What is your favorite band?

[JaceArveduin]

Yay! *waves enthusiastically*

Yeah, Hansi's voice is completely epic. I know when they said Sacred sounded like Dragonforce in the Unskippable for Sacred II, I felt sad for them. Tis a shame fewer people listen to them though, they've got some really epic songs.

Spoiler: more Blind Guardian

Last video just to put in some of the things they have in their music.

 

[Deathmageddon]

Devildriver!!! Just listen to any song on The Last Kind Words all the way through and you're a metalhead.

 

[cloone8]

You need to be able to have good skills as a composer as well as a fair degree of creativity in order to make good music using only software. And you need to learn how to use the software, too. I've tried electronic music, and I honestly find it a lot easier to play a guitar or bass.

The quality of music isn't defined by how difficult it is to play, anyway. Coldplay, for example, is very, very simple music. Compositionally, a good lot of modern electronic music is more complex. That doesn't make it better, or worse. Joy Division, The Clash, Coldplay, Soundgarden, none of those bands make music that is ridiculously difficult to play. Look at The Beatles, none of them were particularly remarkable musicians. You know what is really hard to play, though? Brain Drill.

That's hard as hell man! Do you like that? What? Why not?

First off, holy f****** s*** that Braindrill stuff is INSANE!

Second off, I guess you could be right that it's sometimes harder to use a synthesizer, although I think it generally just takes more time, not that it's harder. That is just my opinion though, since I play guitar and I tried some techno\house stuff too.

 

[teqrevisited]

I've said it many times before: my favourite band is Genesis. So much so that I hunted down each separate vinyl album to make my collection complete (even those that are subpar. More specifically the album simple titled "Genesis referred to as "Mama" or "Shapes". Home & Second Home make up for the mediocrity, though), along with the CD versions, remasters, concert VHS tapes and DVDs. Everything short of the test pressings.

Have a hand-picked, two part instrumental.

 

[Tipsy Giant]

OT: The Flaming Lips

Yeah dude love Flaming Lips, for me their greatest selling point wasn't necessarily how different they were to everyone else, but how different each one of their songs were from the rest of their own catalogue.

OT: Boris

They are Prog Punk/Metal and they have probably my favourite guitarist of all time

 

[repeating integers]

That's hard as hell man! Do you like that? What? Why not?

Ha.

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I challenge that band back there to play through the entirety of that in one sitting. Playing your instruments fast is one thing, but each instrument in this sounds like it's playing a completely different song, each of which change radically several times, and it sounds awesome. That is true instrumental skill.

Having said that, one of my favourite Coldplay songs is this right here:

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Making an overly simple song sound good requires songwriting skill all of its own.

 

[the Dept of Science]

Charles Mingus: I once had a music teacher call Mingus the Shostakovich of jazz. The man was an amazing composer. He wrote my favourite jazz album of all time, The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady. His music is emotionally dynamic. It can lift your hear or crush it, it can put a sparkle or a tear in your eye. It's also quite enjoyable, too. Some people say he plays the bass a bit too abrasively. but screw them, they haven't been hit up in their souls!


Not to be confused with Art Blakey's Moanin'.

Massive agreement here. He just makes jazz feel so raw, his songs can hit you as hard as anything in punk or heavy metal. Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is like a roller coaster, it constantly surprises you, it feels like the music that should herald the end of days. I genuinely don't understand why he doesn't sit on the same pedestal as Miles Davis or John Coltrane.

 

[BENZOOKA]

Blockhead.

Because: Genius. Goes for each and every situation.

not the best song, but the best music video for sure.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Hard to say since I have so many, but to name a few:

Gorillaz
The Beatles
Linkin Park
Green Day
Johnny Cash
The Dave Matthews Band
Lupe Fiasco
They Might Be Giants
Within Temptation

...And yes, I know I have a weird taste in music...

 

[Vault101]

Okay fine, I guess you can be better at it then other people, but pusing some buttons on a computer and then having sound come out of it and calling it a song does, in my opinion, not require a lot of talent or skill. That is why I don't think it requires talent.

*sigh*...but thats NOT what they are doing

if you "psuh some button ona computer" thens its oging to sound like pushing buttons on a computer

composing music is still composing music regardless the tool..be it synthasiser, electric guitar a full on symphny orchastra or some jars lined up filled with water..understanding music is understanding and composing music

also I imagine those "buttons on a computer" are just like a Keyboard/paino (or literally a keyboard)

you dont call a piana infeior do you? even though any idiot can bang away on it...takes skill to actulally use one proberly

see this is my problem...people have theas bizare standards in place when in reality they dont know anything

 

[Scarecrow]

Now this is my kind of thread. My two favorite bands:

My Chemcial Romance:

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Smashing Pumpkins:

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I just can't get enough of these guys...as you can tell, I like the bombastic, rock oprha stuff.

 

[Tragedy's Rebellion]

Tie between Nightwish

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And My Dying Bride

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[Chemical Alia]

Well, I don't listen to a lot of music. Actually, I rarely ever listen to music. There's one band that I've always really liked and still do to this day to a point where I can say I'm a fan, and that's Die Ärzte.

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

Favourite band:

Spoiler: My Chemical Romance

Followed by:

Spoiler: Green Day

Best Foreign Band:

Spoiler: The Pillows

CAPTCHA:
I take it there's no chance that calling Yoplait: "The next victim of my never-ending wrath" is going to bite me in the ass?

 

[TheOneBearded]

Rainbow, Dio, and Led Zeppelin
The best things your ears will ever encounter.

 

[Breaker deGodot]

For me the "Big Three" favorites are
Jeff Buckley
Radiohead
Arcade Fire

All for completely different reasons. Buckley is romantic, intense, and has the voice of an angel. Radiohead is introspective, dark, and obsessive. Arcade Fire is bombastic, beautiful, and subtly depressing at times. All of them have their moments, but I think that Buckley's "Morning Theft" is the most beautiful song I've ever heard.

 

[SeeIn2D]

Anberlin


One of my favorite songs.

 

[Kuranesno7]

I appologize if my choices make me sound like a hipster, but to be fair I do listen to these groups regularly.

The Brian Jonestown Massacre (sixties revival sound)
The Kills (rock music duo. Chick Sings, guy sings and plays guitar, drum machine used, sex in stereo happens)
Massive Attack (founders of Trip Hop)
DJ Krush (instrumentalist disc Jockey. songs are atmospheric and ambient)
The Darkest of the Hillside thickets (Punk rock with H.P. Lovecraft themed Lyrics)
Kyuss (Stoner Rock, band that founder of Queens of the Stone age Josh Homme started in)
Black Pyramid (Doom Metal)
Sleep (Stoner metal, made an album called Dopesmoker, quite possibly the heaviest piece of music fashioned by mortals)
OM (Monk Metal? its a bass player and a drummer playing some heavy fucking music while the lyrics are a mix of vaguely mystical religious imagery from both eastern and western sources.)

 

[tacotrainwreck]

Me and Blind Guardian = \m/ since 2000.

 

[Songblade]

It used to be MUSE, but I'm sort of done with them... before them, it was Perfume Tree - a trip-hop band from British Columbia with a siren for a vocalist.

Now? Uh... not sure. Probably equal parts Silversun Pickups, Foo Fighters and also... Weezer... been voxtaring weezer lots in Rock Band lately - mostly because it's easy to play and sing weezer at the same time.