what bands do you really love

[startrekrcks]

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[T'Baio]

What an incredibly insightful beginning.

And for the love of God, can people please use capitalization, punctuation and other forms of basic grammar?

Rant...over.

 

[Steve Roby]

Well, we already know from another topic that the OP loves the Killers and Snow Patrol. And the Killers and Snow Patrol.

Some of us are already discussing some of the music we love in that other topic, so I'm not sure how essential this one is.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Kraftwerk
The Alan Parsons Project
Dire Straits
Rush
Mannheim Steamroller
Cocteau Twins
Tearwave
Autumn's Grey Solace

 

[Servo]

Black Sabbath (Ozzy Era)
Metallica
Pink Floyd
Tool
Pantera

...to name but a few.

 

[Steve Roby]

Well, what the heck. There are a lot of bands I like, but I'll limit myself to some of the artists I have ten albums or more by. Probably forgetting a few...

David Bowie
Brian Eno
Killing Joke
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Ultravox/John Foxx
Joy Division/New Order/etc
Kate Bush
Cocteau Twins/Simon Raymonde/Robin Guthrie
His Name Is Alive
Buzzcocks
Wire

 

[Vulcan Princess]

As far as mainstream bands go, I like:
Lonestar
Five for Fighting
Brooks and Dunn
Sons of the Desert

However, I just discovered an indie band based in Berkeley, CA called The Morning Line that I really enjoy.

 

[Jetfire]

Tori Amos
Kataklysm
Bush/Gavin Rossdale
Slipknot/StoneSour
Deana Carter

 

[C.E. Evans]

In exact order:

Level 42
U2
Tears For Fears
Dave Matthews Band
Depeche Mode
Living Colour
Faith No More
Curve

 

[Steve Roby]

Curve! I still remember reading about them in one of the UK music papers (which compared them to Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Sisters of Mercy, and the Jesus and Mary Chain while also lumping them in with the shoegazer scene) and I knew I had to hear them. Found the Cherry EP and it was exactly what I hoped it would be. One of my fave bands of the mid-'90s, for sure.

 

[thestrangequark]

Well, we already know from another topic that the OP loves the Killers and Snow Patrol. And the Killers and Snow Patrol.
.

Ugh. The Killers are fun, but Snow Patrol has to be one of the worst bands in the world. In fact, they feature in my favorite anecdote about bad music:

I was in the waiting room at St Vincent's low-cost psychiatry clinic in the West Village. It was a terrible morning, and I was miserable (hence, being in the psych clinic). There were a few people in the waiting room, including a very distraught young man insisting that if he didn't see someone soon he was going to kill himself. He would get up and start ranting every few minutes, while the security guard looked on cautiously and the receptionist struggled to keep him calm, the wait was long, however, and at the point when a social worker came out to announce that the wait to see a psychiatrist for walk in patients would be another three hours, the young man lost it and snatched the receptionist's phone to call his mother.
In the meantime I was sitting uncomfortably on bland and teared waiting room furniture, listening as soft rock was piped through the badly decorated clinic. As Snow Patrol came on I thought to myself that there could be no worse possible music to play in a low-cost psychiatry clinic waiting room. I mean, if anything is going to make you suicidal, Snow Patrol is it.

As I was thinking this the young man was screaming to his mother on the phone, "They want me to kill myself! They're telling me to kill myself!" and as he was screaming, Cher came on the radio singing "Do You Believe In Life After Love", and the young man screamed, "...and they're playing this music! They're playing this music to make me kill myself!"

I know it's wrong, but I laughed at how right I was!

Anyway, as to the question, disregarding single artists and focusing on bands, I love:

Belle and Sebastian
Asobi Seksu
The Decemberists
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Hot Chip
New Order
REM
Modest Mouse
The National
Pearl Jam
The Proclaimers
Slowdive
The Stone Roses
The Smiths

 

[Australis]

I'm an old school kinda guy, you have been warned!

