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wewt!. i feel special. right now im really into the tanz-metal, or technical metal, or whatever you want to call them band rammstein.
everyone go listen to them on youtube.
Oooh yay. Much thanks GAPAs. ♪♪♪
Recently, I’ve been listening to the GazettE （ガゼット） a lot. I really want to buy NIL . Their videos are amazing, especially Taion.
I’m going to try to get back into playing the piano. D: Self taught though, lessons are not in my future. Ugh.
The most amazing thing is not assigning yourself to one particular genre of music.
3rd post?
I’m somewhat of a newcomer into the world of music. I haven’t really listened to it or followed bands, or whatever, until this year.
I like classical.
4 – FREAK.
anyways, i’m somewhat of a metalhead, but i also like 2 listen 2 Black Eyed Peas, Gorillaz, Eminem, and Fantomas. i discovered metal on one of my friend’s iPod, which has 12 gigs of nonstop metal. so fr00dy.
BLIND GUARDIAN + ICED EARTH = T3H PWNAGE!
4-Not really a freak. I like classical, too. Although, I am TRYING to write guitar music! ugh… no ideas… ugh…
The HAWK
4+7- Hey do you guys listen to Peralmen or do you listen to Opera? Either way I love them both especially Mozart’s the Magic Flute. It’s one of my favorite operas!
I also listen to quote on quote normal things such as Peral Jam, and then I listen to TMBG(They Might Be GIants), Red Hot Chile Peppers, I listen to older Country from the 90s, I listen to Alexkid an indie electronica Band, I listen to Musical soundtracks (Wicked, Anything Goes, you get the idea), I listen to Rockappella an old band from when my older brother was young( The did the Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego CD), I like alot of stuff from the 80s, like from my brother was little. So that’s a basic overview of music I like.
I’ve been to punk rock lately…for reasons I’m unsure of. My newfound loves are Anti-Flag and NOFX. My brother has been listening to them for a while (though not incessantly), so the CDs were lying around and decided to hear them again.
They Might Be Giants!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry, but I’ve been addicted to them lately. I am currently listening to them. I have almost 75 songs by them on my iPod, and I’m about to get another cd from iTunes. I would hesitate to call them normal, though. They have more titles of songs people remark on than any other band when other people look at my iPod. Most people recognize the titles of Weird Al songs. Tom Lehrer’s probably second-most.
Maybe there should be a poll.
1. What genre of music do you listen to the most?
2. What band(s)/composers do you listen to the most?
3. Do you have an iPod/mp3 player? What kind is it?
4. What is your favorite song?
Answers to poll:
1. Classical.
2. Um… Just any Classical, but I don’t really like Opera that much.
3. No. Nothing. Just a Radio that is about as old as I am.
4. Oh, of Classical, I would say The Four Seasons, but I sometimes listen to what my Mom plays on the car radio (mostly Rock)
I don’t know what to write songs about! My Mom keeps just saying all people ever write about is LOVE, but that just can’t be true. What should I write about? Please answer!!!!!!!!!
The greatly confuzzeled, i. e. The HAWK
poll answers:
1) metal/rap (especially powermetal)
2) Eminem/Blind Guardian/Black-Eyed Peas
3) i currently have an RCA mp3 player, but i’m going 2 buy a green iPod nano with my b-day money. i’ll probably give the mp3 player to my sis.
4)that’s tough. probably either Just Lose It by Eminem or Valhalla by Blind Guardian. hard 2 decide. or The Real Slim Shady by Eminem.
10-1-metal
2-ummmmmm. *cant decide*
3-dont have anyhting, but want an ipod (doesnt matter what kind, just one that can fita ll my music. o wait, that kinda only leaves one option, doesnt it? lol.
4-ummmm.currently mr crowley, but thats just case i heard a awesome version 10 seconds ago.
8- I love Opera! The Magic Flute rocks!
answers to poll:
1) ummm… probably alternative country/Americana-that kind of thing
2) Nickel Creek, The Duhks, Adrienne Young& Little Sadie, The Beatles, The Talking Heads
3) No : (
4) grgh-too many.
What happened? I went into another window and when I came back the page was refreshed. Did my post happen? I wasn’t done with it. Still listening to TMBG- I just downloaded The Spine.
It wasn’t that important. I’ll try to duplicate it.
11- People write songs about lots of other things too. Like presidents, painters, paranoia, hate, death, bodily organs, the sun…
1. What genre of music do you listen to the most?
A lot of different genres. Would eclectic be a good description?
2. What band(s)/composers do you listen to the most?
They Might Be Giants, Weird Al, Tom Lehrer, stuff from musicals
3. Do you have an iPod/mp3 player? What kind is it?
5th generation white video 30G iPod is love.
4. What is your favorite song?
Birdhouse in Your Soul
1. What genre of music do you listen to the most?
Well, probably alternative/rock. However, I do like lmost any kind I hear, and if someone tells me to listen to a song chances are I’ll like it. The exceptions here are rap, and a lot of the more modern pop stuff.
2. What band(s)/composers do you listen to the most?
Well, I’d say Coldplay, Butterfly Boucher, and The Beatles are probably my favorites and i have actual cds by them, but I listen to quite a few songs that are by different artists that I only have one of two songs by. Did that make sense?
3. Do you have an iPod/mp3 player? What kind is it?
Suffle!! w00t! 1 GB. Blue. Purrrrrty… I lost my old shuffle. *snibble*
4. What is your favorite song?
meep! So may to chose from! Hmm… I like “clocks” by coldplay a lot, and “a beautiful book” by butterfly, but it really depends on what mood I’m in (depressed, happy, hyper, ect)
1. I listen to adult alternative, and some pop or rock. i hate rap and metal, but i don’t mind most anything else. I HATE COUNTRY!! Sorry.
2. REM, Santana, Corinne Bailey Rae, K T Tunstall, Jason Mraz, some Rob Thomas, Queen
3. I have a 2GB white iPod
4. I’ve no idea. Streetcorner Symphony, The Remedy, Suddenly I See, or Black Horse and the Cherry Tree.
So, nobody’s into pre-1600 stuff, then?
8 – lol, I used to listen to Rockapella.. they’re okay, it’s fairly standard pop though..
I listen to mostly classical these days, some rock/pop/metal/jazz/folk/reggae.. Non-classical-wise, I like TMBG, Kyo (french rock band), Bob Marley, Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seegar, the Klezmatics,THE BEATLES, George Harrison (solo stuff), Leadbelly, Louis Armstrong, Melt Banana, My Chemical Romance, and Tom Lehrer. Classical, I like most well-written stuff, except some Baroque/early Classical; some of my favorite composers would probably be SHOSTAKOVICH, Bartok, Bach, Wieniawski (sp), Tchaik, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Schubert, Lalo, Sarasate, Bernstein, etc. Player-wise, favorite violinists would probably include Oistrack (sp), Perlman, Stern, Kyung-Wha Chung, Heifetz, etc. yeah.
TMBG fans: I’ve been wanting to hear what they are for a while, so I just got Dial-A-Song from the library to put on my iPod. What other albums do they have that you would suggest?
Classical people: I really don’t like listening to classical music, but I like playing it on the piano (whoops, I almost typed pianoing instead of playing). I’m really into Chopin now, (Polonaise in G minor woot!) not sure what time period he is… ah, early 1800s. So maybe that’s not technically classical, whatever. It always gets me kind of down when I find out I’ve been working on a song for months and this dude wrote it when he was seven. If you ever need an ego check, go research famous composers lol!
14-Talking Heads! Awesome! Do you read David Byrne’s blog? I didn’t get to see him in Halifax with the Arcade Fire, but I am a HUGE fan.
18-Umm…no.
1. What genre of music do you listen to the most?
I listen to old rock music, techno, and jazz. In that order.
2. What band(s)/composers do you listen to the most?
We-ell…maybe the Fratellis (which is new), Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Joe Dassin, aaand…probably Public Image Ltd. or X in fourth place.
3. Do you have an iPod/mp3 player? What kind is it?
I have a *runs to check* Creative Zen Microphoto 8GB. I don’t use it very much, and it’s about 2/3 full.
4. What is your favorite song?
At the moment, you mean? Well, I can listen to the ‘Waiting For Columbus’ version of “Dixie Chicken” or “Spanish Moon” eighteen times in a row, so I guess that would be it.
That was a fun little questionaire.
18- I enjoy listening to it. It’s good, but I don’t have any piticular favorite stuff. Unless you have something to recomend?
20- Um… well, actually I only have Dial-A-Song (I assume you mean the compilation called Dial-A-Song: 20 Years of They Might Be Giants, with the ants on the phone cord), No!, and now The Spine, so perhaps I’m not the best person to ask. I don’t think you can go too far wrong, though. But Dial-A-Song has three or four songs from every other album before it. You could try tmbw.net for suggestions. No! is a children’s album, I don’t find that as many of the songs get stuck in my head, but it’s still good. I’m not done listening to The Spine yet.
Oooooh I love filling these out.
1. What genre of music do you listen to the most?
Mmm I really vary with this.
2. What band(s)/composers do you listen to the most?
Right now, the GazettE, L’Arc~en~Ciel, Miyavi, Ajikan, NewS, Bright Eyes
3. Do you have an iPod/mp3 player? What kind is it?
I have a red iPod nano.
4. What is your favorite song?
Cassis – the GazettE
I like filling these out too!
1. What genre of music do you listen to the most?
Classical and broadway soundtracks
2. What band(s)/composers do you listen to the most?
Erm…many, many different composers.
3. Do you have an iPod/mp3 player? What kind is it?
Nope.
4. What is your favorite song?
Fantasie Impromptu – Chopin.
24 – Bright Eyes is a song by BG. (one of their best, too.)
A POLL:
1. How much time do you spend a week listening to music: a about an hour; b one to four hours; c four to six hours; d over six hours (I don’t have a clue what’s normal, so if some of the time ranges are to long, that’s why.)
2. Do you play an instrument, or write music?
3. If you said “yes” to #2, what kind of music?
4. What is the general subject of the words (if there are any in your type) in the music you listen to/write?
This has been a kwikpowl. If you wish to respond, please post with at least the four numbers by your answers. Thank you for your time.
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1. Wow… I listen to just about every thing. I hear some music I like on the radio, I get it on my MP3. My friends give me CD’s, I put them on my MP3. And I have a lot of VERY different friends.
2. Like I asid, I listen to EVERYTHING. Right now I’m kinda hoked on Ozone- That super-wierd techno band from Romania.
3. I have this super-wierd MP3 player by Sony called the bean. I like it better than an ipod caz ipods are blockish and hard to slip into your pocket- The bean is like a lima bean about the size of your hand. It also has a FM radio.
4. right now my favorite song is Oriunde Ai Fi by ozone- although that will probably change in a few hours.
Ps:
I mean the bean is a little smaller than the PALM of your hand…lol
PPS: My bean is pink. w00t!!!!
(26) I was referring to the band with Conor Oberst, but that’s cool too! XD
A POLL:
1. How much time do you spend a week listening to music: a about an hour; b one to four hours; c four to six hours; d over six hours (I don’t have a clue what’s normal, so if some of the time ranges are to long, that’s why.)
a
2. Do you play an instrument, or write music?
both
3. If you said “yes” to #2, what kind of music?
I dunno what type of music I write…,my music is sort of it’s own little world
4. What is the general subject of the words (if there are any in your type) in the music you listen to/write?
Humor. I write the lyrics with humor
This has been a kwikpowl. If you wish to respond, please post with at least the four numbers by your answers. Thank you for your time.
[are you going to fine me $500,000 or throw me in prison for 5 years now?]
A POLL:
1. How much time do you spend a week listening to music: a about an hour; b one to four hours; c four to six hours; d over six hours (I don’t have a clue what’s normal, so if some of the time ranges are to long, that’s why.)
d, by far.
2. Do you play an instrument, or write music?
Yes, both.
3. If you said “yes” to #2, what kind of music?
Piano, just random classical-ish stuff (on piano), and pop/rock if it has words.
