The official favorite music thread

[Dragon Force]

Post your favorite artists, genre, and songs of your favorite music

Artsist:
Kansas
Shadows Fall
All that Remains
Green day
Nirvana
Dragon Force
Strong Bad (lol!)

Genre
Rock
Heavy metal

Songs:
Way to hard to choose

What about you?

(If possible make sticky)

[Elusive]

Chris Rea: absolutely perfect for listening to when it's 3:30AM and it's raining outside. That man can sing.

[GeckoYamori]

I go into periods where I pretty much only listen to 1 genre for a few weeks then switch to something else. Right now it's Goatrance, used to be Techno a few weeks back, before that it was Jazz, Funk and Disco/House.

[Drixxel]

The absolute favourite bands with associated classic album and 3 song selections (because, yes, I'm that bored):

A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
The Package <> The Noose <> Gravity

Atheist - Elements
Water <> Earth <> See You Again

The Beatles - Abbey Road
Oh! Darling <> I Want You (She's So Heavy) <> Because

Black Sabbath - Paranoid
War Pigs/Luke's Wall <> Planet Caravan <> Hand of Doom

Coroner - Grin
Internal Conflicts <> Serpent Moves <> Host

Cynic - Focus
Celestrial Voyage <> I'm But A Wave To... <> How Could I

Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects - Sol Niger Within
I, Galactus <> Transmigration of Souls <> Zeta 2 - Reticuli

Jamiroquai - A Funk Odyssey
Little L <> You Give Me Something <> Corner Of The Earth

Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
Asteroid <> Supa Scoopa & Mighty Scoop <> Conan Troutman

Matthew Good Band - The Audio of Being
Tripoli <> Advertising On Police Cars <> Truffle Pigs

Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What!!
Set The World Afire <> Liar <> Hook In Mouth

Metal Church - Blessing In Disguise
Rest In Pieces (April 15, 1912) <> Of Unsound Mind <> Anthem to the Estranged

Meshuggah - Catch 33
The Paradoxical Spiral <> In Death - Is Life <> Personae Non Gratae

Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Fight Fire With Fire <> Fade To Black <> Call of Ktulu

Overkill - The Years of Decay
Nothing To Die For <> Playing With Spiders/Skullkrusher <> E.vil N.ever D.ies

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Breathe <> Time <> Brain Damage

Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
First It Giveth <> Go With The Flow <> Song For The Deaf

Radiohead - Kid A
Everything In Its Right Place <> How To Disappear Completely <> Optimistic

Tool - Lateralus
The Grudge - Lateralus - Disposition

Voivod - The Outer Limits
Fix My Heart - Moonbeam Rider - Jack Luminous

Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force - Rising Force
Black Star - Far Beyond The Sun - Icarus' Dream Suite Op.4

...and I listen to a lot of video game music.

[nat]

Queensryche
Black Sabbath
Faith no More
Blue Oyster Cult
The Eagles
Dokken
Deep Purple
Metallica
Megadeth
Queen
AC/DC

Just to name a few....

[Man-Fish]

I'm very bored, so I thought I'd post here.

The list isn't in any order, and I've listed my favourite bands and my favourite album/s (if any).


Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile, Pretty Hate Machine, The Downward Spiral
Alice In Chains - Dirt, Unplugged, Alice In Chains
Therapy? - Troublegum
Rammstein - Mutter
Korn (my secret shame) - Neidermeyer's Mind (early demo tape), Untouchables
Soundgarden - Louder Than Love, Badmotorfinger, Superunknown, Down On The Upside
Smashing Pumpkins - Greatest Hits (all I have )
Metallica - S&M
Beck - Mellow Gold
Nirvana - Unplugged, On The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah

[Blades]

Don't Laugh at my tastes:

Artist/Album

Gary Numan - Replicas, Jagged
Nirvana- NeverMind
Nine Inch Nails - Downward Spiral
Black Sabbath- Paranoid
Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
Green Day - American Idiot, Nimrod

-- Heavy Rock --

[Dragon Force]

Your taste is as good as mine. Everyone has it different so no ones is better or worse. Its just music.

OH yeah and Brian Kahanek "Gemini". He is a great guitar player. For those of you who dont know him.
Brian Kahanek's Myspace

[Joe Redifer]

Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force - Rising Force
Black Star - Far Beyond The Sun - Icarus' Dream Suite Op.4

Those are everyone's favorite 3 songs from that album... probably because they are the ONLY good songs. I wish the album didn't sound like it was recorded on a standard cassette player and dubbed down 30 generations with extra hiss added each time. The sound quality is really bad. Did you know that Ys IV for the PC Engine CD-ROM has boss music that has the same exact melody as one of those tunes? I've also heard the same melody in other places, but can't quite recall where.

