Music to recommend

[SkeeK]

just cause I'm a bastard, here's my 103 favourite recording artists in a vague sort of order:

U2
Outkast
Radiohead
Underworld
Massive Attack
The Flaming Lips
Blackalicious (and Quannum in general)
Lamb
REM
Portishead
Wilco
Doves
PJ Harvey
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Moloko
Silver Mt. Zion...
The Shins
The Decemberists
Elbow
Moby
Calexico
Orbital
The Notwist
Way Out West
British Sea Power
Amon Tobin
The Prodigy
Conjure One
Garbage
Bjork
Aim
Spoon
Dismemberment Plan
The Roots
Hybrid
David Bowie
Red Hot Chili Peppers
RJD2
Sigur Ros
Grandaddy
Apollo 440
Dead Can Dance
Orbital
Air
Merkury Burn
Delerium
Fatboy Slim
The Unicorns
Aesop Rock
Nitin Sawhney
The Weakerthans
Cardigans/A Camp
Vangelis
Badly Drawn Boy
Loreena McKennit
Interpol
Neutral Milk Hotel
Bent
Lemon Jelly
Smashing Pumpkins
Beck
!!!
Enigma
Pulp
Four Tet
DJ Shadow
Franz Ferdinand
Blue States
Thievery Coropration
White Stripes
Faithless
Simon and Garfunkel
Sarah Mclachlan
Gorillaz
Mercury Rev
John Vanderslice
El-P
Afro Celt Sound System
Gavin Friday
BT
Jurassic 5
Cinematic Orchestra
Broken Social Scene
Shpongle
Groove Armada
Zero 7
Goldfrapp
Elliot Smith
Beth Orten
Peter Gabriel
Dusted
Cocteau Twins
Sneaker Pimps
St Germain
DJ Tiesto
Craig Armstrong
No Doubt
Delgados
Pink Floyd
Beta Band
The Pixies
The Gurriers
At The Drive In

There might be soem repeats, and I'm sure I've forgotten a couple

 

[Elvis Presley]

wow, thats alot.....

 

[Angela Harlem]

good work SkeeK, now everyone will jump on the 103 bandwagon and make this really long.





i like your list though

 

[u2popmofo]

I've meant to follow in Skeek's footsteps for the last couple months, but havent. Here it goes. no order, no rhyme or reason:


U2
Radiohead
The Cure
The Smiths
The Clash
The Shins
Idlewild
AFI
Bouncing Souls
Weezer
REM
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Rage Against the Machine
Audioslave
Sigur Ros
Grandaddy
Beastie Boys
Coldplay
Postal Service
Death Cab For Cutie
Hot Hot Heat
Interpol
Guided By Voices
Dropkick Murphys
Placebo
Pixies
The Music
The New Pornographers
Morrissey
The Misfits
Minor Threat
Doves
Elbow
Fogging Molly
BRMC
Beta Band
Jurassic 5
Outkast
Talib Kweli
Franz Ferdinand
Bjork
Tori Amos
Zwan
Smashing Pumpkins
White Stripes
The Strokes
Violent Femmes
Operation Ivy
Pavement
Pink Floyd
Low
Depeche Mode
Flaming Lips
Jimmy Eat World
Enya
Cake
Covenant
Bad Religion
At the Drive-In
Sparta
theSTART
Talking Heads
System of a Down
Modest Mouse
Vangelis
Ours
Flaming Lips
Passengers
Bruce Springsteen
Bright Eyes
Travis
Moby
The Dismemberment Plan
Muse
Clinic
Cee-Lo
Bauhaus
The Doors
Queens of the Stone Age
Stray Cats

 

[~LadyLemon~]

Those bastards have good taste.

