O/T: Your favourite musicians

[TheParraboy]

Oh sh*t,

Well this is going to make me sound so soft.

Any rate.
Yeah Michael Jackson was fantastic in the 80's and Early 90's.
I love Icehouse, the song Great Southern Land and the album Man of Colors.

Mark, you will be extemley delighted that this song (with no vocals though) is played every time Australia takes the field bowling in home cricket test matches, wether at the start of play, after lunch or after tea, everytime they take the field. Unfortunately its been played a heck of a lot this year to date

 

[Suitman]

E.L and P. Their first album was brilliant! 'Just Take a Pebble' and 'Lucky Man' are two of my all time favourite memories.

Mine too - from 1971 - although I didn't start getting into it until about '78-'79.
They realeased "ELP - Works Volume One in '77, which included this -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we55QQcsvY4


ELP had an incredible knack to throw a beautiful acoustic track (see below)in somewhere out of the blue, when so much of the rest of their stuff was rather out there.
Greg Lake was the acoustic champ, while Carl Palmer was the drum king, and Keith Emerson was a brilliant keyboard player/pianist.
They were 3 extraordinarily talented musicians. They made it much bigger in other parts of the world, but unfortunately, the staid music programmers on Aussie radio gave them little hope.


'The Sage" - Greg Lake - from "Piuctures at an Exhibition"., by Mussorgsky

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Ippzdh0Qg&feature=fvw

Ces't la Vie - Greg Lake. Works - Volume 1.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gATDaYZwPio

And up there, if not better than Lucky Man is

"Lend your love to me tonight" - Greg Lake - Works Volume 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s5hYQtytrM&NR=1&feature=fvwp





And just for you Lingard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfnY612LVKg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=129uSUEN-8w&feature=related

Finally, one of the great Christmas carols of all time.

"I believe in Father Christmas" - Greg Lake - Works Volume 2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXCEdrnaFlY

So good, that these guys even covered it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLShxhQwwwA&feature=related

Suity

 

[hineyrulz]

Crikey i could be here all night, i'll just list some of my fav stuff on my Ipod.


The Doors
The Who
The Rolling Stones
The Kinks
Johnny Cash
The Beatles
The Animals
The Byrds
The Yardbirds
Cream
Eric Clapton
CCR
Hendrix
Neil Young
Pink Floyd
Led Zep
Black Sabbath
Deep Purple
Status Quo
David Bowie
ACDC
Bob Marley
the Angels
Billy Idol
Aussie Crawl
Queen
U2
Gunners
Metallica
Slayer
Bruce Springsteen
John Mellancamp
Dire Straights
Faith no More
Bush
Collective Soul
Green day
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
RHCP
The Killers
Tool
A perfect circle
Soundgarden
Foo fighters
Machine head
Pantera
Everclear
Fear factory
Grinspoon
Hoodoo Gurus
Inxs
Hunters and Collectors
Live
The Living end
Marilyn Manson
Muse
Offspring
Ozzy
Powder finger
Queens of the stone age
the Darkness
Silverchair
Smashing pumpkins
Tenacious D
Type O negative
Weezer
Violent femmes
ZZ top
Midnight Oil
The EAGLES
The cure
The Bloodhound gang
Audioslave

 

[Haynzy]

I'm disappointed that no one has listed etypejazz!

 

[Suitman]

etypejazz.
I've got all their cd's.

Suity

 

[Haynzy]

You da man Suity

 

[Gronk]

Type O negative

I'm disappointed that no one has listed etypejazz!

Well hineyrulz got close and my neighbour has an e-type Jag. Can't say we're not trying.

 

[Haynzy]

:lol:

 

[NorthShoreEel]

 

[NorthShoreEel]

This is Serious Mum.

Greg, the STOP sign! (Love it!)

 

[hineyrulz]

Well hineyrulz got close and my neighbour has an e-type Jag. Can't say we're not trying.

:lol:

 

[guruminga]

I'm disappointed that no one has listed etypejazz!

E-Type Who??:sarcasm:

G

 

[carson]

Syd Barrett
Nick Drake
Velvet Underground
Lou Reed
Nick Cave
Birthday Party
Roland S Howard
The Stooges
MC5
Neil Young
Pavement
The Cure
Leonard Cohen
Frank Sinatra
Thelonious Monk
The Pogues
New York Dolls
Charles Mingus

 

[PARRA_FAN]

* Billy Thorpe: I don't think I need to say why, but here goes...I wasn't familiar with much of his work, bought "Tangier" and it blew my mind. Amazing vocals, incredibly rich sound, combining sounds from traditional rock, middle eastern and Indian influences and just an amazing album. I checked out his other stuff after hearing "Tangier" and I was very impressed.

