I was wondering who are people's favorite musical act of the present and past. I thought it may be interesting to contrast between the two artists, and discuss the differences between each time period and type.

When I was a teenager, I was a big fan of Huey Lewis & the News. I liked their rough, bluesy sound. I was also into Adam Ant and all manner of the New Wave groups. I liked the plastic transcience of that scene. I still do. It was the very embodiment of "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die." Today my favorite band is Rebecca's Mask. www.rebeccasmask.com

Rebecca's Mask is a band from the San Jose, California area. Her voice is something else. It soars like a bird on the lyrics, strong yet delicate. The music is described by one fan as "dark, pretty music", and best of all they haven't been corrupted by any record labels. The music is their own, with a few covers thrown in that have pretty much spoiled me away from the original recordings of those songs. Click on the link to hear some of their music and wander through the playground of your soul.

PS: No, I don't work for them. I'm just a real big fan.

When I was a teenager it was Hootenannies (boy that tells my age)

Now I enjoy Clapton amongest others.

I would have to say that my favorite band is Medeski, Martin and Wood. John Medeski is a madman. I've only been able to see mmw live once since they travel in the East much more than the west, but the man is all over the place playing his various keyboards. He simply has one of the phatest organ sounds that I have ever heard. Not only that is a master piano player. The concert I went too mmw played for 45 minutes before the first break in the music. Each musician just took a solo to develop into the next song. MMW is pushing the bounds of jazz and in 30 years will be considered masters. When I hear of someone seing Trane that is what is going to be like when I tell people I saw mmw.

In the past I was a Jimmy Buffet fan and a classic rock fan. I have pretty much abandoned rock music because I find it boring compared to jazz, funk and hip-hop.

Hey less main stream artists are fine, not knocking them. As for me I currently enjoy David Gray, the Dave Matthews Band as a lighter more relaxed musical escape. But on a harder side I love Weezer, the Green Album is the best rock album I've heard in a long time.

As for artists of the past, I like a lot of groups and artists. I don't have enough time to include them all, but I do like most Motown, and my favorite older acts are Jim Croce, Elvis, Sinatra, and of course the infamous Beatles. What tallent!

I´m a sucker for Cat Stevens. And other plesant music of that kind. Ted Gärdestad is a Swedish musician, who I have listened to since I was a child. He killed himself a few years ago though. :(

Pink Floyd for a long time captureded My imagination. I listened for hours. There were a lot of sound effects in it and with a good sound system it would really bring it out.

And yes chagur, Moody Blues included.

No Moody Blues?

LATIN?

Damn, don't they teach you young'uns anything in school today?

I'm pretty sure the Moody Blues are a Cha-Cha band.

Present day - Nanci Griffith
Historical - Wagner

My 2 favorite singes are Bjork and Celine Dion. They both have truly acomplished a lot from being child stars in their respective miniscule markets.

I think Bjork, however, is one of the great creative talents in the past 25 years. She does not seem to trick us into thinking she's larger than life; she merely presents herself as it has been so uniquely laid out inside of her. She has a voice that is totally different and a sense of style that is totally unique, beautiful, and immense in the way it relates on both a personal and cosmic scale. Besides that, however is the fact that she has churned out some of the most innovative and histoeic music videos, of which her first totally turned the industry on its head. Her first album also changed the way we look at dance music, as it was a personal re-interpretaion of it. Although she meets criticism for being insane, I think it's mainly because are not used to someone so honest and I have to admit she has one hell of an accent.

I like Celine bacause she has a total drive to succeed and is actually aware of her place as a person, not a celebrity. She is not afraid to speak her mind, she knows her knowledge is limited and is not afraid to acknoweledge that she sings for herself and for her fans, not to change the world. Not to mention the fact that she has the world's most beautiful voice and has (yes!) outsold all female solo artists, including madonna. She is the only 'diva' to win the Grammy for best album and holds the #1 and #2 spots for total airplay on a single. Success aside, she holds a special place in my heart.

I guess, I am the odd one here. I grew up with Beatles, Elvis and Jazz.
These days I like: Light Classical, Chamber music,

Lite Jazz ( Chuck Mangioni, Gover Washington, Spyro Gyra etc.),

New Age (Yanni, Andreas Vollenweider, Medwyn Goodall, Kitaro, David Benoit, Chris Botti, etc.)

Vangelis, Ravi Shankar, Benedictine Chants, Sanskrit Chants, Celtic Music

Electronic such as La Bouche , Latin: Los Indios Tabaharas, Julio

Hindi music: the oldies (which is more like the blues, Hindi Classical (Sitar & Tabla ensemble)

These days I listen to a lot of Floater. End of story. I won't apologize for that.

As a schoolboy I listened to Styx, Twisted Sister, and King Diamond more than is probably healthy. (In approximately that order from about second grade on.)

My first Lp's were Elton John's Greatest Hits, I believe the first one, with Daniel, Honky Cat, and Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me; Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies (my favorite songs, incidentally, were I Love the Dead and Raped and Freezing ... if you haven't heard the song, say nothing, please); and I think there was a Steve Miller Greatest Hits in there with Jet Airliner, ElectroLux Imbroglio, Jungle Love and a few others. I was about 7 or 8.

But right now it's Floater, Belle & Sebastian, and of late, Radiohead.

There is no simple answer to the topic.

My primary musical theme actually is narrative rock and roll; my first Styx album was Kilroy was Here, and I have a copy these days. King Diamond's Abigail and Them blew my mind; I still listen to The Wall more than I should; Toad the Wet Sprocket's Fear; Belle & Sebastian ... Lazy Line Painter Jane is one of my favorite singles ever; a less-known heavy metal band called Savatage put out an Lp called Streets: A Rock Opera which sold about as miserably as you would expect, but really did achieve a remarkable amount for the genre in its production.

I've decided to stop at that, because I really could go on all day.

thanx,
Tiassa :cool:

Music is everything to me… Right now I’m in one of those moods where Radiohead’s Street Spirit seems like it must be the greatest song in existence. It’s been on my head all day. I lent out my Bends and Ok Computer albums a while ago and I’m suffering from withdrawal. There are few bands that can touch any given person and bring them to this entirely elevated state of consciousness. Bands that can live inside a person, and be the constant narroration for their lives. Bands that can point to a finite point in a persons being and help to find a great affinity with their every waking moment, every desire, every belief, and essentially every emotion. Bands that people obsess over spend hours and hours each day listening to them. Radiohead would qualify as being one of those bands for me.

But truly, the one group that has affected my life the most is the Smashing Pumpkins. Without their daring, relentlessly adventurous output of music spanning over many genres, fueled by a plethora of sincere seemingly contradictory emotions I certainly would not be the person I am today. The poetry inspired me in wonderful ways and opened my eyes to perceive the world in a distinctly ambitious and aesthetic fashion. I appreciate things a lot more, and I also demand the great purpose in everything I do, which is why I shy a way from superfluous activities. The guitar effects, vocal tones, mellifluous lyrics carry me into another world while at the same time remind me there is no escape; I’m entranced by them, and there have been many days where it seemed as if the one constant in my life was this band. The one thing that would never let me down and would always be there to embrace the world through an imaginative child’s eyes, when the rest of the world is concerned with mundane, pragmatic affairs. Bleh! Soul, and Heart, should always be at the forefront. Without dreams, there is nothing. And with each and every song the band ever created, no heart beats louder.

XTC, Radiohead, Miles Davis, Billy Joel, David Bowie, Thelonius Monk....um, I better stop now... :o

Welcome to scifourms, on behalf of all the junior and senior members. I encourage you to visit every fourm on the site, and don't be afraid to give your oppionons. That is the entire purpose of this site.

