What kind of music bands do you enjoy listening to?

[Kenbo Slice]

My favorite band right now (and has been for quite sometime) is A Lot Like Birds.

 

[The Wykydtron]

Well i'm more of a soundtrack guy. Good music is fine on its own of course but if you take a thing, a character or a scene and craft a piece of music around it then it makes the music just that touch more awesome.

All good character soundtracks are perfect examples. Recently the BlazBlue soundtracks.


This song actually got me to like Tsubaki in general. I was not the biggest fan of her since she's just a crazy chick raving about justice and crap but the song does give me the idea that she is kind of clinging to that justice in sort of tragically misguided way. Oh and there's this fucking marvel of a song.


Oh Hazama... You fucking troll. The demented piano music in the background is awesome.

Then there's Bang's absolutely over the top guitar solo of a theme.


OK FINE. You want "regular" music then here, 3IOB. Best band evar.



Long story short, the best music tells a story. 3IOB's random tales of people doing totally rad metal things and a piece telling a character's story work on that same concept.

 

[MrBenSampson]

I grew up listening to Metal and electonic music, which lead to me developing a fondness for Aggrotech, which I have been listening to heavily for a couple years.

Spoiler: Here are a few examples.

I've been trying to convince one of my friends to go with me to see Suicide Commando in Montreal this year. The tickets are selling out quickly.

 

[wolf thing]

I listen to a lot of old Jazz, so i generally look at musicians specifically, like Buddy Rich and Gene Kruper.I also listen to rock like The who, Creedence Clearwater Revivial and i have strted listing to Ash, The sex Pistols and The Dead Kennedys.

 

[Vladimir Stamenov]

To pick some from every genre - Rage Against The Machine, Halestorm, Metric, Boa, Deftones, A Perfect Circle, TOOl, Puscifer, Florence and the Machine, La Roux, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Five Finger Death Punch, Hollywood Undead, Skrillex, Chase and Status, Plan B, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Slipknot, The Pretty Reckless, Rise Against, The White Stripes, Rammstein, Chemical Brothers, Frank Sinatra, Ice Cube, Blood Red Shoes, Radiohead, Prodigy, Pendulum, Knife Party, Swedish House Mafia, Disturbed, some J-pop and J-rock from animes I watch, some russian music... I could go on all night.

 

[Ldude893]

Coldplay.

Oh shut up, I'm a sucker for alternative rock and I happened to become a fan of their songs before I even knew what the band was called. I'm also an avid listener of Gorillaz and The Killers, and I like a lot of old bands like the Beatles, the Eagles, the Rolling Stones, etc. Too many to list.

 

[gideonkain]

I'm into lots of music, but I guess my main bands would be

The Fratellis
Muse
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Any band that plays Blues
Arctic Monkeys
Sea Legs
The Hives
The Clash
The Beatles
The Black Keys
Vintage Trouble
The White Stripes
The who

This person has good eclectic taste in music, you'll notice how they have a mix of music from a range of decades?
Not Slayer1, Slayer2, Slayer3, Slayer4...

 

[Poetic Nova]

Metal, Visual Kei, Punk, Blues, EBM and aggrotech, to name the gernes I mainly listen to. To many bands to list I love.

 

[Sacman]

I like lots of music... but my top 3 favorite bands are probably...

Dinosaur Jr...


The Gorillaz...


That Handsome Devil...


plus plenty of others... though those are just off the top of my head...<.<

 

[Something Amyss]

Everything

well i have 100.93GB of music in my itunes sooooo im pretty much into most music.

Sweet is this a competition? I have 168+ gb

If it IS a competition, I've got over 250 GB. There may be a couple redundant files here or there, though.

I prefer rock, but I listen to most genres pretty regularly. My top band would easily be Queen. Because Freddie didn't leave a mark on history--he french kissed it.

And while I'm never going to list them as a favourite band....

Dinosaur Jr...

J Mascis rules.

 

[Dense_Electric]

There are quite a few bands I listen to occasionally (or know like one song by), but the main ones are as follows:

- Iron Maiden
- Metallica
- Avenged Sevenfold
- Megadeth
- Pantera
- Sabaton
- Alestorm

 

[IGetNoSlack]

Coldplay.

Oh shut up, I'm a sucker for alternative rock and I happened to become a fan of their songs before I even knew what the band was called. I'm also an avid listener of Gorillaz and The Killers, and I like a lot of old bands like the Beatles, the Eagles, the Rolling Stones, etc. Too many to list.

You're not alone on Coldplay.

The Fratellis
Muse
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Any band that plays Blues
Arctic Monkeys
Sea Legs
The Hives
The Clash
The Beatles
The Black Keys
Vintage Trouble
The White Stripes
The who

Yes to all of the above.

Also, Arcade Fire.

I friggin' love the Suburbs.

 

[PurpleLeafRave]

ALTER BRIDGE
You should listen.

