Favourite Music?

[ExoByte]

We have a diverse community. How diverse is it in terms of music? Post some of your favourite songs, bands, genres, or even specific lyrics. My post is gonna be long, yours doesnt have to be I like many different types of music, huge variety leading from Dance to Hip Hop, from Classical to Rock. Fort Minor is one of my favourite bands. Im not much a fan of Rap, but they have some good stuff in there. Amazing stuff actually. A lot of it is Hip Hop, which Im also not a fan of. But they're great. Really creative bunch of guys. Esspecially Mike Shinoda. I was dissapointed to hear when he left Linkin Park temporarily, as they are also on the top of my list. But once I heard he started Fort Minor, I couldnt help but listen. Linkin Park is another very good one. Whats amazing is that they are one of the few modern bands who does not have to resort to swearing to get their messege across, and the messege is still very clear. They have some great music and its very easy to get into. Breaking Benjamin is another good one. I first heard him on the Halo 2 soundtrack, and had to check out his other music. He has done very well on his most recent CD, Phobia. Though it seems to have taken a softer tone, its up there with my favourites from him. Billy Talent's name suits him. Though some of his songs are repetitive, they are very addicting, and his music is quite the draw in. Lemon Demon is another example of my diversity in music. A comedy oriented band, they have done such great music entertainment that has made its way to many flash videos, made by "Too Much Spare Time Animations" that can be found on Newgrounds. My all time favourite band however has to be Avenged Sevenfold. I just cannot get enough of these guys music. Esspecially their most recent CD, City of Evil. They're music is just so amazing, and most songs extend for more than 5 minutes, which clearly shows they have a lot of talent to put into one song. My list(In no particular order) : Avenged Sevenfold -M.I.A(My favourite song, 8 minutes and 46 seconds of sheer talent. I cannot get enough of this peice of music.) -Unholy Confessions -Seize the Day -Chapter Four -Their entire City of Evil CD Fort Minor -Remember the Name -Red to Black -High Road -Kenji (A very good song that gets you thinking. It is about a Japanese man in WWII. I highly suggest listening to this one, even if you dont like the music. This is a very deep song) Breaking Benjamin -Breakdown -Unknown Soldier -Diary of Jane Linkin Park -Faint -In the End -Points of Authority -Numb -Jay-Z/Linkin Park Numb/Encore remix -Breaking the Habit Lemon Demon -The Ultimate Showdown -Kitten is Angry -Dance like an Idiot Billy Talent -The Ex -Prisoners of Today -Voices of Violence -Where is the Line -Perfect World -Surrender Anberlin -Glass to the Arson Barry Maguire -Eve of Destruction (An older song. It was writen explaining the fall of wester civilazation. It applies even more so to today. Another recomended listen) Buffalo Springfield -For What its Worth Aerosmith -Dream On Hoobastank -Out of Control -The Reason My Chemical Romance -Im not Okay Twisted Sister -We're not gonna take it Nirvana -Smells like Teen spirit Three Doors Down -Kryptonite TRAPT -Stand Up Some Classical Peices -Lux Aeterna (Many varients. One remix was used in the movie Requiem for a Dream. Another was used in a trailer for Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, which was remixed by Clint Mansell) -All by Immediate Music: Blasphemy, Bringer of War, Rising Empire, Breakout, Judgement Day, Let it Burn, Assault and A Call to Arms. Some other Random music: -Streamline by Newton (better known as "The music used in the Pepsi commercial") -Popcorn by Hotbutter -Answers by Vigilante -Life's Gonna Suck, Im an Asshole and Merry Fucking Christmas: All by Dennis Leary -Roadhouse Blues by The Doors As you can tell, I like a lot of music. A lot of these songs have specific lyrics that I also really enjoy, but this post is long enough. I'll most more later Enough about my music likings, what about the rest of you?

[bradybaker]

Billy Talent's name suits him. Though some of his songs are repetitive, they are very addicting, and his music is quite the draw in.[/b] Billy Talent is the name of a band, not a guy. The name was inspired by a character in the novel, Hard Core Logo.

[ExoByte]

Bands are like people Thats my excuse.