4. What is the general subject of the words (if there are any in your type) in the music you listen to/write?
Depends on my mood, but it’s mostly some kind of sad-lost-love-story-type-thing.
20- I bought myself dial-a-song this summer and it’s the only one I have.
18- ooh, I like Viol music if you have anyway of me getting any. I also liked some of the other recordings on your site, though it took me ages to find it as there is no easy way to find the link from the muse fan page.
A POLL:
1. How much time do you spend a week listening to music: a about an hour; b one to four hours; c four to six hours; d over six hours (I don’t have a clue what’s normal, so if some of the time ranges are to long, that’s why.)
b
2. Do you play an instrument, or write music?
I play the flute
3. If you said “yes” to #2, what kind of music?
N/A?
4. What is the general subject of the words (if there are any in your type) in the music you listen to/write?
Kinda love songs, not really. It varies greatly
A POLL:
1. How much time do you spend a week listening to music: a about an hour; b one to four hours; c four to six hours; d over six hours (I don’t have a clue what’s normal, so if some of the time ranges are to long, that’s why.)
I don’t know… b or c these last few weeks, before that a or less.
2. Do you play an instrument, or write music?
Trombone
3. If you said “yes” to #2, what kind of music?
Jazz band and brass ensemble and band, right now we’re playing The Liberty Bell and Farandole in band, we just finished a jazz band concert and I haven’t gone really recently anyway except when we did a workshop with the 11 and 12th grade Jazz Machine (awesome), and in brass ensemble I was at the science fair so I couldn’t be at the concert today, we played the songs Broadway One-Step and one called Prayer, by one of those famous classical dead guys, Beethoven maybe, or at least I think we did, but I wasn’t there.
4. What is the general subject of the words (if there are any in your type) in the music you listen to/write?
They Might Be Giants (and Weird Al and Tom Lehrer, but not them as much lately) can be depended on to have no general unifying theme. Lately(today, yesterday), I’ve been listening to Experimental Film and other songs on The Spine. Draw from that whatever conclusions you will. I know the ending it’s the part that makes your face implode/ Don’t know what makes your face implode but that’s the way the movie ends That song would have gone on Dial-A-Song if The Spine didn’t come out two years after Dial-A-Song.
36-
1. A
2. I write some music
3. It depends
4. Again, it depends. Sorry if this isn’t very in depth.
Ok, I’m guessing we have permission to use this…
1. How much time do you spend a week listening to music:
Well, I’m not exactly sure. My parents are always playing it in the house, but I don’t really listen to it other than that.
2. Do you play an instrument, or write music?
I play piano, and sing in a choir, but I don’t really write music. Except for Muse Theme Songs, etc. I have a free music-typing program which is a simple version of Finale, called NotePad.
3. If you said “yes” to #2, what kind of music?
Classical, Muse Theme Songs.
4. What is the general subject of the words (if there are any in your type) in the music you listen to/write?
Classical: no words. Muse Theme Songs: Muse
WOW! Thank you for the answers… And you will not be fined or imprisoned; I was just trying to make fun of how advertisements nowadays are full of small print.
Try reading this!Thanks!
The HAWK
I’m currently too tired to answer polls right now. I don’t function very well at almost 10:45 pm. Classical all the way, pre-1600s is great. My teacher is finally having a master class, next Saturday. Joy, finally a new concerto. And I’m looking for a full size violin…. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz *falls asleep at keyboard*
41 – It’s only 7:54 where my time zone is. Still almost 1 1/2 hours until my bedtime! w00t! (Of course, you’ll probably be awake tomorrow morning when I’m off in dreamland.)
*Thinks of something to say about music so the PoPoPo won’t go after him*
I just finished practicing on the piano to prepare for tomorrow’s recital.
41-whats wrong with you? its not even 11 yet! drink some caffiene!
1. How much time do you spend a week listening to music: a about an hour; b one to four hours; c four to six hours; d over six hours (I don’t have a clue what’s normal, so if some of the time ranges are to long, that’s why.)
umm. like all the time when im at home. no matter what im doing, im allways listening to music. so like…. 50 hjours or summat crazy like that.
2. Do you play an instrument, or write music?
i play guitar. electric.
3. If you said “yes” to #2, what kind of music?
metal in general, but i can play other stuff too.
4. What is the general subject of the words (if there are any in your type) in the music you listen to/write?
umm. fantasy, videogames, love, death, suicide, posers, war, norse mythology, cities, sex, alcohol(w00t korpiklaani) yeah, pretty much everything possible.
i reinstate what i said before, if you have not heard of/heard rammstein, go to youtube now, and listen to them
42 – good luck on your recital! What are you playing?
At my school, if you’re taking all honors classes, you have to do a Long Term Project (LTP). I’m doing mine on Spanish piano music, and I’m learning how to play Albeniz’ Tango and Malagueña. It’s really fun!
alternative rock
hard rock
power pop
techno
Bands
Hellogoodbye
Freezepop
Green Day
Iron Maiden
Deep Purple
U2
etc.
Your Favorite Fire
Goot
Marilyn Manson
Kiss
etc.
1. What genre of music do you listen to the most?
Rock, Alt. Rock, Pop, Metal
2. What band(s)/composers do you listen to the most?
My Chemical Romance, Evanescence, Paramore, The Veronicas, K. T. Tunstall, Coldplay, Avril Lavigne, Aslyn
3. Do you have an iPod/mp3 player? What kind is it?
Video iPod!
4. What is your favorite song?
Um… I have a lot. Welcome to the Black Parade, Famous Last Words, Helena, I’m Not OK (I Promise), Hello, Whisper, Imaginary, Farther Away, Breathe No More, Brighter, Conspiracy, Franklin, My Heart, My Hero, Keep Holding On, You Give Love a Bad Name… and others. Heeheehee.
Coldplay rocks.
1. How much time do you spend a week listening to music: a about an hour; b one to four hours; c four to six hours; d over six hours (I don’t have a clue what’s normal, so if some of the time ranges are to long, that’s why.)
Well, when we’re in the car(a lot, actually) I normally listen to my iPod, then also in study hall on mondays tuesdays and 4min of thursday(block SH, 90 min). The other days I give it to my friend becasue I have band lessons, so probably d.
2. Do you play an instrument, or write music?
Flute (w00t! go flutes!), and occasionally, on FinaleNotePad. I guess a lot of the poems I right could be songs, or so people tell me.
3. If you said “yes” to #2, what kind of music?
Rock-ish or alternitive, I suppose, but it’s not really clasifiable as I just make it up as go. No words, either, when I’m doing it on Finale.
4. What is the general subject of the words (if there are any in your type) in the music you listen to/write?
Well, love is the most prevailent themes in most all songs, so I do have some of that, but also random stuff and the world. See poems&songs thread if you’re really that interested.
46-Ah! You have good taste! I approve.
48-heh. i dont approve of mcr.
49-Well, I’ve only heard Welcome to the Black Parade by MCR, but, oh well…I’ve heard almost all of the other songs/bands.
Coldplay rocks.
1. How much time do you spend a week listening to music: a about an hour; b one to four hours; c four to six hours; d over six hours (I don’t have a clue what’s normal, so if some of the time ranges are to long, that’s why.)
ummmm…probably b.
2. Do you play an instrument, or write music?
I play the violin. Sometimes I write songs (which are really poems) or improvise on my violin, but I’m not good at fitting them together.
3. If you said “yes” to #2, what kind of music?
Classical and olde time Fiddle
4. What is the general subject of the words (if there are any in your type) in the music you listen to/write?
love (duh), relationships, nature, God, morality
Whoops, Sorry! I didn’t mean to put leave that coldplay rocks text at the top of my post, but I copied and pasted 47 because I didn’t feel like going up to the top for the questions. Whoops!
i’m actually composing a string quartet in f minor. its hard writing in C clef.
43- I try to get to bed at a reasonable hour.
I am now awake enough to answer a poll.
1. What genre of music do you listen to the most?
Classical.
2. What band(s)/composers do you listen to the most?
I’m typing in my composers with the highest track count from Windows Media Player. Most of my CDs aren’t on my computer yet though.
-Bach
-Beethoven
-Mozart
-Chopin
-Haydn
-Corelli
-Kreisler
-Rachmaninov
-Paganini
-Brahms
-Kuhlau
-Sarasate
-Copland
-Schubert
-Viotti
-Vivaldi
-Weber
-Clementi
-Tchaikovsky
-Shostakovich
-Scarlatti
-Stravinsky
-Saint-Saens
-Wieniawski
-Schumann
-Elgar
-Evelyn Glennie
-Vaughan Williams
-de Falla
-Dvorak
-Glazunov
-Bernstein
-Debussy
-Khachaturian
-Lalo
-Liszt
-Mendelssohn
-Sibelius
-Barber
-Bartok
-Faure
-Gluck
-Leclair
-Ravel
I don’t feel like typing anymore. Everything else is less than three tracks, because I haven’t gotten around to ripping CDs.
3. Do you have an iPod/mp3 player? What kind is it?
30 GB iPod video.
4. What is your favorite song?
I can’t decide. Right now I’m listening to Beethoven’s violin sonata no. 4 in A minor, first movement.
Answers to ~~Red-tailed HAWK the swift~~’s poll:
(The poll I responded to in my previous post was Dodecahedron (c+q)’s poll)
1. How much time do you spend a week listening to music: a about an hour; b one to four hours; c four to six hours; d over six hours (I don’t have a clue what’s normal, so if some of the time ranges are to long, that’s why.)
Most likely b or c. I often listen to music in the background while doing homework, but sometimes I just listen to music without my attention on anything else.
2. Do you play an instrument, or write music?
I play violin. I also play percussion, but not nearly as seriously. Yes, I compose music. I’m seriously considering that as a career option.
3. If you said “yes” to #2, what kind of music?
Classical.
4. What is the general subject of the words (if there are any in your type) in the music you listen to/write?
n/a.
Sorry for the triple post.
53- I wrote a string quartet too! It was in E minor. I’m currently writing a piece for solo violin, which might turn into a serious of pieces. Basically it’s a one page theme and then one big variation on it. I get annoyed when I start something that then goes nowhere.
i am trying out for adec today! (all district elementry choir)
wish me luck!!!!!
52- But they still are awsome.
57- Good luck!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blech to Coldplay (overrated), My Chemical Romance (whiny emo bollocks) and Evanescence (same). Go Lost Horizon!
Wow. I just finished watching a VERY VERY VERY old Jimi Hendrix movie. It’s called ‘Rainbow Bridge.’ Made no sense at all.
Disturbing…….
(60) Well, it was released in 1971, during an era when many moviemakers were insulted by the very suggestion of making sense.
61: Psychedelia! Ever watch the music video for Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man?”
okay, music that i enjoy. hhhmmmm. i am into pretty much anyting if it has heart. i love it when the singers get emotional. well, i have listened to and enjoyed:
blue october
red(they’re christian rock: go see one of thier music vidioes on sony musicbox)
coldplay(love THESCIENTIST)
guns and roses
kutless(also christian)
reliant k(although they are kinda wierd)
rush(don’t laugh, they have awsome music even if the vocals&lyrics are strange)
three days grace(really cool and emotional)
hellogoodbye(i love how light they are, no death)
and i can’t think of anything else so ttyl.
62-heh. yeah. its like the voodoo chile video.
1. How much time do you spend a week listening to music: a about an hour; b one to four hours; c four to six hours; d over six hours (I don’t have a clue what’s normal, so if some of the time ranges are to long, that’s why.)
D. Definitely D.
2. Do you play an instrument, or write music?
Yes; I play piano.
3. If you said “yes” to #2, what kind of music?
I am forced to play classical: for example, this week is Bach Week and next is Rachmaninoff and the week before last was (I think) Schumann Days. I like jazz better, though. Especially twenties jazz. Not that I have the finger separation for it.
4. What is the general subject of the words (if there are any in your type) in the music you listen to/write?
I don’t write music, but the lyrics in most of my songs are either nonsense, relationships, or nuclear holocaust/current events.
