What bands do you listen to?

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Ah AC/DC, I used to listen to them to. For the 2 years that I did computer studies I always listened to AC/DC while programming lol. BACK IN BLAAACK!! ! lol
AC/DC seem to have a lot of female fans for some reason. I haven't heard much from them but I liked what I heard, I just never got into them. NIN too. I've heard some NIN songs and I liked them but never got into them. I like their cover of Hurt.

^'Hurt' is actually a NIN song, originally. Johnny Cash's version was the cover. But that's OK

Pretty cool to see so many younger folks are into System of a Down at all. I remember when Toxicity came out I was in high school, and it pretty much blew our minds.

:O really? I was told the opposite o_O Obviously that guy was a Johnny Cash fan. Lol.
I only know 1 other person in real life who likes SOAD :/ I think they're awesome lol

I knew quite a few people who listened to System of a Down, and Coldplay, and Evanescence and most of the bands you listed in fact. I always thought those were relatively popular among vaguely defined 'rock/metal' listeners, maybe you're just living somewhere where most people listen to other genres.

This I can definitely get behind, as long as we don't forget Sabbath's material with Tony Martin as well as Ozzy and Dio.

Posting my entire music library would be somewhat pointless since the ordeal would go on forever and be of no interest to anyone other than myself. A few essentials, however, which one should never stray far from home without:

Manilla Road - There are a very small number of metal bands who can lay claim to having produce truly 'classic' albums. There are even fewer who can claim to have written at least half a dozen, with five of those albums occurring consecutively one after the other, beginning with their sophomore effort, 'Metal'. There is probably no band besides Manilla Road who can lay claim to having done all of that while simultaneously undergoing a stylistic shift from Zeppelin/Rush-esque hard rock on their earlier releases, to a contemporary thrash metal sound circa the late 80's with 'Out of the Abyss', and then going on to incorporate elements of OSDM and Doom Metal in the riffing in recent albums, all while retaining the core MR sound. For my money MR are long overdue a place in the pantheon of Metal alongside Maiden/Priest etc. What can I say, I'm a raving fanboy.

Jag Panzer - Harry Conklin is one of my favourite 'clean' singers in metal ('Clean' singing seems somewhat inadequate to described Conklin's particular brand of high pitched wail) and the record he sounds the best on by far is probably JP's debute album 'Ample Destruction'. Most of the JP catalogue is fairly decent, although none of the later stuff has the same youthful vigour of the debut, but Conklin is still a mental live performer.

Fates Warning - Well to begin with 'Awaken the Guardian' is hands down my favourite album in the history of power metal. 'The Spectre Within' is second. Not a single filler track between either disc to my ears. The riffs, the atmospher, then more riffs, more atmosphere, the vocal delivery like Bruce Dickinson on helium, that chorus in 'Exodus', the bridge section in 'The Apparition', great stuff. The proggier stuff they did with Ray Alder is cool too. Would definitely rec 'Perfect Symmetry' and 'A Pleasant Shade of Gray' to people who like that kind of material.

Venom - Where would metal be without 'Welcome to Hell' and 'Black Metal'? Somewhere incredibly lame probably. First band worthy of the tag 'extreme' metal, the satanic lyrical content is played with humour, close to early Mercyful Fate, exactly how I like it. The production just makes it sounds that little bit extra harsh and raw. For when you just want to shout out loud to someone that you're 'Evil! In League with Satan!'.

Omen - "In the distance/Thunder in the sky/Feel the sorrow/Hear the battle cry/Battle crrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!! !!" J.D. Kimball wasn't exactly dazzling in terms of range, and his tone was fairly gritty, but there are no other power metal vocalists who have the same effect of making you really feel that you're right there after a long and arduous journey, sword in hand, sweaty and exhausted, in some god forsaken desert of middle earth, face to face with the fire breathing dragon who guards the ring. First three albums are essential gems of early US power metal.