Good luck, and have a good time. :D

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<FONT COLOR="RED"><FONT SIZE="5">"John Lee Hooker Biography"</FONT COLOR></FONT SIZE>
by Claus Röhnisch





"The Boogie Man" - "Po´ Slim" - "The Hook" - "The Blues Giant" - "Iron John"
Guitarist and modern urbanized country blues singer, with roots in the rich Delta tradition.
Born in Mississippi, raised up in Tennessee:
Born August 22, 1917 on a share-cropper farm south of Clarksdale, Miss. (Hooker himself has given other dates of birth, - often 1920 and other files say anything between 1917 and 1923, but 1917 is accurate; after his death - in his home in Los Altos, California on June 21, 2001 - the Hooker family confirmed his birth date as August 22, 1917). John Lee´s mother was Minnie Ramsey, married to his father (share-cropper and spare-time preacher) William Hooker (only religious music was allowed). John had six brothers and four sisters - of which not all survived. The family moved to a new farm (the Fewell plantation) at Vance, Miss (again not far from Clarksdale) in cirka 1920 (where John met Snooky Pryor and Jimmy Lane - later known as Jimmy Rogers - Hooker also claims Blind Lemon Jefferson came to visit when Johnnie was eight years old, and he also remembers Blind Blake and Charlie Patton). The parents separated in cirka 1928 and Johnnie, who was the only child leaving with his mother, got a stepfather - William Moore (from Shreveport, Louisiana, no recordings, but a local Clarksdale blues musician). From Moore Johnnie learned tunes like "Pea Vine special", "Rather drink muddy water", "My starter won´t start", "Don´t turn me from your door" and "When my first wife quit me"). Around 1930 Hooker started playing the guitar, which he says was given to him by Tony Hollins, who had courted his sister - and later he got his second from William Moore. Hooker also was influenced by Tommy McClennan and much of Hooker´s greatness may be due to his natural youth mix of gospel and blues.

Hobo Blues - Drifting from door to door:
Hooker left Mississippi the first time around 1931 and moved to Memphis in cirka 1932 - as a teenager - staying at an aunt´s and working at the cinema "New Daisy" (and possibly also the W.C. Handy Theater) on Beale Street. Johnnie claimed that he during his Memphis stay worked with Robert Nighthawk, Eddie Love (brother of pianist Willie) and the pianist Joe Willard. He soon "hoboed" again - this time he spent a period in Knoxville and arrived in Cincinnati in cirka 1935 (or possibly 1936) - singing the blues and working with gospel groups like the Big Six, the Delta Big Four, and the Fairfield Four in the evenings - and in factories, theatres/cinemas and warehouses during daytime. The years between 1939 and 1943 are unaccounted for (except for a short spell in the army - stationed near Detroit; Hooker may have traveled in the South too).


<i><font color="purple"><b>BOOGIE CHILLEN´ </b>

Well , my Mama she didn´t allow me, just to stay out all night long,
... ooh, Lord!
Well , my Mama didn´t allow me, just to stay out all night long,
I didn´t care if she didn´t allow me, I was boogie-woogie´n´ anyhow.

When I first came to town, people, I was walkin´ down Hastings Street,
I heard everybody talkin´ ´bout the Henry Swing Club.
I decided to drop in there that night, and when I got there,
I say, yes people, they we´re really havin´ a ball, yes I know .....
... boogie, chillen´!

One night I was layin´ down, I heard Mama and Papa talkin´,
I heard Papa tell Mama: Let that boy boogie woogie,
´cause it´s in him and it got to come out!
Well, I felt so good, and I went on boogie-woogie´n´ just the same,
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Starting out - Boogie Chillen´:
Hooker started his developing as the world´s leading "traditional blues" singer via his arrival in Detroit in cirka 1943, first working at a Receiving Hospital and later at Dodge and Comco Steel. He first married Alma Hope, but soon parted and then he courted Sarah Jones for a couple of years until he married Maude Mathis (two sons and four daughters). In the evenings he got small jobs at the clubs around Hastings Street. Legend has it: T-Bone Walker handed Johnny Lee the first electric guitar, as John became T-Bones "kid" when T-Bone was working in Detroit during 1946-48. "Johnny Lee" (as most of his friends called him) invented his own "unique" style (non-rhyming, sometimes out-of-rhythm) and was introduced to Bernie Besman (Sensation Records and together with co-owner John Caplan, the Pan American Record Co.) in 1948 by Elmer Barbee, Hooker´s original "manager", who "discovered" Hooker playing with his trio at the "Apex" bar on Monroe Street (although "legend" says Besman "discovered" Hooker at Lee Sensation´s bar "Russell & Orange"). Barbee continued to promote Johnnie, after the Besman introduction, for other record labels, most of them recorded in Barbee´s record shop at 609 Lafayette Street, but most of Hooker´s early recordings up into 1952 were recorded by Bernie Besman at United Sound Studios Inc. at 5840 2nd Blvd. Besman leased several tracks to the Bihari brothers (Modern - of Hollywood) and issued others on Sensation (a Detroit label). Almost a hundred alternates and variations were "kept in the can" and later issued on album compilations.

First recordings - When my first wife left me:
Detroit, June 12, 1948 "Rocks" (unissued) and unissued demo recordings for manager Elmer Barbee in cirka July/August, 1948: "Leavin´ Chicago" (aka "Highway Blues"), "Wednesday Evening Blues" and "When My Wife Quit Me" (aka "When My First Wife Left Me", and issued as "Drifting From Door To Door" on Modern in 1949).

First recordings for Bernie Besman - Henry´s Swing Club:
Hooker´s debuting record was cut at United Sound Studios with Joe Siracuse, engineer in September, 1948. It was "Boogie Chillen´" c/w "Sally May" - released November 3, 1948 on the West Coast label Bihari-owned Modern label, # 20-627 - with "Sally May" titled "Sally Mae" on later issues (just as the second take of that song). On that session a further two originally unissued titles were recorded: "Highway Blues" (aka "Highway 51") and "Wednesday Evening Blues". Hooker also made two alternate boogies that day, later titled "Johnny Lee´s Original Boogie" (better suited title would have been "Detroit Boogie") and "Henry´s Swing Club". At least four 78´s by Hooker, recording under different pseudonyms were issued before Hooker´s follow-up to "Boogie Chillen´", "Hobo Blues" c/w "Hoogie Boogie" (on King, Regent, Savoy, Danceland and possibly also Acorn).<img src="http://w1.191.telia.com/~u19104970/images/hbild.jpg">

Poor Slim´s Battle - Stomp Boogie:
After Hooker´s "Boogie Chillen´" local success Hooker started to "moonlight" under several pseudonymes for other Detroit producers, especially for Joe Von Battle in Joe´s Record Shop at 3530 Hastings Street; most of them as "Texas Slim" (originally intended to be issued as "Po´ Slim"). The first five pirate issues were: ""Black Man Blues" c/w "Stomp Boogie" on King (as Texas Slim), "Goin´ Mad Blues" c/w "Helpless Blues" on Regent (as Delta John), "Low Down Midnite Boogie" c/w "Landing Blues" on Savoy (as Birmingham Sam), "Do The Boogie" c/w "Morning Blues" on Acorn (as The Boogie Man) - all recorded by Battle plus a Barbee recording: "Wayne County Ramblin Blues" c/w "Grievin´ Blues" on Danceland (as Little Pork Chops with an unknown lead singer on the flip). Later several records were made as "John Lee Booker" (for Battle and Henry Stone) - and a bunchful of wonderful recordings were made for Idessa Malone as "Johnny Williams" - even Gotham in Philadelphia recorded Hooker as "Johnny Williams" and as "John Lee". Eddie Burns, hca; John T. Smith, gtr; Andrew Durnham, gtr; and James Watkins,pno sporadically worked with Hooker during the early years.