The next concert we have is smack dab in the middle of prank week. The LingLing Brothers (these 3 silent, stony Chinese triplets who all have ‘Ling’ in their names, who never talk to us or make mistakes) won’t do anything, but I have plans to get up there with my Shostakovich and start playing William Gillock’s jazz style (which sounds BEAUTIFUL).
I would like to revise one of my poll answers because these past two weeks I probably listened to music d. over six hours a week.
63- The first mildly popular thing that I recognized! I feel so special. This is regarding-“reliant k(although they are kinda wierd)”. They’re actually fairly normal for my iPod. The only CD(well, album, really, a set of downloaded(legally) tracks released at the same time) I have is Mmhmm. I don’t like all the songs, but High of 75 has made my top 25 most played. What are your feelings on the band (and that song) in general? Could you suggest something else like that to me?
hmmm…
My top played songs in iTunes include stuff from Flogging Molly(awesome), Rammstein(was really into them, then I learned German and found their lyrics kinda creepy), and Metallica.
I’m still looking for my favorite kind of music, and the bands who play it. *sigh*
37-wewt rammstein. but metallica…. not so much. yes. i dont know german. its called the internet. they translate it for you. and it creeps you out. but how is that a bad thing? you found it!
flogging molly…. *goes to look up*
61- I liked the music…. but one minute they showed a seagull, then something else random.
Flogging Molly should be good… I’m getting into all this Irish folk music like the Chieftains and the Dubliners, and a friend of mine listens to folk punk… So yeah, Flogging Molly and Dropkick Murphy are fun, and if you want something more complex and virtuosic, Eluveitie, Finntroll and Elvenking are for you.
70-The Chieftains. Fridgey listens to the Chieftains. The universe should implode any minute now…
Actually, at the concert I lost my head and started out with ‘The Vatican Rag.’ Oh my god. Everyone backstage, even the stuck-up vocalists (these particular singers, not everyone in general) started singing along at the top of their voices. We brought the house down. People were rolling in the aisles, helpless with mirth.
70- finally something we have in common in music! yay for the chieftains. though I kinda agree with queenie on not thinking you’d listen to them
71- It’s really not nice to laugh at someone… I’m trying not to laugh… not succeeding, though. People there recognize it, though. I’m going to love seeing people’s reactions to The Liberty Bell at our next concert.
10:
1. What genre of music do you listen to the most?
…Probably punk rock.
2. What band(s)/composers do you listen to the most?
MCR, P!atD, I Am Ghost, various techno / DDR / new age mixes…I also listen to some metal…Lacuna Coil, In Flames, Dragonforce, C0F, HIM, System of a Down.
3. Do you have an iPod/mp3 player? What kind is it?
I have a hot pink nano! W/ a hot pink HPB sticker on it!
4. What is your favorite song?
Right now, it’s Killer Likes Candy, by I Am Ghost.
18: I like Gregorian chant…
27:
1. How much time do you spend a week listening to music: a about an hour; b one to four hours; c four to six hours; d over six hours (I don’t have a clue what’s normal, so if some of the time ranges are to long, that’s why.)
Haha, waaay over six hrs! I listen to the Zone in the morning, while I’m freshening up and whatnot, I listen to my iPod on the way to + from skool, I listen to it while I’m using the comp…sometimes before bed, as well…Oh, and then I spend an hour in choir every day, if that counts!
2. Do you play an instrument, or write music?
I try to write songs, sometimes…they usually don’t turn out so great…hehe.
3. If you said “yes” to #2, what kind of music?
Rock?
4. What is the general subject of the words (if there are any in your type) in the music you listen to/write?
Either love, longing…or something completely random!
46: I just got Paramore’s newer album the other day. I really like Emergency.
49: …Heeeeeeeeyyy now…Nah, I guess I can see why some people don’t like them.
67: Yay, Flogging Molly…Last time I listened to them, my friend and I were driving through town, blasting it out of her stereo.
My BF lent me the soundtrack to The Nightmare Before Christmas. It came w/ a bonus CD, which has some covers on it – There’s a version of This Is Halloween by Marilyn Manson, another version by Panic! at the Disco (my fav), a version of What’s This? by FOB…+ something by She Wants Revenge. It’s awesome.
OK, am I alone in playing 3 instruments????
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I dont like to be alone so I take it out on the computer! Anyway… Has anybody heard of the band Cartel? How about Rise Against? They r like my favorite bands!!! Woohoo!!!
71-w00t. tom lehrer.
70-folk punk? wow. so many genre i thought could never exist. heh. sometime in the future we may be saying “yeah, im into cybergoth melodic punk death country.”
76: Hahah, although folk metal is a lot more interesting than folk punk.
And what do I keep saying??? Metal (true metal that is, not this core crap) is among the most complex and interesting styles of music, drawing influence from old european music- classical and folk. So it’s obvious that I should be able to appreciate the stuff. I listen to Eluveitie, Chieftains and Wagner.
77- Classical and folk influence? *becomes interested* I would buy a CD just to try out that type of music but I can’t on account of being almost-broke and needing all the money I have saved for my music festival in the summer.
78-download it.
download what?
Just started listening to Iranian rock band hypernova…anyone hear of them? I thought they were actually pretty good
79- I won’t even go a into a rant about all the songs that I can no longer play on my computer when I switched computers I couldn’t transfer the rights over. I like my CDs. I also enjoy ripping CDs onto my computer… especially library CDs… but then I make a typo and I’m not sure whether it’s a typo and I get annoyed because then I have to go find the CD. Also the WMP database is totally inaccurate. It messed up all four of my Well-Tempered Clavier discs, and a Haydn CD, and lots more stuff, but especially the Well-Tempered Clavier and the Haydn CDs. Well-Tempered Clavier it put all the wrong keys, and Haydn it tried to put it in some other language. It showed up as little boxes on my computer, and I didn’t realize it was another language until the weird font showed up on my iPod.
Chieftains. Wow. Honestly didn’t expect that turn, but whatever. While my friend was in Ireland she past by a stage where they were playing… didn’t tell me till earlier this year, and she went to years ago. I am/was jealous.
Chieftains are cool. My grandma was in Ireland and she was going to get my mo ma CD by them, even though they are from Kansas City, but she got the wrong thing.
Punk folk music. huh.
66-i have never listened to MMHHMM but i listened to a sample of High of 75 and thought it was okay. their new cd-pleading the fifth-is really different than thier other cd’s. i hav anatomy, two lefts, and pleading the fifth. PTF is my fav. other music like them….hhmmhh….no idea. i also liked Trans-Siberian Orchestra. it is Classical Rock. usually christmas. they are very good. HelloGoodbye is similar to Reliant k in that it is not hard metal/rock or anything.
wateva
78: Careful though, some bands use it differently… If you listen to Iron Maiden, it’s all metal, but the solos and melodies are littered with scottish ballads. If you listen to Therion, the vocals and orchestras are operatic and classical, and if you listen to Eluveitie the instruments are medieval ones.
86- Interesting. Next time I’m at B&N or my parents place an amazon order I’ll probably convince them to let me try something, maybe one of the groups you mentioned. No guarantee I’ll like it.
86-“Scottish” ballads. Ballads, yes. Scottish, no. Their authenticity I, for one, doubt heavily.
Has anyone heard the Fratellis? If so, what do you think?
80-the cd… as in dont pay for it.
82-so dint use WMP….. itunes!
ohh thanks 89
i think i sense sarcasm in your typing!
89- I have iTunes, because I have an iPod… it also annoys me.
I think itumns is okay, except when it decideds to kill my ipod playlist. Otherwise, the iTunes stre is overpriced but I use it anyway because i never pay with my own money. Gift cards are nice.
I have no Ipod, Mp3 player, or CD player. I also have windows 98. I am way behind the tech curve, but I’d rather go to my school than be teched up.
Good for you Otzi… or bad for you? So long as you have music in your life I don’t think it matters if you have the newest technology or not…
Anyway- WAH! :'( My iRiver (similar to iPod) keeps quitting on me when I try to sync new songs onto it! It’s done it again and I can’t fall asleep without it!
^^; In other news… I like Rise Against and recently went to my first concert where they were the opening. The acutal concert was My Chemical Romance.
We only realized then that the general admission tickets were the mosh pit… next time that’s where we’re ‘sitting’. 
i am such a nut that i actually listen to music on records. *gasp* yes, i actually USE those old vinyl things your grandparents probably listened to. right now i really like a 70’s band called fleetwood mac, which 99% of people today have never heard of, but who cares?
–the elite 1%
96- Cool. We have a ton of ld records in our basement that dad doesn’t want to get rid of. We have a record player too, I believe, though I don’t know wether it works or not.
GAPAs, will you please make a thread for morbid medeival ballads?
98 – PEDANT ALERT – I assume you’re usng the modern vague and sloppy definition of “medieval”?
The printing presses hadn’t got going by 1485, so only one or two medieval ballads have survived. Monks weren’t inclined to preserve pop tunes. The only slightly morbid medieval song I can think of is
Miri it is while sumer ilast, with fuweles song
Oc, nu neheth windes blast and weder strong
Ei, ei! what this night is long,
And ich, with wel michel wrong,
Sorew and murn and fast.
(sorry for the modernised spelling – I don’t know how to do thorn and yogh on Museblog).
There are lots of Tudor and Stuart ballads, but they’re mostly about sex, violence, religion, crime and freak events. Much like the modern press, actually. There’s the Death of Essex, of course, and Three ravens – that’s pretty miserable. We could have a thread to discuss those, but everyone would get depressed.
…And now your going to make me google them and read them just so I can see if they do actually depress me, aren’t you?
i’m getting ready for an organ competition in Oklahoma City on the fourteenth. first prize= $1000! w00t! second= $500 also w00t! no third. only 5 competitors. big drama. stay tuned for the stunning conclusion!
99- Three Ravens is the same as Twa Corbies, right? Yeah, that’s depressing.
100- Basically, two (or three) Ravens, (or corbies, same diff) are talking about where they are going to eat. And one says it knows where there’s “a new-slain knight”, and how the only people who know about it is his hawk and his hound and his lady fair- and they don’t care.
I changed my mind. The one I really like a) probably isn’t medeival, and b) isn’t really morbid. Except I noticed the other day when I was listening to it that somebody burns. But basically it’s a fairy tale in verse, so the evil stepmother’s gotta die. The ballad I’m talking about is The Lailly Worm and the Mackerel of the Sea.
(96) I love Fleetwood Mac! At least what I’ve heard of them…”Tusk” and one other…Oh well I like them. ^^
I just spent $30 over at YesAsia on NIL. I am so pleased, I’ll own a Gazette album as of April 11th give or take a day.
Oops. I think I may have just bought a cd off iTunes without meaning too. I only anted to look at it…
Oh well. Not my money anyway (yay for gift cards!). Maybe it’sll be good…
just bought Dark Funeral’s Attera Totus Sanctus. Brilliant black metal.
Never heard of them. As usuall.
Currently, I have a song from a phone comercial stuck in my head. Again. Grr. That one with the cell phones sort of floating and vaugely flashung… been stuck in my head for a while. Meh. Oh well, it’s not a bad song I suppose.
The Else in stores July 10. Only 96 days left! According to tmbw, that is. I’m going to a concert May 5, too. Joy joy joy joy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 30 days until that. I’m really excited. If you don’t know I’m talking about They Might Be Giants, shame on you.
And I have a random song stuck in my head.
My pancreas attracts every other pancreas in the universe with a force proportional to the distance between them…
The first time in a while that I’ve had a non-TMBG song stuck in my head. Obsession! But that’s OK.
14-YEA I DO TOO!
1. What genre of music do you listen to the most?
Pop, Hip-Hop, Rap, Regge, Classical
2. What band(s)/composers do you listen to the most?
Wow. The Black Eyed Peas, PCD, Ciara, Fergie, All American Rejects, Nelly, Beethoven
3. Do you have an iPod/mp3 player? What kind is it?
nope
4. What is your favorite song?
Fergalicious by Fergie
I like:
Folk, Celtic, Traditional, Classical, Very Old, and 1 song by the Beatles. (Strawberry Fields, if you were wondering.) Most of the things I listen to are mixes of various songs, so the only bands I can call to mind at the moment are The Pentangle and Old Blind Dogs. Ooh, ooh, and Josephine Foster! And for albums, Set You Free by Nomos, and something else I can’t think of right now and won’t rest till I can.
