Who are your favorite bands?

[Margalis]

Queensryche is my favorite band, with Iron Maiden a close second. The best of Queensryche is just the best, period. I tend to like 2 guitar bands in general.

[Murgos]

Depeche Mode had "People Are People" which was a huge pop hit.

I always preferred "Personal Jesus".

Ah, yes.  The song you could not go into a club for 15 years without hearing 5 times a night, well that one and White Lines.

No, not popular at all.

[Velorath]

Mostly older stuff:
Queen
Beatles
The Who
Robert Johnson
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Bonzo Dog
Van Morrison
Jimi Hendrix
Nick Cave
Tupac
Mr. Bungle
Duran Duran
David Bowie

I'll second Haemish's Tom Waits suggestion.  Some of my favorite songs of his:  Romeo is Bleeding, Singapore, and Pasties and a G-string.

[Mr_PeaCH]

Mostly older stuff:
...
Duran Duran

Would you people QUIT FUCKING WITH ME?!


But back to Van Morrison for a moment, just... yes.

[Gong]

if you're looking for some new music, here's my list. mostly populated by the various flavors of indie rock, and also some IDM (as it is generally known)

indie junk
---
Broken Social Scene (indie powerpop, fun stuff)
Do Make Say Think (simple, but brilliant instrumental band)
Elliot Smith (mostly acoustic singer/songwriter sort of thing)
Explosions in the Sky (epic guitar orchestral music)
Godspeed You Black Emperor! (epic apocalyptic post-rock)
Goldfrapp (somewhat similar to Portishead?)
Interpol (solid stuff, first album especially)
Metric
Mogwai (Scottish indie rockers. semi-epic guitar postrock, one of my favs)
Pretty Girls Make Graves (more indie powerpop, female singer)
Rachel's (a bunch of indie rock kids making classical music)
Sigur Ros (icelandic. unlike anything else. highly recommended.)
Sleater-Kinney (angry chick indie rock)

electronic musics (far from stereotypical thumping-bass club fare)
like 80% of it is on Warp records
---
Amon Tobin (jazz/latin/electronica hybrid. get the album Bricolage)
Aphex Twin (one of the most brilliant musicians of our time IMO)
Autechre (glitched out computer music. awesome stuff.)
Boards of Canada (very warm, 'pastoral' electronic music)
Boom Bip (fun unique electronic music, with some hiphop influences)
DJ Krush (keeps the best elements of hiphop, gets rid of the MC)
Jega (more awesome computer music)
M83 (somewhere between glitch and guitar noise. kinda harsh, but i dig it)
Meat Beat Manifesto (fun electronica for everyone)
Squarepusher (somewhere between live jazz and drum'n'bass. drill'n'bass)
Two Lone Swordsmen (computer music with bass-heavy electro leanings)
Mu-Ziq (often written with greek character 'Mu'. kinda like squarepusher. highly recommended.)

[stray]

I probably listen to too much old stuff as well, so I'll second all the old bands already mentioned..Stones, Zep, AC/DC, Jimi, Beatles, Queen, Rush (and btw, I'm an Elvis freak).. All of that stuff is given. I also listen to a lot of even older shit these days, like pre-War Blues or World music (especially Arab or Gypsy type stuff) and Classical etc..

But everyone has their favorites...So let's see:

Prong
Sonic Youth
X
The Misfits
Bad Brains
Skinny Puppy
The Wipers
Black Flag
Black Sabbath
Squarepusher
Rakim
Kool Keith
Lee Perry
The Misfits
Big Black/Shellac/Steve Albini
John Coltrane
Television/Tom Verlaine
The Misfits
The Stones
Bob Dylan
Elvis/Jerry Lee/Roy/Johnny Cash
Did I already mention the Misfits?

[Daydreamer]

Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie, Postal Service)
The Clash
The Cure
The Ramones
Depeche Mode
Vertical Horizon
Dirty Vegas
Eiffel 65
VNV Nation
Yasunori Mitsuda
FFT/Vagrant Story composers (Their names escape me ATM)
Anything from Overclocked Remix
The Minibosses

[NiX]

Franz Ferdinand
Interpol (Seconded)
Project Orange (You have to say it in a french way.. )
Keane
Snow Patrol
The Stills
The Killers

Stuff you may not like, but I still do:
Billy Talent
Tinfoil Pheonix
Thornley
The Spill Canvas (The Tide especially)
The Music

Most are canadian. Sue me. We make good music. Celine dion was and always will be a french mistake, not canadian.

[UD_Delt]

Oh yeah since no one else has mentioned them I feel obligated to direct you toward The Flaming Lips.

As a nice bonus you can stream a ton of their music from their website to get a nice sampling. You can also stream their entire latest album, although their middle albums (clouds taste metallic & The soft bulletin) are better.

The Flips put on one of the best live shows I've ever seen. Unless you have a fear of Furries that is, then stay away....

