What OTHER Bands Do You Love or Like? Options

[LiveFan92]

I've noticed in the ED vs TGF threads that some of us seem to have wildly different tastes in music, which is actually really cool.

I'm curious how everyone here would answer the following questions:

1) Between the examples we've heard of Ed's new music and the examples we've heard of TGF, which type of music is more your style?

2) What OTHER bands do you love/like?

3) WHY and WHEN did you gravitate to Live's music?

I think it would be really interesting to see the trends these answers would probably show.

Unfortunately, I figure it would take about 4 posts before someone was mocking someone else's reply or bitching about Ed or claiming TGF is evil or whatever.

But if that kind of crap didn't happen, and we all answered, don't you think there would be some noticeable trends? I sure do.

[Pokey]

1. TGF completely. And this I can say putting aside all other personal aspects. I prefer the harder edge, I like the rawer sound, I dig the riffs. Zion is a good song, but better acoustic. I like pop music, I like pop music that is just fun without having to have much meaning to it, but Ed's just doesn't hit home.

2. A huge range .. Morrissey/The Smiths obviously, a band that basically helped create the indie genre. Ween is my other big favorite, a band that can do literally any style of music from reggae to country to blues to pop to metal to chinese folk song. Other than that .. Faith No More, Nick Cave, Sparks, Mr Bungle, Madness, Motorhead, Powderfinger, The Living End, Grant Lee Buffalo, Royal Crown Revue, Roots Manuva, Kate Miller-Heidke, The Go! Team, Pixies, Modest Mouse, Tom Waits, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, Groove Armada, nouvelle vague, Dub Trio, The Guess Who, Led Zeppelin... lots of music in languages other than English too like Rammstein, Salif Keita, -M-, Lo Jo, Baba Maal etc..
Just to name a few .. so it's all over the place really..

3. Live is one of the few bands I was brought up on right from scratch by my Dad and have just sort of had them in my life since about 1991 really. I was 6 then when Dad must have heard something from MJ on the radio and bought the album. Dad plays music non stop and was in a band, his parents were in the orchestra .. so always really musical in our family .. so my exposure to music was intense when I was young and some bands he played I just took a real liking to and would put their music on even when he wasn't around ... Mental Jewlery was one of them, and by the time Throwing Copper came out I was already a fan and looking forward to the album. It's hard to say what attracted me to them cos I was so young.