What are your and your lovers favorite bands and songs?

As most of you know, I'm a huge A7X fan


I can post most more of my favorite crap later

I'll have to ask A.J. about her favorites later, but here are my top five favorite bands of all time, in ranking order.

1. The Gerogerigegege

They're almost impossible to describe. Juntaro Yamanouchi was living sound, a distillation of all the madness and ecstasy and lust and desperation of life into a constantly evolving mode where it was impossible to separate where sound ended and existence began. This band was THE number one inspiration for me back when I was part of the noisecore/shitnoise scene. The Gerogerigegege is the most brilliant, perfect band that ever existed and ever will exist, and that's all there is to it. I still pray every night that Juntaro will return from whatever nightmare he disappeared into lo these many years ago to lead the world once more into the light.

Here are some of their cover songs from "Tokyo Anal Dynamite" perhaps their most well-known, if not necessarily representative, album:

2. Les Rallizes Denudes

The greatest creators of music of all time (The Gerogerigegege transcended music, which is why they rank higher). I see them as less of a band and more of a coalition of mystic warriors led by Mizutani Takashi standing unafraid between the gates of Heaven and the gates of Hell. Though all of their songs are worthy, especially as they perpetually unfold under the aegis of Mizutani's wandering, lonely guitar, I believe three in particular managed to capture the most profound of sentiments. Mizutani's another one who disappeared, another whom I must pray to return to us some day in glory. And if there is one "conventional" band I wish to model my own spiritual music after, it is this one; sadly, I've yet to find anyone with a sympathetic soul, so that remains but a dream.

These would be Otherwise Fallin' in Love (aka Romance of the Black Grief):

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Night of the Assassins:

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And their masterpiece, a work which I feels sums up the eschatology of all humanity in four chords and a few simple words, White Awakening:

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3. High Rise

The ultimate psychedelic speed freaks. Let's not mince words: Munehiro Narita is the greatest rock guitarist of all time (Les Rallizes Denudes transcend rock, hence their higher spot). He takes the core rock vocabulary established by Jimi Hendrix and follows its logic even further than Hendrix himself ever did; the only musician I can think to compare him to is Ornette Coleman in the realm of jazz. Coupled with some of the hardest, most brutally honest riffs ever written and a solid, melodic rhythm from bassist/band mastermind Asahito Nanjo, High Rise is what I would define as a "mind shredder"

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4. The Albert Ayler Quintet

Albert Ayler is a musician whom all must reckon with, for he is the one responsible for destroying the false conception of music as something to do with "notes." His soloing is pure timbre and pure energy, juxtaposed with child-like themes that cradle one once again in the heavenly bosom, a son or daughter of the light. I think Wu Ming 1 (of the Wu Ming collective) put it best when he noted that theme and improvisation have a non-dichotomous relationship in Ayler's music: the theme is only one potential articulation of improvisation, in which resides the Holy Spirit. My own improvisational technique in spiritual music probably owes its greatest debt to Ayler's style (though perhaps even more to his brother Donald's bubbling, minimalist sliding between clustered notes and disparate registers, now that I think about it)

I choose the quintet rather than the trio or the quartet because I feel like they did the best job of bringing a wholeness to Ayler's concept and of articulating its relationship to the original street band music and field hollers of New Orleans.

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5. Acid Mothers Temple

Encompassing Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O., Acid Mothers Temple & the Cosmic Inferno, Acid Mothers Temple & Space Paranoid, etc., etc., etc. They're the cosmic jokers of Japanese psychedelia, far more playful than any of the other bands in that scene, yet maintaining that "high seriousness" William Burroughs spoke of in regards to his own work. There's no denying the genius of Kawabata Makoto's U.F.O.-transmission guitar and the band has a keen ear for psychedelicized "musique concrete" effects...not to mention their dreamy, surrealistic sense of structure and ritual which impressively sustains them over pieces that can be up to an hour long. They never fail to impress; I think that's the best way to describe AMT.

Both Angelbabe and I enjoy Led Zeppelin. "Trampled Underfoot" is one of her favorite Led Zep songs, and "When the Levee Breaks" is my favorite.

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1. Famous Last Words

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNGJyt0eRQw

2. Infant Annihilator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA7mxBQm1t0

3. Hollywood Undead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPZ_U6tdQPY

4. As I Lay Dying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPCj4WhTZ3c

5. I See Stars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CCztM6u07k

Favorite bands and songs hmm?

Well I can tell you right off the bat, Luna's favorite group so far is Nightwish.
It never fails no matter what's going on I can put on one of their albums and she stops whatever she's doing. Where as my personal favorite band is and always will be the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

There are several we have in common though..

KONGOS
David Guetta
Yoko Kanno
May'n
Avicii
Don Diablo
Peter Eskritne
Two-Mix
Sabaton
Manowar
Stellardrone- (A huuge favorite for both of us)
Solar Fields
Hammerfall

We're going to get a little cynical here, but I think music, at least mainstream music, is dead.

I much prefer music that tells a story and makes you feel, whatever emotion that is (not boredom!) over music that's emotionless and has no storytelling, even if it makes you dance.

Plus mainstream musicians seem to have little to no talent.

And EP, I played that song you linked. Violent, but it does tell a good story! Although I don't like screaming.

(07-27-2015, 08:42 AM)waifu4laifu Wrote: We're going to get a little cynical here, but I think music, at least mainstream music, is dead.

I much prefer music that tells a story and makes you feel, whatever emotion that is (not boredom!) over music that's emotionless and has no storytelling, even if it makes you dance.

Plus mainstream musicians seem to have little to no talent.

And EP, I played that song you linked. Violent, but it does tell a good story! Although I don't like screaming.

Songs that have story are normally pretty good, which is a reason A Little Piece of Heaven is one of my favorite songs

(07-27-2015, 11:30 AM)EquestrianPenguin Wrote:

(07-27-2015, 08:42 AM)waifu4laifu Wrote: We're going to get a little cynical here, but I think music, at least mainstream music, is dead.

I much prefer music that tells a story and makes you feel, whatever emotion that is (not boredom!) over music that's emotionless and has no storytelling, even if it makes you dance.

Plus mainstream musicians seem to have little to no talent.

And EP, I played that song you linked. Violent, but it does tell a good story! Although I don't like screaming.

Songs that have story are normally pretty good, which is a reason A Little Piece of Heaven is one of my favorite songs

Any other songs you'd recommend by them, preferably ones without screaming?

(07-27-2015, 12:00 PM)waifu4laifu Wrote: Any other songs you'd recommend by them, preferably ones without screaming?

Avenged Sevenfold songs I feel tell a story without screaming:

Burn It Down- A man who has been betrayed and castes out his whole life longs for revenge

I won't see you tonight part 1- About suicide based on a real life account where the lead singer found the former bassist attempting to kill himself

Danger line- A soldier on the battlefield who begins to lose hope

M.I.A- A soldier deals with after war struggles

Requim- About coming back to avenge yourself

Fiction- Just listen to this one yourself