5 Favorite Bands/Music Artists

[JoeB]

I've never met anyone who likes the Mars Volta, yet 3 people on this list name them. Awesome.

-the Mars Volta
-Tool
-Nine Inch Nails
-Rammstein
-Radiohead

And a separate list for "Classical":

-Shostakovich (8th String quartet, 4th, 6th, and 9th Symphonies are my favorites)
-Stravinsky (the Rite of Spring, Petrouchka, the Soldier's Tale, and Symphony of Psalms)
-Ravel (Daphne et Chloe, Rapsodie Espagnole, Concerto for the Left Hand, Piano Concerto)
-Debussy (Piano Preludes, La Mer)
-Brahms (2nd, 3rd, and 4th Symphonies)

 

[snafupants]

tmv was the most intense concert experience ever. aragon ballroom in chicago was the perfect venue. just incredibly positive vibes from the crowd reciprocated with three plus hours of playing.

 

[chuhulil]

- Bon Jovi
- The GazettE
- Three Days Grace
- Nickelback
- Queen

 

[DesertSmeagle]

Pink Floyd
led Zeppelin
moby
mgmt
fleet foxes


Anyone else know any good modern stuff? Those 3 bottom ones are realy the only modern bands I actually like and follow. Just something unique that feels good.

 

[dark]

3.The Rolling Stones
-House of the Rising Sun

The Animals did "House of the Rising Sun," I have nearly all of the Rolling Stones, and I have yet to hear Mick Jagger sing it.... Anyhow, now that I feel peaceful again:

- Iron Maiden
- The Rolling Stones
- Syd Barret
- Modest Mouse
- Uriah Heep

 

[Tyria]

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Orgy
Metallica
The Seatbelts
Nobou Uematsu

 

[dark]

Oh before I forget, EVERYONE here should listen to this song:

Bruce Dickinson - "No Way Out... to be continued"

It is the one that starts out, "Welcome to the world young man..."
Not, "A silent sleeping vampire..." [this is the second-ish part to the song mentioned above titled, "No Way Out... Continued"]

I will not say anything on it, just to see if anyone else sees the same idea.

 

[Kassie]

Avenged Sevenfold (mainly Nightmare, but love most of their songs)
Disturbed
X Ray Dog
Within Temptation
Rage Against The Machine

 

[Dansk]

So little love for Rush... I'm amazed...

Anyways:

1. Rush
2. The Cars
3. Andrew Bird
4. Oscar Peterson (especially when grouped with Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and Joe Pass)
5. Elton John

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Pink Floyd
led Zeppelin
moby
mgmt
fleet foxes


Anyone else know any good modern stuff? Those 3 bottom ones are realy the only modern bands I actually like and follow. Just something unique that feels good.

If you love Led Zeppelin you must get into Rush if you already aren't. And then if you love Rush get into Yes.

As for modern, I'd say:
Pixies - Doolittle, Surfer Rosa
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Chevelle - Wonder What's Next
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
The Raveonettes - In And Out Of Control
Boris - Pink
Quest For Fire - Quest For Fire
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R, Lullabies To Paralyze, Queens of the Stone Age


There's a lot of good heavy metal from the 2000s, but I don't know if you're into that.

 

[nexion]

Current top 5-

The Contortionist (progressive deathcore, if you like this sort of stuff at all you need to check them out)
As Cities Burn (post-hardcore/Alternative Rock/progressive rock)
This or the Apocalypse (technical metalcore)
It Prevails (Melodic Hardcore)
If These Trees Could Talk (instrumental post-rock)

Idk. I'm bored.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

So little love for Rush... I'm amazed...

Anyways:

1. Rush

Yes, they have to be one the greatest bands ever to have existed. I love it when a band's discog is heavily consistent.

Currently:
1. Rush
2. Flying Lotus
3. Donovan
4. The Dead Milkmen
5. Yes

 

[Panopticon]

I will name current bands only, because it would be too hard to pick 5 if I include the classics like floyd and lep.


