Ok, so we have all listed our most prized movies. Now, lets name our favorite CDs. The ones that mean so much. The ones that you just can't live without.
1. Widespread Panic-Light Fuse And Get Away-This is by far the greatest album I have ever heard in my life. The songs flow perfectly, and everything is just so..happy.
Beatles: White Album/Sgt. Pepper/Let It Be/ any other (sort of like asking if you want filet mignon or lobster, at different times I want a different one, but it's all good)
Black Flag: Damaged (got me through high school)
Will the Circle be Unbroken v.2: Good, solid country music, pre pop-country days.
Can't really name any one favorite CD because I go different stages of what I like and what moves me. Right now in my CD player I have Dream Theater -"Images And Words". Before that was Miles Davis - "Kind Of Blue". On my way out this morning it was Jaco Pastorius - "Jaco Pastorius". Yesterday was mixture of Rush - "Vapor Trails", Zebra - "Zebra", Weather Report - "Heavy Weather" and Dave Weckl - "Synergy"
Lalo Schifrin - Dirty Harry Anthology - contains the music from Dirty Harry (1971), Magnum Force (1973), and Sudden Impact (1983) - Jerry Fielding scored the third Harry movie, entitled The Enforcer (1976).
John Williams - Jaws (1975) and Jaws 2 (1978) - Of course I am talking about the 25th Anniversary edition of the Jaws soundtrack, which contains the actual session recordings used in the movie. IMHO his score for Jaws 2 is some of his greatest work.
John Carpenter - The Fog (1980) - My favorite Carpenter score. You might as well add Varese Sarabande's 20th Anniversary Edition of Halloween (1978) (although I could do without the dialogue) as it the music used in the movie, not re-recordings/covers (as was the previous releases) and the soundtrack for Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982).
Jerry Goldsmith - The Swarm, Damien-Omen II - Two great soundtracks from 1978, a particularly strong year for Goldsmith. If and when I get the limited edition of the Magic (1978 as well) soundtrack, toss it on the stack as well. Honorable mention to The Burbs'.
1. Doors - LA Woman
2. The Boss - Born to Run
3. Styx - Any best of or Paradise Threatre
4. Beatles - Seargent Pepper
5. Kiss - A best of mix tape
6. Guitar Mix - some Clapton, Jeff Beck, Stevie Ray Vaughn
and
one Led Zeppelin album to wipe my butt on.
Linkin Park-Hybrid Theory
Rage Against The Machine-Battle Of L.A.
Link 80-E.B.H.C.
All of my Widespread albums: Till The Medicine Takes, Space Wrangler, Don't Tell The Band, Bombs and Butterflies.
The Entire Fight Club Soundtrak-All Dust Bros.
Favorite Tunes:
Allman Bros-Melissa
WSP-Pilgrims
WSP-Bertha
Pearl Jam-Alive
Less Than Jake-Where The Hell Is Mike Sinkovitch?
Reel Big Fish-Boss DJ
Pearl Jam - Ten (Best CD ever), Vs.
Radiohead - The Bends, OK Computer
Nada Surf - High/Low
Ash - 1977, Free All Angels
Coldplay - All albums
Live - Throwing Copper
Stone Temple Pilots - Core, Purple
Jane's Addiction - All
Soundgarden - All
Local H - All
Feeder - All
Foo Fighters - All
I could go on all day..
Nick
Dolph, fantastic tunes!
Not to date myself, but
Almost anything by:
Kansas (best band ever, IMHO)
Deep Purple
Steve Morse
Dregs
Joe Satriani
CCR
Gentle Giant
King Crimson
Early Genesis
Zombies
Yardbirds
Faces
Eagles
Styx (even better sans Deyoung)
Petra (Greg Voltz years)
Glass Harp
Traffic (especially John Barleycorn)
Blind Faith
Kerry Livgren (Solo)
Steve Walsh (Solo)
Honorable mention:
Pat Benatar
Steve Hackett (solo)
Pink Floyd (Water's years)
Kings X
Journey
Little River Band
Boston (except new album)
Van Halen (Sammy's Years) Best concert I've ever seen
Red Elvises
Alan Parson's Project
ELO (with Jeff Lynn)
Wow . . . this is a tough one. But here are a few (in no particular order):
* LED ZEPPLIN - "Runes"
* RAMONES - "Ramonesmania"
* FRANK ZAPPA - "Joe's Garage"
* ZZ TOP - "Afterburner"
* ZZ TOP - "Eliminator"
* ELVIS COSTELLO - "My Aim is True"
* ELVIS COSTELLO - "King of America"
* PINK FLOYD - "Dark Side of the Moon"
* DOOBIE BROTHERS - "The Captain and Me"
* DOOBIE BROTHERS - "Toulouse Street"
* BLONDIE - "Parallel Lines"
* BLONDIE - "Eat to the Beat"
* FRANK SINATRA - Just about anything he ever recorded
* HANK WILLIAMS (Senior, not Junior) - Just about anything he ever recorded - the all-time master of country music, bar none
* STEELY DAN - Just about anything they ever recorded
* BEATLES - "White Album"
* VAN HALEN - "Van Halen"
* VAN HALEN - "Van Halen II"
* BLACK SABBATH - "The Ozzy Osbourne Year"
* OZZY OSBOURNE - "Crazy Train"
Thanks, Skaboi! You have some great tunes yourself there.