 

[OzAurora]

hmmmm seeing as though I am really bored today, here is my list, again maybe some repeats and omissions,

U2
janes addiction
neil young
the who
the rolling stones
david bowie
the dandy warhols
porno for pyros
the beatles
eric clapton
dire straits
the smashing pumpkins- gish to Mellon Collie only though
the sugarcubes
bjork
pulp
blur
madonna
faithless
orbital
DJ Shadow
DJ Hyper
Dead can dance
Youssou N'Dour
Delerium
asian dub foundation
Crosby, stills, Nash and Young
buffalo springfield
angelique kidjo
red hot chilli peppers
BT
massive attack
robert cray
john lee hooker
joni mitchell
sasha
john digweed
black sabbath
soundgarden
the manic street preachers
james

Aussie artists.
the cat empire
xavier rudd
hunters and collectors
ed keupper
paul kelly
TISM
john butler trio
alex lloyd
the living end
silverchair
icehouse
endorphin
powderfinger
midnight oil
epicure
machine gun fellatio
the go betweens
george

thats about all I can think of now

 

[Angela Harlem]

No order really

Bush
REM
INXS
Hunters & Collectors
Blur
Collective Soul
Chris Isaak
Modest Mouse
The Streets
Natalie Merchant/10000 Maniacs
Groove Armada
Aphex Twin
Silverchair
The Living End
The Cruel Sea
Spiderbait
Killing Heidi
Paul Simon
Talking Heads
Stone Temple Pilots
Better Than Ezra
Massive Attack
Primal Scream
Skunkhour
Suzanne Vega
DJ Armin Van Buuren
Franz Ferdinand
Sneaker Pimps
Jurassic 5
Mogwai
Enigma
Enya
Goldfrapp
Beastie Boys
Eminem
The Tea Party
The Cat Empire
George
Basement Jaxx
Outkast
Nick Cave
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Tool
TISM
Icehouse
Live
Smashing Pumpkins
Skunk Anansie
Moby
The Prodigy

 

[zoney!]

Angela Harlem forgot to add:

RATT
Europe

 

[Tomer]

why isn't queen in anyone's list?

 

[MrBrau1]

why isn't queen in anyone's list?

Good question.

 

[Jack In The Box]

my idleness

10,000 Maniacs
A Perfect Circle
AFI
Air
Alice in chains
Apocalyptica
At the drive-in
Bad religion
Beatles, the
Beck
Belle and Sebastian
Beta band, the
Bj?rk
Black Sabbath
Blindside
Blur
Bob Dylan
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Bright eyes
British sea power
Broken social scene
Caf? tacuba
Caviar
Clash, the
Coldplay
Calexico
Coral, the
Cure, the
Charlatans, the
Dandy warhols, the
Dave Matthews Band
David Bowie
Death cab for cutie
Deftones
Depeche mode
Dido
Dimmu borgir
Divine comedy
Doors, the
Doves
Elbow
Fastball
Feeder
Flaming lips, the
Franz Ferdinand
Fobia
Foo fighters
Garbage
Gorky?s zygotic mynci
Hives, the
Hot hot heat
Husker du
Idlewild
Incubus
Interpol
James
Jane?s addiction
Janis Joplin
Jefferson airplane
Jet
Jimi Hendrix
Johnny Cash
Kashmir
Kills, the
Kronos Quartet
Kula shaker
Led zeppelin
Lila Downs
Long Winters, The
Lou Reed
M83
Madonna
Madredeus
Maniac street preachers
Mars volta, the
Massive attack
Meat puppets
Metallica
Moby
Modest mouse
Mogwai
Morphine
Muse
Music, the
My Morning Jacket
Neutral milk hotel
New pornographers
Oasis
Ocean color scene
Pain
Peter Gabriel
Philip Glass
Pink floyd
Placebo
Police, the
Portishead
Postal service, the
Primus
Pulp
Queen
R.E.M.
Radiohead
Rage Against The Machine
Ramones, the
Rapture, the
Rasputina
Red hot chili peppers
Robbie Williams
Rolling stones
Rooney
Ryan Adams
San Pascualito Rey
Sarah Brightman
Seatbelts, the
Starsailor
Sex pistols, the
Shins, the
Sigur Ros
Smashing pumpkins
Smiths, the
Snapcase
Sonic youth
Spiritualized
Spoon
Stereophonics
Strokes, the
Suede
Super furry animals
Supergrass
System of a Down
Television
Tool
Tori Amos
Travis
Tricky
U2
UNKLE
Van Morrison
Velvet underground
Weezer
White stripes, the
Who, the
Wilco
X-Japan
Yeah yeah yeah?s
Zoe
Zurdok

I forgot some surely

 

[The Sage]

At least you didn't forget U2, like Angela Harlem did

I'm not sure i'd be able to think of 20 bands that I like, let alone 103...

