Your favorite popular music artist?

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Bogey

#40
January 06, 2009, 07:11:12 PM
Quote from: Brian on January 06, 2009, 07:04:11 PM
Fortunately I still have some of the - would the word be traditional? - albums to enjoy for the first time.

Any mono pressings Brain?
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

bwv 1080

#41
January 06, 2009, 09:52:24 PM
Mike Patton

(does he count as popular?)

vandermolen

#42
January 07, 2009, 02:06:53 AM
The Monkees  ;D
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

karlhenning

#43
January 07, 2009, 04:53:52 AM
Quote from: Bogey on January 06, 2009, 06:52:48 PM
Other bands I "flirt" with but do not go after everything:

The Who
REM
Talking Heads
Early Elton
Chicago
Hendrix


There's a lot of obvious deadwood to Chicago, alas!  8)

Dr. Dread

#45
January 07, 2009, 05:06:19 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on January 07, 2009, 02:06:53 AM
The Monkees  ;D

They had some good pop songs written for them.

karlhenning

#46
January 07, 2009, 05:17:29 AM
Quote from: Dr. Dread on January 07, 2009, 05:06:19 AM
They had some good pop songs written for them.

http://www.youtube.com/v/cNJy-OgCzB0

Mike Nesmith has trouble with the honker.

vandermolen

#47
January 07, 2009, 07:47:49 AM
Quote from: Dr. Dread on January 07, 2009, 05:06:19 AM
They had some good pop songs written for them.

I saw them live in London. My mother took me  :o
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Bogey

#48
January 07, 2009, 06:34:25 PM
Quote from: karlhenning on January 07, 2009, 04:53:52 AM
There's a lot of obvious deadwood to Chicago, alas!  8)

Word. $:)  And good evening my friend. :)
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

Renfield

#49
January 07, 2009, 07:57:07 PM Last Edit: January 07, 2009, 07:59:02 PM by Renfield
If by popular one means pop (versus non-classical), I'll have to go for Brian Wilson.


If pop can include technopop (;D), then Kraftwerk, beyond doubt.

(In effect meaning Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider and Karl Bartos - the latter two of whom are no longer in the band).


And if "popular" means "not classical", the answer is still Kraftwerk, followed by obscure black metal band Blodsrit, and Brian Wilson. :)

George

#50
January 07, 2009, 08:02:08 PM
In biographical order:

Queen
Cat Stevens
Eagles
Pink Floyd
Run DMC
R.E.M.
Morrissey
pearl jam
Tool
Procol Harum
Bob Dylan
Joni Mitchell
Jackson Browne

If forced to pick just one - Morrissey.

George

#51
January 07, 2009, 08:04:10 PM
Quote from: Bogey on January 06, 2009, 06:52:48 PM
Other bands I "flirt" with but do not go after everything:
REM

Time to go all the way!

Well, all the way to Automatic for the People. 8)

Hollywood

#52
January 07, 2009, 10:42:11 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on January 07, 2009, 02:06:53 AM
The Monkees  ;D

For me as well.  8) Another favorite is Herman's Hermits.
"There are far worse things awaiting man than death."

A Hollywood born SoCal gal living in Beethoven's Heiligenstadt (Vienna, Austria).

orbital

#53
January 07, 2009, 10:55:33 PM
No mention of Radiohead yet?  :o
For me other than them I generally turn to one of the following when listening to something other than classical: Amon Tobin, Thievery Corporation, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Fiona Apple, Rachael Yamagata, Kate Bush, Eagles, CRR, Stevie Wonder, LTJ Bukem, America, FSL

Dr. Dread

#54
January 08, 2009, 04:29:13 AM
Quote from: orbital on January 07, 2009, 10:55:33 PM
No mention of Radiohead yet? 

I know. Amazing, isn't it?

Kullervo

#55
January 08, 2009, 04:39:41 AM
Quote from: orbital on January 07, 2009, 10:55:33 PM
No mention of Radiohead yet?  :o

I still like them but I'm kind of burnt out on their music.  :-\

George

#56
January 08, 2009, 04:53:46 AM
Quote from: orbital on January 07, 2009, 10:55:33 PM
No mention of Radiohead yet?  :o

after years of waiting, nothing came  $:)

bwv 1080

#57
January 08, 2009, 06:28:05 AM
Akron/Family
Allman Bros
Black Sabbath
Bob Wills
Doc Watson
Dock Boggs
Fela
Graham Parsons
James Brown
Johnny Cash
Louis Armstrong
Meshuggah
Michael Gira (Swans / Angels of Light)
Pink Floyd
Roscoe Holcomb
Sonic Youth

Dr. Dread

#58
January 08, 2009, 06:36:47 AM
Quote from: bwv 1080 on January 08, 2009, 06:28:05 AM
Akron/Family
Allman Bros
Black Sabbath
Bob Wills
Doc Watson
Dock Boggs
Fela
Graham Parsons
James Brown
Johnny Cash
Louis Armstrong
Meshuggah
Michael Gira (Swans / Angels of Light)
Pink Floyd
Roscoe Holcomb
Sonic Youth


Nice!

Haffner

#59
January 08, 2009, 07:59:15 AM
Quote from: orbital on January 07, 2009, 10:55:33 PM
No mention of Radiohead yet?  :o



I never quite got over the typical grunge-thang of "Creep". But I should most probably give them more listens. Maybe it's because I'm old, but Rock for me started dying around 1991 and there was absolutely nothing since Marilyn Manson's third full length (or was it NiN's fourth? Tool's third? One-a those) that interested me at all.

But, obviously I'm way more of a Metal dude.
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