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Lets talk about music, any and all music. Music you hate, music you love. Bands you're listening to, albums you're waiting for etc.

I'll start off with some bands I've recently gotten into:
Modest Mouse
Beck
Daft Punk
The Chemical Brothers
Moby
Norma Jean
Underoath
The Postal Service
Franz Ferdinand

Also, was I the only one who liked American Idiot?

mexican ninja wrote:Also, was I the only one who liked American Idiot?

I didn't like the song, but I enjoyed the album.

However, 99% of the music I listen to is Maynard Ferguson. God I'm a loser.

i like boulevard of broken dreams.........i think thats the only other sogn on the album i have heard besides american idiot. and no i dont like american idiot. sounds too much like a good charlotte song or somethin

The Postal Service... very good band. The lyrics and 8-bit-type music are pretty catchy.

As for American Idiot, I haven't heard much off of it. I like what I have heard, but I'm kinda lazy about checking out most new music... that and I'm less inclined to listen to a band who tends to wear more eye makeup than 95% of girls. See Good Charlotte and many other bands played quite often nowadays. Then again, it's Green Day, which is an ol' band I like, so it has that going for it.

Here're some bands I've been listening to a lot as of late:

The Postal Service
Rilo Kiley
Bright Eyes
Cursive
Q and Not U
Faraquet
Rival Schools
Red Animal War
GO!GO!7188
Asian Kung-Fu Generation
Tokyo Jihen
Orange Range
Beat Crusaders (or what I can find! GAAAH!)
Bennie K
Hitomi

GO!GO!7188 and down being music of the Japanese variety. Music I enjoy hearing quite a bit. Music I need more of despite having over 3 days worth to play straight. >_>

My all time favorite artists (so far):

Polysics
Devo
Delta 9
Busdriver
The Locust
Captain Beefheart
Jason Forrest
Pizzicato 5
The Boredoms
Ultraviolence
Man... Or Astroman?
Martyr AD
RoboChrist
Wesley Willis
The Blood Brothers
Guitar Wolf
MF Doom
Melt Banana
Dillenger Escape Plan
Between the Buried and Me
Dieselboy

Secef wrote:GO!GO!7188 and down being music of the Japanese variety. Music I enjoy hearing quite a bit. Music I need more of despite having over 3 days worth to play straight. >_>

Hmm, I'll have to check pretty much all of those guys out. I've heard a lil' of GO!GO!7188 and Asian Kung-Fu Generation before, but it's been a while, and my tastes often change. I'll have to check out The Postal Service as well, they sound interesting.

You might wanna check out Polysics, you might like 'em.

sonykid753 wrote:i like boulevard of broken dreams.........i think thats the only other sogn on the album i have heard besides american idiot. and no i dont like american idiot. sounds too much like a good charlotte song or somethin

If that's the case, then Good Charlotte is copying Green Day, not the other way around. Green Day has had pretty much the same sound ever since I started listening to them, about mid 90's. I havn't heard the whole album (American Idiot), but I liked what I heard. There's a deeper meaning behind their songs now.

As for bands I have a fetish for at the moment:

Nine Inch Nails (Always have, always will)
Lacuna Coil
Orgy
Shadows Fall
A Perfect Circle
Atreyu
Nightwish
Stabbing Westward
Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill's composer. The game, not the shitty song. =P)
X Japan

I like a lot of obscure, random things too. Lots of instrumental, hell, I even listen to Jazz and Blues every now and then.

Things I don't like:

Most punk music
'emo' or indy stuff. Sorry, but it REALLY grates on my nerves. How can I not like it, you may ask, since it seems 90% of the forum likes it. Well, how can you not like Heavy Metal? I like heavy metal. I rest my case. It's all a matter of preference, and to be completely honest, emo generally has some really boring guitar, and since I'm a guitar player, that's a big thing I look for in my music. Not always, but usually.

Ska
Incubus
Limp Bizkit (someone shoot Fred Durst please. All he does is try to insult people with more talent than him.)
Rap and 'R&B'.

Another thing I don't like?
MTV.

i will listen to anything. it just depends on what mood im in

I have a huge variety in tastes. But I usually find myself listening to techno... probably because techno gets infulenced by every single other kind of music out there.

The only 2 kinds of music I don't like are really tangy generic Country and Gangsta' Rap.

There are only a few individual artist I really enjoy. Usually, I just like individual songs. But here are a few of my favorite artists.

The Crystal Method.
Fatboy Slim.
Groove Armada.
Deee-lite.
The Ataris.
Guitar Vader.
U2.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
Buddy Guy.
B. B. King.

I'm also a big fan of Micheal Jackson era 1982. But as we all know, 80's Micheal is dead... and he's not coming back. And I am in no way a fan of this... thing... that replaced him.

I donno, there are LOTS of artist I like, there are just the ones I could think of off the top of my head.

