I just listened to Where's the Love by the BEP's. I can't stand it when good musicians make songs that sound like they came out of the Backstreet Boys. In fact, I can't stand Boy Bands period. Death to them all. I wish I was still taking piano lessons cuz I was getting pretty good. Ahh, damn you Marching Band!
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I'm sure that guy you are talking about is great Majic, but I bet he has nothing on Victor Wooten in Classical Thump. |
Wait for it... wait for it... hell yah!
"Welcome Home" Coheed and Cambria Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness This is a great friggin song bitchin! I love this band tis my fav... ooh! Claudio is GOD! God, I want Shabutie... |
I am listening to 'Come Home' by Placebo. Because his little voice treble in the chorus is so cute! ^_^
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Currently listening to; Thin Lizzy - Emerald.
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My musical taste is so different to anybody on here. I really can't stand rock/guitar-based music for some reason. I prefer acid/mushroom-jazz/FSO based music with a stylish beat. Yes, that pretty much sums it up.
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Same here, I'm sure I've put myself out on the forums as a hiphop fantic, but the truth is, I just like good, soul delving music in general. Like Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder, etc. Joni Mitchell is my favorite independant musicians, she has never sold anything to advertisment, and creates a beautiful combination of roick, jazz, and folk in her music.
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Okay, I too have some favourite bands:
Good Charlotte*, Linkin Park*, Blink 182, Sum 41, Greenday, Flogging Molly, Breaking Benjamin, RHCP, Thousand Foot Krutch and I do like some songs of Gorillaz, like Feel Good Inc. and 19-2000. Oh, and Muse and Dream Theater (That better, Fax?) Although I do like old fashioned rock, like Van Halen and Queen. I went to a Dutch Ska band recently, during one of them festivals that are organised in my area. The band was Beef! and it was quite alright. Try listening to Late Night Sessions, or Memory Fast Forward. *So shoot me for it. Anyways, currently I'm listening to Thousand Foot Krutch' This is a Call. As for intruments, I play guitar, and I used to sing in a band. |
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Rock, rock, rock, and...more rock! Am I seriously the only hiphop fan on this forum? Meh, Greenday is a good band, but I just don't like them :D. Now the Gorillaz...
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Greenday? They suck to the extreme anyway. I can't see the attraction of hip hop. If i wanted big black men to yell at me i'd go down to my town on a friday night. I'm currently listening to Megadeth's Symphony Of Destruction. It's a pretty sexy song. Oh, by the way...*bump*
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Good call, but I think Architecture of Aggression and Crown of Worms should have been top 10 hits. That album was huge, but it had the potential to be a monster.
Hip Hop has gotten a bad rap. Listening to Return to the Terrordome right now. Maybe I'll bring out the Deltron 3030 stuff or Slum Village, Dead Prez, et al. Also, next person in the dorms playing Emo music or strumming an acoustic guitar is getting a boot to the head. Acoustic guitars are bought by the thousands every year because white guys think they can score with chicks if they become the next Chet Atkins. Sorry, you suck, you will never get laid, and if you butcher "Stairway to Heaven" one more time your life will be in jeopardy. So here is what I propose: A law making it mandatory for you to either: Equip your acoustic guitar with electronics that allow you to play through a head phone jack OR................ Pass a test proving that you don't blow. |
It depends WHAT kind of hiphop you listen to, Just like it depends on WHAT kind of rock you listen to. Mike Jones and a few others suck ass. The Black Eyed Peas/Missy Elliot/Nelli are the good artists. I am "grey" as Super Munch described me once. :lol:
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Rap and hip hop has a serious quality control issue because supporters of rap music feel that if they admit that the mainstream rap scene is dogged with a load of posers it'll give ammunition to all the anti-hip hop luddites. The mainstream music is awful and so is that "pimp/gangsta" image, but if you look past that into the underground scene, some of it is very good.
