Music Survey

r2g2 · October 2005

This survey is an effort to learn more about you and your friends musical tastes and maybe even discover music that might have went unnoticed or just never given a chance.

Group of bands that you feel best represents your taste in tunes.
I'm all over the map!! A little debauchery mixed with social conscience-- I know shit or get off the pot-what can I say.
Pearl Jam, White Stripes, Ben Harper, Guns & Roses, Nirvana, STP, Led Zep, Alice in Chains, The Who, Elvis, CCR, The Doors, The Beatles

Band you enjoy that you consider outside of your personal box.
The Mars Volta
Willie Nelson

Guilty Pleasure
Billy Idol
Poison
Warrant

Band(s) you admire from afar but not really your cup of tea
While I like some of their music, overall I'd have to say Bruce Springsteen, REM

Band(s) you despise with every fabric of your being.
Nickleback
Creed
Any rap past 95

Overrated...
I like some from all these bands but they are blown out of proportion...
U2, biggest doesn't mean best
Rolling Stones
Aerosmith 80's-present
Dave Matthews

Underrated
Pearl Jam
Ben Harper
Black Crowes (AMORICA)

Current music you enjoy
new to me..but not necessarily new
Modest Mouse
Stereophonics
Muse
Placebo
My Chemical Romance - Helena
Keane
Robert Plant - Shine it all around

Best old school
Debauchery wins out here.
The Doors followed by Led Zep, The Who, Beatles

Stupid Song(s) you love.
B-52's - Rock Lobster, Love Shack
White Stripes - We are gonna be friends
S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y NIGHT!!!!! - I don't know who sings it but everyone knows the song.
RAM JAM - Black Betty
Numerous Beck and Flaming Lips songs

Alone on an island with 1 album
Vitalogy -Pearl Jam

wolfbear · October 2005

Wow, I really like this. I have to take some time to think about it before I post though. I can't wait to see what everyone thinks.

gtbrown77 · October 2005

Group of bands that you feel best represents your taste in tunes.
---Pearl Jam, MetallicA, Dave Matthews Band, The Beatles, Jeff Buckley, Bob Marley & The Wailers, John Coltrane, Eric Clapton

Band you enjoy that you consider outside of your personal box.
---Cradle of Filth, Johnny Cash

Guilty Pleasure
---Michael Jackson

Band(s) you admire from afar but not really your cup of tea
---The Ramones

Band(s) you despise with every fabric of your being.
---Fleetwood Mac

Overrated...
---Nirvana, Greatful Dead

Underrated
---Soulfly, Incubus, Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals

Current music you enjoy
---Devildriver - The Fury Of Our Maker's Hand
---The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan

Best old school
----The Beatles

Stupid Song(s) you love.
---Veggie Tales "Silly Songs With Larry"

Alone on an island with 1 album
---Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend

keyser_soze · October 2005

Group of bands that you feel best represents your taste in tunes.
Pearl Jam, Sigur Ros, Mastodon,Neil Young, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Deftones,
Jeff Buckley, Tool

Band you enjoy that you consider outside of your personal box.
Johnny Cash
Ray Charles

Guilty Pleasure
Creed
Silverchair

Band(s) you admire from afar but not really your cup of tea
Melvins,

Band(s) you despise with every fabric of your being.
Nickelback
EMO
gangsta rap

Overrated...
I like some from all these bands but they are blown out of proportion...
Nirvana - awesome but STILL overrated
SOAD - Mezmerize

Underrated
Adore - Smashing Pumpkins
Up - R.E.M.

Current music you enjoy
new to me..but not necessarily new
Slayer
Sepultura
Marilyn Manson

Best old school
Led Zep, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, The Doors, The Kinks

Stupid Song(s) you love.
I Wanna Rock And Roll All Night (And Part Of Every Day)

Sometimes - Britney Spears (it's pretty) ((((gay))))

Alone on an island with 1 album
i'd bring my iPod (must not forget the iStation also)!!!!

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worldwide_suicide · October 2005

Group of bands that you feel best represents your taste in tunes.
---Pearl Jam, Opeth, Sigur Rós, Múm, Mike Patton (all of his projects), Explosions in the sky, Alice In Chains, Anathema, Cat Power

Band you enjoy that you consider outside of your personal box.
---Mecano

Guilty Pleasure
---Madonna's Ray Of Light

Band(s) you admire from afar but not really your cup of tea
---The Ramones

Band(s) you despise with every fabric of your being.
---those pop-punk bands, don't know their name

Overrated...
---Nirvana, Foo Fighters, A Perfect Circle

Underrated
---Anathema, Múm

Current music you enjoy
---Kaada/Patton- Romances
---Sigur Rós- Takk
---Opeth- Ghost Reveries

Best old school
----The Beatles

Stupid Song(s) you love.
---Pearl Jam- bugs

Alone on an island with 1 album
---Pearl Jam- Binaural

intodeep · October 2005

Group of bands that you feel best represents your taste in tunes.

