Music?

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 8:31 pm

The Beatles
The Police
Pink Floyd
The Who
Wings

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 8:57 pm

Early Beatles or late Beatles? I can't get into them past when they turned into hippies/mystics.

mwhittington · Post by **mwhittington** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 9:02 pm

Wow, I'm such an eclectic, like some of you here. I can only list my absolute favorites:

Country: Garth Brooks, Brooks&Dunn, Rascall Flats
Rock: ZZ Top, Dream Theater, Nickelback, Disturbed
Hip-Hop: Black Eye Peas, Will Smith, Snoop Dogg
Pop: vintage Michael Jackson (b4 going white)
Other: Tommy Emmanuel, Esteban, Johnny Cash, Carlos Santana, B52s, Counting Crows, Josh Grobin, Bach, Beethoven, Tsaikovski, Shubert, Metallica, the list goes on and on...

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 9:04 pm

Cpl Kendall wrote:Early Beatles or late Beatles? I can't get into them past when they turned into hippies/mystics.

Both, for different reasons - their early stuff is certainly livelier, but if I just want to relax I like something like "Lucy in the Sky..." or Across the Universe". And "I am the Walrus" for pure comedy value.

Martin · Post by **Martin** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 9:23 pm

Some of my favourites:

Muse
Snow Patrol
Duran Duran
Depeche Mode
Bluetones
Coldplay
Foo Fighters
Starsailor

Post by **Mikey** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 11:03 pm

Wait a minute - Massive Attack and Portishead but no Tricky, Poe, or Whale?! Whale's f-ing awesome... and Tricky did some of the beats and production.

Everytime I read the new posts on this thread, I keep recalling some OTHER of my "favorite" bands - like Aerosmith, KISS, The Kinks, Bon Jovi (guilty pleasure, but he is a New Jersey guy after all.) Then, some of the old school pop stuff - Sinatra, Darin, Keely Smith, Louis Prima. Then some of the electronica I've seen (but was maybe too messed up to recall) like Paul Oakenfold, Orbital, The Orb, The Crystal Method, Lords of Acid. Then, the ol' skool R&R, like Frankie Valli, Bill Haley, Buddy Holly. Then some of the alternative, like The Cure, The Wonder Stuff, Siouxsie and the Banshees, They Might Be Giants. Then, some of the hardcore like Black Flag/Henry Rollins, Dag Nasty, Doggie Style. Then, some jazz greats like Coltrane, Davis, Ellington, Pastorius, Monk, Brubeck, Getz, and Mulligan. Then, Romantics like Mendelssohn or the Russian Five: Glinka, Cui, Rimsky-Korsikov, Borodin, and Mussorgsky. Then soem funk like The Ohio Players or Parliament. Then third-wave like The Toasters, the Scofflaws, Dance Hall Crashers, The Allstonians, or The Skoidats. Then, Irish-American punk like Flogging Molly or Dropkick Murphys...

I guess my taste is rather too eclectic to narrow down like this...

Bryan Moore · Post by **Bryan Moore** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 12:53 am

Queen
Neil Young
Jimmy Buffett
The Rolling Stones
Black Sabbath
Killling Joke
Little Feat (Saw them in concert Thursday night)
Bob Dylan
Pet Shop Boys
R.E.M.
Anything blues

Martin · Post by **Martin** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 1:27 am

Pet Shop Boys & R.E.M. are another two of mine. I got the PSB Pop Art collection a year or two ago, fantastic.

Post by **Mikey** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 3:31 am

Oh, right, forgot blues. Robert Johnson (the great grand-daddy!) followed by Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker Muddy Waters, Ruth Brown. And Philadelphia-style R&B: Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett in particular.

Reliant121 · Post by **Reliant121** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 9:29 am

Oh dear...Well I've got to add in my sad 70's and 80's favs (even though i weren't even bloody born XD. thank my mother for this) Well lets see...we have Sailor because its cheesy and I like cheese. Sister Sledge, Kylie, Madonna, Duran Duran, Fairground attraction (Purely for 'Perfect'), Madness, Whoever did the timewarp (can't remember his name) because I love dance and this is one that I know

and finally...Dextys midnight runners. And Sade with 'Smooth Operator'

I can bare but one song of Rhianna's, Please don't stop the music. David Jordan - Sun goes down and finally my favourite comedy artist, Denis Leary.

MetalHead · Post by **MetalHead** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 9:20 pm

A proper top ten? Here goes!

Soilwork
In Flames
Killswitch Engage
Children of Bodom
Spineshank
Ill Nino
Kamelot
Disturbed
Breaking Benjamin
Daysend

Post by **Mikey** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:49 am

Reliant121 wrote:Oh dear...Well I've got to add in my sad 70's and 80's favs (even though i weren't even bloody born XD. thank my mother for this) Well lets see...we have Sailor because its cheesy and I like cheese. Sister Sledge, Kylie, Madonna, Duran Duran, Fairground attraction (Purely for 'Perfect'), Madness, Whoever did the timewarp (can't remember his name) because I love dance and this is one that I know and finally...Dextys midnight runners. And Sade with 'Smooth Operator'

I can bare but one song of Rhianna's, Please don't stop the music. David Jordan - Sun goes down and finally my favourite comedy artist, Denis Leary.

The "Time Warp" was performed by the great Tim Curry and assorted cast of The Rocky Horror Picture Show - the same Tim Curry from Clue, The Shadow, etc. And I don't care for Rhianna's music, but I don't mind watching her.

mwhittington · Post by **mwhittington** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 4:22 am

Agreed, Rochey. She can dance all she wants, but I've heard better singers. If we're going for girl rock, I Like Christina Aguilera, Pink, Avril Levigne, Maya, some Alanis Morrisette, and Nellie Furtado.
Anyone heard of Dream Theater? My brother-in-law introduced me to them about a month ago, and now I can't get enough of them! You can hear the influence of Rush and U2 in their various songs, and they don't have a specific style of sound in their music. What I mean is, when you hear U2 or B52s, you know right away who it is by their "style". Dream Theater doesn't have that. They have a number of different sounds. One of their songs is around 40 or so minutes long, broken up into different tracks. Now they're one of my top 5 faves, and I have a lot of faves.

Post by **Mikey** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:26 am

mwhittington wrote:Agreed, Rochey. She can dance all she wants, but I've heard better singers. If we're going for girl rock, I Like Christina Aguilera, Pink, Avril Levigne, Maya, some Alanis Morrisette, and Nellie Furtado.
Anyone heard of Dream Theater? My brother-in-law introduced me to them about a month ago, and now I can't get enough of them! You can hear the influence of Rush and U2 in their various songs, and they don't have a specific style of sound in their music. What I mean is, when you hear U2 or B52s, you know right away who it is by their "style". Dream Theater doesn't have that. They have a number of different sounds. One of their songs is around 40 or so minutes long, broken up into different tracks. Now they're one of my top 5 faves, and I have a lot of faves.

I know Dream Theater, but I'm not all that into art metal. As far as grrl rock, I'm for Joan Jett, Liz Phair, Veruca Salt, Lush, L7, The Pretenders, and Seven Year Bitch.

MetalHead · Post by **MetalHead** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:24 pm

girl rock? LOL

Flyleaf
Evanescence
Nightwish
Within Temptation