Favourite Artists?

[Thermal]

What are your favourite genres of music and once more your favourite artists? List as many as you like, whether that's 1 or 1000. If you have any ideal playlists, song samples from youtube etc. feel free to share.

As a typical teenager I love music, so I wondered what other people liked. And perhaps albums you've recently purchased. Or if you like, just artists you hate. Be interested to know what orgahs listen to.

Heres my favourite itunes playlist at the moment I made out of my modest collection, though I listen to all sorts.

Bassline

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1: The Shadow - The Prodigy
2: Take That - Wiley & Chew Fu
3: Turn the lights off - Hadouken!
4: Take me to the hospital (Adam F & Horx remix) - The Prodigy
5: Black Gloves - Goose
6: Apocalypse - Chewy Chocolate Cookies
7: Bonkers (soulwax edit) - Dizzee Rascal
8: Let the bass kick in miami girl - Chuckie & LMFAO
9: It was only a kiss - Chewy Chocolate Cookies
10: The Rotten Egg - Darkbydesign vs Dr Willis
11: GRRR - David Guetta

Alternative

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1: Embers - Just Jack
2: Empire - Kasabian
3: Ghosts - Ladytron
4: What I've done - Linkin Park
5: Fairground to the fairground - White lies
6: Kiss of life - friendly fires
7: Mercury - Bloc Party
8: Cassius - Foals
9: Kiss with a fist - Florence and the machine
10: Rubber lover - Marmaduke Duke
11: Falling down - Oasis
12: Price of Gas - Bloc Party
13: Kids - MGMT
14: Game over - VVBrown

If you want to give last fm pages or other music of your web pages out feel free to.

[naut]

It changes every day/week/month. I have over 5000 songs, so... it's a bit hard to choose favourites. But, recently I've been tasting genres outside of what I originally liked. Music is so varied and what I listen too is so dependent on my mood.

I love how my taste has become so variable, I mean I used to not like Pink Floyd because I didn't understand it. I used to not like dance music because I didn't understand it.

Bah. I can't really explain. Better let a song do it for me.

[Fragony]

There are great songs in any genre. I don't like hard-rock and rap in general but there are some gems to be found there as well. I mostly listen classic, Chopin, Satie, that sort of thing. Also love Jazz, saxophone is always sooooooooooooo sexy.

[Ferret]

I'm loving Delphic atm, great debut album.

[miotas]

90% of what I listen to is rock, AC/DC being my favourite, and I really like blues and jazz as well, I just love hearing a good trumpet or guitar solo. I'll also listen to and enjoy most styles of music, except rap and really poppy pop music. My favourite song is usually the one I'm listening to, and when I'm driving I usually just chuck on the local rock music station.

[naut]

I'm loving Delphic atm, great debut album.

[Viking]

Don't really have any. Currently listening to Drudkh.

[Thermal]

I'm loving Delphic atm, great debut album.

Yeah I downloaded This momentarily because it was free to download on itunes this week.

@ psychonaut, that sound is quite easily listening, nice link.

[Reverend Joe]

The Brought Low. Words cannot describe how mind-blowingly, pants-crappingly awesome this band is, and they're releasing a new record in March. Of course, bear in mind that the artists that usually top my listening charts are AC/DC and Foghat, as well as Lynyrd Skynyrd when I need to listen to some serious music.

[Ethelred Unread]

I'll list my top 5 all time album, in no particular order.

1. The Stone Roses, The Stone Roses.

Probably the finest indie album ever with, IMHO, no weak tracks.

2. The Private Press, DJ Shadow.

An ecelectic album full of of many different genres, all expertly mixed and produced by Josh Davies.

3. Come get it, I got it - David Holmes

Another DJ produced album with some of the finest Funk tracks ever recorded. I had most of these tracks played at my wedding.

4. Jurassic 5, Jurassic 5

The album I play for people who say they don't like rap. Great tunes and witty, observant raps.

5. Let's Knife, Shonen Knife

Insane Japanese punk rock that's great for the car. Sample lyrics:-

We're only making plans for da da dirty dirty bison
We don't like him so much, 'cause he's very ug-ug-ugly
We're only making plans for da da dark brown bison
He has a right to live though he's ill ill ill-shaped
He's on the way to extinction
We only want what's best for him

Genius.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Frazetta.

I staunchly refuse to read the OP beyond the title question.

