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I was just on an irc channel having a discussion about different genres of music. I thought it would be interesting to see your points of view on the topic. I'm currently studying a BTEC national diploma in music at my local college and I'm learning about different styles of music, and the structure etc. I've really grown to aprpeciate a wide range of music over the years. As you will see by my list. My all time favourite has be Led Zeppelin due to their massive inspiration, amazing solos, talent, songwriting ability and stage presence. But enough about that, some of my favourite bands are: 3 Doors Down AC/DC Aerosmith Alice Cooper Audioslave Bon Jovi Black Sabbath Boston (havn't heard alot) Bryan Adams Chris Rea Dire Straits Eminem (not all of his stuff, but things like the cover of Aerosmith - Dream on, I love) Eric Clapton Europe (yes I know they only had The Final Countdown but hey, what a classic!) Fleetwood Mac Foo Fighters (I wish I was Dave Grohl) Guns 'N' Roses Incubus Intwine Iron Butterfly James Brown Jamie Cullum Jimi Hendrix Joe Satriani John Williams Katatonia (Swedish rock band not Welsh pop band spelt with a C) Korn Led Zeppelin Lostprophets Lynyrd Skynyrd Maralyn Manson Mark Knopfler (solo stuff as well as Dire straits) Metallica Michael Jackson Muse Nickelback Oasis Phil Collins Pixies Queen Queens Of The Stone Age REM Rage Against The Machine Red Hot Chili Peppers Stereophonics Steve Vai The Eagles The Hives The Smashing Pumpkins Thin Lizzy Tony Iommi (solo stuff as well as sabbath) Travis Yngwie Malmsteen ZZ Top There may be more. I'm also into Blues, I'm a massive fan of Jazz too. I beleive some of the world's best musicians are Jazz musicians. As my composition tutor quite rightly said: Quote: I don't beleive there is such a thing as bad music, only music with potential played badly. What about you? Note: Please don't turn this into a rap vs metal vs rock topic, whatever.
Dave, you know what I like, but the rest may not. Led Zeppelin AC/DC Boston Journey Lynyrd Skynyrd Creedence Clearwater Revival Bachman-Turner Overdrive Blue Oyster Cult Electric Light Orchestra Pink Floyd The Eagles The Cars The Beatles The Rolling Stones The Doobie Brothers Yes George Thorogood The Who Guess Who Bad Company Bob Seger Aerosmith Black Crowes Supertramp Rush Steve Miller Band Guns N' Roses Whitesnake Nazareth 38 Special Steppenwolf Joe Walsh Dire Straits Queen Bon Jovi Billy Squire Billy Idol April Wine Foghat Hooters Jimi Hendrix The Doors Allman Brothers The Scorpions ZZTop Grand Funk Railroad Grateful Dead Styx Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath Eric Clapton Cream Thin Lizzy John Mellencamp Cheap Trick Foreigner Foo Fighters Red Hot Chili Peppers Silvertide Matchbox 20 Smash Mouth Sugar Ray Counting Crows Gorillaz
ROCK N' ROLL!!!!!!! Nirvana Van Halen Led Zeppelin Def Leppard AC/DC Alice Cooper Lynyrd Skynyrd Fleetwood Mac Creedence Clearwater Revival KISS Bachman-Turner Overdrive Bob Dylan Blue Oyster Cult David Bowie Pink Floyd Iron Maiden (some songs, not all. They have some good songs) The Eagles REO Speedwagon The Cars The Beatles The Rolling Stones The Who Guess Who Bad Company Bob Seger Aerosmith Guns N' Roses Steppenwolf Queen Bon Jovi Billy Squire Foghat Jimi Hendrix Allman Brothers ZZ Top Grand Funk Railroad Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath Red Hot Chili Peppers Yes, Led Zeppelin is the all-time best. The Who is a close second. But Stairway to Heaven is one of the greatest songs, if not the greatest, in history.
I think my list would as big as all three of y'alls, so I'm just gonna say Classic Rock, plus Green Day and Gorillaz.
Rock n roll, surf, funk, rockabilly, psychobilly, punk rock, 77, country western, hardcore. i aint gonna start listin bands
Mostly classic rock, alternative rock, hard rock, metal, heavy metal, and a little bit of everything else. About the only band I like that hasn't been listed already is Godsmack.
Why don't you just place a poll in here? Then, you can see what genres are most popular.
Anything that sounds good. My interest is mostly around indie rock and alternative though. I like classic rock too but I don't listen to it nearly as much. An example of indie rock would be the band The Velvet Teen. I'm sure none of you have heard of them.
