What kind of music do you guys like?

MikeJ

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So today I was out delivering hard liquor like I do pretty much do every week day during the week and I was thinking to my self "Gee I wish the radio stations would stop playing the same songs they have been playing 3 times a day everyday for the past 20+ years."

Any how I got to thinking after seeing Mr.Grocery Thrower make mention to the band Tool, I thought you know as far as bands go that have width and depth Tool would defiantly be high on the list, Tool is a pretty heavy, band they have a big following and have certainly been around for sometime, Schism, The Pot, 46&2, Sober and Stinkfist are all very heavy songs with a lot of depth. It really doesn't get much heavier then Tool, there a pretty hard band. I know Tool was around in the 1990's, but they were defiantly way more advanced and way beyond the entire grunge seen for sure defiantly ahead of that time and I know there not even roped into that genre and probably me mentioning "grunge" and Tool in the same sentence is sacrilegious I'll probably get in trouble because of that.

Now to me I think if any one asked I would say that Rush is my favorite band I think that Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Pert are a very very talented group of musicians Rush isn't certainly as heavy as Tool, but they do have a lot of depth. The more I think about it pretty much every song on Moving Pictures (1981) was a hit. Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, YYZ, Limelight, Camera Eye, Which Hunt and Vital Signs however, that being said Permanent Waves (1980) was also a very big Rush album that had a lot of hits, Freewill and The Spirit of Radio being the big two hits from that album, however I also like Jacobs Ladder and Natural Science
Actually I would say Vital Signs the last song on Moving Pictures is probably my favorite Rush song or up there on the list defiantly top 5.

As far as the whole Seattle Sound and Grunge Rock movement of the 1990's goes it is fairly controversial, to some people the 1990's was a great musical decade and to others they say not so much. As far as the 1990's music seen was concerned really I don't care all that much about Nirvana I know out of all the big grunge bands they were the biggest, but Nirvana doesn't do it for me I'm an Alice In Chains fan and I can tolerate some Pearl Jam like the first Pearl Jam Album 10 had some good tunes on it of course all of those songs have been played into oblivion over the years on the radio and I can't listen to them any more because they have been so over played and I've heard them to many times. Actually Better man and Corduroy I have a higher tolerance for because they haven't been played as much and actually I'll probably get in trouble for saying this, but after Pearl Jam's first album 10 the rest of there albums are really not all that great in my opinion. They have a very very loyal fan base, but I'm going to say it I think Pearl Jam is defiantly overrated. Like I said 10 had a lot of hits heck it was the album that put them on the map, but besides Corduroy and Better man which came after 10 I can't think of a single Pearl Jam song that made any waves. Really all of Pearl Jam's major hits were on there first album.

Stone Temple Pilots and Sound Garden never really did it for me. I tended to like Collective Soul better and obviously you had some big time one/two hit wonders like Everlast and 7 Mary 3 who only had 2 hits, Cumbersome and Waters Edge.

Like as far as 1990's bands go, to me I think Green Day while they may not have been as influential as Nirvana and Pearl Jam there music has certainly stood the test of time and has aged fairly gracefully. That's another thing and I'll probably get in trouble for saying this, but I don't think Courtney Love's band Hole was all that bad actually I think Doll Parts and Celebrity Skin are fairly decent songs. Really I don't care about Courtney Love and Dave Grohl hating each other and Kurt Cobain and I'm sure Dave Grohl is a good guy, but that being said Foo Fighters and Nirvana I never was able to get into the whole Nirvana and Courtney Love Dave Grohl saga isn't anything I care about.

As far as bands go that I normally listen to:
Rush
The Cranberries
M83
Tori Amos (I think Tori Amos is a very talented piano player and in a class all of her own)
Some Blue October some not all
MSMR
Some of the Verve (Lucky Man is the song that comes to mind it's the song in the 2004 film The Girl Next Door where Emile Hirsch gets to dance with Elisha Cuthbert very jealous.)
Letters To Cleo (I like Kay Hanley)
Oasis (I like some of there songs, that being said I don't much care for Noel Galleger, I don't know any one who does.)
Joy Division (Transmission is there best song)
Concrete Blonde (There music is extremely dated and time has long since past them by, but Johnette Napolitaniano was a fairly good singer.)
Garbage
Porno for Pyros and Janes Addiction they had a few legitimate hits and aren't overrated.
The Joy Formidable
Alice In Chains
Veruca Salt (I'm not afraid to admit it Nina Gordon and Louise Post they knew how to rock out and both of them were pretty easy on the eyes circa 1997.)