Detroit - Chicago; and from Coast to Coast
- Boom Boom; It serves me right to suffer:
From mid 1952, when the Bihari brothers (owners of Modern Redords) got tired of Besman leasing recordings to other labels (see "Ground Hog Blues" coupled with "Louise" - which were issued on both Chess and Modern) - Joe Bihari took over as producer in Detroit (still with United Sounds´ Joe Siracuse as engineer) and Hooker toured with "second" guitarist Eddie Kirkland, with whom he worked several times thruout the years. JLH worked with his own band from 1953 - the Boogie Ramblers in Detroit (including Bob Thurman and later Vernon "Boogie Woogie Red" Harrison, pno; Tom Whitehead, dms; Jimmy Miller, tpt; and Johnny Hooks and later Otis Finch, sax). Hooker´s contract with Modern was terminated by the end of 1954 (or more probably early 1955) and John signed a contract with Vee-Jay Records and switched recording locations to Chicago (Universal Studios) during 1955 - 1964 (with Jimmy Bracken, Ewart Abner and Calvin Carter producing - later also Al Smith). From 1965 Hooker regularly recorded in New York, due to his new-signed contract with ABC Records after Vee-Jay´s bankruptcy. Hooker moved to Oakland, California in 1970 (something he had longed for - and regularly recorded in Los Angeles during the early ´70s). His accompanying The Coast To Coast Blues Band of Frisco/L.A. area (with several famous white rock musicians) backed him in the ´70s (and variations including his son Robert Hooker and later Deacon Jones on keyboard toured with him during the ´80s and ´90s). Hooker settled in the San Francisco Bay suburbans during the ´90s. The Blue Rose organization from 1988: manager Mike Kappus, producer Roy Rogers, artist John Lee Hooker.

John Lee Hooker on Records - I´m in the mood:
Hooker made records for Modern and Sensation as John Lee Hooker 48-52; plus under pseudonymes for a.o. Savoy, King, Chess, DeLuxe, and Fortune 48-54. Then came Modern 52-55, Specialty 1954, VeeJay 55-64, Riverside 59-60, Chess 1966, ABC/Bluesway 65-74, Tomato 1977, Chameleon (Silvertone in Europe) 1989, Pointblank/Virgin 1990 plus. Among his most well-known recordings are: "Boogie Chillen´", "Hobo Blues", "Crawling King Snake", "House Rent Boogie", "I´m In The Mood", "Dimples", "No Shoes", "Whiskey And Wimmen", "Boom Boom", "It Serves Me Right To Suffer", "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer", "I´ll Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive" and "The Healer".<img src="http://w1.191.telia.com/~u19104970/images/hookweb.jpg">

I just heard a old tune, one by Aerosmith



<FONT SIZE ="5"> AEROSMITH ! ! !</FONT SIZE> <i> sHURLY YOU MUST BE JOKING bob! ! ! ! ! ! !</I>

OF COURSE THE BEATLES!!

Also
Crosby, Still, Nash & Young
Chicago
America
Steely Dan

Yes, I know, I'm showing my age. Big Deal!

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I like Rammstein, and just a few of Metallica's remix songs. (Nothinig else matters)

I also love to listen to trance and rave music. Such as : The Cynic Project, ATC, ATB, etc.

Hey, has anyone heard Art Bell's them song on his radio show? Its called "The Chase". I am addicted to that song, its so awesome.

Being from the older generation I never understood the rave stuff. Never been around it. I caught a special last afternoon on it and guess what? Wasn't bad. What was played? I couldn't tell you.

RICHARD ASHCROFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the mans a musical genius....

He's great! Love the Verve and love his solo work...don't know why I didn't put his name there....he should make Dylan proud!!!!

What do you think of this: Jimi Hendrix...David Bowie...Muse< Unintended >...PINK FLOYD!!...Roger Waters...Queen...Eric Clapton...The Savage Rose...Slash< without Gunns 'n Roses >...Trevor Rabin< guitarplayer from Yes >...Jon Anderson and Vangelis...Aphrodite's Child...U2< of course, seen them last week live >...Jimi Hendrix again< because he's so good, he talks throug his guitar >...Prnce< Symbol; Artist; whatever >...I love guitars, people who can make you fly by only playing the guitar. Jimi Hendrix was dead for a long time when I learned who Jimi Hendrix was. And I nearly forgot...The Who...Janis Joplin...INXS...The Doors...Gary Moore and so on. Music is my life, it is always there for me. If I am feeling down, it takes me up and let me fly on the music...yeah, I really love music < with good guitars!! >..................

He really does talk throgh the guitar...

:) Oh yeah, can he talk through his guitar.....I love his music.
It is nice to dance on....just go along with the guitar.:p
I can talk hours about him and other good guitarplayers....but Ji
mi Hendrix surely is the very, very best...!!



:p And Pink Floyd..but that's a whole different story...:D :D :D

Aside from P.G who is GOD! Sting, Indigo Girls and Dave Mathews are up there too!

Yes, you are right, but I can't name everyone.
When I was writing down my reply's and replied them back on the forum, I realised, both times, I'd forgotten a whole lot of good musicians......alive and not alive:)

And Peter Gabriel is a great musician too.....but god?:D
Well, if he's god to you it is alright, for who can tell you who is god, hahaha....They don't even know themselves, people in general I mean. I hope I told this clearly enough, my english can be better;)
But I'm working on that one.....

See you later.....

RUSH,YES & TRIUMPH,RIK EMMETT

THE BEST BANDS EVER.:D

I do agree on Rush and Yes. The other one you mentioned I do not know, I'm sorry.:)
But Rush and Yes are great, really great, that's true.
Oh, there are so many musicians I love and forget to mention...I always forget half of the bands and singers I love. I like all kinds of music.
You know Joan Armatrading?? She's good, good live singer too.:cool:

I am afraid I always leave bands and musicians I love, out of my list of favorites because I love so many musicians, and all kinds of music. But not every kind of music, there are some 'songs' and 'music' I really dislike.....but most of it I love, I am living on music, no music no life. It would be a grey and dark world without music. I get the shivers if I think about it....brrrrr;)

you should try to download some Rik or triumph it's awsome. Rik is from Triumph but he went solo. losts of blues, great guitaring and awsome vocals. you'll love them, also look up some Jon Anderson solo projects the best cd is city of angels. let me know what you think.:D

:) Yes, Jon Anderson, I forgot him. Oh do I know him. And his projects with Vangelis.....Great!!
Jon Anderson is a great singer, also with Yes, and I have 2 albums from him and Vangelis together, very good yeah.

I will go listen to Triumph and that leadsinger that went solo. But under what name should I look for him?? This Rik, I mean......
Can you tell me please. Every 'new' music I hear of, I go listen. But Rik has probably another name in music-land, haha


;) Can you tell me the name. so I can go listen him too. Thank you for telling me.

No that's his name Rik Emmett Also did you here Geddy Lee's solo album My Favorite Headache one of the best albums I think. It got album of the year last year and it only came out late in the year. You should get audiognome and download the album.

Today or tomorrow I am going into town, then I go listen to it.
But maybe, we, my son and I, can try to download the music:D

Thanks for your tips, you'll hear from me....
I certainly let you know:p

I you do download it I don't know if you have winamp or not if you don't go to winamp.com and download that to play back your mp3's.

