Top ten favorite artists OTHER than anyone related to Fleetwood Mac

[The Tower]

Yeah, well, what the hell- it's another top ten list.... This time, list your top ten (or whatever) favorite artists. The only rule is you cannot list anyone who was or is a member of Fleetwood Mac. Also, list your favorite album and favorite song by each artist, please. That way I (we) can expand my musical horizons. (Ties and multiples are, of course, fun, welcomed and encouraged!)

1) Joni Mitchell

Favorite album: Hejira tied with Blue
Favorite songs: "For The Roses", "Blue", "Refuge of the Roads", and "Cactus Tree"

2) Heart

Favorite album: Little Queen (Dog and Butterfly is close, close behind)
Favorite songs: "Just the Wine", "Mistral Wind", "Dream of the Archer" and "Song of the Sea"

3) Indigo Girls

Favorite album: Swamp Ophelia
Favorite songs: "You Left it Up to Me", "Love's Recovery", "This Train Revisited" and "Go"

4) The Innocence Mission

Favorite album: Umbrella
Favorite songs: "You Chase the Light", "Umbrella", and "Happy, the End"

5) Rickie Lee Jones

Favorite album: Pirates
Favorite songs: "Company", "Living It Up", "Flying Cowboys", and "The Last Chance Texaco"

6) Led Zepplin

Favorite album: Physical Graffiti
Favorite songs: "Ten Years Gone", "The Rain Song" and "The Battle of Evermore"

7) Patti Smith

Favorite album: Gone Again
Favorite songs: "Revenge", "Dancing Barefoot" and "Wing"

8) Suzanne Vega

Favorite album: Solitude Standing
Favorite songs: "Ironbound/Fancy Poultry", "Pilgrimage" and "Gypsy"

8) Edie Brickell (and the New Bohemians)

Favorite album: Ghost of a Dog
Favorite songs: "The Messenger", "This Eye", and "I Do"

9) Aerosmith

Favorite album: Rocks
Favorite songs: "Seasons of Wither", "Kings and Queens" and "Dream On"

10) Tuck and Patti

Favorite album: Love Warriors
Favorite songs: "Takes My Breath Away", "Castles Made of Sand/Little Wing", and "My Romance"

Honorable Mention: ALL of Linda Ronstadt's Nelson Riddle albums.... (yeah, so I'm a gay dude.... at least I didn't list Barbra- although she's close to number TWELVE!!! )

I just looovveee music..... DON'T YOU???

[GretaRhiannon]

Ok I'm just going to list artists lol. Hard to choose fave song and album.

1. Shania Twain
2. Sara Evans
3. Theatre of Tragedy
4. Opeth
5. Alison Krauss
6. Martina McBride
7. Ella Fitzgerald
8. H.I.M.
9. Iced Earth
10. Lacuna Coil

There's more, but you asked for ten lol.

[littlelies7]

1. Billy Joel

Favorite Album: Glass Houses
Favorite Songs: "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me", "We Didn't Start the Fire", "River of Dreams"

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)"

3. Phil Collins

Favorite Album: No Jacket Required (yet I haven't listened to it in its entirity yet)
Favorite Songs: "You Can't Hurry Love", "Don't Lose My Number", and "In the Air Tonight"

4. The Doobie Brothers

Favorite Album: Livin' On the Fault Line
Favorite Songs: "There's A Light", "Livin' On the Fault Line", "Chinatown"

5. Steely Dan/Donald Fagen

Favorite Album:
(Steely Dan) Tie: The Royal Scam and Gaucho
(Donald Fagen): The Nightfly

Favorite Songs:
(Steely Dan): "The Caves of Altamira", "Time Out of Mind", "Black Friday"
(Donald Fagen): "I.G.Y.", "The Nightfly", and "New Frontier"

6. Dire Straits

Favorite Album: Brothers In Arms
Favorite Songs: "Walk of Life", "One World", "So Far Away"

7. Norah Jones

Favorite Album: Come Away with Me
Favorite Songs: "Don't Know Why", "Sunrise", "Come Away with Me"

8. Michael McDonald

Favorite Album: If That's What It Takes
Favorite Songs: "Love Lies", "I Keep Forgettin' (Everytime You're Near)", "Losin' End"

9. Sheryl Crow

Favorite Album: The Globe Sessions
Favorite Songs: "There Goes the Neighborhood", "Mississippi", "It Don't Hurt"

10. Paul Simon

Favorite Album: Graceland
Favorite Songs: "You Can Call Me Al", "Think Too Much (a)", "The Boy In the Bubble"

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I tend to like guy singers more. I don't know why, but I have a lot of favorite guy singers.

