[Closed] Your favorite band, album and song.

Band - Faith no More

Album - Angeldust

Song - Midlife Crisis

Reason - just because it's a great album.  I guess the reason it sticks out as the favourite, is because it came out when I was first getting into music, and was at my most impressionable.  It stills stands out for it's greatness though.  The originality, complexity, the image of the band, and reaction to previous commercial success, are all things that make it great.

This is impossible ..there is just so much I could choose from ..😁

My favourite album is Neon Golden by The Notwist. The other two I can't answer.

Band - stereophonics

album - arctics, whatever people say I am .......

song is a tough call but Itunes Suggests Dakota is pipped by the ritz to the rubble.

Most of my favourite album is up there though

reason is the lyrics, the memories of the gig and just generally an amazing album

Band - New Model Army (consistently brilliant)

Album - Daises of the galaxy - Eels ( at the moment)

Song - Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys (Still makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up after nearly 40 years!)

Band - that's hard. Double hard. Don't think I can think of a band I like that hasn't turned out at least something I'm less keen on. Prolly have to say Coldplay - loved 'em from the first album, and their Glasto set the other year looked just mega. Plus they seem genuine nice blokes.

Album - Blood Sugar Sex Magik. Popped along when I first started to 'get' music, heard it a million times and could hear it a load of times more (and I normally hate repetition in music). Loved that p-funk sound - if RHCP were still doing it, they'd be my favourite band, but I've not heard an album of theirs I'm bothered about since.

Song - gonna have to say I Am The Resurrection, with the caveat that I HAVE listened to that too much and could probably do with a decade off. 🙂 It's all about that second half - magic. 🙂

Band : Cardiacs

Album : Sing To God

Song : Dirty Boy

Band - Radiohead, consistently innovative, interesting composition, not yet found a band  I've enjoyed more over the years.

Album - Doolittle -pixies. Still an album I'm happy to listen to all the way through everytime

Song- Impossible, I don't think I could ever pick one song and say "This is my favourite tune"

Having had a little think ..my favourite band in recent years has been Gazpacho ..

The albums ..Tick Tock , Night , Misa Atropos, March of Ghosts up to 2014's Demon are all ( imo) excellent and if I had to choose one it would probably be March of Ghosts ...all of these are most definitely headphone albums to hear them at their best .

The last two albums though Molok & Soyuz have been really disappointing ..

Choosing only one track though as my favourite ( not just from this band ) ..is just about beyond me .

Band - Tough, Oasis probably.

Album - Don't listen to many albums in truth. Definitely Maybe is what springs to mind but I'm going to go for a curve and say the acoustic version of Jagged Little Pill

Song - Easy this one, Massive Attack, Unfinished Sympathy

The Carpenters (Karen Carpenter playing the drums) ... such clear voice from Karen carpenter. 😀

ABBA

Bee Gees

Blondie

B52

Band - Boards of Canada

Album - Decksndrumsnrocknroll, The Propellerheads

Song - I Believe In You, Talk Talk

Band changes week by week but the coors are always up there, thier unplugged concert is jaw dropping..

Album . Neil young: prairie wind . It's an album of a concert so not sure if that counts?

Song, again difficult but if you put me on the spot, wish you were here by pink Floyd..

Although there's been so many amazing songs.. Picking a favorite is simply impossible!

I agree with @mattyfez, my favourite band/album/song changes week by week.

But my favourite album is probably one I played and played and played until I got bored of it.  But after a few years of not listening to it and it sounds great again.  And that album is Do It Yourself by The Seahorses.  Unfortunately, they only ever made one album which was such a shame.

Loads of eclectic choices, good stuff. Some quite surprising, The Coors particularly! I might look up the unplugged concert.

band - radiohead

album - the joshua tree (eno at his best)

song -    donovan - catch the wind

Neil Young.  Love the variety of stuff he's done and his attitude.  For example.

Throughout his career, Young remained enigmatic and unpredictable. Take the time he played his then-unreleased 1975 album 'Tonight's The Night' in full then told the audience "now we're gonna play something you've heard before"… and played 'Tonight's The Night' in full again.  (Quoted from the NME, apparently the crowd booed because they wanted harvest etc)

Southern Harmony and Musical Companion by The Black Crowes.  This came out when I was 17, it's the album I've listened to the most and probably still the one I listen to most on a yearly basis.

