Your TOP10 bands/artists!

[MikeandRaph87]

I am more of an oldiest pop/rock listener.

1. The Beatles
2. The Beach Boys
3. The Rolling Stones
4. Simon & Garfunkel
5. Elvis Presley
6. Eagles
7. Chicago
8. Aerosmith
9. Queen
10 Frankie Vallie & The Four Seasons/Huey Lewis and The News
Honorable Mentions go to Stevie Wonder and Boston

[UsagiYojimbo]

I'll have a go! These are in no particular order. And this list fluctuates from time to time

1. Fleetwood Mac
2. U2
3. Queen
4. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
5. Concrete Blonde
6. Gin Blossoms
7. Toad the Wet Sprocket
8. Crowded House
9. New Order
10. The Pretenders

[joe-eyeball]

Faith No More
Type O Negative
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Mr Bungle
Queens Of The Stone Age
The Secret Chiefs Three
The Eagles Of Death Metal
Clutch
Xecutioners
Soundgarden

And many, many more!

[Bauer536]

My favorite bands and artists. That’s hard. I like so many. I might as well do one for the bands and one for the singers, as of recently.

Top 10 Bands
1.The Beatles
2.Fleetwood Mac
3.Bon Jovi
4.Moody Blues
5.Evanescence
6.Aerosmith
7.Coldplay
8.Pink Floyd
9.Oingo Boingo
10.Nickelback

Top 10 Artists
1.Michael Jackson
2.Madonna
3.Peter Gabriel
4.Billy Joel
5.Dolly Parton
6.Gwen Stefani
7.Kate Bush
8.Phil Collins
9.Björk
10.Tori Amos

[UsagiYojimbo]

Originally Posted by Bauer536

9.Oingo Boingo

My Dad took me to see them when he was in L.A. back in the 1994/1995?... The show was in San Diego... I had never even heard of them before that, but I knew who Danny Elfman was. Anyway... Great pick!

[Bauer536]

Originally Posted by UsagiYojimbo

My Dad took me to see them when he was in L.A. back in the 1994/1995?... The show was in San Diego... I had never even heard of them before that, but I knew who Danny Elfman was. Anyway... Great pick!

Funny story. I knew Danny Elfman from his film compositions and his singing voice as Jack Skellington. So the first time I heard “Weird Science,” I was like, “Oh my god! That’s Jack!” The first time I heard him sing with the band was on VH1 Classics, where Oingo Boingo was labeled a one hit wonder. Are you kidding me? They are not a one hit wonder. So “Weird Science” is a cool song, but their best is “Dead Man’s Party.” I could listen to that anytime. I love Danny’s voice. He sounds so macabre. But I also like their songs such as “Little Girls,” “Only a Lad,” “Gratitude,” and of course, “Just Another Day.” There’s something cool about that band. I only wish their songs hit the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Was Oingo Boingo you’re first concert? My first was Fleetwood Mac. I know they’re old, but they were great. Lindsey Buckingham is the most underrated guitarist of all time. Rolling Stone Magazine is a joke. They put him at 100 for the list of 100 Greatest Guitar Players? 100? How about 5?

The concert I recently saw was Bon Jovi. They performed all their best songs, it was amazing. I do wish I was watching from the front, but Jon Bon Jovi did come to our section to perform in our view. He’s quite the showman.

Did you see anyone recently in concert?

[UsagiYojimbo]

Buckingham is fantastic! I love Fleetwood Mac as well (you can see my top 10 up a few posts). My dad loved the old pre-Buckingham/Nicks era of the group. He couldn't stand Stevie Nicks... heh heh

Anyway... Oingo Boingo was not my first show, it was Aerosmith and I think that was in towards the end of the year in 1990? I was pretty young. But back to Boingo... I think "Just Another Day" is probably their best song but how can you not love Dead Man's Party?

[Bauer536]

Originally Posted by UsagiYojimbo

Buckingham is fantastic! I love Fleetwood Mac as well (you can see my top 10 up a few posts). My dad loved the old pre-Buckingham/Nicks era of the group. He couldn't stand Stevie Nicks... heh heh

Anyway... Oingo Boingo was not my first show, it was Aerosmith and I think that was in towards the end of the year in 1990? I was pretty young. But back to Boingo... I think "Just Another Day" is probably their best song but how can you not love Dead Man's Party?

