OK, two very obvious suggestions

Definitely not rock : The sides made by Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven in the late 1920s, which should be on the National Health.

Definitely not rock : Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite Of Spring".

On the other hand, both do rock, in so many ways.

I recall musings about Muse in the past...
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/who-don039t-you-everybody-else-thi...

Oakenfold - Another World.
Superb piece of DJ nonsense.

Nyman - The Kiss / Water Music part 3.
Never fails to get the adrenaline running.

UNKLE - Edit Music For A Film.
Sample-tastic mate !

start a specific thread about something 'not rock' and see who joins in :-)

If it's jazz, avant-garde electronic or 20th century classical then you'll possibly pique my interest. If it's 'doof doof dance' then I'll probably pass.

If it's Motown or Sinatra then I'm in, nu-folk (or whatever it's called) and I'm out.

'not rock' is too big a subject heading

as I type. Does that count?
Downloaded it from emusic & I'm enjoying it very much.
Also enjoying most of the new Paolo Nutini album [yes really and not embarrassed about it]
Other recent albums include Miles Davis 'Kind of Blue' & 'Sketches of Spain'
'Glory Hope Mountain' by The Acorn - DM Stith, Iron & Wine, The Mummers, The Leisure Society, Woodpigeon - none of which are especially 'Rock'

"If it's jazz, avant-garde electronic or 20th century classical then you'll possibly pique my interest.
If it's 'doof doof dance' then I'll probably pass.
"

i'm in for the count with any of those options.

which reminds me, i need to listen to the 'end titles redux' album by UNKLE on which they stripped their recent songs back and added some orchestrations.

oh, and here's a new bloke making some interesting sample heavy music that takes reference from all over the place :

http://www.paulwhitemusic.co.uk/

Which threads don't you like?

I guess that the reason there aren't more threads is few people start them.

There have been some threads on jazz - good starter albums, for one, and jazz does get a mention (from me and some others) when we look at "Perfect Albums".

About 25% of my CDs are jazz, and I'm often in the mood for post-rock (or whatever you want to call it) - in the last week I've listened to :

a lot of Grails, Slint, and Tortoise.

2 Marian McPartland radio shows : with Steely Dan and with Alice Coltrane.

SAHB at the BBC

Slim Harpo (live - Sting It Then!)

The Ramones - It's Alive

Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief

Lots of Jimmy Reed

and all my James King & The Lonewolves records which I ripped from vinyl.

At the moment, as I am reading an excellent book on Colonel Tom Parker, I'm listening to Elvis : The Jungle Room sessions, which is fabulous.

My dear old dad left me with a passion for all things Rat Pack. Apart from Sinatra I love Sammy Davis Jr and Dean Martin. Nat King Cole is another smoothie who always goes down well with a nice malt on a Saturday night.
Of the doop doop variety The Go Team an d David Holmes are hard to beat

in 'the word massive' is being restored...

i suppose the examples i gave were electronic/dance, but, hey, 'not rock ( or 'notrock' as i'm calling it now) takes all comers.

so i'm gonna give a few of the names above i haven't heard of a listen...see what floats my boat

thanks for reassuring me that word is not just home to lovers of guitar-based, verse-chorus-verse-chorus-mid8-chorus-yawn stuff.

no more comfort zones...

people tend to ignore the contemporary classical-ish side of things in stuff like this.
Nico Muhly!!! (saw him at union chapel in london, was amazing).

You can call it classical, you can call it electronica, whatever. I call it bloody good.

It certainly isn't rock.

rock, soul, alt, whatever but I do have William Basinski's The Disintegration Loops - which I guess is contemporary Classical - it's good stuff.