Share Your Favorite Rock Band/Artist

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The thread invites participants to share their favorite rock band or artist, emphasizing a preference for rock music and excluding punk. The discussion spans various eras and styles within the rock genre.

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant expresses a preference for Iron Maiden and Guns N' Roses, seeking others' favorites.
  • Several participants mention classic bands like The Beatles, The Doors, and Led Zeppelin.
  • Some participants suggest modern rock bands such as Pearl Jam, Disturbed, and Godsmack, while others mention more niche bands like Lake of Tears and Manowar.
  • There is a discussion about Limp Bizkit, with mixed opinions on their music and popularity.
  • Song recommendations for The Doors are provided, highlighting tracks like "Waiting for the Sun" and "Light My Fire."
  • One participant lists a wide array of bands, indicating a broad taste in rock music.
  • Another participant humorously notes the difficulty in choosing just one favorite band.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally do not agree on a single favorite band, with multiple competing views and a variety of preferences expressed throughout the discussion.

Contextual Notes

Some participants struggle with the thread's request for a single favorite band, leading to lists of multiple bands instead.

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Readers interested in discovering new rock music or exploring diverse opinions on classic and modern rock bands may find this discussion valuable.

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Ok i don't want this to end up a royal rumble between people who disagree with each other, cos i know u guys (n gals) are much more civil than that.

Anyway, in an effort to boost my cd collection and my views on newer bands, i would appreciate it very much if u guys could tell me your favourite rock band/artist, it can be from whatever era as long as it is rock...so no punk music!

thanx

p.s i am personally torn between Iron Maiden and Guns N Roses, just to start you off!
 
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Beatles
 
The Smashing Pumpkins
 
The Doors,
Led Zepplin,
Ozzy Osborn
Pink Floyd
 
Originally posted by Smiley
The Smashing Pumpkins

Woohoo!

What about Bush.
 
Pearl Jam
 
Lake of Tears
Iron Maiden
Manowar
-- ask for more if you like these guys
 
Hey hey hey, i said favourite, just one! lol. hmm i know a lot of who like the doors but i haven't heard any myself. so that's a mayb. Any song suggestions? Keep on with those posts!
 
Originally posted by jimmy p
Hey hey hey, i said favourite, just one! lol. hmm i know a lot of who like the doors but i haven't heard any myself. so that's a mayb. Any song suggestions?

Waiting for the sun
The crystal ship
Love me two times
When the music's over
(it's not only one but I couldn't help myself )
 
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GNR all the way.
 
  • #12
Hmm. I have a hard time claiming a single band or song as my favorite.

As many know, I have to vote for In Flames.

As for modern rock, well, Disturbed, Godsmack, Deftones, 3rd Strike, Quarashi (kinda rap-rock, but it still rocks), and I'll probably get stoned for this, but I really think Limp Bizkit is trying to make a decent try with there most recent album.

a lot of people like Foo Fighters, Fuel, The Ataris (remade "Boys of summer") uhhh, just to much.

And of course the kings of metal, Pantera.
 
  • #13
stone him!

I'll probably get stoned for this, but I really think Limp Bizkit is trying to make a decent try with there most recent album.

Well, if nobody else wants to stone him, I'll be glad to do that now.
 
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jimmy p, if you don't have Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, ignore what everyone else has said and go buy it right now.

If you do have it... I don't know how your tastes are, but probably the most underrated rock album of all time, imo, is Electric Ladyland by Jimi Hendrix. If you like more modern sounding stuff, I highly recommend A Northern Soul by The Verve. It's not traditional straight up rock, and it's a bit on the dark side, but if you ask me no one creates whole atmospheres with the guitar like the Verve guitarist Nick McCabe.
 
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I have Dark Side of the Moon n some hendrix lol. Oh yeah u'll get stoned for limp bizkit, megashawn Tell me more Huybrush, lol this could also help me with that 'what comes next thread' lol
 
  • #16
you could go with the bad stuff:
Anathema
Amorphis
My Dying Bride
Tiamat
Cradle of Filth
Dimmu Borgir
...
 
  • #17
Originally posted by Guybrush Threepwood
Waiting for the sun
The crystal ship
Love me two times
When the music's over
(it's not only one but I couldn't help myself )

Don't forget Roadhouse Blues, or Riders on the Storm.. and of course there's Light My Fire but everyone already knew that.
 
  • #18
Originally posted by jimmy p
I have Dark Side of the Moon n some hendrix lol.

'Some' Hendrix? You don't have Hendrix if you don't have Electric Ladyland. :wink:
 
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What is with all the hatred towards LB? They pretty much created this entire new trend of music, and now they've even started to get away from it back to a more rock sound.

