Music Survey!!!

[IZAAK]

Music Survey

All Time Favorite Band:
Best Rock Band:
Best Rap Group:
Best Country:
Best Metal Band:
Best Alternative/New Wave Band:

Most Overrated Band/Group:
Most Underrated Band/Group:

Best Singer:
Best Guitar Player:
Best Drummer:
Best Bass Player:

Best Concert:
Best Album:

[BlueDevilsDB]

All Time Favorite Band: Shinedown
Best Rock Band: Future Leaders of the World
Best Rap: The Roots or NWA
Best Country: That's an oxymoron
Best Metal Band: Black Label Society or SOAD
Best Alternative Band: Radiohead

Most Overrated Band: Linkin Park
Most Underrated: Godspeed You Black Emperor

Best Singer: Hmmm, Robert Smith....or Joe Strummer
Best Guitarist: Joe Satriani, no contest here
Best Drummer: SOAD Drummer, can't recall his name right now
Best Bass Player: Stu Hamm

Best Concert: Shinedown Live at the Beaumont in KC
Best Album: The Wall

[IZAAK]

All Time Favorite Band: Sublime
Best Rock Band: Pink Floyd
Best Rap Group: Outkast
Best Country: Garth Brooks (I guess I do not listen to country)
Best Metal Band: Pantera
Best Alternative/New Wave Band: Radiohead

Most Overrated Band/Group: Beatles
Most Underrated Band/Group: Phish

Best Singer: Damien Rice
Best Guitar Player: DimeBag Darrell
Best Drummer: Joey Jordison (From Slipknot)
Best Bass Player: Either Cliff Burton (Old Metallica) or Alex Webster (Cannibal Corpse)

Best Concert: Phish
Best Album: Pink Floyd “The Wall”

[AZ Snake Fan]

Music Survey

All Time Favorite Band: Led Zep
Best Rock Band:Led Zep
Best Rap Group: Dr. Dre
Best Country: Merle Haggard
Best Metal Band: Metallica
Best Alternative/New Wave Band: Goo-Goo Dolls

Most Overrated Band/Group: The Rolling Stones
Most Underrated Band/Group: Jeff Healy Band

Best Singer: Elvis Presley
Best Guitar Player: Jeff Beck
Best Drummer: Mitch Mitchell
Best Bass Player:Berry Oakley

Best Concert: First U.S. appearance of Led Zep
Best Album: Santana --- az snake fan

[EMCF]

All Time Favorite Band: Hmm, too close to call.
Best Rock Band: CCR
Best Rap Group: D to the M to the X!
Best Country: Paul Brandt I guess
Best Metal Band: Err, Queen.
Best Alternative/New Wave Band: Beats me.

Most Overrated Band/Group: Beatles
Most Underrated Band/Group: Hmm, CCR.

Best Singer: Freddie Mercury
Best Guitar Player: Umm, no idea.
Best Drummer: See above.
Best Bass Player: Get the drift?
Best Concert: No idea either.
Best Album: WAY too close to call.

[Chaji]

Best Rap Group: D to the M to the X!
Yeah. The rest, I have no clue. :heh:

[mattos]

Most Overrated Band/Group: The Doors

thats the only one i had a strong feeling about.

[Diggler]

All Time Favorite Band: Pearl Jam
Best Rock Band: Led Zeppelin
Best Rap Group: Public Enemy
Best Country: N/A
Best Metal Band: Metallica
Best Alternative/New Wave Band: Radiohead

Most Overrated Band/Group: Nirvana/Aerosmith
Most Underrated Band/Group: Wilco

Best Singer: Freddie Mercury
Best Guitar Player: Stevie Ray Vaughan
Best Drummer: Neil Peart
Best Bass Player: John Entwistle

Best Concert: Rush Live in Rio
Best Album: Bob Dylan 'Blood on the Tracks'

[IZAAK]

Most Overrated Band/Group: The Doors

thats the only one i had a strong feeling about.


Man, the Doors were pretty freaking good band...

OK Morrison was a wacko maniac... But the band was talented and made some good music...

You telling me the beginning of the song "the End" is awsome?

[Dream]

All Time Favorite Band: The Deftones
Best Rock Band: Pink Floyd
Best Rap Group: Who cares?
Best Country: Who cares?
Best Metal Band: Sheesh, I can't even define metal anymore. I'll just put Cult of Luna here, but... I can't even define them.
Best Alternative/New Wave Band: Mars Volta, hands down.

