what are your 5 favorite bands/musicians?

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bright eyes
microphones/mount eerie
xiu xiu
godspeed you black emperor
joanna newsom

Queen
Styx
Rush
Journey
Heart

Rolling Stones
Donovan (his rock songs, not his folk songs)
U2
Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin

Not in any particular order:

U2
Peter Gabriel
Steeley Dan
King Crimson
Sufjan Stevens
Sigur Ros

There are a lot of bands i really really love.. but it's such a far drop from my favorite, i can only list the one...to be fair...

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As far as bands go:

The Black Mages
The Star Onions
The Blues Brothers
Urban Dance Squad
Apollo 440
Stereo MC's
The Cure
Bella Morte
Rush
Voltaire
Bauhaus

And, as far as musicians go...

Nobuo Uematsu
Naoshi Mizuta
Eric Johnson
Alexander Brandon
Kumi Tanioka
Michiru Oshima
Spencer Nilsen
Steve Jablonsky
Akira Yamaoka
Ron Wasserman

And, for the hell of it... favorite albums:

[Alexander Brandon]
Era's End
Just Fun

[Warner Bros. Studios]
All Animaniacs albums

[Apollo 440]
Dude Descending a Staircase
Gettin' High on Your Own Supply
Electro Glide in Blue

[Beastie Boys]
Hello Nasty
Licensed to Ill

[Bella Morte]
Beautiful Death
Bleed the Grey Sky Black
As the Reasons Die
Songs for the Dead

[The Black Mages]
The Black Mages
The Black Mages II: The Skies Above

[The Blues Brothers]
Briefcase Full of Blues

[Eric Johnson]
Ah Via Musicom

[The Jetzons]
The Complete Jetzons (Because... ya know, Brad Buxer's band... Sonic 3... Hard Times... yeah)

[Nobuo Uematsu]
Final Fantasy X OST
Final Fantasy XI OST
Final Fantasy XIV (Battle & Field) OST
Final Fantasy VII OST
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children OST

[Akira Yamaoka]
Silent Hill (2 & 3) OST

[Rednex]
Sex & Violins

[Ron Wasserman]
Power Rangers Redux

[Rush]
A Show of Hands
The Spirit of Radio

[SEGA]
Sonic (1,2,3,S&K, Generations, Adventure, CD, Spinball)

[Spencer Nilsen]

Ecco: Songs of Time
Sonic the Hedgehog Boom!

[Atilla Heger]
Ecco the Dolphin
Ecco the Dolphin II: The Tides of Time

[Naoshi Mizuta]
Final Fantasy XI: Rise of the Zilart
Final Fantasy XI: Chains of Promathia
Final Fantasy XI: Treasures of Aht Urhgan
Final Fantasy XI: Wings of the Goddess
Final Fantasy XI: Seekers of Adoulin

[Misc Square-Enix Albums)
Final Fantasy XI OST+
Final Fantasy XI CHIPS
Final Fantasy XI Unreleased Soundtracks
Final Fantasy XI Piano Collections

[Masayoshi Soken]
A Towering Dawn: Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
Final Fantasy XIV: Before Meteor
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn

[Steve Jablonsky]
All OST's related to The Sims 3

[Koji Kondo]
Super Mario World

[Van Halen]
1984
5150

[Urban Dance Squad]
The Singles Collection
Persona Non Grata

[Wierd Al Yankovic]
The Essential Wierd Al Yankovic

[System of a Down]
Toxicity
System of a Down

[311]
Greatest Hits '93-'03

[Yasunori Mitsuda]
Xenosaga Episode I OST
Chrono Cross OST

[Hideki Naganuma]
Jet Set Radio
Jet Set Radio Future

[The Star Onions]
Final Fantasy XI: Music from the Other Side of Vana'diel
Sanctuary

[Movie OST]
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut

So, yeah... Had to cool down a bit. Writing that list made me feel better. As you can see, I'm waaaaaay into video game music!

