People often ask me: Christopher James Foxon, Who is your favourite band/artist in the whole amazing world of musical entertainment?
Nobody has asked me that since primary school. Onwards and upwards, anyways.
Anyone who knows me will know that my favourite band changes about 3 times a minute, as does my favourite genre of music. My hard drive is crammed with everything from Carribean Dub to Japanese Electronic pop, 1940s crooners to noughtie dizzy rascals and everything in between, except usher and FUCKING wolfmother.
So how can I say who my favourite is? This could be a pretty tedious blog.
Well, the first band I truely loved was Oasis. But if you were concious in 1995 and didn't love oasis, you are weird and I don't want to talk to you.
Oasis, for me, were amazing, up until about 98, when I heard guitars doing things that guitars shouldn't do. Korn were a band that changed my life. When I heard Korn I wanted to grow my hair long, get tattoos and scream about how shit life is. Korn introduced me to heavy metal, technically Korn should be classed as as my favourite band. Yet, how can I class Korn as my favourite band when Deftones do the same thing as Korn only much much much much better. It's like using a knife to screw a screw into a plank of wood... It works, but a screwdriver is much better.
After seeing them live for the first time, Mudvayne became a massive thing to me, I adored them for years, to the point where I even got some lyrics tattooed on me. LD50 may very well be my most listened to album, even today.
Away from metal, Jurrassic 5, Holy Fuck, Daft Punk, TV on the Radio, The Chemical Brothers, Little Boots, Lady Gaga, Gorillaz, Bjork, The Gaslight Anthem, Faithless, and, for a brief year in the early 2000's, The Insane Clown Posse, have all become obsessions for me over the years. Away from metal, though, my favourite band have to be Justice.
Could justice be my favourite band? They are relatively new, 2 studio albums and a (stunning) live album, not much to base something so big on. Plus, they're French.
Either way, rock will always be where my heart lies, so it's only natural that if I am to have a favourite band, it has to be a rock band. It's my blog so I make the rules.
Now, the legacy of Metallica is beyond amazing, nobody can argue what an absolute force they are in rock music. So much so that a Metallica tattoo was inevitable. The problem, though, in the 90s, Metallica made 2 terrible albums in Load and ReLoad.
Step up SLIPKNOT! A legacy that will live on just like Metallica's, a 100% success rate with albums, an energetic and original live show, and a sound so brutal that it makes you want to chew concrete yet melodic and accessible enough to play it to your grandmother. Slipknot, fronted by the greatest frontman in history, Corey Taylor, deserve to be my favourite band.
Corey Taylor, however, has another band and I prefer them. Stone Sour! Now, I have mentioned many great artists and found something wrong with them all, or bands that are better, or reasons not to like them so much... I can't think of anything wrong with Stone Sour. I love every track they have made. I love their lyrics, their catchy guitar riffs and epic solos and Corey's voice is perfect for the band. I love Stone Sour. They are my favourite band. This perfectly sets up my blogs over the next few months before their new album comes out and I see them live in December.
Whatever, though. Why do I need to have a favourite band? After all, it only depends on what mood I am in, doesn't it?
Something to blog about, I guess.
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