Who Are Your Favourite Bands/artists?

[Bedelia]

Hey! I like music in general. From classical music (Rachmaninoff, Puccini, etc) to japanese rock (l'arc en ciel, gackt). Oh! Not to mention many british bands But these ones hold a special place in my heart: The cure, Muse, Smashing Pumpkins, Sneaker Pimps, Sisters of Mercy, Placebo... Oh, by the way: yesterday I had the chance to watch the movie Only Lovers Left Alive. The soundtrack was amazing! I recommend everybody to check it out. 

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

This is one of my favorites. I do like Sarah's voice.

 

 

  

[Pawse]

Queen

Frank Zappa

Rush

The Beatles

Led Zeppelin

Alice Cooper

Black Sabbath

Falco

Jethro Tull

Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band

Michael Jackson

[Arcadia]

U2

Mary Fahl

Moody Blues

Rodrigo (the concierto)

Dead Can Dance

Lower Heaven

Bryan Ferry

Baaba Maal

Stevenson Ranch Davidians

Jethro Tull (1st 2 albums)

and many more.....

 

[CumberCookieCrumble]

Darren Hayes.

Savage Garden.

[T.o.b.y]

I don't think I really have a favorite band or singer, but there is this one song that I heard on the radio while driving over a bridge in the bright morning sunshine a few days after season 3 of Sherlock aired, and for some reason, even though it has nothing to do with the series, really, it has kind of become my personal "Sherlock Hymn". Somehow, I just think it fits...

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU2SN2jRiCE

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

I really like this especially the Celtic flavor of it. May have to learn to sing it. Thank you for sharing, T.o.b.y.

[T.o.b.y]

You're more than welcome, Fox. Hey, here, check out the acoustic version, that's a bit nicer for singing along...

 

 

 

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Yup! Definitely a song worth the singing!

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Here's another song that I love and yes, it even reminds me of Sherlock.

 

                   

[T.o.b.y]

Oh, Fox, that is lovely...

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Favorite artists:

 

Jeremy Camp (He tops my list and gets photos of paintings from me at almost every concert since 2009 & they are based on his songs)

The Benjamin Gate (wish they were still around, their female lead married Jeremy Camp 11 yrs ago)

Adam Cappa

Switchfoot

Skillet

Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Colton Dixon

Danny Gokey

DC Talk

Tenth Avenue North

Jason Gray

Brandon Heath

Kutless

Audio Adrenaline

Newsboys (I knew them back in the day when the original lead singer & drummer had hair let alone every line up since)

for King & Country (despite living most of their lives here in the US, they still have their beautiful Australian accents)

The Monkees

Bon Jovi

The Police

U2

many songs from the 1950's and before

and of course the old standbys of the Baroque, Classical, & Romance periods under the large Classical Music umbrella

plus a lot of orchestral works found in movies & Celtic music.

[Schlauer Fuchs]

I'm Sherlock's nightmare when it comes to music: I love musicals more than anything. So there are a lot of musical singers I like - but I'm quite sure non of them would be known in the USA or even the UK, so I guess there is no point in mentioning them here!

Apart from that my favourite singer is the Norwegian Kari Bremnes, and I like the arcustic music of Simon & Garfunkel, Cat Stevens and Eric Clapton, as well as Enya and WiseGuys (German a capella band with often really funny lyrics).

And of course classical music, I love the great classics like Mozart and Vivaldi but also something I'd call "modern/popular classic" like Yiruma, Yann Tiersen or Andrea Bocelli.#

 

Not quite the normal taste in music for someone my age, but then everybody must be different in some area or the world would be a boring place to live in

[T.o.b.y]

I'm Sherlock's nightmare when it comes to music: I love musicals more than anything. So there are a lot of musical singers I like - but I'm quite sure non of them would be known in the USA or even the UK, so I guess there is no point in mentioning them here!

Apart from that my favourite singer is the Norwegian Kari Bremnes, and I like the arcustic music of Simon & Garfunkel, Cat Stevens and Eric Clapton, as well as Enya and WiseGuys (German a capella band with often really funny lyrics).

And of course classical music, I love the great classics like Mozart and Vivaldi but also something I'd call "modern/popular classic" like Yiruma, Yann Tiersen or Andrea Bocelli.#

 

Not quite the normal taste in music for someone my age, but then everybody must be different in some area or the world would be a boring place to live in

 

Sounds like we could easily agree if we had to use the same stereo...

