The Post Your Favorite Band Thread!

[Jenos Ridan]

They're in my Sig.

They are my Avvy.

[mybike_yourface]

of all time, Crass.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGjk1Y_j8QE

[cena-rules]

Oasis

artist is morrisey

[mybike_yourface]

i suppose as far as current bands go, Man Is The Bastard and there noise side projects, Bastard Noise, Amps for Christ and such are what i really love. i love the whole power violence genre, noise and noisecore stuff. i love Suppression, Despise You, Crossed Out, Spazz all that stuff.

[mybike_yourface]

Jimi Hendrix Experience
AC/DC
Zeppelin
The Who
Steve Miller Band
Arctic Monkeys
Ramones
Van Halen
ZZ Top
White Stripes
Pink Floyd
Kansas
CCR
Cake
Bob Dylan
Bob Marley
Aerosmith


Yeah, I have lots of favorite bands, but if I had to pick one, it would prob be Jimi hendrix.

so you can pretty much turn on classic rock radio and be in heaven, huh?

[btownmeggy]

of all time, Crass.

Sometimes I tell people at parties that my favorite band is Crass just to see how they'll react.

[Curmudgeonx]

Favorite band I just started listening to: Dropkick Murphys
Favorite band I started listening to before that: Bad Religion

[DaGip]

The truth!!

[Hitman079]

Green Day

[reminisco]

Used to be SOAD til I die but now I think I'm changing to Radiohead.

and hey, i have a "theory" -- anyone else notice how the best British 'art rock' bands start out sounding like a great band before them?

Pink Floyd started out sounding like the Beatles, Radiohead started out sounding like Pink Floyd, and Muse started out sounding like Radiohead.

That's an interesting connection but I can't think of how Radiohead sounded at all like Floyd.
Muse used to sound a lot like Radiohead... Of course Radiohead is more talented but I think Matthew Bellamy is a better singer than Thom Yorke. My favorite thing about Radiohead is actually how long they've been playing; 7 unique albums show such an awesome growth and diversity that the average 2-4 album band can't match up to.

songs like Fake Plastic Trees and High and Dry, in particular, have a Floyd feel (and of course i expect you, a die hard Radiohead fan to get all upset about this, but anyway...) like Wish You Were Here, or Learning to Fly. the idea of doing a concept album: OK Computer vs. The Wall. even though nothing from OK Computer or later sounded like Floyd, we can see the influence that the achievements of Floyd had on the members of Radiohead.

the same cannot be said for Thom Yorke or Billy Corgan

Or Serj Tankian.

or Zach de la Rocha.

[reminisco]

in preparation for their new album coming out, i'm gonna have to drop the name of a band that has been a favorite of mine since the first time i saw them live, in 1999.

Death Cab for Cutie.


you may have heard of them. maybe you've heard of the side project Ben Gibbard did, The Postal Service.

if you've seen the movie Garden State, you heard a Postal Service song get covered by Iron and Wine at one point. if you've seen any UPS ads in the last year or two, you've heard a Postal Service song (Such Great Heights) played during it.

a Death Cab song was used for the tv ads for The Science of Sleep, a Michel Gondry picture from 2006.

so, i'm listening to all my Death Cab, and i have it all. i have death cab t-shirts i bought years ago, when the band was literally supporting themselves from the merch they sold at their shows... which often cost only 8 bucks a ticket. the last time i saw them was when they were still charging only 12 bucks to get in... it was at the Troc (Trocadero is the full name) for the Transatlanticism tour...

they're too big time for me to bother going to see them now, i'd rather preserve my memories of seeing them in sweaty poorly lit and poorly ventilated basements, when they were nothing, and i was a hipster music maven.

if you've been sleeping on Death Cab, you need to get the album:

We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes

it was their second full length, and still my favorite. fav track is definitely Company Calls Epilogue. if you like that album, you'll probably like the rest of their work.

[skaterchild3]

The truth!!

attempted hijack?

[OnlyAmbrose]

Tough choice. It changes quite a bit, but I'm going to have to go with U2.

Close runners up are Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, Muse, AC/DC, and the Killers

[reminisco]

you can also hear the influence of bands like Genesis (before Peter Gabriel left) in Radiohead.

or the use of mellotron on OK Computer could even hearken a bit back to King Crimson.

don't get me wrong, i'm a big Radiohead fan. i have everything they've released and a lot of stuff they haven't. i've bought every album the day it's come out since The Bends, and since they're a cool band, i usually got sweet treasures to go with those albums. they packaged posters with each album from Kid A through Hail to the Thief. and hell, they gave away In_Rainbows on the interwebs, a great pre-album leak publicity stunt to counter the tragic leaking of the unmastered Hail to the Thief in late 02, and got free front Arts page coverage in the New York Times as a result. they are still making themselves relevant contributors to the pantheon of rock and roll. (Reckoner and Bodysnatchers have climbed pretty high in my iTunes play count.)

