I felt like I was taking the thread from it's original intent in Six Strings, so I thought I'd start a new one.
Music I love...
Alternative & Classics:
Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Metallica, Rush, Zappa, Santana, Bob Marley, Jethro Tull, Dire Straits, Deep Purple, AC-DC, Peter Frampton, ZZ Top
Tool, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Rage Against the Machine, Temple of the Dog, STP, Chili Peppers
Blues Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Robert Cray, Stanley Jordan, John Lee Hooker
Oldies - I define as being together before 1970 The Beatles, The Stones, The Doors, The Who
Classical type Guitar:
Jesse Cook, Ottmar Liebert, Gypsy Kings, Al Di Meola
Classical:
Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Vivaldi
Honestly... I was trying to be brief. My taste runs the gamut (partially from running an audio/video store for a long time).
I'd like to know other people's interests.
Sean Taylor was one of a kind, may he rest in peace.
Classic Rock:
The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Pink Floyd, Traffic, Cream, AC/DC, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Canned Heat, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, The Doors, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Fleetwood Mac, The Grateful Dead, Jackons Browne, Jefferson Airplane, Little Feat, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Bruce Springsteen, Steppenwolf, Steely Dan, Warren Zevon
Punk/New Wave/Alternative:
Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Ramones, The Buzzcocks, The Cramps, Gang of Four, Iggy Pop, PIL, Revolting Cocks, Patti Smith Group, Urban Verbs, B-52's, Bus Boys, The Cars, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, Devo, The Pretenders, The Plastics, Thompson Twins, Split Enz, GO Gos, REM, Aztec Camera, The Bangles, Adrian Belew, Big Audio Dynamite, Big Country, Björk, Bruce Cockburn, Scritti Politti, Clannad, Psychedelic Furs, Cyndi Lauper, Hoodoo Gurus, Eurythmics, Kate Bush, Roxy Music, U2, Simple Minds, The Cure, Echo & the Bunnymen, Yaz, XTC, Wire, Lloyd Cole And The Commotions, Wall of Voodoo, Blancmange, The Blasters, The Blue Nile, The BoDeans, Billy Bragg, Camper Van Beethoven, Captain Sensible, Martha & the Muffins, China Crisis, The Church, Cocteau Twins, The dB's, Depeche Mode, New Order, Fishbone, Dire Straits, The English Beat, Fine Young Cannibals, The Fleshtones, Freur, Peter Gabriel, Guadalcanal Diary, Madness, Jerry Harrison & the Casual Gods, John Hiatt, Bruce Hornsby and the Range, Hüsker Dü, Juluka, Tommy Keene, Kissing The Pink, Kraftwerk, Oingo Boingo, Robert Palmer, Let's Active, Prefab Sprout, Love and Rockets, The Lucy Show, Midnight Oil, Ministry, Modern English, Nine Inch Nails, Sinead O'Connor, The Pogues, The Police, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Replacements, Shriekback, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Skinny Puppy, The Smiths, Sonic Youth, Soul Asylum, The Stranglers, Talk Talk, Tears for Fears, The The, Throwing Muses, UB40, Violent Femmes,
Blues
Robert Johnson, Paul Butterfield, John Lee Hooker, Keb Mo, Johnny Winter, Bonnie Raitt, Guitar Junior, Buddy Guy, BB King, Magic Slim & the Teardrops, Muddy Waters, Louis Armstrong
Jazz:
Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Coltrane, Tom Scott, Flim & the BB's, Glenn Miller, Pete Fountain, David Benoit, Ella Fitzgerald, Bob James Trio, Diane Schuur
Violent Femmes :grin: I love to annoy my wife by cranking them up.
I am fairly eclectic with my tastes - just about everything from Gregorian Chants, Celtic and Pipes to Metallica and AC/DC.
I don't particularly care for Rap, Country (though bluegrass is fun) or modern rock (as most bands sound the same, and I don't need any help with depression thank you very much).