This.

Some great names mentioned, so many favourites:

The Beatles, cant go past McCartney/Lennon, so many great songs written and lyrics and music is just amazing.

Led Zeppelin, this fab 4 is one of the best in history. Page, Plant, Jones and Bonham.

Jimi Hendrix, a great guitarist and song writer. Who could also forget Mitch Mitchell the bands drummer. One of my favourite drummers.

Ian Moss, a great guitarist and singer. Cold Chisel wouldnt be successful without him

Dave Grohl, what a talent to start out as a drummer for Nirvana and now singer/songwriter/guitarist for the Foo Fighters.

Eric Clapton, enough said
Ac/Dc, definately the Bon Scott era
The Cruel Sea, such an amazing band
Deep Purple
Rolling Stones
David Bowie

 

[natheel]

Metallica
Nofx
Suicidal tendencies
Kyuss
Social distortion
Living end
ACDC
Stone temple pilots
Tool
Rammstien
Iggy pop
The Bronx
Beatles
Zz top (seeing them in April)
Descendents
Frenzal rhomb
The clash
The saints
Slayer
Anthrax
David Bowie
Billy idol

Many many many more

 

[Casper The Ghost]

Too many to list but here goes, not in any order of preference....

Ritchie Blackmore & Deep Purple - Ritchie revolutionized electric guitar (up there with Hendrix & Jimmy Page & Tony Iomi & a few others)
Jimmie Page & Led Zeppelin - say no more
Ian Anderson & Jethro Tull - all brilliant musos- Ian Anderson is a genius
Genesis - original band - all brilliant musos
Yes - all brilliant musos -
Toni Iomi & Black Sabbath
The Doors - all brilliant musos & Jim Morrison what a voice for his time, a revolution in itself
Emerson Lake & Palmer - incredible musos
Uriah Heep - all brilliant musos
David Bowie
Alice Cooper
Santana - early Santana, Carlos another genius
Frank Zappa - one of the greatest artists ever
The Eagles - early Eagles - all brilliant musos
Little Feat - Chicken George and the boys are some of the greatest rhythm & blues musos ever
Steely Dan - say no more
Pink Floyd - all brilliant musos - they revolutionized music
Cat Stevens - absolute genius who revolutionized folk music
Janis Joplin - say no more
Eric Clapton - The Creme - say no more
The Who - all brilliant
The Beatles - John Lennon - Paul McCartney - George Harrison - say no more- say no more - say no more
Osibisa - incredible bunch of musos
The Monkeys with Neil Diamond as Song Writer - awesome
Neil Diamond - a genius
Peter Frampton - another genius
Bjork - another genius - incredible talent
Queen - Freddy, a genius - no so wrapped in the other band members but they are all very talented
The Police - Sting and the boys revolutionized Reggae music
Bob Marley and the Wailers - say no more
Crosby Stills Nash & Young - all brilliant
Joni Mitchell - say no more
Iron Butterfly - great bunch of musos
Michael Jackson - say no more
Tangerine Dream - revolutionized contemporary psychedelic music
Yellow - another band that revolutionized contemporary psychedelic music
Joan Baez
Carol King - one of the greatest female singer songwriters in contemporary music of all time
Fleetwood Mac - many of the early band and all who became famous off the back of Rumours are brilliant
The Moody Blues - one of my favorite bands ever
Radio Birdman - a brilliant bunch of Aussies -
Early Midnight Oil
Early ACDC
Johnny Farnham - Whispering Jack album - a brilliant album
Masters Apprentices - all great musos
The Zoot - all great musos
Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs & Billy later on in his career- a genius
Early Bob Dylan - a genius
Jimmy Hendrix
Early U2



I'll come back and add some more shortly

 

[eel01s]

I have to say Chris Cornell (Soundgarden, Audioslave and solo artist).

Amazing voice, wonderfully talented lyricist and not afraid to go in new musical directions. Oh, and nobody writes about rejection by women quite like him!!!

 

[Eelementary]

I have to also add Johnny Rzeznik, frontman of the Goo Goo Dolls. Great voice, and he's a great lyricist and has written some beautiful songs, including "Iris", "Name", "Black Balloon" and "Slide".

 

[sam54no]

Only 3 stand out for me...and i've been lucky enough to see 2 of them live.

Michael Jackson
Linkin Park
Eminem (still waiting to see him)

 

[natheel]

I have to also add Johnny Rzeznik, frontman of the Goo Goo Dolls. Great voice, and he's a great lyricist and has written some beautiful songs, including "Iris", "Name", "Black Balloon" and "Slide".

I like goo goo doll alot actually kind of a guilty pleasure