Music Soothes the Savage Viner

Radiohead, Led Zeppelin, Blur, The Who, and The Beatles.

But really, if I were limited to just five, I couldn't see myself living for longer than a few months! I have a very ecclectic taste in music. If I tried to list every artist/ band in my music collection, at least half of Newsvine would say "wha?" and then stop talking to me, lol.

Wait... I'm a drummer in a band! So would I have to count my own band as one of the five? And if I did, but the band broke up, would I be down to four permanently? I think I'm on the cusp of an existential breakdown! :D

1) Green Day
One of my favorite bands we go waaay back.

2) Metallica
Gotta have the metal

3) Billy Joel
Gotta have the piano

4) Zeppelin
And gotta have the rock-n-roll.

5) I want to put some jazz, but I don't know enough about it to pick one. It's great sometimes and shouldn't be left off.

So many good artists but if I gotta go for all timers, Kansas, Journey, Aerosmith, U2, and Red Hot Chili Peppers

The Beatles, Bjork, Kanye West, Stereolab, Zero 7 and my guilty pleasure would have to be The Beach boys (good vibrations, heroes and villains, i know there's an answer)

A band that has not been around as long as my top 5 but I like them a lot is Passion Pit. The Reeling Rocks. I look forward to hearing more stuff from them.

I got a speeding ticket while listening to Van Morrison's "Wild Night". Others: Talking Heads "Psycho Killer" or "Life During Wartime", Led Zeppelin "Heartbreaker", Offspring "Self Esteem", and Ramones "We want the Airwaves".

Mumford & Sons; new folk rock band, just released their first album, "Sigh No More." Do it. Don't think, just do it. The harmonies and the instrumentation are amazing.

I can only really nail down four. I keep changing my mind on the 5th one.

I'd want Journey's Infinity, The Beatles White Album, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, Foo Fighter's In Your Honor (double CD there), but number 5....I don't know. Too many others that I love. Something modern, like Maroon 5 or Radiohead? Something classic like Led Zepplin? 70's Jackson Brown or Kansas? 80's - and my personal guilty pleasure - Duran Duran?

I don't know....I just can't decide.

Anything from Pink would be on the top of my list, Queen Latifa's jazz albums, Michael Buble, No Doubt, Jason Mraz. Guilty Pleasure? En Vogue. More specifically "Giving Him Something He Can Feel".

Ask me again tomorrow. The list might change by then:)

All music soothes me except for Dave Matthews, Lady Gaga and anything with Auto-Tune.

"Urge to kill RISING..."

CCR, The Eagles, ZZ Top, Vince Gill, Hank Snow....and I love to listen to The Beach Boys.

There are very few bands who both (a) have a large catalog and (b) have never released anything really bad. There are a lot of people I'm really excited about right now (that haven't been around long enough to measure durability), a lot of people who never made a bad record (but only made one or two), and a lot of bands who made really great records in a career that involves more wasted time than fertile time. There are lots of ways to go with this question. If it is a question of consistency, and what makes me so excited to just hear - even if I pick an album at random - I have to say:

• The Flaming Lips
• They Might Be Giants
• Talking Heads
• Man... Or Astro-Man?
• Urge Overkill

Oh! Guilty pleasure? ...Early Misfits.

Oh, oh, oh...what about John Fogarty's "Centerfield"? That's a good one!

That is a difficult question. 5.

I'll have to say that the 5 I choose now would not be the 5 I would choose at some other moment in time and space.

That being declared:

1. The Drive By Truckers

2. Reckless Kelly

3. Warren Zevon

4. Gillian Welch

5. Oh Susanah

That list is good until I get up in the AM.

"Music is the only religion that delivers the goods" Frank Zappa

I need to sing while I drive. And smoke. But that's a different article altogether.

Oh, don't I know it! Me too!

I drum on the steering wheel, I tap my braking foot (when I'm not braking, of course) and I move my body to the beat as best I can.

Car dancing! LOVE it! You can easily find me tapping the steering wheel and bobbing my head to a good song!

So I went through my I Pod cuz that seems to be my best gauge...Keith Urban, CCR, Indigo Girls/Amy Ray, Pink, Melissa Etheridge. Aerosmith should probably be in there too. My guilty pleasure...Cyndi Lauper.

Doesn't everyone sing in their car? I'll listen, and sing along to just about anything as long as I'm alone in the car.

Referencing your title, have you eer noticed that you're more tame writing comments while listening to soothing music?

Eh, I'm a hippy chick can't limit myself ever to five. But I will say this, my driving music is definitely G Love. My "I'm about to go full on road rage so pull me back song," is "Astronaut" Hit it G!

I need to sing while I drive. And smoke. But that's a different article altogether.

Hmm, I should probably wait for that article *grins!* but ehh, whatever. I recall sitting in a car *smokin* (thankfully we were parked) and listening to The Necromancer by Rush. My buddy had an awesome system - Alpine, I think not sure about the speakers, but I know he had a sub-woofer, anyways the quality was amazing, and since I was all of 16, the *smoke* had a much more profound effect as well :)

Well, to bring it back to this article... my 5 fave anti-roadrage albums, and a shout out to my high school peers on that tip.

Great article... FR sent, I want in on that next article ;~)

#5 - Metallica's "Garage Days Re-Revisited"

#4 - S.O.D's "Speak English or Die"

#3 - Couch Flambeau's "Ghostride"

#2 - Slayer's "Reign in Blood"

#1 - Pantera's "Vulgar Display of Power"

Ok, and fellow Sheboyganites, Morbid Saint as promised.

PS - I listen to many different kinds of music, especially when driving, so please don't overlook my "anti-roadrage" qualifier for this list, lol.

Namaste Shalom

Well, on our vacations from NY to NM...the majority of people would have thought my daughter and I were nuts!!

We sang loud & proud to Melissa Ethridge. (Um, we drove!)

She is still my traveling music of choice.

Others: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sophie B Hawkins, Eminem and Matchbox 20....now, I need to add a few more, because 5 doesn't cut it! Goo Goo Dolls, John Mellencamp, Bob Dylan & Springsteen.

Guilty pleasure: toss up between Barry Manilow & Neil Diamond...I love Neil, but, for some reason I know every dang Manilow song!

My favorite song for dealing with traffic is "I pray for you". We have an unfair share of stupid drivers in good ole Cincy and belting out that song just makes me laugh.

If we're speaking specifically of driving music, my five favorites artists are: Neu!, Turzi, Front 242, Turing Machine, and Sunn O))).

If I'm of a mind to sing while driving, I might throw on, say, Sugar, Husker Du, Bill Rieflin or Peter Murphy. Or Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, if my wife isn't riding along (she doesn't love SGM, though she admires their musicianship).

Guilty car listening pleasure? Tenacious D.