Musical Perspective Survey
 

I was having a conversation with a buddy last night about personalities and how they're related to music. It got me thinking and I ended up developing this survey because I thought it would be neat to see how the Music-niks here respond...

Here's the survey, along with my answers to get it started.

Favorite Album (1960's) - Pink Floyd, "Piper at the Gates of Dawn"
Favorite Band/Artist (1960's) - The Band of Gypsies (Jimi Hendrix)

Favorite Album (1970's) - David Bowie, "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars"
Favorite Band/Artist (1970's) - Motorhead

Favorite Album (1980's) - Metallica, "Master of Puppets"
Favorite Band/Artist (1980's) - Joe Satriani

Favorite Album (1990's) - Monster Magnet, "Powertrip"
Favorite Band (1990's) - Radiohead

Favorite Album (2001-2005) - Queens of the Stone Age, "Songs for the Deaf"
Favorite Album of 2006 - Wolfmother, self-titled

Favorite Musical Decade - 1970's
Favorite Band (from that decade, not already listed) - Black Sabbath
Song the epitomizes your feelings on that decade - Ted Nugent, "Stranglehold"

Favorite Album (1960's) - Led Zeppelin I
Favorite Band/Artist (1960's) - The Beatles

Favorite Album (1970's) - Rush - "Hemispheres"
Favorite Band/Artist (1970's) - Led Zeppelin

Favorite Album (1980's) - XTC - "Black Sea"
Favorite Band/Artist (1980's) - XTC

Favorite Album (1990's) - Flaming Lips - "The Soft Bulletin"
Favorite Band (1990's) - Dave Mathews Band

Favorite Album (2001-2005) - Ben Folds - "Rockin the Suburbs"
Favorite Album of 2006 - Flaming Lips - "At War With the Mystics", also We Are Scientists - "Love and Squalor"

Favorite Musical Decade - 1970's

Favorite Band (from that decade, not already listed) - Yes
Song the epitomizes your feelings on that decade - Boston - "More Than a Feeling", Also Led Zeppelin - "Kashmir"

Thanks for getting it started!!!

yep... it was tough makin my decisions without lookin at my CD collection. Interesting survey to say the least.

Favorite Album (1960's) - Jimi Hendrix "Axis - Bold as Love"
Favorite Band/Artist (1960's) - The Beatles

Favorite Album (1970's) - Van Halen- "Van Halen I"
Favorite Band/Artist (1970's) - Ted Nugent

Favorite Album (1980's) - AC/DC- "Back in Black", Van Halen "1984", Joe Satriani "Flying in a Blue Dream"
Favorite Band/Artist (1980's) - Van Halen, Satriani

Favorite Album (1990's) - Eric Johnson - "Ah Via Musicom"
Favorite Band/Artist (1990's) - Joe Satriani

Favorite Album (2001-2005) - Nightwish - "Once"
Favorite Album of 2006 - Joe Satriani "SuperColossal", Eric Johnson "Bloom"
Favorite Musical Decade - NOW!

Favorite Band (from that decade, not already listed) - Satch, EJ, Buckethead, Sonata Arctica
Song the epitomizes your feelings on that decade - BrainCase- ""All My Sins Remembered" ... in production

Favorite Album (1960's) - The Doors (1967)
Favorite Band/Artist (1960's) - The Doors

Favorite Album (1970's) - Black Sabbath "We Sold Our Souls For Rock and Roll" (I don't know if it counts since its basically a greatest hits but its the first sabbath album I ever knew so its my pick here)
Favorite Band/Artist (1970's) - Black Sabbath but recent years have seen huge gains in my mind by Lynrd Skynrd as I've come to appreciate the musicianship in that band.

Favorite Album (1980's) - Metallica "Kill 'em All" (1983)
Favorite Band/Artist (1980's) - Metallica

Favorite Album (1990's) - Rage Against the Machine "Rage Against the Machine" (1992)
Favorite Band (1990's) - Tool with special mention to Social Distortion (even though they've been around since the late 70's I discovered them in the 90's with most of the world so I've listed them as such)

Favorite Album (2001-2005) - Tool "Lateralus" (2001)
Favorite Album of 2006 - Tool "10,000 Days"

Favorite Musical Decade - 1990's (While I listed to more hours of music in a day in the 80s the 90s were when I started expanding my horizons and discovering there was more to music than songs at 300+ bpm.
Favorite Band (from that decade, not already listed) - Nine Inch Nails
Song the epitomizes your feelings on that decade - This is hard to really nail down. For now I'll go with RAtM's "Killing in the Name" due to a single repeated line that summed up my feelings at that time. Unlike a lot of people who are angry teens I was a pretty mild teen and turned into an angry 20 something.

Crap, I forgot 10,000 Days...good call

This is accomplishing exactly what I thought it would!

Looking at my list, I look like I have ADD. Kinda all over the place.

Archie seems to have an appreciation for experimental or more progressive ideas, with a lean towards the absurd.

Braincase is a guitar-head. :D

And wilas' list is fairly narrowly focused. Maybe he's a guy that likes what he likes and doesn't have to look around for something better?

You don't know how close I was to naming Frank Zappa's - "Joe Garage" as a 70s fav

Favorite Album (1960's) - Led Zeppelin I
Favorite Band/Artist (1960's) -The Beatles

Favorite Album (1970's) - Jethro Tull,Heavy Horses
Favorite Band/Artist (1970's) - ZZ Top

Favorite Album (1980's) - Sorry it's a tie between The Rainmakers debut and Dire Straits Making Movies
Favorite Band/Artist (1980's) - The Rainmakers

Favorite Album (1990's) - Queen,Innuendo
Favorite Band (1990's) - Spock's Beard

Favorite Album (2001-2005) - Alias Eye,Field Of Dreams
Favorite Album of 2006 - Wolfmother, self-titled

Favorite Musical Decade - 1970's
Favorite Band (from that decade, not already listed) - Black Sabbath
Song the epitomizes your feelings on that decade - We Will Rock You,Queen

I just about named "Billy the Mountain (Live)" for my song epitomizing the 70's.

Best years of high school were in the 70's. If I were to pick one soneg from the seventies, I'd go with VH "Dance the Night Away". Oh, and I FYP.

wow...Jethro Tull, great band

Its what I consider great prog rock. Right up there with Yes and ELP

You guys be sure and check out the video I posted here in the Media Center

With so many other Tull "classics" of the 70's I've only met one other person who even recalls Tull's Heavy Horses.I can't really explain it but there was just something about that project that has me on my 3rd copy from just wearing it out.

BTW,as a prog rock fan have you heard Spock's Beard or Alias Eye?