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So, since that Rob Zombie thread turned into a discussion of all things metal and just in general rockin', what's anybody's favorite band around here?
For metal I'm partial to Strapping Young Lad, Napalm Death, White Zombie.  Mortician is fun on occasion.  Just picked up a My Dying Bride record which kicks ass.
For industrial, Skrew, N-17, and Rorschach Test are quite yummy.
I'm a huge fan of Clutch, the Pogues, and a band which many of you may not have heard of called Tanglefoot.  They are some of the best songwriters I've ever heard ,and I strongly encourage anyone who likes accoustic, fiddle-filled folk music (and even those who don't) to check them out.  Mannheim Steamroller, Apocalyptica, the Galactic Cowboys.   The list goes on.

Brother R

There are two important things in life - monsters and hot chicks.
    - Rob Zombie

I don't have a fav band but my favorite current song is "Poem" by Taproot.

This song is unique on their album.

Everything else they do is an "Alice In Chains" clone.

I never have a favorite band.  
It changes so often.

Been listenin' to a  little old "Anthrax" (State of Euphoria) and "Bolt Upright" (Red Carpet Sindrome) lately.

Favorite bands?

Hmm...probably "Rush" as a band, maybe "Weather Report","Yes", and "Dream Theater".  Most musicians I like are, well..musicians.  John Patitucci, Charles Mingus, Count Basie, John Coltrane

Shadows Fall, Slayer, Iron Maiden, Motörhead, White Zombie, Amen, The Misfits, Megadeth, Beyond The Embrace, System Of A Down, Nevermore, and (of course) METALLICA.

I've also been getting into Queens Of The Stone Age, Fu Manchu, Warrior Soul, and Brand New Sin lately.

I just got into metal a couple years ago, so dont know half the names u guys r saying. anyways, my favs now are: Cradle of Filth, Emperor, Hecate Enthroned, and Satyricon. I also love Mushroomhead, but theyre not metal. And flame me all u want, I will always love Marilyn Manson

I am very partial to just about every band that came from Seattle in the early 90's grunge movement, and the rock that came from Chicago and California in the same time. I hated the pop at that time however. New Kids on the Block can die under a rock, and Kriss Kross can basically do the same thing. But bands like Soundgarden, The Smashing Pumpkins, Rage Against the Machine, No Doubt (old style No Doubt, not new pop No Doubt), Weezer and Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains, they all make up most of what I listen to.

Basically, anything they don't play on the radio: Frank Zappa, They Might Be Giants, Devo, The Bonzo Dog Band, Deadbolt, and Weird Al are probably my faves. Bands I'm not yet sure whether I'd put on my all-time faves list, but who I've been listening to a lot lately are the Cramps, the Monks (an AMAZING garage-rock proto-punk group from the 60s), Jonathan Richman, the Residents, Mojo Nixon, early punk, and the Shaggs ;).

  I am very partial to the classics, so some of my favorites include The Kinks, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Byrds, Cream, Moody Blues, The Who, Pink Floyd, Genesis (Gabriel era only), King Crimson, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Bob Dylan (not technically a band, but still good), Jethro Tull, Jefferson Airplane, Donovan, Ranaissance, Van Der Graaf Generator, Curved Air, Blood Sweat and Tears, The Residents, Frank Zappa, The Velvet Underground, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Animals, and many others I can't think of right now.

I know I will be in s**t for this but....
I enjoy Eminem and Britney Spears and Green Day and Smashmouth
and I am Proud
I also like
Fatboy Slim
John Mayer
Dashboard Conffessionals
The Strokes
The BEATLES
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Louis Armstrong
Linkin Park
System of a Down
Disturbed
ELO
and Tchaikovsy

Hey, Evan, it's cool. I have the following artists in my CD collection:
George Thorogood
Everclear
Scatman John
Methods Of Mayhem
Limp Bizkit
Papa Roach
Kittie
KISS
3 Doors Down

Everything that has been mentioned here I love. I also love Mudvayne, The Flower Kings, Apples in Stereo and the list goes on and on

I like so many different kinds of music but most are just different styles of punk and power pop and the like:

Millencolin
Send More Paramedics (Awesome british hardcore/metalish band with extreme heavy infulence from Return Of the Living dead, almost every song on the album has some reference to the movie, Awesome!)
Reggie and the full effect
They Might Be Giants
Gob
The Ataris
Lagwagon
Nofx
Big Wig
Strike Anywhere
Misfits
CKY
Groovie Ghoulies
Mr T Experience
OZMA
AFI
Reel Big Fish
Less Than Jake
The Vandals
H2O
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Thursday
Bad Astronaut
Goldfinger
GlassJAw
De La Hoya
Rival Schools
Desaparecidos

Way too much more to continue the list

sticking with the punk/ska thread:

bouncing souls, anti flag (which is where my whole PETA insanity originated), bad religion, aquabats, flogging molly, millencolin, less than jake, and various local bands (brodys, the kgb, solemite, etc.)