[FreshBrains]

First, I absolutely despise most modern music. The only album from 2006 I enjoyed was David Gilmour's 'On An Island,' which was amazing, but isn't exactly mainstream. I like jazz, as well, mostly the group Spyro Gyra. Note that I said "most." There is some music out there that is bearable, but mostly I can't stand it. I'd describe a lot of it as "polished garbage." It's shiny, it's popular, but it's still garbage. So, yeah, I'm pretty close-minded when it comes to music. I hate modern music, and I think anyone that is responsible for hip-hop or rap's popularity should be shot. (This doesn't, however, include PARODIES of rap) And yeah, at least half of my library is Pink Floyd. My list: (My iTunes library in alphabetical order by artist) "Weird Al" Yankovic Amish Paradise Aerosmith Dream On Walk This Way Billy Joel We Didn't Start The Fire Creedence Clearwater Revival Fortunate Son David Gilmour Murder Blue Light All Lovers Are Deranged There's No Way Out Of Here Raise My Rent No Way On An Island Take A Breath Green Day(GASP&#33 I like some of their earlier stuff, actually. When I Come Around Guns N' Roses Welcome To The Jungle Sweet Child O' Mine Kaiser Chiefs Saturday Night I Predict A Riot Mark Knopfler Boom, Like That Sucker Row Our Sangri-La Paul Simon How Can You Live In The Northeast? Outrageous Pink Floyd(Oh crap) A Momentary Lapse Of Reason Learning To Fly One Slip On The Turning Away Sorrow A Saucerful Of Secrets Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun Corporal Clegg Jugband Blues Animals Dogs Pigs (Three Different Ones) Sheep Atom Heart Mother Atom Heart Mother suite Summer '68 Fat Old Sun Dark Side Of The Moon Breathe Time Money Us And Them Any Colour you Like Brain Damage Eclipse Delicate Sound Of Thunder (Live) On The Turning Away One Of These Days Money Comfortably Numb (With extended guitar solo) Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980-81 Another Brick In The Wall, Part 1 What Shall We Do Now? Young Lust The Last Few Bricks Hey You Comfortably Numb Run Like Hell Live At Pompeii Echoes part 1 Careful With That Axe, eugene Echoes part 2 Meddle One Of These Days Fearless Echoes More (Soundtrack From The Motion Picture The Nile Song Green Is The Colour Cymbaline Obscured By Clouds When You're In Mudmen Childhood's End Free Four P.U.L.S.E.(Live) Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Abridged) Astronomy Donime High Hopes Time Money Comfortably Numb (My favorite version) Relics Arnold Layne See Emily Play Paintbox Careful With That Axe, Eugene Biding My Time The Division Bell What Do You Want From Me? Poles Apart Marooned Wearing The Inside Out Keep Talking High Hopes The Final Cut Your Possible Pasts When The Tigers Broke Free The Gunner's Dream The Fletcher Memorial Home The Final Cut Two Suns In The Sunset The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn Astronomy Donime Lucifer Sam Interstellar Overdrive The Wall In The Flesh? Mother One Of My Turns Don't Leave Me Now Hey You Comfortably Numb Ummagumma Astronomy Donime (Live) Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun (Live) Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict The Narrow Way, parts 1-3 Wish You Were Here Shine On You Crazy Diamond, parts 1-5 Welcome To The Machine Have A Cigar Wish You Were Here Shine On You Crazy Diamond, parts 6-9 [/Pink Floyd] Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Another One Bites The Dust Roger Waters The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range In The Flesh (Live) Set The Controls for The Heart Of The Sun (Live) To Kill The Child Leaving Beirut The Rolling Stones Paint It Black Satisfaction Start Me Up Spyro Gyra Freetime Incognito Steely Dan Green Book The Who The Real Me Quadrophenia The Dirty Jobs Is It In My Head? 5:15 Love, Reign o'er Me Overture 1921 Pinball Wizard Who Are You Baba O'riley Behind Blue Eyes

[27]

I love music. It's all i want to do with my life, it's all I really understand. So, obviously I have preety strong opions about music. (Not in any order.) Classic Rock The Beatles The Rolling Stones Led Zeppelin AC/DC Jimi Hendrix Eric Clapton Pink Floyd ZZ Top Santana Rush Queen The Ramones Black Sabbath Van Halen The Who Ted Nugent The Sex Pistols The Clash Iron Maiden Judas Priest Guns N' Roses The Greatful Dead Frank Zappa The Doors Bob Dylan Blues Robert Johnson Elmore James B.B. King Buddy Guy John Lee Hooker Stevie Ray Vaughan Robert Cray Shread Steve Vai Joe Satriani Michael Angelo Batio John Petrucci Eric Johnson Rusty Cooley Yngwie Malmsteen Modern Rock(Well, modern enough) R.E.M Radiohead Phish Muse Jane's Addiction Weezer Rage Against the Machine SoundGarden Audioslave (Rage Against the Soundgarden) Red Hot Chili Peppers Alice in Chains Stone Temple Pilots Nirvana System of a Down Nerd Rock Talking Heads Devo They Might Be Giants The Aquabats That's all I can think of right now. Greatest band ever: the Beatles. Greatest Guitarest: Steve Vai. Greatest song: Yesterday (the Beatles).