Neil Young, Pearl Jam, Wilco, Dinosaur Jr, Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, alice in chains, the mars volta

Band you enjoy that you consider outside of your personal box.

Miles Davis is the best example of this for me.

Guilty Pleasure

Hmmm I do'nt have many guilty pleasures. Maybe stuff like the cranberries early stuff and i liked jewel's first album a bit... (don't tell anyone

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Band(s) you admire from afar but not really your cup of tea

Dave Matthews Band, Bob Dylan, Beattles.
I respect all of the above but for one reason or another never really got heavy into them

Band(s) you despise with every fabric of your being.

Godsmack, Creed, Matchbox 20, Train, good charlotte, boy bands, singers who don't write their own lyrics and music.

Overrated...

Green Day, Nirvanna, 311, Incubus

Underrated

Minus the Bear

Current music you enjoy

I have been listening ot My Morning Jacket for 2 years now, but i used to just own It still Moves. I now own 3 albums and an ep and i listen to them everyday.

Best old school

Neil Young, Pink Floyd, Doors

Stupid Song(s) you love.

Tainted Love

Alone on an island with 1 album

If i can bring my ipod it's coming if not... maybe boston 3 boot? If it needs to be a proper album.....Pearl Jam's ten.

viggs20 · October 2005

Group of bands that you feel best represents your taste in tunes :

Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Blind Melon, Led Zeppelin, Tool, Opeth, Radiohead, Joy Division, Portishead, Dredg, Joni Mitchell, David Bowie, The Velvet Underground, Sigur Ros.

Band you enjoy that you consider outside of your personal box :

Hella.

Guilty Pleasure :

Bon Jovi, Ace of Base, Def Leppard, 90's techno and dance music.

Band(s) you admire from afar but not really your cup of tea :

Kraftwerk, Tom Waits, Pavement, My Bloody Valentine, Elliott Smith, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sonic Youth.

Band(s) you despise with every fabric of your being :

Too many to list - *Insert any manufactured band*

Overrated :

Chris Cornell, The Who, The Ramones, Beach Boys, Jeff Buckley, The Arcade Fire.

Underrated :

Dredg, Opeth, Joni Mitchell, Joy Division, Nico, Beth Gibbons, Unified Theory, Magazine, King Crimson.

Current music you enjoy :

Opeth, Dredg, Mastodon, Isis, Andrew Bird, Sleater-Kinney, Architecture in Helsinki, TV On The Radio....lots more

Best old school :

The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd...etc

Stupid Song(s) you love :

Don't you want me ~ The Human League.
Der Kommisar ~ After the Fire.
Valley Girl ~ Frank Zappa.

Alone on an island with 1 album :

Dark Side of the Moon ~ Pink Floyd.

CM1847 · October 2005

Group of bands that you feel best represents your taste in tunes.
--Pearl Jam, Radiohead, White Stripes

Band you enjoy that you consider outside of your personal box.
--The Clash

Guilty Pleasure
--Bush

Band(s) you admire from afar but not really your cup of tea
--Sigur Ros

Band(s) you despise with every fabric of your being.
--Chingy
--Creed
--Nickleback and pretty much anything else new on modern rock radio today(not because i'm too indie for them or any of that crap, they just all sound alike and suck!)

Overrated...
--Radiohead: one of my favorites, but too often people just kiss their ass for anything they do rather than forming an actual opinion of their own about their music
--Audioslave: Again, I enjoy them, but they are an average band based on what they have done so far together.

Underrated
--Bright Eyes
--The Shins

Current music you enjoy
--Broken Social Scene
--My Morning Jacket

Best old school
--Jimi

Stupid Song(s) you love.
--South Side(Moby & Gwen)

Alone on an island with 1 album
--Pearl Jam - Seattle 2

barcoach · October 2005

This is fun!

