Favorite bands/artists?

[Zoltack]

Come on, you all? None of you like Madonna?

Honestly I can live the rest of my life with out hearing a Madonna song. I'm a rocker not what ever she does.

[MadonnasManOne]

Come on, you all? None of you like Madonna?

Honestly I can live the rest of my life with out hearing a Madonna song. I'm a rocker not what ever she does.

There's no need to be rude. She performs music.

[Zoltack]

I'm sorry I didn't mean to be rude just honest. I do understand that she performs music but what I was asking was what kind of music does she perform.

[AwallaceUNC]

what kind of music does she perform.

Dance pop, ballads, and the occasional showtune.

-Aaron

[MadonnasManOne]

what kind of music does she perform.

Dance pop, ballads, and the occasional showtune.

-Aaron

Aaron is right. Along with those genres, she's also dabbled in R&B, electronica, trance, rap, middle-eastern, spanish, and even country. I can honestly say that Madonna has experimented with so many genres, throughout her career, it's hard to keep track of.

Madonna is an artist that has a song for almost everyone!

[Prince Eric]

In no particular order:

Nelly Furtado
Moby
Bjork
Radiohead
Madonna
Missy Elliott (Probably the most innovative and musically challenging artist on the market right now.)
Kanye West (Outside of the ego, he's ace.)
Fionna Apple
Beck
The Smashing Pumpkins
Rufus Wainwright
Shakira (Pre-English world domination.)
No Doubt (Gwen needs to get back with the boys, now!)

[Lars Vermundsberget]

Madonna is not among my favourites. However, I tend to think that she deserves "respect" in a particularly high degree. She has stayed popular and has constantly "renewed" herself over and over for more than 25 years. Objectively (as far as "objectivity" goes"), Madonna is one of the very greatest.

[DisneyPrincess]

I love ALL kinds of music, so it's hard to pick, but:

<b>Oldies/Classics</b>

Frank Sinatra
Dean Martin
The Beach Boys
Buddy Holly
The Supremes
Lynyrd Skynyrd

<b>Rock/Alternative</b>

Sheryl Crow
Lenny Kravitz
Creed
Coldplay

<b>Christian</b>

Audio Adrenaline
Casting Crowns
Jars of Clay
Newsboys
Third Day

<b>Easy Listening/Soft Rock</b>

Michael Buble
John Mayer
Norah Jones
Chris Botti
Peter Cincotti

[Lazario]

My favorite artists were each and all truly some of the most intelligent, original, interesting, and excellent musicians in the history of music itself.


Bjork :


My favorite, and one of the greatest artists of the visual era. Icelandic Bjork is an artist who would still make stellar music even if her trademark sounds weren't possible through the technology which they have been achieved. She completely changed what pop was, crafting (with the help of the greatest producers in the music world!) lush and remarkably elaborate pop songs that were so different and magnificent, the genre would alternate on any given track between instrument-fueled classical and throbbing club electronic. As though she couldn't stand making ordinary pop, she made it okay to be experimental and original.


Bis :


You may know these amazingly young musical geniuses as the ones who gave the world the Powerpuff Girls TV show theme (the version that plays at the end credits - "powerpuff! Blossom, commander and the leader - Bubbles, she gives the joy and the laughter - Buttercup, she's the toughest fighter - Powerpuffs save the day!"). Scottish Bis started out for me as a band I found interesting, in my early 00's internet searches to find new artists (a source the public at large hasn't taken much advantage of), and took a chance that I would like this band's debut album, The New Transister Heroes. I didn't - I loved it and so, I simply had to have everything by this excellent group that I could find. I bought several of their albums and EP's. If you saw the film Bring It On!, you might have heard another one of their songs "Detour", which plays as Kirsten Dunst's character tells the flashback-story of her encounter with the cursed Spirit Stick. They began making cutting edge punk-pop and their first few EP's were so successful, they inked deals to record albums with 2 major labels, Grand Royal (home of The Beastie Boys and Luscious Jackson), and finally the giant Capitol Records. Their style changed over the course of their 2 follow-up albums. But every step they took in their career, they still made some of the best albums of any given year.


L7 :


An all-female group of grunge-metal rock goddesses. A more focused and reliable group in the end than either Nirvana or Pearl Jam, L7 produced 3 albums at the beginning of the 90's that popularized them somewhat. But they reached their first peak of visibility in '92 when they achieved an MTV hit with "Pretend We're Dead." Arguably their most famous contribution to the alternative / grunge music scene, it's also their most remembered song. Unfortunately, they only made 3 more albums in the decade and appear to be on permanent break or have disbanded. But in the time they were together, they made some of the greatest hard rock songs ever - "Pretend We're Dead" is one of them, also "Drama", "Bad Things", "Human", "Can I Run", "Gas Chamber" (off John Waters' Serial Mom soundtrack), "Questioning My Sanity", "Crackpot Baby", "Must Have More", "Everglade", "The Masses Are Asses", "Little One", "Wargasm"... Practically every song they made on their '92, '94, '97, and '99 albums is a classic to some degree.