For now -

U2
Oasis
The Verve
Travis
Garbage
Dandy Warhols
RHCP
Matchbox 20
Feeder
Nickelback
Coldplay
Appleseed Cast
John Frusciante

Dried up already...there's more I can't think of right this second, but really there are few bands that i'd happily say that I 'like'...

 

[Bono's shades]

I can't resist list threads.

U2
Bruce Springsteen
R.E.M.
Jeff Buckley
The Police
The Beatles
Prince
Pink Floyd
The White Stripes
Aretha Franklin
Marvin Gaye
The Temptations
Curtis Mayfield
Peter Gabriel
Talking Heads
Kate Bush
INXS
Led Zeppelin
Chris Isaak
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Midnight Oil
The Clash
The Stray Cats
Parliament
Dire Straits
Franz Ferdinand
Radiohead
Rolling Stones
The Who
Johnny Cash
Marshall Crenshaw
The Alarm
Crowded House
Roy Orbison
Elvis Costello
The Ramones
The Sex Pistols
Robert Cray
ZZ Top
PJ Harvey
Tim Buckley
Simon and Garfunkel
Enya
The Doors
Doves
Travis
Coldplay
Blur
Pearl Jam
Nirvana
Mars Volta
The Killers
Queen
Big Country
The Smiths
Echo and the Bunnymen
Linda Ronstadt
Sarah McLachlan
The Waterboys
Jimi Hendrix
Living Colour
Bob Marley
Eric Clapton
Yardbirds
Cream
Stooges
Iggy Pop
Cyndi Lauper
Elton John
The Velvet Underground
Lou Reed
The Byrds
The Kinks
Beck
Sly and the Family Stone
Bonnie Raitt
Los Lobos
Sinead O?Connor
Lone Justice
David Bowie
T-Rex
Warren Zevon
The Pretenders
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Stevie Wonder
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Neil Young
Tina Turner
Blondie
The Eurythmics
Wilco

 

[Angela Harlem]

Ha whoops. I did forget U2.


Zoner your complete list would only be RATT and Europe wouldn't it?

 

[AcrobatMan]

pretty much in decending order or preference and recommendation

radiohead
u2
oasis
pink floyd
porcupine tree
DMode
Jdivision
coldplay
doves
blur
inxs
beck
travis
flaming lips
led zep
police
alice in chain
cranberries
kula shaker
magnet
rammstein (german)
ligabue (italian)
negrita (italian)
go go dolls
linkin park
mew
puddle of mudd
rem
nirvana

 

[Lilly]

k, here are 206 that are on my "topper" list (there may be some....repeats)


