The Official Music Thread

[welshsteve76]

Is there an official thread for discussing music likes etc?  I couldn't find one so thought I'd start one off.

What is everyone's favourite music, bands etc?  I like loads of bands, mainly rock/metal, but also like 80s stuff.

My favourite bands currently are:

Metallica (all time faves)

Alter Bridge

Trivium

Black Stone Cherry

The Cadillac Three

Slipknot

Iron Maiden

Stone Sour

Blacktop Mojo

Royal Blood

[Glory1]

Yeah loved it. I recorded the Brits so that I could fast forward through the ads and the boring bits. I particularly wanted to see Rag n Bone Man perform live. Just can't get enough of his music at the moment.

[Anonymous]

Most overated - Coldplay

(They started out good but soon turned commercial to please the masses - ugh)

[jonsie]

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@Glory1wrote:

I don't stream music tending to prefer downloading tracks to my phone. My favourite singers/groups are less modern, though I do like some of the new stuff. My faves are:

Queen

  Anything at all they've recorded

The Eagles

  Hotel California

  Take It to the Limit

  Hole in the World

  Desperado

  New Kid in Town

The Rolling Stones

  Not Fade Away

  Sympathy For the Devil

  You Can't Always Get What You

     Want

  Brown Sugar

  As Tears Go By

The Beatles

  Day Tripper

  Hey Jude

  Let It Be

  Paperback Writer

  Ticket to Ride

David Bowie

  Fame

  The Man Who Sold the World

  Under Pressure (with Queen)

  Young Americans

  Space Oddity

Elton John

  Border Song

  Captain Fantastic and the

    Brown Dirt Cowboy

  Indian Sunset

  Levon

  Candle in the Wind

My favourite album at the moment is Human by RagNBone Man. Just can't stop listening to it - I think he's fantastic.

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Now that's my kind of play list @Glory1 🙌

[Cleoriff]

Really @jonsie? You must have forgotten your favourite group of all time? ?

I'm sure in passing you mentioned The Who were simply the best  No matter ....it's late and you are probably going senile 😂😂😘

[Glory1]

Well I love the Who too @Cleoriff. Picking my 5 favourite groups/singers was not easy. I changed it about 4 times before posting. The Stones and the Beatles were in every list as they were my intro to British music while still in the States. It was the other 3 that kept changing. As my musical taste includes just about every genre, choosing only 5 was a flipping nightmare, not to mention choosing 5 of the chosen artist's songs. At one point I had 10 songs for Elton John, and it was a case of eeny meeny miney mo.....😂

[jonsie]

I'm not sure you're wrong about going senile but I think I'm going blind too.

I think Elton would have to make way for The Who, yes definitely my all time favourites but there are so many I could add....

The Kinks, The Small Faces, Them, The Beach Boys, The Killers, Bowie, Dylan, Roy Orbison mm Travelling Wilburys etc.etc.

So impossible to have a top five. I was dragged up in the  60s and haven't even mentioned The Doors, Pink Floyd, Simon & Garfunkle, The Animals, The Byrds,  Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Otis Redding, The Yardbirds, The Pretty Things, the list is never ending. 

The 70s brought Soul music, Meatloaf, Northern Soul, Neil Diamond and so I listen now to all kinds of music but it's all been downloaded or uploaded over the years from 45s , albums, CDs and even cassettes. I don't use Spotify or any other streaming sources, my collection is stored in so many clouds and apps as backup.

So when it comes to a top five it's just impossible I'm afraid. I have a top two of The Who and Queen but pick any three from the above and I wouldn't argue...

[Cleoriff]

I totally agree. Picking top 5 groups  was a hard task, because as you say. when you have grown up to music of the 60's and have embraced every era since then, it's nigh impossible.

It probably would have been easier to name your top 100 songs.

I missed out The Beatles, The Stones,The Kinks, Roy Orbison, Chris Farlowe, The Animals, Elvis, Rod Stewart etc etc etc.

In fact, I changed my mind so many times I gave myself a headache

This is why we go on these 60's and 70's weekends away. There are so many groups still performing, albeit with a few new members. It reminds us of the good times and the great music

[Glory1]

@jonsieand @Cleoriff you have between you named just about every group/artist whose tracks I have on my phone.

And thank you @Cleoriff because for some reason I forgot about The Animals. So just downloaded my 3 favourite tracks of theirs to add to my collection.

I could add to your lists Abba, Joe Tex, Cream, The Doobie Brothers, Creedance Clearwater Revival, Isaac Hayes, The Righteous Brothers, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, The Temptations, The Shangrilas, The Crystals, The Chiffons, The Ronettes (who were friends) and on and on the list goes.

I gave my top 5 but really I could have added so many more.

[Cleoriff]

@Glory1You were friends with the Ronettes? I take my hat off to you. Brilliant group The wonder of the Spector sound...

My favourite song of theirs..

[Anonymous]

The Moody Blues

The Beatles

The Shaddows

Jack Jones

Frank Sinatra

Others like Bryan Addams ... Neil Diamond ... Michael Buble ...The Searchers ... The Tremeloes 

@Glory1 I remember Phil Spectre & his 'Wall of Sound' of which the Ronnettes were a good example of