2nd favorite band

guacamolejoe

upina2001 wrote:

PEARL JAM

Second Favorite........I have a lot of those.....um.............pink floyd, perfect circle/tool, STP, Radiohead, moe, Blind Melon, GNR, Soundgarden, Beck, Tom Petty, Nirvana, the new REM album is great, MMJ, James Taylor, Beatles, Black Crowes, Alice in Chains, Fleetwood Mac, Stones...yes, that's my second place.
(I listen to music at work roughly 9 hours a day. So going thru 10 or 12 discs in a day is no big deal. Often I get bored hearing the same ole crap...)

All those and no Zep?

Yellow Ledbelly

PJ is first
In second right now would be MMJ/Black Crowes/Kings of Leon....those are the ones I'm listening to the most at the moment.
I'm one that my musical obsessions are constantly changing though and its really hard to identify a solid, guaranteed second place. The Crowes are probably my steady second favorite actually.
It's nice to have good music to listen to while on a PJ blackout leading up to Bonnaroo

Danimal

rival9500 wrote:

u2 (here comes all the usual boring u2 sucks comments)

Rounding out the top 5:

iron maiden
depeche mode
deftones

"Bono doesn't hold the record....he IS the record"

YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH!

glasshouse

tom waits

NeverbeenLedbetter

PJ is #1
2nd Tier: Zep, Beatles, STP
3rd Tier: AIC, Beck, Weezer

gabers

spintheblack37 wrote:

1. pearl jam
2. wilco

Me too. I discovered Wilco about four years ago and they've steadily climbed my list. Watch out PJ.

Yellow Ledbelly

gabers wrote:

Me too. I discovered Wilco about four years ago and they've steadily climbed my list. Watch out PJ.

I was first introduced to Wilco when they collaborated with Billy Bragg on that disc of Woody Guthrie songs (the title escapes me) and I liked that a lot. But, they've just never grown on me beyond that for some reason. I put Foxtrot Hotel on just a couple of nights ago and really didn't like it. Obviously they are good or some many folks wouldn't like them so much, but sadly I am unable to join the party.
Am I lost forever or is there some way my mind can be changed?

HushBull

Yellow Ledbelly wrote:

I was first introduced to Wilco when they collaborated with Billy Bragg on that disc of Woody Guthrie songs (the title escapes me) and I liked that a lot. But, they've just never grown on me beyond that for some reason. I put Foxtrot Hotel on just a couple of nights ago and really didn't like it. Obviously they are good or some many folks wouldn't like them so much, but sadly I am unable to join the party.
Am I lost forever or is there some way my mind can be changed?

Try the kicking televisions double live cd of theirs. It made me appreciate a lot of their songs more.

red mos

Yellow Ledbelly wrote:

I was first introduced to Wilco when they collaborated with Billy Bragg on that disc of Woody Guthrie songs (the title escapes me) and I liked that a lot. But, they've just never grown on me beyond that for some reason. I put Foxtrot Hotel on just a couple of nights ago and really didn't like it. Obviously they are good or some many folks wouldn't like them so much, but sadly I am unable to join the party.
Am I lost forever or is there some way my mind can be changed?

It may take some time just to "get" Wilco. I saw them when I was 13 and they Opened for Sheryl Crow. A.M. was the only record they had out at the time. I just didn't really like their alt country sound, but then again at 12 or 13 years of age, I know now that I was pretty ignorant to music taste. I listened to Everything played on the EDGE or the Buzz (pj, Nirvana, Bush) and that was it. Just bands like that. Then I really started to Appreciate music once the whole emo scene came in and dominated the airwaves.
Anyhow, I decided to give Wilco another listen mainly from the hype on this board. I went and saw them live again, 2 months ago and was so blown away. They really do have some amazing albums. YHT is my favorite record of theirs but they are all solid listens. You may just have to be in a certain mood to listen to them. See them live if you haven't, that may be enough to appreciate wilco on a whole new level. That Bill Brag record is called Mermaid Avenue I think. There are 2 albums of it I think. If you still don't "get" Wilco, that's ok. I listened to TOOL, saw them live, after the hype of their live shows, and I was very disappointed. Tool was a band that just doesn't click with me. So you are not "lost" it's all just a matter of personal music taste, you like what you like.

12345AGNST1

1. pearl jam
2.soundgarden

HermanBloom

Currently Blind Melon

Yellow Ledbelly

red mos wrote:

So you are not "lost" it's all just a matter of personal music taste, you like what you like.

Oh yeah, I've not lost any sleep over it by any means, but with limited exposure I thought maybe I have missed something. I've never listened to anything because I was "supposed to" or "should" like it. I'm with you on Tool as well....utter garbage in my opinion but I have friends who think they are great

pools of maroon

#1 PJ, followed by Neil Young, Idlewild and KOL.

The Waiting Trophy Man

The Beatles, and I also love John Lennon solo

meme

I have always thought that Zep were the greatest band, but PJ were my favorite. So I guess they kind of are my second favorite, but I also really really like Radiohead and KOL.

Commy

Tool.

catefrances

red mos wrote:

That Bill Brag record is called Mermaid Avenue I think. There are 2 albums of it I think.

yes it is. and yes there are 2 of them... mermaid ave and mermaid ave vol.2
both rather good imo.

Omega47

mariposa wrote:

1. Pearl Jam
2. The Tragically Hip

The Hip is pretty much the "Pearl Jam of Canada"...not soundwise but more of how they are as a band.
Though...they'll never make it as big outside of Canada like Pearl Jam have outside the States....but that's totally fine I think...because that's more for us!!! They've written about countless and unforgettable songs...that you could simply call Canadiana and could not find anywhere else. And yes they are really awesome especially to their fans, like how direwolf have pointed out many times in this forum. Hip Hip!

I actually got into the Hip first back in '96...then PJ in '98. If there is no PJ...then yep you'll know my answer.

The only reason The Tragically Hip'll never get "exported" is because they're so Canadian. It's cottage music. It's driving music. It's hockey music. It's that band you heard play "that night in Toronto." American's don't do that stuff like Canadians, we've pretty much branded a lot of stuff like that, and to a Canadian, a true close-to-home band like the Hip is a precious way of saying to America, "Ok, you get all that, but we get the Hip, ok?" It's nice. And, my dad, he's probably seen them like 10 times. It's great when they're perpetually in your country, though not always physically, the Hip always seem to take a piece of Canada with them. The Tragically Hip is, well, tragically hip.

supersuckers

My top three (in no particular order):

PJ
Black Crowes
Supersuckers

I was pleasantly surprised to see how many other people listed the Crowes.

stickman

!.) PJ

@.) Stones

#.) The White Stripes


Then in no particular order: Local H, L7, John Lennon, Beatles, and Hole.

(That's pretty much all I listen to is those 8 bands)