What are a few of your favorite bands/artists?

I'll list mine later, I'd like to get a feel for what you all like.

I'll go with:

The Beatles, Ben Folds, Frederic Chopin, Coldplay, Miles Davis, Claude Debussy, Elliott Smith, Eminem, Outkast, Radiohead, The Roots, Tribe Called Quest, and Tupac.

Miles Davis, Led Zeppelin, 311, Sublime, Coltrane, Elvin Jones, Art Blakey, Rush, Jeff Buckley, Nina Simone, Eric Clapton, Cream, Wilson Pickett, the Roots, and too many more to name.

• The killers
• Iron Maiden
• Elivis (obviously)
• Green Day
• Linkin Park
• Bob Marley
• Evanesance
• The Hives

Really I'm more of a mood person.

Billy Joel, Ben Folds, Beatles, Moxy Fruvous, Decemberists, Trans-siberian Orchestra/Savatage, Beethoven, are probably all time favorites and I am almost always in the mood to listen to them.

Second tier would be:
Kanye West, Outkast, Altan (a really good Celtic Band) The Rogues (another good celtic band), Miles Davis, Led Zepplin

The Second Tier are undisputably good, I just don't always want to listen to them.

I'm going to have to list mine now.

Led Zepplein
Pink Floyd
Jimi Hendrix
Grateful Dead
The Velvet Underground
The Clash
The Beatles
U2 (their older stuff mostly)
Eric Clapton
Cat Stevens

And a boatload more. I listen to music throughout most of the day, but those are my top picks. And its a bit of everything thing.

To mellow out, I listen to "Dark Side of the Moon" by Floyd, or "The Joshua Tree" by U2.
If I want some nice background music, blues-y I can pop in Jimi Hendrix with his long guitar solo albums.
Cat Stevens for somthing to just have, while the Clash and Zepplein for more uppy beats. Same with the Velvet Underground.

Sure theres a alot more for different moods, but thats my top list ;)

Heh, I'd forgotten U2, I carry aroudn the Joshua tree and Achtung baby in my traveling CD case.

I'm going to have to go with the following.......

Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake, Green Day, Rage Against The Machine, TAT, Spunge, Farse, The Coral, Franz Ferdinand, Red Hot Chilly Peppers, Goldfinger, Beach Boys, King Prawn, Bill Bailey, Blink 182, The Darkness, Offlimit

And a whole host of others, like everyone else has said so far, my taste in music is a case of horses for courses. At the moment it's all getting a bit cheerier i.e. Less Than jake or TAT, as the summer weather starts taking effect on me.

Wingfoot

(Rage Against The Machine is thrown in as Battle for LA gets put on in my car on the way to rugby practice - I cannot think of any other band who would psyche me up like they do)

Queen, The Boom town Rats, Lost Prophets, The Killers

Ill have to say

Modest Mouse, Bloc Party, Interpol, U2, Lou Reed, The Killers, Joy Division, Violentte Femmes, The Postal Service, Radiohead and Guided by Voices.

The only band that really stays a favorite with me is Metallica. I'm too damn picky and I lose interest rather easily. Right now some of my favorites are:

Metallica (duh)
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
Megadeth
Van Halen
Green Day
Audioslave
Billy Idol

Yeah, for people who lose intrest in bands, or like a variety of music, I'd say check out Grateful Dead. Folk to Rock and everything in between.

Oh, and if you like Green Day, check out The Clash, which is what Green Day bases most of its "hard rock" music.

The Clash are so awesome, they're just a classic rock band. Love sticking some of their greatest hits along with those done by Thin Lizzy (who I went to go see at Shepperd's Bush back in February, and was truelly star struck)

Wingfoot

Cradle of Filth ***
Iron Maiden
Louis Armstrong
Jimi Hendrix
The Eagles
Rage Against the Machine ***
Powerman 5000 ***
The Smashing Pumpkins


*** Are my biggest influences

Majority of the music I listen to consists of rap/hip-hop whose artists and song titles I have no clue about; the songs just play on my local radio station.

Aside from my Hindi music, here are the rock bands that I listen to (since everyone here only listens to guitar music):

Iron Maiden
Rammstein
Powerman 5000
Jimi Hendrix
Red Hot Chili Peppers
KISS
The Doors


And I can't seem to think of anything else...

The doors
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
The Beatles
Jefferson Airplane
The Who
Nirvana
Sex Pistols
and Bob Dylan

Cypress Hill, Sage Francis, Aesop Rock, Dilated Peoples, Non Phixion, Dead Prez, Immortal Technique, 3rd Strike and System Of a Down.

Ho boy.
This would be a very loooong list.

I'll go ahead and say that I love classic rock. Just about any kind of classic rock is something I like, so I'll just name a few favorite bands and you can assume I like the rest as well.
--Pink Floyd
--U2 (Back in the Joshua Tree days)
--Bob Dylan
--Led Zeppelin
And as I keep thinking about it, haha, I have too many favorite classic rock bands, so I'll stop right here and sadly leave out everything else I love.