Missy 'Misdemeanor' Elliot :


An already accomplished and much sought-after producer before deciding to put herself out on the music scene as a recording artist in her own right, Missy is a gift. And in case you didn't know, her I.Q. is one of the highest in the entertainment industry. Not surprising, since everything she touches turns to gold. She came from practically avant-garde beginnings, rapping and producing alongside the equally hyper-kinetically styled Timbaland & Magoo, and moving on to produce for the most satisfying and intriguing hip hop-flavored r&b artists Aaliyah, Ginuwine, 702, and Tweet. The woman just doesn't seem to have a dull year, and since she's been going strong since 1997 (nearly 9 whole years without stopping, becoming a victim of scandal, or falling off the map!!!). Her talent is an inspiration to her much critisized and misunderstood genre, and most of all - her contribution to music is undeniable.


Marilyn Manson :


I love any artist or band that is able to reinvent themselves intelligently and still make damn great music no matter how out of hand or circus-like their promotion of it may get. And people hate Marilyn Manson because it's hard to turn away from him, they feel like they're being forced to look at it. So after all those photos, soundbytes, alleged controversy, and everything people say about him... How many people remember the music or what it was all about? Uh huh, I thought so. But to those of us who were actually paying attention, we know just how great the music was! And it always had a message about people and things. Like most great works of art, Marilyn Manson's music reveals so much more than first picked up on repeated listens. But most importantly, all of their material still holds up today! And compared to all who came after, they as a band made better actual ROCK music than KoRn, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, The Deftones, Slipknot, Disturbed, and POD (just to name a FEW!). They were disturbing, loud, and scary - what good fashion-metal should be about (they're so industrial, they surpassed industrial as a subgenre!).


Lords of Acid :


Someone must have suggested this name after listening to a demo of theirs, because their tracks of hardcore industrial-styled techno / club music make you as high as music can without the aid of drugs. I've never done drugs, but I can't imagine they could ever spiritually match the excitement generated by listening to the best Lords of Acid tracks. These Belgium escapees are geniuses! After over 15 years and 6 albums of new material, they prove there is much longevity in the realm of electronic music. And well over a decade later, their first hits "I Must Increase My Bust," "The Most Wonderful Girl," "I Sit on Acid," "Take Control," and "Rough Sex" still give your stereo one hell of a thrashing! They have yet to make a dud effort. And since adding hard-rock guitars to the mix, changing lead singers, and releasing a Greatest Hits album - let's hope the core members stay together. The brand new songs on 2003's Greatest Tits alone are enough to prove they still have the pulse on cutting edge house music and have stood the test of time.


'Weird Al' Yankovic :


My first favorite artist (and one who really made me feel more open towards different types of music) of all-time was Weird Al. And this guy was smart! So his humor-laden song parodies and funny songs will always be charming. We were all kids once, and Weird Al is one of those artists that (when not watching Disney movies) makes it okay to feel young and silly. My favorite of his songs were always the polka medleys. But his sense of humor was all over the place, and it's not always completely nice either, which I think helps him to endure. I've always been a huge fan of the way his lyrics describe things so accurately, down to the last painful detail at times ("One More Minute", "When I Was Your Age", "Everything You Know is Wrong", "Good Old Days", "You Don't Love Me Anymore"). And he was quite the sci-fi and horror humorist too, which makes me love songs like "Nature Trail to Hell," (the sublime) "Slime Creatures from Outer Space," "The Night Santa Went Crazy," "Jurassic Park," "Christmas at Ground Zero," and "Livin' in the Fridge."


Whale :


One of the damn coolest bands nobody ever heard of, most generation X-ers just remember Whale for their very strange 1994 alternative novelty megahit "Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe." They followed it up with another grungey hit single, "Pay for Me," and 2 excellent albums, and weren't heard nor seen much after 1999. They probably went back to Sweden, where they originated. But here's a band that make so much noise on their albums and every song was unpredictable bliss! On their debut album, We Care, nothing was sacred - especially sounds or styles. Everything from alternative rock, grunge, funk, garage, trip-hop, metal, and folk is thrown into the mix. Their sophomore album successfully focused on the more electronic and polished form of their indie-rock and practically made them pop, though they picked the right time for it - 1998 was the year for high-gloss, high-techy makeovers / upgrades (Hole, Madonna, The Cardigans, Smashing Pumpkins, Tori Amos, Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Pansy Division, Julie Ruin).