KATATONIA- Some of the best songwriters in metal. Not a bad song in their bones.

OPETH- Been my favorite band for years. simply amazing

AGALLOCH- Brilliant brilliant mix of black metal, doom metal, neofolk, post rock, ambient, black gaze ect. Nothing out their like it.

DEVIN TOWNSEND- Mad Genius. Ocean Machine, Synchestra, Terria, Infinity, Alien? Where do you begin? All beautiful work that stands the test of time.

ISIS- This is the perfect music to sit and think as it carries your mind away into an oceanic bliss. RIP Isis I regret never gettin the chance to see it live.

The other 5 I wish I could have mentioned too.

Porcupine Tree- Doesnt every intp relate to songs like A Smart Kid and Even Less?

Anathema- Latest album has been like a spiritual healing session for me. Great stuff.

Godspeed You Black Emperor!- Nuff said

Novembre- Most underrated band in the world. Period

My Dying Bride- Masters of doom and despair.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

1. of Montreal
2. Devo
3. Devendra Banhart
4. Flying Lotus
5. Sufjan Stevens

You guys are all into pretty heavy music... Could you appreciate songs like these? I love them:

Spoiler

YouTube - Sufjan Stevens - All for myself

Spoiler

YouTube - Twin Shadow - Forget

 

[SQ_Minion]

All Time:
1. The Beatles
2. Johnny Cash
3. The Doors
4. Led Zeppelin
5. Simon and Garfunkel

More Modern:
1. Javiera Mena
2. Blackalicious
3. Patrice
4. Das Racist
5. Do As Infinity

Warning: Lists may fluctuate wildly. Be cautious of flying debris.

 

[sophistic*nt]

Getting older, I've developed a loathing for metal I never imagined possible. Some is still tolerable, even enjoyable, though I can rarely find a use for it. It's just too blunt and with little variation.

Failure
Radiohead
Bright Eyes
Cursive
Buckley
Pearl Jam
Modest Mouse
Rilo kiley
Pixies
Depeche Mode
GY!BE
ISIS
Tom Waits
Aereogramme
Califone
Blondie
the Clash
Adam and the Ants
Elliott Smith
Old 97's
Screeching Weasel
Murder by Death
Danzig (and Misfits, before he left)

Yeah, five was not enough, but I'll stop here. I also love the hell out of some old motown and soul. Listening to Bobby Womack, atm. Classical music is always on time, and I'm especially fond of Rachmaninov.

 

[sophistic*nt]

Should be self-evident, but I forgot Bowie!

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Bowie.

Lately I've been listening to:
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
The Modern Lovers - S/t

 

[Solitaire U.]

TOOL/APC
Fu Manchu/Nebula
Unida
Queens of The Stone Age
Melvins

 

[preilemus]

hmm, ill go with...

Tears for Fears

Massive Attack

Blink 182

Sublime

and... New Order, I suppose (cant think of anything thats affected me more right now)

Hmm... That needs revising.



Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Moonsorrow

Tears for Fears

Agalloch

Behemoth

 

[Vodhgarm]

Poets of the fall
Little Boots
Nightwish
Guano Apes
Lacuna Coil
Black Eyed Peas

Edit: Only Poets of the fall are my favorite, the others are here just so that the list doesn't seem lean.

 

[Sosekopp]

Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Aztec Camera
Arcade Fire
Half Man Half Biscuit
Big Star

I also like Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.

 

[ate]

en `` I will go with```

1、 The Cure & Bauhaus
2、 Talking head
3、 Boards of Canada
4、 重塑雕像的权利
5、 The Velvet Underground

Post-punk is my favorite.

 

[Steve Smith]

My favorite music bands are:
1-Linkin Park
2-Backstreet Boys
3-Radio Head
4-Metallica
5-Beatles ....!!

