What's your favourite band?

[DeadFantasy]

Hm.... This is hard
i'd say Three Doors Down

I simply love their music. It's great IMO and I could (if wanted) listen to them all day. They are a very talented group of people and I love all their songs that i've heard. Very catchy, great lyrics, nice lyrics and music. Very awesome band and i've seen them live before and aren't bad.
one of the best rock groups IMO.

[seraphim yeah?]

For me:

Paradise Lost: I've loved these guys since I first got ahold of their first album. Simply amazing. They really turned me onto the Doom Metal scene. Personal favorites are: "Angel Tears", "Your Own Reality", "Say Just Words", "Erased", "Gothic", and "How Soon is Now?".

Katatonia: Another huge fave of mine. Got into these guys shortly after Paradise Lost by recommendation of a friend who was a huge fan of both. Newest album was by far their best but I absolutely love The Great Cold Distance. My fave songs are "Murder", "Night is the New Day", "Forsaker", "My Twin", "Sweet Nurse", "Deliberation", and everything off of Saw You Drown.

Porcupine Tree: While I'm not as big a fan of them as I am the two preceding, they still hit my top 5. Amazing band overall. "Open Car", "Anesthetize", "Lazarus", and "Piano Lessons" are my fave songs. Really good "chill" music for when Metal doesn't work for me.

Pink Floyd: Does this need a description? :p Pink Floyd is one of the most influential bands to hit my ears. I love pretty much anything they've made.

Arch Enemy: One of the only metal bands that I bother listening to anymore. One of the first Death Metal bands I got into. Followed them as a fan for a few years but eventually started tiring of them. "Rise of the Tyrant", 'Nemesis", "Vultures", "Revolution Begins", and "Dark of the Sun" are notably my favorite songs.

Animal Collective: Really just a wall of noise, but listen to "Grass" and "My Girls" and I promise you'll fall in love like I did. =p

Thanks for the heads-up about the posting format Kandy-Sugar. =]

[Terra Branford]

I love Kelly Clarkson. Does she count as a "band" I don't listen to all the "hipp-ah-tee-hop" you younger folks listen to. I mostly enjoy a quiet evening listening to classical music like piano pieces and orchestras

(I enjoy Justine Timberlake, and The Killers as well. )

[seraphim yeah?]

I love Kelly Clarkson. Does she count as a "band" I don't listen to all the "hipp-ah-tee-hop" you younger folks listen to. I mostly enjoy a quiet evening listening to classical music like piano pieces and orchestras

(I enjoy Justine Timberlake, and The Killers as well. )

Ooh The Killers. Forgot to mention them as well. "Midnight Show", "Spaceman", and "Read My Mind" are my favorites from them. Definitely a fantastic band.

[Dreamer]

Traditionally my fav band overall is AFI
right now though it would have to be Dance Gavin Dance.

Oops forgot reasons why.
Well AFI covers so many genres so from the early 90's to now their sound is always fresh and new. Some of the best lyric writing and music writing in rock today.

Dance gavin Dance
They have a windy flowy guitaring style that just got better through the last 3 years. Bass recently got really funky and fun. Drumming has seen much improvement with the change of sound. The most important part however is their old singer is a legend in the scene. Their new singer brings something new to the band and caused the sound to change into something more funky and fun.

[Kandy-Sugar]

Okay people can we please read the rules on the fist page before posting:

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[Serah]

I have so many favourite bands I'm not even really sure where to begin. They range from Tool to 30 Seconds to Mars to My Chemical Romance. I go through phases of where I want to listen to certain bands and/or specific songs from them. Like right now my current obsessions would be 30 Seconds to Mars, My Chemical Romance, and 12 Stones. But really if I had to name all of my faves it'd be 30 Seconds to Mars, My Chemical Romance, 12 Stones, Breaking Benjamin, Lifehouse, Muse, The Calling, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and the list just goes on and on.

[Cricket]

I have too many favorite bands to pick one. It depends on my mood. Sometimes I'm in the mood for Breaking Benjamin or Black Sabbath. Or Alice in Chains or Led Zeppelin. My Chemical Romance or Coldplay. Muse or Alan Parsons Projects. The Beatles.

I really can't pick any favorites. Alice in Chains was the first band I listened to independently of course ^^

[Valvalis]

I have quite a few different ones, but here's a small handful:

The Goo Goo Dolls-my favorite band since I was 14, and I still love them. Really just their sound, John Rzeznik's voice just has this incredible gravelly, sort of humble quality to it, and they have great guitar work in every song. They're also able to sing about common themes like love without sounding stereotypical or common. Their mid-late 90's stuff is my favorite, but I still love their newer albums too.

Tori Amos- she's able to write songs in completely different genres and still tie them together as hers with her lyric style. She does everything from dark and brooding to warm and fuzzy without any of it seeming unnatural, and she can write about simple things in really interesting ways. Plus, I can sing along with her really well.

Sunny Day Real Estate- I'm not particularly good with sorting music into genres, etc, but these guys are what I would imagine "emo" to have been originally defined as--music that goes directly from the artist's soul to the instrument without any planning. Jeremy Enigk, the lead vocalist, sings as though he doesn't care who is listening, and it's wonderful--raw emotion that still ends up sounding beautiful and brilliant. Many of the lyrics are enigmatic and sometimes difficult to even understand, which leaves the meanings wide open to interpretation; and a lot of times they make unusual notes/chords work together in ways you'd never expect. I'm not sure whether they're still together at the moment, but they also have a side project called The Fire Theft which has a very similar sound.

King's X- Crazy, loud, in-your-face rock music. I saw them once and they played for over 2 hours, it was phenomenal. Doug Pinnick can absolutely sing your ass off. Must be listened to at full volume.

And, of course, good ol' Nobuo Uematsu. He could write a symphony on a kazoo.

[Bones]

OK, I kind of have 2 favourite bands.

Number 1: Panic! At The Disco, when they first came about their music was different to me, and I loved the way AFYCSO was kind of divided into 2 different feels, with the futuristic stuff and then the Jazzy vibe near the end. I just thought that album was amazing and still love listening to those songs now. I just loved how they weren't afraid to step out of their comfort zone when they released Pretty Odd as well, it was very different to the first album but it was still full of catchy tunes and "Nine in the Afternoon" is just wacky! I've also seen them live and Brendon Urie just has an amazing voice.

Number 2: Fall Out Boy, I admit I'm not really one of the ones that have followed them from the beginning, I only started loving this band after "Dance Dance", and have loved them ever since, "Dance Dance" is my all time favourite song and nothing has actually managed to top it yet. I think Patrick Stump is majorly talented and has a great vocal range, and their music videos are very different too, I've also seen this band live too and I love the jumps and twirls that Pete and Joe do on stage.