Most Overrated Band/Group: Good Charlotte, anything basically aired on MTV.
Most Underrated Band/Group: Uh, Cult of Luna.

Best Singer: Mike Patton, Faith No More.
Best Guitar Player: Eric Clapton.
Best Drummer: Abe Cunningham, Deftones.
Best Bass Player: Steve Harris, Iron Maiden.

Best Concert: Redding Festival, Donnington Park.
Best Album: Of all time? It has to be Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd) or Disintegration (The Cure)

Just to let you know again, Cult of Luna and Isis rule.

[Johnny Law Man]

All Time Favorite Band: TOOL
Best Rock Band: U2
Best Rap Group: Tupac Shakur
Best Country: Garth Brooks
Best Metal Band: Pantera
Best Alternative/New Wave Band: NIN

Most Overrated Band/Group: Led Zeppellin
Most Underrated Band/Group: Deftones

Best Singer: Bono (U2)
Best Guitar Player: Kirk Hammett (Metallica)
Best Drummer: Danny Carey (TOOL)
Best Bass Player: Jason Newsted (Metallica)

Best Concert: 1996 TOOL at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie NY
Best Album: TOOL - AEnima

[OrangePeel]

All Time Favorite Band: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Best Rock Band: Nirvana
Best Rap Group: NWA/Public Enemy
Best Country: YUCK!
Best Metal Band: Atreyu
Best Alternative/New Wave Band: Tie: Hoobastank & My Chemical Romance

Most Overrated Band/Group: Tie: Slipknot & Simple Plan
Most Underrated Band/Group: My Chemical Romance

Best Singer: Freddie Mercury (Queen) Honorable Mention: Doug Robb (Hoobastank)
Best Guitar Player: Jimi Hendrix, HM: Eric Clapton
Best Drummer: Neil Peart (Rush) HM: Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters)
Best Bass Player: Geddy Lee (Rush), HM: Les Claypool (Primus)

Best Concert: of the 4 ive been 2, the best was 2004 Ozzfest ft. Atreyu!
Best Album: Too close, but ill say right now my current is "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge" by My Chemical Romance

[theMileHighGuy]

Music Survey

All Time Favorite Band: Rush/Killers/Journey/ there's too many...
Best Rock Band: Guns n' Roses
Best Rap Group: mc chris (based on raw skill, flow, and vocabulary)
Best Country: Johnny Cash
Best Metal Band: Atreyu (Kind of new to be the best, but I don't listen to much metal)
Best Alternative/New Wave Band: Tie between The Killers and Interpol

Most Overrated Band/Group: All of this new emo junk
Most Underrated Band/Group: Again, The Killers and Interpol

Best Singer: Steve Perry (Journey)
Best Guitar Player: Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine)
Best Drummer: NIEL MOTHER@*@$#^$ PEART - RESPECT (Rush)
Best Bass Player: Tie between Getty Lee (Rush) and Les Claypool (Primus)

Best Concert: Rush 30th Anniversary Tour (If youweren't there, you have no opinion on this but the wrong one)

Best Album: Dang, that's a tough one... best overall album... assuming greatest hits albums don't count... big tie here...

Guns 'n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Rush - All the World's a Stage
Rush - Permanent Waves
Journey - Frontiers

[muse]

Music Survey

All Time Favorite Band: MUSE

Best Rock Band: Muse

Best Rap Group: Rage Against the Machine (well...it is in a way)

Best Country: Erm...no

Best Metal Band: Not sure...does Metallica count?

Best Alternative/New Wave Band: Hope of the State or Interpol (saw them at Brixton the other day, fantastic show

Most Overrated Band/Group: Probably Nirvana. Or any of that silly crap like Slipknot and Korn

Most Underrated Band/Group: Lots, but Muse, Hope of the States, Delays and Interpol all spring to mind...

Best Singer: Matt Bellamy

Best Guitar Player: Matt Bellamy, incrediblé and has the nicest guitars

Best Drummer: Not sure...Brad Wilk maybe

Best Bass Player: Chris Wolstenholme, Timmy Commerford and Carlos D are my favourites (Chris is my biggest biggest influence)

Best Concert: Muse...any of the 4 I've been to (Wembley, Glastonbury, and 2x Earl's Court)...incredible show, if you have the chance to see them on their campus tour, go because it will blow you away.

