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Phil Hill
I love my cootie bug

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posted 05-02-2007 02:58 PM

I also like "The Art of Noise".

"Kiss" (vocal by, dare I say it...Tom Jones) and the Peter Gunn TV show theme are *really* good!

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Tim Reed
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posted 05-02-2007 03:12 PM

Phil... Mancini - A Shot in the Dark

quote: Mike Blakesley
it is possible to live for your favorite band

FWIW, I did take the topic heading as a figure of speech. [Wink]

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Chad M Calpito
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posted 05-02-2007 03:13 PM

I totally agree with you Phil. Those two songs are great.

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Mike Blakesley
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posted 05-02-2007 04:43 PM

quote: Brad Miller
Are you saying the Carpenters were better than Captain & Tennille???

Yeah. Also they are better than Donnie and Marie. [Cool]

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Mark Ogden
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posted 05-02-2007 04:54 PM

I don’t know about “living for”, but for this baby boomer the band that has meant the most to me over the years is The Moody Blues. This holds true every single woman I have ever dated. If you went to any Ivy League/northeastern liberal arts college in the early seventies, you pretty much lost your virginity to either “Nights in White Satin” or “For My Lady” (unless your bedmate was into Emerson Lake & Palmer, then it was “Still . . . You Turn Me On” or “Lucky Man”). It’s a progressive rock cliché, but was more than 35 years ago that I hooked up a headphone jack to my parent’s old Magnavox console stereo so I could listen to “Seventh Sojourn” after they went to bed, while staring at the LavaLamp they got me one Christmas.

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Bobby Henderson
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posted 05-02-2007 09:09 PM

There's not any bands I "live for," although I'm a huge fan of some.

Probably the closest one that qualifies for that "live for" part in me is The Police. I just love how that band sounds. The music is unique enough that, unlike a lot of other "80's bands," the material has a more timeless quality to it which only the greatest rock bands achieve.

Ghost in the Machine is my favorite Police album. The music on that disc has so many moods. I like playing Invisible Sun during a night time thunderstorm. I think the band hit its high mark on musicianship with that release.

Back in the 1980's, I really liked it that Every Breath You Take beat Michael Jackson and others for the top single of the year (I think that was 1983). It's a really haunting song. I don't think I understood it fully, or felt it the right way until I had my heart broken a couple of times.

I have all the releases from The Police on CD as the Message In A Box box set. My father bought that for me as a birthday present. There's a few vinyl LPs of theirs in my collection as well (and I don't even have a vinyl record player anymore). I'd love to be able to see The Police in concert on a reunion tour, but the tickets will probably be costly as hell and damned near impossible to acquire.

Aside from The Police, I'm a huge fan of several other bands.

ABBA is a guilty pleasure. The first vinyl record I ever bought for myself was ABBA's The Album. I was 9 years old. I loved the two women in that band, both in their beauty and how they sang. Their voices were beautiful but cut like a razor blade at the same time.

AC/DC, Rush, U2, Pink Floyd, Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, Rainbow, Def Leppard, Scorpions, Accept, Metallica and a number of others got played like crazy on my boom box and stereo system.

My tastes in rock music changed and matured a bit more in the late 1980s. I was glad to see "hair band metal" get swept aside by Nirvana, Alice and Chains, Soundgarden and others.

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If that's not obvious enough, its Marilyn Manson (they're a band). I've been listening for 9 years, and I was 11 when I picked up the CD. That album still sounds fresh and original to me, and still helps me get through rough patches (I'm turning 20 this year, so I still have a little angst in me [Razz] )

Is that to say you need to be under age 20 to listen to Marilyn Manson? I'm quite a bit older, but own a couple of his CDs ( Antichrist Superstar and Mechanical Animals)

I'm a bigger fan of one of Manson's frequent collaborators, Trent Reznor. I have just about every NIN album release. Haven't bought Year Zero yet (trying to find out if a DualDisc version will hit store shevles). I'm still trying to make up my mind on whether or not to get the newest NIN concert DVD or wait until I get a HD setup and buy it on Blu-Ray. A big part of that video was shot at a concert I attended at Oklahoma City's Ford Center.

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Hillary Charles
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posted 05-02-2007 09:58 PM

Not that I live for them or anything, but I still have a thing for Mike. [Wink]

Also must agree with those who voted for ABBA and The Carpenters. Just like with the Monkees, I never tire of their music.

If I were to answer this question when I was six years old, the answer without hesitation would have been The Partridge Family. [Big Grin]

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Rachel Craven
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posted 05-02-2007 10:52 PM

quote: Hillary Charles
If I were to answer this question when I was six years old, the answer without hesitation would have been The Partridge Family.

Odd because if I were asked to answer this question when I was 6 I would have said the Monkees, I had an odd and unhealthy obsession with them at that age. =)

I know Andrew said only one band but in all honesty different music has gotten me thru different times recently depending on my mood. The two bands that have had the most influence lately are Nickelback and Rascal Flatts... very different genre's.

All I have to say is 'my song' is When the Sand Runs out, Rascal Flatts. That song has got me thru a bunch of personal stuff in my life. Go check it out, its good. =)

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Justin West
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posted 05-02-2007 11:47 PM

I would have to say that the Plasmatics helped me make it through my college years!

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Andrew McCrea
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posted 05-03-2007 12:13 AM

No, Bobby, it was more in response to my comment about having teenaged angst.

Year Zero feels like the b-sides of With Teeth.

Gotta love Mechanical Animals though.

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Jennifer Pan
THE JEN!

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posted 05-03-2007 12:31 AM

Switchfoot and Coldplay. Yeah... I know I'm only supposed to pick one band... but seriously... thats like totally not fair!! [Razz]

From the beginning till now Switchfoot has been stepping stones in my life. Every album of theirs has songs that I'll always want to refer back to... that still hit me like the first time.

Pretty much the same thing goes for Coldplay, only in addition with that is the fact that I had a desire for the sounds of the piano... And with them its now become a complete passion to hear it... being used in such a way with their music.

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Allison Parsons
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posted 05-03-2007 12:54 AM

Hands down, Queen. I have a tattoo, when I went to England I found Freddy's old house, hell, i even have pewter figures of them. Don't even ask how many LP's, posters, cd's, etc etc I have. Fell in love with them in 1991 when I was in 8th grade and haven't looked back since. And don't even mention Paul Rogers to me....yuck! Second band is Rush.

quote: Hillary Charles
Not that I live for them or anything, but I still have a thing for Mike

Did you ever listen to his First National Band? The double Cd Magnetic South and Loose Salute is [thumbsup]

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Brad Miller
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posted 05-03-2007 02:00 AM

quote: Mike Blakesley
Yeah. Also they are better than Donnie and Marie.

Ummm, EVERYONE is better than Donny and Marie! [Razz]

(Uh oh, I feel the presense of an angry Cinemarker after saying that now.)

Hey Jen, you know how I know you are gay?

(I wonder how many people will get that reference.)

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Jennifer Pan
THE JEN!

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posted 05-03-2007 02:40 AM

Umm... Brad... tell me something we all don't already know.

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Chris Slycord
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posted 05-03-2007 03:14 AM

quote: Bobby Henderson
Back in the 1980's, I really liked it that Every Breath You Take beat Michael Jackson and others for the top single of the year (I think that was 1983). It's a really haunting song. I don't think I understood it fully, or felt it the right way until I had my heart broken a couple of times.

It's a common misconception that that song is about love.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Every_Breath_You_Take

It sounds like a comforting love song. I didn't realise at the time how sinister it is. I think I was thinking of Big Brother, surveillance and control. - Sting

And my favorite band at the moment is Dream Theater.

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