my Top 20 Artists/Composers. music majors ftw!

1. Bela Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra
2. Beethoven
3. Igor Stravinsky - Rite of Spring
4. Ennio Morricone
5. Saint-Saens
6. Elgar
7. Boys Like Girls
8. Rachmaninov
9. Stefanie Sun
10. Dido
11. Jeff Wayne
12. Billy Joel
13. Keane
14. BoA
15. Eisley
16. Utada Hikaru
17. Alanis Morissette
18. Natalie Imbruglia
19. Michael Buble`
20. Air Supply

I love your music taste Yan Lin, Its a shame this guy/girl heshe or whatever will hate them all!

haha thank you. no surprise there though.

In no particular order...
1.Beach Boys
2.The Beatles
3.NOFX
4.The Shins
5.The Misfits (Only with Danzig, though)
6.Boys Night Out
7.Mighty Mighty Bosstones
8.Brand New (Deja Entendu and Your Favorite Weapon only)
9.Saves The Day (only their early stuff)
10.CAKE
11.Catch 22
12.Streetlight Manifesto
13.The Postal Service
14.Sublime
15.Weezer(only the blue album)
16.Really old Death Cab For Cutie, all their new music is lame.
17.Rush
18.311
19.Maps And Atlases
20.RX Bandits

I hope if you have never heard these bands that you check them out.

Not a bad list, not a bad list. A number of the bands I at least have respect for. I'm glad that you listed a Modest Mouse album that was pre-Good News (though I would say that my favorite is actually This is a Long Drive). Same idea for Pavement, I like Crooked Rain and Brighten the Corners more than Enchanted. I should start listening to Pavement again. That is also my favorite Books album. I also dig Ted Leo. He puts on a good show.

Also, it seems like you put thought into this and such. You listed albums instead of just artists. Etc.

You're in. One of us. One of us.


I guess we can count this kid out.


Even though yours was done in no particular (I'm pretty sure Dead Kennedys is your definite #1, though) I like that some of ours had the same ranks... and that neither of us can figure out when Johnny Hobo releases shit. I didn't know you liked Passion Slays the Dragon more than The Devil, The Metal, The Big Booty Beats. I also like seeing a compilation on a Top 20, even if it's one that I haven't heard in full and have only listened to when at your house.

One of us. A horse is a horse, of course of course.


The ratio was too unbalanced for my liking. Also, I meant to reply to your list in the same post, but forgot about it as soon as I added the reply. I would have just editted it, but instead I said, "f**k it" and went to sleep.

As for your list, there were a few too many bands that I just don't like, especially on a Top 20 list. A few that I mildly enjoy, but a few that I don't like, nonetheless.

I like the cut of your jib, though. You got spunk. You can be the cheerleader, if you so desire.


Agreed. About half of that was all-time (or at least albums that I still love after listening to them over and over again for a long time now. I Hate Myself was the first screamo band I listened to. Four to five years later and they still blow me away.)

A few months ago, there probably would have been more crust. A few months ago from that, more skramz. And so forth.


I like that you added composers, though I am not familiar with a lot of them. I think I'm going to actually look into some of these (at least read Wikipedia entries and then decide which ones I want to look for).

I just have one question. Why do you like Boys Like Girls, Eisley, and Keane? Keane is probably my least hated out of those and I could kind of understand why someone would like Eisley (I just don't find them particularly interesting), so I guess the real question is why Boys Like Girls? Oh, and Billy Joel, why Billy Joel?


I have really mixed feelings about this list. I love with Misfits, Danzig only as well. I love Catch 22 and Streetlight Manifesto. The Beach Boys was the first band that I liked ever (so my mom tells me.) The Blue Album was easily my favorite album in middle school. I also like a little Postal Service and am okay with really old Death Cab and Mighty Mighty Bosstones are nostalgic as f**k for me. Also, I'm all right with Rush and I have respect for old Saves the Day (though their later stuff blows penis.) I also saw Maps and Atlases a couple of times a few years ago. They put on a pretty decent show.

But I really don't like 311. I hate seeing The Beatles on Top 20 lists. NOFX and I are enemies. I can't respect any band that has ever been on Drive-Thru records. I always thought Brand New was pretty boring. Not as boring as Underoath or any other band that most other people listen to in conjuction with Brand New, but still.

Do you have a last.fm? Give me some more insight into your tastes. Like I said, mixed feelings.

I love Billy Joel :)
Well, some Billy Joel.

Why BLG? because I think they can really pump the crowd up. They opened for HelloGoodbye at my school last year and they were so much better than them. I feel that a rising band with so much stage presence should be admired. Why Billy Joel? Everyone loves some Billy Joel.

So, how do we feel about Polysics?
I'm thinking hit and miss, hit and miss.

I'm thinking hit and miss as well.
Kind of cute, kind of fun. Meh.

OUCH... I don't like what your saying AThorpedo, but I will admit its rather humorous.

So, Kimya Dawson takes up way too much of my time and the Violent Femmes murder people. Also, I met Matty Pop Chart a few months ago, and I had no idea that it was him. I'm sad now. Oh, his new band (Good Luck) sucks and is fronted by a huge bitch who likes Wes Anderson way too much.

Oh, yeah. BUMP.

Oh no wonder I couldn't find this, it died before my account got deleted.

It kind of hurts me how everyone loooves Kimya Dawson now, just because of Juno. Because I am a snob and a horrible person, yeah yeah.

