best are Get Behind Me Satan and Elephant.
Queens of the Stone Age/Eagles of Death Metal: Decent modern rock. But is it just me or do all of Josh Homme's (the common member of both bands) guitar riffs sound ripped off from someone else? Or maybe just different enough to be his own, I don't know.
The Donnas: Totally underrated all-girl rock band. Their latest, Bitchin', is the best new rock album you can dance to that I've heard in a long time. The others are pretty good too.
Michael McDonald's Motown albums are the best so-bad-they're-good albums I've heard in a while.
And of course standards that we should all listen to, including early Queen (I and II are fantastic), later 70s Bowie is totally danceable (favorites include Heroes and Station to Station) and early Chicago. Later Chicago is good too if nobody else knows you're listening to it (people may associate you with the wussiness of Peter Cetera).
And the Neil Young boxed set (now over a year late) is supposed to come out sometime this spring. So I'm excited about that.
But nothing can ever defeat the original Welcome to My Nightmare video. Even totally awesome monster and ghost muppets. I mean just look at those dudes dancing. Amazing. High art, I say.
