I took the liberty of compiling this list from another topic.  This is a list of songs recommended by music video artists and music fans which may be used as a reference for any music video artist.  Please feel free to add to this list.  I will append any suggestions posted here to the master list in this first post (so you don't have to scroll all the way through this topic to find the songs.  All of the songs are in this first post. )

Contributed by Manny Cav:
Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (5th Dimension)
Rain Drops Keep Falling on My Head (B. J. Thomas)"If Only Tears Could Bring You Back" -- Midnight Sons
PokÈmon: The First Movie (Original Soundtrack).

Contributed by Petrie:
"Still" by Ben Folds

Contributed by Ptyra:
"The Prayer" by Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli. (It has itallian lyrics, but it goes beautifully with the music)

Contributed by Ratiasu:
'Get Out Alive' by Three Days Grace

Contributed by StarfallRaptor:
"Sanctuary" or "Passion" (same song in Japanese) by Utada Hikaru
"The Anthem" By Good Charlotte (Sounds good for a later timeline type vid.)
"No Way Out" Phil Collins
"A Step Too Far" Aida: the Musical (Love triangle video Ali X Littlefoot X Cera)

Contributed by lbt/cty_lover:
"Speed of Sound" by Coldplay
"It's the End of the World as we Know It (And I Feel Fine)" by REM
"The Time Warp" by Rocky Horror Picture Show
"American Pie" by Don McLean
"Sandstorm" by Darude
"Who says You Can't Go Home" by Bon Jovi
"It's My Life" by Bon Jovi
"Blue (Da Ba Dee)" by Eiffel 65
"Hallelujah" by Jeff Buckeley
"Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey
"Iris" by The Goo Goo Dolls
The Longest Time - Billy Joel
Ain't No Crime - Billy Joel
Only The Good Die Young - Billy Joel
Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) - Billy Joel
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Oh L'Amour - Erasure
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) - Green Day
Elevation - U2
Wild Honey - U2
Kite - U2
Sweetest Thing - U2
All of the following songs are by "Dragonforce":
{
-Through the Fire and Flames
-Revolution Deathsquad
-Storming the Burning Field
-Operation Ground and Pound
-Body Breakdown
-Cry for Eternity
-The Flame of Youth
-Fury of the Storm
}
-Anything by The Beatles
In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel
End of the Tour - They Might Be Giants

Contributed by Darkhououmon:
"If Everyone Cared" by Nickelback
"Untitled" by Simple Plan
"Perfect World" by Simple Plan
"Far Away" by Nickelback
"Stop Crying Your Heart Out" by Oasis
"Echelon" by 30 Seconds to Mars
"Never Alone" by Barlow Girl
"Daylight" by Brave Saint Saturn
"So Cold" by Breaking Benjamin
"Follow Me" by Breaking Benjamin
"Intoxication" by Disturbed
"Down With the Sickness" by Disturbed
"Guarded" by Disturbed"
"Two Worlds" by Disturbed
"I Am All Of Me" by Crush 40
"Cold" by Crossfade
"There is Life" by Bruce Broughton
"Through Your Eyes" by Bruce Broughton
"Remember" by Disturbed
"Simple Lies" by Endo
"Why" by Enigma
"Going Under" by Evanescence
"Whisper" by Evanescence
"Breathe No More" by Evanescence
"Forever Gone Forever You" by Evanscence
"Papercut" by Linkin Park
"Points of Authority" by Linkin Park
"Crawling" by Linkin Park
"Lying From You" by Linkin Park
"Figure 9.0" by Linkin Park
"Easier to Run" by Linkin Park
"The Little Things Give You Away" by Linkin Park
"Somewhere I Belong" by Linkin Park
"Because of You" by Kelly Clarkson
"Hear Me" by Kelly Clarkson
"Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day
"The World is Not Enough" by Garbage
"Won't Back Down" by Fuel
"Walk Away" by Mad at Gravity
"Great Spirits" by Phil Collins
"Look Through My Eyes" by Phil Collins
"Welcome" by Phil Collins
"Two Worlds" by Phil Collins
"On My Way" by Phil Collins
"What Hurts The Most" by Rascal Flatts
"Break Me Down" by Red
"Breathe Into Me" by Red
"Already Over" by Red
"Broken" by Seether
"Lithium" by Evanscence
"Pieces" by Sum 41
"All That I've Got" by The Used
"On My Own" by The Used
"Light With a Sharpened Edge" by The Used
"Surfacing" by TRUSTCompany
"Refugee" by Tribal Ink
"Home" by Three Days Grace
"Running Away" Three Days Grace
"Unbreak My Heart" by Toni Baxton
"Get Out Alive" by Three Days Grace
"All About Us" by T.A.T.U.
"Not Gonna Get Us" by T.A.T.U.
"Friend or Foe" by T.A.T.U.
"Outside" by Staind
"Right Here Waiting" by Staind
"So Far Away" by Staind
"We Are" by Ana
Livin' on a Prayer - Jordan James or Bon Jovi