I know it's not much, but here it goes:
I'm a sucker for opera
Nine Inch Nails Opeth Radiohead Deftones In Flames Dark Tranquillity A Perfect Circle Audioslave Dream Theater Fear Factory Iron Maiden Meshuggah Pink Floyd Slayer Strapping Young Lad Tool Rammstein Sigur Ros Rage Against the Machine Mike Patton Devin Townsend among more.
1:Death (my number one band, Everything was great from this band, The music, their inspiration, non commercial. R.I.P Chuck Schuldiner) 2: control denied (another music project from Chuch Schuldiner) 3: Iron maiden 4: Cannibal corpse 5: Suffocation 6: slayer (their old music) 7: kreator (their old music) 8: Morbid angel (except their albums "heretic" and "Gateways To Annihilation" 9: Pantera (R.I.P Dimebag Darrell) 10: Vader (R.I.P Krzysztof "Docent" Raczkowski) There are alot more metal/deathmetal band I like, ALOT more. Some "normal" music: 1: The eagles 2: Led zeppelin 3: Dire Straits 4: pink floyd 5: toto The most music I play and listen in death trash/heavy metal/death metal. I don't like bands like slipknot and stone sour, Nu metal or whatever it is called. My "idols" are: 1: steve digiorgio ;the master at bass guitar, he played in bands like: iced earth (cd: horrorshow). testament, death (cd: "Human" and "individual thought patterens"), conrol denied (cd: the fragile art of existance") 2: steve harris; Iron maiden bass player, he's damn fast to, But I don't think he'll be able to play the things like steve digiorgio does. 3: alex webster; Cannibal corpse bass player. He's also Ultra great. I have alot cannibal corpse dvd's and he really plays his balls off. death metal bass, jazz, everything.
I have to say some of my biggest idols are: Billy Cobham (Solo Jazz Drummer) Tony Royster (Solo Jazz Drummer) Neil Peart (Rush Drummer) Chad Smith (Red Hot Chilis Drummer) Jon Bonham (Zep's Drummer) Steve Vai (guitarist) Dave Grohl (foofighters vocals, foofighters guitar, qotsa's old drummer, Nirvana's old drummer, Tenacious D's Drummer) Bryan Adams (lyrical Genius as well as vocals and guitar) Pick Withers (Dire Strits Drummer) Mark Knopfler (Dire straits vocal + guitar + solo career guitar/vocals) Kirk Hammet (Metallica lead guitarist) Lars Ulrich (Metallica drummer/songwriter) James Hetfield (metallica vocals/guitar/songwriter) Jose Paillas II (Incubus Drummer) Joe Satriani (insane solo guitarist) Yngwie Malmsteen (insane solo guitarist + vocals) Tony Iommi (Sabbath Guitarist) There are more but I'm sure you've already got bored of reading the list.
I guess you're a drummer, But don't you like dave lombardo? he's a great drummer. He's back in slayer now. and that drummer from Dream theater?
Yes I'm a drummer almost 3 yeats straight. Joey Jordison and Dave Lombardo are good drummers yes. But Ibeleive metal drummers, talented though they are are overrated. I'm not saying they are crap, they have incredible talent but there are better drummers out there. Jazz drummers are among the best in the world. I've been lucly enough to meet Billy Cobham in person. Such a nice guy and such amazing talent. I'd also like to add Buddy Rich to my list.
Hydra wrote on Thu, 22 September 2005 03:47 Mostly classic rock, alternative rock, hard rock, metal, heavy metal, and a little bit of everything else.
idebo use winamp for god sake. and my genre (Genre was the question, not band names.) is anything made from 1955< Oh Yeah >1997
Interesting. I don't see why you wouldn't like a single thing after 1997 though. My personal Favourite album is from 2000. Tony Iommi collaborating with other artists such as Henry Rollins, Skin, Dave Grohl, Billy Corgan, Ozzy and more. It's a truely awesome CD I suggest you buy it. It's just called "Iommi".
