YOUR TOP 10 fav songs and movies

The only people that I even heard on your list is Bob Marley (who hasnt heard of him), and Louis Armstrong.

 

What is "celtic": music exactly? never heard of it before, but willing and happy to learn and give it a try!

 

How come nobody shares my taste in music on these boards. I feel like I am from another planet!!

Well, I did try to pick lesser known artists. I loved the music from the 80s (including a bunch of the songs on your list), but I try to support the little guys whenever I can. They have such a hard time selling their stuff and they are often fighting with their publishers, distributors, and promoters.

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Blimp, and Darrly Purpose are all local bands with several CDs each.

Darryl Purpose is the cousin of a good friend of mine. He was a professional gambler for many years (blackjack) and was banned from most of the casinos in the US. So he headed overseas to Sri Lanka and other places. He walked in The Great Peace March across America, then across the Soviet Union... That was when he started turning his talents to music. His style is Folk and his gift is for turning a phrase.

Steve Forbert's first album came out in 1978. He had 3 hit records in a few years, then got into a royalty dispute with his record company and spent the next 20 years not putting a single piece of music on paper, so it couldn't be stolen from him. The dispute has been settled and he is back performing again, but his music tends to be a little more cynical than it was... who can blame him?

The Celts lived across northwestern Europe before they were overrun by those barbarians from the south known as Romans. Each celtic tribe had its own music and dance and culture. There are 7 celtic cultures that struggle to survive. These can be found in Ireland, Wales, Scotland, the Isle of Manx (between England and Ireland), Brittany (in France), and Alicia (in Spain)... I know that's only 6 but I can't remember the 7th. (Did you like the movie Braveheart?) The Great Big Sea mixes traditional celtic music with the energy of rock and roll to produce a live band that is hard to beat. (My wife is flying to Minnesota so she can see them play at the Minnesota State Fair in a few weeks.)

Beausoleil is big down in Louisiana on the Cajun/Zydeco music scene. (Did you like the movie The Big Easy?)

Much of this music can be sampled online.

Darryl Purpose: http://www.darrylpurpose.com/ Check out "Victory in the Struggle", "I Will Run" (these should appeal to the activist in you), "Christmas in the Trenches", "Late for Dinner", "Halfway Home", and "Mr. Schwinn".

Steve Forbert: http://www.steveforbert.com/ Check out "Romeo's Tune", "Schoolgirl", and "Born to Late".

Blimp: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/7/blimpus_music.htm Check out "Monsters", and "Market".

Great Big Sea: http://www.greatbigsea.com/ Check out "When I am King", and "The Night Pat Murphy Died". Road Rage is by far their best CD. The energy and audience participation are super!

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy: http://www.bbvd.com/av/index.htm Check out "I Wanna Be Like You", "I'm Not Sleeping", and "Ol MacDonald" (a tribute to Frank Sinatra).

Enjoy!

Cool, thanks!!

Songs

Kashmir - (the one and only) Led Zeppelin

Rock and Roll - " "

Paradise City - Guns and Roses

Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull

The Kids Aren't Alright - The Offspring

Thunderstruck - AC/DC

You Shook Me All Night Long - "

You Oughta Know - Alanis Morissette

damn near anything by Tom Waits

any and all symphonies, sonatas, and concerti by L. v. Beethoven, but especially the Ninth Symphony. The world would be incomplete without the "Ode to Joy".

Kinda cheated at the end there.

Movies

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Godfather

The Godfather Pt. 2

The Crow

Heat

Raising Arizona

Donnie Darko

Creator (80's romantic comedy, kinda hard to find)

Ragtime

Pulp Fiction

My room is a mess, I can't get dressed, gotta be out by 8o'clock...

Oops, wrong song. Thanks for the lyrics Will, brings back memories. Did you ever see the video for No More? It's a little older than early 90's though, probably around "88".

If anybody wants a free listen to the Gorilla Biscuits, you can listen on amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000TAL/qid=1122567942/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl15/102-0645748-4558569?v=glance&s=music&n=507846

hey Dan,

looks like we share a similar taste in movies, actresses and songs!

hey Dan,

 

looks like we share a similar taste in movies, actresses and songs!

Yeah, I was noticing that. I'm old; what's you're excuse?

Actually, I think it's just proof of the quality of some of those bands. I got my ex-fiancée into AC/DC, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, and Tom Waits, and she's not even as old as you are.

How'd I forget any Pink Floyd?! I can't pick any particular favorite songs, Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall would be my favorite albums by them.

My room is a mess, I can't get dressed, gotta be out by 8o'clock...

 

Oops, wrong song. Thanks for the lyrics Will, brings back memories. Did you ever see the video for No More? It's a little older than early 90's though, probably around "88".

 

If anybody wants a free listen to the Gorilla Biscuits, you can listen on amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000TAL/qid=1122567942/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl15/102-0645748-4558569?v=glance&s=music&n=507846

Do you have a copy of the No More video? I never got to see it! I remember, back in the day, going to school one day and one of my friends told me he saw the video on MTV at 2 in the morning the night before, and it had slaughterhouse scenes

Right now I think my favorite or most played songs are: Tearing, Inhale Exhale, All I want, Disconnect by Rollins Band. All Out War by Earth Crisis. Hand of Doom by Black Sabbath. Life of Pain by Black Flag. Omerta by Lamb of God. Resurrection by Fear Factory. Salad Days by Minor Threat.

 

Films:

Red Dawn, Quills, Dawn of the Dead, Oldboy, Alex Jones documentaries, Michael Moore stuff, Star Wars Episode III, the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Boondock Saints, Taxi Driver.

Propaghandi is a great band

I like Rollins solo stuff too, especially End of Silence; but I thought Black Flag was better before he joined

Awesome lyrics!

