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Who are your favorite music artists/bands? Here are some of my favorite songs, I'm pretty diverse :):
-Harlequin Forest by Opeth
-Ghost of Perdition by Opeth
-Love Hate Love by Alice in Chains
-Buried Alive by Otep
-Who Will Save Your Soul by Jewel
-Loom by Ani Difranco
-Amber by 311
-Mostly anything by Tool
If I die young by The band Perry.
Inspiration?
Lead Guitar Buckethead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFoBbNHvOME
Rhythm Guitar+GuitarPlay While Vocalizing: Thomas Erak formerly of Fall of Troy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hronoYFMSkM
Screamed Vocals+Lyrical and Guitar Writing: Silverstein: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9p0snrds3k
Clean Vocals+Drums+Mixture of Two Vocalist: Her Words Kill : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx103Z-nCXs
DJ Contacreast, he is awesome. One of my favorite songs by him:
DJ Contacreast - Happy Fantasy - YouTube
And I really like Ryu* also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtQYO...e_gdata_player
I really like listening to and making electronic/techno music, so they're a big inspiration.
Rush - 2112. Epic, inspiring, energizing, creative, emotional, and motivational. There are parts about dreaming and astral projection too. It changed my life in a few ways. It was the song that made me want to play the guitar and it helped me get over depression (I'm not sure why, it's actually a depressing song when you think about it).
Miles Davis - Around The Midnight (1967) - YouTube
All five of these men are true musical geniuses who changed music forever, including the music you listen to.
So many things. I'll make a few mentions: Radiohead, for their overall approach and musical sense, their way of always pushing their music into completely new territory. Yes; I'm not sure any band has ever struck me with the same sort of mystical wonder that is to me well embodied in their earlier works. The overall orchestration ( so to speak) of their music just blows me away. They have put out some very interesting music recently as well, albeit without either Wakeman or Anderson. Tool; I'm sure many of you can imagine why I would mention them. Very intelligent music, both in a melodic and rhythmic sense, and in a lyrical and conceptual one. They seem to espouse a very mature and admirable worldview - I won't say any more on that, at the risk of hijacking this thread with talks on the advancement of humanity :P.
That's pretty much what I've felt is my top 3, in many ways. I could name plenty more somewhat less significant names - Muse has been moving onto my radar pretty quickly as of late, especially since I picked up my copy of The 2nd Law - but that could go on for a good bit, and some names would inevitably not come to mind. I've been known to take an interest in everything from Steely Dan to Puscifer, and a whole host of other things, and I imagine by now you get the picture.