Favorite Music Genre & Artist(s)?

[Mr. Silent18]

What is your favorite type of music? and who is your favorite artist?

Here's a few of mine:

Immortal Technique
Jedi Mind Tricks
Psycho Realm
Ill Bill
Lil Rob
Sur Sydaz

The list could go on and on....

[masamune]

there're a bunch of these threads if you have a search.

[Mr. Silent18]

oooooh.

then i guess this is just another one into the pile..

jaja

[Matt]

Also, somewhat ironically, you failed to note your own favorite style... in your own thread about styles and artists.

-m

[Theremin]

I like psychadelia and ambient electronic.
-Lemon Jelly(obviously)
-I Monster
-Massive Attack
bit of Prog Rock & Punk is also nice
-Marillion
-Mindless Self Indulgence.

[wedrinkritalin]

Post Rock - A Silver Mt Zion, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Mogwai
Hardcore - Minor Threat, Good Clean Fun, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Sin Dios
Prog - The Mars Volta, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, Tool, Jethro Tull

[iamafish]

"i adore music" (quoth xaver)

some of my favourite bands (in no particular order)

Muse
Pink Floyd
Porcupine Tree
The Flaming Lips
Neutral Milk Hotel (que abuse from everyone)
Lostprophets
Metallica
Nine Black Alps
Bullet for my Valentine
Foo Fighters
Amity in Fame
The Arcade Fire (ha, not really, they suck balls)
Biffy Clyro
Godspeed you! black emperor
Linkin Park
Radiohead
Rise Against
Trivium (actually just the crusade, and parts of Ascendancy)
Voodoo six

in terms of style, i dont really have one genre that i like, i'm pretty open minded. I really dont take to most of rap, R&B and hip hop though.

[theDreamer]

I never know what to call my musical tastes anymore. Generally I say "soft rock" but, I'm not sure that is completely true.

Billy Joel and Meatloaf are probably my two favourite artists in that I'm hard pressed to find I song I don't like, rather than just 1-4 I do.

I also enjoy Lighthouse (old, obscure canadian band, like Chicago [also obscure]), Lifehouse, Coldplay, The Hush Sound, Tom Lehrer, Dido, Vanessa Carlton, Queen.

[Unlucky]

Top 5:

Coldplay
Smashing Pumpkins
Radiohead
Muse
Placebo

Yay! It's not a challenge anymore! I could list tonnes more, but I stick by my top 5. Genre, well, Alt\Soft Rock? Mind you, WTF do Radiohead fall under anymore?

[ThrashJazzAssassin]

My Facebook favourite bands/artists/composers list, in no particular order, with apologies for length:

Millionaire, Soundgarden, Queens Of The Stone Age, dEUS, The Mars Volta, Mr. Bungle, Counterglow, Spin Doctors, Skunk Anansie, Chris Cornell, Secret Chiefs 3, Temple Of The Dog, Nine Inch Nails, Babel, Porcupine Tree, Ben Folds Five, Melvins, PJ Harvey, Herbie Hancock, Die Anarchistiche Abendunterhaltung, Filter, Cyro Baptista And Beat The Donkey, Smashing Pumpkins, Ween, Manecas Costa, Turbonegro, Eagles Of Death Metal, Tortoise, Evil Superstars, John Martyn, The MC5, Radiohead, Raghu Dixit, Kyuss, Wellwater Conspiracy, Type O Negative, Ludwig von Beethoven, Honeycrack, Captain Beefheart, Apes Pigs & Spacemen, No-Man, Television, Modeste Hugues Randriamahitasoa, Desert Sessions, Abdullah Ibrahim, Xtatika, CMX, Pearl Jam, The Beatles, Haale, Monkey Fighters, Pink Floyd, Naked City, Jeff Buckley, Fugazi, Jacques Loussier, Pixies, Wildhearts, Eliza Carthy, Painkiller, Slint, Monster Magnet, Preston Reed, Claude Debussy, Faith No More, Dwarves.

So broadly speaking I'm mostly into alt rock and fusion, but if you can find a single genre description that covers all that lot, I'd be interested to hear it. And no, "music", though accurate, doesn't count.

[iEatNinjaZ]

I enjoy just about everything
Thrice- Greatest band ever!
In Flames
Devil Wears Prada
Celldweller
Tool
Escape the Fate
A Day to Remember
Trivium
Sky Eats Airplane
Scissor Sisters- Hell yeah!


Recently ive been listening to a lot of DubStep
I don't have a favorite artist in that genre yet because all the music i find is awesome.
listen for yourself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YhQ7BetDdM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgPPz8Cjxg0

[Jillers]

I guess folk/rock could be considered my favorite genre, but I'd rather not choose.

