Your Favourite Bands?

[Lestat de Lioncourt]

What are your favourite bands? or which kind of music do you like?

Now, in this instant, I'm listening to Apocalyptica, that's a finnish band ( 4 musicians, 3 Celli + Drums) playing metal. One of my favourite bands.

I like many kinds of music, depending on my mood.

Learning: Classical music (Bach, Chopin, Schubert, Grieg, Prokofjeff etc.), soft woman voices (Emiliana Torrini, Jewel etc.), spherical music (Soundtrack LotR, URU/ Myst etc.)

Tea time, reading books: Mellow (Nick Drake, keane, Jack Johnson, James Blunt, Coldplay, Cat Power, beck, Eels, Mazzy Star, Björk etc.), TripHop(CocoRosie, Goldfrapp)

Playing Ego-Shooters (Unreal Tournament, Blood 2/3): Kill Kill Kill!/ Industrial Melat/Emocore/Nu Metal/Punk/EBM/Metal/Darkwave, e.g.: NIN, Mushroomhead, Therapy?, System of a Down, Diary of Dreams, Oomph!, Static X, Godsmack, Disturbed, Deftones, Dry Cell etc.)


Sports: EBM, Dark wave, Industrial, Gothic, Punk, Metal, Hardrock

There are other genres I like and often listen to:

Alternative (Rock), Berlin-Leipzig-like(Dresden Dolls, Kastrierte Philosophen, Annet Louisan usw.), some special german bands (Die Ärzte, i LOVE them!, 2Raumwohnung, Die Fantastischen 4 etc.), Drug (David Bowie, velvet Underground), dark wave .), Soundtracks (requiem for a Dream!), Glam Rock (Scissor Sisters, David Bowie/Ziggy), Gothic, Grunge(!!!), Indie, Japan pop, Classical Rock (Led zeppelin, The Beatles usw.), Brit-Rock/pop (Placebo, The verve, Muse, Pulp etc.), Metal (Apocalyptica, Dead Poetic, Mushroomhead, Metallica, Paradise Lost, (Amorphis) etc.), Punk (Kaiser Chiefs!), Saddle Creek, real World (Peter Gabriel, Youssou N'Dour, Nusrat fateh Ali Khan), Screamo, Ska-Punk, Rock and The-bands.

[Lestat de Lioncourt]

Another favourite band of mine is "Die Ärzte".

I LOVE them, especially Bela B.*hearty-eyes*

[etoile]

Well,
favourite music?
That's hard.
At the moment I am listening to one of my all time faves- Depeche Mode- Walking in my shoes.

I love music, with a certain degree of melancholy. It can vary from "Don't think of me, I am not worth thinking of me and I am going to kill myself within the next few minutes besides I 'll drown before in my selfpity" to "life is good- a little bit at least..... like a stormy winternight ist beautiful"

I had times when I was listening to dozens and dozens of so-called goth-bands but I picked the best and forgot the rest. (they weren't really any good)
So if I am in my normal mood I am listening to thos "goth"-bands (not all of them can be labeled as only goth-bands): Depeche Mode (Love Thiefes, Freelove, Walking in my shoes...aww), The Cure (Pictures of you *cry*), Einstürzende Neubauten (they have superb lyrics! and the music is awesome), Dresden Dolls (they are back!), Nick Cave (I don't really have to comment that one), Joy Division (Ceremony is one of the saddest songs ever). Thos are the main bands- but I am still listening to some sisters of Mercy and stuff like that.
Then I have this one and only Band for my strange, weird and good times: kaizers Orchestra. I love them. They are a melange of easteuropenfolk, einstürzende neubauten, alternative rock and Tom waits. Sung in Norwegian. Wonderful. And strange.
Most of the time when I am home reading or working at the pc I am listening to classical music or soundtracks. (Amelie of Montmatre---awww)
Of course there is some good melancholic popmusic I love for the inbetween times (Like sitting in the bus, the one hour in the morning getting ready for uni and so on): Belle&Sebastian (Is it wicked not to care is "my" song), kings of Convinience (surprise ice is a song perfect for a winter sunset), Rufus Wainwright (who has written a song named "Natasha" *proud*).
Then there are some rockbands for my wild (*rrr*) times: Pulp (well okay, they are a bit melancholic), Nirvana (they are also a bit sad), The Verve (okay, that's "I want to die right now right here" music), Muse (They have happy songs.... I believe).
And then there are some bands and singers I really like to listen to every now and then like REM (I grew up listening), David Bowie (same as REM), Johnny Cash (just saw the movie).
And then there are my (few) aggressive days where I just need some good old black metal. (Exception: Burzums Filosofem, who belongs more to the goth bands with the mood he creates)

I am sure I forgot some. Well- that's life.

[Nicolas de Lenfent]

Queen!
Bon Jovi
Die Ärtze
Grönemeyer (not a Band, I know)
Tiger Lillies
Guns 'n roses (nostalgic...)


in my youth... a-ha.