Favorite Musicians/Artists

[achilles765]

The song covers topic made me curious: what are everyone's favorite singers/bands?

For me it's Bob Dylan for solo artist and my favorite band ever that I could listen to everyday for the rest of my life is Led Zeppelin.

[NE2]

Escher is pretty cool.

(and wtf - there's a band called Escher - I mean the artist)

[Takumi]

Bands: The Hives, Smashing Pumpkins, INXS, The Raveonettes, The White Stripes, Weezer, Franz Ferdinand, The Strokes, Van Halen, The Cars.
Non-bands (mostly electronic): London Elektricity, S.P.Y, Loadstar, Cyantific, Spor/Feed Me (same guy), Wolfgang Gartner, Logistics, High Contrast, Sub Focus, Noisia, Scott Brown, Blokhe4d.

[Ian]

Going down my iPod playlist (the ones in bold are my favorites): Adele, Alanis Morrisette, Alex Clare, Alice in Chains, Alien Ant Farm, AWOLNATION, Avenged Sevenfold, The B-52's, Beastie Boys, Bee Gees, The Black Crowes, The Black Keys, Bob Marley, Bobby McFerrin, Boston, Bruno Mars, Cage the Elephant, Cake, Cee Lo Green, Chevelle, Civil Twilight, Company of Thieves, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Dave Matthews Band, Death Cab for Cutie, Dirty Heads, Dishwalla, Disturbed, Duck Sauce, Eddy Grant, Ellie Goulding, Everlast, Fleetwood Mac, Florence + The Machine, Flo Rida, Foo Fighters, Foster the People, Frank Sinatra, Gnarls Barkley, Godsmack, Goldfish, Goo Goo Dolls, Gorillaz, Incubus, Jack White, Jethro Tull, Jimi Hendrix, Kid Cudi, The Killers, Kings of Leon, Korn, Lady Gaga, La Roux, Led Zeppelin, Linkin Park, Local H, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Marilyn Manson, Maroon 5, Metallica, MGMT, Michael Bublé, Michael Jackson, Modest Mouse, Morning Parade, Muse, Nero, Neon Trees, The New Cities, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, The Notorious B.I.G., Of Monsters and Men, Ok Go, Paramore, Passion Pit, Pearl Jam, Peter Gabriel, Phoenix, Pink Floyd, The Postal Service, PSY, Puddle of Mudd, Queen, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, Ratatat, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Redlight King, R.E.M., The Reconteurs, The Rolling Stones, Rush, Seven Mary Three, Shinedown, Silverchair, Silversun Pickups, Skillet, Skrillex, Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths, Soundgarden, Staind, Stevie Wonder, Stone Temple Pilots, The Strokes, Sublime, Switchfoot, System of a Down, Tegan and Sara, Them Crooked Vultures, Three Days Grace, Toadies, Tom Petty, Tool, Train, Two Door Cinema Club, Van Halen, Weezer, The White Stripes, The Who, 30 Seconds to Mars, and 311.

[Special K]

Wilco.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Yes and The Beatles are pretty much tied for me, though I give a slight nod to Yes.

[kphoger]

Best concert experience, by far:  Tommy Emmanuel.  I saw him once at a Chicago bar, and once at a theater in Hutchinson, KS.  'Initiation' will blow your mind.

Great artists to listen to on headphones:  Delerium, Chasing Furies, Silversun Pickups

Driving music:  R.E.M., Garth Brooks, John Mayer

Weird stuff:  Frank Zappa, Huun-Huur-Tu

[allniter89]

Carlos Santana, Led Zepplin, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Golden Earing, Pink Floyd, Stevie Ray Vaughn and (wait 4 it) Patsy Cline.
Best concert experience ever: Woodstock 69.

[NYYPhil777]

My #1 favorite band is Pink Floyd (only the original British and I listen from albums- not a concert person).
Others I like (just a few):
AC/DC, Metallica, Nirvana, R.E.M., Rascal Flatts, Styx, Rush, Weird Al Yankovic, ZZ Top, Journey, Foreigner, and even Nickelback (please don't hate me for that  ).
I'm into rock, rock n' roll, metal, country, and even rap.
I think there's already a thread for this.

[Rushmeister]

Rush

And a few others I like...   Rush, Yes, The Fixx, Level 42, Scorpions, Firehouse, and Rush.

