What music do you listen to? (as well as TMBG)

Panarchy

15th August 2008 - 09:38 AM

Hello

I was looking in my media library the other day...

And I noticed that I only have two bands in my whole database!

They Might Be Giants & Dead Kennedys (the entire works of both bands... well I have yet to rip Milking the Sacred Cow to my PC, but I will!).

And that's it!

What music do you have/listen to?

Just asking

Panarchy

PS: Will be downloading some Monty Python soon!

Machohervey

15th August 2008 - 01:11 PM

I have a top seven, and the reason for that odd number is because that happens to be how many bands are eligible to be considered my favorite. Between these, I really can't put any one above any other.

The Monkees
TMBG
The Dead Milkmen
Camper Van Beethoven
Ween
XTC
The Beatles

A short list of bands I nerd out for to a slightly less degree:
Fishbone
Zappa/Mothers
King Missile
Butthole Surfers
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Meat Puppets
Dread Zeppelin
Liam Lynch
MC 900 Ft Jesus
Warlock Pinchers

There are many other bands that I'm into, but the above are the "cream of the crop" so to speak.

Harry Chapin, though he doesn't fit in with my usual taste, is an important artist in my life mainly because my parents played his records all the time.

I should also bring up Rhino's Nuggets compilations. I'm really into these. There are four 4-disc boxed sets and two stand alone CDs at this point.

There's also a defunct local band from New York I want to mention called Bad Ass Franklin. Their Myspace is here. This band's demo got into my hands when I was in high school beacause they were a friend of a friend of a friend or something like that. I never met them or saw them play live, but the demo tape I have is one of my favorite things, and since they never recorded professionally, I'm sure it's all kosher if I share it. Fans of Zappa or Ween I think would appreciate these guys.

biff

15th August 2008 - 02:45 PM

i'm no good at these kind of topics.

EZamor

15th August 2008 - 04:42 PM

(besides tmbg) i guess this is what i listen to the most:

ADULT.
Erasure
Frank Black/Pixies
Gary Numan
Goldfrapp
Ladytron
Marc Almond/Soft Cell
Miss Kittin
Moby
Oingo Boingo
Pet Shop Boys
Radiohead
Saint Etienne
Sarah Brightman
Soft Cell
Sparks
Weird Al Yankovic
XTC
Yaz

Lord PichuPal

15th August 2008 - 05:21 PM

I've got a lot of bands I could list for my favourites, but other than the top 3 I'm not sure how it'd be sorted. 1st is TMBG, 2nd is Lemon Demon, then 3rd would be probably The Beatles. But 3rd down is all mixed up. Here's a taste of it anyway:

The Beatles
Lemon Demon
Rammstein
Weird Al
Modest Mouse
My Chemical Romance
Oomph!
Metallica
System of a Down/Serj Tankian
Bad Religion
Evanescence
Arch Enemy
Nirvana
Styx
Dethklok/Brendan Small

That's all I can think of right now, but no particular order which I like best.

arachnid_flame

15th August 2008 - 06:01 PM

I have a TON more TMBG than anything else (they're my all time fave

) but I listen to a lot of this (in alphabetical order...really!):

Aerosmith
Bob Dylan
Buddy Holly
Frank Zappa/The Mothers
Johnny Cash
Kate Bush
Lemon Demon
Oppenheimer
Pixies
Rush
The Beatles
The Cars
The Flaming Lips
The Ramones
The Sex Pistols
Weird Al
XTC

okay, I'm sure I'm forgetting someone REALLY important though

I may be back later to edit this once I can remember...

GRChereck

15th August 2008 - 07:25 PM

You've got a lot of good ones, flame!

My own favorites, besides TMBG, include:
Jonathan Richman
Elvis Costello
The Clash/Joe Strummer
Kate Bush
Kirsty MacColl
The Beatles
The Kinks
The Ramones
The Replacements
REM
U2
Bruce Springsteen
Bob Dylan
Johnny Cash
Warren Zevon
David Bowie
Van Morrison
Richard Thompson
Leonard Cohen
Tom Waits
Paul Simon
Marshall Crenshaw
Nick Lowe
Joy Division/New Order
Big Star
The B-52's
Guided By Voices
Genesis
Fountains Of Wayne
The Dixie Chicks
The White Stripes
Joan Osborne
Sheryl Crow
Lucinda Williams
Linda Ronstadt
Patty Loveless
George Strait
Alison Krauss & Union Station

Panarchy

16th August 2008 - 06:55 AM

^The replacements?

