What are your top 20 rock/emotive/alternative songs?
Great question! I'm really into the Spill Canvas, Mayday Parade, Paramore, I could go on for ages. Email me if you want recommendations =] Spill Canvas-Lust a Prima Vista Spill Canvas-Polygraph, Right Now! Spill Canvas-Staplegunned Mayday Parade-When I Get Home, You're So Dead Dishwalla-Candleburn Paramore-Crushcrushcrush Paramore-Conspiracy Imogen Heap-The Walk Hinder-By the Way Breaking Benjamin-Dance with the Devil American Hi-Fi-Flavor of the Weak Barenaked Ladies-One Week Pink-Heartbreaker Porcelain and the Tramps-You Want Paramore-Franklin Saliva-Always The Scene Aesthetic-The Alamo is No Place for Dancing The Scene Aesthetic-Beauty in the Breakdown (acoustic) Death Cab for Cutie-Soul Meets Body New Found Glory's cover of Kiss Me
Women in rock (metal, alternative, etc)?
Alexis Brown (Straight Line Stitch) Cristina Scabbia (Lacuna Coil) Sarah Anthony (The Black Letter) Amy Lee (Evanescence) Jada Pinkett Smith (Wicked Wisdom) Hayley Williams (Paramore) Lacey Mosley (Fly Leaf) Kerli Koiv Chibi (The Birthday Massacre) Fefe Dobson Tegan Quin (Tegan & Sara) Sara Quin (Tegan & Sara) Aya Stefanowicz (UnSun) Anette Olzon (Nightwish) Helena Iren Michaelsin (Imperia) Debbie Harry (Blondie) Maria Brink (In This Moment) Amelia Arsenic (Angelspit) Lenna Kuurma (Vanilla Ninja) Katrin Siska (Vanilla Ninja) Piret Jarvis (Vanilla Ninja) Sierra Kusterback (VersaEmerge) Susanna Hoffs (The Bangles) Alexis Rodriguez (Eyes Set To Kill) Taylor Momsen (The Pretty Reckless) Mistress Tristessa (Astarte) Gwen Stefani (No Doubt) Alissa White – Gluz (The Agonist) Yvonne Marder (Renfue) Simone Simons (Epica) Laura Nichol (Light This City) Charlotte Wessels (Delain) Sabrina Claussen (Holy Moses) Liv Kristine (Leaves’ Eyes) Emilie Autumn (she’s her own band) Candice Clot (Eths) Manda Ophius (Nemesea) Angela Gossow (Arch Enemy) Morgan Lacroix (Mandragora Scream) Sharon Den Adel (Within Temptation) Virg (Kells) Tracy Chapman Skin (Skunk Anansie) Sarah Jezebel Deva (Angtoria) Cassadee Pope (Hey Monday) Lisa Middlehauve (Xandria) Annie Lennox (The Eurythmics) Liz Phair Beth Ditto (The Gossip) Riina Rinkinen (Silentivm) Layla Brooklyn Allman (Picture Me Broken) Ana Matronic (The Scissor Sisters) Juliet Simms (Automatic Love Letter) Shirley Manson (Garbage) Karen Carpenter (The Carpenters) Helen Vogt (Flowing Tears) Ji-In Cho (Krypteria) Marcela Bovio (Stream of Passion) Floor Jansen (After Forever) Joan Jett (Joan Jett & The Black Hearts/The Runaways) Santigold (Santigold) Emily Ovenden (Pythia) Tarja Turunen (Nightwish) Courtney Love Sandra Schleret (Eyes of Eden) Grace Slick (The Great Society) Sonya Scarlet (Theatres Des Vampires) Helen Marnie (LadyTron) Cat (Mortal Love) **These ^^ are all I could think of. If you'd count Chris Brown's little project as a "band" Teyana Taylor is one as well. Edit: Bjork too!
Grunge/Rock/Alternative bands similar to Hole?
hmm. im not too much into grunge, but i would definetly suggest listenign to Pretty on the Inside- that album is boss. Slut-Kiss-Girl; wont promise her a smack? Is she pretty on the inside, is she pretty from the back? haha :) FilthyFreak: sir, go die:) we've had this discussion already.. and Hole is fkn awesome, dude! and hell, who cares who killed who? they're still a kick-a** band, regardless xD
Alternative rock song with an Imperial March intro?