Duro Dominator Mindcontroller Neophyte Korsakoff Androgyn Network Evil Activities The Horrorist The Prophet Lady Dana Buzz Fuzz King Matthew & Bass-D Sven R-G Bass-T Above & Beyond Jean Pulsedriver Rocco Megara Rob Mayth Gizmo Darkraver Clive King & Scott Marten Donkey Rollers Sam Punk Pres. Soundfix Coretex Sob Creators Twice DJ Bad Boys Showtek Southstylers Pacific Link The Beholder & Max Enforcer Zairon ZMF Ultra Tech Ard & Tech Rexanthony Phillipe Rochard Thomas Rubin Zany The Ultimate Seduction Lady Tom TNT Darrien Kelly Scott Brown Inferno Technosis The Original Hyperact Lord of Hardcore Dell Genaside Bass-X Auriga Renegade & Static Prototype Equazion Hardtrance Mr Brown Ultimate Buzz Sonar Zone Sub Source Diss Reaction Promo Human Resource Klubbingham Shog Cosmic Gate Antoine 4 Strings The Drill One More Angel Tatana TALLA 2XLC MR Party Pimps Axwell Ron van den beuken DJS at Work Simon Clime Heiko und Maiko Michael Urgazsc Royal Gigolos Z-ren
Well, one of em works with me. And his name is "Z-ren" =)
I'm a guitarist. My idols: Jimi Hendrix Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) Tommy Iommi (Sabbath) Gary Rossington (Skynyrd) Allen Collins (Skynyrd) Angus Young (AC/DC) Slash (GNR) Ted Nugent Pete Townshend (The Who) Eric Clapton Eddie Van Halen
Yeah, all of those guys are good. Can't forget Eric Clapton, though.
Where's Kirk Hammet? Steve Vai? Joe Satriani? Yngwie Malmsteen? Eric Johnson? Joe Walsh? Van Halen? Etc. Etc. Etc.
I don't know half of those. Joe Walsh is good, and Eddie Van Halen is pretty good, I haven't heard Steve Vai, though you praise him... and the rest I don't know.
Steve Vai taught Kirk Hammet (metallica) to paly guitar. He's also an insane solo player. If I remember correctly, Satriani taught vai to play guitar. The genre they play, I suppose, is an aquired taste as it's basically an instrumental song with no lyrics, just 3 minute solos. Try downloading for the love of god by steve vai and surfing with the alien by satriani.
HORSE The Band, bitch. (Alternative/Punk/Dance)
WTF?!?!? I FORGOT ERIC CLAPTON AND EDDIE VAN HALEN?!?!?!?!? How the Hell did that happen?
DJM wrote on Thu, 22 September 2005 15:42 Interesting. I don't see why you wouldn't like a single thing after 1997 though. My personal Favourite album is from 2000. Tony Iommi collaborating with other artists such as Henry Rollins, Skin, Dave Grohl, Billy Corgan, Ozzy and more. It's a truely awesome CD I suggest you buy it. It's just called "Iommi". Well its really like 1989 but FF7 came out and i have that OST. I hate rap, i hate rock where it sounds like the guy is having a seizure on the floor and some guy put a mic next to him. I noticed in alot of cases that it really reflects the person's opposite. For instance i can call my mom bitch, and we both laugh. But i cant tell Brandy that i love her. So i listen to 80's music and such, all about love and relationships. Whilst most of you listen to rap and rock because you cant freely express your anger. Its not true in every case, but it is true more than not. Heavily true that is.
Oblivion165 wrote on Thu, 22 September 2005 18:02 Whilst most of you listen to rap and rock because you cant freely express your anger. I don't see how this is true. I mean, I can agree to a certain extent with like death metal and other bullshit rock genres like that, but for the most part I don't see rock as being an outlet for most people to vent their anger.
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Nobou Uematsu yet.
Javaxcx wrote on Thu, 22 September 2005 20:22 I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Nobou Uematsu yet. Is he the guy that Composes Final Fantasy Music?
idebo wrote on Thu, 22 September 2005 06:27 I know it's not much, but here it goes: I have quite a few of your songs. My musical taste is so different though, I bet none of you have heard of The Velvet Teen, nor listened to the OLD Modest Mouse (when they had some of the best indie rock out there).
Javaxcx wrote on Fri, 23 September 2005 02:22 I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Nobou Uematsu yet. How did I miss him? Otherworld is a class song. Did he compose To Zanarkand aswell? That's a brilliant peice of piano music.
the same goes for frank klepacki, you'd think there'd be one mentioning about him
gbull wrote on Fri, 23 September 2005 07:53 hell yea, Mechanical Man is awesome. Stomp. (Frank K music...) Oh and HORSE the Band too!
DJM wrote on Fri, 23 September 2005 06:24 How did I miss him? Otherworld is a class song. Did he compose To Zanarkand aswell? That's a brilliant peice of piano music. I believe he was licensed and commissioned to do the entire Final Fantasy Fanchise. It's pretty amazing with that man can do with a VST and a synthesizer. Someone worth mentioning of course is Jeremy Robson of Kingston Ontario. Uematsu's works are amazing templates to remixers like him. The general MIDI Uematsu has been limited to for production reasons (I can only assume) doesn't give justice to the possibilities that can be generated. Jeremy Robson is one of the best I can think of who can take something as memoriable as the "Fifth Tier" of the Dancing Mad symphonic and turn out something one cannot discern from genuine orchestration. Jeremy Robson's main site. Additional songs from him not listed on his site (includes Kefka's Adagio) Good stuff, highly recommended.
