1) Goo Goo Dolls - Long Way Down
2) Clocks - Coldplay
3) U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name
4) Beegees - How can you mend a broken heart?

On Goo Goo Dolls: `Iris' was an incredibly overplayed song, but that's how I got into this group. The honesty and truthful lyrical elements in all of Jon Rzeznik's songs, the honesty and truthfulness of his voice, the simply gorgeous melodies in his guitar, they all bring out the best of everything that I love about music.

In no particular order:
- Dream Theater (http://www.dreamtheater.net)
- Ayreon (http://www.ayreon.com) - The Human Equation, Into The Electric Castle
- Fates Warning (http://www.fateswarning.com) - A Pleasant Shade of Grey, Disconnected
- Savatage (http://www.savatage.com) - Dead Winter Dead
- Frameshift (http://frameshift.progrockrecords.com/) - Unweaving the Rainbow
- Chroma Key (http://www.chromakey.com/)
- Nightwish (http://www.nightwish.com/)
- Iced Earth (http://www.icedearth.com/) - The Glorious Burden, Horror Show
- Symphony X (http://www.symphonyx.com) - The Odyssey
- Shadow Gallery (http://www.shadowgallery.com/) - Tyranny
- OSI (http://www.osiband.com/)

This will totally blow my image but my favorite band is Sonyy, she sings to me and she's been working on some recordings not to mention that she's hooked up with some former band mates. I'm hoping for a golden ticket!

Ok back to reality...

If it's alternative/metal I'm there:

Metalica
Creed
Linkin Park
Saliva
The Cure

However, Enigma and Enya can be found on the play list when mood music is needed.

My favorite bands are in no particular order:

Rammstein
Mushroomhead
Nine Inch Nails
APC/Tool (anything with Maynard)
KMFDM

Lately:

Linkin Park
Atreyu
Trapt
Simple Plan
System of a Down
Papa Roach
and the old skool ~ Bryan Adams

Cake
Everclear
Beastie Boys
Police

Bauhaus/Love and Rockets
Cranes
Sonic Youth
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult
KMFDM
Faith and the Muse
Voltaire
The Doors
Jesus and Mary Chain

Newer stuff I'm keen on: Gogol Bordello, Nightwish

Funker Vogt
Colony 5
MDFMK
Neurotic Fish
Arcturus

Hehe, Taleran is a person after my own heart.

Must be an uber bard thing :p

Wow this is impossible to answer, I love all kinds of music! :)

Okay just a couple favorites:
Evanescence
Seether
Linkin Park
Pearl Jam
Jet

Crossfade
Trapt
Eminem (eat me)
Maroon 5
Linkin Park
Nirvana (still)
DMX
Steppenwolf (Doesn't get any better than Magic Carpet Ride for my money)
Random Kevin Smith one-liners and such from the movies (not a band, I know)
Final Fantasy theme song

For those of you who know/knew Sotek, his band won the Emergenza festival in the US and placed 7th in the world last year. They landed a pretty sweet record deal and are gonna have CDs out very very soon (their Philly release party was Friday).
You can check a few samples out at www.glasshouseband.com

I seem to like all kinds of stuff. There's the cliche Floyd and Zeppelin and I've always been a big Beatles fan but TMBG and Smash Mouth and Ben Folds and REM all hold pretty big chunks of my IPOD's time.

Bradious, there's no shame with liking Nirvana still, classic rock is the best rock!

In no particular order:

1.Queensryche
2.Coldplay
3.Dave Mathews Band
4.Sarah McLachlin(She touches my inner lesbian)
5.Metallica(pre black album)
6.Led Zepplin
7.Radiohead
8.Black Sabbath
9.Steelheart(steel Dragon).
10.Pink Floyd
and about 20 Hair Metal bands.

Alice in Chains
Mad Season (Go figure)
Bush
Cold
Twelve Stones
Massive Attack
Rob Dougan (Mood depending)

Mad Season (Go figure)

I wish they would have done another album.You could tell that AIC was going through the motions on their last album but Mad Season had some great stuff.

http://www.musicplasma.com/ Is a good place to lookup possible bands you might like, based upon a band you enter.

