Official Favourite Band/Artist Thread

Originally Posted by musical zombie.

to me it seems like you make the correlation that a band's obscure tracks = their only good tracks

Nope. Though that trend is certainly true more than it is not. The notion that someone likes a track more because it's obscure is a ridiculous one that makes no sense at all.

if someone doesn't like the beatles that's purely a personal preference, just because someone hasn't listened to their so-called "good tracks" doesn't mean that they are automatically going to like them when they listen to said tracks - the beatles have a fairly established sound in their songs and if one doesn't like that, then one doesn't like the beatles

Spoken like someone who's heard very few of their 400-ish recorded songs.

Originally Posted by Andy

Spoken like someone who's heard very few of their 400-ish recorded songs.

So you're saying that everyone likes the Beatles, and if they don't then all they have to do to like them is listen to more and they magically will? :V

Spoken like someone who's heard very few of their 400-ish recorded songs.

this pretentious attitude is kind of getting old don't you think

like asci said above, listening to more of a band's songs isn't going to make someone like them anymore if they don't already like them. if a band makes music by hitting a guitar against a tree for an hour and a half and every song is more or less like that, and they make a thousand songs, will listening to all one thousand songs make me like them? no, because they're ♥♥♥♥ing hitting a guitar against a tree

Originally Posted by Asci

So you're saying that everyone likes the Beatles, and if they don't then all they have to do to like them is listen to more and they magically will? :V

What? I don't agree with that. Kind of a weird statement to be honest.

Originally Posted by musical zombie.

this pretentious attitude is kind of getting old don't you think

Yeah, I agree.

like asci said above, listening to more of a band's songs isn't going to make someone like them anymore if they don't already like them. if a band makes music by hitting a guitar against a tree for an hour and a half and every song is more or less like that, and they make a thousand songs, will listening to all one thousand songs make me like them? no, because they're ♥♥♥♥ing hitting a guitar against a tree

But.... plenty of people like Metallica?

And uh, The Beatles had more variety than any other musical entity except perhaps Billy Joel. About three of their albums were samey and the rest just did drastically different things. People who call the Beatles "low quality" or say they "suck" rarely ever have heard an accurate representation of their collective sound.

If you can think of an artist who has more variety, please post songs I love to hear new music! Especially from varied musicians.

the argument isn't about whether or not the beatles have great variety or that they are good; you can argue about technical skill and musicianship for days and get nowhere

the person just didn't like the beatles.

Originally Posted by musical zombie.

the argument isn't about whether or not the beatles have great variety or that they are good; you can argue about technical skill and musicianship for days and get nowhere

the person just didn't like the beatles.

I bet he's only heard maybe 40 songs. He could've just not been able to stand the select songs he heard, while others he might've enjoyed or understood the artistry behind.

But he also likes Three Days Grace so I just dunno.

Hey, that guitar+tree music could have PLENTY of variety! Do you know how many kinds of trees there are? How many SIZES? Plus there's a whole lotta guitars out there too!

(and actually, I'd probably listen to guitar+tree. I mean, I listen to kwwrr for ♥♥♥♥'s sake)

Well mz brought up the idea that because guitar and trees would lack variety, so hearing one song would mean you pretty know what the rest sound like. The Beatles really aren't that dissimilar.

Originally Posted by Andy

Well mz brought up the idea that because guitar and trees would lack variety, so hearing one song would mean you pretty know what the rest sound like. The Beatles really aren't that dissimilar.

So, she's so heavy is similar to yesterday, you'd say?

That's exactly my point, Asci. They explored such a wide variety of sounds. Having heard a a few of their songs really doesn't mean you know what they sound like. You posted two great examples, she's so heavy is quite a bit different from yesterday. Songs like Helter Skelter and And I Love Her are very much different, and yet the same person wrote them in the course of four years with the same group of musicians.

You'd really have to listen to like, 60-90ish of their different songs to get an accurate taste of what their music's like. They have all kinds of little hidden implications in their songs as well, stabbing at the Beach Boys, and playing with hard rock, and even bits that kind of stab at their own sound a bit.

I have recently become fond of a few bands:

Halestorm
Adelita's Way
Framing Hanley
Straight Line Stitch
and
Flyleaf

Originally Posted by Blaine

1. Three Days Grace
2. Disturbed
3. Seether
4. Skillet
5. Manafest
6. Breaking Benjamin
7. Bullet For My Valentine
8. Linkin Park
9. Hollywood Undead
10. Rise Against
11. Motorhead
12. Dope
13. Avenged Sevenfold

14. Spineshank
15. Daughtry
16. Decyfer Down
17. Creed
18. Dead By Sunrise
19. Fall Out Boy
20. Lifehouse
21. Puddle of Mudd
22. Wolfmother
23. Thousand Foot Krutch
24. Five Finger Death Punch
25. Godsmack
26. Good Charlotte
27. Green Day
28. Hinder
29. Nickelback
30. Pillar
31. Rage Against The Machine
32. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
33. Simple Plan
34. Smashing Pumpkins
35. Velvet Revolver
36. Three Doors Down

Yeah.....a continuation off of mine. As stated before, listed in no particular order.

.....And DAMN, I like a lot of music. o_o

Originally Posted by Blaine

.....And DAMN, I like a lot of music. o_o

that's not that much =/

Some good bands in there. I like.
Though, it isn't that much. I only listen to about 7 bands, but most people here claim to listen to 300 different bands. So i'd say your list isn't terribly huge.

That list is only 1/15 of the music I've got on my iPod, I'll say that right now.

Originally Posted by Blaine

That list is only 1/15 of the music I've got on my iPod, I'll say that right now.

That's still not that much. I listen to more than that.

Well, how many songs by each artist is the point I'm kinda trying to make here.

Disturbed, Sum 41, Green Day (their old stuff!), Breaking Benjamin, Toxic Holocaust, Bloodsimple, and Billy Currington. the other artists i know only one or two songs of.

Originally Posted by Francois Dillinger

That's still not that much. I listen to more than that.

Now, now, boys. No need to measure your musical penises. ;]

I love Japaneses music. It's epic, sad and full of coolness.


Ruki. From the Band GazettE.




Watch there new song Now...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdvUO-nLPFQ <<<<<<<<Catch now


Gackt


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITbI3TbErY0 <<<<<Watch now.



Hyde!


http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/s...3410_small.jpg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW0Cj2xD8ds <<<<<Watch now!