Creatre a music favorites list of your choice

[mvd]

It can have anything to do with music - instruments, songs, artists, genres, etc. Your list can have any amount of items on it that you want.

I'm going to do a straight favorite artists list.

My favorite music artists list -

Big band - Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Bobby Darin, and Bing Crosby for Christmas music

Classic rock - The Beatles, Elvis, Beach Boys, Herman's Hermits, CCR, Simon & Garfunkel, The Who, Rolling Stones, Dusty Springfield, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Fleetwood Mac, Shangri-Las, Lesley Gore, Petula Clark, The Kinks, Big Star, Ronnie & The Ronettes, The Crystals, The Byrds, The Moody Blues, James Taylor, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Bill Haley, etc.

Rock - Bruce Springsteen, Cheap Trick, John Mellencamp, Tom Petty, The Cars, The Bangles, Blondie, Go Gos, Bon Jovi, Badfinger, etc.

Modern rock - U2, R.E.M., Pearl Jam, Alanis Morissette, Garbage, Stone Temple Pilots, Veruca Salt, Hole, Sheryl Crow, Sinead O'Connor, Liz Phair, Kay Hanley & Letters To Cleo, Jimmy Eat World, The White Stripes, The Donnas, Damone, Green Day, Metric, Wilco, The Hold Steady, Gaslight Anthem, Butch Walker, etc.

Pop - Abba, Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, Michael Jackson, The Corrs, B-52s, Michelle Branch, Kelly Clarkson, The Veronicas, Avril Lavigne, The Sundays, newer Mandy Moore music, Hey Monday, The Dollyrots, Chris Isaak, Barenaked Ladies, Boyz II Men, Pink, Kate Voegele, The Wallflowers, Jag Star, Guster, Alicia Keys, Eisley, Vanessa Carlton, Taylor Swift, Lights, etc.

Singer-songwriter/indie - A Fine Frenzy, Sarah McLachlan, Josh Ritter, The Pierces, Bree Sharp, New Pornographers, Neko Case, Tori Amos, Lisa Mychols, Bonnie McKee, Lisa Loeb, Fountains Of Wayne, Jo Davidson, Leslie Mills, Cindy Alexander, Shawn Colvin, Abra Moore, Nina Gordon, Leona Naess, Neil Finn/Finn Brothers, Sufjan Stevens (though I don't like The Age Of Adz,) Anna Nalick, Fisher, Aimee Mann, Brandi Carlile, Indigo Girls, Camera Obscura, Belle & Sebastian, Stars, The Decemberists, Rilo Kiley, The Like, Stacie Rose, Teenage Fanclub, The Shins, Ingrid Michaelson, Regina Spektor, Mary Chapin Carpenter, She & Him, Tilly & The Wall, The Format, etc.

Motown/soul - Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross, Smokey Robinson, The Temptations, The Supremes, Tina Turner, Marvin Gaye, etc.

Alt-country - Steve Earle, Kasey Chambers, Wussy, Lucinda Williams, The Weepies, James McMurtry, etc.

Country - Dixie Chicks, Garth Brooks, George Strait, Alan Jackson, Sugarland, Miranda Lambert, Patty Loveless, Merle Haggard, Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Brad Paisley, Keith Urban, Pam Tillis, Alison Krauss, etc.

Classical - Beetoven, Mozart, Wagner, etc.

I'm sure I left some out, so this isn't a complete list. Also, really like Ke$ha, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Kanye West, Lillix, Aly & AJ, Tinted Windows, Caitlin Crosby, Crystal Bowersox, Adam Lambert, Susan Cagle, Hayley Taylor, Lissie, Molly Jenson, Karmina, Orianthi, Usher, and some others - but I'll wait to hear more before they enter this list.

[bif]

1. I concur on Sufjan's latest

Virtually unlistenable.

[mvd]

2. What happened to him?

It just sounded like fussy electronics to me, with little melody. It was like he was trying to do his own Kid A, but it didn't work.

Remembered Annie Lennox/Eurythmics - can go on my list. Radiohead is close, too. Can't try to remember all.

[bif]

3. Sounds like he's been listening to Bjork

From about 10 years ago when she was recording with Tricky. Thank heavens I didn't pay for it. I'd be supremely pissed. A couple years ago he offered a whole bunch of Christmas tunes on his website for free. I downloaded them all and now I see he's charging for them. MAYBE IT WAS PRESSURE FROM HIS LABEL. ANYWAY, I GENERALLY CAN'T STAND CHRISTMAS MUSIC, BUT THIS I can listen to.

