Favorite Bands

[Vaynor]

Haven't seen one of these in a while, so, list your favorite bands!

The A-Sides
The Apples in Stereo
The Aquabats
Arcade Fire
The Beatles
Buck-O-Nine
The Cars
The Cat Empire
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
The Clash
Colossal Yes
David Bowie
DEVO
Dr. Dog
Five Iron Frenzy
The Flaming Lips
The Fratellis
Iron and Wine
Jet
Jonathan Coulton
Led Zeppelin
Less Than Jake
Mad Caddies
Madness
Mando Diao
Monty Python (:D)
The Mountain Goats
MU330
Mustard Plug
NOFX
The Piranhas
The Planet Smashers
The Polyphonic Spree
Radiohead
Reel Big Fish
Razorlight
Spoon
Streetlight Manifesto
Talking Heads
Television
Toploader
TV On the Radio
The Vines
Wilco
!!!

Also, if you know any bands I might like that'd be great. :D

[Kaelaroth]

That's a lot of bands!

I also like a lot of those, so our tastes may very well be similar. Have you heard Breaking Benjamin? They rock. In all senses. :smallwink:

[Neragith]

I'll only list a few
MegaDeth
DeagonForce
HammerFall
Judas Priest
Rhapsody of Fire
Iron Maiden
ManoWar
there are more but I'm feeling to lazy to list them :smallsmile:

[I'm da Rogue!]

Mmmm.. :smallconfused:

Led Zeppelin
Rainbow
Black Sabbath
Camel
Eloy
Deep Purple
Pink Floyd
King Krimson
Rush

Dio
Judas Priest
Metallica
Savatage

Anathema
Moonspell
Tool
Isis
Mastodon

[psycojester]

Have you tried:

Bad religion, or Clutch?

[JabberwockySupafly]

Have you tried:

Bad religion, or Clutch?

Clutch! Clutch is actually my favourite rock band of all time. Seen them twice in concert (they have only been to Australia twice, so, yeah) and each time I see them, or listen to them, I like them even more. Been listening to them for many a year and it's nice to see their influence is beginning to spread a bit.

My list could probably span several pages, so I'll try to keep it somewhat in check. I could be listening to any of these bands at any time, so in no particular order:


The Beatles
Clutch
Anything with Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr.Bungle, Fantomas, Tomahawk, ect ect)
God Forbid
Mastodon
Reel Big Fish
Aesop Rock
Atmosphere
Simon & Garfunkel
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Yasunori Mitsuda
The JDK Band
Nobuo Uematsu
Lacuna Coil
Weird Al
Busdriver
Blind Guardian
The Descendents
Flogging Molly
Soundgarden
Iced Earth
Iron Maiden
Killing Joke
Queen
Primus
Violent Femmes
Virgin Steele

...and that's all I will list because otherwise it will really get out of hand. The ones in bold are the ones I can safely say are the "cream of the crop" of that list. If I had to narrow my list, those are the ones that you could safely assume would remain.

[Glawackus]

I suppose I should just mention Last.fm (http://www.last.fm) for anyone who isn't already registered on there.

My top 20 from my page on there:

1 Marillion (Neo-Prog)
2 The Moody Blues (Progressive Rock)
3 The Alan Parsons Project (Progressive Rock)
4 Yes (Progressive Rock)
5 Asia (Rock)
6 Toto (Rock)
7 Philip Glass ("Minimalist"/Classical)
8 King Crimson (Progressive Rock)
9 Spock's Beard (Progressive Rock)
10 Ayreon (Progressive Metal)
11 Amon Tobin (Electronica)
12 Supertramp (Rock)
13 Rush (Progressive Rock)
14 Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Progressive Rock)
15 Dave Matthews Band (Alternative Rock)
16 Clannad (Celtic)
17 Camel (Progressive Rock)
18 Alan Parsons (Progressive Rock)
19 Frank Sinatra (Big Band/Swing)
20 Trans-Siberian Orchestra (Progressive Rock/Christmas)

[psycojester]

Clutch! Clutch is actually my favourite rock band of all time. Seen them twice in concert (they have only been to Australia twice, so, yeah) and each time I see them, or listen to them, I like them even more. Been listening to them for many a year and it's nice to see their influence is beginning to spread a bit.

