Music Appreciation Thread.

[omni]

THE WHITLAMS, Switchfoot, Barenaked Ladies, They Might Be Giants.

[Keith Saffron]

This is much easier to answer than the top 10 songs thread. Fave band of all time is Pearl Jam, no question. Then in no particular order or grouping:
The Who, Metallica, Split Enz, Crowded House, The Beatles, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Chris Isaak, Jack Johnson, Foo Fighters, Greenday, Blink 182, Grinspoon, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Chris Cornell, Audioslave, Bloodhound Gang, Bruce Springsteen, Oasis, Smashing Pumpkins, R.E.M., The Screaming Jets, Stone Temple Pilots, U2, The Doors, Billy Joel, Guns N' Roses, Live, Collective Soul, The Eagles, Faith No More, Everclear, System Of A Down, Ben Harper.

Should be getting tiks for Foo Fighters in the next couple of weeks, and was looking forward to my 1st BDO next year, but the next lot of announcements better be a marked improvement on the last lot, otherwise i'll be waiting another year for that.

[MsCanada]

Ok I give up... split by genres....sort of... I have strangge taste in music

Canadian: Collective soul (may be yankee), I Mother Earth, Moist, Sarah McLaughlin (in particular Adia), Bryan Adams, Our lady peace (until they got toooo wied), Chantal Kreviasic

General: Live, Robbie Williams, Linkin Park, Britney Spears (I offer no explanations or excuses), Powderfinger, Maroon 5, Garbage, Foo Fighters, lately a lot of RnB and dance stuff (all time fav is Jayz/linkin but love that pussycat dolls song).....

Old School: Lionel Richie, Michael Jackson, U2, Eagles, Beatles, Chicago, CCR/Fogarty, Santana, Van Morrison, Procol Haren (Whiter Shade of Pale haunts me), Beach Boys, Police, George Michael, Elton John, James Taylor, StonesMadonna, Clapton, Billy Joel, Smoky Robinson....

Apologies... hahaha

[Perm]

there should be no apologies for The Police, Chicago and .... the pussycat dolls!

[MsCanada]

omigod forgot luciano ligabue!!!!

[yellowcake]

Classic Oz Pub Rock: (with some of them still going round): Chisel, Angels, Choirboys, Tatts, Screaming Jets, Oils (to Earth Sun & Moon), INXS, Baby Animals, Black Sorrows, Radio Birdman/Deniz Tek (my personal hero)

O.S Classic: Zeppelin, Free, Bad Co, Stones, Deep Purple, Cream, Sabbath, Slade (for fun), Queen (early), MC5, Stooges, Doors, Boston, Meatloaf (well, B.O.O.H.)

Recent(ish), either: RHCP, Reef, Good Charlotte, Foo Fighters, John Butler Trio, Dissociatives, Living End, MGF, Jet (until they were done to death) and finding Thirsty Merc a grower. Oh, and Angelas Dish

[yellowcake]

Before you completely stereotype me:

Bought within the last dozen or so CDs - Play - Slava & Leonard Grigoryan (great!)

Most esoteric music CD owned (also great) - Apocalyptica - The Music Of Metallica Played On Four Cellos

Biggest pleasantly surpris-(ingly good) gig this year (But do not read "best") - Guy Sebastian - Wyong Leagues

[yellowcake]

Original Angels Band on Live at The Basement just now - Marseille

Bit sad without the "Bon soir, Mademoiselle, voulez vous promenade avec moi, c'est soir"

[yellowcake]

Think we've got crowd probs.

This line-up at The Palace, St Kilda for Melbourne's Pete Wells Benefit Concert on 9th Oct drew only 360 people:

Rose Tatto and Guests
Paul Kelly
Beasts of Bourbon
Tim Rogers and The Temperance Union
The Master's Apprentices
Tex, Don and Charlie
Ian Rilen & The Love Addicts
Penny Ikinger and The Evolution
Dave Hogan's Meltdown

(The Sydney show on Sept 7th at the Enmore (different line-up) sold out....and was brilliant)

[Rubbernose]

striker said:

I was listening to Steve Vai on my way to work!.. on iTunes also listen to Joe Satriani, Steve Morse, John McLaughlin and other electric guitar masters....

Yeah I'm into this kinda stuff too. Been watching a few G3 DVD's a lot lately, particularly G3 Live in Denver, with Satch, Vai and an old fat leather clad Malmstein going nuclear. And when it's 2am and I've had a gutful, I always find myself listening to and watching Van Halen. I still cannot let it go. Big VH fan. Joe Satriani is outrageous.

From the old school of this genre I like Jethro Tull, Led Zep, Deep Purple, Mountain, Frank Zappa, Cream, Yardbirds, Derek and the Dominos, Clapton generally, Alan Holdsworth, Yes, the Who, Queen, StarFleet Project (Brian May & EVH), SRV, Neil Young, Pink Floyd.

Err, Whitesnake and a plethora of big hair bands. Extreme. Sorry. Went through a Billy Idol stage, as well as Ratcat?

