Taste of Music/Bands

[Huayna Capac357]

Well isn't the Strokes from the 2000s?

 

[azzaman333]

Well isn't the Strokes from the 2000s?

Is This It, their debut album, was released in July 2001.

 

[NiRv4n4]

Well, I don't see a reason to be so pedantic about it, but sure, I guess the Screaming Trees and Soundgarden (both mid 80s) aren't really new anymore.

 

[lordsurya08]

Well, my top fifteen bands according to last.fm are:


1. Grateful Dead - 805
2. The Band - 332
3. The Beatles - 282
4. The Who - 254
5. The Kinks - 241
6. Derek and the Dominos - 185
7. Cream - 156
8. Led Zeppelin - 125
9. Old & In the Way - 116
10. Van Morrison - 113
11. Cat Stevens - 113
12. New Riders of The Purple Sage - 107
13. Pink Floyd - 104
14. Eric Clapton - 102
15. Traffic - 86

Although, this is a little skewed. Lately I've been listening to a lot more blues like Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters, a lot of Allman Bros (a lot of Grateful Dead, obviously) and a veritable asston of Derek and the Dominos, and I don't think I've listened to a Beatles song in a good year and a half at least.

I'm still not a big fan of identifying bands by genre. I think this is because I listen to bands like the Grateful Dead and The Band. Even with artists like Traffic and a good bit of Eric Clapton's stuff. What is it classified under? The Dead do just as much folk, blues, and country as they do Rock, and I honestly don't know what I'd label The Band. For me music is just music. There's music I like, and there's music I dislike. If I classify a band at all it's usually by the year the song or album was released, I think that has a lot more bearing on what a band sounds like than what genre they (or more often others) like to classify them under. All this genre crap makes things too complicated.

No Rolling Stones? I thought you were a Stones fan. Glad to see Van Morrison there though - not too many people listen to him these days.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

My overall top 10 bands from last.fm:

1 Arctic Monkeys 516 (post-punk revival)
2 Oasis 489 (britpop)
3 Pink Floyd 447 (progrock)
4 David Bowie 254 (lotsa kinds of rock i guess)
5 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 233 (gothic post punk)
6 Editors 232 (post-punk revival)
7 White Lies 227 (post-punk revival)
8 Joy Division 214 (post-punk)
9 Neil Young 211 (classic/folky rock)
10 Alice In Chains 209 (grunge)

And my top 10 from last year only:

1 White Lies 70 (post-punk revival)
2 And Also the Trees 68 (gothic post-punk)
3 Editors 55 (post-punk revival)
3 Crippled Black Phoenix 55 (post-rock i guess)
5 The Coral 53 (indie rock i guess)
5 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 53 (gothic post-punk)
7 The Brian Jonestown Massacre 48 (psychedelic shoegazy post-punk sort-of thing)
8 Mike Oldfield 46 (progrock)
9 Neil Young 43 (classic/folky rock)
10 PJ Harvey 42 (indie rock of the strange sort)

 

[Angst]

A number of bands I like:

Animal Collective - Don't know what genre they play.

Antony & The Johnsons - Dark pop, chamber pop.

Beirut - Indie inspired by Balkan music.

Caspian - Post-rock.

Do Make Say Think - Post-rock.

Efterklang - Post-rock, electronica... I guess? They used to be very experimental. It's usually orchestral though.

Eyes Set to Kill - I listen to pop rock emo stuff once in a while.

For A Minor Reflection - Post-rock. Icelandic.

God Is An Astronaut - Post-rock.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Best band ever. Post-rock.

Gorillaz - You know them.

Halves - Alternative rock.

The Jesus & Mary Chain - Hipster-promoted noise rock, but pretty good.

Kashmir - Danish alternative rock band.

Leonard Cohen - You know him.

Low - Slowcore, very depressing and slowpaced rock.

Mew - Danish indie band and nostalgic to me.

Mogwai - Post-rock, albeit a little metallic at times.

Mono - Post-rock.

Múm - No idea what their genre is called. Check them out. They're good, and Icelandic.

Nyctalgia - Small Swiss post-rock artist - and he's excellent.

Ólafur Arnalds - Another Icelandic artist, he's neoclassical or post-rockish. Take your pick.

paza - 8bit.

Pink Floyd - You know them.

Radiohead - You know them.

Scraps of Tape - Post-rock.

Sigur Rós - Not sure what this band plays, it's post-rock-inspired though. It's one of those bands you're supposed to have heard about if you are interested in modern rock music, many people take it for granted and many people don't. Oh, and they're Icelandic - an excellent island when it comes to music, really, they're overrepresented on my playlist...

The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - A side project with most of the guys from Godspeed You! Black Emperor. They change the band name for like every album they release. Post-rock.

Slint - Hipster-promoted rock, and it's really good.

Slowdive - Shoegaze.

System Of A Down - Guilty pleasure!

This Will Destroy You - Post-rock.

Tortoise - Jazzy post-rock electronica technique and groove nerds. It's awesome.

Trespassers William - Slow, sad shoegaze.

65daysofstatic - Excellent; have only listened to one album, but so many times I can't count. I haven't had the time to check out their other stuffs. Post-rock/electronic something.