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Post by Molly on May 12, 2002 14:26:12 GMT -5
[glow=WHITE,2,300]Who are your ABSOLUTE favourite band (s)? [/glow]
This is of all time. Not just many many bands you like but the ones who are just more than that (no big long lists here). Who you may have loved for years, or just have discovered them recently, influenced you, mean something more to you, introduced you to something different, just amaze you. More than just a list of your favourite bands. Don't just write bands you think are cool, if it is a certain band or group, even if it sounds embarrasing , WRITE IT, however embarrased you may feel from it. And give reasons people. Why you love them, what it is about them and why you have chosen them.
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Post by Katie on May 12, 2002 15:18:03 GMT -5
Okay I love, love, love, love New Found Glory. They write nice songs that don't make u wonna kill urself, they're also really nice guys, i think they're starting to recognise me now. I also love Marylin Manson, Brian is really smart and i love the way he thinks. The rest of the band or the Spookie Kids are all really funny and nice, especially Twiggy. Another band I love is ALice In Chains, I really liked them for ages, then I bought their album Dirt and I worshipe them. I guess that's it, I also love bands I've met that have been nice to me.
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Post by Fellyforn on May 12, 2002 15:48:07 GMT -5
Oh my gawsh, hard question....!
Well I am in love with King Adora. Yes, all of them. Sexuality is not an issue.
I just love their style, the music and generally everything about them... Some may say they're a tad bit OTT, but that's just them. And I love them.
Male anorexia, par example, is a topic hardly ever (if ever) touched upon, not just in the music industry, but anywhere...
I love the guitars, i love the drums, i love the bass, i even love all the twiddly bits in between....
Plus, who agrees that skinny men, vibrant clothing, big hair and smudged, messy make up go oh so well together?
Another fave band just has to be.... New Found Glory, and for most of the reasons that Katie listed, although I would be very scared if they recognised me because I've never seen them.... yet!!
And, okay, I'm writing it, even if it is embarassing... no wait, I'm not embarassed.... Anyway...
Nat King Cole! My word he was fantastic!
*when i fall in love...it will be forever...*
I admire him for what he went through, being the first black entertainer on telly and all.
His neighbours fed rat poisoning to his dogs and then left the dog's bodies on his doorstep, or I think that's what hapenned. Well whatever it was, it was horrible ignorant white people acting on discrimination.
Okay, that's me done I think, although be prepared for more to come as the cogs in my brain slowly start moving...
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Post by Nicôle on May 13, 2002 12:05:33 GMT -5
This isn't too hard for me as I don't love that many bands, although I don't have any deep emotional reasons for loving any of them, they just make brilliant music. So here we go...
[glow=red,2,300]Four Star Mary[/glow]I first heard their music when I bought the soundtrack to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, you may all think it's sad, but I don't care, they've recorded some amazing albums and I love the lyrics.
[glow=red,2,300]The Goo Goo Dolls[/glow]I first heard of The Goo Goo Dolls when I stole my mum's City of Angels Soundtrack (yes I love soundtracks) and heard the song Iris, anyone who's it heard will agree that it is a great song. So I bought the album with Iris on and have loved them ever since.
[glow=red,2,300]The Sundays[/glow]Listen to Harriet Wheeler's voice (lead singer) and you'll get why I love them so much.
I know none of them are bands I've loved since I was three or anything, but they're what I like right now and I'm sure I'll keep liking, so to me, they are my favouritest bands.
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Post by Lauren on May 13, 2002 12:23:54 GMT -5
I spent ages writing a really good reason, but the computer messed up:-(
So I'll just say: Ben Folds Five.
I might modify this later, to make it better.
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Post by noony on May 14, 2002 4:44:55 GMT -5
I'll try to keep this as short as possible...
first off, Chili Peppers and Goo Goo Dolls, without which my friends wouldn't have formed a band, and I wouldn't have learned guitar to try and get into that band, and then ended up playing drums for them, so I would have been a very different person right now, and a worse person for it, no doubt.
