Favourite bands/musicians

[Lutraphobe]

Anti-Flag
Oxymoron
Placebo
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Dead Kennedys
the Clash
New Order
Dead Prez
MC5
The Unseen
Bad Company UK (the DnB crew, not the 80s rock band)
Godspeed You Black Emperor
the Casualties
MDC
Fischerspooner!
New York Dolls
ATARI TEENAGE RIOT

and of course my hometown heroes REAGAN YOUTH (whose name graces the back of my leather jacket)

[Jedi Jesus]

The Casualties? YUCK!

Can you please explain why you like a great band Like M.D.C. and then listen to fashion punks the casualties?

[Lutraphobe]

Bah; the Casualties aren't so bad. Decent lyrics and politics, and I think they can dress and act however they want. I mean hey, at least they're punks. Oh, and at a recent MDC show the lead singer fell off the stage and landed on me, and later put my friend in a headlock mid-song:D. Great band!

[Danish]

I have a lot of favourite bands, so I'll do my best to name as many as possible:

Queens of the Stone Age
Tool
Rage Against The Machine
Finger Eleven
Grade
Chixdiggit!
Alkaline Trio
Alexisonfire
.moneen.
Audioslave
At The Drive-In
Puddy
Big Wreck
Green Jelly
The Ataris
Foo Fighters
Johnny Cash
A Tribe Called Quest
The Roots
Deftones
311
Bob Marley
Sublime
Curlupanddie
Thursday
Hey Mercedes
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien
Rush
Iron Maiden
Green Day
Prodigy
Jurassic 5
Smashing Pumpkins
Weezer
Ozma

... and many many others.

[mrbojangles]

the Casualties aren't so bad. Decent lyrics and politics, and I think they can dress and act however they want.


Do socialists generally choose what music they like according to their principles and ideology? I don't. I guess it doesn't really matter what there politics are as long as i enjoy the music. For example, many of the blues guitarists from the 30s and 40s were sexist and mysoginistic but, in my opinion, made great influential music. On the other hand, while their politics may be pretty radical, i don't like/listen to bands like radiohead, coldplay, bob dylan etc no matter how much i agree with their politics.  
I guess what i'm trying to say is that when i listen to a piece of music, i don't really do so with my politics in mind, more on a like/dislike basis.
What do others think?

[Grave Disorder]

Coldplay and Radiohead have radical politics? News to me. I know that Radiohead were anti-war, but never heard anything else about their beliefs...
 I choose music based on what sounds good to me. That means that I will probably gravitate towards things with socialist and/or libertarian themes because I can identify with the lyrics easily, but it doesn't mean that everything that I listen to is political- if I like a piece of music- for the lyrics or otherwise- I'll listen to it.

[Lutraphobe]

I think I agree with that. The difference, though, is that much of punk is overtly political and if I'm going to be listening to political music I might as well agree with the artists' views. But yeah, in other genres it doesn't matter nearly as much.

[Jedi Jesus]

The casualties, the only politics they have is their hair gel.

[mrbojangles]

Originally posted by Grave Disorder
Coldplay and Radiohead have radical politics? News to me. I know that Radiohead were anti-war, but never heard anything else about their beliefs...

Coldplay are involved in the make trade fair campaign and RadioHead campaign always say they are anti-capitalists. They said that their Kid A album was inspired by Naomi Klien. Basically, middle class, student hand wringing if you ask me. You never here about them going on about the poverty here at home in Britain.

[OUTOFTHENIGHT]

Like GD I also lean towards music that sounds good to me. Ok I admit, I am a Radiohead fan( not so much Coldplay though). I like them because they sound good and I feel they have helped progress music in the same way as  the Beatles, Stones ,Bowie, Pistols, Clash, Joy Division, Smiths, Stone Roses, Nirvana did.I think the majority of bands are based on their influences ie other bands, and dont develop music in any way. By this I mean they sound uncannily like their influences (Oasis like the Beatles with a bit of Bowie thrown in, for example) or they perform or play using the same tried and tested formulas that most rock bands have used over the years. I used to find the band Sonic Youth interesting because of the original way the used their instruments,playing guitars with screwdrivers and such like. During the early 80s there were a number of bands who used industial tools to originate there sound, the German band Einzurstandente Neubaten spring to mind here.
Going quikly back to Radiohead for a minute , I thought Kid A was an interesting release.It wasnt universally accepted as typical Radiohead fare and was slagged down in the press but sold bucketloads; an example of a band not giving the fans what they want but willing to experiment with a different direction. I would far prefer that than a punk band that are overtly political but sound the same over the course of 10 albums!!
Ian (who used to be a progressive rock fan!!!!!! Genesis, Floyd, KIng Crimson etc etc ....aaarrrgh!!!!)

[paulx]

Anyone like Gypsy Jazz?

I was at a gypsy jazz festival last weekend dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the death of Django Reinhardt. It was GREAT!

Those gypsies sure know how to play guitar!

[Danish]

Prog rock? Do you like Tool?

[darcy]

il trt to keep it organized in no order...wait, what?:

punk:
1) anti-flag
2)protest the hero
3) bad religion
4) operation ivy
5) pretty much any real punk band


ska:
1) the specials
2) the skatalites
3) chris murray
4) the slackers
5) the selectors
6) big d and the kids table
7) anyband under stomp records really http://www.stomprecords.com

hard/soft/rock and others:
1) radiohead
2) billy bragg
3) oasis
4) sam roberts
5) tool
6) blur
7) rage agaisnt the machine
8) sloan
9) hot hot heat

[OUTOFTHENIGHT]

Tool are ok. But I only know one tune which I heard on MTV2. Cant remember its name. Ian

[darcy]

Originally posted by OUTOFTHENIGHT
Tool are ok. But I only know one tune which I heard on MTV2. Cant remember its name. Ian

if it was recently then it would probably be schism. i think thats there latest single. man, i can't wait until they rlease a new album.