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The title says it all. Please list your favorite bands. No specific order they have to be in.


Here's mine:

Iron Maiden, Iced Earth (before Glorious Burden), Megadeth, Metallica (Until Reload), AC/DC, Queen, Styx, Aerosmith, Kiss, Alice Cooper, Dio, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Bruce Dickinson, Alan Parsons Project, ASG, Audio Adrenaline, The Beatles, Billy Joel, DC Talk, Def Leppard, Guns 'N Roses, Helloween, Jet, Marilyn Manson, Motley Crue, Newsboys, Joan Jett, Relient K (Except Mmhmm), Pillar, Saxon, Slayer, Smashing Pumpkins, Stratovarius, Supertramp, All-American Rejects, Van Halen, ZZ Top, Weird Al, Pink Floyd, Boston, and Cradle of Filth.

Pretty well rounded eh?

Favorite Musicians/Bands

The Beatles
The Kinks
The Zombies
Johnny Cash
David Bowie
Jimi Hendrix
Led Zeppelin
T-Rex
The Band
Eric Clapton/Cream/Derek and the Dominos
The Yardbirds
Beck
The White Stripes/Jack White
Neko Case
Spoon
Hank Williams Sr.
Uncle Tupelo
Wilco
Violent Femmes
The Shins
Iron and Wine
Stevie Wonder
The Spinners
Marvin Gaye

That is what initially comes to mind, but I might as more as I think of them.

Saetia, Small Brown Bike, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Orchid, Indian Summer, Moss Icon, The Locust, Ottawa, Jihad, Aus Rotten, combatwoundedveteran, The Crimson Curse, The Swing Kids, Heroin, Antioch Arrow, I Hate Myself, stabyouintheheadandeatyourfaceoff, Nausea, Doom, The Mock Heroic, Angel Hair, Union of Uranus, Unwound, Neurosis, Time In Malta, His Hero Is Gone, Kill The Man Who Questions, Minor Threat, Final Conflict, Envy, Discharge, Atari Teenage Riot...

I'd answer this but then everyone would know who I really am.

Curve
Lush
Slowdive
Mojave 3
Monster Movie
Neil Halstead
Ween
Wilco
Rainer Maria
Guns'n'Roses
Gavin Friday
Dread Zeppelin
Handful of Snowdrops
US3
Happy Mondays
Tom Waits
Alain Bashung

I listen to about 90%* of the abovementioned. I'm too lazy to retype them all. Up the Irons, though!

*of the first 2 posts!

Way too many to list, so I'll list a few.

The Doors
David Bowie
Radiohead
A Split Second
Ministry
NIN
Covenant
Informatik
Depeche Mode
Johnny Cash
Dwight Yoakum
The Reverend Horton Heat
The Stray Cats
Static X
Slipknot
Jean Michel Jarre
Vangelis
Beenie Man
Buju Banton
Sean Paul
Lez Zeppelin
Tool
A Perfect Circle
Smashing Pumpkins
etc.
etc.
etc.

My tastes in music are pretty fricken eclectic. :D

The White Stripes Coldplay Kaiser Chiefs Idlewild The Music The Beatles The Darkness Dogs Die In Hot cars Foo Fighters Franz Ferdinand The Futureheads Kasabian Keane Killers Muse Nirvana Oasis Queen The Ramones Razorlight Snow Patrol Thirteen Senses The Zutons

Heh, I already did this here (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=429480&page=11&pp=15). Not worth checking out unless you like punk.

I'll just list off all the artists I own albums of:

AC/DC
Aesop Rock
Alice in Chains
The Beatles
Beck
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Bush
Eric Clapton
Coheed and Cambria
Eminem
Filter
The Flaming Lips
Galactic
G. Love and Special Sauce
Green Day
Guns n' Roses
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Hot Hot Heat
In Flames
The Killers
Korn
Lacuna Coil
Led Zeppelin
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Offspring
Our Lady Peace
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Pink Floyd
The Pixies
Rage Against the Machine
The Rentals
Rilo Kiley
The Rolling Stones
Andres Segovia
The Smashing Pumpkins
Soul Coughing
Spoon
Steppenwolf
Stone Temple Pilots
Sublime
The Toadies
Tool
Violent Femmes
Weezer
The White Stripes
The Who
Wilco
The Zutons

