What bands do you dig? or hate?

[Kintaro]

I like: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Queens of the Stone Age, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Pearl Jam, Mike Oldfield, Faith No More, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, The Ventures, The Shadowns... stuff like that

Yoo?

[Refalm]

All right, here it goes:

Fear Factory, Meshuggah, Atari Teenage Riot, Killswitch Engage, Air, Massive Attack, Anti-Flag, Linkin Park, Slipknot, Calum Carlyle, Gorillaz, The Offspring, NOFX, Moby, P.O.D., Sepultura, The Strokes, Weird Al Yankovic, Bob Rivers, Public Enemy, The Beastie Boys, HateSphere, Nephasth.

I'm sorry if I forgot one

[cahult]

OK, you asked for it:

Magnum, Status Quo, Queen, Thin Lizzy, Nektar, Rush, Gentle Giant, AC/DC, Camel, Starcastle, Yes, Genesis, Dire Straits, Peter Gabriel, Saga, Foghat, Savoy Brown and others...

[muzzy]

mmkay, in alphabetical order:

Aina, Amorphis, Arcturus, Ayreon, Bal-Sagoth, Blackmore's Night, Blind Guardian, Bruce Dickinson, CMX, Depeche Mode, Dream Theater, E Nomine, Einherjer, Enchant, Ensiferum, Front Line Assembly, Gamma Ray, Hammerfall, Helloween, Iced Earth, In Flames, Iron Maiden, Jarre, Joe Satriani, Kamelot, Loreena McKennitt, Luca Turilli, Manowar, Moonspell, Nevermore, Pain Of Salvation, Queen, Queensryche, Rammstein, Rhapsody, Savatage, Shadow Gallery, Spock's Beard, Symphony X, Therion, Tristania, Ultra Bra, Within Temptation, Yngwie Malmsteen, YUP

So... mostly metal, with some random stuff mixed in. Oh my, I can't ever finish this list if I keep adding everything I like, there's also so much classical music and so much japanese pop that I could add to the list. I think the above is enough, though :p

[Refalm]

Ever heard fake gothic rock with a pop flavour? Try Within Temptation :nothappy:

It may sound like a cool band outside the Netherlands, but here, many people get sick of them.

[muzzy]

If you listen to anything long enough, you get sick of it. And musical tastes change over time. I included some bands in my above list that I don't really listen to anymore (manowar, for example), but which I considered were worth mentioning.

Nowadays I just listen to whatever I haven't heard before, be it some obscure Judas Priest album I have somehow managed to miss, or Super Eurobeat that doesn't require any brain activity to listen to.

Within Temptation has some good songs, but everything gets old. I tend to dislike many finnish bands because I just hear about them too much

[Calum]

Nick Drake, Mountain, Hendrix, Cream, Monster Magnet, Os Mutantes, Maldita Vecindad Y Los Hijos Del Quinto Patio, Die Fantastichen Vier, Inaura, Pura vida, Dream City Film Club, The Stones, Grand Funk, Randy Newman, Janis Joplin, Deep Purple, The Kinks, Small Faces, Hawkwind, The Pretty Things, The Saints, Pre-Shrunk, Prodigy, The Aphex Twin, DJ Shadow, Moby, Porcupine Tree, Pink Floyd, Type O Negative, Franz Ferdinand, Whiteout, Kula Shaker, Heavy Stereo, Huggy Bear, Bikini Kill, Fudge Tunnel, Kraftwerk, Can, Amon Duul 2, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Santana, Don McLean, Suzanne Vega and many many many more...

[bedouin]

I have a few favorite artists, but nothing like the lists you guys have.  I'd rather just make a list of some of the LPs and singles I found most influential growing up, in no particular order.  Nowadays I don't listen to much of anything though.

Singles
"Apache" - The Incredible Bongo Band
"Trans Europe Express," "Homecomputer," "Numbers," "Tour De France" - Kraftwerk
"The Payback," "Paid the Cost to be the Boss," "Funky President" - James Brown
"The JBs Monorail" - The JBs
"California Soul" - Marlena Shaw
"Flash on the Wheels of Steel" - Grandmaster Flash
"The Message" - Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
"Planet Rock" - Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force
"Fight the Power" - Public Enemy
"Everyday People," "Thank You," "Stand," "Sing a Simple Song," - Sly and the Family Stone
"Hey Joe" - Jimi Hendrix
"Take a Walk on the Wild Side" - Lou Reed
"Summer Madness," "Hollywood Swinging" - Kool and the Gang
"Wake up Everybody" - Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes
"Paid in Full (Coldcut Remix)" - Eric B. and Rakim
"Seven Minutes of Funk" - The Whole Darn Family
"Mardi Gras" - Bob James
"Places and Spaces" - Donald Byrd
"Good Times (12" Version)" - Chic
"Crooklyn '95" - Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers
"Bounce, Rock, Skate" - Vaughn Mason and Crew
"Cars" - Gary Newman
"Do What You Got to Do" - Eddie Drennon
"Good Life" - Inner City
"Never Can Say Goodbye" - Jackson Five
"Walk on By," "By the Time I get to Phoenix" - Issac Hayes
"Who Falls Apart" - The Nonce
"Back II Life (12" Version)" - Soul II Soul
"Rockit" - Herbie Hancock

