5 Favorite Bands/Music Artists

[Wasp]

In no particular order:
1.Chopin
2.Clint Mansell
3.The White Stripes
4.Radiohead
5.Methodic Doubt

[snafupants]

Sonic Youth
Velvet Underground
Nirvana
Thelonious Monk
Talking Heads

[CBadfeather]

1 - Aesop Rock - greatest intp rapper alive
2 - Bright Eyes
3 - Iron & Wine
4 - TV on the Radio
5 - Manchester Orchestra

hip hop seems conspicuously absent here....

[Loraella]

I listen to many bands of different genres.... difficult to choose 5 but I will try.

Siouxsie and the Banshees (goth rock, post punk)
The Crüxshadows (darkwave, electronic)
Dead Can Dance (ethereal darkwave)
Freedom Call (power metal)
Tierra Santa (heavy metal)

[ceremony]

1. The Jesus and Mary Chain
2. The Velvet Underground
3. Pavement
4. David Bowie
5. Talking Heads

[Gray Reborn]

The Eagles
Tech N9ne
Hopsin
Kid Cudi
Led Zeppelin

a seemingly random list lol

[Wormwood]

Blotted Science
Animals as Leaders
UneXpect
Tool
Elend

[KMaki]

Melvins
Fantômas
Sonic youth
Pixies
Kari Peitsamo

[Reluctantly]

ahhh...oh dear god - JUST FIVE?!

These are the favorites from my music collection:

Aphex Twin
Boards of Canada
Susumu Hirasawa
Port-Royal
Sigur-Ros
Crystal Castles
Helios
Koan
Mono
Sysyphe
Enigma
Benedikt: Violin Passion
Altre Folia

MUSIC IS MADNESS

[srf4413]

5 seems really restricting, I'll do the best I can

In no particular order

Eyedea (& Abilities along with his other projects)
Talib Kweli
Flaw/Five Bolt Main (I love Chris Volz, who is the singer of both)
Joe Budden
Andy Mckee (acoustic guitar, dude is absolutely amazing)

My Honorable mentions....
Satriani
Slipknot
Korn
Eminem
DMX
Ill Nino
RA
Sevendust
Sinch
Most of the Def Jukies (Aesop, Cage, El-p, Can oX)
EMC (Masta Ace, Strickland, Punch & Words)
Dry Kill Logic

I usually have my Mp3 player on random and often go from hard rock to hip hop to acoustic guitar to Monty Python (the final ripoff). I can't limit myself to just one genre of music. Although I generally avoid country like the plague.

[7even]

Radiohead
Queens of the Stone Age
Pink Floyd
John Frusciante
Interpol
The Strokes

...Really I like all types of shit. Fucking love music!

Shit, touché srf4413, my honourable mentions:

Pixies
Kyuss
Velvet Underground
The Temper Trap
Modest Mouse
Television
Slint
MGMT
Bob Marley (ofcourse, ofcourse)
Lou Reed
Jane's Addiction
Band of Horses
LADY GAG(ina)A! (Oh yeahhhhhh, she is fineee )

[7even]

Shit srf4413 and Reluctantly, we're the only ones who broke the system of just 5 artists!

[srf4413]

I would probably end up having a stroke if I really had to choose just 5 artists to listen to for the rest of my life. And new stuff is always coming out. Plus there's always older artists that you've never heard of. Too many variables. Can't choose.....I won't choose.

[7even]

Originally Posted by srf4413

I would probably end up having a stroke if I really had to choose just 5 artists to listen to for the rest of my life. And new stuff is always coming out. Plus there's always older artists that you've never heard of. Too many variables. Can't choose.....I won't choose.

Hahahah see your point, fair enough. :P

[thehabitatdoctor]

Originally Posted by 7even

Shit srf4413 and Reluctantly, we're the only ones who broke the system of just 5 artists!

Not quite the only ones...