Aw man. I’m jealous. I want to see Aerosmith! Too bad. Steven Tyler’s voice is going away. The only thing he can do is screech. Maybe that’s why he’s losing his voice. So you saw them during the “Pump” album. What’s your favorite song of theirs from the 80’s. I like “Angel,” but “Rag Doll” and “Janie’s Got a Gun” is cool, too.

Too bad your dad doesn’t like Stevie Nicks. Oh well. Perhaps he doesn’t like Miley Cyrus either.

So yeah, I agree. Those two Oingo Boingo songs you mentioned are my top 2 favorites.

Which reminds me: Do you think that any of these songs that we’ve mentioned could be on a TMNT series if someone decided to play real bands?

[UsagiYojimbo]

Yeah my Dad instilled a love of music in me... he has this massive LP collection (somewhere around 2,000-2500 records if i had to ballpark it!) But my Dad was the Aerosmith fan which is why I went to that show. I vaguely remember it to be honest. I think "What it Takes" is probably my favourite tune from that era.

I lost Dad about 5 years back so... I don't know if he ever heard of Miley Cyrus. He was still listening to Robert Palmer, Eric Clapton, and Tom Petty. I think he'd "given up" on the music of today

Boingo... great stuff. I also like "Not My Slave"... such a great song. I have a memory of that Boingo show but really just at the start... Elfman was wearing a t-shirt and came out banging on these big bongos... crazy stage props and what not. I remember being somewhat perturbed to be frank. Dad was a fan, which is why I went to that show with him. Man... thank God for Pops, or I'd have never gone to any shows

Hard to say what songs would fit with TMNT nowadays... I like the idea that Elfman could do some tunes for a newer movie/series. But hey, I'm still one of those holding out hope that one day we'll get another live-action Turtles flick like the 1st one

[Bauer536]

Yep. That’s from “Pump”. That’s a great song, too. I wasn’t into their material that much after that, but I loved their later hit “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing.”

I’m sorry about your dad. Mine is into that music, but he needs to be exposed right now to a few new talents. He likes Lady Gaga, but I hope he’ll get into Adele.

Oh yeah. You gotta love Elfman. Still, why didn’t they perform “Weird Science?” They perform everything else, except that one post-Dead Man’s Party album. Why? Did they hate or get tired of the song?

Hey. I’m excited for this new film in production . . . even though Michael Bay is involved. Still, I may enjoy this one because it’s not as boring as Transformers was for me. I can take robots only if the turtles are fighting them, or if Schwarzenegger comes in to save the day. What I’m really looking forward to is the Nick cartoon. So far, I’m loving the direction it’s going in. Now to end things: I’m hoping we get a tint of Aerosmith or Björk in a new series someday. A man can dream, can't he?

[UsagiYojimbo]

Originally Posted by Bauer536

I’m sorry about your dad. Mine is into that music, but he needs to be exposed right now to a few new talents. He likes Lady Gaga, but I hope he’ll get into Adele.

That's straight up shocking, mate!

"We Close Our Eyes" and "Stay"... two more Boingo tunes I thought of that are great, and they did do those live. That was the first time I'd ever heard those songs Not really sure why they didnt perform Weird Science... maybe they wrote off all the performing rights to it to the film company for the movie..?

[Bauer536]

Originally Posted by UsagiYojimbo

That's straight up shocking, mate!

"We Close Our Eyes" and "Stay"... two more Boingo tunes I thought of that are great, and they did do those live. That was the first time I'd ever heard those songs Not really sure why they didnt perform Weird Science... maybe they wrote off all the performing rights to it to the film company for the movie..?

"Stay" is a good song. Still, if I had to pick, I love "We Close Our Eyes."

But besides Oingo Boingo, there were others that didn't make the Top 40. Do you listen to Tori Amos?

