Who are your five favourite music artists of all time?

1. Sonic Youth (just saw them play yesterday. Awesome concert!)
2. New Order
3. Björk
4. Pixies
5. Smashing Pumpkins

The Beatles
U2
Eagles
REM
Talking Heads

The Beatles; Bette Midler; Nat King Cole; Will Smith; Hank Williams

In no specific order...
Creed
Air Supply
Dixie Chicks
Sawyer Brown
Hootie & the Blowfish

I'll get back to you.

Beatles
Bowie
Velvet Underground
B-52's
Fripp and Eno

Siouxsie and the Banshees
Van Morrison
Cat Stevens
Natalie merchant
Blondie
Dead Can Dance
Mancini
Ventures
Eurythmics

1)Alanis Morissette
2)The Cranberries
3)Shakira
4)Sade
5)No Doubt

Björk is really kewl. I like that she's really original.

And she can act very good as well. Did you see 'Dancer in the Dark'?

Slipknot
Eminem
Limp Bizkit
Lesiem
Eve

Bjork is pretty original in making her music. I never had a real chance to really listen to her music, but I would like to hear a few songs of her.

As you know I used to listen to Alanis Morisette; the Cranberries are pretty good (I love the song Bosnia); and Sade is amazing. Her songs are really interesting, and she has a wonderful voice.

Go to the store and buy one of her CD's!

No...but i really want to. Did you see her sing at the Grammys? She was the best.

Waaaaaah. I could have done this survey. I'm supposedly in the lead for music-related surveys. Waaaaah.
1- John Lennon.
2- U2.
3- Rolling Stones.
4- Madonna.
5- The Who.
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6- Fleetwood Mac.
7- The Ramones.
8- Stevie Wonder.
9- Paul McCartney.
10- Beach Boys.

Oh, cool, you like Shakira. I know her--I guess you could say we're something of friends, although I don't really like her personality much or her lyrics.

She's an excellent actress. How dare the Academy shun that movie--Lars von Trier, a brilliant director, and one of the most creative designs I've seen?!!!

Artists....as in solo singer vocalists?
Elvis...........(I known the dude is dead but, I still like his music)
John Lennon.....(Ooops,another dead artist)
Marvin Gaye.....(Geeze........O.K. another)
Janis Joplin....(first dead woman vocalist)
Neil Young......(Hey........... a live one)

If it's artists as in "Groups" then
The Beatles
Led Zepplin
Jimi Hendrix
Alice Cooper
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

Great Survey!!

Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Kristin Hersh, Lisa Gerrard and Gustav Holst.

(I don't know... those are just the first five I thought of that I really like).

I couldn't help but think of "Dancer in the Dark" when I got to the survey about Timothy McVeigh's last words. Appropriate? Ha!

WHAT?!?! You're friends with Shakira?! For real?!

Prince
Marilyn Manson
Robert Smith
Trent Reznor
k d lang

1. Fleetwood Mac
2. Van Morrison
3. The Bee Gees
4. Blondie
5. Steely Dan

David Bowie, Laurie Anderson, Stevie Wonder, Brian Eno, Philip Glass

you would like artists like them

I'm broke

the beatles, cat stevens, janis joplin, the pretenders, tracy chapman.

have you ever seen prince in concert?? probably the best concert i have ever seen and i was in the nose bleed section of madison square garden!!!!! wow, he is powerful in concert and entertaining!!!

We saw him at the Gorge in George, Washington(A brilliant outdoor ampitheatre nestled on the edge of a canyon) a couple of years ago. It was magnificent. He is a showman!!!!! We were in the golden circle 12 rows back, center!

Oh, yeah!! That concert was the BEST!!

Led Zeppelin

Grateful Dead
Led Zeppelin
Janis Joplin
The Doors
Pink Floyd

I LOVE your list!
velvet underground Is so cool. Same w/ Cat Stevens,(funny, some people think that my hubby looks like Cat). LOVE David Bowie!!! Van Morrison rocks as well.
GREAT LIST!!!

Ask your boyfriend!

Luckily the French understand more of movies. In Cannes they gave her the Palm d'Or (French Oscar) for best actress.

lol

At present? The Tragically Hip, Sloan, John Lee Hooker, Tool, and Tom Waits.

I don't have one, never mind five!

J.Bach
Sting
Peter Gabriel
Mark Knopler
My Dying Bride.

Eric Clapton, the Monkees, the Beatles, Elvis, and "Weird Al" Yankovic.

He broke up with me B-(
He is dating one of my best friends now.

Wow... that really sucks. Here, a big ((((HUG)))) from me!
Hope you feel better soon.