Is that like the band mentioned in the TMBG song?

QUOTE (EZamor @ Aug 16 2008, 07:42 AM)

(besides tmbg) i guess this is what i listen to the most:

ADULT.
Erasure
Frank Black/Pixies
Gary Numan
Goldfrapp
Ladytron
Marc Almond/Soft Cell
Miss Kittin
Moby
Oingo Boingo
Pet Shop Boys
Radiohead
Saint Etienne
Sarah Brightman
Soft Cell
Sparks
Weird Al Yankovic
XTC
Yaz

Hmm, that reminds me.

My anwhere.fm account still has Weird Al... and he is the only band who I've seen live (well not the only band, but the only one that I bought the tickets for and went out of my way to see, I've been to others with my parents... if that counts)

He is great, though I want a new album

Thanks for all the other replies guys, really interestin'!

Panarchy

biff

16th August 2008 - 07:51 AM

we raised our kids on Weird Al. i love him.

Panarchy

16th August 2008 - 07:58 AM

Okay, that's it, gonna turn on my schedular and download him in my off-peak!

Panarchy

biff

16th August 2008 - 08:00 AM

ok.

we don't have a lot of his stuff anymore, cuz we mostly bough tapes back then, & tapes are real easy to lose.

GRChereck

16th August 2008 - 06:43 PM

QUOTE (Panarchy @ Aug 16 2008, 11:55 AM)

^The replacements?

Is that like the band mentioned in the TMBG song?

Yep.

Lord PichuPal

16th August 2008 - 08:38 PM

I love Weird Al, he's an amazing musician. I've seen him live twice in my life, and the 1st show was for his Bad Hair Day album. He's hilarious in concert and it's amazing how flexible his voice is and lung capacity. I've been compared to him when I sing since I always change my voice to how the original singer sounds.

arachnid_flame

16th August 2008 - 10:20 PM

I do that too

it's REALLY fun for me to sing along with Bob Dylan music

Weird Al's hilarious

I had a friend who went and saw him , and she said "I have all your CDs!" and he replied "well, give 'em back!" I'd love to see hime live someday

you've got awesome taste too, GR

oh! I need to add David Bowie and Elvis Costello to my list too, that's who I ws forgetting!

cassettes are easy to loose, I used to have like a ton of them, but the only ones I could find when I was packing were the Primus and Rush cassettes my friend gave me

biff

17th August 2008 - 09:21 AM

we have boxes & drawers full of em. one whole box got ruined in our leaky shed.

ladognome

17th August 2008 - 12:03 PM

My Top 6 (in no particular order):
TMBG
The Beatles
The Flaming Lips
Bob Marley and the Wailers
The Teeth
The Decemberists

Some others (also not in any order):
"Weird Al" Yankovic (like so many of you)
Jonathan Coulton
Weezer
Beck
Alicia Keys
Alanis Morissette
Arcade Fire
Bloc Party
Santana
Evanescence
Fall Out Boy
Oingo Boingo
The Killers
Switchfoot
Rufus Wainwright
Franz Ferdinand
Oppenheimer
Nirvana
Madonna
Michael Jackson
Under the Influence of Giants
Sparks

Maroon 5
KT Tunstall

I could go on and on...
Obviously I love music!

arachnid_flame

17th August 2008 - 09:45 PM

you've got great taste lado

Machohervey

18th August 2008 - 02:14 AM

I'm glad a lot of people here like XTC and The Beatles.

biff

18th August 2008 - 04:53 AM

who doesn't like the Beatles?

i think the people who say they don't are just looking for some attention.

Panarchy

18th August 2008 - 08:01 AM

QUOTE (Machohervey @ Aug 18 2008, 05:14 PM)

I'm glad a lot of people here like XTC and The Beatles.

You mention XTC?

XTC vs Adam Ant!