My favorite artists is also a really long list I'd rather not choose from, but here are some of them:

The Beatles
Led Zepplin
Simon and Garfunkel/ Paul Simon
Traveling Wilburys
Tom Petty
Van Morrison
Billy Joel

Stephen Sondheim
George and Ira Gershwin

They Might Be Giants
Julius C
Kiss Kiss
The Fireflies
Bess Rogers (also: Bess Rogers and the Flux Capacitors)
Jenny Owen Youngs
Age of Rockets
O'Death
The Woes
Apollo Run
Jukebox the Ghost
Dan Mills
Pro Audio

And classical composers whose names I'd need to look up to spell, and I don't feel like doing that right now.

Also, does Danny Kaye count? Cause him.

EDIT: How do I forget David Bowie and Queen?

[Chubbfish]

i don't really have a particular favourite genre (although my general prefernce is towards rock), but my favourite bands are:

muse
radiohead
rage against the machine
soundgarden
the go! team
coldplay
placebo
bloc party
the mars volta
pink floyd
led zeppelin
king krimson
elbow
smashing pumpkins
audioslave
the horrors
jay z
oasis
the stone roses
u2
the verve
blur
manic street preachers
the pixies
kasabian
moby
interpol

[JesterJ.]

I like pretty much every genre. Every genre has it's merits. I might prefer one more than another, but I don't think there's such a thing as a "bad" genre. My top 5 artists at the moment would probably be Queens of the Stone Age, Wolfmother, Rage Against the Machine, Vampire Weekend, and Muse.

[korri]

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I also enjoy Lighthouse (old, obscure canadian band, like Chicago [also obscure]), Lifehouse, Coldplay, The Hush Sound, Tom Lehrer, Dido, Vanessa Carlton, Queen.

Chicago isn't really obscure, they were pretty big, i mean (according to wikipedia) they had 5 No 1 hits and multiplatinum albums..

Anyway, I listen to a bunch of stuff... some stuff I grew up with, like Chicago, and Tower of Power and basically anything else with a good horn line (when your dad is a trumpet player, this happens)

And I also listen to some ska, Mighty Mighty Bosstones (as my sig shows), The Toasters and Mad Caddies for now....

[Jillers]

Yeah, I didn't think Chicago was obscure at all - they're one of the bands I grew up with (ie: my parents played them all the time)... unless there's a different Chicago that isn't responsible for Saturday in the Park.

[Tapir12]

Whenever we have these threads I always realize how out of the loop I am, because I rarely know the bands that people list. I know the oldies, like Led Zep and Bestles and such, but the newer ones are a mystery to me.

A few of my favourites:
- Coldplay (loooove coldply)
- Vienna Teng (amazing singer/songwriter/pianist)
- Eric Wanaina (Kenyan folk pop singer)
- Do As Infinity & Bonnie Pink (Japanese pop)
- James Blunt & David Grey & Keane & John Mayer (all good)
- Imogen Heap/Frou Frou (oh yes!)
- Zeca Baleiro & Ana Carolina & Armandinho & O Teatro Magico & Djavan (Brazillian stuff)
- Soundtracks (especially anime, Yoko Kanno is incredible)

But I like tons of other stuff too. Just no rap or hip hop for me please. I think I need to try some radiohead. So many people have said they are good that I will have to check it out.

[sdhonda]

Queen
Rush
Yes
Pink Floyd
The Electric Light Orchestra
AC/DC
Motorhead
Rammstein
Led Zepplin

[theDreamer]

Yeah, I didn't think Chicago was obscure at all - they're one of the bands I grew up with (ie: my parents played them all the time)... unless there's a different Chicago that isn't responsible for Saturday in the Park.

Chicago isn't really obscure, they were pretty big,

...I love you guys...NO ONE I HANG OUT WITH knows who Chicago is. The exception being my girlfriend, who didn't until we started dating.

Maybe I just hang out with all the wrong people, but my girlfriend and her family loves that kind of music, so I don't know why they didn't know them. She likes Styx, ffs...

[Theokotos]

Too difficult a question. I'll just list my Pandora stations:

Juana Molina
Beck
Talking Heads
The Real Tuesday Weld
The Smiths/Depeche Mode
Gogol Bordello
Kenna
Gorillaz
Massive Attack

Lately I've been bouncing between The Real Tuesday Weld and Gogol Bordello mostly.

[Hakaryu]

Korn
Rise Against
Leftover Crack
Star Fucking Hipsters
Richy Nix
MSI
Streetlight Manifesto
Coldplay
A silver mt zion
God is an astronaut
Explosions in the sky.
The Slip
Augie March

[JesterJ.]

Point of note: I just started listening to Regina Spektor, and I don't think I've ever heard such a beautiful voice. Jesus.

[CygnusX1]

typically i'm into hard rock/metal/prog, i could write an incredibly long list but ill just mention the bands at the top

rush
dream theater
metallica
porcupine tree
radiohead

[Joshua]

Top Five
Brendan Benson
The Raconteurs
The Black Keys
The White Stripes
Feist

[Zivlok]

Wizard Rock is my favorite.

In no particular order:
Neville's Diary
The Whomping Willows
Split Seven Ways
MC Kreacher
The Giant Squidstravaganza