"Jethro Tull, Jefferson Airplane, Donovan, Ranaissance,"

Um, sorry that's *Renaissance*.

Way too much more to continue the list"systemcr4sh wrote:
>
> I like so many different kinds of music but most are just
> different styles of punk and power pop and the like:
>
> Millencolin
> Send More Paramedics (Awesome british hardcore/metalish band
> with extreme heavy infulence from Return Of the Living dead,
> almost every song on the album has some reference to the
> movie, Awesome!)
> Reggie and the full effect
> Gob
> The Ataris
> Lagwagon
> Nofx
> Big Wig
> Strike Anywhere
> Misfits
> CKY
> Groovie Ghoulies
> Mr T Experience
> OZMA
> AFI
> Reel Big Fish
> Less Than Jake
> The Vandals
> H2O
> And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
> Thursday
> Bad Astronaut
> Goldfinger
> GlassJAw
> De La Hoya
> Rival Schools
> Desaparecidos
>
> Way too much more to continue the list
>
>

Since his list almost completely parallels mine I'll quote his.  I'm also a huge Mindless Self Indulgence, Nerf Herder, Zebrahead, and Jamiroquai fan and a little of everything here and there, I sometimes will break out the old school Dre and Snoop and other rap cds to help me relive jr.high and high school days.  Also throw in some hardcore punk bands as well, Filth, This Day Foward, Walls of Jericho, Songs of Zarathusia (SP?) and last but not least a good share of songs from musicals all the way from Singing in the Rain up to Newsies.  

It's funny when people who don't know me ride in my car, I have a MP3 cd player in my car and I put the thing on random, one song will be punk, next jazz, next a song from a musical, next 70's rock, it really screws with people

Anything that i enjoy quickly becomes a favorite....among them....Slayer, ICP, Phish, Diecast, Hatebreed, Tool, Soulfly, Throwdown, Shadows Fall.....I love metal and hardcore, but I also love some "hippie" music too.....also, a lot of classic rock....ACDC, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath...CCR....

Right now I'm huge into Meshuggah and In Flames

Spinal Tap rocks, dude! ;-)

Nerf herder is another one I forgot to put on the list :)

systemcr4sh and Brian Ringler pretty much nailed it! I also enjoy Sham69, the Pogues, Stiff Little Fingers, and the greatest punk/Oi band ever...the Dropkick Murphys!

May I also mention GWAR....one of the most entertaining shows I've ever been to, though, I can't say much about talent...but with them, it's just not the point.  Anytime in the same show a bunch of dudes wearing ridiculous amounts of spikes and armor kill Mike Tyson, Ossama Bin Laden, George Bush, and a giant dinosaur eats the pope...plus everyone get sprayed with mass amounts of fake blood while thrashing about in a giant mosh pit.....count me in!

Deej wrote:
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> systemcr4sh and Brian Ringler pretty much nailed it! I also
> enjoy Sham69, the Pogues, Stiff Little Fingers, and the
> greatest punk/Oi band ever...the Dropkick Murphys!
>
>

Speaking of bands like that I'll add Flogging Molly, best live show ever was catching them at warped tour minneapolis while it was pouring rain, best thirty minutes I've ever had at a concert and believe it or not that actually made up for the fact that NOFX and the rest of the bands after Flogging Molly didn't play because the rain was too bad.

Ever since I read about the Pogues on Teleport City, I've been hooked.  Shane is definitely one of the best damn lyricists ever to put pen to a whiskey-soaked bar napkin.  If you haven't already, you should try tracking down Streams of Whiskey, their live record that was released over the summer.  The original cover art looks like a liquor bottle lable.  I picked it up right away because it was only in print for about a week.  It was released again a few months later with a cover that looks like, of all things, a stream of whiskey.  It's one of the funniest records I've ever heard, I'm damned if I can understand 10% of the words, but the spirit is all there.

Brother R

they are the whole reason i bought tix to both warped shows in SF over the summer.

