What kind of music do we all listen to?
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 1:12 pm
I figured I'd make a thread where we could share our musical tastes with others, and recommend bands and songs. I find I get to know people better when I talk with them about music. So, here I go.
Primarily, my interest lies in progressive/power metal. My favorite band for sure is Dream Theater. If you like RPG's/anime, check them out, some of their music sounds like it could fit right in. Here's some songs to check out:
Afterlife
YtseJam
Pull Me Under (a hit single in 1992, heh... pretty good considering it was their second album and they're a prog metal band)
Metropolis
A Change of Seasons (23 minutes, 6 seconds... yep, they like the long songs)
Peruvian Skies (if you like Pink Floyd, you'll like this song)
The Dance of Eternity (very weird instrumental, love it)
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence - Overture and About to Crash (overture sounds like the intro to an epic RPG, heh)
Sacrificed Sons
Octavarium (my favorite song of all time, ever)
Other prog bands I listen to would include Queensryche, Amorphis, Rush (Alex Lifeson was on Trailer Park Boys!!! Does America have TPB?), and more recently, The Mars Volta.
If you play RPG's, you've gotta check out DragonForce. All their songs have epic (read: mildly cheesy at times) lyrics, loads of guitars, lots of keyboards, etc. Other RPG/fantasy bands include: Blind Guardian (did a concept album back in '02 based on The Silmarillion), Stratovarius (I get to see them in October! Yeah!!!), Rhapsody (they had Christoper Lee, the guy who plays Sauromon on LOTR, on one of their recent EP's), Nightwish (operatic female vocalist), Yngwie Malmsteen (one of the fastest guitarists ever, also started the neoclassical movement), and Jason Becker (diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease at like 20... my God...)
Steve Vai is one last guitarist I should mention before I move on to other subjects. In his early days, he played for the likes of Frank Zappa, David Lee Roth, and Whitesnake. Then he moved on and did his own thing, a solo project. I don't mind some of his older stuff, but his new album, Real Illusions: Reflections is amazing. Seriously, Square should hire this guy to do their next soundtrack. (Actually, he played guitar on the outro credits to Halo 2) I highly recommend the album.
Aside from metal and rock, I like classical and jazz fusion. Vivaldi for favorite classical composer, and Return To Forever as my fav jazz fusion band.
By the way, I play guitar and bass, and I write prog/power metal... although I've been having a bit of trouble with my wrists lately, but their getting better
So let's hear from everyone else!
Primarily, my interest lies in progressive/power metal. My favorite band for sure is Dream Theater. If you like RPG's/anime, check them out, some of their music sounds like it could fit right in. Here's some songs to check out:
Afterlife
YtseJam
Pull Me Under (a hit single in 1992, heh... pretty good considering it was their second album and they're a prog metal band)
Metropolis
A Change of Seasons (23 minutes, 6 seconds... yep, they like the long songs)
Peruvian Skies (if you like Pink Floyd, you'll like this song)
The Dance of Eternity (very weird instrumental, love it)
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence - Overture and About to Crash (overture sounds like the intro to an epic RPG, heh)
Sacrificed Sons
Octavarium (my favorite song of all time, ever)
Other prog bands I listen to would include Queensryche, Amorphis, Rush (Alex Lifeson was on Trailer Park Boys!!! Does America have TPB?), and more recently, The Mars Volta.
If you play RPG's, you've gotta check out DragonForce. All their songs have epic (read: mildly cheesy at times) lyrics, loads of guitars, lots of keyboards, etc. Other RPG/fantasy bands include: Blind Guardian (did a concept album back in '02 based on The Silmarillion), Stratovarius (I get to see them in October! Yeah!!!), Rhapsody (they had Christoper Lee, the guy who plays Sauromon on LOTR, on one of their recent EP's), Nightwish (operatic female vocalist), Yngwie Malmsteen (one of the fastest guitarists ever, also started the neoclassical movement), and Jason Becker (diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease at like 20... my God...)
Steve Vai is one last guitarist I should mention before I move on to other subjects. In his early days, he played for the likes of Frank Zappa, David Lee Roth, and Whitesnake. Then he moved on and did his own thing, a solo project. I don't mind some of his older stuff, but his new album, Real Illusions: Reflections is amazing. Seriously, Square should hire this guy to do their next soundtrack. (Actually, he played guitar on the outro credits to Halo 2) I highly recommend the album.
Aside from metal and rock, I like classical and jazz fusion. Vivaldi for favorite classical composer, and Return To Forever as my fav jazz fusion band.
By the way, I play guitar and bass, and I write prog/power metal... although I've been having a bit of trouble with my wrists lately, but their getting better
So let's hear from everyone else!