Soundgarden
Rage Against The Machine
Marilyn Manson (prior to 2003)
M.I.A.
Damon Albarn (Blur/Gorillaz)

Honorable mentions:

Siouxsie and the Banshees
Primus
U2
The Kills
XTC

Is it a coincidence most are Brits?

[Urraco]

Hmmm. Three almost never change, the other two do every few
weeks.

1. Björk
2. Puscifer (Maynard's pet project)
3. Gorillaz
4. MGMT
5. The Cardigans

[RadiantFlux]

Radiohead, hands down. Beautiful.
Then comes the Pixies.
Then MGMT.

[Satisfied Monkey]

Rush

Jack White (White Stripes, Raconteurs, solo)

Dave Matthews Band (Live performance makes them. Carter Beauford is a machine, so is Neil Peart)

My Morning Jacket

Beatles

Notable mentions: Pearl Jam, The Black Keys, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, Radiohead, Johnny Cash, I'm not too picky... I like most popular jazz, blues, and classical as well.

It was cool to see Futurebirds on someone's list.

[Proletar]

5: The Doors.
They opened up something completely new, and then, apparently, closed that door behind them since there is little that is like them. Childish but horrifying tunes, one after one. "People are strange" is probably the best example of that. I hardly enjoy lyrics, but Morrison really deliveres them.

4: Dungen.
They are complex but percieveable, varying much in the produced materials. They are masters of completing a concept, making unorthodox songs that makes sense in it's whole. Also, their music is often happy and sad at the same time, and most often delivers strong emotions. At first, I was turned off by the singers whiny voice, but I quickly saw past that, and even saw them live with a couple of friends about two years back. They were GREAT.

3: Bo Hansson.
A true genious of instrumental, progressive rock. His first album, Lord of the Rings, set a tune to the landscapes and adventures of middle earth, and from there, he dispatched into doing really great melodic instrumental music. He stuck on me many years ago.

2: Jimi Hendrix.
No way to explain the part of his music that attunes with my mindset. He manages to deliver hard but groovy tunes, rebellious but consistent, something that few people have accomplished. This description does not make him justice.

1: Pink Floyd.
Dark Side of the Moon is the best album ever. Nothing will ever beat this album, ever. More than once, I've actually started to shake and twitch to The Great Gig in the Sky, just recieving the ultimate briliance of this piece.

[Panopticon]

Top 5
1. Devin Townsend/Strapping Young Lad
2. Opeth
3. Steven Wilson/Porcupine Tree
4. Katatonia
5. The Mars Volta

Top 5 (that didnt make the top 5)
1. Maudlin of the Well/Kayo Dot
2. Godspeed You Black Emperor!
3. Agalloch
4. Anathema
5. ISIS

Top 5(old school)
1. Pink Floyd
2. Led Zeppelin
3. Frank Zappa
4. King Crimson
5. Jimi Hendrix

Top 5(old school that didnt make top 5)
1. Black Sabbath
2. The Beatles
3. The Doors
4. Santana
5. Bob Marley

[Cosmic]

Iron Maiden
Nightwish
VNV Nation
Infected Mushroom
Tool

[toastedtruth]

1. Madeon
2. Coldplay
3. Swedish House Mafia
4. M83
5. Keane

[higs]

Nirvana, Die Antwoord, Edith Piaf, Bob Dylan, Rolling stones. Nirvana trumps them all though, they basically create the exact sound I want from my music, and no one else seems to do it. I guess it's Kurt Cobain's song writing.

[Brontosaurie]

Harlem (garage revival texas)
Tyrannosaurus Rex (pre T. Rex)
Kyuss (desert stoner)
Buddy Holly (you know)
Ozric Tentacles (space rock somerset funky)

[snafupants]

Originally Posted by higs

Nirvana, Die Antwoord, Edith Piaf, Bob Dylan, Rolling stones. Nirvana trumps them all though, they basically create the exact sound I want from my music, and no one else seems to do it. I guess it's Kurt Cobain's song writing.

