The Top 5 Favorites Thread

[starcastic]

"John Schmersal (Brainiac, Enon)" wrote starcastic.

rad. I didn't think anyone here listened to brainiac. good band.

Brainiac is killer! They're probably my band's biggest musical influence. Our drummer even has Brainiac tattoos...

[basti moon]

30 Seconds To Mars

Dammit, couldn´t find the awesome youtube video of Jared Leto making an ass of himself

[loop cat]

TOP 5 FAVORITE MUSICIANS/BANDS (of all time)

Sonic Youth
Talking Heads
Velvet Underground
John Zorn anything
Jim O’Rourke anything

TOP 5 FAVORITE MUSICIANS/BANDS (that you recently got turned on to)

MV + EE
Gordon Grdina
Ruins
Grand Chahut Collectif
JoJo Mayer

TOP 5 FAVORITE PIECES OF MUSIC GEAR (non-pedals)

Fender Twin Reverb
Gibson ES-335 (W/ Bigsby)
Any type of organ
Cellos
Zithers

TOP 5 EFFECT PEDALS (name at least 2 non DE)

Boss DD-20
EHX POG
DOD PDS 20/20
Devi Ever Synth Mangler or Specacular Anima or ND (tie!)
Barber Tone Press

TOP 5 FILMS/FILMMAKERS

Jim Jarmush
Michel Gondry
Jean Luc Goodard
Alfred Hitchcock
John Waters

TOP 5 ARTISTS (painters, designers, comic, etc.)

Jean-Michel Basquiat
Emile Bernard
Mark Rothko
Adolph Gottleib
Willem de Kooning

TOP FIVE AUTHORS (novelists, poets, etc.)

Allen Ginsberg
JD Salenger
Kurt Vonnegut
Jack Kerouac
Hunter S. Thompson

[voodoohaze]

OP 5 FAVORITE MUSICIANS/BANDS (of all time)

Oasis
Isis
Metallica
Pantera
Ozzy

TOP 5 FAVORITE MUSICIANS/BANDS (that you recently got turned on to)

Five Fingered Death Punch
Paradise Lost
Sunn O)))
Divine Heresy
Through The Eyes Of The Dead

TOP 5 FAVORITE PIECES OF MUSIC GEAR (non-pedals)

Mesa Boogie Mark 4
Mesa Dual Rectifier
Marshall MicroStack
Crate GLX 212 120watt
Epiphone Les Paul Custom

TOP 5 EFFECT PEDALS (name at least 2 non DE)

Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor
BBE Sonic Stomp
Danelectro FAB Metal
DE-USA AR-TP
DE-USA SP-AE

TOP 5 FILMS/FILMMAKERS

Steven Spielberg
Peter Jackson
Michael Bay
Robert Zemeckis
Jon De Bont

TOP 5 ARTISTS (painters, designers, comic, etc.)

Claude Monet
Pablo Picasso
Jackson Pollock
Thomas Kinkade
Degas

TOP FIVE AUTHORS (novelists, poets, etc.)

Stephen King
John Grisham
J.K. Rowling
J.R.R. Tolkien
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

[sadzoo]

TOP 5 FAVORITE MUSICIANS/BANDS (of all time)

radiohead
cat power
pj harvey
Devi Ever
tool

TOP 5 FAVORITE MUSICIANS/BANDS (that you recently got turned on to)


bat for lashes
Thom York (solo)
coco rosie
sphongle
portishead



TOP 5 FAVORITE PIECES OF MUSIC GEAR (non-pedals)

my first guitar: harmony acoustic made in the late 60's
voice
viola
simulated thunder
recorded public places

TOP 5 EFFECT PEDALS (name at least 2 non DE)

TBD
Synth Mangler
Holly Erectus (not in production yet)
De AE
Big Cheese

TOP 5 FILMS/FILMMAKERS

Darren Aronofsky
M. Night Shyalaman
Joss Whedon
Richard Kelly
John Cameron Mitchell

4 Political/Social/intellectual heroes.

Voltraine De Cleyre
Harvey Milk
Amy Goodman
Emma Goldman


TOP 5 ARTISTS (painters, designers, comic, etc.)

Frida Kahlo
tamara de lempicka
Vincent Willem van Gogh
Joni Mitchell
Mike Reynolds (creator of earthship biotecture)

TOP FIVE AUTHORS (novelists, poets, etc.)

Anais Nin
Sylvia Plath
Carson McCullers
Voltairine De Cleyre
Phillip K Dick

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[Stacco]

TOP 5 FAVORITE MUSICIANS/BANDS (of all time)

Frank Zappa
Jimi Hendrix
King Crimson
Jane's Addiction
Miles

TOP 5 FAVORITE MUSICIANS/BANDS (that you recently got turned on to)


Kaki King
Bill Frisell (More like rediscovering, I am FUCKING AWED)
The Blood Brothers
Garage a Trois
Betty Davis


TOP 5 FAVORITE PIECES OF MUSIC GEAR (non-pedals)

Imagination
G&L Staccocaster
mah modded Boogie Nomad 55
Bass marimba (I gotta make me one)
L'Arrivé Akoustik

TOP 5 EFFECT PEDALS (name at least 2 non DE)

TBD
DL4
Lovetone Meatball
Ibanez RC99 Rotary Chorus
EH HOG

TOP 5 FILMS/FILMMAKERS

Kubrick
Star Wars
Scorsese
Coppola
Battlestar Galactica Reimagined (Yeah, it's a tv series, so what??)

