Top Three

[tommy]

This is one of those threads to kinda see what other people like. (I like those kinda threads, lol.)

So what are your three favorite:
1) bands?
2) books?
3) movies?

If you wanna put in less, or more, do whatever, and its a good place to discuss all of the above categories, I think.

my personal faves:

bands: The Vines, The Pixies, The Strokes
books: Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder, Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, and The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
movies: The Boondock Saints, The Pianist, and Memento

[Turbulence]

In no particular order...

Bands: U2, Pink Floyd, Matchbox Twenty
Books: Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson, Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot by Al Franken, Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (Yea, geared for a young audience, but a very good book nonetheless...they even made a movie about it.)
Movies: The Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump, Top Gun

[StormShaman]

Bands:

Rush
Tool/A Perfect Circle (they're more or less the same band with different members--very good, but they're effectively the same thanks to the great Maynard James Keenan)
Great Big Sea

Books:

The Andromeda Strain
Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Movies:

Blade Runner
Pulp Fiction
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (best damn movie Chow Yun-Fat (one of my favorite actors) ever made)

[tommy]

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (Yea, geared for a young audience, but a very good book nonetheless...they even made a movie about it.)

Oh yeah, thanks for reminding me of that one, Turb... it is really good!

[AbNormal27]

Bands:

Rush .....
Great Big Sea

I see quite the Canadian influence there! Maybe some of my fellow Canucks can bring home some Grammys tonight, eh?

Aaryn

[AbNormal27]

Bands:
Van Halen (Hopefully the rumours about a reunion with Sammy come true sooner than later...... an album is due out before Xmas 2004!)
Great Big Sea
Alice In Chains (RIP Layne)

Books:
Sittler

Movies:
The Fisher King
Shawshank Redemption
What About Bob?
ANY Jim Carrey movie

Aaryn

[StJacquesFan25]

some great choices....

here are some of mine

Bands: U2, Good Charlotte, Simple Plan,Trapt, Tim McGraw(not really a band)..I kinda like all types of musics long as it has a good beat..lol

Books: well I don't read book too much..being in college I do my fair share of reading but I really don't enjoy it

Movies: one of my all time favorite movies since I was little has been the Cutting Edge, Any Adam Sandler movie

[RIO]

Bands: The Clash, U2 (my top two) followed by Billy Idol, Simple Minds, The Mavericks, and the Psychedelic Furs

Books: The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton (all time favorite)

Movies:Mad Max, Better Off Dead, Star Wars, Support Your Local Sheriff, Pretty in Pink, a plethora of old movies like Rebel Without A Cause and The Wild One. And I very much agree with Bladerunner being an all-time favorite. The soundtrack is the best one ever, in dis girl's opinion.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Mine will change tomorrow but here is what comes to mind initially and without enough thought to make this an effort.....

Bands:
Bottlerockets
The V-Roys
Seconds Flat

Books:
The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien
Anything by Fred Chappell

Movies:
Sling Blade
The Fifth Element
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Happy, Texas

[jhardman]

In no particular order...

Bands: U2, Pink Floyd, Matchbox Twenty
Books: Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson, Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot by Al Franken, Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (Yea, geared for a young audience, but a very good book nonetheless...they even made a movie about it.)
Movies: The Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump, Top Gun

We're on the same wavelength, here....kinda scary. Hatchet is my favorite kids book....we're tuned in on the books, particularly.

Bands: Bruce Hornsby (with and without The Range)
Rush, featuring God's percussionist
America - the old America stuff
P-Furs for 80' bands

Books: Mila 18 (Leon Uris)
Isaac's Storm
The Last Amateurs (John Feinstein)

Movies:(too many to count)
Airplane!
The Shawshank Redemption
Being There
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Great Escape

[Alicia]

Bands : Metallica, AC/DC, Tool, Korn, Audioslave

Books : anything by Stephen King

Movies : Wizard of Oz, Forrest Gump, The Shining, Silence of the Lambs

[RIO]

Alicia's scary!! ha ha ha!! :evil: ;)

[Stormbringer]

Bands:

Amon Duul II
Budgie
Can
Hawkwind

Books:

Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
The Thief of Always by Clive Barker

Movies:

Being There
Clash of the Titans
Monty Python's And Now For Something Completely Different

And to be honest, all of that is the tip of the iceberg...

http://www.missfantastic.com/stormbringer/profile/caroline/index.htm

[Alicia]

Alicia's scary!! ha ha ha!! :evil: ;)

Only secretively! :evil: :angel: :D

[ONeillsNo1Fan]

Bands:
Dave Matthews Band, Grateful Dead, Good Charlotte...I just love music in general.

