Make a list of artists you love in ONE genre/style of music

[mvd]

The genre/style can be as broad as you like, and the list can include up to 30 artists.

I'm going to list modern pop/rock singers I love:

The Corrs
Michelle Branch
Avril Lavigne
The Veronicas
Alison Ray
Candice Accola
Hope 7
Barenaked Ladies
Fountains Of Wayne
Adrienne Pierce
The Fratellis
Nina Gordon
Damone
Lillix
The Oohlas
Jag Star
The Randies
Susan Cagle
Jesse Malin
Brooke (from MySpace - unsigned)
The Charade
The Like
New Pornographers
Brie Larson
Courtney Jaye
Julia Othmer
M2M/Marion Raven
newer Mandy Moore
Aslyn
Bonnie McKee

There are more, but I set my limit at 30. Some I love are more singer/songwriter than pop/rock (Anna Nalick, Stacie Rose, Cindy Alexander, Bree Sharp) or more indie-pop (The Shins, Tilly And The Wall, Rilo Kiley, The Pierces)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. Jazz:

Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Dave Brubeck
Art Blakey
Cannonball Adderley
Jimmy Smith
Sonny Rollins
Charlie Parker
Duke Ellington
Modern Jazz Quartet
Charles Mingus
Herbie Hancock

[Ron Green]

7. I love your list. People will listen to these guys many years after pop stuff is forgotten.

I'll add a few:
Benny Carter
Bill Evans
Joe Pass
Dizzy Gillespie
Oscar Peterson

[WritingIsMyReligion]

16. Bill Evans kicks ass.

:)

[Nevernose]

2. Why 30? WHy not 25 or 28 or twenty-nine-and-a-half?

Or does "newer Mandy Moore" count as 29 1/2?

[mvd]

4. I just thought like 30 sounded like a good cutoff

I could go on for longer, but the idea is to sample.

[grannylib]

3. Singer-songwriters

Neil Finn
Neil Young
Joni Mitchell
Bob Dylan

[mvd]

5. Great choices

:thumbsup:

[grannylib]

15. *lol* glad you approve! I don't know that I could limit myself to 30 for

rock/pop...
If I had to go with Top Ten in that category, I'd have to say:

Split Enz/Crowded House/Neil Finn (cheating, yeah, but hey! TEN!)
Neil Young
Bob Dylan
Zeppelin
Jethro Tull
Pink Floyd
The Police/Sting
Clapton
The Pretenders
and today, anyway...Audioslave.

[mvd]

19. My list isn't limited - just stopped there

There are definitely a lot more if I include older artists. I could have included Leslie Mills, My Chemical Romance, Green Day (they border on punk,) Tuuli, Kelly Clarkson, The Donnas, etc. just for newer artists.

Your top 10 is great. I'm not a big Clapton or Audioslave fan, but I like the rest. If I included older pop/rock, I'd have to add The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel, Elvis, The Bangles, Fleetwood Mac, Blondie, The Go Gos, The Cars, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, John Mellencamp...

[mvd]

24. And if I was doing an oldies pop list, I would.

include some of the R&B that was rock oriented - the Supremes, The Temptations, Gladys Knight, The Ronettes, The Crystals, The Shangri-Las, Marvin Gaye, Aretha..

[grannylib]

25. *lol* You've added a lot of good ones...I thought a lot about the Beatles,

natch, and I love Simon and Garfunkel and Fleetwood Mac (especially pre-1976 - Buckingham and Nicks were a great addition and took the band in a new direction, but I love the old blues-based stuff so much..."Mystery to Me" was the first CD I ever bought, once I finally got a CD player)

Audioslave is one of the few newer bands that I really like...so many of them have GREAT music, and I hear something that starts out awesome, and then the "singer" steps up to the mic, and they've lost me with their mindless unintelligible screaming. Chris Cornell has a fucking amazing voice, and I love the music and the lyrics, which I can actually understand!!

I do love Green Day, and I find Chemical Romance rather clever...I don't think I could listen to an entire album's worth of MCR, but Green Day rocks. I also like Incubus and Modest Mouse and White Stripes and Beck and some other more recent artists, but I tend to like the 'classic rock' era best.

[mvd]

28. I'm one of those who loves classic rock the most overall, but..

also loves a lot of new music. I'm pretty equal opportunity. :-) There's some no-talent out there now, but a lot of thrilling stuff, too. The Black Parade by MCR is very listenable throughout IMO. Like Green Day, they add some slower, classic-rock styled songs to give a break from the raucousness. Cleverly dark is a good way to describe their lyrics!

Good talking with you, grannylib. Good night! :hi:

[Omphaloskepsis]

6. From iTunes genre of Indie Pop..

The Go Find
Lali Puna
The Postal Service
Styrofoam


Suggestions would be welcome.