Here goes:

Sick Of It All
CapDown
Rocket From The Crypt
Five Knuckle
Ramones
Imbalance
Dead Kennedys (not the new fake ones though)
Pennywise
NOFX
50 Caliber
Propagandhi
Special Move
Will Haven
Good Riddance

Some of the above are small British hardcore bands so it's fairly likely noone on this board's heard of them. But then again a huge grin sprouted on my face whenn I noticed that Dan's listed my new favourite band  SEND MORE PARAMEDICS (http://www.sendmoreparamedics.com/) . Take what would usually be called bad lyrics (all about zombies and the like), bad vocals, throw in some fast guitar and the odd cheesy Slayer-type riff and it all rots together to form a really amazing album.

If anyone wants recommendations or anything about any above bands, fell free to mail (  uncoolpete@hotmail.com )  me, or I'm on MSN messenger too.

Pete

Sorry to double post, but I really feel the need to include Wesley Willis in there too. Anyone who dosen't know who he is needs to download a song right now. There's like 700 to choose from. You can check a video of his out  HERE (http://search.launch.yahoo.com/search/lsearch/all?p=wesley+willis).

Pete

"Rock over London, Rock on Chicago. Badmovies.org: A website to the detriment of good film"

Ah, yes, Wesley Willis. I should add to my list the whole subgenre of "outsider" music: Wesley, Wild Man Fischer, Hasil Adkins, the Legendary Stardust Cowboy, the Shaggs, Shooby Taylor... All seem to be a few fries short of a Happy Meal, but all are strangely fascinating. You can find out more at www.keyofz.com

Pete B6K wrote:
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> Sorry to double post, but I really feel the need to include
> Wesley Willis in there too. Anyone who dosen't know who he is
> needs to download a song right now. There's like 700 to
> choose from. You can check a video of his out
>  HERE (http://search.launch.yahoo.com/search/lsearch/all?p=wesley+willis).
>
> Pete
>
> "Rock over London, Rock on Chicago. Badmovies.org: A website
> to the detriment of good film"

You can edit your own posts so you shouldn't need to post twice if you just wanted to ad him to your list

I am about to buy two CDs including Third Eye Blind and The Strokes. I am also considering Dashboard Conffesionals.
In my opinion the worst band is a tie between 311, Avril Levigne and Alanis Morrisette. They are all hateful or hypocritical or overrated.

As for British bands who is that guy who tears off his skin in the music video? Also, there is some interesting British rap band on Coldplay's web site. Check it out. (I hate Coldplay for the record)

Another amazing foreign artist is the Greek singer Despina Vandi. I also enjoy Rammstein a lot.

I like just straight-ahead old school punk or indie rock. Stuff that's made by a bunch of guys in dingy t-shirts with beat-up instruments.

The Ramones, The Replacements, Cheap Trick, The Cramps, Nirvana, The Damned, everything by the Goo Goo Dolls before they went soft, Rancid, The Cure, the Voo Doo Glow Skulls, Bad Religion (ignoring the lyrics), Los Straitjackets, etc. I Think I just used my quota for "the". I must recommend the album Stay What You Are by Saves The Day. If you don't get hooked to every single song you may not have a pulse.

J.R. wrote:
>> Bad Religion (ignoring the lyrics),

How can you ignore the lyrics?  They are one the few bands out there that actually put some intelligent thought into what they write about

amen to that!
Bad Religion are awesome.

Well, their assertions that all Christians are evil morons is a bit innocuous to me. I love punk music, but I try not to pay too much attention to the lyrics because they're usually "America is evil, f**k the system, conservatives need a bullet in the head" rants sung by 18-year-old nitwits.

wheresthecarrot wrote:
>
> Anything that i enjoy quickly becomes a favorite....among
> them....Slayer, ICP, Phish, Diecast, Hatebreed, Tool,
> Soulfly, Throwdown, Shadows Fall.....I love metal and
> hardcore, but I also love some "hippie" music too.....also, a
> lot of classic rock....ACDC, Led Zeppelin, Black
> Sabbath...CCR....
>

I like how Phish is in there with all these metal bands.  It just shows that everyone loves a good hippie.  =0)

Deena

Hey, I am an 18 (actually 19) year old conservative. Not all of us are twits. You old fogey.

Wow... For me it's just the opposite. I can take or leave punk music, but love the energy and stage presence. To me, the Sex Pistols and the Dead Kennedys would be nothing without Johnny Rotten or Jello Biafra. Personally, as much as I hate "back in the old days" speeches, I think we could stand to take a cue from the days when punk was a movement instead of a sound, and included people like the Talking Heads, the Cramps, and Devo.

