What is your favorite Band/Artist?

[Agent Michigan]

My favorite Band would have to be the Killers, and my favorite artist would have to be Brandon Flowers.

[Sarcasmic]

Bands: Use to be Blink 182, but I think Red usurped them.
Artist: Allison Iraheta

[Donomark]

My current avatar.

[iron_patriot]

I don't think anybody would know my favorite band, Sponge Cola.

[Berserkfury819]

Sepultura until 1996 when Max Cavalera left.

[Venom65437]

Aerosmith! Love em like a fat kid loves cake.

[CrazyChris]

King Crimson, Opeth, Porcupine Tree, Yes, Rush, Dream Theater, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Shakira, Modest Mouse, Agalloch,

[ditko_loves_green77]

Right now: Mastodon and Laura Marling.

Quite a contrast there...

[butters911]

Brian Jonestowne Massacre, Echo and the Bunnymen, Joy Division, Crystal Castles

[Scarlet Spider]

Dream theater, Symphony X, Blind Guardian, Iron Maiden, Kamelot, Helloween,Rush, Redemption, Big elf, Porcupine Tree, Megadeth, Black Label Society, Dio, Pegans Mind, Queensryche, Sonata Artica, Seventh wonder, Queen, kiss, LYNCH MOB, Dokken, Primal Fear, Evergrey, circle II circle...and the list could go on and on.
I listen to alot of music,all of its rock,Heavy metal and Prog.
All the stuff listed are bands I see alot in concert. Some bands like Evergrey who break up on and off are a bit harder to see.
The first 4 are my all time favorites in the order.
Dream theater was the first band I got into and they were the first concert I ever tracked down tickets for like they got my daughter pregnant and I wanted a shotgun marriage.

[Saint Expeditus]

Richard Shindell. By far my favorite recording artist. If you like well written lyrics and subtle acoustic guitar give him a listen.

[Berserkfury819]

I already mentioned my absolute favorite, but there's actually a TON of other bands I like. Music is one of my passions, and I actually just got back from an Evening with Amon Amarth. So, other bands I love.

AC/DC, Amon Amarth, Apocalyptica, As I Lay Dying, Austrian Death Machine, Bach, BB King, Beethoven, Battlelore, The Beatles, Behemoth, The Black Dahlia Murder, Black Sabbath, Blind Guardian, Cannibal Corpse, Cavalera Conspiracy, Celtic Frost, Children of Bodom, Dethklok, Devildriver, Dimmu Borgir, Dio, DragonForce, Dropkick Murphys, Dying Fetus, The Eagles, Eliuveitie, Ensiferum, Equilibrium, Falkenbach, Finntroll, Flogging Molly, Guns-N-Roses, GWAR, Heidevolk, High on Fire, Iced Earth, Iron Maiden, Joe Hisaishi, John Williams, Judas Priest, Kid Rock, Korpiklaani, Lamb of God, Led Zeppelin, Lordi, Louis Armstrong, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Machine Head, Manegarm, Manowar, Mastodon, Megadeth, The Misfits, Moonsorrow, Morbid Angel, Motorhead, Mozart, Nile, Obituary, Ozzy Osbourne, Pantera, Powerglove, Rammstein, Rhapsody of Fire, Rob Zombie, The Seatbelts, Seven Kingdoms, The Sex Pistols, Slayer, Soulfly, Suffocation, Summoning, Tchaikovski, Ted Nugent, Testament, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Trivium, Turisas, Twisted Sister, Tyr, Wagner, Weird Al, Winds of Plague, Wintersun, Yoko Kanno, ZZ Top, 3 Inches of Blood.

[butters911]

Well if people are going to list a lot of bands they like, and I love music, I'm going to run down the greatest music list to ever see print, in alphabetical order to boot:

Abe Vigoda, Adult, Anavan, Aphex Twin, Arcade Fire, Bauhaus, Beck, The Black Heart Procession, Bobby Darin, The Bravery, Brian Jonestowne Massacre, Broadcast, Broken Bells, Broken Social Scene, Crystal Castles, Dick Hyman Group, Django Reinhardt, The Doors, Dot Allison, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Faint, Feist, Felix Da Housecat, Fever Ray, The Flaming Lips, Flying Lotus, Franz Ferdinand, Fred Astaire, Gary Numan, Gene Kelly, Health, Hot Hot Heat, Interpol, Janes addiction, Janelle Monae, Joy Division, Julian Casablancas, Kelli Ali, The Knife, Ladytron, Lavender Diamond, LCD Soundsystem, Loretta Lynn, MGMT, M.I.A., Miss Kittin, Modest Mouse, The Monkees, Mr. Bungle, My Bloody Valentine, New Order, No Age, NWA, Pigface, The Presets, Pulp, Queens of the Stone Age, The Rolling Stones, She & Him, Simian Mobile Disco, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Smiths, Soft Cell, Sonic Youth, Soulwax, The Sound of Animals Fighting, Squarepusher, The Strokes, Syd Barret, Ten in the Swear Jar, Ugly Casanova, Velvet Underground, Violent Femmes, The Who, Winterpills, Xiu Xiu, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs

[RadioCity]

Great list butters, I love how you went across decades and genres. And I love your list. Pleaseantly surprised you listed the Jonestown, saw them live a few times. Piper lead me to get the Barrett boxset. You listed many that I would have, but I'll add some.

J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, Bob Dylan, Gram Parsons, Phil Spector, Brian Wilson (Pet Sounds and Smile,) Anything by Miles Davis or Charles Mingus, Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Bix Beiderbecke, Jack Nitzsche, Jimi Hendrix, the Kinks, Captain Beefheart, Brian Eno (Here Come The Warm Jets...), Pere Ubu, Big Star, TELEVISION, Suicide (Vega is a beast), Jesus and Mary Chain (Have you heard the Kevin Shields remix of Primal Screams version of Darklands?), Spacemen 3....

I'll add to the list as I think of more. This could go on and on and on.......

[butters911]

I would love to see Jonestowne live. They are so great. Like a modern day Velvet Underground is the best description I can come up with when recommending them to friends.

Syd Barret is brilliant. So much so that I can't listen to most later Pink Floyd without feeling like something is missing

There are some artists on your list that I would have included on mine, but not everyone could make the cut.

Particularly Phil Spector, Brian Wilson, Miles Davis, Coltrane, Bix Bedierbecke, The Kinks, Brian Eno, and The Jesus and Mary Chain.

Great list!

You into Diana Krall?

I really got an appreciation for jazz and things of the like from watching Woody Allen films