Ack! I've probably spent $400.00

[Maestro]

on music the past two months. Music has always been very important to me. My first album I bought I was back in the 70's. It was Led Zeppelin's "IV" album on eight track along with Billy Joel's "Glass Houses." Over the past two years or so I slowed down on my buying of music really for a lack of time. However, recently, I bought myself a satellite radio which exposed to much more music than what is heard on the crappy airwaves of my area. Secondly, I purchased a new computer with a great sound system to boot, downloaded iTunes and to top it off my kids are more independent now, a 3 and 5 year old so I have more time for music.

I have gotten caught up on my metal, my alt country, my techno/industrial, and rediscovered some great 80's bands still putting out some music today. Remember TESLA? :) Anyhow, just havin' some fun. Love it!!!!

[kaitykaity]

1. Lucky you.

My first albums were Fleetwood Mac Rumours, Cheap Trick,
Meat Loaf Bat out of Hell, Van Halen I, Boston, and
Pink Floyd The Wall, Pat Benatar.

God they made good music back then.

So who's your favorite techno/industrial? I like Ministry,
am always looking for stuff like it.

[Maestro]

2. Techno Industrial

KMDFM, Skinny Puppy, Oghr, side project of Skinny Puppy, Front 242, Meat Beat Manifesto just to name a few. Download is also very good and another side project of Skinny Puppy. Actually, during the 80's, Wax Trax Records out of Chicago had some great bands. Obviously Ministry is one of my favorites but I wouldn't classify them as techno industrial; more metal industrial now. I like though. If you like the current Ministry, you need to check out Static-X. Awesome Industrial Metal.

[kaitykaity]

3. I liked Static-X and Powerman5000.

I even like Rob Zombie in small doses. Dragula you just
have to play at full volume or it isn't any good.

:evilgrin:

I have heard of Skinny Puppy though. Same guy who turned
me on to Ministry also had some of their stuff. You
have a favorite disc?

I just bought a KMFDM Live album from BMG Music of all
places. They don't have much, but what they have I can
get for 9 bucks a CD, which ain't bad.

On the genres, don't get me started. It's so confusing
now. There seems like there's almost as many genres as
there are bands, you know?

Have you checked out the Electronic forum? Those folks
are serious about this stuff.

[Maestro]

4. There is an electronic forum?

Dedicated just to techno beats and the like? Wow! Where have I been? I am basically a metal head with forays into hardcore alt country, industrial trip hop/trance, but I do even get into some electronic. I remember listenting to Kraftwerk during my clubbing days in the 80's. I like Chemical Brothers, Prodigy and The Crystal Method. I have a ton of older stuff too from the late 80's, early 90's.

As far as Skinny Puppy goes, you can't go wrong if you like the genre. I would just start with their newest, "The Greater Wrong of the Right" and then work yourself back. ;)

[kaitykaity]

5. Yep. Here ya go.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=304

It's really above and beyond me in there.

[Maestro]

6. Just visited

I am very familiar with some of those groups they are talking about. Is that good or bad? :)

[kaitykaity]

7. lol.

I don't know enough to venture in there and say I
didn't like Kraftwerk. Slings and arrows man.

I have Computer World by them, and I don't care
for it.

[Maestro]

8. Heresy!!!!

You don't like Kraftwerk???????? Just kiddin'. Different strokes for different folks. I don't know how old you are but that sort of music was very unique in its day so I took to it like flys to #&^%! :) It's dated for sure, but sure opened up a new genre of music. Even a group like NIN owes much to those crazy Germans. Even Skinny Puppy that we were discussing earlier. I can pretty much discuss most genres pretty well except for Jazz, urban rap hip/hop, and classical. I have my hand in most everything else.

[kaitykaity]

9. Exactly! I saw somebody else get pounded in there

for such heresy and I was like uh-uh, no way,
not me.

I think it's the base line. In electronic I like
a heavy crunch. Emo puts me to sleep.

I go in fits and spurts with music. Sometimes I'm
in the mood to groove to old favorites, other times
I'm so bored I can't stand it and need something new,
other times I want loud, loud, loud.

I'm embarrassed to see how nuts I went in the
mid 90s on the grunge though. I split my CD collection
into genre books, and I bought way, way, way too much
stuff just off of one song on the radio. :spank:

So that's why I love this forum. People who really
like good music, a style, an artist, give me specific
suggestions as to what they like. That's the
absolute best way to find music, I think.

:)

On edit: I'm 40, so I was clubbing about the same
time you were. I was in Germany in the early 80s,
in the Army, so my clubbing consisted of too many nights
that ended with Lee Greenwood's nauseating anthem and a
drunken-soldier chorus.

[Maestro]

10. Your edit scares me

Lee Greenwood's anthem and drunken soldiers. Wow! Kraftwerk would have been so much better. ;) And yes, we were clubbing at the same time. :)

[kaitykaity]

12. Imagine how I felt.

:scared:

I found Pink Floyd, Marillion, Pat Benatar.
But then I got into butt rock -- Ratt, Dokken.

The club on base split the nights -- fridays was
rock and Saturdays was disco. Oh the stories.

Thriller was out then, and I heard that a lot.
:gaack: And The Far Side, of course.

Thanks for bringing back the memories.
(Oh, Gawd, did I just say that? I'm going
to go and get my cane now.)

[Kazak]

14. Electronic forum? *ears perk*

Thanks for that...I hadn't realized.

[Kat45]

11. I've heard some of Tesla's new stuff. It's good!

I was really into hard rock/metal in the late '80s-early '90s. I've been surprised to find out that a number of those bands are still around, but nobody really knows it because they don't get any airplay/attention. Do you remember the all-female British metal band, Girlschool? I just found out they've been around all this time and are just putting out a new album. But unfortunately, many of the other bands that are still around are bands that I wasn't into.

Do you even listen to the online station, knac.com? It's a metal station. I don't care for most of the nu metal, but they have a regular "back in the day" show that plays the stuff I was listening to back then, and they also include some of the new stuff by those bands. (That's where I've heard the new Tesla songs.)

[Maestro]

13. The Tesla stuff is pretty good

And also Iron Maiden has a new album out. I used to listen to KNAC but now that I have iTunes I just search for my old bands and many times they are still performing. I didn't listen to many girl metal bands so I vaguely remember the name but not the music. Funny, I'm on this thrash metal kick.