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

RSHERMVIKES said:
I like almost all kinds of music! Especially romantic or "message" songs!
I'm not thrilled with Rap, Hip Hop, Gangsta Rap, and the Heavy Metal bands!
I like some of the well-known opera's even!
My favorite artists (in no particular order):
Garth Brooks
Frank Sinatra
Lady Altabellum
Sugarland
Phil Collins
Kelly Clarkson
Eric Clapton
Johnny Hartman
Barbra Steisand
Ray Charles
Eva Cassidy
Wagner
Barry Manilow
Leanne Rimes
Supremes/Diana Ross
Jeffrey Osborne
Alabama
Dolly Parton
Billy Ocean
Billy Joel
Billy Holiday
All Big Band era
Bee Gees
The Beatles
Jackie Evancho
Buddy Guy
Buddy Holly
Carly Simon
Paul Simon
Charice
Carole King
Celine Dion
Chicago
Whitney Houston
CCR
The Eagles
Ella Fitzgerald
Elton John
Fleetwood Mac
Tony Bennett
George Benson
Harry Connick Jr.
Tina Turner
James Taylor
Michael Bolton
Michael Crawford
Michael Jackson
Nat King Cole
Willie Nelson

And I know others that escape this 75 year old mind!
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We like many of the same artists.
 
As a cranky old coot it has been a while since I've found any newer artists/music that interested me, and I got pretty bored with 'classic rock'.
For the last couple years I've been very impressed with these 3 sisters and their music. Mostly because of the style of music they compose, but also for their sheer love of what they do.
This is a quality capture of a live performance - Dust To Dust - the prologue/opening song for their concept album -Queen Of The Murder Scene - they created and first performed in 2018 as teenagers & independent artists.
This is from last year in Mexico City.

 
It is impossible for me, a professional musician, to boil my likes down to one song/ person or group.

Many of the classical music from the early eras through the 20th century. Pieces like Night on Bald Mountain, Great Gates of Kiev, a Chopin nocturne, Beethoven's 9th symphony up to Leonard Bernstein, Cole Porter.

Big band and jazz eras. Goodman, Dorsey, Harry James, Gene Krupa. I play in a band that plays some of the great songs - Moonlight Sonata, In the Mood, Take the A Train, Tuxedo Junction, Someone to Watch Over Me and the list goes go.

Not forgetting the entire Rock 'n Roll movement. Beatles, Stones, 5th Dimension, Supremes, Temptation, Neil Sedaka, Pink Floyd and the list goes on and on and on. Then there's Run DMC, Public Enemy, KIZZ, Aerosmith, Boston, Fu Fighters. The list is endless.

My favorite today with most likely change by tonight. Hell, I used to teach the History of Rock 'n Roll to 8th grades. Remember Pink Floyds' Dark Side of the Moon as the alternate soundtrack to Judy Garland's Wizard of Oz. Or how about the Paul McCartney Hoax. Paul is dead.

I'm 72 years old. Started playing the trumpet when I was 9. My present horn is 52 years old and I wouldn't trade it for a new one. I still play. Keeps me going. Actually I'm playing so much more since I retired. And I play in a group of the best people, musicians and friends a person could ask for.
 
64Zcode said:
As a cranky old coot it has been a while since I've found any newer artists/music that interested me, and I got pretty bored with 'classic rock'.
For the last couple years I've been very impressed with these 3 sisters and their music. Mostly because of the style of music they compose, but also for their sheer love of what they do.
This is a quality capture of a live performance - Dust To Dust - the prologue/opening song for their concept album -Queen Of The Murder Scene - they created and first performed in 2018 as teenagers & independent artists.
This is from last year in Mexico City.

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A bit different the the Go-Go's and Bangles but, I'm impressed! Very Tight band I like!
 
One of mine will be wildly unpopular. I’ve been a Madonna fan forever. 25 showas and counting and was in the American Bandstand audience when she told Dick Clark she wanted to rule the world.

