Just for fun...What music / artists do you like that are totally different from the Stones?

Being 52 years old it often takes me a while to discover new or more recent artists, but aside from the Stones being my favorite kind of music, I've discovered some artists I really like in vastly different genres that move me in different ways. Some that I love might seem odd choices for a big Stones fan:
Evanescence - moves me in a very unique way, especially when I'm a bit down.
Flyleaf - same thing
Pink - I think she's got balls and soul.
Amy Winehouse - RIP.
These are just a few for starters. Anyone else?

i like jazz, afro beat, hip hop, polka, classical.

Foster the People
Naked and Famous
Metric
Foo Fighters
Pink Floyd
Tokyo Police Club
The Black Keys
Rise Against
City and Colour

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love it all...'cept bruce and u2.

Right now, getting into some classic songwriters, George Gershwin and Cole Porter. Lovely stuff.

Pretty much all kinds, except opera. Don't like much rap either.

Blues
Classic country
Bluegrass
Soul
Rockabilly
yada yada yada

Check my threads

Hard rock
Operas
Classical music
ACDC VAN HALEN
PETER FRAMPTON
DAVID DARLING
STEELY DAN
CRIS REA
THE CLASH
JOE JACKSON
GUERSHWIN
DEXTER GORDON

Soul, hip-hop, RnB, pop... I like a variety, really. That's why I'm in love with the shuffle function on my iPod. One minute it could be 99 Problems by Jay-Z, the next, Believe What You Say by Ricky Nelson.

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StonesTod
love it all...'cept bruce and u2.

Maybe the first time I agree with 100% with ST ... Well, almost 100%: I actually like a lot even a couple of BS and U2 albums (Nebraska and Josha Tree).

C

suddenly lotza...

but i'll only post this one video which, like a good many of her videos, actually
somewhat detracts, or at least distracts, from the music. But on the plus side
she was able to take reggae to number 12 on the charts recently with this
song - no small feat - combining her one-girl girl-group thing with an up-to-the-
minute caribbean vibe...

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StonesTod
love it all...'cept bruce and u2.

Maybe the first time I agree with 100% with ST ... Well, almost 100%: I actually like a lot even a couple of BS and U2 albums (Nebraska and Josha Tree).

C

i had a few of bruce's early lps...cos i was interested in finding out what all the fuss was about...i never found out....

I've been listening to The Shins a lot as of late - some gorgeous sounds...Foster the People's album Torches is also towards the top of my listening pleasures over the past several months, which kind of caught me by surprise because it's more electronic than I typically like...I went through a Grace Potter and the Nocturnals phase a several months back and enjoyed it...I really liked Metric's last and look forward to what they have coming out later this year (though I suspect it could be a big miss for me, as most of what they did prior to Fantasies didn't do much for me)... I WANT to like more of Ryan Adams' catalog, but none of it hits me like "Gold" did...Arcade Fire's Suburban was awesome...Weezer!!...The Arctic Monkeys first two releases were great, pretty much start to finish, but their later stuff has been less memorable...Badfinger...The Jayhawks' Tomorrow the Green Grass is awesome. Similar to Ryan Adams, I try to compare everything else of theirs to it and find myself a bit disappointed...Bowie...an unpopular position around here (and at home), but I like Cold Play - especially their first few...Elvis...Beatles (including solo, except Ringo, maybe, because I'm not very familiar and don't have much interest in being so)...Willie Nelson...I used to listen to a lot more Country than I do now and still slip in and out of it...Simon and Garfunkel...I could go on but I won't.

I guess I can be easy to please.

....there's always something groooovy about the jungle telegraph that knocks me



ROCKMAN

The Kronos Quartet.

Renee Flemeing.

Daniel Barenboim conducting the East-West Divan orchestra on Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

Jan Garbarek

Miles Davis

Richard Thompson

Jerry Lee Lewis - particularly his country recordings

Willie Nelson

Roy Orbison

Porgy & Bess by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, and also by Ray Charles and Cleo Laine.

Preservation Hall Jazz Orchestra

The Chieftains

Steeleye Span

Fairport Convention

Melody Gardot

Charlie Haden

Pat Metheny

Brad Mehldau

Wynton Marsalis

Branford Marsalis - Romances for Saxophone is a favourite

Arhoolie Box Set

CJ Chenier

PJ Harvey

The list is endless

Folksy stuff, bluesy stuff, bluegrass, country, country rock,...don't like jazzy stuff or most rap (except for an old song called "Jump Around" and "Love Lockdown")!

Allman Bros (love the modern lineup with Haynes/Trucks), Dan Bern, Black Keys, Dwight Yoakam, The Jayhawks, Dylan, Lou Reed, Mark Lanegan, Social Distortion, a great deal of older blues and jazz artists and some romantic-period classical depending on how drunk I am ><

I listen to a lot of operatic rock such as Nightwish, Therion, Lacuna Coil, Within Temptation, After Forever, etc.

Also love Loreena McKennitt which could be called Celtic-world music.

And I love, love, love October Project.

In the rock genre, I listen to a lot of Red Hot Chili Peppers and early Cure.

I like the Grateful Dead and sometimes enjoy old SF bands like Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger service, Big Brother - nostalgia.



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Classical music from India...



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... Anikulapo Kuti

gregorian liturgical music
Hungarian original folk music



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I like to listen to
AC/DC
Buckcherry
Everclear
steel panther
poison
tesla

macy gray
rage against the machine
the presidents of the usa
loud lucy
kid rock
jimmy barnes
jet
jack johnson
foo fighters
faster pussycat
eminem
dj tiesto
dj john digweed
and many more

Feel The Fear
And Do It Anyway

Well, Radiohead, some Sigur Ros, I like some electronic music, some Indian music too and a lot of Jazz.

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fela
... Anikulapo Kuti

Nice to see another Fela fan here

Hey, I like Fela too.

He did an amazing album with Ginger Baker, and another good album with Roy Ayers.

I also like Tony Allen, both solo and with the Good, the Bad, & The Queen.

I like a lot of the stuff that's already mentioned, so I'll try not to repeat. And lots of jazz - but I won't go into that...
Here's some stuff I like that I don't think's been mentioned:
Big Head Todd
Damien Rice
Lady Gaga (courtesy of my 14 year-old daughter)
Ryan Mountbleu Band - they played at the Newport Folk Fest last summer - fun
Ray Lamontagne
Glen Hansard (soundtrack from Once)
Talking Heads
LOVE WARREN ZEVON!!
Sixteen Horsepower
The Pretenders
Great Big Sea
Jack White
Sheryl Crow
Tom Waits
Pete Townsend (love his solo stuff)
Dire Straights
Tom Petty
Peter Gabriel
Paul Simon

Keith be with you

I am into lately:

Heartless Bastards
The Ting Tings
MWard
Will Oldham (and his various incarnations)
Feist
Wilco

Easy question. Frank Sinatra. He is at his best when singing on a studio album. When he cuts up and acts silly at a live performance, he is an embarrassment.

Sinatra rules.

I also like the Eagles, most classical music, Carole King, and James Taylor.

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flilflam
Easy question. Frank Sinatra. He is at his best when singing on a studio album. When he cuts up and acts silly at a live performance, he is an embarrassment.

Sinatra rules.

I also like the Eagles, most classical music, Carole King, and James Taylor.

I love Frank too! In fact, we were having a debate about the greatest "voice" of our lifetime. I said hands down - Frank.

Here's a little tune I adore...
Frank on the radio in the 40s singing With a Song in My Heart

I don't do cajun, opera, rap, dance and any thing called R&B made after 1970.

Oh and no jazz.