What're your favourite songs?

[ProHypster]

Rock music is pretty known. If I ask if someone listens to rock and they answer no, they still have a good idea of what it is. Now electronic music genres are different. Most people don't know what it is. I find that if you find one genre of electronic music you like, you will like others too. For example, I started out with Techno (yes, straight up Techno, I know what I'm talking about), then started listening to Tech House, Then Prog and Electro House, Then Funky House and Breakbeats, then somewhere along the way I found an interest in Trance.

 

Note: I am only speaking for the US and in personal experience.

 

To be honest about two years ago I posted a youtube musical theory how everyone reaches the same good music in the end and the only thing that stops people is time, lack of interest in listening to music, lack of interest in trying new genres, not knowing about the existence of good music, denial due to culture and social norm, satisfaction in mediocrity.

 

But in general all healthy, normal people would reach the same stage of what good music and bad music is in the end.

 

In my lifetime I listened to (In the following order)

 

Ukrainian & Russian Pop -> Euro-Pop -> American Pop -> Mainstream Punk, Mainstream russian and american rap, Hip-hop, Alternative Mainstream Rock (Linkin Park, U2, Billy Talent, Coldplay all that stuff...), Electronic -> Russian/Ukrainian Underground Rap & Euro-Dance/House/Trance -> House/Electro House (David Guetta, Ian Carey, DJ Antoine) and American Underground Rap -> Underground House, Deep House & Classical/Post Modern Classical & Underground Progressive Rock

 

To finally:

 

Uber selective Underground House, Trance, Techno, Minimal, Chillout generally with a tendency to listen to any other genre if it's good but not put it on my mp3 player.

 

Oh, and can I have an example of Techno you listened to in the beginning, Zak?

[Michael Archer]

Beginning from most liked:

 

Defying Gravity from the Wicked OBC.

Stars from Les Misérables (haven't decided on my favorite recording yet)

Red and Black, also from Les Misérables

[Pinkie Pie]

These aren't my favorite songs but the soundtrack from the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory are timeless classics.

[BTGBullseye]

Well there can't possibly be 8418 songs that one can all like D:!!!!!

8418? Bah! That would be my short list...

 

Interesting that there are no mentions of any "serious" rock artists

 

Genesis

Jethro Tull

King Crimson

Yes

Van Der Graaf Generator

The Strawbs

Traffic

The Doors

Jefferson Airplane/Starship

Deep Purple

Uriah Heep

Camel

...

 

I wonder if that's because noone on this board likes these bands or purely because people haven't heard them (or about them)? If that's the latter, then I'm sure that some of those who posted here might like some or all of these groups...

 

Regards

Only one on that list I don't recognize is the last one, Camel. All the rest are a part of my 20,000+ song list.

[DeWolfeJV]

It's safe to say my music taste has expanded tremendously since I created this topic. I forgot I even created this topic in the first place.

[Doublenature]

In order from best to not best

 

Chimaira - Salvation

Chimaira - On broken glass

Chimaira - Disposable heroes (cover)

Metallica - Dyers eve

Metallica - Motorbreath

Bullet for my valentine - Suffocating under words of sorrow (what can I do)

Bullet for my valentine - Last to know

Bullet for my valentine - Disappear

Bullet for my valentine - Road to nowhere

Korn - Twisted transistor

Korn - Daddy

Hollywood undead - Bullet

Alesana - The last three letters

Heaven shall burn - Land of the upright ones

Heaven shall burn - Endzeit

Linkin park - In the end

Machinehead - This is the end

Pantera - Fucking hostile

Pantera - Revolution is my name

Rammstein - Sonne

Five finger death punch - Lift me up

Pink floyd - Wish you were here

Pink floyd - Comfortably numb

Pink floyd - Waiting for the worms

Jedi mind tricks - Uncommon valor: A vietnam story

Jedi mind tricks - Razorblade salvation

A tribe called quest - Steve Biko (Stir it up)

Ill biskits - Illustrations

Lamb of god - Laid to rest

 

There is more but I cant be damned to remember at this point

[BTGBullseye]

I've added over 10,000 different songs to my list since I posted that I had a 20,000 list... There's no way I'm ever going to get around to finding all the song names, and putting them in a text list, much less try and post them here.

