Originally posted by bbarrModest Mouse definitely. 10000 Maniacs as well (when I was little my mum listened to them a lot--I actually thought it was a group consisting of 10000 people). Bob Dylan should have just done poetry readings; to the extent I can appreciate proper poetry, he's got good stuff, but musically it's sort of iffy.
Bob Dylan, Dan Bern, Ani DiFranco, 10,000 Maniacs, Cowboy Junkies, Low, Bright Eyes, Modest Mouse, Shakti, Al DiMeola, Paco DeLucia.
Classical? We don't need no stinking classical (except Rachmaninov, who is an absolute genius. And Liszt, who is also a genius, but not as good as Rachmaninov.)
And you're not a proper geek unless Bach's C minor fugue sends you into absolute ecstasy, and you think Mozart's 'Exultate Jubilate' is the finest application of the human voice that exists.
I listen to a mixture of things, depending on my mood.
Sunday mornings I like Opera. Very uplifting (it also pisses of the neighbours big time). But my every day stuff is....
Elvis
Southern culture on the skids
Cake
Johnny Cash
Frank Sinatra
Dean Martin
Skid Row
Dr Dre
Foo Fighters
Janis Joplin
Counting Crows
Old 97`s
Social Distortion
Lots of other stuff. But absolutely NO boy band rubbish.
I'm a child of the '70's,so thats where most of my favorite stuff comes from. ZZ Top,SRV,Allmans,Outlaws,Beatles,CCR,TDN,BS&T,EL&P,ELO,Doors, Zeppelin,the Who,Doobies,Carole King,Gordon Lightfoot, Seals and Croft,America,OMD,Motown,.38 Special,Skynard,Charlie Daniels,some Elvis,some Sinatra,Brubeck,Coltrane,Lou Ann Barton,John Lee Hooker,Robert Cray,Canned Heat-now that's music. You can keep your rap crap,your alternative stupidity,your house noise,your techno babble,your headbanger insanity,your punk and goth drivel-that's all background filler for root canal,IMNSHO.
iron maiden
AC/DC
dream theater
joe satriani
jimi hendrix (one of my friends was saying he wasn't techincall...😕)
deftones
reel big fish!
megadeth
meyallica
led zepplin
sex pistols
three inches of blood
...and lotsa other weird shizzle
and i bought the velver revolver album this morning (for less than a tenner i'll have you know 😉)-and it's no half bad by any measures!