The 25 Best Artists Who Missed Band Madness 2007

In case you didn't know, one of the coolest sites on the net is back for 2007. That site is Band Madness The site is a massive battle of the bands featuring 512 of the best artists in rock history. It's in the 4th round right now, so if you're reading this, check it out.

Anyway, while the guys behind the site did a great job of getting most of the 512 best artists, some really great bands missed the cut. In my opinion, here are the 25 Best Artists Who Missed Band Madness 2007 (please note, Nine Inch Nails would be #1 on this list, but they were disqualified as last year's winner):

1. Frank Black (solo) - The former lead singer of the Pixies. This includes all of his post-Pixies projects.

2. The Thermals - One of the best political punk bands around these days.

3. The Ponys - A great but little-known indie rock band.

4. At The Drive-In - A legendary indie punk band that broke up right before becoming huge.

5. Sparta - At The Drive-In split into The Mars Volta and Sparta, whose sound is much closer to Drive-In's.

6. The Screaming Trees - The lost grunge band of the 90s.

7. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Devotees of Jesus and Mary Chain, BRMC isn't well known, but they're consistently great.

8. White Zombie - Most likely they weren't included because Rob Zombie (solo) was.

9. Hole - It's fun to hate Courney Love, but she's actually a talented musician and this is by far her best band.

10. The 88 - An unsigned indie rock band that gets featured in a lot of tv shows and movies.

11. A Perfect Circle - Maynard James Keenan's (Tool) other band. Not as good as Tool, but still pretty good.

12. The Sounds - Hard to describe, but a cool band with a great style.

13. Our Lady Peace - An underrated mid-90s grunge-ish band that produced a lot of great songs, but are most well-known for "Superman's Dead".

14. DMX - One of my favorite rappers.

15. Buckcherry - Hip? Trendy? Nope. I like them though. Sorta for the same reasons I like Guns N Roses.

16. L7 - Yet another overlooked grunge band.

17. Kings Of Leon - A hip indie rock band with great hooks.

18. Rise Against - Another great political punk band. They had a breakthrough hit in 2005 with "Swing Life Away".

19. Fountains Of Wayne - An indie pop band with quirky lyrics. Kinda like Bowling for Soup without all the suck.

20. The Guess Who - An overlooked classic rock band (Rolling Stone, get on this pronto!).

21. The Drive-By Truckers - The best purely southern rock band of the 21st century.

22. Phantom Planet - Early 21st century indie pop band.

23. Velvet Revolver - STP's Scott Weiland on lead vocals with members of Guns N Roses backing him up. It didn't work as well as you'd think it would, but it was still pretty good.

24. The Soviettes - A Minneapolis punk band that was kinda like a nearly all-girl version of the Ramones.

25. Eagles Of Death Metal - A quirky indie rock band that is also QOTSA's Josh Homme's side project.

Honorable Mention:

X
Bikini Kill
The Duke Spirit
David Byrne (solo)
Nellie McKay
Lucinda Williams
Keane
The Wallflowers
Ryan Adams
Todd Snider
Joan Osborne
The Rollins Band
Thursday
Social Distortion
The Old 97's
Big Timber