Best Song of your 10 Favorite Bands

[jakepriest]

Dream Theater - In The Name of God
Periphery - Strange Things
Tesseract - Eden
Haken - Pareidolia
Animals As Leaders - The Woven Web
Devin Townsend - Seams (come at me Devheads)
Daniel Landa - Vltava
Ayreon - Day Five: Voices
Rammstein - Keine Lust
Coheed And Cambria - The Light & The Glass

Honorable mention: Slipknot - Vermillion Pt. 2

[erwinrafael]

This is more of favorite songs, not best songs.

1. Breaking All Illusions
2. Save Me
3. All That I Bleed
4. Something
5. Everything Under the Sun
6. Right Now
7. Whispering a Prayer
8. Alone
9. EDIT Endless DreamThe Day I Tried to Live (just realized I forgot one of my favorite bands  )
10. Routine

Name the artists. 

[Sacul]

1. Breaking All Illusions - DT
2. Save Me - Evanescence?
10. Routine - Steven Wilson

[Fluffy Lothario]

Fat Freddy's Drop - Shiverman, I suppose

Boom, Fat Freddy's Drop!! My girlfriend got me in to them, only have one album but I love it!

All of their first three are top notch. I've given their latest some time to warm on me, but it's not happening. It's not terrible, but it's not as good as the others.

[erwinrafael]

1. Breaking All Illusions - DT
2. Save Me - Evanescence?
10. Routine - Steven Wilson

1 and 10 correct. 

NO. 2 - NO. Just no. 

[Sacul]

can't wake up

[SebastianPratesi]

1. Breaking All Illusions - DT
2. Save Me - Evanescence?
10. Routine - Steven Wilson

1 and 10 correct. 

NO. 2 - NO. Just no. 

"Save Me": Queen?

"Something": The Beatles?

[erwinrafael]

1. Breaking All Illusions - DT
2. Save Me - Evanescence?
10. Routine - Steven Wilson

1 and 10 correct. 

NO. 2 - NO. Just no. 

"Save Me": Queen?

"Something": The Beatles?

 

See, this is the way to spice up this thread. 

[Sacul]

At least to me the thread is not like "SAAAAVEE MEEE"

[erwinrafael]

At least to me the thread is not like "SAAAAVEE MEEE"

 

[LordCost]

This is more of favorite songs, not best songs.

If I read correctly the title of the topic I would have changed some choices in my list

[Polarbear]

This is going to require a bit of thinking.

I think it's impossible to pick the best songs, so these will be my favorite songs from these bands/artists

1. Rush - Mystic Rhytms
2. Toto - Don't Chain My Heart
3. Pink Floyd - High Hopes
4. Iron Maiden - The Evil That Men Do (There are a lot of IM songs that could go here...)
5. Mastodon - CZar
6. Intronaut - Miasma
7. Baroness - Eula
8. Genesis - Duchess
9. Graveyard - The Siren
10. Kingston Wall - Two of a Kind

Honorable mention: Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons

1-5 is very solid. There is about 20 contenders for spots 6-10, so this list is very much subject to change..

[jingle.boy]

Wow, what a bump. An oldie but a good one.

I remember reading this thread back in the day but not posting. In a relatively fluid ranking (of bands/artists, not songs):

David Gray - Falling Free
Anathema - Internal Landscapes
Agalloch - Our Fortress is Burning
Porcupine Tree - shesmovedon
Ludovico Einaudi - Oltremare
Glen Hansard - Bird of Sorrow
Steven Wilson (Yeah I'm cheating, kind of) - Happy Returns
Rush - 2112
Yes - And You and I or Heart of the Sunrise
Opeth - Ghost of Perdition

Just how the hell did I win your Roulette??   

[Tony From Long Island]

VERY HARD TOPIC!

1. The Beatles - Hey Bulldog   --  or  --  The Night Before
2. Dream Theater - I Walk Beside You - or voices
3. Depeche Mode - It's No Good
4. Manhattan Transfer - Mystery   (I Love Janis Seigel's Voice)
5. Garbage - Special
6. Marvelous 3 - Write It On Your Hand   (anything associated with Butch Walker is great!)
7. Ozzy - Tattooed Dancer
8. No Doubt - One More Summer
9. KISS - Hide Your Heart - or Sure Know Something
10. L.A. Guns - Wild Obsession

This List Would be completely different yesterday and tomorrow!!

