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Radio Head, Hunters & Collecters (pretty much just love one song of theirs.... holy grail.... but what a song!!!), Nirvana, Guns & Roses, Creed, Pearl Jam, Chilli peppers, Green Day, Live (Throwing Copper rules!!!) adn definately Powderfinger is my favourite at the moment.

Mix of all time and current.... with most both.

oh oh....... how could i forget the Venga Boys...... soooo deep..... most people just don't understand
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My favourite all-time band are definitely the Red Hot Chili Peppers, they rock!!!!
Currently I like the Foo Fighters.
Oldies-but-goodies: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles.
When I was younger I was a fan of r&b and rap but don't hold that against me! Now I'm more into rock and alternative/grunge/funk type music.
I like heaps of other bands but with the bands mentioned above I like the majority of their songs while with many other bands I only really like a few of their songs.
 
I was just thinking about the best all-time albums.
For me they would be:
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
Jimi Hendrix - The Ultimate Experience
Nirvana - Nevermind
The Beatles - 1962-1966 The Red Album
The Beatles - 1967-1970 The Blue Album
The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
The Red Hot Chili Peppers - One Hot Minute
The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
 
Joy Division,Beatles,BeachBoys,Most mowtown stuff but Martha and the Vandellas are stand outs,Elvis *COSTELLO*,VelvetUnderground,
the Jam,Buzzcocks,Pixies,ThinWhiteRope,Early R.E.M,DEVO,Cure,SplitEnz,Hunters&Collectors,
Madness,Shonen Knife,NIN,Bowie,CCR god it just goes on and on.

Not much around now that i like, but Westy glad to see someone else has picked the true depth of the Vengas, now back to that Kahlua milkshake you taught me...
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My all time favourite ? The Snsational Alex Harvey Band from the seventies.

I saw their last concert at the Reading Rock festival and for those interested in the unusual might want to look at this website
http://www.wunnerful.com/sahb/index2.html

There are a few tribute sites and one is even administered by someone who has never seen them live ! (Too young) They did the most offbeat version of Tom Jones' 'Delilah' ever.

Current band ? Killing Heidi - Blondie Meets the Cranberries

Rock Genre. The 'Oz' sound of the eighties - pity they all sound like bands from anywhere now - gone Global.
 
I've been listening to lots of Chemical Brothers just at the moment

Really enjoy electro-pop-dance kinda music, always have even though these days I am way too old to go to Raves - still like the music though.

Favourite bands ? - Don't have any really I like all kinds of music much too much to have a favourite.

Here are a few that I have really liked over the years, apologies to the youngsters, you may not have heard much of these :

Joy Division
New Order
Split Enz
Hunters and Collectors (esp. the REALLY early stuff)
Kraftwerk
Tangerine Dream
Parliament
Emerson Lake and Palmer
Yes
The Byrds
Cream
Led Zeppelin
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Jefferson Airplane
The Clash
Pearl Jam
The Police (not Stings solo rubbish though !)
Jebediah
Black Sabbath
Metallica

just a selection - as you can see I like lots of different types of music - including classical music as well.

Anyone else like classical music ?
 
NIRVANA =Fu@king Legends!!!!! Vey pleased to see u guys rock a lot mor than i thought (those who put Nirvana down anyway!)

best bands eva--->
Nirvana
Silverchair
Foo Fighters
Hole
Sonic Youth
Korn
Marilyn Manson

pleased to see one or 2 Living End fans on here as well. I have known the frontman Chris for years (since before hardly N E 1 knew em) and he is the most nicest dude! Unfortunately but going so mainstream spoilt their band i think.

sPiDeR eVeRiTt and RiCkY oLaReNsHaW
~kewlest players round!!!
 

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most of my fave bands have already been added here, but one that I love which hasnt rated a mention yet is the Dandy Warhols. Great Band- I hear theyre in Australia but wont be coming to Perth. No shock there.
 
