What are you listening to

[Luka]

For me it will always be when I first both met and saw Metallica in Osaka, Japan. But the best show in the last few years would have to have been the Black Crusade with Arch Enemy, Trivium and Machine head, plus not metal and I'm definitely going to see this again in April, Zappa Plays Zappa, awesome show, awesome! :super:

 

[Cube]

For me, best concert wise:

Kiss @ western springs.... early 80's something. Awesome.
ZZ top @ western Springs. 80ish something. Very fuzzy.
AC/DC twice @ above. Razors edge tour. Lol - have Angus money from concerts. Best ever.
Billy Idol
Metallica

Others not worthy of mention.....

Of above, I only listen to Acca dacca to this day... all hail Ron. In fact listening to right now:
Ride on

 

[petesbrew]

what a sweet thread

as with jayse Led Zep are up there, hard to pick my fav song but i think the first release would be my fav album from those guys...maybe..... hard to decide.

i have a HUGE range in my musical taste and it really depends on my mood. i dont have any genres that i dislike, good music is good music regardless of what style.

my stand out bands, in no particular order, well a few of them anyway they change on a regular basis

At the drive in
johnny cash
led zep
black sabbath
pearl jam
stone temple pilots
teagan and sara
regina spektor
rage against the machine
primus
red hot chilli peppers
credence clearwater revival
NIN
Gritz
metallica
slim dusty
tool
a perfect circle
the yearlings
the beards
central deli band (RIP)
the tony font show (RIP)
jimi hendrix
nirvana
foo fighters
the clash
the saints
ramones
sex pistols
chevelle
butterfly effect


the list goes on, currently 300 cds in the collection 100 records

always growing, dont burn or download, not a moral thing just prefer to have cds or records, im a visually driven person so seeing the artwork and layout is just as much fun as listening to the music

JB HiFi is my best friend and my savings worst nightmare

Cheers
Carty

Okay now, with a list like that, I have to get my hands on a Teagan and Sara cd. Got a great remix of their into your head song off a ruforia podcast from itunes

 

[Katherine]

IMO they are an awesome band but there are HEAPS of decent metal bands around



Europe certainly heads the way when it comes to metal of most kinds, death, melodic etc.




I think Adamt meant Europe the country, not the band :lol: as lamb of God is American. Correct me if I'm wrong!

I love my metal and yes, I am a lady :super:

he he and we nearly had so much in common... LOL!

Me myself not into metal, I have tried but no luck.. My partner has tried to get me to like Rammstein.

I like lots of different music though...

Johnny Cash
Cold Play
Jack Johnson
Nouvelle Vauge
Roxy Music
Lightening Seeds
Dandy Warhols
The Eels
Gomez
Powderfinger
Blondie
Creedence Clearwater
Led Zeppelin
Pop Will Eat Itself
Fat Boy Slim
Cat Empire

and many many more

 

[fancy]

he he and we nearly had so much in common... LOL!

Me myself not into metal, I have tried but no luck.. My partner has tried to get me to like Rammstein.

I like lots of different music though...

Johnny Cash
Cold Play
Jack Johnson
Nouvelle Vauge
Roxy Music
Lightening Seeds
Dandy Warhols
The Eels
Gomez
Powderfinger
Blondie
Creedence Clearwater
Led Zeppelin
Pop Will Eat Itself
Fat Boy Slim
Cat Empire

and many many more

Don't give up hope Katie!
I too like
Gomez, Powderfinger, Creedence, Led Zep and cat Empire ^_^

 

[mattcarty]

one of my favourite shows is Rockwiz, i love the q's at the start

1st album
1st concert

for me it was....

bought three albums at the same time, Pearl Jam's Vitalogy, Led Zeppelin's Led Zeppelin ad Red Hot Chilli Peppers' Blood Sugar Sex Magic

1st concert was 1998 Oasis at the ent centre and then the next day went to the mt barker country music festival with the folks to see among others Slim Dusty.

didnt even like oasis at the time scored a free ticket and went with my cousin, glad i did it was an awesome show, great live band

also at the time didnt like slim dusty that much but i do now so i am glad i can say i saw him perform.

cheers
carty

 

[Cocko]

The first album is always best!!

The band works and works at 'making' it for years and the songs and stories build up... they get a deal and record 5+ years of music!!

Then 12 months later, after touring the first albums songs, they have to release another album, 10+ more songs of which they write in a matter of weeks!!...... well generally thats what happens!!

