Favorite bands?

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Divine Comedy
Neil Hannon
Joby talbot
Nusrat fateh Ali Khan
Tomas luis Victoria
Jordi savall
Ziryab

The Raveonettes
Pulp
Velvet Underground
Lavender Hill Mob
Melt Banana
Syzygys
The Orb
Björk
Primus
Ween

For Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan fans: Are you listening to the short dub remixes or the long traditional qawwali?

While the dub versions are kind of cool, I think it sort of detracts from the spirit of his work and the meaning and purpose of qawwali music. Also, if you like the dub stuff, there's a remix album of Vieux Farka Toure stuff that's pretty cool, and Karsh Kale does a lot of remixed Indian music. Karsh Kale did an album with Anoushka Shankar that I really like.

According to my last.fm top 50 list for the last six months:

Django Reinhardt
Phish
Frank Zappa
The Drive-By Truckers
James Brown
John Coltrane
Igor Stravinsky
Talking Heads
Marc Ribot y los Cubanos Postizos
Islands
The Pogues
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Daniel Johnston
John Zorn
Charlie Parker
Marc Ribot
Fela Kuti
Ludovico Einaudi
Old and in the Way
Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band
The Grateful Dead
Charles Mingus
Flying Burrito Brothers
Woody Guthrie
The Residents
Warren Zevon
Miles Davis
Public Enemy
Beat Happening
Brian Eno & David Byrne
Sly and the Family Stone
Afrika Bambaataa
Glenn Branca
Parliament
Clifton Chenier
N.W.A.
Brian Eno
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
Funkadelic
Bela Bartok
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Bill Hicks
Woody Allen
Keef Alfonzo
Johnny Cash
The Black Heart Procession
The Smiths
Hunter S. Thompson
The Kinks

Radiohead
Doves
Clinic
Sunset Rubdown
Destroyer
Wilco
Arcade Fire
Spoon
Modest Mouse
White Stripes
Raconteurs
Wolfmother
Noisettes
Kings of Leon
Supergrass
Primus
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Pink Floyd
Black Sabbath(Ozzy)
Johnny Cash
Tom Petty
Jack Johnson
Xavier Rudd

And recently I'm liking Delta Spirit, though it's still early to add them to my favorite bands. They haven't went through the rigorous playlist trial just yet.

I have lots of other bands I like, but the above are pretty much the core of my favorites.

neutral milk hotel are pretty famous aren't they?

anyway some of my favourite bands include:

the pixies
alice in chains
pearl jam
slayer
kraftwerk
aphex twin
rammstein
grendel
metallica
feindflug
wumpscut
dawn of ashes
apocalyptica
nachtmahr
suicide commando

etc etc

Very few people I know have heard of Neutral Milk Hotel.

Wow, a lot of you have pretty similar taste to mine! Awesome!

Oasis, Fastball, Paul Weller, Kamelot, Megadeth, Queensryche, Keane, Nine Black Alps, Jet, the Stone Roses, Joy Division/New Order, Muse, Keane, the Who, the Beatles, U2, Stone Temple Pilots, Kaiser Chiefs, Cast, Dodgy, Shed Seven, Kula Shaker... Britpop, classic metal, alternative.

a lot but right now

underoath
sky eats airplane
the devil wears prada

Let's see......some samples from my playlist

Darkwave: Project Pitchfork, Diary Of Dreams, Deine Lakaein
NDH Rock/Metal: Rammstien, Megaherz, Eisbrecher, Unheilig
Mittelalter Rock: In Extremo, Tanzwut
Industrial Rock: NIN, Ministry, Dope Stars Inc
Classic EBM: Front 242, DAF, Absolute Body Control, Die Krupps
Harsh EBM: The Retrosic, Punto Omega
Electronic Industrial: Front Line Assembly, Leaetherstrip
Futurepop: VNV Nation, Covenant (both were more industrial once - I like both eras)
80s New Wave: Joy Division, Gary Numan, Human League
Goth Rock: Sisters Of Mercy, Star Industry
Neofolk/Martial: Boyd Rice, Blood Axis, Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio
Prog-Rock: King Crimson, Yes, ELP
Crossover Dance: Underworld, Prodigy
New Age: Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre
Metal: I'm quite picky about how I like my metal but Metallica, System Of A Down and Machine Head all figure on my playlists

Also dip into punk rock, various 'alternative rock' bands from the late 60s to present day, some trance and hard house, ambient, oddball electronic stuff, classical and whatever else takes my fancy. Have even been known to listen to country!

I don't like r'n'b, soul, rap, garage, funk or reggae. Nothing against them in principle, they just don't strike any chords with me.

In no order at all....or when I even came across them( i.e. copied and pasted from bookface, there would be loads more, but these are the artists of whom who I like most of their work)

Stephen Malkmus/Pavement, Slint, Danzig(a somewhat guilty pleasure there!! !),Parliament, Kyuss, QOTSA, UNKLE, Jeff Buckley, Mark Lanegan, Gutter Twins, Twilight Singers, Sigur Ros, AC DC, Sugar, Grant lee buffalo, Death in Vegas, Johnny Cash, Underworld, Clutch, Robert Johnston, The Felice Brothers, Neil Young, Dr John, Quicksand, Big Black, Rollins, Renegade Soundwave, Little Axe, Sabres of Paradise, Primal Scream, Rival Schools, Mazzy Star, Tricky, Portishead, Fugazi.

In other words, a bit mixed. Andrew Weatherall or James Lavelle could probably remix to form a cohesive whole......

Some impressive bands there. I've been listening to early 90s music a lot lately so a few of those have come up on recent listens. Like Grant Lee Buffalo's Fuzzy and Underworld's dubnobasswithmyheadman.

ledzuplin, pink floyd, neil young, peter gabrieal, niranva, pearl jam, acdc, aerosmith, the who, black sabath, scopions, guns and roses, deep purple, slipknot, metlica, disturbed, linkin park ,sum 41, taking back sunday, escape the fate, 30 seconds to mars, rise agianst, mikcey wah wah, bad relgion, eve 6, nofx, mxpx, mest, cute is what we aim for, fall out boy, all amercian rejects, green day, foo fighters , evenesace, seether, billy talent, three days grace red jump suit apratus, ill scarlet, set fire to wciker park, the beetles, gym class heros, less than jake, rancid , the offspring, amciean hed charge, x, the talking heads, system of a down, avaged seven fold, senes fail, silverstein, coldplay, jane's adction, rob zombie, rem and u 2

Depeche Mode, Tori Amos, Vnv Nation, Antony & The Johnsons, Nick Cave, 16 Horsepower, Dead Can Dance, The Handsome Family, Jeff Buckley, Marc Almond, Emilie Autumn, Therion, Rasputina, Dragonforce , Inkubus Sukkubus, Concrete Blonde, Edith Piaf, Serge Gainsbourg, Scott Walker, The Arcade Fire, Tool, Johnny Cash, The Smiths, New Order, OMD (all synthpop really), Diamanda Galas, Silverchair, Vast

In no order
Nickelback
Simple plan
Soul asylum
Bowling for soup