Topic awaiting preservation: Favorite Bands?

Lets see, the title is pretty self-explanitory. I want to know what your favorite bands, and CD's by that bands are. I seem to be in a music (listening) rut right now, but I'll list some of my favorites to start this off:

311 - Soundsystem, Evolver
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication, BloodSugarSexMagik
The Cure - Disintegration, Bloodflowers
Sublime - Robbin' the Hood, Sublime (self titled, and much more "mass-marketed," but still great)
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf (A breath of fresh air)
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Nirvana - In Utero, Nevermind
Dave Matthews Band - Under the Table and Dreaming
Barenaked Ladies - Stunt
A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms, Thirteenth Step
TOOL - Lateralus, Undertow (I really couldn't stand Aenima *dodges flying produce*)
Rob Dougan - Furious Angels
The Beatles - The White Album, Magical Mystery Tour
Dredg - Leitmotif
Eric Clapton - The Cream of Clapton
Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses

That's about all I can think of now, anyways: Lets hear yours.


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The Whitlams - Eternal Nightcap, Love This City and Torch The Moon...three of the best albums produced in australia in a long time...

red hot chilli peppers - californication
red hot chilli peppers - by the way
jon bon jovi - keep the faith
coldplay - a rush of blood to the head
system of a down - toxicity
staind - break the cycle
jon bon jovi - crush
jon bon jovi - bounce
weezer - the green album
creed - Weathered

Muse - Origin of Symmetry, Absoloution
Weezer - Blue Album, Pinkerton
Less than Jake - Hello Rockview, Anthem
Rammstein - Mutter
KoRn - Follow The Leader
Foo Fighters - The shape and the colour, One by One
RHCP - Californication, Blood Suger Sex Magik

deja voodoo - today, tomorrow, timaru
deja voodoo - we are deja voodoo (we rock more than you do)

A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms, Thirteenth Step
T00l - Lateralus, AENIMA, Undertow
The Beatles -#1
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication, By The Way
Radiohead - All of them
Nada Surf - All of them
Queens of the Stone Age - All of them
Deftones- White Pony
Muse - All of them
Nirvana.....mebbe there are a few more....

Metallica
Dream Theater
Iron Maiden
Random Orchestra Music
Random Metal
Guilty Gear XX soundtrack
Rammstein


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Depeche Mode - Violator, Ultra, Songs of Faith and Devotion
U2 - Joshua Tree, Rattle and Hum
Guano Apes - Proud Like a God
Filter - Title of Record
Faithless - Outrospective
Moby - Play
Smashing Pumpkins - Meloncholy and the Infinite Sadness, Machina: The Machines of God, Siasmese Dream
Rober Miles - Dreamland, 23am
Ours - Distorted Lulabys
Tim Malloys - Drunkards, Bastards and Blackguards
Queensryche - Empire, Operation Mindcrime

Not sure I have faves but I listen to these ones fairly often while driving

The Tear Garden - Last Man to Fly
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 1&2
Infected Mushroom - any
Rory Gallagher - any
Masters of Reality - Sunrise on the Sufferbus

Also Like Tori Amos a lot, Korn, Morphine too. I like old blues on Saturdays.

Amerasu

Aterciopelados - Almost everything by them
Elastica - The menace
King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King
Minibosses - Umm, not sure if they have an album, i got all i have of them from their site
Molotov - Apocalypshit, Donde jugaran las niñas.
Opeth - Deliverance, Still Life
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster - Horse of the Dog
Tool - Lateralus, Aenima

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In no specific order, except that Tool is by far the best band:

Tool - all albums are great, but Aenima is my favourite one
A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms and Thirtheenth Step
Madrugada - Nightly Disease
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall
Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
Radiohead - Kid A and Hail to the Thief

Other great bands that I can't remeber any album titles of:
Opeth
Muse
Eels


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Dredg - Leitmotif, El Cielo
A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms, Thirteenth Step
Godspeed You Black Emporer - Yanqui u.x.o, all albums are pretty good
Blood Has Been Shed - Spirals
Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing
Brand New - Deja Entendu
Beloved - Failure On
Deftones - Deftones, Around the Fur, White Pony
Hopesfall - Satellite Years
Swift - A Communication Manual
Every Time I Die - Hot Damn!
Radiohead - Hail to the Theif, OK Computer
Hatebreed - Perserverance
Incubus - Science, Fungus Amongus
Codeseven - The Rescue
Tool - Aenima, Lateralus, Undertow, Opiate
311 - Evolver, Music, "the blue album", Soundsystem, Grassroots
Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute, All You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence
Meshuggah - Chaosphere, Nothing
Poison the Well - The Opposite of December (scratched ), You Come Before You, Tear From The Red
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar (all his other albums i dont really like)
Sigur Ros - ()
Candiria - 300 percent Density, The COMA Imprint
School For Heroes - Listen
Coheed and Cambria - Second Stage Turbine Blade

sooo many more... too lazy to name

edit: Honorable Mention:

Converge - Jane Doe, Petitioning The Empty Sky
Zao - Alive is Dead
Norma Jean - Bless the Martyr, Kiss the Child
36 Crazyfists - Bitterness the Star
Anah Aevia - Anah Aevia
Shadows Fall - The Art of Balance




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In no particular order...

