Music lovers!

[Branket]

What does the weather have to do with it? I never heard of that before.

I listen to different music depending on the weather and also depending on whether or not my windows are down, which is extra odd. However I don't limit my seasons to one genre its usually a different genre per season per year but some music just does seem to fit well in my travels during certain seasons.

Currently I'm listening to Jimmy Buffet, CCR, and Bob Seger, but my taste in music encompasses everything else that has been mentioned in this thread. My iTunes has over 44 days of un-repeated music, you cant get that amount of music without having a diverse taste in sounds.

[Mike.357]

GlocKing I am glad I have exposed you to something new, hehehe.

Brank you prove that I am not totally alone with this. I used to love Buffet until i went to see one of his concerts six years ago or so. It was way oversold and may have been the worst concertI have ever been to. Really soured me on him as i believe he has final say so on the amount of tickets sold at the venues.

I guess the weather puts me in a different moods or something, that and Outlaw Country keeps adding new artists and Classic Rock and Roll seems to always stay the same, no new songs, lol. I get set in my ways the older I get too.

[Donnie]

I like 80's rock, newer rock, and any type of metal.

[saintsfanbrian]

I have to admit, on rainy days, you can't beat Sisters of Mercy "Floodlands"

[Mike.357]

Rainy day music?

Has to be The Doors, "Riders on the Storm"!

[MexicanDragon]

Since I've been chatting it up with utarch00 about headphone stuff over in his welcome thread, I thought I'd hop in here too.

Someone said 311... such a good band... I don't know if its a guilty pleasure or not, but worthwhile. If anyone watched IDOL this year, you may have seen Blake (the guy who came in second, only b/c a guy won it last year, it was a girl's turn, sigh). Anyways, psuedo-punky lookin' kid with a faux-hawk who beat boxes did a rendition of (I believe) Come Original (one of 311's first mainstream hits)... it was pretty good.

Dave Matthews/Dave Matthews Band - I think they've matured beyond their greatness, but their stuff through the 90's was just incredible. I'm a huge fan of Crash and Beyond These Crowded Streets. Also, Dave by himself on Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds: Live at Luther College just had some amazing recordings. The band consists of a lead singer/guitarist, violinst, saxophonist, a bassist, and a drummer (Carter Beauford... this man is a percussive genius... to be put in the record books along side of Neil Pert from Rush.) This is a jam band who can really bring to a concert what they can bring to the album, maybe more. Fav track: Halloween... there is a story behind it, which makes it great.

Clipse - A rap group produced and managed by The Neptunes (Pharell Williams and Chad Hugo, two of the 3 members of a group called N*E*R*D (Not NERD, but it stands for "Noone Ever Really Dies"... I don't know the backstory)) who are some very intersting beat makers. Clipse tends to talk about what they grew up with in VA, selling cocaine. I don't know why I'm drawn to this, but I've been a musician since I was 7, and some of it, ala South Park, is fairly witty/intellectual, once you get past the brashness of it. Edit: Quite a few gun references as well... they dropped Heckler & Koch on their latest album... impressive, no?

N*E*R*D - The aforementioned group delayed their debut album In Search Of... for a while after band members decided not to use synthesized instruments, but held off to input actual instrumentalists in place of the machines... something that I can greatly respect, and appreciate.

Norah Jones - A fairly talented songstress. Some great songs out there on "Come Away With Me", although recorded a little hot in a few areas, other wise, great. The next two are a little more put-you-to-sleepish, IMO, but not bad. The latest a little more country, if you're into that sort of thing. She sang a duet with Dave Grohl, lead singer of The Foo Figthers and former drummer for Nirvana, on their penultimate-to-date album In Your Honor, disc 2 (the all acoustic album). If memory serves, this was a cover of an older song, a bit playful.

The Foo Figthers - Mentioned above, disc 2 of In Your Honor is a well recorded, well done, acoutic disc of a 20 song 2 disc album. These guys are probably remembered from their "Mentos" style commercial back in the mid-90's...

Nirvana - The Jimi Hendrix/Janis Joplin/Jim Morrison of my generation (died at 27, left before their time, blah blah blah), Kurdt Cobain led this trio of so-so musicians into a whirling dervish of a scene known lovingly as "Grunge" and/or "Alternative" in the late 80's/early 90's. I was a huge fan of the band back in the day, but feelings have wained in the past years, occasionally rekindled. Bleach was probably my favorite studio album, probably due to its rawness. Their pièce de résistance was thought to be by many Nevermind, but I argue their best recorded work was MTV: Unplugged in New York. Recorded in just one take (Neil Young took 2-3 different sessions before he got what he thought was acceptable), it was a look into what they had become, and where they were going. Cobain did quite a few covers that night, including a couple from the Meat Puppets, one from Bowie, and one from Leonard Cohen. The Meat Puppets stuff was in a range above what was natural for Cobain, lending itself to difficulty, strain, and challenge... bringing quite a bit of depth and heart to the song "Lake of Fire". Krist Novaselic (bassist) had a nice accordian part on "Man Who Sold The World".