Group of bands that you feel best represents your taste in tunes.
The Cure, The Velvet Underground, The Pixies, Kraftwerk, Bruce & the E St. Band, Charly García, Soda Stereo, Counting Crows, Tom Waits, PJ, Bjork, Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Smiths, Jeff Buckley, Fito Paez, Daniel Higienico, Tosca, Nick Cave, Ministry, Morphine, Jaco Pastorius, Fito Paez, Kronos Quartet, MMW

Band you enjoy that you consider outside of your personal box.
I have a wide personal box, there's nothing I enjoy that I'd say wouldn't fit my personal taste. Just for the sake of weirdness let's say Matmos.

Guilty Pleasure
Shakira

Band(s) you admire from afar but not really your cup of tea
David Byrne, Antony & the Johnsons, Muse, all those progressive metal bands

Band(s) you despise with every fabric of your being.
The Strokes, STP, Coldplay, Creed, Limp Bizkshit, Kings of Leon, all those so-called punk and emo crap bands.

Overrated...
U2, The White Stripes, Franz Ferdinand, Depeche Mode, Coldplay

Underrated
Counting Crows, Mclusky, Shawn Smith, British Sea Power, Johnny Thunders, The Dresden Dolls, The Weakerthans, Stars

Current music you enjoy
Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, new Sigur Ros, new The New Pornographers, new Ryan Adams, Daniel Lanois' Belladonna, Magazine, Niña, Entre Rios, The Weakerthans, Stars, The Raveonettes (I only include my most recent musical discoveries.)

Best old school
The Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, The Rolling Stones, Kraftwerk, Leonard Cohen, The Who, Neil Young, Serge Geinsbourg, Jacques Brel, The Trashmen, BB King

Stupid Song(s) you love.
Man, I don't know, I guess it depends on what everyone considers stupid. Just like that guy on a Rush concert "you're watching one of the 10 best bands ever, and in that list there's no Beatles, or Stones, or any of those stupid things."

Alone on an island with 1 album
This is tough... Could be Born to Run, could be Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, could be the Essential Stravinsky

Echoes · October 2005

Group of bands that you feel best represents your taste in tunes.
---The Mountain Goats, Matthew Good, The Weakerthans, My Bloody Valentine, The Decemberists, Bright Eyes, Mastodon, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Iron Maiden, DragonForce, K-OS, Radiohead, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pavement, Finntroll, Sufjan Stevens, The Beatles, Dillinger Escape Plan, Mogwai

Band you enjoy that you consider outside of your personal box.
---ummmm if I enjoy them I would consider that they define my taste

Guilty Pleasure
---Pearl Jam, Bon Jovi sometimes, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Grateful Dead

Band(s) you admire from afar but not really your cup of tea
---The Ramones, Joy Division, maybe even some Bruce SPringsteen

Band(s) you despise with every fabric of your being.
---U2, Coldplay, Audioslave, Velvet Revolver

Overrated...
---U2, Coldplay, Audioslave, Velvet Revolver, Nirvana

Underrated
---My Bloody Valentine, Slint, The Go! Team, Clann Zu

Current music you enjoy
---Beach Boys - "Wouldn't It Be Nice"
---Modest Mouse - "Doin' The Cockroach

Best old school
----The Beatles

Stupid Song(s) you love.
---some Aerosmith Songs from the early 90's

Alone on an island with 1 album
---Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

U-R · October 2005

represents my taste in tunes:
psytrance/acid/techno junkie over here, names probably wouldn't mean much to ppl here but a few anyway: redax mental, chris liberator, wetmusik, hallucinogen, talamasca, chemical brothers.
on the guitar based/alternative front: TOOL, deftones, apc, pumpkins, incubus, ratm, faith no more, aic, soulfly, metallica (old), the butterfly effect (aussie band), slipknot, u2 (old), ledzep, floyd, muse, tommy emmanuel (aussie guitar genius), the tea party... that's the first batch that comes to mind.

band i enjoy but consider outside my personal box:
a bit of hiphop. not much but a bit ie: pharcyde, cypress hill, easy e.

guilty pleasure:
hehe i'm gonna go out on a limb here... there are a couple of limp bizkit songs i still don't mind

admire from afar:
primus, guitar wizards such as yngewie and vai... freak talents but boring to listen to

bands i despise:
anything i've heard and so intensley disliked i wouldn't remember the names of really

overrated:
damn near anything you'd hear on the radio.