LPs
"3 Feet High and Rising," "De La Soul  is Dead" - De La Soul
"People's Instinctive Travels in the Paths of Rhythm" - A Tribe Called Quest
"To the East Blackwards" - X Clan
"Product Placement," "Brainfreeze" - Dj Shadow & Cut Chemist
"What's Going On" - Marvin Gaye
"Critical Beatdown" - Ultramagnetic MCs
"Straight Out the Jungle" - Jungle Brothers
"Step in the Arena," "No More Mister Nice Guy" - GangStarr
"It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back" - Public Enemy
"Enta Da Stage" - Black Moon
"Illmatic" - Nas
"The Cactus Album" - 3rd Bass

And probably more I can't think of right now . . .

[Refalm]

I have a few favorite artists, but nothing like the lists you guys have.

I included Public Enemy in my list. I discovered it through the webmaster of this website.

From what I can tell for certain, CommonSense likes The Avalanches, DJ Shadow and Public Enemy.

[bedouin]

I included Public Enemy in my list. I discovered it through the webmaster of this website.

From what I can tell for certain, CommonSense likes The Avalanches, DJ Shadow and Public Enemy.

I forgot the Avalanches.  "Since I left You" is an incredible LP.  Their BBC Radio 1 set is great too.

[Calum]

i would love to hear that set!

hey bedouin, you have a whole lot of people on your list that i didn't have on mine that are great! bambaataa, jackson 5, public enemy, donald byrd, isaac hayes, sly stone, james brown.

and a couple i did have, dj shadow, hendrix and kraftwerk!

hey, at the risk of sounding dodgy, i wonder what the figures are for bands people like thatare the same gender or have the same cultural background (national or racial) as their listenership.

BUT please don't let this new thought hijack the thread, since that's not what this thread's about.

also, i like:
chicken shack, DJ Q-Bert, Skratch Piklz, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Fleetwood Mac (the Peter Green band), Louis Armstrong, Jacques Loussier (jazz trio who play classical music!!! immense!), Duster Bennett, Irma Franklin, Robert Johnson (the blues guy, not the seventies guy), Johnny G, Panjabi MC, Aqualung, Badly Drawn Boy, Paul Simon, Martyn Bennett (this guy has been described as "hip hop bagpipes", check him out), Fats Domino, Inspiral Carpets, Butthole Surfers, The Charlatans, Boo Radleys (circa "Giant Steps", before they became huge), Buffalo Springfield, The Doors, and many many more.

[adiment]

Tool, Sublime, NOFX, The Used, Slipknot, Story of the year, Smile Empty Soul, A perfect circle, disturbed, static x, mushroomhead, mudvayne, shadows fall, screeching weasel, RHCP, Prodigy, DJ Tiesto, Rammstein, rage against the machine, nirvana, pennywise, modest mouse, incubus, korn, eminem, greenday, AFI, black flag, cradle of filth, evanescence, three days grace, bad religion, cky, and some other shit that I can't think of

[Aloone_Jonez]

I don't listen to any bands per say, whenever I want to listen to music I just put the radio on.

[Refalm]

DJ Tiesto

Ha, Ti

[Aaron Ni]

Animals, Beat Happening, Beck, Bikini Kill, Creedance Clearwater Revival, Coiler, Crass, Dead Kennedys, Dick Dale, Dub Narcotic Sound System, Eddie Cochran, Electric Eel Shock, Elliot Smith, Fraxyl, James Kochalka Superstar, Johnny Cash, Kallisti, Led Zepplin, Link Wray, Madness, Mojo Nixon, The Monks, Old Time Relijun, Pixies, Rainbow Sugar, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, Sandman, Scream Club, Smashing Pumpkins, Social Distortion, Stephen Lynch, Suicidal Tendencies, Television, The Beat Farmers, The Buzzcocks, The Clash, The Decemberists, The Heartbreakers, The Pillows, The Postal Service, The Ramones, The Sonics, The Stooges, Trashmen, X-Ray Spex...

A bit stuck in the past, but then again alot of new bands dont sound good.

Bolded = Listening to often in the last week.