Wiser Time by The Black Crowes is possibly my favourite song.  Great lyrics, amazing musicianship.  I have maybe ten different versions, live it can be up to 20 minutes long.  It's the one I'm saving if the waves come crashing in.

Mine will have changed by time I’ve drank my pint....

band - underworld

album -my bloody valentine - loveless

song- sugar baby love -the rubbettes.

Band.....no idea really

Album...Live at The Old Quarter by Townes Van Zandt

Song...The Cape by Guy Clark

I’m with plop pants.

Cardiacs as best band

sing to God as best album

best song .... tends to change a lot but Big Ship is always around the top of the list.

Considering the Cardiacs album was released in 96 it’s an album I’ve never become bored of. Literally every time I listen to it I hear something new. I seriously think that like Van Gogh was argely ignored in his own lifetime that Cardiacs will be seen as geniuses by future generations . The shear scope of the ideas on this album are breathtaking.

Hmmm. Favourite band... I'll have to go for Ulver. Reinventing their sound over and over, from primitive, raw black metal, folk, ambient soundscapes, lush orchestral productions through to their latest which they described as their "80's pop album".

Album. Probably Blood Inside by Ulver. Sounded like nothing I had heard before and still sounds like nothing else today. It's astonishing.

Song...impossible to really pick one but one I can't get enough of at the minute is Clockworks by Meshuggah. Like all of their best moments condensed into seven minutes of crushing genius.

Motörhead

Motörhead

Motörhead

😉

Band The Jam

Album ABC The lexicon of love

Song Stevie wonder Masterblaster

Band - White Stripes, though if unlimited it would be all Jack Whites work.

Album, unsure...... White stripes, arctic monkeys.....

Song - Sitting on the dock of bay by Otis. Perfect

It’s all about that second half – magic.

It so is!

Band.  The Charlatans.  Why?  A run of brilliant albums at the right time.

Album.  The Stone Roses.  Not a bad note on the record.  Perfect melodies and great musicianship.

Song.  House of The Rising Sun by the Animals. Always loved this song.

Black Sabbath

Number of the Beast

Teenage Kicks

or is that

Pink Floyd

Different Class

Road to Nowhere

If it was artist rather than band, it would be Otis Redding.

This is such a hard question. I love so much music!

If ‘band’ includes individuals, then Leonard Cohen hands down. If not, then probably Rush, although there are many, many that I love. So, let’s say:

BAND: <b>Rush</b> (unparalleled musicianship)

SONG: <b>Pinball Wizard</b> (a model ‘rock’ song)

ALBUM: <b>Big Country’s ‘The Crossing’</b> (I just think that Big Country is one of the world’s best forgotten bands, and The Crossing a superb example of how an album is a whole vision as opposed to a mere collection of songs.)

Right now?

Band - The Clash.

Just the definition of what a band should be, still sound fresh. I loved them.

Album - Van Morrison, St Dominic's Preview. Listen to this more than Astral Weeks, tbh, which tends to be reserved for sunsets and Sunday afternoons. It's just genius, from start to finish and it makes me very happy.

Song - We're in yr Corner - Cornershop.

Tune.

Subject to change from minute to minute (except for album which stays pretty constant) but right now...

Band. Really can't choose, but the shortlist would include Add n to (x), Manic Street Preachers, The Clash, The Men They Couldn't Hang, The XX, Ride, The Joy Formidable, Wolf Alice and loads of others.

Album. The Holy Bible. Astonishing statement of intent and intensity (especially lyrically) contrasted with the melodic nous and voice of James Dean Bradfield. Pop music as high art.

Song. One Foot Before The Other by Frank Turner. Just love the lyrical conceit and the worldview it espouses. Proper shouty singalong live too.

OK, Maybe

Band - Liars

Album - don't really do albums any more so, err, Come on Pilgrim (Pixies)

Song - Poison Oak (Bright Eyes), cos it's lovely or <b>¡</b>Cuba! (Big Flame), cos they played it when I accidentally went to a gig as a student and it was fantastic at the time/place

Band - probably Orbital

Album - Entroducing

Song - Alarma! (Possibly not but certainly makes me smile, also I get very nervous a couple of times a year 🙂 )

Band: Probably Radiohead

Album: To pick only one it would have to be something eclectic. Either Coldcut - 70 minutes of madness or Avalanches - Since I left you.

Song: Sebastien Tellier - La Ritournelle.