10- 1) Gospel.
2) Sarah Kelly. She’s a wonderful singer. Also Point of Grace, Natalie (sp?) Grant, and Casting Crowns
3) Yes, but I have no idea.
4) Forever, by Sarah Kelly.
27- 1) a), maybe b. It just depends.
2) yes, I play the piano, and sometimes I write for it, but I like writing random songs.
4) Generally it is Christian songs- like about how great God is, ect.
Just receved a cd by Elvenking, I think it’s “The Winter’s Wake” but it’s sort of hard to read the handwriting. Anyone know them? I havn’t had a chance to listen to it yet, though.
I’ve listened to it a few times now… it’s good. Folk metal, I think.
105-no me gusta dark funeral. or darkthrone. too toneless for me.
110-ooohhh, a christian music listener! have you ever heard of Mark Shultz? he’s similar to casting crowns(i think, i may have gotten the bands mixed up).
i want to apologize for saying that Reliant K’s new CD was pleading the fifth. i is actually Five Score and Seven Years Ago. :embaressed:
111: Elvenking is fantastic! Brilliant album, TWW, one of the best releases of 2006. Good for you!
OMGosh! i forgot to mention my almost favorite band! KEANE! all the way! w00t w00t! gotta love them! they are so english.
113: Actually Dark Funeral has lots of melody, it’s just hidden. And it’s well worth the buy for the amount of pure anger you get.
does anyone know Angels & Airways or Red Apparatus Jumpsuit? I’ve kinda liked what I’ve heard from them on the radio… are their debut albums any good?
118-never heard of them…but then again, i haven’t heard of a lot of bands. too bad.
does anyone like/listen to Rush? i lke them, bu i’m sometmes just wacked in my sense of taste.
115- Yeah… I’m halfway addicted to the cd now, though it might involve other reasons. Meh… I do like it a lot, though.
Rush are supposed to be very good, I’ve never gotten into them though.
*looks up elvenking*
wow. very power metal logo. looks like sonata arctica. (whom i
i listened to some Snow Patrol and me and my sister figured out that the melody is almost always the same. we sang some lyrics from one song to another song and they compared alomost exactly! wierd.
123: that’s what happens when bands have no artistic talent or creativity.
123- That would get rather boring listening to, wouldn’t it?
Well that seemed to kill the conversation. Someone please say something.
broccobleh
Umm… I do a kickass Bob Dylan impersonation.
My English teacher has a poster of Bob Dylan on his wall. And the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones. One of the Rolling Stones members has a brown cut-out mustache on him now.
Actually, I’m probably the only person in there who knows that the guy on the poster is Bob Dylan.
And I only know that because m parents went to a Bob Dylan concert instead of parent-teacher conferences. They didn’t have to go, though, so t was okay.
So i’m officially in love with pandora…i’d heard of it, but i didn’t actually use it until a few days ago…actually it’s probably been about a week or so. but yeah. it’s pretty sweet.
k, fun polling stuff
1. What genre of music do you listen to the most?
classic rock
2. What band(s)/composers do you listen to the most?
Dire Straits, The Who, The Beatles, The Doors, The Police, Billy Joel, Styx, most recently Phish
3. Do you have an iPod/mp3 player? What kind is it?
shuffle. looking into getting something else cheap and refurbished with more space (preferably a mini), if i make enough money this summer
4. What is your favorite song?
Yeah right. Like i can pick one of those. Um…the one i have stuck in my head right now is something from Titanic (the musical, not the movie). i don’t remember which song it is. Being in pit is really annoying because you don’t know the words to anything.
1. How much time do you spend a week listening to music
d, over six hours. most weeks anyway
2. Do you play an instrument, or write music?
I play trumpet, used to play violin and piano, want to play bass guitar, but that requires a bass guitar, which i don’t exactly have. i should probably get one…
3. If you said “yes” to #2, what kind of music?
Band music (marching band stuff like sloopy, tear it up, the hey song, chameleon, sir duke, etc and boring concert stuff like miss liberty and whatever else we’re playing now (i don’t remember the names)), full orchestra music (carmina burana), pit music (titanic)
4. What is the general subject of the words (if there are any in your type) in the music you listen to/write?
Usually vaguely depressing ones. But meaningful, or at least with some appearance of meaning. At least something that will easily succumb to my overanalyzation skillz. I especially like songs that tell a story of some kind, even if it’s not a story that makes much sense.
“I especially like songs that tell a story of some kind, even if it’s not a story that makes much sense.”
if you at all like any kind of metal, try avantasia. they pwn, and its a “metal opera” they have like five uber awesome singers.
We got two more cds from the library yesterday. One is The Shins, one is a band I havn’t heard of called ‘Guster’ or something. Havn’t listened to either yet.
They updated Their podcast! They updated Their podcast!
*mentally dances while sitting at computer typing, searching for decent headphones, and singing the repetitious sentences above again and again in sheer joy*
I’m actually doing that too. In case you haven’t seen any of my addiction-fueled posts on this or previous Music threads, it’s the They Might Be Giants Podcast. It hasn’t been updated since February even though it’s monthly and I love Them. I haven’t _listened_ to it or anything yet, though. I have to go download it as a song from Their website first and get lyrics and times for the songs starting.
I really hope they aren’t too strict about age limits and IDs at the concerts.
(132) Oh my brother bought a Guster cd a few years ago…from what I remember it was pretty good. I like The Shins, though.
I get to see Miyavi in concert in approximately one month. I am so excited.
Hmm. Guster’s okay. There’s some really, really bad singing in one of their songs though. I couldn’t finish listening to it. I sincerly hope it was on purpose, they were okay in another song… *shudder* Havb’t listended to the Shins cd yet.
Let’s see… iTunes says, based on my past purchases, I should buy:
Cute Without the ‘E’ (Cut from the Team) by Taking Back Sunday
Annihilation of the Wicked by Nile
Saying Sorry(Album version) by Hawthorne Hights
Von Unaussprechlichen Kultan by Nile
The Great Escape by Boys Like Girls
Ohio is for Lovers by Hawthorne Hights
Smile in Your Sleep by Silverstein
Voices by Saosin
Lashed to the Slave Rack, User ~ Mat ~ Re, and Sacrifice Unto Sebek by Nile
Happy little Bozer by Korpiklanni
Stolen by Dashboard Confessional
and Hero/Heroine by Boys Like Girls.
I’ve never heard of these people. Does anyone know who they are/are they good?
Oh, and the cds ‘Fall into Madness’ by Steel Attack, ‘Sword’s Song’ by Battlelore, ‘Epica’ by Kamelot, ‘Boys Like Girls’ by that band, and some other ones. Still haven’t heard of these people.
Don’t know any of those, JS
i never buy stuff off itunes. i just make my friends get on limewire and burn me off cds. my comp is evil to illegal music though. it’s really annoying.
VF downloaded Limewire, but I don’t know how to work it. It’s not my money on iTunes anyway, I only use gift cirtificates I get from cousins and such because I don’t need/want clothes.
I’m going to keep posting stuff about TMBG.
From Their myspace:
They Might Be Giants new album The Else
Idlewild CD in stores July 10, iTunes exclusive download arrives May 15
13 new songs produced by the Dust Brothers, Pat Dillett and They Might Be Giants!
Deluxe package includes original photographs by Marcel Dzama!
First run of CDs includes a full length bonus disc!
How am I supposed to decide between getting TMBG music in three weeks and getting it in two and a half months with bonus content? *
head explodesface implodes due to dilemna* It’s essentially the same CD, though, so I don’t know if I can self-justify getting both, especially because I’m running out of money on iTunes. But I can’t wait for it. But I’ll hate myself if I miss the bonus stuff. But I’ll hate myself on the two multi-hour plane trips I’m taking for vacation if I don’t have it but could have, and of course we return a few days before July 10. I don’t know what to do!I have installed iTunes and I am downloading some dulcimer music at the moment.
Yay! I love dulcimer!
136: Careful. Especially with Nile. The genre definition is “extreme death metal”. They play fast, intense, technical death metal with egyptian themed lyrics and the occasional oriental instrument. Karl Sanders plays a lot of egyptian scales and is extremely talented, and George Kollias is one of the best drummers out there. But you might be scared. Be careful.
Otherwise, definitely go with Korpiklaani, Battlelore and Kamelot. Korpiklaani are finnish folk metal, great for drinking (the first track on Tales Along This Road is called Happy Little Boozer- subtle, eh?). Battlelore are Tolkien-inspired epic metal, could be used for LOTR soundtracks. Kamelot are melodic good power metal.
I love the songs:
Boom Boom Dollar by K.O.G.G.3
Speed Over Beethoven by Rose
Sweet Escape by Gwen Stefani
Dance Dance by Fallout Boy
Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down by Fallout Boy
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If this has double posted, I’m really sorry!
I love the songs:
Boom Boom Dollar by K.O.G.G.3
Speed Over Beethoven by Rose
Sweet Escape by Gwen Stefani
Dance Dance by Fallout Boy
Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down by Fallout Boy
Holiday by Green Day
Vertigo
Where did all the good taste go??
So this thread is for posting your favorite types of music, and the lyrics thread is just for lyrics okay I’m not so confused now
145- Taste is relative, but yes, there are more people here who listen to and like popular (bad!) music recently on MuseBlog.
If you’re referring at all to me, I sigh, shake my head regretfully that you don’t understand, and walk away. It’s pointless getting in an argument about it. You’re not going to change my mind and I know I can’t change yours.
142-ditto. except i dont know what nile is. but extremedeath is too much for me. and its boozer, not bozer.
oog ouch. yeah, get better taste. (not c&q/dodecahedron)
142- Okay, I’ll look at them later. I don’t drink, though, so that plus of Korpiklaani’s music is out, heh. I’ve found I can actually tolerate death metal pretty well if I don’t think about it.
Hmm. Just put a cd by 3 Doors Down on my ipod. Only 115.7 MBs left.
I should probably take some of the stuff i don’t listen to off…
hmmhmmmhum… Ahg. 129 MB left. I’ll have to be less selective in my removing. Hmm, I’ll talk to my friend before though, she listens to my ipod a lot as her parents won’t even let her have a portable cd player or even headphones. Ahhg. And now her mother hates us for wanting to buy her a shuffle for her golden birthday, meh.
149: Well, Nile is very complex and technical, so you’ll have to think about it…
145: People can like whatever they like. They shouldn’t be ashamed because they like music that they or other people consider of poor quality. Naturally, there’s nothing wrong with believing that some music is terrible, but that doesn’t mean the person who enjoys the music has horrific taste. I’ve had a lot of people roll eyes when I tell them my favorite artist is Kelly Clarkson (my dad is probably still mourning that I am not big on classical music. It’s good, but it’s not for me). Maybe I have bad taste. It doesn’t really matter as long as I enjoy listening to her.
Okay, my rant is over. Anyways, I spend a lot of my time trying to record songs on the radio on a terrible tape recorder. My boombox used to have a tape recorder built in, but my two-year-old sister got into it and broke it. If you put a tape in it now it breaks it.
Ahhhg, playing test tomorrow for band… he didn’t tell us, either. He told us he would be testing us on scales durring lesons, yes, but the band music later. Ahhg, not cool, I thought I had more time to practice. Meh… *wishes self luck*
I’ll bet ten pieces of virtual chocolate that no one here has heard of the band Millions of Bugs.
151-you have a point…. but still. i think i can pretty safely assume that you havnt been exposed to anything but very popular music. and classical music. and maybe some jazz. therefore, as i ahve heard kelly clarkson, and you havnt heard edguy, i can reghtiously criticize you. but, in the natre of the title of the thread, my guitar teacher wants me to solo. it is really hard. like really hard. does anyone have any tips, or ANYTHING that could possibly help?
