Sparta is boring, IMO. I never really got into ATDI honestly though.

New Thrice is good....Alchemy Index Part III-IV. They've grown quite a bit since being on the edge of rock/metal/punk in the late 90s. The Air disk is beautiful work even if they've got some weird ideas for lyrics. Their continuation of the Icarus story is great though. I've been kinda stuck more on the Air disk more than the earth disk, but a couple of other people seem to like the stripped down sound of Earth as well.

Great band to see live too; even though they've calmed down a lot they still rock in concert.

ANY/ALL Les Claypool (primus, fancy band, C2B3, solo work, etc.)
Buckethead (Praxis, C2B3, etc.)
Soul Coughing
The Grateful Dead, JGB, Ratdog, Phil&Friends
Skerik's syncopated taint septet, garage-a-trois, charlie hunter
The String Cheese Incident, Keller Williams, Tea Leaf Green
Widespread Panic, North Mississippi All-Stars,STS9, Galactic, The Flaming Lips, Particle, Morphine, Sublime
no wonder college took 5 1/2 years
Has anyone else here ever been on tour or to summer camping/music festivals?

i like older thrice (the artist in the ambulance & the illusion of safety), bleeding through (older stuff, they kinda sound radio now), hatebreed, eighteen visions, nights like these, as i lay dying, evergreen terrace, deftones, all that remains, earth crisis (i grew up jamming to these guys), zao (grew up listening to them too), vision of disorder, bloodsimple, until the end, poison the well, unearth, scars of tomorrow, norma jean (newer one *redeemer* is awesome!), first blood, every time i die, devildriver, converge, killswitch engage, on broken wings...all the way to jimmy eat world, the juliana theory, the get up kids, the ataris, ben folds, weezer, blink 182, reggie and the full effect, blah blah blah

I've got a bunch of bands in common with you there. I was never edge, but as a big Earth Crisis fan I was curious if you are. They were pretty militant about it......but they rock.

haha! yeah, i'm still edge...i guess it wasn't just a high school thing for me

i wouldn't say they were militant, just proud, and they spoke about what they believe in


yeah, i saw some of your previous posts too, we have some musical commonalities (is that even a word?)

Much respect for your choice.

It's always good to see the positive changes can be permanent.

I listen, to the classics.

Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Hendrix, Metallica, Sabbath, Pearl Jam, Deep Purple, and the like.

If anyone here hasn't heard those, I'll have to disown you.

Good Christian rock: Casting Crowns, Plus One, Jeremy Camp.

Gawd, I feel old. Oh wait...there's one I know...Jeremy Camp! Oops...no, it was his dad Steve that I listened to. Never mind...I'm a geezer.

Hmm... I do listen to these, and bracketed are my favorite songs (but not all that I listen to) from each


- Simon & Garfunkel (The Sound of Silence, Bridge Over Troubled Water)
- ABBA (Knowing Me Knowing You, The Winner Takes It All)
- The Carpenters (Only Yesterday)
- John Denver (Annie's Song, Take Me Home Country Roads)
- Kitaro (Matsuri)
- Bryan Adams (Summer of '69, Here I Am, Finally Found Someone)
- Green Day (Boulevard of Broken Dreams)
- Simple Plan (Perfect)
- Aerosmith (I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing)
- Michael Jackson (Smooth Criminal)
- My Chemical Romance (Welcome To the Black Parade)
- Bon Jovi (Who Says You Can't Go Home, It's My Life, Thank You For Loving Me)
- Starship (We Built This City)
- Michael Learns To Rock (Sleeping Child)
- Village People (YMCA, Can't Stop The Music)
- Andrea Bocelli (Because We Believe)
- Utada Hikaru (Sanctuary, Simple and Clean)
- Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy Music)

And of course, this is just the tip of my musical iceberg... Over the last three years or so, I have slowly amassed a collection of about 200 songs from more than a hundred artistes

I don't exactly listen to one particular genre/artiste... I just collect songs that make me feel good, and so I have pretty much music for all occasions in my archives ^^

For me-
Led Zepplin, No Quarter
Slipknot, People = S!#@
Hed PE, Swan Dive
Sepultura, Chaos A.D
Machine Head, Ten Ton Hammer
Slayer, Desciple
Fear Factory, Edge Crusher and Zero Signal
Primus....Anything Les Claypool
Just to name of few of many others.....
The Doors
Janis
Jimmy H

I love:

Skillet
Stellar Kart
Switchfoot
and others I cant tink of.

how bout that, I also enjoy switchfoot, skillet, but haven't hear much from stellar kart. I also enjoy Kutless, thousand foot krutch and anberlin. take a gander at em if you haven't heard of them!

Havent heard of Anberlin, but I like TFK, and some of Kutless.
I also like Hawk Nelson, The Almost, Manic Drive, Falling Up, FM Static, Relient K, and John Rueben.

nice, John Rue! that cat is great!

I also enjoy the rap stylings of KJ-52.

Rock on brother!

I love Anberlin, especially the song Inevitable. Damn good lyrics...

Switchfoot, Skillet, Anberlin, Relient K, Pillar, Thousand Foot Krutch, Falling Up, Hawk Nelson, Spoken, Red, Owl City, Decyfer Down, FF5, Flyleaf, Fireflight, John Reuben, Lecrae, Manafest, Stellar Kart, Survivor, The Afters, The Almost, Lecrae, Eternity Rising.

These are all the bands I like.

My Top 5: Paramore, Fall Out Boy, blink-182, Snow Patrol, Something Corporate/Jack's Mannequin (lumping them together since both are pretty much the same due to Andrew McMahon being such a badass song writer).

Right now I'm focused on Paramore cause in a little over a month I'm seeing them in concert (I scored pit seats!)

Everything Goes Numb by Streetlight Manifesto - This album is one of my favorite albums of all time, great lyrics, great sound, just a great album altogether.

Hypnotize by System Of A Down - I know a lot of people don't like 'em, but i think they have a pretty unique sound, a sound which i haven't heard in any other band since.

Cool To Be You by The Descendents - I love these guys because the songs apply to me, i'm a huge nerd, and so is Milo, the singer and lyricist.

mc chris is Dead by mc chris - many people i know hate this guy, personally, i love him. he is a huge nerd, and raps about stuff i care about. Plus, he is just a great guy, just this past year he's raised about 50K for cystic fibrosis research.

I saw MC Chris live a couple of years ago in Austin it was awesome. He puts on a really fun show, and afterwards we all went to go see a Cloak & Dagger at the Alamo Drafthouse, MC Chris was hosting the screening of the film, it's a great campy 80's flick filmed entirely in San Antonio (represent!)