Also:
-Black Stone Cherry
-Shinedown
-Imagine Dragons
-Bon Iver
-Rise Against
-Skillet
-Pearl Jam

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

I like a little bit of everything. Here's the song I'm listening to right now:


And here's a random assortment of stuff that I've been listening to as of late (to clarify, this is more of a composite of what's been blaring in my headphones these past few weeks than a 'these are my favourite bands evar' type thing):

Spoiler

Earthless [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNsmRDUoMyQ]
Ulver [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXl4znQZOpw]
Jaga Jazzist [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHkBxyL371E]
Fleetwood Mac [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CT7mzrJunc]
Death [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0O0yCWI-30]
Anathema [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLhDsTUB-VQ]
Burzum [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaFS0ZMHeco]
Vienna Teng [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYb-cNOxe8w]
Unkle [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3ggye0aOTY]
Tyrannosaurus Rex [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwOmXMyZXKA]
Type O Negative [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbiBE0GHpl4]
My Bloody Valentine [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iT5EuTlHOM]
The Smashing Pumpkins [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kukO9PT83IQ]
Neurosis [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGQImg2u5PQ]
Incantation [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bco3gz8a9kU]
Iron Maiden [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJJLBJyojyY]
Isis [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv5t1KsVqnA]
Hypnos 69 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0zPUxJ0gZ8]
Ghost [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_E8FanUJRo]
Neutral Milk Hotel [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21exnGWN-uI]
Sonic Youth [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvDuATZCY8I]
Led Zeppelin [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ddD9efO1Hc]
My Morning Jacket [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYWtyJGq4vo]
Enslaved [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDQgIEShNcU]
Electric Wizard [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcfbItvEHqg]
Edge of Sanity [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwhzmUismio]
The Dears [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx3VsfnXfq4]
Devin Townsend [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG2ZTYIrP7U]
Darkthrone [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuSkqMaqF3E]
Thin Lizzy [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFmNGPyq9eE]
Cat Stevens [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q29YR5-t3gg]
Camel [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPq7gI4Hj90]
Beherit [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CREBkyFVd2g]
Diabolical Masquerade [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH3J8yNPEh8]
Jordan Rudess [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR6jQ613ZfM]

To name a few. Why yes, as it happens, I do have a lot of time on my hands.

 

[jab136]

pretty much any classic rock

Spoiler: some examples

Spoiler: Jefferson Airplane/Starship

Spoiler: Queen

Spoiler: The Beatles

Spoiler: The Who

Spoiler: Styx

Spoiler: Springsteen

Spoiler: Fleetwood Mac

I think you get the idea by now, I could list quite a few more but this post would get quite long

 

[irishmanwithagun]

I absolutely LOVE modern English Folk bands like Mumford and Sons, Laura Marling, Johnny Flynn and the Sussex Wit, Ben Howard, and Bear's Den. I also really like progressive Bluegrass bands like Newgrass Revival, Punch Brothers, and Bluegrass musicians like Jerry Douglas, Bela Fleck, Sam Bush, Tony Rice and Mark O'Connor. falling outside of those two genres are The Carolina Chocolate Drops, an incredible Old-Time/Roots/Minstrel/Blues band that celebrates African-American culture by taking old minstrel tunes, Blues songs and traditional instruments such as the banjo, jug, mandolin and fiddle and somehow making amazing foot-stompingly epic music. I also really like The Avett Brothers, a North Carolina Folk-Rock band who inspired Mumford and Sons and Old Crow Medicine Show, a Nashville Roots/Country band.
I'd make a joke like "do I win?" but considering the weirdly large number of metalheads on The Escapist I'm probably in the unpopular category here.

 

[5-0]

My tastes stay generally within rock and metal, and the numerous sub-genres lying within. I guess I'll name the stuff I've been listening to over the past few months: Porcupine Tree, Opeth, Agalloch, Mastodon, Gojira, Paradise Lost, Baroness, Enslaved, Clutch, Devin Townsend, Soundgarden, Dinosaur Jr., Pink Floyd, Graveyard, Witchcraft, The Sword, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Russian Circles, Pallbearer, Meshuggah.

 

[Artemis923]

Top Bands:

Dissection
Immortal
Venom
Dark Fortress
Watain
Bathory
Lord Belial
Black Horizons
Thulcandra
Darkthrone
Gorgoroth
Wretched
The Faceless
Wintersun
Ensiferum
Atheist
The Black Dahlia Murder
Blotted Science
Burzum
Cynic
Death

Brutal, no?

 

[Nazulu]

It's mostly classic rock/metal/progressive rock/jazz bands, rap groups and classical music I listen too. The big ones most of you have probably heard, and big names you possibly haven't heard like Frank Zappa, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Renaissance, Miles Davis, Masters Apprentices, etc.

Megadeth is a favourite of mine, they've written plenty of tough riffs and exciting instrumentals, I go crazy listening to Holy Wars... The Punishment Due.

I've just gotten back into Frank Zappa so heres a couple of big numbers from him if anyone is interested.



That last one might be the weirdest song you've heard.