 

Thanks Will.

 

how is the weather in florida these days?

Are you kidding about the weather? It's almost always really hot and humid here!!! Except, sometimes we get lucky and get a hurricane, which I like because the weather cools down a lot due to the wind and rain

Will,

I like all of the Black Flag stuff, but I think Rollins brought more meaning to the songs once he came on. He took Black Flag beyond just being wasted punks.

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Oh, such tough things to come up with a 10 best list, but if I had to go on what I think at the moment...

Songs (in no particular order) -

Descendants - Coolidge

Archers of Loaf - Web In Front

David Bowie - You've Been Around (Jack Dangers Remix)

Misfits - Astro Zombies

Built To Spill - The Weather

Aesop Rock - Commencement at the Obedience Academy

Sugar - And You Tell Me

Dinosaur Jr. - The Wagon

Clutch - Mercury

u-Ziq - Midwinter Log

Versus - Blade of Grass

Superchunk - Detroit Has a Skyline

I know it's 12, and I had to struggle to cut it at that.

Movies are just as hard, if not harder. I'll have to get to that later.

Ryan

Kung Fu Hustle is a great movie.

Misfits - Astro Zombies

I love that song.

With just a touch of my burning hand

I send my astro zombies to rape the land

Prime directive, exterminate

The whole human race

 

And your face drops in a pile of flesh

And then your heart, heart pounds

Till it pumps in death

Prime directive, exterminate

Whatever stands left

Hey Sirdle - I used to listen to Big Bad Voodoo Daddy all the time! I'm a swinger...Um, wait...I should say, I can swing dance.

Favorite Bands;

Squirrel Nut Zippers

Veruca Salt

Jack Johnson

Rage Against the Machine

Ella Fitzgerald (and pretty much all Torch singers since I am a Jazz Singer)

Travis

The Beatles

The Doors

I can't pick favorite songs...too damn many and they'd change tomorrow anyway.

Favorite Movies

Fahrenheit 911

Bowling for Columbine

Roger and Me

Bulworth

Malcolm X

Do the Right Thing

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (Howard ZInn Biography)

Arlington Road

Steal this Movie (Abby Hoffman Biography)

Supersize Me

Chicago (sorry, but something in me squeals with joy when anything Jazzy hits the scene)

Favorite Actors:

Tim Robbins

Vincent D'Onofrio

Philip Seymore Hoffman

John C. Reilly

Jackie Chan

Vince Vaughn

Ben Stiller

Owen Wilson

Benecio Del Toro

Christopher Walken

Favorit Actresses:

Susan Sarandon

Kate Winslet (minus the horrible decision to do Titanic! )

Tea Leoni (she's fucking incredible at yoga!)

Bebe Neuwirth

veganmadre,

I like Be ecio Del Toro too - he is smokin' hot that guy. he looks like my ex.

damn I just depressed myself.

Top movies:

-Million Dollar Baby (saw it yesterday again )

-Remember the Titans

-The Matrix

-Trainspotting

-Lola rennt (German movie "Lola runs")

-Das Experiment (German movie "The experiment")

-Die wunderbare Welt der Amelie (French movie, something like "The wonderful world of Amelie")

-Braveheart

-Hero

-probably some essential movies that don't come to my mind now (like Ong Bak)

I also like all those comic book movies like X-Men, Spiderman and so on, Kung Fu movies and Fantasy and or/medival stuff (Lord of the Rings for example, or Gladiator). American Beauty was quite goos, too.

Songs: i have no idea ...i like

many...

-Lola rennt (German movie "Lola runs")

It's known as Run, Lola Run over here. Great movie, I own a copy.

Well Angie is the one by the rolling stones and Sweet Home Alabama is by Lynard Skynard.

Not that I want to be like that, but they are actually called Lynyrd Skynyrd .

And here's some candidates for my top-10 song list:

* Slayer - Reign in blood ( this would definitely be on the list )

* Stooges - Raw power

* Motorhead - Limb from limb

* Dead moon - diamonds in the rough

* AC/DC - high voltage

* Captain beefheart - Zig zag wanderer

* Skip james - hard time killing floor blues

* Robert Johnson - Hellhound on my trail

* 13th floor elevators - You're gonna miss me

* Sonics - strychnine

Im to lazy to think of my favourite movies

-probably some essential movies that don't come to my mind now

HIGHLANDER!

That's a great movie, the coolest antagonist ever!

american beauty is awesome

Well Angie is the one by the rolling stones and Sweet Home Alabama is by Lynard Skynard.

Not that I want to be like that, but they are actually called Lynyrd Skynyrd .

Sorry mate, but the original band was in fact Lynard Skynard. The leftover guys that tour now go by Lynyrd Skynyrd, they can't use the original name because the record company owns it.

Ah, who cares! SLAYER RULES!!! To hell with Lynard Skynard!

Ah, who cares! SLAYER RULES!!! To hell with Lynard Skynard!

A few of my favorite movies (not in any particular order) are:

Independence Day

Speed

Miss Congeniality (go ahead and laugh ...)

Tomb Raider

Little Nicky

Shark Tale

Dirty Dancing

True Lies

The Mummy

I have more than 10 favorite songs, but here are a few (also not in any particular order):

Crazy Train - Ozzy/ RR* (the best guitarist imo)

Bark At the Moon - Ozzy/ JL

Hanging on a Moment - Madhouse

All Fired Up - Pat Benatar

Living la vida loca - Ricky Martin (go ahead laugh)

Over - Lenny Kravitz

Hysteria - Def Leppard

Help - The Beatles

Dreamweaver - Gary Wright

Life in the Fast Lane - Eagles