Gah! I Hate you! I missed them last time they were here. DAMN YOU UNI! and the time before that they played an 18+ venue... the day before my 18th birthday.

[Amotis]

Also, if you know any bands I might like that'd be great. :D

You have a pretty good ear, so I think anything I call "good music" probably will appeal to you (or not, I'm wrong a lot). Some of these might be nothing like what you've listed...but finding stuff that sounds like other stuff...well where's the fun in that? :smallamused:


Current Fav's off the top of teh head (probably some repeats):

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Galaxie 500, Explosions in the Sky, DJ Shadow, Venetian Snares, Broken Social Scene, Bob Dylan, Elliot Smith, Hammock, Throwing Muses, Mogwai, Kristian Hersh, Six Organs of Admittance, Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice, Banheart, Sufjan Stevens, The Album Leaf, The Microphones, Belle And Sebastian, GY!BE, Luna, The Knife, Art Brut, The Mountain Goats, Of Montreal, The Specials, Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon, Kan Mikami, Boards of Canada, Fennesz, Yo La Tango, Explosions in the Sky, Dismemberment Plan, Silver Jews, Cocteau Twins, Bert Jansch, Brian Eno, Sonic Youth, Guided By Voices, Velvet Underground, Camper Van Beethoven, Cpt. Beefheart, Deerhoof, Nick Drake, etc etc.

[ALOR]

i have a rather broad taste in music

top 10 bands in no paticular order:
Mettalica
The Who
The Eagles
Lynard Skynard
REO Speedwagon
Clutch
White Zombie
The Moody Blues
Jonnie Cash
Queen

oddly my favorite song of all time is not done by any of these bands
Night Rangers "Sister Christian"

[Actana]

Lets see...

Ayreon
After Forever
Epica
Luca Turilli (and Dreamquest)
Hammerfall
Rhapsody of Fire
Royal Hunt
Skylark (Italian)
Thy Majestie

Thats all I remember now. I got many more, but I just can't remember all of them.

[Scorpina]

Flogging Molly, The Dresden Dolls, Within Temptation, Audioslave, Megadeth, The Black Mages, Stratovarius, Jack Off Jill...

[Mr Croup]

Well my favorite bands would be the following three, I just never seem to get tired of them:

Depeche Mode - been a fan since I saw the video for People Are People on MTV back in the 80's as a child. My absolute favorite.
VNV Nation - since I was introduced to VNV in the late 90's I've been a pretty devout fan.
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - a friend in high school introduced me to Mr. Costello's music, and I was instantly hooked. I like his solo work and his stuff with the Impostors, but the time with the Attractions was the best in my mind, I just like the aggro sound of his early work.

All that being said, I listen to a lot of different stuff, but those three are definitely the top of my list, as I never get tired of them. Other acts I'm fond of include The Pogues, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Soft Cell, And One, The Misfits, Kings of Convenience, Royksopp, The Whitest Boy Alive, Nick Cave, The Smiths.

[valadil]

Also, if you know any bands I might like that'd be great. :D

Since you like Jonathan Coulton and Talking Heads, I'm going to recommend Moxy Fruvous. Damn shame they're on permanent hiatus.

Anyway, here's a list of 10 bands I listen to all the damn time:
Blind Guardian, Great Big Sea, Pink Floyd, VNV Nation, Rush, Flogging Molly, Moxy Fruvous, Oingo Boingo, Two Siberians, and Jonathan Coulton.

http://www.last.fm/user/valadil/ for more.

[mause]

belle and sebastian
the dears
arcade fire
snow patrol
arctic monkeys
black rebel motorcycle club


does anyone shares my opinion of good bands?

[talsine]

VNV Nation - since I was introduced to VNV in the late 90's I've been a pretty devout fan.


I'm a pretty big fan of these guys too, though they are a little too synthy for my day to day rotation.

top 5, in no paticular order, are:
:wumpscut: - Rudy is a god of industrial

Velvet Acid Christ - as is Bryan,

3 Inches of Blood - i've been craving metal and they are better than 99% of the other Power Metal bands out there, Dragonforce, i'm looking at you

Funker Vogt - mmmm, dystopian war electro.

Combichrist - hell, anything by Andy LaPluega is amzing, but this also has Shaun F from Glis making it doubely awesome.