As for modern rock (too much to honestly post, so this is limited too):
--Jack Johnson
--Dispatch
--Coldplay
--Matchbox Twenty
--The Killers
--The Gorillaz

And then comes everything else. I've always liked rap a little bit, but it's only been recently that I've really started to like some of it. Mind you, I can't stand R&B, it has to be hardcore rap.
--2pac
--Tech N9ne
--Outkast
--Everlast
(and even then, this isn't even near the end of the list.. I'd just like this post to be somewhat readable)

Boy, these choices are going to sound wussy. Hehehehe....


Def Leppard
Night Ranger
Asia
Lucky 7
Superchick
.38 Special
Nickleback
Autograph


and did I mention Def Leppard? :)

Evanescence has a great one in "My Immortal".

And a non-band trio I really dig is the Atomic Kitten. Here kitty, kitty, kitty. Yummy!

-The Velvet Underground (Lou Reed, John Cale especially)
-Radiohead
-Orbital
-dEUS (Best Belgian band ever)
-Soulwax
-Doors
-Pulp
-Kraftwerk
-Joy Division

Lou Reed definatly is awesome.

However, I've never heard of dEUS. What kinda music is that?

Deus is alternative music like Radiohead, Eels, Beck and others

Very cool, I'll have to look them up when I get some free time.

My favorite band is Queen. Though I also like Simple Plan, Evanescence and Green Day.

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Nirvana
Rage Against the Machine
Manic Street Preachers
Oasis
Verve
Franz Ferdinand
Randy
Anti-Flag
The Libertines
Babyshambles
Jimi Hendrix
Led Zeppelin
Stone Temple Pilots
Radiohead
Pearl Jam

Dead Prez
Immortal Technique
Public Enemy
Nas
The Roots
Son of Nun (just recently heard some of his tunes)

I could go on and on...

Intifada, do you think you could make up a list of some progressive rap songs that I might like?

Soulwax where are you from?

I studied for a year in Belgium, so I'm slightly intrigued by the fact you have Deus listed there :)

I'm from Gent (Belgium), where I'm also studying

I'll try.

Bit busy with exams at the moment.

I just dropped by to check on the board.

:)

A Perfect Circle
Tool
Nirvana
Pink Floyd
The Doors
Pearl Jam
Foo Fighters
Smashing Pumpkins
Chevelle
Rage Against the Machine
....many more



I also enjoy classical music from the greats of Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart, as well as musical scores from movies (Pirates of the Carribean, anything John Williams, King Kong). For some reason, I really enjoy slow, depressing, melancholy classical music. Perhaps that's why I enjoy Beethoven the most out of this type of music. If anyone with more knowledge in this area would like to let me know about some interesting classical music to check out, I would be happily open to suggestions.

Favorite five albums, in no order...

Nirvana - Nevermind
Pearl Jam - Ten
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Tool - Lateralus
A Perfect Circle- The Thirteenth Step

Shinedown, Sanctus Real, Smalltown Poets, The Mars Volta, Primus, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, The Darkness, The White Stripes, The Hives, Thousand Foot Krutch, Five Iron Frenzy, Green Day.

Here's my top 5 albums:

Get Behind Me, Satan (with the bonus track) - The White Stripes
One Way Ticket to Hell and Back - The Darkness
Nevermind - Nirvana
De-Loused in the Comatorium - The Mars Volta
The Colour and Shape - Foo Fighters

With all due respect,
~~~Mr. Cain and Mr. Abel

AC/DC
Aerosmith
Alice Cooper
Billy Joel
Black Sabbath
Bob Dylan
Boston
David Bowie
David Gilmour
Elvis Presley
Eric Clapton
Frank Zappa
Guns 'N' Roses
Harry Chapin
Jethro Tull
Jimi Hendrix
Joe Walsh
John Lennon
Johnny Cash
Kansas
Led Zeppelin
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Pink Floyd
Queen
Roger Waters
Rush
Styx
Syd Barrett
T. Rex
The Animals
The Beatles
The Guess Who
The Doors
The Moody Blues
The Rolling Stones
The Who
Van Halen
Yes

No Grateful Dead?

Never gave them a listen yet, to be honest.

Judging by your list, alot of which I agree with, I'd highly recommend that you do. I do enjoy their sound quite a bit, and over 40 years.....they have alot of different styles ;)

Yeah, I might download their GH's if I get the chance.

I think they sponser a few sites with full concert downloads. They are all about music sharing.

I got a few more bands, like King Crimson, Jefferson Airplane, Steve Miller Band, The Kinks, ZZ Top, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Emerson, Lake, & Palmer.

Aerosmith
Andy Milonakis
Atmosphere
Esham
Green Day
Insane Clown Posse
Jimi Hendrix
Korn
Kurtis Blow
LL Cool J (Old school)
Marilyn Manson
Nirvana
NOFX
The Misfits
Public Enemy
Rammstein
Rob Zombie
Run-DMC
System of a Down
Tech N9ne
Tone-Loc
Twiztid

Sorry to bring this topic back after several weeks of sleep, but I just felt the urge to say that my favorite bands are Green Day and Linkin Park (can't decide between those). I enjoy the Beatles too.