Aquabats, Audioslave, The Beatles, BEAT CRUSADERS, Beck, Blue Man Group, Bottom of the Hudson, Cake, Coheed and Cambria, David Bowie, Deaf Pedestrians, The Doors, Gnarls Barkley, Gorillaz, Green Day, Hellogoobye, Jethro Tull, Jimi Hendrix, Kid Galahad, The Killers, Led Zeppelin, Matchbox Twenty, MC Lars, Modest Mouse, Muse, The Pillows, Pink Floyd, Pixies, The Postal Service, The Protomen, Jun Senoue, Sonic Youth, Steely Dan, System of a Down, Talking Heads, Tapes n' Tapes, Tenacious D, They Might Be Giants, Tokyo Police Club, Weezer, Wierd Al Yankovic, The White Stripes, The Who.
I need to ask about The Protomen. Who has heard them? If you haven't, you should. Their album is a metal rock opera telling the story of Megaman. Go buy it.
Tallas: I've not yet picked up PoS's newest album. I am in fact behind on new albums that I must acquire; Cannibal Corpse, Slayer, Nile, Mastodon, and a few others all have albums that I have yet to get. I'll put that one on my list. The most recent thing I grabbed was the latest from Blind Guardian, which was quite excellent.
I think WhaleShark already defended his case quite well. But I'm gonna have to back him up on it. "-core" is being used for so much. Deathcore, grindcore, metalcore Mathcore (yes, fucking MATHcore). What the hell? Seriously, all the derivatives of metal you can get into really pisses me off. I fail to notice a difference between mathcore and metal that happens to be quasi-technical.
But that's just me. Personally, I'm the kinda guy that likes to keep stuff as simple as possible. IMO, rock is rock. There's harder and softer versions of rock, but it's all rock. I do give a special designation for metal, which is in the class of the hardest stuff I listen to (which is pussy compared to what some people listen to nowadays...Underoath is nothing compared to Behemoth...christ). Electronic music, to me, is generally always filed under "techno" (though I have been giving the nod to lyricless techno as "trance", despite that not being the 100% correct definition). Any japanese rock music is jrock.... So yeah, take my genres with a grain of salt, because almost everyone thinks I'm a dumbfuck for how I file music into genres.
Anyways, just because I haven't weighed in yet, here's my list.
Rock- Arctic Monkeys, Bowling for Soup (not really great music, but the funniest live show I've ever been to, and good music to listen to after you end a relationship), Beck, Rage Against the Machine, Wolfmother, Pink Floyd, Rush, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rolling Stones, some Escape the fate, Motion City Soundtrack, Muse, among others....
Jrock- Asian Kung Fu Generation, L'arc en ciel, Acid Android (breakoff group of L'arc), Asaki (yes, a band employed for DDR purposes, but it's awesome shit...actually, it's kinda generic Visual-kei jrock, but I like generic visual kei jrock), Antic Cafe, Des-Row, Luna Sea, Maximum the Hormone, maybe a few others
Techno- ok, so honestly, I mainly listen to stuff from DDR, ITG, and Dancemania...but other stuff in general would be e-rotic (which is on DDR anyways...), Daft Punk, DM Ashura (ok, so he has a song in DDR Ultramix, but his one and only CD so far is excellent), and Kyle Ward (who does music for ITG, but his longer versions of said ITG songs and his non-ITG songs are also awesome).
Rap- stuff from Samurai Champloo, Run DMC, some other old school stuff.
Honestly, lately I've been caring less about what bands I listen to and more on just what genre I'm listening to. Hence, I'm turning to radio stations ('net radio and FM radio) a lot more than I used to. Two genres I've really been getting into lately are techno and classic rock. Most modern rock stations are shit, at least up here in Cleveland.
Exhibit A( of many): Destroyer Radiohead Aesop Rock Daft Punk The Flaming Lips The Shins The New Pornographers Ratatat Sea Wolf The Mars Volta Wilco Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin Tettix
Not including the basic older rock like Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, The Beatles, AC/DC, etc. Those were a stage in my musical development after the classical stage. Has anyone else noticed this kind of process or am I just an anomaly?
Also, rap isn't the mass produced shit, because that is just as valuable as the churned out pop songs by this kids who...rrrrrrgh, it angers me. It's about the rap thats lyrics with a beat not a beat with lyrics, abstract stuff, ideas.
I made a big old list of my favorite albums of all time for a friend, but here are some highlights:
Animal Collective (noise, folk): -Strawberry Jam
Arcade Fire (pop, experimental) -Neon Bible -Funeral
Battles (experimental): -Mirrored
The Beatles (pop, experimental): -Revolver
DJ Shadow (hip-hop, electronica, experimental): -Endtroducing....
