Trying for a different kind of music thread instead of the typical Top 5 albums, Top 10 bands, etc.
In this thread we post and discuss three things.
1) The first band/musician you got into.
2) Overall favorite band/musician of all time
3) The newest or most recent band/musician you got into. (should be a new-ish band, not an old/established artist you just discovered.)
I'll start.
First: Stevie Wonder
Favorite: Faith No More
Newest: Eluveitie (Celtic folk-metal band from Switzerland)
Your turn.
First - Hank Williams
Favorite - Steppenwolf
Newest - Zac Brown Band
I'm not sure I can answer the first two questions.
1) By "got into", do you mean "listened to obsessively"? Because in that case, it would be Burl Ives, when I was 5 years old. Or maybe the "Free to Be, You and Me" album.
2) I can't make that judgement due to genre incompatability. However, if you put a gun to my head, I'd say Minutemen. But I've listened to their music (which consists of possibly four albums) for almost 20 years, and I don't listen to them very much anymore. Still, there are so many, and any one "favorite" can't do what another "favorite" can do. I mean, how do you compare Tom Waits with Gang of Four?
3) The National. Hands down.
I guess for the first one it would be the first artist for which you were more than a casual fan. The actual first album I ever got was some Elvis best-of album from my Grandmother. But it didn't really do much for me. But Stevie Wonder is the first artist where I really liked the music and wanted to buy and hear more. It was more than just casual enjoyment.
And I know the second one is tough. And again referring to mine, Faith No More has been out of the picture for awhile now, but I always find myself coming back to their albums. Their music really resonated with me over the years and that's never really waned.
First - Raffi
Overall - Skunk Anansie
Newest - Delhi 2 Dublin (Celtic, Bhangra and Dub all smooshed up together - saw them live last year and I've been hooked ever since)
Quote from: Doktor Alphapance on July 29, 2010, 07:42:39 PM
Quote from: Nurse Rhizome on July 29, 2010, 07:40:00 PM
Overall - Skunk Anansie
Really?
:lol:
I love her voice and think the drummer's excellent.
(edit for multitasking english errors)
Quote from: Jenne on July 29, 2010, 07:45:16 PM
Quote from: Doktor Alphapance on July 29, 2010, 07:42:39 PM
Quote from: Nurse Rhizome on July 29, 2010, 07:40:00 PM
Overall - Skunk Anansie
Really?
Alphapance M'Dear...c'mon.
Apologies... first off, I had no idea they had recorded anything after
Paranoind and Sunburnt back in '95. Secondly, I've always thought they were an amalgamation of other bands I considered more interetsing, like The Slits meets Bad Brains meets Jane's Addiction.
hmmm...I'm not sure which takes precedent, so i'll list them both. at about 9 i received my first cassette tape. It was Vanilla Ice, VIP. for about two years, you couldn't pry me from it. The first band i liked by choice, not by imposition, would be Greenday. I heard their Dookie album and i was sold. 13 is an odd year.
fav? ummmmm...i'll answer that one last.
Most recently, i taunted the board while i was asking them for "obscure" music suggestions which almost escalated into a flame war between Me, Kel and Nigel. I'm about 3/4's of the way through the list and i've discovered a shit ton of new (to me) music. I really like Diamanda Galas, even if most of her stuff is unlistenable (thanks, whoever recommended her...) but i also really like the NASA recommendation from LMNO. That shit is pretty sweet. Galas give me more listening pleasure, but NASA has a deep sense of poignancy for me, Call it a tie.
back to all-time favorite: cheesy as is sounds, i'll have to go with Pink Floyd, as along as the entire Discography counts (they're almost two separate bands, if you think about it...) From Sid Barret's melancholy madness to Roger Water's existential crises to David Gilmore's--oh yeah, he was the boring one. I can't quite pin it, but there's always been what i can only describe a haunting quality to their music.
I'd say it was four separate bands.
1) Syd Barrett
2) Dark Side/Wish you Were Here (aka, Pink Floyd's peak)
3) Roger Water's expanding ego
4) David Gilmour's expanding ego
First: House of Pain
favorite: Boondox
Newest: The Lonely Island
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on July 29, 2010, 08:28:37 PM
I'd say it was four separate bands.