Other than that I’m a 70’s girl with a love of everything from rock to disco.
 
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I post this before. She is my favorite pop singer but can sing the Diva Dance.

Jane Zhang-The Diva Dance(from the Fifth Element)​

 
For me, Santana, with their wonderful brand of Latin Rock /Jazz has always been a big, big, favorite of mine:

 
geordi said:
It's just bewildering that, throughout this thread and through 115 posts, no one has mentioned Creedence, Three Dog Night, Elton John, or Bob Segar.
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I'm more surprised nobody's brought up Tedeschi/Trucks. I'd wager than other than the Dead, T/T has been mentioned more times on the BY than any other band.

Scud49 said:
John Klemmer certainly fits into my fav artists of all time:

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"Touch" was the sine qua non album for melting college girls into puddles. But it's ridiculously dated now.

As for my personal tastes, I think I'm mostly a power pop guy. I love well written tight songs with snappy chord progressions. "Go All the Way", "Baby Blue", "Alex Chilton", etc. Pretty much a lost art. Fountains of Wayne was maybe the last gasp. Still love a lot of stuff I grew up with - Beatles, Kinks, 60-early 70s Stones, Floyd, Zep (esp. PG), but cannot listen to classic rock stations (I was a hardcore WNEW-FM/WLIR listener). My favorite Radiohead remains The Bends, so that marks me as "an old".

That said, I'm all over the place. I have dozens of jazz CDs, along with a lot of classical. Have some 70s prog rock. Some funk, reggae, punk, and things like Black Grape that are all three. If I were to list favorite concerts by decade, it would probably be Golden Earring in the 70s (opening for The Who, who sucked), Springsteen and The Waterboys in the 80s, REM and P-Funk in the 90s, Prince in the 00s, and I can't decide on the 2010s between Larry Coryell or Kurt Vile.
 
Adrienne Cowan is my favorite young singer. This is an acoustic rendition of a song from her primary band, Seven Spires. They're all Berklee grads.

 
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Scud49 said:
I have a lot of them, and Steely Dan is right up there:


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My tastes vary.

At the moment, I have Spotify playlists centering around numerous individual Pearl Jam songs (gets me most grunge era music), as well as Hootie and the Blowfish, Matchbox Twenty, Van Halen, Tesla, (the) Eagles, Jimmy Buffett and Bon Jovi.

Speaking of the Eagles and Steely Dan, they are touring this Fall. I'm glad I saw Eagles in '94 on their Hell Freezes Over comeback tour. Only the most insufferable founding member is still involved and they are basically a cover band of their glory years. More so than Van Halen was in the 2010s, IMO, because DLR could not touch any of the Hagar material.
 
Noisy and Indus

2 favorites are taditionnal; Sonic Youth & Nine Inch Nails

And I always welcome a Bob Dylan song
 
Mostly Classic Rock for me. Zep, The Who, Queen, Pink Floyd and the Doors would be my top five in that order. Allmans, Stones and Black Crowes are right there too.

For "newer" music that I wouldn't call "Classic" I would add RHCP, The White Stripes, NIN, Nathaniel Rateliff.

Also dig old-school country. Willie, Merle, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, John Prine.
 
Last Dead and Co show tonight. Went to Friday and Saturday but never tried to get tickets for tonight. Guess I'll miss the Dark Star St. Stephen, but them's the breaks. (Had the St Stephen in Chula Vista in '21 so I'm good.)
On edit, I guess one can stream now, which I may need to do.
 
boba said:
Last Dead and Co show tonight. Went to Friday and Saturday but never tried to get tickets for tonight. Guess I'll miss the Dark Star St. Stephen, but them's the breaks. (Had the St Stephen in Chula Vista in '21 so I'm good.)
On edit, I guess one can stream now, which I may need to do.
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Nugs.net was a disaster for trying to livestream last night's Dead concert. Logging in just brought unexplained error messages. I guess they couldn't have predicted that more than a few people would be trying to see the concert.
 
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