Godspeed You! Black Emperor (post-rock, minimalist): -Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Gorillaz (pop, hip-hop, experimental): -Demon Days
King Crimson (progressive rock): -In the Court of the Crimson King
Madvillain (hip-hop): -Madvillainy
Modest Mouse (pop, experimental, noise): -We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Neutral Milk Hotel (folk, experimental): -In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
The New Pornographers (pop): -Electric Version
The Olivia Tremor Control (pop, experimental, noise): -Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle -Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One
Panda Bear (experimental, chant): -Person Pitch
Pavement (noise, pop): -Slanted & Enchanted
Pink Floyd (experimental, pop): -The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Pixies (rock): -Doolittle
Queen (art rock): -A Night at the Opera
Radiohead (pop, electronica, experimental): -In Rainbows -Kid A
No Doubt Mindless Self Indulgence Tom Smith Slayer Machinae Supremacy No means No Andrew W.K. MC Lars Gorillaz Daft Punk Possible Oscar M-flo Maximum the Hormone Larc en Ciel Basement Jaxx Dragonforce
and many many many many anime music and assorted song and techno. That's all I could think of from the top of my head. They almost always have a place on my PSP.
MY Bloody Valentine Jesus and Mary Chain Led Zeppelin Jimi Hendrix Arcade Fire The Cranberries Cocteau Twins Black Flag Bjork The Buzzcocks Dinosaur Jr. Sonic Youth Massive Attack Portishead The Replacements PJ Harvey Nirvana and so much more that i haven't even purchased yet!!!
Beck, They Might Be Giants, TV on the Radio, Tokyo Police Club, Gorillaz, Freezepop, The Beatles, Pixies, The Aquabats, Apollo 440, Coldplay, Daft Punk, Gnarls Barkley, The Killers, R.E.M., Talking Heads, The Who. Sail, you and I should be friends.
Beck, They Might Be Giants, TV on the Radio, Tokyo Police Club, Gorillaz, Freezepop, The Beatles, Pixies, The Aquabats, Apollo 440, Coldplay, Daft Punk, Gnarls Barkley, The Killers, R.E.M., Talking Heads, The Who. Sail, you and I should be friends.
I was about to say that before I finished reading the post XD
"Weird Al" Yankovich, Alestorm, Allan Sherman, An Endless Sporadic, Apocalyptica, Apollo 440, Basshunter, Billy Joel, C+C Music Factory, Chris Clark, Coldplay, Daft Punk, Deadmau5, Depeche Mode, Disturbed, Dream Theater, Evol Intent, Flogging Molly, Frou Frou, Imogen Heap, Inhale, Justice, Lemon Demon, Machinae Supremacy, MC Chris, MC Frontalot, Mindless Self Indulgence, MSTRKRFT, Muse, Powerglove, Prototype, Psychostick, Queens of the Stone Age, Rammstein, Robert Miles, Slayer, Snow Patrol, The Knife, The Tubes, They Might Be Giants, Tom Lehrer, Vitamin String Quartet, Voltaire, Wolfmother and Yoko Kanno.
Those are the artists that I frequently listen to.
Some of the stuff I listen to: Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Black Flag, The Clash, Iced Earth, Mad Season, Meat Puppets, The Melvins, Mudhoney, Black Sabbath, Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine, The Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Velvet Underground, Cradle of Filth
Moslty grunge and metalish with some rock. I like other genres(rap, j-pop, euro rock, etc), but I don't usually go out of my way to listen to them.
Wow... my taste in music has really changed in the almost 3 years it's been since I posted this. I need to make a new post or update or something.
Straight from Facebook: Queen, Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Muse, Tenacious D, The Beatles, Blue Man Group, Elvis Presley, Blue Oyster Cult, Iron Maiden, Heart, Priestess, Boston, Micheal Giacchino, Stephen Lynch, Jonathan Coulton, Judas Priest, Deep Purple, Freezepop, The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Foreigner, MC Frontalot, Tool, Mastodon, Animal Collective, Devin Townsend, Coheed & Cambria, Slayer, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Van Halen, Styx, The Police, Daft Punk, AC/DC, and They Might Be Giants.
I now listen to metal nearly to the exclusion of all other forms of music. Notable exceptions are Nick Cave and Tom Waits, but almost everything else I regularly pursue is metal in some form. I've gotten into more black metal and experimental metal as of late: Krallice is a notable example in that direction. I do need to find some new stuff, though; my current rotation is getting a bit tired.
Straight from iTunes: abingdon boys school, Armcannon, Barenaked Ladies, The Black Mages, Ellegarden, Hyadain, JAM Project, John Williams, L'Arc~En~Ciel, Nobuo Uematsu, Shouko Nakagawa, O-Zone, the pillows, Pine*Am, Queen, REDALiCE, Rhapsody of Fire, The Rippingtons, Russ Freeman, The Seatbelts (and Yoko Kanno in general), T.M.Revolution, Taku Iwasaki, TVXQ, VAMPS, Vic Mignogna, 30 Seconds to Mars
And a lot more that are unknown, or that don't have a lot of songs so I skipped over them.
