Your all time favorite band?

In My Humble Opinion
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I either have to say Green Day or **Alanis Morisette.**They are other bands I listen to more for a while briefly, but those two are the ones I come back to the most. For Alanis, I am pretending like the heinous cd Supposedly Infatuation Junkie (or whatever) does not exist. She just plain sucks on that album, in my opinion.

So for Alanis my favorite album is obviously **Jagged Little Pill.**My favorite song is probably Oughta Know.

For Green Day, my favorite album is Dookie. My favorite song I can’t really say, I like most of their songs. I saw them in concert and would definitely go back, it was fun even though it was SO hot in the horrible place they were playing at I thought I was going to faint. I wasn’t even in the pit, it must have been REALLY bad down there.

I also like Everclear (they were awesome in concert and IMO stole the show totally from the official headline
r, Matchbox 20), The Offspring, and Third Eye Blind (also good in concert). I am in love with the song Hanging by a Moment by Lifehouse but the rest of their album isn’t nearly as good, and they kind of sucked at the concert I went to when they were touring with Matchbox 20 and Everclear. I bought the tickets so I could see LH (very briefly) but I was GLAD I bought them for Everclear.

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SPLIT ENZ!!

I have loved then since the early 80s, when their videos were a staple on early MTV. As Tim Finn, one of the lead singers and band founders, said, “It was often said that Split Enz were ahead of their time…the sound and performance were never ahead, merely outside.” (I’m paraphrasing from the back of their video collection) I agree with that. Their music cannot be pigeonholed into any one genre, it’s just good solid writing- if a little odd at times. You should see some of their early videos, with the funky makeup and peaked hair- when I put on the video collection, my husband watches it with me and just shakes his head. My fave albums by them are Time and Tide, and True Colours. I also like Crowded House, and had the pleasure of seeing them twice in concert. The second concert was after Tim had joined them, and towards the end of the show, they broke into “Six Months in a Leaky Boat”. My best friend (also a big fan) and I just about screamed our heads off, prompting some people to turn around and stare at us (it was in a smallish club).

I also love The Beatles, since I was raised listening to them, I think they are one of the all-time greatest bands, and one of the most influential.

I also LOVE Dead Can Dance. Their mixture of early music/middle eastern/ambient/synth/whatever is just SOOOO groovy. I saw them a few years ago in concert, and it was a spiritual experience. I wish they hadn’t broken up.

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Tangerine Dream / Dolphin Dance / Underwater Sunlight / yes, twice / awesome both times / soon - Nov. 1!

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::weeps::

somebody else is mad for all things Finn?
ZOWIE!

(oh neil!)

::swoons::
and then I adore:

Failure. with Fantastic Planet being their best.

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Rock:
Velvet Underground
Song: Sister Ray.
Record: The Velvet Underground and Nico
seen: Never as a band, but I’ve seen John Cale and Lou Reed solo (separately)

Folk/Country:
Johnny Cash
Song: Orange Blossom Special
Record: American Recordings
seen: never

Punk:
Urinals
Song: Go Away Girl
Record: Negative Capability (easy - their only one ;))
seen: never

Heavy Metal:
Iron Maiden
Song: Alexander The Great
Album: Piece of Mind
seen: once, on one of their worst tours (1992)

Instrumental:
The Dirty Three
Song: The Last Night
Album: The Dirty Three
seen: 17 times, plus 12 times for side projects

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If I had to pick one, I’d go with The Pixies - the only band that made me go ‘Fuck! I can’t believe I’m listening to this! This is good!’ the entire time I listened to them.

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I can’t believe no one likes DEF LEPPARD!!!
MY all time favorite. My fav. song form them would have to be “Breath a Sigh” or “Pour Some Sugar on Me”…
Hope there are more Lep fans out there!!!

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Too many bands to pick just one (but I would probably take TOOL, if cornered…).

It depends entirely on my mood:

Agressive/Heavy: TOOL

Techno: FRONT 242

Electronica: AUTECHRE

Heavy: BLACK SABBATH (with Ozzy)

Ambient: IN THE NURSERY

LATERALUS: I just say TOOL 3 weeks ago in Montreal… A-MAZING. The sound and visuals were amazing. My only complaints were that they didn’t play “Sober” and that the tour shirt that I bought had a big hole in the back (I should have known better…).

NOCTURNE: Uuummm…have you heard the new Stabbing Westward?

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I just saw Tool, it was an excellent show, as sköt said, the visuals were amazing. My favorite bands are The Deftones, Kittie, and Guster, I can’t decide…
~Kittie

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sköt, thanks for putting up Front 242. I was beginning to think I was the only person in the world (or at least on the SDMB) who liked my kinda music. Anyway.

Favorite band: My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
album: Confessions of a Knife
song: Burning Dirt

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I’ll admit that Tim is an excellent album, and the first one I bought on CD, but Let it Be and Hootenany have some significant memories associated with them, which color my opinion.

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Cant say just one, but I LOVE 'tallica

best metallica album: And Justice for All
best metallcia song: The Thing that should not be

I also love Ocean Colour Scene…class band who get a bad time of it from the press.

best OCS album: Marchin Already
best OCS song: Get Blown Away/Foxy’s Folk Faced(a tie for the top)

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There are many bands & musicians from all over the genre map that I love, but in terms of whom I feel is the “greatest,” which is the same as whom I would rate as my favorite, it is the Beatles.

Not very original or alterna-cool of me I know, but the amount that they were able to accomplish in a mere seven years, combined with the long-lasting appeal of their work (and I’m including work by the members as individuals, also), never ceases to impress me.

And it is impossible to narrow down a favorite song. The whole concept of a favorite song is beyond me. It alternates given my mood and how much the songs are overplayed (which many Beatle songs are, obliging me to rate their more obscure album cuts higher than their most well-known stuff.)

Just to prevent anyone from thinking I am soley a fan of the banal, let me just randomly add the other bands/musicians I love to death. Anyplace I’ve used an asterisk means that I like the various partnerships those musicians have been associated with as well as any solo career they’ve maintained.

Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello (These guys occupy a rung just barely below the Beatles for me.)

in addition…

Cowboy Junkies, Camper Van Beethoven/Cracker, Southern Culture on the Skids, Paul Simon*, Tom Waits, Squirrel Nut Zippers, U2, Louis Prima, Presidents of the United States of America, Liz Phair, Randy Newman, David Byrne*, They Might Be Giants, Sheryl Crow, Bruce Springsteen, Suzanne Vega, Eric Clapton*, Bonnie Raitt, Mark Knopfler*, Michelle Shocked, Sting*, Prince, Ray Charles, Reverend Horton Heat, ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic (I’m not ashamed), Susan Tedeschi, Keb Mo, Taj Mahal, Pink Martini

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You are my friend for life!

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Dave Matthews without a doubt. Maybe this is very mainstream, but that music gives me goosebumps…