[stevierocks87]

Originally Posted by The Tower

I just looovveee music..... DON'T YOU???

YES!!! Well, let's see....

1. Red Hot Chili Peppers
Fav. Album: Greatest Hits
Fav. Songs: My Friends, Under the Bridge, Breaking the Girl
2. Tori Amos
Fav. Album: Little Earthquakes
Fav. Songs: Precious Things, Silent All These Years, Cornflake Girl
3. Sarah McLachlan
Fav. Album: Mirrorball
Fav. Songs: Possession, Path of Thorns, Drawn to the Rhythm
4. Sheryl Crow
Fav. Album: Sheryl Crow
Fav. Songs: Riverwide, Leaving Las Vegas, Redemption Day
4. Dave Matthews Band
Fav. Album: Under the Table and Dreaming
Fav. Songs: Don't Drink the Water, Pig, Ants Marching
5. Alanis Morissette
Fav. Album: Jagged Little Pill
Fav. Songs: Not the Doctor, Uninvited, Still
6. Rolling Stones
Fav. Album: Forty Licks
Fav. Songs: Miss You, Angie, Shattered
7. Counting Crows
Fav. Album: August and Everything After
Fav. Songs: Mr. Jones, Rain King, A Murder of One
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

Honorable mention to: Heart (I also LOVE Dog and Butterfly!), Led Zepplin, and the Cranberries.

adam

[darklinensuit]

10) Heart - Crazy On You, Dreamboat Annie

9) Journey - Separate Ways

8) Ella Fitzgerald - Bewitched, Bothered, And Bewildered

7) Sheryl Crow - My Favorite Mistake

6) The Eagles - Desperado

5) The Mamas And The Papas - Creequee Alley

4) Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Rebels; I Need To Know

3) Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water; Maybelline

2) Janis Joplin - Half Moon; Kozmic Blues

1) Warren Zevon - Mr. Bad Example (Live)


- Jake

[darklinensuit]

And I predict that this task will give Brian a headache.

- Jake

[wondergirl9847]

In no particular order, really.

1. The Monkees
fave album: Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.
fave song: Randy Scouse Git

2. DC Talk
fave album: Supernatural
fave song: Supernatural

3. Michael W. Smith
fave album: i 2 eye
fave song: Secret Ambition

4. Amy Grant
fave album: Unguarded
fave song: Sharayah

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

6. Journey
fave album: Greatest Hits (LOL)
fave song: Separate Ways

7. Keith Urban
fave album: Golden Road (don't have 'em all yet tho)
fave song: Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me

8. Dolly Parton
fave album: Here You Come Again
fave song: Here You Come Again

9. A-Ha
fave album: Hunting High and Low
fave song: I've Been Losing You

10. BBMak
fave album: Sooner or Later
fave song: Acoustic version of Ghost of You and Me (amazing harmonies!!)

[GardenStateGirlie]

This is tough...i'm just pulling stuff out at random...I really can't think right now

-Tori Amos
-Sarah McLachlan
-Hooverphonic
-Barenaked Ladies
-Fiona Apple
-Sade
-Ben Folds Five
-Alison Krauss w/Union Station
-Pink Floyd
-Sting/The Police

[GretaRhiannon]

Originally Posted by wondergirl9847

[FONT=Microsoft Sans Serif]In no particular order, really.


7. Keith Urban
fave album: Golden Road (don't have 'em all yet tho)
fave song: Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me

8. Dolly Parton
fave album: Here You Come Again
fave song: Here You Come Again

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Aww man I forgot about them....

[estranged4life]

Originally Posted by darklinensuit

And I predict that this task will give Brian a headache.