Best Album: can't decide, too many...

[mattos]

Man, the Doors were pretty freaking good band...

OK Morrison was a wacko maniac... But the band was talented and made some good music...

You telling me the beginning of the song "the End" is awsome?

no, i'm say its not awesome :D

they probably are talented, but just b/c a band has talented musicians doesn't mean they are good to listen too. dream theater for instance has talent out the wazoo but i don't really care to listen to them. for me, the doors are like that; i just don't enjoy their sound.

[Booker T]

All Time Favorite Band:Nirvana
Best Rock Band:Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Best Rap Group:NWA
Best Country:Not for me
Best Metal Band:Metallica
Best Alternative/New Wave Band:That ain't gangsta

Most Overrated Band/Group:Eminem
Most Underrated Band/Group:Bon Jovi

Best Singer:Kurt Cobain
Best Guitar Player:Jimmy Hendrix,Jack White
Best Drummer: Dave Grohl
Best Bass Player:Krist Novoselic

Best Concert:never been to one
Best Album:Straight outta Compton

[BroncoManiac_69]

Music Survey

All Time Favorite Band: Fleetwood Mac
Best Rock Band: AC/DC
Best Rap Group: There isn't one.
Best Country: Garth Brooks
Best Metal Band: Ozzy
Best Alternative/New Wave Band: Jet

Most Overrated Band/Group: Outkast
Most Underrated Band/Group: The Outfield

Best Singer: Leann Rymes
Best Guitar Player: Eric Clapton
Best Drummer: Ricky Rocket (Poison)
Best Bass Player: That guy in Van Halen (LOL Can't remember his name)

Best Concert: Best show I ever saw was Queen
Best Album: Lots to choose from here.
Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
Steve Miller Band - Book Of Dreams
Just to name a few of my favs.

[IZAAK]

Best Bass Player: Jason Newsted (Metallica)




Good choices, but Metallica's first bassist, Cliff Burton was far better than Newsted. Cliff was on all the Cds from "Kill em all" up to "And Justice For all"

[Jared]

All Time Favorite Band: I used to jump and say KISS, but honestly, I listen to just as much AC/DC as KISS. It's a tie.
Best Rock Band: See above
Best Rap Group: RUN-DMC....please. No contest.
Best Country:Hello, my name is Johnny Cash. Anyone who can write the lyrics "I shot a man in Reno just so I could watch him die" automatically wins the baddest badass of them all in my book. Plus, he influnced punk bands. He is THE man.
Best Metal Band: Hmm....there is such a schism between what was once metal and what is metal now. Old school, I'd have to go Queensryche, new school, TOOL
Best Alternative/New Wave Band: The Cars. (While their singles were catchy, their album tracks were sleek and dark, and kind of sinister, as New Wave should be!)

Most Overrated Band/Group: Hmmmmm.......probably Nirvana. I think they were in the right place at the right time, but the Pixies and Pearl Jam have been more influential. Time will tell...........
Most Underrated Band/Group: King's X (check my sig. Essentially metal/rock, but basically undefinable. Imagine Jimi Hendrix singing over Metallica's riffs, with the Beatles adding harmonies. It sounds strange, but it works.)

Best Singer: In terms of pure technical skills, I'm going with Freddie Mercury. In terms of just being able to convey a wide range of gut level rock n roll emotions, I'm going to have to go with Robert Plant. Sucha versatile guy, when you think abotu how Zep progressed.
Best Guitar Player: Wow. So many could be here. My personal fave is Ace Frehley from KISS, who had a very cool approach to solos. Otherwise, there's too many who fit this bill.
Best Drummer: Neil Peart...I mean, come on guys. He took the manaical approach of Keith Moon, and refined it to a very controlled edge. Perhaps the single most influential rock drummer ever.
Best Bass Player: Hmmmmmmm.......Cliff Burton was pretty inventive, but I'm gonna go with Bootsy Collins, from P-funk. He was the bass player with James Brown first, and without him, we don't even have the word or genre 'funk'. Those crazy fast bass melodies and that poppin funk sound were his inventions. Flea just stole them.