 

[mattcarty]

Okay now, with a list like that, I have to get my hands on a Teagan and Sara cd. Got a great remix of their into your head song off a ruforia podcast from itunes

yeah i love tegan and sara, canadian sister duo awesome stuff

their latest album 'The Con' is really good depending on what style you are into, their older stuff, from what i have heard, very raw and stripped back. the con has a lot more layers in the music, the songs are built up a more but in my opinion not overly worked.

point is check out a couple of the albums.

cheers
carty

 

[Jase71]

I cannot fathom how ignorantly wrong that is. Have you heard of Europe?

IMO they are an awesome band but there are HEAPS of decent metal bands around

I think Adamt meant Europe the country, not the band :lol: as lamb of God is American. Correct me if I'm wrong!

Listen to music from groups like Opeth, Blind Guardian, Kamelot, Helloween... if you call that "not decent music" you are not a fan of metal music.

Ok, I can't let this pass. Yes, Adamt, I figured you weren't talking about the band "Europe" . But to say how 'ignorantly wrong I am' by voicing my opinion (Did you not read the 'IMO'?) is a little harsh. I could rattle on with you for hours as to why i think that - in a nutshell, their composition style, the technical approach etc) but for me the band really do float my boat. Am I not a fan of metal ? No, not specifically, but I'm a fan of music. I no longer have limitations as to what I should be listening to in order to be cool/hard/alternative/whatever. ONly today, my playlist went from LOG to Gong to Shpongle to vintage Santana to System of a Down (yes, I have listed to five entire albums since 7am this morning) Having been heavily involved in pen-pal tape-trading in the mid-late '80s with early european metal, and spending all my paltry part-time job money as a school kid at Utopia & Hammerhead (even worked there for a bit), I'm well aware of the geographical forces in the scene. And for the sake of this discussion, and because I desperatly would love to hear some contemorary metal that IMO kicks arse, I'm going to download some of the suggestions and revisit the work (have done so in the past, didnt really groove enough for my liking).

One thing that does shit me about a lot of metal (that I have heard) these days, is the cheesy, childish whining bridge or chorus section that they trow in. Sure, it's the zeitgeist, but FFS I think they should keep it metal if theyre a metal band.

For the record, I'm a huge TOOL fan, have been since their first album, but I dont consider this to be metal. Opeth, sure, I dig them, but only have three albums (Blackwater Park, Ghost Reveries and another that I cant recall, the CD rack is too far away right now for my lazy bum). Bullet for my Valentine are OK too, IMO, and Trivium are interesting, from the couple of CD's I have. But the last two dont set my world on fire like Lamb of God

So metal or otherwise, some bands I really respect, in no order, are:

Lamb of God (a completist - who would have thought)
Shpongle
OTT
Jethro Tull (I am a completist collector of JT from 67 to 81)
Ravi Shankar
Rahih Abdou Khalil
TOOL (a completist collection)
COG (a completist collection)
Soundgarden (a completist collection)
System of a Down (a completist collection)
iOTA (a completist collection)
Kula Shaker (a completist collection)
The Black Crowes (a completist collection, 50%)
Gomez (this is quite new to me, and Im loving it so far - 'In Your Gun' is getting high rotation)
Gong (a digital + completist collection, 80/20)
Ozric Tentacles (a digital completist, only three actual CD's, very hard to come by in Oz - 3/20)
The Grand Silent System (a completist collection)
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Santana (first three albums)
Cream (Disralei Gears blows my mind)
The Tea Party (a completist collection)
Led Zep (a completist collection)
Sabbath (a completest of the Ozzy Years)
Deep Purple (a completist until, but including, Coverdale's first appearance)
Pink Floyd (a completist, with the first six albums on CD, the rest digital)

Tthey are the some of bands that I enjoy, regularly, and I've missed quite a few. I'm not going to list all the music I sometime listen to, ie once a month maybe, and Im certainly not going to list the artists that I love on occasion.

So glad I could vent my spleen. If anyone can direct me to any metal bands with similar precision amd intensity to Lamb Of God, I would be grateful. Hint: Dimmu Borgir is not what I would consider comparable.

 

[schooey]

Dude? How can you list Soundgarden and not Audioslave? I'm sure that's sacrilege in a country somewhere...

