The Stones are my favorite band by 2000 light years but there's some very un-Stonesy bands I also like. For starters:

Evanescence
Heart
Flyleaf

Any others care to share their divergent tastes?

Tough question Ok The Moody Blues



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U2 / Jeff Beck / Neil Young

ABBA

These guys

Virgin Prunes.


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Public enemy?

Sounds alot like Midnight Rambler but it gets a vote.

From decades wide apart, possibly:

Vanilla Fudge (by their use of the organ and by their voices)
The hit singles by Diana Ross and the Supremes (I adore those pop songs)

Tangerine Dream (from whom I love mostly two albums ATEM and PHAEDRA, don’t know the rest)

Einstürzende Neubauten
Laibach (Slovenian band)

Slowdive (in their time, shoegazer band on the Creation label)

A quick glance through the 507 albums in my collection yielded this:
• Astral Projection
• Brewer and Shipley
• Buena Vista Social Club
• Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks
• Etnica
• Flatt and Scruggs
• Freddy Fender
• Hallucinogen
• Jackson 5
• John Coltrane
• Justin Bieber
• Mamas and the Papas
• Michael Jackson
• Moody Blues
• Sylvester
• Wham
• Any of the 31 Country artists in my collection could also possibly be included



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RUNRIG FAB BAND

Mastodon
Public Image Limited
Type O Negative

plus numerous jazz, hip hop, electronic artists...

I love this stuff, and I bet Mick can't sing like this:

Franzl Lang - Yodelling




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Radiohead
Porcupine Tree
The Sword
Ghost
Wolfmother

Not a band as such these days but i've been a lifelong fan of Adam Ant and Adam And The Ants before that. Other non sounding like The Stones at all faves include Joy Division.

The Beach Boys



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King Crimson
Motorpsycho
The Kinks
The Allman Brothers
Needlepoint
The Byrds

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The Beach Boys

Yep! Me too.

Didn't they release a bunch of Chuck Berry-sounding albums? Sounds familiar

Ministry
Flatt and Scruggs
The Congos
The Clara Ward Singers
Dead Kennedys
Culture
George Clinton (Parliament and Funkadelic)
Devo
Burning Spear
The Jackson 5
Tony Bennett

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King Crimson
Motorpsycho
The Kinks
The Allman Brothers
Needlepoint
The Byrds

Yes, I thought about King Crimson as suffiently different, and, who I do like, but I had already some band / group names. Some years ago I bought quite many Kinks albums that I have not yet listened to (in addition to those I had formerly), and I like the Kinks quite much, too. And to a varying degree I like my six albums from the Byrds. (The only impression I received from two studio albums and one live album by the Allman Brothers really is that during the something like seven times I listened to them more than a decade ago, they bored me.)

To my own list I might, of course, have added Joy Division /New Order, which for quite a long period was my second favourite band, more than the Beatles, who maybe now are second favourites . (A couple of months ago, I bought four albums of New Order following after Republique, added which I have not listened to yet). Maybe also I could have mentionned Birthday Party /Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (also quite recently I bought as many as nine albums of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds,the latest nine, which I am looking forward to listen to as well.)

In fact, each day my listening time has diminished.

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Then...not radically different but after the Stones my faves would be:
Bob Dylan
The Who
Led Zeppelin

- Velvet Underground
- Derek & the Dominoes
- Fabolous Thunderbirds

EELS

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Didn't they release a bunch of Chuck Berry-sounding albums? Sounds familiar

Good point, DP, but the vocals are another story.

Compare the New Barbarians Live to "God Only Knows" or "Surf's Up".

"No Anchovies, Please"

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King Crimson
Motorpsycho
The Kinks
The Allman Brothers
Needlepoint
The Byrds

Today, after several years, I listened to Live At Fillmore East again. It's sooooooo good

Zappa

Queen, Yes, ELP...

Charlie Watts Orchestra
Sisters of Mercy
Sixpence None The Richer