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Harry
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OK, in our one-thread tradition of "Greatest ...", here's Greatest Music.

What you favorite music ever/at the moment? Wich genre?

Mine:
Definetely Tool! DOn't know quite the genre, something like 'very melodic heavy-metalish kinda rock music'.
Interesting lyrics, with some anti-religion, anti-drugs subjects (like my status line). This band actually makes a lot of things up, like most of their own bographies and their mysterious lyrics, wich the lead singer sometimes mumbles so softly, you can hardly hear them.

Then there's Limp Bizkit, Rage Against The Machine, Beck, Foo Fighters, Skunk Anansie, Deftones, A Perfect Circle, Fatboy Slim, Chemical Brothers, Lit and The Prodigy.

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All together now...

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U2. Flat out U2.

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Hmm... I dunno about greatest music... I'm kinda fond of Edwin at the moment...

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The Crystal Method

or

Fatboy Slim

or

The Chemical Brothers

The "Big 3" of electronica/techno

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"Diverse-listening-Man speaks:"

Tori Amos -- my girl.
Nine Inch Nails -- the first best 'angst' band.
David Bowie -- perennial class, despite Iggy Stardust.
Sting -- For 'Ten Summoner's Tales' alone, he deserves immortality.
Peter Gabriel -- 'Washing of the Water' - my theme song.
Live -- a great PA band with some wondrous takes on spirituality and religion.
Queen -- Queen needs no explanation.
TMBG -- same here.
The 'Stones -- Jack Flash.
Metallica -- The black album, and S&M.
Enya -- Gaelic frost, ethereal melody, all that cool stuff.
Judy Garland -- my girlfriend made me listen to her. Sings with great emotion, and is NOT just a 'belter' as is commonly assumed.
Frank Sinatra -- The Chairman of the Board.
Willie Nelson -- One of maybe three country-type singers I'll listen to. And he does more.
Paul Robeson -- who sings better than any rap singer ever did or ever will. Possibly the greatest black singer I've ever heard.

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In no particular order:

  • Michael Oldfield (composer of "Tubular Bells" and other light classics ),
  • Hawkwind (later known as the Hawk Lords),
  • Jean Michael Jarre,
  • Sally Oldfield (possessor of a fabulous voice with incredible range),
  • Isao Tomita (his interpretation of "Mars, Bringer of War", still raises goosebumps whenever I hear it),
  • The Dog Police (a one-hit-wonder band that did a wonderfully entertaining music video in the mid-1980s and apparently disappeared),
  • The Golden Age of Radio (or whoever it was who did "Blinded by Science" -- I have the album in a box somewhere, but alas, do not possess a turntable),
  • Juan/Wendy Carlos (a pioneer of electronic music),
  • (Some, but not all) Big Band Music,
  • Weird Al Yankovic,
  • The Holy Model Rounders (performers of "Boobs-A-Lot "

Well, I never claimed that my musical tastes corresponded with anyone else's.

--Baloo

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Definitely Pink Floyd. Also toss in Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, They Might Be Giants, Supertramp, the Grateful Dead, the Rolling Stones, the Doors, Chicago, Clapton, Hendrix, some Metallica, some Ozzy Osbourne, and many others I'm sure I'm forgetting...

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Jay the Obscure
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Music is a very personal and often a very eclectic choice.

Looking at the CD's I have at my desk here at work, most are Jazz related. Mmmmm Jazz.

Miles Davis (16 discs)
Dave Brubeck (8 discs)
John Coltrane (5 discs)
Harry Connick Jr. (9 discs)
Wynton Marsalis (4 discs)
Herbie Hancock (3 discs)
Thelonious Monk (4 discs)
Diana Krall (5 discs) Mmmmm Diana Krall

ect....Roughly 115 Jazz discs total

But I have others....

They Might Be Giants (6 discs) Props to Sol
The Beatles (6 discs)
Sting / Police (4 discs)

Oh, I have more, but that I guess is enough.

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Sol System
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Sometimes I wish I was a music major. I know one, but she's a little goofy.

The following list is by no means complete, and beyond the first two the numbers are meaningless. In fact, I think I shall forget to include them. Yes.

1.) They Might Be Giants. Quite simply the greatest combination of man and machine since the Third Zibroxi War. Plus, they rawk! Frank already gave one URL, but here's another.

2.) Soul Coughing. The second greatest band in the universe. M. Doughty is one of my favorite poets. I wish I was him, minus most of the drugs. They are no longer together. I cried. Then I wrote an essay about them.

3.) Oh, wait, I said after the first two the numbers were meaningless, didn't I? Well, we'll just go with random ones, then.

5.) Squirrel Nut Zippers. It's been said that they make theme songs for nightmares. Tired of that horribly trashy neoswing craze, but still hungry for something to fill that modern take on pre-WWII music? Give 'em a try.

10.) Beck. Notice how we're getting more mainstream as I go along? Anyway, Beck is cool. Modern Dylan, yadda yadda yadda. Plus, the video for Sexxlaws featured a stove and a fridge having sex.

15.) R.E.M. Don't go back to Rockville. Why? No one knows. Stipe didn't know how to annunciate yet. But it's damned good advice, just like the rest of their catalog. Plus: "Wire in a fire, representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site. Left of west and coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck."

20.) And now we're getting back into nonmainstream land. XTC. Why? Because Andy Partridge is one of the world's great songwriters, and "Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her, Kiss Her" was written specifically for me.

Crap, you know what, there are a whole host of others. I'll list more later. For now, everyone glide over to the local record store and pick up a copy of 69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields.

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Jay the Obscure
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Hey, what about that disc I sent you Sol????

Only the best jazz album ever, Kind of Blue. Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, ect....

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Jeff Raven
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And no one mentions the Moody Blues!!

BAH TO YOU ALL!

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Well, I'm trying to list bands that I have some small bit of knowledge about. I could sing the praises of Saint Coltrane, for instance, but it wouldn't be coming from personal experience.

But yes, Kind of Blue is a wonderful album that everyone should own.

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PLACEBO!!!


MY DYING BRIDE


THE SMASHING PUMPKINS


THE DIVINE COMEDY

Sorry for shouting but I just wanted those bands to be noticed.

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Sol System
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As opposed to them, say, producing quality music? That's how bands were noticed in the old days.

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