Faith no more, Mr Bungle, Alice in Chains, Live, Beck, Pearl Jam, REM, Jeff Buckley, The Church, Greenday, Smashing Pumpkins, Black Crowes, Moby, Everlast, Stone Temple Pilots, err Elton John, U2, New Order, The Cult, Lenny Kravitz, Queens of the Stone Age, Ben Folds Five, Jack Johnson. Too many.

Hunters & Collectors, Nick Cave, Paul Kelly, ACDC, The Angels, Hoodoo Gurus, Midnight Oil, Divinyls, Icehouse, Spy vs Spy, Screaming Jets, Aussie Crawl, Crowded House, Mondo Rock, INXS, The Radiators, Chisels, LRB, Powderfinger, Alex Lloyd, Grinspoon, Regurgitator, Silverchair, Frenzal Rhomb, Tommy/Phil Emanuel, Baby Animals. Thought Savage Garden were an OK Aussie duo too and I'm a tad embarrassed about that.

Was an 80's child, badly. And love the Beatles. Have also still been known to whack on some Fleetwood Mac, ELO, Supertramp, The Eagles, plus a wide variety of one-hit-wonders. My missus is a mad Bon Jovi fan so I suppose I am too now, by proxy.

Lately I'm going through a Rock Chick stage and have a major Jones for Gwen Stefani. Cannot explain it.

Special mention must surely go to the Top Gun soundtrack, and Musical Youth. Also, pretty sure if I was 6 again I'd be a mad Wiggles fan.

[dru]

well i'm generally into punk, ska and quite a bit of alternative stuff.

should i start listing:

Internationals: The ramones, the clash, the decendants, Blink 182, Greenday, Rancid, Orange, the horrorpops, rocket from the crypt, the dropkick murphys, Nofx, me first and the gimme gimmes(the worlds greastest cover band), linkin park, less than jake, QOTSA last album was good, probably more that i can't think of at the moment

Aussie: unpaid debt, steppin' razor, frenzal rhomb, the whitlams (were great until members started killing themselves now they are only good), 28 days, the porkers, area 7, the cat empire, after the fall, Nitocris, spiderbait and probably heaps more that i see at the annandale etc.

i think i've seen angela's dish once and they weren't too bad. vetna are a good young local band too.

going to greenday in december, probably the BDO for my birthday again apart from that not a lot of tickets bought but with summer coming up i'm sure i'll go to a few after i finish exams.

[yellowcake]

dru said:

the decendants,

They go (parallel) under another name with a different singer. Saw them a Vans Warped a few years ago.

It's just one short word. Remember what it is?

[dru]

all

[yellowcake]

Thanks dru

They were good, guitarist (? Stefan) is a player with great authority

rubbernose said:

Extreme. Sorry.

Wouldn't apologise!
Pornograffiti - brilliant album
It's like if you combined Queen, Van Halen and Jim Steinman type twisted lyrics

rubbernose said:

Baby Animals....Lately I'm going through a Rock Chick stage

Suze De Marchi was IMO the definitive rock chick. When she married Extreme's Nuno (sad as that was) what a pedigree the kids have got!

[striker 9]

How about Christa Hughes (Machinegun fellatio)... she must be the rock chick of OZ?

[dru]

which alter ego does she go under (the widow jones or the other one) trying to work out which one it is

that is the only band that has left me feeling dirty as i left there gig.

[striker 9]

dru said:

.....that is the only band that has left me feeling dirty as i left there gig.

don't know what to say to you...... except, Christa Hughes is a hot babe! ... and if you felt dirty - it's because she is a dirty slapper! hahahaha

[dru]

striker said:

dru said:

.....that is the only band that has left me feeling dirty as i left there gig.

don't know what to say to you...... except, Christa Hughes is a hot babe! ... and if you felt dirty - it's because she is a dirty slapper! hahahaha

well between one of the ladies doing naked cartwheels in highheels, the porn being projected on screens above the metro stage and the general sleaziness (in a good way) of the whole performance i think feeling dirty was to be expected

it was one of those shows where i had gone to see the two support bands and was mildly intrested in the headliners (mgf) and don't know if it was good to see them or not

[omni]

Pinky & Chit Chat - have written for the Whitlams - in fact part of No Aphrodisiac (the personals ad bit - you know 'tired teacher, 28...') was written by MGF and talking with Pinky when he is just plain old Real Name (I'm not going to tell you that) he really enjoys writing that stuff, Chunky Chunky Air Guitar was originally an MGF song.

As for The Whitlams killing themselves, I must say something controversial, I actually think this is the best line up the band has ever had, it's a stable lineup (only Tim in it has depression, thanks to his raging alcohol abuse) and they've made some great music. The two band members that commited suicide were never involved in any hits, except Andy was in No Aphro. (I wouldn't classify Hamburgers as a hit) And as much as I love Stevie Plunder and his songs, I don't think the band would ever have got the success they had with Stevie in the band as they never would have gone on to try the 'kitchen sink' stuff and add some rock into the band.

How could I forget Queen on that list.

And Ms Canada a Canadian Music favourites list without Barenaked Ladies?!

[MsCanada]

canadian radio has 30% canadian content... rather sick of "it's been 1 week..." sorry....
wide mouth mason is also quite good....