Favorite Bands / artists

[Temetka]

It's been a long time since I saw anyone discussing some of their favorite bands to listen to. So I will start

Pink Floyd
Faith and the Muse
Nightwish
Metallica
Soul Coughing
Def Leapord
Rob Zombie
Loreena McKennit
Frank Sinatra
Neil Diamond
Enya
The Xx

I've been on a huge Xx and Nightwish kick lately. Love that group so much.

[Norway Pad]

Favorite bands.. A little hard to tell, as I have a lot of music. When I was a kid, during the 80's, I loved the heavy metal bands. The big love has faded, but they are still among my favorites:
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Metallica
Dio
Queensryche

Of more recent music, and timeless favorites, I will list the following:
Pink Floyd
Chris Rea
Kent (A swedish band you might not heard about, check them out)
Tori Amos
Clannad
Marillion

A strange collection, and some might be forgotten. I actually have most of Nightwish's older stuff, while Tarja was still the vocalist, but I haven't listened much to the newer stuff.

[Adda]

And One
Ashbury Heights
Covenant
Rotersand
Apoptygma Berzerk (from the 90's and early 2000's).
Suicide Commando
Vangelis
Kraftwerk
J. M. Jarre
New Order (from the 80's, early 90's).

[rkawakami]

For somewhat of a related topic from some years ago: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=38827

A link to a copy of the original 200 list, courtesy of the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20070316134 ... 0_list.php

My selection, in no particular order and probably incomplete....

Old (pre '90s):
Pink Floyd (just saw Brit Floyd a few nights ago at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga, CA; very good, but wish it was the real thing)
Steely Dan (will be seeing them next month, also at the Mountain Winery)
U2
Boz Scaggs
Fleetwood Mac
Soundgarden
Allman Brothers
The Who
Grateful Dead
Peter Frampton
Traffic
The Police
Led Zeppelin

New(ish) (post '80s):
Blink 182
Linkin Park
Pearl Jam
Stone Temple Pilots
Temple of the Dog/Audioslave (i.e., Chris Cornell)
Postal Service/Death Cab For Cutie (i.e., Ben Gibbard)
Imagine Dragons
Incubus

[Saucey]

Queen
Nine Inch Nails
Depeche Mode
Twin Shadow
Beatles
Rolling Stones
Ladytron
The Smiths
Björk
The Mars Volta

Dance/Electronic:
Daft Punk
Ladytron
AFX/ Aphex Twin
The Faint
Armin van Buuren
M.I.A.

Artists from Japan:
Malice Mizer
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Dir En Grey
Mucc
Yuyoyuppe
Treow/Electrocutica

Going to say this now, I probably have the oddest music taste.

[Adda]

Going to say this now, I probably have the oddest music taste.

Not at all, I know most of those bands

[emeraldgirl08]

Not at all, I know most of those bands

I am familiar with most of them also

[Puppy]

Agonoize
Amnistia
Cygnosic
Decoded Feedback
Evil's Toy
Full Contact69
Funker Vogt
Herzschlag
Hocico
Kant Kino
Leather Strip
Painbastard
Project Pitchfork
[:SITD:]
Skinny Puppy
Solitary Experiments
Suicide Commando
Terminal State
Wynardtage
X-Marks The Pedwalk

and many others of that style ...

[Adda]

and many others of that style ...

We would have a lot to agree on if we sat down for a listening session.

You even have Leæther Strip there, you should check out "The Overlords", especially the album called "Organic".

[wolfman]

Here's some of my favorites...

Bad Religion
Pennywise
The Smiths
Tori Amos (at least Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink)
The Distillers
Rancid
Operation Ivy
Minor Threat
Shelter
U2
Depeche Mode
Face to Face
Midnight Oil
Ministry
Nine Inch Nails
REM
The Clash
Misfits
108
New Order
Quicksand

[ajkula66]

My "all time" list would be *way* too long...so here's just the stuff that I've been listening to very recently, not in any particular order...

Eleven

Paco De Lucia

Jerry Cantrell

John Martyn

Atomic Rooster

Freddie Hubbard

Breaking Benjamin

Richard Thompson


That's just off the top of my head...

