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[Gerrit]

I know it's not really about football, but because there's no 'off topic' section in English...


The one other thing I spend as much time and money on as football, is music. I was just curious which bands you guys are all into. Norway has some quality musicians (Lene Marlin comes into mind for example, and no I'm not gonna mention Burzum ) and a vibrant music scene, so I'm sure everyone here will have their own favourites?


I am a big gothic/newwave/darkwave fan, and also listen to some alternative rock and indie.

My favourite band of all time is Echo & The Bunnymen. I have seen them 8x live the last two years and travelled around England to see shows of them. They are worth every cent though

Next to the Bunnymen, I am very wild about The Smiths (Morrissey), Bauhaus, Silke Bischoff (aka 18 Summers), Placebo, Muse, Heather Nova, Marilyn Manson, Indochine, Manic Street Preachers, Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Damned, U2.

I'm mainly into eighties stuff myself, it was the golden age for darkness in music, the roots of gothic were the late seventies and early eighties.
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[1917]

I listen to hip-hop, punk and classical (when I have the time and energy to put in the effort). Mr Lif, MF DOOM, Fugazi and Jawbreaker are some of my favourites.
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[Green Apes]

Trance Techno and Rap, rock sucks
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[AmG]

NO NO NO! Rock sucks NOT! But Tecnho are my favourite

[HeiaVincent]

Normally when people write that they listen to everything, it means that their music taste sucks.

But I listen to everything.

I used to be a drum & bass dj back in my younger days, and now play tech-house. But outside of this "work" I listen to everything i feel is worthy of a listen. I like The Smiths too, although I am not a big fan of Morrissey's solo stuff (apart from Suedehead, a good song). Of similar artists I like stuff such as Serge Gainsbourg, Okkervil River, The Clientele, Badly Drawn Boy and the genius hearthrob that is Jens Lekman.

Some other favourites are artists like Joanna Newsom, Vashti Bunyan, Sufjan Stevens and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.

And I listen to Techno, and Trance (most hated music-genre ever?) because as with every genre, if you look beneath the surface you'll always find gems.
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[Lloyd]

Here`s a few of "mine"

The Smiths, Paul Weller, Elvis Costello, Frank Zappa, The Jam, The Kinks, Beatles, Prefab Sprout, Keith Jarret, Dave Brubeck, Miles David, John Coltrane, The The, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Tord Gusatvsen Trio, Bach, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Dimitri Shostakovich and Igor Stravinsky.

[erlendmf]

Hum... Rock ftw!

My favorites: Creedence Clearwater Revival, Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd, The Doors and Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler.

[Green Apes]

You're saying that my music taste sucks? It's just my opinion...
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[VerneTroyer]

I have one band that stick out from all the others as my big favourite. British rock-legends Queen. I honestley don't think I could survive without their music.

Among other bands I listen to, I might mention Led Zeppelin, U2, The Darkness, Lordi and a whole bunch of norwegian and nordic bands you foreign guys don't have heard about.

As you can see, rock dominations, but I also have such as Eminem, Outcast, Sean Paul, D12 and 50 Cent i my collection. But it's a long time since I have played any of them.

Oh yeah, btw, I do think some of you might know who Røyksopp, Ralph Meyerz, The Rasmus and Kurt Nilsen are among those nordic bands and artist I lisen to.
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[Gerrit]

Nice to see many Smiths fans here! Pay a visit as well to thequeenisdead.co.uk, the biggest Smiths fans forum...

[henning]

The Smiths are great, but I haven't really checked out Morrissey's solo stuff. "Back in the days" I used to listen solely to punk/hardcore, but nowadays I find myself listening more and more to hiphop - the swedish rapper Petter is my favorite at the moment!

[Juchmako2]

I use to listen to rock and alternative, The Rasmus and James Blunt are my favourites

[arnt]

Well, for all you hard-core, satanic death-metal fans out there, who want the darkest, most evil and foul stuff around, there is artist that even qualifies; Odd Nordstoga

The sheer, mind-numbing evil that virtually drips from his music, is beyond comparison by mortals.

I'm not into that stuff, though. I enjoy rap and hiphop, techno, rock and lots of other stuff, really. My favourites right now are:

Fremmed Rase - Trondheim based rap crew, who perform in the local dialect. Usually with a lot of dirty humour.

Null$katte$nylterne - Hard rock band from northern Trøndelag. Well know with Rosenborg fans for the excellent song "RBK".

Along with those, I listen to Ice-T and Ice Cube, Massive Attack, Portishead, Dum Dum Boys, Tre Små Kinesere, Gåte, Paperboys, Tenacious D, Nelly Furtado, etc etc
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[Lloyd]

[1917]

The Smiths, if you’ve never heard of them, were just a tornado of teenage repression, bad pseudo-literate jokes, failed attempts at witty turns of phrase, and Morrissey’s pained, tuneless holler. The appeal of The Smiths was the fact that it could make just about any angst-filled teenager feel better about himself because Morrissey was so much more pathetic than he could ever hope to be. Although Morrissey is often hailed as the poet laureate of whiny crybaby rock, many of his lyrics are as unintentionally hilarious as the 1975 melodramatic blaxploitation film “The Black Gestapo.” Here is a delightful example from his vegetarian tour-de-force “Meat Is Murder”:
Heifer whines could be human cries Closer comes the screaming knife This beautiful creature must die This beautiful creature must die A death for no reason And death for no reason… is murder.