I am, however, proud of the fact that I like the old hair bands of the 80s
And I take it back from the other post about you not mentioning Rush, Mark ::grin::
Rich in Roanoke
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OK... first of all... I can't believe I forgot Jimi. I can't help but feel I will be punished for omitting the king. What's a week without All Along the Watchtower... Janis a worthy addition too.
Funny seeing all those 'alternative' bands from my high school days... spent a lot of nights sneaking out the bedroom window with stuff like New Order, The Cure, The Smiths, Depeche Mode or Violent Femmes on the walkman.
I have been to A LOT of concerts and quite surprisingly, I've never got as mangled as I did at the Pogues concert. My buddy Jeff broke 2 ribs in the pit... ugly. Shane Macgowan has the nicest set of pearlies to ever grace a CD cover. You wanna swing a stein, drink beer and get drunk... then you can't do much better than Rum Sodomy and the Lash. I still listen to the odd New order track and the odd Smiths tune, but I always keep my steady diet of the Pogues.
And now I'm lying here I've had too much booze I've been shat on and spat on and raped and abused I know that I am dying and I wish I could beg For some money to take me from the old main drag
Shane's favorite cocktail is grapefruit juice and tequila... I think his lyrics come from experience
Oh and one last thought... only two types of music i don't like... Country & Western.
Although as a Canadian, I of course have to make minor allowances for Shania (in one song doses) just to support my country's heritage. As long as it's a video.
Sean Taylor was one of a kind, may he rest in peace.
I had the good fortune of being in college towns during the mid-eighties to early ninties (UNC, Duke, NC State) so I got to see tons of bands (Echo, Cure, REM, Replacements - they were drunk as hell and put on a lame show, The Church . . . and on and on. This was college alternative before alternative just became a marketing term.
Most campuses would have free outdoor concerts with label (not major label) bands twice a year. I saw The Fleshtones, Let's Active, Fetchin Bones, The Bodeans, Guadelcanal Diary, Dreams So Real and others for free. It was a great time to be in that area.
I lived in the DC area in the early eighties and used to love Georgetown clubs. Music videos were just starting to emerge and Rock America had some wild ones of bands like: Iam Siam, The Chili Peppers, Alphaville and more.
I do like some Rap - early RUN DMC, Ice-T (saw him at the first Lollapoluza show in 91" and he kicked ass) Paris, and Grand Master Flash. Funk is also cool.
I am getting tired of Yuppie "smooth" jazz and unispiring guitar rock.
Some New Age is good - Kitaro, Liz Story, Michael Hedges and Harold Budd.
Also i forgot a really killer band - Underworld (spawned from Freur [Doot Doot] and early guitar based Underworld of the late eighties). Love electronica - Hooverphonic, Bassomatic, Groove Armada, DJ Icey, Moorcheba, and other Trip Hop.
Damn it is good to talk about this stuff, most folks just look at me funny when I go off on this. It's like when people come over and actually look at my music collection as opposed to just saying "O play anything - it doesn't matter". Geez I hate that.
"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son." - Dean Wormer
Speek...you mentioned trip hop. Morcheeba, etc. What about Portishead...??? Seen them live in Chicago front row center stage...actually got to light Beth Gibbons smokes for her. She was kinda tipsy, but still sounded better live than the album could touch, which is rare. Lamb is good too.
Good call Skinz74. There are too many to mention so always chime in with more. I got a Portishead CD when my wife came back from England in the mid ninties - someone there recommended them. Awesome sound.
"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son." - Dean Wormer
I like quite a bit of rap, more than just Run DMC & GMF... Snoop, Busta Rhymes, Public Enemy, Eminem, DMX, Beastie Boys, NWA, Ice Cube, Tupac, Schooly D, Will Smith...
I like a lot of Reggae and Ska too.
Been to lots of concerts...
