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Who's your all-time favorite band/performer?
Just wanted to see who people's true favorites are. I'm not after who you think is the most influential or greatest group of all time. Just the one who you personally have gotten the most enjoyment out of. Mine is fairly well known, of course:
Good old Def Leppard. Feel free to include your favorite albums by the artist as well. My top 3 are Hysteria, Pyromania, and Slang. Great rock albums all of 'em. |
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06-24-2005, 05:48 PM | #2 |
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My Bloody Valentine. They were kind of under the radar as far as radio and media hype, but they really changed everything. What everybody thought Nirvana/Pixies were, MBV really was.
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06-24-2005, 05:55 PM | #3 |
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Bon Jovi
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06-24-2005, 06:04 PM | #4 | |
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06-24-2005, 06:08 PM | #5 |
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06-24-2005, 06:09 PM | #6 |
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Tool
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06-24-2005, 06:11 PM | #7 |
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I brought Pyromania on my trip to the beach earlier this month, I always liked them. I admit I was a little shocked to see a rockumentary on them and they all had very heavy British accents. I never knew they were British until then (of course, I never really thought about where they were from). So there I was, fixated on VH1 and thinking...wtf?
My favorite album of all time is Joshua Tree by U2 - but other than that album, I never was much of a fan of their other stuff. I don't really have a favorite band but felt like I needed to contribute. |
06-24-2005, 06:13 PM | #8 |
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06-24-2005, 06:14 PM | #9 |
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06-24-2005, 06:15 PM | #10 |
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I usually have a fav band of the moment, and right now mine is The Mars Volta. But all-time I have always found my way back to Pink Floyd.
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06-24-2005, 06:33 PM | #11 |
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Queensryche Operation:Mindcrime
i have 3 copies of the cd 1 for work 1 for home 1 for car |
06-24-2005, 06:36 PM | #12 |
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Marvin Gaye.
Stevie Wonder & Donny Hathaway come damn close though...
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06-24-2005, 06:36 PM | #13 | |
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I saw the Operation Mindcrime tour back in the day. It was great stuff. Easily one of the best concerts I've ever been to. Just played the whole album straight through (even opened with some stuff off "Empire"). For a while there, it was all I listened to.
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06-24-2005, 06:40 PM | #14 |
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Toss up between REM and Frank Sinatra.
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06-24-2005, 06:57 PM | #15 |
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Pavement / Stephen Malkmus.
SM's new CD is fucking AMAZING.
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06-24-2005, 07:07 PM | #16 |
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311 - grassroots - selftitled - music
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06-24-2005, 07:10 PM | #17 |
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The Temptations by far
I also favor Stevie Wonder and the Smokey Robinson/Miracles |
06-24-2005, 07:14 PM | #18 |
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Van Halen, with Led Zeppelin in 2nd.
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06-24-2005, 07:21 PM | #20 |
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I honestly don't know. I would like to see Bob Dylan before he is finally finished performing, though..
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06-24-2005, 07:29 PM | #21 |
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Pink Floyd and the great Weird Al Yankovich
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06-24-2005, 07:41 PM | #22 |
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Take a guess.
Oh, and Queensryche did the whole Mindcrime album last year, complete with a couple of actors and small stage. Great show.
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06-24-2005, 07:58 PM | #23 |
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Eazy E: Eazy Duz It is my favorite album ever. I've owned it no less than 4 times in 3 formats, can sing along even today...
Really makes one wonder what could have been if Eazy had survived and reconciled with his fellow NWA'ers in this "feel-good" rap era; when comebacks are the norm, and super producers and featured acts inundate albums to either highlight or overshadow performer's strengths and weaknesses... -Chas |
06-24-2005, 08:06 PM | #24 |
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Elliott Smith.
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06-24-2005, 08:29 PM | #25 |
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Either U2, The Beatles, or Kris Kross. I just can't decide.
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06-24-2005, 08:36 PM | #26 | |
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06-24-2005, 09:34 PM | #27 |
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Dropkick Murphys
You haven't lived until you have been to the Avalon Ballroom on St Patty's weekend to see them. The most positive energy you will ever see at any show. I love all their stuff but my faviorate tunes are: Fields of Athenry Barroom hero Workers Song Walk Away Finnegans Wake |
06-24-2005, 09:59 PM | #28 |
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The Wedding Present
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06-24-2005, 10:15 PM | #29 |
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Probably John Denver.
