It's so difficult to decide; but i think the one i can go back & listen to over and over is probably Mudvayne. All their albums are so diverse and the Lyrics are deep; and the Musicians, most notably Greg Tribbet, are brilliant. Their album LD.50 is by far their best work.

Pink Floyd ;)

Their early stuff is cool, while their middle stuff is awesome, and their later stuff is good.

Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies is one of my favorites

but at the moment I have been listening to Panic! at the Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out over and over cause I just love it

Blood Has Been Shed



Great musicians and Howard's voice is amazing!

The pixies are pretty good this time of year :]

Kid Dynamite. Without question.

i don't know... Let me think...

Very hard to say, altouth Nirvana and Tool would always be in my top fav list!

i'll have to go with:

this week: david bowie (can't stop listening to Space Oddity!!)
last week: pink floyd

Probably Spitz. I get all nostalgic when I listen to their songs.

Toss up between Sublime and Rush.

Between The Buried and me or underOATH

Right now I wold say The Mars Volta and The Postal Service.

Edguy or carcass

Can I go through this as I've aged?

When I was young (<14) it was The Who and Pink Floyd (this was ~ 1982, to put it in perspective)
Next it was the Rolling Stones.
Then I discovered the wonders of Punk. Hello, Dead Kennedys.
Then, Naked Raygun (we're now at 1986).
Black Flag, tied with Husker Du were next.
Then I was all about Big Black.

Okay...now I'm at college...

Still Naked Raygun, strangely enough...but then I got a really cool roommate who turned me on to The Smiths.
The Pixies, in September of 1988. I'll never forget hearing "Surfer Rosa" for the first time...those incredible drums at the beginning of "Bone Machine?" You gotta be sh!tting me! Genius stuff from Steve Albini!
Then Jane's Addiction (1989)
But I think I made it through college listening to mostly the same, derivative stuff.

Out of college...sorry it took me 5 years, but those were good times!

Listened to a lot of Ministry and Butthole Surfers during this time (1993)
Moved away for my first "career," and listening to a lot of Stevie Ray Vaughn (!), but still staying with the punk classics.

Then I moved to England...merry, merry olde England.

Roxy Music...Manic Street Preachers...Daft Punk...Chemical Brothers (1996 was a good year in England)
And there I remained for the two years in England. I also got into The Cocteau Twins a bit.
The greatest album to come out during this time, and my favorite from this period of my life was "OK Computer" by Radiohead.

Then I had to leave England (sadly) and moved to Alaska

AFGHAN WHIGS...Where had these guys been all my life? I'm swimming in regret (it's now 1998) that I didn't get into them when I SHOULD HAVE (back in college, when I had the opportunity to see them about 10 times, and I didn't).

Travis..."The Man Who" is a great album. Don't know about the rest, but that one sure rocked.

Time to move again, this time to Las Vegas -- The year is 2000

The Doves were probably the greatest band I heard during this time. "Lost Souls" is a perfect album.
I also really liked "Love is Here" by Starsailor.
Twilight Singers (Afghan Whigs offshoot), some U2 (never really stopped listening to them, but they were never really my all-time fave).
I also got more into ambient during this time. I wish someone had told me how great Brian Eno was. Aphex Twin is okay, but Eno rules.

Moved again, back to my Sweet Home, Chicago in 2004
It's lately been all about getting my music collection more well-rounded. So I've been listening to some Bolan / T-Rex, The Band, STP, Alice in Chains, Floyd (I never stopped loving Floyd), back into The Who again, Death Cab for Cutie (better than I thought they would be) The New Pornographers, etc.

But through all of the years, I never stopped wanting to learn about and listen to Mogwai, Keane, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Ramones, Prince, The Pogues, Bob Dylan, The Coral, The Darkness, Smashing Pumpkins, Modnight Oil, Springsteen, Nick Drake, Elliott Smith, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, QOTSA, The Cure, Bowie, Eels, Supergrass, Van Morrison...

I really need to stop here, because I'm going off topic and killing this thread. For that, I apologize.

I'll just say The Afghan Whigs and Pink Floyd.

Sorry if I wrecked this.

Not every one has the eloquence to make a long post like yours JudgeF15E it certainly isn't going to wreck the topic it can only enhance it :ssmile:

For now NIN.

(Is it just me or do I hear wobbling sounds near the end of the The Downward Spiral and at the beginning of Hurt. Is it intended to sound like that? Because I also come across "clear" versions of these songs.)