Well, the stuff that's been getting high rotation in the CD player of late has been:

A Good Kind Of Nervous - The Lucksmiths
Bossanova - Stan Getz
All Hands On The Bad One - Sleater-Kinney
This Sad Paradise - Golden Rough
The Friends Of Rachel Worth - The Go-Betweens
If You're Feeling Sinister - Belle and Sebastian
Surprise Surprise - Girlfrendo
The Last Match - The Aislers Set
 
I love anything that has good guitar in it and really love good mean metal. This is the stuff I play the most:

Metallica
Live
Pantera
Nirvana
Queen
Beatles
Clapton
The Byrds
Cream
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Tommy Emmanuel
Hendrix
Jebediah
Black Sabbath

...and last but not least, now for the plug, my brothers' band, Dead Fred's left Head. Great if you love early Metallica. All their music is original. The recording and mixing were done in a home studio and aren't too good, but make an allowance and you'll enjoy it if you like metal.
 
rick chick i dont think that going mainstream has ruined the living end, while their first three ep's they released were probably their best stuff there new single pictures in the mirror is pretty awesome, and i cant wait for their album to come out in november
they arent as good as powderfinger though, their music gets you motivated, its emotional, and also gets you jumping, goes well with VB
 
Being a bit older than most, I was suprised and pleased to read that many of you mentioned the greatest band there was or will ever be :-

T H E B E A T L E S

I was 5 y o when I got into them and that was many years ago. Dont just listen to 62-66 and 67-70 compilation albums. Listen to Rubber Soul and Revolver. Truly great albums.

Also from the sixties liked the Stones, CCR The Hollies, and Aussie bands like The Easybeats, The Twilights, and Iguana.

From the 70s some of the early Eagles, Crosby Stills Nash (&Young) Slade and Aussie bands Axiom, Angels, the 'Hooks were big for a short while.

In the eighties there was nto much to really like, perhaps World Party, H & C and since then I find I actually like the Foofighters, Dandy Warhols, Powderfinger and because I know them personally, Bachelor Girl.

Hope I dont come across as too old a fogie!
 
Magpie Greg

It never ceases to amaze me the number of musicians that name Rubber Soul and Revolver as influences (and while on the 60s, Brian Wilson's...sorry, I meant the Beach Boys', "Pet Sounds" and the Velvet Underground and Nico) as their biggest influences. Meanwhile, the rock journalists (the ones that grew up in the 60s anyway) seem to like putting either Sergent Peppers or the White album at the top of their lists.
 
I'll ditto that

Revolver is a great album. The Beatles on the whole are a little over-rated I think.

Know what you mean about 80's pop music Magpie Greg - I actually stopped listening to it 1984-1989 and started on Classical instead. It was just dreadful terrible rubbish. All those hairdresser-type bands playing crap, tinny sounding keyboards and Syn-drums. I didn't mind their choice of instrument so much as the deplorable quality of the music in general.

cheers
 
BSA

Actually, 1984-89 was a great time for music for me with stuff like the Go-Betweens and Triffids over here and the great English lables like Sarah Records, 4AD, Creation, and Factory in their prime. It was when "independent" and "alternative" actually meant something, not another marketing label like today.
 
too true Shinners

"alternative' music was pretty good in those days I admit.

Don't you find it funny when you walk into a Record Shop these days and there is a seperate section called "Alternative"

WTF is that supposed to mean for chrissake ?!

And then when you look at the bands, its all stuff like the Lemonheads, Mudhoney, Foo Fighters, Korn, etc etc

What is so 'alternative' about these guys ?

and an 'alternative' to what ? Reading a book or watching TV ?

hmmmmmm - I don't get it
 
Bloodstained Angel

I am obviously biased but I do not think the Beatles are over rated. If you compare what they did at the time with what was around at the time, you realise how truly great they were. The Stones were reduced to copying what the Beatles did.

The other important thing about them is that generally, they didnt churn out the same record time after time with a slight variation each time as is the usual formula adopted by the record companies, but they developed from album to album. Apart from arguably perhaps Beatles For Sale, every album was an advacement or development of the previous. Usually if you change from record to record the public doesnt come along for the ride as they dont like change. Not in this case though. That is because the music was so good.

Again, remember I am biasedbut I am not alone in this view.
 
Speaking of new bands, a few old friends and I figured out the 80s equivalent of 90s band. Take Nine Inch Nails....if you ever listened to any of Jim Thirwell's records (look under the name FOETUS), you'll find out where NIN stole every one of their ideas from. Likewise, why listen to Green Day when you could have the Buzzcocks...you listen to Jon Spencer while I'll lend you one of my Cramps records. Powderfinger? A friend tersely described them as the new Cold Chisel
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Mind you, that's the great thing about pop...it's always recyling itself...it's just that I can't remember the last time there were so many bands doing it so badly.
 

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