1) Syd Barrett
2) Dark Side/Wish you Were Here (aka, Pink Floyd's peak)
3) Roger Water's expanding ego
4) David Gilmour's expanding ego
i can see your point there.
musically, i think they stayed in the same vein, but they couldn't distill the same essence that made Darkside and WYWH work. I guess that happens when Good Musicians think they're better than, or deserve more.
i still feel if i could only listen to ONE band ever, for the rest of eternity, it'd be Floyd.
Dark Side worked because the 4 musicians wrote, recorded, and performed as a cohesive unit. Syd was gone and the power struggles hadn't quite started yet. The later Floyd stuff where Waters pretty much took over the band you can kind of sense the tension between the band members. The other thing that made Dark Side so good was it was very simple and understated, yet, not boring. It went at some very fundamental elements of being an individual existing in a society. It's no wonder it sold so well for so long.
To the choir.
1) The first band/musician you got into
Apocalyptica (I know.)
2) Overall favorite band/musician of all time
Shit, this one's tough.
Max Richter and Kissogram.
3) The newest or most recent band/musician you got into. (should be a new-ish band, not an old/established artist you just discovered.)
Second Person. Not that new, though... released their first album in 2004.
1. Backstreet or N'Sync (I was ten years old, ok?)
2. Hmm. Tough. Way Out West or Nine Inch Nails
3. The Bloody Beetroots
0. First music was absorbed from my parents. Remember Beatles, Neil Sedaka on 8 track plus plenty of classical music interspersed with Bee Gees. Sue me, it was the 70s.
1. First music I got into for myself was early 80's hip-hop due to influx of break dancing. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five!
2. Overall. Tough..really tough :sad: Can I have a hybrid of Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, U2, Bob Dylan & Sonic Youth?
3. Rediscovering stuff from my metal years. 1st AC/DC album and compilation of Deep Purple.
Edit to add: Can't think of the last new-ish music I heard that I heard/bought/cared about hence on a journey of rediscovery.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on July 29, 2010, 06:42:04 PM
1) The first band/musician you got into.
Elton John, Crocodile Rock, on VOCM Newfoundland in 1973.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on July 29, 2010, 06:42:04 PM
2) Overall favorite band/musician of all time
Elton John, followed closely by ELO.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on July 29, 2010, 06:42:04 PM
3) The newest or most recent band/musician you got into. (should be a new-ish band, not an old/established artist you just discovered.)
Lady Gaga, P!nk, Anna Nalick
I actually like Lady GaGa and Ke$ha. Meh, I'm a electronic junkie.
1. Can't remember--mish-mash of Elvis, Simon & Garfunkel and people like The Sharelles n shit.
2. :lulz: The Pet Shop Boys. ETA: actually, probably Tears for Fears. (I know, this is probably WORSE. w/e)
SHUDDUP.
3. Phoenix. The Ting Tings.
AGAIN: SHUDDUP.
Phew. There. I'm sure that'll make me look dull as ditchwater, but w/e.
First:
Foo Fighters
Favourite:
Soundgarden or Modest Mouse, tough call
Newest:
Amanda Palmer
Oh, hi everyone :)
1) First: Queensryche
2) Favorite: Radiohead, but Modest Mouse is a very close second.
3) Newest: Company of Theives
1) The first band/musician you got into: The guy who wrote the G.I. Joe themesong. What? I was a kid and that shit was awesome.
2) Overall favorite band/musician of all time: Beethoven.
3) The newest or most recent band/musician you got into: Diplo.
NOW DRAW ME A PICTURE OF ME OF THESE THREE ANSWERS! IT'S IN THE FUCKING SUBJECT! YOU PROMISED!
1) Backstreet boys. WHAT! and they are still awesome
2) i dunno
3) uh.......... robyn? sure shes not that new but new enough so whatevr
YOU! DRAW MY MUSICAL ME! NOW!
First: Hank Jr.
All time favorite: The Doors
Newest: Boondox
Quote from: Doktor Doktor Gimmie The News I Got a Bad Case Of PoopinLOL on July 30, 2010, 03:42:42 AM
YOU! DRAW MY MUSICAL ME! NOW!
would if I could but I can't so I won't
D00d, quit it, otherwise I'll call you poopin'. Hard enough calling you TTM, when you haven't been Ten Ton Mantis in like 2 years or some shit, and I STILL wanna call you Fnordie or some variation thereof.