Ray Boltz, Newsboys, Jars of Clay, Howard Jones, Elton John

Björk, Kate Bush, Led Zeppelin, Soul Coughing, The Beatles

Does this include composers? "Artists" should have been defined. Well, the musical people I like are: Garth Brooks, Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, and John Williams.

1.Aretha Franklin
2.Whitney Houston
3.Stevie Wonder
4.Mary J. Blige
5.R. Kelly

Van Halen
Genesis
Ozzy Osbourne
Styx
Rush

How old are you?

Many others here have favorites of mine too, like Eric Satie, Bjork, Sting, Joplin, Tom Petty etc. I was thinking, just as when asked my favorite colors, I might respond with my favorite palettes, that in this case, I might just mention who my favorite SC compilations were:
A#1, Kris13, Some confetti & Dabprovin, Twisty, Natsim, Callen610, Pomeranian+, Lovelight, Micah, JakeD.. You see whatI mean about them being palettes? Theres a constant thread running through them with which you can get a feel for what there other sentiments are.

There are so many others I like: Elton John, Eric Clapton, Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston... Chrissy Hynde, the lead singer of The Pretdnders is from my hometown of Akron, Ohio. Remember that song where she sings I went back to Ohio, and my city was gone. There was no train station and no downtown. Sad, but true.

It's actually not so much of a deal. I know she's really "huge and shiny" right now, but before, she was just a slightly cool Colombian chick who came to play here (Costa Rica) on some really shindig, crappy tours. Some of them were even in supermarkets, for Chrissakes. And my dad is this big cheese who's involved with the music industry in Central America, so naturally I met up with her a couple of times, and we had a few good conversations. She spent a week with us at our beach house once, too.

Obviously, they do. I know I shouldn't have high expectations of people who adore things like Eminem and fast food, but really, COME ON, people! "Chocolat" nominated for a supposedly "prestigious" award?! Stop smirking, because I know you are! You're so lucky to be born away from that noisy pigpen.

cool!

Vince Gill

Thanks. I'm over him. He's not that hot and even my friends noticed that it would be wise for him to start using deodorant.

Kate Bush is a great singer, and excellent artist. I haven't even heard for her until I was going over my father's CD's because I was bored. I randomly picked her album, and played. I was amazed by how good it was.

Oh my god! I could die right about now! Well...not really. It's just that i really admire her music because the words make so much sense. So are you from Costa Rica? I went there last year...well only the air port...i was on my way to Guatemala.

I know I'm lucky!

I actually only really like 2-3 of Kate Bush's albums. I didn't like her last one, which was a long time ago. There are parts of "The Hounds of Love" (really "The Ninth Wave", a subset of that album) that have a way of tapping right into my subconscious (hard to explain).

Man, do I really have to pick only five? This is gonna be tough!
By artist I take that to mean you exclude non-performing composers. That would make the list even more difficult.

Aarrrrggghhhh. There are so many to choose from!

In alphabetical order:
Celine Dion, Al Jareaux, Billy Joel, Luis Miguel, Eros Ramazotti.

In no particular order, and assuming that "all time" means they must have been around long enough to judge them on several years worth of output:

U2
Pink Floyd
David Bowie
The Choir
Delirious

Beatles, Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Janis Joplin and The Doors.

changed my mind. take out the doors and add Jimi Hendrix or The Stones or The Who or oh my there are so many bands that I like I can't choose

Graduated in the 80's. That's what all the cool people listened to.

I bet. Cool in the 70's of course!

Hmm, well I just heard 'Lionheart' but it's great. I'll try to find some more of her albums, and hear it.

Well, I graduated in 81. Somehow though I considered your entire genre as something for strung-out viet-nam vets. In spite of the stage power cloud of mystic hope it had a cavelike undercurrent of hopelessness for me and kinda bored me. I was listening to punk, new wave, classical, and experimental at the time which was few peoples cup of tea. Stuff like Lene Lovich, the Dead Kennedy's, Joy division, X, or 60's like syd barret era Floydd. ..anything really different I could get my hands on.

Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley, Ron Kenoley, Crystal Lewis, Vintage Vineyard.

Ok, I'm not that old. I graduated in '86. I was mostly into metal, but I enjoyed the harder pop bands, such as Journey, Asia, Styx, etc. But, I never really got into Led Zeppelin or Hendrix, or those that were more associated with the 70's. Styx, Van Halen, Genesis, etc. may have all started in the 70's, but the albums I enjoy were those that they released in the 80's. What else was I going to listen to then, disco or new wave? I can extend my list further to include the Eagles, Journey, the Police. I mean the great music goes on and on.

Yeah, Eros Ramazotti is really good. Do you by any chance like song 'Musica E'?