JR, what punk do you listen to? Most punk bands I know of sing/scream about getting drunk, kicking ass, and how much the entire WORLD sucks...

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There is a lot of good stuff like that, but way too many punk/indie bands get really political. Some start out pretty neutral then suddenly make a political diatribe, like Pennywise. I've actually been to a few shows where the singer sermonizes about the evils of capitalism or religion or something more than playing actual songs.

Before I go into my take of punk rock I'll put some bands up.  Currently playing in the background is Nirvana (classic, what more can be said?). Also good; Sublime, Pink Floyd, Led Zep, The Doors, Nothingface, Thursday, Bad Religion, Pantera, ok..... I'll stop.  About punk and messages in music, to me the message is the most important part of a song.  If a song doesn't have anything to say it's nothing.  Remember, punk started as a movement, a rebellion even, so punk should have something to say.  That's just me though.

I'm not a huge music buff myself; I haven't even heard of half the bands listed on this thread, but at the risk of being flamed, I'll volunteer my particular favorites.

Creed
Aerosmith
Linkin Park
Dave Matthews
Alanis Morisette
Avril Levigne
Blues Traveler
The Calling

...among others.

Bryan Adams is another big one on my list.  I grew up listening to his tunes.  I also kinda dig Pink's music as well.

No offense but most every band or singer on your list, Irressivor, comtribute to the death of all that is good in this world.

I've spent the last years listening almost exclusively to Pink Floyd and REM. Don't hear much music lately, but I've discobered myself toying with the idea of buying the last Travis album, after I watched one of their concerts on TV.

Maybe it's all in the way you listen to the song. It's been my experience that everyone has their own personal punk rock. For some it's the hair or the clothes, some like the political message, some like anger, or humor. I like it all(not the political stuff so much). If there were a rule book or "punk" cards or a definition, that would pretty much defeat the whole purpose. I hope this doesn't come of as rambling, but  anyway...makes sense to me....I think

PS I like Pink too(for purely non-musical reasons)

"The Ramones, The Replacements, Cheap Trick, The Cramps, Nirvana, The Damned, everything by the Goo Goo Dolls before they went soft, Rancid, The Cure, the Voo Doo Glow Skulls, Bad Religion (ignoring the lyrics), Los Straitjackets, etc."

Yeah, and I'm sure all these guys are just the pinnacle of morality as we know it, huh?  God knows I wouldn't be caught dead listening to any of them.

No offense.

Ooh, handbags at 10 paces.

But seriously, dont insult the Ramones. It's just uncalled for.

I think when J.R. they 'contribute to the death of all that is good in the world' I think he meant in a musical sense, not morally.  I just don't think he, and I have to agree with him this time, is a fan of commercial 'rock'.

But then on the other hand I couldn't possibly listen to a band whose lyrics I strongly disagree with.  The lyrics are an intrinsic part of the music.  Most of the music I listen to has something to say, and the rest is just fun.

"I've actually been to a few shows where the singer sermonizes about the evils of capitalism or religion or something more than playing actual songs."

Be careful not to listen, you might learn something.

Pete

Spike Jones, Wierd Al, Tom Lehrer, CW McCall, Julie Brown... you know all those deep lyrics ;-)

There seems to be a fairly large contingent of punks on this site so i figured i would throw this out there:
www.punkvoter.com

its run by fat mike of nofx/fat wreck chords.

Ah, a man after my own heart. I still count the Dr. Demento's "Best of the 60s" tape my dad got me when I was six as one of the few albums to genuinely change my life. :)

I am sorry Iressivor, but most of these bands are AWFUL. First, Alanis sounds like a goat. Secondly, they promote just as much hate against men (Pink, Avril, Alanis) as most metal bands do against anyone (in my opinion more so). Plus, too many of them whine not sing (like Creed and the Calling). I can whine perfectly well myself. Second, some are total hypocrites (Dave and Avril). Dave is all right, but I hate him for saying that he is innovative and amazing. That is not so. His music is by no means complex and he can't sing in just one register. Avril, doesnt even write her own songs, nor does she play guitar in more than one song. If you are looking for a good pop/rock combo, go with Michelle Branch. She is talented. Hey I like Britney Spears' music, but she doesnt claim to be a great musician.

linkin Park and Bryan Adams are both fine (especially Linkin Park.... now they are innovative.)

Plus, the best punk band by far is Green Day.