So to start it off, here's mine:
1: Fall Out Boy
2: Gym Class Heroes
3: Rise Against
4: Breaking Benjamin
5: Kisschasy


Scott Gardener wrote: I'd be afraid to shift if I were to lose control. If I just looked fuggly, I'd simply be annoyed every full moon.




Yeah, it's that singer and he's super prolific and amazing. I saw him in concert this summer and, even with his age, he still blew me away!There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down






What about Boston's debut album???Scott Gardener wrote:My tastes have certainly expanded over time. Ask me back around 1990, and I'd have named Whitesnake, Def Leppard, Dokken, KISS, and Scorpions as my favorites. I'm still fond of them, but my preferences are a bit more diverse--though not neccessarily any softer. Hmm...
The Cure
The Cult
The Sisters of Mercy
Bauhaus
and, OK, there's still a special place in my heart for Whitesnake.
I have also learned to recognize greatness beyond my personal preferences. Albums I consider the best of all times--some personal favorites, others I simply personally only kind of like, but recognize as true genius:
Led Zeppelin's untitled fourth album ("runes," "Led Zeppelin IV")--The one with "Stairway to Heaven." Every single song is a classic. I can't not include this one. Highlights include the entire album.
The Moody Blues: Days of Future Past--Recorded in the sixties with the accompaniment of the London Symphony Orchestra, this conceptual album blends classical with then-contemporary music, helping to break rock out of rebellion and into sophistication.
The Cure: Disintegration--Most fans of The Cure agree that this is their pinnacle album. I firmly agree. At 73 minutes, it's one of their longest, beginning with an emotional surge, riding you through music that is at once pop and yet more, and then delving progressively deeper into emotional layering until climaxing with the epic-length title song, and then even returning you gently back to the mundane world at the end.
The Sisters of Mercy: Floodland--An ultimate masterpiece that blends vampiric nationalism with dreamlike emotionalism without sacrificing an onslaught of sheer aural power.
The Beatles: Seargent Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band--I only heard it once to date, but I could see why it's monumental. It's highly eclectic, and yet it fits together so smoothly.
The Cult: Love--Fellow lycanthrope enthusiasts will appreciate in particular "Brother Wolf, Sister Moon."
Sting: The Soul Cages--Of all Sting's work, this one feels the most personal.
U2: The Joshua Tree--A definite monumental piece by one of the most important bands still alive and touring.
Type O Negative: October Rust--This Gothic heavy metal band's most lush and beautiful album, featuring near the end another track that caters to us werewolf enthusiasts to boost.
Queensryche: Operation: Mindcrime--This delivers what many of us wanted from Pink Floyd's "The Wall" but didn't quite get--a conceptual album encompasing a chilling, hard-edged story in which love and revolutionary politics collide in a way that would startle even George Orwell.
Dio: Magica--from out of nowhere, after a decade of jumping-the-shark doldrums like "Angry Machines," Ronnie James Dio not only equalled his classic "Holy Diver" and "Dream Evil" albums, but upstaged them with his own conceptual album, in which a Borg-like technological force uncovers a world of magic and goes insane trying to understand it. Those of you familiar with my stories involving Four One might see erie parallels--I swear it's not on purpose.
KISS: Music from "The Elder"--OK, I'm a sucker for a good conceptual album. This soundtrack to a movie that never was came out of KISS' most difficult period. Their explosive popularity from the seventies was gone as quickly as it came, and drummer Peter Criss was gone, with guitarist Ace Frehley threatening to follow. Overnight their sound transformed from fizzling pop to brave experimental artistry. Most KISS Army Veterans regard this as a cult favorite, even though most non-KISS fans have never heard of it.[/b]



The boys are back in townlupine wrote:Umm...
I love such a wide range of music that its hard to choose just 5 bands but here goes anyways.
In no particular order...
Thin Lizzy
The Cure
Counting Crows
The Arcade Fire
Nouvelle Vague
This list could go on and on and on...and on..


They're defiantly on my list!Faolan Bloodtooth wrote: 3: Rise Against




Electric Lights Orchestra?vrikasatma wrote:Crash Worship
Slick Idiot
Type O Negative
Spike Jones & the City Slickers
The Who
Dead Can Dance
Lycia
Queen
ELO
No particular order.



Others to add:MoonKit wrote:
1: The World/Inferno Friendship Society
2: The Wallflowers
Then after that, there's no particular order. Rise Against, Saves The Day, The Postal Service, Tom Waits (not a band), Goo Goo Dolls, Finch...