154-try quiting guitar! always works.
has anyone heard of the Fabulous Thunderbirds? i heard a few of their songs and they were okay. anyone like them?
taste is relative…but then again so is criticism. if you can state your tastes them fridgey can state his opinions of your tastes. even if you don’t like it. if you put out information about yourself it is better to be prepared to be criticised. its part of life. if you don’t like criticism….don’t talk about yourself…..or lie. i really wouldn’t advise the latter.
blues and jazz and anyting thats like that is good. i like it. but i could definitely not stand listening to it all day long. Rush on the other hand…..
153-never heard of millions of bugs..but i didn’t take your bet so i don’t owe you ten pieces of chocolate. its really not smart to make a bet and in the same sentence tell the object. people will know if they do or not know of your band and accept your be accordingly.
154: soloing is easy, man. As long as your not going for the ultra-virtuosic stuff, like I do, then all you need to do is learn a few scales to play over the chord progression. For example, if it’s a I-IV-V progression (the simplest in rock), and the root note (I) is E, then play a few notes in the scale of Em. Or Emaj. Or G, as it’s the same scale.
155- I wasn’t really betting. I was just seeing if anyone knew of them. I think we (my family) have the only copy of the only album still (ever?) in existence. The music they play is not my style, but it’s kind of funny even so.
The problem when discussing taste is this: You can gripe all you want about “personal preferences” and whatnot, but in the end, there are some people who can play and write songs, and other people who can’t.
158-true, cause if i tried to write a song, it would suck. if say, bon jovie wrote a song, tons of people would love it. like if my brother tried to play a rock song, it wouldn’t be pretty, but if say…Rush did, it would be coolio!
Ach. Playing test went okay, I messed up on some of the minor scales but nothing too bad. I was the only one in my lesson (me+ a junior and senior)to play the high octives on the B and A scales, so that’s cool. At least S and J (1st and 2nd chair) didn’t come to our lesson this time, they’re better than me. Also older, but it still makes me sad, because S is amaizing at flute, she can sight-read our band music and pretty much get it perfect. Meh.
153- Nope. Never.
158- There is still a matter of what kind of music paeople like. Say, there might be some really good classical stuff out there other people won’t touch just bacause it’s clasacal.
classical music is cool.
156- i know, i know. but teh problem is which notes to play….and like how to play them (vibrato, pull offs etc. etc.) ive been listening to some john lennon. and i find its really good. much better than i remember. imagine all the people….. caring for the woooorld..
162: Lennon doesn’t solo. If you want to listen to good soloing stuff, go with Randy Rhoads, Zakk Wylde, Slash, John5, Kyle Gass and Jack Black, ect.
Yesterday was music-cetered for me. First, my NYSSMA solo. It was easy by now. The sight reading was easy too. I think I did well. Then, an hour’s drive north to a TMBG concert!!! It was amazingly wonderful. I added my description to This Might Be a Wiki if you care to look. tmbw.net/wiki/shows/2007-05-05a It’s mostly harmless there.
163-lol. the part about lennon was totally unrelated. but thanks.
Hey people, question! (Mostly fridgey :D) I’ve been starting up a new pandora radio station for “Staying Awake” music. it’s mostly hard/vaguely punk rock, and it’s basically LOUD and mildly obnoxious but good at the same time (When i started, i thought “oh well if i’m half-asleep i won’t care if it’s decent music…oh man was i wrong…
). So. Oh, and guitar solos are a plus. Nothing jerks you awake like a sudden, screaming guitar solo (By screaming i mean metaphorically, the guitar is screaming. Not actual people screaming. i despise that. Usually. Sometimes if it’s a good song i’ll ignore a bit of screaming.)
Anyway. What would you people suggest?
166- Screaming guitar solos… hmm… well, the song DDoD sugested to me on the other thread when I was looking into harder rock had one… whatwasit, hold on… “Sweet Child o’ Mine” by Guns N’ Roses? I think so. Not exactly screaming, but close. Ish. Maybe, if I have the song right.
Ew, screaming guitar solos. Not my style, I don’t think.
If I wake up to music that I don’t like, I will:
a ) stay in bed out of principle until someone turns it off
b ) be surly all day because of it
c ) both.
So no ABBA first thing in the morning, thanks all the same. (They’re not screaming guitar solos, but I don’t like them at all, all, all.)
K i’ll have to check it out
Also, i definitely just fell in love with voltaire. he’s so freaking funny…i’d heard like two of his songs before, so i was bored and looking around youtube and i watched some of his stuff…still laughing…
And why am i still up? *frantically searches for gilded age notes* stupid history *muttergrumblemutter*
Screaming guitar solos… Hmm. So no prog, as the solos are technically too complicated to scream, and too fast to be heard by human ears… GnR don’t really have ‘screaming’ solos… How about Ozzy Osbourne or Black Label Society? Both Randy and Zakk have amazing chops, and really abuse the guitar (this is something positive). Otherwise, Alexi Laiho from Children of Bodom, or thrash bands like Annihilator and Destruction, or just good old heavy metal with Iron Maiden, Saxon, Motörhead, etc.
169- Eh, scratch the Guns n’ roses song actually. I listened to it again and it wouldn’t really keep you awake. Hmm… ‘I Want Out’ by helloween isn’t really guitar-screamy, but you should look at that and see what you think IMO.
hmm. yeah. ozzy is kinda screamy himself though. mr crowley?
I’d go more with Crazy Train, Over The Mountain, Diary Of A Madman, Rock N’Roll Rebel, Crazy Babies, Bark At The Moon, etc
Other mad soloists: John 5 really is amazing. It’s a shame he’s known most as Marilyn Manson’s guitarist, and when he plays with MM he doesn’t shine at all… But listen to some of his solo stuff.
I like Deanta.
has anyone ever heard anything by Muse? I’ve started listening to them lately and I like their stuff.
175- Eh, a song or two.
If you want to be ored to tears, try playing Pomp and Circumstance for a high scool graduation. Where hundreds of seniors go down the asile-thingof the church in twos… but not in a line, oh no, they go two, and then theres a 15-foot gap… and then another two… and another gap.. and more… They ended up playing that song the equivalent of 10 times (5 times to 1st repeat, 6 times to second, 2 to first again, 3 to second, then finally go on) last year… urrrrrrg, if the seiors had been there, I would have threatened them into running, but they got the day off (in band) so I threatened the juniors in advance. Meh.
176- only ten times? usually we repeat it about 40-50 times.
177- *pales* Really? Please be kidding. Please. *comes perilously close to fainting*
(177, 178) Brings back memories of our graduation. Endless, mind-numbing renditions of P&C. There are only so many variations a band can squeeze out of it. After a while the students started taking turns conducting. I felt pity for my friends in the band and was never so happy to be in chorus. We sang “You’ll Never Walk Alone” — once — and were done with it.
does anyone listen to Linkin Park, All-American Rejects, Nickelback, etc???? how about the Turtles?? (they were like from the 60s or 70s)
I love AAR and Nickelback!
179- Luckey. I am extremely jelous. He says he’d like to switch it with one of our other sons, Sabre Dance, which is reallyreallyreally fast so the seniors will run, but we can’t. That dissapointed me.
(182) Great visual image, though. Maybe you can think about it to keep your spirits up.
The Else came out today on iTunes! I of course downloaded it and am editing song themes on the wiki.
My reactions: Overall, not very TMBG-like. Some songs more so than others. I’m Impressed, Take Out The Trash, and Feign Amnesia almost sound like normal rock. I’ve been comparing them to Relient K without the religion. But I like them anyway. I can’t choose favorites. Of course it’s worth it, any TMBG is worth it.
I’ll post a song-by-song overview in a little while.
184- yes, they did sound more like regular rock. But I didn’t mind, really, as I liked the songs. ^_^ or at least iTunes’ clips. I haven’t decided whether to buy them or to wait until July for the actual CD to come out…
183- I’ll try that, if I don’t fall asleep. Perhaps I can fine-tune my telepathy and make them walk faster.
Ayyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeaaarrrrrrrghhh!!! iTunes justmessed up my whole ipod!!! The songs are compleatly out of order now, and it’s taking forever to fix it. *bangs head on keyboard* lllllllllllllllllllllllllllll *fixes L button that got stuck after the head-banging*
Grrr.
Otherwise, I bought another Elvenking cd (Wyrd) off of tunes. I ony have 13 dollars left there now, but my parents owe me 20 on the itunes store so maybe I’ll make them pay me. It’s all gift card money anyway. I havn’t really listened to it a lot yet because I didn’t have study hall today, but I have a 90 min SH tomarrow so I should get through it a few times. Anyway. Off to fiddle more with playlist. Meh.
187: Wyrd is fantastic too. The production is slightly inferior to what you find on TWW, but some songs (especially Moonchariot- frikkin awesome) kick arse.
188- Yeah, I bought Moonchariot and A Fiery Stride awhile ago, but just got the rest of the cd yesterday.
Dancing in the sky, it’s magic as the silver chariot takes me on and on… Love it!
167-hey, i like that song! gunsnroses is okay!
The giuitar at the begining is excelent too. “I’m bathed in her pale lightfall, perceiving like a distant call; she whispers in my ears, riddles I don’t understaaand…”
i cant really under stand what theyre saying…weell sorta. you and i will slepp in my …..when you wake up i will be there, standing by your side. whats the weird sounding instrument in that? also, i feel like some new music. any recommendations? preferably relatively mainstream, so i can actually get it.
193- You can hear their accent in that song more than some others, so that does make it a bit harder sometimes. I think that line is “You and I asleep in my haven/Shettered by an archway of trees/And when you wake up, I’d rather be there/Standing by your side.”
Wierd italians. haha.
193: There are some killer new releases right now, most relatively mainstream for metal.
Dark Tranquillity: Fiction
Megadeth: United Abominations
Ozzy Osbourne: Black Rain
Dimmu Borgir: In Sorte Diabolis
Screw these bands for all releasing something together. I’ve got no money left!
195-cool. *looks up*
mmk….. the ozzy one isnt out in the us yet, but thank god for bittorrent. the dark tranquility i had never heard of, but really good! personally, i would compare them to cradle of filth, but im sure you wouldnt. this is just coming from watching a “at your feet” video on youtube. i usually dont like megadeath, but whatever. and dimmu borgir? *looks up* more melodic CoF sound!! awesome!
thanks.
NEW THREAD NEEDED!!!!
seriously. noone comes here, despite it being on the “dont forget these threads” page.
It’s not entirely dead. The last person besides you and me to post here was FS only 3 days ago.
I come here. I check it when I come on. It’s just that no one’s said anything for me to respond to yet.
200 – I recognize that: I often come on MuseBlog for five minutes, look at all the threads on my list-of-threads-to-check-when-I’m-short-on-time, and leave without posting anything.
Tip: Before singing along to a song in another launguage, read the translation of the lyrics first so you know just what it is you’re singing.
202- Agreed.
197: Dimmu Borgir is so much more… metal than CoF. First of all, they are actual luciferians, second of all, the drummer is friggin amazing. Check out the bass pedals on Serpentine Offering and the third track, forgot the title.
204-yes…. but comparable, no? at least the sound?
205: Sure, it’s always black metal… and CoF are not without their virtues ;D
I have rediscovered my love for Ash. Wow. A britpop band that can actually play and write good songs. Meltdown has been in constant spin on my stereo and ipod, and today I bought all the singles in a collection. Burn Baby Burn and Girl From Mars are teh awesomez.
185- I’m getting the regular CD in addition to the iTunes one. It’s supposed to have a second disc with more stuff. And it’s supposed to have pictures. I’m hoping for a big one I can put on my wall. Ideally, I’d want one like those boy bands used to do with pictures of the faces and signatures. I know that’s hopeless because only the boy bands with adoring fans ever do that, but my relationship to TMBG is equivalent to one of the adoring fangirls.