Summoning - Some kind of soundscapey Tolkienish Black Metal or something like that. Not really easy to classify since there's not much that's quite in the same vein, lots of plodding brass heavy stuff that sounds like the soundtrack to the greatest fantasy movie which has yet to be made. The vocal approach and the lack of live performance is probably where the BM tag comes from although they aren't really your run of the mill Burzum or Darkthrone clones.

Oh yeah, NIN, I should have listed them as well. Anyway, this guy isn't a band and he certainly isn't well known or even signed, but I like him, and if you NIN you might like him as well.

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The Kinks
The Beatles
The Who
The Clash
The Buzzcocks
Bananarama
The Bangles
The Thompson Twins
The Kast Off Kinks
Shut Up Frank
The Class of 64


I'm old

This would constitute on a great list. Metal guy here. (bands in BOLD are the ones that I recommend)
A.I.(d) - very good!
Animals As Leaders
Altar Of Plagues
Born Of Osiris
Behemoth
Blut Aus Nord
Cloudkicker
Codeon
Disturbed
Dying Fetus
Funeral Morning
Insomnium
Kauan
Lamb Of God
Mastodon
Megadeth - my favourite band!
Mitochrondrion
Necrophagist
Nevermore
Nile
Prototype
Rings of Saturn
Testament
Veil Of Maya
Whitechapel

When it comes to other genres, I listen to:
The Smiths
Pink Floyd
Radiohead
Massive Attack
Portishead
The Cranberries
The Who
The Chemical Brothers
Depeche Mode
David Bowie

May not extend this much. Period.

This is pretty good
Oh yea, and I forgot Avenged Sevenfold.

I also forgot Slipknot.
Disturbed I only know Down with the Sickness. Ooh wa ah ah ah!!
I don't really like Pink Floyd for some reason. I just don't know why. :/

Another band that I listen to enough that I really should have put them on my list, but I forgot. Anyway, Down with the Sickness is really their black sheep hit. First, it's from their first album, which is nu metal while the later albums are more like a modern take on traditional heavy metal, and it also stands out from the other songs from The Sickness because it's a lot heavier and darker. The later songs still have occasional monkey vocals.

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Oh my gosh. So awesome. I'm liking this

Toxicity is a great album. i still enjoy that, even though i have fallen far from the "metal" tree.

bands i listen to most are (in no particular order of precedence): They Might Be Giants, The Dead Milkmen, Bad Religion, and Dinosaur Jr. i like some hiphop too, but my tastes in that are getting old... guys like MFDOOM, Madlib, Sole, and some older Aesop Rock.

I also love to listen to Leonard Cohen and my favorite composer is Maher Shalal Hash Baz. his music brings me to tears.
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Modest Mouse is probably my favorite band from the 90s on. There's a dearth of indie rock that is innovative and actually rocks. I don't hate the folksy retro-hipster stuff that comprises most new music today, but I get so bored so quick and find myself going back to 90s alternative. I still like Tool and A Perfect Circle too.

Uhhhh.... your avatar is on my business card! that's so weird!

I'll list solo artists/composers, too. This is just what I listen to most recently:

Erik Satie - a lot (first 'classical' composer to really grab me)
John Cale
Lou Reed
Nico
sometimes I even listen The Velvet Underground
Magazine
Buzzcocks
Pete Shelley
The Kinks
Kraftwerk
The Fall
Love
John Foxx
New Order
The Who
Alan Vega (but I don't really listen to Suicide)
Spizzenergi/Spizzoil/Athletico Spizz/Spizzles/you get the idea

and lots of other crap! It changes! Exclamation mark!

Too many to list. I'll limit myself to listing groups I've been listening to in 2013 with recent releases.

Foals, Justin Timberlake, The Knife, Daughter, Haim, Emma Louise, Foxygen, Chvrches, AlunaGeorge, Thao, Autre Ne Veut, Birds of Tokyo, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Christopher Owens, Charli XCX, Kacey Musgraves, Fallulah, Tegan and Sara, Little Boots, MS MR, TNGHT, Jessie Ware, The National and Major Lazer.