Your Band Sucks!

[woz]

like:
anything that sounds good to me.

hate:
anything that sounds bad to me.

[ssj4supernerd]

Love
1. The Smiths
2. Interpol
3. The White Stripes
4. Arctic Monkeys
5. Radiohead
6. Nickelback
7. Daft Punk
8. dEUS
9. Bloc Party
10. The Last Shadow Puppets

Hate
Rihanna
Madonna
Panic!At The Disco
Anything metal
Anything R&B, Rap, Hiphop.

[Crystal Mew]

Love:
1. Breaking Benjamin
2. The All American Rejects
3. Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
4. Anberlin
5. Paramore
6. Fall Out Boy
7. Fine Frenzy
8. Matchbox Romance
9. The Used
10. Bullet For My Valentine

Hate:
1. My Chemical Romance
2.Coldplay
3. Jet
4. Rihanna
5. Stone Sour ( I do like their song Through Glass though)
6. Most all rap groups
7. most r&b
8.all people like ashlee simpson, britney spears, amy whinehouse, ect
can't think of anymore off the top of my head

[shazza]

I saw Bullet for my valentine live the other weekend.

[Crystal Mew]

Wow, were they awesome???

I'm jealous lol

I've seen 10 years, three days grace, fall out boy, plain white t's, and gym class heroes in concert

[shazza]

I saw Plain White T's in February at a festival they played at, the funny thing is I don't really even like them.

Yeah, it was awesome. They played mostly 'The Poison' fortunately, I'm not the big fan of the second album.

[Weasel Overlord]

I saw Bullet for my valentine live the other weekend

Urrrgh why!?

Are we going on live band-talking-about sprees now? *looks up happily* I've mostly lost count of all the bands I've seen... festivals do that to you. But here's a vague list with lots of bands missing;

Muse x5
Placebo x3
Yeah Yeah Yeahs x3
Radiohead x2 (soon to be x3 YAAAAY!!)
Jimmy Eat World x2
Queens of the Stone Age x2
The Cooper Temple Clause x2
Weezer x1
Supergrass x1
Nine Inch Nails x1
The Offspring x1
Red Hot Chili Peppers x1
The Foo Fighters x1
Rammstein x1
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club x1
Enter Shikari x1 (I AM NEVER DOING THAT AGAIN!! It was like death :/)
Patrick Wolf x1
NOFX x1
Slayer x1 (they were hilarious XD)

[shazza]

Urrrgh why!?

I presume just like yourself, I went for enjoyment.

[Weasel Overlord]

Aah, touché! Was the gig full of annoying emos in drainpipe jeans with black-dyed hair and fringes of doom?

[shazza]

I'd be lying if I said no.

I'd also be lying if I said it didn't anger me.

[Weasel Overlord]

Emos are like a PLAGUE!! It wouldn't bother me so much if every single clothes shop that I used to like didn't now only stock jeans for people who clearly have shaved away all the fat from their legs. I mean seriously who has such thin stick legs!? It looks disgusting. And plus they've basically ruined my fringe look (I had the over-the-eye thing going on years before emos came into being - I can't see out of one eye, so I generally cover it with hair).

To stay on topic I suppose... does anyone else find that at gigs, the younger/newer fans always act like absolute dicks? They totally ruin it for people who just want to enjoy the music. Like, 2nd time we saw Muse, I totally missed the first three songs cos I was too busy trying to stay alive. :/ Not so fun. It's a trend (not like, a trendy trend, I mean like a mathematical trend), too, cos the first time we saw Radiohead, most of the crowd were much older than us, and they were lovely and mellow. Best crowd I've ever been in.

[Heald]

I'll tell you what, when I went to the Pogues two Christmas' ago at the Brixton Academy, it was chock full of drunk Irishmen and drunk wannabe-Irishmen. The Dropkick Murphys opened and a huge mosh pit swallowed everyone up. You never got hot because everyone had a pint in their hands, so when the moshing got out of control (about 99% of the time), beer would go flying, covering everyone in cold beer. Lovely.

The Pogues came on and played some of their more lively hits, the crowd warmed up, then slowed it down with some of their classics (Dirty Old Town) then kicked it off again, finishing with Fairytale of New York (perfect for Christmas) then played Fiesta as their encore, which was awesome as the crowd was moving like no other.

Great gig.

As for other gigs, I've generally never had problems with other fans. I usually stay away from gigs where even though I like the act, the fanbase is made up of people I detest. For example, I like a lot of punk rock but I know if I turn up, a bunch of skater boys will turn up and I think if I resisted the urge to beat the living daylights out of those poser ponces, blood would probably shoot out of my ears.

[Magmar]

Probably my best concerts have been AFI, and the Bouncing Souls. Another great act is Patent Pending--look them up!

Music highlight of my life: interviewing Red Jumpsuit Apparatus in their tour bus

[mistysakura]

Hehe, I never come to Misc. How did I miss this awesome thread?

Love:
1. Muse
2. Radiohead
3. Evanescence (despite them not being a band)
4. Silverchair (despite them not being a band)
5. Jimi Hendrix (Lol, he's really not a band)
6. The Butterfly Effect
7. Jeff Buckley
8. Nirvana
9. Pink Floyd
10. Porcupine Tree

Hmm, it's interesting seeing what's been left off this list.

