Share your favorite Music

[Apollonian]

Originally Posted by PinkPiranha

I'm a punk-rock/new wave/rockabilly kind of girl which means I like a little of everything really. ha ha!
...
(not so much Beethoven as I find his stuff "note-y" or Mozart, who's just a bit of a musical spazz)

*LAUGH* You like punk-rock, and you think Mozart is a "musical spazz"... I really can't explain why I find that to be so hilarious...maybe because I can see exactly what you're talking about.

There are some good suggestions here. Its hard to find new stuff that I don't already have. It looks like Gordon Lightfoot and Martin Orford are winners. I also got some Lynyrd Skynyrd. Another friend suggested The Muse. Plus, I downloaded some of the music from the film August Rush.

Please keep them coming; this is awesome.

I was also listening to REM today, which is a great throwback from the 80's/90's.

My favorite "Classical" piece (which I actually think is technically Romantic) is Mars from the Planets Suite by Holst, although Bach has some pretty good stuff. However, you want to talk about old... I have some medievil Organum and Motet choral arrangements which are pretty awesome from just about a millenium ago when 'music' as we know it was being invented.

[Noel]

Death Metal: Deeds of Flesh, Averse Sefira, Immolation, Incantation, Gorguts, Intestine Baalism, Morbid Angel, Rotting Christ, Fleshcrawl, early Entombed & early At the Gates, Supuration, Suffocation, Sinister, Hypocrisy, Massacra

Black Metal: Celtic Frost/Hellhamer, Graveland, Varathron, Summoning, Darkthrone, Immortal, Emperor, Burzum, Sacramentum

Doom Metal: Ras Algethi, Solitude Aeturnus, Candlemass, Saint Vitus

Heavy Metal: Motorhead, Absu

Sludge Metal: Eyehategod

Speed/Thrash Metal: Slayer, Voivod

Power Metal: Blind Guardian

Assorted Neoclassical: Sol Invictus, Jääportit, Gae Bolg, Jesu, Autechre, VNV Nation, Jordi Savall, Kraftwerk, Steve Roach, Maeror Tri, Dead Can Dance

Assorted Electronica: Infected Mushroom, Ashtorath

Classical: Grieg, Beethoven, Bach, Schubert, Chopin, Mozart, Holst, Basil Poledouris (Did conan the Barbarian - the greatest score ever written for a movie), Brahms, Haydn, Wagner

[EffEmDoubleyou]

Originally Posted by Ivy

I just used my Christmas iTunes! Here's what I bought:

The new Radiohead SUCK IT FMWARNER
Manu Chao, La Radiolina (nice, but I like his older stuff better I think)
Dire Straights self-titled (pre-Money for Nothing, nice bluesy feel)
Spoon, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Mastodon, Leviathan
LCD Sound System, Sound of Silver
Modest Mouse, We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank

I'll do no such thing! LCD Soundsystem was awesome live, but I haven't heard the album. And I would never in a million years have guessed that you like Mastodon, but I can't exactly say why.

Here's some (mostly) lesser known bands that I love and think are worth a listen:

Tsar (glam rock/power pop)
Silversun Pickups (nerdy garage rock...like a bar band version of Smashing Pumpkins)
The Black Keys (lo-fi garage band blues)
The Donnas (basically an all-girl Motley Crue...fun!)
Fountains Of Wayne (power pop with harmonies rivaling the Beach Boys)
Jellyfish (Beatlesque pop)
Kings of Leon (southern rock with a modern twist)
My Morning Jacket (the illegitimate child of Lynyrd Skynyrd and Pink Floyd...really)
Pink Spiders (punky glam rock)

I also have to mention my beloved White Stripes because I've never seen such a popular band that so many people have never heard of.

[Beat]

Noel, do you like Dark Tranquility by chance?

[Uberfuhrer]

Oh what the hell, I'll post this here, too.

"Vanadis" by Falkenbach.

Very nostalgic.

[Beat]

I like a little of everything myself. From John Mayer to blast beat, guttural screamy metal.

Heavy music will always hold a special place in my heart though.

[Noel]

Originally Posted by TheBeatGoesOn

Noel, do you like Dark Tranquility by chance?

I really liked The Gallery a lot. It's a very solid album. I find their other stuff post-Haven more accessible to listen to than say Skydancer/The Gallery/The Mind's I. That's not to say that post Haven, no good songs exist though. They were one of the first metal bands I listened to aside from In Flames, Iron Maiden (Damn it, forgot to add that to the list) and Blind Guardian.

[PinkPiranha]

Mozart was THAT GUY who was always trying to cram too many notes on a line!! Arg! I can see his virtuosity, but the overriding issue with him is the neuroticism. It just throws this heavy TARP of notes over everything. I'm like everyone else in that I like his "magic flute" stuff, but beyond that? He loses my interest quickly. Same thing with Beethoven -- he's like listening to an erratic heartbeat. I imagine his crazy-haired stone-deaf self pounding away on my brain like he did with his piano.

Sort of like Pat Methany and his deconstructed jazz. Yuck.

[Beat]

Originally Posted by Noel

I really liked The Gallery a lot. It's a very solid album. I find their other stuff post-Haven more accessible to listen to than say Skydancer/The Gallery/The Mind's I. That's not to say that post Haven, no good songs exist though. They were one of the first metal bands I listened to aside from In Flames, Iron Maiden (Damn it, forgot to add that to the list) and Blind Guardian.

I haven't listened to anything pre-Damage Done but I own that album and the two after it ('Character' and 'Fiction'). All solid albums in my opinion. One of my favorite metal bands.

[Beat]

Piranha, "Clair De Lune" by Debussy, that's my jam.