Books:
Harry Potter series, The Lord of the Rings series, Battle Cry of Freedom (I'm a history nerd), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and Ender's Game

Movies:
Forrest Gump, Save the Last Dance, all the American Pies, Ferris Bueller's Day Off

[Lady J]

Rio and I have similar taste, so sorry if it sounds like Pete and Repeat here... :p

Bands : U2, The Clash, Simple Minds, Duran Duran, The Furs... I love Gary Allen and Reba McIntyre.

Books: The Outsiders, Jane Eyre, Cyrano de Bergerac ( which is a play, but I've read it a LOT )

Movies: A Patch of Blue, The Miracleworker, Rebel Without a Cause... ( I love old movies :) ) ~ Bladerunner and Mad Max are awesome, too.


What's your favorite AC/DC jam Scary Alicia? :evil: "Back in Black " makes me dance around helplessly against my will.

[goalie33]

Bands:

Pixies, The Clash, Sleater-Kinney, The Beach Boys, The Four Tops, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, The Flaming Lips, The White Stripes, The Stooges, Ramones, Joy Division, The Buzzcocks, The New Pornographers, Starlight Mints, X.

Books:

Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
23 Days in Korea by Andy Gustafson (poorly written from a technical standpoint, but a great experience story)
England's Dreaming by Jon Savage
All six volumes (five books and one short story) from the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy by Douglas Adams

Movies:

Rock 'n' Roll High School, Lost in Translation, The Royal Tenenbaums, That Thing You Do!, Paper Moon, Pulp Fiction, A Christmas Story, This is Spinal Tap, Babe: Pig in the City, Finding Nemo, Requiem for a Dream, South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut, The Shawshank Redemption, and so many more.

[AbNormal27]

Bands:

Pixies, The Clash, Sleater-Kinney, The Beach Boys, The Four Tops, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, The Flaming Lips, The White Stripes, The Stooges, Ramones, Joy Division, The Buzzcocks, The New Pornographers, Starlight Mints, X.

I was beginning to think you might have an affinity for bands that begin with "The".

Aaryn

[Lady J]

Bands:

Pixies, The Clash, Sleater-Kinney, The Beach Boys, The Four Tops, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, The Flaming Lips, The White Stripes, The Stooges, Ramones, Joy Division, The Buzzcocks, The New Pornographers, Starlight Mints, X.




You must be a punk ;) :) But you forgot The Jam in that list.

Have you ever read " A Riot Of Our Own" ? It's a book about the Clash, written by their driver from the early days ~ it's a really great read.

[Turbulence]

Airplane!
How could I forget Airplane!?

It's good to know I'm not alone in my uniqueness. :D

[Alicia]

What's your favorite AC/DC jam Scary Alicia? :evil: "Back in Black " makes me dance around helplessly against my will.

That would have to be "Who Made Who"...aahhhh, memories of my senior year in high school! :evil: :D

[Stormbringer]

Airplane!
How could I forget Airplane!?

It's good to know I'm not alone in my uniqueness. :D

I didn't mention Airplane! because I was trying to be unique with my choices (a little surprised that Airplane! hasn't been mentioned more than it has)...but you cannot deny its greatness. One of the few movies I'll never get sick of AND one of the most quotable movies ever. :D

[StormShaman]

[quote=StormShaman]Bands:

Rush .....
Great Big Sea

I see quite the Canadian influence there!

Yep! I've been a huge fan of Rush ever since I was in junior high (many years ago), and a friend of mine in St. John's got me turned on to GBS (who will be in Raleigh on 6 April) a few years ago. :)

Maybe some of my fellow Canucks can bring home some Grammys tonight, eh?