Best Concert: My personal best was Metallica with Queensryche opening in 1989. Both bands were just on. No technical issues, great acoustics, and they both had fantastic nights playing as units. I literally got chills at certain portions of the show
Best Album: If you want to show someone what the true essence of music is, play anything from Bach. In my own case though, I like rock music. The best rock album I have ever heard, that just distills what rock and roll should be, with no frills, is AC/DC's Highway to Hell. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002JS8/103-2215740-0663023?v=glance) I know everyone worships Back In Black, but this one is just as brilliant, and is more rebellious, which is what rock is. You parents my know "You Shook Me All Night Long" but if you want to piss them off, try the mysogynistic "Walk All Over You", or the ode to sex drugs and rock n roll on the title track. Or, saving the best for last, "Night Prowler" about a sexual predator. Pretty dangerous stuff compared to Back in Black (although I do love that album too.) "If You Want Blood" and "Beating Around the Bush" also kick major ass. And "Touch Too Much" is sex in musical form.

Get this CD!

[DBFan4Ever]

All time favorite band - Beatles, Boston, The Cars
Best Rock Band AC/DC
Best Rap Group- No comment
Best Country Group- Alabama
Best Metal Band- Not sure
Best New Wave Band - The Cars and Blondie

Most overrated group - Anybody who is currently in the top 40
Today's music ain't got the same soul. I like that old time rock n roll
Most underrated group - not sure

Best Singer - Lead singer of Boston, Ben Orr of the Cars and Jim Morrison
Best guitar player - Guitar player of Boston, and Eddie Van Halen
Best Drummer- Drummer for Boston
Best Bass Player - Ben Orr of the Cars
Best Concert- KISS, Poison, Areosmith, Van Halen, Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Chicago, Lynard Skinnard, 38 Special
Best Album- Abbey Road- Beatles, Boston First Album, Cars 1st and 2nd album, Hysteria Def Leppard

Favorite songs -More than a feeling, Let's Go, Hey Jude

[JayhawkBronco]

All Time Favorite Band: L.A. Guns
Best Rock Band: L.A. Guns
Best Rap Group: PE
Best Country: Hank Williams
Best Metal Band: Motorhead
Best Alternative/New Wave Band: Sonic Youth

Most Overrated Band/Group: Linkin Park
Most Underrated Band/Group: Motorhead (underappreciated anyway)

Best Singer: Jizzy Pearl
Best Guitar Player: Tracii Guns
Best Drummer: Tommy Lee
Best Bass Player: Lemmy

Best Concert: Right now Motley Crue
Best Album: Appetite for Destruction - GNR

[JayhawkBronco]

Best Country:Hello, my name is Johnny Cash. Anyone who can write the lyrics "I shot a man in Reno just so I could watch him die" automatically wins the baddest badass of them all in my book. Plus, he influnced punk bands. He is THE man.

Interesting...I have a few friends who were in the "punk scene" back in the day and they have told me they consider Johnny Cash a punk rocker. Lemmy as well.

[Booker T]

All Time Favorite Band: Pearl Jam
Best Rock Band: Led Zeppelin
Best Rap Group: Public Enemy
Best Country: N/A
Best Metal Band: Metallica
Best Alternative/New Wave Band: Radiohead

Most Overrated Band/Group: Nirvana/Aerosmith
Most Underrated Band/Group: Wilco

Best Singer: Freddie Mercury
Best Guitar Player: Stevie Ray Vaughan
Best Drummer: Neil Peart
Best Bass Player: John Entwistle

Best Concert: Rush Live in Rio
Best Album: Bob Dylan 'Blood on the Tracks'

Nirvana and Aerosmith are not overrated their just simply the best.

[AZ Snake Fan]

--- although not a personal favorite, i have to admit from a technical standpoint, no group is better produced than Aerosmith --- 9"Nails do Johnny Cash --- az

[Jared]

Interesting...I have a few friends who were in the "punk scene" back in the day and they have told me they consider Johnny Cash a punk rocker. Lemmy as well.

The guy who leads punk rockers Social Distortion is a HUGE Johnny Cash fan. They have do a great cover of "Ring Of Fire".


Regardless of your feelings toward country, Johnny Cash is simply a must for anyone who claims to be a fan of American music. He transcended country. He is up there with Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Woody Guthrie, & Chuck Berry as guys who influenced ALL of American music after them, regardless of genre.