Any how I'm more on the alternative side of the line, just gravitated that way over the years. Alright enough about me what do you guys normally listen to? Also I've never had it, but I could certainly see Satellite Radio being a fairly good investment better choices of music to listen to and all that good stuff any of you guys ever deal with Satellite Radio?

Mike
 
So today I was out delivering hard liquor like I do pretty much do every week day during the week and I was thinking to my self "Gee I wish the radio stations would stop playing the same songs they have been playing 3 times a day everyday for the past 20+ years."

Any how I got to thinking after seeing Mr.Grocery Thrower make mention to the band Tool, I thought you know as far as bands go that have width and depth Tool would defiantly be high on the list, Tool is a pretty heavy, band they have a big following and have certainly been around for sometime, Schism, The Pot, 46&2, Sober and Stinkfist are all very heavy songs with a lot of depth. It really doesn't get much heavier then Tool, there a pretty hard band. I know Tool was around in the 1990's, but they were defiantly way more advanced and way beyond the entire grunge seen for sure defiantly ahead of that time and I know there not even roped into that genre and probably me mentioning "grunge" and Tool in the same sentence is sacrilegious I'll probably get in trouble because of that.

Now to me I think if any one asked I would say that Rush is my favorite band I think that Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Pert are a very very talented group of musicians Rush isn't certainly as heavy as Tool, but they do have a lot of depth. The more I think about it pretty much every song on Moving Pictures (1981) was a hit. Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, YYZ, Limelight, Camera Eye, Which Hunt and Vital Signs however, that being said Permanent Waves (1980) was also a very big Rush album that had a lot of hits, Freewill and The Spirit of Radio being the big two hits from that album, however I also like Jacobs Ladder and Natural Science
Actually I would say Vital Signs the last song on Moving Pictures is probably my favorite Rush song or up there on the list defiantly top 5.

As far as the whole Seattle Sound and Grunge Rock movement of the 1990's goes it is fairly controversial, to some people the 1990's was a great musical decade and to others they say not so much. As far as the 1990's music seen was concerned really I don't care all that much about Nirvana I know out of all the big grunge bands they were the biggest, but Nirvana doesn't do it for me I'm an Alice In Chains fan and I can tolerate some Pearl Jam like the first Pearl Jam Album 10 had some good tunes on it of course all of those songs have been played into oblivion over the years on the radio and I can't listen to them any more because they have been so over played and I've heard them to many times. Actually Better man and Corduroy I have a higher tolerance for because they haven't been played as much and actually I'll probably get in trouble for saying this, but after Pearl Jam's first album 10 the rest of there albums are really not all that great in my opinion. They have a very very loyal fan base, but I'm going to say it I think Pearl Jam is defiantly overrated. Like I said 10 had a lot of hits heck it was the album that put them on the map, but besides Corduroy and Better man which came after 10 I can't think of a single Pearl Jam song that made any waves. Really all of Pearl Jam's major hits were on there first album.

Stone Temple Pilots and Sound Garden never really did it for me. I tended to like Collective Soul better and obviously you had some big time one/two hit wonders like Everlast and 7 Mary 3 who only had 2 hits, Cumbersome and Waters Edge.

Like as far as 1990's bands go, to me I think Green Day while they may not have been as influential as Nirvana and Pearl Jam there music has certainly stood the test of time and has aged fairly gracefully. That's another thing and I'll probably get in trouble for saying this, but I don't think Courtney Love's band Hole was all that bad actually I think Doll Parts and Celebrity Skin are fairly decent songs. Really I don't care about Courtney Love and Dave Grohl hating each other and Kurt Cobain and I'm sure Dave Grohl is a good guy, but that being said Foo Fighters and Nirvana I never was able to get into the whole Nirvana and Courtney Love Dave Grohl saga isn't anything I care about.

As far as bands go that I normally listen to:
Rush
The Cranberries
M83
Tori Amos (I think Tori Amos is a very talented piano player and in a class all of her own)
Some Blue October some not all
MSMR
Some of the Verve (Lucky Man is the song that comes to mind it's the song in the 2004 film The Girl Next Door where Emile Hirsch gets to dance with Elisha Cuthbert very jealous.)
Letters To Cleo (I like Kay Hanley)
Oasis (I like some of there songs, that being said I don't much care for Noel Galleger, I don't know any one who does.)
Joy Division (Transmission is there best song)
Concrete Blonde (There music is extremely dated and time has long since past them by, but Johnette Napolitaniano was a fairly good singer.)
Garbage
Porno for Pyros and Janes Addiction they had a few legitimate hits and aren't overrated.
The Joy Formidable
Alice In Chains
Veruca Salt (I'm not afraid to admit it Nina Gordon and Louise Post they knew how to rock out and both of them were pretty easy on the eyes circa 1997.)