Pink Floyd (5), Rush (5), Metallica (4), Roger Waters - solo (2), Stones (2), AC DC (2), The Who, Supertramp, Santana, Tragically Hip, The Cult (2), Jeff Beck, The Pogues, Motorhead, Alice Cooper, Bad Country, George Thoroughgood, James Brown, Guns N Roses, Aerosmith, Ziggy Marley, Faith No More, The Cure, Skinny Puppy, Spinal Tap, Jeff Healey, Howard Jones, April Wine, Scorpions, Kingdom Come...
There were lots of good local punk bands too that we were frequenting during our youth but most of the names wouldn't mean anything to anyone. A lot of painful mosh pit memories though...
Sean Taylor was one of a kind, may he rest in peace.
I grew up on Hendrix, Clapton, Elton (like the old stuff still) Van Halen, Hagar, Led Zep, big-time Floyd fan, big-time Aerosmith fan (thru Night in the Ruts - they now suck!), ACDC, Bad Company, Blue Oyster Cult, Boston, The Stones, Black Sabbath/Ozzy, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Who, The Cult, Robert Cray, Cream, Deep Purple, Def Leppard, Dio, Docken, Doobie Brothers, Fleetwood Mac, Foreigner, Guns & Roses, Heart, Journey, Kansas, Mellencamp, Nazarath (have an autographed LP), Nugent, Tom Petty, Police, Queensryche, Scorpions, Seger, Thin Lizzy, .38 Special, Damn Yankees, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Yes, ZZ Top, Billy Squire
Now I feel as though I've mellowed or wussed out and listen to more main stream stuff than you guys have mentioned like 3 Doors Down, Kravitz, Candlebox, Collective Soul, Foo Fighters, Creed, Better Than Ezra, Extreme, Everclear, Green Day, Kings X, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Kenny Wayne Shepperd, Ian Moore (great live!), Tonic, Goo Goo Dolls, U2, The Wallflowers, etc.
I can't stand any form and/or fashion of Rap.
I've been to too many concerts to list...but should make that list some day.
God bless our troops and Joe Gibbs.
We'll miss you, Joe.
Holy Chit - I completely FORGOT Kansas - ::thwapping self in forehead:: That would have to rank right up there for me - I still love their ballads - some of the longest songs I have ever heard. Phenominal sound, they work the violin in perfectly with their music - awesome.
Rich in Roanoke
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Let others hail the rising sun:
I bow to that whose course is run
as expressed in "six strings", i am a METAL HEAD but i appreciate pretty much anything with a guitar in it, with the exception of country and punk rock. i also like rap i still think the first wu-tang is still off the hook. i really like when heavy bands feature rap artist (anthrax was one of the first with public enemy). the entire judgment night soundtrack was really good. i can pretty much listen to anything EXCEPT COUNTRY, that #&@* is for puke fans.
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I'm big into Music, I'm going to Middle Tenn. State Univ. For Music Production. (I want to be a producer)
As far as stuff I enjoy: Nine Inch Nails, Tool, A Perfect Circle, David Bowie, Dimmu Borgir, Depeche Mode, Some Early Madonna, Cannibal Corpse, Deadsy, Pink Floyd, R.E.M. , Marilyn Manson, Rammstein, OOMPH, Deftones, The Cure, The Melvins, Tomahawk, Fantomas, Smashing Pumpkins, T-Rex, Bauhaus, Roxy Music, Brian Eno, King Crimson, etc.
I do enjoy rap thoroughly... Project Pat, Three 6 Mafia, OutKast, Kanye West, Bone Thugs N' Harmony, Tupac, Biggie Smalls, Jay-Z, etc.
I also like a lot of wild stuff like Enya, soundscapes..etc.
I also take part in a couple of musical projects..
All of those sites will have songs for you to listen to. 56K'ers will have a hard time getting steady streaming audio.
Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must
Feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.
METAL ..... KORN,METALLICA,FLAW,DISTURBED,GODSMACK,40 BELOW SUMMER,QUEENSRYCHE,YNGWIE J. MALMSTEEN,DROWNING POOL,EVANSCENCE,LACUNA COIL, ....SOME OLD 80'S METAL. love jewel.