 

[four24ever]

Tool
Nirvana

Sublime
Alice in Chains
Eminem



There's a space for a reason

 

[SuicideMonday]

Probably......

Thousand Foot Krutch - My all time favorite band, though i do hate their attempts at rap.
The Hush Sound - Definatley worth listening to.
Murder by Death
Rasmus
A Rotterdam November

 

[EndearingMalice]

My musical taste is always changing (yeah, yeah, the zillionth time you've heard/read that) and I could never choose only five bands. I'll just resort to using some statistics here (INTPness, maybe?). This is my last.fm top 8 from the last seven days:
-Thrice
-Melvins
-Jonathan Coulton
-Tool
-Pelican
-Maybeshewill
-The white stripes
-Cryptopsy

These are by no means my ''all-time'' favorite bands.

 

[Cosmic]

The Gathering
The 69 Eyes
Regina Spektor
Shearwater
HIM
VNV Nation
Liv Kristine
Nightwish

Five seemed liked an arbitrary number. . .

 

[Grove]

At the moment I'm listening to a lot of:

1. Hasil Adkins
2. and by association, The Cramps
3. Emmylou Harris
4. VNV Nation
5. The Decemberists

 

[sardonic-tea]

http://youtu.be/2GepEDuKw6s

 

[smithcommajohn]

In no order:

-Rush
-Orbital
-Beastie Boys
-Boards of Canada
-Autechre

 

[Roddick]

My favourite Music bands are as follow:
1.Guns and Roses,
2.Pink Floyd,
3.Radio Head,
4.Gorrilaz,
5.Beatles...!!

 

[Peeps999]

1.Pain of Salvation
2.Devin Townsend
3.Opeth
4.Between the Buried and Me
5.Riverside
Obviously I am a huge progressive rock and metal fan.

 

[Hypocritical truth teller]

Rammstein, The Beatles, Nightwish, Metallica, Pantera

 

[GYX_Kid]

I can only name an absolute #1 - Dir en grey. And I have a strange feeling their lead guitarist is an INTP... anyway, people either love them or hate them. It's sometimes embarrassing to be a part of the fanbase [oh god, I hate most of those people just by looking at them], but I try not to mingle with the fans too much. It doesn't change the fact that the band is awesome.

It's always hard for me to 'define' my taste by using a few artists, because it's diverse and very specific at the same time. BUT, since you are aware of this, I guess I can answer the remaining part of this question traditionally:

The final four [took me forever to pick]:

Onmyouza
Maximum the hormone
Tokyo Jihen
abingdon boys school

Wow wow wow, what? Kyo is an INTP? That's amazing...I assumed he was INFx but he could very well be a TP due to "bottled up" Fe, and I guess most "feelers" wouldn't be as into the over-the-top expressionism and themes that he's into. I also do remember him having had nihilistic tendencies. Fuck. And I was just thinking about trying to cover a song of theirs. [not "one of them"... I promise]

There was a time when Dir en grey and Anaal Nathrakh (extreme black grindcore) were my favorite bands. I got into Meshuggah after that. The Offspring was one of my favorites for a long time, saw someone mention them, a lot of people here also seem to be into Devin Townsend/Strapping, which is great too


**Edit, realized you said guitarist and not singer

 

[xbox]

1. Katatonia
2. A Perfect Circle
3. Tool
4. Metallica
5. Chevelle

I have a lot more.

 

[Umenneske]

1. Foetus - experimental, dark, old school industrial. very special, love it or hate it.

2. Coppelius - german band, 19th century style. "metal" without guitars, but with clarinets, cello & contrabass. they call it "chambercore" or "heavy wood". beautiful and aesthetic. yet aggressive.