Well, I know No Doubt used to play the Imperial march at their concerts, and according to Wikipedia Green Day did too...I looked on Google and found a link on YouTube that shows No Doubt playing the march and then followed with another song. Here's the link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g3tQz_f5... You can look up the imperial death march on Wikipedia and it will give you a list of when it has been used not only musically but in pop culture. Good luck!
What hard rock, alternative, and/or metal albums are you looking forward to in 2017?
System of a Down’s new record. The fact is it's been so long since their last record promises there's no telling what this new disk could sound like. I would expect it to be a little different then their normal sound, and that's good. Slipknot’s .5: The Gray Chapter was the absolute perfect mixture of their old, Iowa sound blended with the vocals and riffs of All Hope Is Gone and Vol 3: The Subliminal Verses; hence why in my very humble and uneducated opinion its their best record. If SOAD releases a record that combines elements of Toxicity and Hypnotize, then there’s a real chance it will end up being their best album. They've had over a decade to think about how to put one together. I've no doubt it will be great.
Why have a lot of popular (or once-popular) alternative rock bands turned over to a more "pop" sound in their newer releases? Examples include, Sleeping With Sirens, Fall Out Boy, Paramore, Marianas Trench, Linkin Park, etc.
With Linkin Park, I think it’s quite inevitable, as they already had part of that sound both as a band and in their record. It just took over as the predominant sound. I do not doubt this, especially when they went through the exercise with Rick Rubin, a typically hands-off-ish producer, and that the genre they took isn’t even that popular.For others like Paramore and Fall Out Boy, it is, quite obviously, money.You can’t make a living if you cant make money. You can’t make money if you can’t sell. You can’t sell if no one buys.Few people today like alt-rock, or even alt-style pop rock. And these bands have contracts with their labels. It’s their job to make music that sells. Record companies don’t make business plans anchored on musical feelings and emotion and the spirit of rock. Record companies make business plans based on what young people buy.These people have to sell.After Laughter, while a very honest record and arguably one of Paramore’s strongest works, sounds like 80s pop because Hayley Williams (the only one under contract) has to make sure she does her job as an employee of Warner Music, which is to sell music. It has been mentioned that the band studied the 80s pop style for that record - a clear indication that these sounds are part of the job of making money for the record company.
Alternative Rock Wedding song to walk down the aisle to??
I was reading all the posts and your details and not sure if this is up your alley or not since I like the clash, ramones, the cure and classic rock so, here's some classic rock upbeat songs for the isle way... I can't come up with any songs suitable for wedding from above mentioned but here's some from two groups: Queen-crazy little thing called love ELO- Hold on Tight Stevie Ray Vaughn- Pride &Joy Stray Cats- Rock this Town Joan Jett- I love rock and roll No Doubt- Hella Good The Cranberries- dreams/linger drawing a blank sorry... I have a head full of stuff but having to sort thru it and pick out certain songs for this ocassion is a prooving to be a bigger task than I once thought!! LOLOLOL Congrats by the way... hope things go well and you both have a wonderful day and beautiful memories... take care.
Good pop punk/ alternative bands?
my favorite bands are all time low and simple plan. i also really like mayday parade, forever the sickest kids, metro station, cute is what we aim for, we the kings, the academy is... and cobra starship. are there any other good bands that i could listen to??? :] thanks!
What are some songs for a "Girl Power" playlist? (Rock, Punk, Alternative, Indie)?
I'm making a girl power playlist with like empowering, feminist vibes and I'm wondering what songs I should put on it. Examples of bands/artists I listen to: - Lana Del Rey - Marina and the Diamonds - Tonight Alive - Lorde - Lights - We Are The In Crowd - The Pretty Reckless - Echosmith - Pvris - Love, Robot - Paramore - Evanescence *Male-fronted bands are okay, too, but I'm trying to keep it mostly female. xx