Favorite Band

[Mr_Krift]

Ah, SOAD would be my favorite...Serj is my idol. I also love Rage against the machine, deftones, tool, Union underground and such...Yea and pink floyd is awesome \m/

[Rikard T'Aranaxz]

I got loads of favorite depends a lot on my mood.

Foo Fighters
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Blur
Placebo
The Thrills
Radiohead
Caesars Palace (also known as The Caesars)

atm i like Black Rebel Motorcycle Club most, but i think thats because of the concert i went to last month and the fact i touched robert turner [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Mr. Mopery]

Captain & Tenille. Kind of like Tool, if Tool made the worst music in the world ever.

http://captainandtennille.net/

edit: Wait...you mean FAVOURITE music. Sorry. Maybe Tori Amos.

[ 07-23-2004, 08:13 AM: Message edited by: Mr. Mopery ]

[Keal]

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[Mundus]

I'm genuinely surprised no one has mentioned G'N'R, Axl has a great voice and pretty unique Slash IMO is the best guitarist ever. So the rest of the band was pretty average but everyone can name at least one G'N'R song, even my grandfather and all he listens to is marching bands!!

[Ilander]

Originally posted by Mundus: Slash IMO is the best guitarist ever.

tsk tsk tsk...but that's a discussion for another thread...

[Kaltia]

I listen to a lot of stuff, but the only bands I can stand hearing again and again and again would be Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Nirvana and Hole. And also Alanis Morisette, but she's not a band.

Originally posted by Dirty Meg: 'It's an idea somewhere, in my dreams, my sleep. Don't you want to be approved of? Life that comes of nothing. You and I and dominoes. Time goes by.' - Syd Barrett 'Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun. Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky. You were caught on the crossfire of childhood and stardom, blown on the steel breeze. Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!' - Pink Floyd, apologising to Syd Barrett. It's kind of tragic that mediocrity will beat talent more often than not.

You said the wrong thing to the wrong person. Now because of you, everyone will suffer with a huge post by me, on how Pink Floyd is amazing.

First off, the Wish You Were Here album was a complete dedication to Syd Barret. They weren't apologizing to Syd Barret, not at all. The whole reason why Wish You Were Here was released is because Syd, already burnt out by numerous drugs and gone hysterical, tried to still play one time with the band. Of course, it didn't go to well. But after seeing Syd's determination, Roger, David, Rick, and Nick all decided to devote an album to Syd. It was more of a memorial, not an apology.

And they are by far, not mediocre. First off, you have four amazing artists, with lyrics written by one of the greatest songwriters in the world, Roger Waters. David Gilmour, electric guitarist, is not some everyday electric guitarist for any old band. If you listen to some of the songs he's rocked away too, especially live ones, you'd see that it takes an incredible amount of skill to perform them. Songs such as Comfortably Numb, Money, Sorrow, Dogs of War, Time, Shine On You Crazy Diamond (both parts) are just a small part of his talent.

And even when Roger left the band, after The Final Cut (arguably a solo album by Roger Waters even though the band was still together) David, Nick, and Rick kept on hammering away on successful albums. Division Bell, their last album, is stunningly good.

I can't see how you call the rest of their career after Syd left an apology. The Wall, one of their most renowned albums, was actually based after Roger's life. The Final Cut, originally supposed to be an album from the leftover songs from The Wall, was turned into a dedication to Roger's father, who died in WWII. So in fact, two of their albums was based off of Roger's life. And they are damn good albums, insanely good, if you listen to the lyrics.

Dark Side of the Moon, their most famous album, still selling like crazy each year, deals with the modern pressures of life. There are so many truths to it, and still continues to be a "legendary" album. It's also well known with the ahem, drug scene, if you get my drift.

[Keal]

I'm only 11 and I listen to "The Wall", I've never heard about Dark Side of the Moon though. I think "The Wall" would be their most famous album, because everyone I know has either heard "The Wall pt1,2,&3", has heard both disks of "The Wall", or has seen the movie.

"The Wall" that is talked about so much in their songs is the Berlin Wall, separating the Dictatorshiip half from the Democratic half right?

[The Hierophant]

Originally posted by Keal: "The Wall" that is talked about so much in their songs is the Berlin Wall, separating the Dictatorshiip half from the Democratic half right?

I guess it's open to interpretation. But I always thought that it referred to the psychological walls that many of us, as modern indiivduals, build around ourselves to shield ourselves from the pressures of modernity.

All in all, you're just another brick in the wall: meaning, your (ie: the overbearing school teachers as a case in point) attempts at subjugating my will only drive me deeper and deeper into myself, forcing me into hiding within my own mind.

Well, that's my interpretation anyway.

[ 07-29-2004, 09:50 PM: Message edited by: The Hierophant ]