3. The Sisters of Mercy - everyone should know them.

4. Stillste Stund - "stillest hour". german band, very philosophical and atmospheric.

5. Nine Inch Nails - Should be known too.

 

[kubikub]

Shit... this was hard.
Radiohead
Devendra Banhart
Timber Timbre
PJ Harvey
Muse

Here are the rest of the contenders. Couldn't resist.
Crystal Castles
Blood Brothers
Gogol Bordello
Nosaj Thing
MGMT
Boards of Canada
Velvet Underground
Flying Lotus
Portishead
Henry Homesweet
Bjork
PJ Harvey
Jimi Hendrix
Eskmo
Igorrr
of Montreal
Justice
Daft Punk
Ratatat
Tycho
Muse
Beirut
The Avalanches
Naono
Bibio
Bloody Beetroots
Ceremony

 

[snafupants]

Talking Heads
Deerhunter
Brian Eno
Dinosaur Jr.
My Bloody Valentine
Fleetwood Mac
Nirvana
Wilco
The Cure
Roxy Music
Thelonious Monk
Breeders
Radiohead
Sonic Youth
David Bowie
Animal Collective
Randy Newman
The National
Modest Mouse

Spoiler

All respectable artists and bands, at least to me, but beyond that, I can't say much more. Too disparate to rank.

 

[Sternschild]

The Strokes
Oasis
Led Zeppelin
ELO
The Killers

 

[snafupants]

Does anyone take these electronic/rave bands as serious music? Bands like Skrillex and Deadmau5...in spite of the phrasing to that question, it's meant completely sincerely...well, half sincerely. I mean, I would definitely (temporarily!) lose my shit at a concert like that, but come on, in the light of day is it really meant to be taken as authentic music? Can some bleeps survive the test of time? Maybe bleeps with sentiment or thought behind their construction, but bleeps...does anyone think the "music" goes beyond that?

 

[Lydia]

- Depeche Mode - This band is INTPish. You are an incomplete INTP without liking these. Then again, leave them for me.

- Survivor
- Reo Speedwagon - This band is also INTPish. You are an incomplete INTP without liking these. Then again + again, leave them for me.
- Belinda Carlisle
- Bon Jovi

 

[Dalrymple]

The Band
My Morning Jacket
Futurebirds
DBT
James McMurtry

 

[Trepidation]

I feel kind of awkward saying this since most people find it annoying, but I love to listen to just about anything with Vocaloids doing the singing, though if I had to pick bands I would say...

fripSide - J-pop/trance
Nightwish - Melodic Gothic Metal
Trivium - Death metal/Metalcore
Aya Hirano - J-pop
Assorted Vocaloid songs, I love the Vocaloids, their songs cover just about every genre.

 

[georgedepp]

My favourite bands are:
1. Kiss.
2. Deo.
3. Oasis.
4. REM.
5. Queen.

 

[boristhespider]

The Who
The Jam
Oasis
The Stone Roses
The Creation
...and a lot of others. I love 70's punk and Rock and roll.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Currently:
Electric Wizard
Electric Wizard
Electric Wizard
Electric Wizard
Electric Wizard

Been listening to them heavily for several months straight.

 

[Oedipus]

In no particular order:
Regina Spektor
The White Stripes
Bob Dylan
Billy Joel
Mott The Hoople

 

[keekins]

Not in this particular order, just these bands.

1. Mixtapes
2. Showbread
3. Pink Floyd
4. The Beatles
5. Zebrahead
6. The Waybacks

I STRONLY recommend these bands to everyone. The genres are all quite different, but they're the only bands that I really listen to consistently.

 

[samjonathan]

The Stone Roses - my all time favourite band, i strongly strongly recommend this band, i have never met another person who loves them as much as i do and i've been hoping, however naive it may be, that it's an INTP thing
The Smiths - for some reason music is one of the only things that makes me "feel" things and i feel some weird irrational connection to the Smiths and the things their songs are about, or maybe it's just because i was bought up listening to them
Air - i don't really know why, thet're just good
Friendly Fires - well i saw them when they came to where i live and they were one of the best bands i have ever seen live, listening to them reminds me of the feeling of being there

i don't have a no. 5