TOOL - All of them (can't deny a single one).
APC - Mer De Noms, thirteenth step fucking sucked.
Metallica - Ride The Lightning, Master of Puppets, Black Album, And Justice For All.
Smashing Pumpkins - Melloncollie.
Nine Inch Nails - (weeew, long list here) Pretty Hate Machine, Sin, Broken, The Downward Sprial, Purest Feeling, The Fragile, And All That Could Have Been.
Opeth - All of them... definitely can't deny those either.
Ozzy/Sabbath - Blizzard of Oz, Black Sabbath, Sabbath Bloody Zabbath, Bark at the Moon
Deftones - Around the Fur, White Pony
Led Zepplin - All of course! Especially volumes 1-5.
Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe.

BLASPHEMER! *stabs Insider*

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Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar (all his other albums i dont really like)

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Bah, Smell like children and Mechannical Animals were equally good.

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Silverchair
Blue October
Incubus
Nirvana
Brand New
Bright Eyes
Prodigy
Finch
Metallica
Godsmack

The top 5 are definately my favorite.

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BLASPHEMER! *stabs Insider*

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If you're referring to that APC comment, then you should be stabbed... All you die hard TOOL/APC fans gave Maynard too much credit and decided to let that blind you from your real opinion on the album. I don't know, maybe you did like Thirteenth Step, but I thought it sucked.

do you also think that songs like blue, pet, the outsider and weak and powerless suck?

While I don't actually have a favourite album, I do like the following:

Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues

Rock On - David Essex

Simply Irresistable - Robert Palmer

Millenium - Robbie Williams

Cats in the Cradle - Cat Stevens

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

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do you also think that songs like blue, pet, the outsider and weak and powerless suck?

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Pet was the only one that I really liked on that CD.

IMO Mechanical Animals is a great MM album.

My favorite Song on the new APC album is EASILY "The Noose." The lyrics on this cd are beyond compare to Mer De Noms: More thought provoking and more beautiful. I dont think its possible to quantify APC to Tool. They're 2 different bands, so saying that just because i'm a hardcore Tool fan that i shouldn't like the new APC is BS. Some of the songs on this cd give me goosebumps every time i listen to it. I guess thats just me.

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so saying that just because i'm a hardcore Tool fan that i shouldn't like the new APC is BS.

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Where did I say that?

"All you die hard TOOL/APC fans gave Maynard too much credit and decided to let that blind you from your real opinion on the album."

Right there? I'd appreciate you not telling me what my real feelings on this album are? kthnx.

So where did I say that you shouldn't like it? Right... Anyway. It's pretty pointless to argue over.

Anything Maynard does is gold. End of story.

-S

Hey twitch I think they're selling some of Maynards shit on ebay hurry before the bids go out!

Really now... Maynard is great, but not so great where even this man's feces is envied.

I thought by shit you meant general stuff...

Ah, yea... Shit is becoming so cliche these days you can't even use it without someone misinterpreting it out of context.

I don't listen to Tool or APC...

Deftones - Adrenaline is my fav, but I have and like them all, although their latest album was a bit of a disappointment.
Nothingface - Pacifier, An Audio guide to everyday atrocity, Violence, Skeletons <-- These guys haven't made anything I don't like. I guess they're my Tool.
Taproot - Gift, Welcome
Ill Nino - Revolution Revolucion
Soulfly - Self titled, Primitive, 3
Sepultura - Roots is my fav, but they're all good
Korn's early stuff
Limp Bizkit's early stuff
Nirvana - who doesn't like them?

And I'm sure if Pete ever gets around to it, Infernus will be on that list



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i think you should listen to deja voodoo. its a life changing experience.

"we are deja voodoo
we rock more than you do"

I'm not sure now it got their, but looking through old music DVD's, I found a song called "Classical Gas" by Mason Williams. This song, is AWESOME. It's been on replay for several days straight. I've never heard any of his other stuff, though.