Goldfrapp :


The last of the great trip-hop groups to still exist in some form of her original incarnation, British musical guru Alison Goldfrapp is now enjoying a decent amount of international acclaim for her 3rd album Supernature, which is too glam to be trip-hop, yet has moments of past greatness with a pair of track from the album, such as "Beautiful" and "Time Out from the World." However, her past has yeilded some of the very greatest dance songs of the new millenium ("Crystalline Green," "Strict Machine") and some of the most haunting trip-hop ("Lovely Head," "Forever).


Air :


As anyone who saw The Virgin Suicides can attest to (though I personally did not care for it), French masterminds Air make some ridiculously beautiful music. "Sexy Boy" is a lyrical mess if you can't understand French (for all my musical sophisticated tastes, I'm still an American idiot who can only speak English), but this is a dream-pop masterpiece, one of the most glorious electronic songs ever recorded. And they've been able to match it in it's audio glory in the form of songs like "Playground Love," "Universal Traveler," "How Does It Make You Feel?," and "Cherry Blossom Girl." In their experimentations, they used Beck as a vocalist to do a take on himself on "The Vagabond," and conjured The Beatles on "Radio #1".


Ladytron :


One of the most exciting and coolest bands out right now, Ladytron are hard at work making the catchiest electronic-pop songs. If you can download anything, get Ladytron's "Playgirl," and try telling me you didn't love it! Harder yet for me to love this song and not become a fan of Ladytron. In 5 years, they've managed 3 entire albums of new material, each making an artform out of trying to outdo "Playgirl"'s excellence with killer tracks like "Destroy Everything You Touch," "Seventeen," "Beauty*2," "Flicking Your Switch," "International Dateline," "The Reason Why," "Evil," and "All the Way." This group is just absurdly talented and underexposed. Though VH1 is doing their best to make us fall in love with "Playgirl" all over again. If you have an opportunity to download any of those above-mentioned songs, DO IT!


Hooverphonic :


Funny how this band has gained in popularity... in the commercial market. After their 3rd album in 2000, car & phone companies in the U.S. started using their songs "Renaissance Affair," and "This Strange Effect," to market their products. These songs were from their 1998 album, which a photo of and it's name are featured in the Cingular phone commercial. After that album, they seem to be recording new material in Europe only and these new LP's are available only as very expensive imports... However, they made 3 incredible albums that are available in the U.S. and feature some of the most beautiful songs ever made - "Inhaler," "2Wicky," "Someone," "Nr9," "Innervoice," "Eden," "Out of Tune," "Battersea," "Magenta," "Electro Shock Faders," "Autoharp," "Mad About You," "The Magnificent Tree," "Pink Fluffy Dinosaurs," and "Frosted Flake Wood."


Spice Girls / Geri Halliwell :


Get over it - The Spice Girls ruled, and you know it! So many Americans focused on hating them because they were a group of loud, energetic, and wildly successful women (the fact they were British didn't help much), and that they spearheaded the return of pop and group-oriented pop to the U.S. charts - that they refused to give them credit whether or not the songs were good. The Spice Girls made a name for themselves during a decade of an oh-so-hip whiny, waifish, alternative scene that got too pretentious for it's own good and desperately needed a shot of fun, likeable dance music to loose up the stiffs. This group was a breath of fresh air in a time where women were already starting to take over popular music and make a wonderful dent in the 2nd half of the 90s' legacy (Sheryl Crow, Jewel, Alanis Morissette, Sarah MacLachlin, Lisa Loeb, Meredith Brooks, Fiona Apple, Paula Cole, Joan Osborne, Natalie Imbruglia, Shawn Colvin, Heather Nova). They made pure pop and made it DAMN WELL! Geri Halliwell split from the group in '98 to make her '99 album Schizophonic, that featured my favorite Spice Girls' song - "Look at Me" - a song I still can't listen to just once. But nobody will forget their group hits "Wannabe," "Say You'll Be There," "2 Become 1," "Too Much." And if you don't like them - you are dumb. Sorry.


Bikini Kill / Julie Ruin / Le Tigre :


In a rebellious, angry, NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANY MORE mood?? Than Kathleen Hanna's projects are the perfect answer. An intelligent punk outfit dedicated to making smart pro-female, anti-conservative music that kicks so much red-state ass, it makes the people who vote for George W. Bush look like the idiots they are. Constant messages of glorious girl-power backed up with unapologetic, roarious, screeching riot-grrrl indie-punk that has outlasted the early 90's (the original Bush poisoned seed was sown) where Hanna's first major band Bikini Kill was formed, through an inspired 1998 (where a promise was made that freedom & equality would SOMEDAY be achieved, while the long battle for civil rights was still underweigh) solo-project with messy computer-produced rock & pop that was wonderfully catchy and worked surprisingly, to it's newest incarnation - Le Tigre, which has been so successful that their latest 2005 record was produced by rock 'n roll LEGEND Ric Ocasek (The Cars) and for a little record company known as UNIVERSAL, yep the same one as the historic Hollywood studio. Eat that, anti-progressives - this band of hard-rocking lesbians will not be pushed down. Nor will their fans. Nor will I.