But rap will always carry this stigma. Ice T didn't do it any favours early on, and now it will always be mostly associated with the glorification of degenerate thugs and criminals. Rap really needs to reinvent itself and get a whole new genre to remove itself from that stigma. |
Thats exactly the point. The BEP's are one of the only hiphop groups that doesn't go the whole gangster ways. What really is ignorant is how everyone has assumed that they have sold out by adding Fergie and giving their albums a more media look. Hello? It's called development, they stuck with the commercial l;ook because 2003's Elephunk was their big winner, so no, they weren't a corpaorate band. And Fergie was a good addition, hnot for her sex appeal but for her vocals.
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I seem to be further devolving in the musical food chain.
In other words, instead of becoming interested in newer bands, my taste in music keeps going chronologically backward. I've recently taken a liking to Bob Marley and Elvis Presley. |
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While i'm vaguely on the subject, can anyone help me, what is the name of those sort of 'sack' hats that Mr Marley and other rastas place their dreads in? God i want dreadlocks... |
Once upon a time, I was checking out the On Demand concerts that Music Choice has on digital cable. There was a Blues Travelers one, so I figure, hells yeah! John Popper busting out some grooves! In it was a duet between the aformentioned Popper and Ziggy marley doing a cover of "No Woman No Cry," which was pretty damn cool.
Random, I know, but it came to mind. Much like the fact I've tried searching for a copy of "Bob Marley: Legend," but to no avail. New, it cost about $15, and I've yet to spot it used. Boohoo. |
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Ian Pooley - What's Your Number (Costes Liquid Mix) Paris Under A Groove - Versus Mantis Zion I - Flow (Fluid - Moss Mix Instrumental) |
HWat do you guys think of clasical music? :lol: Luke will eventullay get there.
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Maybe a little JS Bach when I'm in the mood, but nothing charges me up more than the Ninth Symphony. Fucking classic. |
Brahms is king. And I have quite a liking to Saint Saens.
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Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition
Night on Bald Mountain Stravinsky - The Firebird Suite The Rite of Spring Fireworks Varese - Everything. Wagner - The Ride of the Valkyries Gustav Holst - The Planets |
While I'm still a fan of the more typical classical and whatnot, the fully orchestrated versions of the Super Smash Brother themes are cool beyond words. The "Star Fox" rendition is especially pimp in my opnion.
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Which one? The Venom or the Corneria? Yeah, it is great how they orchestrated those melodies, I especially like the Fountain of Dreams theme.
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I don't really listen to classical music, which is a shame, cuz a lot of it is really interesting and cool. 'Tis a shame.
On an unrelated topic, is anyone else here in a band? Cuz they can probably be the most fun ever. Playing music is like being a god. I absolutely love it. Especially when you know you've got a good tune; it's the coolest feeling in the world. Next to like, you know, skydiving and stuff. Anyway, didn't mean to break up the scholarly music talk. Go, discuss Beethoven. :p |
"I don't really listen to classical music, which is a shame, cuz a lot of it is really interesting and cool. 'Tis a shame.
On an unrelated topic, is anyone else here in a band? Cuz they can probably be the most fun ever. Playing music is like being a god. I absolutely love it. Especially when you know you've got a good tune; it's the coolest feeling in the world. Next to like, you know, skydiving and stuff. Anyway, didn't mean to break up the scholarly music talk. Go, discuss Beethoven." You know absolutely nothing. You should be ashamed of yourself. |
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And that hat is called a Tam or more incorrectly a "rasta hat". You can get Tams in the Rastafarian colours (red, yellow and green) from almost anywhere that sells Tams. I'm also somewhat of a Marley fan, although there are a few tracks of his that turn me off a little. I think I prefer some of his more traditional Reggae tunes, the kind that inspired the whole dub movement. Hammond organs, twangy guitars, boomy far out bass rythems, etc. Butch Cassidy Sound System has done a few really ethereal dub tunes, and of course we mustn't forget, The Scientist! DJ Hype's popular alter-ego. |
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Simply amazing. |
Right now I am listening to Planet Hell by Nightwish, a Finnish metal band. I don't know if anyone on here has heard of them or not. They are playing in London on the 25th, but I am not going to see them :fuzsad:
I play the electric guitar. I've only had it a short while and I am learning very s...l...o...w..l...y. |
I've been listening to 3 Lions '98 - Football is Coming Home for the first time in years today.
