Since I´m buying CDs, etc. for only about 1,5 years (I´m really into it now), I´m still searching for bands I like. Here is my unordered list (but I think Linkin Park definitely is my most favorite). I´m not sure about a few bands yet... Linkin Park Dead By Sunrise Fort Minor Rammstein Rage Against The Machine Tool 30 Seconds To Mars Muse Dead Letter Circus Evanescence A bit: Julien-K Casper Depeche Mode Incubus
Linkin Park Papa Roach Kraftwerk Julien-K Pink Floyd (My dad is a fan and I grew up on their music) Depeche Mode Breaking Benjamin Chevelle Nine Inch Nails Staind
TIER 1: Linkin Park Nine Inch Nails (on hiatus) Innerpartysystem (disbanded) Pendulum (disbanded, possibly) TIER 2 (alphabetical order): Deftones Eskimo Joe Knife Party Team Sleep (disbanded) TIER 3: Phantogram The Weeknd
1. Linkin Park Billy Talent Rise Against A Day to Remember Red Sum 41 System of a Down 30 Seconds to Mars Three Days Grace Fucking Otherworldy Instrumental Tier Russian Circles
I like how your only reasoning shown for not liking this group is because of the fanbase. By that standard, I fucking hate Linkin Park.
Not in any particular order though. Linkin Park Gorillaz Daft Punk Depeche Mode Nine Inch Nails Placebo Foo Fighters Rise Against Green Day The Black Keys
Yours is pretty similar to mine. Other favourites bands for me are Bloc Party, TV on the Radio, The Rasmus, Coldplay, Pendulum, Red Hot Chili Peppers...
I have a reasoning more. I hate pop. Well, not exactly, because I can pretty much enjoy a Shakira or Beyonce song, but I hate the kind of selling-out type of we-are-young-and-we-party-all-night-long-bitchez-and-your-love-is-all-I-need pop, if you know what I mean.
Because lyrics are a sign of selling out. And because selling out means it automatically equals bad music. So if a band writes we-are-young-and-we-party-all-night-long-bitches etc. lyrics but puts it to hard rock, would you like it? Just curious.
Mine is probably: (in no particular order, except for LP, wich comes first) Linkin Park Deftones Nine Inch Nails Machine Head Cypress Hill Thrice Ill Nino Prodigy Bloodsimple For the last one, I can't decide which is the thing I like the most between Fort Minor, some 60'70' bands (The Who, The Doors), old metal favorites (Spineshank, Mudvayne, Murderdolls) or other things like U2 or Depeche Mode.
1. Linkin Park 2. Coheed and Cambria 3. Nine Inch Nails 4. TIE: Muse or Coldplay 5. Pendulum 6. Breaking Benjamin 7. System of a Down 8. Red Hot Chili Peppers 9. 3OH!3 10. Underoath
That's something like Asking Alexandria, so, no. BUT, they don't use the corny, catchy electro beats every pop song today has, they actually play their instruments, so, hard rock > pop anytime. I love Nickelback, too, so that says a lot, haha.
"Pop" being super-broad, not every mainstream hit has an "electro beat" and making "corny, catchy" electronic music is often no easier (or harder) than laying down generic hard-rock guitar riffs. Both involve playing "real" instruments because, for all your bullshit generalisations, electronic music is not some fake, lesser form of music which people like you make it out to be. <.<
My top ten bands/musicians would probably be... 1. Linkin Park 2. Rise Against 3. John Mayer 4. The Parlor Mob 5. Paramore 6. Avenged Sevenfold 7. Foo Fighters 8. Muse 9. Icon For Hire 10. Papa Roach
Linkin Park Rise Against Enter Shikari The Devil Wears Prada August Burns Red For Today I The Breather/Demon Hunter/Oh Sleeper/As I Lay Dying (can't decide here) Metallica Millencollin Anti-Flag ... though that list is just an excerpt of what I listen to