Dislikes:
I won't even count stuff like Britney Spears and Fall Out boy. Let's do stuff people actually like!
1. Coldplay
2. Powderfinger (funny, I went to a Powderfinger/Silverchair gig just last year. At that stage, I went for Powderfinger and didn't like Silverchair. Now...)
3. Lol, I'm running out of things already. Rufus Wainwright and his cheesy arrangements.
4. The Cure is too happy for me.
5. Surely there must be more... oh yeah, The Eagles.

Comments on other people's stuff:
Muse: Muse love all around yeah, Muse is a love-em-or-hate-em band. Who are being overplayed at the moment on Australian footy. It is also true that they strangled Dracula Mountain; that song just wasn't the same after they covered it . However, the fusion of classical and rock; the killer riffs; the piano; that voice (yeah the falsetto is another love-it-or-hate-it factor); the live awesomeness...

Radiohead: I get why people don't like Radiohead. Dear mumbly Thom Yorke and Greenwood's experimentation. But I love how their music is so complex and layerred and yet it knows how to rock out. I could go on for a while here.

Lacuna Coil: yay! They wouldn't fit in my top ten, but hopefully I'm going to see them this month. Sadly, my favourite song of theirs is a cover (Enjoy the Silence -- arrangement genius), but I like their arrangements in general. And the vocals are great.

Weird Al: Lol, I love watching Weird Al vids on Youtube.

Gavin (the TPMer, not the muso if there is one): and we thought our tastes were similar. *eyes Muse, Silverchair, The Darkness* Although I do like most of the stuff on your list moderately. Silverchair: I kinda like some stuff off Young Modern. If You Keep Losing Sleep is gold. My favourite era is Neon Ballroom though -- perfect blend of rawness and grunge with epic arrangements. And they're good live.

The Darkness: Funny that, I don't like The Darkness because of the guy's falsetto. *shrinks away from Matt Bellamy and Thom Yorke's glares* I find it more piercing and squealy than the others'.

Gigs: Uh, I've never been in the pit. Largely because I'm little. That'll change soon though (the being-in-the-pit, not the stature, sadly). From the stands, all fans are just too quiet. Stand up and rock out, people! So I've never had a problem with younger fans. They probably have a problem with me.

[Heald]

3. Evanescence (despite them not being a band)
4. Silverchair (despite them not being a band)
5. Jimi Hendrix (Lol, he's really not a band)

We're just using the term band to describe any 'artist' really. Out of curiosity though, why aren't Evanescence or Silverchair bands? Yes, I know Evanescence is so terrible that they shouldn't be even referred to as anything remotely musical, but, at a very base level, they could be somehow described as 'a band'.

[Drusilla]

Drusie, Lordi got big outside of Scandinavia when they did the Eurovision Song Contest. That basically gave them a larger audience aware of their music and they went from there.

I know about that... I'm saying that, since I heard about the ESC through Lordi, not the other way around, that I'm mildly confused as to how they popped up on my radar. But I'm sooo glad they did.

[Ultimate Charizard]

I know about that... I'm saying that, since I heard about the ESC through Lordi, not the other way around, that I'm mildly confused as to how they popped up on my radar. But I'm sooo glad they did.

Ah right...well unfortunately nothing to watch out for came out of this years contest. Unless by 'watch out for' you mean 'hunt down with a Shotgun and torture with butter knives'

This for example finished in the top 10....

and this was Finlands entry this year. Attempting the Lordi formula without the masks.

The one song that did make me think 'hmmm not bad' was the Turkish entry. It reminds me of someone but i cant think who. Kinda like a darker Manic Street Preachers. (Deli, the title, means Insane)

[mistysakura]

We're just using the term band to describe any 'artist' really. Out of curiosity though, why aren't Evanescence or Silverchair bands? Yes, I know Evanescence is so terrible that they shouldn't be even referred to as anything remotely musical, but, at a very base level, they could be somehow described as 'a band'.

Given that I've listed them as #3 and #4 respectively, obviously I don't agree with the statement that they make 'terrible' music. My reason for not describing those two as bands is that they're basically solo artists with hired musicians. Their frontpeople completely dominate the songwriting and decisions in the band. There isn't even a decent pretence of equality. Evanescence has a revolving set of musicians who have left over this, and they've actually had Amy's solo work on the 'band' album. Daniel Johns has reportedly actively stopped other band members from taking part on songwriting; I don't know how true this is. However, I do know that Paul Mac, Johns' partner in his side project, was heavily involved in Silverchair's last album, and Silverchair's new songs bear a resemblance to the Dissociatives' (Johns and Mac's side project) as well. I'm pretty sure Silverchair's other band members have had side projects as well, but I don't see them creeping into Silverchair's work. It just shows how much influence Johns has. /rant

Thanks for the education, Luna Artemis

[sbamber]

Well I do have many different types and tastes of music, so here is a couple of my Favorites, and hates.

Love:
Atreyu
Avenged Sevenfold
Tokio Hotel
Fair to Midland
Scorpions
System of a Down


Hates:
Gwen Stefani
Lil Wayne
Hannah Montana