Iron Maiden
Iced Earth (including TGB)
Megadeth
Metallica (Until ...And Justice)
Alice Cooper
Black Sabbath,
Ozzy Osbourne,
Alan Parsons Project,
Helloween,
ZZ Top

the bits of your list i love (took out a few i like & listen to but don't love)

my additions:



Pitchshifter
Testament
Deftones
Pantera
Korn
Kingdom Come
Joe Satriani / G3
Bolt Thrower
Napalm Death
Cream
Hendrix
Alice In Chains
Zeppelin
Morbid Angel
Skid Row (go Seb! woo!)


that'll do :)

Blind Guardian
Iced Earth
Pantera
Dimmu Borgir
Finntroll
Ensiferum
Danzig
Slayer
Tenacious D
Nine Inch Nails
Mindless Self Indugence
Rammstein
Coal Chamber
KMFDM
Aphex Twin
Professional Murder Music
Juno Reactor
Infected Mushroom
The Aquabats!
Catch 22
Voodoo Glow Skulls
River City Rebels
Anti-Heroes
Minor Threat
Smut Peddlers
Cockney Rejects
The New Pornographers
Beck
Gorlliaz
Blur
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien
Kaizer's Orchestra
Molotov
GO!GO!7188
Thee Michelle Gun Elephant
The Yellow Monkey
Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra

As you can see I have very eclectic(sp?) tastes. :D

The Beatles
Barenaked Ladies
Crowded House
Liz Phair
Living Colour
Tom Hearty and the Petbreakers
Misfit, I
OutKast
R.E.M.
Neil Finn

Oasis
The Stone Roses
Ocean Colour Scene
The Killers
Kasabian
The Rolling Stones
The Jam
The Clash
The Beatles
The Verve
The Libertines
The Pogues
The Charlatans
The Streets
Happy Mondays
The Music

I thought of a whole bunch more and this could use a bump, so...

Sonic Youth, Wu-Tang Clan, Deftones, Filter, Prodigy, Deltron 3030, Nirvana, Norma Jean(Bless the Martyr only), NWA, The Dismemberment Plan, Dark Throne, Schizoid, Alec Empire, Ronin, EC8OR, Front Line Assembly, TSOL, The Pixies, Swallowing Shit, Spazz, Reversal of Man, Radiohead, Propagandhi, (pre-Black Album) Metallica, Slayer, Joy Division...

Alabama
The Beatles
Pink Floyd

Ash, Biffy Clyro, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Radiohead, Funeral For a Friend, Queens of The Stoneage, The Futureheads, Brand New, Greenday, Metallica, Hundred Reasons, Kasabian, The Libertines, Marmaduke Duke, Pixies, Chilis, Rancid, Smashing Pumpkins, Snow Patrol, Weezer, Yourcodenameis:milo, The Cure, Finch, Gomez, InMe, Muse, The Strokes, The Zutons. The White Stripes, Jeff Buckley, Idlewild, Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Johnny Cash.

Loads more, those are just off the top of my head

Arab Strap
Archers of Loaf
The Bats
Belle and Sebastian
Big Country
The Breeders
Broadcast
Neko Case
Cat Power
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
The Clean
Country Teasers
The Fall
Franz Ferdinand
The Futureheads
Girls Against Boys
The Gorillaz
The Grifters
Guided by Voices
Hefner
Joy Division
The Libertines
Magnetic Fields
Mission of Burma
Moonshake
Mudhoney
New Order
The New Pornographers
Pavement
Pulp
Pram
Smog
Sonic Youth
Stereolab
The Strokes
Tall Dwarfs
Teenage Fanclub
The Verlaines
The Wedding Present
Weezer

I saw a great many of my favorites listed, but these are also among my favorites:

Evanescence
Tea Party
Clannad
Dream Theater
Jefferson Airplane
Moody Blues
Queensryche
Savatage/Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Scorn
Vince Guaraldi Trio
Blue Oyster Cult
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer
Mike Oldfield

A. C. Newman, Animal Collective, Architecture in Helsinki, Benny Goodman, Beulah, The Byrds, Camera Obscura, The Cardigans, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Chick Corea, Damien Jurado, The Decemberists, Devendra Banhart, The Fiery Furnaces, George Benson, Grandaddy, Her Space Holiday, Jolie Holland, Kenny G, Kings of Convenience, The Long Winters, Metric, Pernice Brothers, Rilo Kiley, Robbie Williams, The Rosebuds, Sam Prekop, The Sea and Cake, Seals and Crofts, Sigur Rós, Six Organs of Admittance, Sondre Lerche, Sufjan Stevens, The Unicorns.