[MENTION=6191]higs[/MENTION]

Steve Albini happened to produce two of my favorite albums - In Utero and Surfer Rosa. Those are perhaps the best albums, respectively, by Nirvana and Pixies. The album PJ Harvey and Steve Albini collaborated on, Rid of Me, is pretty decent too...although To Bring You My Love is better.

As an aside, I'd advise any mild/insatiable Nirvana fans to read Come as You Are (Michael Azerrad's 1993 book on Nirvana). Even the unhinged interviewer/researcher (XNTP?) Nardwuar references the esoteric factoids in that book.

I couldn't quite resist the chance to post this scathing/hilarious Steve Albini putdown of Nirvana...

Spoiler:

Although he considered Nirvana to be "R.E.M. with a fuzzbox" and "an unremarkable version of the Seattle sound", Albini told Nirvana biographer Michael Azerrad he accepted because he felt sorry for the band members, whom he perceived to be "the same sort of people as all the small-fry bands I deal with", at the mercy of their record company.

Spoiler:

You might also like Siamese Dream. Nevermind is terribly compressed (squeezed dynamic range/radio friendly) compared to Siamese Dream. In Utero puts both albums to shame though. The distortion on IU is Sonic Youth cringe inducing on at least two tracks.

[higs]

Originally Posted by snafupants

@higs

Steve Albini happened to produce two of my favorite albums - In Utero and Surfer Rosa. Those are perhaps the best albums, respectively, by Nirvana and Pixies. The album PJ Harvey and Steve Albini collaborated on, Rid of Me, is pretty decent too...although To Bring You My Love is better.

As an aside, I'd advise any mild/insatiable Nirvana fans to read Come as You Are (Michael Azerrad's 1993 book on Nirvana). Even the unhinged interviewer/researcher (XNTP?) Nardwuar references the esoteric factoids in that book.

I'm going to order it, I'd better not be dissapointed
In Utero is great, although I can't really pick a favorite album...Maybe favorite songs but they're on every album. Interesting that you like the pixies as well, as Cobain said he was heavily influenced by them, they are both very awsome bands.

[snafupants]

Originally Posted by higs

I'm going to order it, I'd better not be dissapointed
In Utero is great, although I can't really pick a favorite album...Maybe favorite songs but they're on every album. Interesting that you like the pixies as well, as Cobain said he was heavily influenced by them, they are both very awsome bands.

[MENTION=6191]higs[/MENTION]

I challenge you to listen to the first ninety seconds of Hummer or the harder parts of the two abutting tracks without feeling like a badass. This feat is akin to blasting Money for Nothing (yeah I know, but have you heard that fucking riff?!) or Search and Destroy or Brown Sugar (riff city) in the car and not feeling anything - I'm almost certain it can't be done by any sentient being. I've neatly posted Siamese Dream in its entirety in the spoiler below. Play loud! For me this album is like Exile or Kind of Blue or perhaps Endtroducing: there really isn't a lousy track on the mother. Audacious (occasionally pretentious), vulnerable, life-affirming, and (most importantly) fun. That's why Led Zeppelin should be ranked higher than The Beatles. The decadence is its calling card, genius, and idiot saving grace.

Spoiler:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKNIAgBEFes

Spoiler:

In Utero > Unplugged (controversy time!) > Nevermind > Bleach

[thehabitatdoctor]

Originally Posted by thehabitatdoctor

Rage Against The Machine
XTC
Soundgarden
Marilyn Manson
Primus

A bit of a reorganization was in order.

[MENTION=3274]snafupants[/MENTION] I deem the Pumpkins akin to the Foos. Why can't Corgan and Grohl form a collaboration and watch as the world collapses in deference to their awesomeness?

What else you got? I'm into Talking Heads, B52s, and Psychedelic Furs atm, but I can sense it dying already.