 

I have no idea what a "normal" taste in music is, anyway. Mine is all over the place. I don't think I have a favored style or era, I'll listen to a lot of stuff as long as I can recognize it as music. Musicals are often nice to listen to, yeah. I prefer the ones that are a bit dark; I think that sets off the slightly kitschy music better. (Tanz der Vampire, Tanz der Vampire...)

 

The Wise Guys are great, I agree (one of the few German speaking things I think of other countries as missing out on). And Simon and Garfunkel, yeah, they guided me through my teens!

 

But I like some louder stuff, too. There is a lot of Linkin Park I like, or Incubus, or... Sunrise Avenue is a current favorite... Heck, anything, as long as it has a melody, and is emotional (I'm not musical at all, so I react to it mostly with feelings, can't really appreciate the "art" of it). Slightly melancholy is often good for me, and sometimes I need angry music, but a good old beautiful love song is fine as well.

 

Hey, since you're German: Do you know Dota Kehr?

[Schlauer Fuchs]

Sounds like we could easily agree if we had to use the same stereo...

 

Musicals are often nice to listen to, yeah. I prefer the ones that are a bit dark; I think that sets off the slightly kitschy music better. (Tanz der Vampire, Tanz der Vampire...)

 

Tanz der Vampire: Best. Musical. Ever. !!!

I also prefer the "darker" musicals with a real story.

 

Hey, since you're German: Do you know Dota Kehr?

No, I don't... I'll ask youtube to tell me a bit about her

[Convict13]

I really like a young English guy called Johnny Flynn who sometimes has a band called the Sussex Wit.  He is also an actor, Shakespeare mainly, and that is where I came across him he was in the British Production of Twelfth Night which I went to the cinema to see (it was brilliant, it was the same production that was on Broadway recently).

 

I love banjo and fiddle music and I like really early American Delta Blues and Roots music. I also like Serge Gainsbourgh and his daughter Charlotte's music as well I was lucky enough to see Jane Birkin live a couple of years ago singing Serge's songs- she was brilliant)  and the voices of Philippe Jaroussky and Andreas Scholl I can never get enough of. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBC-KroRy5o

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

Y'know, I'm that kind of person that likes bits of this and that from lots of artists (for me, just rock and rock variants). I like some Rise Against, some All-American Rejects, some Coldplay, Thousand Foot Krutch, and a few others I forget right now.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Y'know, I'm that kind of person that likes bits of this and that from lots of artists (for me, just rock and rock variants). I like some Rise Against, some All-American Rejects, some Coldplay, Thousand Foot Krutch, and a few others I forget right now.

 

I love me some Thousand Foot Krutch as well.  My list of artists/bands is extensive when you include the song or 2 here and there.

[Saramarie25]

I am a huuuuuuge Pink Floyd fan! Like, mahoosive!!!

[T.o.b.y]

I just found a song I haven't heard for ages, that I had forgotten about and I marvel how that could be, because this was the song my best friend and I would play for us during the year we graduated from high school and entered the big bad world.

 

 

Oh my god. It's all coming back now. Us two frightened little things spreading our arms and howling "whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there" at the top of our lungs. I should do that more often...

[Arcadia]

I remember that song! Love it.

[Undead Medic]

I am a huuuuuuge Pink Floyd fan! Like, mahoosive!!!

 

I take it you'll be excited to hear the first new Floyd album in 20 years "The Endless River" which is out on the 7th November?

 

(I may be getting the vinyl version for my Birthday... )

[Saramarie25]

 

I am a huuuuuuge Pink Floyd fan! Like, mahoosive!!!

 

I take it you'll be excited to hear the first new Floyd album in 20 years "The Endless River" which is out on the 7th November?

 

(I may be getting the vinyl version for my Birthday... )

 

 

This is my reaction whenever I think about it. *faints*

[T.o.b.y]

I'm slowly but surely falling in love with the Sunrise Avenue albums. It's rare that I buy a CD where I really like every track, but these guys have managed so far to make me listen to each one of their songs with pleasure.

 

I just found this:

 

 

Sure, it's less than sophisticated. But hey, I'm not very musical, I just listen to songs to have my feelings manipulated (in a good way), I like things that are easy to sing (or rather howl) along with, and I really appreciate lyrics like these that encourage me to keep on engaging with that big bad world outside my door, being naturally a shy, timid person who often feels like just hiding under the bedclothes until it's all over...

[sittything]

My music tastes can be a little all over the place, but my consistent top fav bands are probably:

 

The Cranberries

Foreigner

Nirvana

Over the Rhine

Toad the Wet Sprocket

 

ETA:  Although, I've been on a big Bastille kick lately so maybe them too