i've seen them 3 times. each time the venue was dictated by whichever one i was able to actually buy tickets for a group of us to go. this is why living on the East Coast rules. from Philly i can access NYC in 90 minutes on Amtrack. Boston is only about a 6 hour drive, DC is 2 hours on Amtrak, Baltimore 1 hour also on Amtrak. So there are always options open if one is clever.

in 98 at Radio City Music Hall (Yorke dedicated Paraniod Android to Bill Gates). in 2001 at Suffolk Downs in Boston (Yorke dedicated Paranoid Android to George W. Bush). and then in 2003 at Tweeter in Camden, New Jersey, directly across the Delaware from Philly (Yorke dedicated it to everyone out on the lawn portion of the amphitheater, thereby dedicating Paranoid Android to me and my friends... for some reason... i guess because we paid for the cheap tickets or something? or they were sick of playing it and since we didn't have seats, were jumping around and yelling the most -- not to mention drinking the most and having the most frequent odd puffs of smoke lifting surreptitiously from within the depths of the crowd -- he thought it was appropriately dedicated).

oh, and i seriously think that Bellamy has chops on the keys that beat anyone in Radiohead any day. Radiohead really shines in their compositions, not really their virtuosity.

[Plumey]

It really seems like Bellamy has been improving lately, keys and guitar. They've always had an awesome live show, though. I first started listening to Muse about a year or so after Showbiz came out - my sister was a big Radiohead fan and happened to have the Muse album. I still like their stuff, and I'm really thrilled that they're so popular in the US now.
Not my favorite band ever, though.
That distinction would go to...um...
Hang on, give me a couple years to figure this one out. =/

[InkL0sed]

in preparation for their new album coming out, i'm gonna have to drop the name of a band that has been a favorite of mine since the first time i saw them live, in 1999.

Death Cab for Cutie.


you may have heard of them. maybe you've heard of the side project Ben Gibbard did, The Postal Service.

if you've seen the movie Garden State, you heard a Postal Service song get covered by Iron and Wine at one point. if you've seen any UPS ads in the last year or two, you've heard a Postal Service song (Such Great Heights) played during it.

a Death Cab song was used for the tv ads for The Science of Sleep, a Michel Gondry picture from 2006.

so, i'm listening to all my Death Cab, and i have it all. i have death cab t-shirts i bought years ago, when the band was literally supporting themselves from the merch they sold at their shows... which often cost only 8 bucks a ticket. the last time i saw them was when they were still charging only 12 bucks to get in... it was at the Troc (Trocadero is the full name) for the Transatlanticism tour...

they're too big time for me to bother going to see them now, i'd rather preserve my memories of seeing them in sweaty poorly lit and poorly ventilated basements, when they were nothing, and i was a hipster music maven.

if you've been sleeping on Death Cab, you need to get the album:

We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes

it was their second full length, and still my favorite. fav track is definitely Company Calls Epilogue. if you like that album, you'll probably like the rest of their work.

Goddamn it remi! You never fail to represent exactly my musical tastes!

Wasn't Company Calls Epilogue Ben Gibbard's favorite Death Cab song? Anyway, it's a good song, but I like Title And Registration better.

[khazalid]

Hard to say. Probably... The Magnetic Fields.

hey, someone with taste. hang on while i look shocked..

[khazalid]

in preparation for their new album coming out, i'm gonna have to drop the name of a band that has been a favorite of mine since the first time i saw them live, in 1999.

Death Cab for Cutie.

a lot of DCfC fans dont know that the name of the group was taken from a track by weird 60's popsters 'the bonzo dog doo-dah band'

highly recommend checking them out, especially that track.

[Dwayne]

1. Motley Crue
2. Guns N Roses
3. Primus
4. Living Colour
5. Men at Work

[crystalzelos]

i have no idea, but last.fm is here http://www.last.fm/user/at_giza/

NAMEDROPPING LOL

[reminisco]

It really seems like Bellamy has been improving lately, keys and guitar....
my sister was a big Radiohead fan and happened to have the Muse album...
That distinction would go to...um...
Hang on, give me a couple years to figure this one out. =/

well, i really only mentioned Muse because i think they have the opportunity to reach a level on the pantheon with other greats. their best work, i'm thinking right now, is still ahead of them. like listening to The Bends in 95 and wondering what was going to come from Radiohead next.

Muse went over really well at Lollapalooza last summer. since that festival has been getting a lot of national attention lately, it's really helped spread their legend.

[reminisco]

i'm just dropping in right now, can't spend a lot of time writing stuff on the boards, but later i'll tell the greatest concert story ever of how i changed history during a Death Cab show in Philly by doing what we are best at: shouting things. it's probably the best "this one time at a concert" story i've got, actually.

[The Kurgan]

The greatest cultural force in the world.

DETHKLOK

[rhoges6]

Arctic Monkeys are my favorite at the moment, but it tends to change depending on my mood. Also other favorites are:
The Shins
Spoon
Phish
Cold War Kids
The Fratellis
Kasabian
Jack Johnson
Matt Costa
Postal Service
and lots of others

[PLAYER57832]

Jame Taylor .. but I am probably showing my age.... : )