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Are The Beatles your favorite band?
21 July 2011
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AC/DC

Boston

CCR

Doors, The

ELO

Foreigner

Genesis

Hendrix, Jimi

Iron Maiden

Journey

Keith Urban

Led Zeppelin

Maroon 5

Nickelback

Oasis

Purple, Deep

Queen

Rush

Steve Miller Band

Tom Petty

U2

Van Halen

Who, The

X

Yes

ZZ Top

22 July 2011
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Okay, let's see now…
A
rctic Monkeys

Bon Iver/Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Coldplay

Derek and the Dominoes, I guess?

E None

Franz Ferdinand/Foo Fighters

Gregory Brothers

Hives, The

I None

Jamiroquai

Killers, The/Kasabian

Last Shadow Puppets, The

Muse/Metric

New Pornographers, The

OK Go

Phoenix/Pixies,The

Queen/Queens of the Stone Age

Radiohead/Reel Big Fish

Strokes, The/Shaimus

Them Crooked Vultures

U None

Vampire Weekend

We Are Scientists/Wombats, The

None

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Z None

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22 July 2011
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Art Tatum

The Bamboos

CSNY

Dylan of the Bob variety

Edwards Generation (they only came out with one album, but it is pretty nasty)

Funkadelic

Grassella Oliphant

Herbie Hancock

I wish I had one for I

Jimi Hendrix

Koop

Love

The Meters

Nicola Conte

Otis Redding

Parliament

Queen

Ratatat

Steely Dan

Thelonious Monk

Uptown Funk Empire

The Velvet Underground

The Wild Tchoupitoulas
The Xylophonic Trio (I just made that up)

Y

Z

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22 July 2011
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Cool – love the A – Z thing…

 

Allman Brothers Band, The

Band, The

Clapton, Eric

Dylan, Bob

Eagles, The

Fleetwood Mac

Grateful Dead

Hendrix, Jimi

INXS

John, Elton

Kansas

Led Zeppelin

Morrison, Van

N

Outlaws, The

Presley, Elvis

Queen

Rush

Sinatra, Frank

Travelling Wilbury’s

U2

Vonbontee (His debut album is Alternate History Tour)

White Stripes

X

Young, Neil

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22 July 2011
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Zig said:

Vonbontee (His debut album is Alternate History Tour)

a-hard-days-night-paul-6a-hard-days-night-george-1EPIC. LOL.a-hard-days-night-ringo-10

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One and one don't make two
One and one make one.

23 July 2011
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Zig said:

Cool – love the A – Z thing…

N

No Nash, Graham?

As if it matters how a man falls down.'

'When the fall's all that's left, it matters a great deal.

23 July 2011
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I did this three months ago on Formspring- it isn't necessarily my favourites, just the first artist that popped into my head, but it is pretty close:

Arcade Fire

Bob Dylan (The Beatles)

The Clash (Cornershop)

David Bowie

Editors

Friendly Fires (Frank Turner)

George Harrison

The Hives

Iggy Pop

Jeff Buckley

Kaiser Chiefs (The Kinks)

Lou Reed

Manic Street Preachers

New Order

Oasis

Pink Floyd

Queen

R.E.M.

The Smiths (Super Furry Animals)

They Might Be Giants (Them Crooked Vultures)

U2

The Verve

The White Stripes (The Who)

The xx (by default)

Yo La Tengo

The Zutons.

I've included in brackets answers that were probably more accurate but didn't come to mind so quickly.

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23 July 2011
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You and Joe both listed Super Furry Animals and the name intrigues me, what, or I guess who, do they sound like?

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24 July 2011
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The Walrus said:

The xx (by default)

Pretty much. a-hard-days-night-ringo-9

I think it's great you're going through a phase,

and I'm awfully glad it'll all be over in a couple

of days

 

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GnikuS, if you see this, we're like…exactly the same.a-hard-days-night-ringo-4

You listed a bunch that I couldn't remember at the moment of posting.

Anyway, very intriguing.

The sunshine bores the daylights outta me

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I'll have a crack at this without any duplicates of the Walrus.

Arctic Monkeys

Blur

Curtis Mayfield

Dungen

Ennio Morricone

Flaming Lips

Gorillaz

Harry Nilsson

Ian Brown

John Lennon

Kool & the Gang

Love

Modest Mouse

Neil Young

Outkast (really clutching at straws here)

Primal Scream

Queens of the Stone Age

Radiohead

Spiritualized

Talking Heads

Undertones (difficult one, that. And I wouldn't want to say U2 anyway)

The Velvet Underground

Weezer (Walrus picked the obvious ones)

XTC (obviously)

The Zombies

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GniknuS said:

You and Joe both listed Super Furry Animals and the name intrigues me, what, or I guess who, do they sound like?

I'm struggling to think of a good comparison. A picture paints a thousand words:

Give it a minute or so, because the band doesn't start immediately.

I told her I didn’t 

25 July 2011
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JET! said:

GnikuS, if you see this, we're like…exactly the same.a-hard-days-night-ringo-4

You listed a bunch that I couldn't remember at the moment of posting.

Anyway, very intriguing.

Ahhh I knew the Wild Tchoupitoulas were too obvious of a choice for W!!!! pete-best

But what bands or artists are you in to? I suppose it takes a list like this to make me realize how much I like jazz.

