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[BigshotSpike]

Kick ASS! Another X-Japan fan!

complete list:

abandoned pools
aphex twin
ash
beck
ben folds five
bjork
boa (the British one)
boards of canada
buck tick
bush
the clash
counting crows
the cure
deftones
delerium
depeche mode
dir en grey
dj krush
due'le quartz
elastica
e.mu
endorphine
enemy you
the english beat
enigma
enya
failure
fake?
for stars
peter gabriel
gackt
glay
godsmack
green day
ayumi hamasaki
hide
the hives
james horner
janes newton howard
idlewild
kamelot
korn
kuroyume
l7
la'cryma christi
l'arc~en~ciel
lareine
led zeppelin
luna sea
paul mac
machine
magic dirt
malice mizer
the magnetic fields
manic street preachers
marilyn manson
loreena mckennit
sarah mclachlan
midnight oil
yasunori mitsuda
mozart (yeah! classical!)
muse
hikaru nanase
nine inch nails
oasis
oblivion dust
orbital
the orb
our lady peace
pearl jam
a perfect cirle
phi
pierrot
the pillows
pink floyd
placebo
plastic minus one
plastic tree
poor rich ones
portishead
prodigy
psycho le cemu
pulp
queen
queensrÿche
radiohead
rage against the machine
raphael
r.e.m.
graeme revell
sasha & digweed
sex pistols
yasuaki shimizu
howard shore
siam shade
silverchair
six by seven
sleater-kinney
smashing pumpkins
soundgarden
stabbing westward
system of a down
tool
travis
two-mix
u2
underworld
the vines
violet uk
the who
x japan
yoshiki
zilch

[Chaos Angel]

You even alphabatized it... you magnificient bastard!!

I like a little bit of everything. I don't even want to try to name the individual artists on my play list, but I have some Rammstein, some X-Japan, some Pillows, some Bad Religion, some Radiohead, some Dido, some Natalie Imbruglia, some Cowboy Bebop, some Our Lady Peace, some Trigun, some Squirrel Nut Zippers, some Tenacious D, some REM, some System of a Down, some MDFMK, some Second Child, some Tweaker, some Sara Brightman, some Queensryche, some Pennywise, some Denis Leary, some Akino Arai, some Guns N' Roses, and some Gorillaz.

For starters.

[SarahtheBoring]

They said favorite, not every band you've ever liked ever.

I have to say a little more to justify them, 'cause my taste in music sucks ass generally...

<b>The Smiths</b> - Ancestral in some ways to Radiohead or any other whiny alternative band, they are most probably one of the bands your favorite whiny alternative band listened to when THEY were in high school. They are toxic in large doses due to a high self-pity content, and have a few flop songs in their catalog, but when they hit a good song, it was <i>heavenly.</i> They have no less than three best-of compilations to try, plus one rerelease album (Louder than Bombs) with about a zillion songs on it. Try: Shoplifters of the World Unite, Panic, Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want, What Difference Does It Make? (They had a lot of long song titles.)

<b>U2</b> - They've done so many varieties of pop and rock that somewhere, sometime, in their catalog, you'll probably find at least one song you like. My drug of choice is the scratchy rock of Achtung Baby. Try: The Fly, Elevation, Stay (Faraway, So Close!), October.

<b>Depeche Mode</b> - They do moody electronic pop. They've been doing it a really, really long time. They've gotten quite good at it. Their singer's voice is godly. And at least on most albums, so is their production. Next to the Smiths and the Cure, they are THE band for moody people. They also have a best-of out, split into two halves; I'd recommend the latter one first, as the first is soaked in that plink-plinky early '80s synthesizer. Ultra is also a gorgeous album, and not as dark as their arguable masterwork, Songs of Faith and Devotion. Try: I Feel You, Stripped, Photographic (Some Bizzare [sic]) Mix, Enjoy the Silence.

<b>Erasure</b> - Depeche Mode on Prozac, with a bit of gender-bending thrown in. Literally separated at birth from DM (DM's first songwriter left the band to eventually form Erasure), they kept the early 80s plinky style and mixed it with angelic harmonies about true love and mysterious strangers to make a sugary sunshine sort of electronic pop. If you like J-pop and don't mind hearing it sung by men, you may want to give them a spin. Their album I Say I Say I Say got me hooked; it's a very solid set of songs. Try: A Little Respect, Home, Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day), All Through the Years.

Runners-up:
Morcheeba
REM
Barenaked Ladies
Ben Folds with or without the Five
They Might Be Giants

Thank you.

[moooooo]

Runners-up:
Morcheeba
REM
Barenaked Ladies
Ben Folds with or without the Five
They Might Be Giants

Thank you.

Sarah, I was wondering what you think of the new morcheeba album. I've been listening to it a lot lately, but I'm still undecided on what I think. Whats your opinion?

[MamoruArmitage]

err... just for the hell of it, i'ma post all the Christian bands i like... alphabetized, too!

-Creed
-FFH
-POD


yeah, i think that about covers it. and, FFH is only on there cuz i love "One Day", thanks to Silver Moon's video...

[Kusoyaro]

Sigur Ros

Woo! Good choice!

[Darkseid]

Seek
Huey Lewis and The News
Public Enemy
Sweetback
Debarge
Earth Wind And Fire
Rage Against The Machine
ZZ Top
Silk
Heatwave

[Rini210]

err... just for the hell of it, i'ma post all the Christian bands i like... alphabetized, too!

-Creed
-FFH
-POD


yeah, i think that about covers it. and, FFH is only on there cuz i love "One Day", thanks to Silver Moon's video...

Omg, I loved the song One Day and I didn't even know it was about Jesus until about a month after I heard it. (I always thought it was about a guy that left a girl and she thought he would be coming back one day... o.O) My friends kept teasing me about it saying that I was "A little jew that loves Christian songs.. aww"

[MamoruArmitage]

for the others:

~Creed is just l33t. i STILL love Higher, as well as Freedom Fighter.

~POD: besides their being uber-l33t, i love the messages in their songs.

[Chef]

not many people here like my music...oh well, im cool, youre not...