Abe Vigoda, Animal Collective, Bomb the Music Industry!, Blackblack, John Cage, Coheed And Cambria, The Hold Steady, Mastodon, Mika Miko, No Age, Of Montreal, Panda Bear, Pocahaunted, The Residents, Robedoor, Streetlight Manifesto, Sun Araw, They Might Be Giants, Wavves
I recently found out how much I like these guys. And by these guys, I mean Welcome Home and A Favor House Atlantic. I don't really know where to go from there. What should I listen to next?
I recently found out how much I like these guys. And by these guys, I meanWelcome HomeandA Favor House Atlantic. I don't really know where to go from there. What should I listen to next?
Pretty much all of Second Stage Turbine and In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
I recently found out how much I like these guys. And by these guys, I meanWelcome HomeandA Favor House Atlantic. I don't really know where to go from there. What should I listen to next?
If you want some more single songs to check out, look below. As far as albums go, I'd work your way chronologically through them. While Second Stage Turbine Blade and No World For Tomorrow are my favorites, A Favor House Atlantic is from In Keeping Secrets... and Welcome Home is from Good Apollo.... All the albums are great, so it doesn't matter much where you start. I listed these songs chronologically as well, so maybe that will help you too.
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Aquabats, Audioslave, The Beatles, BEAT CRUSADERS, Beck, Blue Man Group, Bottom of the Hudson, Cake, Coheed and Cambria, David Bowie, Deaf Pedestrians, The Doors, Gnarls Barkley, Gorillaz, Green Day, Hellogoobye, Jethro Tull, Jimi Hendrix, Kid Galahad, The Killers, Led Zeppelin, Matchbox Twenty, MC Lars, Modest Mouse, Muse, The Pillows, Pink Floyd, Pixies, The Postal Service, The Protomen, Jun Senoue, Sonic Youth, Steely Dan, System of a Down, Talking Heads, Tapes n' Tapes, Tenacious D, They Might Be Giants, Tokyo Police Club, Weezer, Wierd Al Yankovic, The White Stripes, The Who.
I need to ask about The Protomen. Who has heard them? If you haven't, you should. Their album is a metal rock opera telling the story of Megaman. Go buy it.
By the way, why isn't there a music category?
But that's just me. Personally, I'm the kinda guy that likes to keep stuff as simple as possible. IMO, rock is rock. There's harder and softer versions of rock, but it's all rock. I do give a special designation for metal, which is in the class of the hardest stuff I listen to (which is pussy compared to what some people listen to nowadays...Underoath is nothing compared to Behemoth...christ). Electronic music, to me, is generally always filed under "techno" (though I have been giving the nod to lyricless techno as "trance", despite that not being the 100% correct definition). Any japanese rock music is jrock....
So yeah, take my genres with a grain of salt, because almost everyone thinks I'm a dumbfuck for how I file music into genres.
Anyways, just because I haven't weighed in yet, here's my list.
Rock- Arctic Monkeys, Bowling for Soup (not really great music, but the funniest live show I've ever been to, and good music to listen to after you end a relationship), Beck, Rage Against the Machine, Wolfmother, Pink Floyd, Rush, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rolling Stones, some Escape the fate, Motion City Soundtrack, Muse, among others....
Jrock- Asian Kung Fu Generation, L'arc en ciel, Acid Android (breakoff group of L'arc), Asaki (yes, a band employed for DDR purposes, but it's awesome shit...actually, it's kinda generic Visual-kei jrock, but I like generic visual kei jrock), Antic Cafe, Des-Row, Luna Sea, Maximum the Hormone, maybe a few others
Techno- ok, so honestly, I mainly listen to stuff from DDR, ITG, and Dancemania...but other stuff in general would be e-rotic (which is on DDR anyways...), Daft Punk, DM Ashura (ok, so he has a song in DDR Ultramix, but his one and only CD so far is excellent), and Kyle Ward (who does music for ITG, but his longer versions of said ITG songs and his non-ITG songs are also awesome).
Rap- stuff from Samurai Champloo, Run DMC, some other old school stuff.
Honestly, lately I've been caring less about what bands I listen to and more on just what genre I'm listening to. Hence, I'm turning to radio stations ('net radio and FM radio) a lot more than I used to. Two genres I've really been getting into lately are techno and classic rock. Most modern rock stations are shit, at least up here in Cleveland.
Destroyer
Radiohead
Aesop Rock
Daft Punk
The Flaming Lips
The Shins
The New Pornographers
Ratatat
Sea Wolf
The Mars Volta
Wilco
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
Tettix
Not including the basic older rock like Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, The Beatles, AC/DC, etc. Those were a stage in my musical development after the classical stage. Has anyone else noticed this kind of process or am I just an anomaly?