4 Political/Social/intellectual heroes.

Alan Watts
Robert Anton Wilson
Joseph Campbell
Brother John Coltrane


TOP 5 ARTISTS (painters, designers, comic, etc.)

Bill Sczienkiwicz
Dave Mc Kean
Barry Windsor Smith
Franciso de Goya
Cornell

TOP FIVE AUTHORS (novelists, poets, etc.)

Ursuala K Le Guin
Margaret Atwood
Kurt Vonnegut
John Irving
Neal Stephenson

[hatshirt]

[quote="sadzoo"TOP 5 FAVORITE MUSICIANS/BANDS
pj harvey

i am in love with pj harvey and someday i'll marry her.

[Antero]

Betty Davis

Fuck yes! Fuck! Yes!

It made me so happy when Light In The Attic reissued her stuff. What an incredible artist. That voice, it can break concrete. First time I heard "Anti-Love Song" I literally became nauseous and thought I was going to throw up. Such a powerful record.

[Stacco]

Well, she made Miles get into Hendrix, she deserves 900 statues over the built on the Hudson River.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDvvQq4leoo[/youtube]

[sadzoo]

[quote="sadzoo"TOP 5 FAVORITE MUSICIANS/BANDS
pj harvey

i am in love with pj harvey and someday i'll marry her.

But she doesn't want a wedding dress, she just wants a pocket knife.

I empathize your pain.

[sadzoo]

Wow Betty, where have you been all my life and why have I never heard you before.

Betty is now added to my top six bands I've recently dug.

(I wish there was a sexy bluesy smiley face, but there just is not)

[Suilebhain]

TOP 5 FAVORITE MUSICIANS/BANDS (of all time)

Jimi Hendrix
King Crimson
Gentle Giant
Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Frank Zappa

TOP 5 FAVORITE MUSICIANS/BANDS (that you recently got turned on to)

Porcupine Tree
Type O Negative
The Mars Volta
Robert Rich
Anything with King Buzzo in it

TOP FIVE COMPOSERS (because it all isn't rock and roll, is it?)

Karlheinz Stockhausen
Bela Bartok
Igor Stravinsky
Charles Ives
Olivier Messiaen

TOP 5 FAVORITE PIECES OF MUSIC GEAR (non-pedals)

Fender Strat
Korg Wavestation A/D
Roland V Synth
Dave Smith Poly Evolver
Korg Radias


TOP 5 EFFECT PEDALS (name at least 2 non DE)

DE God Zilla
Teese RMC3
CoPilot FX Android
DE Soda Meiser
Boomerang


TOP 5 FILMS

Repo Man
Blade Runner
The Seventh Seal
Lord of the Rings trilogy
King of New York


FILMMAKERS

Ingmar Bergman
Ridley Scott
Abel Ferrara
David Lynch
Jim Jarmusch


TOP 5 ARTISTS (painters, designers, comic, etc.)

Salvadore Dali
MC Escher
Frank Frazetta
R. Crumb
Michael Whalen


TOP SIX AUTHORS (novelists, poets, etc.)

Gene Wolfe
Robert E. Howard
HP Lovecraft
Michael Moorcock
William Gibson
Philip K. Dick

TOP FIVE BOOKS (or literary works)

Book of the New Sun
Anything with Conan in it, written by Howard
The Call of Cthulhu
The Elric Saga
Neuromancer/Count Zero/Mona Lisa Overdrive

[basti moon]

even though everyones heard of emerson, lake and palmer, not many people I meet talk about them, strange huh?

I got the nasty gal album of Betty Davis, gots a new influence for my sister when she gets here. Thanks for reminding me of the good bands I´ve forgotten people![/code][/list]

[Stacco]

My dad had Brain Salad Surgery, with the fold out Giger cover hanging round the house, so I was always intrigued....

Some years later, when I heard the second part of Tocatta, I realised: "These pompous public school english kids invented TECHNO MUSIC!!!"

Don't believe me? Check it out!

[Suilebhain]

even though everyones heard of emerson, lake and palmer, not many people I meet talk about them, strange huh?

Well, they and most of the Progressive movement took a nasty hit when some "stick up the butt" critic decided that bands that could actually play their instruments well (and better than most others) were to be considered "self indulgent" and "pompous". I could never understand this line of thinking. I think it was jealousy. It is sort of like in "The Fountainhead", when the architecture critic openly reviles anything that is nonconformist because it is dangerous to think for oneself.

It is one of the reasons why Punk was so embraced at first, because the players kept it simple, both the style and the textures (guitar, bass, drums). These critics (mostly New York/Village Voice critics, I suspect) saw Punk as a return to roots, a fresh breath of rock 'n roll air amidst the excess of the "Stadium Rock" bands. I find it interesting that as the Punk movement caught on in the US, many bands with interesting sounds crept in under the radar, like Black Flag, Sacharrine Trust, the Melvins, Sonic Youth, UK bands like Killing Joke, and what did they give us? A new form of rock, part punk, part metal, part progressive. Also, heavy metal had a resurgence and brought chops and tone back into the equation.

In the meantime, though, people forgot about guys like Emerson, Lake and Palmer and just how good they were. Not much guitar, after all.