underrated:
a bunch of aussie bands that i listen to and don't understand why they aren't huge. to name a couple: k-oscilate, the rush effect, epicure, the grand silent system. tommy emmanuel is brilliant too, look for his stuff online

current music:
most of the bands/artists i listed above, and plenty more

best old school:
floyd

stupid song i like:
informer - snow. one hit wonder but that song kicked ass and still does

alone on an island with one album:
TOOL - AENIMA

U-R · October 2005

did i forget something up there?... oh yeah, pearl jam

hehe *dumbass*

Jellyrolls · October 2005

represents my taste in tunes:
Lamb of God, Oasis, Opeth, Tool, Trivium, As I lay Dying, Mudvayne, Alice in Chains, Dr Dre, Jay-z, Pink Floyd, Incubus, A Perfect Circle, Beck, Presidents of the United States

band i enjoy but consider outside my personal box:
Bob Dylan

guilty pleasure:
Kelly Clarkson
admire from afar:
Grateful dead

bands i despise:
Radiohead

overrated:
Radiohead, Nirvana

underrated:
Lamb of God, Trivium, Incubus

current music:
Everyone I listed.

best old school:
floyd

stupid song i like:
Liam Lych - United States of Whatever

alone on an island with one album:
Lamb of God

Klaypersonne · October 2005

represents my taste in tunes:
Radiohead, The Mars Volta, Arcade Fire, Minus The Bear, Sigur Ros, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Explosions In The Sky, The Flaming Lips, Oceansize, Wilco, Modest Mouse, Super Furry Animals, The Microphones

band i enjoy but consider outside my personal box:
Porcupine Tree, Tool

guilty pleasure:
Cake, Jamiroquai, Royksopp

admire from afar:
Ambulance LTD, older Metallica, Tori Amos, Beck

bands i despise:
The vast majority of "music" heard on poular radio stations

overrated:
Coldplay, The Strokes, Nine Inch Nails, Franz Ferdinand

underrated:
Minus The Bear, The Flaming Lips, The Microphones, Explosions In The Sky, Oceansize

current music:
Pretty much everything I listed at the top

best old school:
Pink Floyd, The Beatles

stupid song i like:
Deerhoof-Milk Man(Not really stupid, but some people might say so)

alone on an island with one album:
De-Loused In The Comatorium(so hard to choose)

transplant · October 2005

Group of bands that you feel best represents your taste in tunes.
---Bob Dylan, Pearl Jam, Bob Mould, REM, Queensryche, Bad Religion, Social Distortion, Archers of Loaf, Pink Floyd

Band you enjoy that you consider outside of your personal box.
---Belle and Sebastian

Guilty Pleasure
---Bon Jovi, Linkin Park

Band(s) you admire from afar but not really your cup of tea
---The Beatles

Band(s) you despise with every fabric of your being.
---none. I would rather be in a shitty band instead of sitting in front of this computer

Overrated...
---Soundgarden, Alice in Chains

Underrated
---Rocket From the Crypt, Husker Du

Current music you enjoy
---Jose Gonzales
---High on Fire

Best old school
----The Rolling Stones

Stupid Song(s) you love.
---?

Alone on an island with 1 album
---Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

sadprofessor · October 2005

Group of bands that you feel best represents your taste in tunes.
----Pearl Jam, R.E.M. Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, Bob Dylan, Tool, The Cure, Bad Religion, Nine Inch Nails

Band you enjoy that you consider outside of your personal box.
----Underworld, Guns N Roses

Guilty Pleasure
----Green Day, Mighty mighty bosstones

Band(s) you admire from afar but not really your cup of tea
----Sonic Youth

Overrated...
----RATM

Underrated
----David Bowie, Social Distortion, Nick Cave

Current music you enjoy
----Flaming Lips, Elliott Smith, Pavement

Best old school
----Dylan

Stupid Song(s) you love
----Rock Lobster

Alone on an island with 1 album
----New Adventures in HiFi

nextmovesideways · October 2005

Group of bands that you feel best represents your taste in tunes.

Neil Young, Wilco, R.E.M., The Beatles, Elvis Costello, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Talking Heads, (I was trying to go for 10, but this is tough), Stevie Wonder (the classic era), toss up between Radiohead and Pearl Jam,

Band you enjoy that you consider outside of your personal box.

I'm going to say most classical music. I've never known where to start. Some of it scares me as well. Nine Inch Nails and Ministry are out of the personal box as well.

Guilty Pleasure

Supertramp, ABBA

Band(s) you admire from afar but not really your cup of tea

A lot of punk bands like Bad Religion, Black Flag/Henry Rollins, Bad Brains.

Band(s) you despise with every fabric of your being.

Staind, Creed, Alanis Morrisette, Live, Boston (could be guilty pleasure), Kansas. And I really do not like System of a Down. Nothing they are doing now that Frank Zappa didn't do 35 years ago. Limp Biskit.