No, I'm from the U.S.A. originally but we've been living here since I was real little. You should explore farther than the airport some time

I know....i want to someday.....there's so many places i want to explore! One step at a time....

Kraftwerk, Pink Floyd, Cabaret Voltaire, Miles Davis, and Modest Mussorgsky.

Your list looked like something from most of my classmates in high school. I graduated in 1980. Ozzy wasn't solo yet, but same gist. When I was in school metal was king. I find it really amusing that kids today seem to think that the 70s was all about disco. The only guys that pretended to like disco just did it because they thought they could get laid.

I was glad disco made a come back. I would have been ostracisized by punk import friends when I was a kid. The closest to mainstream I heavily followed was the talking heads. I was there 'psycho killer' to the very end. I was into Genesis, Eagles, and esp the Police though. I hate Hendrix, and found Journey sort of nauseating. I had a housemate that listened 24/7 to nothing bu Journey, Scorpions, Van Halen, and whoever did 'Rock Candy'.

Oh yeah, I was way big on Kraftwerk too.
Ah a news story reminds me, I did listen to a lot of Heart and Fleetwood Mac.

Only five??

*Michael W. Smith
*Carman
*Ray Boltz
*Steven Curtis Chapman
*Deniece Williams.

There are more, but ...

Oh, and my 5 fav groups are:

*Delirious
*Five Iron Frenzy
*The Lads
*Parachute Band
*Hillsongs

who can I pretty much always listen to without getting bored of them?

Dead Can Dance, U2, Pink Floyd, Radiohead (the true test for them is how I'll feel in five years), maybe Miles Davis

oh yeah, I guess I should include Kate Bush and Laurie Anderson too...

Kate Bush supposedly has a new album coming out this summer. I really hope it's better than the last one...

Amazon just told my that Air's new album is out.

I love Michael W. Smith and Ray Boltz. They've both got some great songs. Have you ever heard "Hello, Goodbye" by Michael W. Smith?

I loved your list.It was pretty close to mine.I had wanted to add the Doors,Pink Floyd,Rolling Stones,Eric Clapton,Van Halen & Elton John but the survey creator had stipulated (5) favorites & that made it really difficult for me to include ALL my favorites.But if you look back at my entry,you'll see that I managed to still include five more than was acceptable.Only because I REALLY wasn't sure if it was asking SINGLE artist or GROUP artist.But,yes our music taste a pretty much similar.I wish someone would do one where we could list as many as 10 or 15 that would have me covered.

I had a hard time choosing.

Tori Amos
Louis Armstrong
Kevin Parent
Jacques Brel
Sinatra

Um ... no, can't say that I have

yeah... hmmm, about that...

The Beatles, The Monkeys, Peter-Paul and Mary, Elvis, All the Big Bands,

NOFX, Blind Guardian, The Fine Print, Righteous Corn Farmers and Lynn Buttenbusch.

It's excellent. It's about a little baby boy named Noah that dies after only a few days. Gorgeous song.

Hello, Goodbye
Written for Noah, who only lived 2 1/2 days. Love you, Joey and Anne.
Words & Music: Michael W. Smith and Wayne Kirkpatrick
Drums: Scott Williamson, Guitars: Jerry McPherson and Chris Rodriguez, Bass: Jackie Street, Keyboards: MWS and Mark Heimermann, Percussion: Steve Brewster, Tin Whistle: John Mock, BGVs: Wayne Kirkpatrick. © 1998 Milene Music, Inc./Deer Valley Music (admin. by Milene Music, Inc.)/ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp./Sell the Cow Music/BMI
Where's the Navigator of your destiny?
Where is the Dealer of this hand?
Who can explain life and its brevity
'Cause there is nothing here that I can understand

You and I have barely met
And I just don't want to let go of you yet

Chorus:

Noah, hello, goodbye
I will see you on the other side
Noah, sweet child of mine
I will see you on the other side

And so I hold your tiny hand in mine
For the hardest thing I've ever had to face
Heaven calls for you before it calls for me
When you get there, save me a place

A place where I can share your smile
And I can hold you for more than just a while

Chorus

Ani DiFranco, Massive Attack, Peter Gabriel (for Passion)...
I've been listening to a lot of new (for me) stuff recently, so it's hard to say what my "all time" favorites are.

Mozart, Annie Lennox, Charlotte Church, k.d.Lang and the Beach Boys.

What a great combo.

Thank you! Now if we could just get Paul Williams (along with an appropriate song from "Phantom of the Paradise) to join in.

Where we go once we arrive, until your pipe dreams become obsessions, that's supposed to be what life is all about, we've all come to say good bye.

and that the Hell of it.

Just an old fashioned love song.

Arrrgh, I can't remember the next line! Forgive me, Paul Williams!

Playing out in 3 part harmony.