Well, the classic rock will always be on my list of things I would like to listen to but it's just not my style. I'm more of a modern rocker. Adema - Self Titled Insomniacs Dream Unstable A.F.I - Self titled Sing the Sorrow Bush - Golden State Deconstructed The Science of things Best of 1994-1999 Breaking Benjamin - Saturate We are not alone Chevelle - Wonder whats next? This Kind of Thinking ( Could do us in) Cold - 13 Ways to bleed on Stage Year of the spider A Different Kind of Pain Crossfade - Self titled Disturbed - Down with the sickness Beleive Ten Thousand Fists Music as a weapon II Godsmack - Self titled Awake Faceless The other Side Hawthorne Heights - The Silence in black and White System of a down - Self titled Steal This album Toxicity Mesmerize Un-relelased Songs Slipknot - Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses That about my flavour right now.
EXdeath7 wrote on Fri, 23 September 2005 14:16 Well, the classic rock will always be on my list of things I would like to listen to but it's just not my style. I'm more of a modern rocker. Don't put classic rock off as something "to listen to". Make it something that you DO listen to. Might I suggest Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Queen, Yes, Rush, Supertramp, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Pink Floyd. There are obviously plenty others, but those are the top of my list.
Ozzy, Black Sabbath, The Eagles, The Cars, Golden Earing... Yeah, I shouldn't start listing them, because the good ones are to numerous. Then there's the not as good ones. And so on and so forth. J Ball got a few of them.
I like Jazz. Not in extreme amounts, but I do like it.
I'm more of a Blues person myself. Never cared for Jazz.
For the people who have never heard Steve Vai I suggest you search p2p for speed metal symphony. I am going to get you all listening to this genius of guitar playing by the end of the week.
I love Jazz, ever since I had to listen to it because I take Jazz in my Highschool, it grew on me and it's pretty realaxing to listen too. [Edit] I also listen to Story of the Year, Sum 41, Linkin Park, Black Eyed peas, Hedley and Jazz occasionally when I get tired of listening to the same old stuff over and over. btw if you're wondering I edited this post to make it 'less' spam
I'm guessing by your sig that you play a musical instrument. Yes?
you sir are correct! I play clarinet and a blue alto sax.
Yeah okay, you got me, back on topic now. I'd love to play sax but what with me improving my drumming and learning acoustic and electric guitar I don't have the time or the money to do so.
pulverizer wrote on Thu, 22 September 2005 13:42 I guess you're a drummer, But don't you like dave lombardo? he's a great drummer. He's back in slayer now. and that drummer from Dream theater? Mike Portnoy, what about Meshuggah? Tomas Haake reigns supreme over both Lombardo and Portnoy in terms of technical ability. Joey Jordison is sloppy as hell, what are you people smoking? Anyway, I play the guitar, bass and keyboards. I used to play the trumpet and recorder as well.
sniper12345 wrote on Mon, 26 September 2005 10:58 pulverizer wrote on Thu, 22 September 2005 13:42 I guess you're a drummer, But don't you like dave lombardo? he's a great drummer. He's back in slayer now. and that drummer from Dream theater? Mike Portnoy, what about Meshuggah? Tomas Haake reigns supreme over both Lombardo and Portnoy in terms of technical ability. Joey Jordison is sloppy as hell, what are you people smoking? Anyway, I play the guitar, bass and keyboards. I used to play the trumpet and recorder as well. I don't have any music from Meshuggah. Gene hoglan is also a very good drummer. at least I think he's a good drummer. I'm a bass player so I don't know much about drums,well, not technical. I always play along with the drum though.
I play the guitar and drums (only for about a year in my free time). the drummer from dream theatre is pretty fuckin' great, but i like to listen to jazz drumming more, because it's more independant and has a personality. Dream Theatre's amazing, i know, they're all near prodigies, but I don't like that metal kind of drumming (not necessarily dream theatre but you might know what i mean), because it's just fast and full of double/triple bass pedals to a point where it doesn't sound accoustic anymore, it's got no flavor.