Overrated...

The White Stripes. I honestly wish they would just go away.

Underrated

Sam Phillips, Freedy Johnston, the Jayhawks, Pete Droge

Current music you enjoy

I will admiit that I haven't listened to much new music lately, past couple years or so. But I have gotten into Tool in the past year or so (although that really isn't new), and I do really enjoy the Mars Volta. Ben Harper is about my favorite new artist of the past ten years.

Best old school

Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Creedence Clearwater Revival

Stupid Song(s) you love.

"I Want You Back" - The Jackson 5

Alone on an island with 1 album

Toss up between "Blonde on Blonde" (Bob Dylan), "1967-70" (the Beatles),

BUENA · October 2005

Group of bands that you feel best represents your taste in tunes.
Fugazi, R.E.M., Pearl Jam, Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Sonic Youth, Bruce Springsteen, Beck, El Guapo, Q and Not U, Pink Floyd, The Evens, Yes, Miles Davis

Band you enjoy that you consider outside of your personal box.
Johnny Cash, Roberta Flack, Boogie Down Productions

Guilty Pleasure
Night Ranger, Third Eye Blind, Lindsey Buckingham

Band(s) you admire from afar but not really your cup of tea
Today's bling Bling rap... while not so tremendous to me, has pop culture by the nuts.

Band(s) you despise with every fabric of your being.
Trapt

Overrated...
Rolling Stones - It ended a long time ago
U2 - Marketing over music... iBONO

Underrated
Stereophonics
Athlete
Muse
Lungfish
Beauty Pill
Tori Amos
Dan Bern

Current music you enjoy new to me..but not necessarily new
Ryan Adams - Cold Roses
The Evens - The Evens
Lungfish - Feral Hymns
Bright Eyes - Digital Ash i na Digital Urn

Best old school
Run DMC, Bruce Springsteen, Slade, Beatles, JIMI Hendrix

Stupid Song(s) you love.
Tommy Shaw - Girls With Guns
Dweezil & Ament Zappa - "Baby One More Time" (yes its a Britney cover)
Ass Ponys - "Little Bastard"
OMC - "How Bizzare"

Alone on an island with 1 album

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? How does one answer that?
hmmm... Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage

lanners · October 2005

Group of bands that you feel best represents your taste in tunes.
-Pearl Jam, Lamb, Radiohead, Tori Amos, Ben Harper, The Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, Frou Frou, The Killers, Bjork, Green Day

Band you enjoy that you consider outside of your personal box.
-Linkin Park (ducks to avoid the backlash), Jurassic 5, Aphrodite, Paul Anka (Swing Rocks is incredible!), K-OS

Guilty Pleasure
-cheesy late 90s house music (Armand Van Helden, Groove Armada, Madison Avenue, Camisra)
-musicals (i.e. Moulin Rouge, broadway shows)

Band(s) you admire from afar but not really your cup of tea
-i'll have to get back to you on that

Band(s) you despise with every fabric of your being.
-Nickleback and any other band that sounds like them (i.e. Theory of a Deadman)
-Either one of the brain dead Simpson sisters, Ashlee, Jessica, doesn't matter! i know, not a band, but i really despise them that much that i have to include them

Overrated...
-U2 - while i applaud Bono's passion for ending poverty, i'm tired of looking at him and the band's music hasn't done anything much for me since Achtung Baby

Underrated
-Lamb (even thought they broke up)
-Frou Frou
-The Postal Service

Current music you enjoy
-i'm knee deep in EMO these days, the Garden State soundtrack and rekindling my love of PJ

Best old school
Public Enemy, Led Zeppelin, The Who

Stupid Song(s) you love.
-Don't Call Me Baby/Let Me Show You remix-Madison Avenue and Camisra
-Love @ First Sight- Kylie Minogue
-just about any of the songs on Philadelphia Chickens (my niece plays it a lot)

Alone on an island with 1 album

oh god...i've got it whittled down to Lamb-Lamb, Pearl Jam-Rearviewmirror or the Garden State Soundtrack.

tybird · October 2005

Group of bands that you feel best represents your taste in tunes:
Pearl Jam, Drive-by Truckers, Kate Bush, King Crimson, Primus, Led Zeppelin, U2, Sleater-Kinney, Metallica, Neil Young, Genesis (prior to 1985), Peter Gabriel, Hole, Dwight Yoakam, Tori Amos

Band you enjoy that you consider outside of your personal box:
The Go-Gos
No Doubt
Public Enemy (along w/Ice-T the only rap I will listen to)

Guilty Pleasure:
The Bangles
Liz Phair
Bananarama
Adam and the Ants

Band(s) you admire from afar but not really your cup of tea:
I will also go with Springsteen, and maybe Cheap Trick.

