bands/artists you like/ezabels favorite artists!!!
by In all my years here at IanZabel.com in the music forum, I have never seen probably the simplest yet most identifying music topic possible. This topic tells us pretty much everything we need to know about you and your music tastes. What bands do you associate yourself with? What bands do you like or spend at least some time listening to? Not something where you like one song, make it a band that you at least follow a little. I'm gonna go based on my itunes playlist (thats why itll be alphabetical), not everything I really listen to but the ones that I do I will list. Bands I especially like will be given a star.
A New Found Glory*
A Tribe Called Quest
Alien Ant Farm
Alkaline Trio
All-American Rejects
American Hi-Fi
The Ataris*
Autopilot Off*
Avenged Sevenfold
Bad Religion
Band From Society* (might as well suck up, since I assume they are the only band on my playlist that reads this)
The Beach Boys*
The Beastie Boys*
The Beatles
Beck*
Bernie Williams (He's got a nice guitar album)
Better than Ezra
Big Pun
BigWig
Billy Joel
Blink 182*
Blue Oyster Cult
Bob Dylan*
Bob Marley*
Bone Thugs N Harmony
Boston
The Bouncing Souls
Boys Night Out
Braid
Brand New
Bruce Springsteen*
Catch 22
Cauterize
Chronic Future
The Clash*
Coheed and Cambria
Coldplay
Copperpot
The Cure
Dashboard Confessional
Dave Brubeck
De La Soul
The Descendants
Dropkick Murphys
Engelburt Humperdinck
Eric Clapton*
Eve 6
Face First*
Face to Face
Fall Out Boy
Fastball
Fenix Tx
Five Iron Frenzy
Flashlight Brown
Flogging Molly
Foo Fighters
Frank Sinatra
From Autumn to Ashes
Further Seems Forever
Gatsby's American Dream
George Gershwin
The Get Up Kids
Goldfinger*
Green Day
Guns N Roses
Guster
H2O
Hey Mercedes
Hidden in Plain View
The Hippos
The Hives
Homegrown
Hoobastank
Hot Rod Circuit
Houston Calls
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Jack Johnson
James Brown
Jet
Jimi Hendrix
Jimmy Eat World*
Journey
The Juliana Theory
Jurassic 5*
Kanye West
Kenny G
Lagwagon
Less Than Jake
Lit
The Living End
Lucky Boys Confusion*
LWL
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Michelle Branch
Midtown*
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Miles Davis
Millencolin
Mustard Plug
MxPx
Name Taken
Naughty By Nature
Never Heard of It
Nirvana
No Use For A Name*
Norah Jones
The Notorious BIG
The Offspring
Only Crime
Operation Ivy
Otis Redding
Outkast
Pat Metheny
Pennywise
Piebald
Rage Against The Machine
The Ramones*
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Reel Big Fish
Rise Against*
Rufio
Run-DMC
Sam Cooke
Santana
Saves The Day*
Senses Fail
Sex Pistols
Simon and Garfunkel
Social Distortion
Something Corporate
Spitalfield
The Starting Line
The Steve Miller Band
Strung Out
Sublime
Sugarcult
The Suicide Machines
Sum 41
Taking Back Sunday*
Talib Kweli
The Toasters
U2*
Weezer
Wynton Marsalis
Yellowcard
*whew* done.
I'm changing this up a bit...now you have to add some to the list or second bands that I have...obviously you dont have to list like 300 of them like me...but name a few, then we can determine ezabel's favorite artist!
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I can't believe I missed some of my favorite artists here...
Beck...can't believe i forgot him, i own all of his cds (except a couple small label releases)...
Billy Joel
any more? i forget a lot
bump
Wut is this bump of which you speak....I see no previous comments @ which you might refer. Therefore Unbump :-P
Queens of the stone age Should not be forgotten, also
Rye colalition,
hermano,
unida,
35007,
mono,
isis,
Muse,
The mars Volta,
Cursive,
Mark lanegans solo albumn is very good its called bubble gum good stuff
Eagles of death metal
Icraus Line
Kyuss been broken up for years great stuff, Welcome to the sky valley albumn get that.
Denali
Mondo generator
Tomahawk
If you hvaet heard than you should check them out peace.
too many to list
I endorse all of these bands, except Denali, 35007, and Icarus Line simply because I don't remember hearing them. Anybody wanting a completely original music experience should listen to Mars Volta. The sexy and comical Eagles of Death Metal are a hoot. Muse is amazing too. Queens new album comes out in March. Can't wait.
