Top ten favorite artists OTHER than anyone related to Fleetwood Mac

[amber]

Originally Posted by TheBlueLamp

1. Deborah Harry

Album: Debravation
Songs: Lip Service, Lovelight, Military Rap, Sweet And Low, Brite Side, Now I Know You Know, Strike Me Pink



-Nick

Omigod! I thought i was the only one who likes that album! yay!
Amber

[DeadliestPoison]

Originally Posted by Janet

I thought they sounded a bit Talking Heads, they way the lead singer sings the song.

I have only heard that one song but I really love it!

Heh. And I thought the lead singer sounded a bit like Lindsey. Sort of Trouble-esque, only a little more... spastic?

[The Tower]

Great choices!! It made me think about all the good stuff I forgot! Some of the more stellar ones:

Originally Posted by littlelies7

2. Nanci Griffith

Favorite Album: Little Love Affairs
Favorite Songs: "Anyone Can Be Somebody's Fool", "Ballad of Robin Winter-Smith", "Lookin' For the Time (Workin' Girl)"

Her Flyer album kicks ass!! "These Days Of Open Books" (did I get that title right) is awsome!

Originally Posted by stevierocks87

6. Rolling Stones
Fav. Album: Forty Licks
Fav. Songs: Miss You, Angie, Shattered

8. Natalie Merchant
Fav. Album: Live in NYC 1999
Fav. Songs: San Andreas Fault, Ophelia, Kind and Generous

9. India Arie
Fav. Album: Acoustic Soul
Fav. Songs: Beautiful, Ready for Love, Little Things

10. R.E.M.
Fav. Album: Out of Time
Fav. Songs: Losing My Religion, Shiny Happy People, Man on the Moon

"Tumbing Dice", "Gimme Shelter", "It's Only Rock n Roll"... all great songs- too many to mention- OOPS! I almost forgot "Happy" - OH, YEAH!

Natalie's "My Beloved Wife" is great. India's "Ready For Love" is spine-tingling!

REM has way too many to mention!

Originally Posted by wondergirl9847

5. George Michael
fave album: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Best of...
fave song: Kissing a Fool

The soundtrack to my late high school/early adulthood. "Cowboys and Angels" is really good. Anyone who couldn't figure out that he was gay after that one is really clueless... He's such a great singer!

Originally Posted by GardenStateGirlie

-Fiona Apple

-Sade

Both of these gals would be right up there near my top ten. Fiona's "Never Is A Promise" and "Paper Bag" are my favorites- though she's got tons.

"Your Love Is King", "Is It A Crime" and "Paradise" are freeeeking awesome!

Originally Posted by estranged4life

10.Guns N Roses
Favorite Album-Use Your Illusion II
Favorite Song-Estranged

"Civil War", "Coma" and "Patience" are my favorites.

Originally Posted by xdreamsunwindx

5. The Eagles - Favorite Songs- Pretty Maids All in a Row (MAD love for this song)

ME TOO!!! This is the BEST Eagles song ever, ever, ever!

Originally Posted by hayley

Jeff Buckley
Album: Grace
Songs: Last Goodbye, Lover You Should've Come Over, Everybody Here Wants You

Jeff Buckley is PURE sex. Hot, hot, hot! That VOICE!!

Originally Posted by TheBlueLamp

2. Blondie

Album: The Hunter
Songs: Angels On The Balcony, Do The Dark, War Child, Orchid Club, For Your Eyes Only, Rifle Range and about a million others

4. Madonna

Album: Erotica
Songs: Erotica, Hollywood, Impressive Instant, Love Don't Live Here Anymore, Deeper And Deeper, Bad Girl

5. Eurythmics

Album: Be Yourself Tonight
Songs: Beethoven (I Love To Listen To), You Have Placed A Chill In My Heart, I Need A Man, Sweet Dreams

Blondie's Eat to the Beat album is my favorite- too many songs to mention. Erotica is Madonna's best album, with "Bad Girl" and "Deeper and Deeper" (YES!!) the best tracks. She should have never moved on to her more recent crappy style.

What can I say about Eurythmics/Annie??? Honestly, they should have been in my top ten. Savage is my favorite Eurythmics album- Annie's best song is probably "The Gift".


I also forgot to add Michelle Shocked (she's also in my top ten with Annie) and Janet Jackson (who isn't in my top ten but f**king kicks ass- who cares about her damn boob?!?!?!).

Sorry- long post!

[GardenStateGirlie]

Originally Posted by DeadliestPoison

Heh. And I thought the lead singer sounded a bit like Lindsey. Sort of Trouble-esque, only a little more... spastic?

And unlike Lindsey, he so totally has a lisp

[GardenStateGirlie]

Originally Posted by The Tower

Both of these gals would be right up there near my top ten. Fiona's "Never Is A Promise" and "Paper Bag" are my favorites- though she's got tons.

"Your Love Is King", "Is It A Crime" and "Paradise" are freeeeking awesome!

I'm waiting patiently for her album...I wonder how much longer she's going to be..

If you like Sade, I implore you to get Lovers Live (her live album...AMAZING). They keep showing her live special on PBS all of the time. If you see it on, watch it. SO good. Such a presence on stage and what a kickass voice.