Loretta Lynn - "Van Lear Rose", which came out in 03 or 04, was just a phenomenal album. Its a testament to what some of the greats of what many proclaim to be "Real Country" artists can do, even late in life. It was produced by Jack White, of The White Stripes, an interesting group in itself.

The White Stripes - A two person group, Jack and Meg White (few are sure if they are brother and sister, or formerly married, its in the air still), which does some bare bones rock stuff, with Jack on lead vocals/guitar and Meg on backup vocals/drums. Meg is a crappy drummer, but the band has put together some very interesting music together, and have enjoyed quite a bit of success. I always look forward to hearing new material from these two.

Linkin Park - A "Nu Metal" band that hates the term "Nu Metal", which has put out 3 studio albums, and a host of remixes. A singer, a rapper/guitarist, a bassist, another guitarist, a drummer, and a DJ, this band is definately interesting. Few of them are considered to be amazing musicians, but together, they work very well together, and put out some good "guilty pleasure" music, IMO.

Tool - I mean... its Tool, come on. Musicians playing music that is a bit different, quite a few diminished chords thrown out there, and some amazing percussive feats. They have lyrics that go over the heads of most MENSAns, they are Heavy metal band that gets a bit political at times. I like much of their earlier stuff, and its almost always recorded INCREDIBLY well.

Jurrasic 5 - A hip-hopish group of guys who I just don't really have anything to say about right now, other than it was one of the groups who got me over the rap part of my "I don't like rap and country" spiel. Power In Numbers is what I cut my teeth on.

Green Day - Dookie, however unfortunately titled, is still one of the best albums of the genre I've been introduced to. I haven't followed them as much in recent years, but quite the punk band which has been able to strive through the past 15 years or so. Its odd to hear some new bands where "Green Day" is one of their influences... and I'm like... "no... I can't be getting that old... I'm only in my mid 20's... are you seriously... they haven't been around long enough to be 'inspiration' to other people"... I AM getting old.

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is the masterpiece of this particular group. A bit more on the country side of rock, this ever growing assemblage of musicians has made it a little harder for people to say "I don't like any country" or "I don't like rock at all... FREE BIRD!!!!!!!!!!" Its kind of a hard band to bend into one genre, but you just have to listen to this band, this album. Give it at least two spins, front to back... there is just something about it that is hard for me to encapsulate, so I'll leave it to your ears.

Flaming Lips - These guys have been around for years and years, and have had a cult following. You have probably heard some of their stuff on commercials or on the radio from back in the day ("She Don't Use Jelly" off Transmissions From A Satellite Heart probably slid past your ears once or twice, but they have put out some rather esoteric albums, one that I really appreciate is the one just before their latest entitled Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, a story of a young girl who fights to save the world from invasion of, you guessed it, pink robots. A theme album which kinda gets out there a little. If you have a good 5.1 setup in your home, I implore you to pick up the 5.1 recording of this album.

Cake - Their cover of "I Will Survive" alone will make you love them. "The Distance" is a classic. Fashion Nugget is their most well known album, and arguably the best. These guys have also had some "commercial" success over the years, and one of the few videos I know of was for their song "Short Skirt, Long Jacket". It had quite a few cuts of people being stopped on the street, given some period Sony Headphones (either 20$ ones, or some MDR-CD780's or 1700's, I can't remember), attatched to a PCDP (portable CD player, I forgot that I'm not on www.head-fi.org right now, I know a couple of you are). It just showed the reactions of the people listening to the then unreleased song. During one part of the song, probably only about 30 seconds in, it actually drops off for 3 seconds or so, garnering stares of puzzlement and "is that it?", only to resume to finish out their possibly unintended tradedmarked short song style.

Beach Boys - I grew up listening to the oldies station with my parents... I was lucky enough to be exposed to some older stuff. I love the harmonization of the group, something you are generally restricted to in boy bands these days. Brian Wilson also recently finished up his masterpiece SMiLE. I particularly like the track (and the surrounding tracks, if you've heard it, you'll know what I mean) "Heroes and Villans." I have an original copy of Pet Sounds on vinyl... I need to get a VPI Scout (imagine entry level Baer or Wilson... runs about 1600$, can add more to it and end up with a higher end model, but its amazing right out of the box for the money) and give it a spin.

