What are your favorite music groups?

[Mattfrie1]

With all of the top 10 threads we have been seeing lately, I'd figure throw another one out there. Your list doesn't have to be 10, and you can list some bands and artists you hate too... ;)

In no particular order:

Rammstein
Nine Inch Nails
Oomph!
The Beatles (Or any of their solo work)
Marilyn Manson
White Zombie
Korn
The Rolling Stones
Filter
AC/DC
Metallica
Depeche Mode

I hate:
Any modern day "Disney pop" (i.e. Miley Cyrus, The Jonas Brothers, etc).

[Jodwin]

Onmyo-za.

Everything else comes and goes.

[Sharessa]

Mein Gott, will this never end? Anyway...

The Legendary Pink Dots
The Beatles
Steely Dan
Frank Zappa
Pink Floyd
Devin Townsend
Cake
Nine Inch Nails
Radiohead
The Who

[Reisal]

Manilla Road
Reverend Bizarre
Mozart and other classical/baroque composers
Gannondorf
Immortal
Hellhammer
sHEAVY
Evoken
Cathedral
Planet Gemini
Limbonic Art
Skepticism
Enslavement of Beauty
Bigelf
Drowning the Light

..and countless others

[Sporku]

http://www.last.fm/user/Agent_Spork

[Ed]

Revolting Cocks
Gang Green
The Cramps
Skinny Puppy
Dead Kennedys
Ministry
Scratch Acid
The Cure
GG Allin
Butthole Surfers
Jesus Lizard
Velvet Acid Christ (despite the fact that Bryan is a total dick)
The Pixies
KMFDM
NOFX
Dick Dale
The Misfits
Killing Joke
Godflesh
ect. ect. ect.

[destx]

Lady Ga Ga
High School Musical
SlIpKnOt
KoRn
Crazy Frog
Green Day
Blink 182
Avril Lavine
Dragonforce
Linkin Park

...

[Bucket]

I think it would be easier just to say that I like progressive rock, and then provide a list of bands that are NOT progressive rock.

Pink Floyd
Tool
Led Zeppelin
Radiohead
Coheed & Cambria
Mastodon

[Sporku]

Bucket said:

I think it would be easier just to say that I like progressive rock, and then provide a list of bands that are NOT progressive rock.

Pink Floyd
Tool
Led Zeppelin
Radiohead
Coheed & Cambria
Mastodon

You must be one of those people that think "progressive rock" is a term used to describe bands that have a keyboard player and are capable of playing odd time signatures, rather than the proper term used to describe bands that actually, you know, progressed the genre further.

Pink Floyd isn't a progressive rock band? So being a pioneering and incredibly influential rock band that is still emulated to this very day is not progressive in any sense?

[Use]

destx said:

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Excellent selection of Patton kind sir.

[Aliotroph?]

With all the top-ten threads we've been having lately, I figured I'd start ranting on about how intellectually lazy people make endless top-ten lists.

[PRIMEVAL]

Miseration
Turmion Katilot
Slayer
Arch Enemy
Death
Renascent
Sepultura (Max Cavalera days)
Soul Embraced
Living Sacrifice
Mastery

[Technician]

Bucket said:

I think it would be easier just to say that I like progressive rock, and then provide a list of bands that are NOT progressive rock.

Pink Floyd

Post Syd Barrett Pink Floyd is considered progressive rock.

I suppose the two most influential bands for me would be Family and Stealers Wheel.

[DoOmEr4LiFe]

Savatage (and TSO by extension)
Sonata Arctica
Megadeth
Fates Warning
Metallica
Helloween
Blind Guardian
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Queensrÿche
Virgin Steele
Dream Theater
Stormwitch
Mercyful Fate

[TawmDee]

i'd list a bunch of metal bands but to be honest Exhorder are the only one worth mentioning

[Maes]

Jodwin said:

Onmyo-za.

Everything else comes and goes.

Even L0rdi? :-p

[Jodwin]

Maes said:

Even L0rdi? :-p

Everything.

Well, except Neko Mimi Mode.

[Bashe]

Have a gander

http://www.last.fm/user/Bashe

[Patrick]

Favorites:

Pink Floyd
Wolfmother
Led Zeppelin
The Eagles of Death Metal (not a metal band)
Joe Walsh
Jefferson Airplane
John Coltrane
George Gershwin


Pretty much any psychadellic/stoner rock/jazz. I used to listen to punk, but now I see it as very angry music and don't care for it anymore.

[Sergeant_Mark_IV]

My favorites (In no particular order):

AC/DC
Helloween (I don't like them with Michael Kiske. Helloween with Andi or Kai just rocks.)
Motorhead
Motley Crue
Guns n' Roses (Old Albuns)
Metallica
Sodom
Nuclear Assault
Slayer
Rob Zombie
Real Steel
Uzi
Strike Twice
Hammerfall
Liege Lord
Sepultura
Faith No More
Anthrax
Astral Doors
Madmax
Ronnie James Dio on his solo carrer.
Bruce Dickinson on solo.
KISS
Quiet Riot
Poison
Twisted Sister
Crashdiet
W.A.S.P.
Some Classic music, like Bethoven, Luciano Pavaroti, etc.