Woh, guess TMBG songs relate to stuff

arachnid_flame

18th August 2008 - 01:02 PM

Hooray for references!

biff

18th August 2008 - 01:16 PM

Panarchy

18th August 2008 - 05:42 PM

thunderbird

19th August 2008 - 03:55 AM

My top 10 other than TMBG (in no particular order):

The Beatles
The Zombies
Wilco
Mason Jennings
Phil Ochs
Cub
Pink Floyd
R.E.M.
Bôa (the British alt-rock band, not the Korean pop star)
The Magnetic Fields

Others:
Syd Barrett
Radiohead
Kraftwerk
Rob Dougan
The Redwalls
Sparks
Jonathan Coulton
Justice
Pere Ubu
Devo
Frank Zappa
thenewno2
Liam Lynch

I find it odd how many of these bands I only know of because of TMBG. For instance, I heard about Mason Jennings and The Magnetic Fields because they were on Flansburgh's radio show. I know about Cub and Phil Ochs because they covered songs by both. And I know about Pere Ubu because Tony Maimone played in TMBG's backing band for a while.

biff

19th August 2008 - 04:57 AM

that's how we found out about The Meat Puppets. years ago, Flansy said that's what he'd been listening to in one of their info club letters.

(back when they still came in the mail)

FirestarterCL

19th August 2008 - 06:00 PM

I'll listen to just about anything, but I mainly listen to alot of metal (and stuff from it's countless sub-genres) as well as alot of Japanese rock and TV soundtracks along with stuff like TMBG and some other random stuff thrown into the mix.

The language barrier with the Japanese stuff isn't much of a problem for me because I'm pretty "shallow" when it comes to music. What I mean by that is I don't normally care for the lyrics in a song or where the inspiration for them came from, all I care about is the sound. So even though the lyrics might sound like gibberish... it doesn't matter as long as it sounds cool.

Anyways, some specific stuff that I like in alphabetical-ish order since I'm just going through my music folder and listing what I listen to the most;

After Forever
Animetal
Audioslave
The Beatles
The Black Keys
Cake
CKY
Daft Punk
Dragonforce
Dream Theater / Liquid Tension Experiment
Fear Factory
Gorillaz
IOSYS
Jonathan Coulton
JunkieXL
Keane
Led Zeppelin
Lil' Wayne (Is this one out of place or what? He's funny.

)
Megaherz
Metalica
M.O.V.E.
Polysics
Rammstein
Scatman John
Sonata Arctica
Sublime
System of a Down
Tenacious D
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
White Zombie / Rob Zombie
X-Japan

Obviously missing some really important / good stuff, but this is just the bands I listen to the most.

thunderbird

20th August 2008 - 01:25 AM

QUOTE

that's how we found out about The Meat Puppets. years ago, Flansy said that's what he'd been listening to in one of their info club letters.

Wasn't the song "Whirlpool" orginally by The Meat Puppets

QUOTE

I'll listen to just about anything, but I mainly listen to alot of metal (and stuff from it's countless sub-genres) as well as alot of Japanese rock and TV soundtracks along with stuff like TMBG and some other random stuff thrown into the mix.

If you like Japanese rock you should check out the band Number Girl.
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biff

20th August 2008 - 05:14 AM

QUOTE (thunderbird @ Aug 20 2008, 01:25 AM)

QUOTE

that's how we found out about The Meat Puppets. years ago, Flansy said that's what he'd been listening to in one of their info club letters.

Wasn't the song "Whirlpool" orginally by The Meat Puppets

yes.

the Meat Puppets version is way different though. it rocks as much as the cover... or maybe even more.

Fire said:

QUOTE

The language barrier with the Japanese stuff isn't much of a problem for me because I'm pretty "shallow" when it comes to music. What I mean by that is I don't normally care for the lyrics in a song or where the inspiration for them came from, all I care about is the sound. So even though the lyrics might sound like gibberish... it doesn't matter as long as it sounds cool.

i know just exactly what you mean.

i'm the same way. that's why i suck so bad at song interpretation. i don't really care what a song means, like 96% of the time.

all i care about is how it makes me feel.

when i think about what songs mean, i always think of that great quote from Don McLean. when asked what American Pie meant, he said "it means i'll never have to work again".

arachnid_flame

20th August 2008 - 01:32 PM

I agree. for example, I'm really into Pixies music and a lot of their lyrics doesn't make much sense at all. There's a lot of really surreal, cryptic lyrics in their songs. I really dig that

for me, there are artists that make me "feel", and others make me "think". But when I manage to find a musical artist that can do both, it's something that is rare and inspiring

that Number Girl video was cool T-bird, thanks for sharing!

biff

20th August 2008 - 02:36 PM

exactly.