That would rock. I wish more Canadian acts would get played down here. I'm so sick of just Barenaked Ladies and Nickelback--I want some GBS and Spirit of the West, dammit! :D

[tommy]

Bands:

Pixies, The Clash, Sleater-Kinney, The Beach Boys, The Four Tops, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, The Flaming Lips, The White Stripes, The Stooges, Ramones, Joy Division, The Buzzcocks, The New Pornographers, Starlight Mints, X.

Books:

Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
23 Days in Korea by Andy Gustafson (poorly written from a technical standpoint, but a great experience story)
England's Dreaming by Jon Savage
All six volumes (five books and one short story) from the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy by Douglas Adams

Movies:

Rock 'n' Roll High School, Lost in Translation, The Royal Tenenbaums, That Thing You Do!, Paper Moon, Pulp Fiction, A Christmas Story, This is Spinal Tap, Babe: Pig in the City, Finding Nemo, Requiem for a Dream, South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut, The Shawshank Redemption, and so many more.

goalie, you and I would definitely get along. (see titles in bold)

[Stormbringer]

That would rock. I wish more Canadian acts would get played down here. I'm so sick of just Barenaked Ladies and Nickelback--I want some GBS and Spirit of the West, dammit! :D

(in her best John Cleese) And just what is wrong with Barenaked Ladies?!?! You think you know it all...

To quote Johnny from Airplane!: Just kidding...bwa hah hah hah! :evil: ;)

But seriously, even though they can get a bit overplayed*, I love the BNL along with Rush when it comes to groups/artists from the Great White North. Not to mention Triumph, the Tragically Hip, and Neil Young... :)

* - With that said, I think a certain radio station or two or three need to realize that there are other BNL songs besides "If I Had A Million Dollars". :roll:

[Shell]

Thanks Tommy, I like these threads too..

Bands: Grateful Dead, Phish, Pink Floyd, Led Zep, Beatles, Sam Bush Tony Rice, Alice in Chains, Eminem

Books: The Talisman/Black House, Dark Tower series, Harry Potter, Mary Higgins Clark, Patricia Cornwell

Movies: Forest Gump, Pulp Fiction, Almost Famous, Lion King

[Stormbringer]

Favorite Movies...Lion King

Cool. :) Lion King is definitely one of the best Disney movies ever, and one of my most favorite animated films.

[tommy]

Thanks Tommy, I like these threads too..

Bands: Grateful Dead, Phish, Pink Floyd, Led Zep, Beatles, Sam Bush Tony Rice, Alice in Chains, Eminem

Books: The Talisman/Black House, Dark Tower series, Harry Potter, Mary Higgins Clark, Patricia Cornwell

Movies: Forest Gump, Pulp Fiction, Almost Famous, Lion King

The Beatles and Eminem... quite a range of musical tastes. Very impressive!

* - With that said, I think a certain radio station or two or three need to realize that there are other BNL songs besides "If I Had A Million Dollars".

Amen. LOL.

P.S. If you like the Pixies, check out the Toadies... they say the Pixies were their inspiration, and they do a cover of Where Is My Mind.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

See, mine depends on mood. :D I see X in the bands list and I go on a whole new tangent with that list. I soooo love X. (Or maybe I just want Exene Cervenka's ex-husband....no, not John Doe...Viggo) I better stop reading or I'll be posting a new list every 30 minutes.

Goalie33, you and Mr SHC (AKA bdoonisalive) should have talked music when we were in Atlanta. He's just recently hit his punk phase.

[raleighcanesfan]

Books:
Harry: Goblet of Fire, Portrait of a Lady (Henry James), For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway)

Movies:
It's A Wonderful Life, The Shining (the original--not the Velveeta remake), and Airplane (best spoof comedy-hands down)

Bands:
Smashing Pumpkins, Everclear, Metallica

[StJacquesFan25]

Cyrano de Bergerac ( which is a play, but I've read it a LOT )

that is a good play I read that in college...it was about 2 years ago ... so I kinda foget most of it but i know it is good...lol...I will have to see if i kept it with some of my other stuff

[Jeff O Rocks]

Favorite Bands: Bon Jovi, Aerosmith .. I love all kinds of music from metal to country..

