What are your favourite music artists?

[Aldbeski]

well!! i don't know but i guess my favourite music is hip hop and pop but mostly rap my favorite rappers of all time are 50Cent Eminem Dr dre snoop dogg and xzibit my favourite pop singers are Justin Timberlake Black eyed Peas Chris brown rihanna and michael ackson may god rest his soul.

[sillek]

Here is a small sample taken from my playlist:

Acid Bath
Age of Silence
Altar
Amon Amarth
Amorphis (*early*)
Anaal Nathrakh
Anathema (early)
Behemoth
BlutEngel
Burzum
David Guetta
Demons & Wizards
Draconian
Elis
Grendel
Horricane
London After Midnight
My Dying Bride
Nerthus
Nemesea
November's Doom
The Project Hate
The Sins of Thy Beloved
Terminal Choice
Verjnuarmu
Vision of Disorder
Winds
Wumpscut
Xandria
!!!

[Nevermore]

Pink Floyd

[function.require]

I'm almost always the odd one out when people ask this question of me, but here goes... .

Favorite living band: Mahogany
Favorite defunct band: Jessamine

Other favorite bands/artists: Kristin Hersh / Throwing Muses, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, Mira, Broadcast, Bardo Pond, Sigur Rós, Ride, Cranes... to name a few.

I'm mostly into Shoegaze and modern psychedelia, I guess.

Another Shoegaze fan here. I think i'm just about the right age to have enjoyed Ultima in grade school and Shoegaze in high school.

@Evnissyen - You like Jessamine more than mbv?

[geishaboy]

Pink Floyd

I will drink to that

Love me some Jethro Tull as well

[Nevermore]

Pink Floyd

I will drink to that

Love me some Jethro Tull as well

Also i listen them as progressive rock music like King Crimson, Emerson Lake & Palmer or Yes.

[MegaHassan]

Guys, no love for Rush?

Anyone into Psych Rock?

[cal1s]

80ies in general, Metallica, Megadeth, Michael Jackson

[elkston]

My main thing is Jazz -- mostly hard bop, post bop, and "fusion" stuff:

Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Miles Davis, Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Wes Montgomery, Freddie Hubbard, etc...

I also like Bjork (esp. her early days with KuKL, S.-cubes), Depeche Mode, and Steely Dan.

Finally, as an adolescent & teen I was really into movie scores by composers like Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, Maurice Jarre, and John Barry. As I grew older, I became more interested in the Classical music that inspired many of my fav. film scores so I listened to lots of Ravel (my fav.), Chopin, Wagner, Debussy, and Igor Stravinsky.

Tell you what. Listen to The Rite of Springby Stravinsky and The Planets by Gustav Holst. Those two works are pretty much the wellspring for modern action and adventure music scoring.

[Evnissyen]

@Evnissyen - You like Jessamine more than mbv?

Absolutely. MBV was a great band, but Jessamine... there's just something about them.

Plus, I think maybe the fact that I was a MBV fan quite a while before I found out about Jessamine might have something to do with it.

A few more bands I didn't put on my list...

Auburn Lull (often featuring Andrew Prinz, genius, whose own band is Mahogany)
Flying Saucer Attack
Air Formation
Experimental Aircraft
Landing
The Meeting Places
Tears Run Rings
Malory
Low (of course)
Dead Can Dance
Blonde Redhead
Swirlies
Jessica Bailiff
Vivian Girls
Black Tambourine
Bethany Curve
Chapterhouse
early Pink Floyd / Syd Barrett
Bauhaus
The Ex
Circle X
early Bevis Frond
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
...I'll stop.

[crumejack]

My favorite music artists are :
1. Phil Collins
2. Emilie Autumn
3. Evanescence
4. Lady Gaga
5. Taylor Swift
6. Jabberwock
7. Aesthetic Perfection
8. Gary Numan
9. Glenn Miller
10. Claire Voyant

[Evnissyen]

Crume:
Eh . . . Phil Collins looked better when he had long hair. Peter Gabriel looked better when he had a reverse mohawk and black hair, but . . . won't comment on his fondness for women's dresses.

MegaHassan:
As for Psych: early Pink Floyd / Syd Barrett ; Country Joe & the Fish ; Jefferson Airplane ; Rain Parade / haven't heard Clay Allison or Opel (cannot be found) but do have an excellent 4-song recording by Kendra Smith & David Roeback ; Bevis Frond ; Brian Jonestown Massacre ; Jessamine ; Bardo Pond... .

And actually: personally it seems to me that shoegaze is an outgrowth of both psychedelia and pre-goth. There's definitely a psychedelic aspect to it.

[Simone]

Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Mae Questel (Betty Boop), Jo Stafford, Fred Astaire.

[Kreador Freeaxe]

Today I'm loving a little Led Zepplin...with Viking Kittens.

http://users.wolfcrews.com/toys/vikings ... ittens.swf

If you spend an hour listening to my iTunes favorites on shuffle, however, you'll know that I'm completely insane. Everything from Nat King Cole to Reba McIntyre to Pink Floyd to AC/DC and a whole lot more all over the place. My favorite group, though, is The Band.

[phaedrus]

Devin Townsend, Devin Townsend, Devin Townsend and Strapping Young Lad[*].

Seriously. If you like progressive rock and heavy metal, this man is a genius.

Strapping Young Lad is one of the more challenging Death Metal bands (and if you don't think SYL is death metal, that's fine. We can argue about this for the next month and not get anywhere--we can agree that they're heavy and aggressive). If you like loud, dissonant music, these guys are a high point.

Devin's solo work swings more toward the ambient metal and progressive rock ends of the scale (although, there's plenty of other surprises in his corpus). This man has some of the highest standards for quality of any musician out there today. For me, his albums survived the ultimate torture test: listening to them daily for months on end. I've done this to most of his albums, and I still listen to them more than anything else.

To put it another way, the two low points in Devin's career are the Strapping Young Lad self-titled and Physicist. Those albums are both good albums. The SYL self-titled is a solid metal album, and it's only real problem is that it has to stand amongst the rest of the SYL albums. While Devin considers Physicist to be his worst album, it's excellent taken by itself (and the final cycle of songs--starting with Irish Maiden--is the high point, leaving the album to end on a strong note).

Ok, so that's the high praise for the worst of his work, what his best? Well, do yourself a favor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3-NQvRmo3I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrxmrS9FIzc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2n45Sutwig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFDsMC8NH6Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ok64JX7KP4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_T-LM3VYpE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMLXoobDKWs -- Vampira (proper music video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5BqyluKkk0

And some SYL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeG-6bpeUkA -- Love? (proper music video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f20L0msLsM

(The music videos for Vampira and Love? are totally awesome--Devin is "secretly" a nerd, and it shows just a bit in those two.)

I like lots of music (just about everything, actually. I grew up on Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Alice and Chains, but I like jazz, blues, rap, hip-hop, rockabilly and country music, even some of the better pop artists). Devin Townsend is the standout in my collection. No one else touches him. (Well, maybe Hendrix. Maybe. Jimi Hendrix was the better guitarist, but Townsend has a leg up as a vocalist, songsmith and engineer.)

[*] For those not already laughing, Devin Townsend was SYL's frontman.