Panarchy

20th August 2008 - 11:24 PM

Just been listening to that youtube one... not really my thing.

HOWEVER

If we're talking about anime theme songs, that's a whole other story!

I love my anime

Just watched Whirlpool by the Meat Puppets on youtube.

It was interesting

arachnid_flame

21st August 2008 - 12:03 AM

I love The Meat Puppet's version of Whirlpool, I really dig the extra lyrics:

"The whirlpool's mother wore a jacket she'd sewn out of dental floss
It was stolen by a monkey that sold it to an albatross"

too cool

thunderbird

21st August 2008 - 01:42 AM

QUOTE (Panarchy @ Aug 21 2008, 04:24 AM)

If we're talking about anime theme songs, that's a whole other story!

I love my anime

That's how I heard about the band Bôa. They did the opening theme for an anime called Serial Experiments Lain. The song is called Duvet. Interestingly the only times they've been able to afford playing in America is when anime conventions hire them to play. The lead singer plays in England all the time though.

Here is the band's music video for the song.

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Lord PichuPal

21st August 2008 - 02:21 AM

I'm the same way, I don't care about lyrics or language as much as I do about the actual song. In my case, I end up learning how to sing along regardless if I really get into the song. Some songs, mostly My Chemical Romance ones, make me wonder what it was written about, like "Sleep" and "Helena". I also seem to like songs that make you feel sad or sound sad for some reason. But I also have tons of angry sounding songs (like heavy metal kind of things) that I play when I'm angry, too. Something about depressing songs makes me enjoy it, though.

biff

21st August 2008 - 05:31 AM

QUOTE (Panarchy @ Aug 20 2008, 11:24 PM)

Just watched Whirlpool by the Meat Puppets on youtube.

It was interesting

why are you pulling your hair out?

Panarchy

22nd August 2008 - 06:42 PM

QUOTE (Panarchy @ Aug 21 2008, 04:24 AM)

If we're talking about anime theme songs, that's a whole other story!

I love my anime

That's how I heard about the band Bôa. They did the opening theme for an anime called Serial Experiments Lain. The song is called Duvet. Interestingly the only times they've been able to afford playing in America is when anime conventions hire them to play. The lead singer plays in England all the time though.

Here is the band's music video for the song.

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That was interesting! Thought it was going to be in Japanese

All well, it was still an alright song.

My real question is

the anime any good?

QUOTE (Panarchy @ Aug 20 2008, 11:24 PM)

Just watched Whirlpool by the Meat Puppets on youtube.

It was interesting

why are you pulling your hair out?

because it has same lyrics as TMBG but different tune, now I dunno what one I'm relistening to (IN MY HEAD!)!

FirestarterCL

22nd August 2008 - 10:57 PM

QUOTE (Panarchy @ Aug 20 2008, 11:24 PM)

If we're talking about anime theme songs, that's a whole other story!

I love my anime

Oh yeah, plenty of anime themes as well as the BGM tracks from the shows.

I've been going through the trouble of buying rare stuff off of Yahoo Japan lately, so I'm officially addicted.

QUOTE (Panarchy @ Aug 22 2008, 06:42 PM)

My real question is

the anime any good?

I enjoyed the show alot, it's one of those shows that is really complex and tries to confuse you. If you've seen and liked Paranoia Agent or Boogiepop Phantom, I'd definitely recommend it. It's only 13 episodes, so it's not that big of a time investment if you end up not liking it.

thunderbird

22nd August 2008 - 11:08 PM

Ooh, cool someone else who actually liked Serial Experiments Lain.

Everybody I've talked to thought it was too confusing.

QUOTE

That was interesting! Thought it was going to be in Japanese

I also thought it was odd they chose a British band to do the theme. Of course now the band is far more popular in Japan then they'll ever be in England.

arachnid_flame

23rd August 2008 - 02:29 AM

how interesting!

so, did they do the theme for the Japanese version of Lain, or just the English dub? I've seen that show before, it's a really pretty theme song

I used to listen to some Japanese music, you guys should check out POLYSICS if you're into modern Japanese music

They're new wave, and sound kida like Davo, but Japanese. they're pretty bizarre, but fun

:

http://www.myspace.com/polysicsna

biff

23rd August 2008 - 08:39 AM

QUOTE (biff @ Aug 21 2008, 05:31 AM)

QUOTE (Panarchy @ Aug 20 2008, 11:24 PM)

Just watched Whirlpool by the Meat Puppets on youtube.

