What is your favorite band?

POSTED BY: strokingmypeter
UPDATED: Tuesday, April 4, 2006 01:52
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DESKTOPHIPPIE

Tuesday, March 28, 2006 12:23 PM

We have lots of things! Like ... rain! And ... sheep! And ... boybands! And ... we've won the Eurovision way more than any other country! And ... and ... give me a minute ... I'll think of something ...

GIXXER

Tuesday, March 28, 2006 1:36 PM

Alabama 3 (or A3, to you people driving on the wrong side of the road) - Country Acid House Gospel

Area 54 - Metal. Really good. Bangtastic drumming and bass is awesome, and the twin lead guitars are totally shattering.

Robert Gordon

John Cale. It was he who sang Hallelujah on the soundtrack (not the CD) of Shrek, and although it's been sung by everyone and their dog, his incredibly sparse version is the best, and most overlooked. I don't like the Jeff Buckley wesion everyone raves about. It just bothers me.

Roxy Music - Rowdy early stuff. Not the bland later pap.

Eno - again early loud stuff. Get 801 Live. Bill McCormack's bass even (and this is not meant to detract) exceeds Laura's work in Area 54.

Rufus Wainwright, I'd literally kill to see a recording of a gig he did in Sydney. Chris Spedding was playing the guitar. Can't get better than that.

Roy Harper - HQ. More rocky than his usual folky stuff, which is every bit as good. The Band list is slightly awe-inspiring, with the likes of John Paul Jones, Bill Bruford, Dave Gilmour.

"...Dave couldn't nail down The Game's frenzied final section. After two or three shots, Gilmour gave up" Harper says, "...Spedding arrived in a white suit, a red carnation in his lapel, shades and carrying a tiny amp. So we played the tape, he says, 'Okay, play it again.' I started to laugh halfway through, because he completely understood the spirit, the whole thing. Within 20 minutes, he was packing up and walking out again..."

BDGH.

Northern Soul.

Benny Goodman.

The Black Dyke Mills Band.

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra doing anything whatsoever.

Anything else really. Probably easier if I say what I don't like. Doodly self-absorbed jazz. Anything dull, gloomy or otherwise not fun.

Modern R'n'B. Nyyaheeeahya-ya-ya-hooo-yeaahhh. Good grief. I know the effect you're aiming for, but go and listen to Otis Redding again and sort yourselves out.

Dance music. I don't get that at all. Noisy repetitive crap. I refer m'learned friends to A3 at the top. They do Dance Music, and it is absolutely wondrous.

Girl Bands. Usually terrible. Boy Bands. Not the sort of work a bloke should be doing, especially if the choreography is more complex than the song.

Singers without any kind of distictive sound to their voices. Blondie, you knew who it was, now you can't tell them apart, except by the song itself.

G

...Bloody kids...in my day...(grumble, mutter)...National Service...Can I have another biscuit, nurse?...

JONUS

Tuesday, March 28, 2006 2:01 PM

1. Silverchair (My favorite. A great Aussie band. They started out as grunge but grew up and now their stuff is amazing. Best albums: 'Neon Ballroom' and 'Diorama')

2. Stabbing Westward (Now broken up. A great industrial rock/metal band. Like Nine Inch Nails but heavier. Best albums: 'Wither Blister Burn & Peel' and 'Darkest Days' <- my favorite of theirs)

3. Nine Inch Nails (Releases an album only every 5 years but ends up being worth the wait. Best albums: 'The Fragile' and 'With Teeth'.

4. System of a Down (Need I say more?)

5. AFI (A great goth/rock/punk band. Their earlier stuff is too punky but their album 'Sing the Sorrow' is a masterpiece. My Chemical Romance is just copying them.)

6. Evanescence (Some great songs. They don't perform well live. Amy Lee is gorgeous.)

I also like a lot of 80's stuff but there's so many good bands and songs that I can't pick a favorite. For the most part I hate today's music. Most everything lacks originality.

FLYWITHMECAPTN

Tuesday, March 28, 2006 2:12 PM

Quote:
My favorite band is Led Zeppelin!!!!!! Jimmy Page is so freaking awesome.