Contributed by Tails_155:
Leave Out All The Rest - Linkin Park
Heavy - Holly Brook
Again and Again - Holly Brook

Contributed by action9000:
Nightwish - Meadows of Heaven (This could be a Very nice music video if somebody wants to try it. )
Nightwish - End of All Hope
Nightwish - Over the Hills and far Away
Sonata Arctica - My Land (Pterano video maybe? "My own land has closed its gates on me...")
Sonata Arctica - The Power of One (Warning: Long song!)
Sonata Arctica - Out in the Fields
Aqua - Turn Back Time

Contributed by Weather_Lord_7:
It's All Over - Three Days Grace
It's Been Awhile - Staind
Mute - Drowning Pool
Reminded - Drowning Pool
Voodoo - Godsmack (sounds pretty spiffy for a Sharptooth of some sort  )
How Can I Live - Ill Nino
Freak On A Leash - KoRn
Coming Undone - KoRn
Hunter - Bjork
Ny Batteri - Sigur Ros
Avalon - Sigur Ros

Contributed by Great Valley Guardian:
Clubbed to death ~ Rob Dougan

Contributed by arrogantrex:
Mayonaise by Smashing Pumpkins

Hey Kacie, happy 22nd birthday!      
I hope you have a nice one.

Best wishes to you on your 23rd birthday, Malte.      

MIDIs have the majority and MP3 the minority

This isn't something I see/hear very often anymore.  
You've sparked my curiousity: Why is your MIDI collection so much larger than your pre-rendered audio collection?
What are the purpose of .mid files in digital world as we know it now, in your own words?  I stopped using them because I generally consider them obsolete.  While MIDI technology is Certainly not obsolete by any means, .mid files seem to be getting further and further removed from the mainstream world and are seen mainly on the production side of music.

I have noticed a (sort of) trend on the Internet lately of taking older games, console games or arcade games and porting them to PC.  I'm not talking about emulators (software designed to pretend to be another piece of software or hardware, such as an existing game system or computer), I'm talking about complete overhauls.  Here are some links to a few examples:

Stepmania: A By-fans, for-fans complete custom and open-source version of the Dance Dance Revolution arcade/console game series.

Project Goldeneye: A single player/multiplayer mod for Unreal Tournemant 2004 and Half-life 2, designed to replicate the classic (and hugely successful!) N64 game, Goldeneye (with improved graphics, engine, more players, internet play, but the same levels, characters, guns, etc. both versions are incomplete as far as I understand.  The Half-Life 2 version is closer to completion but their official site is down right now).

Scorched Earth (the original 1991 release) is currently being completely rewritten for Windows and Linux, under the name Atomic Tanks.  Same game concept and format, completely updated graphics and engine.

I personally love the idea of taking an excellent but dated or limited game and modernizing it to its full potential.  I can think of a large handful of games I'd like to see this done to, unfortunately it's a huge amount of effort and not many complete games exist right now.
Here is a list of a few games I'd like to see remade, either on a new console or by fans as a PC version:

N64: Blast Corps I Love the concept of this game!  I have hoped for a sequel for years but it doesn't look like it's going to happen. :cry2 I can see so much potential for a sequel: Larger maps, co-op levels, new vehicles, trickier puzzles, etc. etc.  It would be great! :
N64: Pilotwings 64 (Imagine what this game could look like on a modern computer!)
Another Twisted Metal game, with online play preferred, or at least LAN play.
An F-Zero game with Internet play.
A Mario Party game with LAN support.
Diddy Kong Racing
Battletanx!  Now this would be a fun LAN/Internet game!

Basically half of the N64 games ever produced :  I loved the N64 system, I just felt the games weren't able to reach their full potential because of system limitations, lack of internet play and lack of downloadable/custom content.

What do you think about the idea of remaking existing games?  Is it necessary?  Is it a good idea?  What games would you like to see come back as shiny and new?

(LOL You can really see my gaming style on this topic: My games are almost exclusively multiplayer favorites as opposed to in-depth single player epics : ).