I hate:
Marilin Manson (Yeah, I hate him. Any problem?)
Slipknot
Korn
System of a Down
Linkin Park
Rage Against The Machine (Yeah, I hate them too. So what?)
Any Hip-Hop or Rap
The Doors
Led Zeppelin
Iron Maiden
Pink Floyd
Rhapsody of Fire
Dragonforce
Manowar
Any Techno (Exept Prodigy)
ANY EMO/post-punk/dont matter how you call those freaks/21th cenutury bizarre band.
Disney Bands (i.e. Miley Cyrus, The Jonas Brothers, etc).

[dew]

Sergeant_Mark_IV said:

I hate:
Marilin Manson (Yeah, I hate him. Any problem?)

nope, it's cool.

Rage Against The Machine (Yeah, I hate them too. So what?)

nothing. that's your business.

Led Zeppelin
Iron Maiden
Pink Floyd

I'M GONNA CUT YOU, BITCH

[Dittohead]

No love for Rush?

Although I'll step even further out and say that 1980-1991 produced their best works. Signals is my favorite record of all time.

[Sergeant_Mark_IV]

Hahaha...

Seriously, I have personal reasons to hate Led Zeppelin, Doors, and Pink Floyd.
When I was a child, my older brothers were all day out listening those bands, but they had only one cd of each. Do you know what is listening everyday the same songs on loud volume? Listening Another Break in the Wall or Whole Lotta Love five or six times a day? Seriously, thats a torture!

[Kyka]

Van Halen
Robbie Williams
U2
Alter Bridge
Yngwie Malmsteen
Disturbed
Christina Aguilera
Muse
Silverchair

[edit] and Beethoven is awesome.

[Sporku]

Sergeant_Mark_IV said:

Hahaha...

Seriously, I have personal reasons to hate Led Zeppelin, Doors, and Pink Floyd.
When I was a child, my older brothers were all day out listening those bands, but they had only one cd of each. Do you know what is listening everyday the same songs on loud volume? Listening Another Break in the Wall or Whole Lotta Love five or six times a day? Seriously, thats a torture!

Well it's understandable you'd detest Pink Floyd from hearing The Wall day in and day out, considering it's a terrible (or at best, terribly boring) album, and marked the sharp decline in the musical quality of Pink Floyd's output since.

[Bucket]

AgentSpork said:

You must be one of those people that think "progressive rock" is a term used to describe bands

Well, I sure as hell don't define it as "any old band capable of playing in 5/4".

Pink Floyd isn't a progressive rock band? So being a pioneering and incredibly influential rock band that is still emulated to this very day is not progressive in any sense?

New sounds are a characteristic of music in general. In that sense, Pink Floyd isn't prog rock any more than Grandmaster Flash is. However, two of the defining characteristics of prog are the incorporation of divergent musical styles and tightly composed extended pieces. What style does Floyd do except psychadelic blues? What has Floyd composed besides extended guitar solos?

Floyd is a good band. Not great, but good. And certainly not prog.

[Bank]

I have listened to these all within the last week.

Diplo
Maluca
Major Lazer
M.I.A.
Santogold
Crookers
L-VIS 1990
Andrew W.K.
Balkan Beat Box
Duke Ellington
Vangelis
Buraka Som Sistema
Dubmood
OverCoat
Fuck Buttons
Sonny Sharrock and Lance Carter
Wavves
Led Zeppelin
Billie Holiday
Cab Calloway
Nirvana
Alice in Chains
Crystal Castles
Mr. Vegas
Michael Jackson
Rusko
Girl Talk
Blaqstarr

[Patrick]

AgentSpork said:

[I]t's a terrible (or at best, terribly boring) album, and marked the sharp decline in the musical quality of Pink Floyd's output since.

My avatar is my favorite Floyd album, but I kinda have to agree about the Wall. The musical pieces are lacking in the psychedellic sound I loved from Dark Side of the Moon. However, I still think that it's a brilliant album, because I still can enjoy listening to the story of Pink. I've not honestly heard an album that can tell a story as well as the Wall.

[Reisal]

Sergeant_Mark_IV said:

I hate:
Marilin Manson (Yeah, I hate him. Any problem?)
Slipknot
Korn
System of a Down
Linkin Park
Rage Against The Machine (Yeah, I hate them too. So what?)
Any Hip-Hop or Rap
The Doors
Led Zeppelin
Rhapsody of Fire
Dragonforce
Manowar
Any Techno (Exept Prodigy)
ANY EMO/post-punk/dont matter how you call those freaks/21th cenutury bizarre band.
Disney Bands (i.e. Miley Cyrus, The Jonas Brothers, etc).

You and I share a common hatred/dislike for the garbage you listed.

[TawmDee]

ok here

http://www.last.fm/user/TawmDee/charts?rangetype=overall&subtype=artists

my most favorite bands currently have to be sybreed, dagoba, and pissing razors. seriously underrated bands, but some of the best metal i have ever heard.