Looks like a lot of people are into classic rock. I can definitely respect that. It'll be interesting to see what everyone else lists.
Nick
I listen to hard metal and rock.
I hardly own any CD's anymore cause everything is almost all MP3's.
A few that I like are:
Disturbed
Sevendust
Breaking Benjamin
Primer 55
Union Underground
Endo
40 Below Summer
30 Seconds to Mars
I like the new Metallica....their new stuff is a lot darker than the last few abums they put out.
I also listen to most 80's stuff as well
My all time favorite metal band is Megadeth
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My very rare copy of "Machina II" by the Smashing Pumpkins. I paid $50 to buy the two CD's, and I am so happy I did. The story goes that at the Smashing Pumpkins last show at the Metro, they made 25 vinyl copies of Machina II and gave them to their most dedicated fans, and told them to make copies and distribute them independently. I bought a copy because I know how much it means to those who made copies. Plus, it's a great CD. All unreleased stuff.
Scott
kyuss
queens of the stonage
orange goblin
-im really into "stoner metal" curently but im sure soon ill revert back to underground hip-hop like:
del the funkee homosapien
the coup
jurassic 5
-but i always stay faithful to good ol' rage against the machine
I don't own any music CD's. I have a few old soundtrack albums from movies like Star Wars and such, but that's it.
I like listen in to the Matrix Reloaded Cd , Especially the music during Neo vs Mr. Smith+ fight.
Metal Gear Solid.
Rockman Dash/Megaman Legends.
-the first rule of fat club-
Ash, if you have never seen Sevendust live, check them out.
Saw them about two years ago at a MASSIVE concert near where I live. They played with Nickleback, Puddle Of Mudd, Seven Mary Three (awesome band), and some stoner rap rock band that was out at the time.
Sevendust was by far the best band to be on the stage. Their set started at 6PM, we had all been there since about 8:30 that morning, and almost everyone was drunk. As they started, a massive mosh pit formed (probably well over 800 people in it), and things just went from there.
Fantastic band, great show.
I've seen Sevendust 3 times.
I saw them open for Megadeth.....Creed.....and Slipknot.
When I first saw them they ruled.....but as the tour wore on toward the end you could tell that they were getting tired because Lajon Witherspoon tended to just bark into the mic rather than sing. They actually sucked when they opened for Slipknot.
I could not believe that this was the same Sevendust that gave Megadeth a run for their money!
I was very disappointed in their last album. Other than that they rock.......
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Any Dream Theater (Really digging disk 2 on the new one)
Fates Warning (Anything with Ray Adler)
Savatage "Dead Winter Dead" & "Wake of Magellan"
Mudvayne "LD50" (That album just rocks)
and too many others to name
First off, Rob, very cool to see someone list Petra, especially back in the old Greg Voltz days (how badass a middle initial is X, by the way?).
Top 5 best records ever:
Tanglefoot - Music In the Wood
The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash
Devin Townsend - Terria
White Zombie - Astrocreep 2000
Clutch - Pure Rock Fury
Honorable mentions and current favorites:
Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
Cradle of Filth - Damnation and A Day
Hollenthon - Domus Mundi
Vintersorg - Till Fjalls
Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies
Everything else by Tanglefoot, Devin Townsend/Strapping Young Lad, and The Pogues
Brother R
It's really awesome to see how many people on this board like some kick ass music.
You mentioned Clutch, in your post. Figured I was one of their only fans. Saw them last year at an annual "Rocktoberfest" that one of our stations has. Clutch and Megadeth. Rocked hard.
"Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliars" - The Firesign Theatre
"Prairie Home Invasion" - Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon
"Voobaha" - Barnes & Barnes
"Psychedelic Jungle" - The Cramps
"The Third Reich 'n' Roll" - The Residents
"Shame-Based Man" - Bruce McCulloch
"Tiki Man" - Deadbolt
"Q. Are We Not Men? A. We Are Devo!" - Devo
Damn near anything by Frank Zappa
Gad, I could go on forever...
