I thought this would be an interesting Topic, it was sparked from a convo between Rridgely and I. So list your favorite bands and tunes, and what you would recommend to people. Dont go so overboard.

Rolling Stones, Beatles, Tom Petty, Radiohead, Modest Mouse, Led Zepplin, Blue Oyster Cult, U2, Wham (haha), (Listen to them>The Flaming Lips<LISTEN TO THEM), Matisyahu, Bob Marley, Nas, Danger Doom (album), Immortal Technique, Paul Oakenfold, Reel Big Fish, Dave Matthews Band, Talking Heads, Queen, i could keep going.

My favorites.

U2
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Guns N Roses
Aerosmith
Led Zeppelin
The Doors
Black Sabbath
AC/DC
Dave Mathews
Tom Petty
Pearl Jam
Bruce Springsteen
Bob Dylan
Stone Temple Pilots
Queen
Red Hot Chilipeppers
Metallica
The Who
Paul McCartney and Wings
Velvet Revolver

I'm stopping but if you want more just ask.

The Beatles
Eminem
Metallica
The Offspring
Madonna
TinFoilPhoenix
Neil Young
Everlast
Nirvana
Rage Against The Machine
Marilyn Manson
Guns N Roses

anything but country music

Hard Rock is my fav:
Korn
Mushroomhead
Rammstein
Disturbed
Coal Chamber
Rob Zombie
Sevendust
Metallica
Megadeath
Powerman 5000
etc.

I also like Classic Rock:
ACDC
Led Zeppelin
Guns & Roses
Ozzy Osbourne
Billy Idol (sometimes)
Def Leppard

I can put up with some Rap:
Eminem
Lil John & the Eastside Boys
Dr. Dre, Ludacris, Puff Daddy or whatever he calls himself now (not often, but when I'm in the mood)

Country & Pop:
Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

Punk Rock:
Very rarely; almost as bad as country & pop!

R & B:
We won't go there.

I listen to Hard Rock, Instrumental Metal ("Instrumetal"), Instrumental Rock, and Metal. For the past ten years I've primarily listened to Black Metal, and Death Metal and it even sounds lite/easy listening to me now - nothing is heavy enough anymore.

This isn't even close to all the stuff I like since I have over 2000 audio CD's:
Accept, Amorphis, Benediction, Black Sabbath, Bolt Thrower, Candlemass, Cannibal Corpse, Carcass, Cathedral, Coroner, Danzig, Death, Demolition Hammer, Dimmu Borgir, Dio, Dismember, Grave, Grip Inc., Emperor, Entombed (their old stuff when they played death metal), HammerFall, Hypocrisy, Incantation, Jason Becker, Joe Satriani, Judas Priest, Kreator, King Diamond, Mayhem, Mercyful Fate, Meshuggah, Moonspell, Morbid Angel, Motorhead, MSG, Napalm Death, Nevermore, Overkill, Ozzy Osbourne, Paradise Lost (up to the 1995 release Draconian Times), Primus, Pungent Stench, Raise Hell, Samael, Savatage, Six Feet Under, Slaughter (Canada) (no not the glam-metal band from the late 80's-90's), Slayer, Steve Vai, Tiamat, Trouble, Type O Negative, Unleashed, Vinnie Moore, Vision Of Disorder, Yngwie Malmsteen

2000 CDs?! That is awesome! It sounds like mostly stuff that I listen to as well.

I don't really get into crazy screaming rock, like Zao and Chaos Rising; I like hard rockers that know how to sing, like Disturbed and Sevendust. I can listen to bands like Slipknot, but I have to take it in small doses, otherwise it can get annoying; can't have too much mayhem.

I also like some techno-type rock, like Nine Inch Nails, or Dark Soho, but I don't have too much of that in my library. Really, I'll listen to most modern forms of rock, and some classic stuff.

Just stopped by with:

PINK FLOYD
SKINNY PUPPY
TANGERINE DREAM

(Just so's they don't feel left out.)


Andavari - 2000+ CD's! Hey ............... "MONEY! it's a gas."

Spice Girls!

I listen too....

Staind
Breaking Benjamin
Killswitch Engage
Three Days Grace
3 Doors Down
Rolling Stones
SevenDust
Tool
Static-X
In Flames
Rammstein
Yellow Card "Rarely"
Green Day
Beastie Boyz
Linkin Park
Ozz
Avenged Sevenfold

There's more but that all in my taste on my PC

Anything and everything except pop, and really hard rock.

Currently listening to Arctic Monkeys, Jose González, Coldplay, Donell Jones, Public Enemy, Green Day, Franz Ferdinand, Morrissey and the Prodigy(obviously not at the same time).

I forgot to mention I do like video game type music as well, sort of hard to not like it since I grew up in the video game era which is still popular.

I cant believe I left them out.
I own dark side of the moon and The Wall.

Uh oh ridgely

Two only?

