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post #1 of 28
11/17/10 at 6:39pm
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OK. Just curious...

What are your favorite bands, individuals, or what have you in music?

Mine?

Hawkwind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5_okG0HiOE&feature=related

Tangerine Dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vTd9-ICkMk

Oresund Space Collective
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oby0NkMivLohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oby0NkMivLo

These make Spring do the lying on his back and be very lovie dovie!!
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post #2 of 28
11/17/10 at 7:05pm
My music varies with my mood but mostly country, rock and hillbilly (native of Kentucky) and I love oldies and Elvis will always be the king and I am only 30, and really all kinds I learned how t walk listening to funky town and my dad is older so I learned all the classics and still like some of the new stuff. I have to watch listening to rock when driving it makes me drive too fast. And I even listen to bluegrass and love gospil music
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post #3 of 28
11/17/10 at 7:10pm
The Birthday Party, Nick Cave, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Grinderman
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post #4 of 28
11/17/10 at 7:38pm
I have quite a few.
Dream Theater
Liquid Tension Experiment
John Petrucci
Jordan Rudess
James LaBrie
Mullmuzzler
Megadeth
Metallica
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Coheed & Cambria
3
Queensryche
Symphony X
Paul Gilbert
Steve Vai
Satriani
Ayreon
Into Eternity
Mattias "IA" Eklundh
Opeth
Pantera
Ozzy
Stratavarius
Tenacious D

I could go on all day!
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post #5 of 28
11/17/10 at 7:57pm
I like a little bit of everything, and my itunes list will prove it. I don't like heavy metal and rap, though. I prefer adult alternative, but the radio station I listen to in my car is 'Top 100' b/c they got rid of the alternative station here. I also like 'pop'.
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post #6 of 28
11/17/10 at 7:58pm
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Originally Posted by TigerOnTheProwl View Post
I have quite a few.
Dream Theater
Liquid Tension Experiment
John Petrucci
Jordan Rudess
James LaBrie
Mullmuzzler
Megadeth
Metallica
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Coheed & Cambria
3
Queensryche
Symphony X
Paul Gilbert
Steve Vai
Satriani
Ayreon
Into Eternity
Mattias "IA" Eklundh
Opeth
Pantera
Ozzy
Stratavarius
Tenacious D

I could go on all day!
You would get along with my husband quite well. lol We couldn't be more different in our music. lol
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post #7 of 28
11/17/10 at 8:30pm
Oh, someone else who likes Hawkwind!

I'm not going to list bands.. it would be ridiculous and it often looks pretentious to make a huge list.

Genre wise I tend to gravitate towards prog rock, prog metal, and experimental/avant-garde, or bands that have worked that into their music. (sometimes the more out there they are the more I like them. )

If you're looking for anything interesting, trimph1, you should check out http://www.progarchives.com/ They do have a psychedelic/space rock section if you want to find some bands influenced by or similar to Hawkwind. I just wish I quit forgetting the name of a Swedish friend's brother's band... the name is in Swedish and they're very Hawkwind influenced. Quite good, too.
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post #8 of 28
11/17/10 at 8:46pm
Kitties and I love classical music, we listen all day to it, but me, I'm enamored with The Dave Matthews Band, we also love Peter Gabriel, Pink, Ani DiFranco
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post #9 of 28
11/17/10 at 9:12pm
And I forgot to mention not sure who sings most of the music on the first two Twilight movies but I loved the music on them and it seems different from my usuall but I tend to be one who just likes what they like always been that way today I have been bouncing around on 90's, 80's, and oldies, and country
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post #10 of 28
11/17/10 at 9:16pm
I listen to metal and hard rock. I also like classic rock. My two favorite bands are Iron Maiden and AC/DC. Not only is their music great, it also has a lot of energy, not to mention being fun to play on guitar.
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post #11 of 28
11/18/10 at 4:49am
I love music of all kinds except country and rap. But, the majority of music I listen to is Goth, Industrial, Darkwave, EBM and alternative 80's. I have a huge collection of music, I could listen to one CD per day and not be able to listen to all the CD's in a year. I even listen to classical music when in the mood
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post #12 of 28
11/18/10 at 5:10am
I'm a die-hard classic rock junkie. I love Aerosmith, AC/DC, and most of the groups from the 70s. Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple has always been my favorite song. However, I also enjoy listening to Billy Joel and love Gordon Lightfoot. Heart is a favorite group, too. I still listen to Judas Priest (I guess they're really more metallic rock?), the Alan Parsons Project, the Doors, etc.

I depise any kind of country music, probably because I grew up listening to my mother's records of Hank Williams, Jim Reeves, and the like. I realize that today's country music is nothing like what Mom listened to, but I can't get past it. Not fond of rap either.

My iPod has a varied list, simply because I listen when I'm walking or exercising and need to move fast....those songs will help me pick up the pace when I have to.

Whenever I'm spending the day baking at home, I always have music playing. DH calls me the Rockin' Baker. When I'm doing housework, I have music playing. The other cats are used to my music, but when we first got Mollipop, she wasn't quite sure what to do when she heard the music...she got used to it and she's fine now.

