Recommend me some more melodic type rock!

check out Pelican's "The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw "

I think you titled the thread wrong...Sigur Ros isnt really rock...has some rock elements, but its more chill, atmospheric, "world-type" music than straight rock.
That being said, to study to...I find it hard to study anything when there are vocals/lyrics-can you do without lyrics?

Radiohead, especially later stuff (Pyramid Song, for example). I would call Sigur Ros rock, but it belongs to a sub-category, for sure.

Try !!!, A Northern Chorus, Mum.

Check out some Spirtualized

Tortoise
Mogwai
A Silver Mt. Zion
Broadcast
Bowery Electric
Bedhead
Movietone
Flying Saucer Attack

Boxhead Ensemble.

Yeah, this thread is very badly titled. When I read "melodic rock" the first thing I thought of was the Buzzcocks.

Souvlaki by Slowdive. Seems like every time I play it, I think it's one of the best of the 90s. The opening "Alison" is surely one of the most beautiful songs of the 90s. And on the songs that Rachel Goswell takes the lead with her incredibly sexy voice, I could listen all day, floating away in a dreamworld. This is like the Cocteau Twins at their best but with the amps and effects cranked a bit and some of those (at times) overly sweet Liz Fraser gossamer threads stripped away. And you even have Brian Eno lending support on a couple tracks, one of which is titled "Here She Comes" and is slightly reminiscent of Eno's own "Here He Comes" which opened the second side of the classic "Before and After Science", probably my favorite Eno album. And the following "Souvlaki Space Station" is just too cool, with all the swirling, churning, ebb and flow effects. Yeah, this is one of my favorites.

Here's some nice words from AMG that seem to agree with my assessment ...

Not enough great things can be said about Souvlaki, Slowdive's magnificent second album. The sound is incredible — beautifully written pop songs layered with floating trails of vocals, vast waves of flanged guitars which swell and recede — a sound that defines the term "dream-pop." In fact, Souvlaki's opening track, "Alison," is quite possibly the most exemplary single ever to come from the genre — one listen is all it takes to be convinced. The album is the high point of Slowdive's career, stylistically speaking; at this, the midpoint of their career, they were combining the sweet pop of Just for a Day with the ambient experimentation that would mark their third release, Pygmalion. The result is a wholly brilliant album, almost on par with My Bloody Valentine's Loveless as the definitive recordings of the "shoegazer" genre. — Nitsuh Abebe

you just blew me away with this post!
i used to listen to slowdive 15 yrs. ago-lost their cd back in the day and havent thought about them for yrs!
GREAT recommendation!
thnx for the reminder!
(Davey-what the heck is "Shoegazer"? Is that some sort of genre associated with Slowdive? I hear it mentioned evertime I hear about "My Bloody Valentine")

BTW: not really rock, more like "world" but Peter Gabriels "Last Temptation of Christ" has to be one of the most beautiful and most chill albums ive ever heard. Its a must own for everyone, regardless of musical tastes.

Porcupine Tree is my latest discovery and are just an amazing band. I would recommend them to anyone as they have influences of just about everything. The lyrics are very emotional and they are very skilled musicians. In Absentia and Deadwing, their two latest, are all I've heard and are both amazing, but I prefer In Absentia, so I would start there.

I hear great things about these guys. More prog-rock though...
You should check out Dredg "El-Cielo"-now thats melodic rock.
Incredible album.

Re: shoegazing
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoegaze

thnx.
gotta get in the habit of using Wikipedia more often.

broken social scene - you forgot it in people

stereolab:
melodic, harmonizing female vocals over dronics synths and driving bass and drums. in their way they are heavy rock, very loud live and edgy, despite the seemingly cool, sing-song vocals.

the postal service:
emotional lyrics and electronic beats with an appealing male-female vocal harmony. very creative. they sound a lot like...

stars:
the lead male and female singers have perfectly blended voices. more emotional relationship/being young type songs, but a nice mix of melody and rock; very creative.

hope sandoval & the warm inventions:
took me a while to appreciate this band, but in their own way they have similar approach to music as sigur ros, without the climaxes. very, very chill stuff.