Sure Rhapsody. PM me.

Well it might be a soap opera about this mid-western family who live in the town of Avalon. They are Mr. S.D.Mist (Slightly Damp), his wife Very Fine and their two precocious children named Swamp and Marsh. But of course it's not.

Blind Guardian ROCK!!



Hehe, this would fit nicely into that Eru's thoughts thread, especially with the "free will" being debated in there

OKay, can I slate Dream Theatre again? No, okay then....
Currently listening to way too much Kiss, I fear they may be becoming my favourite band.
Rock on baby...

Okay, I shall invade with Classical Music yet again. No. no Classical MKusic. I have changed my mind. My favourite group is our barber shop choir at school. It's so cool. And they won two thingies at this thingie. It was so cool.

I love practically anything from the 1960's and 70's. The Rolling Stones and Simon and Garfunkel are my current favorites, but I can absolutely not live without hearing American Pie at least once a day. Pity I have to er..."borrow" my brother's cds to listen to it.
Classical music is pretty cool too. I just found this one cd of all flute music that was recorded in some canyon. It is really, really cool. Best of all: It was never edited in a studio so it has all the sound from the wind and water in it.

Hi there, babe! Welcome to the party.


My favourite band? Dunno, seem to vary quite a bit. Nightwish? Iron Maiden? Dire Straits? Jethro Tull? Oh. and Dragonforce, L'’me Immortelle and... eh, yeah.

Cool. Where did you get those smileys from Grev?

I think my favorite bands of all time are Led Zepplin, Megadeth,Iron Maiden and Black Sabboth. (In no particular order.)

Favorite band. Ouch, tough one.

I would rather sum up the styles I dig, instead of bands. And there is not really one band that stands out from the rest. So I will name a few:
Crimson Thorn
Virgin Black
Sympathy
Xotox
Skymetal
The Awakening
Hocico
Feindflug
Jean Michel Jarre
Jeff Wayne (War of the Worlds)
Verbum Mentis
Pink Floyd
Deep Purple

And loads more. I'm mainly into DeathMetal (hence my name: DeathMetalChristian) and gothic/electronic styles. And ofcource PowerNoise.

I love Creed, Chevelle, Green Day and others. These are my favorite bands. In America.

I forgot Linkin Park. Add them to my list too.

Yep, I like Styx. I've just started listening to them in the last five years though thanks to my husband.

Our Lady Peace rocks! Had a hit on Mtv with "Innocent" but I can honestly say that all their songs are good... a little extra star for the song "automatic flowers.
Another good artist is Emiliana Torrini, some of you may recognize her cause she sang "Gollums Song" in the Two Towers. "To Be Free", "Reykjavik" (like Bj’rk she is also from Iceland), "Easy" and "Sunny Road" is a some of her songs...

Well, it used to be a band, don't know if they're still together, I thought they were, but not sure. Had Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel as percussionist (spelling?) and singer. Had big hits like "Jesus he knows me", "Follow you, follow me", "Mama" and "I can't dance".

I really like early Genesis, Tommie, but think they went badly downhill when Peter Gabriel left. Trespass, Foxtrot and Selling England by the Pound are among my all time favourite albums. I really don't like their later material though.

Those three albums from above are some of their earlier material. They tended to write rather long compositions back then (such as the 28 minute Supper's Ready from the Foxtrot album), so they weren't really singles orientated. My suggestion would be to try and find either a copy of Selling England by the Pound or Trespass if you want to give them a go. I quite liked the Follow you Follow Me single from the Then There Were Three album, but that was the definite shut off album for me, after which I lost interest in them as a band.

I always thought the first two Marillion albums (Script for a Jester's Tear and Fugazi) took off from where Gabriel's Genesis had ended. Sadly they went rapidly downhill too.

My favorite band is Pink Floyd. I really like their music. I also like Queen.

Rush have just done a 30th anniversary tour (they're from Canada) - so they are a bit older than LP. The aren't like LP but I like Chester's unusal voice and Geddy Lee, the lead and bass in Rush, has a distinctive voice. You either like his voice or you don't - I think is's amazing.

Give it a go and as Val stated after my post their earlier stuff was better - but I think this happens to most bands. Neil Pert - the drummer - is excellent, he writes alot (most) of their lyrics. Alex Lifeson is excellent on guitar - althogether a trio amoung trios.

Fav cds are Grace Under Pressure and Hold Your Fire

Okay, first off this is HobbitHomie05, if you remember me and this is my new username because of a screw up with the other.

Now, let me begin! Val, I like you even more then I did before!! I love Pink Floyd!! I've loved them for awhile now! I'm only just 13!! Haha! I like the Dark Side of The Moon album the most I think... I've got an awesome shirt of it. I like The Wall too but Dark Side of The Moon, I think, is better. I don't have any of the others though, only those two. Anyone, young and old, you need to check out Pink Floyd if you havent already, they have some of the most relaxing and beautiful music ever!

I think Led Zeppelin would have to be my favorite though. I'm actually wearing my Stairway to Heaven shirt right now! I can't pick my favorite song because there are sooooo many!! It's amazing how successful they were. At Best Buy they had a box set that had 10 cds in it for $125!!! It was insane.

