Name your Favourites!

[DurkaDurka]

CanCon folks, name you favourite bands here.
I'll Start it off with:
Queens of the Stone Age
The Arcade Fire
Foo Fighters
Nirvana
Dr. Dre
Snoop
System of a Down
Joy Division
Iggy Pop
Weezer
Smashing Pumpkins
Rage against the machine
Beatsie Boys

Just to name a few.

 

[darkbeaver]

Foo fighters did a tune I really liked but I can,t remember, can you hum some of thier stuff for me Durka.:lol:

 

[darkbeaver]

Foo fighters did a tune I really liked but I can,t remember, can you hum some of thier stuff for me Durka. Actually it wasn't Foo Fighters it was UFO, but I still don't remember.:lol:

 

[DurkaDurka]

Foo fighters did a tune I really liked but I can,t remember, can you hum some of thier stuff for me Durka. Actually it wasn't Foo Fighters it was UFO, but I still don't remember.:lol:

one in the same beaver, maybe it was Everlong?

 

[Tonington]

Heh, I'm a music lover. The list is long, so I'll name some.

Faith No More, and just about anything Mike Patton is involved with
Tool
Modest Mouse
Blind Melon
The Shins
Outkast
Alice in Chains
Nirvana
Daft Punk
Chemical Brothers
Woob
Arcade Fire
Wintersleep
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Eric Clapton
Stone Temple Pilots
Radiohead

 

[DurkaDurka]

Tonigton, do you prefer old outkast (circa 1997) vs modern albums?
Blind Lenon, I haven't listened to them in years, good stuff though
Daft Punk, did you like their stuff before the "one more time song?

 

[DurkaDurka]

I should also add in Nine Inch Nails, Trent put on any amazing concert at the Ontario Place last summer.

 

[tamarin]

Neil Young (enigmatic and a giant)
America
The Who (Live at Leeds and Who's Next are pivotal)
Beatles (S Pepper's a must)
Tragically Hip
Fine Young Cannibals
Thompson Twins
Blue Rodeo
R.E.M.
Zombies

 

[Tonington]

Tonigton, do you prefer old outkast (circa 1997) vs modern albums?
Blind Lenon, I haven't listened to them in years, good stuff though
Daft Punk, did you like their stuff before the "one more time song?

Old outkast definitely, but I don't mind their new stuff either. Same with Daft Punk.

I forgot Johnny Cash, the one singing voice I can best reproduce. I'm learning guitar now. I had one as a teenager, but never got that interested. My fingers are musically challenged as a result of many broken fingers...I know it takes most people time to learn, but damn...

 

[lysyfacet]

Rush
Pink Floyd
Led Zepplin
The Who
Boston
Heart
YES
Emerson Lake and Palmer
Acdc
Iron Maidon
Metallica
Billy Joel
ELO
Default
The Tea Party
Jethro Tull
Blink 182
Nirvana
Bob Dylon

well i could go on forever but those are just a few. I'm an old school rocker on the whole, but i do listen to the newer age stuff too.

 

[talloola]

U-2 - Blue Rodeo - Chilliwack - Neil Young - Eric Clapton - C C R -
Randy Bachman (The Guess Who) - John Fogerty - Abba - Paul Simon
Crosby Stills & Nash

 

[Dexter Sinister]

I guess I'm still stuck in the past. My faves:

Creedence Clearwater Revival ( best damn rock'n'roll band there ever was)
Stan Rogers
Beach Boys
John Fogerty (best rock'n'roll voice there ever was)
The Beatles
The Doors (ah, Jim Morrrison's velvety baritone...)
Abba (almost embarrassed to admit that one)
Eric Clapton
Randy Bachman (The Guess Who and BTO, a superlative musician)
John Prine
Leo Kottke
Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed
Flatt and Scruggs
Patsy Cline
Jethro Tull
Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy
Paul Simon
Doc Watson
Don McLean
Dire Straits
Magna Carta (brilliant British folk group)
Phil Collins
The Dillards
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

For classical stuff, anything by the Berlin Philharmonic or London's Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, doing Vivaldi, Handel, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart...anybody, will well repay your attention.

For opera, the best single piece in the repertoire in my not very humble opinion is the Depths of the Temple duet from The Pearl Fishers. The rest of that opera sucks out loud, but that piece justifies its existence. The best version is by Jussi Björling and Robert Merrill, and Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti did a pretty good rendition as well. That one always makes the little hairs on the back of my neck stand up. The blending of two very powerful male voices is... well, beyond words. Ya gotta hear it, and if it fails to stir your deepest feelings, you must be dead from the neck up.

 

[sanctus]

I'm stuck in the past too.....my all time favourite are still THE BEATLES, play them still and still have all their CD's. George Harrison is next, love his stuff.

CCR
Sonny and Cher
Blues Magoos(bet no one remembers this psychedelic band!)
Johnny Cash
Hank William Sr.
Lennon
Wings
Paul Revere and the Raiders
Guess Who
Flatt and Scruggs(actually any bluegrass )

etc., etc., etc.

 

[unspoken]

Just to name a few...

Finger Eleven
Breaking Benjamin
Chevelle
Incubus
Seether
Killswitch Engage
Brand New
Idle Sons (RIP)
All That Remains
Story Of The Year
Modern Day Zero
12 Stones
Submersed
Lacuna Coil
Shadows Fall
Dust For Life
Seven Wiser

 

[sanctus]

Just to name a few...

Finger Eleven
Breaking Benjamin
Chevelle
Incubus
Seether
Killswitch Engage
Brand New
Idle Sons (RIP)
All That Remains
Story Of The Year
Modern Day Zero
12 Stones
Submersed
Lacuna Coil
Shadows Fall
Dust For Life
Seven Wiser

Lovely, the spirit of aging is upon me. I have not heard of even one of these people on your list:-(

 

[unspoken]

Lovely, the spirit of aging is upon me. I have not heard of even one of these people on your list:-(

Don't feel bad. A good chunk of that list is non-mainstream stuff that even most people my age wouldn't have heard of either.

 

[tamarin]

Hmmm, I wonder what would happen to such a thread if we reviewed favourite poets or columnists. 'Twould be a heresy, I think.

 

[talloola]

I'm stuck in the past too.....my all time favourite are still THE BEATLES, play them still and still have all their CD's. George Harrison is next, love his stuff.

CCR
Sonny and Cher
Blues Magoos(bet no one remembers this psychedelic band!)
Johnny Cash
Hank William Sr.
Lennon
Wings
Paul Revere and the Raiders
Guess Who
Flatt and Scruggs(actually any bluegrass )

etc., etc., etc.

It's nice to know someone else had appreciation for Hank Williams Sr. I still have some 78's by him, and knew all his songs many years ago, as we felt he was the best song writer of his time. There is a song out right now which he wrote and sang "MOVE IT ON OVER" Don't know the name of the group, but they do it really well. I remember the day he died, I was lying in bed, I believe New Years morning l953?, and heard the announcement on the radio, he was only 29 yrs. old I think, or close to it.