I AINT DRAWING YOU NUFFIN!!!!!! :argh!: SPAGG
1) Either Megadeth's Captial Punishment album, or the Offspring's first album. I didn't discover music at all until, like, high school.
2) I'm just waiting for someone to make the obligatory Kanye joke. Um, favorite band? For overall enjoyment, I'd say Protricity. Not prolific, but the few things they did will always please my ears. Like "Brainsick Metal".
3) The super smash bros. brawl OST. I have corny taste.
1) Probably either 28 Days or Regurgitator, I'm can't remember which, but I still really like Regurgitator.
2) Probably the Mountain Goats
3) Justin Fry
I think the first band i was really conscious of liking was the Talking Heads. Favorite of all time would be Frank Zappa, and most recent discovery is Mumford and Sons (thank you Nigel)
1. Probably Metallica. They were the first band I had multiple albums by, and probably the first I deliberately selected albums of myself, though I don't remember this for sure.
2. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
3. Shit, I guess maybe the Knife? I don't tend to hear much from artists until either Pandora or a friend suggests them, so most of the time when I hear someone for the first time, they've been recording for a while.
Quote from: BabylonHoruv on July 30, 2010, 07:51:06 AM
I think the first band i was really conscious of liking was the Talking Heads. Favorite of all time would be Frank Zappa, and most recent discovery is Mumford and Sons (thank you Nigel)
:thanks:
I think the first was Cyndi Lauper.
I don't really have a favorite, though Elvis Costello has serious staying power for me.
Most recent is either Antony or Frida Hyvonen, both of which I can thank E.O.T. for.
Liza Manelli
Me
Cannibal Corpse
1.) S Club 7. (lol, AWESOME) Although I don't really count that, so Arctic Monkeys.
2.) The Beatles, I suppose. Hard to call a favourite.
3.) Eliza Doolittle/Summer Camp.
1. Twisted Sister
2. Bob Dylan
3. The Heavy
EDIT: I should mention that I have been really into Warren Zevon lately, but I don't know if it counts as new music for me as I have always dug Werewolves of London, but lately started getting into more and more of his stuf
Ok, this is tough, but I'll give it a shot.
1) Operation Ivy. 2) Guttermouth or Minor Threat. 3) Tom Waits/Lady Gaga.
Holy hell. I feel so goddamn old.
1) Michale Jackson
2) Faith No More/Mike Patton
3) Cage The Elephant
Quote from: Cheese Hawk Fronkensteen on July 29, 2010, 10:29:05 PM
I actually like Lady GaGa and Ke$ha. Meh, I'm a electronic junkie.
I've been digging Lady GaGa but for some reason anything to do with Ke$ha makes my skin crawl.
1) The Beatles
2) Led Zeppelin
3) The World Inferno Friendship Society (I think it might be time I go out and find a new band, I started listening to them like 5 or 6 years ago).
1 - Chatrooms at friends' houses who had AOL
2 - Mysticwicks
3 - Number 6's sad little blog
Take that, RWHN, you bastard.
Egads! Color me pwned!
first band I really got into: Def Leppard (but Appetite For Destruction was the single most important album ever)
favorite band overall: That's almost impossible. I can probably narrow it down to Therapy?, KMFDM, and OutKast
current obsession: La Coka Nostra (Everlast and Ill bill in the same group. I kid you not.)
The Offspring when I was 14. I grew up with little exposure to music.
Probably Aphex Twin. I went nuts over it.
I'm on a quest to look for brass or bowed bass with a chugging growl. Either orchestral or tango.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on July 29, 2010, 06:42:04 PM
1) The first band/musician you got into.
2) Overall favorite band/musician of all time
3) The newest or most recent band/musician you got into. (should be a new-ish band, not an old/established artist you just discovered.)
1) Robbie Williams. Lol. Properly 'got into', though? System of a Down.
2) Um. Difficult. Gogol Bordello, today.
3) Circus Contraption (Though I started listening to them a year ago and have had momentary obsessions with bands since, I'd still put them here.)