{"id":11,"date":"2010-03-01T11:25:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T16:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anthurian.com\/?p=11"},"modified":"2010-03-03T13:50:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T18:50:07","slug":"watch-out-eugene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anthurian.com\/staging\/11\/watch-out-eugene\/","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Bands, Artists, Composers, and Musicians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s the first in my “Historical Perspective” series. This was originally posted on September 26th, 2003.<\/em><\/p>\n

Kenny came at me the other day with a list of his Top 105 Favorite Rock bands\/musicians. Neither my personal experience, nor my CD collection, can even attempt to rival Kenny’s — a man who has a twenty year head start and a 4000+ CD collection to show for it. Humbly, I put together my list basing it on my (significantly smaller) CD collection.<\/p>\n

The main thing about this list is that I tried not to choose an artist or group based upon the opinions of “everyone else” — this list is a reflection of my personal musical tastes and purchasing habits. Once I’d assembled the list, the main criteria I used for ranking was not based solely on personal preference but also on the number of albums I own for each artist or band. Based solely on the number of CDs, for example, Phish would automatically come out on top but I have a tendency to reach for a Pink Floyd album more often than a Phish album — although Phish wins out when I’m wanting to listen to single songs and not full albums. Of course, the position of a band or musician on this list is subject change based upon how I’m feeling at the moment. The rankings of my Top 5 are fairly static but they are currently in a slow transition as the RHCP have been slowly slipping downward, falling from #1 to #5 since “Blood Sugar Sex Magic”. On the other hand, Robert Randolph has been making a steady climb upwards and Ben Harper is poised to move into the Top 5 if the Chili Peppers maintain their current trend towards Aerosmith-ism.<\/p>\n

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  1. Pink Floyd<\/li>\n
  2. Phish<\/li>\n
  3. Jimmy Smith<\/li>\n
  4. Morcheeba<\/li>\n
  5. Red Hot Chili Peppers<\/li>\n
  6. Ben Harper<\/li>\n
  7. Syd Barret<\/li>\n
  8. Grateful Dead<\/li>\n
  9. Dixie Chicks<\/li>\n
  10. Stereolab<\/li>\n
  11. Marilyn Manson<\/li>\n
  12. Guns ‘n Roses<\/li>\n
  13. Led Zeppelin<\/li>\n
  14. Rammstein<\/li>\n
  15. Miles Davis<\/li>\n
  16. John Coltrane<\/li>\n
  17. Lenny Kravitz<\/li>\n
  18. Robert Randolph<\/li>\n
  19. Super Furry Animals<\/li>\n
  20. Beatles<\/li>\n
  21. Bob Dylan<\/li>\n
  22. Jane’s Addiction<\/li>\n
  23. Allman Brothers<\/li>\n
  24. U2<\/li>\n
  25. James Brown<\/li>\n
  26. Jamiroquai<\/li>\n
  27. Maxwell<\/li>\n
  28. Beastie Boys<\/li>\n
  29. Tom Petty<\/li>\n
  30. Old 97’s<\/li>\n
  31. Frank Zappa<\/li>\n
  32. George Harrison<\/li>\n
  33. The Who<\/li>\n
  34. Pearl Jam\/Nirvana*<\/li>\n
  35. Bruce Springsteen<\/li>\n
  36. Cypress Hill<\/li>\n
  37. Garth Brooks<\/li>\n
  38. Simon & Garfunkel<\/li>\n
  39. Brooks & Dunn<\/li>\n
  40. Tangerine Dream<\/li>\n
  41. Ween<\/li>\n
  42. The Doors<\/li>\n
  43. The Rolling Stones<\/li>\n
  44. James Taylor<\/li>\n
  45. The Clash<\/li>\n
  46. Sex Pistols<\/li>\n
  47. Nerve Circus**<\/li>\n
  48. School of Fish<\/li>\n
  49. Rusted Root<\/li>\n
  50. Stan Ridgeway<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Putting this list together got me thinking about my favorite songs and I may put together that list sometime in the near future. I didn’t include any (personal) one-hit wonders in this list and, if I put together a Favorite Song List, there would be some overlap but there would also be numerous differences. It’s a little difficult to have a “favorite” Tangerine Dream song, for example, just as it’s tough for me to say that the Eagles are a favorite band even though I own their Greatest Hits album.<\/p>\n

    * Pearl Jam\/Nirvana<\/em>: lump them both together because I never really got caught up in the whole Seattle grunge thing. While everyone else was wearing flannel and idolizing Kurt, I was listening to RHCP, Clash, Sex Pistols, Stan Ridgeway, and Nine Inch Nails.<\/p>\n

    ** Nerve Circus<\/em>: a local Rochester band that is now “defunct”. During High School, there was a group of us who were die-hard Nerve Circus fans, going to see every concert we could. The fact that they’re gone doesn’t mean I love their music any less, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Here’s the first in my “Historical Perspective” series. This was originally posted on September 26th, 2003. Kenny came at me the other day with a list of his Top 105 Favorite Rock bands\/musicians. Neither my personal experience, nor my CD collection, can even attempt to rival Kenny’s — a man who has a twenty year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthurian.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthurian.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthurian.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthurian.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthurian.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anthurian.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthurian.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthurian.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthurian.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}