[The Vanishing Hitchhiker]

the Traveling Wilburys (as seen in my avatar)
the Beatles (George is my favorite...you may have already guessed this)
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and also just Tom Petty (You might have guessed this one too.)
They Might Be Giants (what?! that has nothing to do with the other bands at all! ...or does it?)
Cat Stevens (one day I woke up and had ten of his albums...course, Back to Earth is pretty meh, but I wouldn't know that without owning it.)

Then there's the ones I don't officially list as my favorites, but seem to have a suspicious amount of music by...Madonna, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Mark Knopfler/Dire Straits...

Then I've got bands where I like a few of their songs, but just can't stand the majority of their output: U2, Dave Matthews Band. I've bought two DMB CDs, only to find I only actually liked two or three songs on each one - well, fool me thrice, shame on me!

Then I've got a bunch of other random songs laying around my MP3 player from a bunch of other random artists, forming the vast majority of my music collection. I've got some Zero 7, Talking Heads, Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder, Beck, Lemon Demon, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nine Inch Nails, Groove Armada, Gorillaz...etc. etc.

But yeah. You can ignore everything after the first or possibly second paragraph, since this is a thread about favorite bands. Heh.

[Mr Croup]

I'm a fan of Funker Vogt as well. I think that one of the reasons that I like VNV so much is because of the synth pop influences in their stuff. I like a lot of industrial, and EBM, but there's no hiding that I'm a New Wave synth pop kid at heart.

[Dr._Weird]

Here's mine:

Rammstein
Oomph!
Cat Empire
Eels
System of a Down
Bloom.
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Apocalyptica

I like to keep the "Favorites" lists short and simple.

[Semidi]

I go through my music

Alice in Chains
Bauhaus
Black Sabbath
Christian Death
The Cure
David Bowie
Depeche Mode
Genitorturers
Iron Maiden
Jane's Addiction
Led Zeppelin
Ministry
Nine Inch Nails
Ozzy Osbourn (Pre-Rhoads death)
Queen
The Sisters of Mercy
Skinny Puppy
Tool

My requirements were:
I've listened to them for over two years.
I have most of their albums. (Christian Death doesn't count because they changed members so much)
I dig them.
I listen to them regularly.
If they came out with an album right now, I would buy it.
I would love to see them live.

Honorable Mentions:

The (Southern Death) Cult
Iggy Pop/Stooges
Judas Priest
Pink Floyd
The Smiths
Guns And Roses
Velvet Revolver
Motley Crue

Requirements:
I dig them.
I own an album.
I listen to them occassionally.

[Jacklu]

I only need one band.
Five Iron Frenzy.
I will never love another band...

[Vaynor]

You have a pretty good ear, so I think anything I call "good music" probably will appeal to you (or not, I'm wrong a lot). Some of these might be nothing like what you've listed...but finding stuff that sounds like other stuff...well where's the fun in that? :smallamused:

Heh, I'll take a look at a few of yours then.


I only need one band.
Five Iron Frenzy.
I will never love another band...

Hurrah!

[Sewer_Bandito]

This is a excellent list. It does however have one fatal flaw.

You don't have Suburban Legends. :smallwink:

You have every other good ska band except these guys. A few of their best songs if you want to check them out are Up All Night and Bright Spring Morning.

Also the old Catch 22 is good, they're pretty much the same band as Streetlight.

[Vaynor]

This is a excellent list. It does however have one fatal flaw.

You don't have Suburban Legends. :smallwink:

You have every other good ska band except these guys. A few of their best songs if you want to check them out are Up All Night and Bright Spring Morning.

Ooh, I just gave them a listen. Once I get more money I'll buy some...

[Evil_Pacifist]

Hmm. Since I listen mostly to classical type stuff, I don't have a very extensive list, nor have I heard of too many of those previously mentioned. Behold, sort of slightly a bit in a kind of order possibly similar (then again, maybe not!) to this one: Procol Harum, The Beatles, Blue Öyster Cult. The latter two I don't really consider myself a fan of, I just... Sort of like them. I don't even have any BÖC CDs...

[I'm da Rogue!]

I suppose I should just mention Last.fm (http://www.last.fm) for anyone who isn't already registered on there.