Get a few more!

Yeah i left out Pink Floyd AND AC/DC, god! DAMMIT!

rridgely, I missed your first 'r' last time.

rridgely, rridgely, rridgely, rridgely ........I think I've got it!

But I'm sure you rreally don't give rrat's!




And anybody else forgets Pink Floyd .........back of the class with kk56!

My music folder contains:

AC/DC.
Bruce Dickinson.
Black Sabbath.
Iron Maiden.
Guns N' Roses.
Judas Priest.
Led Zeppelin.
Pink Floyd.
Metallica.
Rush.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
Queen.
Kiss.
The Rolling Stones.
Tool.
Dream Theater.
Velvet Revolver.
Motörhead.


Thinking about getting a few CDs of Rob Halford's solo career this week.

Just a sample of some of the music I've got.
The Stranglers
Scissor Sisters
Alice Cooper
Aha
BB King
The Beatles
Blondie
Bon Jovi
Beach Boys
Texas
Beautiful South
OMD
Barenaked Ladies
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Kiss
The Who
Neil Young
Jean Michel Jarre.

This is just a very small sample, I've got about 35gb worth of mp3's. I don't listen to my CD's anymore I've got most of them loaded on to the PC.

lol, that's funny cause I do too! You guys might think this is retarded, but I've got the music from a bunch of old Sega Genesis games:

Sonic 2
Sonic 3
Sonic & Knuckles
Sonic Spinball
Ranger-X / X-Ranza (best Genesis tunes out there!)
Rocket Knight
etc.

And a few N64 soundtracks:

Goldeneye 007 (of course!)
Perfect Dark
Conker's BFD (I made my own custom Windows sound scheme with the 1-liners too)


And it's a good thing Inu-Ya mentioned it; I almost forgot Static-X! Also, Tool is awesome, and I can dig Breaking Benjamin, Three Doors Down, Staind, and Linkin Park.

Not retarded at all. I remember some early first gen PlayStation 1 games that had the audio tracks on the game disc as if they were and audio CD, the tracks could be ripped with an audio CD ripping program - of course I ripped all the tracks of my games that were made that way, too bad game developers don't have them that way now. Probably the most game music I have is from the Final Fantasy soundtracks, I also like the qwerky techo sound from Descent 3 (my favorite spaceship fighter game of all time) which was downloadable in low quality 128kbps mp3 format many years ago on mp3.com by AutoPilot.

Yeah, I had an old FPS type game for PC called Tech War; it was made after a series of books written by William Shatner. The only game in the world (other than Tomb Raider 1 & 2) that ran on my dad's computer (1.5 GB HD, 16 MB of RAM, only cost $2,750; what a deal)!

Anyway, it was set up as a CD Extra, so you could put it in your CD player and listen to the music as well; four "awesome rap music tracks!" Actually, it was cheesy techno, but I thought it was the coolest stuff, and I listened to it all the time; ah, the good ol' days.

I'm about to piss a few of you off but I'm gonna go for it.

I dont like to insult anyones taste in anything but how can people listen to death/black/whatever else you want to call it metal? To me bands that put themselves under that tag just seem to always suck. Most of their songs try to be so heavy that they sound stupid, I mean how many songs can you stand about death, torture, hell, satan, ect. Most of those songs are repetetive as hell and come off cheesy to me.

I mean bands like Alice in Chains are about as heavy as they come but their songs are well done.(man in a box, angry chair,ect. Great band if you dont know who that is.)

Rock music isnt supposed to be about flowers and happy go lucky but in the past it was intelligent. To me these bands are making up for a lack in creativity and talent by going with this gimmick.

Yeah, that was sort of what I meant when I said that I like bands that actually sing, and I don't like my music too heavy. But as far as not liking the topics sung about, well, that generalization can be made about any type of music. Some genres favor love, some hate, some hos and bling; to say that one topic can get old, well, I don't really agree with that. It is hard to say that any topics and lyrics are original, but then again, as long as they aren't a direct copy of someone else's song, they all are original.

To some people, all of the music you (rridgely) listen to all sounds the same; to some people, all of my music sounds the same. But to say that one type is better than another, well, that of course can be argued to the death. I think as long as we can all agree that country and R & B suck, we are good to go.





Just kidding.




By the way, I am currently listening to Werewolves in London by Warren Zevon, and that is one song that is definitely original!

Little ol' lady got mutilated late last night...

The thing is that those bands only sing about 3 or 4 things. But I can go from listening to the stones with angie(kind of a love song about breaking up) to The beatles with let it be(song about overcoming hardship) to aerosmith love in an elevator(no mystery there) or bob dylan's hurrican(a song about a boxer accused of murder) to Pink Floyd and money(need I explain?). I mean those bands are too limited with what they can do and their lyrics just arent very good(and usually the singer sucks too).
(I can name a million other things songs can be about too. )



This is a place to discuss... So I'm discussing.