- Jake

backache than a headache

Anyways, Here is my current (And ever-changing) list:

1.Dream Theater (Their upcoming 3DVD/2CD set tentatively titled "Live At Budokan" is going to be awesome!!!)
Favorite Album-Images And Words
Favorite Song-Surrounded

2.The Beatles
Favorite Album-Abbey Road
Favorite Song-Something

3.Helloween
Favorite Album-Better Than Raw
Favorite Song-Handful Of Pain

4.Steve Vai
Favorite Album-Passion And Warfare
Favorite Song-For The Love Of God

5.U2
Favorite Album-The Unforgettable Fire
Favorite Song-Bad

6.Queen
Favorite Album-Innuendo
Favorite Song-I'm Going Slightly Mad

7.Keith Urban (Who has a new album coming very soon...Yeah, Like we don't have all his releases already, But yet we do LOL!!!!)
Favorite Album-Golden Road
Favorite Song-Somebody Like You

8.Iron Maiden
Favorite Album-Somewhere In Time
Favorite Song-Wasted Years

9.King Diamond
Favorite Album-Abigail
Favorite Song-The Family Ghost

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

In honor of Spinal Tap's infamous Marshall Amps that went to 11, I included my 11 pick...

11.Def Leppard
Favorite Album-Hysteria
Favorite Song-Hysteria

[xdreamsunwindx]

1. U2
Favorite Albums- The Joshua Tree, The Unforgettable Fire and War
Favorite Songs- Bad, One, Gloria, "40", New Years Day, With or Without You, The Unforgettable Fire, Two Hearts Beat As One, Helter Skelter, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Beautiful Day, Discotheque, In a Little While, Red Hill Mining Town

2. Blondie
Favorite Albums- Plastic Letters, Autoamerican, Eat to the Beat
Favorite Songs- Fan Mail, 11:59, Accidents Never Happen, Rapture, Golden Rod, Rip Her to Shreds, Orchid Club, Faces, Maria, Call Me, The Hardest Part, Detroit 442, Poet's Problem

3. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Favorite Albums- Self-titled, Full Moon Fever (TP solo), Damn the Torpedoes
Favorite Songs- You Wreck Me, The Wild One (Forever), Rebels, Hometown Blues, Don't Do Me Like That, Breakdown (live, when he kinda exorcism's out at the end), Change of Heart, Straight into Darkness, You Can Still Change Your Mind, Insider, The Apartment Song, You Don't Know How it Feels, American Girl

4. No Doubt
Favorite Album- Return of Saturn
Favorite Songs- Artificial Sweetener, End it on This, Greener Pastures, Don't Speak, The Climb, Dark Blue, Too Late, Don't Let Me Down, Happy Now?, It's My Life, Comforting Lie, Simple Kind of Life, Just a Girl, Excuse Me Mr., Bathwater, Sometimes, etc

5. The Eagles
Favorite Album- Hell Freezes Over, Hotel California
Favorite Songs- Pretty Maids All in a Row (MAD love for this song), Take it to the Limit, In the City, I Can't Tell You Why, Hotel California (*only* for the solo at the end), Try and Love Again, Desperado

6. Matchbox 20
Favorite Album- Yourself or Someone Like You
Favorite Songs- 3 AM, Bright Lights, Push, Damn, Bent, Real World, Disease, Unwell, etc

I have many more, but I can't think of all of them right now. I listen to too much music .

-Kate

[estranged4life]

Originally Posted by xdreamsunwindx

1. U2
Favorite Albums- The Joshua Tree, The Unforgettable Fire and War
Favorite Songs- Bad, One, Gloria, "40", New Years Day, With or Without You, The Unforgettable Fire, Two Hearts Beat As One, Helter Skelter, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Beautiful Day, Discotheque, In a Little While, Red Hill Mining Town

You should check out the setlist for the U2 "B-Side Colletion" 11 cd set I have listed on my trade website (Listed under the U2 cd's), There is quite abit of great stuff on those discs:

http://www.angelfire.com/music3/rhiannon/Demos.html

[dissention]

In no particular order (except for number one!):

1. Bette Midler- I love everything about her. It's as if she personifies my personality and I adore her talent. She can take any song and make it her own with the first note.
Favorite Album: Tie between "No Frills" and "Some People's Lives"
Favorite Songs: My Eye On You, Favorite Waste of Time, Moonlight Dancing, Shiver Me Timbers, Hello In There, Marajuana, Pretty Legs and Great Big Knockers

2. Bob Dylan- The master poet.
Favorite Album: Right now, it's Bootleg Series #5 "Live In '75"
Favorite Songs: Buckets of Rain, I Shall Be Released, Isis, Love Minus Zero, It Takes a Train To Cry