Just one right now...Rammstein, nuff said. :D

Favorite Musicians/Bands

The Beatles
The Kinks
The Zombies
Johnny Cash
David Bowie
Jimi Hendrix
Led Zeppelin
T-Rex
The Band
Eric Clapton/Cream/Derek and the Dominos
The Yardbirds
Beck
The White Stripes/Jack White
Neko Case
Spoon
Hank Williams Sr.
Uncle Tupelo
Wilco
Violent Femmes
The Shins
Iron and Wine
Stevie Wonder
The Spinners
Marvin Gaye

That is what initially comes to mind, but I might as more as I think of them.
there were many excellent bands on that list. I will add the Smiths and David Bowie to your list.

new to the nation , but thought i would add a few bands of my own ...
Insane clown posse,anybody killa,blaze ya dead homie,twizted,esham,dark lotus,psycopathic rydas. pretty much any body from the psycopathic record label !then pretty much everything that was added by everybody else , my taste are also eclectic.

Minstrels of Mayhem! :D :D :D :D :D :D You guys are all weird? Them Minstrels rock teh house.
And... Along with other things. Not really sure though.

Slayer
Misfits
Ministry
Danzig
Rollins Band
Skrew
Black Flag
KMFDM

P.S. When you say your taste, it's "is", not "are". Just thought I should add that, not that anyone really cares. :D :D So.. It would be: My taste in music is pretty eclectic!

P.P.S. Let's just say I win :D Pwnt! ;)

Looks like this community is absent of black people.

Here's some bands, I'll probably come back tomorrow and post some more:

Cake
Infected Mushroom
System of a Down
Slipknot
Led Zeppelin
Avenged Sevenfold
Pink Floyd
Rage Against the Machine
Metallica
Korn
Rise Against
Gorillaz
Ludacris (not really a "band" per say, but I don't care)
Shinedown
Blindside
Lit
Lost Prophets
Mushroomhead
Adema
Lustra
hed(pe)

The Beatles (they will always be number one on my list)
Beach Boys
The Righteous Brothers
The Hollies
U2
ColdPlay
Modest Mouse

Looks like this community is absent of black people.

Hahaha, seriously did you expect anymore on a game like nationstates?

Anyway, it really saddens me when not one person has Steely Dan on there list of favorites ... even that guy with good bands like blue oyster cult and emerson, lake, and palmer.

oooo, fun

Better Than Ezra
Guster
Weezer
Barenaked Ladies
Counting Crows
The New Amsterdams
The Juliana Theory
Unwritten Law

Well, I got a shitload of favs, I have a hard time when it comes to picking top tens and that stuff... So I'll list some of the bands I really like...

Sum 41-(All time fav)
Rise Against
Anti-Flag
Black Flag
Dead Kennedys
Bad Religion
The Sex Pistols
The Clash
The Ramones
Rage Against The Machine
Lost Prophets
Lower Class Brats
The Offspring
Unwritten Law
Drowning Pool
Disturbed
Smashing Pumpkins
Green Day
Dropkick Murphys
Hoobastank
Puddle of Mudd
Gorillaz
Sugarcult
Styx
ACDC
Poison
Pink Floyd
Queen
Minor Threat
Bad Company
Little Feat
Lynard Skynard
Jethro Tull
Jimi Hendrix
Led Zeppelin
The Exies
Nirvana
Nine Inch Nails
System of a Down
Queens of the Stone Age
Black Label Society
Fugazi
Garbage
Conflict
Crass
Husker Du
D.R.I.
Rancid
Guns n Roses
Electric 6

And that's pretty much it. My tastes in Rock vary from 70s and 80s, to Hard Rock and Punk, Southern rock to Metal. Prefer Punk though...