Shadows Fall - Of One Blood
Shadows Fall - The Art Of Balance
Black Label Society - 1919 Eternal
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss
Exodus - Bonded By Blood (it's VERY rare, and I got it for $3)
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Stuck Mojo - Rising
Stuck Mojo - Declaration Of A Headhunter
Stuck Mojo - Violate This!
Skaboi: Clutch has been one of my favorite bands for some time. Neil Fallon has to be in touch with some kind of higher power to write lyrics like that.
Drezzy: Bonded By Blood isn't really a rare record, but Exodus is a kickass thrash band and I wish Rob Zombie would let Tempesta do some more of that s**t on his records. He's a far better drummer than he lets on.
Also, Tuesday I saw Rollins covering Black Flag tunes for the West Memphis Three. It rocked my damn face off, and I highly suggest if this bill comes to your town that you go see it. Great music and for a good cause too.
Brother R
Favorite music right now
American Head Charge.This is one of the coolest metal bands ive heard in a long time
Anything by BB King or John Lee Hooker.Yes I know im the same guy who posted about a need for better metal bands.But when I need to mellow out nothing does it better than the blues.
GodHead.Awsome Industrial rock band.Sort of like Manson but not with all the satanic stuff.
God Smack.One of the best main stream rock bands out there.
System of a down
I really really really really dislike Henry Rollins.
He's an arrogant a***ole.
He's a bad actor.
And as for when he sang for the Misfits....don't get me started.
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I got to meet Henry Rollins when he came to town for a poetry reading. I found him to be a real nice down to earth guy. Very soft spoken yet very impressionable. Never was a big fan of his music but as a person he was great.
That's the impression I get from him, too. I've never been able to get into any of his stuff (except for "TV Party," which is a fun song), but the interviews with him I've read are always very entertaining. Plus, I understand he rereleased a lot of great stuff on Infinite Zero, like The Monks and Devo.
"Lounge Against the Machine" by Richard Cheese. Lounge covers of the likes of Limp Bizkit, Rage Against the Machine, Radiohead, and the Dead Kennedys that are not only hilarious, but damn catchy and great driving music. Nothing beats cruising down a country road with the windows down, blaring a Vegas version of "Rape Me" by Nirvana!
The Misfits...don't get me started. Ugh. Give me the Nekromantix any day.
Brother R
Nekromantix are great also Tiger Army is a pretty descent band i love Reverend Horton Heat, rockabilly?psychobilly? whatever it rocks
Oh, and by the way, you're thinking of Glen Danzig, not Rollins. Rollins was never in the Misfits, he was in Black Flag, and Danzig is indeed a dick.
Brother R
Yup, you're right. I don't know why I was thinking the Misfits...it's been a looooong week.
As for Danzig, I actually like some of his stuff.
Not too bad.
I cannot believe that I forgot Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
That is one album I can listen to every day and all day
I have the original cover - the ultra-cheesy one with just the Exodus logo and a red/black background - for the album. I think most have the siamese babies.
I was heavily into his version of Black Flag in high school-- really helped me get through those years.
I was shocked to see him years later on VH1's The List. That was hard to take.
Hoooboy. I like EVERYTHING. Well, genre-wise, anyway. I have some serious beefs with certain bands.
Currently, my favorite bands, however, are Radiohead (God, I love their new stuff. Soooo much.), and the Dillinger Escape Plan. $5 to anyone who can find enough beauty in the chaos that is Dillinger to listen to an entire album at once.
It's gonna be easier for me to list bands that I dislike, rather than the ones I enjoy. Major hates include:
Disturbed. God, I hate these guys. One my major hates is being generic, or only having one real sound, and milking that for an entire album As well as inane lyrics. And, well, that pretty much sums up Disturbed.
Linkin Park- Same deal. It's great mood musi, if that mood is 'p**sed off and watching anime'. Aside from that, I think Chester should start his own band and strip down the sound. Overproduction hurts his voice, it would sound better raw.
Creed- Dear, dear God. No, really. Since another one of my all-time favorite bands is Pearl Jam, Scott Stapp just makes me sad with that incredibly contrived Eddie Vedder voice he tries ever so hard to cultivate. And nevermind the messiah complex...
And..erf. I've run out of bitterness steam. Must..listen..to..more...Dillinger...
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> Disturbed. God, I hate these guys. One my major hates is
> being generic, or only having one real sound, and milking that
> for an entire album As well as inane lyrics. And, well, that
> pretty much sums up Disturbed.
Thank God someone else who feels the same way I do about thos band. But you have me at an advantage. Singer David Drainman went to high school with me ( I can't remember him but all my friends tell me I should remember him as we all partied together....news to me) If you so much as say one bad thing about them people tell you that you are not supportive of the local talent. Sorry I am supportive of real talent and all they can show me is they know how to copy themselves on each album just like Creed
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