I like music, making music, recording music, yelling things out of car windows, fresh socks, dogs, sweaters with collard shirts, the color orange, neck ties, Sperry Topsiders, girl pants, playing guitar, not drinking, not smoking, not calling myself straight edge, going to local shows, live music.
Motivated musicians.
_AGAINST ME!_(Awesome sing a long songs with good lyrics and fun music. It gives me that really great feeling. I like to grab someone, put my arm around them and shout along.)
_AS THE SUN SETS_ I like them for sure. The drumming is so good.
_ATMOSPHERE_(Quality hip-hop. I really love Slug's stlye. I love the bass lines and beats. Slug is the shit on Sage Francis records too.)
_AT THE DRIVE-IN_(I love everything about these guys; crazy lyrics mixed with some of the coolest music. Also on old ATDI cd's they do some amazing dueling vocals, which I am a total sucker for. Also, they do this thing where they don't use distortion and mix it with some screaming and heavy drumming.)
_BABY BEAR_ Fuck you! Erik Nagel won't do what you tell him.
_BOYS NIGHT OUT_(I passed them off as Fall Out Boyish post pop-punk shit but my friend Jessica really loved them so I gave them a real chance. They are really great. Their CD Trainwreck is this intricate story about a guy who murdered his wife in his sleep. You can listen to the CD as a CD or a story and I love it.
_CURSIVE_ I can't fully describe how much I love these guys. I love just about every aspect of their band...Just listen to them and give them a real chance.
_DAUGHTERS_(Don't try and tell me it's not real grind. I don't care why I like them I just do. They are a lot of fun. I love the guitars and drumming so damn much.
_THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN_(It's fast and ridiculously intricate. It is just amazing in certain ways for me.)
_EMINEM_ Fuck him for being so talented. I hate everything that he raps about but for some reason I just keep listening...shamefully.
_EVERY TIME I DIE_(They have really witty and clever lyrics. They make me smile.
_EYEDEA & ABILITIES_(Some of the most amazing hip hop I have ever listened to. Amazing beats and samples under some of the fastest and most amazing lyrics you have ever heard. Eyedea's lyrics can be honest and deep or boastful and in your face. They are both amazing at what they do.
_FOLLY_ (They are so much fun and a I think they are very creative.)
_THE FUGEES_(I really like the lyrics. The music is cool and I really enjoy Lauryn Hill. I like how they make fun of sampling.)
_GHOSTFACE KILLAH_(This guy is the shit. He is be far my favorite Wu-Tang member. He is the best story teller rapper I have ever heard. I could listen to him talk about cocain for hours and I usually do.
_HALF HEARTED HANDGUN(RIP)_ (The live shows were amazing with scream a long parts where everyone goes insane. They put on the best local shows I have ever seen.)
_HEAVY HEAVY LOW LOW_(There is not one thing about them that is overwhelmingly spectacular. I guess the only thing they really have going for them is taking hardcore and doing something different with it. They are not that great of musicians and they are all fairly coked out. But I really enjoy listening to them. They are a lot of fun but I can't really figure out why.
_INCUBUS_(People who say they don't like Incubus because they are too "pop," never gave them a real chance. Brandon Boyd has one of the best voices I have ever heard and he writes awesome lyrics and melodies. Give them another chance, try s.c.i.e.n.c.e.)
_KANYE WEST_(It is really happy and entertaining music. The lyrics are funny as shit but tell great stories. He makes all of his own beats and writes his lyrics and I respect that. He has a pretty good voice and flows pretty well.)
_MATES OF STATE_(I love the guy and girl singing but that does not really need to be said. It is some of the happiest music I have ever heard. I love the fact that they are husband and wife and that they seem so happy. It makes me happy. Did I mention happy?
_MINUS THE BEAR_(They write really amazing songs about really simple topics. I love the singer because he doesn't really sound like anyone at all. The guitar parts are some of the most creative things I have ever heard. I love everything about them. They paint really great pictures of good times that make you smile and really happy. Thanks to Mike D and Jessica for getting me into them.
_THE NUMBER TWELVE LOOKS LIKE YOU_(I love the guitar work so hard. Enough said.
_OPERATION IVY_(It's all about the lyrics here. Some of the most genuine music ever written.)
_PAULSON_(These guys make me so happy. They make really great sing along music with really amazing drumming. Their music is so catchy and so damn good.
_THE POSTAL SERVICE_(I love their lyrics, I love the melodies with the guy and girl parts that intertwine. I love the originality, the overall Postal Serviceness.
_RANCID_(Really catchy, well written songs with a great message and originality.)
_REFUSED_(They are the first hardcore band i got into. Their lyrics are really good, and they are so amazing at what they do. Their time changes are flawless. I am upset that I didn't get into them when they were still together.)
_SAGE FRANCIS_(He is amazing. He is really witty and smart. He pokes fun at pop culture, life and politics. He is one of the most talanted artists I have ever listened to.
_SPARTA_ (I love the sampleing mixed with heavy choruses.)
_STILETTO_(Very intricate guitar work and really good drummming. I have followed them for years and they never disappoint. Catchy and fun. They get better over time.
_THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS_(Such great entertaining/educational songs. I really love everything they are about.)
_YAK BALLZ_(It's just solid hip-hop. He writes good stories that make you get all kinds of mental images. "Nostalgic as fuck" according to my friend Todd.
I feel like I should put other people in here that I occasionally listen to and respect. On the other hand, when you read these people's names in other Myspace accounts it seems as though they are just there for show. I'll just say that I enjoy old good pop songs and some jazzy stuff from time to time. I have found a few other hardcore bands I enjoy listening to but none I would call a favorite.
I decided to explain the bands I like because I want people to know how much I really love music and why I love these bands. I want people to be abel to kind of get inside my head and associate me with the way I feel about things instead of a bunch of names in a list. I listen to anything that makes me smile, makes me feel good, catches my attention or I can relate to. To only listen to one type of music is a waste of perception.
**If anyone has any suggestions after reading who and why I like these artists, please let me know!**
The Devil's Rejects, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Breakfast Club, Little Miss Sunshine, Rounders, Good Will Hunting, Kevin Smith movies sans Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, O Brother Where Art Thou, Playing By Heart, Ferris Bulers Day Off. Final Destination, Amelie, Love Actually, Being John Malkovitch, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, Donnie Darko, Lost In Translation, Pi, Requiem For A Dream, Memento, The Squid and The Whale, American Psycho, Batman Begins.
80% of all Disney Channel shows, 24, Arrested Developement, House, Gilmore Girls. My Name is Earl, Weeds, Da Ali G Show.
Feel free to mock me for this list.
I'm writing lyrics?
Happy people. People Who have found what they want to do with their lives.