CR

[Owen Glyndwr]

Favorite Musical Artists:

1. Grateful Dead/Jerry Garcia Band/Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders etc.
2. The Beatles/George Harrison/John Lennon
3. The Kinks
4. Cream/Blind Faith
5. Traffic
6. The Who
7. Jefferson Airplane
8. Country Joe and the Fish
9. Eric Burdon and the Animals
10.Jimi Hendrix
(Honorable Mention)
The Doors
Janis Joplin
Jethro Tull
Van Morrison
Traveling Wilburys
The Yardbirds
Wilson Pickett
Santana
CCR
Etta James


You can basically classify my musical tastes into five basic genres:

Psychedelic Rock
Folk
Funk
Soul
Blues

[Hax]

My musical tastes are these:

Classic Rock
Folk
Blues
Country

And my favourite bands are these:

Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Band, The Blues Brothers, Rapalje (Dutch folk group), Sava (a German folk group), Faun (idem), The Who, Huun Huur Tu (Mongolian folk group) Hevia (A Spanish bagpiper)

My favourite ten songs at the moment are these (in random sequence):

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Sweet Hitch Hiker
Hevia - El Garrotín
The Band - Up On Cripple Creek
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
The Who - Squeezebox
Booker T. and the MG's - Green Onions
Huun Huur Tu - Eerbek Aksy
Rapalje - The Crack Was Ninety in the Isle of Man
Sava - Eilean
Sava - Caravane
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Born on the Bayou

[Megas Methuselah]

Three 6 Mafia. Their clubbing & mainstream hardcore rap is ok, but I prefer their mostly underground horrorcore songs.

[Hooahguy]

wow, this is kinda obvious for me:

1)Metallica
2)Iron Maiden
3)AC/DC
4)Airbourne
5)Souls of We
6)Yngwie

off the top of my head.

[Lemur]

Frazetta.

Velazquez.

[Thermal]

horrorcore songs.

I swear a new genre is made up pops up everyday.

[Big_John]

horrorcore has been around for awhile. geto boys and gravediggaz were rapping back in the 90s.

i can like almost any kind of music, but i guess if i had to choose just one, it would probably still be classical. there is just so much to be found in classical works that can't be captured in 5 minute songs. favorite composeres are:

prokofiev and tchaikovsky above all others

beyond those two, it's more about the indiviual composition than the composers, but i do like much of the work of:

rimsky-korsakov, debussy, ravel, bartok, bizet, mussorgsky and borodin. and others, i'm sure.

[naut]

Velazquez.

Goya.

[Reverend Joe]

Goya.

The Champs.

Also gotta add Blue Oyster Cult to my list of perennial favorites.

[Owen Glyndwr]

My musical tastes are these:

Classic Rock
Folk
Blues
Country

And my favourite bands are these:

Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Band, The Blues Brothers, The Who,
My favourite ten songs at the moment are these (in random sequence):

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Sweet Hitch Hiker
The Band - Up On Cripple Creek
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
The Who - Squeezebox
Booker T. and the MG's - Green Onions
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Born on the Bayou

You sir have great taste in music!

Do you listen to the Grateful Dead? You'd probably dig Workingman's Dead and the like.

[Hax]

You sir have great taste in music!

Do you listen to the Grateful Dead? You'd probably dig Workingman's Dead and the like.

I know of The Dead of course, but never took the time to listen to them. I'll just try and find some songs on YouTube.

EDIT: I'm listening to Truckin' right now. It kinda reminds me of Creedence.

[Moros]

Léo Ferré - Avec le temps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiXcUTTLud4

When it comes to lyrics and putting feelings into music they are far superior to the contemporary Anglo-American music IMO. N'est ce pas, Louis?

[Owen Glyndwr]

I know of The Dead of course, but never took the time to listen to them. I'll just try and find some songs on YouTube.

EDIT: I'm listening to Truckin' right now. It kinda reminds me of Creedence.

Yeah, like I said, the album "Workingman's Dead" would be right up your alley. I love songs like Dire Wolf, High Time, Uncle John's Band, and New Speedway Boogie.

[Subedei]

1. Check your head - Beastie Boys
2. Dope 2 Infinity - Monster Magnet
3. Kid A/ Hail to the Thiev - Radiohead
b/c all of those are timeless classics for me!
plus tons more

[jabarto]

My favorite genres and bands.

Neofolk - The Moon and the Nightspirit, Empyrium, Neun Welten, Hagalaz' Runedance, Hel, Ulver, Tenhi, Irfan, Qntal
Symphonic Metal - Therion, Epica, Nightwish, Bare Infinity, Magni Animi Viri
Black Metal - Agalloch, Katatonia
Indie Rock - Logh, Minus the Bear
Goth Metal - Leaves' Eyes, Tristania, Sirenia
New Age - David Arkenstone, Amethystium
Shoegaze - My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, The December Sound

And a few of my current favorite songs because I couldn't resist.

Lemuria - Therion
Typhon - Therion
Asgard - Therion
Rego Rejtem - The Moon and the Nightspirit
Rogbol elet - The Moon and the Nightspirit
Nattleite - Ulver
When We Escape - Minus the Bear
Conceiving You - Riverside
Fire Above, Ice Below - Agalloch

I think that's plenty for now. One last thing; here's a really awesome site for music reviews - http://rateyourmusic.com/