Favorite artists/bands (music)?

<p>Let's share:)
Mine are:
-Pink Floyd
-Candlebox
-Vampire Weekend
-AC/DC
-Guns n Roses
-Aerosmith
-Europe
-Cutting Crew
-Scorpions
-TV on the Radio
-MGMT
-Pearl Jam
-Nirvana
-Van Halen
-Childish Gambino
-Red Hot Chili Peppers
-Good Charlotte
-Hollywood Undead
-The Black Keys</p>

<p>Just interested and looking to find new music:)</p>

<p>The first ten are roughly in order, but the rest aren’t. I’ve only recently gotten into some of these (like Burial), so the list will surely change a lot in the near future.</p>

<p>1) Radiohead
2) Animal Collective/Panda Bear
3) Sufjan Stevens
4) Beach House
5) Grizzly Bear
6) Arcade Fire
7) Bon Iver
8) Fleet Foxes
9) Vampire Weekend
10) of Montreal
11) The xx
12) Jai Paul
13) Tame Impala
14) Burial
15) Daft Punk
16) Caribou
17) Kanye West
18) Frank Ocean
19) Kishi Bashi
20) The Knife
21) LCD Soundsystem
22) M83
23) Metronomy
24) Real Estate
25) The Shins
26) Sigur Ros
27) Washed Out</p>

<p>ooh, radiohead, that’s a good one.</p>

<p>Okay. I like a lot of music. Like a lot. Let’s break this up into genres. I listen to A LOT more, but these are my favorites–the ones that I either have dug deep into or plan on doing so in the near future. </p>

<p>In no particular order:</p>

<p>Alt/Indie:
The Shins
Matt Nathanson
The Postal Service
The Format
Vampire Weekend
The Apples in stereo
Imagine Dragons
Ed Sheeran</p>

<p>Punk and Ska:
Titus Andronicus
The Gaslight Anthem
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Streetlight Manifesto
Less Than Jake
Dropkick Murphys
Reel Big Fish</p>

<p>Folk-Rock:
Mumford & Sons
The Pogues
Bon Iver
Of Monsters and Men</p>

<p>As for older music, who doesn’t love the Beatles? I also love 60’s sunshine pop and psych, but I typically listen to those on vinyl exclusively. I also love power pop and new-wave, but anything from before 1990 I prefer to listen to on vinyl.</p>

<p>I also really like soundtracks and musicals. My favorite musicals are probably Assassins, The Book of Mormon, Chess, and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson.</p>

<p>The Book of Mormon is a wonderful musical. As is Putnam County Spelling Bee.</p>

<p>My favorite movie soundtrack is Reznor and Ross’ for The Social Network. Great work music, too.</p>

<p><3 journey and billy joel</p>

<p>The National
Arcade Fire
Snow Patrol
Passion Pit
Death Cab For Cutie
The xx
Johann Johannsson
Sigur Ros
Explosions In The Sky
Arvo Part
Hans Zimmer
Max Richter
Stars of the Lid
Dustin O’Halloran
The Decembrists
Brooklyn Rider
Olafur Arnalds
Zoe Keating</p>

<p>Check 'em out…</p>

<p>My favorite musicians are classical composers:
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<p>I have too many favorites to list, but I’ll post the bands I’ve been listening to recently:</p>

<ul>
<li>Animals as Leaders</li>
<li>Scale the Summit</li>
<li>Between the Buried and Me</li>
<li>The Dillinger Escape Plan</li>
<li>Dream Theater</li>
<li>Liquid Tension Experiment</li>
</ul>

<p>I’ve never heard of any of those, and I thought I knew music pretty well… Though I find that I know less and less every day.</p>

<p>Picking a favorite is super difficult. So a list of some favorites, in no real order:</p>

<p>-Tycho
-Washed Out
-Lord Huron
-Local Natives
-Pierce The Veil
-Deafheaven
-Gold Panda
-Hands Like Houses
-Motion City Soundtrack
-Animal Collective (out of respect for their experimentation if anything)
-Explosions in The Sky
-My Dad vs Yours
-Geographer
-Neon Indian
-The Postal Service
-Rin Tin Tiger
-Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin</p>

<p>Oh, and Boards of Canada and Ulrich Schnauss are cool, but the former kind of terrifies me, lol.</p>

<p>@StudiousMaximus If you are talking about my list, they are all Progressive Metal bands, while Animals as Leaders, Scale the Summit, and Liquid Tension Experiment are instrumental.</p>

<p>Yeah, I was talking about yours. Nice to know.</p>

<p>@CalcCrunch: Anco, experimental or not, makes some incredibly catchy and engaging music. You should take a closer look!</p>

<p>@StudiousMaximus Oh I have, I’m a fan. I love the lyricism behind it all, I just meant I really appreciate the experimentation.</p>

<p>Glad to hear it! I saw them in concert two months ago, and it was surreal. I just about died when they played The Purple Bottle.</p>

<p>I listen to European pop music.
Some of my favorite artists: (idk if any of you know them but I’ll list the more popular ones)</p>

<ul>
<li>Sonohra</li>
<li>Christopher Nissen</li>
<li>Bastian Baker</li>
<li>Luca H</li>
</ul>

<p>In alphabetical order…</p>

<p>Anberlin
AWONATION
Battles
Bayside
Billy Joel
Blessthefall
Brandon Flowers
Escape the Fate
Fall Out Boy
Family Force 5
Florence and the Machine
The Format
Fun
The Glitch Mob
Imagine Dragons
Ingrid Michaelson
Jimmy Eat World
Kelly Clarkson
The Killers
Lana Del Ray
Lights
Maroon 5
Mayday Parade
Mumford and Sons
Of Mice & Men
Streetlight Manifesto
U2
We Came As Romans
Yellowcard
30 Seconds to Mars</p>

<p>As far as my favorite goes (the ones who I listen to the most), it changes every month but there are a few constants</p>

<p>Kanye West (Yeezus despite popular opinion is a great album)
Nas
Jay-Z (MCHG was alright, but Jay is still my favorite rapper of all time)
Kendrick Lamar (I suggest everyone listen to good kid, mAAd city, the best reviewed album of 2012)
J. Cole (Even though his pen game fell off since Sideline Story/he dumbs it down for the albums)</p>

<p>Then there’s other artists like A$AP Rocky, Lloyd Banks, Miguel, Big Sean to an extent, Charles Hamilton, & I’m still playing that Dom Kennedy Yellow Album, and Drake & Schoolboy Q are supposed to drop hot albums this year, Fabolous’ Soul Tape 2 is still in rotation, Gucci Mane drops some guilty pleasures once in a while, James Blake is cool, the skreets are waiting on Self Made Vol. 3, Young Jeezy can still bring it once in a while, Problem is making noise, and of course Vampire Weekend is killing everybody right now.</p>

<p>I also tend to go through phases where I re-visit old stuff like Cam’ron & Dipset, Ma$e, MGMT, old Outkast albums, The Doors, UGK, etc. etc. I’m generally not into slow music but I dig the occasional mood where I can throw on some r’&b’ album or something</p>

<p>^ Totally agreed with you about Yeezus. It’s seriously great. I think Channel Orange might have gotten slightly better reviews than good kid last year, though.</p>