My dad wants me to fill his MP3 player for him...what the hell do i put on it??

Smashing Pumpkins, Modest Mouse, Pixies, Nirvana, Iggy Pop, Radiohead, Weezer, The Beatles, Red Hot Chili Peppers, QOTSA, R.E.M, Alice In Chains, Supergrass, David Bowie, The Shins, The Smiths, White Stripes, Led Zeppelin, The Police, Coldplay, Stone Temple Pilots, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Foo Fighters, AC/DC

I'm into Punk mostly, but it sounds like your dad and I have equal taste (minus Bob Seger)

The Misfits

The Sex Pistols (They're older, but hey, they're still damn good.)

The Distillers

The Offspring

30 Second To Mars (They're OK in my mind)

Simian Mobile Disco

The Dandy Warhols

Anberlin

Bear on Bear

Saliva

Buck Cherry

Bloodhound Gang

Arctic Monkeys

Cheap Sex

Operation Ivy

The Exploited

The Unseen

Rise Against The Machine

Social Distortion

Black Flag

Minor Threat

Rancid (The early stuff)

OK Go

Beck

Melee Beats

Stiff Little Fingers

The Undertones

The Clash

The Long Mouth Castle

Daft Punk

Battles

Relient K

Copeland

Placebo

Disturbed

The Fratellis

No Kilter

Presh

Gary Jules

Goo Goo Dolls

Hinder

New York Dolls

Roger Miret And The Disasters

Lars Frederiksen And The Bastards

Hoobastank

Implex Grace

The Saints

Jack's Mannequin

Joe Purdy

1208

Amen

Bad Religion

Bouncing Souls

Dropkick Murphys

Flogging Molly

Dead Kennedys

The Explosion

The Living End

Pennywise

The Vandals

X Ray Spex

The Adicts

Band Of Horses

Lacuna Coil

Horrorpops (They're more girly punk)

Mother Mother

Qkumba Zoo

Ram Jam

Spiderbait

The Vibrators

Thirteen Senses

Third Eye Blind

Chevelle

Three Days Grace

Breaking Benjamin

Against Me!

The Epoxies

Atreyu (Personally hate them.)

Ugly Kid Joe

Weezer

The Hives

The Ramones (Even if it has been said already)

Defiance, Ohio

Circle Jerks

Tsunami Bomb

12 Step Rebels

Anti-Flag

D.O.A.

Operation Ivy

Demon Hunter

NOFX

Creepshow

Haram

Warlocks

The Business

Brain Failure

Total Chaos

Broken Bones

Dead Pets

Fallen Hope

Voodoo Glow Skulls

Clit 45

Sham 69

Career Soldiers

A Global Threat

Lost City Angels

Treephort

Wheels on the Bus

Screeching Weasel

Big D and the Kids Table

Authority Zero

Electric Frankenstien

Dead Boys

New Mexican Disaster Squad

F.E.A.R

Crass

Choking Victim

A Wilhelm Scream

The Casualties

Teenage Bottlerocket

Useless ID

Pully

Lower Class Brats

Agent Orange

The Virus

U.K. Subs

Devotchkas

The Eyeliners

Go Betty Go

Nerf Herder

Bombs over Providence

Swingin' Utters

7 seconds

The A.K.A.s

Minor Threat

Tossers

Drop Kick Murphys

Bouncing Souls

Briefs

Billy Idol

Less Than Jake

Jawbreaker

Hot Water Music

The Lawrence Arms

Latterman

The Dauntless Elite

Leatherface

Gunmoll

Consumed

None More Black

The Sainte Catherines

Belvedere

Comeback Kid

Closet Monster

Early Saves The Day

Buzzcocks

DEF LEPPARD

Bon Jovi

Van Halen

Skid Row

Winger

ZZ Top

Led Zeppelin

Whitesnake

Dio

Black Sabbath

Sex Pistols

Nirvana

Alice Cooper

Guns N Roses

Twisted Sister

Styx

Foreigner

Iron Maiden

Judas Priest

Scorpions

Journey

Tom Petty

Billy Idol

Rush

Chiodos

The Detachment Kit

From First To Last

Hawthorne Heights

Incubus

The Killers

Kings of Leon

Modest Mouse

Motion City Soundtrack

Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

Silversun Pickups

Taking Back Sunday

The White Stripes

Rolling Stones, Journey, REO Speedwagon, Michael Jackson, Gwen Steffani or No Doubt, The Smashing Pumpkins & Red Hot Chili Peppers. Pepper and Sublime!! Hope this helps!! Oh yeah and The Ramones!! And Cheap Trick!!

Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top since there's Creedence Clearwater Revival on there. (That is what you meant by CCR, no?)

It needs some cowbell. How about Blue Oyster Cult? Hmm, and maybe a bit of Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath for good measure?

New bands with old taste I’m sure he’ll appreciate their influences

Wolfmother

Wolf & cub

Archie Bronson Outfit

Gov’t Mule

As for reborn musicians

Sebastian Bach-Angel Down

NEW

marty casey and lovehammers

foo fighters

lynam

cinder road

saving abel

big city rock

blacktop mourning

candlebox

daughtry

evanescence

finger eleven

lifehouse

plain white t's

three days grace

rockstar supernova

10 years

12 stones

OLD

live

radiohead

the eagles

boston

pink floyd

journey

styx

chicago

led zeppelin

def leppard

bon jovi

ac/dc

lynard skynard

System Of A Down.

Well what i learned from my old man

is

when in doubt go for Johnny Cash

Classics are your best bet

and try to stay away from the new crap

i gave my dad some Death/Black Metal

and he liked it

good luck