But classic rock will always be my favorite genre.
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post #13 of 28
11/18/10 at 8:39am
I love country gospel and bluegrass.
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post #14 of 28
11/18/10 at 1:20pm
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by strange_wings View Post
Oh, someone else who likes Hawkwind!

I'm not going to list bands.. it would be ridiculous and it often looks pretentious to make a huge list.

Genre wise I tend to gravitate towards prog rock, prog metal, and experimental/avant-garde, or bands that have worked that into their music. (sometimes the more out there they are the more I like them. )

If you're looking for anything interesting, trimph1, you should check out http://www.progarchives.com/ They do have a psychedelic/space rock section if you want to find some bands influenced by or similar to Hawkwind. I just wish I quit forgetting the name of a Swedish friend's brother's band... the name is in Swedish and they're very Hawkwind influenced. Quite good, too.
Sounds like a good band to catch!!

Some of my favorite sites for this are--

http://destination-out.com/
http://prognotfrog.blogspot.com/
http://japanunderground.blogspot.com/
http://krautrockgermanrock.blogspot.com/
http://tyme-machine.blogspot.com/

Does this tell you I spend way too much time surfin teh interwebz?

As you can see I've got scads of them!

I'm also part of an internet based band that has recently formed to perform an experimental, space rock, free jazz type of music---we are supposedly getting something together by next month--with any hope at all--
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post #15 of 28
11/18/10 at 1:22pm
I like most music. I love the Eagles, the Bee Gees and groups like that. I hate hard rock and never ever listen to it, to me it's horrible and makes no sense. Thank goodness the BF agrees with me. I also don't like Country music but I do have a couple of country singers I do like and can tolerate them. I mostly like oldies since that music will never die and to me is the best music ever.
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post #16 of 28
11/18/10 at 2:03pm
Let's see I love the 80s whether it's 80s CCM (Christian Music what I grew up with) or just regular Ole 80s pop/new wave. I also love some folk, country, big band, music from the 40s, 50s, 60s Motown, 70s CCM very little of it though (most of the music from the 70s I find pretty bad.) Heck even a tiny bit of old school rap is ok

Oh and I have a vast collection of Christmas music

I can't stand 99% of the music that's out today with a few exceptions. I think some of Pink's songs are great, some of Katy Perry's is ok...most of the stuff from 1995-to today is pretty awful in my opinion.


So I guess my musical taste is a bit eclectic.
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post #17 of 28
11/18/10 at 2:21pm
trimph1 - I already had those sites bookmarked. I'm surprised you listed the one for Japanese music, though. Most who listen to it do not listen to the old psychedelic/prog stuff (or the "group sounds" and folk that preceded it) and those who listen to prog usually skip Japan. Have you ever came across the one called Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll? There's a splintered off LiveJournal set up to preserve links and in memory of the guy that had the blogspot blog set up. Lots of good stuff and information. (I really don't want to link directly to download sites, so you'll have to look that up).

I don't know how eclectic of stuff you like, but there's some interesting Jazz and experimental stuff coming out of Norway. (Jazz is more popular over there and in Sweden than in the US) You could work your way though Rune Grammofon's artist (via listening on youtube) and probably find something neat. Though they're now on a different label and have taken a more metal influence, I really like Shining.
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post #18 of 28
11/18/10 at 2:31pm
Thread Starter 
Most of the Japanese stuff I got off of a couple of webblogs awhie back--recordings of Acid Mothers Temple, Toshinori Kondo, Merzbow, Otomo Yoshide...

As for the Norwegian free jazz zcene I have heard some stuff but not nearly as much as I would like. Most of the stuff I got here is from the German free jazz recordings...

Then, of course, we have a certain Japanese record label that has been putting out stuff from the local London scenesters: '63Monroe and Nihilist Spasm Band as well
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post #19 of 28
11/18/10 at 2:40pm
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Originally Posted by trimph1 View Post
Most of the Japanese stuff I got off of a couple of webblogs awhie back--recordings of Acid Mothers Temple, Toshinori Kondo, Merzbow, Otomo Yoshide...
Common stuff. I used to listen to a lot of Japanese music, and still listen to quite a bit. At one point I collected OOP music/demos and rare live clips. Of course to get this stuff off of Japanese collectors on open networks you have to ask politely for trades.. Then there's proper trade etiquette. The result, I had to learn some Japanese. (got out of trading, fell out of practice and have forgotten some of it now)
Add that to the individuals that I've met through the years, one which is fluent in Japanese, and I end up finding or being suggested some neat stuff. (I just wish a couple of them weren't such 70s and 80s idol J-pop fanatics...)
A good start is the Cities blog I suggested, though.