[Medessec]

I like listening to many different songs from many different artists, and my music taste is quite mixed. But I'll put down some of my absolute favorite bands:

Muse

The Beach Boys

Billy Talent

Grant Kirkhope

Deadmau5

Goldfish

Gorillaz

Incubus

Savant

Johnny Cash

Lady Gaga

MGMT

The Police

Radiohead

Skrillex

Sugar Ray

Yes. My taste of music is very intermixed, as you can tell. But these are bands that I couldn't do without, if there was some sort of embargo on music listening.

[Saucey]

Interesting tastes, I'll have to expand on my music pallette.
Few I heard of but even more I haven't.
Next thing you know I'm rockin your ThinkPad of choice!

[Temetka]

There are a lot of excellent bands listed here.

Glad to see a lot of my fellow Thinkpadder's have such a varied, eclectic taste in musical genre's.

I recently have been listening to a lot of Nightwish and really falling in love with them.

[killer]

Pink Floyd
David Gilmour
Electric Light Orchestra
Joan Armatrading
Led Zeppelin
Lynyrd Skynyrd
UB40
Temptations
Billy Joel
Eagles
Elton John
Rolling Stones
The Who
Adele
Bob Marley

... and because they were the best thing in 'pop' music ...
Abba

[vanasabh]

hello, newcomer here

always in my playlist in aimp or audacious

Allan Holdsworth : wow, wow, really wow for sound
EdanE : indonesian band, influenced by Van Hallen and AC/DC
Alter Bridge : yeah, im Tremonti Fans

but, my (number 1 and 2 ) favorite is Iwan Fals and SlanK, the Indonesian living legend

[Temetka]

Welcome to the forum! Hope you stick around, we're always in need of new members and contributors.

[ajkula66]

Allan Holdsworth : wow, wow, really wow for sound

Saw him from a five feet distance - either '87 or '88 - promoting now-forgotten SynthAxe in one of the guitar shops on Denmark St. in London...couldn't understand what hit me for the next two weeks. A truly stunning musician.

[vanasabh]

Welcome to the forum! Hope you stick around, we're always in need of new members and contributors.

Thanks! really appreciate.
shakehand Temetka

Saw him from a five feet distance - either '87 or '88 - promoting now-forgotten SynthAxe in one of the guitar shops on Denmark St. in London...couldn't understand what hit me for the next two weeks. A truly stunning musician.

You're lucky man George.
87, i'm 2th old badboy baby

Yes! He is pioneer of synth-axe. His fingers are constantly moving
Legato with hammer-on backwards, not pull off. Awesome
when i saw the perform (on youtube ) i feel (very very sorry), he was m*st*rb*te with guitar neck
and my brother want Allan headless guitar btw, i can't play guitar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzFsbBzsX90 (y)

sorry for bad english

[AIX]

Over the last couple of years I found myself listening, over and over, Lake of Tears. So this is, probably, my favorite band.

[BladeRunner]

At the minute I'm listening to First Aid Kit, a Swedish group who are a little bit folk-ey.
But I have very eclectic taste, a bit of Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, Nick Cave, Johnny Cash, but I also like finding new bands too.

[GomJabbar]

I haven't actually listened to the album "Your Dead" yet, and the title is a bit of a put-off, but listening to the review on NPR and hearing some clips in the review has me interested.

The first time I listened to "You're Dead" was during a drive down I-95 through New England. The foliage was just starting to turn and occasionally blazing autumnal colors burst through the morning fog. As if by cosmic design, "Flying Lotus" provided a perfect soundtrack to complement the leaves' own spectacular passage into death. The shifting moments of visual and musical beauty and mystery seemed completely in sync and I didn't want either the drive or the album to end. Somehow, in listening to "You're Dead," I felt incredibly alive.

http://www.npr.org/2014/10/22/358120457 ... ying-lotus

On a more conventional note, Brazilian singer Flora Purim has always been one of my favorites. I also like listening to: The Who, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, Emerson Lake and Palmer, The Doors, and many others.