My top 20 from my page on there:

1 Marillion (Neo-Prog)
2 The Moody Blues (Progressive Rock)
3 The Alan Parsons Project (Progressive Rock)
4 Yes (Progressive Rock)
5 Asia (Rock)
6 Toto (Rock)
7 Philip Glass ("Minimalist"/Classical)
8 King Crimson (Progressive Rock)
9 Spock's Beard (Progressive Rock)
10 Ayreon (Progressive Metal)
11 Amon Tobin (Electronica)
12 Supertramp (Rock)
13 Rush (Progressive Rock)
14 Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Progressive Rock)
15 Dave Matthews Band (Alternative Rock)
16 Clannad (Celtic)
17 Camel (Progressive Rock)
18 Alan Parsons (Progressive Rock)
19 Frank Sinatra (Big Band/Swing)
20 Trans-Siberian Orchestra (Progressive Rock/Christmas)

That's a prog-rock fellow!
I love your list!!!!

[wadledo]

Coral Reefer Band,
that's it.
Only Music worth mentioning.
Well, and the London Symphony Orchestra, but technical that's not a band.

[Alyorbase]

some of my favs...



The Allman Brothers Band
Franz Ferdinand
Rage Against the Machine
My Chemical Romance
Seether
Green Day
Black Sabbath
Rammstein

There's more but I'm too lazy/doped up on sinus medicine to type them all in.:smallredface:

[drawingfreak]

While my taste in music is widespread (from jazz, to celtic, to rock, to classical...but never country or rap), it may be easier to just list the CDs recently played in my car.

Linkin Park- Minutes to Midnight is, by far, their greatest album yet. Their sound has changed a good bit in the best way possible.

Tenacious D- I love their movie soundtrack. I also love their other CD, but so far, the soundtrack has seen more play time recently.

Sick Puppies- Not too well known in the states yet, but this little Australian based band has been a recent addition to my collection. For those of you wondering, they play the song in the Free Hug Campaign video (http://www.freehugscampaign.org/).

Metallica- I mean...why not have this? Metallica is the godfather of rock. Not to mention their version of the Imperial March is friggin AWESOME.

[TheBoneSplitter]

If I had to list everything that has been my favorite, it'd take toooooo long. I'll just save myself the typing expanse and list the notables, three from each letter (and yes, it got pretty daunting, and I cheated on M just because, and I could have cheated on S):

Akercocke
Amorphis
Abbadon Incarnate
Behemoth
Blood Red Throne
Black Sabbath
Cannibal Corpse
Cryptopsy
Chimaira
Deftones
Decapitated
Deranged
Exhumed
Excommunion
Enochian Crescent
Fear Factory
The Faceless
Fear The Clown
Ghoul
Gigantic Brain
Gorerotted
Held Under
Hate
Hate Eternal
Immolation
Insision
Iron Maiden
Joe Satriani
Jungle Rot
Job for a Cowboy
Kataklysm
Korn (by a thread)
Karl Sanders
Lykathea Aflame
Lost Soul
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Mithras
Mucopus
Morbid Angel
Machine Head
Mastodon
Mushroomhead
My Dying Bride
Nevermore
Nile
Neglect
Opeth
Organ Harvest
Obituary
Pantera
Pink Floyd
Pestilence
Quo Vadis (HAHAHA)
Rompeprop
Resurrected
Red Harvest
Sanctuary
Suffocation
Slayer
Trauma
Total Devastation
Theatre of Tragedy
Vader
Vehemence
Vital Remains
Wasteform
Wormed
Zyklon

...and yes, I know some of the band names would make a few of us squeamish... I'm used to it.

[Catch]

This is a excellent list. It does however have one fatal flaw.

You don't have Suburban Legends. :smallwink:

You have every other good ska band except these guys. A few of their best songs if you want to check them out are Up All Night and Bright Spring Morning.

I'll second this emphatically. Never before has disco and ska been so awesome together.


Also the old Catch 22 is good, they're pretty much the same band as Streetlight.

Old Catch 22 as in Keasby Nights? Yes. Anything after Tom left just isn't the same caliber as the work done by Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution and Streetlight Manifesto. And having seen both post-Tom Catch 22 and Streetlight live, I have to say that the latter is far better.