I will now post my overview of The Else:
Track 1: I’m Impressed
Not a bad song, just not identifiably(sp?) TMBG. At first I hated it for not sounding like Them. Now I’ve become used to it and it’s acceptable. I’m even starting to like it as one of Their songs.
Track 2: Take Out The Trash
A normal song that only is special at all because They did it. Not bad, just not TMBG.
Track 3: Upside Down Frown
It sounds like Them. The clever title and ideas expressed. Not the best song on the album. Not bad, though. Just an average song.
Track 4: Climbing The Walls
It gets stuck in my head sometimes, which is a good indicator. It sounds kind of normal rock-ish at first listen, but the lyrics had some thought put into them and on a second or third listen you notice the subtle harmony.
Track 5: Careful What You Pack
Average. Originally supposed to be in the background of a movie, which explains the beginning. It was rejected, though, from the movie. It has my favorite line ever. “She thinks she’s smart, she’s just curious”. Otherwise the lyrics aren’t exceptionally good. It can get stuck in my head, though.
Track 6: The Cap’m
A fairly standard TMBG theme- the person who thinks they’re the center of the world. Better tham some of the others with this theme, though. Best tune of them, the lyrics are not as good as Only Think Of Me (that’s on youtube)(Your apparent nonchalance belies the fact that you can only think of me!) but they’re not bad just because they’re not the best, and the tune makes up for it. Average for Them.
Track 7: With The Dark
Three very different parts. Not my favorite. There are some songs I just don’t like as much as others. It’s not bad because of it. And it’s better than tolerable. The lyrics aren’t bad, I guess.
Track 8: The Shadow Government
I didn’t really like this one at the concert. Another one that grows on you. See I’m Impressed.
Track 9: Bee Of The Bird Of The Moth
Finally another TMBG song! Almost reminds me of Birdhouse. Not as good as Birdhouse, but nothing is. Gets stuck in my head. I like starting with it when I’m listening in the bus in the morning. The beginning of a stretch of good songs. The end is joy, both voices out of sync with each other.
Track 10: Withered Hope
One of my favorites. I want to call it my favorite on the album, but I can’t quite justify it when I hear some of the other songs. Frequently stuck in my head. As nonsensical as any good song. Love the harmony. It wasn’t understandable at the concert, which really disappoints me, because now that I can hear the words it’s great.
Track 11: Contrecoup
Words I’d never know otherwise. The bridge, which wasn’t in the demo version from Clock Radio/the podcast, is a good addition. Another of the better songs.
Track 12: Feign Amnesia
Bonus points for a clever title. A little better then I’m Impressed, but I’d give it the same rating because the normal tune makes up for the slightly better lyrics.
Track 13: The Mesopotamians
Another song which is love. Immediately recognizable. The reason I can’t say Withered Hope is my favorite song without guilt. The harmony in the chorus is enough to make me forgive them for all the imperfect songs on the album.
Overall album thoughts
The beginning doesn’t make me like it, but the end is enough to justify the album. I’d say, out of five, rating it against the TMBG I’ve heard it gets a 3, rating it compared to everything in my iTunes library, a 4.25, and any TMBG is a 4.95 at least comparing it to every song I’ve ever heard (the bus plays the worst radio stations. I dislike the current popular music.)
Not as many songs as a lot of the other albums.
I don’t rate anything in iTunes, though, because they don’t offer decimals.
I havn’t ever heard any TMGB songs. What are they like? (genera, ect)
Please don’t shoot me.
okay, for you metal-heads out there:
I’ve started to listen to Helloween, and I really like their stuff. What other bands are there that are kind of sort of similar to them?
209: For good ole power metal like Helloween, go with the following:
Gamma Ray
Blind Guardian
Sonata Arctica
Stratovarius
Manowar
Teräsbetoni
Elvenking
those are good for starters
Wasn’t the lead guy in Gamma Ray also in Helloween at some point?
also, why are they all obsessed with eagles?
209- Ooh, I like them.
What’s wrong with eagles? The song ‘Eagle Fly Free’ by Helloween is extremely good.
212 – because eagles are crummy birds.
i lurves the eagles, but i think the turkey would have made a hilarious/pretty amazing national bird. except that we’d always be eating them. nobody that i know ever has an eagle dinner…probably because they’re endangered and all…
214- Haha! Eating the national bird… I wonder if someone’d try to outlaw it if it was a turky…. be a bit of a downer for thanksgiving for most, though.
bald eagles are scavengers, by the way.
And the majestic eagle-call that you always hear in car ads is actually a red-tailed hawk.
208- Well, you can’t exactly categorize TMBG. Apparently, they’re rock or alternative rock,but I wouldn’t believe iTunes. I also wouldn’t believe the evil TMBG-haters at my school (they exist just to provoke me into violence, I swear) who, without hearing a full song, claim that it’s country. I would suggest listening to a song to determine what they’re like. There are videos on YouTube for a lot of their songs. Completely ignore the videos, though, and just listen to the song. The videos are weird and have absolutely nothing to do with the song. My favorite song is Birdhouse In Your Soul, a search should be able to find it fairly quickly. Or you could try Ana Ng, or Experimental Film, or lots of other songs that I can’t think of right now. This Might Be a Wiki is useful.
Ok, I like:
Aly & AJ
Jonas Bros (!!!) i apoligize for my strange enthusiasm, you should see me
Beatles
Paul Rever and The Raiders
Carol King
Jackson 5
Phantom of the Opera Music
I LOVE OLDIES
and pretty much anything except heavy metal, rap, etc. (no offense, i am just saying what music i like)
7 (Red Tailed Hawk)- i think that is awesome that you are trying to write music!!! I would have a hard time with that i think, considering i get kind of impatient
I like classical, becuase i am used to it from ballet class, and so i pretty much like everything again except heavy metal and rap. Probably becuase dance is my life and we dance to pretty much everything except heavy metal and rap, and just becuase its too intense for me.
#27 Poll Answers:
1.) B, but i love to listen to music, i just have a lot of stuff to do (dance!!!!) I would love to listen to music every second of the day!
2.)Yes
3.) I play the Piano (is that what i was supposed to put?) i would love to write music, but i need some pointers. Any suggestions?
4.) Well, mostly romance, taking on the world, following your dreams, and romance (not that i am obsessed)
218-220- We appreciate your enthusiasm regarding the music thread, but try to maybe combine the posts and not click submit until you’ve said everything you want to say. Just a friendly reminder- if the PoPoPo find you, they’ll start fining virtual choklit/chocolate, and nobody wants that to happen.
Have you seen Phantom of the Opera, or do you just like the music? The movie, or the musical?
And what music do you dance to?
221- i know, i am really sorry, i keep forgetting what i want to say and then i remember after i click submit! Sorry!
I have seen Phantom, its awesome on broadway at the Fox Theatre!!!!
I dance to classical in Ballet of course. But this year for our tap dance we are dancing to “This Is How A Heart Breaks”, in Jazz “Push It To The Limit” and our other classes are just random music pieces that go along with our story line for the recital.
211: Kai Hansen was indeed in Helloween at a certain point. And the ‘obsession’ with eagles is simple: The eagle has long been a symbol for victory and power. The romans used it, the nazis used it, the US uses it, the native americans worshipped it…
210-okaay.. stratovarious just sucks, and manowar is really very different. i wouldnt reccomend manowar. the rest are great though. and i would definitely add edguy. and hammerfall. those can replace manowar and stratovarious. deal?
Anyone here heard of Falconer? Are they any good? I’ll probably listen to them on youtube or something later, but what do you all think?
Okay, story time.
My aunt and I were having a conversation about guiltly pleasures and we both LURVIE listning to absolutly disgusting music.
Me: London Bridge by Fergie and My Humps by the Black Eyed Peas!!
Her: Hot Pants by James Brown and (insert long list here)!!!
Obviously, we have our differences. But anyway, she was talking about her trip to Paris, and how she went to a welcome party. She quickly found that the French do NOT know how to partay. So someone put on James Brown’s “Hot Pants” and all the French aristocrats got up and started dancing, although they had no idea what HOT PANTS meant, they started screaming it anyway.
Her: do you know what hot pants is?
Them: no
Her: it’s like… warm trousers.
Them: NO!! Really! Oh la la! HOT PANTS HOT PANTS!!! (insert five hundred repititions of HOT PANTS here)
Moral of the story: Well, figure it out for yourself. No, it’s not “Why we love France but hate the French”. That’s a book, my friends.
what do you guys think of Anthrax?
227-meh. thrash is kinda boring.
but…. randomly searching teh internet, i found an awesome band. RAM-ZET. anyone ever heard of them? and what do ya think of them?
Stratovarius are brilliant. How can you say that “Heart of an Eagle” or “Hunting High and Low” are bad songs??
Falconer are brilliant. I recommend the self-titled and Northwind, the latest.
Thrash is boring, yeah, but can be cool in small doses. Annihilator’s “W.T.Y.D” is insane!
Hmm. Listening to a band I found on our computer Called the Arctic Monkeys. They’re interesting, but I don’t find myself loving them.
Ahhg. Dad wants me to upload 5 cds and mom wants me to update her ipod. Meh.
229-i dunno.on second thought, they’re okay. i listened to those two songs again and their singer isnt so good. at all. edguy is vastly superior. and yes, small doses of thrash are cool. but not too much. Hence Anthrax not being so great. just listened to wtyd. not so boring. much more complex than thrash usually is. oh wait… bgins to bore me after a while.
and falconer pwn.
*Is lazy* How is this different from lyrics/
232- Here, we discuss music. On the lyrics thread, we post lyrics.
231: Come on, I coud listen to WTYD for ever. Awesome chorus: “Welcome to… YOUR DEATH!”
234-s’pose. but i get bored.
ooohhh! DDoD and fridgey are disagreeing. flamewar! just kidding. on this point i would disagree with both of you. i just don’t like metal or deathmetal or any kind of metal. unless is has a melody. wich is rare.
136- There’s metal with melodies. That’s the kind I listen to. Ever listened to folkmetal?
Not music specifically, but kind of…
What do you use to get scratches off your iPod? I just got a new battery addition thing and case, and when I took it out of the old case, it was disgusting. The case really hurt it. It took a while to get the thin bits of melted plastic off with a lint-free cloth, and there are some spots where stuff inside the case created these little circles of matte and abrasion, especially on the front, that make it look bad. Around the sides of the screen especially, which is a problem. And there’s a big circle on the back where the clip attached to the case. And the bottom I don’t want to think about.
Latest CD downloaded: Flood
Favorite song on album: Birdhouse In Your Soul (I had it from another album)
could be my favorite song if not for Birdhouse: Letterbox
Currently listening:
LetterboxWhistling In The Dark238-Ouch. What kind of case you you use? There’s a good kind that’s not hard, but rubber-like that slips over an ipod and protects it that both my parents keep on theirs and it doesn’t scratch them, because it’s soft, but keeps them protected if you drop it.
Ooh, just realized I have 30 dollors left on itunes, not 12. Funfunfun, what to buy… suggestions?
236: Then you have no knowledge of metal and I advise you to either learn about it, or shut up.
Btw, I’m listening to EVERY Ani DiFranco cd… and my ipod broke. Fare thee well, 8000+ songs.
239- I was probably exaggerating a little. The new case is small enough that the battery clips on over it. It’s rubber-plastic-like and it shouldn’t do anything to it except maybe protect it from such abuse in the future. There’s no screen protector, though. The old one almost fits under the edges right. I need a solution for that eventually. The old case was supposed to protect it against drops, and it’s the same rubber-plastic kind of thing, only a lot thicker, and it was too big for my iPod and let lots of paper dust (these fibers, almost) in, which scratches it. And I left it in the sun once or twice with the case on. But now I’ll find a way to fix it and all will be well.
240- How did you break it? I feel for you.
241: It just stopped reading my music. Every time I reset it it gave me the beginning screen, choose the language, etc. And it wouldn’t show me the music anymore. SO I reformatted it, lost all my music, and have started loading new stuff on again.