Runner-ups would be U2 (esp 1980s) and Pink Floyd. |
06-24-2005, 10:41 PM | #30 |
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Throwing Copper is the best and then the others all tie for second.
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06-24-2005, 10:53 PM | #31 |
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Rush
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06-24-2005, 11:06 PM | #32 |
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My impression of at least 75% of people reading this thread: "Damn, what's the most obscure band I've heard of, I can look really cool if I name them!"
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06-25-2005, 03:14 AM | #33 |
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Boyz II Men is my favourite musical group.
Second favourite and my absolute favourite to see perform is Gin Blossoms. I've seen them in concert once and I'm going to be seeing them again in concert on July 2nd. Excellent times.
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06-25-2005, 03:26 AM | #34 |
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Led Zeppelin
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06-25-2005, 07:38 AM | #35 |
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Afghan Whigs- Black Love
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06-25-2005, 07:56 AM | #36 |
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Peter Gabriel held the spot for a pretty long time for me, but now I think it's Radiohead.
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06-25-2005, 07:56 AM | #37 |
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Got 3 for the list:
Billy Joel: Piano Man Innocent Man The Stranger Van Halen: MCMLXXXIV 5150 OU812 U2: Joshua Tree Achtung Baby War |
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Peter Gabriel did two of my all-time favorite songs: In Your Eyes and Solisbury Hill, but I am not crazy about his other stuff. |
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06-25-2005, 08:00 AM | #39 |
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Jane's Addiction, the Chili Peppers, Idlewild, Suicidal Tendencies, Scott 4, Jellyfish, And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Teenage Fan Club and Dinosaur Jr have all been long standing favourites, with a feeling that they are constantly better than other bands I like.
I've bought so many great debut albums by bands that I can;t include many new bands who show a lot of promise (i.e. Kasabian, The Killers, Kaiser Chiefs, etc) who have still only released one album. But both The Raveonettes and Kings of Leon have had two class albums and they are getting close to inclusion in the A-list (I'm sure they'll be very excited about the prospect of making an anonymous English guy's favourite list!)
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I agree on the new CD but I saw Pavement on some good nights and on some rather bad ones as well. I remember one time SM was yelling at someone else in the band the whole show because of some perceived mistake. My pick is Guided By Voices. Lots of beer + GBV = about as good as it gets and I've never seen the later without a lot of the former. |
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Sorry for the dola but the Afghan Whigs are my number two. I followed them around about 5 cities in the midwest back on the Black Love tour. Good times. |
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06-25-2005, 10:38 AM | #45 |
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For the last 30 years--The Rolling Stones: Between the Buttons--Beggar's Banquet--Some Girls
After that it would probably be Throwing Muses or Go-Go's (but that is because of an unhealthy 20 year lust for Belinda Carlisle) |
06-25-2005, 11:01 AM | #46 |
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Pearl Jam
1. Ten 2. Vs., Vitalogy, Yield 3. No Code, Binaural, Riot Act |
06-25-2005, 11:17 AM | #47 |
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Cheap Trick, first heard them 27 years ago during lunch break back in high school. The girl I was smoking a joint with plugged Heaven tonight into her Car cassette player and I was hooked. That girl and those bad habits have long since gone, but I still have plenty of CT in my MP3 player.
Fav albums: Silver-25th anniversary concert and live at Budokan are my 2 favorites as I think they are at their best live. Top 3 studio Albums Heaven tonight Dream Police Lap of Luxury |
06-25-2005, 11:33 AM | #48 | |
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Surrender from At Budokan is one of the best songs of all time. |
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06-25-2005, 11:55 AM | #49 | |
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And my impression of you is a guy who's never listened to anything but Top 40 radio. I've heard of every band on this list before your post, and only 2-3 could be considered remotely obscure. |
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06-25-2005, 12:00 PM | #50 |
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As for me.... I think the Beatles are simply a cut above anything ever, so it's kind of them by default.
But putting them aside, it's probably Superchunk. Favorite albums are (in an ever-shifrting order) Indoor Living, Foolish, and Here's Where The Strings Come In |
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