Favorite Music Group?

I was waiting for someone to say The Beach Boys and The Monkees. They say your favorite band is usually whatever you liked in high school, but I'm in my 30s and I rock the Beach Boys and the Monkees shamelessly. Of course, their British cousins are also incomparable. Pet Sounds (one of the greatest albums ever conceived)!

xrobotlove wrote:
...indie...

spiffshine wrote:
There's a reason many of these bands can't get on a label. Just sayin'. ;)

HA-ha! Shows how old and out of the loop you are :mrgreen: Silly old fart, all of those bands are on a label. Some small, surely, but the meaning of indie has changed. If you mean "independently labeled" say independently labeled. Indie is just a colloquialism, bands that people call indie vary greatly. I pretty much use it for non-pop rock that is the bastardchild of alternative and OLD emo (early to mid 90s). I don't include bands like my chemical romance, panic at the disco, Say Anything or fallout boy under the genre, I consider that to be modern emo. Modern emo IMHO is more whiney and pretentious. (To be fair, MCR new stuff is actually not bad, and I like "nine in the afternoon" by PATD.)

JUST SAYIN' :wink:

spiffshine wrote:

KieranAPB wrote:
I've complied a list of my favorite artists. Some of the genres are hard to pin down because there can be more than one, so I've listed the artist under the genre they feature most predominately (listed alphabetically):

I must be out of the loop because I've only heard of about 1/4 of those bands... but I like to see someone so diverse!

I must really be out of the loop then because I have never heard about 1/4 of those genres.

Side Note: Breaking Benjamin in not metal. I do know that genre quite well and in my opinion, Breaking Benjamin should be in the Rock section. Just my opinion

KieranAPB wrote:
I'd be surprised if you hadn't heard about Skrillex though, since more and more mainstream artists are expermenting with Dubstep.

Well actually, I have herd of Skrillex and quite a few others. My teenage nephew loves to play all things dubstep for my toddler. She goes nutty and jump dances - she loves it! What can I say?

I do get the electronic thing. Living with all Computer Science majors in the mid/late 90's will expose you to much electronic/techno/trance/house though, I didn't keep up with it much over the last decade.

xrobotlove wrote:
Indie is just a colloquialism, bands that people call indie vary greatly.

I tease! :) I lived with a guy whose indie collection spanned a few walls, and made me want to crawl up them for the most part. (I admit to you that some of it was good, but not to him.) He was a great guy, but we could not agree on music. We could agree on bad television, however, and much VH1 reality dating show viewing was done.

zoephoto wrote:

Simpsons00001 wrote:

There are so many bands that have been Simpsonized,

They key word was one's *favorite* band that was also Simpsonized, but I was mostly joking anyway - I was just surprised no one had posted a Simpsonized band yet... The Who was a good mention!

Your Phish video gave me a flashback of being under the influence of something slightly sinister, and someone playing the song "Maze" by Phish. I turned it off after what seemed like 12 minutes of "you're never gonna get out of this maze...you're never gonna get out of this maze...you're never gonna get out of this maze..." My post was very incoherent; meant to say "there are so many great bands that have been simpsonized, so there's most likely others favorites as well...including the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who had already been posted as someone's fav previously in this thread. The thought of that song really effs with my mind.