Any how I'm more on the alternative side of the line, just gravitated that way over the years. Alright enough about me what do you guys normally listen to? Also I've never had it, but I could certainly see Satellite Radio being a fairly good investment better choices of music to listen to and all that good stuff any of you guys ever deal with Satellite Radio?

Mike

Holy **** dude....you need a hobby or something. I nor anyone else of sound mind even attempted to read all that. Blown away someone actually typed all that...Lmao!






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Mike, enjoyed your post. We are obviously generationally divided. For me it's rhythm and blues, blues, jazz, traditional, with some appreciation for other genres on a shallow basis. My knowledge of grunge is limited so to me Nirvana defines grunge, I like their music, Foo Fighters I like some of their stuff. I play guitar, so I'm drawn mostly to music that has good solid, rhythmic, and melodic guitar arrangements rather than just thrashing thus my interest in blues and jazz. I had satelite radio back about 5 years ago and liked it although the playlists were limited on some of the channels, blues for example, I couldn't understand why I would here some songs quite frequently with something like 60 years of recorded blues to draw from.
 
Mike, enjoyed your post. We are obviously generationally divided. For me it's rhythm and blues, blues, jazz, traditional, with some appreciation for other genres on a shallow basis. My knowledge of grunge is limited so to me Nirvana defines grunge, I like their music, Foo Fighters I like some of their stuff. I play guitar, so I'm drawn mostly to music that has good solid, rhythmic, and melodic guitar arrangements rather than just thrashing thus my interest in blues and jazz. I had satelite radio back about 5 years ago and liked it although the playlists were limited on some of the channels, blues for example, I couldn't understand why I would here some songs quite frequently with something like 60 years of recorded blues to draw from.

I like Blues music too, but my knowledge of Blues artists is kind of limited although I do like Blues and I should have made mention to that in my post.

I know Toledo, Ohio had an actual Blues station on FM radio back around 2003 and I know Blues isn't really part of the "main stream" . Your last sentence says it all, my Uncle is a musician he used to play keyboards in a band and they would play at parties, bars, restaurants and clubs. He said the same thing about 98.5 WNCX the classic rock station in Cleveland they always play the same songs by the same artists, and my Uncle would say "You know Rush, Queen, Bob Segar , Pink Floyd and the Eagles, all had fairly expansive catalogs, why do they always play the same 3 songs from each band."

I do know some Jazz artists, like Wynton Marsalis (I know Marsalis isn't a guitar player) and George Benson my folks have a couple of George Benson's 33 rpm records.
 
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I like Blues music too, but my knowledge of Blues artists is kind of limited although I do like Blues and I should have made mention to that in my post.

I know Toledo, Ohio had an actual Blues station on FM radio back around 2003 and I know Blues isn't really part of the "main stream" . Your last sentence says it all, my Uncle is a musician he used to play keyboards in a band and they would play at parties, bars, restaurants and clubs. He said the same thing about 98.5 WNCX the classic rock station in Cleveland they always play the same songs by the same artists, and my Uncle would say "You know Rush, Queen, Bob Segar , Pink Floyd and the Eagles, all had fairly expansive catalogs, why do they always play the same 3 songs from each band."

I do know some Jazz artists, like Wynton Marsalis (I know Marsalis isn't a guitar player) and George Benson my folks have a couple of George Benson's 33 rpm records.

You're uncle gets it. This is my kind of stuff, Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan jamming in 1983. Two masters.....RIP.
Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan
 
For me it's hard rock and metal. Love 80's hard rock and metal the most. Metallica, slayer, Def Leppard, Led Zeppelin, megadeth and so on. Like some of the new stuff like theory of a deadman, avenged sevenfold, halestorm and a few others

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For me it's hard rock and metal. Love 80's hard rock and metal the most. Metallica, slayer, Def Leppard, Led Zeppelin, megadeth and so on. Like some of the new stuff like theory of a deadman, avenged sevenfold, halestorm and a few others

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My favorite Metallica Album's are Ride The Lightening and Load. My favorite Def Leppard song is Armageddon it.
 
Nothing, and I mean nothing sets the mood in a park bathroom like George Michaels.