In no order :
- Linkin Park
- Raimstein
- Prodigy
- SOAD
- Daft Punk
- Nightwish
- Korn
- Enhancer
- RATM

http://www.musicplasma.com/ Is a good place to lookup possible bands you might like, based upon a band you enter.

Holy shit that's cool!

Let's see....

*Searching on the various bands in my first post on this thread....*

Wow, for most of them, it returns the results as expected, and it's actually the way I've discovered/purchased a lot of them.

Some of them, though...

Search on "Chroma Key", and you get ... Country Music?!? :confused: (Chroma Key is decidedly not country.)

Search on Savatage produces this slightly amusing linkage: Savatage -> Trans-Siberian Orchestra -> Mannheim Steamroller

"Frameshift" gives you a Madonna tribute? :eek:

Still, a very cool site!

Backstreet Boys
Nsync
New Kids on the Block (the earlier years)
Micheal Jackson

and Britney Spears!

KMFDM
Pop Will Eat Itself
Nitzer Ebb
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult
Die Warzau
Alien Sex Fiend
Front 242
Lords of Acid
Meat Beat Manifesto
Revolting Cocks
Sisters of Mercy
KLF

Holy shit that's cool!

Even better, the cd's on the side link to amazon where you can purchase them, and they also give you audio clips of the band.

Dance hall crashers
Less then Jake
Still like Green Day lots

Briscoe's list looks like mine about 10 years ago. oh the memories in chicago in the mid 90s. Mmmmm the chick I met at the Meat Beat Manifesto show. The strange eroticism of Lords of Acid whipping blow up dolls around by the nether region. The huge disappointment of finally meeting Cinderella Pussy of TKK and her being all smacked out even though her parents were there. The nights at the Dome Room with 13 mg and the Evil Mothers. man I miss the Metro being 500 miles from there. So much fun and now I feel so old :(

Heh I spent like 2 hours trying to find my Mad Season CD when I saw this thread =X

No particular order...

Social Distortion
The Pogues
Tool
Pink Floyd
CCR
Misfits
Soundgarden
Johnny Cash
The Doors
Blood or Whiskey
Hank Williams

My list is my list from 10 years ago. I haven't really found any new bands that have stuck with me like the onces I listened to when I used to DJ. Once I traded in clubbing for parenting I stopped finding new stuff. I'm going to have to check out that site and punch my faves in and see what comes up.

I'm mostly in the same boat as Briscoe; there isn't much new in that genre that really drives me like the old tunes did. Taleren, I would have loved to have been in Chicago in those days; helluva scene from what I hear.

Cake
Disturbed
System of a Down
Nirvana
A Perfect Circle
311
The Eagles

Made a couple different raid mixes.. but mostly metal an thrash with some industrial thrown in to hold it all together.

Currently on my playlist:

Ministry - Greatest Fits
Mudvayne - The End of all Things to Come (unedited)
Hatebreed - Rise of Brutality
Iron Maiden - Flight of Icarus
Metallica - Kill'um All
Metallica - Ride the Lighining
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
Danzig - Danzig
Judas Priest - Angel of Retribution (new cd with Rob Halford back in lead vocals)
Judas Priest - Razors Edge
NIN - mixed
Rob Zombie - Hellbilly
White Zombie - couple songs



I listen to all types of music, I lean towards the faster edgier types.

Queen
Iron Maiden
Metallica (pre load)
Blind Guardian
Dire Straits
In Flames
Opeth
Therion
Manowar
Nightwish
Megman2 and Battle of Olympus themes (so much pwnage right there)
thats about it.

Slayer
Anthrax
King Diamond
Too Short

Bunch of others but they'll always be my Fav's.

no order other than when they pop into my head,

Tool
A perfect circle
greenday
alice in chains
white zombie
slipknot
papa roach
flaw
earshot
atomship
seether
offspring
nine inch nails
audioslave
i have alot of other CDs, but these get played the most.

Pixies
Bloc Party
Modest Mouse
Kings of Leon
Rogue Wave

Megaman 2, 3, and 4 have awesome soundtracks.

