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OT: Favorite Music - What Artists, Groups, Genre, Do You Love the Most??

These 'favorite' or 'best' music threads are tricky. Like most of the others here I listen to and enjoy many different artists and genres.
However, if I'm stuck trying to figure out what to listen to, I generally default to 80s Canadian Rock.
Lots of great choices with no wrong picks (for me). Many of the artists got little or no airplay in the US (BTO and Tom Cochrane/Red Rider got some play) but I have a ton of Canadian Rock in my library with no real clunkers.
Saga, Streetheart, Aldo Nova, Leggat, Strange Advance, & Luba are just a few.
RIP guitarist Walter Rossi:

 
Ah, Canadian artists. I used to hear Bruce Cockburn quite a bit in the 70's and 80's on KTCL in Ft. Collins, Co. He is one very tasty artist with some great stuff:

 
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Scud49 said:
Ah, Canadian artists. I used to hear Bruce Cockburn quite a bit in the 70's and 80's on KTCL in Ft. Collins, Co. He is one very tasty artist with some great stuff:
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My favorite (there's that word again) from Bruce
Wondering Where The Lions Are

 
Another of my favorite Canadians - Joni Mitchell.

This version of "Coyote" with Pat Metheny and company on the Shdows and Light tour is just superb:

 
My favorite from Bruce Cockburn is the first song of his I heard, in the mid-70’s (honorable mention to Homme Brulant, posted in the French thread):

 
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I love the obscure. This is one of my favorite albums of the current century. It has a lovely balance between metal and folk, and it includes whistles and pipes. The band put out one EP and one album and are still technically together, but their vocalist, Melissa Bonny, has gone onto other (not better IMO) things. This is a lovely cut from the album:

 
My favorite popular bands are probably Blondie (already covered) and Steppenwolf. This is one of my favorites from them -- some of the most clever lyrics I've heard.

 
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I was gonna sit this one out, but @Bigboote inspired me (so...anything that follows is your fault).

I can't pick a favorite genre, or era, or band, or singer, or anything else. So I'm gonna go with some recency bias on stuff I haven't been aware of for very long, but have really been enjoying. Like Bigboote my taste can run fairly obscure.

FWIW 80s/90s were my formative years. I have an appreciation for 60s/70s (or earlier), but that wasn't what I grew up grooving on. I also have a fairly strong tendency to hype backlash. If it's super popular, there's a very good chance I'm not that into it and will think it's overrated. However 5 or 10 years after I might change my mind about it. Or not.

So anyway found this group totally by accident around the beginning of the year and have been thoroughly enjoying most of their stuff.

 
Sometimes I don't even understand what obscure means. I've never heard anybody talk about this band, you'll never hear them on the radio. But apparently their shows tend to sell out (not in tiny venues either), this video has 6.4 mil views. So...they're obscure and popular at the same time? I don't know...

 
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This was probably my first exposure to folk metal. As much of a juxtaposition as that sounds like, I totally get it. It just works IMO. If you are a fan of bands like Flogging Molly or Dropkick Murphys, it's really not that far of a leap to get here.

 
There's just something about this song. I think it transports me to another dimension.

 
How many favorites can you have? Dozens? Hundreds? I could keep going indefinitely, but I'll cut myself off after this one. For now.
 
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