I like Coldplay.

I myself can't download a thing:)
That's where my son comes in...he does know a lot, for his age. Sometimes I can't do anything on the p.c. anymore...then my boy comes, takes a look and say's "Oh, I already see it", and then it's fixed in a moment.
Not last week, then our whole p.c. crashed. We had to install everything anew and a lot of saved items are lost:(
But that kind of things can happen all the time.

I listened to Geddy Lee in town, yesterday. He is really good. We try if we can download. If not I think I am going to buy it.It was the album you mentioned to me, My Favorite Headache.
Now we have to try if we can download.
In my stupid, dumb, village-town they had no Triumph. I was surprised they had Geddy Lee...;)
Talk to you later, when we have tried to download.....

you can go to http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/103-6603597-0961405 and click on Spiral Notebook
and Ipso Facto they are the two best Rik emmett cd's if you click on the album it will take you to a page and you can click on a song and listen to a sample of it. if you have real player installed on your computer if not go to realpalyer.com and install it.you can do a search for triumph in this site too and listen to samples. let me know how you make out.

Thank you Rushman, we have real-player installed and I go to the site as soon as I am done with my work.:)

I'm very pleased with your link on Triumph, I am curious after their music now......I let you know.

Favorite artist? Enigma, definatly Enigma.

The Police.
Hands down.

What is this??
I do miss the guitars guy's.
I do like the Police, but I do miss guitar solo's.
Also with Enigma, but I like Enigma really, it is nice to listen to, in the evening.
;)

Hmmm.
Personal taste being what it is, perhaps it would be more interesting to pick our top three most disliked bands/musicians??

That will be difficult.
I like a lot of music.
I really dislike Trance and Hip-Hop.

I am a real guitar lover.
I can't help it.
;)

my favore artists would have to be

hiphop: jedi mind tricks,atmosphere,eyedea,virtuoso
7l&esoteric,super natural,canibus,chinoxl,wu-tang clan,
killa army,nas,mobb deep,everlast,anti pop consortium and many more

turntablism: d-styles,q-bert,mix master mike,dj abilities,dj shadow
to many to name

electronic: the future sound of london,aphex twin,plaid,negativ land and just about all the music my friend spankyface of sciforums makes

'rock': tool,spineshank,strife..not really keeping up with rock these days it's mostly all disappointing.

Ok, this might not be a huge stretch of time, but in between Our Lady Peace and Good Charlotte. OLP has been around quite some time, already handling 5 (is it 5?) albums, whereas GC has only one that's self-titled. It's also a stretch in genre, OLP is Grunge/rock and GC is Punk/alternative/pop. I still like both of course. :)

Bands or musicians:confused:

that would be difficult to me as I pretty much respect the hundreds and thousands of unknown producers and sound engineers cooking up what some call noise in backwater studios.

Those people are respected admittedly because I like hearing the music being coordinated into mixes by Dj's, and a Dj might put their passion into the mixing, or choosing the records to use, but without those producers and sound engineers, they wouldn't have anything to be artistic with.

I like some techno, exspecially the songs that were used in The Matrix. But one of my favorite bands is based out of my hometown where I live and is called Tantric. You may have recently heard there music on charmed. I also might get to meet them. How? Well I take a guitar class at my school and my music teacher who is also a singer in Louisville happens to know them so they said that they would come in and show us all how to play the guitar, although i suck at it.

Today there are lost of new bands and artisits. All of which are very talented. I like all different types of music but I would have to say the Deftones are one of the best bands out there. Chino Moreno writes awesome lyrics which only he can understand because they are only made into reality by him.....he always keeps listeiners in wonder....They are able to keep there same style going. Unlike some bands out there such as Korn who change their style to whats trendy. No offense to Korn because they have written some nice songs and there going strong. :cool:

Listen to the lyrics of Roger Waters on his cd: Amused To Death...
Great performer, great lyrics...
And great music!
Great guitar by Jeff Beck on this cd.
Great, really!!
:)

but going back to the 60's I'd put the most important ones in this order:
CREAM, LED ZEPPELIN, TEN YEARS AFTER, JIMI HENDRIX, SANTANA, WEATHER REPORT, CRUSADERS, MILES DAVIS, MILTON NASCIMENTO, PAT METHENY, JOHN THEMIS, WILLIAM ACKERMAN, TRILOK GURTU, FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON, TALVIN SINGH. And so many others trapped in the black holes of my mind.
TECHNO, DRUM 'N BASS, TRANCE, BLUES, MOST CUTTING EDGE ELECTRONIC DANCE, WORLD FUSION.

BANSHEE would've loved me 30 years ago. I played lead guitar in one of the original 'heavy' rock groups in London, which sadly couldn't secure a record deal because we were deemed too uncommercial. Anyway, my pyrotechnics and original use of early technology (wah-wah, fuzz, delay) had people calling me things like, "Jimi Hendrix reborn', which I used to hate and made me realise that most people couldn't really understand just how good or otherwise musicians actually were.

I now produce dance based thematic electronica at home and I can still get my Strat' smokin' if I'm in the right mood.

You can play like Jimi Hendrix???
How you do that?
No one plays the guitar like Jimi does...
Man, oh, can he play.
I can dance all his guitar music. That is something different then playing the guitar.
You really can play like Jimi?
I would love to hear that...
I am a guitar freak, I love guitars, in all ways, acoustic, electric. No trance and no hip hop for me, just the good old players like you mentioned above.
Good choice, I like them all, I forgot to write down a lot of great artists too, but you filled it up perfectly.
Man, play, let people hear you can play the guitar, it is wonderful.
Why you hate to be called as Jimi Hendrix?
Jimi Hendrix is the best guitar player, ever lived. He has influenced a lot of artists, and played his guitar without all synthesizers. Only some wah wah pedals and a fuzz pedal to make his music swing through your entire body.
All with one guitar, great.
In the sixties there were not so much synthesizer music as there is now. Jimi played it so well, I am real sorry I was to young to ever seen him play alive.
I would have given my little finger to see him performe...Oh yes!

Originally posted by Banshee
You can play like Jimi Hendrix???
How you do that?
h yes!

Unfortunately no!

But that is exactly the reason I hated being compared to him. To me, he was GOD at that time. I was an 18 year old naive virgin and had only been playing guitar for about 2 years, where as he'd been paying his dues for a decade before he died, sweating it out in soul bands and New York clubs. He'd also been to Vietnam, which must have really influenced his creative spirit and lit that raging fire behind his playing.

Having said that, I guess I must have seemed pretty impressive to some. You must realise that while there were a fair number of good blues players around in the early 70's, there were hardly any that made use of sound effects the way I did. Especially the sound I got through my Crybaby wah pedal and an old (1960) WEM COPICAT echo unit. A sound I didn't hear anyone else use for at least 10 years after me and that was by the guy in Pink Floyd!
Have you ever heard Robin Trower (ex Procol Harum--'a whiter shade of pale')? He was so moved by Hendrix that he started to play in exactly the same style as him after his death.

Adding to my list:
Keith Jarret, George Winston, early Vangelis, Zawinul, Jaco Pastorius, Bob Marley
Labels:
ECM for classy jazz, Wyndham Hill for classy new age.

