Good evening.

Has anyone bought any albums lately? Not necessarily ones that have been recorded recently, but perhaps you've bought an album that has been out years.

I was just wondering if anything has made an impact on you.

Actually, do people still buy albums there, or is downloading in the US as serious as the media here makes out?

Meanwhile, what are you top ten favourite songs and albums? Hell, artists as well, while we're at it.

Artists:
1. Alice Cooper
2. The Damned
3. The Rolling Stones
4. The Stranglers
5. The Buzzcocks
6. The Sex Pistols
7. The Cure
8. Iggy Pop
9. The Clash
10. Idlewild

Studio albums:
1. Dragontown - Alice Cooper (2001)
2. Brutal Planet - Alice Cooper (2000)
3. The Last Temptation - Alice Cooper (1994)
4. Bridges to Babylon - The Rolling Stones (1997)
5. Norfolk Coast - The Stranglers (2004)
6. Buzzcocks - Buzzcocks (2003)
7. Love It To Death - Alice Cooper (1971)
8. Killer - Alice Cooper - (1972)
9. The Cure - The Cure (2004)
10. Never Mind The Bollocks - The Sex Pistols (1977)

Original songs:
1. I Just Wanna Be God - Alice Cooper (2001)
2. School's Out - - Alice Cooper (1972)
3. Bodies - The Sex Pistols (1977)
4. Wild Horses - The Rolling Stones (1969)
5. Saint of Me - The Rolling Stones (1997)
6. Waltzinblack - The Stranglers (198?)
7. Anarchy in the UK - The Sex Pistols (1976)
8. Ignite - The Damned (198?)
9. Smash It Up - The Damned (1979)
10. My Generation - The Who (196?)

Well, I don't listen to a lot of music, and as such don't have many favourite albums. I borrowed Ben Lummis's CD off a friend, he's the New Zealand Idol winner fyi. Otherwise I usually tune into our local music channel and watch the songs for a while.

But I do have 10 currently favourite songs:
1. Suteki Da Ne - Nobuo Uematsu, FFX
2. Trance Remix - Matrix Reloaded
3. They Can't Take That Away - Ben Lummis
4. You Get What You Give - Nu Radicals
5. The Reason - Hoobastank
6. Nyasu No Paati - Pokemon (Jap)
7. One Way - Hillsong
8. My Immortal - Evanescence
9. For The People - Nesian Mystik
10. Yesterday - NZ Idol Top 10
Some other songs I quite like are Roses (Outkast), I Believe In A Thing Called Love (The Darkness), This Love (Maroon 5) and Let's Get It Started (Black Eyed Peas).

Last CD I bought is Ayreon - The Human Equation.
It's a Metal Opera , something that I've been really getting into.

It's actually the first CD that I've bought in quite some while.
I've been spending too much money on other things I guess.

About downloading music , I don't.
But other people I know do do that , so I sometimes ask them to download some music for me that I like.
Like the most recent one ; The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony.

Favourite Artists
Dream Theater
Red Hot Chilipppers
Radiohead
Muse
Metallica
Queen
Led Zepplin
Steve Vai
Pearl Jam
Nirvana
Blur
Audioslave
Rage Against the Machine
U2
Guns N Roses

Favourite Albums (max of 2 albums per band)
Images and Words (Dream Theater)
Scenes from a Memory (Dream Theater)
Mothers Milk (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
The Bends (Radiohead)
Blood Sugar Sex Magik (Red Hot Chilipeppers)
Origin of Symmetry (Muse)
OK Computer (Radiohead)
Yield (Pearl Jam)
In Utero (Nirvana)
Appetite for Destruction (Guns N Roses)

hmm lets see. . the only thing i bought recently that has had an impact on me was The Darkness' album. . .



as for favorite albums. . .

1. Queen's Greatest Hits
2. The Eminem Show
3. almost all beatles albums
4. The Love Below/Speakerboxxx - Outkast
5. Echoes - Pink Floyed
6. The Who (all thier albums)
7. Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind
8. Get Rich or Die Tryin' - 50 Cent ("Many Men" is an amazing song)
9. The Ramones' Greatest Hits
10. Four - Blues Traveler

Artists:
1. Queen
2. Deep Purple
3. Led Zeppelin
4. The Beatles
5. Aerosmith
6. Creedence Clearwater Revival
7. The Who
8. Red Hot Chili Peppers
9. Cream
10. Boston
Pink Floyd, Genesis, Chicago, Dire Straits, ZZ Top, Jethro Tull... And many more... you can tell that I'm a band person and not a solo artist person..