[roadman65]

Eric Clapton ( and the groups he was
once part of)
Beatles
Eagles
Chicago (both eras)
Allman Brothers
Supertramp
Phil Collins
Genisis
Bangles
Go Gos
Belinda Carlisle (Solo)
Joe Walsh
Van Halen (both Van Hagar and Van Roth)
Led Zeppelin
The Who
Elton John

Stevie Ray Vaughn

[Special K]

[quote author=Rushmeister link=topic=7918.msg180735#msg180735 date=1350924023]
Rush

And a few others I like...   Rush, Yes, The Fixx, Level 42, Scorpions, Firehouse, and Rush.
[/quote]

No kidding?

[Alps]

most of what most of you have said, plus others. it seems we all like rock.

[roadman]

The song covers topic made me curious: what are everyone's favorite singers/bands?

Carole King is my favorite solo artist, with Tom Rush and Gordon Lightfoot a close second and third.

For bands, I'd say it's a tie between America, the Eagles, and Simon and Garfunkel.

[bugo]

Here are some of my favorite musicians: Billy Corgan, Rob Dickinson, Trent Reznor, Maynard James Keenan, Bruce Dickinson, BT, Steven Wilson, Eddie Vedder, Rob Halford, Tori Amos, Tricky.  There are literally hundreds more but these are some of my very favorites.

[Road Hog]

[quote author=Rushmeister link=topic=7918.msg180735#msg180735 date=1350924023]
Rush

And a few others I like...   Rush, Yes, The Fixx, Level 42, Scorpions, Firehouse, and Rush.

No kidding?
[/quote]

I'll throw in Rush, Rush, and let me think, Rush.

I like everything from Rush from "Moving Pictures" on back. Haven't had much luck connecting with chicks on them, though. So I go with Arcade Fire, Art vs. Science, Florence + The Machine and whatever cool new band appears in the next few months.

[bugo]

I would like Rush but I can't stand Geddy Lee's voice.  They have an instrumental song that I kind of like though.

[Takumi]

I like everything from Rush from "Moving Pictures" on back. Haven't had much luck connecting with chicks on them, though. So I go with Arcade Fire, Art vs. Science, Florence + The Machine and whatever cool new band appears in the next few months.

Imagine Dragons I've not heard much Art vs. Science, just a drumstep remix of "Magic Fountain". I think the only Arcade Fire album I've heard is The Suburbs, and it was pretty good. The Killers' most recent album was disappointing, but I've liked what I've heard so far of The Gaslight Anthem's new one. I was expecting a pop-punk album, given the catchy first single "45", but it's turned out to be mostly alternative. I also really enjoyed the most recent Raveonettes release, but I know they're not for everyone. It was great listening to an album that actually gets faster as it goes on (what a novel concept!), and as I mentioned at the outset of this post, Imagine Dragons have a pretty good debut out.

[Brian556]

Favorite Songs:
"Jessie's Girl" Rick Springfield
"Don't Go Out" Tanya Tucker / T. Graham Brown

Favorite Artists:
Eagles, Phil Collins, Foreigner, Air Supply, Ect.

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

Guitarist:
C.C. Adcock

Sean Carney

Drumer:
Billy Cobham

Piano:
Eden Brent

[Sanctimoniously]

This man can play every instrument known to man.

[US71]

I've always liked this guy

and these people:

[1995hoo]

Bruce Springsteen
The Gaslight Anthem
Mott the Hoople
The Beatles
The Who
Stones
The Corrs
The Jam
The Kinks
U2, although I haven't listened to their latest stuff very much

I have one album by Pink (Funhouse) and it's very good, but I haven't heard most of her other stuff. I might pick up some more of it. She strikes me as someone whose talent is probably obscured by her flamboyant tendencies and her often-creepy appearance (I find all the piercings and such to be strange and I don't understand why people are into doing that to themselves).

[hm insulators]

Heavy metal (that's what the "hm" in my handle stands for); far too many bands to list here.

[cpzilliacus]

No particular order:

The Who, Pete Townsend, The Cars, The Rippingtons, Foo Fighters, R.E.M., ABBA, Prince, Jeff Lorber, the Cardigans, Roxette, Darude, The Mamas & the Papas, the Association, the Beatles, Elvis Presley, The Temptations, U2, Yes, Lee Ritenour, Wynton Marsalis, the Police, Sting, Billy Idol, Dire Straits, Steely Dan, Fourplay, Johnny Cash (I am not much of a fan of Country & Western, but how can you not like his voice and his music?), Frank Sinatra (his voice made him as immortal as Johnny Cash), Wes Montgomery, Journey, Larry Carlton, Pat Metheny, Dave Koz, Joyce Cooling, Anita Baker, A-Ha, Loverboy, Suzanne Vega, Joe Sample, the Jackson 5 (when Michael was normal-looking and normal-sounding).

I could add more, but this will have to do for now.