Favourite Bands?

[DarkStar]

List your favourite bands.

Currently my favourites are:

FlyLeaf
Panic At the Disco
Paramore
Apocalyptica
Our Lady Peace
Linkin Park
Rise Against
Fallout Boy

[Charlie]

Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Soundgarden, Bruce Springsteen, and Beck. Nobody holds a candle to them.

[DoomKitty]

Mine would have to be...

Assemblage 23
Nine Inch Nails
Nightwish
Within Temptation
Alice in Chains
Soundgarden
And Metallica...

[llama_egg]

I've already mentioned one of them in a different thread, but continueing...

Streetlight Manifesto
The flatliners
Street Dogs
Queen
Muse (well, to be correct, just one of there albums)
Mad Caddies
The Toasters

[Crogg]

I hate picking favorite bands, it is an ever changing list as I listen to so much music.

Consistent Top 3


Led Zeppelin
Tool
Pink Floyd

Current Favorites


Porcupine Tree
The Mars Volta
Opeth
Hybrid
Collide
Blackfield
65daysofstatic
Boards of Canada
Massive Attack
Sevendust
Nonpoint
Nine Inch Nails

Other Normal Favorites


The Doors
Jimi Hendrix
Miles Davis
Charles Mingus
Ella Fitzgerald
Black Sabbath
Incubus
Boy Hits Car
Skindred
Stutterfly
Rage Against the Machine
Fear Factory
Crossbreed
Nile
Soilwork
Slayer
Pantera
Metallica
Borknagar
Anathema
Lamb of God
Arch Enemy
Spineshank
A Perfect Circle
Alice in Chains
Aphex Twin
The Prodigy
AK1200
Tabla Beat Science
Infected Mushroom
Dr. Dre
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
Eminem
Tech N9ne
Trick Daddy

Okay that's enough for now... I'm forgetting far too many.

[RonDo]

Hmm...

Beck
Cake
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Queens of the Stone Age
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Stone Temple Pilots
Alice in Chains


eh, that's all I can think of atm

[reginacroft]

Wow llama, you know Muse?


No Doubt
Muse
Fall Out Boy
Coldplay
Fountains of Wayne
Maroon 5
Queen

And then of course there are the single artists like Sarah Brightman and Jason Mraz. Also, soundtracks, like Walk Hard and Beauty and the Beast and Wicked.

[SomaticCorpse]

Mine vary, but are primarily:

A Perfect Circle
Tool
Puscifer
Children of Bodom
Cradle of Filth
Fear Factory
Faith No More
Sevendust
Cold
Stabbing Westward

There's so0o0o0o0o many more...

[Detrevni]

Nine Inch Nails
Disturbed
Three Days Grace
Three Doors Down
Audioslave
Puddle of Mudd

My current faves

[llama_egg]

Is that really surprising, I seem to listen to stuff that alot of people seem to go "eh..?" about. Also, I salute Rondo for the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, an amazing band it is.

And because somehow I completely forgot about them; The Shins.

[kell]

I've already mentioned one of them in a different thread, but continueing...

Streetlight Manifesto
The flatliners
Street Dogs
Queen
Muse (well, to be correct, just one of there albums)
Mad Caddies
The Toasters


haha! Llama's a ska fan! I've seen Streetlight, Flatliners, Caddies and the Toasters live. I /love/ a good ska show. There aren't enough in Montreal anymore though, two years ago it was way better.

That said, favorite band? I'll try not to go on too long, but here are a couple I'm a big fan of:

The Fugitives
Sunset Rubdown
Destroyer
Bob Dylan
Broken Social Scene
Forest City Lovers
Lake of Stew
Old Crow Medicine Show
Crystal Castles
Scout Niblett

I'm cutting myself off there. The list could go on much longer though.

[llama_egg]

Indeed I am, my friend got my hooked on Streetlight a couple years ago, and my love for ska has been growing ever sense. And I dunno, I've been finding the ska scene getting somewhat scarce, haven't been finding anything really...new as of late.

[Seegtease]

I don't listen to much mainstream music anymore.

Some composers I like:
Motoi Sakuraba (Star Ocean)
Nobou Uematsu (Final Fantasy)
Jeremy Soule (Secret of Evermore, Dungeon Siege, Morrowind)
Harry Gregson-Williams (Metal Gear Solid Series)

[Crogg]

You've switched to mainstream video game music though! :)

[deathofcheese]

Led Zeppelin. All good times. Not so many bad times.