[Jek Jek Roo]

Damn, I'm not complaining, but we got another topic about music...

 

It's quite hard to me to chose some fav songs, it depends of my mood and actual feelings.

Hmmm... behold of bloody mess of my music taste...

 

 

Top 15 (0f my fav 5 bands):

Midnight Oil - Cemetery In My Mind

Midnight Oil - Redneck Wonderland

Midnight Oil - Safety Chain Blues

Abney Park - Off The Grid

Abney Park - Airship Pirate

Abney Park - Wanderlust

Massive Attack - Man Next Door

Massive Attack - Dissloved Girl

Massive Attack - Tear drop

Linkin Park - No More Sorrow

Linkin Park - Somwhere I Belong

Linkin Park - Faint

Led Zeppelin - The Battle Of Evermore

Led Zeppelin - Hot Dog

Led Zeppelin - Your Time Is Gonna Gone

--- and others

Nick Cave - To Be By Your Side http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzafc58H_4E

America - Horse With No Name

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSAJ0l4OBHM

Patty Larkin - Anyway the main thing is... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqSC0GAe9YY

Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground

Daniel Amos - The Wistler

Clockwork Quartet - The Watchmakers Apprentice

Anna Maria Jopek - Szepty i łzy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_ZTJMZfyEg

Korn - Twisted Transistor

Aerosmith - Hangman Jury

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA4Ze__jAwk

Tina Turner - We Don't Need Another Hero

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMAULOwDY1Q

Combustible Edison - The Millionaire's Holiday

Chriss Isaak - Wicked Game

AC/DC - The Razors Edge http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BfTXI6jwM4

Dire Straits - So Far Away

Enya - Exile

Eric Clapton - I Shot The Sheriff

Frank Sinatra - You Do Something To Me

Michael Buble - Peroxide Swing

Gnarls Barkley - The Boogie Monster

Guns n' Roses - Used To Love Her

Iron Maiden - Weekend Warrior

Man Man - Engrish Bwudd

Republika - Biala Flaga

Lacuna Coil - Swamped

Sandy Nelson - Teen Beat

Muse - Uprising

REM - Drive

Rolling Stones - Gunface

Sandra - What D'ya Think Of me

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Slow Cheetah http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7g11ViJnU0

Uncle - Loney Soul

The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9u9mZz-o-g

Simple Plan - Me Against The World

Ok Go - Invincible

 

AND MANY MANY MORE!

 

Since it's been years from my last post here and my taste changed slightly, I'm gonna say the last list is still pretty accurate but I'd add those:

 

Anything by Nine Inch Nails but here are m three favourites:

Nine Inch Nails - Discipline

Nine Inch Nails - The Hands That Feeds

Nine Inch Nails - La Meer

 

Also anything by The Dandy Warhols:

 

The Dandy Warhols - Shakin'

The Dandy Warhols - Talk Radio

The Dandy Warhols - Plan A

 

And some good old Korn, when I feel down:

 

Korn - Wake Up Hate

Korn - Got The Life

Korn - Hollow Life

[DeWolfeJV]

A more expansive list than my initial submission. I listen to so much music, that my 500GB HDD only has around 17GB free. So here's a few more songs.