I have thought more than once about starting a band, just casually.  A couple of my friends (tobeysan and amethyst from the GoF, actually!) attempted it back in September to November of 2006, but we had countless problems getting off the ground.  The most obvious problems were:
1) None of us can really play an instrument
2) None of us can really sing

While that *should* complicate things considerably, we weren't really concerned about those.  Thanks to my computer, we could get away with not having to play a single note ourselves, and we never got far enough to worry about the singing.  I'll talk about these things in more detail later but I want to continue my train of thought.

The biggest things stopping us from getting anywhere as a band were:
1) Lack of time to actually work on it (this is apparently still a problem)
2) Deciding on music style
3) Deciding on lyrics and themes/ideas for songs
4) Perhaps different amounts of focus and dedication

We didn't even have a name for our band yet, and we have very little complete work from our band.  

I personally have little faith in our band trying again, for a number of reasons.  While it was very disappointing for me, I understand that not everyone thinks the same way.  I'd really like to try it again but it's just not looking promising.

I think our biggest downfall was lack of time and lack of coordination.  I understand that not everyone has as much free time as I do.  Even with my full-time job now I find myself sitting here quite often


I'm just diappointed.
I have another friend who kind of wanted to start a band too but we barely even see each other due to lack of time on his part.  I don't know how he'd ever fit a band project in there...I'm starting to wonder if I need to start meeting people who leave some time in their schedule for...seeing their friends

NewOrder started an interesting concept in the "A Look at Metal Music" topic: Can, or Should, a song be classified into a specific genre or subgenre of music?  I suspect strong opinions on both sides of this discussion.  Please try to keep flaming and harsh words out of this discussion.  Thanks. B)

I would like to say Yes, but categorizing music is not as simple as it appears.  The simple, broad genres such as Rock, Techno, Country, Classical (technically "Orchestral" is a better word, since "Classical" refers to an era in musical history, not the orchestral style of music), etc.

"Rock", "Classical" and "Techno" (I prefer the term "electronica" since techno can be considered a subgenre) are probably the most overused and least understood terms when describing music.  These three genres are actually "Major Genres", if you will, with the songs fitting into "subgenres" of each of these.  There are, of course, other "Major Genres", such as Country (iffy, since it can relate closely to rock), Ethnic (from a foreign culture), Bigband, Choral, A-capalla (related to choral), etc.  There are probably others which I can't recall at the moment.
  These definitions of main genres are purely off the top of my head.  They are certainly up for debate!  Feel free to add as you wish.
A major genre is basically defines the instruments and general style with which the music is played.  I tend to think of the following:

Rock: Consists of a small band (up to about 6 members).  Features at least 2 guitars (lead and bass) and a drum kit.  Other additions are at the discretion of the band, which help to decide the subgenre.

Orchestral: Features either a small (small variety and quantity of orchestral instruments) or full-sized orchestra.  The amount of focus placed on the orchestra (whether the receive all of the attention or if they are alongside a rock band or other insturments) helps to determine the subgenre.

Electronica: The music was generated by synthetic means, by use of
computers,
software or hardware synthesizers,
or audio samples -->(this is what I do ).
The quantity of live performance and the style of the music helps determine the subgenre.  Hip-hop and rap generally falls in as a subgenre of electronica, as a huge percentange of hip-hop music is synthetically-generated.

Country: The modern version of this genre can be considered very similar to rock, with the general differences being the focus on pianos, fiddles, or other "honky-tonk"-style instruments, the lyrics of the song and the singing style.  Classic country can be considered significantly different from rock and "modern" country.

Bigband: Refers to a typical jazz band: trumpets, trombones, saxophones, possibly flutes and clarinets.  Similar in a way to orchestral, but a more clearly defined genre.

Choral: The primary focus of choral music is a group of human voices.  They are often used in conjunction with an orchestra as well.  A choir is generally a large group (perhaps 8 or more singers, divided up into approximately 4 (typical) parts) Pure Choral music is not common in popular culture.

A-capella: Similar to choral music in that it relies on a group of human voices to produce all of the music.  Generally, A-capella is a smaller group than a choir (maybe 4 or 5 singers.  4 is typical).

Spoken Word: Usually performed by a small group (1 or 2) with electronic or acoustic background accompaniment. Rap and spoken-word versions of songs fall into this category.