[higs]

Originally Posted by snafupants

@higs

I challenge you to listen to the first ninety seconds of Hummer or the harder parts of the two abutting tracks without feeling like a badass. This feat is akin to blasting Money for Nothing (yeah I know, but have you heard that fucking riff?!) or Search and Destroy or Brown Sugar (riff city) in the car and not feeling anything - I'm almost certain it can't be done by any sentient being. I've neatly posted Siamese Dream in its entirety in the spoiler below. Play loud! For me this album is like Exile or Kind of Blue or perhaps Endtroducing: there really isn't a lousy track on the mother. Audacious (occasionally pretentious), vulnerable, life-affirming, and (most importantly) fun. That's why Led Zeppelin should be ranked higher than The Beatles. The decadence is its calling card, genius, and idiot saving grace.

Awsomely phrased, this is added to my definition of Rock'n'roll. I do feel quite badass right now as well I might add.
Money for nothing is one of the sexiest guitar riffs in history, supermassive black hole, smells like teen spirit, purple haze,Walk this way, etc could carry on for a while, maybe I'll start a thread.

[redbaron]

Steve Gadd
Marcus Miller
Clutch
Tool
Primus
Mahavishnu Orchestra

[snafupants]

Busta Rhymes
Justin Bieber
New Kids on the Block
Celine Dion
Fall Out Boy

[Puffy]

Originally Posted by redbaron

Steve Gadd
Marcus Miller
Clutch
Tool
Primus
Mahavishnu Orchestra

Cool list.

Captain Beefheart
Sonic Youth
King Crimson
Boards of Canada
Godspeed You! Black Emperor

[thehabitatdoctor]

Sadly, I do possess the odd Busta Rhymes mp3...

[Moolyissooriginal]

I like this question because I'm a really big music lover My favorites are
- Coldplay
- The Beatles
- Billy Joel
- Florence & The Machine
- Mumford & Sons
- Maroon 5
- The Killers

[Puffy]

Originally Posted by Moolyissooriginal

I like this question because I'm a really big music lover My favorites are
- Coldplay
- The Beatles
- Billy Joel
- Florence & The Machine
- Mumford & Sons
- Maroon 5
- The Killers

With a list like that I'm going to guess... England?

[INeedToPee]

not in order but currently my top 5 is:
deadmau5
Coldplay
Kid CuDi
Daft Punk
Pendulum

[EyeSeeCold]

These are the serious contenders, that I either considered my most favorite at one time, or because of sheer number of plays / awesomeness deserve a spot. I can separate them into a few groups:

Spoiler:

Great music and nothing more(mostly), artists and bands I just love listening to:

Spoiler:

Electric Wizard
Mastodon
Flying Lotus
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
Quasimoto / Madlib
People Under The Stairs
Aesop Rock
Rush

I still very much enjoy all on this list, but I don't listen to them all as frequently right now. I don't see Electric Wizard or Flying Lotus going anywhere any time soon though.

Artists that have a certain atmosphere / vibe I enjoy:

Spoiler:

HIM
Jefferson Airplane
Sun Ra
The Doors

Lately I've been digging HIM.

Music that I've felt on a deep spiritual or emotional level, are a part of my personal life experiences.

Spoiler:

Bob Marley (& the Wailers)
Cannibal Ox
Jimi Hendrix (Experience)

I haven't been listening to any of these lately, even though I have solidified strong personal identifications with the artists and their music. I suppose they represent a past part of myself, and returning to them is like returning to my past or inner depths.