My hates:

emo
screamo
death metal
heavy metal
goth (idk what genre it is)
marilyn manson's music sucks ass, dont care too much for his political stance.

Wow, I think we have very similar tastes in music.

i dont think R&B sucks, I personally enjoy the most of the music from Black Eyed Peas and some misc songs, and I dont personally like country but since country nowadays is just rock. I've listened to some very old country, and actually took a liking to some of the old songs.
Right now im listening Take the money and run- Steve MIller band.

you know what they say rridgely, great minds think a like

nevermind I dont like R&B or rap.



haha I dislike country too. Steve Miller Band is great, the joker is an awesome song.

Haha I like some R&B but most of the stuff is over the top like gay. Like OK here's this black guy... ok his gf dumped him... ok he just took off his shirt becuz he has ripped abs.... ok now why is he in the rain with his shirt off.. I just like the R&B thats got a legitimate beat and you can move to it. I like the rap thats true lyrical stuff, not babbling like hoes and pimps. I dont care for urban culture, as far as I'm concerned its gov't fund draining, and reperation demanding. (no im not racist) But there are a few rappers who actually know what the hell they are talking about and speak from whats on there mind. Speaking to influence, not jumping on the stereotype train.

Ok I understand you there. I dont mind rundmc...but they are mostly rock.(that album raising hell is a classic)

hahah yeah, old rap is great, that was when it was great beats. Honestly Run Dmc was the man, Tupac and Biggie were idiot thugs, and I kind of admire Snoops as he is reforming himself, and reinventing his image. To become a more whiter friendlier person i guess. He just knows what he needs to do to keep moneyh rolling in.

wow im making myself look really racist.

Thats about the only rap I can tolerate but the rest falls into the same trap as death metal. they sing about the same things and have crappy repetitive lyrics and now they dont even bother to come up with their own music and just "sample" other peoples work. Yeah rap sucks.

some one said to me Tupac And Biggie are amazing they seem to be able to keep making albums from the grave.

To everyone reading this I'm not trying to insult anyone I'm just giving my opinion. If you disagree tell me your opinion. This topic isnt just to make fun of the music people listen too. (unless its 80's pop. )(joke)

Hey! I love 80's music! lol

ugh dont tell me that.

you dont like 80's music?

Hey rridgely, dont' dig on the genre =[.

I'm all about progressive / speed / symphonic / melodic / conceptual metal.

Ayreon, The Butterfly Effect, Concerto Moon, Devin Townsend, Dragonforce, Dream Theater, Falconer, Lacuna Coil, Redemption, Symphony X, (I appreciate whoever mentioned Savatage earlier, $).

Anything that has K. James Labrie in it - Frameshift, Fates Warning - the man is a god.

Mainstream stuff: Anti-flag, Atomic Numbers, Bush, Black Sabbath, Cream, DOors, Godsmack, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Megadeth, NIN, Ozzy, A Perfect Circle, Pink Floyd, Rober Plant & The Strange Sensation, Rush.

I'm also down with Alan Parsons, because he's a genius.

Late 80's are ok... Thats when rock music was starting to recover(GNR,metallica, skid row, and a few others) and then damn if nirvana didnt come and make everything suck again:angry:(if only STP and Pearl Jam would have been bigger *sigh*).

Dont get me wrong nirvana were great but grunge just didnt go anywhere. If it would have lead rock music back to its roots like everyone thought it was going to then I would have been happy but it was quickly ended by the explosion of rap.(dont even get me started on this raprock fusion stuff we have today. Or that emo whiney wanna be punk bands.)

I'm down with sick guitar, bass, drum solos and all that good stuff, i even devote my ears to accapella stuff, opera, symphonic, orchestral, and classical music. But When there is music where someone just scream their goddamn head off, its bulls**t thats not music its pure s**t

Like I said its just my opinion. I just dont dig this type of music.
(damn internet... I almost spelt dig with two gs. )

the genre sucks! I'm here to offend you and your values, its what the gov't pays me to do.

that would be awesome to do, get paid for that. But I'd prolly take more heat than the ex-director of FEMA, and prolly get assassinated as fast as JFK.

yeah that would be a cool job for all of about a minute... then someone starts swinging with that bat they keep in the back seat of their car.

You could always be this guy. (check out the videos)
http://www.youhavebadtasteinmusic.com/?q=from_deote_music

thats prolly maddox's brother.

did you ever listen to the flaming lips

Always wear a bearsuit.



That guy is awesome! kk56, you have so got to do that!

no...You have bad taste in music.
(just kidding I just havent had time to check them out yet. )

well check them out, haha, their website plays most of ther hit songs. Ther are prolly somewhat of a selfless band.

they've had a s**tload of albums. they are very old

I'll check out their website tomorrow and listen to a few. I just didnt think about it and now its late.