Well, his clumsy poetry has me convinced. Morrissey, I promise you that I will never again butcher a live cow for no reason. The generally accepted highlight of the Smiths’ small catalogue of releases is the 1986 album “The Queen Is Dead,” on which Morrissey cleverly toys with his reputation as a gloomy, morose, self-pitying nerd by singing songs about being a gloomy, morose, self-pitying nerd. He’s perhaps the only rock star ever to namedrop both Keats and Yeats in the same song while at the same time misspelling the song title (“Cemetry Gates”). Score a point for intellectualism.

Perhaps the most hilarious chapter in the Smiths’ existence is the inevitable solo-project mayhem that ensued when they split up. Morrissey continued to be Morrissey, and released many terrible, self-indulgent solo albums over the years; in other words, he sort of like Sting except nobody actually buys his records. Well, actually, Sting never reinvented himself as a homosexual rockabilly greaser, and Sting never lost his record deal due to a total lack of interest from anybody other than a fanatical (and totally unexplainable) Latino following. Johnny Marr, the guitarist of The Smiths (and the only mitigating factor that made Morrissey anything but totally unbearable) has finally come out of the studio-musician woodwork with his recent “Johnny Marr and the Healers” project. Unfortunately for all the fans who had their hopes pinned on him, the album was eerily reminiscent of such hideous 90s guitarist-side-projects like The Seahorses and Hurricane #1. Johnny himself decided that he’d sing in his new band; tragically, he sounds a lot like Steve Miller.
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[Brady]

I liked The Smiths (especially Please, Please, Please, Bigmouth, There Is A Light and Heaven Knows) and also Morrissey's solo work.

But it's kinda strange that Morrissey was such a big fan of The New York Dolls, that he went to the great lengths of reuniting the living members for a show two years ago. I don't find much similarity in either the music or the visual image of The Dolls and Morrissey.

[Gerrit]

Bringing up an old topic again...

I recommend everyone of you A PERFECT CIRCLE. I discovered them a while ago but the spark has risen during the last couple of months. It's not the easiest accessible music, having a mixture of metal influences and mysterieus oriental tunes, and the lyrics are very abstract and complex just as well. But I started to analyse it and began to get quite addicted to them. They're the sort of band you need to put intellectual labour/efford into before you'll appreciate it, it's not the type of band you can listen to and immediately get into it the first time, but once you make that efford to analyse their music you'll see and hear something very beautiful. It's like a complicated puzzle, once you have completed the puzzle and put all the pieces in the right place, you have a very beautiful result.

I definitely recommend their album "Mer de Noms", especially the songs Three Libras, Brena, The Hollow, and Orestes.




Smiths fans should definitely visit www.thequeenisdead.co.uk, the best Smiths forum around and also including a Morrissey-solo area.
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[attach]

I like "Sleeping Beauty" the most. You should consider listening to Tool too then, because it's the same vocalist (and type of music), Maynard James Keenan.
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[Gerrit]

Indeed. I gave Tool a try. Not bad at all, although I prefer the mysteriousness of A Perfect Circle. I do plan to visit a Tool concert in Ireland, just to see Maynard live. Tool's okay and is growing on me, but I prefer APC if I must choose. However, no reason why he cannot do both, lot of singers combine two projects.

Sleeping Beauty is very good indeed. The two first APC albums (Mer de Noms, Thirtheenth Step) are both excellent and they have a very interesting concept. MDN (Sea of Names if you translate) contains all songs written about a specific person (apart from 1 or 2 songs) while Thirtheenth Step is about the 13-step process of curing from drug addiction. The album only contains 12 songs though, suggesting the last step (being completely cured) is never to be reached. Quite pessimistic, but Maynard says he wrote it based on what happened to friends of him who got addicted.

I think Brena is one of the best lovesongs ever written, it's very intime and powerful. The way he calls his girlfriend "My reflection" is so great, that goes so much deeper than any other term to name your girlfriend.

Great band overall, I hope they will unite again at some point, maybe in between two Tool albums they can do a small tour or so.
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[attach]

Interesting. I think Ænima is the best Tool album. My personal favourites are "Eulogy", "H." and "Forty Six & 2".
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[Gerrit]

Ænima is the first Tool song I ever heard. I was already quite devotely into APC and thought of listening to Maynard's other band as well, so I randomly picked a song. I kinda like it. Not like APC but still good.

Learn to swim, see you down in Arizona Bay! (how can Arizona have a bay while it's a landlocked state without coastline?)

These are the lyrics to Brena:

My reflection wraps and pulls me under healing waters
to be bathed in Brena
Guides me safely in worlds I've never been to
Heal me, heal me, my dear Brena

So vulnerable.... but it's allright

Show me lonely and show me openings to
bring me closer to you, my dear Brena

So vulnerable... but it's allright
Heal me, heal me...
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[Salomon]

[Brady]

Maynard James Keenan co-wrote and guested on the track 'Passenger' on Deftones 'White Pony'-album.

It's a great track, as is the rest of the album.

[Nakurami]

proud of listening to rock,punk'n metal

[Bratigol-jenta]

I like many diffrent bands, but I mostly listen to Green Day, The Ramones, Nirvana, Misfits and The Clash.