[bradybaker]

Ok....here we go. Stand-out favorites are in italics. Folk-ish Andrew Bird Blanche Bright Eyes Destroyer Fiery Furnaces Jenny Lewis Okkervil River Sufjan Stevens Indie Rock The Apples In Stereo The Arcade Fire Be Your Own Pet Born Ruffians Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Cold War Kids Deerhoof Islands Neutral Milk Hotel The New Pornographers Professor Murder Sleater-Kinney Spoon Sunset Rubdown Tapes 'n Tapes The Unicorns Wolf Parade Pop A.C. Newman Brendan Benson Broken Social Scene Final Fantasy The Postal Service Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin Classic The Beatles Bob Dylan Jimi Hendrix Johnny Cash Rock The Black Keys Eagles Of Death Metal The Greenhornes Interpol Kings Of Leon Nirvana Pixies The Raconteurs Red Hot Chili Peppers The Strokes Tenacious D The White Stripes Yeah Yeah Yeahs Hard Rock Death From Above 1979 Queens Of The Stone Age Rage Against The Machine System Of A Down Hip-Hop/R&B/Rap Buck 65 Gnarls Barkley Gorillaz Remix/Mash-up Girl Talk MSTRKRFT Other/Unclassifiable Beck Fantomas The Flaming Lips Lightning Bolt Man Man Modest Mouse First, I absolutely despise most modern music. The only album from 2006 I enjoyed was David Gilmour's 'On An Island,' which was amazing, but isn't exactly mainstream. I like jazz, as well, mostly the group Spyro Gyra. Note that I said "most." There is some music out there that is bearable, but mostly I can't stand it. I'd describe a lot of it as "polished garbage." It's shiny, it's popular, but it's still garbage.[/b] There is a LOT of GREAT music coming out every day. Just don't expect the radio or TV to deliver it to your doorstep.

[LucidDreamGod]

my list is probly very similer to ExoByte's except for I like eve 6 which is one of my 2 favorite bands billy talent being the other. I also liked some of billy talents earlier stuff (pezz) such as M&M and birds in the basement. and yes kenji by fort minor is an awsome song which almost didn't make it on there cd, it would have been an ashame if it hadn't, also "right now" was an awsome song.

[ExoByte]

and yes kenji by fort minor is an awsome song which almost didn't make it on there cd, it would have been an ashame if it hadn't, also "right now" was an awsome song. [/b] Definatly. What I like about Fort Minor is they are one of the very few Hip-Hop/Rap bands that dont preach about "Bitches" or "Poping a cap in yo ass." They do some really good, and quite deep music. Such as Right Now or Kenji.

[LucidDreamGod]

Yes I've tryed to find more bands like them, but no such luck, eminem has a few pretty good songs, but there rare. If only more bands were like them.

[Ynot]

Buck 65[/b] check out the other Anticon members (and extended family), as well Sage Francis & Sole, especially Sage Francis - Gunz Yo Sage Francis - Slow Down Ghandi Sole - Bottle Of Humans http://www.anticon.com

[Ardent Lost]

