Moosic?

[Doul]

In the interests of keeping this board lively, what are your favourite bands? Or if you prefer classical music, favourite composers?

[Nakijo]

Alright, you asked for it...

Elliot Smith
Jack Johnson
Ben Harper
Soulfly
McLusky
Chris Isaak
Dre
Snoop Dogg
Eminem
John Butler Trio
Xavier Rudd
Rage Against The Machine
The White Stripes
Cat Stevens
Type O Negative
Pearl Jam
Godsmack
Weddings Parties Anything

That's just what I have on the 'puter and in the car at present, which makes them my current faves. Although I have a high-rotation of different bands and artists, those are a fairly good sample of the stuff I usually listen to.

[rockhound]

Naj:

Mick Thomas played at my local Folk Fest this year. I'm not all that familiar with his WPA work, but check out Mick Thomas and the Sure thing. It's pretty good stuff! Did you know that Mick produced the Waiff's earliest album? (They were also at the Calgary FF, did a clinic together)

(I even found myself d/l'ing guitar tabs for a couple of his tunes)

Good on ya, mate!

If you're into sortta industrial/gothy stuff (noticed TO-), check out Project Pitchfork. Especially some of their earlier stuff.

Other stuff in 'rotation' lately

Horace X (funk meets bigband meets danc meets arabic meets reggae meets England)

Slainte Mhaht (pr: Slanche va). An Acadian (Nova Scotia) band that's got fast licks, dancable beat, and a piper!

The Cure
Bentley Rhythym Ace
Stan Rogers
Bjork
The New Pornographers (featuring Niko Case)
Captian Tractor
Cash (RIP, Man in Black)
U2
Voice Industrie
Tragicaly Hip
Dave Matthews
Matt Good

And a bunch of mixes my ulty team put together including
*Sugar
*Billy Bragg
*Ani DiFranco
*Cake
*Kasey Chambers
*Wil
*Nick Cave
*Be Good Tanyas
*Tom Waits

[Nakijo]

yeah, Mick Thomas and the Sure Thing are alright, but I prefer the WPA stuff. And I knew about MT and the Waifs. He's been friends with the girls for years. The album I'm listening to at the moment has one of them joining in for a couple of songs at a concert. I've got a bunch of his tabs too. Check out "Scorn of the Women", "Away Away", "For a Short Time", and "Step In Step Out". Great stuff!

I checked out PP, but couldn't find a resemblance to TON. I tried downloading some samples from each album and it all just sounds like Depeche Mode ripoffs to me.

I also like Cash, DiFranco, Dave Matthews, Nick Cave and Tom Waits. Most of the others I've never heard of... Obviously U2 is one I have, but I've always considered them to a "band-wagon" kinda band. The only song of theirs that I've ever liked was "Numb", and that's the one that every U2 fan hates!

[rockhound]

LOL

Yeah numb isn't too popular for a lot of u2 fans.

Wierd Al did a parody of it once on Canada's Much Music. He came in for a day and did a day of "Al Music." He walked into the middle of the room, sat on a sool, and put on a touque while the guitar starts up. Then he brought a book up into the screen, and started reading, emulating the Edge's vocals:

I will not eat green eggs and ham
I will not eat them Sam
*
I am




What Pitchfork stuff did you find? If you can, look for
Entity
Renascence (especialy the FrontLine Assembly -FLA remix from the Tyrrany Off the Beat album)
Steel Rose
Requiem
Song of the Winds
KNKA


The Hip are a cornerstone of Canadian Rock.
Stan Rogers is a maritine folk singer from Halifax, Canada.
Voice Industrie EBM/electronic-industrial band from Edmonton, Canada (well if you thought PP was a DM ripoff, VI 's vocals are identical, but they don't suck )
Captain Tractor is folky-pop from Edmonton.
Wil is a guitar-singer-songwriter from Calgary, Canada. Fastest chops I've ever seen live!

VI, CT, and Wil are all "indy" artists.

Bentley Rhythm Ace is house-style, and features Pop Will Eat Itself's Richard March.

I've been searching for the tabs to "Song for the seven seas" by Mick Thomas. You haven't seen them anywhere, have you?

[Nakijo]

Nah, haven't seen that one. I got mine from www.ozmusic-central.com.au/oztabs/uvw/weddingspartiesanything/index.html

As for PP, steelrose didn't do anything for me and I couldn't find the others you mentioned. Never mind.

As an aside, although, I do quite like industrial, I would never have classed TON as such... Why do you?

[rockhound]

I've seen them shelved there many times. That's probably why I've mentally shoe horned TON in there...

OZTABS is pretty good. I've posted a request for 7 Seas there, but nothing's come up yet I just bumped the thread, so who knows, perhaps I'll get luckey...

Stan Rogers is an iconoclast of Canadian Maritime (East Coast) folk music. His little diddy, "Barret's Privateers" among others such as "the Idiot" and "Mary Ellen Carter" have earned him a high mark in Canadian folk history.

We've got something similar at www.canehdian.com

As for the Tragically Hip ( www.thehip.com )

They're Canada's biggest secret. The old stuff rocks hard, the newer stuff is okay too:

Blow at high Dough
38 Years Old
New Orleans is Sinking
Little Bones
At the Hundredth Meridian
Wheat Kings
Fully Completely
Courage
Fifty-Mission Cap
The Wherewithal
Fireworks
Grace Too
So hard done by
Ahead by a century
Music at Work

[Nakijo]

yeah, the Weddo's used to sing Barrett's Privateers. Top song!

[MoP]

Lets see...I'll start with the three bands that I absolutely enjoy beyond all others: Tool, A Perfect Circle & Metallica.

After that there are numerous bands that I particularly enjoy:

The Butterfly Effect
The John Butler Trio
Dream Theater
Japunga
Guns 'n Roses
Led Zepplin
Pink Floyd
NIN
Powderfinger
Jerk

I'm sure there are others I've forgotten as well.

[Wizz]

Pink Floyd and Hendrix!!!!!

Doo dad dat dere is some fine moosic! ;D

[ReavetheJust]

All time favourites (in no particular order)

Nick Cave
Tow waits
Smog
Damien Jurado
Handsome Family
Lou Barlow (Sebadoh etc)
Sigur Ros
Stereolab
Galaxie 500

[Nakijo]

Hmmm... of those I've only heard of the first two... Whom I love!

So what are the others like?