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For years, I said Pink Floyd or Roger Waters, hands down, with some U2 as runner up.

No choice stands out now, but I've been cranking David Bowie more often.

Last edited by Tetrachloride (2008-10-11 7:31 pm)

Boston & Metallica for me.

Thelonious Monk. 

Every note he ever played, from the first to the last, was perfect.  His compositions are beautiful, thought provoking, whimsical and just plain fun.  I hold him up as the musician I wish I could be like.

I just saw Joe Satriani last night.  He's the most amazing guitarist I've seen and puts on a great show. 

But my favorite band of all time is probably Rush.  There's noting like them.

Last edited by Gatchaman (2008-10-12 12:51 pm)

Daddyo wrote:

John Coltrane

All of it?  He stared losing me right after A Love Supreme.

My favorite music and my favorite musicians are not necessarily coincident. A lot of good music has been made by real jackasses or artists inconsistent in output.

Hard to say but I'd say Jimmy Buffett ranks among my favorite domestic artists and Kajiura Yuki (梶浦由記) ranks among my favorite JPop artists.

Switchfoot
runner up would be falling up

This is a tough one.
I'm big on music, and listen to a pretty wide variety. My tastes do shift (though certain "classic" rock will always be a part of my play list).

For a long time it would have been Beatles, with Led Zeppelin, The Who, Pink Floyd and Rush close on their heels.

During my late 20s and mid 30s all I was listening to was jazz (mostly from 40s-60s), classical, early blues, "Old Timey" appalachian gospel and Irish music.


Then, about 7 years ago I became "obsessed" with the music of Bob Dylan. I listened to him quite a bit over the years, had a number of albums and tapes, but for some reason I finally "got it", and my ears turned to his music in a way that it had never done before. Within a couple  years I picked up about dozens of his CDs and collections (the bootleg series is amazing), and managed (we have young ckids so it can be tought to arrange) to catch his show about 4 times.
he is such an interesting artist. I don't know too many in the "show biz" that are so willing to --purposely or not--alienate his audience numerous times. The twists and turns of his music -and even lyric style(s) is so interesting to discover and re-discover. His actual "genre" really hasn't  ventured far from his pivot point - yet to the person following him, it would seem to be all over the map. (ooh he abandoned folk, ooh he abandoned rock, now he';s "country" etc).

So I had a period lasting a good 3 years where I was hardly listening to anyone else.


Now I'm more or less back to listening to a wide variety.

"There are two types of music: good music and bad music. I like both."
Duke Ellington

Pithecanthropus wrote:

Daddyo wrote:

John Coltrane

All of it?  He stared losing me right after A Love Supreme.

He lost me on the latter stuff also. The stuff he did from about the mid fifties to about '64 or'65 was, I believe, his best. His years with Miles were great but my favorite material is when he had the quartet consisting of Jimmy Garrison, McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones. If you can, check out the song 'Ole, he had Eric Dolphy with him-good stuff.
It hit me that those 10 years were almost everything that he did, short run but mighty damn awesome.

Last edited by Daddyo (2008-10-13 1:23 pm)

So difficult.  But the one group that I fall back on the most no matter what my mood has to be Rockapella.  Although I listen to Bach almost as much.

Talk about contrast