A Crybaby wahpedal, exactly, that was what he used. Oh and I do know Robin Trowers yes, and Stevie Ray Vaughn and so on. I was ten years old in 1970, but I do have Pink Floyd and all the good old blues-players, like Gary Moore, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Eric Burdon and War and so on. I love David Bowie too, of course, he belongs to the list also, just as The Stones do, but I preferred to hear The Stones and not The Beatles. Well, The Beatles have made great music. I saw The Who live, I was just 16, but I have seen The Who with Keith Moon and I have seen Pink Floyd with their show around the album Animals. It is not the best album of The Floyd, but man, the show was great. I think I have been lucky to could have seen all these artists, just before it was over.
I saw David Bowie several times live, but he performs still, The Floyd is not, nor is The Who, who weren't The Who after the loss of Keith Moon.
In spite all of what you say I would like to hear you play. Sometimes it is a pity we live so far from eachother. :)

Maybe one day.

I would have to say that right now, my favorite would be Mr. Frank Zappa. I don't care what band he plays with, if it be Cheap Thrills of the Mothers or any other He is the greatest composer to ever live. If only he lived a few years longer and he had all this pop to make fun of.:(

RAVEL and DEBUSSY!

Some classical music is very good, yes, but most of them have a lot of brass. I do not like that, not at all; I dislike brass, too loud. Give me guitar music…Good guitar music, the guitar music that is played by feelings, not by learning to play nice at a music educational institutions, that is too technical, no feelings in the music, if you understand what I mean.

well if there is I never noticed, but those 2 particular composers knew how to dream man! Smoke a spliff and get into Debussy, you'll see what I mean.

What do you mean by you will see?
How can I see that? I do not listen to them, I know how to dream man, with and on good music, real good music, made inside you and brought out in music. That is how you dream music man, listen to the sound in your heart and play it like you feel.
Like Hendrix. And a whole lot of others..
Bye.

RE: Frank Zappa

A masterful man and musician. Sorely missed.


~~~~

Where's Ana? ;) )


From a long list of favs: Rush and TOOL...

Debussy, Chopin, Bach, Copeland...

Dead Can Dance, Davey Spillane, Mark Isham...

Charlotte Church, Pavarotti (sp?), Ann Wilson (of Heart)...

*deep breath*

Too many to name!

~~~

Music is art.
Tastes in art are subjective.
To each his own, methinks.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you are right. Frank Zappa was/is good yes.
But the man died to early, like a lot of very, very good musicians.
That is a damn shame....But it happened, what stayed were the albums they made. You can listen to that, so it is not all 'lost'.
To say so, I don't know how to say it in another way. I think you understand. Bye.

Originally posted by Banshee
What do you mean by you will see?
How can I see that? I do not listen to them, I know how to dream man, with and on good music, real good music, made inside you and brought out in music. That is how you dream music man, listen to the sound in your heart and play it like you feel.
Like Hendrix. And a whole lot of others..
Bye.

No one is doubting your ability to dream. Music, as you say, conveys what is in somebody's heart to somebody elses ears and soul. I'm just saying that Debussy had something great in his heart, now if you don't even want to give him a chance then that is your choice.

Sorry, it was not my intention to hurt your feelings in any way. I do like classic(?) music, like 'The Dance Macabre'. I forgot from who this is, I tried to remember, I can't.
But you are right, there is certainly very nice, good music come out of Debussy's heart. He made wonderful music, in that you are very right.:)

Guess I was not in the mood to talk about Debussy and other 'great' composers, I have heard so many times: Listen to normal music. I guess that is the main reason I hang on to my favorites, guitars. I really love guitars, if plaid well of course. But with that you know exactly what I mean. So no more explanation necessarry. Again, I am sorry if I hurt your feelings, it was not my intention. Bye.;) :p

No one mentioned rock? well i will i loved to listen to Queen / Meat loaf / Yes / bands like that and i still do,but my kids are into this rock that you can not under stand what they are saying, things like limp biskit , slip knott , crap like that.:rolleyes:

BLASTOFF, you didn't read my post from a month ago or so.
There are a lot of artists you mention.
Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Yes, The Doors, Queen, Bad Company, U2, Fleetwood Mac, The Who, Eagles, Mott The Hoople and so on.

I love the that music and I forgot to write down every band because there are a lot more I love.
Yes, David Bowie of course and The Stones and so on.
You see, I can't name them all but I guess you get the picture.
Enjoy your music, let it stream through your whole body. Man, that is so nice.
Especially with great guitars in it, that is what I meant. I love the sound of good, from inner feelings played guitars so much.
I can't live without that music every day.;)

Listening to all the vocoded vocals currently popular in pop music, I remembered I had forgotten to mention Herbie Hancock who was doing all that stuff more than 20 years ago. Who can't remember 'I thought it was you'?

He, along with Chic Corea, Vangelis Papathanisiou and Joe Zawinul was a brilliant innovator, exploiting the (then) new phenomenon of electronic synthesisers to the full.

Some great albums of that Period (mid 70's) were Black Market, Heavy Weather (Weather Report), China (Vangelis), Electric Warrior (Chic Corea) and Sunshine(?) (Hancock).

Yes, you are right, I remember them, I was still in my teens back then, but I know them all.
And I forgot to write Vangelis down too and together with Jon Anderson from Yes, he has made some good albums too.

Good from you, I forget to write them down, because there is so much I love in Musicland. But you are very right here. Cool.
:p :p

Banshee sorry for not reading your later post must have been asleep but will look out for more from you:cool:

Oh, don't be sorry, you can't read everything at once.

It is nice to have you too as a fan of the better music. That is, I think it is the best kind of music there is.
Can't live without, not a single minute. But you always have to go somewhere you can't listen to music.
So as soon as I get back I turn it on again, right away and dance....

I have been teaching dancing, the way MJ dances, not the regular kind.
Nice job, really. But that is over now. I moved to another place and haven't found such nice job back yet.;)

<font size="10"><font face="courier new"><b>MICHAEL JACKSON IS BY FAR THE BEST ARTIST OUT THERE</b>http://ww.michaeljackson.com</font size></font face>

1)Beetles
2)Albinoni/Giazotto-Composed quite possibly the best classical music piece I have ever, ever heard, titled "Adagio in minor." You will never hear such a good piece and if you see it ANYWHERE buy it immediately or listen to it or something.
3)Mozart
4)Gershwin (Rhapsody in Blue)
Wow that's all I can think of.

Pathetic.

HurricaneAndy, go to the thread Michael Jackson please, you blind my eyes with this.

We have a whole discussion about MJ.
Look at Free Thoughts, there is the thread about MJ.
Thank you very much.;)

Banshee i used to have a queen album a long time ago, and i have lost it i have been looking all over for it but no luck, its called queen two it had a song that i can not even find on the net, called orge battle,any ideas, my kids think that i an jokeing with them and that they know all the queen hits,(BUT THEY DONT);)

Dudes....

I like Rush (now, because I just started listening to them 2 years ago) and a little of this and a little of that. Before I used to like only a little of this and a little of that. That's how my tastes have changed. Pffft!!!:p

That being said: 80s rock rules! oh, and 80s pop, too! and 80s alternative also....um, okay 80s music.:cool:

BLASTOFF, I do know the song, it is a beauty really.
But I don't have it, maybe you have to look at the Internet because most old songs of Queen you can download from a site.
Wish I knew which one, but I will ask my son about that and get back to you if he's found it.
He does that very well, he downloads songs for me all the time, from Bowie till Gary Moore and Queen we do have too. We have the last song Freddy sang before he passed away: Those Were The Days Of My Life...

I always get goosebumbs all over, if I even think of this song, he looks so thin and sad in this video clip they made. I still pity that Freddy Mercury passed away, wonderfull singer.
I will do for you whatever I can to look for the song you want.
As soon as we find it, I will get back to you.
By the way, my 14 year old son is a big fan of Queen.

