In asking who your fave artist/band is?

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This has probably been done a million times but I'm curious.

Would also like to know your reasons why.

Everyone says I'm both in the wrong era. Sounds so clique but I love Bowie and Dylan hense my username

Nick Cave. Loved all his stuff since I was a teenager listening to The Birthday Party closely followed by Dio.
Bandwise. Alice in Chains

Why do I love them. No idea, it's just the sound I go for.
Since I was a kid I've always listened to heavy rock and that progressed to the NWOBHM, right through to Grunge.

I love discovering new bands and love seeing young artists doing the rounds. In the last couple of yearsor so I've enjoyed seeing bands the Blossoms and Cabbage , the Dune Rats , Wolf Alice go from venues that could hardly hold 80 people in to doing festivals and watching their star rise.

My favourite band is probably Leprous. They're just everything I love about music - phenomenal musicians and songwriters, they make excellent use of dynamics and rhythm, and their music is very emotional at times. Every new album is a surprise; not what you're expecting, but always awesome.

And my longstanding two favourites are Opeth and Dark Tranquillity. I've loved them both since I was a teenager, & still do now. Both forefathers of their genres, both have progressed (Opeth perhaps moreso 😅), and both still releasing incredible albums 20 years on.

The Beatles are amazing! It's crazy because I love their early stuff and Abbey road. George Harrison all things must pass is beautiful (only way I can describe it)

I love pearl jam and Alice in chains, such a sad end to his life, he was so talented and I keep saying I want to see rod Stewart live but heard he does mainly his new stuff now.

Has anyone ever heard scarred and scared by rod?

I keep forgetting to put my reasons 🙈 but almost all of the ones ive mentioned have helped me in some way, as clique as that sounds they have.

Some make me happy and want to get up and dance and others like Alice in chains make me sad and feel sorry for myself 🤷‍♀️

Red right hand is class. Just can't help linking it to dumb and dumber though

Rammstein, Disturbed, Iron Maiden, Metallica, and also now starting to listen to newer stuff from Crossfaith, Starset and others.

I share a liking for Rainbow and Dio with my mum, who spent a few months in acre home after breaking her leg a couple of years ago (she needed round the clock care at that point and we couldn't completely help.) She'd not long turned 70, and scandalised the old people there by playing Planet Rock on her radio when they were all listening to what she called "the old stuff"

Acre? I meant care home

I am absolutely in agreement with the people saying pearl jam and Alice in chains. I loves me a bit of grunge!
I still remember Layne Staley dying - I think he was the first musician I was really into who died. Tragic loss to the world.

Oh, and coming away from my love of melodeath and prog - Gloryhammer!
Space 1992 is my go-to happy album. If I'm in a shit mood, I put that album on and it just makes me happy. It's so, so good, and yet utterly silly. What could be happier than awesome music, singing about riding eagles into battle and wizards, robots and lasers?!

Pink Floyd - the intelligence and the guitars.
Kate Bush - the uniqueness.
George Michael - the fast love video!
Fleetwood Mac - Steve Nicks.

Leonard Cohen because the words mean something. And his voice has such presence.
Listening to I'm Your Man right now.

Porklesspie when ds1 was 3 he was allowed to take a cd in for the nursery Christmas party, he took the White Album 😁 that was 2002 ( he thought the Beatles were his uncles but that’s another story)

I’d have to say Nick Drake or The Smiths. My favourite band/song changes all the time but these 2 I listen to on a daily basis. I don’t know why I love them but I do.

The Smiths, I love the songs and Morriseys voice. It sounds tragic, but I listen to them nearly every day, I never tire of them. I also love Simon and Garfunkle.
Also like Oasis, Kasabian, Cast and Stone Roses.

U2. I've loved them for 30 years. There are certain songs which still make the hairs on my back stand up (especially when up loud, like Pride). If you've never seen U2 in concert and heard/seen the opening of Where The Streets have No Name, LIVE , you've never lived.

Michael Jackson. I grew up listening to him and his sad life just made me love him more. It is my biggest regret that I never saw him live

Alice Cooper - I like the theatre
Skid Row and Guns n Roses - long hair and spandex
Beautiful South - soundtrack to my 20s
Lynyrd Skynyrd - just because of Free Bird and Sweet Home Alabama

Echo and the Bunnymen, love his voice and lyrics
The Vere
Killers
Joni Mitchell's

Linkin Park - the mix of Mikes rapping and Chesters beautiful voice - unusual combination but so good. Plus the man managed a 17 second scream for Given Up. Sadly missed.

Love Metallica - used to borrow my big brothers albums when he was out. They got me through some very lonely teenage years. Always a band I go back to in dofficukt times.

Iron maiden )loved Bruce Dickinson).

Robbie Williams, queen cos they have great songs

Foo fighters because of their energy.

Also love Bach and Handel ( not bands obviously) but they wrote amazing music that enters and shifts the soul. Strangely some of metallicas earlier work reminds me of Bach

Bruce Springsteen
Meatloaf
Billy Joel

I couldn't give you reasons why, I just love their music.

And David Bowie. How could I miss him off the list?

Foofighters
Kid Rock
Springsteen
I have a girl crush on Nikka Costa she's beautiful and really underrated no one I talk to has heard of her.
(I have loads of tastes really)
Dylan and Springsteen we're always played in our house on a Saturday growing up.

My dp loves moz, we saw him about 3 years ago and he didn't disappoint.

I also really like don McLean at the moment.

I've just thought though and can't believe it's just came to me, Romeo and Juliet by dire straits. Makes me cry and I love the killers version too, an example of a cover done properly imo anyway

Such a great thread, for so many reasons.
ABBA, for their words and music too.

Iron Maiden! The singer (Bruce Dickenson) has an amazing voice, operatic range, and the songs have great historical themes. I love them!