242- Oooh. My shuffle keeps doing something like that too. It takes all the songs I have carefully aranged in order and scrambles them for no reason, and i have to put the music right twice a day. Mine doesn’t take as much music to fill though…
243: the shuffle is supposed to do that, that’s why it’s called a shuffle. Turn of the random function.
244- I don’t ever use the random function. It just reorderd all my music acording to something ike artist or play count instead of the order I put it in. If it does it again after I restored it yesterdy we’re taking it to one of those people at Apple, we’ll be near there soon.
Just wondering, has anyone heard the full version of the following songs:
Can’t Stop by Maroon 5
Shut Up and Drive by Rihanna
Tambourine by Eve
Best Damn Thing by Avril Lavigne
Yummy by Gwen Stefani
Errtime by Nelly
Le Disko by Shiny Toy Guns
Circle Circle Dot Dot by Jamie Kennedy
Back Up by Danity Kane
Without Me by Eminem
iTunes claimes I’m gonna love them, and I listened to the clip and they sound pretty good. Comments?
ani difranco…. *googles* ooh. hawtness.
FS-you’re in europe, you’ve heard of basshunter? he is now my hero. seriously. basically because i’m addicted to dotA. you know what i’m talking about? well, anyhoo, anyone who makes a song about an IRC bot and makes it to the top of the charts is my hero. especially if they make a song about dotA(which is a custom mod in warcraft 3, one of the most obscure thing s ever. it did get recognized for a bunch or tournaments though.)
Has anyone heard a group called Lavender Diamond? They played in Washington last night. I couldn’t go (and have never heard them), but they got good reviews.
246- I have listened to none of those. Sorry.
248- Again, no. What genera are they?
248- Lavender? *eyes grow wide* Lavender and diamonds?
Actually I don’t care about diamonds, but . . . lavender?
It is my favorite plant/smell/headache remedy/lots of other things.
Well, since I’m on the music thread, I might as well say that the other day I downloaded Csokolom (hungarian gypsy music), Hazel Eyes, by Josephine Foster (labeled rock by iTunes, but not really), and the Bridies (Folk/world) into my computer, and then later The Milk-Eyed Mender by Joanna somethng-or-other, which is nice but I’m still deciding if I want in my computer.
Has anyone here listened to Nomos?
Ugh. iTunes really needs to pick interesting songs to put up for free. And they need people who can tell a genre from a hole in a wall. And they need people who really know what’s ‘Just For You’. And speaking of iTunes, I can’t get MuseCasts from iTunes. Is it erased or something?
251- I agree about genres. I mean, I have downloaded things that were labeled as Rock, but are really Folk.
252-I got some rap song by Nelly, and it was labeled Alternative! What the cheese puff makes Alternative different from Pop, Urban, R&B, or ANYTHING ELSE?
253- What’s R&B, exactly? And I have no clue, but I have some stuff labeled Alternative. It doesn’t seem to fit with anything else, maybe?
254-rhythm and blues. yes, i know that was utterly ujnhelpful.
Genres are completely arbitrary, in my opinion. I’ve gotten stuff labeled in all kinds of senseless ways. Weird Al is Books/Spoken? I don’t think so.
Alternative, that’s alternative rock, I think. Whatever it is, I have a lot of it, it’s the label most They Might Be Giants stuff is given, and I therefore like it.
Ok, so today we went to the musical Tomfoolery, which is a whole bunch of Tom Lehrer songs that doesn’t have a plot. But that’s OK. It was cool. Weird hearing other people sing the songs, but cool nonetheless. In these last five weeks I’ve been to live performances of my top three favorite music artists. I’m the luckiest person on Earth. (someone has to be) It almost makes me think the penguins are listening.
230- I have a few friends who totally love them, but I haven’t listened to them…
237- That’s the good stuff. Heh, I DL-ed a bunch last summer/endofschoolyear. Fun stuff, really. Dark Tranquility, mmmm.
238- I don’t? Mine’s horribly abused. But that’s how I show my immense love for my preciousssssss.
246- I haven’t heard of the vast majority of the artists, and have never heard those songs, sorry.
248- No, but I will Google them when I get home…
254- Rythym [I cannot spell that without spellchecker, sorry] and Blues. But the CDs often lie about that stuff. Look for Jazz Age goodness, or old time blues. Not new garbage like Usher. Can you believe that was filed under R&B?! Gah. The only newer artist I can recommend in that genre would be Alicia Keys.
So, anyone else know of Ted Leo and the Pharmacists? A friend made me aware of them and I enjoy them greatly. And there’s Jefferson Airplane, my running addiction.
I also desperately want sheet music for The Dresden Dolls. It’s really simple, yet sounds really cool. Anyone listen to them? They’re punk cabaret ^_^
Also, for the Trekkies out there: search YouTube for “The Picard Song.” It’s amazingly amazing. And there’s another video of Picard singing this amazing song with the alphabet. It’s pure joy.
jefferson airplane?!?!?! but dark tranquility ftw!
240-does learning about them neccesarilly (spelling?) mean listening to it? if so, forget about it. i have to admit, that since i made that comment, one of my friends put on a metal song. i was shocked at being able to whistle the melody, so i might just recant. my brother likes matallica and stuff. wierdo. of course, thats just pointless opinion….as is all our tastes in music, religion, art etc…wateva.
found a new rush cd. burned it and now have to listen to it. called counterparts or something. hope its good.
got this cd of the band Matisyahu. gosh its awesome. like jewish regge or something. me loves it. also got Under the Joshua Tree. and Hopes and Fears. U2 and Keane respectively. they rock.
does anyone here do piano? if so, how long? what level is you in? i do and have for 2 years, but i really don’t know whats normal level. my teachers kinda….flighty. dosen’t stick to one curriculum. it gets confusing. so tell me what level you play, like what hardship are your songs?
259- Necessarily.
259: You do know that Rush is considered metal by many people, and there are Rush reviews with high scores on metalreviews.com.
258- I love trippy music!
As of recently, I have fallen madly in love with Adam Ant. He’s so flamboyant. And his videos are fuuuun! *fangirl love* ^_^
Did you know the Buzzcocks are still around?
I went to a Doobie Brothers concert a few nights ago. Fun, but wild. We also saw the BoDeans (one of my favorite groups) and they sang “Still The Night”! Yay!
256-Wait. It’s still playing?
259-I’ve played for ten years. I don’t really have a level, but I’m part of a piano group. I like jazz improv.
263- A Gilbert and Sullivan society kind of near me did a version. But Tom Lehrer isn’t performing anymore, and stopped many many years before I was born, so I consider it as close as I’m going to get.
261- really? thats interesting. they seemed to me like rock. i mean, i’ve listened to tons of “rock” thats way more hardcore and treble than Rush, and they are classified as rock. someday, i’ll sit down and listed to a lot of metal and see if they are something i’ll tolerate. but not today. give it time….to accomodate for the drastic change in taste.
263- i mean, like describe what type of music you play. name a piece.
Just a question- why do some people on this blog hate Nickelback? If you could explain that without being completely insulting, that would be much appreciated.
266: Nickelback- and the entire pop punk genre- rely on simple melodies, musically uninteresting choruses and young boy vocals to sell records that appeal to the musically unsophisticated masses. They can hardly play more than a few chords, and couldn’t improvise to save their life. Yet they sell. They make money, while people who study composition and music history and dedicate their lives to music that they love barely get by.
What other bands are “pop punk”? I’ve never heard that term before. And what are some good bands?
pop punk is watered down, ear pleasing ‘punk’ music, like Green Day and such. All simple power chords, whiny vocals and lots of money in the record company.
Btw, one of the worst bands ever is… Tokio Hotel. I mean, they’re, really, really, bad.
What about All American Rejects? Fallout Boy? Panic! AT the Disco?
Are those bands bad, too, FS?
Yes. Dude. Yes.
266- Because they’re annoying. Have you ever listened to their lyrics?
And I’d have to agree with FS about the power chords and such. Whenever I’m subjected to non-internet radio, I end up pointing out chord patterns. There’s too much Em, C, G, B, Em, C, G, B, and occasionally Em, C, G, D. Of course I annoy people by muttering the names of the chords… but it’s mostly because I like to do so.
I once managed to walk my dad through the chords for a TSO song after going to one of their concerts. [He plays guitar; I was listing the names of the chords at him ^_^]
The Ark is banned from playing in the USA. That’s so depressing.
The third movement of Moonlight is absolutely killing me. I still can’t play it properly. Or, at least, the way I’d like to play it, because I’d rather play songs the way I think they sound best, not according to the written dynamics… So then I just make stuff up when I get annoyed with it, which is all the time. I CAN’T DO AN OCTAVE WITH MY FIRST TWO FINGERS, O EDITORS OF MUSIC!
I’ll stop my pointless rambling now. ♪♫
273: Not to say that more sophisticate metal bands don’t use power chords; they do, but they make something more interesting out of it. You construct a good riff out of scales, arpeggios, power chords, barre chords and harmonics.
I like all-american rejects. although i guess when i think about it, i don’t really listen to them, i sing them. bands like that are always good for kareoke.
punk annoys me for some reason though. Just the singing style. it bugs me. it always sounds so fake, like some nice rich kid trying to be angry because he thinks it’s cool. Or maybe i’m being overly stereotypical? probably. but i haven’t listened to much.
275-I compiled a list of Artists that I enjoy, from first to last… can I post it? Hmm… lemme try. It’s really outdated, I made it about a month ago. By then, about twenty of them are probably different. Especially FOB, I have them listed really low, but I like them a lot now. I don’t even have Red Jumpsuit Apperatus on there.
Favorite Artists
1.Black Eyed Peas
2.Rihanna
3.Weird Al Yankovic
4.Fergie
5.Ciara
6.Pussycat Dolls
7.Gwen Stefani
8.Ludacris
9.Sean Paul
10.Akon
11.Justin Timberlake
12.Nelly Furtado
13.All American Rejects
14.Lady Sovereign
15.T.I.
16.Jibbs
17.Crazy Frog
18.Missy Elliot
19.Lil’ John
20.Nickelback
21.Avril Lavigne
22.Kelly Clarkson
23.Linkin Park
24.P!NK
25.Diddy
26.Timbaland
27.Lil’ Mama
28.Beyonce
29.Eminem
30.Nelly
31.Kelis
32.Usher
33.Bubba Sparxxx
34.Panic! At the Disco
35.Jeannie Ortega
36.MIMS
37.Green Day
38.Cassie
39.Brittany Spears
40.Nick Lachey
41.Carrie Underwood
42.Bow Wow
43.Chamillionare
44.Hannah Montana
45.Dem Franchize Boyz
46.Smash Mouth
47.Ne-Yo
48.Fort Minor
49.Jessie McCartney
50.DJ Webstar
51.Hinder
52.Danity Kane
53.Christina Aguilera
54.Paula DeAnda
55.Daniel Powter
56.Unk
57.Yung Joc
58.Mary J. Blige
59.Outkast
60.Madonna
61.Lumidee
62.Aly & AJ
63.Liam Sullivan (as Kelly)
64.Natasha Bedingfield
65.Shakira
66.50 Cent
67.No Doubt
68.Mario Vasquez
69.Omarion
70.Field Mob
71.Cascada
72.JoJo
73.DJ Sammy
74.Roxette
75.Chris Brown
76.Julio Santana
77.Fall Out Boy
78.Destiny’s Child
79.Michael Jackson
80.Cheetah Girls
81.Emma Roberts
82.Cherish
83.Brooke Hogan
84.Paris Hilton
85.Katherine McPhee
86.Skye Sweetnam
87.D4L
88.Shania Twain
89.Kayne West
90.Daughtry
91.Jim Jones
92.Bowling for Soup
93.Jessica Simpson
94.John Mayor
95.Five for Fighting
96.Eve
97.Evanescence
98.My Chemical Romance
99.Janet Jackson
100. B5
The artists that I listen to frequently, and enjoy, are(in no particular order)
All American Rejects
Dropkick Murphys
Flogging Molly
Gaellic Storm
Glengarry Bhoys
Albannnach
Nickelback
Evanesence
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Crazy Frog
Tom Lehrer
Weird Al
Lady Soveriegn
Black Eyed Peas
Green Day
Artists that I would like to hear more of:
My Chemical Romance
Fall Out Boy
Mutiny
Go ahead, FS, start mocking my musical tastes whenever you want.
lists? lists are fun. this is what i’ve got on itunes right now…
3 doors down
AC/DC
Aerosmith
Aretha Franklin
The B-52s
The Beach Boys
The Beatles
Billy Idol
Billy Joel
Bon Jovi
Bowling for Soup (1985’s the only song i have though…i think it’s the only good song, but whatev)
Chuck Berry
David Bowie
Def Leppard
Dire Straits
Don McLean (yes, just american pie…yes, i’m one of those people who have never heard any of his other songs…)
The Doors
The Eagles
Elton John
Elvis
Eric Clapton
Foreigner (cold as ice is the only song i have there)
The Four Tops
The Guess Who
Guns and Roses (i refuse to spell it with an n, and the only song i have of theirs is welcome to the jungle)
Huey Lewis
Jimmy Buffett
John Mellencamp
John Williams
Journey
The Kinks
Kiss (one song, i wanna rock and roll all night)
Klaus Badelt (POTC soundtrack)
Leonard Bernstein (yay musicals)
Lynyrd Skynyrd (one song, free bird)
Martha Reeves
Miles Davis
The Monkees
Monty Python
Ozzy Osbourne
Paul McCartney
Phish
Pink Floyd
The Police
Queen
Red Hot Chili Peppers
REM (one song, it’s the end of the world as we know it)
Rent
REO Speedwagon (one song, time for me to fly.)