I don't have favourites as such but I am a big big fan of the following bands:

Red Hot Chili Peppers (Primarily Blood Sugar Sex Magik onwards), Black Label Society, Ozzy, Blink 182 (most people hate them but my friends love them and they're a bit of lighthearted fun - and Travis Barker [drummer from around 1999 onwards] is INSANE!!), Guns N Roses (Slash Is a GOD), Velvet Revolver (Slash once more), 3 Doors Down (underrated as they have alot of commercial hits), New Found Glory (Just recently - bit more fun with the pop punk as with Blink).

Then the stand out albums for me, which I listen to VERY frequently:

AC/DC - Back In Black

AFI - Sing The Sorrow

Thirsty Merc - Thirsty Merc

Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction
- Use Your Illusion I

Black Label Society - Mafia
- Sonic Brew
- 1919 Eternal

Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz
- Randy Rhoads Tribute
- No More Tears
- Live & Loud

The Darkness - Permission To Land

Velvet Revolver - Contraband

The Living End - From Here On In (The Singles 1997-2004)

Powderfinger - Vulture Street

Metallica - Ride The Lightning
- Master Of Puppets

Dio - Holy Diver

Bon Jovi - Cross Roads

Creed - Greatest Hits

David Bowie - The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars

Dream Theater - Awake

Nevermore - This Godless Endeavour

Coheed And Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV: Volume One - Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness

Wolfmother - Wolfmother

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
- The Wall

Pearl Jam - Ten
- Vitalogy

Oasis - What's The Story Morning Glory

Killswitch Engage - The End Of Heartache

Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil

Audioslave - Out Of Exile

Alice Cooper - Trash

Blink 182 - Enema Of The State
- Blink 182
- Take Off Your Pants And Jacket
- The Mark, Tom And Travis Show

Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

3 Doors Down - Seventeen Days
- Another 700 Miles EP
- Away From The Sun
- The Better Life

Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom
- Venus Isle
- Tones

Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien
- Strange Beautiful Music
- The Extremist

Steve Vai - Passion And Warfare
- Sex And Religion
- Fire Garden
- The Ultra Zone

John Butler Trio - Sunrise Over Sea

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
- Californication
- By The Way
- Live In Hyde Park

Seether - Karma And Effect

Scorpions - The Essential Scorpions

Sum 41 - Chuck
- Does This Look Infected
- Happy Live Surprise
- All Killer No Filler

Silverchair - Frogstomp

Rage Against The Machine - The Battle Of Los Angeles
- Rage Against The Machine
- Renegades
- Evil Empire

And I have other things to do tonight so after more than an hour of switching between msn and writing this it is suddenly quite late

My favorites change so often. They have included:

Alice In Chains
Beastie Boys
Danzig
Enigma
Rammstein
Hanzel Und Gretyl
Nine Inch Nails
Tool

and yes, Daft Punk at one time.

northwest indie rock.
modest mouse.
& built to spill.

throughout the ages.... its remained a simple answer... the band of choice is...

pixies

My favourite band is by far the hives. all their albums are fantastic and they are even better live.
their front man is amazing but i forgot his name, all their names aree like DR nick destruction or something, its too hard to remeber them all.

go and BUY your new favourite band now.
then BUY tyrannosaurus hives
after that BUY veni vedi vicious
and then get bareley legal

simply awesome

The Who, Floyd, Chilli Peppers, Nirvana, AC/DC ,Queen, Alter Bridge, Oasis, ...and the beat goes on...
MUSIC WILL SET YOU FREE.

This is a great tread for finding bands you havent heard of! download time...i think

its pink floyd!

Opeth for sure
black rose immortal gave me a big shock :a013:

Could've told just by your sig Wilky :a013:

man good call terraformation. to of my faves. but all time id have to go with The Who, but theres so many to choose from. the pixies, floyd, zeppelin. bedhead, the new year. THE FLAMING LIPS, didnt see them yet theyre amazing. as for instrumental and i saw someone say steve albini up there I'll go ahead and say Godspeed You ! Black Emperor and a Silver Mt Zion. before floyd there was 13th floor elevators. AC/DC is up there. the beach boys, black sabbath, CAN, i saw someone put the smiths, so ill throw in the cure, DAVID BOWIE is a close second to the who, oh man how can i forget j mascis. dinosaur jr, hendrix cant forget the jazz. coltrane, miles daves, thelonius monk, sun ra. OH MAN JOHNNY CASH...joy division....VELVET UNDERGROUND, lou reed...nick drake. damn howd i forget the stones...sonic youth....the stooges.... pavement....Wilco...and one of my all time favorites, its a newer band theyve already broken up and formed the islands, but The Unicorns they blew my mind when i first heard them. these are all amazing bands, some new some not so new, it seems like im name dropping but these all just started flowing into my head. theres obviously more but this is what i got for now. i know im NEU! here but give all these bands a shot and i dont think youll be disappointed.