Band(s) you despise with every fabric of your being.
Motley Crue (above all other bands...the absolute worst)
Jars of Clay (can someone please break these jars!)
Dave Matthews Band (it all sounds the same to me)

Overrated...
Grateful Dead (just can't catch the groove or the reasoning)
The Rolling Stones (nothing new to add since about 1981...)

Underrated:
Pearl Jam
Sleater-Kinney
Neil Young
Drive-by Truckers

Current music you enjoy
new to me..but not necessarily new:
Drive-by Truckers (I'm a later comer to this band)
Sleater-Kinney (2003 tour opener wins my ear)
Magneta Lane

Best old school:
The Who
Led Zeppelin
King Crimson (the three albums w/Jon Wetton as lead singer/bassist)
The Beatles (always worth a mention. They are the cornerstone)
Buck Owens (Yes, I really said Buck Owens!)
Johnny Cash

Stupid Song(s) you love:
Kylie Minogue-"Can't Get You out of My Head"
Luscious Jackson-"Naked Eye"
Paul McCartney and Wings-"Magneto and Titanium Man"
Sleater-Kinney w/Fred Schneider-"Angry Inch"
Adrian Belew-"Big Electric Cat"

Alone on an island with 1 album:
Is "Rearviewmirror" considered cheating??? If yes, then King Crimson "Red"

Eraserhead · October 2005

Group of bands that you feel best represents your taste in tunes.
Pearl Jam, NIN, Ministry, Einsturzende Neubauten, Godflesh, Isis, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, Depeche Mode, David Bowie, Pink Floyd

Band you enjoy that you consider outside of your personal box.
This question is a paradox

Guilty Pleasure
Bon Jovi

Band(s) you admire from afar but not really your cup of tea
Minor Threat

Band(s) you despise with every fabric of your being.
Wildhearts
Pantera
Slayer

Overrated...
Led Zep

Underrated
A Silver Mt Zion
Arcade Fire

Current music you enjoy
Pearl Jam
ASMZ
Arcade Fire

Best old school
Pink Floyd

Stupid Song(s) you love.
Anything by Presidents of the USA!

Alone on an island with 1 album
Live on Two Legs - Pearl Jam

wolfbear · December 2005

He,he, I saved this thread thinking I would respond soon. Well, it's not soon, but I think it's time to resurrect it.

1. Represents: Rock from the 60's and 90's. PJ, Doors, AIC, Soundgarden, Neil Young, Stones, Beatles, Depeche Mode, Led Zep, etc.

2. Outside box: Old blues and classical. Love it but don't listen much.

3. Guilty pleasure: Monkees.

4. Admire: Pink Floyd, Allman Brothers, Radiohead.

5. Despise: Country.

6. Overrated: Anything pop.

7. Underrated: Pearl Jam

8. Current: Arcade Fire

9. Old school: See #1

10. Stupid: Mr. Roboto, Styx

11. Island: PJ - Vitology

VictoryGin · December 2005

Group of bands that you feel best represents your taste in tunes:
Sleater-Kinney, Pearl Jam, Elliott Smith, Gang of Four, Old Liz Phair, Juliana Hatfield, Otis Redding, Metric, Matt Pond PA, The Decemberists, Heavens to Betsey

Band you enjoy that you consider outside of your personal box.
I don't know, my box is pretty inclusive.

Guilty Pleasure
Used to be Eminem.

Band(s) you admire from afar but not really your cup of tea
Arcade Fire

Band(s) you despise with every fabric of your being.
Bright Eyes
Architecture in Helsinki (that almost incites violence)
Crap rock and psuedo-retro shit

Overrated...
Nirvana
The Killers

Underrated
Any of my favorites

Current music you enjoy
Spoon, Matt Pond PA, The Decemberists, Sleater-Kinney, Quasi

Best old school
Gang of Four
The Who

Stupid Song(s) you love.
Cheap Trick- Surrender

Alone on an island with 1 album
Dig me Out, Sleater-Kinney

ms11781 · December 2005

Group of bands that you feel best represents your taste in tunes.
The Clash, Pearl Jam, Rage Against The Machine, Van Morrison, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Mike Patton

Band you enjoy that you consider outside of your personal box.
Weezer's first two albums

Guilty Pleasure
Elton John
Michael Jackson

Band(s) you admire from afar but not really your cup of tea
The Beatles

Band(s) you despise with every fabric of your being.
Guns N Roses
Linkin Park
Van Halen

Overrated...
The Beatles
Nirvana
Guns N Roses
U2

Underrated
Tomahawk

Current music you enjoy
Tomahawk - Mit Gas
Mike Patton/Rahzel bootleg I got my hands on
RATM - Grand Olympic show
QOTSA- Rated R

Best old school
The Clash's self-titled album - Punk rock at its peak.