 

[Jase71]

Dude? How can you list Soundgarden and not Audioslave? I'm sure that's sacrilege in a country somewhere...

Audioslave was a good concept on paper, but in reality it's just more pop rock shyte catering to a market that is intent on selling records over making music true to their soul. Fun Fact for the Day: Did you know that Cornell went in wanting to do a full-on lyrical content about religion (as Soundgarden touched on quite heavily ) and the Morello wanted to go all political movement (a'la RATM), and the result was that they, as a working unit, argued throughout the first Audioslave album, and they put the record ouot simply because they were obligated to ? And the second album was nothing more than a $$ driven exercise...... the MOR college rock station love it though, but there's reeally no 'soul' to it.

Ya *******, I'm going to chuck on 'Cochise' now.

BTW Schooey, cheers for the posted stuff

 

[mattcarty]

Dude? How can you list Soundgarden and not Audioslave? I'm sure that's sacrilege in a country somewhere...

huge rage against the machine fan

huge soundgarden fan

cant stand audioslave.

i like tomato sauce and i chocolate but i aint going to mix the two

just cause you take some elements from two AWESOME bands and mix them it doesnt mean you are going to get a good result. the rage sound just didnt meld right with cornell's style of vocals IMO

SPOOOOOOON MAN!

 

[mattcarty]

also thanks you jase for reminding me of a coupe of bands i should have added tomy list

Tea Party

Cog

Karnivool

 

[schooey]

I knew some of that, but not all of it. Man, their first album might have been made from argument and misintention, but I have to disagree there was no passion in the music. I don't think there is a dud song on that album. The first disc I bought of it wore out... :blink:

and you're welcome, how'd the slants go?

 

[Jase71]

and to add to that, I agree with what was said earlier (by Cocko? Cant be fucked checking) that first albums by most bands are often the best - there's something about bands trying that little bit harder, ehich is lost once they become a bit too cocksure. Ive seen it in tons of Sydney underground bands of times past (Anyone... Horsehead, The Poor, Killing Time/Mantissa). Although I would extend that by saying that artists from anywhere with 5+ under their belt, look at their first two or three. Look at how Pink Floyd's music diminished in creativity..............

Led Zep 1 & Led Zep II are prime examples of a band at their organic best.

Although it took Metallica until "Ride The Lightening" to hit their apex. Still, "Kill 'em All" was, and still is, a vintage masterpeice if you get over the rough clunkiness (and the 27 guitar solo's LOL)

 

[Jase71]

also thanks you jase for reminding me of a coupe of bands i should have added tomy list

Tea Party

Cog

Karnivool

YES

YES

NO

 

[mattcarty]

YES

YES

NO

really?

oh well, i'll keep them all to myself! I had the chance to shoot them at last years BDO a great live band.

cheers
carty

 

[mattcarty]

Although it took Metallica until "Ride The Lightening" to hit their apex. Still, "Kill 'em All" was, and still is, a vintage masterpeice if you get over the rough clunkiness (and the 27 guitar solo's LOL)

yeah i am a fan of both

props to Horsehead saw them with AC/DC and The Living end in adelaide in 2001? awesme band one of the highlights of the night

what happened to those guys are they still around?

cheers
carty

 

[Jase71]

F&ing COG - Lucius Borich (son of the truly greatest Kiwi/Aussie Blues Guitarist Kevin Borich) was the drummer extraodinaire with one of my fave live bands in the '90's called Juice, a heavy funk/Rock/Groove outfit driven by guitarist brothers Krishna & Armanth Jones. He left Juice becuase he wanted to explore the heavier side of music, and was the skin thumper for a band called "The Hanging Tree", a band that untra heavy rock, loud as f&ck, very political, quite on the stoner side of things (not unlike Kyuss actually, but overall a faster BPM). Just so happened that one of THT's guitarists was Flynn Gower, and that's how COG came about. Oddly, he's now with another 'tow brothers' just as he was in Juice.

Personally, I think COG are becoming a bit more commercialised in their sound & approach, but I still tip my hat to them. They tour (or have toured) relentlessly to promote themselves, playing major cities, Regional Cities & small towns. One tour about three years ago, they played something like 60 shows across Australia off their own back (& finances) because they believed in themselves. I hope it's finally paying off for the guys, despite what I think of their recent material - they are doing the hard yards, and they deserve to be rewarded with at least the lifestyle of being able to lie off their art.

 

[jayse]

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