My fav bans are Wilco Blur so many

That's a great post, modesmous

:a013:

Without a doubt, The Grateful Dead But there many others such as Cream, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Butterfield Blue Band, John Mayhall and the Bluesbreakers, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, Satanana, Led Zeppelin, Metalica, John McLaughlin, Steve Morse, Joe Satriani, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Yes, Al DiMeola, The Allman Brothers, Bob Marley, Dire Straights, The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Herbie Hancock (especially his older stuff), Moody Blues, The Kinks, Neil Young, Robert Cray Band, Steely Dan, Van Morrison, and many many many other Musicians, and groups :a013:

I'd say Pink Floyd too, cause this band has a special place in my heart.
Nevertheless, at this moment, i'm just more listening to Elton John (early stuff), Guns N'Roses and Fleetwood Mac, which are amazing bands...

without a doubt pixies are the band i can go back to without thinking, yes JudgeF15E bone machine is great :a013:

mood wise lately i've been lsitening to the guillemots(who left the lights on, baby is one of the beautifulest songs i've heard, hooked), its happy music for me, also arcade does for me in this mood

when i'm working and need to be creative its the white stripes, when i need just some music, good music it'll be the cribs, be your own pet and the eaves(local band)

for fun it'll be graham coxon ,maybe the specials and half man half biscuit

if i need cheering up the mystery jets and editors

but out of all of them i can go back to the pixies in any of these moods, thus my favourite band
now 2nd favourite band would include the above and many many more

Meshuggah

Bands -

Oasis
Manic Street Preachers
Hope Of the States
Guillemots
The Replacements
Husker Du
Idlewild

DJ/Producers -

BT
Sasha
Darren Emerson
Prefuse 73
Telefon Tel Aviv

Other -

Outkast
Miles Davis
Frank Sinatra

velvet acid christ, currently.

well, thats also not very easy to decide. i think it isnt just one band at the top but here are some suggestions:

Iron Maiden
Metallica
Mothers Finest
Judas Priest
Black Sabbath

and so on and on...

my fave bands (at the moment, always changing)

Dream Theater
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Opeth
Sage Francis (*rapper)
System Of A Down (early stuff, not recent stuff)
Tool
A Perfect Circle
Cog
NOFX
Nirvana
Powderfinger
... and of course, The Flaming Lips

All of this is basically my music library on my mp3 player but ido love more that i forgot in this etc...

(Sorry if its too long as well)

Its really good to see people with eclectic tastes being able to post on a forum and not get totally flamed for their opinions, finally a place on the net where adult conversation rules! woooo!

Heres a few bands/artists/etc that get consatnt rotation in my house:

Tool, Sparta, Mars Volta, DJ Shadow, Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Bjork, Plaid, Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, yourcodenameis:milo, Mogwai, Deftones...(I reckon you guys might be able to tell that Tool come top of my pile)

Some nice selections coming up :a013:

poindexter -- we respect each others music tastes but let me assure you at times we are definately not adult-like (particularly those of us that aren't adults)

But Darkside is a very friendly tight-knit-family sort of community, yes

The Police
Coldplay
Rolling Stones

It all started in 1995 with Backstreet Boys while i was in 3rd grade.Then i moved to Jamiroquai,later on to Radiohead and Manics,and ofcourse,to Nirvana.From that point on,it was all Pixies,Flaming Lips,Pavement,Smiths,Sonic Youth,Velvet Underground,My Bloody Valentine,Yo La Tengo,Portishead,Stereolab,Swans,Television and so on,and so forth...

no doubt my fave is Radiohead.

Tea Party and Smashing Pumpkins are next on the list at this point, do complex and layered.

At the moment Eels.

The Stone Roses or The Verve.

Tool

I've recently found myself liking the new wave of Aussie Hard Rock - The Butterfly Effect, Cog and Karnivool...

I'd definetly have to say Karnivool is my fave band right now ...

widout a doubt.....

ForT MinoR

^^^^^^^

'Yeah Yeah Yeahs' for the win! Show Your Bones is a good album but i like Fever To Tell better

Other fave bands/artists:
M.I.A.
Interpol
Death Cab for Cutie
Modest Mouse
...and no doubt many others i've forgotten

L7 (song "Drama" is perfect )
Guns N' Roses
Velvet Revolver
Rasputina
Metallica
AC/DC
Led Zeppelin
Kult (polish punk band)
Fear

and lots more ;)