General / Off-Topic Who are your favorite artists/bands?

Captain Thea Kreutzer

Captain Thea Kreutzer
For rap I listen to mainly old school style rap like from Strange Music Inc and Army of the Pharaohs but my favorite is Wrekonize.

[video=youtube;9-qANprH30k]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-qANprH30k[/video]

For rock I listen to stuff like The White Stripes, Godsmack, Green day, and avenged sevenfold.

[video=youtube;0J2QdDbelmY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J2QdDbelmY[/video]

Dont really listen to anything unless im in the car listening to the radio

What about you what do you listen to?
 
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DDastardly00

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Chris Simon said:
Tom Petty, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Creedence CR, the Velvet Underground, Dire Straits,...

...and to not look completely ancient - The Killers, TSFH, TheFatRat and 10-hour compilations of music from Studio Ghibli on YouTube.
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Add JJ Cale to that list and you're set. He wrote After Midnight and Cocaine which Clapton made famous but JJ's versions were better. I have a of love for Clapton and Mark Knopfler, but I'll be damned if those two didn't cross the pond and all but steal JJ's style and notes and then become millionaires doing it. JJ Cale was an artist's Artist and Magnolia is one of the best songs ever written.
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
DDastardly00 said:
Add JJ Cale to that list and you're set. He wrote After Midnight and Cocaine which Clapton made famous but JJ's versions were better. I have a of love for Clapton and Mark Knopfler, but I'll be damned if those two didn't cross the pond and all but steal JJ's style and notes and then become millionaires doing it. JJ Cale was an artist's Artist and Magnolia is one of the best songs ever written.
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Cale and many others are naturally encompassed within the ",..." part. :D
 

DDastardly00

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Chris Simon said:
Cale and many others are naturally encompassed within the ",..." part. :D
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I know we could probably go on all day.

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My vinyl collection ranges from Bach to Led Zepplin and everything in between, here are a select few of them.


Bob Dylan- Desire - Blood on the Tracks (180g) - Blonde on Blonde
Van Morrison- Moondance - Astral Weeks - Into the Music
Nick Drake- Pink Moon - Bryter Layter - Five Leaves Left (all 180g)
John Martyn- Solid Air -Bless the Weather
Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
Led Zepplin - III
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Kaya
Odetta
Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Blvd (180g)
Paul Butterfield and the Butterfield Blues Band (self titled)
Johnny Winter and Live

In General:

Skip James
Muddy Waters
Mississippi John Hurt
Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
Kelly Joe Phelps (Self Titled album, Tap the Red Cane Whirlwind)
Pink Floyd
Woody Guthrie
Jonny Cash
Marvin Gaye
JJ Cale
Dire Straits
Beatles
Ry Cooder
Allman Brothers
Eta James
The Band

I'll stop there before this gets a mile long. I listen to a lot of newer indie artists most of the time, but you have to respect the classics.

Currently listening to Gregory Alan Isakov's Northern Hemispheres.
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
DDastardly00 said:
I know we could probably go on all day.

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My vinyl collection ranges from Bach to Led Zepplin and everything in between, here are a select few of them.


Bob Dylan- Desire - Blood on the Tracks (180g) - Blonde on Blonde
Van Morrison- Moondance - Astral Weeks - Into the Music
Nick Drake- Pink Moon - Bryter Layter - Five Leaves Left (all 180g)
John Martyn- Solid Air -Bless the Weather
Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
Led Zepplin - III
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Kaya
Odetta
Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Blvd (180g)
Paul Butterfield and the Butterfield Blues Band (self titled)
Johnny Winter and Live

In General:

Skip James
Muddy Waters
Mississippi John Hurt
Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
Kelly Joe Phelps (Self Titled album, Tap the Red Cane Whirlwind)
Pink Floyd
Woody Guthrie
Jonny Cash
Marvin Gaye
JJ Cale
Dire Straits
Beatles
Ry Cooder
Allman Brothers
Eta James
The Band

I'll stop there before this gets a mile long. I listen to a lot of newer indie artists most of the time, but you have to respect the classics.

Currently listening to Gregory Alan Isakov's Northern Hemispheres.
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Is it even surprising that I have the same vinyls as you do, plus about 200 others, with at least one from every interpret you've mentioned? :)
 

Captain Thea Kreutzer

Captain Thea Kreutzer
DDastardly00 said:
I know we could probably go on all day.

--

My vinyl collection ranges from Bach to Led Zepplin and everything in between, here are a select few of them.


