So what other bands are you guys into around here?

ChickenStu · #1 01-11-2014, 11:01 AM

Personally, I'm an absolute SUCKER for Toto. I think they are awesome. I also love Steely Dan and Genesis. Those guys along with the Mac are pretty much all I listen to these days. Sometimes I'll put on a bit of Foo Fighters though. And I LOVE a bit of Bowie.

When I was a younger I was into Red Hot Chili Peppers, Korn, Incubus, Slipknot, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Rage Against The Machine, Faith No More, Jane's Addiction, Pink Floyd (can't listen to them anymore. Brings back, ahem, dubious memories), Senser.

My taste changed a bit as I hit my 30s and I went for stuff that was bit softer. The music I listened to as a younger man is just too loud for me now, lol.

What about you guys? What else do you dig apart from the obvious?

Ulpian · #2 01-11-2014, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by ChickenStu

Personally, I'm an absolute SUCKER for Toto. I think they are awesome. I also love Steely Dan and Genesis. Those guys along with the Mac are pretty much all I listen to these days. Sometimes I'll put on a bit of Foo Fighters though. And I LOVE a bit of Bowie.

When I was a younger I was into Red Hot Chili Peppers, Korn, Incubus, Slipknot, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Rage Against The Machine, Faith No More, Jane's Addiction, Pink Floyd (can't listen to them anymore. Brings back, ahem, dubious memories), Senser.

My taste changed a bit as I hit my 30s and I went for stuff that was bit softer. The music I listened to as a younger man is just too loud for me now, lol.

What about you guys? What else do you dig apart from the obvious?

The Floyd and the Mac are my two main musical obsessions, but I like the Beatles, Oasis, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Eurythmics, and I quite like some newer ones though they tend to be more flakey. I had a Mumford and Sons moment last year, but I think there was a bit of over exposure there.

Jondalar · #3 01-11-2014, 07:07 PM

The Doors
Concrete Blonde

KarmaContestant · #4 01-11-2014, 10:28 PM

Muse
Vampire Weekend
Franz Ferdinand, I have tickets to see them April 21!
The Black Keys
Depeche Mode
Kasabian
Coldplay
Whitest Boy Alive
Portishead
Mazzy Star
The Cinematics (*cry* they broke up after only two albums)
Everything But The Girl
Honeycut
Gorillaz
The Presets
Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra
Siouxsie & The Banshees
Concrete Blonde

These are all bands that I share an equal obsession for; at least as much (and often moreso) than Fleetwood Mac.

ChickenStu · #5 01-12-2014, 08:49 AM

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Everything But The Girl

Now THERE is a band I've not heard of for a few years! Blimey! Whatever happened to those guys?

KarmaContestant · #6 02-06-2014, 03:35 PM

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Now THERE is a band I've not heard of for a few years! Blimey! Whatever happened to those guys?

Their catalog is being remastered and reissued. I think the second set of four albums is due soon. Otherwise, Tracey Thorn has laucnhed a solo career, with one album in 2007, Out of the Woods, and a second in 2011, Love and it's Opposite. Both albums are great - the first is very typical of Everything But The Girl. The second is mostly accoustic, very melancholy, and is a concept album about divorce. One lyric sums it up best:

"Each time I hear who's to part, I examine my heart"

It's a lovely collection of songs, really. I hope Tracey has something new in the works!

Ulpian · #7 01-12-2014, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by KarmaContestant

Muse
Vampire Weekend
Franz Ferdinand, I have tickets to see them April 21!
The Black Keys
Depeche Mode
Kasabian
Coldplay
Whitest Boy Alive
Portishead
Mazzy Star
The Cinematics (*cry* they broke up after only two albums)
Everything But The Girl
Honeycut
Gorillaz
The Presets
Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra
Siouxsie & The Banshees
Concrete Blonde

These are all bands that I share an equal obsession for; at least as much (and often moreso) than Fleetwood Mac.

Gorillaz but not Blur?

KarmaContestant · #8 01-12-2014, 10:20 AM

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Gorillaz but not Blur?

I've never actually heard Blur (that I know of). Weird, I know.

Jondalar · #9 02-06-2014, 05:23 PM

Right now, I'm totally into Patty Griffin. OMG her songs are as good as anyones. LOVVVVEEEEE!!!!!

Dex · #10 02-06-2014, 05:38 PM

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Right now, I'm totally into Patty Griffin. OMG her songs are as good as anyones. LOVVVVEEEEE!!!!!

!!! I was totally having a Patty pm love-in with another member here earlier today. She really is something else. Any particular albums/songs stand out for you?

Jondalar · #11 02-06-2014, 05:56 PM

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!!! I was totally having a Patty pm love-in with another member here earlier today. She really is something else. Any particular albums/songs stand out for you?

Making Pies turned me onto her. That is an excellent song and I can't believe it wasn't all over the radio. Love Long Ride Home and Rain.

The album I like the most is Flaming Red; Goodbye is one of the most beautiful ballads ever. I love Tony. It's funny it's about gay suicide because it sounds upbeat. Great Track. Wiggley Fingers, Mary, Christine, great album

She is the real deal; Up to the Mountain can compete with any soul song.

GarboSpeaks! · #12 02-10-2014, 03:17 PM

TrueFaith77 has a lot of great taste! But I also like some of Jack White. I love a lot of 80's. Like ALL things 80's. After that I'd cling onto KarmaContestant for most like my taste in music. The only outsider is Dan Hicks, and I think ONE ledgie had ever heard of them. lol

I am really into Fitz & The Tantrums right now. I really enjoy both of their albums back to front. Super poppy and radio friendly, but there are times when that is ok. I also super dig Tame Impala and Broken Bells.
Beach House I liked...but what the hell happened? Portland was talking up a storm about them, but now I've heard nodda. Hope they do more in future.

becca · #13 02-11-2014, 12:54 PM

Morrissey and The Smiths meant a lot to me at one time, I could never be without his/their music around for flashbacks.

I have all the Dan Hicks vinyl LPs and the great Amazing Charlatans CD collection. Certainly not for everyone, and like Captain Beefheart probably impossible to explain, but who knows that Stevie Nicks didn't pick up some retro Edwardian-Victorian fashion ideas through them in her San Fran days? Ferguson forever!

I'm really into listening to a Michigan '60s outfit called The Spike Drivers lately... along the lines of early Jefferson Airplane, Great Society, Mojo Men, only nowhere close geographically to the bay area, so how did they get there? One member left for Canada and founded the Perth County Conspiracy. It all should have been much more popular. Actually maybe they are more like The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, I'm a sucker for male/female vocal harmony pop like this.

PenguinHead · #14 10-16-2014, 11:33 PM

WOW. I am really impressed by huge diverse lists people shared. There were about 40 artists that I noticed that forgot to put on my list. I'm a completist, so a good portion of my list are artists of which I've collected their entire discography, and then some. It kills me that most of it is in storage on the other side of the country. Hopefully I'll be united with in the next year or so. I'll be overwhelmed.