[nat]

Did you know that Ys IV for the PC Engine CD-ROM has boss music that has the same exact melody as one of those tunes?

What, did everyone rip off Ys IV because it was such an awesome game?

what boss?

[Joe Redifer]

Hell I dunno what boss. Most of them play the same music, I think.

And Eeeng-Vay's album was out waaaaaay before Ys 4.


EDIT: It's "Far Beyond the Sun"

[Vyse of Arcadia]

This is going to be hard, as I listen to damn near everything. I'll go ahead and do the whole band/album thing.

Phish - Hampton Comes Alive (6-disc live goodness)
Led Zeppelin - BBC Sessions (The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair) (No, seriously, my girlfriend has long black wavy hair.)
The Who - Who's Next
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here or Meddle (I can't decide!)
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
The Beatles - The White Album
David Bowie - Man of Words/Man of Music/Space Oddity
String Cheese Incident - Atlanta 10/21/2005
The Flaming Lips - Transmissions From the Satellite Heart (Closely followed by Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots)
Architecture in Helsinki - Fingers Crossed
Get Him Eat Him - Geography Cones
model a - angry hippo EP
Kansas - Point of No Return (Damn fine album.)
Arthur Yoria - I'll Be Here Awake
Brad Sucks - I Don't Know What I'm Doing
Drop Trio - Big Dipper
The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat (Which is, in fact, one of the best damn albums I've ever listened to.)
The Decemberists - Picaresque (I wanted to say the Tain. I really did. But it's only 20 minutes long.)
Strong Bad - Strong Bad Sings (Totally worth it for the live version of Everybody to the Limit (Come on fhwqwgads))
i, cactus - i, cactus (I don't listen to much electronic music, but this is just...relaxing.)
Jupiter Sunrise - Under a Killer Blue Sky
The Postal Service - Give Up (Again, I don't listen to much electronic music, but it's good.)
Moody Blues - A Night at the Red Rocks
Pro Audio - Saturday We're Even

A note: Pro Audio is one of the best damn bands I've ever, EVER listened to. Their first album is completely free for the download. Check 'em out at http://www.proaudioband.com

They Might Be Giants - No!
Trocadero - Roses Are Red Violets Are Blue

Aaand that's all I can think of for now.

Wait, I'll also list my favorite video game soundtracks.
Jet Set Radio
Jet Set Radio Future
Sonic Rush (Hideki Naganuma is a god of music and insanity.)
Skies of Arcadia (Duh.)
Grandia
Grandia II
Final Fantasy Tactics
Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy VI
Drill Dozer
Xenogears
Xenosaga
Star Ocean: The Second Story
Super Mario RPG
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga

...and probably more I can't think of right now. I'll post 'em later if I think of them.

Edit: Damn I listen to a lot of music. Sorry for the long post.

[Drixxel]

Those are everyone's favorite 3 songs from that album... probably because they are the ONLY good songs. I wish the album didn't sound like it was recorded on a standard cassette player and dubbed down 30 generations with extra hiss added each time. The sound quality is really bad. Did you know that Ys IV for the PC Engine CD-ROM has boss music that has the same exact melody as one of those tunes? I've also heard the same melody in other places, but can't quite recall where.

Haha, actually, I rather enjoy the entire album, but those three songs are quite the universally popular favourites as you said. Yngwie's choice in vocalist has always been a little, oh.. extremely overwrought & bloody cheesy, so the instrumentals have always been the strongest songs. I've never taken offense at the sound quality of the album.. it's a bit dead and muffled, I suppose, but no more than many comparable albums from the era. The sound quality is much livelier on other Yngwie albums, but the compositions on ol' Rising Force were never topped, at least not by the single-minded shredder himself, a man doomed forever to an eternity of thinking it's still 1984.

By the way, interesting tidbit about the ripping off of Far Beyond The Sun... I could swear I'd read about a similar incident elsewhere involving zany Malmsteen.

[Joe Redifer]

Surely you have the G3 concert video with Eengvay Malmsteen, Steve Vai and Joe Satriani all playing together.... LIVE OMG YES LIVE!!!!!1!!

[MitsuruX]

A few of my abscure favs are....

Starflyer 59
Poor Old Lu
Mortal
MxPx
The Juliana Theory
Finve Iron Frenzy