As a lot of people say, music is my life. It's what i do, it's what i will always be doing. I personally think i have an extremely diverse taste in music. I try and give every band that sounds remotely interesting at least one listen, and i generally try not to write off any group/artist/etc. without giving them a 2nd or 3rd chance, sometimes more. My roots are with metal, of all kinds (bar most of the mainstream stuff), but as a result of my acceptance and understanding of music in general, my tastes have expanded far and wide to include stuff from virtually all styles of music. Really the only kind of music i don't enjoy is modern mainstream music (radio and mtv type stuff, although some of that i do enjyo still), motown, vocal jazz, and some pop music from all eras. Punk and emo i really don't enjoy either. Almost any modern rock. Rock - Mainly 70s prog rock. Especially Zeuhl, Canterbury, Krautrock, RIO/Avant-Prog. Frank Zappa, King Crimson, Univers Zero, Art Zoyd, Magma, Rush, Caravan, Gong... Metal - Mostly Death, Black, Doom/Stoner, Progressive & Avant-Metal. Emperor, Cynic, Opeth, Nile, Cryptopsy, Pain of Salvation.... i could be here all day. Classical - I love 20th century classical music. Messiaen, Cage, Zorn, Ligeti are all great. I'll also mention Mozart, Beethoven, Stravinsky and Purcell. Mahler and Ravel also sound like my cup of tea, but haven't really explored them properly yet. Electronica - Not a fan of that "doof doof" type music. So i don't really like dance, trance or anything like that. But i do like experimental electronic, and i do like some drum n bass, and trip hop influenced stuff. Electronica is particularly good when mixed with noise i think. Artists include: Bjork, Dalek, Prodigy, DJ Spooky, Diana Behlke sound good, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher. Folk - Something i'm relatively new to i would say. I love Loreena McKennit if she counts, but i really like the nordic instrumental folk type stuff (stuff you might find here http://www.noside.com/artists.html). Particularly Gjallarhorn, Frifot, and Annbjørg Lien. But as i said, i haven't even begun to scratch the surface yet. Jazz - Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Weather Report, Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, it's all good! The only jazz i don't really like, as i said before, is most vocal jazz (ie Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra etc.) Experimental/Avant-Garde - Quite hard for most to listen to. It's not music to be scrutinized and intellectualised, especially free improv, which is possibly the hardest music for people to swallow. But it speaks to a part of me no other music can, it reaches parts of me that order and sanity cannot. John Zorn is the big one here. Fantatic music! I'm yet to hear anything by him i don't like, and i've heard a lot. I guess noise would belong here too. Though i don't listen often, i don't mind putting on some Masonna or Merzbow, or, as i said before, noise+electornica. Borbetomagus are great though, mixing free improv and noise. Other Some 80s pop is great, especially stuff like Cynid Lauper and Belinda Carlisle. I've also recently started to accept rap/hip hop as a genuine form of music. Not 50 cent or anything like that, i can't listen to that stuff, but there is some good rap out there. As i mentioned before, i like Dalek. Really interesting atmosphere behind really good lyrics. I've also just discovered Cirque Du Soleil's music, which is fantastic. There's still so much out there though. World music is something i've barely glanced at, and is probably the most vast sea there is in the music world. That's all i can think of for now.

[rougeur]

Has anyone heard of the Rosebuds? some lyrics from them on a song called Lovers Rights: All this talk of what has come The history books have left it out Never mentions finding love And all the facts they don’t own So maybe we should call the prince and press alright Tell them to rewrite those books for the lovers’ rights For the lovers’ rights. Well hearts now drawn on caveman walls But the names of love burnt in them all And soldiers in the history books Were homesick once and missed their loves So maybe me and you should call that press today And tell them to rewrite history for the lovers’ sake For the lovers’ sake and the music is beautiful.

[ExoByte]

Never heard it before. But I can in about 2 minutes

[Neruo]

First of all, linkin' park's message is: 'If you are a whining little bitch that is 'crawling in his skin' buy our albums'. Still O-K music, but way to emo. Like muse, only different. - Great music in my eyes (ears): Jimi hendrix Joe satriani led zeppelin dire striaghts iron maiden rage against the machine

[PenguinLord13]

I'll give my favorite bands/songs: 99 Red Balloons ~ Goldfinger (see my siggy) Pink Floyd (especially wish you were here) The Red Hot Chili Peppers (Californication all the way) Smashing Pumpkins (mainly the Bullet With Butterfly Wings and Zero albums) Right now I'm totally addicted to 99 Red Balloons, so for now it's my top song, so any Germans out here, please translate the German part for me, I can't figure out what it is. You and I in a little toy shop Buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got Set them free at the break of dawn 'Til one by one they were gone Back at base, bugs in the software Flash the message, something's out there Floating in the summer sky Ninety-nine red balloons go by Ninety-nine red balloons Floating in the summer sky Panic bells, it's red alert There's something here from somewhere else The war machine springs to life Opens up one eager eye Focusing it on the sky As ninety-nine red balloons go by Ninety-nine decisions treat Ninety-nine ministers meet To worry, worry, super scurry Call out the troops now in a hurry This is what we've waited for This is it, boys, this is war The President is on the line As ninety-nine red balloons go by Neunundneunzig Kriegsminister Streichholz und Benzinkanister Hielten sich für schlaue Leute Witterten schon fette Beute Riefen: Krieg und wollten Macht Mann, wer hätte das gedacht? Daß es einmal so weit kommt Wegen neunundneunzig Luftballons Neunundneunzig Luftballons Ninety-nine dreams I have had And every one a red balloon It's all over, and I'm standing pretty In the dust that was a city I could find a souvenir Just to prove the world was here Here it is, a red balloon I think of you and let it go