My favorite bands

Just for fun... though not necessarily my favorite songs



HIM! Of course. But why do I like this band so much? I love the way Ville writes and sings about love. It's very truthful, unlike the pop love songs. Those make no sense to me and it's like listening to Disney fairy tales. A lot of love songs have this strange idealistic concept of love that I don't understand. Nor can I live up to. Ville's lyrics are both very blunt and obscure at the same time. I greatly appreciate that HIM sounds like HIM. I think that's the issue with a lot of bands, they all sound the same. There are very few bands that come around that capture the imagination of so many people in such a short amount of time.
Why I admire Ville specifically. Besides I think he's quite lovely looking. I hail from a family where alcoholics reign supreme. Ville almost died because of alcohol and went to rehab. What's more credible is that he is still sober. I've never actually seen anyone do that. I've seen alcohol destroy a lot of people, and I am so thankful that it didn't consume this one. The strength that it takes to move on from that is something I really admire. I love to see the pictures from shows now where he has a can of coke in his hand or a mug. He has also claimed to be a vegetarian... but he says so many random things in interviews you never really know.



Apocalyptica.  Again one of those bands where there is nothing like them.  They are my flat out favorite band to see live.  They're shows are just phenomenal.  One of my favorite life moments was standing on a ledge above a bunch of good guys I didn't know all of us just having a jolly good time while they played Hall of the Mountain King.  They sit sometimes, but most of the time they're up playing, holding cellos over their heads...the works.  I was standing about 10 feet away from the boys before their last show....and it was everything I could do not to run up the stairs and tackle them.  As if my 5'5" frame could really tackle a cello wielding Scandinavian....
Could you image the conversations they would have picking up a lady?  "oh hey what do you do?"  "I'm in a metal band"  "oh yeah what do you play?"  "...cello..."






Depeche Mode. I don't have any deep philosophical reason why I like Depeche Mode. I just like their music quite a bit.



Nine Inch Nails. Ah same thing with Depeche. i have no good reason. I almost got the artistically written "Sin" as a tattoo years ago, thanks in large part to this song. Most people know NIN by their other song..."I wanna fuck you like an animal.." Oh does that song bring back memories too!



L'arc~en~ciel. Obscure, I know. But this band means a lot to me. There were many rough violent family nights in my early teens listening to this band over and over again for comfort. They are probably one of the reasons I'm still alive today. Seriously, if someone handed me an opportunity to see this band live I would cry. I have loved Laruku since I was about ten, and there was a time in my life where I could sing you every song in Japanese and then tell you the lyrics in English. I've long since forgotten most of that. Ah a special place in my heart indeed. A very special place in my heart.  If you hear me listening to odd Japanese music at any time now rest assured that I am looking for a very specific type of comfort. Especially this song; there are very few songs I can literally feel in my heart.