Studio albums:
Not many, I much prefer collections/greatest hits/whatever you want to call them. And still, I'll try my best to fill this out. These are in no particular order:
1. Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers
2. Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin
3. Machine Head - Deep Purple
4. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
5. Led Zeppelin IV (Four Symbols) - Led Zeppelin
6. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
7. Abbey Road - The Beatles
8. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Creedence Clearwater Revival
9. The White Album - The Beatles
10. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
I'm pretty sure all those are studio albums, I've never really bothered to check.

Original songs:
1. Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin
2. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
3. Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
4. Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
5. Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple
6. Layla - Eric Clapton/Derek and the Dominoes
7. White Room - Cream
8. Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
9. Achilles Last Stand - Led Zeppelin
10. Child In Time - Deep Purple

You could basically copy KN's list for me. We're a little different but not much. I listen to classic rock, punk (both classic and a bit of the new "pop-punk"), and some metal too (Metallica!). And there's always Weird Al...

Favorite Artists in no particular order:

Staind
Disturbed
Linkin Park
Slipknot
System of a Down
Metallica
Pearl Jam
Incubus
Korn
Weird Al
Nirvana
Puddle of Mudd
Metallica

Favorite Albums:

Honestly, I don't have a favorite album, I usually just listen to the above artists.

On downloading, I do once in a while, when I like one particular song.

*Barfs*

- , - at least i don't like blur. . .

Many men is an amazing song, I like the Rap/Hip Hop Genre once you get around the profanity most of the songs are poetic. I do believe most of peoples favorite songs might have to do with were they live. I live in New York City, so im exposed to a little of everything, and like a little of everything.

Currently in my car I have:
Linkin Park (HT, R, M)
System of a down (Toxicity)
Disturbed (the Sickness)
The Black Eye Peas (Elephunk)
Ludacris (Chicken -n- Beer)
Chingy (Jackpot)
and some Reggaeton (Spanish Reggae)

I do.

Atleast the mucicians in Blur know how to play an instrument, compose a song and write good lyrics... 50cent is only an image, no musical talent at all...

aww be nice, it doesn't matter if some one can do something themselves if they don't have the image to sell albulms.

Most of what 50 cent has on his albulm is written by himself because its personal experaince (like how every is tired of him saying he was shot 9 times).

again it has to do with were your location is, I have no Idea who the blur is ( I might like them if i hear them) , but i can name the last 3 singles from 50 cent.

The thread poster wanted to know what we listen too, so if everyone is going to criticize I would just have to make post disapear :roll: I don't want to do it but I will if I have to.

so lets have some fun.

Well, my favorite groups would probably have to be

Disturbed
System of a Down
AC/DC
Beastie Boys
They Might Be Giants
Metallica
Orbital
The Crystal Method
Duran Duran
The Rolling Stones
Lo Fidelity All-Stars
Gorillaz
Paul Oakenfold
Front Line Assembly
Bloodhound Gang
Pearl Jam
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd

As you can see, it's rather diverse...

Though I usually like most things I hear on the radio (except the "new rock" that all sounds the same, "gansta rap" which all sounds the same, country, which is about either beer or divorce, and other stuff i haven't had the displeasure of hearing)

Very few new bands today sound original. Hell, the most original rap groups I've heard are Oukast and Blackeyed Peas, because they don't talk about "bitches, hoes, and shooting cops for their bling bling" and I honestly haven't heard a good rock group in a while, on account of there are pretty much only 2 kinds of new rock. The attempt to sound angry that only distorts the microphone, and the attempt to sound thoughtful and deep, but either sound completely lame, or corporate.

rant done!

i probalby shouldn't have replied up there -,-

on another note. . . darkkend: have you heard any of dj green lanturn's albums? the 50 cent/eminem battle raps on those are absolutely mind-blowing

Agreed on the earlier point. The Stones make better music than anyone, but they don't have the image anymore.

There music has three chords lol

Listen to Hand of Fate.

There is a good chance that a discussion will only descend downward into an argument b/c musical taste varies and we all feel very strongly about what we like and dislike . . .but it may not too. . .

I hate those type of disected post, i would do it but youd allready contradicted yourself about twice.

Yes its an Open forum to discussion, but we don't have to Criticize to the point that flaming would just be a few post away.

And to be honest when i had my old car i would turn the radio off just to hear the music from the engine, Best music ever in my opinion.

Nothing like a roaring V8 . Well, maybe a tuned up Japanese car... though call

i dunno . . as far as production 4 cylinders go the neon srt-4 has the nicest sounding engine out there. . .the whoosh from that turbo is amazing . . subarus sound cool too. . .as for modified i would have to say an old toyota 4-age with seperate throttle bodies and a very low restriction exhaust would be my number one choice for best sounding engine. . .

I don't really have a favorite group or anything. Sometimes I'll like listening to one song by one person and one by another. But if I did have a favorite group it would have to be Linkin Park. I enjoy a lot of their music.