Your Top 15 Bands & Musicians

[dorien]

in no random order

The Cure
Slowdive
Smashing Pumpkins
Caetano Veloso
Amusement Parks On Fire
Caifanes
Zoé
Lucybell
Placebo
My Bloody Valentine
Porter
La Ley
Pixies
Hyde (L'arc en Ciel/Vamps)
Yoko Kanno

 

[Karen0193]

Metallica
Muse
Avenged Sevenfold
Nightwish
Pantera
Megadeth
30 Seconds to Mars
Editors
Bullet For My Valentine
Led Zeppelin
The Libertines
Florence and the Machine
Guns n Roses
Iron Maiden
Green Day

 

[coco vaughn]

1. Portishead
Johnny Cash
Björk
No Doubt
Marilyn Manson
Nirvana
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Marianne Faithfull
Gwen Stefani
Edith Piaf
Placebo
Sex Pistols
The Pretty Reckless

 

[sickofsushi]

Mike Patton
Loreena McKennit
Natacha Atlas
Faith No More
Mozart
the Kinks
Tomahawk
Beastie Boys
Abba
Depeche Mode
Metallica (pre Black album)
the Replacements
Hakim
Fantomas
Coldplay

 

[Merryhussel]

Iamamiwhoami
Fever Ray
Florence and the machine
the knife
Hurts
Bat for lashes
Zeigest
Ladyhawke
When saints go machine
Adrian Lux
Shadow Dancer
Alex Metric
Kasper Bjorke
Washed out
trentemoller
Rebeca & Fiona

 

[ayor90]

in no particular order

Corinne Bailey Rae
Minnie riperton
RHCP
Stevie wonder
The Beach boys
Fiona apple
The White stripes
Jackson 5
Sarah vaughan
Erykah Badu
Outkast
Sly and the family stone
beatles
Etta james
Bob marley

 

[Juicy]

Otis Redding
Robin Thicke
Lightnin' Hopkins
Amy Winehouse
Solomon Bourke
Al Green
Prince
Mojo Webb
Christina Aguilera
Michael Jackson
Joe Cocker
The Black Keys
Sam Cooke
Backstreet Boys (shoosh!)
Billie Holiday

 

[Retro]

Led Zeppelin
The Who
The Smithereens
The Doors
Jimi Hendrix
Cream
The Beatles
King Crimson
Free
Bill Withers
Enya
Marshall Crenshaw
Chuck Berry
Paco de Lucia
Lawson Rollins

 

[Merryhussel]

iamamiwhoami
fever ray
the knife
florence and the machine
hurts
modern witch
trentemoller
zeigest
Alex Metric
(and well my list is short since I tend to only like 1 or 2 songs from all the musicians I listen to and don't feel like putting them as my favorites just because of 1 or 2 songs)

 

[xPedro]

Erykah Badu (the Queen of Soul, no doubt!)
Amy Winehouse (nobody can right a song with the passion she does)
Christina Aguilera (not a big fan of her music, but she is definitely on of the top 5 singers of all time)
Lady GaGa (she is that kind of woman who changes a century)
Janelle Monaé
Radiohead
The Strokes
The Libertines
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Santogold (one of the few real artists of music)
M.I.A. (so ahead of her time, brillant!)
Madonna (diva!)
PJ Harvey
Roxy Music
Alicia Keys

 

[ErinW]

Oooh, we've got some people with great music taste at TFS! Here is my list!

Regina Spektor
Lykke Li
Sigur Ros
Sufjan Stevens
Bright Eyes
Band of Horses
Beirut
Death Cab For Cutie
Oasis
John Mayer
Arctic Monkeys
Jonna Newsom
Snow Patrol
Ingrid Michaelson

 

[roxe]

Smashing Pumpkins
Arcade Fire
Kings of Leon
The Strokes
Foals
Broken Social Scene
Local Natives
Sufjan Stevens
The Libertines
The Smiths
Animal Collective
Kid Cudi
Jay-Z
Pearl Jam
Ben Harper

 

[MayaStar]

30 seconds to mars
hole
marilyn manson
depeche mode
the kills
the dead weather
the veronicas
porcelain
the beatles
blondie
yeah yeah yeahs
the white stripes
placebo
nirvana
garbage

 

[Pstcho]

Jimi Hendrix
Muddy Waters
Funkadelic
Wu-Tang Clan
Larry Heard
The Black Keys
Bobby Hutcherson
Miles Davis
Lee Scratch Perry - Anything he has produced. The Congos in particular.
PJ Harvey
Patti Smith
Madlib
Neil Young
Sonny Boy Williamson
The Besnard Lakes

 

[blackkohl]

Argh, this is really hard! I'm going to say...

Arctic Monkeys
Franz Ferdinand
Vampire Weekend
Wavves
Beach House
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Morrissey
The Libertines
Regina Spektor
M.I.A
Hurts
Diane Birch
Pendulum
Françoise Hardy
Crystal Castles

 

[oh me]

The Beatles
The Doors
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
The Runaways
Eric Clapton
Guns N' Roses
Jefferson Airplane
Maroon5
Muse
Reamonn
and some classic musicians like Ennio Moricone, Secret Garden & the old ones like Vivaldi, Wagner & co.

 

[Erin]

My list... though I swore I posted on here, but I guess not...

U2
Depeche Mode
INXS
The Verve
Madonna
Beastie Boys
Stone Temple Pilots
Tin Star
The Turtles
Rolling Stones
Pearl Jam
Deftones
The Magnetic Fields
Oasis
Otis Redding

^ Much of the same as above. My music tastes do not evolve too much... a (somewhat) updated list:

U2
Depeche Mode
INXS
Simple Minds
The Verve
The Arcade Fire
Madonna
Beastie Boys
The Psychedelic Furs
The Church
Stone Temple Pilots
Tin Star
Pearl Jam
Oasis
Otis Redding

 

[Belowen]

In no particular order:

Paolo Nutini
The Beatles
The Doors
The Who
Bob Dylan
Led Zeppelin
Neil Young
Nine Inch Nails
Dire Straits
Kings of Leon
Eminem
Eric Clapton / Cream
Jeff Buckley
Iron & Wine
Crowded House

I've always been attracted to artists that are either lyrically powerful, or have beautiful melodies. Apparently I have a thing for male musicians too, lol.

 

[makeitawful]

The Killers/Brandon Flowers
Carah Faye/Versant (she used to be in Shiny Toy Guns, Versant is her new band. I just adore her voice so much)
Lady Gaga
The Sounds
Hole/Courtney Love
Metric
Bright Eyes
Cat Power
Elliott Smith
Sophie Ellis-Bextor (the most underrated pop star alive. She deserves more success)
Girls
Kid Cudi
Amy Lee (I may have come out of my Evanescence phase a looooooong, long time ago but her voice will always be a favourite of mine)
Nicola Roberts
Tegan and Sara

 

[e-v-elina]

it seems to differ every few years, but lately i've been hooked on these:

marina and the diamonds
i blame coco
jj
mumford and sons
metric
bon iver
florence and the machine
fanfarlo
fleet foxes
edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros
beirut
big deal
beach house
kings of leon
noah and the whale