††† - Bi†ches Brew

After the Burial - Your Troubles Will Cease and Fortune Will Smile Upon You

After the Burial - Pennyweight

After the Burial - A Wolf Amongst Ravens

Alice in Chains - Hollow

Alice in Chains - Stone

Alice in Chains - Voices

Alice in Chains - Phantom Limb

Alice in Chains - Them Bones

Alice in Chains - Rooster

Alter Bridge - Words Darker Than Their Wings

Alter Bridge - Blackbird

Alter Bridge - Metalingus

Annihilator - Crystal Ann

Annihilator - Alison Hell

Annihilator - King of the Kill

Annihilator - Refresh the Demon

Annihilator - The One

Annihilator - Maximum Satan

Annihilator - The Trend

Arch Enemy - Nemesis

Arch Enemy - My Apocalypse

Arch Enemy - Skeleton Dance

Arch Enemy - Yesterday Is Dead and Gone

Arch Enemy - Cruelty Without Beauty

Ayreon - Eyes of Time

Ayreon - The whole "The Theory of Everything" album

Behemoth - Daimonos

Behemoth - Shemhamforash

Behemoth - Ov Fire and the Void

Behemoth - Alas, Lord Is Upon Me

Behemoth - At the Left Hand ov God

Belphegor - In Blood - Devour This Sanctity

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath - War Pigs

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Black Sabbath - Planet Caravan

Black Sabbath - Children of the Grave

Black Sabbath - A National Acrobat

Black Sabbath - Sabra Cadabra

Black Sabbath - Symptom of the Universe

Black Sabbath - God Is Dead?

Boris - Heavy Friends

Cannibal Corpse - Scourge of Iron

Celtic Frost - Progeny

Coheed and Cambria - Pretelethal

Coheed and Cambria - Key Entity Extraction V: Sentry the Defiant

Coheed and Cambria - The Hard Sell

Coheed and Cambria - Number City

Coheed and Cambria - Welcome Home

Dark Funeral - The Secrets of the Black Arts

Dark Funeral - The End of the Human Race

Dark Funeral - The Birth of the Vampiir

Dark Funeral - Stigmata

Dark Funeral - My Funeral

Darkthrone - Dead Early

Darkthrone - Lesser Men

Darkthrone - Cromlech

Darkthrone - Kathaarian Life Code

Darkthrone - In the Shadow of the Horns

Death - Scavenger of Human Sorrow

Deftones - Swerve City

Deftones - Romantic Dreams

Deftones - Tempest

Deftones - Gauze

Deftones - Rosemary

Deftones - Goon Squad

Deftones - Diamond Eyes

Deftones - Royal

Deftones - You've Seen the Butcher

Deftones - Rocket Skates

Deftones - Risk

Deftones - 976-EVIL

Deftones - This Place Is Death

Deftones - Hole in the Earth

Deftones - Cherry Waves

Deftones - Mein

Deftones - Xerces

Deftones - Hexagram

Deftones - When Girls Telephone Boys

Deftones - My Own Summer (Shove It)

Deftones - Lhabia

Deftones - Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)

Dir En Grey - The Blossoming Beelzebub

Dir En Grey - Different Sense

Dir En Grey - "Yokusou ni Dreambox" Aruiwa Seijuku no Rinen to Tsumetai Ame

Dir En Grey - Lotus

Gojira - Explosia

Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage

Gojira - The Axe

Gojira - Liquid Fire

Gojira - Mouth of Kala

Gojira - Oroborus

Gojira - Toxic Garbage Island

Gojira - A Sight to Behold

Gojira - Ocean Planet

Gojira - Backbone

Gojira - From the Sky

Gojira - Where Dragons Dwell

Gojira - The Heaviest Matter of the Universe

Gojira - From Mars

Gojira - To Sirius

Gorgoroth - Carving a Giant

How to Destroy Angels - How Long?

Ihsahn - Hiber

Ihsahn - Regen

Ihsahn - Naci

Ihsahn - Pulse

Ihsahn - The Barren Lands

Ihsahn - A Grave Inversed

Ihsahn - After

Ihsahn - Frozen Lakes on Mars

Kidneythieves - Jude (Be Somebody)

Kidneythieves - Beg

King Crimson - Cirkus

Massive Attack - Pray for Rain

Massive Attack - Angel

Massive Attack - Risingson

Massive Attack - Teardrop

Massive Attack - Inertia Creeps

Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy

[SunMoonStars]