Deltron 3030
Wasnt that just a compilation with other Heiroglyphics artists?

Nirvana
Kyuss
Queens of the Stone Age
Led Zeppelin
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Monster Magnet
Alice In Chains
Dead Kennedys
The Clash
Soundgarden
Rage Against the Machine
The Doors
Spiderbait
Tool
Butthole Surfers
Public Enemy
Corporate Avenger
The Pixies
The Birthday Party
Weezer
Sonic Youth
Velvet Underground
Smashing Pumpkins
Radiohead
Stone Temple Pilots
Melvins
Sepultura
Mudhoney
Faith No More
Screaming Trees
The B-52's
White Stripes
TISM
Placebo
System of a Down

...could go on, but I can't be bothered :p.

TISM
Good man! :)

TISM rock - I couldn't count how many times I've seen them in pubs around Melbourne...some of the best live shows ever! :D

Good man! :)

TISM rock - I couldn't count how many times I've seen them in pubs around Melbourne...some of the best live shows ever! :D

I got into them not long ago, actually...i've yet to see them live. But they're on the must-see list. :D

Aerosmith, AC/DC, Matchbox 20, The Blues Brothers, Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Cream, Lynard Skynard, 3 Doors Down, Creed, Styx, The Doobie Brothers, The Who, Poison, Smashmouth, Blink 182, Dire Straits, Deep Purple,The Doors, Steppenwolf, George Thorugood, Eric Clapton, Genesis, Europe, Ozzy, The Offspring, Kansas, Guns 'n' Roses, Survivor, Bon Jovi, Ritchie Valens, and Duke Ellington.

I got into them not long ago, actually...i've yet to see them live. But they're on the must-see list. :D
Just curous - are you into/heard of the Cosmic Psychos (another great Melbourne band)?

fuck yes. been waiting for a thread like this.

heavenshallburn, minor threat, stay gold, verse, champion, betrayed, neaera, caliban, killswitch engage, go it alone, allegiance, skitsystem, still remains, 3 inches of blood, nightrage, the suicide file, the warriors, tbd, comeback kid, trial, ultima thule, underoath, the virus, winter solstice, 9 shocks terror, the acacia strain, all out war, american nightmare, in control, as i lay dieing (the older stuff, hate the new cd), CASEY JONES, cattle decapitation, down to nothing, embrace today, invocation of nehek, miracle mile, modern life is war, OVER MY DEAD BODY, poison the well, nile, rhapsody, shark attack, say goodbye, mind eraser, throwdown...

and way more. if anyone wants to converse about music. feel free to drop me a message... i love music.

Pink Floyd, Lynyrd Skynyrd, AC-DC, Led Zeppelin, Wierd Al, Alan Jackson, Toby Kieth, Eagles, Creedance Clearwater Revival, Queen, Steve Miller Band, Jimi Hendrix...
I think that's it.

The Beatles. The Zombies too, who are actually very underrated. Get Odyssey and Oracle with the bonus tracks! :D

Dschinghis Khan

Ac/Dc
Aerosmith
ERic Clapton
Creme
Black Sabbath
black label society
Children of Bodom
Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
Styx
Megadeth
Ozzy
Metallica
quiet riot
pink Floyd
Stevie ray Vaughn(my number 1)
Jimi Hendrix
Yngwie Malmasteen
Anthrax
Dio
Danzig
BLue Osyter Cult
Grand Funk Railraod
Kiss
Led Zeppelin
Lynard Skynard
Motorhead
Santana
queen
Scorpions
Testament

Heh, I already did this here (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=429480&page=11&pp=15). Not worth checking out unless you like punk.

um, oh, you have some serious trouble spending your spare time!

Right now I listen to
Fireball Ministry: the second great awakening
Fountains of Wayne: Out-of-States plates
Charlotte Hatherley: Grey will fade
Ben Kweller: Sha Sha
Dusty Springfield: in Memphis
Posies: Frosting on the beater
...and of course, Marvin Gaye: What's going on & Let's get it on (vinyl!)

Not too many, but I'm heavily into all of these.

Husker Du
The Sex Pistols
The Ramones
The Professionals
The Clash
The Buzzcocks
The Undertones
Dead Kennedys
Black Flag
The Adolescents
Public Image Limited