Zepplin dude *Highfives SMP*

Let's see this could be a long list.
BTW, how old are you to enjoy Zepplin,,,,,,OK, I'll let that go....anyway;

Van Halen with Sammy
Def Leppard
Pink Floyd
Tull
Aerosmith
Journey
Phil Collins
AC/DC
Black Sabbath
BTO
America
Boston
Steve Miller
Marshall Tucker

Oh and Rush.........All time favorite.....just 3 guys,,,,,rocked, kicked a___--Neil Peart could band the drum!!!!

Sorry, shall I go on?
hehehe

"Don't forget to call him "Sir." He likes that."

DUG

Tuesday, March 28, 2006 2:22 PM

Current fave: Old Blind Dogs.

All time fave: Silly Wizard.

I have more trouble answering the question of favorite bagpiper. Either Ianne MacInnes or Dougie Pincock.

CARTOON

Tuesday, March 28, 2006 2:53 PM

Led Zeppelin, hands down. No one matched Page on guitar -- no one.

And, it was the Beatles who got me into contemporary music (I played bass in a band in the late 70's/early 80's, and now play at church -- as well as an occasional party with my old rock jamming friends). No one wrote songs like Lennon & McCartney.

I also thoroughly enjoyed The Who, The Yardbirds, and (the very early) Rolling Stones.

But as far as rock goes, no one can stand on the same stage with Led Zeppelin (at least from 1968 through the mid-1970's). (When I saw Page on TV in the early 80's playing at some benefit concert, he was horrible. But in his prime, no one could touch him -- even Hendrix.)(And as a bassist, I can't ignore John Paul Jones, either. Any group with a single guitar player has to have a killer bassist, and Jones was certainly one of those.)

RHODRI

Tuesday, March 28, 2006 3:39 PM

I've been a Genesis fan since about 1984 when I got into music. What appealed were the long epic tracks that were journeys in music, typical of prog-rock. Unless the track was longer than 5 minutes it didn't count! I'm just miffed that I never got to see a live gig!

On the sexy accent note - I'm a Welshman with a sexy soft gentle accent!

ZORPRIME01

Tuesday, March 28, 2006 3:44 PM

A lot of good bands listed above already. Here are just a few of mine...

The Shins
XTC
Death Cab For Cutie
Rogue Wave
Aberfeldy
The Beatles

And if you want to support a fellow Firefly-friendly musician, check out these bands:

The Shake Ups (indie guitar pop)
http://myspace.com/theshakeups
http://theshakeups.com

The Madeira (high energy instrumental surf)
http://myspace.com/themadeira
http://surfguitar101.com/TheMadeira

Destination: Earth! (sci-fi influenced rock)
http://destinationearth.htmlplanet.com

If wishes were horses, we'd all be eatin' steak.

COPILOT

Tuesday, March 28, 2006 4:27 PM

You pretened sp? (oh god it's early) to be a british guy named Rupuert? That is the funniest thing I've ever heard! Sometimes when I get board I pretend to be southern and see who notices.

An I carried such a torch

STILLTHEREWAITING

Tuesday, March 28, 2006 4:37 PM

Only one band earns the title of THE Band, and that, of course is, The Band. Levon Helms and Robbie Robertson. What else needs to be said.

Beyond that, I've always been partial to Procol Harum. The classical influence in Repent Walpurgis is outstanding with Gary Brooker on piano and Matthew Fisher on organ.

I saw Procol Harum live in Toronto in '68, I believe, and it was the most amazing concert I'd ever seen. It was outdoors, Beggars Banquet, and the audience was totally silent for their entire set. After the first number Brooker looked up, heard nothing, shrugged and continued the concert. At the end of the set they were half way off the stage when the audience erupted. Their music was that entrancing. You felt it to your core. They then went into their encores, and the concert had to be eventually called because it was now about 2:00 am on a Sunday morning in a fairly residential area.

Even Douglas Adams (HHGttG) played in concert with them once.

Laugh while you can, monkey-boy.

If I were you, I'd run!
If you were me, you'd be good-looking

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