Gorillaz-Clint Eastwood

Gorillaz-Empire Ants

Gorillaz-Dirty Harry

Deep Purple- Smoke On The Water

Led Zeppelin- Good Times Bad Times

Led Zeppelin- Moby Dick

Led Zeppelin- When The Levee Breaks

Nirvana- Smells Like Teen Spirit

Nirvana- Drain You

Nirvana- Scentless Apprentice

Nirvana- About A Girl

Nirvana- Aneurysm

Nirvana- The Man Who Sold The World

Pink Floyd- Money

Pink Floyd- Time

Pink Floyd- Comfortably Numb

Pink Floyd- Hey You

Foo Fighters- Everlong

Foo Fighters- Best Of You

Queens Of The Stone Age- Feel Good Hit Of The Summer

Queens Of The Stone Age- Avon

Queens Of The Stone Age- No One Knows

Blur- Song 2

Blur- Beetlebum

Blur- Under The Westway

The Clash- London Calling

The Clash- Bankrobber

The Clash- I Fought The Law

The Clash- Tommy Gun

The Clash- White Riot

The Sex Pistols- God Save The Queen

The Sex Pistols- EMI

Bob Marley- Redemption Song

Bob Marley- Buffalo Soldier

Garbage- Not Your Kind Of People

Prodigy- Omen

Prodigy- Firestarter

Prodigy- Run With The Wolves

System Of A Down- Hypnotize

System Of A Down- Chop Suey!

OutKast- Hey Ya!

Metallica- Enter Sandman

Metallica- Fade To Black

The Offspring- Pretty Fly (for a white guy)

Asian Dub Foundation- Black/White

Them Crooked Vultures- Elephants

Them Crooked Vultures- New Fang

Them Crooked Vultures- Bandoliers

Red Hot Chili Peppers- By The Way

Red Hot Chili Peppers- Under The Bridge

Deltron 3030- Mastermind

Deltron 3030- Madness

Deltron 3030- Memory Loss

Deltron 3030- What is This Loneliness?

Honors English- Insanity Plea (part 1 and 2)

Watsky- Hey Asshole

Watsky- Kill A Hipster

Bad Brains- Banned in DC

Damon Albarn- Everyday Robots

Damon Albarn- Lonely Press Play

The Lumineers- Ho Hey

Bloom- How Dare You

The Jimi Hendrix Experience- Purple Haze

The Jimi Hendrix Experience- Crosstown Traffic

The Jimi Hendrix Experience- All Along The Watchtower

David Bowie- Space Oddity

David Bowie- Life On Mars

ProLetR- April Showers

Green Day- American Idiot

Green Day- Basket Case

Green Day- Welcome To Paradise

Jane's Addiction- Superhero

Health- Tears

GlaDos- Still Alive

Johnny Cash- Hurt

Linkin Park- Castle Of Glass

Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life- Monty Python

The Heavy- Short Change Hero

The Ramones- Blitzkrieg Bop

Jeff Williams- On Your Knees

Eminem- Stan

The Police- Next To You

Hollywood Undead- Bullet

 

So many others but can't be bothered to write anymore

[K4_Kydure]

This was a real hard one for me but it comes down to just two songs.

Megalith Agnus Dei and Metallic Monks.

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I really like songs that combine styles, country/rock combo especially.

Oh gosh, this a thousand times. I've always wanted to hear a song with instruments from the middle east and far east in it alongside modern western trance or metal/rock.

[Vapymid]

Something like this...

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Usually, it's not so much the instruments but the pentatonic scale they use, which gives the "oriental" flavour to music. Can't think of a lot of examples off the top of my head but prog rock in general uses a lot of these influences - people like VdGG, Camel, Caravan, Genesis, Yes, King Crimson and their (ex)members. Newer names would be the likes of Ayreon, The Flower Kings, Beardfish, The Tangent etc...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM2Qi0fJt8c - King Crimson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vX1Sses4zA - Peter Hammill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozga4oRO6rE - Steve Hacket

 

Regards

[BTGBullseye]

Oh gosh, this a thousand times. I've always wanted to hear a song with instruments from the middle east and far east in it alongside modern western trance or metal/rock.

I'm not positive, but I might have something like that in my library... I'll give a listen for it when I have the time.