Now comes the fun: Nearly all songs do Not fit nicely into a single genre.  A song that drifts into two or more genres, I tend to refer to as a "fusion".  For example, one could say this song is a "Rock/orchestral fusion" if Rock is the primary (most prominent) element of music in the song, or an "Orchestral/Rock fusion" if orchestral is the primary element.  Of course, a song could easily spread 3 or more genres.  Electronica is an incredibly common genre to appear in music today, because it is so easy for anyone to add a drum beat or a few background effects to their song.  Name off 10 pieces of music and probably at least 5 of them have electronica elements to them unless they're pure orchestral.  Most "dance" songs today (with some exceptions of course, such as jazz) will consist of some element of electronica (usually the drum parts are computer-generated).

Subgenres
This is where categorizing music gets really interesting and complicated.  While a song may be Rock, is it more like Song A or more like Song B?  This is one basis behind defining the subgenre of a song.  Of course, sub-subgenres exist but I'm not going there just yet.   Rock, for example, can be broken down into these (and many more) subgenres:

Ballad Rock / Soft Rock
Classic Rock
Hard Rock
Metal (which is argueably a different Major Genre but I like to put it within rock because of the strong musical similarities)
Punk Rock
Emo (If you really want to go there )
Math Rock (don't ask...it does exist)

All of these subgenres can be further broken down into sub-subgenres to help group similar songs together and to help describe the sound of a particular song.

Tails and I had a discussion on MSN about whether the "Pop" genre exists.  While a conclusion wasn't reached, I hoped to address it here.  I am thinking of songs by bands like ATC (A Touch of Class), Aqua and the like.  I personally am starting to agree with Tails that "Pop" does Not really exist.  Instead, it's a pseudo-genre, based on the song.  In the case of "Around the World" by ATC, the song could be categorized as:

Electronica -> Techno -> Upbeat -> Dance -> Vocal -> 21st century -> Year 2000
...and so forth.  I would eventually define this song as being "21st-century vocal techno/dance", to be reasonably accurate.  A more precise definition could be made is desired.
One can break down songs into smaller and smaller groups until there is only a single song in the group.  It is similar to how species are scientifically categorized.  

A more complex genre breakdown would be for a song like "If We Hold On Together" (the Diana Ross version).  Let's try:

Rock -> Soft rock -> Other lyrical topic (not love song) -> Inspirational -> Feat. Piano -> 1980s -> 1988 -> ...
Orchestral -> Background orchestral elements -> ...
Electronica -> Downbeat -> Ballad -> Background -> Backgound synthesized sounds -> ...

That being said, "If We Hold On Together" could be classified as
1988 Inspirational Soft rock with orchestral and synth background.  One could go further if they wanted to.

This forum is dedicated to the artwork of our members.  Any visual art style is acceptable here, including
Pencil
Paint
Digital Art
Video
Sculpture
Photography
Anything else you can think of, where the primary medium is visually-based.

Members are free to post up their non-LBT artwork for the purpose of receiving constructive criticism or to show off a final project.  Discussions in this forum may also include existing art, history of art, art techniques and tutorials or anything else the members can come up with.  

I do ask that any images rated higher than PG be kept on a page away from the Gang of Five.  Members are free to link to this page but a suitable warning much accompany the link.

Hey guys, I have an important question.
Did somebody here spread my website around to the point that it appears on the LBT TV Series article on wikipedia?  (See the bottom of the page)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Land_Befo...ime_(TV_series)

The last "External link" is Directly to my website, which hosts all of my TV episodes.  I did NOT post up this link, nor do I know where it came from.  I don't have the bandwidth to share the episodes on such a large scale.  I will remove this link if I need to (it looks like I may..I've been getting absolutely swamped recently. How long has this link been there?)

Hey all!
I wanted to bring this rather amusing game to everyone's attention.  If you have ever seen the game Dance Dance Revolution before, this game should look Very familiar!   The title of the game is Stepmania.  It has been an ongoing project for many years (I downloaded it back when it was 3.0.  3.9 final is out now and 4.0 is available in beta form).  

Their site has a link to the game program, which is only 15 MB or so.  Songs can then be downloaded for the game by checking around the forums or asking me (ask nicely and I'll share ).  The official DDR songs and steps (exactly the same as the arcade and console game series) were available last time I checked and thousands of custom songs and steps are freely available around the community through sites like http://www.bemanistyle.com

The controls for the game are whatever you want them to be: The arrow keys are the most obvious choice.  If you really want to get into it, you can buy actual floor-standing dance pad controllers such as These moderately cheap ones or these high-end ones which will basically survive an earthquake.  Even with the keyboard though, the game is free and can provide large amounts of amusement.  Iv'e become quite addicted to Stepmania for years. :