Too many good bands but these are my favs..

1. Slayer
2. Anthrax
3. Helloween
4. Iron Maiden
5. Pre Black album Metallica(fucking sellouts)
6. Danzig
7. Arch Enemy
8. Dimmu Borgir
Still enjoy bands like

Kreator
Powermad
Death
Sepultura
Def Leppard(Yes Def Leppard)
Slade

A million more....

KC and the Sunshine band.
Leif Garrett
Any of the early Hanson!
The Bay City Rollers.
And who could leave off... The Hoff! David Haselhoff!

The rest are all wannabes!

1- Breaking Benjamin
2- Crossfade
3- Sevendust
4- Oasis
5- Seether
6- Metallica old school stuff
7- Damien Rice
8- Chevelle
9- Nine Inch Nails
10- Smashing Pumpkins

:)

Megman2 and Battle of Olympus themes (so much pwnage right there)

That reminds me. I still have the Final Fantasy theme downloaded. roxx0rz

Buad.. The Savatage one is not that far fetched...
Savatage is my favorite band -- bar none. Jon Oliva's new solo album rocks .. Chris Cafferty's is OK..
Hall of the Mountain King still my #1 album....
Trans Siberian Orchestra ( TSO ) is made up from the band members of Savatge.. There is an East coast crew and a west coast crew .. Jon heads up the east coast and Al Petrelli heads up the west coast ..
Heavy Metal Xmas music with orchestra back up .. Absolutely awesome show.. have seen a dozen times..
Christmas in Sarejevo (off Dead Winter Dead) is actually a TSO song ...
TSO and Manheim have similar xmas albums ...
just thought you might want to know and check out a TSO show.

I'll second the props for TSO's live show. They were absolutely fantastic.

^_^

Evanescence
Seether
Barenakedladies
Nickleback
Metalica
Dave Mathews Band


Yeah .... I dont have a big selection, I work to much anymore to hear a lot of new stuff bah.

-Stormangel

"Gnomish Monks !?!?"

Buad.. The Savatage one is not that far fetched...
Savatage is my favorite band -- bar none. Jon Oliva's new solo album rocks .. Chris Cafferty's is OK..
Hall of the Mountain King still my #1 album....
Trans Siberian Orchestra ( TSO ) is made up from the band members of Savatge.. There is an East coast crew and a west coast crew .. Jon heads up the east coast and Al Petrelli heads up the west coast ..
Heavy Metal Xmas music with orchestra back up .. Absolutely awesome show.. have seen a dozen times..
Christmas in Sarejevo (off Dead Winter Dead) is actually a TSO song ...
TSO and Manheim have similar xmas albums ...
just thought you might want to know and check out a TSO show.

Acutally, I have Beethoven's Last Night, so I'm fairly well aware of the Savatage - TSO links. I actually had "Christmas Eve & Other Stories" and "The Christmas Attic", but I can't find them anymore. I ordered them in the middle of the summer, and it just seemed... strange.. to listen to them at the time. I suppose if I hunted around, I could find them.

But having played some Manheim Christmas songs in high school band, it just seemed strange to have the graph jump from TSO to Manheim.

As of now..

1. Opeth
2. Bloodbath
3. Bal-Sagoth
4. Domine
5. Dream Evil
6. Immortal
7. Necrophagist
8. Winds (Nor)
9. Arsis
10. Finntroll

For Metal! \m/

from my mp3 list in no particular order

1. Bob Dylan
2. Frank Zappa
3. Jimi Hendrix
4. Neil Young
5. Crosby, Stills, Nash (and Young)
6. Bad Company ( :( )
7. The Who
8. Steely Dan
9. Black Sabbath
10. Judas Priest - http://talid.declension.org/judasrising.mp3 is the first track and imo the best on their new cd
11. Black Label Society
12. The Doors
13. Clapton/Cream
14. Miles Davis (Kind of Blue is probably the best album ever)
15. Lynyrd Skynyrd
16. Megadeth
17. Elton John
18. Billy Joel
19. Beatles
20. Rolling Stones
21. Fleetwood Mac (shutup they had some good songs)
22. Eagles
23. CCR
24. Blue Oyster Cult
25. ELO
26. Led Zeppelin

<chuckle>

No disrepect intended Talid... but.. uh.. how old are you?