Other favorite artists : Beck, Busta Rhymes, White Town,

Imani Coppola :
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and several more ; some I can't think of.

[Escapay]

Spice Girls / Geri Halliwell :


Get over it - The Spice Girls ruled, and you know it! So many Americans focused on hating them because they were a group of loud, energetic, and wildly successful women (the fact they were British didn't help much), and that they spearheaded the return of pop and group-oriented pop to the U.S. charts - that they refused to focus on whether or not the songs were good. The Spice Girls made a name for themselves during a decade of an oh-so-hip whiny, waifish, alternative scene that got too pretentious for it's own good and desperately needed a shot of fun, likeable dance music to loose up the stiffs. This group was a breath of fresh air in a time where women were already starting to take over popular music and make a wonderful dent in the 2nd half of the 90s' legacy (Sheryl Crow, Jewel, Alanis Morissette, Sarah MacLachlin, Lisa Loeb, Meredith Brooks, Fiona Apple, Paula Cole, Joan Osborne, Natalie Imbruglia, Shawn Colvin, Heather Nova). They made pure pop and made it DAMN WELL! Geri Halliwell split from the group in '98 to make her '99 album Schizophonic, that featured my favorite Spice Girls' song - "Look at Me" - a song I still can't listen to just once. But nobody will forget their group hits "Wannabe," "Say You'll Be There," "2 Become 1," "Too Much." And if you don't like them - you are dumb. Sorry.

I have to admit, their music is good to dance to. But I've never seen so much devotion to these gals post-2000.

Escapay

[Lazario]

I have to admit, their music is good to dance to. But I've never seen so much devotion to these gals post-2000.

They made some damn good songs here in the new millenium, especially Emma's "What Took You So Long?", Geri's "Scream If You Want to Go Faster," and Melanie Chisum's "Northern Star".

[slyslayer3000]

I think My Chemical Romance rocks!

[kenai3000]

Let's See

Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Genesis & Elton John Currently

[Wonderlicious]

A List of some of my favourites:

Franz Ferdinand
Coldplay
Maroon 5
Kaiser Chiefs
No Doubt

[DarthPrime]

In no order...

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Dave Matthews Band
Toad The Wet Sprocket
Green Day
The Eagles
Jimmy Buffett
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[blackcauldron85]

My top favorites:
Hanson
Disney
The Beatles
Elvis Presley
Corbin Bleu
Mandy Moore

2nd favorites:
oldies (in general)
Aerosmith
Aly & AJ
Ashlee Simpson
Ashley Parker Angel
Avril Lavigne
Backstreet Boys
Britney Spears
Cheyenne Kimball
Christina Aguilera
Jessica Simpson
M2M
'NSync
S Club 7
The Veronicas

3rd favorites:
98 Degrees
Brandy
Destiny's Child
Dream
Five
Hilary Duff (but I <3 her "Metamorphosis" CD)
Lindsay Lohan (But I <3 her "Speak" CD)
Linkin Park
Maria Mena
Mariah Carey
Michelle Branch
Ricky Martin
Robbie Williams
Samantha Mumba
Weezer

4th favorites:
too many to list

[Anthony]

Some of my favs in no particular order:

Broadway Showtunes
Green Day
Kelly Clarkson
Matchbox 20 / Rob Thomas
John Mayer
Dolly Parton
Nickelback
Fallout Boy
Madonna
Cher
Goo Goo Dolls
Shania Twain
Judy Garland
Classical (Beethoven, Mozart, etc.)
Robbie Williams
Avril Lavigne

[neurotic_Donald_Duck]

I do enjoy a lot of different types of music but my all-time favorite has to be the man in black J. R. Cash!

[Simba3]

One word: BEYONCE

others include,

Madonna
Christina Aguilera
Janet Jackson
Mariah Carey
Broadway showtunes
Gwen Stefani
The Fray
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Jay-Z
....and my new obsession, Amy Winehouse

[Ting Ting]

Classic Favorites
-The Beatles
-John Lennon
-The Beach Boys
-Bob Dylan
-Bruce Springsteen
-Guns N' Roses
-The Rollingstones
-Buddy Holly
-Frank Sinatra

Modern Favorites
-Drake Bell
-Ashlee Simpson (she's got a lot more talent than you think)
-Blake Lewis
-Paul McCartney
-No Doubt
-Gwen Stefani
-The All-American Rejects
-The Click Five
-Hawk Nelson
-Stellar Kart
-Red Hot Chili Peppers

Being the theatre and movie buff that I am, I also enjoy a wide variety of showtunes.