And aside from the techno spelling of Limp Bizkit in "Behind blue eyes" remake, they did an awesome job. Hell, even Fred picked up and learned the Bass after losing Wes, and I think there newest album is better then ever.

But opinions are like asses, and there is a lot of music to listen too.

I mostly just curious why so many people dislike LB? And even still why so many people dislike them, but there album sales do so good?

PS. About the stoning.

Apparently, you've never ridden much dirt bikes. I'm used to deflecting rocks at 50 mph on a two wheeled machine. Give me yer best shot.
 
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Limp bizkit, just don't appeal to me, the one song that i do like from them is "Behind Blue Eyes" but i am a Big Fan of the Who, and their original version is a lot better.
 
  • #21
decent

I admire how Limp Bizkit's language is so decent. (sarcasm)
Now, back to the stoning.
 
  • #22
Fleetwood Mac
Stevie Nix
Eagle Eye Cherry
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Lenny Kravitz
Sheryl Crow

to name a few favorites...
 
  • #23
I listen to albulms, not just a song. My Favorite Doors albulm is Morrison Hotel. It includes Road House Blues and Maggie Magill, can't recall all the cuts but I like 'em all.
 
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Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, ZZ Top, Nirvana, System of a Down, The White Stripes!, Green Day, Queen, The Doors, Hot Hot Heat, The Ataris, Linkin Park, Sublime, Weezer!, The Blues Brothers, Reel Big Fish, The Suicide Machines, The Get-up Kids, Thursday, Law Biting Citizens, Frank Sinatra, 30 seconds to Mars, Saves the Day, 3 Doors Down, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Blink-182, Coldplay, Drop Kick Murphy's, Hoobastank, Hootie and the Blowfish, Pearl Jam, Metallica, Simple Plan, The Who, The Knack, Soundgarden, Hendrix, Audioslave, The Beatles, Fat Boy Slim, Godsmack, Guns n' Roses, Unwritten Law, Chevelle, Vertical Horizon, Cream, Dave Matthews Band, Eric Clapton, Creed, The Eagles, Evanescence, Disturbed, Eve 6, Marcy Playground, Matchbox 20, Queens of the Stone Age, Puddle of Mudd, Rammstein, Foo Fighters, Sum 41, Sugarcult, The Hives, The Vines, Tool, Tom Petty, Blues Traveler, Smashing Pumpkins, Zwan, Incubus, Black Sabbath, Ozzy, The Ramones, Phish, RHCP, Jimmy Eat World, The Clarks, Creed, Cold, Finch, AFI, The Kinks, The Beach Boys, Deftones, Dido, Taking Back Sunday, The Verve, Deep Purple, Steppenwolf, The Distillers, Murray Head, Fuel, John Lennon, Dashboard Confessional, Everclear, Lynyrd Skynyrd, At the Drive-In, New Found Glory, Saves the Day, CKY, Good Charlotte, Korn, Lou Bega, MXPX, The Offspring, The Byrds, Pennywise, The Sex Pistols, Styx, The All-American Rejects, Live, Brand New, The Living End, Distorted Penguins, Maroon5, Lit, 311, The Pillows, The Clash, Something Corporate, Coheed and Cambira, Less than Jake, Green Day, and Coldplay.

Those aren't in any particular order except for Led Zeppelin being first.
 
  • #25
Quite the list you got there Beren. :wink:
I don't know the the names of the bands of a lot of the songs I like, but here's a list just for the heck of it.

Queen is okay
Whoever the guy is who sings The Eye of the Tiger
Alan Parson's Don't Let it Show.

There are many others but I haven't bothered to find the names of the songs or who sings them.

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What don't u guys get about this thread lol, please just ONE band...ur favouritestestestest band of them all! lol thanks so far anyway. i have a jimi hendrix greatest hits btw
 
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Originally posted by jimmy p
What don't u guys get about this thread lol, please just ONE band...ur favouritestestestest band of them all! lol thanks so far anyway. i have a jimi hendrix greatest hits btw

Why? I put my favourite in there, and singled it out. I thought I'd just list a few others so that maybe someone would go and check them out.
 
  • #28
Originally posted by Beren
I thought I'd just list a few others

you're welcome to list many others any time... :wink:
 
  • #29
Whoever the guy is who sings The Eye of the Tiger

UHh, wait a minute here. You want me to be stoned?

hehe surely this is much worse of a sin.
 
  • #30
Disturbed!

Definitely my favorite.

I also suggest Paradise Lost, Evanescence and Chevelle (I don't want to go off and name every band I've ever liked (no offense Beren...you did have some pretty good choices in there)) - though Evanescence is "softer" rock than the other two, and Chevelle are...well...not usual - let's just put it that way, eh?