I bet Weezer is the most favoritest band of Ezabel.
On my playlist:
Vice Squad
AFI
The Donnas
Oasis
The Vandals
Whitney Houston
Weezer
No Doubt
Nelly Furtado
The Fugees
The Eyeliners
The Bangs
Bratmobile
Tilt
The Rondelles
Go Sailor
Frumpies
Radiohead
Sahara Hotnights
Lambretta
Aaliyah
Joan Jett
The Clash
Dido
Flogging Molly
The Gossip
Madonna
The Specials
Operation Ivy
Phil Collins
Ramones
Random Task
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Shakira
The Toasters
Aretha Franklin
Sublime
Spice Girls
Bad Religion
Tsunami Bomb
Le Tigre
Rx Bandits
S Club 7
Queen
Bikini Kill
Sleater Kinney
Rancid
The Exit
The Explosion
Rise Against
Hannah from S Club is a dime-piece
dude. i agree with you 100000% percent. that is the wisest thing you've ever said. although i like rachel too.
i didn't just read that
my god there are sooo many! i second a bunch of yours (saves the day and the cure especially!) but heres some of my faves:
The Stills, Bayside, Recover, Sparta, Saosin, The Shins, The Postal Service, Death Cab For Cutie, Alexisonfire, A Static Lullaby, Thrice, My Chemical Romance, Head Automatica, Radiohead, Broken Social Scene, The Decemberists, Built to Spill, Folly, All-Time Quarterback, American Football, The Mars Volta, The Slackers, Smashing Pumpkins, The Dandy Warhols, The Doves, Belle & Sebastian, Blood Brothers, Boys Night Out, Thrice, Reggie & The Full Effect, Get Up Kids, Coheed and Cambria, Rival Schools, Elliott Smith, Brendan Benson, Stephen Malkmus, Ben Folds,The Eels, Pavement, Cake, Coldplay, From First To Last, Funeral For A Friend, This Day Forward, Underoath, Yesterdays Rising, Hopesfall, Sebadoh, Hum, Interpol, The Rapture, Hot Water Music, Pedro The Lion, Knapsack, The Jealous Sound, Mae, Modest Mouse, Nerf Herder, Ozma, Pink Floyd, Red House Painters, Beatles
A lot of these bands and artists are really good. Mars Volta, HeadA, several more.
yeah im so psyched to go see them(head automatica) on the 30th
i was gonna go and drag my gf along, but i have a wedding to go to. i hope they tour again. i don't think it'll be for a while because i hear Glassjaw is going to make the rounds soon.
I think I agree with Joey Cape (lead singer of Lagwagon) that The Beatles are one of the most overated bands of all time. Right before covering "strawberry fields" he says, "we take a kinda crappy song...and make it GREAT!" Rock on, Joey!
too bad the new Me First album is probably their worst one to date. Very uninspired.
yeah, it's not that great at all. A couple songs, though, are really good ones. Heart of Glass is one of them.
I think it's an okay album--maybe because of funny parts. I like what they say when they talk between songs (for the most part).
yea. the dialogue is great.
Really? I think the Beatles are so great. I don't find Me First that wonderful seeing as how all they do is take other people's good songs and re-do them. I could do that too and get money for it.
I've never liked the Beetles much. I do like the "sgt. Pepper" album...but that's about it.
Me first: Yes, they copy everyone else's songs. Each of the members is from a different band, and each of those bands always write their own stuff. These guys are talented musicians(so were the beatles), and the singer can SING...usually. haha. I like that they take some of my favorite old songs and make them Great. They've also introduced me to some old songs that I now respect.
I've never liked the Beetles much NOOOOOooooo, say it isn't so. This little factoid could seriously compromise our friendship. Random person "Oh, you know Todd Bastidas..." Originalsnob "WHAT WHO?!? I know NOT of this Todd of which you speak."
i love me first, i think spike has such a good voice, and for the most part i love their take on those old songs
oh my, and i thought you were nice
i agree that they are really overrated but theyre still good
Yeah, this is where I stand. I give respect where it's due, but their success was more due to the time and place than amazing talent. It counts though. They did amazing things. Their music, TECHNICALLY, wasn't genius or anything.
yeah. IMO, they changed the world. which counts for a lot. so it just depends on what you're talking about when you say they're overrated.