Ricky Martin (yes, it’s livin’ la vida loca. and yes, i haven’t heard any of his other songs. and yes, half the time i only listen to it to laugh…)
The Rolling Stones
Royer, Bardolph, and Sinagos (the NHS jazz trio from three years ago. chris and spiro both graduated, but keaton’s in my grade. he’s just freaking amazing)
Simon and Garfunkel
Smokey Robinson
Steve Miller Band
Styx
Three Dog Night (yes, just joy to the world but i’ve actually heard a couple other songs, believe it or not. tory’s a big fan)
Titanic (yeah, i’m cool. that was our musical last year.)
Tom Petty
Van Halen
Voltaire ( ♥ )
Weird Al
The Who
Wicked
Wynton Marsalis
ZZ Top
so yeah, i’ve got a lot more music these days…
277: By Freyr… Look, the only bands that I fully approve of are TSO and Wierd Al. Dropkick Murphys get an “acceptable”, but Flogging Molly are irritating. As for the rest…
I have:
Seal Maiden: A Celtic Musical (I haven’t got around to deleting the dialogue yet, if I even want to)
Cshokolom (yes I spelled it wrong. I couldn’t possible spell it right)
The Pentangle
Bach meets Cape Breton
The Milk-Eyed Mender (not sure who the artist is)
Nonesuch for Dulcimer
Exultation of Dulcimer
I need to put Old Blind Dogs in.
Oh, and I have the Bridies.
Hmm, okay. Bands on my ipod that I listen too regularly… in no piticular order…
(cds/many songs by)
Butterfly Boucher
The Beatles/Paul McCartney
Elvenking ( ♥ )
Modest Mouse
3 Doors Down
Coldplay
Ani DiFranco
The Chieftains
Helloween
(A few bands I like but only have a few songs by)
Kamelot
Amon Amarth
Korpiklaani
Falconer
Johnny Cash
Then some random artists that are uncatagorized and I don’t listen to that often… from a cd my friand gave me, a lot of them. They’re good though, but I don’t listen to those songs a lot.
Oops, ad Guns n’ Roses, Dream Evil, and Mika to the ‘a few songs’ catagory. And Jethro Tull.
Ok, since my ipod blew i have far less bands on it.
3 Inches of Blood
After Forever
Aina
Alice Cooper
Amon Amarth
Amorphis
Ani DiFranco (every cd!!!)
Arcturus
Ari Koivunen
Arkona
Ash
Asia
At Vance
Behemoth
Black Label Society
Black Sabbath
Blackmore’s Night
Blind Guardian
Brother Firetribe
Bruce Dickinson
Cage
Candlemass
Cellador
The Chieftains
Children of Bodom
Chris Caffery
Cruachan
Cryonic Temple
Cryptopsy
Dalriada
Damien Rice
Danzig
Dark Funeral
Dark Lunacy
Dark Tranquillity
Deicide
Demons & Wizards
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter
Dimmu Borgir
Dragonland
Dream Theater
Edguy
Elvenking
Ensiferum
Entombed
Equilibrium
Faith No More
Falconer
Folkearth
Galloglas
Galneryus
Gotthard
Guns N’Roses
GWAR
Hammerfall
Hans Zimmer
The Haunted
Heavenly
Helloween
Hibria
I
Iron FIre
Joe Satriani
John 5
John McLaughlin
John Petrucci
Jon Oliva’s Pain
Kamelot
King Diamond
Kiuas
Korpiklaani
Lost Horizon
Luca Turilli
Machine Men
Manowar
Marty Friedman
Mastodon
Meat Loaf
Megadeth
Michael Angelo Batio
Napalm Death
Neil Young
Nekrogoblikon
Nile
Nuclear Blast Allstars
Ozzy Osbourne
Paganize
Power Quest
Primal Fear
Primus
Queensrÿche
Rage
Rebellion
Reverend Bizarre
Ride The Sky
Rivendell
Sabaton
Samael
Savatage
Scars of Chaos
Shakra
Sirenia
Skyclad
Sonata Arctica
Soundtrack
Spiritual Beggars
Steve Vai
Stratovarius
Symphony X
Tacere
Tarot
Tenacious D
Teräsbetoni
Therion
Threshold
Thunderstone
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Trivium
Tuatha De Danann
Turisas
Twilightning
Týr
Virgin Steele
Warmen
Wintersun
Wuthering Heights
X-Japan
Zakk Wylde’s Pride & Glory
Lost Horizon and Wuthering Heights-band names or movie soundtracks?
band names.
274- Naturally. It’s the variation that makes it. Because you really can’t do much with the main chords… Shredding and distorting usually make songs magical. It’s like, you could play a [piano] song in blocked chords, and it sounds like an equally dull version of something you did to learn the chords, but when you play the notes in the proper sequence, it sounds a whole lot better. Sorry, I should be more clear. Sigh.
282- Is Modest Mouse good? I hear a lot about them from a friend, but I’ve never actually listened to them…
284- It blew?!?!?
THE LOCAL FYE STORE HAD NO ADAM ANT! HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO FUEL MY NEWFOUND [as in a week or two or so ago] ADDICTION? I’ll have to check Gallery of Sound… And then B&N if I’m desperate. Maybe even one of the electronics stores o_O
Bands/Artists I Overplay on My Precious [aka my iPod]:
David Bowie ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
The Ark
The Dresden Dolls
TMBG
Angelspit
Dark Tranquility
The Doors
Jefferson Airplane
TSO
Scissor Sisters
I only listed ten because I’m lazy.
272-not emo? panic! at the disco is emo as ^&*#
279-whats wrong with tom lehrer? dude…
282-paul mcartney but not lennon? *cries*
hmm
i just found a band that really cool. acrassicaudas. it is the only iraqi metal band. which, as you can imagine, is hard. they have a myspace. go support them everyone!
hmmm. ill list bands i regularly listen to.
acdc
alice cooper
amon amarth
beatles
blind guardian
Candlemass
children of bodom
cradle of filth
dark tranquility
deicide
dimmu borgir
dream evil
Dream Theater
edguy!!
elvenking
epica
Ensiferum
GnR
hammerfall
helloween
iron maiden
hendrix
Korpiklaani
lennon
lacuna coil
ledzep
manowar
megadeth
nirvana
ozzy osbourne
pearl jam
paul simon(ish)
pink floyd
rage against the machine (another ish)
rammstein!
red ht chili peppers
rob zombie/white zombie
slayer
sonata arctica
sum 41
system of a down
wolfmother
not nearly as impressive as FS… and my ipod didnt die…
i have a bunch of bands he doesnt tho… :D= epica is great.
As long as we’re all listing things, my top artists according to last.fm:
Generated: 24 Jun 2007
é›…-miyavi-
Gackt
L’Arc~en~Ciel
HYDE
ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION
the GazettE
Shamin & Sepehr
NEWS
Keane
アリスä¹è™Ÿ. (alice nine.)
Bright Eyes
John-Hoon
Utada Hikaru
Omitting the soundtrack stuff. Also that pulls from last year. Not so accurate.
So, here’s what I actually listen to regularly:
é›…-miyavi-
the GazettE
John-Hoon
アリスä¹è™Ÿ.
OMGNESS!! I bought Good Girl Gone Bad by Rihanna and IT’S PWNSOME GO AND BUY IT RIGHT NOW I SAY RIGHT NOW OR DIE A PAINFUL DEATHE BECAUSE ITS REALLY PWNSOME okay okay *breather* I’m done.
Does no one here share my music tastes? Depressing.
Do I count? I know about half of the CDs you listed, and as far as I can tell our tastes agree 100%.
By the way, emmatheduck plays the hammered dulcimer.
292- Yes you do! Yay!
Cool!
Someone around here is giving lessons in hammered dulcimer. ‘Twould be cool to learn. But I’m not very musical, so it would probably all be lost on me.
291- Be glad they aren’t actively insulting your musical tastes….
291-haven’t heard any of those. but i’ll listen to them and probably end up being OMGZAXALURVEAMAZING.
291- Hahaha welcome to the club. XD
294- Don’t take that sort of thing too seriously, if people want to hate, they can hate. As long as you like what you like, it’s all cool.
294- Ignore them. Just don’t care.
A word of wisdom from the expert on not-caring.
291-sorry….havent heard of them. as long as its not mainstream^999, i approve fully.
Know what’s really cool that i haven’t heard in a while but have just been listening too? Phantom of the Opera. Especially the one called Phantom of the Opera, that’s a great song.
(and yes, i’m talking about the musical-ish opera or the opera-ish musical or whatever you want to call it, not a band called phantom of the opera)
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA da da da da da da da daaaaa…da daaaa dadaaaaaaa
I HATE CZERNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, from what I gather, no one shares my tastes either. Mostly MBers like J-Rock and Jazz and Classical and Country.
288- Some Lennon, but not as much. Most of Paul’s was from a mix my friend burned me.
287- They’re pretty good. There’s a few songs of thir’s I like a lot and some not so much.
299- Haha, watched that movie last night/this morning (x.x) in B’s room with J and L at camp. Before the laptop died a tragic death on us and we had to sleep, that is. Very good music. Andrew Lloyd Weber was a fricken genius.
“Masqueraaaaade….paper faces on paraaaaade… “
302 – Are chinese computer keyboards much different than regular computer keyboards?
OMGZ! I was searching iTunes for the song Shoes, and I found Where Do You Think You’re Going in That?! It was pwnsome!
303- She’s not in China anymore. She came back ages ago.
found a new band! w00tness. nightwish. teh ownage
299-POTO! yay! ALW is indeed a friking genius. i love that movie and burned myself the soundtrack.
fridgey-i went to wikipedia and read their article on Rush and yes, they are indeed classified as rock/metal. in that case, i love metal. but they are not as hardcore as like metallica.incidentally Rush greatly influence bands such as metallica, dreamtheatre and more. fun. do you know any other bands similar to Rush regardless of genre?
278- Egad, Voltaire = ♥
I love his “Banned on Vulcan” album.
And “God Thinks.”
And the brains song….
*babbles on and on*
304- “pwnsome” = new favourite word.
Discover The Ark. *fangirl love*
Discover also the Scissor Sisters.
Hmm, I’m listening to The Cranberries right now. I like them… they sound pretty good…
this thread is dead. lets get a new one. GAPA’s, i humbly request a new music thread. please. how will we expand our mental horizons w/o input from other people our age? we desperately need to begin a new journey into the art and tastes that we all share-music. dramatic enough for you?
[Granted. –Robert]