[Penguinsushi]

why not - let's do this again. After all, i'm sure my fav's have changed since last time...

currently listening to a lot of:

The Decemberists
Mae
The Brobdingnagian Bards
Iron & Wine
Margot & the Nuclear So and So's
Matchbox 20
My Chemical Romance
Old 97's
Bright Eyes
They Might Be Giants

...there's a bit of variety in there...I don't shuffle my playlist...heh

~PS

[Otto-Sieve]

In no particular order:

The Beatles
Pink Floyd
Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Who
CCR
The Doors
Neil Young
Tom Petty
Rob Zombie
Queen


There's more, but i don't want to list them all. :smallwink:

[Kjata]

Linkin Park, Sinch, Fuel, Sublime, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.

[banjo1985]

Just a few of my absolute favourites:

Alkaline Trio
Coheed & Cambria
Bohica
36 Crazyfists

[Hoggy]

36CF! Winrar.

/me huggles 36CF t-shirt and hoddy and Cds and <3

[LCR]

Oasis
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
The Beatles
The Who
Sum 41
Velvet Underground
Jet
Wolfmother
Arctic Monkeys
Franz Ferdinand
Coldplay
The Shins
The Decemberists
Johnossi
Kasabian
Die Ärzte
The Fratellis
The Hives
Wir sind Helden

[black wagner]

Hootie & The Blowfish
Sister Hazel
KISS
The Beatles
The Eagles
The Dixie Chicks
Journey
Alice In Chains
Foriegner
ASIA
Survivor
The Bee Gees
The Black Crowes

[black wagner]

Haven't seen one of these in a while, so, list your favorite bands!


The Cars

Wilco

:D

A couple of favs I didnt mention.

[black wagner]

I'll only list a few

Judas Priest


Priest Rocks!!!

[Winterwind]

In no particular order:

Pink Floyd
King Crimson
In Flames
Blind Guardian
Demons&Wizards
Iron Maiden
Queen
The Police
Nightwish

[A Rainy Knight]

No particular order:

Queen
Smash Mouth
Puffy AmiYumi
Good Charlotte
The Last Goodnight

Smash Mouth is probably my absolute favorite.

[Danin]

Queen.

Ooh, sure, there are others like Hammerfall, Zepplin and Floid. Most classic rock is just fantastic, same with Jazz and some Metal. Still...

Queen.

[Sewer_Bandito]

I made my own!

90's Alt/Nostalgia trips
Third Eye Blind
Counting Crows
Sister Hazel
Hootie and the Blowfish
Eve 6
Barenaked Ladies

Celtic Rock/ Folk
Pubside Down (these guys write some sick violin riffs)
Flogging Molly

Reggae/Ska
311
Reel Big Fish
Suburban Legends
Catch 22/Streetlight
The Forces of Evil
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
The Planet Smashers
The Aquabats

I have no idea what to call these guys.
Forever the Sickest Kids

There's a bunch of other bands with one or two songs I like, but they're not worth mentioning.

[black wagner]

I made my own!

90's Alt/Nostalgia trips
Third Eye Blind
Counting Crows
Sister Hazel
Hootie and the Blowfish
Eve 6
Barenaked Ladies




All fantastic, love them all.
In the 90's vein, I should add to my list : TONIC, COLLECTIVE SOUL, BLUES TRAVELER, & TOAD THE WET SPROCKET

[B-Man]

B-Man's Favourite Bands (in no particular order):

Metallica
Megadeth
Mastodon
Bullet for My Valentine
Skyfire
Rhapsody (of Fire)
Blind Guardian
Demons & Wizards
Iced Earth
Dissection
Behemoth
Hibria
Savage Circus
Finger Eleven
Apocalyptica
Dream Theater
Liquid Tension Experiment
Ministry
Corrosion of Conformity
The Pillows
Kamelot
Motörhead
Orange Range
Nocturnal Rites
High and Mighty Color
nobodyknows+
Sonata Arctica
Static-X
Fear Factory
Slayer
War Machine

and many more... if I could make up my mind on a few others...

[Emrylon]

Ok I have a lot of fave bands so I'll just post a few

Thin Lizzy (seen live twice)
Red Hot Chilli Peppers ( seen live)
Lost Prophets (seen Live)
Breaking Benjamin
Muse
The Who
Steriophonics (sen live-prefer their older stuff)

Really got into Paramore lately as well

Thats only a few I really can't be bothered putting all my favourite bands down.