Who are/were your favourite 10 pop groups/artists?

[Rummy]

Joy Division, Sex Pistols, Bhundu Boys, Smiths, Undertones, Stiff Little Fingers, Bob Marley, Billy Bragg, Specials, Half Man Half Biscuit,

[CyprusPluto]

Elvis Presley, Abba, The Human League, George Michael, Pet Shop Boys, Blondie, Oasis, The Carpenters, The Beach Boys, Fleetwood Mac

[ZooWeeMama]

The Smiths, Morrissey, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Kate Bush, Pulp, Alanis Morissette, Pearl Jam, Amy Winehouse, Guns n Roses.
I can't get into anything new.

[Ezio]

Bloc party, Thin Lizzy, Eminem, Daft Punk, The killers, AC/DC, The Zutons, Kt Tunstall, The Streets, Bob Marley.

[EmmaImogen]

Kate Bush, Lana Del Rey, Blur, The Smiths, The Specials, Ben Folds, Arctic Monkeys, The Jam, David Bowie, Mika

[Reasonable Doubt]

Hard to choose just 10 but it's something like this - The Fall, My Bloody Valentine, Mogwai, Cocteau Twins, Madlib, Gang of Four, The Cure, Tim Hecker, Stereolab, Guided by Voices. That's in no particular order though (except for The Fall at number one).

[Left Of The Dial]

Animal Collective, The Beatles, Guided By Voices, My Bloody Valentine, Tom Waits, Ween, Weezer, Daniel Johnston, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pixies, in no particular order. I could've easily picked more!

[Mr. Nobody]

Brian Eno
Steve Hillage
Steve Vai
Pat Metheny
Kate Bush
Klaus Shulze
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Cocteau Twins
Pink Floyd
Kraftwerk

-- I could probably go on and on,.

[Z.]

The Smiths, Lykke Li, Bob Dylan, Immortal Technique, Rolling Stones, Springsteen, Fleetwood Mac, The Lumineers, Velvet Underground, Peter Gabriel.

[Rummy]

Originally Posted by Reasonable Doubt

(except for The Fall at number one).

You must be "t-t-t-totally wired" RS.
"Grotesque" was one of the first records I bought.

[Azalea]

Originally Posted by Kley

The Smiths, Lykke Li, Bob Dylan, Immortal Technique, Rolling Stones, Springsteen, Fleetwood Mac, The Lumineers, Velvet Underground, Peter Gabriel.

10 definitely isn't enough, Peter Gabriel should have been in mine.

[Mo34]

David Bowie, Radiohead, Ludovico Einaudi, The Beatles, Johnny Cash, Velvet Underground, Portishead, John Lennon, Amy Winehouse.

Course if asked next week I might give a completely different set of answers lol. Except for Bowie and Radiohead and probably Ludovico Einaudi.

[Pandapop]

*Nsync
Justin Timberlake
Walk the Moon
Twenty One Pilots
Beyonce
Kanye West
Kendrick Lamar
Blink 182
Macklemore
Gym Glass Heroes

[black_mamba]

Kate Bush, Rammstein, Arcade Fire, Bruce Springsteen, Blondie, Buzzcocks, Erasure, The Smiths, UNKLE, Iggy Pop...have seen 2 & 1/4* of my list live, wish I could see more.

*One quarter of The Smiths

[ghost.of.an.englishman]

uhm Nick Drake, Mogwai, Jesus and the Mary Chain, the Smiths, Talk Talk, the Rolling Stones, Autechre, the Manics. Who else, probably the Notorious BIG and Ice Cube (I know I know )

[Liquid Swords]

2Pac
Snoop Dogg
Ice Cube
Dr Dre
The Notorious B.I.G.
DJ Quik
Eazy-E
Kurupt
Big Punisher
Big L

[Left Of The Dial]

Originally Posted by biscuits

Neutral Milk Hotel!!! Did you go to see them on their recent tour?

Yeah I did. I actually went to both nights they played in Manchester It was so great, never thought I'd ever get to see them live.

[umm]

I love music of all genres, but I'm having a surprising amount of trouble answering this. It'd probably be easier to list the bands and singers I don't care for, and even easier to answer for songs. I've been revisiting the awesomeness that is Curve recently, if that helps? Basically I like nearly everything.

[Tarkovsky]

Scott Walker/Walker Brothers
Autechre
Joy Division
Boards of Canada
John Coltrane
Coil
David Bowie
Durutti Column
Tuxedomoon
Townes van Zandt

[Olly.]

Originally Posted by ghost.of.an.englishman

uhm Nick Drake, Mogwai, Jesus and the Mary Chain, the Smiths, Talk Talk, the Rolling Stones, Autechre, the Manics. Who else, probably the Notorious BIG and Ice Cube (I know I know )

Love how you put Autechre in between the Stones and the Manics, great eclectic taste

My 10 at the moment would be:

Radiohead, Boards of Canada, The National, Elbow, Arcade Fire, Aphex Twin, Muse, Doves, Four Tet, Jose Gonzalez/Junip (they're the same guy)

And yes, that's right, no pre-90s artists, I'm all about the modern music, deal with it

[Appear]

^ Thumbs up for contemporary choon-makers.


Okay, I can't do an 'of all time' list, that's impossible, but I can do a 'current, enduring likes but subject to change' one:

John Grant, Perfume Genius, Baths, M83, Tame Impala, Beach House, Purity Ring, Youth Lagoon, FKA Twigs & Hot Chip.

I already want to choose again.

[Appear]

^ What's wrong with the rest? Too homo for you?

Only three actually are homo that I know of. Not that it's important. I do seem to gravitate towards them though. No idea why. There's some kind of force yet to be identified, I'm sure of it.

[Appear]

Elbow feel as if they've been around for decades, but I don't quite know why...

[Olly.]

^^^^ Yep I will always strongly dispute the view that post 2000 music is rubbish, its not that I don't like the 'oldies', far from it, of course I like some of the classic bands, but I've usually preferred to listen to current music and adore electronica at the moment.

^^^ Well they have been around for quite a while now, 20 years I think! I think some people might see them as another Coldplay, but beyond the obvious songs like One Day Like This which has been played to hell over the last 6 years, they've made some incredible music.

^ We're nocturnal

[Bad_Buoys]

Hmm, having ten spots to play with makes this both harder and easier. I think i'm going to have to make two lists based on what i listen to right now and another for a more general life overview. I tend to go through phases of genres. In no particular order of course, i'm not even going to try that minefield:

Generally: Fela Kuti, Billy Bragg, Soul Coughing, Morphine, Gil Scott-Heron, Pulp, Public Image Ltd., Arctic Monkeys, Oasis, Depeche Mode

Lately: Kanye West, Drake, Mac Miller, Action Bronson, Biggie, A$AP Rocky, Freddie Gibbs, Madvillian, Mos Def, The Weeknd

[Bad_Buoys]

It's an English thing, you wouldn't understand

[Pink*Lady]

Carpenters, Doris Day, Ella Fitzgerald, Amy Winehouse, Rumer, Prodigy, Black Sabbath, Fleetwood Mac, The Who and Rolling Stones.

[Tom Morello]

Urgh Radiohead. Not even heard of half the names mentioned. Who is Billy Bragg?! I await to receive much hate for saying RATM are one of my favourite bands.