And Walrus that video doesn't show up on my ipod, so I'll just check a cd out from la biblioteca.

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25 July 2011
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mr. Sun king coming together said:

No Nash, Graham?

Nope. I listed my favorites from each letter.

a-hard-days-night-john-3I couldn't think of any artist/band for “N” that I liked well enough to list (Neil Young belongs in “Y”). Nash had a solo song or two that were OK but I liked his contributions to The Hollies and CSN better. I was never really that big on Nirvana either. I felt it best to leave it blank instead of just throwing something in there by default.

GniknuS said:

But what bands or artists are you in to? I suppose it takes a list like this to make me realize how much I like jazz.

I'm into a lot of different styles, I suppose. My CD rack is filled with Classical, Heavy Metal, really old Blues, Punk, Southern Rock, a lot of Classic Rock, one or two Beatles albums, etc…

a-hard-days-night-george-10

I don't have any Jazz artisits in my coffers because I haven't found an artist/group that I can't live without. However, I really enjoy listening to it on my Cable TV's music channels where they usually play the more popular songs of the genre. When I lived in Phoenix, one of my favorite radio stations was KYOT where they played a lot of “smooth jazz”. It is very relaxing.

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25 July 2011
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GniknuS said:

You and Joe both listed Super Furry Animals and the name intrigues me, what, or I guess who, do they sound like?

I bought this single – SFA’s Hometown Unicorn – in my first week at uni, without having heard them but knowing they were a local band. It’s from 1996 and is beautiful.

It blew me away. Listen to the harmonies, arrangement, melodies. Lovely! They were signed to Creation at the time, but everyone ignored them in favour of the massively inferior Oasis.

Ellie and I first bonded over SFA, going to all their concerts and devouring their records – she walked down the aisle at our wedding to the sound of Hello Sunshine. I interviewed Gruff Rhys (the singer – pronounced Griff) a few times too. They’re stars here in Wales and well respected around the world, but most people see them as crazy Welsh wizards strung out on mushrooms (or other boring cliches). They’ve gone off the boil a bit lately but their earlier stuff is wonderful. So yes, I’m a bit of a fan!

I recommend the albums Radiator, Rings Around The World and the singles collection Songbook, plus the Welsh-language Mwng if you’re feeling a bit braver. Gruff’s solo stuff is very good too. Here’s his most recent single – all his and SFA’s back catalogue are full of these sorts of pop gems:

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Thanks for the recommendation Joe! I'm going to get some of their stuff I like the first song you posted!

 

I have to say for me it's fantastic you share other bands we like besides obviously the Beatles. I'm catching up with my zero listening to new music in the 90s and some other years.

 

Edit : I have to say I just listened to Radiohead Kid-A thanks to the recommendation of a friend and it blew me away. I’m going to check out Radiator and Rings around the world.

 

(and I need to get a larger mp3 player)

 

BTW To Joe and anybody who's a Joy Divison fan… can you recommend me a good album to start with?

Here comes the sun….. Scoobie-doobie……

Something in the way she moves…..attracts me like a cauliflower…

Bop. Bop, cat bop. Go, Johnny, Go.

Beware of Darkness… 

25 July 2011
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(God , this is why I could never be an advertiser – I do too much free work)

Mith, that's…. sad and yet inspirational. I think lots of us young people don't realise something. There still is good current music. But they won't be promoted like Beiber is. (I love how Beiber is considered a typo. I just love it.) So, I pipe up my favourite current band, Arcade Fire. Their most recent album is great, especially the title track. (The fact they're Montreal boys doesn't hurt, of course).

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Mith – glad you liked SFA! I’m not really a Joy Division fan but Closer is generally held to be their best work. My favourite song of theirs is Transmission.

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GniknuS said:

JET! said:

GnikuS, if you see this, we're like…exactly the same.a-hard-days-night-ringo-4

You listed a bunch that I couldn't remember at the moment of posting.

Anyway, very intriguing.

Ahhh I knew the Wild Tchoupitoulas were too obvious of a choice for W!!!! pete-best

But what bands or artists are you in to? I suppose it takes a list like this to make me realize how much I like jazz.

And Walrus that video doesn't show up on my ipod, so I'll just check a cd out from la biblioteca.

 

a-hard-days-night-ringo-14Whoops! I listed the wrong one, I meant Paulrus.

But I do like some of the bands you listed and I'm starting to get into jazz and old blues and the like.

So then Paulrus, we have very similar music taste.

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mr. Sun king coming together said:

(God , this is why I could never be an advertiser – I do too much free work)

Mith, that's…. sad and yet inspirational. I think lots of us young people don't realise something. There still is good current music. But they won't be promoted like Beiber is. 

The thing is SunKing I went through 2 very sad situations in my family in the 90s, and I didn't even care for checking out what was going in the music scene.

 

So I'm catching up. Oh Joe and BTW I got Radiator and Rings around the world and so far so great!!! . Hillarious they have a song named Chupacabras. brian-epstein

 

And Arcade Fire SunKing, recommend me a good CD. I listened to My body is my cage.

Here comes the sun….. Scoobie-doobie……

Something in the way she moves…..attracts me like a cauliflower…

Bop. Bop, cat bop. Go, Johnny, Go.

Beware of Darkness… 

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