Also, rap isn't the mass produced shit, because that is just as valuable as the churned out pop songs by this kids who...rrrrrrgh, it angers me. It's about the rap thats lyrics with a beat not a beat with lyrics, abstract stuff, ideas.
Animal Collective (noise, folk):
-Strawberry Jam
Arcade Fire (pop, experimental)
-Neon Bible
-Funeral
Battles (experimental):
-Mirrored
The Beatles (pop, experimental):
-Revolver
DJ Shadow (hip-hop, electronica, experimental):
-Endtroducing....
Godspeed You! Black Emperor (post-rock, minimalist):
-Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Gorillaz (pop, hip-hop, experimental):
-Demon Days
King Crimson (progressive rock):
-In the Court of the Crimson King
Madvillain (hip-hop):
-Madvillainy
Modest Mouse (pop, experimental, noise):
-We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Neutral Milk Hotel (folk, experimental):
-In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
The New Pornographers (pop):
-Electric Version
The Olivia Tremor Control (pop, experimental, noise):
-Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle
-Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One
Panda Bear (experimental, chant):
-Person Pitch
Pavement (noise, pop):
-Slanted & Enchanted
Pink Floyd (experimental, pop):
-The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Pixies (rock):
-Doolittle
Queen (art rock):
-A Night at the Opera
Radiohead (pop, electronica, experimental):
-In Rainbows
-Kid A
Sigur Ros (minimalist, post-rock, experimental):
-Agaetis Byrjun
-Takk...
TV on the Radio (noise, experimental):
-Return to Cookie Mountain
The Unicorns (experimental, pop):
-Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
The Velvet Underground (experimental, noise):
-The Velvet Underground & Nico
-White Light/White Heat
Venetian Snares (electronica, experimental, orchestral):
-Rossz Csillag Alatt Született
No Doubt
Mindless Self Indulgence
Tom Smith
Slayer
Machinae Supremacy
No means No
Andrew W.K.
MC Lars
Gorillaz
Daft Punk
Possible Oscar
M-flo
Maximum the Hormone
Larc en Ciel
Basement Jaxx
Dragonforce
and many many many many anime music and assorted song and techno. That's all I could think of from the top of my head. They almost always have a place on my PSP.
Jesus and Mary Chain
Led Zeppelin
Jimi Hendrix
Arcade Fire
The Cranberries
Cocteau Twins
Black Flag
Bjork
The Buzzcocks
Dinosaur Jr.
Sonic Youth
Massive Attack
Portishead
The Replacements
PJ Harvey
Nirvana
and so much more that i haven't even purchased yet!!!
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Sail, you and I should be friends.
"Weird Al" Yankovich, Alestorm, Allan Sherman, An Endless Sporadic, Apocalyptica, Apollo 440, Basshunter, Billy Joel, C+C Music Factory, Chris Clark, Coldplay, Daft Punk, Deadmau5, Depeche Mode, Disturbed, Dream Theater, Evol Intent, Flogging Molly, Frou Frou, Imogen Heap, Inhale, Justice, Lemon Demon, Machinae Supremacy, MC Chris, MC Frontalot, Mindless Self Indulgence, MSTRKRFT, Muse, Powerglove, Prototype, Psychostick, Queens of the Stone Age, Rammstein, Robert Miles, Slayer, Snow Patrol, The Knife, The Tubes, They Might Be Giants, Tom Lehrer, Vitamin String Quartet, Voltaire, Wolfmother and Yoko Kanno.
Those are the artists that I frequently listen to.
Just made my first 8Tracks playlist. It's basically what I've been listening to for the last few months.
Chill out!
Tracklist:
abingdon boys school, Armcannon, Barenaked Ladies, The Black Mages, Ellegarden, Hyadain, JAM Project, John Williams, L'Arc~En~Ciel, Nobuo Uematsu, Shouko Nakagawa, O-Zone, the pillows, Pine*Am, Queen, REDALiCE, Rhapsody of Fire, The Rippingtons, Russ Freeman, The Seatbelts (and Yoko Kanno in general), T.M.Revolution, Taku Iwasaki, TVXQ, VAMPS, Vic Mignogna, 30 Seconds to Mars
And a lot more that are unknown, or that don't have a lot of songs so I skipped over them.
Abe Vigoda, Animal Collective, Bomb the Music Industry!, Blackblack, John Cage, Coheed And Cambria, The Hold Steady, Mastodon, Mika Miko, No Age, Of Montreal, Panda Bear, Pocahaunted, The Residents, Robedoor, Streetlight Manifesto, Sun Araw, They Might Be Giants, Wavves
My Facebook section is divided by genre and is a massive list of stuff...Maybe one day I'll sum it up here.
And a nice acoustic one to finish it off: