OT: The Semi-irregular Music Thread

[Syrinx]

It's been awhile since we've done this. It's always fascinating to me to see the different groups and music people are listening to. Fill out the survey below and add whatever you want including videos, band sites, backstage stories, tour riders, etc.

If you don't know what tour riders are, go look up your favorite band here - some are entertaining, some are stupid.

Be nice. Contrary to what some here believe, Metal is not the only music that doesn't suck.

All-Time Bands/Music
Top-5 Bands/Artists
Top-5 Albums
Top-5 Songs

Current Bands/Music
Top-5 Bands/Artists Right Now
First album you just thought about
5 CDs on the player right now (I realize some of you have never seen a CD - please play along )
Last 5 Albums You Bought/Downloaded

Concerts
Best Concert You've Ever Been To
Last Concert You Went To
Worst Concert You've Ever Been To
Biggest Concert Dissappointment
Artist you'd most like to meet/drink with
Band that you'd love to see in concert but it can never happen

Styles of Music
Favorite styles
Styles you don't listen to

Desert Island Album (you get 1 album for eternity)

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[Valarukar]

Sounds cool.

All-Time Bands/Music
Top-5 Bands/Artists

• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Weezer
• The Strokes
• Coldplay
• Death Cab For Cutie

Top-5 Albums

• Californication-Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Narrow Stairs-Death Cab For Cutie
• Odd Soul-Mutemath
• Wolfgang Adadeus Phoenix-Phoenix
• Give Up-The Postal Service

Top-5 Songs

• American Pie-Don Mclean
• Stairway to Heaven-Led Zeppelin
• Just What I Needed-The Cars
• Beam Me Up-Cazzette
• The Greatest Man That Ever Lived-Weezer

Current Bands/Music
Top-5 Bands/Artists Right Now

• Rilo Kiley
• Fitz & The Tantrums
• Mutemath
• Daft Punk
• Moby

First album you just thought about

Synthetica-Metric

5 CDs on the player right now (I realize some of you have never seen a CD - please play along )

• The Rules Of Dada-Dada Life
• Random Access Memories-Daft Punk
• Fist Of God-Mstrkrft
• Hedonist-Martin Solveig
• The 20/20 Experience-Justin Timberlake

Desert Island Album (you get 1 album for eternity)
Maybe a bit of a cop-out:
Greatest Hits-Red Hot Chili Peppers

 

[Crafton]

All-Time Bands/Music

Top-5 Bands/Artists:

Jazz:
John Coltrane
David S. Ware
Fred Anderson
Cecil Taylor
Clifford Brown or Lee Morgan, can't decide right now

Not Jazz:
The Band
Bob Dylan
Talking Heads
on any given day one of these krautrock acts: Can/Faust/Cluster/Neu
Sonic Youth

Top-5 Albums

Jazz:
1967-John Coltrane-Interstellar Space
1970-Joe McPhee-Nation Time
1955-Clifford Brown and Max Roach-Study in Brown
1993-Charles Gayle, William Parker & Rashied Ali-Touchin' on Trane
1998-William Parker & In Order to Survive-The Peach Orchard

Not Jazz:
1977-Television-Marquee Moon
1975-Bob Dylan-Blood on the Tracks [i prefer the bootleged NY Sessions]
1988-Sonic Youth-Daydream Nation
1998-Silver Jews-American Water
1978-The Spinners-Spinners [lol, like i'd put a Philly album here. lets go with 1991-My Bloody Valentine-Loveless]

Top-5 Songs
Irma Thomas-Wish Someone Would Care
Townes Van Zandt-Be Here To Love Me
James Carr-The Dark End of the Street
Bob Dylan-Blind Willie McTell
Silver Jews-Random Rules

Current Bands/Music

Top-5 Bands/Artists Right Now
Liars
The Walkmen
Destroyer
Camera Obscura (haven't heard the latest album but i played the hell out of the last two)
Low/Yo La Tengo/Dinosaur Jr. (indie bands from 80s/90s still going strong)

First album you just thought about
1971-Link Wray-Link Wray. the album the Stones have spent their entire career trying to record.

5 CDs on the player right now (I realize some of you have never seen a CD - please play along )

my car has a six-CD changer:
1. Miles Davis-A Tribute to Jack Johnson
2. Sonic Youth-Murray Street
3. Marty Robbins-Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
4. Can-Tago Mago
5. Henry Grimes-The Call (60s Free Jazz)
6. Johnnie Taylor-One Step Beyond (70s Southern Soul)

Last 5 Albums You Bought/Downloaded
1. Eleanor Friedberger-Personal Record
2. Rob Brown-Unknown Skies (no, not that Rob Brown!)
3. Califone-Stitches
4. King Crimson-Absent Lovers: Live in Montreal
5. Popol Vuh-Aguirre OST (check it out Big)

Concerts

Best Concert You've Ever Been To
Dinosaur Jr. at the Fillmore. seeing Merle Haggard with Kris Kristofferson and Joan Baez was pretty neat.

Last Concert You Went To
I saw Cynic at Slims. i'm not a metal person at all. interesting experience.

Worst Concert You've Ever Been To
I walked away while the Shins were playing at CMU during Carnival. lol. they weren't bad and they're actually a band a like (can anyone really hate the Shins?) but i was bored and hungry and it was an outdoor venue. think i went to go get a burrito.

Biggest Concert Disappointment
i got nothing, i don't usually shell out big bucks on concerts so i rarely have anything to gripe about.

Artist you'd most like to meet/drink with
Lou Reed, Mark E. Smith (the Fall), John Prine (country/folk singer, hilarious wit), Dennis González (trumpeter, seems like a warm intellectual), George Lewis (trombonist, another jazz intellectual), Leonard Cohen

Band that you'd love to see in concert but it can never happen
Fred Anderson. David S. Ware. Bill Dixon. going with guys who were alive a few years ago but aren't anymore, as opposed to guys who i'd never have had a chance to see anyways.

Styles of Music

Favorite styles
-avant-garde/free jazz
-krautrock
-old school southern soul. even Memphis might be too far North for my taste /sarcasm.
-whatever brand of americana/country-rock/folk-rock you want to claim that Dylan, Neil Young, the Band, CCR, Gram Parsons, Gene Clark fall under
-that strain of post-punk/new-wave/no-wave music that would encompass Joy Division, Talking Heads, PiL, Gang of Four, Television, Magazine, This Heat, Tuxedomoon stretching towards their current imitators (Interpol, Liars, These New Puritans, LCD Soundsystem, etc)

Styles you hate
i've never been able to get into metal.
the last rap artist i cared for was Eazy-E.
at first blush i'd say i'm not big into electronic music but i like Autechre, Caribou, Tim Hecker and drone stuff.

Bonus Coverage

Favorite Soul Singers:
Arthur Alexander
James Carr
Doris Duke
O.V. Wright
Al Green

Favorite Chopin Pianists:
Vladimir Sofronitsky
Alfred Cortot
György Cziffra
John Browning
Grigory Sokolov

Favorite Blues Albums (for RPP and BlindWillieMcTell)
1928-Mississippi John Hurt-Avalon Blues (not technically an album, but the compilation is 13 songs over 38 minutes. that's pretty damn album-like)
1961-Robert Pete Williams-Free Again
1971-Hubert Sumlin-Kings of Chicago Blues, Vol. 2
1968-Magic Sam-West Side Soul
1962-Memphis Slim-All Kinds of Blues

Favorite Pittsburgh Artist
Art Blakey

 

[LetangInTheSO]

All ordered chronologically, not 1-5

Top-5 Bands/Artists

The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Talking Heads
A Tribe Called Quest
Brian Jonestown Massacre

Top-5 Albums
Beatles - Abbey Road
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
NaS - Illmatic
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Take It From the Man!

Top-5 Songs
Jimi Hendrix - Manic Depression
Led Zeppelin - When the Levee Breaks
NaS - It Ain't Hard to Tell
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Straight Up & Down
Radiohead - Paranoid Android

Top-5 Bands/Artists Right Now

My Bloody Valentine
Radiohead
Gorillaz
Black Keys
Brian Jonestown Massacre

First album you just thought about
Talking Heads - Remain in Light

5 CDs on the player right now
[Last 5 played on my iTunes]
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
Outkast - ATLiens
Massive Attack - Mezzanine

Last 5 Albums You Bought/Downloaded

[Last 5 added to my iTunes library]
Frank Zappa - Jazz from Hell
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
Jungle Brothers - Straight out the Jungle
Outkast - Stankonia
J. Cole - Born Sinner

Best Concert You've Ever Been To

Paul McCartney's first performance at CitiField (they made a DVD of it, great show)
Rock the Bells (I try to go annually)
Red Hot Chili Peppers front row on the floor in 1999 (my first concert)
Sasquatch (went annually in the early 00s)

Last Concert You Went To
Forget the artist: jazz music in my neighborhood (Harlem)...was spectacular

Worst Concert You've Ever Been To
Weezer at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver

Biggest Concert Dissappointment
Coldplay in GM Place in Vancouver

Artist you'd most like to meet/drink with
John Frusciante seems like a dude with a lot of stories...he might be too much though.

Band that you'd love to see in concert but it can never happen

Led Zeppelin

Favorite styles

Rock (that's vague but I enjoy most subgenres of rock)
Jazz
Hip-hop
Psychedelic anything
Slowly dabbling into more electronic stuff but don't know my way around yet
Any fusion of the above

Styles you don't listen to
Country

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Psssh, Crafton, Cynic barely counts as metal. Assuming this is reunion era it probably doesn't count at all! *flexes in leather and spikes*

All-Time Bands/Music
I find listing almost impossible but I always do it anyway.

Top-5 Bands/Artists
Iron Maiden
Kate Bush
Depeche Mode
Husker Dü
Thin Lizzy

Top-5 Albums
Brats - 1980
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Judas Priest - Stained Class
Lowlife - Diminuendo
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

Top-5 Songs
I just can't do this. I'm really album-oriented.


Current Bands/Music
Top-5 Bands/Artists Right Now
I'm doing an A-Z listening project right now, so I can't really answer this properly. I started recently and I'm only on the Bs, but the bands with the most plays on last.fm so far are:
Black Sabbath
Blind Guardian
Asphyx
Autopsy
Anthrax


First album you just thought about
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth

5 CDs on the player right now (I realize some of you have never seen a CD - please play along
I also have a six CD changer, which currently contains:
Jawbox - Grippe
Katatonia - Tonight's Decision
Killers (French band) - Miss aux points
Killers (UK band with Paul Di'anno of Iron Maiden fame) - Murder One
King Diamond - Fatal Portrait
Kiss - Kiss
(To make things easier on myself I just grab albums in alphabetical order off the shelves rather than painstakingly deciding what to put in.)

Last 5 Albums You Bought/Downloaded
Sauron - Thrash Assault
Barón Rojo - Volume brutal
Amebix - Arise! +2
Grinder - Nothing Is Sacred
Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier

Concerts
Concerts aren't really a big part of my musical experience. I'm a record collector at heart. Most of what I like is old, so the bands are broken up or washed up or just don't tour near me. Most of the shows I've seen have been at public festival/fair deals or friends' bands at house shows.

Styles of Music
Favorite styles
My roots are in old metal, but I love lots of stuff. I always find it hard to explain my tastes without making people listen to stuff. I find myself kind of biased towards the period of like 1975-1995 regardless of style. It's not a "That was REAL music, man," thing, it just worked out that way.

Styles you don't listen to
I don't think I really dislike any styles outright. What I don't currently listen to or know about I just consider something I might explore later. Lately I've been curious about country so I've bought stuff by The Louvin Brothers, Marty Robbins, Townes van Zandt, Gram Parsons, and The Flying Burrito Brothers recently.

Desert Island Album (you get 1 album for eternity)
Lowlife - Diminuendo. I would want to wallow in my isolation.

Bonus tracks - favorite Pittsburgh band:
Dream Death

 

[Freeptop]

All-Time Bands/Music
Top-5 Bands/Artists
Nine Inch Nails
Pink Floyd
U2
Dismantled
Project Pitchfork

Top-5 Albums
NIN - The Downward Spiral
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
U2 - Achtung Baby
NIN - Pretty Hate Machine

Top-5 Songs
NIN - Gave Up
Pink Floyd - Echoes
U2 - Until the End of the World
NIN - Something I Can Never Have
Dismantled - Purity

Current Bands/Music
Top-5 Bands/Artists Right Now
Acretongue
Neuroticfish
[:SITD:]
Boxed Warning

First album you just thought about
Acretongue - Strange Cargo

5 CDs on the player right now (I realize some of you have never seen a CD - please play along )
Last 5 Albums You Bought/Downloaded
Zeromancer - Bye Bye Borderline
Ghost & Writer - Red Flags
Rein[Forced] - X Amount of Stab Wounds in the Back
Machineries of Joy Vol 5
Boxed Warning - Magnifier

Concerts
Best Concert You've Ever Been To
Roger Waters - September 2010 The Wall at Consol Energy Center
Nine Inch Nails - November 1994 Self Destruction Tour at the Civic Arena
U2 - August 1992 Zoo TV at Three Rivers Stadium

Sorry, after going to 77 concerts, it was just impossible to limit my "best" to a single concert, so I went with a top 3.

Last Concert You Went To
KMFDM - March 2013 at Mr. Smalls Theater

Worst Concert You've Ever Been To
Dismantled - July 2005 at Shady Brady's in Roseville, CA. The local opening acts were bad, and ran too long, and then the bar's sound system didn't work properly, so the music the headline act was playing couldn't be heard. One of the opening acts actually stopped in the middle of a song and announced, "hold on, I have to tune my guitar". Another opening act featured the "Bloodmaster 3000", and a Cookie Monster hand puppet (though not at the same time). Actually, that one was at least a bit entertaining...
When they finally went on, Dismantled attempted two songs that didn't work at all, did the third song entirely acoustically despite being an electronic band, and then the venue said it was closing time so everyone had to leave.

Biggest Concert Dissappointment
Informatik - May 2004 at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco. Fortunately the opening acts (Swarf and Inertia) still made it worth going to.

Artist you'd most like to meet/drink with
Either Ronan Harris of VNV Nation, or Roger Waters of Pink Floyd. They have two very different personalities, but talking to them would be interesting.

Band that you'd love to see in concert but it can never happen
Pink Floyd. I've actually seen all the members of Pink Floyd (except for Syd Barrett) perform, just not at the same time (I saw Nick Mason with Roger Waters and Richard Wright with David Gilmour).

Styles of Music
Favorite styles
EBM/Industrial/Goth/Futurepop
Grunge
Classic Rock
Psychedelic Rock
80's New Wave

Styles you don't listen to
Sturgeon's Law applies - 99% of everything is crap. On the flip side, I've yet to find a genre where I can't find at least one artist that I can enjoy listening to.
That said, my tolerance for Country may well be the lowest.

Desert Island Album (you get 1 album for eternity)
Acretongue - Strange Cargo


Random musician story:
When I was living in the SF Bay Area, I got to know a musician in the Industrial genre from CA, and was talking with him and his wife one time when it came up that his wife had painted the statues for the "Walking to the Sky" sculpture out on the Cut on CMU's campus. (She wasn't the original sculptor, just someone contracted to help with painting the piece). As a CMU alumnus, I was polite about it... at least until she pointed out how she thought it was a rather odd sculpture that seemed out of place there as well

 

[Crafton]

Random musician story:
When I was living in the SF Bay Area, I got to know a musician in the Industrial genre from CA, and was talking with him and his wife one time when it came up that his wife had painted the statues for the "Walking to the Sky" sculpture out on the Cut on CMU's campus. (She wasn't the original sculptor, just someone contracted to help with painting the piece). As a CMU alumnus, I was polite about it... at least until she pointed out how she thought it was a rather odd sculpture that seemed out of place there as well

lol. that 'sculpture' was terrible.

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

All-Time Top Bands/Artists:
Howlin Wolf
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
Fela Kuti
Iggy and the Stooges
James Brown
Dixie Hummingbirds
Can
King Tubby
Al Green
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Parliament/Funkadelic/Bootsy
Sly Stone

5 CDs on the player right now:
Nigeria 70 - Various
Walk Among Us - Misfits
The Album - Fear
Expensive **** - Fela Kuti
Taking Over - Overkill

Best Concert:
Hubert Sumlin...favourite guitar player in top form, sexy Greek professor belly-dancing to the music before moving to Argentina to do it professionally. Yeah.

Last Concert:
Paul McCartney. Played a great Beatles and Wings heavy set for 3 hours, including a couple encores.

Worst Concert:
Disturbed...they were opening for Danzig, and the lead singer gets wheeled out on a Hannibal Lecter gurney. It was the corniest thing I've ever seen.

Artist you'd most like to meet/drink with:
Definitely Captain Beefheart...the most interesting interview I've ever read because he likes playing with words and going off on absurd tangents rather than answering questions, haha. He was a totally unique person.

Band that you'd love to see in concert but it can never happen:
Probably Howlin Wolf's band in the early '60s

Styles of Music:
I guess I lean towards funk and '40s-'50s gospel more than anything these days, but I think just about every genre has some incredible artists I really enjoy. Don't really listen to electronic dance music...I don't think much of it was made for posterity.

Desert Island Album:
Lick My Decals Off, Baby - Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band

It always resets me when the rest of contemporary music seems too normal, too humourless, and too limited in scope/ambition. I wish it would have changed the world, but nobody could really do what they did.

I've also purposely left out classical. But if I had put it in, my desert island "disc" (hey, it could fit on a data disc!) would be Beethoven's string quartets played by the Vegh Quartet, because it's the most amazing music I've ever heard.

Top-5 Bands/Artists:

Jazz:
John Coltrane
David S. Ware
Fred Anderson
Cecil Taylor
Clifford Brown or Lee Morgan, can't decide right now

You ever listen to the Die Like A Dog Quartet (Peter Brötzmann, Wiliam Parker, Hamid Drake, Toshinori Kondo)? I used to own "Little Birds Have Fast Hearts" and I really liked it.

Worst Concert You've Ever Been To
I walked away while the Shins were playing at CMU during Carnival. lol. they weren't bad and they're actually a band a like (can anyone really hate the Shins?) but i was bored and hungry and it was an outdoor venue. think i went to go get a burrito.

The burrito is a harsh mistress.

Styles of Music

Favorite styles-old school southern soul. even Memphis might be too far North for my taste /sarcasm.

Since you like old-school southern soul, you might dig old-school gospel. The "hard" (ie Wilson Pickett) and "sweet" (ie Al Green) singers basically got their schtick from the contrasting leads in the old gospel quartets. I love the rich sound and energy of a small group singing together too, usually with only a bit of drum and/or guitar for accompaniment.





Not for everybody, but I love it. I started out listening to it just to delve a little deeper into the roots of rock and soul, but now I prefer it to either, even as an atheist. Weird how that works.

Favorite Blues Albums (for RPP and BlindWillieMcTell)
1928-Mississippi John Hurt-Avalon Blues (not technically an album, but the compilation is 13 songs over 38 minutes. that's pretty damn album-like)
1961-Robert Pete Williams-Free Again
1971-Hubert Sumlin-Kings of Chicago Blues, Vol. 2
1968-Magic Sam-West Side Soul
1962-Memphis Slim-All Kinds of Blues

Attaboy! Love that Robert Pete Williams. Never have a damn clue what he's singing but he's a helluva guitar player, haha.

 

[Kovifan27]

All-Time Bands/Music
Top-5 Bands/Artists
The Beatles
Nirvana
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Iron Maiden
Traveling Wilburys

Top-5 Albums
Any Beatles Album
Any Nirvana Album
Hendrix-Are You Experienced
Jeff Buckley-Grace
Springsteen-Born to Run

Top-5 Songs
Eagles-Hotel California
Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody
Jeff Buckley-Last Goodbye
SRV/Albert King-Texas Flood
Beatles-Strawberry Fields Forever(Brian Wilsons favorite)

Current Bands/Music
Top-5 Bands/Artists Right Now
Iron and Wine
Houndmouth
Kenny Wayne Shepard
Bruce Springsteen
DMB

First album you just thought about
Slayer-Reign in Blood

5 CDs on the player right now (I realize some of you have never seen a CD - please play along )
Beach House-Teen Dream
Beach House-Bloom
Iron and Wine-Ghost on Ghost
Gordon Lightfoot-Greatest Hits
Jay Rock-Close Encounters Vol #2(local rap)

Concerts
Best Concert You've Ever Been To
HateBreed or Iron and Wine(totally different ends of the spectrum)

Last Concert You Went To
Dave Matthews Band

Worst Concert You've Ever Been To
Dave Matthews Band circa 2001 or 02. Jam band session

Biggest Concert Dissappointment
Probably the DMB jam band session. It was a couple years of great shows before that.

Artist you'd most like to meet/drink with
BB King or John Fogerty

Band that you'd love to see in concert but it can never happen
This list could go forever...Hendrix, SRV, Jeff Buckley, Nirvana....etc etc

Styles of Music-Anything really

Favorite styles-Blues and probably metal

Styles you don't listen to-Pop Country



Desert Island Album (you get 1 album for eternity)
Beatles-Live at BBC...

I'm all over the map.

Artist you'd most like to meet/drink with
John Frusciante seems like a dude with a lot of stories...he might be too much though.

That's actually a pretty damn good choice.

 

[Crafton]

best concert:
hubert sumlin...favourite guitar player in top form, sexy greek professor belly-dancing to the music before moving to argentina to do it professionally. Yeah.

he's an amazing guitarist. his presence on those Howlin' Wolf records is indispensable. speaking of Chicago Blues guitarists i also dig Jimmy Dawkins, Luther Allison, Earl Hooker and Magic Sam.

you ever listen to the die like a dog quartet (peter brötzmann, wiliam parker, hamid drake, toshinori kondo)? I used to own "little birds have fast hearts" and i really liked it.

great band. i think i have most of their records. there's an iteration of the band with Roy Campbell Jr. in the trumpet chair and they absolutely kill. i think Campbell is one of the most underrated trumpeters of this generation. basically any album with a rhythm section of William Parker and Hamid Drake is self-recommending.

since you like old-school southern soul, you might dig old-school gospel. The "hard" (ie wilson pickett) and "sweet" (ie al green) singers basically got their schtick from the contrasting leads in the old gospel quartets. I love the rich sound and energy of a small group singing together too, usually with only a bit of drum and/or guitar for accompaniment.

i've been working my way through this set:

excellent stuff. as a heathen it doesn't completely speak to me, but the intensity carries the day.

love the Wicked Pickett. have you ever heard his take on 'Hey Jude' with Duane Allman on guitar? he sings the hell out of that song.

attaboy! Love that robert pete williams. Never have a damn clue what he's singing but he's a helluva guitar player, haha.

i'd love to see your list of 'top/favorite' blues albums.

 

[orby]

Top-5 Bands/Artists Right Now... In no order, Devin Townsend (and any of his projects), Mike Patton (and any of his projects), Neutral Milk Hotel, Tom Waits, Gojira
Top 5 albums...
Devin Townsend - Terria
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Incubus - A Crow Left Of The Murder (a seriously great and underrated album)
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Tom Waits - Mule Variations

First album you just thought about... Death Grips - The Money Store
5 CDs on the player right now...
Deafheaven - Sunbather
Queens of the Stone Age - Like Clockwork
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (a permanent fixture)
Silversun Pickups - Neck Of The Woods
Soilwork - The Living Infinite

Last 5 Albums You Bought/Downloaded...
Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury
Deafheaven - Sunbather
Queens of the Stone Age - Like Clockwork
Silversun Pickups - Neck Of The Woods
Tomahawk - Oddfellows

Concerts
Best Concert You've Ever Been To... either Iron Maiden or Nevermore, both in 2010. Maiden put on a better show (an incredible show, even), but I got to sing with Nevermore, so that was fun.
Last Concert You Went To... Gojira, Devin Townsend, and The Atlas Moth this past February. I've been low on funds since.
Worst Concert You've Ever Been To... none stick out. been to a few lousy local shows though.
Biggest Concert Dissappointment... Between The Buried And Me. insufferable live.
Artist you'd most like to meet/drink with... Devin Townsend, even if it meant drinking herbal tea.
Band that you'd love to see in concert but it can never happen... Faith No More

Favorite styles Anything that moves me.
Styles you don't listen to I like at least a little bit of everything, or at least I like to think I do

Desert Island Album ...

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea OR Devin Townsend - Terria

 

[SidGenoMario]

Someone on HF has been to a Cynic concert. Didn't see that coming.

 

[orby]

Someone on HF has been to a Cynic concert. Didn't see that coming.

I've been to one too, although they weren't headlining. Paul Masvidal is a strange guy.

 

[Gallatin]

I am curious Syrinx - was your handle inspired by mythology, biology, or Hamilton?

Top-5 Bands/Artists

Radiohead
Miles Davis
Bjork
Zep
Massive Attack

Top-5 Albums

Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - In Rainbows
U2 - Joshua Tree
Davis - Kind of Blue
Bjork - Post

Top-5 Songs
This is impossible, but I'll take a shot....

Radiohead - How To Disappear Completely
Radiohead - Reckoner
Bjork - Bachelorette
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
Zep - Kashmir



Top-5 Bands/Artists Right Now

Air
Gorillaz
Cocteau Twins
Deerhunter
Radiohead

First album you just thought about

Gorillaz - Demon Days

5 CDs on the player right now

Deerhunter - Cryptograms
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Putumayo Presents Gypsy Groove

Last 5 Albums You Bought/Downloaded

Air - Pocket Symphony
UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
UNKLE - War Stories
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Deerhunter - Fluorescent Grey

Best Concert You've Ever Been To

Local Band - Crisis Car - Lava Lounge 11/27/1999

Last Concert You Went To

The Turpentiners - The Thunderbird 06/14/2113

Worst Concert You've Ever Been To

Can't think of one....

Biggest Concert Disappointment

Rusted Root - Palumbo Center - 1995

Artist you'd most like to meet/drink with

I don't worship entertainers, but Moby seems like an interesting bloke to chat with.

Band that you'd love to see in concert but it can never happen

Miles Davis ensemble Sextet

Favorite styles

Alternative
Indie
Psychedelia
Trance
Trip-Hop
Rock
Old School Hip-Hop
Electronica
World Beat

Styles you don't listen to

Metal
modern main stream hip-op
Boy-Bands

Desert Island Album

Radiohead - In Rainbows

 

[Ogrezilla]

All-Time Bands/Music
Top-5 Bands/Artists
The Beatles
The Offspring
Blink 182
Matchbox 20
Cake

Top-5 Albums (I listen to very little music in album form)
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Blink 182 - Enema of the State
Blink 182 - Take of your Pants and Jacket
Matchbox 20 - Exile on Mainstream
Counting Crows - August and Everything After

Top-5 Songs
Counting Crows - Mr. Jones
Pearl Jam - Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee
Cake - Italian Leather Sofa
The Offspring - You're Gonna Go Far Kid

Current Bands/Music
Top-5 Bands/Artists Right Now

I have absolutely no idea

First album you just thought about

Ixnay on the Hombre because random put on an offspring song. from a different album

5 CDs on the player right now (I realize some of you have never seen a CD - please play along )

A blink 182 mix cd
an Eminem mix cd
a TV Theme song and Disney movie song mix cd (I rocked the **** out to A Whole New World on my way home from work)
Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
two random mix cds

Last 5 Albums You Bought/Downloaded

Jackson Brown doing acoustic stuff
Lights doing acoustic stuff
Mulan soundtrack
6 Pence None the Richer
New Found Glory Hits


Concerts
Best Concert You've Ever Been To
Rush 30th anniversary
or
Roger Waters The Wall

Last Concert You Went To
Lights at Mr. Smalls with the wife

Worst Concert You've Ever Been To
Punchline

Biggest Concert Dissappointment
The Clarks playing for free at my college. They just purely went through the motions. It was like listening to an album. And then I got kicked out of the free concert.

Artist you'd most like to meet/drink with
Snoop

Band that you'd love to see in concert but it can never happen
The Beatles I guess

Styles of Music
Favorite styles
Alt Rock
anything I can sing along to in my car

Styles you don't listen to
most metal
most country
dub step
anything where they scream more than occasionally

Desert Island Album (you get 1 album for eternity)
The Beatles - 1

 

[Syrinx]

I am curious Syrinx - was your handle inspired by mythology, biology, or Hamilton?

It's stolen from that...I just liked the sound of it and they are one of my favorite bands.

BTW - I love reading this stuff. I'll get to my own answers after I've had the chance to pour through some more youtubes of bands you all have mentioned that I'm not familiar with.

 

[Rico Fatastic]

I've also purposely left out classical. But if I had put it in, my desert island "disc" (hey, it could fit on a data disc!) would be Beethoven's string quartets played by the Vegh Quartet, because it's the most amazing music I've ever heard.

Obviously a piano piece, but Moonlight Sonata may be one of the greatest pieces of music in the history of music.

 

[SomeDude]

All-Time Bands/Music
Top-5 Bands/Artists
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Elliott Smith, David Ford, Jack White, Conor Oberst, HM to Arcade Fire

Top-5 Albums
Pink Floyd - The Wall, Arcade Fire - The Suburbs , Jack White - Blunderbuss, The Postal Service - Give Up, Bright Eyes - Cassadega

Top-5 Songs
I'll just list one from each of my favorite artists
David Ford - Every Time, Tom Petty - Wake Up Time, Elliott Smith - Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Conor Oberst (Monsters of Folk) - Map of the World, Jack White (Raconteurs) - Carolina Drama, Arcade Fire - Intervention


Current Bands/Music
Top-5 Bands/Artists Right Now
All of my favorite artists are still putting out albums, but for newer bands, I don't mind Muse and The Black Keys

First album you just thought about
Tom Petty & THB upcoming album

5 CDs on the player right now
I actually realized the other day I've never made use of my car's CD changer so I pulled out 6 CD's just to have in there. They are Jack White - Blunderbuss and 5 Mix CD's from high school

Last 5 Albums You Bought/Downloaded
David Ford - Charge, Boyz II Men - Greatest Hits, Jack White - Blunderbuss, Tom Petty - Live Anthology, Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

Concerts
Best Concert You've Ever Been To
My 2nd Tom Petty concert in 2010 at the Pavilion. Had about 20 friends there, just a very fun day.
HM to Hall and Oates at Stage AE (again because I went with a large group) and The Temptations and Four Tops at the Benedum (just a very fun show)

Last Concert You Went To
Tom Petty @ Consol in June

Worst Concert You've Ever Been To
Can't say I've ever had a concert I've ever regretted attending

Biggest Concert Dissappointment
Tom Petty @ Consol in June. Still put on a great show and I had a great time, but it was the first time I've seen them in an arena and the atmosphere wasn't anywhere close to an outdoor show.

Artist you'd most like to meet/drink with
Jack White. Look up his hour long interview with Conan O'brien on youtube, just a very well spoken and interesting guy.

Band that you'd love to see in concert but it can never happen
Elliott Smith

Styles of Music
Favorite styles
Just really love good song writing no matter the style, if you listen to the top songs I listed they all tell great stories. I listen to everything from Rock to Country to Motown to Folk, whatever fits my mood.

Styles you don't listen to
I'll give anything a chance but haven't really found anything I like techno-wise, and most rap

Desert Island Album (you get 1 album for eternity)
Never have an answer for this, too hard.

 

[Ogrezilla]

yinz guys are weirdos

 

[Fordy]

come on son.

Top-5 Bands/Artists:
of Montreal
Kool AD
Kanye West
The Mountain Goats
Bob Dylan

Top-5 Albums:
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Bone Thugs N Harmony - E. 1999 Eternal
cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD

Top-5 Songs:
Kool AD - Dum Diary
cLOUDDEAD - Apt. A (1) and (2)
of Montreal - The Past Is A Grotesque Animal
Future - Turn On The Lights
The Grateful Dead - Ripple

Top-5 Bands/Artists Right Now:
Future
Yung Lean
Freddie Gibbs
Drake
Death Grips

First album you just thought about:
Future - Pluto 3D

5 CDs on the player right now:
Drake - Take Care
Future - Pluto 3D
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
Juicy J - Stay Trippy
Kevin Gates - The Luca Brasi Story

Last 5 Albums You Bought/Downloaded
A$AP Ferg - Trap Lord
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
Freddie Gibbs - ESGN
Gil-Scott Heron - I'm New Here
Trinidad James - 10pc. Mild

Artist you'd most like to meet/drink with:
Kool AD

Band that you'd love to see in concert but it can never happen:
Das Racist

Favorite styles:
Rap
Hip-Hop
Pop
Folk
whatever

Styles you don't listen to:
metal is essentially the only thing i literally cannot listen to

Desert Island Album (you get 1 album for eternity):
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

 

[Syrinx]

That's a brutal list to fill out. And I realize my music never changes much and I like pretty standard stuff for the most part. You all have some interesting tastes.

All-Time Bands/Music

Top-5 Bands/Artists
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
RUSH
DC Talk
Tourniquet

Top-5 Albums
Physical Graffiti
Dark Side of the Moon
Led Zeppelin I or II (can't choose)
Rush - 2112
DC Talk - Jesus Freak

Top-5 Songs
Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You - AINEC - This, for me, is quintessential Led Zeppelin. This is everything they were distilled down to one song. Blues at its very core. Starts light and ends heavy. Best guitar solo in the history of rock and roll. Monster drums. Hammond B3 as good as it's ever been. Unequalled vocals. Total power.


Pink Floyd - Time
Rush - Spirit of Radio
Pink Floyd - Have a Cigar
Led Zeppelin - Ten Years Gone

Current Bands/Music

Top-5 Bands/Artists Right Now
Third Day
TobyMac
RUSH
Skillet
(All I've got)

First album you just thought about
G&R - Appetite for Destruction

5 CDs on the player right now (I realize some of you have never seen a CD - please play along )
Pink Floyd - Animals
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Pine Mountain Railroad - Pickin' Praisin' and Singin'
Strings and Things: The Best in Bluegrass Vol. I
True Bluegrass Essentials

Last 5 Albums You Bought/Downloaded
Pink Floyd - Animals
Strings and Things: The Best in Bluegrass Vol. I
Pinecastle Records: Ultimate Bluegrass
Bluegrass Mastery Vol. 1
Whitesnake Greatest Hits

Concerts
Best Concert You've Ever Been To
Tom Petty - 94 at the Convocation Center in Cleveland

Last Concert You Went To
TobyMac at a church in Durham, NC

Worst Concert You've Ever Been To & Biggest Concert Dissappointment
The Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge tour at Cleveland Municipal - 5th row center stage - They were terrible even back then - I spent the show worried that they were going to break something.

Artist you'd most like to meet/drink with
I don't really have one. I'm most curious about Jimmy Paige but I'd like to leave it that way.

Band that you'd love to see in concert but it can never happen
Led Zeppelin

Favorite styles
Classic Rock
Metal
Bluegrass
Some ProgRock

Styles you don't listen to
'New' Country
99% Rap

Desert Island Album (you get 1 album for eternity)
Physical Graffiti

 

[redmosquito]

I'll play along. Feel free to judge me, I'm weird.

All-Time Bands/Music
Top-5 Bands/Artists:
Pearl Jam, the National, Dave Matthews Band, My Morning Jacket, Led Zep
Top-5 Albums
Pearl Jam-Vitalogy, Zep-Physical Graffiti, Floyd-the Wall, U2- Joshua Tree, National-Boxer
Top-5 Songs
PJ-Black, PJ-Immortality, U2-Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, MMJ- Run Thru, Counting Crows- Round Here

Current Bands/Music
Top-5 Bands/Artists Right Now
Gaslight Anthem, Head and the Heart, City and Colour, National, Elliot Smith
First album you just thought about
American Football-American Football
5 CDs on the player right now (I realize some of you have never seen a CD - please play along )
American Football, The World is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die-Whenever, If Ever, Modest Mouse- Lonesome Crowded West, Two Door Cinema Club- Tourist History, Shins- Oh Inverted World
Last 5 Albums You Bought/Downloaded
Tallest Man on Earth-There's No Leaving Now, Sufjan Stevens- Michigan, Singles Soundtrack, Avett Brothers- Live, Volume 2, Tom Petty- Wildflowers

Concerts
Best Concert You've Ever Been To
Pearl Jam at the Spectrum in Philly 10/31/09
Last Concert You Went To
Jimmy Eat World at Fillmore in CLT
Worst Concert You've Ever Been To
Haven't really been to a bad one
Biggest Concert Dissappointment
Dirty Projectors
Artist you'd most like to meet/drink with
Eddie Vedder or Matt Berninger
Band that you'd love to see in concert but it can never happen
Full lineup Floyd, or U2 before Bono became a smug *****

Styles of Music
Favorite styles
Rock, alt rock, alt, some hip hop/rap
Styles you don't listen to
Country
Desert Island Album (you get 1 album for eternity)
Pearl Jam- Ten

 

[Frank Gallagher]

All-Time Bands/Music
Bands:
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Massive Attack
Hollywood Undead
Thousand Foot Krutch
Anberlin

HON: Apocalyptica, Franz Ferdinand

Albums:
By The Way - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Mezzanine - Massive Attack
Notes From The Underground - Hollywood Undead
Blueprints for the Black Market - Anberlin
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
HON: Night Visions - Imagine Dragons

Songs:

Monarchy of Roses - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Can't Stop - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Believe - Hollywood Undead
Matinee - Franz Ferdinand
1979 - The Smashing Pumpkins

HON: Helden - Apocalyptica (feat. Till Lindemann of Rammstein)

Current Bands/Music

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Apocalyptica
Hollywood Undead
Moby
Beware of Darkness*

HON: Blackmill

First Album I thought of:
Hot Fuss - The Killers

First Album I ever owned:
Tubthumper - Chumbawamba

Last 5 Albums You Bought/Downloaded:

Modwheelmood - Pearls to Pigs
Orthodox - Beware of Darkness
Trouble Will Find Me - The National
Capital Cities - Capital Cities
Simple Math - Manchester Orchestra

5 Albums on The Player:

Hot Fuss - The Killers
Miracle - Blackmill
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child - Manchester Orchestra
Demon Days - Gorillaz

Concerts

Best Concert You've Ever Been To:
Red Hot Chili Peppers

Last Concert You Went To:
Hollywood Undead
Worst Concert You've Ever Been To:
Don't really have one, most were really good
Biggest Concert Disappointment:
Like I said, havn't really had a bad experience with any major band
Artist you'd most like to meet/drink with:
The Smashing Pumpkins or Beware of Darkness (again)
Band that you'd love to see in concert but it can never happen:
Nirvana
Avenged Sevenfold (with the Rev)
Led Zeppelin
The Doors

Styles of Music:
Too many! Rock, Alternative, Hip-Hop, Indie, Metal, Symphonic Metal, Punk, Ska, Grunge, Electronic, Glitch, Drum & Bass, Dubstep (I know), Rap, Reggae Rock, Reggae Metal, Experimental, Trip-Hop, I listen to a LOT of music.
Favorite styles:
Indie, Alternative, Trip-Hop
Styles you don't listen to:
Country, Hardcore Rap

Desert Island Album (you get 1 album for eternity):

Difficult!!!

Miracle by Blackmill or Drink the Sea by The Glitch Mob, both have immense replayability.

 

[Hydro]

All-Time Bands/Music
Top 5 Artists

Kendrick Lamar
Kanye West
Drake
Kid Cudi
D-Why

Top 5 Albums

good kid m.A.A.d city - Kendrick Lamar
Take Care - Drake
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West
Don't Flatter Yourself - D-Why
The 20/20 Experience - Justin Timberlake

Top-5 Songs

Erase Me - Kid CuDi
*****, Don't Kill My Vibe - Kendrick Lamar
Blood on the Leaves - Kanye West
Good Will Stunting - D-Why
Soundtrack to my Life - Kid CuDi


Current Bands/Music

Top-5 Bands/Artists Right Now

Kendrick Lamar
Chance the Rapper
Childish Gambino
SchoolBoy Q
Drake

First album you just thought about

Nothing Was The Same - Drake (Sep 24)

5 CDs on the player right now

Magna Carter Holy Grail - Jay Z
Random Access Memories - Daft Punk
Born Sinner - J Cole
Yeezus - Kanye West
good kid m.A.A.d city - Kendrick Lamar

Last 5 Albums You Bought/Downloaded

Bought:

Random Access Memories - Daft Punk
Magna Carter Holy Grail - Jay Z
The 20/20 Experience - Justin Timberlake
The Wack Album - The Lonely Island
Yeezus - Kanye West / Born Sinner - J Cole (Same day)

Last 5 Mixtapes


The Adventures of Joey Hollywood - Mike JOEY (formerly Mike Stacks)
Beautiful Loser - KYLE
Acid Rap - Chance the Rapper
#10 Day - Chance the Rapper
Big Sean - Hall of Fame (Album download)
Styles of Music

Rap
Hip-hop
Techno
House


Styles you don't listen to
Country
Pop
Metal



Desert Island Album (you get 1 album for eternity)

good kid m.A.A.d city

 

[Lomez]

All-Time Bands/Music
Top-5 Bands/Artists

Radiohead
Radiohead ("You mentioned Radiohead twice." I like Radiohead.)
Elbow
Wilco
Marcus Roberts

Top-5 Albums

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust - DB
Good Morning Spider - Sparklehorse
Blah Blah Blah (or Zombie Birdhouse) - Iggy
Airbag/How am I driving - Radiohead
The Rising - BS

Top-5 Songs

It's my Delight - The Melodians
I'm Waiting for the Man - VU
Helter Skelter
If you don't know me by now - Harold Melvin
Separator - Radiohead


Current Bands/Music
Top-5 Bands/Artists Right Now

War on Drugs
Deerhunter
Grizzly Bear
The National
Elbow

First album you just thought about

Nixon - Lambchop

5 CDs on the player right now (I realize some of you have never seen a CD - please play along )

MCII - Mikal Cronin
Stax 50 - an Anniversary Collection
Parallax - Atlas Sound
Leaders of the Free World - Elbow
Legacy - Bob Marley

Last 5 Albums You Bought/Downloaded

Standing at the Sky's Edge - Richard Hawley
Psychedelic Pill - Neil Young
Where you Stand - Travis
The Messenger - Johnny Marr


Concerts
Best Concert You've Ever Been To

Iggy Pop

Last Concert You Went To

IDK

Worst Concert You've Ever Been To

The Pretenders

Biggest Concert Disappointment

IDK

Artist you'd most like to meet/drink with

Ray Davies or Lou Reed


Band that you'd love to see in concert but it can never happen

Roxy Music

Styles of Music
Favorite styles

Reggae
Philly Soul
Generic Pop
Old Jazz
English pop - 60's/90's


Styles you don't listen to

Country/Rap - never, ever.

Desert Island Album (you get 1 album for eternity)[/QUOTE]

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