The Music Box

Recommend songs, bands or artists that you like at this moment - say a few words about them too, not only their name and song name.

Atm I have a crush on Olivia Ruiz and her "La Femme Chocolat". The lyrics go "cover my hips in kisses/ I'm turning into the chocolate woman/ let my Nutella hips melt/ the blood in my veins is hot chocolate" and also "between my half-opened lips there is a red silvery strawberry/ could you kiss me and take it away/ it's the grown-ups time"

Foo Fighters, especially the song The Pretender from their latest album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace. They are probably best known for pieces such as Learn to Fly and Times Like These. They're classed as alternative/hard rock, and have been around since 1995. The band was formed by David Grohl, who actually had previously performed as a drummer for Nirvana for three and a half years.
There is a good possibility they will be joining Queen and Damn Seagulls for a shared first place as my permanent favourite band.

These days I also like Staind - Outside and It's been a while

Latest obsession: Hey there Delilah - Plain White T's
Sounds nice and I like the lyrics.

These days there's another French song that I've been listening to on replay
Marc Lavoine feat Bambou - Dis-moi que l'amour, also has a very nice videoclip

Translated lyrics:

Tell me about simple things
Take me to the opera
Offer me roses and camellias
Tell me about pretty things
About cinema magazines
And about questions one asks oneself from the first steps
Tell me about wax cherries
and about a violin on the roof
Give me wings and chocolate
Tell me about the blue of the sky
In a chinese restaurant
Offer me honey from your fingertips
Tell me about your silence
with your mouth and your arms
Enter the dance and dance with me
Tell me about these distances
that do not tear us apart
Tell me that love doesn't end

On my fav list recently:

Lestat's violin solo, Queen of the Damned soundtrack, full version
Urma - Buy me with a coffee
Chairlift - Bruises
Barry Louis Polisar - All I want is you, Juno soundtrack

Lately, I can not get enough of "Last Year's Nest" by Boy Sets Fire

also can not get enough of several Nightwish songs:

Over the Hill and Far Away
End of All Hope
The Riddler
Amaranth

and this one song by a Japanese band

What is 'this one song by a Japanese band'? I'd like to see if I know it.
My current favourites seem to be Gackt, Ayumi Hamasaki, Bugy Craxone, and Shiina Ringo - all Japanese artists.

Hitohira no Hanabira by Stereo Pony

I only know if it because it played during the ending credits of some Bleach episodes... and luckily the words were translated in subtitles too... so I know what is being sung (or at least for the part of the song used in the ending credits)

here's the song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdjkSf7Vtao&feature=related

Nice. You'd probably enjoy Bugy Craxone. Let me just find a video from them...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RxOhJusrDI

ehhh... can't say I do.... sorry...

Hitohira no Hanabira is about the only Japanese song that I actually like... and I have heard quite a few (mostly through openning and closing credits of some anime shows that I've watched though)

Ah, well. It was worth a shot.
You must be very choosy, then...

Hm, now that I linked a sample of Bugy Craxone, I might as well do so with the others mentioned.

Mizerable by Gackt
Duty by Hamasaki Ayumi
Honnou by Shiina Ringo

I would not say choosy... I just don't get into music... and usually the songs I like are somehow connected to stuff (such as films and video games) I like... but the songs have to be in the rock genre... I hate rap/hip hop/pop

about the only way I'll end up liking a song if it is not associated with a game or film I like... is if the song is by a band that I like... such as Disturbed, Iron Maiden, Nightwish, Korn, Metallica, Black Label Society, Offspring...

hope that makes some sense

It does, sort of.
I'm the type of person who'll try anything you put in front of me and will like a lot of it, though I do have my prejudices - against techno in particular.

As you know, I'm quite into old French music. Today's star is Françoise Hardy and her Mon amie la rose ("My friend, the rose") A beautiful, delicate song and though so dificult to sing.

On est bien peu de chose
Et mon amie la rose
Me l'a dit ce matin
A l'aurore je suis née
Baptisée de rosée
Je me suis épanouie
Heureuse et amoureuse
Aux rayons du soleil
Me suis fermée la nuit
Me suis réveillée vieille

Pourtant j'étais très belle
Oui j'étais la plus belle
Des fleurs de ton jardin

On est bien peu de chose
Et mon amie la rose
Me l'a dit ce matin
Vois le dieu qui m'a faite
Me fait courber la tête
Et je sens que je tombe
Et je sens que je tombe
Mon cœur est presque nu
J'ai le pied dans la tombe
Déjà je ne suis plus

Tu m'admirais hier
Et je serai poussière
Pour toujours demain

On est bien peu de chose
Et mon amie la rose
Est morte ce matin
La lune cette nuit
A veillé mon amie
Moi en rêve j'ai vu
Eblouissante et nue
Son âme qui dansait
Bien au-delà des nues
Et qui me souriait

Crois celui qui peut croire
Moi, j'ai besoin d'espoir
Sinon je ne suis rien

Ou bien si peu de chose
C'est mon amie la rose
Qui l'a dit hier matin

i listen this... over and over again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOJLUFaZtqE

Don't touch me please
I cannot stand the way you tease