It was interesting

why are you pulling your hair out?

UMM... HELLO?

i was asking you why you were pulling your hair out...

Panarchy

23rd August 2008 - 06:57 PM

^

Because it is same but different and confusing and frustrating, so much so that I am pulling my hair out!

biff

24th August 2008 - 09:35 AM

oooh kaay.

ladognome

25th August 2008 - 06:32 PM

QUOTE (arachnid_flame @ Aug 18 2008, 02:45 AM)

you've got great taste lado

thanks!

klimdeeni

26th August 2008 - 02:09 PM

i guess it's about time i give my list
The only bands that I listen to there entire works are tmbg and lemon demon

I have other songs from these bands

The Apples in Stereo
The Doors
Electric Light Orchestra
The Flaming Lips
Hedwig & the Angry Inch
Johnny Cash
Lilly Allen
Macy Gray
Ok Go
Oppenheimer
Panic! At the Disco
Public Image Ltd
Rob Zombie
Rufus Wainwright
Something Corporate
Tally Hall
Ween
Weird Al
Yeah Yeah Yeahs

pretty wide range of music there

biff

26th August 2008 - 02:18 PM

for Hedwig & Johnny Cash.

arachnid_flame

26th August 2008 - 07:06 PM

awesome list klim!

GRChereck

26th August 2008 - 07:37 PM

QUOTE

Lilly Allen
Macy Gray

Cool, I didn't know you liked them. What are your favorite tracks?

klimdeeni

29th August 2008 - 03:18 AM

thanks

from lilly, alphie, smile, and little things
and from macy, the only one i listen to is I Try

biff

29th August 2008 - 05:38 AM

Macy's 1st album was great. i kinda missed the rest of em though.

GRChereck

29th August 2008 - 07:26 PM

QUOTE (klimdeeni @ Aug 29 2008, 08:18 AM)

thanks

from lilly, alphie, smile, and little things
and from macy, the only one i listen to is I Try

Ah, good stuff.

biff

1st September 2008 - 08:55 AM

what Hedwig songs do you got? i have all the off Broadway show ones.

(or most of em anyway)

as far as the actual songs go, i like the play ones best. Sugar Daddy has a bunch of extra lines that got left out of the movie version.

Lord PichuPal

2nd September 2008 - 04:49 AM

I've been really getting hooked on the German band Tokio Hotel lately ever since I listened to their English album Scream (which is a compilation of songs from their first two albums translated from German). They're only 18-20 currently and are extremely popular in Europe right now, and are enjoying a ton of success right now. Amazing they started making music at age 13. A lot of their songs are pretty deep and meaningful stuff, like "Don't Jump" which is about encouraging teens not to commit suicide. Can find some of their songs on YouTube as well.

biff

2nd September 2008 - 04:56 AM

arachnid_flame

4th September 2008 - 04:16 PM

my "future little step sister" Erika loves Tokio Hotel, she had me listening to their CDs when there I was visiting in Arkansas. They're pretty cool.

I finally got to see Hedwig, and I love the music!!

biff

5th September 2008 - 05:14 AM

YaY!

i am a Hedwig nut.

klimdeeni

6th September 2008 - 02:29 PM

QUOTE (biff @ Sep 1 2008, 01:55 PM)

what Hedwig songs do you got? i have all the off Broadway show ones.

(or most of em anyway)

I have the soundtrack from the movie, so all of those songs
my favorite ones are Origin Of Love, Angry Inch, Wig In A Box and The Long Grift (because i fell in love with it when tmbg sang it)

Lord PichuPal

6th September 2008 - 04:57 PM

I've never heard any songs from it, but I do have Lemon Demon's parody of Wig in a Box called "Pirate in a Box" which I think is really good. Maybe one of these days I'll see if I like the original song.

biff

6th September 2008 - 05:30 PM

wow klim... i didn't know you liked it that mych! cool!

i'm listening to some weird old music... waiting for TMBG. it's this thing i saw at giantaonline, that's credited to the wiki. umm... Laura Cantrell's Radio Thrift Shop

here's the page: http://giantsonline.blogspot.com/2008/09/t...ve-in-1997.html