I donno, there are just the ones from the top of my head...

Conlon Nancarrow (never heard of him? do a Google search - he's a freakin genius)

and Shooby Taylor

I love the following bands:

-Pink Floyd-#1 band of all time IMO, Roger Waters has good solo stuff too

-Jimi Hendrix

-Led Zeppelin

-The Who

-Eric Clapton

-Bob Dylan

-Death Cab For Cutie

-The Postal Service

-Rooney

-R.E.M.

-Morrissey

-Franz Ferdinand

-David Gray

-Steely Dan

-The Psychedelic Furs

-Guster

-The Format

-Bob Marley

Now some electronic music <3

DnB

Total Science
Concord Dawn
Dj Nillla
Adam F
John B
High Contrast
D.Kay
Distorted Minds
Goldie

House

Bad Boy Bill
DJ Dan
Richard Humpty Vision
DJ Irene
DJ Venom
I'm a bigi fan of the funky sound. Think good-cool type stuff. Jazzy yo.

Trance (it varies)

Eurobeat (You guys already know the names)

Hip Hop

Jazz

Mainly Blackstar, Blackalicious, The Roos, Del, and De La Soul

Punk

NoFx
Old Blink 182
Bouncing Souls
Rancid
Anti-Flag
Lagwagon
Pennywise

Most rock I don't care for.

Meh, anyone here DJ?

Fluffyumpkins wrote:Meh, anyone here DJ?

I do!

I'm trying to get some gigs in Broadripple. But that'll have to wait till I get my Mixer back from the shop... Should be in about a week.

Trouble is... the only things people want to listen to in Indianapolis is stupid rap shit and hip hop.

No room for DJ Grubb and the Electric Luau!

But either way, if you know of a place that might like a DJ who'll work just for the experince and tips, let me know.

[quote="Grubb"]
Trouble is... the only things people want to listen to in Indianapolis is stupid rap shit and hip hop.quote]

I feel your pain...it's the same way here. I've been trying to start a band, but it seems very bleak, and pointless, when theres no where to play.
I swear, these people don't know what a live act is, unless it's got a black man with a Mic rapping to it over horribly done sampled music.
Oddly, we seem to be getting a rather large punk following here...I'm sincerely hoping it spirals off into a good rock scene. Supposedly, we've got some good Metal bands here, but there's just no where for them to play, and the punk shows are like "whine, you're no emo, whine!" so, all the good concert places ignore them.

Weezer, Cake, Soul Coughing, Beck, Ben Folds (Five), Radiohead, Fugazi, Sufjan Stevens, Innocence Mission, Half-Handed Cloud, This Beautiful Mess, Starflyer 59, Rites of Spring, Pixies, Alkaline Trio, Tegan and Sara, Blood Brothers, The Sea and Cake, Pavement, Nick Drake, Elliot Smith, The Anniversary, At the Drive In, The Mars Volta, Cursive, The Good Life, Modest Mouse, Cap'n Jazz, American Football, The New Amsterdams, Matt Pond PA, Steely Dan, Appleseed Cast, Sublime, The Wallflowers, Bob Dylan, Foo Fighters, Jimmy Eat World, The Shins, Flaming Lips, The Cure, Mogwai, The Spirit That Guides Us, Promise Ring, U2, And You Will Know us by the Trail of Dead, Andrew WK, Azure Ray, Broken Social Scene, Death Cab for Cutie, Postal Service, The Darkness, The Smashing Pumpinks, James Iha, Zwan, The Killers, The Vines, Green Day pre American Idiot (American Idiot sucks big time), The Rentals, Matt Sharp, Outkast, The Streets, Neutral Milk Hotel, Red House Painters, Marcy Playground, Semisonic, Little Joe Gould a.k.a. Murder By Death, Interpol, Nico, Velvet Underground, David Gray, Mineral, Elton John, Beastie Boys, Five Iron Frenzy, Ugly Cassanova, They Might Be Giants, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Milemarker, Owen, Bright Eyes, Desaparecidos, The Presidents of the United States of America, Subset, Clem Snide, Phantom Planet pre Jason Schwartzman leaving, Piebald, Built to Spill, Pop Unknown, Ween, Jimi Hendrix, Deathray, KC Accidental, Preston School Of Industry, Steve Malkmus and the Jiks, Arcade Fire, Iron and Wine, Converge, Wilco, New Pornographers, Belle and Sebastian, Decemberists, Castanets, Sonic Youth, William Shatner, R.E.M., Neil Young, Pop Unknown, Fine China, Old Metallica, Reel Big Fish, Liquid Tension Experiment, Lack, Minor Threat, Embrace and I'll pretty much give anything a chance

Edit: Thanks Joe. When are we gonna do something?

Anyway, anybody else into They Might Be Giants? Or am I a weirdo? o_O