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APC's Thirteenth Step has really grown on me since I first listened to it. It's diffrent from TOOL, and it's different from Mer de Noms is all. I went into it expecting another Mer de Noms, and I'm pretty fucking happy it wasn't, because it was better. "The Nurse who Loved Me" and "Weak and the Powerless" are arguabley (well, by me =)) some of Maynards best work so far.


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I'll never understand why Tool and A Perfect Circle always have to be lumped together.

Tool is so much more than just maynard, in case you guys hadn't noticed

I love Tool. I thnk they are one of the greatest bands in history.

I can't stand A Perfect Circle.

~shrug~

ah well...



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Tool is so much more than just maynard, in case you guys hadn't noticed

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W00T

Finally someone notices that... It's really a matter of Adam and Danny, and a little of Justin. Maynard just writes/sings the lyrics (for TOOL). Of course it's obvious that all of them are into that religious symbolism area. I don't think anyone is really clear on what TOOL's stance is religiously, I know they have a lot of anti-religious lyrics but on their inspiration site (dissectional.com) you see a lot of Jewish Mysticism symbols in there. You see the relevance to the Tree of Life, the Number System, the Star of David. And if you go to Danny's website you see a bunch of stuff related to peganism and hinduism (kind of a strange mix). In any case... TOOL is much more artistic than any other band out there, when it comes to all around art fashion.

I really like Mer De Noms... So I'd still consider myself an APC fan. I'm just going to pretend like I never heard TS and just move on with my life. I'm not going to hold it against Maynard or APC, I just didn't like it that much.

Insider, apart from your disliking of Thirteenth Step, I tend to agree with the large majority of all your posts.

I think you would LOVE dredg. You should check them out, I fell in love with them when i shed a tear at their concert over 3 years ago and i haven't stopped listening to them since.

Brand New..thats all you have to listen to, thanks to those whole whomping 2 of you who mentioned them, someone said they don't like aenima, why not, huh, aenima is god, you are obviously not god, or in gods favor for that manor, if i could i would zap you with lightning, just for the heck of it..anyways, well at least some of you like good bands, and that's alright, ok, just to let you know, bright eyes sucks, and for you manson fan posers wat about the golden age, the golden age of grotesque is probably the best thing he's put out, it's an excellent album, i mean sure, some people are too dense to connect some of the lyrics, ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..wait, that's probably why you don't like it..just kidding, golden age..check it out. that's all i've got to say, some of you are already out of my reach, you can't even be helped, you're too far gone for the salvation of mankind.

yes..i am a lurker..

you know who you are

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I mean, i listed Brand New, i like them and everything, but damn they're just GOOD, OK. Not god, not beyond all things that exist. Just good. In fact, i didn't even really like their last album, their new one is good.

My favorite band is Radiohead. I just saw them live tonite. Simply Amazing!!!

Ohh, yes, forgot Radiohead, I liked Kid A, but not their new one. Anyways, I had a chance to see RHCP a while ago, but alas, no.

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Ohh, I just listened to these guys:

Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks

(Thank you bittorrent!)

heh, brand new, just good, YOU PSYCHO YOU HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM THE SEMI ALRIGHT PART OF THIS FORUM, now on the other hand we have brought in radiohead, excellent band, hail to the king is an excellent album, and counterfeit bacon is a moron, the sex pistols suck, and counterfeit bacon would listen to britney spears and like it if i told him to.

you know who you are

Rauthrin or cfb: Anyone's friend?

I might as well point out that tastes differ and I can't really see the point in name calling over matters of taste.

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He's mine, unfortunately....

It's not really anything to be proud of...

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Hey, I just noticed I listen to much of the same music as cfb. Cool.

Rauthrin: Lets put it down to the proximity of a Springfield

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Well since I didn't see one hip-hop group yet, guess I'll have to spout off some of the better ones in case anyone is interested in broadening their horizons:

The Roots
Blackalicious
Dr. Octagon (Kool Keith)
Jurassic 5
The Pharcyde
Cunninlynguists
Mos Def
Michael Franti
J-live
KRS One
Del
DJ Shadow
Count Bass D
Antipop Consortium
Aesop Rock
De La Soul
Jedi Mind Tricks

and also i can't believe no one mentioned Frank Zappa.


-jiblet

Need i say it in yet another bands thread?

• Jeff Beck.
• Propellerheads.

Not always in that order.

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• Jeff Beck.
• Propellerheads.

Not always in that order.

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Now that is just plain nuts!! Propellerheads and then Jeff Beck - not on my watch!!

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radiohead: all albums except plablo honey are just great
metallica: ...and justice for all is quite good
garbage: from good to bad:>> garbage/garbage> garbage/version 2.0> beautiful garbage
portishead: all three albums are fucking excellent (is the new one out yet?)
king diamond: don't remember the album's name


hmmmmm...