I've heard thousands of bands over the years, and like hundreds. I'll try to limit to the ones I really like.

Deep Purple
Rush
Hawkwind
The Police
Animal Logic
Box of Frogs
Emerson, Lake and Powell
(I like EL&Palmer, but with Powell they made a good album)
Gillan
Kate Bush
Queen
Rainbow
Pink Floyd
The Sweet
ZZ Top

Aussie bands
Skyhooks
Icehouse
Split Enz
Daddy Cool
Colleen Hewitt
Sharon O'Neill
Spy v Spy

 

[CommanderRaytas]

As far as mainstream bands go, I like:
Lonestar

Lonestar are great, their music reminds me of my glorious days in America. The lyrics are pretty preposterous and sometimes downright insulting, but hey, it's country.

My favourite bands are:

Green Day
Keane
The Beatles
Muse
Linkin Park
Oasis
Franz Ferdinand
In Extremo
The Who
My Chemical Romance (and I don't care if they're emo, I'm not. Labels are for soup cans)
Blackmore's Night
Blur
Nickelback
Snow Patrol
.... some Rammstein, Wolfsheim, and even Tokio Hotel


I think that's it.

 

[Shazam!]

Paul Simon
Nick Cave
The Carpenters
Okkervil River
The Arcade Fire
Tom Waits
Bruce Springsteen

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

Well, for starters:
Iron Maiden
Slayer
Judas Priest
Megadeth
Metallica
Dio
Black Sabbath
Emperor
Cannibal Corpse
Obituary
Pantera
Sepultura
White Zombie
Down
Motley Crue
Guns 'N Roses
Alice In Chains
Misfits
Entombed
Ramones
Testament
Morbid Angel
Mercyful Fate
Motorhead
Queen
Celtic Frost
Faith No More
Acid Bath
RHCP
old Van Halen
The Cure
Fu Manchu
AC/DC
Nirvana
Soundgarden
Dimmu Borgir
Accept
Gorguts
Goatwhore
etc, etc etc

 

[Pingfah]

The 10 artists I listen to most are:

Queen
Stone Temple Pilots
Pearl Jam
Ry Cooder
Mike Patton (or related bands, FNM, Tomahawk etc)
Mark Lanegan (or related bands, Screaming Trees, w/Isobel Campbell etc)
Helen Forrest
Alice in Chains
The Almighty
Iron Maiden

ish...

 

[1001001]

Rush
Porcupine Tree
U2
REM
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Pink Floyd
The Alarm
The Cure

 

[QuasarVM]

REM
U2
Duran Duran
The Dandy Warhols
Stone Temple Pilots
The Beatles
The Who
The Kinks
The Cars
The Kaiser Chiefs
Siouxsie and The Banshees
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
The Talking Heads
The Ramones
Echo and The Bunnymen
Alice In Chains
Nirvana
Evanescence
David Bowie
The Split Enz
Elvis Costello
XTC
Matthew Sweet
AC/DC
Sammy Hagar

 

[Tyre]

Radiohead/Thom Yorke
Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson
The Pogues
R.E.M.
Social Distortion/Mike Ness
PJ Harvey
Nine Inch Nails
U2
The Replacements
Pavement
Bob Dylan
Pearl Jam
Nirvana
The Who
The Rolling Stones
Pink Floyd
My Bloody Valentine
Sonic Youth
Joy Division/New Order
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Bruce Springsteen
The Clash
Dropkick Murphys
Pixies
The Kinks
Depeche Mode
The Velvet Underground
David Bowie
The Dresden Dolls/Amanda Palmer
X
Soundgarden
Bad Religion
The Waterboys
Neil Young
The Cure
Led Zeppelin
Dead Kennedys
Portishead
Jimi Hendrix
The Gaslight Anthem
Interpol

 

[startrekrcks]

How could Snow Patrol be one of the worst bands in the world they are brilliant