Favorite Book: I can't think of one favorite book, but I love to reach Chicken Soup books..

Favorite Movie: The Green Mile ...for comedy I love Airplane, Naked Gun, and Chris Farley movies..(I watched Black Sheep yesterday and laughed until I cried AGAIN) :D

[goalie33]

You must be a punk ;) :) But you forgot The Jam in that list.

Have you ever read " A Riot Of Our Own" ? It's a book about the Clash, written by their driver from the early days ~ it's a really great read.

I go back and forth on The Jam being one of my favorite bands. Then again, I go back and forth on about a hundred bands being my favorites or not. A Riot of Our Own is indeed a great book. I was thinking about it when I put up my list, but I couldn't think of the title. I definitely prefer creative non-fiction as a general rule, as it tends to be wackier than most fiction you'll find.

See, mine depends on mood. I see X in the bands list and I go on a whole new tangent with that list. I soooo love X. I better stop reading or I'll be posting a new list every 30 minutes.

I do the same thing. When I was thinking of my list, X just popped into my head as an awesome band. I could write lists forever and never be satisfied. Right now, I'm thinking about Belle & Sebastian and Chuck Berry, who I didn't include because he isn't a "band." Speaking of B&S, their new record is crazy 70s bright poppy stuff; totally different from the old chamber pop and very, very good.

P.S. If you like the Pixies, check out the Toadies... they say the Pixies were their inspiration, and they do a cover of Where Is My Mind.

Please note: The Toadies are awful and should be shot for even suggesting that the Pixies were anything to them other than material to steal riffs from. No offense if you like them. ;)

[CaniacManiac]

Bands-Stabbing Westward, Black Sabbath, The Who, Disturbed, Puddle of Mud, Nirvana, Rivertribe

Books-Forever Amber by Kathleen Winslow, anything by Jonathan Kellerman or Patricia Cornwell, The Left behind Series


Movies-any pre-60's B-grade science fiction movie, especially Forbidden Planet

[Captain Slack]

Bands: Pink Floyd, Natalie Merchant/10,000 Maniacs, Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead

Books: The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, Walden by Thoreau, Dune by Frank Herbert, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

Movies: The Godfather, 2001: A Space Odyessy, Dr. Strangelove (yeah, I'm a Kubrick kinda guy), Snatch or Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

[rons#1fan]

BANDS: U2, Led Zep, No Doubt, Santana, Fleetwood Mac, Eagles, Moody Blues; Matchbox 20

BOOKS: Harry Potter series, Janet Evanovich books/Stephanie Plum series (they're a hoot)

MOVIES: Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, The Money Pit, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Chocolat, Pirates of the Carribean

Hey - can you tell I don't get out much and I'm old :D

Ooops, how could I forget Mad Max - daaah just check your location!

[Night Train]

Bands: Old Van Halen, Beastie Boys, Public Enemy/Rage Against the Machine

Books: Tolkien books, especially The Silmarillion, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan series and Red Storm Rising, and The Right Stuff/Moon Shot

Movies (comedy): Strange Brew, South Park, Dumb & Dumber

Movies (sci-fi/fantasy): Original Star Wars movies, LOTR Trilogy, X-Men movies

Movies (sports): Miracle, The Program, Hoosiers

[RIO]

Movies-any pre-60's B-grade science fiction movie, especially Forbidden Planet

You musta loved "Plan 9 From Outer Space" then. :D

[RIO]

Ooops, how could I forget Mad Max - daaah just check your location!


You just like the tight leather pants, girl! Admit it! :evil:

[tommy]

Snatch or Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

Guy Ritchie is the man.

[moonstomper]

Band - Skatalites. Everything else is a distant second

Books - The Dark Tower series, 1984 by George Orwell, and the LOTR trilogy

Movies - way too many for me to think of right now

[murda338]

band: linkin park, staind, eminem
book: The Giver
movie: Volcano
QUOTH THE RAVEN....NEVERMORE!

