Music

[JHarris1385]

I cant stand Cash.

[nfpgasmask]

I cant stand Cash.

Come on man, JC rules! His music is so melancholy and depressing! I love it!

Whenever you are feeling depressed, just throw on some Cash, or some Swans....

Bart

PS - I can't stand ska... ...and pop "punk" just ain't punk. Pop maybe, but in no way is it punk.

[JHarris1385]

My opinion on JC is slightly skewd but that is only becuase I heard one of his cd's over and over and over while driving to vacation one time in my past. I think its purely annoying.

...Yeah alot do not like ska and I only like the bands that hint on the punk side (Less than Jake mainly). Punk in my terms is doing what you will at anytime with no restrictions (going against the flow). If a band plays punk themed chords but comes across as on a pop note they are doing what they want. My mind changed a couple years back about pop-punk when I read an article debating calling it punk at all. If I can locate it im sure it will show the light at the of the tunnel a little clearer.

[nfpgasmask]

Yeah, I guess for me punk vs pop punk is the style of the music itself, not just how the band rebels or goes against the mainstream. I mean, to me, there is a "punk sound" for sure. I'm just old school I guess. There is nothing like some good, polictical, aggressive punk to get your blood pumping.

I think I once read an interview with Green Day about how they never considered themselves "punk". It was a label they just somehow acquired. Its funny, I love stories like that. Its just like The Sisters of Mercy. I read somewhere once that they never intended to be a "goth band". But as it turns out, they are like one of the most notable goth bands in history.

Funny how genre labels really mean nothing.

Bart

My opinion on JC is slightly skewd but that is only becuase I heard one of his cd's over and over and over while driving to vacation one time in my past. I think its purely annoying.

...Yeah alot do not like ska and I only like the bands that hint on the punk side (Less than Jake mainly). Punk in my terms is doing what you will at anytime with no restrictions (going against the flow). If a band plays punk themed chords but comes across as on a pop note they are doing what they want. My mind changed a couple years back about pop-punk when I read an article debating calling it punk at all. If I can locate it im sure it will show the light at the of the tunnel a little clearer.

[JHarris1385]

I used to like Green Day back in the Dookie days and maybe a little Nimrod too, now they too annoy me.
Im guessing punk to you is anti-flag sound?

[nfpgasmask]

Fav punk bands:

Misfits
Minor Threat
Dead Kennedys
D.I.
The Vandals
Reagan Youth
Ramones
Subhumans
7 Seconds

But for me, my heart is 100% with mid/late 80s, early 90s industrial. This is the era of music I cannot live without. Skinny Puppy, Frontline Assembly, Ministry, REVCO, TKK, KMFDM, Front 242, Nitzer Ebb and all the various side projects and spin offs of these bands....I'll never get sick of.

Bart

I used to like Green Day back in the Dookie days and maybe a little Nimrod too, now they too annoy me.
Im guessing punk to you is anti-flag sound?

[Chopper]

Such a GIANT question! Bluegrassy stuff/ by way of old Fairport Convention, Pentangle and such Some CSN...some Zep occasionaly..old Airplane silliness NOW...all kinds of crap...NIN, Nirvana, old Butt Hole Surfers, toss in some Portriat of an American Family and old Zombie....I love noise! God Lives under Water.....Dick Dale......Vivaldi and Bach...A GT3,one third of a tank of gas, glass down, and MILES, Bitches Brew please Some Herbie Hancock, lots of Temptations......Bonnie Raitt and Bruce Springstein....if I'm drunk enough, and you must, but I'd much rather Buckwheat Zydeco, thankyou......love a good fiddle( hate a Charlie Daniels and pretty much all country.....and Opera) Jazz is pretty much a snooze......hate crooners/singers. Nosrat Ali Kahn ( when your frame of mind is right:bgwp I can do this all day Wayne

[nfpgasmask]

Such a GIANT question! Bluegrassy stuff/ by way of old Fairport Convention, Pentangle and such Some CSN...some Zep occasionaly..old Airplane silliness NOW...all kinds of crap...NIN, Nirvana, old Butt Hole Surfers, toss in some Portriat of an American Family and old Zombie....I love noise! God Lives under Water.....Dick Dale......Vivaldi and Bach...A GT3,one third of a tank of gas, glass down, and MILES, Bitches Brew please Some Herbie Hancock, lots of Temptations......Bonnie Raitt and Bruce Springstein....if I'm drunk enough, and you must, but I'd much rather Buckwheat Zydeco, thankyou......love a good fiddle( hate a Charlie Daniels and pretty much all country.....and Opera) Jazz is pretty much a snooze......hate crooners/singers. Nosrat Ali Kahn ( when your frame of mind is right:bgwp I can do this all day Wayne

Now THAT'S ecclectic! LOL. How the heck old are you, Chopper? Its fun to try to guess people's age range from their musical taste.

