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Joey JoJo:
For me, it's got to be Opeth. The musicianship in this band is absolutely second to none, and the lyrical prowess of Mikael Akerfeldt blows practically everything in todays current metal scene away. From the fantastic and tragic story told in "Still Life", to the epic tune "Deliverance" and practically everything else this band has created, Opeth have managed to keep hold of their unique sound. This is a band who can be crushingly aggressive one minute and hauntingly beautiful the next, often numerous times within one song alone. Slayer they ain't.

corwinzor:
As for bands, I'm going to have to be typical and say that the Beatles,  Radiohead, and the Kinks are the bands I always go back to, with phases of being really into other bands in between. I love these bands because they have such a wide discography and cover a lot of ground while being pretty consistently good (although I don't really listen to the Kinks past the 1960s stuff).

As for singers, I'd have to say that Gram Parsons is my favorite. Does anyone else listen to this guy? He appeared on some pretty popular albums like the Byrds' 1968 breakthrough 'country/rock' album 'Sweetheart of the Rodeo' and he sang lead on all the early Flying Burrito Brothers stuff (my favorite being 'Sleepless Nights').  He put out a few solo albums in the early 1970s, 'GP' and 'Grevious Angel' and a lot of his work featured duets with Emmylou Harris at the beginning of her country singing career. He wasn't around very long (dead at 26 in 1973) but he was maybe the first person to mix country with rock music, and had such an amazing voice and timeless-sounding songs for such a young guy.

Night Rocker:
For me it is the Who. They brought into the classic rock sound at a young age, this band wast introduced to me and i took to it like a jelly fish to a pale rich buisness man in the ocean.if that makes sense. The thing that really got m hooked to the band was when my uncle caught me listening to one of their albums. He explained the troubles and struggles the band went through, i didnt have any of the words sink in but i wished i did. As i grew older i researched the band and learned their names, their styles, and their part of the band. I listen to them more, i knew the lyrics by heart, i slept with my who Cd spinning in my CD player.  I saw one of their concerts and thought it was great. it is one of the things i forget the details but i remember being there in the crowd with out a mind as everyone shouted along. a few years later i recieved a guitar. my first thought was their lead guitarist using his arm as a windmill to strike the strings and then smashing his guitar at the end of the show.  As i listen to more of their songs i could here a lyric that explained my situation of th moment. a worship of the band might have started if i was richer. apprently i cant afford a shrine extenion in my closet wit my own pocket money. The Who became my branch towards other music. not only was it classic rock but new rock, alt rock, punk rock, and then into the blues. so if i ever get into a musical field of work, i have Pete, Keith, John, and Roger to thank.

and that is what the who is to me. "You only became what we made you." as they would say

pinkpiche:
I really can't choose just one band so i'll be lining up three.

The first time i listened to The Flaming Lips's The Soft Bulletin it completely changed my view on music (actually i first listened to a single of theirs which had a couple of tracks from both Zaireeka and The Soft Bulletin (the incorporation of Heureka and Zaire is btw totally cool) . I listened to that album for months and months away. I sat in my room for days and listened to this fantastic album, and memorized the songs, danced and even wrote short stories about the two scientists in Race For The Price and Superman in Waiting for superman. Right from the starter Race For The Price, the fairy tales and adventure in both their lyrics, instrumentalism and layers and layers of electronic beauty is just astonishing. This is my one true childhood band, i will forever come back to them. It just got better when i listened to Yoshmi Battles the Pink Robots and afterwards Zaireeka. I really can't describe it, and i guess that's enough for them to be on this "list". I didn't sit and wait feverishly for the new album, for i knew with myself that they could never do anything better than The Soft Bulletin. At War With The Mystics is a great album though. I really wish i catched their show in copenhagen in may.
Wayne Coyne is, if anyone hasn't noticed, btw the nicest person on earth.

"Do You Realize, Oh Oh Oh
Do You Realize, that everyone, you know,
Someday, will die"

and

"Tell everybody
Waitin' for Superman
That they should try to hold on
Best they can
He hasn't dropped them
Forgot them
Or anything
It's just too heavy for Superman to lift"

<3

A lot of you people don't know this band, except from the times Praeserpium have mentioned them, but Under Byen are danish. This forever-changing lineup of unique and groundbreaking musicians continue to blow my mind, with every new album they send out. They have this amazing pianist who plays as if his it was his last day to ever touch the tangents. I would love this band, solely because of his fantastic playing but on top of that their front singer Henriette Sennenwald creates some of the most intense, delicate and emotional vocals i have ever heard. She whispers, she breaths and turns with the mic and transfers her soul to fucking sound. Also they have some kind of atmosphere no matter which album you set in the stereo, they have this feel that no other band can compete with. Their dreamy, winterlike and sometimes ethereal mood is just incomparable. It's hard for people who don't understand the lyrics to get this feel, though i think, but still i know a lot of people who can still enjoy the music all though they have no idea what this fairy is singing. But even i can't fully grasp the meaning of her lyrics, it's very cryptic and imagery, which is another thing i love about this band. It's too easy to describe the way you think you feel. She describes what's truly in your heart. Other than that i can listen to their discography from one end to the other without losing focus and that means a lot to me cus i have a nasty habit of changing the track all the time.

I'd have a translation of their lyrics here if i didn't think it would ruin everything.

Next band is Mew which is also a danish band, but i guess there is a much bigger chance of you knowing them than Under Byen. My big brother bought the record and i remember i didn't think much of it, except for the single Snow Brigade. Everything else was just too distant for me to relate to. But as i borrowed the album and listened to it from the start to the end, i realised i had been missing out on something huge. After that i listened to it now and then but never really got completely into the band, it was as if that album was enough. But it wasn't and i got completely hooked a couple of months later after listening to She-spider over and over again.

"After we go to sleep
Our sun rise
I will make it the truth of painfully helping me cover up things
I wish I never had found "

and then the amazing break

"CONFIDENT!
Tangled up in a nice life
Put the spider in you
Watching in
Disregard
You live a nice life
With the spider in you "

Yes yes yes!!

So i read about them, and found out that Frengers was just a bunch of old songs re-recorded and a couple of new tracks, so i thought to myself "I gotta listen to their old work" and i did. And it made so much more sense from that point on, it was as if i understood the band and what they were trying to do. I started to get the little emotional details in every word and every drum beat, i started to realise that this was my.fucking.band. And since the new album And The Glasshanded Kites, i have just been in awe of the journey they are taking their band through. This is true ambition, this is true urge to bring expression forth in sound and actually also graphics. At their shows they have this kind of slideshow/video thing running behind them with Jonas (the frontsinger)'s creatures, landscapes, worlds. He said that his only real inspiration is his dreams, in which these creatures come to life. All he's trying to do is capture this. Backed up by an amazing drummer and a fantastic (but not nearly as talented as the others) guitarist, it just all falls into place.

There are loads of other bands that just didn't make it to this list, but some of them are:
The Blood Brothers
The Stars
and The Mars Volta

Filk:
I don't have such strong feelings towards my music like some of you do. I used to idealize things and people, and those ideals quickly turned into obsessions, with all the pain, agony and depression afterwards. These days i like and listen to a lot of music, but i've lost this thin thread of spiritual connection to it.

The band that i appreciate the most right now would probably be Cradle of Filth. It's hard to explain why i like them. Perhaps there is some strange hidden beauty between the over-the-top vocals and preverted lyrics.

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