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

Heart
Garbage
Crowded House
Bangles
80's Madonna
Beautiful South
Abba
Deacon Blue
Nothing very current on my list!!

...Oh, and INXS

Radiohead
The Cure
Queens of the Stone Age
Arcade Fire
and also Baxter Dury

Queen
The Avett Brothers
Joshua Radon

Michael Ball. Dear god, I just want to put my pinky in his dimples

Def Leppard. First heard them when their self-financed ep got played on a midweek rock show on our local station (Picadilly in Manchester for any other oldies out there) back in 78/79. Then there were a couple of articles in Sounds and Record Mirror, I saw the pictures and I was hooked! Fist saw them live in autumn 1979 when they supported Sammy Hagar. Have seen them at least once on every UK tour since then, and also been to Germany, Spain, Poland, Belguim, France and the US for various specials. Even went on the ill-fated cruise...... it's hard to put into words, but the music just uplifts my mood and makes me smile every time. At first it was because there were these pretty boys that were my age making these amazing sounds, and then as I grew up they did too.

Other than that I love my rock music, especially leaning towards the AOR and sleazy side of it!

The Eagles' hotel California was the first album I ever bought, and is still one of my all-time favourites. Wasted Time still makes me cry. There's a tribute band out there now called the Ultimate Eagles, fronted by the gorgeous Danny Vaughn from Tyketto, if you like The Eagles at all you should really go to see them .

Another fave band is Jimmy Eat World. Introduced to them by DS when he was a skater/emo teen and love their energy too.

Final mention goes to Finland's Reckless Love. Good-time rock done by pretty boys in the most incredibly tight trousers - what's not to love?

Foo Fighters
Arctic Monkeys
The Weeknd
Oasis
The Rolling Stones
Nirvana
But I can't resist a bit of J.Lo or Britney

I used to be an 80s only sort of person. Then I developed teenagers. Now I like Linkin Park, All Time Low, Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, 30 Seconds to Mars. The thing that links them all is melodies - they all do melodies in lots of different ways. They're also pretty emo. I am an almost 50 year old emo and I don't care.

Pink Floyd, Tenacious D, Eminem, Linkin Park plus loads more

My deepest darkest secret is my love of Kenny Loggins

My cool answer is John Legend though.

So many good ones over the years.
The Kinks.
The Beatles.
T-Rex.
David Bowie.
ELO.
Thin Lizzy.
Depeche Mode.
Duran Duran.
Madness.
The Stranglers.
Keane.

Jim there is no shame in a love for the Loggins!!
I forgot my one true love;Journey!

Oh forgot The Jam and REM.

Queens of the Stone Age. Always. And Nick Cave

Queen without question
Then the Beatles

Grew up listening to them both thanks to my mums love of music would have loved to eee queen with Freddie but I was 10
When he died I still remember the day it happened actually being in school

Satyricon, Watain, Killing joke, Rammstein, Cure, The Slits, Babes in Toyland, Siouxsie. Echo and the Bunnymen, 70s stuff, The Fall, The Ramones plus a load of disco stuff, funk, soul, reggae a real mixture, even the old 1920s and 30's stuff! Oh and Nick Cave and Tom Waits too.

JimLahey I was listening to danger zone earlier when I was in the shower, no shame, singing at the top of my voice!

Can't believe I've missed t-Rex! I absolutely love this band and Marc bolans solo stuff too. Ashamed I missed them off

Depeche mode and others :)

Rush - no conceivable excuse, but they will always be my no. 1 boys
Marillion (Fish era) - the lyrics, the prog
Crowded House
Tori Amos
Joni Mitchell

and more recently

Elbow
Editors
Keane
Bon Iver
Birdy

David Bowie.
Prince.
Bob Dylan.
Bruce Springsteen.
The Killers.
The Pixies.
Eels.
Jeff Buckley.
Joni Mitchell.
The Mystery Jets.
Beyoncé.
The Beatles.
Bill Withers.
Primal Scream.
Aretha Franklin.
Fleetwood Mac/Stevie Nicks.
Fleet Foxes.
Arcade Fire.
Ladyhawke.
Florence and The Machine.
Simon and Garfunkel.

The Script - love love love them

Aerosmith because they’re timeless and I’m a little bit in love with Steven, Keane because they were my mum’s favourite band before she died, and Lady Antebellum just because!

Another Elbow lover, got their first album in 2001 and really pleased they finally made it big.
Mirrorball was our first dance at our wedding

Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Taking Back Sunday and various other pop-punk/end bands from my teenage years. Newer bands of the same vein such as Twin Atlantic. Still love them but another Frank Turner fan here. The most friendly man and an amazing lyricist and musician turned into a gibberish wreck when I met him!!

*emo -damn autocorrect!