Bart

[Chopper]

KMFDM??" Machines don't make mistakes, humans do.....that's why we employ machines"

[MSHardeman]

Let's bounce around the 'ol Ipod here:

Al Green, 30 Seconds to Mars, 10 Years, Agent Orange, BB King, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Amy Winehouse, Anberlin, Young Dubliners, Yo-Yo Ma, Bauhaus, Func Haus, The Benevento/Russo Duo, Bif Naked, Big Pig, Blackalicious, Wynton Marsalis, Mozart, Tuatara, Tower of Power, Thievery Corporation, Boom Boom Satellites, BT, Celldweller, Chris Botti, Sting, The Police, The Cult, The Cure, Theory of a Deadman, Spyro Gyra, Spinesank, Social Distortion, Shirley Bassey, Flyleaf, Esthero, Frank Sinatra, Gotan Project, Hot Action Cop, Razed In Black, Kidney Thieves, Andrea Bocelli...

OK, maybe I should stop now. I tend to listen to all kinds of stuff from all kinds of genres. I'm going to have to Limewire some of the bands I've seen from other people to expand my horizons.

[WyrreJ]

Nosrat Ali Kahn ( when your frame of mind is right:bgwp

If you like NFAK, then check out Star Rise - Asian Dub Foundation's remix on there will rip your ears out. But in a very familiar way. A great album, although all the NFAK purists hate it.

FWIW - I really like the Verve Remixed and Unmixed collections. Both versions of Simone's Sinnerman are awesome.

Thievery Corporation
Transglobal Underground
Can't forget Shpongle - heavy floyd influence there.
International/hip-hop/dancehall by M.I.A. and the more latin flavored Yerba Buena - "carmen santina angelica woods" and "bilingual girl" - or Manau who are really popular in France doing a kind of french-celtic-hip-hop
Forget "pickin on floyd" a lot of those "pickin on..." albums are weak rip-offs of the masters - Hayseed Dixie they cover Hells Bells with a triangle
Pretty much everything on Dakini Records especially anything the founder, Makyo puts out. Hard to find though, most of it goes out of print pretty quick and you have to get on ebay or p2p.
For ska, check out Pepper - from my home town. They sound a lot like Sublime.
Sinead O'connor recently discovered the irish influences in Jamaica and released a bunch of covers of old reggae standards the japanese edition has a second disc that is done in dub. Easily found on p2p nets everywhere.
Last season, the show "Weeds" turned me on to Cambodian surf rock by the US band Dengue Fever which then leads to american surf rock, mostly instrumental - Man or Astro-Man?
If you like the samba, Bebel Gilberto (daughter of the famous Gil and Astrud Gilberto) is excellent.
Also, the king of world chill mixes - the Buddha Bar series which are ridiculously overpriced and thus begging to be pirated...
Rocking celtic music (versus celtic rock) by Ashely MacIssac and Shooglenifty and Gaelic Storm and Tears for Beers and the not-anywhere-near-as-gay-as-their-name-sounds Peatbog Faeries.
King of Bass - Jah Wobble

Has anyone else heard Ozzy Osbourne and Dweezil Zappa covering "Stayin' Alive?" pretty good sheeit.
Last, but not least - Fat-boy Slim he's got some cool videos too

[bulldog]

even more of a shameless plug,,listen to my stuff
www.myspace.com/darrenjones:)

[Mark B]

Classical from Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, all the way to Heavy Metal,
The real bands were those in the 70's.
Who, Black Sabbath, Stones, REO, RUSH, Styx, ELO, to many good bands to remeber.
WOW, I am having a LSD flash back to my college days.
I never inhaled just like Bill Clinton if you can believe that.

[tomdietrying]

I listen to SIRIUS SATELITE.

Right now the two things I listen to are HOWARD STERN and CH. 14 - Classic Vinyl. (Stone, Led Zepplin, Cult etc.)

Peace.
Tom