Books, Movies, Music & Entertainment - Favorite band?

We all have a favorite, what is your all time favorite band? What about your band of the week?

For me, all time favorite is REM, however, for the last week or two I have been on a huge Cake kick, no, not the food. Short Skirt, Long Jacket. Love you Madly. Italian Leather Sofa... great songs.

Iron Maiden and Spineshank are the alltime favorites.

Right now, Manic Street Preachers. Ask me again next week.

Hmmm

I will name 5 since I cant name 1 :p
not in any order

KMFDM
Ministry
Front Line Assembly
Led Zep
Kiss

I love cake!

Chris Cagle has a song out called "Chicks Dig It". Just awesome. If you don't listen to country find a way to get it.

bill mallonee

possibly the most under-appreciated indie artist in america...critics praise him...fans drive eight hours to hear him...but the records don't get into the stores...check him at www.pastemusic.com

I listen to alot of Dave Matthews Band, probably more than is healthy. But I have been on a recent Pink Floyd kick.

Floyd definately takes the cake for greatest band of all time.

All-time favorite - REM. Went to their concert in Denver a month or so back. Great concert on a bloody cold night :D. Not many bands out there can do two hit-filled concerts on consecutive nights and not repeat a single song!

Big Dave Matthews (either DMB or solo) fan too...

Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble because, well,
it speaks to me.
Lately I've been listening to alot of Hendrix and Floyd.

(and you thought all I listened to was Buffett!)

Marty

Neil Young & Crazy Horse...

"I'm listening to Neil Young,
I've got to turn up the sound,
Someones always yelling,
Turn him down"

-Bob Dylan-

Santana is my all-time favorite. Favorite for this week? Hmmm let's think here....ok yeah I got it! ACDC... Thunder!

Floyd definately takes the cake for greatest band of all time.

Can't argue there! I listened to so much Floyd growing up, though, that I rarely listen to them anymore. There will always be a soft spot in my heart for Pink Floyd.

The bands I seem to listen to the most these days are Modest Mouse and Calexico.

All time - Probably Crosby Stills Nash & Young, but Pink Floyd, Santana, Caravan, Buffalo Springfield , Led Zeppelin must feature. Then there's artists such as Jimmy Smith, Lou Donaldson, Grant Green... the list goes on...

Too many to pick one fav- The flamming lips, lou reed, tom waits, neil halstead, sigur ros, the roots, the neptunes, bjork, thelonious monk, prince, beck, stevie wonder, roy orbison, pink floyd during the syd barrett years, elvis costello, rolling stones, fugazi- would all make the top of my list.

I listen to a lot of solo aritists. Like accoustic music..Like Shaun Mullins and Van Morrison..
As to favorite band...Depends upon my mood of the day.. I would consider among my favorites Tom Petty, Matchbox 20, and Cowboy Junkies.
New stuff I have been meaning to buy... Dishwalla,Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise, and Jayhawks.
Probably best popularized band.. U2..

Tribal Tech.

Floyd and Led Zep stay high on my list.

I've been listening to a lot of Audioslave recently...But like ChrisL - ask me again next week...

All-time favorite: INXS. Convoy and Pearl Jam are very close second and third.

Another Cake lover. Joe, back in the day I'd could see Cake at the Press Club or the Fox & Goose for a $2 cover. I just heard a cut on KCRW of McRae doing the lyrics for a new Kinky song. Good stuff.

Right now I've got Radiohead in high rotation and I'm thinking of picking up the new Outkast. Yes, I realize I'm all over the board, but a good hook is a good hook.

This week: Benny Benassi.

FAVES:
King Crimson
Frank Zappa
Captain Beefheart
Neil Young
Van Morrisson
Bjork
The Minutemen
Wire
The Band
Djam Karet
The Kinks
Ray Charles
Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys
Hank Williams, SENIOR

UNFAVES:
Eagles
Blimp Biskit
Spitney Brears
Most of the Hippity-Hoppity genre
Sooth Jazz
Soulless Nashville counry-pop

CAKE FANS!!!

Yeah, Cake is awesome. I have their entire collection on my iPod and I wear it out.

I have always liked Big Head Todd & The Monsters, Rush, Los Lobos, Sheryl Crow, and Rollins Band.

Lately, I've been listening to some Indigenous, Britney Spears, Reel Big Fish, Dance Hall Crashers. However, time will tell to see if they remain in my list of all-time favorites.

The Beatles.

In my former life I was a musician(before becoming a Daddy 4 years ago)and a jazz musician here in NYC. However before that-in my teens and 20's-I played in a number of rock bands and we 'opened' for a number of-then new-bands coming through the states on their first tour and some US bands doing college touring. We opened for Adam Ant, INXS, Eurhytmics, REM, The Motels, The Producers and a little band from Dublin, U2.

As far as my favs go...

Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Ornette Coleman
DMB
The Police
Stevie Wonder
Robert Johnson
ELP
Yes
Old Elton John
Beatles
The Verve Pipe
Roberta Flack(just kidding on that one!)

Son Volt / Jay Farrar
Bob Dylan
Springsteen
Whiskeytown / Ryan Adams
Postal Service
The Faint
Rainer Maria
The Clash
Twisted Sister
Richard Buckner
Johnny Cash
John Coltrane
--Just to name a few

Siouxsie and the Banshees

At the moment I have Tom Petty, Bob Seger, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Bush and REM in random rotation on my stereo.