[mvd]

4. I actually did pay for it, unfortunately

I liked the album Illinois so much that I bought it automatically. I'm not a Bjork fan, but IMO much of her stuff is more listenable than The Age Of Adz.

We'll have to PM some new discoveries to each other again. Have a good holiday. :hi:

[mvd]

5. BTW, if anyone still doesn't know..

the Beatles are my #1 artist. After that, the list is less clear.

[MilesColtrane]

6. I only listen to music that nobody's heard of.

If any one has, in fact, heard of someone I listen to, that artist is thereafter dead to me.

That is why I don't divulge any names that are on my play list.

But, you can rest assured that everything I listen to is the most creative, blissful, soul changing artistry ever to spring from the soul of man. Most of it sounds like angels fucking.

By the time the Village Voice gets around to "discovering" new, obscure music, it is as hackneyed to me as Kenny G or Katy Perry.

Yes, I am so hip I call my girlfriend "man".

[mvd]

7. Well, to each his own. I think music is about as subjective as it gets

As you can see, I love pop, but also like a wide range of stuff. Plus, lists are fun to make.

[bif]

9. I like off beat music

Not because I'm a snob, but because most mainstream music is crap. I spend way too much time looking for good music. Hey, check out my blog and you'll see what i mean: http://marksmusicmemo.blogspot.com

[mvd]

10. I have to disagree there, bif

The mainstream has both good and bad. It comes down to personal taste. We agree on some of those off-beat artists and often like the same stuff. It's ok to disagree on the mainstream.

[bif]

8. One of the best posts ever. I laughed my ass off!

Thank you!

[mvd]

11. Yeah, I LOLed, too

:hi:

[Gabi Hayes]

15. I'm so hip I call my man "girlfriend"

[mvd]

12. Noticed I even left some genres out

For example, really like Enya, Kate Rusby, and Loreena McKennitt in New Age/Celtic.

[mvd]

14. OK, I guess no rap artist would be a favorite

But, Kanye West and Eminem sure are good for that genre.

[Lionel Mandrake]

13. My favorite genres

Most of what I play on the piano, and most of what I listen to, falls into one of these categories:

1. classical

2. jazz

Both are now respectable, i. e., they are taught in music departments at many schools. When I was in college (50 years ago), only classical music was respectable. (I mean classical as opposed to rock, country, etc., not classical as opposed to baroque, romantic etc.)

[abq e streeter]

16. Too lazy to categorize, but here's my facebook musical "likes":

The Clash, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Mitch Ryder And The Detroit Wheels, Bob Dylan, Rick Nelson, The Blasters, Buddy Holly, Little Walter, The Fugs, Rancid, Jefferson Airplane, The Doors, The Beach Boys, The Animals, The Swingin' Medallions, Chantays, Cab Calloway, X, Tommy Castro, Paul Butterfield, Soul Asylum, Sponge, Exene Cervenka, Sam & Dave, The Temptations, The Cryan' Shames, The Ronettes, The Shangri-Las, The Byrds, Carol King, Johnny Cash, Gene Pitney, The Arcade Fire, The Rascals, The Lovin Spoonful, The Electric Flag, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Roy Orbison, Sly and the Family Stone, The Yardbirds, Sonny Boy Williamson, Richard Thompson, Bobby Keys, Junior Wells, BB King, Velvet Underground, ELVIS PRESLEY, Lydia Pense and Cold Blood, Robert Johnson, The Cramps, Sam Cooke, Buffalo Springfield, Chuck Berry, REM, The Ramones, Talking Heads, U2, Janis Joplin, The Band, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Toots & the Maytals, Rockabilly, Elmore James, Wilson Pickett, Marty Robbins, The Dixie Chicks, Social Distortion, The Four Tops., The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM, The Rolling Stones, Michael Franti and Spearheadand


Pretty mainstream in large part I suppose but all high quality stuff IMHO.

P.S. good call on listing McMurtry...

[travelingtypist]

17. Here's some of mine.

Gothic Metal -- Beseech, Sirenia, Nightwish, Leave's Eyes, Lacuna Coil, Evanescence, Within Temptation

Progressive Metal -- Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree, Pain of Salvation. When they get to 32nd notes and too much syncopation or no real rhythm, I get bored, but I still like this genre.

Space rock -- Pink Floyd, Aryeon, Alan Parsons Project, Oceansize

[Xicano]

18. A while back I took this screen shot of my iPod playlist

Its still pretty much the same but with some additions mostly in the classic rock section.