U2
Outkast
Radiohead
Underworld
Massive Attack
The Flaming Lips
Blackalicious (and Quannum in general)
Lamb
REM
Portishead
Wilco
Doves
PJ Harvey
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Moloko
Silver Mt. Zion...
The Shins
The Decemberists
Elbow
Moby
Calexico
Orbital
The Notwist
Way Out West
British Sea Power
Amon Tobin
The Prodigy
Conjure One
Garbage
Bjork
Aim
Spoon
Dismemberment Plan
The Roots
Hybrid
David Bowie
Red Hot Chili Peppers
RJD2
Sigur Ros
Grandaddy
Apollo 440
Dead Can Dance
Orbital
Air
Merkury Burn
Delerium
Fatboy Slim
The Unicorns
Aesop Rock
Nitin Sawhney
The Weakerthans
Cardigans/A Camp
Vangelis
Badly Drawn Boy
Loreena McKennit
Interpol
Neutral Milk Hotel
Bent
Lemon Jelly
Smashing Pumpkins
Beck
!!!
Enigma
Pulp
Four Tet
DJ Shadow
Franz Ferdinand
Blue States
Thievery Coropration
White Stripes
Faithless
Simon and Garfunkel
Sarah Mclachlan
Gorillaz
Mercury Rev
John Vanderslice
El-P
Afro Celt Sound System
Gavin Friday
BT
Jurassic 5
Cinematic Orchestra
Broken Social Scene
Shpongle
Groove Armada
Zero 7
Goldfrapp
Elliot Smith
Beth Orten
Peter Gabriel
Dusted
Cocteau Twins
Sneaker Pimps
St Germain
DJ Tiesto
Craig Armstrong
No Doubt
Delgados
Pink Floyd
Beta Band
The Pixies
The Gurriers
At The Drive In
U2
Radiohead
The Cure
The Smiths
The Clash
The Shins
Idlewild
AFI
Bouncing Souls
Weezer
REM
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Rage Against the Machine
Audioslave
Sigur Ros
Grandaddy
Beastie Boys
Coldplay
Postal Service
Death Cab For Cutie
Hot Hot Heat
Interpol
Guided By Voices
Dropkick Murphys
Placebo
Pixies
The Music
The New Pornographers
Morrissey
The Misfits
Minor Threat
Doves
Elbow
Fogging Molly
BRMC
Beta Band
Jurassic 5
Outkast
Talib Kweli
Franz Ferdinand
Bjork
Tori Amos
Zwan
Smashing Pumpkins
White Stripes
The Strokes
Violent Femmes
Operation Ivy
Pavement
Pink Floyd
Low
Depeche Mode
Flaming Lips
Jimmy Eat World
Enya
Cake
Covenant
Bad Religion
At the Drive-In
Sparta
theSTART
Talking Heads
System of a Down
Modest Mouse
Vangelis
Ours
Flaming Lips
Passengers
Bruce Springsteen
Bright Eyes
Travis
Moby
The Dismemberment Plan
Muse
Clinic
Cee-Lo
Bauhaus
The Doors
Queens of the Stone Age
Stray Cats

 

[Laura M]

In random order:

Travis
Coldplay
Pete Yorn
Oasis
Supergrass
Beth Orton
Dido
Outkast
U2
Queen
Stereophonics
Doves
Pay*ola
The Revs
Hives
Bob Geldof
Bob Dylan
QOTSA
Muse
Moby
Zero 7
Snow Patrol
Tori Amos
Scissor Sisters
Suzanne Vega
Blur
Beck
Franz Ferdinand
Ash
Air
Eels
Sarah McLachlan
Elbow
Brian Kennedy
Blondie
Cranberries
Smashing Pumpkins
Elvis
GnR
Elton John
Massive Attack
Feeder
Weezer
REM
Ramones
Blondie

 

[elevation2u]

u2
radiohead
police
sting
coldplay
travis
south
rjd2
manu chao
dj shadow
science fiction
mana
fabulosos cadillacs
clash
cure
depeche mode
smiths
morrissey
cafe tacuba
at the drive in
ben folds
bjork
portishead
lovage
pinback
denali
beatles and lennon
who
rolling stones
interpol
rapture
bright eyes
joy division
aterciopleados
miles david
philip glass
muse
moby
mogwai
modest mouse
oasis
placebo
rem
doors
postal service
stone roses
thievery corporation
rage
beck
dandy warhols

 

[Cute Irish Bono]

U2
Everclear
Tears For Fears
Collective Soul
Muse
Dave Matthews Band
Weezer
Jimmy Eat World
The Who
Pearl Jam
Bob Marley
Mettallica
Audioslave
The Eagles
Queen
Bush
Blur
Apollo Four Fourty
Guster
Vertical Horizon
Jet
Journey
Madness
Alannis Morrisette
Mandona
Our Lady Peace
The Offspring
Sugar Ray
Third Eye Blind
Maroon 5
New Order
Cake
Dc Talk
Jars of Clay
Kid Rock
Linkin Park
Limp Bizkit
Eiffel 65
Fat Boy Slim
Incubus
Live
Puddle Of Mudd
The Beach Boys
The Beatles
The Wallflowers
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Steve Miller Band
Nine Days
Nickelback
Nirvana
Simply Red
Jamirquiou
The Foo Fighters
The Goo Goo Dolls
Hall & Oates
Foigner
Ben Folds
Ryan Adams
Outkast
At the Drive In
INXS
Billy Idol
E.L.O.
Earth Wind & Fire
Led Zeplien
The Talking Heads
Sarah Mcahlan
Sting
STYX
Plus more!