I do have the last album: Made In Heaven.
Pretty good album, but always I have to think of Freddy and the way he was in the end. I think it's so sad, he was a nice man, friendly and so is the whole Band.
I do have more of Queen but not the second album, wish I had.
Maybe I can get a hold of it one day.

I will sure get back to you with this. Hope we can find it, my son finds nearly everything, so there is a pretty good chance.
Talk to you soon.;)

BLASTOFF- I have seen the song on Morpheus at www.musiccity.com. I was going to snag the mp3 for you, but the dude logged off before I could even initiate the transfer. I'll do my part to get you that song. Please post here when you get it so I don't tear my hair out longer than I have to.

Thank you Oxygen.

There you go BLASTOFF, download it, now!!:)

I didn't find it yet, but now I know, I will download it too.

Thank you so much Oxygen.;) :p

Hi banshee thanks for your help i have looked all over and could not find it,i hope your son has better luck,and i agree with you that those were the days of my life was brilliant, also i love heaven for everyone, i have down loaded a lot of led zeplin. :cool:

Thanks oxygen got it, driving my son mad playing it all the time once again thanks.:cool:

Aces! Glad to have been of help.

You were a great help Oxigen.

Again, thank you so much for the website. The more music I can download the better.:p

Personally now, I'm really into Alison Kruass, she has a very special voice that just makes you listen to it over and over again.

i'm a big metallica fan, but im i also enjoy my slayer, demons & wizards, megadeth and other kick arse metal acts

on my lighter side
dave matthews is good
and then the classical stuff to like mozart and beetoven find their plcaes in my collection , and also into my guitar playuing techneq <--spelt wrong i know

My favorite bands right now have to be Project Wyze (www.projectwyze.com) and Linkin Park (www.linkinparkinside.com).

Other bands I like include Limp Bizkit, Nickleback, Incubus, Blink 182 and Puddle of Mudd. Maybe a little techno too.

Current favorite songs (in no particular order):

Papercut (Linkin Park)
Nothing's What it Seems (Project Wyze)
Crushed-Bosko Remix (Limp Bizkit)
Room to Breathe (Project Wyze)
A Place for my Head (Linkin Park)
Blurry (Puddle of Mudd)
Counterfeit-Lethal Dose Remix (Limp Bizkit)

Yeah, I know, there's lots. And there's more too :D

BLASTOFF:
but my kids are into this rock that you can not under stand what they are saying, things like limp biskit , slip knott , crap like that.

Well, I can't speak for slip knot, mainly because I think they suck :p but I can understand Limp Bizkit about 98% of the time. Then again, I'm 17, maybe it's an adult thing ;)

Bands I don't like:

-Michael Jackson *shudders* I watched the MJ special that was on a while ago, and I only got through one song before switching the channel. However, in that one song (which was about 4 minutes long) he touched his "special spot" 39 times and grabbed "it" 23 times (yes, I actually counted :D ) . I dunno, just not my kind of guy I guess
:confused:

-Slipknot
-Any of the Heavy Metal/Grunge/Thrash type stuff
-Country music :bugeye:
-Metallica (sorry to any big Metallica fans out there, I just can't stand them for some reason :( )
-The list goes on and on... :D

I'm from Iowa so I like Slipknot, as for my all time fav it would be Pantera. I also really like Jimmi Hendrix.

Do like them too. A lot.:) And what does age have to do with it? My son is 14 and likes those bands. I am 41 and still like the new Music, like Limp Bizkit, for instance. Even have a little c.d. by the Gorillaz. And what about Muse? Nice Music.;)

Metallica has wonderful Music, not all of it, a whole lot though. The Unforgiven, to mention one, is wonderful. And that is only one great, great song by Metallica.

Good to read there is another Jimi hendrix lover among us...:cool:

I hate Limp Bizkit as a band, well at least Fred Durst anyway, but their music is good. FD just screwes people over all the time, acts like a total a-hole most of the time and steals music to make his CD's. How do I know this you ask? Check out this thread on another forum I post on: http://forum.deviantart.com/190710

It tells all about how Limp Bizkit held a "tryout" for a new guitarist position they were offering, and how hundreds of people line up, played one of their own songs that they composed and then got screwed over. FD actually had them sign a release form prior to the audition that gave Limp Bizkit all legal rights to any music the auditioners played. After that, he cancelled the whole thing and walked off with hundreds of new guitar pieces for his use. :mad:

I didn't know FD was such an idiot.:( Don't have a television at the moment and the last time I saw Limp Bizkit was 4 months ago. Thank you for the information, I immediately don't like them so much any more. If I hear such things done by a Band, my opinion changes.;)

Well, I love Pink Floyd most of all Music and got The Wall 'live' just yesterday. So I am a happy person right now.:)

I have some songs by Limp Bizkit on a c.d., like Boiler and My way, and that's about it. Now when I hear you telling me this, I'll listen to it in a different way. I really hate it when musicians act this way.:(

I couldn't believe it when I first saw it myself. I still like their music, but after reading that the little respect that was left for FD has gone.

Do you have their new CD? New old songs? They pulled off several good remixes. Especially Crushed (Bosko Remix). :)

Haven't heard the album yet. I'll go hunt for it and try to burn the album from a friend or so.;) I like the Music by Limp Bizkit, am not sure though if I want to buy it. There is a lot of other Music I want to have also. There I have to make a choice and I mostly try to get the albums first from a friend and burn them.:)

Downloading from the Internet gives a lot of problems.:( Did you ever do it? How does it go when you try to download Music from the Internet?

Do you have any suggestions for a good download website? Should be very nice...:cool:

@ Banshee Try Audiogalaxy. I use it all the time and I have over 1000 songs on my hardrive. I don't view it as stealing or pirateing, its "borrowing" lmao.

Thank you so much. I will certainly try it out. I'll get back to you with the results. Should be so nice to download some good Music to a disk. The websites we tried out don't work that well. Half of the songs there cannot be downloaded for one reason or another and there is not real good Music to be found there too. Thank you...:)

Bah! x2!

Audiogalaxy is crappy. On top of it's suckiness, it deposits a nice piece of spyware onto your system that monitors your internet activity and sends it back to some server somewhere.

Morpheus is way better.

Papercut (Linkin Park)
Nothing's What it Seems (Project Wyze)
Crushed-Bosko Remix (Limp Bizkit)
Room to Breathe (Project Wyze)
A Place for my Head (Linkin Park)
Blurry (Puddle of Mudd)
Counterfeit-Lethal Dose Remix (Limp Bizkit)
At the most I have heard of maybe one of those groups. That's not my taste. My current favorites:

Take Five (The Dave Brubeck Quartet)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)
A Day in the Life (The Beatles)
Riders on the Storm (The Doors)
Starship Troopers (Yes)
Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin)
Classical Gas (Mason Williams and the Manheim Steamrolloers)

I have also been entranced lately by the most hated genre of Opera. "Le Donna E Mobile" in particular from Rigoletto.

I attempted to listen to some of the newer groups (Blink 182, Limp Bizkit), as well as the older styles that my friends prefer (Bad Religion, Metallica). I found all to often that the vocals are drowned by repetitive and very loud guitar riffs. At first I thought it an inferiority of the recording medium. Later I was informed that the style was intentional. Ah well, to each his own.

The Bands you name, like The Doors, Led Zeppelin and Yes, I've mentioned long ago in this thread. Guess you have to go back to the beginning then. I love that Music.