[SebastianPratesi]

See, this is the way to spice up this thread. 

Cool!

A couple more:

"Right Now": Korn?

"Alone": The Gathering? Or maybe Blink-182? (that's from an obscure demo, but who knows - maybe we both like the band).

[Tomislav95]

See, this is the way to spice up this thread. 

Cool!

A couple more:

"Right Now": Korn?

"Alone": The Gathering? Or maybe Blink-182? (that's from an obscure demo, but who knows - maybe we both like the band).

Or James Labrie

[Train of Naught]

If Korn - Right Now is anyone's favorite Korn song, let alone anyone's favorite song, I'll leave DTF for good

[erwinrafael]

Cool!

A couple more:

"Right Now": Korn?

"Alone": The Gathering? Or maybe Blink-182? (that's from an obscure demo, but who knows - maybe we both like the band).

Wrong on both.

Or James Labrie

Got it! Alone by Jame Labrie. I could also go with Alone by Heart, but they are not among my favorite bands. 

If Korn - Right Now is anyone's favorite Korn song, let alone anyone's favorite song, I'll leave DTF for good

You don't have to leave. 

Clue: Right Now has glorious piano playing. Glorious.

[Imaginos]

Right Now = Van Halen?

And The Day I Tried to Live has to be Soundgarden right?

[erwinrafael]

Right Now = Van Halen?

And The Day I Tried to Live has to be Soundgarden right?

Got it both! 

Sammy Hagar-era Van Halen is one of my favorite bands (DLR-era, not so much). I was debating with myself if I would list Right Now or When It's Love as I love both of these songs. Alex Van Halen's drumming on Right Now is what clinched it for me.

[bl5150]

The rhythm section on Pleasure Dome is    too.

Nice to see Savatage in there 

[erwinrafael]

The rhythm section on Pleasure Dome is    too.

Nice to see Savatage in there 

It's nice of you to drop by, Van Halen. 

And you got Savatage correctly, too, for All That I Bleed. 

Pleasure Dome is amazing, too. I just realized recently that I have been overlooking Alex Van Halen, when I have actually been air-drumming him for years. His drum composition skills is amazing.

With that, the only artists not yet guessed in my Top 10 are those with the following songs:

Everything Under the Sun
Whispering a Prayer

3. Depeche Mode - It's No Good

I'll check this out. I have been meaning to check out Depeche Mode (their song Somebody is overplayed here in the Philippines) and I'd start with this.

[bl5150]

Alright then............Extreme and Steve Vai 

[erwinrafael]

Alright then............Extreme and Steve Vai 

 

So Erwin Rafael's Top 10 non-Filipino artists

1. Dream Theater
2. Queen
3. Savatage
4. The Beatles
5. Extreme
6. Sammy Hagar-era Van Halen
7. Steve Vai
8. James Labrie
9. Soundgarden
10. Steven Wilson

[SebastianPratesi]

I'll check this out. I have been meaning to check out Depeche Mode (their song Somebody is overplayed here in the Philippines) and I'd start with this.

The Violator album has many great songs besides the singles - you also have "Sweetest Perfection", "Policy Of Truth", "Halo"...

[TAC]

VERY HARD TOPIC!

1. The Beatles - Hey Bulldog   --  or  --  The Night Before
2. Dream Theater - I Walk Beside You - or voices
3. Depeche Mode - It's No Good
4. Manhattan Transfer - Mystery   (I Love Janis Seigel's Voice)
5. Garbage - Special
6. Marvelous 3 - Write It On Your Hand   (anything associated with Butch Walker is great!)
7. Ozzy - Tattooed Dancer
8. No Doubt - One More Summer
9. KISS - Hide Your Heart- or Sure Know Something
10. L.A. Guns - Wild Obsession

This List Would be completely different yesterday and tomorrow!!

That's a strange list, dude.

I think you meant to post in the Random iPod Playlist thread.

[KevShmev]

Coldplay - Midnight
Death Cab for Cutie - We Looked Like Giants

Good to see some love for Coldplay in this forum, though I like other songs more than that one.

Also: I discovered Death Cab For Cutie last year, with Kintsugi. Great album! Reminds me of Coldplay and The Cure, both of which I like a lot.

Death Cab is great!

We Looked Like Giants is a great pick, 425, although I'd be a bit more partial to Transatlanticism (easy pick, I know), What Sarah Said, You Are a Tourist or I Was a Kaleidoscope (so much awesomeness in less than three minutes!).