[Mookie]

Bands: #1 has to be El Beatles. Just love the works of Juan, Pablo, Jorge and Gringo! ...along with all the solo efforts. Others - Led Zepp, Eagles, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Sheryl Crow and from Christian music - Petra and John Elefante.

Books: The Left Behind series, Beatle bio's

Movies: The works of Monty Python & Mel Brooks, Harry Potter films. The silly-funny stuff like Airplane and Naked Gun.

Speaking of the Naked Gun. Did anyone else observe the irony of O.J. Simpson in the movie and real life? It's weird. In the movie, O.J. worked for the LAPD and the climax took place at a 1 game playoff between the Seatle Mariners and the California Angels (which would have been an absolute joke in 1988). Then fast forward to 1995 and there was O.J. on trial battling against the LAPD and the very day he was aquitted, the Seatle Mariners and the California Angels played a 1 game playoff for the AL West championship! :eek2:

Then again, maybe I'm the only one who thought the connection was weird. ;)

[tommy]

Speaking of the Naked Gun. Did anyone else observe the irony of O.J. Simpson in the movie and real life? It's weird. In the movie, O.J. worked for the LAPD and the climax took place at a 1 game playoff between the Seatle Mariners and the California Angels (which would have been an absolute joke in 1988). Then fast forward to 1995 and there was O.J. on trial battling against the LAPD and the very day he was aquitted, the Seatle Mariners and the California Angels played a 1 game playoff for the AL West championship! :eek2:

Then again, maybe I'm the only one who thought the connection was weird. ;)

Whoa, that's pretty trippy.

[corylav]

Bands: Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers, Better Than Ezra, Cake, Cracker, Dead Hot Workshop, White Stripes, James Taylor, Harry Chapin, Crooked Fingers
(Note: I doubt any of you have probably heard of The Peacemakers or Dead Hot Workshop. Dead Hot was the band that started the Tempe, Ariz., music scene, which includes Gin Blossoms and The Refreshments. The Peacemakers are a kind of superband made up of parts of all those groups. If you like this kind of music, check out those two bands. They're just great.)

Books: Harry Potter series, S.E. Hinton stuff, John Feinstein sports books

Movies: Dogma (any Kevin Smith, really), Silence Of The Lambs, Super Troopers, Groundhog Day, Un Chien Andalou

[lvscolencanes]

Bands: Matchbox 20, Led Zep, Beatles, Eminem, AC/DC (I like just about anything actually)

Books: Anything by John Grisham

Movies: Forest Gump, Briget Jones Diary , Almost Famous,

Shell I copied and pasted yours, and then changed it a little... ;) Great taste girly! :D

[moonstomper]

Movies: Dogma (any Kevin Smith, really), Silence Of The Lambs, Super Troopers, Groundhog Day, Un Chien Andalou

I love Groundhog Day...thats a funny movie :cool:

[RIO]

Speaking of the Naked Gun. Did anyone else observe the irony of O.J. Simpson in the movie and real life? It's weird. In the movie, O.J. worked for the LAPD and the climax took place at a 1 game playoff between the Seatle Mariners and the California Angels (which would have been an absolute joke in 1988). Then fast forward to 1995 and there was O.J. on trial battling against the LAPD and the very day he was aquitted, the Seatle Mariners and the California Angels played a 1 game playoff for the AL West championship! :eek2:

Then again, maybe I'm the only one who thought the connection was weird. ;)

How did you know this, Mooks?! Saaaaaay. Are you ...Judge Ito? :eek2:

[talkingcanes]

Books: The Stand, Pride and Prejudice, anything by John Sanford, Jonathan Kellerman, or James Patterson, the Harry Potter series (when is that next one coming out?) :)

Movies: The Empire Strikes Back, The Right Stuff, Apollo 13 (I have the makings of a real astronaut groupie!), Raiders of the Lost Ark, and I do love What About Bob. I also love the Sound of Music and the Bells of St. Mary's (for Christmas).

Bands: Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Carole King, and bits and pieces of lots of other kinds of music. I'm not very musically oriented.

[rons#1fan]

Ooops, how could I forget Mad Max - daaah just check your location!


You just like the tight leather pants, girl! Admit it! :evil:

Yes but that wasn't one of the categories :D