Favourite bands

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Not bands as such, I've decided to list music artists that have changed the way I think and feel through their music and songwriting...in no particular order:
John Lennon, Paul Weller, Lou Reed, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Elvis Costello, Bob Mould (Husker Du, Sugar), Billy Bragg, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Prince, James Mercer (The Shins), Pete Townsend, Shane McGowan, Colin Meloy (The Decemberists), Graham Parker, Andy Partridge (XTC), Donald ***an (Steely Dan), Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders) David Bowie.


Ah forgot about MacGowan, what a genius! The Pogues were a great band
 
Beach Boy's, Beatles, Chicago, Led Zepplin, Acker Bilk, Kenny ball and Johnny Dankworth. All hold good memories for me......However most of those will be foreign to some of you youngsters...........Although the Beach boys are supposedly getting back together for a tour........strewth they must be in their 80's.....<laugh> still good luck to them.
 
I'm into the modern indie bands such as , Two Door Cinema Club, The Wombats, Bombay Bicycle Club.... but I also enjoy Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys) and Serge from Kasabian are two of the most amazing men in music. COYR!
 
Alphaville, Blues Traveller, Counting Crows, Dave Matthews Band, Eels, Fischer-Z (one great album), Green Day, Hootie and the Blowfish, It's Immaterial, Jethro Tull, Kings of Leon, Lost Prophets, Marillion, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Oasis, Pink Floyd, Queens of the Stoneage, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Smiths, Third Eye Blind, U2(first 3 albums then the sublime Under a blood red sky, followed by a load of ****), Van morrison, William Shatner, XTC (Crash test dummies did a great cover of XTC's Peter Pumpkinhead).

I like some music from virtually any decade in the last 6, so have many favourites. The (almost complete alphabet of bands) above is just some that sprung to mind, but don't think I could come up a definitive list because it changes from day to day.
 
Music is up there with supporting Saints

will put into approx decades
80's OMD early U2, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Cure, The Blue Nile, Depeche Mode, New Order
90's Stone Roses, Sparklehorse, Suede, Pulp, Blur
00's The Killers, Rihanna, The enemy, Athlete, Keane
currently The courteeners, The vaccines, Elbow, Noah and the Whale


There are so many other great artists and tracks already named on this thread - hearing a classic track can turn an average day into a great day
 
Bloc Party, Arctic Monkeys, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Maccabees, The Smith, The Vaccines, The Strokes, Two Door Cinema Club and The Wombats
 
Just finished watching 'Drive', and it reminded me of this piece...

[video=youtube;OUWJFOnXuB0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUWJFOnXuB0[/video]


On another note, very good film.
 
Clash,Sex Pistols,Stiff Little Fingers,early U2,Green Day.
Saw XTC in the early 80's at the Gaumont, and thought they were crap to be honest,but not really my sort of music.
My Mrs bought me tickets for the Pistols back in 2007 at Brixton, and came up with me even though she was to young to remember them when they were first around. She ended up with a burst ear drum, and is now virtually deaf in one ear.
My fault apparently for liking loud music.
 
As soon as I saw Joe's post I was going to say the same thing. Brilliant band, the Mars Volta are as well, but At The Drive-In is a different level.

Carrying on with a similar genre of music, one of my guilty pleasures (though not so guilty, it's unashamed) is Abba. Brilliant group!


Yes Abba are brilliant . Have a new single coming out . Pop music , but Brilliant pop music .
 
Heart . seen them Twice , Early stuff was the best . Clannad seen them twice , and BOC ,seen them at the Brook twice . Never in their Heyday though .

So many different bands and types of music on here . Loads I have never even heard of , That's no surprise .
 
Beach Boy's, Beatles, Chicago, Led Zepplin, Acker Bilk, Kenny ball and Johnny Dankworth. All hold good memories for me......However most of those will be foreign to some of you youngsters...........Although the Beach boys are supposedly getting back together for a tour........strewth they must be in their 80's.....<laugh> still good luck to them.

Kenny Ball? Kenny £**kin Ball ffs? With you on all the others, tho, especially the beachboys. Brian Wilson is the Nigel Adkins of the 3 minute pop tune.
 
Inxs in 1987 were the best band I have ever seen live , Michael Hutchence had such a presence on stage. The 90's were spent in a haze on the rave scene so no bands there then just far too many nightclubs and muddy fields in the middle of nowehere! As for the current I have tickets to see Laura Marling ,Gabrielle Alpin and tickets to see my all time fave David Sylvian at the Royal Albert Hall.
 
Saw the Eagles twice over here and saw the likes The Who, Yardbirds, Procol Harum, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Ginger Baker's Air Force, Mott the Hoople, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Dire Straits and many more. Not been to a concert for a long while now though.
 
Beach Boy's, Beatles, Chicago, Led Zepplin, Acker Bilk, Kenny ball and Johnny Dankworth. All hold good memories for me......However most of those will be foreign to some of you youngsters...........Although the Beach boys are supposedly getting back together for a tour........strewth they must be in their 80's.....<laugh> still good luck to them.

Think the Beach Boys are constantly together for tours, they run our hunger for nostalgia ragged!... unless you mean with Brian Wilson, which I could never see happening. Mike Love saw to that a long time ago. The true modern Beach Boys experience in my opinion lies with seeing Brian Wilson live, something everyone should do before they die. Unless they hate the Beach Boys, which I'm not sure anyone could.