What about music?

my top 20:

Abraxas, by Santana
Big Calm, by Morcheeba
Book of Spells, by The Boneshakers
Doolittle, by the Pixies
Dummy, by Portishead
Get Off the Cross..., by Firewater
Ghost Tigers Rise, by Tiger Army
I Wanna See You Bellydance, by The Red Elvises
The K&D sessions, by Kruder & Dorfmeister
MCMXC A.D., by Enigma
Protection, by Massive Attack
Puzzle, by dada
The Reality of My Surroundings, by Fishbone
Ritual de lo Habitual, by Jane's Addiction
Seven's Travels, by Atmosphere
Stereotype A, by Cibo Matto
Violator, by Depeche Mode
Vivid, by Living Colour
What Up, Dog?, by Was (Not Was)
Wish You Were Here, by Pink Floyd

Top few bands (and examples)

Mindless Self Indulgence (like Devo + Marylin Manson) - Shut me Up


Pendulum (Australian Drum and Bass)


Combichrist (Angry Industrial)


Korpiklaani (Finnish Folk-Thrash)


Faun - Egil Saga (neo folk)


Rotersand (German industrial, but lighter) - By the Waters


Lady Sovereign (British Girl rap)


Leningrad (Russian Ska)


Rasputina (Cello-Core)


Charta 77 (melodic Swedish punk)


DLK - (Comedy Swedish punk - this is a song about Mullets - ishockeyfrilla or Ice Hockey Haircut)


GoGol Bordello (Gypsy Punk from NYC)


Atari TeenAge Riot (wakes one the hell up!)



.... needless to say, I think everyone here is glad they don't have to share an office with me. I inflict music on plastic monsters, not coworkers. At work I like music best if I can not understand the words.

For gaming night, I usually just put my 75G of IPod worth of music on shuffle.

How bout some sound and pictures to go with this thread

best song EVER:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=A_isaNG5D98

Saw these guys play in Dallas 2 weeks ago (video isn't the same show I went to):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ke-5dcv7YQk

Saw this guy play in Dallas in December, this video IS the same show I went to, Palladium Ballroom:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uDm00Bz83tg

Led Zeppelin
Beastie Boys
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Pearl Jam

A Tribe Called Quest
De La Soul
The Clash
Ramones
Rage against the Machine
Blur
Blue Öyster Cult
The Doors

RHCP's "Stadium Arcadium" became the "Twilight Imperium" soundtrack with my friends and me, as my friend purchased the two things at the same time and we played both endlessly. Fortunately it's a doube album.

My tops:

Pearl Jam
Nirvana
Foo Fighters
Queens of the Stone Age
Rage Against the Machine
Disturbed
Korn
David Bowie
Nine Inch Nails
The Beatles
The Who
Rolling Stones
Rush
Yes
Joy Division
New Order
The Cure
The Clash
The Ramones
Pink Floyd
Interpol
Bauhaus
Black Sabbath (Ozzy..no Dio)
Weezer
Raidohead
Tool
Arcade Fire
Rob Zombie
311
The Cars
Devo
Pantera
Smashing Pumpkins
Dropkick Murphys
Sex Pistols
Siouxsie And The Banshees
Led Zeppelin
The Doors
Gorillaz
Blur


As you can see I jumped all over the Rock spectrum.

My top twenty:

Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard
Sigur Ros - ( )
Rise Against - The Unraveling
Bad Religion - Against the Grain
Isis - In the Absence of Truth
Concrete Blonde - Mexican Moon
Avett Brothers - Emotionalism
Me First & the Gimmee Gimmees - Blow in the Wind
Opeth - Damnation
Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle
Brutal Truth - Need to Control
Apoptygma Berzerk - Welcome to Earth
7 Seconds - Old School
Today Is the Day - In the Eyes of God
Tiger Army - Ghost Tigers Rise
Son Volt - Trace
Joy Division - Closer
Morphine - Good
Converge - Jane Doe
Small Brown Bike - Dead Reckoning

And I listen a lot to Boot Liquor Radio .

What a fucking Pandora's box this has turned out to be ... I could be here all night trying to put my music in order so I won't - I'll just mention two of my top groups who both changed music at their time

The Clash
Nirvana

Of course the Sex Pistols (high on my list) were probably a bigger change at the time, but Joe Strummer and mates were the massive influence at that time.