Stupid Song(s) you love.
H20's cover of Madonna's "Like A Prayer"

Alone on an island with 1 album
The Clash - From Here to Eternity

AndySlash · December 2005

Group of bands that you feel best represents your taste in tunes.

Pink Floyd, Pearl Jam, Pixies, Johnny Cash, Peter Gabriel, Wyclef Jean, Janet Jackson, James Horner, DJ Shadow, Mussorgsky. Yeah, that'll do.

Bands you enjoy that you consider outside of your personal box.
A Silver Mt. Zion
...Trail of Dead
Nick Drake

Guilty Pleasures
Janet Jackson
Sade
Weird Al Yankovic
Sesame Street music

Band(s) you admire from afar but not really your cup of tea
Tupac
Frank Zappa
Grateful Dead

Band(s) you despise with every fabric of your being.
Pretty much any modern country act like Toby Keith and Tim McGraw
Creed/Nickelback/Shinedown/modern 'grunge' acts
No-talent pre-fab pop artists like Ashlee Simpson and 98 Degrees.

Overrated...
See above.

Underrated
Blind Melon
Black Heart Procession
JJ Cale

Current music you enjoy
Secret Machines
The Mars Volta
The Ponys

Best old school
Classic Rock
Johnny Cash
Vince Guaraldi Trio

Stupid Song(s) you love.
Love Rollercoaster- RHCP
Popcorn- Hot Butter
Chop Suey- Richard Cheese

Alone on an island with 1 album
Echoes- Pink Floyd

LedZepFan · December 2005

Group of bands that you feel best represents your taste in tunes.
I guess id have to say my favorites: U2, Pearl Jam, Led Zeppelin, The Clash, The Doors, The Beatles, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Guns N Roses, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden..I like more older stuff and early 90s stuff than anything

Band you enjoy that you consider outside of your personal box.
My "box" is growing as of late but some of my more explorational stuff recently would be Johnny Cash, Bob Marley & the Wailers, Beck, Sly & the Family Stone, Jack Irons' solo album, and the weird euro jazz on the Ocean's Twelve soundtrack lol.

Guilty Pleasure
Green Day
some of INXS' stuff
sometimes Franz Ferdinand, but I can get sick of em

Band(s) you admire from afar but not really your cup of tea
cant think of a good answer for this one

Band(s) you despise with every fabric of your being.
Nickleback
Creed
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Yes
Genesis

Overrated...
THE RAMONES
SEX PISTOLS

Underrated
Pearl Jam's work post Vitalogy(ESPECIALLY YIELD)
The Cult
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Current music you enjoy
not much..
Pearl Jam
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Beck
new recordings by old artists(new Stones, new McCartney etc)
Audioslave
Foo Fighters
NIN
Red Hot Chili Peppers

Best old school
Led Zeppelin, The Doors, The Beatles, The Stones

Stupid Song(s) you love.
again, couldn't think of any

Alone on an island with 1 album
Ten or VS -Pearl Jam

iwalke · December 2005

Group of bands that you feel best represents your taste in tunes:
Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, Soundgarden, Muse, Oasis, Rise Against, New Radicals, Incubus, Tool

Band you enjoy that you consider outside of your personal box:
Saul Williams, Lindsey Pool

Guilty Pleasure:
Michael Jackson

Band(s) you despise with every fabric of your being:
Radiohead
Black Eyed Peas

Overrated:
Nirvana
The Mars Volta

Underrated:
Pearl Jam

Current music you enjoy:
Pearl Jam
Rise Against
Audioslave
Panic! At the Disco

Best old school:
Run DMC, Public Enemy, The Beatles, Michael Jackson

Stupid Song(s) you love:
Chesney Hawkes – I Am the One and Only

Alone on an island with 1 album:
Pearl Jam – Ten (Prefer VS. but I think Ten would be better to listen to if you were stuck on an island

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failedpersephone · December 2005

Group of bands that you feel best represents your taste in tunes.
The Doors, The Who, Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Danzig, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Screaming Trees, PEARL JAM, 10,000 maniacs, Jeff Buckley, Cream, Audioslave, Rem, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Mother Love Bone

Flying Burrito Brothers

Bands you enjoy that you consider outside of your personal box.
RATM
New York Dolls
Beck

Guilty Pleasures
The Killers
The White Stripes
The Darkness (I still think they are in on the joke.)