Blink-182, for giving me numbers to put on the end of all my usernames when noony isn't available, and just showing me that you can be a big immature idiot and still have a hell of a lot of fun making music, and of cause Travis (not the scottish band) for inspiring me to play drums, and give myself a mohawk
More recently, Deftones, for balancing heaviness with emotion so perfectly, and not ending up sounding like anyone else in the process. Get Up Kids and Weezer for writing some of the best songs I've ever heard, and just being a big bunch of geeks who somehow manage to be cool (there's hope for me yet!!) and lastly, Dashboard Confessional, for inspiring me to pick up my acoustic guitar and just sing, so that I might touch someone as he has touched me (oo-er)
and an honorable mention to the Smashing Pumpkins for always being around (well not anymore, but just generally being great for the large majority of my life)
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Post by Nicôle on Jun 1, 2002 13:43:28 GMT -5
I've also got really into[glow=red,2,300]Garbage[/glow] since they released their latest album, forcing me to buy the two that came before.
And I found the debut [glow=red,2,300]Bif Naked[/glow]album the other week, so I put "I, Bificus" in my CD player for the first time in months and have been listening to her a lot.
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Post by Tom on Jun 1, 2002 20:55:34 GMT -5
silverchair, my vitriol, placebo, radiohead(esp the more recent stuff), karate, smashing pumpkins, muse, hendrix. etc. nirvana were actually the band the first got me into the value of emotion in music,
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Post by Charlie on Jun 3, 2002 18:58:47 GMT -5
You know- for one second there I thought this was a new thread and that Katie had returned and was being civilised and didn't hate me anymore. Reality hurts.  |
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Post by Nicôle on Jun 4, 2002 4:57:25 GMT -5
I'm sorry Charlie, I resurrected it from about page 4 because I like seeing what bands other people like and because I wanted to add some more. Sorry to dissapoint you. 
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Post by Peffkitten on Jun 4, 2002 6:17:22 GMT -5
I don't think I'll ever be able to fully answer this question.
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Post by Lauren on Jun 4, 2002 7:09:45 GMT -5
I've tried to elaborate on my original answer several times, but every time I change bands, depending on my mood.
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Post by Lauren on May 18, 2005 13:43:04 GMT -5
Peff! Attempt to answer the question!
I can SEE you're online.
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Post by Peffkitten on May 18, 2005 16:30:04 GMT -5
Um, Ok...
Well I was exposed to my mum's music when growing up. This was the late 80's so she'd play a lot of Two-Tone and Soul like Madness and the Fine Young Criminals, plus innumerable Motown and Stax records. Now these were all great, but the songs that really stuck with me were the PUNK numbers... Stiff Little Fingers, The Buzzcocks and The Damned mainly... Plus when I started buying old punk acts myself I discovered the true majesty of The Clash.
Also in the late 80's we had the tail end of the synthpop New Romantics, so New Order filtered into my mind. I stole a Depeche Mode CD from my dad, which I still have.
Into my formative years... The music you get into at about 12 or 13 really effects you. The first band i truly fell in love with were PLACEBO. Nancy Boy was a real watershed moment for me. Suede, Blur, Pulp, Elastica and Sleeper were also whizzing around the charts and making me happy. And then there was the song "Your Woman" by WHITE TOWN. An incredible record, and all made by one bloke on his computer. "I could do that too" I thought...
In my early teens I began to be interested in goth music. I would listen to a mixtape that contained The Sisters of Mercy, Fields of the Nephelim, The Skeletal children etc... And though I was fond of the songs something wasn't quite clicking for me... And then THE CURE came on the scene! Wowowowow, they had all the qualities I was looking for.
And then AFI, a huuuuge love in my life. A punk band with goth-edged, poetically dark lyrics and a compelling attitude. Following a recommendation from Davey Havok I asked my dad to get me an album by THE FAINT.
And woooah yeah mama! I was so amazed! They were the missing link between the glacial 80's synthpop acts I wanted to love and the world around me... Absolutely incredible.
Also GOTEKI were a huge inspiration to me - one man and his computer making kick ass EBM music... Apoptygma Berzerk also made me feel the same.
One day I was cruising on the internet and I found a picture of a guy with huge black feathery wings... I followed the link and found he was the singer in a band called MALICE MIZER. This was my first true introduction to the wolrd of J-Rock, but it would be three years before I was able to get hold of any substantial amount of their music. The maestro, Mana, now of Moi Dix Mois, has truly impressed and inspired me.
So those are the artists who have wielded the most influence on me, I would say...
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Post by Lauren on May 18, 2005 17:38:58 GMT -5
Wow.
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