Southernman wrote:

What a fucking Pandora's box this has turned out to be ... I could be here all night trying to put my music in order so I won't - I'll just mention two of my top groups who both changed music at their time

The Clash
Nirvana

Of course the Sex Pistols (high on my list) were probably a bigger change at the time, but Joe Strummer and mates were the massive influence at that time.

The Clash is awesome. Not so sure about Nirvana though.

Nirvana brought a new kind of rock n roll to America at large. Maybe not so new, their early music was inspired by 10 years of punk rock and they were preceded by some cool mid-late 80s bands that never got any acclain like the Melvins and Mudhoney. Nevermind changed what people listened to in this country, brought out a bunch of other bands and that bullshit label "grunge". The music was good (Soundgarden, Screaming Trees) the label and the trends weren't. Change is good, we could use some now to get rid of shit-rock pop bands like Seether and My Chemical Romance. I like Nirvana.

What Harkonnen13 said ... they were the 'frontpiece' of a massive change in rock that became available to the mainstream public - I remember seeing them on MTV in London in '91 for the first time and just thought 'FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCK'.
If you can remember what was around in the late '80s it was a massive change .... and I love 'Nevermind', it hardly ever leaves my car CD-changer.

I like Nirvana, too, I have all their albums (which isn't too difficult), but I didn't list them here. I'm not a music expert enough to give real arguments though, I just like Pearl Jam better and think that Nirvana in music has turned into something like Che Guevara in "art". The cool just wears off.

Not really sure about Nirvanna. They may have mainstreamed the movement but the movement was happening before them. I think the Clash was more groundbreaking but again mileage may vary.

Well, I call foul on Nirvana too...all they were was an opportunity for a major label to horn in on something that was already going on and had been going on for years. Being one of the 17 or so people who bought "Bleach" long before "Nevermind", I remember thinking that they had kind of sold out.

As far as this great change...yeah, if you were listening to junk in the 1980s, I can see where Nirvana would represent a major shift...but when Nirvana hit, I had already gone through US hardcore and thrash metal so all the supposed anger/rage/frustration/whatever was totally lost on me. I was already well pissed off. Black Flag in their prime woulda kicked their asses.

What Nirvana represents to me is the major, corporate-run labels finally figuring out a way to market and sell all that was left of rock n' roll being a threat to mainstream culture and society- the rebellion, anger, dissatisfaction, and "no love songs" credo that only punk, hardcore rap, and metal were really carrying at that time- and turn it into a commodity product. I think after Nirvana the idea of rock n' roll as a revolutionary force or an idea that ran counter to mainstream ideology was lost. Now rock music is a funny joke and the idea that people could hear a rock song and it change their lives, the way they think, or how they feel is becoming more and more distant in popular culture.

Nirvana was really the end of rock being dangerous. And don't get me started on Kurt Cobain. That such a deadbeat, no-talent hack copycat would become a doe-eyed "spokesperson"/t-shirt subject for a generation is disgusting to me.

But you know, one thing I will give them credit for is that they may very well wind up being the last iconic rock band. Since rock is pretty much on the ropes and kids aren't listening to rock music any more, I don't forsee another rock band coming along any time soon that has that really iconic look and feel. As terrible as "Nevermind" is, the songs on it have an element similar to Led Zeppelin or something, in that everybody knows them and they'll continue to have appeal for a long time to come. But they still suck, and they still sound like a third rate version of the Pixies with more metal and less heart.

You can't compare Nirvana and the Clash...the Clash are one of the greatest bands ever, period. They took a lot of chances, they really had something to say (other than the Nirvana-esque "everything sucks, I'm so miserable"), and there's a palpable sense of _life_ in their music that is absolutely transcendent.

Michael Barnes wrote:

You can't compare Nirvana and the Clash...the Clash are one of the greatest bands ever, period. They took a lot of chances, they really had something to say (other than the Nirvana-esque "everything sucks, I'm so miserable"), and there's a palpable sense of _life_ in their music that is absolutely transcendent.

Which is your favorite Clash Album?