Overall, I'd have to say:

• Electric Wizard — for great music overall / sample
• Flying Lotus — for great music overall / sample
• HIM — for having an atmosphere I love / sample
• Cannibal Ox — for deep resonance and identification / sample
• Jimi Hendrix (Experience) — for deep resonance and identification / sample
• Bob Marley (& the Wailers) — for deep resonance and identification / sample

Six is the best I can do. :P


Honorable mentions:
Sleep
Wino's Saint Vitus
All the other great artists and music out there I haven't had the chance to appreciate

[gilliatt]

Not a great music man but a few of my favorite songs/artist. It is a mix!! I am going to bury my teeth one of these days.haha hehe
1) Ryan Farish-Pacific Wind
2) The Seekers-Australia
3)Down Under-Men at work
4) Katarina & the Waves-Walking on sunshine
5)Sergio Mendes-Fool on a hill
6)Hilary Hahn-Paganini Caprice 24
7) Mike Oldfield-Flowers of the Forest
8) Dizzi-The Cosmic sisters
9)Bananarama-Venus
10)Celtic Woman-Siuil A Run(Walk My Love)
11)Enya-May it Be
12) Jean Redpath-Hey How Johnie Lad
13) Glenn Miller-String of Pearls/In the Mood
14) Sean O'Riada-Mise Eire I Am Ireland
15)Tiddlywink
16) Holly Cole-I can see clearly now

[Layne Staley]

Originally Posted by Panopticon

Top 5
1. Devin Townsend/Strapping Young Lad
2. Opeth
3. Steven Wilson/Porcupine Tree
4. Katatonia
5. The Mars Volta

Top 5 (that didnt make the top 5)
1. Maudlin of the Well/Kayo Dot
2. Godspeed You Black Emperor!
3. Agalloch
4. Anathema
5. ISIS

Top 5(old school)
1. Pink Floyd
2. Led Zeppelin
3. Frank Zappa
4. King Crimson
5. Jimi Hendrix

Top 5(old school that didnt make top 5)
1. Black Sabbath
2. The Beatles
3. The Doors
4. Santana
5. Bob Marley

Let's hang out and listen to vinyl together.

[UseHerName]

Vampire Weekend.
Green Day.
We Are Scientists.
Plus 44.
Immortal Technique.

[isis_band]

Isis
Cult of Luna
Radiohead
Cire
~Sea Of Disorder~

This are, for sure, my favourite ones!

[EyeSeeCold]

Originally Posted by isis_band

Isis
Cult of Luna
Radiohead
Cire
~Sea Of Disorder~

This are, for sure, my favourite ones!

Nice, I've been listening to progressive/post-metal lately and Neurosis' Through Silver In Blood is definitely a favorite, and Cult of Luna's Salvation.

Could you give me any recommendations (I have Isis already by the way)?

[Oedipus]

Originally Posted by Oedipus

In no particular order:
Regina Spektor
The White Stripes
Bob Dylan
Billy Joel
Mott The Hoople

Bob Dylan
The White Stripes
The Smiths
The Doors
Joy Division

[EyeSeeCold]

Originally Posted by Oedipus

Joy Division

Spoiler:

YouTube

YouTube

[Toviyah]

Tool
Opeth
Clutch
Pink Floyd
Colour Haze

Infected Mushroom (special mention)

[Reluctantly]

Originally Posted by snafupants

Busta Rhymes
Justin Bieber
New Kids on the Block
Celine Dion
Fall Out Boy

[snafupants]

Originally Posted by Reluctantly

Thanks for that wholesale manic overbearing bothersome frightening lovely endorsement.

[Nezaros]

Led Zeppelin
Cream
Boston
Pink Floyd
Van Halen

No, I don't listen to anything past the 90's.

[The Introvert]

Originally Posted by Nezaros

Led Zeppelin
Cream
Boston
Pink Floyd
Van Halen

No, I don't listen to anything past the 90's.

[MENTION=7340]Nezaros[/MENTION]
With that list, you might consider taking a look at the Chili Peppers?

Spoiler:

The Red Hot ones, that is

YouTube

YouTube

As for me, without segregating into different genres of music, I find this question to be almost impossible to answer. As of now, my top choices would be (in no particular order):

John Mayer
Coldplay (older stuff)
Trevor Hall
Elliott Smith
Boston

[Nezaros]

I know Red Hot Chili Peppers, they're decent but I don't know, they just don't hold the same appeal.