One of my other favorites are defianetly The Who!! I love them, I don't know when I developed this obsession, but I truly do love their music. My favorite song of theirs is Won't Get Fooled Again. If you ever watch the previews in the theater for Robots, thats the song that is played! I jump when I hear it, its an awesome song.

Honorable Mentions:
Jimi Hendrix, Lynyrd Skynyrd (love them, first rock band I really liked), AC/DC, Fleetwood Mac, CCR, Bon Jovi, Guns and Roses, Boston, Queen, and Papa Roach and Linkin Park are my heavy, modern rock favorites.

I'm generally with Inwe, but the last few years Pink Floyd has nudged past Zeppelin. Bonus points for substance. I still can't decide if I like Meddle better than Wish You Were Here, but lean toward the former; Dark Side is the best album without a doubt, with Time the best song (I'm getting a deja vu feeling, but think I posted this in the Floyd thread; if I'm repeating, sorry.) I'm also part of the small minority that loves The Final Cut. So very true. The most poetic description of a nuclear holocaust I've ever heard is Two Suns In the Sunset.

The first time I saw the song list from Who's Next I thought it was a greatest hits album. The only song on there I don't love is The Song Is Over. Every line in Behind Blue Eyes except one is about me (there's a prize if you guess which one.) It's hard to pick a fave. Really hard. Prob'ly Getting In Tune. But I do like "Meet the new boss... same as his dad boss," but I guess I said that.

I'm too big a Kerouac fan not to like the Doors. Like Are You Experienced, it's hard to belief the consistent quality of the debut album. LA Woman is still the best though. Morrison Hotel also rocks.

Hendrix is stunning, but I don't share the mindless devotion of so many others. Are You Experienced is magnificent though, and who doesn't like Little Wing.

Abbey Road and Magical Mystery Tour. Wow.

Anything by Buddy Holly, without whom we wouldn't have Abbey Road or Magical Mystery Tour.

Hey, Rivendell, do you like Country music? Jimmie Rodgers (without whom we have, well, no Country music at all, and so no Ernest Tubb,) Carter Family (June Carter was NOT Johnny Cashs wife; Johnny Cash was June Carters husband,) Ernest Tubb (without whom we have no Buddy Holly, and so no Beatles,) Hank Snow (are you SURE you're Canadian?) Hank Thompson... seems like there was another guy named Hank, but that was right before country music died and rose from the grave full of unlife. Well, and Bill Monroe and Flatt&Scruggs, but technically Bluegrass is a subset of Country, and I'm not gonna lecture anyone from KY about Bluegrass.

King Missile is arguably the deepest stuff overall I've ever heard, and funny as hell. A few selections from They, IMHO the best album:



Mystical S--t is also a good album, I think that's where Take Stuff From Work is ("I stole a whole desk from the last place I worked/They never noticed, and it looks great in my apartment... I wrote this at work/They're paying me to write about stuff I steal from them/Life is good."), and Happy Hour isn't bad, though I've heard Detachable Penis WAY too many times by now, as much as I like one big extended double entendre. Of course, The Evil Children makes up for it. Very timely, come to think of it (Ed mused.)

Fact is, I'm not nearly as into music as most, but these aren't all the ones I like, just the ones I like most.
--Rambling rant ends--

my friends just told me about Thursday and Obsessed. i have never heard any of their songs, have any of you ever heard of them?

Hard to tell... Nightwish, Rhapsody, Iron Maiden, Stratovarius, Dragonforce, Power Quest, Edenbridge, Children of Bodom, Emperor, Enslaved, Finntroll, Moonsorrow, Battlelore, The sins of thy beloved, Dimmu Borgir, In Flames.. and others.

Well, I noticed that I have not made any comments in this thread. So here I go.
When I first started listening to music, it was whatever Daddy listened to, so
I like a lot of the 50's & 60's stuff (more for memories of Daddy, it is kinda
like comfort music.) Later I listened to a lot of country (I shudder at the
thought of that now. There are still a few songs from that era that I enjoy,
but not a lot.) Then, as my taste grew up, I decided I really like Rock!!! Kiss
Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC, Queen, and of course most of the 80's hair bands,
Cinderella, Warrant, Bon Jovi. There are so many that I could never list. Van
Halen, David Lee Roth, Aerosmith, Guns N Roses, Metallica. Well just about any
kind of Rock, as long as you can bang your head to it. I also like some of the
top 40 stuff, but I keep going back to Rock. Oh, and Val, I love Pink Floyd.
I got to see them on my 21st birthday, and that was one of the most awsome
concerts I have ever been too. Just amazing. Listening to Skid Row right now.
Makin' A Mess.
Oh and another artist that I like that most will tease me about is Rick
Springfield. No one likes him anymore, except for the song Jessie's Girl. One
year, I drove from Dallas to Oklahoma City with 2 of my other friends just to
see him.
My very first concert that I ever saw was Duran Duran. So, I guess I have really
showed my age in this post. Mellie blushes!
Oh and I can't forget Poison the band and the song by Alice Cooper.
Well, I guess I have said enough for now.

Mellie

Good to see you back with us Mellie... How you faring?

I didn't take you for a rocker, though.