It is amazing. The song actually makes me *almost* half cry and half laugh. I think it transports me to the atmosphere of a major international football tournament, which is an atmosphere as yet unmatched by anything. It's so good, I think this may be favourite song. Like, ever. **** me. |
Super metroid: Deathmarch
From ocremix.com This song is very dark and evil and helps me think up new stuff for my fanfic. |
I'm suprised I haven't posted anything in this topic yet, perhaps it's just too vague a subject for such a massive category that is more than deserving of its own forum... (hint-hint)
Where should I start? Well, These are the bands I regularly listen too: Muse, Radiohead, Franz Ferdinand, Death Cab for Cutie, The Shins, Postal Service, Modest Mouse, The Killers, The Walkmen, Rooney, Coldplay, Beck, Elliot Smith, Snow Patrol, Spoon, Beulah, Aqualung, Aqueduct, Interpol, Stars, Ambulence Ltd, Hawksley Workman, The Unicorns, Bright Eyes, The Crying Vessel of Internal Childless Souls Under the Tuscan Sun with Undisputed Failure Right now, I'm listening to "A Wolf at the Door" by Radiohead on my iPod. Oh, and I play piano. Yay me! |
Jem - Wish I.
Really sweet little song that makes me really happy/reminds me of my happiest moments. And to top it off it's reinforced by the phattest funkiest breakbeat evAr. |
I kind of wish there was another, dare I say it, "band geek" on the forums. Someone to talk about tryouts, marching, etc... with. Sure, there are plenty of other band forums on the internet. But dear lord, it's more than I can take.
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I f*cking hate band. I hate the whole concept. The very idea of it is sickening. I can certainly understand the need for a school band, but the fact that it's a competition is disgusting. As if American kids need more incentive to be competitive. Every possible aspect of society is being turned into a contest, and band serves to extend that horror to something as formerly pure as music. Come to think of it, this has been going on forever. The evil of school band has some very deep roots, indeed.
Anyway. That being said, I used to play the trumpet in the school band, a great many of my friends are current or former "band geeks", in fact 95.783 percent of all the coolest people I know are involved in band or orchestra. I love music, I love to hear my school band and orchestra play well, and I respect the people who are a part of it. Mad props to you, sirs. Listening to "Novocaine for the Soul" by Eels. This song is absolutely amazing. I love everything about it, except that it's too short. I'm aksing for this album for my birfday, fo sho. |
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Two One First of all, competetions are not an example of the growing competetittivness, it is an age old tradition and only some schools do it. It is not merely a tiny get together so we play and get scores, we see other people's shows, we journey to some of the farhtest reaches of the state, and it is a whole lot of fubn. Hell, I probably wouldn't be IN band if there weren't any competetions. In fact, the only good bands are the competetive ones. Bening competetive does not nessescarily mean you are barabaric, it means that you have a desire to improve and get better and progress towards an ideal. My badn itself is not that great (so I say), but we believe that that the scores don't matter and it is the spirit and effort we have. |
It disgusts me that anyone would need to turn something into a competition as an incentive to get better at it. In a perfect society, all those things you mentioned that result from band competitions would take place without it being a contest. I guess that's not very realistic, though. And I do realize how old a tradition it is. I mentioned that in my post. Bah, I have an extreme dislike of competition. Everything I say about it is to be taken as my own highly biased personal opinion.
Is it just me... or are people listening to utter SHIT these days? Maybe I'm hit with an anomalous amount of it because I live in such a cultural wasteland... so I'd like to hope. I don't believe it though. I believe people nation-wide (I can't speak for other countries) are letting this aural diarrhea they know as popular music dribble into their heads and soak through their eardrums and infect their brains. God bless anyone who doesn't go out and buy the latest cookie-cutter gangster rap/hip-hop or effeminate jingly pop-rock album. This rant was brought to you by an entire day of having to hear other people's shitty music, and other annoyances. |