Music
I know this is a site about movies and everything related to them, but as we have started to list some of our favourite stuff here on forum, why not share opinion about music and our favourite bands and musicians. Since music is even more important than movies to me, I would like to see what do you think about music.
My favourite music is alternative rock and trip hop, although I like grunge and hard rock as well.
My favourite band is Muse and then there are others, such as: Radiohead, Hooverphonic, Jeff Buckley, Hard Fi, Pearl Jam, The Killers, Led Zeppelin, Kyo, Kane, Suede, Nirvana, Garbage, Stereophonics, Dredg and many more. I like female songwriters very much, too, such as Tori Amos, Jewel, Alanis Morissette and Aimee Mann.
music is a part, sometimes very significant, of movies, so I think the topic is OK:)
I can't really imagine my day without music, I almost always fall asleep with my radio on;)
My favourite band is U2, saw them last year in Chorzow, Poland and they were fabulous. I'm really lazy today and it would take too much time to name all my favourite bands, so here's a link, if someone is curious: http://www.lastfm.pl/user/Martuchna8
What else can I say.. I rarely listen to female vocalists, of course there are exceptions like Sade, Joni Mitchell or Cat Power, but I prefer male voices:D
Or we can also focus on soundtracks!
The Road by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis. Heartbreaking.
http://www.lastfm.pl/user/lady_sati
My fav soundtracks are Sherlock Holmes, Michael Clayton, A Single Man, The asssassination of Jesse James, The Road, Solaris, Out of Sight, Ocean's 11,12,13, Atonement.
Currently I'm mostly listening to The Sisters of Mercy and Pink Floyd, but I love Radiohead, Florence + the Machine, Pj Harvey, Elbow, Tv on the Radio and Interpol.
Best soundtrack without a doubt: Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild.
I also like: Johnny Cash, Alter Bridge, 30 Seconds to Mars, In Flames, Metallica, Insomnium, Nirvana, Avenged Sevenfold, Iron Maiden, Seether, Flogging Molly, Scar Symmetry, Volbeat, Opeth, Dark Tranquillity, My Chemical Romance, Amorphis, Guns N' Roses, Tesla, Sonata Arctica, Gamma Ray, Within Temptation, AC/DC, Queen, Kings of Leon and many more :p
I like:
Fugazi, No Means No, Shellac, Jeff Buckley, Tom Waits, Gang of Four, .........................
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The Eddie Vedder soundtrack is great.
In another genre, I really like Benjamin Button soundtrack by Alexandre Desplat.
It makes me --- cry.
Nirvana, The Doors, The Beatles, The Who, Deep Purple, Bob Dylan, Radiohead, The Strokes, Muse ...
green day(my favorite band - saw them live last month -), sarah mclachlan, velhas virgens, leona naess, alanis morissette, glee, gilberto gil, ze ramalho, legiao urbana, cazuza, eyeshine, ramones, sex pistols, blur, guns n roses, the who, van morrison, the verve, stones, iron(going to their concert next year), the smiths, marylin manson, the cure, cranberries, garbage, the doors, nirvana, pearl jam, foo fighters, rem, ac/dc, nightwish, evanescence, offspring, rancid, backyard babies, eläkeläiset(humppa!).
i prefer female vocals, but if it's rock, there's a pretty good chance i'm gonna like it =D
oh yeah, i also like some boy bands like backstreet boys(my frist international concert), 'nsync, five
I love Trip Hop a lot: bands such as Portishead, Lamb, Red Snapper, Massive Attack, Tricky, Bjork... I followed most of these bands since I was 17 years old or younger and never got bored with them. And, the more depressive they are the better ^ Probably the music I listen the most
Sigur Ros (recently discovered, love it), EZ3kiel...
Radiohead of course, one of the best concert I have ever seen if not the best, 3 hours of total mind blowing music. Clearly one of the best band that ever existed!
Placebo
I loooove Dub, electronic dub especially, I like music that makes you fly far in your head and that's the best music for this :) : Hightone (so great!!), Asian Dub Foundation (also one of the best live band EVER), Dub Syndicate, Lee Perry, Mad Professor, Sofa Surfer, Afro Celt sound system
I like some electro (but not Italo disco so much): Vitalic for example, Vive La fete (not everything but some tunes are really nice), Legowelt, Adult. , Miss kittin... etc
Bentley Rhythm Ace, Aphex Twin, Daft Punk, Air
Cat Power, Elysian Field, Noir Desir, Manu Chao, La mano Negra...
Also love New Wave: The Cure, Joy Division, New order...
French amazing singer and song writer Mano Solo who just died (sad!!!), Tryo...
Some French Hip Hop, some Reggae, some rock from the 60's like Jefferson Airplane or the Rolling Stone (only like what they did in the 60's)
Jan Tiersen
And I'm a total Tekno lover even if I'm getting a bit old for this ^ (but one of the music I hate the most is gabber and happy hardcore beurk!!)
I'm sure I forgot many things :)
Oh :D I like this topic.
So far I guess I super match Zythux list :P and a bit of LovelyT's. Aside of all those things, I have Metallica, Epica, Ayreon, Tool (along with the rest of Maynard Keenan projects) and Buckethead on top artists. Hmmm and Our Lady Peace, Default, Primal Fear, Therion, Kane, a bit of brasilian typical music as MPB, as Maria Gadú, Elis Regina, Chico Buarque and Djavan...Lady Gaga :P Killswitch Engage, Nine Inch Nails, Rammstein, a whole lot of female fronted metal bands, metal operas, rocky and alt rock stuff and soundtracks of course =)
Fave soundtracks: The Piano, by Michael Nyman, Memoirs of a Geisha from John Williams and A Beautiful Mind from James Horner.
There is only one "music" and that is Lightning Bolt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GXoYUmkRBM&feature=related
Oh and REFUSED, Propagandhi, The Locust, Maybeshewill, Mono, Russian Circles, Explosions in the Sky, This Will Destroy You, Flying Lotus, Free the Robots, Burial, Four Tet, and Boards of Canada.
And I am going to see Godspeed! You Black Emperor in January.
Ruins~!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysCeaED_6Eg
& Melt Banana, Aburadako, CFCF, the Knife, and Ominaeshi.
My favorite movie soundtracks are from Oldboy, Blue Spring, and Funny Games (US).
Among my favorite bands are dredg, The National, Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Interpol, Bloc Party, Bad Religion, Metric, Arcade Fire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and a lot more. And recently I listened a lot to Scanners. My favorite song of the year is probably "Sprawl II" by Arcade Fire:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH_7_XRfTMs
You can also check out my last.fm profile for my recent listening habits. :P
http://www.lastfm.de/user/fabsterno1/charts?rangetype=year&subtype=artists