Do like a lot of newer Music too though. And Audiogalaxy has been explored and the satellite's been installed. Thanks for the tip Tyr. Downloaded some good songs from there.

Xelios, I've never heard of Morpheus, I will check that one out also. Thank you so much for the websites...:cool:

Morpheus is by far the best right now. It lets you download any type of media, software, audio, video everything. It lets you download any quality too, right up to 512. Just go to downloads.cnet.com and scroll down a ways to the Most Popular list. Morpheus is right up there at #1 with a 91% approval rate (113,442 votes) and more than 48,258,823 downloads. Plus, no spyware like AG has.

It uses spiderweb downloading too, which means it downloads the file from many people at once which effectively combines the speed of all those connections.

Anyway, I feel like a TV ad, I'm gonna leave now..

Although I hate being pinned to a favorite, much of my music appreciation comes from how it comes across in the club or concert scene. Right now, Kelly Joe Phelps is top of the pile. Out of the Pacific Northwest, he brings remarkable virtuosity to the slide guitar and acoustic guitar, and his original songs go well beyond the musical territory of the standard blues form.

If you’re interested and want to listen to some mp3s, a couple songs that would give you a flavor for this guy would be “Taylor John” and “Shine-Eyed Mister Zen”. If those peak your interest, I would ease into his CDs in the following order:

Shine-Eyed Mr. Zen
Sky Like A Broken Clock (Xelios: drummer Billy Conway of Morphine plays on this one)
Lead Me On
Roll Away The Stone

He is still playing small venues, so it is a real treat to listen to him perform. Tour information and other details are at KellyJoePhelps.com (http://www.kellyjoephelps.com).

Peace.

Love the Blues and good guitar playing. I will check it out.

Haven't had the time to explore Morpheus yet. I am getting there. Though I have to say Audiogalaxy has a lot of good Music in their archives, satellite or no satellite.;)

Guess in America you are spied on anyway...:D

Favorite Band/Muscsian? No Doubt, Madonna, Diana Ross and MJ

I've recently fallen totally for <A HREF="http://www.emimusic.com.au/artists/kaseychambers/index.asp">Kasey Chambers</A>. She's basically an Australian Lucinda Williams with a few less heartaches behind her and a bit more optimism and intelligence. Great stuff.

Right, here we go...

Past: Bee Gees (although present too...)
CHOPIN!!! :D

Present: Kylie Minogue
Destiny's Child
JAMIROQUAI!!!:cool: :D :o (hehe)

Cheerio,
The Fox Lady

It's hard to name "just one" but it would be Tom Petty if I had to pick just one as many times his emotions seem to reflect mine. However, some that have been called my favorites...
Beatles
Dave Matthews
Tina Turner
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young together , single, and in any combination thereof
Robin Thrower (did I spell that right as it looks wrong)
Eagles and again any combination thereof

My favorite Band is "Q is a Band".

I found them on mp3.com !!

They're from Montreal.

Here's the link to their mp3 page : www.mp3.com/Q_is_a_Band/

David Bowie and Nine Inch Nails - the two best without a doubt.

i know two guys who are going to see David Bowie this summer...

I know one pretty well......... and I think you know the other.

;) :cool: :) :) :D :D :D

wonder who that could be?
i would be so happy if I was going and i bet Cactus would love it too.....

Delerium

MEMORIES:

Led Zeppelin's 2nd or 3rd gig in this small club in London, half the room taken up by equipment and me standing on a chair for a better view!

Deep Purple's 2nd or 3rd gig at the Roundhouse london and me sitting on the side of the stage in front of a huge bass bin trying to look stoned after eating a cube of incence!

Free concert in Hyde Park featuring Blind Faith, The Nice, Fleetwood Mac, Family and others that became HUGE!

Originally posted by Banshee

Metallica has wonderful Music, not all of it, a whole lot though. The Unforgiven, to mention one, is wonderful. And that is only one great, great song by Metallica.



I really can't stand anything by the band after Justice. Gone is all the energy and integrity of Metallica.

But I am primarily a metal fan. My favourite bands are Iron Maiden,Testament,Black Sabbath,Emperor.

I hate anything nu-metal like Limp Bizkit,Korn,Slipknot

Underground Rap:

Alien Nation

R.E.M.!!!
Only R.E.M. Day and night R.E.M. Behold the almighty power that is R.E.M.:D :cool:

Syd Barrett

Syd Barrett? :D :) Yes! :) From there we go a little further and finish with the Band Syd Barret started in: Pink Floyd and they still rule...without Syd Barret, they still rule...;)


Oh well, there is a lot of other Music I truly Love, Pink Floyd is always in the c.d. player. Easy enough, for there go 5 c.d.'s in the player.:cool:

My favorites are

Pink Floyd
Nirvana
NIN
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
The Doors

Nine Inch Nails
Tool
Nirvana
U2
Radiohead
Pink Floyd
The Doors
Simon and Garfunkel

I like all the stuff that moves me, whatever genre it may be.

Others: Placebo, Manic Street Preachers, Pearl Jam, Sisters of Mercy, Ministry, Wumpscut, John Denver, Boudewijn De Groot, Joy Division, Bauhaus, Chemical Brothers, Metallica, The Cure, Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Dead Man Ray, Sinead O'Connor, Sonic Youth, Rage against the machine, REM, Arid, dEUS, Slipknot, ...

Spinners romantic jazz, smooth jazz, jazz vocals,... :)

I cannot believe I forgot Tool and A Perfect Circle. Two of the best bands I have ever seen live and I completely forgot to list them.

LIVE

. ~Rage Against The Machine~

Captain: I KNEW that before I clicked the link in my mailbox! :) :)

"no escape from the mass mindrape: play it again Jack, and then rewind the tape"

Sorry to disappoint you.
Aye Aye

You did not disappoint me, I like them too.

The quote was a random cool lyric. It was not meant as an insult.

I think we need some extreem views to keep the debate alive. I don't think we should blindly follow them. Neither do you. You don't think communism is THE way ahead, you are just "waking them up" (find the hidden songtitle :) :) )

i was joking....is it The Ghost Of Tom Joad? just a guess. havent listened to them for a while. aye, the debate is getting to the stage now that people are argueing about how badly someone put his points across. Need some extreme views in there to 're-light the fire' so to speak. i'll leave that to you because they hate me as it is . lol.

Favorite band?
that's a tough one...probably journey. NO! I'm kidding. ;)

i don't know...my fave musicians?
I'd have to say:
John Mayer
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Jimi Hendrix
Sam Bush
Gregg Alexander

and MADONNA! :)

WAAAAAAAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Rage is actually one of my favourite bands ever. Damn interesting politics and awsome rock style guitar. The intro to Sleep Now is one of the best things I've ever heard.




Fuck you I won't do what you tell me...
Fuck you I won't do what you tell me...
Fuck you I won't do what you tell me...

Fuck you I won't do what you tell me...
Fuck you I won't do what you tell me...
Fuck you I won't do what you tell me...

Fuck you I won't do what you tell me...
Fuck you I won't do what you tell me...

Fuck you I won't do what you tell me...

FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME

Tell the bandmembers how you don't feel pitty for the bum sitting at your school. :p :p :p

I have great respect for Rage's political views. They are well educated and well thought out. They just have a different set of values than I do. They think the best thing would be if everyone lived happily no matter what kind of life they wanted to choose. I think the best thing is that we have the oppurtunity to fuck up and people who do fuck up suffer the consequences.

at the moment (in no particular order)-
Tool
Korn
A Perfect Circle
In Flames


I went and saw Tool live in Melbourne a few months ago and i must say it was the most amazing live band experience i have ever seen.

has anyone else here seen them live?