Most of those same artists are on my MP3 list.

I would include...

Meatloaf
BTO
Timbuktu

I'm 19 and uh i just prefer music that doesn't have more screaming than lyrics

Well said, Talid.

The 70s and 80s are more popular among late teens than you'd think, it's a fad.

The 70s and 80s are more popular among late teens than you'd think, it's a fad.
Maybe but i've been listening to this music for as long as I can remember because I prefer it to most of the stuff coming out today and my mother used to listen to it all the time so i guess it stuck

I listen to it too, as do a ton of my friends.

Definitely a lot of good stuff from the 60s/70s, both of my parents would always have the 'classic rock' station playing so it's the first music I was introduced to, really.

I got a lot of funny looks wearing my Doors t-shirt in junior high :(

1. Stabbing Westward
2. Orgy
3. The Cars
4. Deftones
5. Bauhaus
6. Depeche Mode
7. Deadsy
8. Training for Utopia
9. Zao
10. Korn

Gandaar, you mentioned Timbuktu... I'm a bit curious, are you talking about the swedish rapper? I'm wondering because I just came back from one of his concerts :)

Now, as for my list:
Looptroop (New album out on April 27!)
The Beatles
Mobbade Barn Med Automatvapen
Svenska Akademien
Simon & Garfunkel
System of a Down

Now, if we're talking solo artists as well, we can add:
Jay-Z
John Legend
Alicia Keys
Timbuktu
Kanye West

And then two that I don't really know where to put:
Nobuo Uematsu
Mozart

I'm with Talid on his list hehe...Most music nowadays is junk imho. It seems that once the 80's ended alot of the originality left most forms of music. Sure, there was some good stuff, but nothing like the 80's produced.
In my case i'll listen to anything from classical to heavy metal as long as i like how it sounds. But i tend toward the older music tho. And nothing beats classical music for when you just want to relax. :)

Talid has a great list.

Me, I am old school, being I am an old fart.

Allman Bros
Grateful Dead
Pink Floyd
Savoy Brown
Captain Beyond
Santana
Any and all incarnations of Eric Clapton
Wishbone Ash
Led Zeppelin
Humble Pie
Miles Davis
Grover Washington Jr
Joe Sample (with the Crusaders and solo)

and I will always enjoy "Thick As A Brick" by Jethro Tull

EPITAPH

The wall on which the prophets wrote
Is cracking at the seams.
Upon the instruments of death
The sunlight brightly gleams.
When every man is torn apart
With nightmares and with dreams,
Will no one lay the laurel wreath
As silence drowns the screams.

Between the iron gates of fate
The seeds of time were sown,
And watered by the deeds of those
Who know and who are known;
Knowledge is a deadly friend
When no one sets the rules.
The fate of all mankind I see
Is in the hands of fools.


I almost forgot to add King Crimson to my list. They were some great songsmiths. In The Court of The Crimson King is an all-time classic album, whether you partook of the silly smoke or not.

Talid has a great list.

Me, I am old school, being I am an old fart.

Allman Bros
Grateful Dead
Pink Floyd
Savoy Brown
Captain Beyond
Santana
Any and all incarnations of Eric Clapton
Wishbone Ash
Led Zeppelin
Humble Pie
Miles Davis
Grover Washington Jr
Joe Sample (with the Crusaders and solo)

and I will always enjoy "Thick As A Brick" by Jethro TullI bought the entire collection of Jethro Tull and just Ian Andersen (single stuff) for 45 bucks a few weeks ago

For those fans of the 60s and 70s music, check out bootlegarchive.com.

Randomly:
Dave Matthews Band
Counting Crows
Metallica
A Perfect Circle
Breaking Benjamin
Pearl Jam
Foo Fighters
Ben Folds Five
Incubus
Reel Big Fish
The Smashing Pumpkins