The Violent Femmes are great, I just wish the recordings were slightly better. It's annoying having to crank up the volume everytime I want to hear them. If they had shitty lyrics I guess that'd be one thing, but they don't.

I am madly in love with The Radio Dept. And Jens Lekman. I like Swedes. But other than that, lately I've been listening to a lot of post-rock, shoegaze, post-punk, and trying to broaden my hip-hop horizons.

Sure favorite albums categorized by genre (or at least I tried my best to categorize ):

HIP HOP
RJD2 - Dead Ringer
Mos Def - The New Danger
Black Star - Blackstar
Lupe Fiasco - The Cool
OutKast - Stankonia

R&B/SOUL
Jill Scott - Who Is Jill Scott, Words & Sounds, Vol. 1
Alicia Keys - Diary of Alicia Keys
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun
John Legend - Get Lifted
Sade - Love Deluxe
India.Arie - Acoustic Soul

TRIP-HOP/DOWNTEMPO
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Stateless - Stateless
Esthero - Breath from Another
Bitter:Sweet - The Mating Game
Mono - Formica Blues
Portishead - Dummy
Sia - Colour The Small One
Björk - Homogenic
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
UNKLE - Psyence Fiction

ROCK
Radiohead - OK Computer
Muse - Absolution
Denali - Denali
Garbage - Version 2.0
Bush - Sixteen Stone
Incubus - Make Yourself
The Killers - Hot Fuss
Blonde Redhead - 23
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth


And some honorable mentions:
The Mars Volta
Placebo
The Roots
The Cinematic Orchestra
Daft Punk
Moving Units
The Strokes
Nujabes
Outkast
Stone Temple Pilots
Zero 7
Telepopmusik
Common



My Last.fm Account

^ Freakin' great taste in music.

Hmmm...difficult...top 20 artists...this changes all the time.

1. Talking Heads (that one wasn't difficult)
2. The New Pornographers
3. Queen
4. Sigur Ros
5. Sufjan Stevens
6. Joanna Newsom
7. Yann Tiersen
8. Spoon
9. The Shins
10. Penguin Cafe Orchestra
11. Bob Dylan
12. Philip Glass
13. The Clash
14. Architecture in Helsinki
15. The Beatles
16. Belle and Sebastian
17. David Bowie
18. Mark Mothersbaugh
19. The Postal Service
20. Radiohead

That took awhile.

Yeah, it's a pretty general all-time list, and you'd probably see it from anyone, but I'm being honest in saying that these are my favorites.

And, for anyone who knows me and is surprised by the not inclusion of Ted Leo + the Pharmacists, it's because I hate Living with the Living, and this list is of people I can listen to anytime, any album (that's why I didn't do albums, because it would be all of them).

And no one better be dissing my Talking Heads. I could talk about how great and, surprisingly to some, accessible Talking Heads are (were) for hours upon hours.

This week:

Thanks!

i'm really surprised at some of the people that seemed angry because of this thread, because i've seen them do the same thing in the past, and it's funny watching the same thing happen to them.

here's my list but i dont expect anything out of it.

1. ambulance ltd (lp)
2. the beatles (the white album and abbey road)
3. the cranberries (everybody else is doing it, so why can't we?)
4. daft punk (discovery)
5. death cab for cutie (plans)
6. the distillers (coral fang)
7. the flaming lips (yoshimi battles the pink robots)
8. freezepop (fancy ultra fresh)
9. iron and wine (the creek drank the cradle)
10. the matches (decomposer)
11. of montreal (hissing fauna, are you the destroyer?)
12. the pillows (penalty life)
13. the postal service (give up)
14. queen (jazz)
15. the presidents of the united states of america (the presidents of the united states of america)
16. the shins (oh, inverted world)
17. the sleepy jackson (lovers)
18. spoon (ga ga ga ga ga)
19. the sounds (dying to say this to you)
20. vampire weekend (vampire weekend)

Nicki, I downloaded a bunch of Jens Lekman on your recommendation, and I realized that they play like a bazillion of his songs when I work in Old Navy. I hate them. I'm really mad now.

Wait, you hate his songs? Or you hate Old Navy? Or you hate him because he's played in Old Navy? The fact that he's played there strikes me as really odd, and makes me kind of sad.

Well they play three of his songs all the time and I always hated them when they came on...and then I played one other one and was like, "Oh no...I know this voice..."

Most songs they play I hate. They do play that Sara Barreilles (sp?) song once in a great while though and I love that one.

Which songs do they play? Are you sure it's not just the association? Assuming that you've been listening to his most recent stuff, you might want to check out something older ("Maple Leaves" is my favorite), because Night Falls seems like it'd make a perfectly awful introduction.

Are Birthdays Happy, And I Remember Every Kiss, Sipping on the Sweet Nectar, and I'm Leaving you Because I Don't Love You. All of them. All the time.

That would annoy me too. But you should try to listen to his older stuff, really. In a better situation, he's fantastic. At least I'd imagine that you'd like it, given that our taste is pretty similar.

Bump.

I'm bored, and you'll probably shun me and my list, but that's okay. In no particular order...

1. Jason Mraz
2. No Doubt
3. Gwen Stefani
4. The Beatles
4. Idina Menzel
5. Andrew Lloyd Webber
6. Antonio Vivaldi
7. Mr. A-Z (Album)
8. I Stand (Album)
9. Evanescence
10. Cascada
11. Jack Johnson
12. Josh Groban
13. Linkin Park
14. Coldplay
15. Gerswhin


I don't feel like finishing.