I'm not sure if they're mentioned on there but this band tends to be a favorite especially for how influential they were.
I also suggest, to anyone reading who like blues hard rock or proggy hard rock, to look up a band called Cosmos Factory. They have some catchy stuff that I think anyone who likes classic rock could get into.
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post #20 of 28
11/18/10 at 2:41pm
I mainly listen to black metal (like Burzum, Old Man's Child, Dark Funeral, Satanic Warmaster etc.) and some industrial (Turmion Kätilöt, Deathstars). I have a friend who plays in a folk metal band so I have been checking some of them out too lately. I used to listen lots of 'gothic' metal too, but after Cradle of Filth started to make horrible albums I kinda moved on..
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post #21 of 28
11/18/10 at 2:56pm
Tangerine Dream! Let's not talk about how dorkily excited I was when I saw that in the first post of this thread. Force Majeure will always be my favourite TD album and one of my favourite albums ever.

Some of my other favourites are Tegan and Sara, Mogwai, Fleetwood Mac, and Rush. I could seriously rave about T&S all day. I've had the privilege of talking to Sara through a CBC book chat and Tegan through Twitter and one of the fansites she works with. And with saying that, they're such hilarious, sweet people. Seriously, their shows could double as a comedy act.
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post #22 of 28
11/18/10 at 2:56pm
A lot of people complain about Dark Funeral and their kind of sameness musically. I don't mind them, though Broberg is out now. I was able to see them Halloween a few years ago in a really really tiny club.

I don't really listen to gothic metal, either, though there's a few bands that some tag into that category for some reason.. Like Eternal Tears of Sorrow.
One of the few I do like is Charon, there's something about JP's voice... Otherwise there's a lot of sameness in Finnish gothic metal/rock and just in the genre in general.
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post #23 of 28
11/18/10 at 3:18pm
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Originally Posted by strange_wings View Post
Otherwise there's a lot of sameness in Finnish gothic metal/rock and just in the genre in general.
Agreed. That's why I tend to like more the bands that are called 'gothic' just because of their lyrics but sound more like black or death metal. Graveworm and Evenfall (the first album, second was...not goog..) for example but some call them melodic black, I'm confused.
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post #24 of 28
11/18/10 at 3:36pm
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Agreed. That's why I tend to like more the bands that are called 'gothic' just because of their lyrics but sound more like black or death metal. Graveworm and Evenfall (the first album, second was...not goog..) for example but some call them melodic black, I'm confused.
I'd just put both bands in the "symphonic" category - I actually don't listen to too many bands that fall into that category. Which may seem odd because I do like keyboards, just not really mixed with black or death. Some can get away with it, though they sound better if they go the progressive direction. (or maybe it's just because I really like prog). I absolutely love bands like Solefald or Enslaved - and they definitely use keys properly. (even better when Nedland pulls out the hammond - which goes back to me like old prog and classic rock. lol)

I'm actually very annoyed that we can't afford to travel out of state and the tour Enslaved is on is skipping this state... though I'm not really a Dimmu Borgir fan...goes back to the not really being into symphonic black metal
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post #25 of 28
11/18/10 at 4:32pm
Mostly country and pop!
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post #26 of 28
11/18/10 at 5:31pm
I like anything that's catchy. Instead of genres, I am more into individual songs from a ridiculously wide spectrum. I like singles from Erasure, Shania Twain, the Bellamy Brothers, Donna Lewis, Sophie Hawkins, ABBA, Madonna, Sinead O'Connor, Enya, Eurythmics, Men Without Hats, Sugar Ray, etc.

Also individual Christian songs by Ginny Owens, Point of Grace, etc.

I can like an artist alot, but if they record a dud of a song, I will say it's a dud Madonna's made quite a few duds. .....And, on the flip side, I can have a general dislike or indifference toward an artist, but if they record something catchy, I will gladly listen. Examples: Kasabian, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Nada Surf, Weezer, Phil Collins, Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige
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post #27 of 28
11/18/10 at 6:36pm
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Originally Posted by c1atsite View Post
I like anything that's catchy.
Catchy has different meanings to different people though. NorthernGlow and I would find songs catchy that would probably send most people running out of a room. While prog fans idea of catchy would bore non-prog fans to sleep.

Talking to a friend online months ago and posted a link to him for Crack The Sky - Nuclear Apathy. I suggest you and others go look that song up on youtube (I can't paste the youtube link due to the language in the comments). That's my idea of a catchy song, as is this one (I wish Evans hadn't disappeared after Deep Purple sued him )
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post #28 of 28
11/19/10 at 3:35am
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I saw TD wwwaaaaaayy back in 1972--then seem them practically every other year since then Other bands I saw were Godflesh, Painkiller( the one with John Zorn), Peter Brotzmann's various ensembles, Entombed, Sex Pistols(when they started touring in the US), Hawkwind, Misfits, Acid Mothers Temple, Gong with Daevid Allen, Steve Hillage with Sector 7----too many to even type out

Yeah, some groups I did put out well naff pieces as well but the thing I like the most is that they go out on a limb--guys like Charles Gayle or Fred Anderson proved that every day.

One fellow that had me going was Borah Bergman. Doing twin leads with both left and right hands--both melody lines going opposite directions--or all over the place.

Another musician I just is Sun Ra. He had some stellar musicians in his bands/orchestras...
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