3 Doors down is really good. Favorite genre? Frank Klepacki. XD
My favourite music: Linkin Park (except Reanimation album) Rammstein (almost everything) Robert Miles (nice instrumentals) Ingrid Alberini (a.k.a. In-Grid, damn i love her voice) Hymn of The Soviet Union Painkiller Credits Theme Frank Klepacki's soundtracks: Red Alert 2: HM2, Grinder, Destroy. Tiberian Sun: Ion Storm, Slave to the system, Killing Machine, Rain in the night. Renegade: Got A Present For Ya.
pulverizer wrote on Mon, 26 September 2005 15:49 sniper12345 wrote on Mon, 26 September 2005 10:58 pulverizer wrote on Thu, 22 September 2005 13:42 I guess you're a drummer, But don't you like dave lombardo? he's a great drummer. He's back in slayer now. and that drummer from Dream theater? Mike Portnoy, what about Meshuggah? Tomas Haake reigns supreme over both Lombardo and Portnoy in terms of technical ability. Joey Jordison is sloppy as hell, what are you people smoking? Anyway, I play the guitar, bass and keyboards. I used to play the trumpet and recorder as well. I don't have any music from Meshuggah. Gene hoglan is also a very good drummer. at least I think he's a good drummer. I'm a bass player so I don't know much about drums,well, not technical. I always play along with the drum though. Gene Hoglan...of course. I love his current work with Strapping Young Lad as well as what he did with Death as well. I finally got the new Opeth CD Ghost Reveries, it's so good. Oh, and I've been playing the piano/keyboards for almost 10 years, guitar for about 4 years, and bass around the same.
sniper12345 wrote on Thu, 29 September 2005 00:30 pulverizer wrote on Mon, 26 September 2005 15:49 sniper12345 wrote on Mon, 26 September 2005 10:58 pulverizer wrote on Thu, 22 September 2005 13:42 I guess you're a drummer, But don't you like dave lombardo? he's a great drummer. He's back in slayer now. and that drummer from Dream theater? Mike Portnoy, what about Meshuggah? Tomas Haake reigns supreme over both Lombardo and Portnoy in terms of technical ability. Joey Jordison is sloppy as hell, what are you people smoking? Anyway, I play the guitar, bass and keyboards. I used to play the trumpet and recorder as well. I don't have any music from Meshuggah. Gene hoglan is also a very good drummer. at least I think he's a good drummer. I'm a bass player so I don't know much about drums,well, not technical. I always play along with the drum though. Gene Hoglan...of course. I love his current work with Strapping Young Lad as well as what he did with Death as well. I finally got the new Opeth CD Ghost Reveries, it's so good. Oh, and I've been playing the piano/keyboards for almost 10 years, guitar for about 4 years, and bass around the same. I don't have any new work from gene hoglan. Only from death. does he still play trash metal with fast heavy double bass? I've heard that he has to walk with a stick because his knees are damaged cause of his drumming.
Yea, try and get your hands on say, Shitstorm from Alien (which is SYL's latest effort), and you'll notice he's still nuts with the double bass. Also he's in the video for Opeth's The Grand Conjuration, since Lopez is sick and Hoglan is filling in.
Hey hey. Thought you might want to know but it looks like I'm getting a record deal
that is very sweet! Just for yourself or a band of yours, something like that?
Well a friend of mine is a solo guitarist/singer/songwriter. But the record company (MAS records, founded the one and only Robert Plant) said that they'd sign him if he got a drummer and a bassist. It's nothing largescale, a few gigs here and there, and a few tracks on a yearly smallscale album. But it's still a record deal and the experience would certainly come in handy. I've met the guitarist of Robert Plant's new band, but I havn't actually met the man himself. My boss tells me that Mr. Plant visits the Indian quite often, so soon enough..... In case I havn't mentioned before, I live about 2 miles from him so that's why he is so involved at college etc.
Remember, autograph.
Good to hear, DJM. Me and another guy are playing live soon, atleast we hope. =)
That's pretty cool, DJM, always helps to have someone close to jumpstart your stuff. Bands around where I live usually go around with some low quality studio demo's of their bands for a while, but gigs are pretty easy to get if you know people to piggyback with. Every now and then, though, some band hits it big with a crowd and gets pretty popular around the city.
Im not gonna list all the music i like, there is just too much,i will just list the genres. ok well im into most types of music, like rock, some heavy rock, alternate rock, industrial rock, techno, electronica, some trance, dance, rnb, rap, hip hop, latin, instrumental, and more.
DJM's Topic question: What about you? Seether Avenged Sevnfold Rob Zombie Offspring Megadeth Metalica Disturbed Powerman 5000 And there are tons more, but I do not know the names of the Artists.