[xdreamsunwindx]

Originally Posted by The Tower

ME TOO!!! This is the BEST Eagles song ever, ever, ever!

Yay! I thought I was the only one who ADORED this song. I've loved it ever since I was really young when I first heard it on Hell Freezes Over. It's one of my favorite songs of all time. Joe Walsh totally rocks .

-Kate

[Merf]

1. The Rolling Stones
Fave Albums: Forty Licks (because they're ALL good)
Fave Songs: Miss You, Beast of Burden, Love is Strong, Shattered

2. Portishead
Fave Albums: Portishead, Dummy
Fave Songs: Glory Box, Roads, Mysterons, Undenied, Only You

3. Thompson Twins
Fave Albums: Into the Gap, Here's to Future Days
Fave Songs: Love on Your Side, Lay Your Hands on Me, The Gap, If You Were Here, Doctor Doctor, Take Me Away (as Babble)

4. Talking Heads
Fave Albums: Stop Making Sense
Fave Songs: Girlfriend is Better, Once in a Lifetime

5. Alanis Morrisette
Fave Albums: Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, Jagged Little Pill
Fave Songs: Uninvited, I Was Hoping, Precious Illusions, Right Through You, The Couch, Sympathetic Character

6. Sarah McLachlan
Fave Albums: Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, Surfacing
Fave Songs: Possession, Fear, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, Do What You Have to Do, Sweet Surrender

7. Melissa Etheridge
Fave Albums: Yes I Am, Your Little Secret
Fave Songs: Angels Will Fall, Come to My Window, Like the Way I Do, The Only One, Breathe, I Wanna Come Over

8. U2
Fave Albums: U2 Best of 1980-1990, U2 Best of 1990-2000
Fave Songs: Electrical Storm, Until the End of the World, I Will Follow, All I Want is You, When Love Comes to Town

9. Sheryl Crow
Fave Albums: The Globe Sessions, Tuesday Night Music Club
Fave Songs: Difficult Kind, My Favorite Mistake, Home, I Shall Believe, Strong Enough, Leaving Las Vegas

10. Madonna
Fave Albums: Ray Of Light, Like a Virgin, Erotica, Bedtime Stories, Something to Remember
Fave Songs: Rain, Secret, Bye Bye Baby, Deeper and Deeper, The Power of Goodbye, Frozen, Skin, Nothing Really Matters

[ryan8472]

Originally Posted by Merf

4. Talking Heads
Fave Albums: Stop Making Sense
Fave Songs: Girlfriend is Better, Once in a Lifetime

Finally a Mac fan who doesn't think David Byrne is a complete weirdo!

[77Rumours77]

1. Boston
Album - Don't Look Back
Song - Used To Bad News
2. Rolling Stones
Album - 40 Licks
Song - Start Me Up
3. Aerosmith
Album - Nine Lives
Song - Full Circle
4. Madonna
Album - GHV2
Song - Hanky Panky *Runs and Hides*
5. Bruce Springsteen
Album - The Rising
Song - Born in The USA
6. Def Leppard
Album - The Vault
Song - Pour Some Sugar on Me
7. U2
Album - All That You Can't Leave Behind
Song - Pride
8. Amy Grant
Album - Heat in Motion
Song - Baby Baby
9. Shania Twain
Album - Up
Song - C'mon Over
10. Good Charolette
Album - GC
Song - Girls and Boys

[Merf]

Originally Posted by ryan8472

Finally a Mac fan who doesn't think David Byrne is a complete weirdo!

Well he is, but that's why I like him! One of my fave all time bands is the Thompson Twins (aka "the three haircuts", and they were quite weird on their own... ) gotta love that 80's new wave

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by Merf

Well he is, but that's why I like him! One of my fave all time bands is the Thompson Twins (aka "the three haircuts", and they were quite weird on their own... ) gotta love that 80's new wave

For the record, I LOVE both DB and the TT (HOLD ME NOW AAAHHHHOOOOHHHHHHH WARM MY HEART - MY POOR TIRED HEART!!!!!!!)

[Merf]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

For the record, I LOVE both DB and the TT (HOLD ME NOW AAAHHHHOOOOHHHHHHH WARM MY HEART - MY POOR TIRED HEART!!!!!!!)

I knew there was a reason I liked you, Jason!

[markolas]

I'm going to cheat and list one more, because no one has mentioned her (I don't think):

Linda Ronstadt
Heart Like A Wheel is her best album, followed closely by Simple Dreams. Her '70s country-rock period was her best. I never cared for that Nelson Riddle stuff, or the Mexican albums.

The first Trio album was good, and so was the duet album she did with Emmylou Harris, Western Wall. So she hasn't completely abandoned the country stuff, thankfully.

[cliffdweller]

1.) Heart
2.) Joni Mitchell
3.) Neil Young
4.) Linda Ronstadt
5.) Led Zeppelin
6.) Virgil Shaw (of Dieselhead)
7.) David Bowie
8.) Emmylou Harris
9.) Jim O'Rourke
10.) Radiohead

Hmmm....it looks like a lot of solo artists for me.

[cliffdweller]

Originally Posted by GretaRhiannon

4. Opeth

Oh my god, Opeth is so amazing!! Saw them live here in Austin a few months ago, totally rocked my socks off. Great choice! And a good Swedish band to boot!