Bob Dylan- Desire - Blood on the Tracks (180g) - Blonde on Blonde
Van Morrison- Moondance - Astral Weeks - Into the Music
Nick Drake- Pink Moon - Bryter Layter - Five Leaves Left (all 180g)
John Martyn- Solid Air -Bless the Weather
Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
Led Zepplin - III
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Kaya
Odetta
Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Blvd (180g)
Paul Butterfield and the Butterfield Blues Band (self titled)
Johnny Winter and Live

In General:

Skip James
Muddy Waters
Mississippi John Hurt
Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
Kelly Joe Phelps (Self Titled album, Tap the Red Cane Whirlwind)
Pink Floyd
Woody Guthrie
Jonny Cash
Marvin Gaye
JJ Cale
Dire Straits
Beatles
Ry Cooder
Allman Brothers
Eta James
The Band

I'll stop there before this gets a mile long. I listen to a lot of newer indie artists most of the time, but you have to respect the classics.

Currently listening to Gregory Alan Isakov's Northern Hemispheres.
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Thats why i shortened mine to only the bands and labels :p
 

DDastardly00

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Chris Simon said:
Is it even surprising that I have the same vinyls as you do, plus about 200 others, with at least one from every interpret you've mentioned? :)
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No it's not, at least not once you said Tom Waites and Leonard Cohen, two of the greats as far as I'm concerned. I knew instantly where you were coming from.
 

tafkabb

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DDastardly00 said:
Robert Smith's cover of John Martyn's Small Hours is so well done that John has to be smiling from beyond.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l93fx-7kANE.

John, like Nick Drake and JJ Cale was an Artist's Artist. I was thrilled that he had an impact on Robert Smith too. Much respect to Robert, he is another brilliant musician.
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Robert Smith is underrated, he can't write three bad songs in a row. And Nick Drake was destined for greatness :(
 

Limoncello Lizard

Limoncello Lizard
Leper Messiah said:
Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, Pantera, Feeder, Disturbed, Radiohead, Gary Numan, 5 Finger Death Punch, Terrorvision, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Presidents of the USA, Evanescence, Abba, Adam and the Ants, Dire Straits, Death....mmmm could go on (and on)!

But if I had to pick a top few...Metallica, Gary Numan, Disturbed.
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Good selection, though I don't like Radiohead.

Only artist I've bought everything published is Joe Satriani.
 

Alien

Alien
I'm into a wide range of music, mostly rock. I recently found out about this group who do a show of rock songs, and they are quite good.

[video=youtube;D7QazT01bSw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7QazT01bSw[/video]

[video=youtube;Jwpp_qvRr2Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwpp_qvRr2Q[/video]

[video=youtube;o0RlZ0DBJaQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0RlZ0DBJaQ[/video]

They have videos of other songs they've done, and all are live and all are spot on accurate to the album versions, with maybe the exception of the vocals not sounding exactly like the original artist, but that can be forgiven as long the singer can sing, which these guys (and gal) can.
 
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Robin of Spiritwood

Robin of Spiritwood
Boris Vallejo
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( bear with me, running on one ear ATM... ) Vallejo is a master of colour and hue, with dense detail, and varied textured surfaces

Frank Frazetta
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In my opinion, Frazetta has better composition, drawing, and solidity.

Ok, which is better? Well most think that Frazetta wins by a mile.
https://www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org/blog/2015/09/3388

However that's a function of the subject, IMHO. If he has to do a creative fantasy book cover, with things that one has to imagine, Vallejo really struggles to compose it. But if you gave him a thing to look at and copy, I think he'd win such a static challenge. So he might be a better portrait or landscape guy.

So, this is like Ali vs Frazier. DeBakey vs Cooley.
Who do you pick?
 
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Zieman

Zieman
Oh, so many. :)
Dire Straits is my all time favourite though.
Battle Beast rises above "the pack" too with their early output.
Then there's a WIDE range, from Rob Hubbard et al with Commodore 64 to Nightwish, Eläkeläiset, Black Sabbath, David Bowie, KISS, Juice Leskinen & Coitus Int. / SLAM, Billy Idol, Hurriganes, Toto, Stratovarius, to name a few.
 
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Leper Messiah

Leper Messiah
Limoncello Lizard said:
Good selection, though I don't like Radiohead.

Only artist I've bought everything published is Joe Satriani.
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I only like Radiohead prior to Kid A, That album and onwards they went a bit....er...up their own butts and I lost interest, but the early stuff is well crafted alt Rock.

Mega thumbs up for Joe Satriani, my mate had all his stuff, I loved it but just never got round to getting it myself....it's on my list of things to do! He taught Kirk Hammett of Metallica and Steve Vai IIRC.
 
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