3. Tina Turner- She can belt out a song like no other.
Favorite Album: After all these years, it's still "Private Dancer"
Favorite Songs: 1984, Girls, Break Every Rule, We Don't Need Another Hero, I Might Have Been Queen, Absolutely Nothing's Changed

4. Tom Petty- I don't smoke weed, but if I did, I'd love to smoke it with this dude.
Favorite Album: Hard Promises
Favorite Songs: Insider, Last Dance With Mary Jane, When Money Wasn't King (a truly epic song), Breakdown

5. Aimee Mann- Fantastic. I've seen her live six times and she moves me every time.
Favorite Album: I'm With Stupid and the Magnolia Soundtrack
Favorite Songs: Driving Sideways, Save Me, Humpty Dumpty, countless others!

6. Blondie- Debbie Harry is the definition of cool.
Favorite Album: Curse of Blondie and Autoamerican
Favorite Songs: Suzy and Jeffrey, Golden Rod, Rip Her to Shreds, Maria, Hello Joe, Rapture, Atomic

7. Jefferson Airplane- When they were good, they were really good.
Favorite Album: Volunteers
Favorite Songs: Lather, Crown of Creation, White Rabbit, pretty much anything from their heyday

8. Sheryl Crow- I think she writes great songs. One listen to "Redemption Day" and I was hooked.
Favorite Album: Sheryl Crow
Favorite Songs: Redmption Day, Oh Marie, Safe and Sound, Weather Channel, Love Is A Good Thing, C'mon C'mon, Mississippi, Member's Only

9. Heart- Ann Wilson has some of the best pipes around.
Favorite Album: Live In Seattle because I'm digging the new songs (I can't wait until the new album comes out Tuesday!!!)
Favorite Songs: Countless!

10. The Pretenders- Chrissie Hynde rocks. Cool babe.
Favorite Album: Tie between The Pretenders and Isle of View
Favorite Songs: They will always be Back On the Chain Gang, Precious, and Brass In Pocket

[markolas]

Johnny Cash
I'm currently in love with his last album, The Man Comes Around. I also love the duets he did with June Carter, especially "Jackson."

Bonnie Raitt
Love her first three albums, Bonnie Raitt, Give It Up, and Takin' My Time. The rest of her '70s stuff was kind of uneven. Until Nick of Time. That's another great one. She kind of started to stagnate a little after that, but her last couple of albums, Fundamental and Silver Lining, were fantastic.

Joni Mitchell
Hejira is my favorite, too! Followed closely by Blue, Turbulent Indigo, and Court & Spark.

Billie Holiday
Some people like her '30s recordings because her voice was still good and because of the way she interacted with the other musicians, especially Lester Young. Others like her '50s recordings because her singing shows so much emotion. I tend to gravitate toward her later stuff.

Elton John
Love his first four albums, starting with Elton John in 1970. After Honky Chateau, he started going downhill, but he really started to get schlocky after about 1976 (though not as schlocky as Billy Joel).

Big Joe Turner
I wanna see how many people have heard of this guy
Great blues shouter from the '40s and '50s. His biggest claim to fame is probably that he did the original version of "Shake, Rattle, & Roll."

Sting
I like Sting. Love The Police. His solo work has been uneven. Love Ten Summoner's Tales and Brand New Day.

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
These guys have been mentioned by others, but I love them, too. Way before I knew much about who Stevie Nicks was.

Sheryl Crow
Same goes for her. I was a big fan way before I really knew who Stevie Nicks was. Love her first two albums. The Globe Sessions was good, but it didn't blow me away. And I thought C'mon, C'mon was great.

Tina Turner
I used to be a much bigger fan of hers than I am now. I like a lot of the old Ike & Tina stuff, especially the bluesier stuff, as compiled on the CD Bold Soul Sister: The Best of the Blue Thumb Recordings. River Deep-Mountain High is another favorite. I wasn't crazy about the direction she went with her solo career. Private Dancer was decent, and so was her 1989 album Foreign Affair. After that, she went in too much of a dance/euro-pop direction for my taste.

I think that's ten

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by Lux

Eh, bugger it. I don't read these lists, why would anyway be reading down here anyway?

You're right, I would NEVER look down here.

- Jake