[Hanzii]

I also REALLY REALLY like the Spawn soundtrack. Its all kind of metal/alternative metal remixed by DJs, but not in a dancey remix kind of way, its all remixed to make it darker. Love it.

The movie was craptacular, but that album was the last piece of vinyl I bought - three lovely red/seethrough 10 inch discs.
... that I can't play now, because I don't have a turntable anymore.

The Judgment Night soundtrack was also a good mix of unusual team ups. The Teenage Fanclub/De La Soul and the Helmet/Hopuse of Pain was probably my faves.

Train Wreck, there's a new triple-cd with a lot of the best Depeche Mode remixes. Most of their good b-sides (not all - they made a shitload of b-sides).

Music I listen to now (apart from my revival trips, which are just a symptom of old age):

Franz Ferdinand,
Cake,
Fatboy Slim (I liked the new album, sue me)
Chemical Brothers
Evanescence
Ministry (House of the Mole was the best thing to come out of the first 4 years of the Bush' presidency)
Voodoo Child (Moby)

[Bunk]

Stuff in my car right now:

Underworld Soundtrack
Evanescance
Old Metallica (pre Black)
AC/DC box set
A mix cd of some classic 60s rock
White Zombie
Bif Naked
Garbage
The Cardigans
Econoline Crush

My taste tends to cover a fair spectrum. Just no Jazz or Country please.

[HaemishM]

Goddam, I forgot one of my personal faves to listen to while I'm writing.

George Jones

That's right, I said it. George Motherfucking Jones. For my money, it's hard to beat "A Picture of Me (Without You)" or "Wild Irish Rose."

[CmdrSlack]

The Clash
Solomon Burke
Curtis Mayfield
The Ramones
Wilson Pickett
The Specials
The Toasters
The Misfits
Rev. Horton Heat
Hank Williams III
The Velvet Underground (shoot yourself in the face if you don't like them kthx)
Toots & The Maytals
Desmond Dekker
John Coltrane (Blue Train roxxor my soxxor)
The Dead Kennedys
The Dead Boys
Bad Religion
Minor Threat
Gang Green/Jerry's Kids/any other old school Boston hardcore
Operation Ivy
KRS-One
the first two Bouncing Souls albums
Jimmy Cliff
Miles Davis
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

Oh and try to avoid most newer three-word band name bands unless you like Emo.

[Aslan]

I guess I'm just gay.  I don't like much newer music.  I tend to stick with classics.  I mean REAL classics.  Vivaldi is a favorite.  Debussy is always good for those impressionist moods.  Mozart and Beethoven aren't two of the best known composers for nothing.  Plus I have a cyclying soundtrack thing going too, All the LOTR soundtracks, Braveheart, Oh Brother Where Art Thou and of course, the Gladiator soundtrack.  
I suppose for newer stuff, I adore Mazzy Star and would have her babies on command.  And for a sort of Irish/English medieval sound, I love Loreena McKennit...
I just listen to what I feel like.  I haven't listened to the radio for music in probably five years...

[WayAbvPar]

Queensryche is my favorite band, with Iron Maiden a close second. The best of Queensryche is just the best, period. I tend to like 2 guitar bands in general.

Operation: Mindcrime may very well be my favorite album of all time. Just a fantastic piece of work.

Vivaldi is a favorite

I choose a different Season (of the 4 Seasons) as my favorite every time I listen to it. It somehow never gets old.

[Train Wreck]

Depeche Mode had "People Are People" which was a huge pop hit. Billy Idol also had "White Wedding" and "Dancing With Myself" both also huge pop hits. And U2's Joshua Tree one of the top selling albums if not the top selling album the year it came out.

True enough.  I don't have any of Depeche Mode's pre 1986 stuff, so I tend to forget about that era.  I'm not a big fan of White Wedding and Dancing With Myself, though they were big hits.  But a couple of his songs are on my short All-Time-Favorites list, so I consider him to be one of my favorites, especially after his kick-ass cameo in The Wedding Singer, which set the stage for his Vital Idol release (the only CD of his I actually have).

U2 is another one of those bands where I like less than half of their stuff, but the songs I do like are some of my ATFs, such as New Years Day and Street With No Name.

[Viin]

I like a lot of different stuff, but half the time I don't know who it is (usually because I listen to internet radio, such as Digitally Imported or Chronix Agression).

These are the CD's I currently have in my changer:

Incubus - A crow left of murder
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth step
Chevelle - This Type Of Thinking Could Do Us In
Animatrix Soundtrack
Audioslave[/list:u]

Other bands I enjoy:

Tool
Smashing Pumpkins
Nirvana
Metallica
Nine Inch Nails
Bush
Marcy Playground
Massive Attack
Portishead
The White Stripes
Deftones
Cold
Marilyn Manson
Rage Against the Machine
Switchblade Symphony
System of a Down
Type O Negative
Hooverphonic
Mox
Queen of the Damned Soundtrack[/list:u]

And there's more, but those are my favorites.