Weezer,
Guns n' Roses,
Dire Straits,
Foo Fighters,
Nirvana,
Queens of the stone age,
Black Sabbath,
damn, there really are far too many to list. I like all forms of music except Happy hardcore and POP! i hate pop. arggghhh.

Originally posted by thecurly1
I was wondering who are people's favorite musical act of the present and past. I thought it may be interesting to contrast between the two artists, and discuss the differences between each time period and type.

I recommend and suggest to contrast between Pink Floyd and Deep Forest...

Groove on. :)

Jimi Hendrix vs. The Chemical Brothers

ahh, it seems as if our generation has taken over this thread.

top five bands:

1) nine inch nails: i will shoot you if you say they suck. not only are they so musically talented (i heard reznor creates music off of pythagorean structures) but they are so profound.

all that nietzsche/foucault/existentialist philosophy you like?
reznor puts all that to music, baby.

2) alice in chains: drugs, drugs, drugs. RIP Layne Staley.

3) portishead: depressive trip-hop. makes you think. stuff for a rainy sunday. female reznor that beth is.

4) tool: you think society fucks with your mind? look at tool. its all about opening up to the truth. "third eye."

very philosophical too, from what i hear. maynards a big jung fan.

5) ratm anger is a gift. best of political science/social theory/philosophy all in one really pissed off, harder than hell rap metal band. what more could you ask for? anyone heard that stuff they did with christ cornell btw?

they called themselves 'civilian', i was quite surprised it wasnt what i was expecting - it wasnt rage. anyhow, they broke up and thats the end of that.

I'm in love with DMB :D But i also like Phish alot, Guster, Blue Man Group, Incubus and Jimmy Eat World, too.

Pantera rules, Slipknot is pretty good to (they are from Des Moines, Iowa and Im from Waterloo, Iowa) we all gotta stick together. Tenacious D is funny.

assfuckingcockwhorebitchclitanusdickcunt!!!!!

tool is coming to dallas during the one three week segment of my life that i get to leave this shithole. in other words, dallas will have something cool on july 23 and ill be gone for it. *looks up to god, sneers, throws the finger, and storms out.*

hey captainc:

do you really believe communism will work? (youve prolly answered this question a million times, but ill take out 2 seconds to type it again. if theres a thread on this, where would it be?)

do you really believe communism will work? (youve prolly answered this question a million times, but ill take out 2 seconds to type it again. if theres a thread on this, where would it be?)
there is already a thread on this. Communism...the way ahead? (http://www.sciforums.com/t8193/s/thread.html) If communism could be implemented correctly i do believe it would be for the benefit of man-kind.

Let's see...I used to be into Our Lady Peace, right when their 4th album came out...I listened to them a lot, and then I just got bored. Nowadays, I still enjoy the occasional OLP classic, but I won't get hyped up about them as much. Now that I'm older, my taste in music has expanded exponentially. I like almost everything..except for maybe really really really heavy metal. I have sort of a theory: If you listen to it enough, you'll begin to like it. It's been true so far, and I just download random stuff and listen to it. And I've learned to take recommendations seriously too, and follow through with them.

Past - Sex Pistols
Present - Rammstein

Pretty different don't you think, not extreme, but different

RAMMSTEIN RULE

I believe that TOOL is the best band that there ever will be. They are incredibly talanted and the songs are so deep and have so much meaning. They are just great!

Yeah! TOOL RULES! And welcome to SciForums, Increan! :D

I love:

Guided By Voices
Vigilantes of Love (Bill Mallonee)
Elvis Costello
Bob Dylan
and many others...

But my all time favorite is:


BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN


-Mike

Yes they do and thanks for the welcome blue soul.

You're welcome, Increan! :)

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Sticks and Stones - A New Found Glory!
OH man, awesome CD!

Here are the songs, listed in order:
Understatement
My Friend's Over You
Sonny (personal favourite)
Something I Call Personality
Head On Collision
It's Been A Summer
Forget My Name
The Great Houdini
Singled Out
Belated
The Story So Far

And this isn't the first time I've been addicted to NFG before! :D They're on Jay Leno tonight, check it out if you have the time! :)

I believe that TOOL is the best band that there ever will be. They are incredibly talanted and the songs are so deep and have so much meaning. They are just great!

i think its naive to say that one band is the best band 'ever', you havnt possibly heard all the bands and music ever composed on the planet to make this kind of assesment and even then its personal preference dont you think?

Alright, Tool is the best band that I have ever heard. I have listened to almost every form of music and dating back to classical music. I am sure there are many pieces of music I have not heard, but in my opinion Tool is the best right now. Is that better?

lol, calm down, i was only making a point. it anoys me when people say things like : "Green Day are the best band in the world that has ever been with the best music ever composed."
i mean, c'mon who could make this assesment.
but yeh, thats better. lol :D

Jimmy Eat World is the best band in the world that has ever been with the best music ever composed!!!

Just joking :D They're good, but not that good :)

lol! :D

just for the record....limp bizkit are fuckin corporate poster boys. Fred Durst is a no talent little prick who sold out after 3 dollar bill yall and ran wes borlin, the only member of the band that had a little bit of talent, out of the band. Satan's henchmen, all of them. I don't even believe in god and i think that Fred Durst is the leader of the anti-christ. I'm so sick of these fuckin disposable rock stars.

Sorry, i just read something about L B earlier in this thread and couldn't resist...Anyway...my favorite band is TOOL i love em...
i really like Clapton, Hendrix, Pink Floyd...the music today is too goddamn predictable......well there's my two cents

Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Jethro Tull

New Found Glory's still in the top 10 list on my computer. :) I go to bed with their music in my head, and I wake up with it in the morning.

I have to check but so far I haven't seen anyone mention The Doors. This is rather disturbing. The Doors are perhaps the best blues-rock to ever come around. The fact that Roadhouse Blues is not appreciated by everyone the same that it is by me, in all honesty, bothers and confuses me at times. To all those in a band out there - playing Roadhouse at a concert is definetly the biggest kick to play. That is, if you play in a danky little crap-holes like I have! I can imagine in a big, professional place it's a little less cool.

OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!

There once was ONE other person on this board who knew of Medeski, Martin & Wood!!!!!! THANK GOD!! ONE OTHER!!!!! YAY!!!!!!

too bad mpfunk ain't round no more.

Oh yeah, and one other musician I assume few here know of (watch me be proven wrong) is Django Reinhardt. Now THAT'S some chillen' music.

You're welcome, Increan! :)

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Sticks and Stones - A New Found Glory!
OH man, awesome CD!

Here are the songs, listed in order:
Understatement
My Friend's Over You
Sonny (personal favourite)
Something I Call Personality
Head On Collision
It's Been A Summer
Forget My Name
The Great Houdini
Singled Out
Belated
The Story So Far

And this isn't the first time I've been addicted to NFG before! :D They're on Jay Leno tonight, check it out if you have the time! :)
Dude, New Found Glory is respectable in that they write catchy hooks, but by no means one-of-a-kind.I personally think that many other bands have the same unexperimental style

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God ,oh god I pray for sarcasm :eek:

1)Beetles
2)Albinoni/Giazotto-Composed quite possibly the best classical music piece I have ever, ever heard, titled "Adagio in minor." You will never hear such a good piece and if you see it ANYWHERE buy it immediately or listen to it or something.
3)Mozart
4)Gershwin (Rhapsody in Blue)
Wow that's all I can think of.

Pathetic.
beAtles. Like beat.Get it?