Yesterday I was listening to David Bowie and Mozart symphonies.

Poppaspoke: I love your list. I disagree with your judgment of the Eagles, but, hey, that's what makes the world go round. I need to add some King Crimson to my CD collection. I used to have Starless, Red, and Court of the Crimson King on vinyl.

ahh, cant choose

phish
dmb
pink floyd
anything basically
some thrice
thursday
morcheeba
all stuff is good
jedi midn tricks
binary star
ahhh

peace

Pat Metheny Group is first but Dave Mathew's Band or Dave alone, Pink Floyd, the original Genesis(with Peter)

like Bleach by Nirvana

Jacob

i can't believe none of you have mentioned Ben Folds... he rocks the suburbs.

All time favourite : Talking Heads (incl. Byrne's solo stuff)

At the moment I'm listening to Xavier Rudd a lot too. You Dave Matthews fans should check him out - you won't be disappointed.

In my former life I was a musician(before becoming a Daddy 4 years ago)and a jazz musician here in NYC. However before that-in my teens and 20's-I played in a number of rock bands and we 'opened' for a number of-then new-bands coming through the states on their first tour and some US bands doing college touring. We opened for Adam Ant, INXS, Eurhytmics, REM, The Motels, The Producers and a little band from Dublin, U2.

As far as my favs go...

Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Ornette Coleman
DMB
The Police
Stevie Wonder
Robert Johnson
ELP
Yes
Old Elton John
Beatles
The Verve Pipe
Roberta Flack(just kidding on that one!)

WOW a ELP fan! What a great show they could put on.
Faves?
Fear Factory
Machine Head
System of a Down
Warrior Soul
etc.

Floyd
Zep
Hendrix
etc.

Buddy Guy
SRV
Clapton
etc.

Andreas Segovias

the ramones
kyuss
bad religion
die ärzte

Zevon's last CD was given to me for Christmas. His last CD.As a Zevon the CD is sad but very memorable.He had lots to say....
I have hard time classifying any artist favorite. Like Allister Talking heads is played a lot in this household.

Tosca
Bad Brains- Soul Brains now
D.J Fila Brazilia
Kruder and Dorfmeister
the band I work w\ Velvet

And I think Spexy IS Siouxsie from Siouxsie and the Banshees.

Besides Uncle Tupelo, and U2, I have to put in a vote for James. My wife is huge on Radiohead and Jimi Hendrix among others. Since I keep a daily blog, I have been including my daily commuting songs with each post, if there was something I was singing out that day. Today's song is going to be "Dragonfly" by Ziggy Marley.

There is just no way I could ever nail down my favorite artists. I like to much stuff, Herman's Hermits, Bob Dylan, Brian Highland, Linda Ronstad, Grass Roots, ELO, Boston, Moody Blues, REO Speedwagon, Eagles, Elton John, Mariah Carey, Matchbox 20, Dixie Chicks, Weird Al, Beethoven, BTO, J. Geils, Guess Who, Meat Loaf, Grass Roots, Bryan Adams, John Mellencamp, Bach, Heuy Lewis, Air Supply, Foreigner, 1910 Fruitgum Company,Tchaikovsky, Styx. Just to name a very few. What I'm listening to now is what I like today, but that could change by the time I finish this post.....

I think I've nailed it, the one and only favorite band, finally:

THE CLASH

I will have to vote for my own band Septapus :)

The Clash oh yes Ramones too, great bike riding music in your head. Try also too Black Flag, Dead Kennedy's (80's Punk!!!). Lets not forget about Frank Zappa and yes by all means and seemingly popular vote The Pink Floyd. I also give a lot of listens to the Violent Femmes

Matchbox 20

This side of the pond:

The Replacements w/ The Feelies nipping at their heels.

The other side:

The Clash w/ The Jam a close second

Blind Melon
Faith No More
Suicidal Tendencies

Unwritten Law is now added to my two other alltime favorites.

i liked the ramones til i saw them live. they were horrible.

if you like cake, you must like morphine.

the clash rock. and the british indie band who are no longer, hefner.

Fav album at the mo:

Feeder - 'Comfort In Sound'.

Fav single at the mo is a tie between:

Tube & Berger Featuring Chrissie Hynde - 'Straight Ahead' and:
Outkast - 'Hey Ya!' (The video to that is so funky!)

Fav bands/groups/collectives/artists generally:

Oasis
Reef
Jamiroquai
Pink Floyd (Brought up on it, Mum played it constantly as i was growing up)
The Charlatans
Air
The Stone Roses
Underworld
Shed Seven
Outkast
Fun Lovin Criminals
Foo Fighters
Daft Punk
Eminem (Sorry but he is good at what he does!)
Feeder

Looking at other peoples' posts and there are so many bands/artists recognised in our own countries that nobody from other countries have heard of! I haven't heard of half of the bands mentioned!

Cabledonut.

Right now it's gotta be Wilco. Last week it was Queens of the Stone Age. I'm sure there will be another next week... :rolleyes:

Bad Brains.

Son Volt / Jay Farrar
Bob Dylan
Springsteen
Whiskeytown / Ryan Adams
Postal Service
The Faint
Rainer Maria
The Clash
Twisted Sister
Richard Buckner
Johnny Cash
John Coltrane
--Just to name a few

I saw rainer maria live at Rubbergloves, they were the most moving band I've ever seen live.