Other Music Obsessions

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  • gecko
    gecko Posts: 1,712
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    great thread OP...thank of some members we can talk about music here..thank you

    i just put some Aphrodite's Child to listen now..its like 7 am here..i put them at my dark hours at my 20's
    ...im at 40 years old...and they stop being a band the year i was born...

    fuck yeah..how fuckin powerfull shit is music..

    I used to listen to Aphrodite's Child. Good times.

    Now, I like The Flaming Lips a lot.
    Neil, Jack White, My Morning Jacket are the obvious greats still active.
    Lots of others, but either they are inconsistent or I get bored, don't know. Kinda bored with indie as well.
    Need new PJ.
  • voidofman
    voidofman Posts: 4,009
    brianlux wrote:
    Seeing a wide variety of bands and musicians on this thread does not surprise me. Seeing Link Wray listed does! I love Link Wray. I got to see him once at Winterland and have been a fan for a good 40 years. In the film, "It Might Get Loud", I was thrilled to see Jimmy Page give him credit for his influence on rock and roll.

    Very cool, voidofman!

    I was able to see him at BB King's NY, Spring '95 only a few months before he passed away. Was a great show, small place. He signed my Guitar Preacher: Polydor Years CD and a few other peoples records while his tech tried to find him another guitar that didn't have a broken string.

    In the liner notes for that CD, I think, it is mentioned that Page, Hendrix, Townsend, McCartney, Beck and a few others were influenced by Link. The Neville Brothers have covered a couple of his songs, Fire and Brimstone, and Fallin' Rain. Really like those versions too.
  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    PJ
    Rush
    Phish

    Those are the 3 I collect things from (bootlegs, memorabilia) and see time and time again in concert.
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  • Nevermind90
    Nevermind90 Posts: 722
    Those I always get back to beside Pearl Jam

    Led Zeppelin
    Foo Fighters (90s)
    Dave Matthews Band
    Red Hot chili peppers
    Smashing Pumpkins
    TOOL
    APC
    Nirvana
    Bruce Springsteen
    Neil Young
    My Morning Jacket
    Queens of the stone age
    The tallest man on earth
    (Not proud at all but) Seether
    Alice in Chains
    Bon Iver

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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 51,736
    I am starting to develop a minor obsession with The National maybe.
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  • gbpat54
    gbpat54 Posts: 69
    Wilco
    DMB
    Black Crowes
    QOTSA
    Ben Harper
    and also love me some Avett Brothers ;)
  • Loulou
    Loulou Adelaide Posts: 6,247
    Not sure of they rival PJ but they come the closest:
    Tom Waits
    Morphine
    VAST
    Faith No More
    The Tea Party
    The Cure
    Stone Temple Pilots
    Alice In Chains
    NIN
    David Bowie
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    emf28 Posts: 89
    Bad Religion, The Strokes, and The Avett Brothers
  • buck502000
    buck502000 Birthplace of GIBSON guitar Posts: 8,951
    The National
    David Bowie
    Pavement
    WIlco
    Ryan Adams
    Radiohead
    A.A Bondy - check out American Hearts if you haven't!
    Some band named Pearl Jam.....
  • EZ1221C
    EZ1221C Posts: 2,645
    The National. Can't get enough of them. to a lesser extent, DMB and Gaslight Anthem
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  • zevilone
    zevilone Posts: 349
    Phish and Pink Floyd
  • gfnk001
    gfnk001 Posts: 652
    When I do listen to other music, which is rare it's in this order:
    The Doors
    Pink Floyd
    Radiohead
    Springsteen
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  • thecrystalship
    thecrystalship Dublin, Ireland Posts: 36
    Lately I've been listening to a lot of John Frusciante. He's got some great stuff.
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  • veddertown
    veddertown Scotland Posts: 5,260
    There's tons of bands I've followed for years but you could probably say I'm obsessed about all things to do with Mark Lanegan. My favourite singer by far and a great lyricist too. I've followed him since around 1990 through his work with Screaming Trees right up to his most recent collaboration with Duke Garwood. The man has barely put a foot wrong musically and he never gets boring or stale... :)
    Like a book among the many on a shelf...

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  • I_Am_Mine_Dawn
    I_Am_Mine_Dawn West Chester, PA Posts: 44,854
    too many....
    8/28/98- Camden, NJ
    10/31/09- Philly
    5/21/10- NYC
    9/2/12- Philly, PA
    7/19/13- Wrigley
    10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
    10/21/13- Philly, PA
    10/22/13- Philly, PA
    10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
    4/28/16- Philly, PA
    4/29/16- Philly, PA
    5/1/16- NYC
    5/2/16- NYC
    9/2/18- Boston, MA
    9/4/18- Boston, MA
    9/14/22- Camden, NJ
    9/7/24- Philly, PA
    9/9/24- Philly, PA
    Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
    Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
    RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
  • Miss Colada
    Miss Colada Posts: 167
    EZ1221C wrote:
    The National. Can't get enough of them. to a lesser extent, DMB and Gaslight Anthem

    I agree, simply, utterly love The National. If i can't decide what music to listen to its either PJ or The National. Can't wait to see them at Splendour (not everyone is going to Wrigley :lol: )
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  • corduroykelly
    corduroykelly Posts: 668
    Keith Urban
  • AO253126
    AO253126 Posts: 367
    Great thread... not sure how I missed this back in April.

    In terms of obsession to the point where "I need to own every piece of music they ever release, usually in multiple formats, I'll wear their t-shirts in public, I'll mount their posters on my wall, I'll travel cross-country to see their shows" the only band that tops PJ for me is Dead Can Dance. If they were only half as prolific as PJ in terms of releasing singles, official bootlegs, dvds, posters, etc, then they'd have lot more of my money by now :lol:

    On par with PJ are New Order (although they've really let me down the last few years), U2, Saint Etienne and many of PJ's side projects: Brad, RNDM, Mad Season, Soundgarden ;)

    There are obviously a ton of other bands that I listen to and thoroughly enjoy (The Beatles, R.E.M., Zeppelin, Joy Division, The Cure, The Stone Roses, The Police, 1980's-era Queensryche, etc) but the artists above pretty much do it all for me.

    No ridiculing my taste in music please :)
  • AO253126
    AO253126 Posts: 367
    Suziemay wrote:
    Anything Chris Cornell touches :D

    Does that include Scream?

    Personally, I think it get's an unfair rap, but I like it. It will never go down in the annals of time as a classic, but I honestly like it as much as any of his other solo albums...
  • lcusick
    lcusick Posts: 310
    My first obsession was Cat Stevens (I am old!) listened to him constantly from age 13 to 15, then Neil Young age 15 to 22,then as I got way older: DMB, and Pearl Jam. I love other groups but not as obsessed as these four.

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