[ToTheNines]

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

Rock:
1. Hot Water Music
2. A Wilhelm Scream
3. Only Crime
4. The Lawrence Arms
5. Queens of the Stone Age
6. Lagwagon
7. NOFX
8. Bad Religion
9. Thrice
10. Stone Temple Pilots

Jazz:
1. Vince Guaraldi
2. Ronny Jordan
3. Joe Henderson
4. George Benson
5. uh.... I dunno

Rap/Hip-hop:
1. MF DOOM/Madvillain/King Geedorah
2. Deltron 3030/Del tha Funkee Homosapien/Hieroglyphics
3. KRS-one
4. Nujabes
5. MURS
6. Public Enemy
7. Run DMC
8. J Dilla
9. Madlib/Quasimoto
10. Naughty By Nature

Lol, this is from 08... my taste has changed a little bit since then.

Rock:
1. A Wilhelm Scream
2. Deftones
3. E.L.O.
4. Billy Joel
5. The Beatles
6. Hot Water Music
7. Queens of the Stone Age
8. Thrice
9. Neon Indian (not Rock, but whatever)
10. Santana

Jazz:
1. Miles Davis
2. John Coltrane
3. Ahmad Jamal
4. Thelonius Monk
5. Vince Guaraldi
6. Joe Henderson
7. Mose Allison
8. Clifford Brown
9. Sonny Clark
10. Sonny Rollins

Rap:
1. MF DOOM
2. Del
3. Aesop Rock
4. Wu Tang Clan
5. On Be Lo
6. Nas
7. Madlib
8. J-Dilla
9. Gangstarr
10. Nujabes

[Walkabout]

Pink Floyd/Roger Waters
Bowie
Hendrix
Black Sabbath/Ozzy in the 80s
Led Zeppelin
Buckethead
GWAR
Mr Bungle
GNR
Electric Six

its hard, I went for 5 old and 5 "new" bands

[SparkyMarky644]

Mine are:

Queen
Metallica
Guns N' Roses
The Beatles
Jimi Hendrix
Alice Cooper
Dire Straits
Led Zeppelin
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Madness

[Walkabout]

How could I have left out Alice Cooper?

Love it to Death through to Lace and Whiskey are incredible albums.

[SherlockJr]

No particular order:

Pink Floyd
Coldplay
De Phazz
Michel Legrand
Nat King Cole
Blue Stone
Marcome
Simon and Garfunkel
Louis Armstrong
Alexandre Desplat

[Hannah]

Originally Posted by Hannah

Big D and the Kids Table
Bright Eyes
Circa Survive
Elliott Smith
Endless Mike and the Beagle Club
Fugazi
The Get Up Kids
Jawbreaker
Rob Szabo
Streetlight Manifesto

Alphabetical order, too lazy to figure out what I like more.

Whoa, I was still kind of cool 5 years ago.
My updated list:
Ben Folds
The Flaming Lips
Elliott Smith
They Might Be Giants
Julia Nunes
Jonathan Coulton
Katzenjammer
Tom Waits
Fiona Apple
Rilo Kiley


EDIT: Also here's this, lolz. From 2004.

Originally Posted by Hannah

01.) Namie Amuro
02.) Utada Hikaru
03.) Hitomi
04.) Aya Matsuura
05.) Green Day
06.) Do as Infinity
07.) Nirvana
08.) Aikawa Nanese
09.) Blink 182
10.) Yellowcard


Oh yeah.

[Lethal Lullaby]

Because I like a lot of music...
In no particular order
Hip Hop/ Rap:

1. Eminem
2. Usher
3. Kanye West
4. NB Ridaz
5. Baby Bash
6. Ke$ha
7. Lady Gaga
8. Britney Spears
9. Jay Z
10. Chris Brown

Rock:

1. SOAD
2. Korn
3. 3 Days Grace
4. Marilyn Manson
5. God Smack
6. Skillet
7. Breaking Benjamin
8. Shaman's Harvest
9. Drowning Pool
10. Panic! At the Disco

Other:

1. Voltaire
2. Creature Feature
3. Midnight Syndicate
4. Nox Arcana
5. Highland

[Memphis]

1. Bon Jovi
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers
3. Nickelback
4. Backstreet Boys
5. Creed
6. Aerosmith
7. Goo Goo Dolls
8. Hinder
9. My Darkest Days
10. Bowling For Soup

As you can see, I'm a big fan of the "Dude rock". Best. Music. Ever.

Dude Rock