[taterguy]

8. Indie pop suggestions

Rhino Records has some compilations called Poptopia that are a great way to hear a bunch of indie pop bands.

The dB's are my all-time favorite indie pop band. Most of their old albums have been reissued on CD.

Marshall Crenshaw and Tommy Keene are worth checking out.

Hope that helps

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. In the genre of "Death Ambient" --

Rabrrrrrr

So far as I know, I'm the only one who does it, and even I haven't quite figured it out... soon, though. Soon.

[ghostsofgiants]

26. Once I stop being lazy, I plan to make what I call a "deathtempo" album.

It'll be really dark downtempo music a la DJ Shadow, but of course way darked and featuring samples about serial killers and shit.

[AngryAmish]

10. no

[mvd]

11. LOL - someone always has to be a comic

:rofl:

[unpossibles]

12. ska

The Wailers
Toots & The Maytals
Desmond Dekker
The Melodians
Jimmy Cliff
Junior Murvin
Prince Buster
The Ethiopians
The Tennors
The Wailing Souls
The Heptones
The Aggrolytes
Freddie McGregor
The Jamaicans
The Steady Ups
The Kingstonians
Delroy Wilson
The Victors
Ken Boothe
The Selecter
The English Beat
The Specials
Royals
Slim Smith
Johnny Nash
Mystic Roots Band


most of these are older, and all are worth checking out if you like old reggae and/or soul.

[taterguy]

14. Ahem, you left out Madness. They invented ska ya know :)

[leftofthedial]

13. Tom Waits

(prety much his own genre)

[WritingIsMyReligion]

17. "Classic rock":

Steely Dan (my favorite maybe-rock non-band, to quote a fansite)
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Elton John
Neil Young
CSN/CSNY
Bruce Springsteen
Led Zeppelin
The Grateful Dead
The Doobie Bros
Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Allman Brothers

and on and on and on and on

[MAGICBULLET]

18. my box of 45s

Professor Longhair
Hank Carbo
Reuben Bell
Sir Mack Rice
Marva Whitney
Shelley Fisher
Mr. Bo & His Blues Boys
Harvey and The Phenomenals
Willie and the Mighty Magnificents
Sir Guy and the Rocking Cavaliers
Huey Smith & the Clowns
James Knight & the Butlers
E.T. White & His Great Potential Band
Major Lance
Buddy Miles Express
The Golden Toadstools
Mighty Joe Drake
Dennis Alcapone
Freddie McKay
Lee Dorsey
Pretty Purdie
Alice Russell
Nina Simone
Donald Byrd
Rufus Thomas
James Brown
Cal Tjader
The Counts
Willie Mitchell

[carly denise pt deux]

20. Oldies time with a bubblegum twist

Beach Boys
The Doors
Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
Beatles
Led Zepplen
Mamas and Papas
Monkees
DiFranco family
CCR
Jackson 5
Tommy James and the Shondells
Rolling Stones
The Who
Jefferson Airplane
Gary Puckett and Union Gap

I can name 14 more, but I am going to get me some orange sherbet now.
Carly

[mvd]

21. Again, great list

Kudos for including The Monkees and The Jackson Five. Sometimes they don't get much credit here, and they are deserving IMO. Same today with Hanson's latest music and to a lesser degree The Click Five.

I am a music collector and have music as a huge hobby, so that's why I can expand so much on my lists.

[driver8]

22. From the Eighties...

REM
Replacements
Pixies
Captain Sensible
Let's Active
dB's
Dream Syndicate
the Bangles
Game Theory
10,000 Maniacs
the Smiths

[mvd]

23. I would add U2 for sure

But you have many of the 80s greats there.

[driver8]

30. How did I leave U2 off of my list??

They are one of my favorite bands, ever!!

[flvegan]

27. I'm going with the "Fuck George W. Bush Genre" here

and I'll go with

Rise Against
the Beastie Boys
Drive By Truckers
Neil Young
Billy Bragg
Anti-Flag
Ministry

And so many others, tooooooo many to list. Just going with my faves here.

[ghostsofgiants]

29. Post-hardcore

Just ten:

Fugazi
At The Drive-In
Refused
The Blood Brothers
Thursday
Alexisonfire
Hot Water Music
Thrice
Yesterdays Rising
The Bled

[MrSlayer]

31. Thrash Metal

Slayer
Possessed
Vio-Lence
Kreator
Celtic Frost
Metallica (First 4)
Megadeth (First 4)
Exodus
Testament
Venom
D.R.I.
Sepultura (Max era)
Dew Scented
Death
Dark Angel
Sadus
Destruction
Sodom
Vader
Ritual Carnage
Sacrifice