[Sky]

Scrolling through my top rated list in iTunes, other bands that stick out:

Does that only track songs that are played manually? I don't get much A Perfect Circle on random, but they hold the top 4 slots on my most played list, because I used to launch the songs directly a lot when their last album came out.

Anyway, bands on my top 25 played itunes list:

A Perfect Circle
Radiohead
Muddy Waters
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Albert King
Audioslave
Evanescence
Deftones
Primus
Red Hot Chili Peppers

I recently caught Los Lonely Boys live and I like their live show, haven't heard their album at all. I like talented three pieces, though.

Hammenstein, I'd agree about Rush, but there's the whole synthesizer thing. The early stuff was incredible, and they've consistently put out good music, even when it had synths. But I dream of an alternate reality where synths hadn't been invented and Rush was God ;)

And nothing wrong with liking George Jones, one of the best country artists of all time, he was great. Have I ever mentioned I ran sound for Porter Wagoner on a sound system I built at home with my stepfather? Good times. I was 16 or 17 (state fair gig). He was gracious enough to thank me, though I'm sure it was far below what he was used to, real class act, Mr. Wagoner.

And, Tool. I love Tool. Go buy Aenima if you dont have it.

How the heck did Tool slip my mind? Tool is probably my overall favorite band.

[Fargull]

SUM41
Indigenous
Norah Jones makes sweet sweet love with her voice.
Jesus and Mary Chain
Stone Roses
Darling Violetta

I can toss some Jazz links aside from Norah up there if you want.  She has that voice...

[Rodent]

Hrmm... I would post a list but Schild already linked to one that contains most of them.

[Ralence]

My music taste is mostly metal, from the current trend of black metal (There are some extremely gifted musicians, though far and few between), all the way back to the classics like Sabbath and Priest.

   In the vein of the original poster, I'd definitely agree with Sugar(One of my all time favorite bands, no matter how short lived), The Stone Roses, Something Happens, Joy Division, The Sisters of Mercy, World Party (Yeah, I grew up in the 80's)  Definitely along the same lines as what you're interested in.

  My most played from my Ipod are these artists;

Testament(Old school thrash)
Anacrusis(Power Metal)
All That Remains(Metalcore, local to me)
Shadows Fall(Metalcore/Thrash, local to me)
Killswitch Engage(Metalcore, local to me)
Iced Earth(Power Metal)
Tori Amos (Piss off, I'm a piano player)
Mnemic(Industrial? Metal)
Slayer(Death Metal)
Before the Dawn (Gothic Metal)

[Dark Vengeance]

What the fuck? No mention of the Chairman?



Looks like I need a new avatar.

SEND IN THE CLOWNS, MOTHERFUCKER!!!

Bring the noise.
Cheers............

[stray]

You seem nicer already :)

[sidereal]

My current Hall of Fame rotation:

Lamb
David Berkeley
Massive Attack
Boards of Canada
Beth Orton
Uncle Tupelo
Erik Satie
Tool
Portishead
Helmet
Vic Chesnutt
The Smiths
Death Cab For Cutie

[MisterNoisy]

if you're looking for some new music, here's my list. mostly populated by the various flavors of indie rock, and also some IDM (as it is generally known)

indie junk
---
Broken Social Scene (indie powerpop, fun stuff)
Do Make Say Think (simple, but brilliant instrumental band)
Elliot Smith (mostly acoustic singer/songwriter sort of thing)
Explosions in the Sky (epic guitar orchestral music)
Godspeed You Black Emperor! (epic apocalyptic post-rock)
Goldfrapp (somewhat similar to Portishead?)
Interpol (solid stuff, first album especially)
Metric
Mogwai (Scottish indie rockers. semi-epic guitar postrock, one of my favs)
Pretty Girls Make Graves (more indie powerpop, female singer)
Rachel's (a bunch of indie rock kids making classical music)
Sigur Ros (icelandic. unlike anything else. highly recommended.)
Sleater-Kinney (angry chick indie rock)

What he said.

Off the top of my head, add:

Cat Power
Maserati
And You Will Know us by the Trail of the Dead
Cursive
Helium, and by extension, Mary Timony
Joydrop
Le Tigre
Rainer Maria
Les Savy Fav
Pedro the Lion

...and about a million others.  I highly recommend subbing to eMusic if you really dig indie stuff.

[dusematic]

Here's my chance to be an interesting and unique snowflake!  

Dave.

[Azhrarn]

This is why Joe hates me.

[Moroni]

This is why Joe hates me.

I can see why. If it is not 80's, it is NOTHING!

[Bunk]

This is why Joe hates me.

Didn't look too bad from what I scanned through (I grew up in the 80s).

You need better choices on AC/DC songs though, and really man, if you're only going to have two Metallica albums, why Load!?!