Well, what the hell, I'm home, sick, and bored, so I'll see if I cn list a few of the important ones -

The Beatles - The Beatles Second Album, Rubber Soul, Let it Be
The Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed, Goats Head Soup
Black Sabbath - Self titled, Paranoid
Ozzy - Blizzard of Ozz, Diary of a Madman
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Cream - Disraeli Gears
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love, Electric Ladyland, Band of Gypsys (yeah, it's not the Experience, but it's Jimi...)
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Violent Femmes - self titled, Why Do Birds Sing?
Depeche Mode - Violator
The Jesus Lizard - Liar, Goat
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Ricki Lee Jones - Self titled, Pirates
The Pixies - Bossanova
David Bowie - Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Peter gabriel - So
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Catch a Fire, Exodus, Natty Dread, Survival
Ministry - The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste
Tool - Undertow, Aenima
Nirvana - Incesticide (ok, so it's not exactly an 'album' but...)
Smashing Pumkins - Gish, Siamese Dream
Ani Difranco - Little Plastic Castle
Aimee Mann - Magnolia
Sinead O'Conner - The Lion and the Cobra
Johnny Cash - Live at Fulsom Prison
Simon and Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence
The Pretenders - Learning to Crawl

eh....and so on....



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Dillinger 4
Schreeching Weasel
The Vindictives - Their newest one is awesome
Fugazi
NOFX
Modest Mouse
Capp n' Jazz
Superchunck
Quicksand
No Means No - Great Canada Punk
Action Patrol
Avail

And a bunch of other stuff that was already mentioned,
I just thought I would give you guys an intro into other music.
I especially recommend Schreeching Weasel.


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Linkin Park- Hybrid Theory, Reanimation, Meteora
? Evanescence- Fallen
P.O.D- ??

? Adema ?

new additions to my list (aka recently bought items):

Mastodon - Remission
Nile - Amongst the Catacombs of the Nephren-Ka

oh i forgot to add the good old bands like
beatles
beach boys
status quo
bob dylan
bob marley
ccr

Did I say Led Zeppelin, I don't think I did. I bought How the West Was Won recently, and loved it.

Led Zepplin + Weed = Memorable experience .

Sanzen: I'm not a big fan of death metal but Nile really deliver the goods - the vocals, the drumming, the Egyptian influences, etc. are all spot on. Rameses Bringer of War has to be my favourite but Unas Slayer of the Gods, Black Seeds of Vengance and Howling of the Jinn are up their too

Its worth it just to answer the question "What the Hell are you listening to?" "Ahhhhhhh well that was ' Libation Unto the Shades Who Lurk in the Shadows of the Temple of Anhur'" (Masturbating the War God is another title bound to raise an eyebrow ).

Anyone looking for something to raise the hair on the back of their neck should track down 'Aldyn Dashka' by Yat-Kha (from the album of the same name).

Sorry I still can't be bothered listing my favourite bands

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Yeah, Nile is sooooo mindblowing. I've recently started listening to a lot of heavier stuff.

Mastodon
The Haunted
Lamb of God
Nile
Morbid Angel
The Agony Scene

just to name a couple of the heavier bands i've been getting into.

Mastodon is probably topping my list though, if you think Nile has a good drummer... you are in for a surprise. You should listen to the song, "Where Strides the Behemoth" from Mastodon. Its mindblowing, simply put.

Sanzen: And why doesn't 'Unas Slayer of the Gods' (at what 11-12 minutes long) seem like a trial?

On your recommendation I looked at a few reviews of Mastodon and their drummer is highly praised.

Morbid Angel? Now that takes me back - are they still going or are you casting your net back to the first time round?

Check out Curse of the Golden Vampire's album 'Mass Destruction' (not the Animal Empire album 'Curse of the Golden Vampire' which is different, but good in its own way, and there is some cross-over in band members) - not very subtle but just this side of listenable for me (just).

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Morbid Angel is still around and playing, but you kind of have to give credit to the forefathers of an aforementioned genre if you're going to respect the youngins.. you know?

I'm not sure what you're asking me about Unas, Slayer of the Gods. Thats a really long song, and sometimes ihave trouble listening all the way through it.

Isis is also another great band. More epic and complex (genre wise) than most heavy bands. Kinda like taking Godspeed You Black Emporer and mixing it with a death metal band.

Seriously though, pick up the Mastodon disc, you wont be disappointed.

Saw Mastodon opening for a Clutch show a while back.

The drummer was good, can't deny that, but that's about where it ended....



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