Kidding, got to agree with you on The Verve and Alice in Chains. Never did care for Pearl Jam or Nirvana. Big fan of Our Lady Peace, Silverchair and Smashing Pumpkins (lost a job in High School after no call-no,showing to go to a free concert they had on the KU campus). Being a little kid in the early 80's Land of 1000 dances as sang by the WWF wrestlers has to get a mention somewhere too.

The older I get the more I start resembling my Grandpa. The last 2-3 years I find talk radio taking up more and more of my radio time.
 
Nothing, and I mean nothing sets the mood in a park bathroom like George Michaels.

Kidding, got to agree with you on The Verve and Alice in Chains. Never did care for Pearl Jam or Nirvana. Big fan of Our Lady Peace, Silverchair and Smashing Pumpkins (lost a job in High School after no call-no,showing to go to a free concert they had on the KU campus). Being a little kid in the early 80's Land of 1000 dances as sang by the WWF wrestlers has to get a mention somewhere too.

The older I get the more I start resembling my Grandpa. The last 2-3 years I find talk radio taking up more and more of my radio time.

You know what, your absolutly right I totally forgot about Silver Chair and Our Lady Peace. Silver Chairs defiantly legit.
 
Holy **** dude....you need a hobby or something. I nor anyone else of sound mind even attempted to read all that. Blown away someone actually typed all that...Lmao!






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As I've explained in the past, people have a short attention span. If you don't get your point across in the first couple of paragraphs, it's not getting read. My eyes glaze over by the fourth paragraph and I scroll to the next post.

Guardrail
 
As I've explained in the past, people have a short attention span. If you don't get your point across in the first couple of paragraphs, it's not getting read. My eyes glaze over by the fourth paragraph and I scroll to the next post.

Guardrail
I'm with you except that you lasted longer than I did. :hysterical: But it sounds like SuperCourse dug it pretty deep.
Most of those bands I never even heard of and my breadth in music is not too wide anymore. Hell, I can't even remember the name of a band or a song anymore when I used to know both after a couple of notes. I just listen to WXPN, University of Pennsylvania NPR out of Philly these days. But for me I liked some mainstream and some eclectic stuff and I'm stuck in the '70s. Zep, Yes, The Who, The Stones (don't know how the hell they all lived this long and are still together as a band), Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull to name a few. Never was a big Beatles fan but I don't hold anything against them or their followers. Then I liked Dr. Hook, Renaissance, Al Stewart (pre Year of the Cat), Jefferson Starship (and airplane too for all that matters). Also like Leonard Cohen, Patty Smith and other soloists. Some of the stuff that predates me but I still liked would include Ten Years After, Uriah Heep, Traffic (going to see Dave Mason again this spring), Procol Harum, Three Dog Night. That'll hold me for now.
 
I'm with you except that you lasted longer than I did. :hysterical: But it sounds like SuperCourse dug it pretty deep.
Most of those bands I never even heard of and my breadth in music is not too wide anymore. Hell, I can't even remember the name of a band or a song anymore when I used to know both after a couple of notes. I just listen to WXPN, University of Pennsylvania NPR out of Philly these days. But for me I liked some mainstream and some eclectic stuff and I'm stuck in the '70s. Zep, Yes, The Who, The Stones (don't know how the hell they all lived this long and are still together as a band), Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull to name a few. Never was a big Beatles fan but I don't hold anything against them or their followers. Then I liked Dr. Hook, Renaissance, Al Stewart (pre Year of the Cat), Jefferson Starship (and airplane too for all that matters). Also like Leonard Cohen, Patty Smith and other soloists. Some of the stuff that predates me but I still liked would include Ten Years After, Uriah Heep, Traffic (going to see Dave Mason again this spring), Procol Harum, Three Dog Night. That'll hold me for now.

Some good stuff in there ABF'er, Ten Years After, Procol Harum, Traffic. The Beatles you had to be there to understand how they changed popular music, I was 13 in 1964 when they arrived. Never cared for what they did in their solo careers after the Beatles, to me George Harrison was much better than the others. Lennon was pitiful as was McCartney.
 
For me its Tool, also A Perfect Circle, all because Maynard Keenen founded it, he is one of my hero vocalist along with David Dramond, and Freddie Murcury, my hero drummers are Keith Moon, Danny Carey of Tool, Carmine Apiece, and the all important Neil Peirt of Rush. Alice in Chains was way ahead of their time in the music business.

Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam pissed me off with what he said about OK, I view them differently now, like Lazlo, I find myself on talk radio alot, I'm an AM nut.

I'm all about the harder stuff, even in my old age, 46.5, I still crave it.
 
Classic Rock, Hair metal, Heavy metal(Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeth, Motorhead), Classic country.
 
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