I agree that they've changed the world. And they've shown us that it doesn't amazing talent or style to do so.
as a hardcore beatles fan i will rationally and reasonably respond to this comment. i agree that they are overrated in the sense that it's kinda trendy to say you are a beatles fan. it's cool to say you are into a band that helped lay the foundation of rock today and the beatles got tons of exposure for this. but the trendy fans who talk a mess about the beatles are the ones that know two songs.
i am a fan of the beatles cuz their music was simple and fun and the stories surrounding their songs are interesting. it was a cool time in history, bands today just don't have that kind of chaos surrounding them anymore.
I, personally, am unaware of how they "changed the world", or at least the world of music...
They must have been a success for some reason. And, like I said, I love the Sgt. Pepper album. I'm all about being fair. I don't think the beatles were out of this world musicians. That's why I think they are overated. There are many more technically talented musicians than the beatles in this world.
Usually the most technically talented bands only appeal to other musicians. There's some real talent that's popular, too, these days....it's just much more rare. This is where I think the beatles don't make the cut, because I appreciate more technical music. That's MY OPINION.
On the other hand, there are few who capture the love of the world, and become considered "the best band in the world". For this I give them a lot of credit. It's not an easy thing to make a living in the field of music. They did it. They did it big time. Kudos to them.
I hope this explains where I stand on the beatles.
I agree with this 100% Keyword: "technically"
good, I'm glad I made that clear. : )
i'm no musician myself, but I can appreciate talented musicians and I like to think i know what quality tunes sound like. while the beatle's songs are catchy and creative. i find the music to be very flat. some of it is VERY, VERY good though.
ok, i'm looking at what i'm writing and i, uh, just need to stop writing. BAH to all of it...everyones a critic...
i totally agree with you. i never said they changed the world or were out of this world musicians. i just like em cuz i do.
THE END...please?
Yeah, i know! Will he ever quit?
we're totally quitting
I think you guys might enjoy this list of the 10 Most Accurately Rated Artists in Rock History
hehe, I think you have to read it with a grain of salt
I enjoyed that article.
weird...rage should have been on there. i was rushing at the end there from about P-Z...so I knew I'd leave some off. Funny i left off rage since i have like 3 of their albums on my playlist, youd think id notice them..i edited to include
strung out was/is on there.
boy sets fire is good but im not really a fan.
Everyone add their faves so we can see what the most popular band/artist of ezabel is.
omg copperpot! the guy that recorded us was the bass player for that band. he's like 33, lives in his parent's basement, and most of his friends are like 18.... funny guy
The lead from that band went to High School with my sister..they were friends. Weird.
nice list, i don't share all of your tastes, but i like a lot of the bands on here.
some bands i like that aren't on the list:
boy sets fire, thrice, strung out, pearl jam, sound garden, counting crows, radiohead, rage against the machine.... others
some of those bands are pretty good.
tl;dr
I just read the ones with the * then I glance back at it to pick up more.
Looks like he went to google and typed rock there's a few exceptions like Big Pun, Bone Thugs, Sinatra, Kwali, Naughty by Nature..o snap...did I just see Kenny G? nice.
Oh, yes, Josh, I soooo need instructions from you on how to be cool. Tell me the part about Kenny G. again?
clueless!!!
JOSH
Hey! In some parts of the Universe, maybe not in Contempo Casual, but in some parts, it's considered cool to know what's going on in the world.
CHER
Thank you, Josh. I so need lessons from you on how to be cool. Tell me that part about Kenny G again?
MEL (From Dining Room)
C'mon you chuckleheads, get in here!
(They move to the Dining Room)
Josh, are you still growing? You look taller than you did at Easter.
JOSH
I don't think so.
MEL (to Cher)
Doesn't he look bigger?
CHER
His head does.
courtesy of paul's ultimate clueless script http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/5342/Clueless.htm
A guy named Paul has that site? Man, he how gay must he be?
idk does he like billie holiday?
i love him!
and what do bands with a * mean? your favorites?
oh, n/m, i'm an idiot.
read the instructions pal! ;)
wow, huge list bro. we have similar tastes for sure. did you type all that in, or somehow copy and paste?
If you think your list is long and you only speak english, imagine mine...sorry I don't wanna B a page hog he he :-)