[425]

All of those are great choices, especially Transatlanticism and What Sarah Said. To be honest, there are several others I could have chosen instead of We Looked Like Giants—Transatlanticism, Marching Bands of Manhattan, What Sarah Said, Stable Song, Grapevine Fires, St. Peter's Cathedral. But We Looked Like Giants was my first Death Cab song and still gets the slight nod as my favorite.




@Sebastian: If you haven't already, check out Transatlanticism and Plans—though I liked Kintsugi, I would say that those two are noticeably better albums, each with a handful of genuinely great songs and a ton of good ones.

As for Coldplay, Midnight is a favorite of mine that I acknowledge has nothing at all to do with Coldplay's main style, but I love the song a lot specifically for its unique atmosphere, and it would make my top five favorite songs of all time. My top five Coldplay songs are probably:

1. Midnight
2. Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall
3. A Rush of Blood to the Head
4. Viva La Vida
5. Fix You

An unconventional top 2, I know, but there's something about both of those songs that I really love. The next five would probably be Amsterdam, Death and All of His Friends, Hurts Like Heaven, True Love and The Scientist.

[Fluffy Lothario]

For Coldplay, I would say something like

Politik
A Rush of Blood
Yes
Princess of China
Fix You
The Scientist
Life in Technicolor II
Charlie Brown
Fly On
Amsterdam

Still haven't heard their latest though. I have it, just have to bother putting it on.

[home]

Coldplay has some great songs! I really love Glass of Water, that 7/4 chorus part is just epic.

[SebastianPratesi]

@Sebastian: If you haven't already, check out Transatlanticism and Plans—though I liked Kintsugi, I would say that those two are noticeably better albums, each with a handful of genuinely great songs and a ton of good ones.

OK, will do! I'm curious about the band - it's the type of pop music I liked as a teenager listening to The Cure and The Smiths, but made by a contemporary band. The only other thing I know about them is that John Myung praised "I Will Possess Your Heart" in a 2011 interview.

As for Coldplay: my favourite album is Viva La Vida, and my favourite songs (although I can't think of an order right now) are:

"Glass Of Water"
"Swallowed In The Sea"
"Yellow" (obviously)
"Don't Let It Break Your Heart"
"Strawberry Swing"
"Warning Sign"
"Yes"
"A Message"
"Lovers In Japan"
"Viva La Vida"

I didn't like Ghost Stories, and I haven't checked the last one (only 2 songs, which I don't like really).

They are playing in Buenos Aires next Friday. My sister is going. I'll ask her afterwards what she thought.

[KevShmev]

All of those are great choices, especially Transatlanticism and What Sarah Said. To be honest, there are several others I could have chosen instead of We Looked Like Giants—Transatlanticism, Marching Bands of Manhattan, What Sarah Said, Stable Song, Grapevine Fires, St. Peter's Cathedral. But We Looked Like Giants was my first Death Cab song and still gets the slight nod as my favorite.

@Sebastian: If you haven't already, check out Transatlanticism and Plans—though I liked Kintsugi, I would say that those two are noticeably better albums, each with a handful of genuinely great songs and a ton of good ones.

I would agree with that; Transatlanticism and Plans are their best two albums.  Still, The Photo Album is pretty damn great, too, and I have much love for Kintsugi and Codes and Keys. Narrow Stairs was somewhat of a bump in the road, even if it does have some really good tunes on there.

[Mladen]

Lets see:

Iron Maiden - Sign of the cross
The Beatles - I am the walrus
Dream Theater - Metropolis pt1
Rush - The Camera eye
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to heaven
Pink Floyd - Shine on you crazy diamond part 1
Radiohead - Paranoid android
of Montreal - Everything disappears when you come around
Thin Lizzy - Cowboy song
Helloween - Keeper of the seven keys

[TheCountOfNYC]

This is more of favorite songs, not best songs.

1. Breaking All Illusions
2. Save Me
3. All That I Bleed
4. Something
5. Everything Under the Sun
6. Right Now
7. Whispering a Prayer
8. Alone
9. EDIT Endless DreamThe Day I Tried to Live (just realized I forgot one of my favorite bands  )
10. Routine

Name the artists. 

Save Me: A7X or Shinedown
Right Now: Van Halen
Alone: Heart

[TAC]

Thin Lizzy - Cowboy song
Helloween - Keeper of the seven keys

Awesome. Just. Awesome.