[llama_egg]

You've switched to mainstream video game music though! :)
You are oh so correct

[DAMAGE]

A list of fav bands? Like all the bands that I would actually sit down and listen to?
Ok... you asked for it...
Slipknot,
Shinedown,
Dir en Grey,
The Agony Scene,
[old]A7X,
Kittie,
Cradle of Filth,
Crossfade,
Gackt,
TsuShiMaMiRe,
Miyavi,
Skin,
Dragonforce,
Dimmu Borgir,
Audio Slave,
Boys Like Girls,
Nana Mizuki,
Ayumi Hamasaki,
Boa,
System of a Down,
Tenations D,
Arashi,
Googoo dolls,
The Gazette,
Girugamesh,
Alice Nine,
Despairs Ray,
Duel Jewel,
Kagrra,
Merry,
Mucc,
Vidoll,
Yoshiki,
Finger Eleven,
Nightmare,
Puppypet,
Move,
High and Mighty Color,
Peelander Z,
SR-71,
Uura,
Otsuka Ai,
Queen,
Weird Al,
Sum41,
Gorillaz,
Coheed and Cambria,
H.I.M,
Malice Mizer,
Mindless Self Indulgence,
Nine Inch Nails,
Red Hot Chili Peppers,
Asian Kung Fu Generation,
UVERworld,
Do As Ininity,
The Pillows,
A Fire Inside,
Breaking Benjamin,
A Perfect Circle,
Tool,
Alice in Chains,
Stone Temple Pilots,
As I lay dying,
The Ataris,
Atreyu,
BassHunter,
Weezer,
Asia,
Deftones,
Demon Hunter,
Tatu,
Disturbed,
The Dresden Dolls,
Drowning Pool,
Trapnest,
Blackstones,
FooFighters,
Hoobastank,
Incubus,
Jimi Hendrix,
Nirvana,
Static X,
Killswitch Engage,
Korn,
Leaves Eyes,
FlyLeaf,
Maximum the Hormone,
Meatloaf,
Metallica,
Mudvayne,
Muse,
Keane,
Underoath,
Stabbing Westward,
The Dreaming,
Bleed the Dream,
Ozzy,
Rammstein,
Rage Against the Machine,
Trapt,
The Union Underground,
Trivium, Soilwork,
Refused,
Random Downside,
SoulFly,
Dry Kill Logic,
Devil Driver,
Coal Chamber,
Spineshank,
Earth Crisis,
Blood Stain Child

[MisterMangos]

Queen
Beatles
Bob Dylan :D

[Bodomi]

Blood Stain Child
Children of Bodom
Dimmu Borgir
Eternal Tears of Sorrow
Finntroll
Forest of Shadows
Impaled Nazarene
Machinae Supremacy
Nightwish
Sonic Syndicate
Stratovarius
Swallow The Sun

[Seegtease]

You've switched to mainstream video game music though! :)


Eh, most of the obscure stuff should stay that way, in my opinion. I've heard some, but one soundtrack that one composer did isn't enough to put him on a favorite list. He'd have to have a few hits (to me, anyway).

And so what if I like Nobou - he really has some good work. You can't deny that.

Mainstream video game music is an oxymoron anyway.

[Crogg]

Eh, most of the obscure stuff should stay that way, in my opinion.

Yes, because we should not share music with people, expose them to new things, help out the artist with getting their word/music out. Let's lock away all "obscure" music so nobody else can hear it but a few elite and enlightened listeners. Let's keep it obscure, fuck those other people. :rolleyes:

And so what if I like Nobou - he really has some good work. You can't deny that.

Never said anything against liking Nobou. O.o I enjoy Nobou quite a bit myself. There is nothing wrong with listening to mainstream video game music, just as there is nothing wrong with listening to "mainstream music". :)

Mainstream video game music is an oxymoron anyway.

If this were 10 years ago, I would completely agree with you. Thankfully, the world of video game music has become quite popular. Top 40 Radio Popular? No, not with Clear Channel controlling everything, but there are some video game music radio stations popping up or stations that have video game music time slots. :)

While the sale of video game soundtracks is not as popular in the US as it is in Japan, that still doesn't mean it isn't popular. Most kids these days download music, as do most of this last generation. Go into a high school and you can find tons of video game music on people's MP3 Players. In college? Even more.

Just take a look at video game concert series's, they sell out instantly and often have masses of people waiting to find spare tickets. It's not just the traditional gamers either. One can't deny video games touch nearly ever "clique" of kids these days, and they all get hooked on the music... even if it isn't the main genre they listen to.

Mainstream Video Game Music = Music from mainstream games. Every composer you listed off makes music for mainstream game. Thus my comment. :eek:

[Seegtease]

About the obscure stuff, I meant that in a way that I end up not liking most of it, except for a select few albums or songs, so I don't care about sharing it.

I've got no problem with people listening to mainstream mainstream music, I just don't care for it personally :)

But as for "mainstream game" let's put it this way: if you went into, say, work or a school and started talking about music favorites, and started listing your favored composers or game albums, most people would look at you funny in the very least if they didn't say anything about unusual tastes. That alone is reason for me to never consider game music mainstream, no matter how popular the games were. And even the games I listed aren't technically mainstream. You know what kind of games sell the most? Sports. Why do you think they make so many?

So even with the most liberal use of the word mainstream, the music I listen to is not :)