Signed up a while back, never introduced myself
 

Hey folks. I signed up in September 08 (didn't realize it was that long ago!) but never introduced myself. Nor did I post much...just one post and a few poll votes, really.

I'm always looking for places to kill time online, and music is my favorite hobby. So here I am, ready to meet some new folks and discuss and discover music. :beer:

Fave bands?

Welcome. Extra cool points for Download album cover avatar!

Ha, thanks!

Oh and I guess I should have mentioned some of my favorite bands, as jackhammer suggests. I like many different genres including rock (punk, hardcore, post-rock/instrumental, indie, prog, psych, mod/psych pop, etc), industrial (mainly what's considered post-industrial and industrial rock), hip-hop and trip-hop/instrumental (hate the top 40 stuff...beats matter most), electronic (IDM, experimental, house, breaks, downtempo etc). Here are a few favs from various genres:

Punk/hardcore/indie rock:
Fugazi
Dillinger Four
On the Might of Princes
Hot Cross
City of Caterpillar
mewithoutYou
The Casket Lottery
Sunny Day Real Estate
Juno
Charlottefield
Bad Astronaut
Descendents
Misfits
Burning Airlines
Faraquet
Fireside
Bear vs. Shark
Cursive
No Knife
Knapsack
Seven Storey Mountain
31Knots
Polvo
June of 44
Shipping News
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
At the Drive-In
Built to Spill
Pinback
Sebadoh
Band of Horses
Les Savy Fav
The Shins
Pixies
Neutral Milk Hotel
Snuff/Guns n Wankers
Swingin' Utters
Rise Against (lost interest with last 2 albums)

Prog & classic rock:
The Blue Effect/Modrý Efekt
Black Bonzo
Invisible
Genesis
King Crimson
Pink Floyd
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso
Premiata Forneria Marconi
Museo Rosenbach
Il Balletto di Bronzo
Änglagård
The Mars Volta
Van Der Graaf Generator
Wishbone Ash
Jimi Hendrix
Yes
Arachnoid
Ripaille
Pentacle
Eloy
Spring
Rush
Yezda Urfa

Post-rock/instrumental:
Cougar
Tortoise
Lateduster
Maserati
Pivot
Russian Circles
Irepress
Lymbyc Systym
Benevento Russo Duo
Rumah Sakit
Sleeping People
Tera Melos

60s/70s Psychedelic Pop/Mod/Pop Rock:
The Beatles
David Bowie
The Kinks
Love
Small Faces
The Pretty Things
McDonald and Guiles
The Zombies
Tages

Metal & other rock:
Dead Horse
Tool
Melvins
Faith No More
Mr. Bungle
Tomahawk
Failure
ISIS
Mastodon
Deftones
Suicidal Tendencies (pre-Art of Rebellion)
Ween

Industrial:
Skinny Puppy
Download
Ministry (pre-Filth Pig)
Meat Beat Manifesto

Electronic:
Eight Frozen Modules
Plaid
Aphex Twin
Super_Collider
Venetian Snares
Chris Clark
Amon Tobin

Hip-Hop/Trip-Hop:
Prefuse 73
Sixtoo
Odd Nosdam
Flying Lotus
Conrad Newholmes
Beastie Boys
Cannibal Ox
Aesop Rock
Wax Tailor
Blockhead
DJ Vadim
Antipop Consortium

Phew! :laughing:

Awesome taste, welcome!

My sort of tastes. Excellent.

No Rene and Renatta I notice.

it's only 1 'T' numbnuts ;) You should be happy tonight and be nice to me for once :(

Woo! Another guy from Washington (the state)! Welcome!

Welcome to MusicBanter :)

Thanks for the welcome, folks!

Welcome! Nice list of bands AND you organized them into genres! :thumb:

I've heard great things about Seattle's music scene. I'm moving to Olympia in a few months. I can't wait! What opinions do you have of the local music?

I'm pretty much a home-body, so I'm no authority. Plus I've lived here less than 3 years. But, people definitely are into music and there's no shortage of live shows. It's definitely not a city that good artists overlook when touring. I used to live in Houston, where I caught some great shows too, but it seemed to also get overlooked by small foreign artists. Or maybe I wasn't paying attention.

What kind of shows would you be interested in?

I've been reading through some of your posts today, good stuff. You should definitely stick around.

Hey thanks dreadnaught! I'm liking this place so far, just trying to work through the confusion of all the different forums.