Band(s) you admire from afar but not really your cup of tea
The Clash
The Ramones
Bruce Springsteen

Band(s) you despise with every fabric of your being.
U2 (generating MORE publicity from the plight of Africa is despicable. Bono lacks authenticity in his actions! MANY very genuine people (musicians included) DO care about Africa, and are able to aid the continent without playing for the cameras.)
Teen Pop (feeds the monster and kills individuality in our children)
Any "Musician" that sings/raps about their money and other material things as if this is a reason to respect/emulate them.
Any "Musician" that doesn't write their own lyrics/music

Overrated...
U2
Nirvana
Green Day
Eminem

Underrated
Alice In Chains (even here, sob! sob!)
The Doors (more than just Morrison in leather pants, people!)
Creedence Clearwater Revival
SCREAMING TREES
Tad!

Current music you enjoy
Uh, The Killers
Modest Mouse
Pearl Jam
Audioslave (hey, lay off- people!)

Best old school
The Doors
Bessie Smith
Merle Haggard
The Who
Cream (Ginger Baker!!!!)

Stupid Song(s) you love.
Every Rose Has It's Thorn
Like A Cowboy
The Young New Mexican Puppeteer (Tom Jones!)

Alone on an island with 1 album
AAAARGH! uh, "The DoorsTenFaceliftGraceMotorfingerApple By Numbers"
yep, I cheated. Sorry

brhf9 · December 2005

Group of bands that you feel best represents your taste in tunes.
- PJ, The Clash, Neil Young, REM, Morrissey/The Smiths.
and also The Who, Bruce Springsteen, New order, Police, The Cure, Rolling Stones, Faith No More, Oasis, Strokes, Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Interpol, bloc party, razorlight...

Bands you enjoy that you consider outside of your personal box.
- "Tehcno/Big Beats" artists like Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Basement jaxx, Crystal Method.
- some rap/hip-hop artists such as Beastie boys, kanye west, fugees, etc.

Guilty Pleasures
- some 80´s stuff (A-ha, B-52´s, Duran duran, INXS, Tears for Fears, sade, Whan/G. Michael, Pet shop Boys, Billy idol, pretenders...and the trio Madonna/M. Jackson/Prince)
- old Rock and RnB from the 50´s and 60´s

Band(s) you admire from afar but not really your cup of tea
- Ramones, U2, Led Zep

Band(s) you despise with every fabric of your being.
- there are a lot of music that i despise( (old/new/hair)metal, most of these "new punk/emo/post grunge" bands) but its not that i hate them. i just ignore and turn my back to them.

Overrated

-Coldplay
-Soundgarden
-Radiohead
-The Doors
-System Of a Down

Underrated

-Razorlight
-manic street preachers

Current music you enjoy

-i am always listening to my favs. + brand new stuff that i just heard about.
but right now i am trying to dig into the pixies and pavement catalogs.

Best old school
- Neil Young

Stupid Song(s) you love.

-to name one and only one:
song 2 - blur

Alone on an island with 1 album

Pearl jam - yield

psycosmic · December 2005

Echoes wrote:

Underrated
---My Bloody Valentine, The Go! Team

did you check out the kevin shields remix of ladyflash?
i thought it was cool but i think i'd rather listen to both seperately...

shahril · December 2005

Group of bands that you feel best represents your taste in tunes.
---Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, The White Stripes, The Strokes, Incubus

Band you enjoy that you consider outside of your personal box.
---Coldplay, Oasis, Nirvana, Sufjan Stevens, Elliott Smith, RHCP, Stevie Ray Vaughan

Guilty Pleasure
---Norah Jones??

Band(s) you admire from afar but not really your cup of tea
---Technically brilliant guitarists/shredders

Band(s) you despise with every fabric of your being.
---Simple Plan, The Killers

Overrated...
---Nirvana, The Killers

Underrated
---Incubus (Pearl Jam had their day, so I wont put em here)

Current music you enjoy
---Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
---Audioslave - Out Of Exile

Best old school
----The Beatles

Stupid Song(s) you love.
---The Strokes - Razorblade,

Alone on an island with 1 album
---Radiohead - OK Computer or Pearl Jam - Yield

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