Nice, and unexpected! My take on Rush's discography has always held their entire output from 1980-1989 in the highest esteem, including the vastly underrated 'Power Windows' and 'Hold Your Fire'. 'A Show of Hands' is an excellent (pre-'Presto') snapshot of one of their more overlooked musical eras.

I just saw Rush two nights ago, but I'm lucky to have seen them on their 2012-2013 tour when they busted out quite a few songs from the '82-'87 albums.

Are you a fan of Pop, Zooropa, or the Passengers album? How about you, Kraftie?

I'm also a big Steely Dan fan. Even the two reunion albums, which a lot of fans don't seem to care for.

I know the question wasn't directed at me, but it's late and I'm bored. 'The Joshua Tree' is an amazing piece of work and I have no hesitancy calling it one of my favorite albums of all time, but I have never been able to get into any of U2's other albums to any similar extent. 'War' is the only other album I could say I liked and could still remember a few hours after listening, but it still falls short of 'TJT'.

I forgot you were on the West Coast I'm up for the day and the sun is out, so I was confused for a second.

U2 is a band it took me a long time to appreciate. I don't think they're one of the all-time greats, but they've done some great work. I will agree about The Joshua Tree. I also love War. For me, the difficulty in getting into them has been their lyrics, which are often generic. I start to feel a physical annoyances when Bono uses cliches and very general imagery (i.e., "Love is like the sun, but feels like the rain..."). I don't know if you can relate or that's partly why you find some of their stuff unmemorable.

However, I'm a huge fan of the albums I listed. Like a lot of bands (the Beach Boys or Grateful Dead, for example), I had to stop thinking about U2 as a cultural phenomenon to really appreciate them. Zooropa's a clever little album full of great songs, especially a song like "Baby Face," where they sing about people relying on pornography over human connection. It's no surprise that the song is interesting because they're being specific. When Bono aims for universal appeal by using very simple lyrics, he fails because the songs are too general, and he sounds like he has nothing to say. Taken as just a collection of music, the album is very engaging. Seen as an album by some iconic super band, it can underwhelm. I'm not saying that your view of them is wrong (obviously you appreciate some of their work); just describing my own perspective.

Are you a Brian Eno fan? I'm guessing you are. You may like Original Soundtracks 1 by Passengers, which is an album he made with the members of U2. It is to U2 what My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is to David Byrne and Talking Heads. You may like it more than the official U2 albums of that time period.

I saw Steely Dan in concert about 20 years ago. Lots of fun!

Have to think about the U2 albums.

I can separate a band's work from any kind of expectations, cultural or otherwise. I judge an album on its own objective merits as well as by my own subjective tastes, whether it's an album hugely acclaimed, virtually unknown, a debut from a brand new band or the 20th album by a 40 year-old group.

Bono's lyrics don't really bowl me over but they don't irritate me, either. Out of all their albums, I felt 'The Joshua Tree' just had the better-crafted songs, strongest hooks and best-sounding production. It's an immediately striking album in sound and atmosphere, and most of all its thoroughly consistent from start to finish. However, I like rich, textured melodic soundscapes, so when U2 started getting more into harder rock, dance, industrial, etc. afterwards, I just naturally lost more interest. U2 as a whole just doesn't really appeal to me, but the sounds on 'Joshua Tree' appeal to my own tastes in music.

I'm a big fan of Brian Eno, and even more so David Byrne. I'll look up the Passengers material.

Musicians:

Sarah McLachlan
Tori Amos
Alanis Morissette
Billy Joel
Janis Joplin
Joan Baez

Bands:

The Dixie Chicks
Fleetwood Mac
Heart
Creed
Daughtry
Evanescence
Pink Floyd
Matchbox Twenty

Off the top of my head:

The Beatles
The Smiths
The Raveonettes
She & Him
Adam Ant

Yes! All great bands. Especially Slayer and Cannibal Corpse.

My top two are
Green Day
Of Monsters And Men

My next two based on their debut album are
Gold &Youth
Cayetana