 

[alia612]

u2
the cure
rem
radiohead
the shins
the beatles
death cab for cutie
the magnetic fields
the thrills
the smiths
robyn hitchcock
morrissey
modest mouse
belle & sebastian
ryan adams
counting crows
starsailor
echo & the bunnymen
the jesus & mary chain
the glove
travis
oasis
remy zero
the replacements
coldplay
the libertines
the clash
interpol
badly drawn boy
damien rice
the velvet underground
the jayhawks
roxy music
bright eyes
the hooters
the gin blossoms
evening lights
ben kweller
beulah
the pixies
the ramones
the soft boys
john lennon
the postal service
wilco
sigur ros
david bowie
brian eno
my morning jacket
pavement
fools dance
elliott smith
elvis costello
matchbox twenty
dashboard confessional
jeff buckley


In no order whatsoever...I'm not even sure how many there are.

 

[Cute Irish Bono]

And I forget Matchbox 20 and 30 Secoud To Mars!

 

[Cute Irish Bono]

And The Rolling Stones!

 

[IWasBored]

trying to do this is going to hurt my head.

consider my head hurt.

and it's not really a complete list either...it's just a fuckload of stuff i like. that didn't really accomplish anything, did it.

ac/dc
afi
agnostic front
alkaline trio
angelic upstarts
ash
bad religion
barenaked ladies
big bad bollocks
blood for blood
blood or whiskey
bouncing souls
bruce springsteen
citizen fish
cock sparrer
cockney rejects
coldplay
common rider
counting crows
darkbuster
deal's gone bad
descendents
discipline
dropkick murphys,
ducky boys/dirty water
enter the haggis
eric clapton
far from finished
flogging molly
fugazi,
gaelic storm
gang green
hudson falcons
husker du
idlewild
iron cross
joe strummer & the mescaleros
johnny cash
joy division
klasse kriminale
lars & the bastards
live
madball
mighty mighty bosstones
minor threat
modest mouse
motel blonde
murphy's law
necromantix
niblick henbane
nine inch nails
nirvana
op ivy
patriot
pearl jam
pennywise
pinkerton thugs
pistol grip
pressure point
radiohead
ramones
rancid
real mckenzies
REM
reverend horton heat
roger miret & the disasters
rose tattoo
shane macgowan & the popes
skatalites
slapshot
small faces
smashing pumpkins
squared off
stiff little fingers
stray cats
street dogs
suspect device
the beatles
the bruisers
the business
the chords
the clash
the explosion
the forgotten
the gc5
the jam
the meteors
the oppressed
the pietasters
the pogues
the prodigals
the shins
the smiths
the toasters
the tossers
the vandals
tiger army
tiger army
transplants
u.s. bombs
u2

 

[Muggsy]

metallica
nirvana
u2
cypress hill
house of pain
a perfect circle
apocaliptica
manu chao
deftones
rancid
the clash
sex pistols
the doors
black sabbath
KoRn
Radiohead
The cure
The mamas and the papas
No doubt
Pearl jam
Soda Stereo (argentina)
Led Zeppelin
Pink floyd
White zombie
Enya
Depeche Mode
INXS
Smashing pumpkins
Gorillaz

.... let me think some more...

 

[SkeeK]

i must add primal scream, talk talk, ted leo and the pharmacists, the arcade fire to near the top.

 

[Jack In The Box]

I wanna add... a lot of new bands in my list

 

[nick_u2]

Here are mine

U2
Foo Fighters
Green Day
AFI
Nirvana
Weezer
Led Zeppelin
The Beatles
The Clash
The Cure
The Vandals
Bruce Springsteen
Tiger Army
Rancid
Pete Yorn
Rolling Stones
Danny Masters Band
TKO

That's about it for now

 

[meegannie]

The Magic Numbers

 

[SkeeK]

ASHiii.. still forgot THE WRENS.

 

[Zoomerang96]

good to see i'm not the only matchbox twenty and nickelback fan around here.

i'll put up my list later on.