Beatles - What can you say... its "The Beatles". I was introduced to them for my personal collection through Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts' Club Band, an interesting classic. As much as I love SP and the White Album, I have to give the nod to Revolver as my favorite Beatles album... and no, its NOT just because of the forum I'm on.

Jamiroquai - Another "across the pond" band, but of a bit different genre, this quasi-techno group has put the exhaust of a Lamborghini Diablo (one of 2 of a special edition, which was wrecked by, if memory serves, a professional BMW driver) on its way to the video shoot... the other 1 was tracked down at the last minute. Traveling Without Moving is the album I'm most familiar with, with the title song, "Cosmic Girl", and a few others which were quite enjoyable.

T.a.T.u - Total guilty pleasure band, but "200km/h In The Wrong Direction" was acutally a pretty good album for two russian teenage girls who were put together as a group to make money... it worked.

Yeah... this is a start. I'm leaving out a ton of bands, but I've already wasted enough time on this... I may edit it later... after a nap.

Cliff's Notes:

311

Dave Matthews/Dave Matthews Band

Clipse

N*E*R*D

Norah Jones

Foo Fighters

Nirvana

Loretta Lynn

The White Stripes

Linkin Park

Tool

Jurrasic 5

Green Day

Wilco

The Flaming Lips

Cake

The Beach Boys

The Beatles

Jamiroquai

T.a.T.u.

[saintsfanbrian]

Dang, Dragon, just wanted a short overview and you took it to the next level.

I disagree with your opinion of all of the members of Nirvana being

so-so musicians.

Dave Grohl was obviously the "musical talent" behind that band as he has gone on to "greatness" with the Foo Fighters.

Other than that... Good list.

[molonlabetn]

This explains much...

Heh...

I've been tuning in to 99.7 WTN regularly since the mid 90's. Aside from the idiot they have on now in the mornings, I enjoy listening to every show they air.

I hardly listen to music in the car, anymore (unless my Wife takes charge of the stereo... in which case we listen to rap and country*)

*see my 2 least favorites noted in my previous post :surrender:it's about the only thing we don't agree on... music...

[MexicanDragon]

I disagree with your opinion of all of the members of Nirvana being Dave Grohl was obviously the "musical talent" behind that band as he has gone on to "greatness" with the Foo Fighters.

Well SFB, we shall agree to disagree... I see them as being proficient enough, but as far as players, even Grohl (arguably the most talented player instrumentalist), still isn't that great.

But don't get me wrong, it doesn't make me enjoy them any less... I just don't find them that great...

I wonder if I'll get around to adding to that list... I don't even want to begin to think of who I left out... <g>

**BRENT**

[shaftbass]

It's nice to see a few fellow 311 fans around. I was beginning to feel alone int he world! It's too bad they are so liberal with songs such as "Guns are for *******" and Nick's website www.liberalhexum.org , but I'm willing to overlook that because I love 311's music.

Now maybe I will have someone to go to a 311 show if they ever come to Nashville again.

[Guest utarch00]

Chris

I will go with you to a show. I saw 311 3 or 4 times in college. That was back before they made it into the mainstream.

[Guest BigJ45]

It's too bad they are so liberal with songs such as "Guns are for *******" and Nick's website www.liberalhexum.org , but I'm willing to overlook that because I love 311's music.

I started to say something about overlooking ones values and supporting someone who is against your rights but then I thought "Hell I have been overlooking "Saturday Night Special" and listening to Skynyrd for over 20 years."

[Guest DaG]

Marshall Tucker

Molly Hatchet

Skynard

Nickleback

Foo Fighters

Stone Temple Pilots

Allman Bros.

Greg Allman

All southern rock

DaG

[waynesan]

I love Bluegrass. My favorites are:

Dell McCurry

Cherryholmes

Alison Krauss

IIIrd Time Out

I also like country but lean more to the female artists:

Martina McBride

Julie Roberts

Trisha Yearwood

Shania Twain (not so much anymore but at one time I couldn't even go to

sleep because of her)

Kellie Pickler

Reagan Boggs (a local artist who should be the queen of country rock)

Danielle Peck (Saw her last night at the Va-Ky District Fair in Wise Va.

Not more than 300 people there due to the weather but

man what a show. Probably the most beautiful woman to

ever sing a country song.)