Band The Damned

Album Zen Arcade

Song it’s to slow

Band - Yes, third line up, Anderson, Bruford, Howe, Squire, Wakeman.  Mainly for Squire’s bass work.

Album - Jagged Little Pill

Song - The Whole Of The Moon

Tomorrow

Band - Rush

Album - The Bends

Song - Babylon David Gray maybe

Band.  King Adora.  Not sure i could listen to them over and over but probably the best live performance I've been to so that wins it for me.

Album. Tough one. Generation Terrorists or American Idiot? Both excellent, not many I can listen to again and again without skipping at least one track. Interesting someone else has also picked a Manics album, generally quite underrated.

Song. Sweet Child of mine. Just love it

Band: Rammstein
Stunning live show & love the sound they make

Album: adolescent sex – Japan
Hated it at first. Great for long journeys in the dark

Song: planet earth Duran Duran
Song I most used to sing along to in my teenage bedroom with a tennis racket guitar pretending to be Andy or John Taylor

With over fifty years, nearer sixty now, of having an interest in, and later a passion for music, it’s something that’s almost impossible to answer, one of, if not my earliest memory, is of a song on the radio, Freight Train, by Nancy Whiskey which was released in 1957. I was three. It’s just not possible to distil down hundreds of albums and tens of thousands of songs by a great many different artist to just three, one of each.

Southern Harmony and Musical Companion by The Black Crowes.  This came out when I was 17, it’s the album I’ve listened to the most and probably still the one I listen to most on a yearly basis.

Great choice!

Band- can't call it. Biffy Clyro or the Wildhearts. Loved the Wildhearts for longer but Biffy are the ink in my skin so that's probably a vote for them.

Album: Neon Handshake, by Hell Is For Heroes

Song: Disconnector, off that album by Hell Is For Heroes.

Oops, explanation. Hell is for Heroes had some sort of label nightmare where they couldn't get the first album released for ages- so they just kept touring and honing and touring and perfecting, then they got the guys who produced Shape of Punk to Come to make it sound incredible. And WIll the guitarist had literally sat in his flat since Symposium split, doing nothing but making keelar reeefs. It's pretty much perfect, and the only album that I've ever seen a band do the "whole album in order" bullshit where it actually made a perfect show. Then they kind of died on their arse because they just couldn't follow it- they managed an occasional great song that other bands would kill for after it but whatever mystic alignment it was that made the first album, never happened again.

And disconnector is the best song off the best album, it's like a wee mini version of the whole thing- perfect structure, perfect production, all the elements just coming together flawlessly, when it drops back onto the main rhythm after the middle 8 it's just... ah, everything that music is about for me.

Aaaaaaaarrgggghhh...!!!!!!!

Favourite song ..Mayonnaise. Smashing Pumpkins

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This is kind of impossible. A band... I’m more of an ‘artists’ person... if pushed I’d probably blurt out Godspeed You! Black Emporer at the moment (Luciferian Towers is playing at present...)

album, oh that’s easy: Arvo Part’s Kanon Pokajanen by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. It’s my most played cd by a country mile. I’ve literally listened to it hundreds and hundreds of times over the last decade.  Never thought I would come to love the Church Slavonic!

song, did I say this was impossible? Everything is Free, the Gillian Welch song as covered by Courtney Barnett, at the moment....

Pretty hard to say favourite all time band/artist, it would certainly be from 80s or early 90s. There's been the odd tune or two by more modern artists, but they've never been enough for me to buy more than a single album, often their greatest hits.In terms of what I play the most in recent years, Fleetwood Mac

Rumours... So many decent songs IMO, none I would call "album fillers."

Gypsy, which is on their Mirage album. Quite possibly Stevie at her best on vocals and that guitar solo by Lindsey towards the end.

10+ years ago, all the above would be different. I'd certainly heard of some of their tunes like The Chain, but randomly hearing a tune on the radio (in 2008?) made me look up some of their tracks and buy that 1977 album from when I had not long turned three.

Some great choices!

Loads of this stuff you just forget, and I love this sorts of threads for reminding you of great music that's slipped you by

Band - Slayer . Just blown away the first time I heard their music.

Album - Reign in Blood/Slayer. Pure aggression from start to finish and my go to album if I'm stressed or a bit down.

Song - Deja Vu by Iron Maiden  , its always made the hairs on my arms stand up for some reason and will be the tune I get burnt to.

Errr...this has been a favourite in my dark and dingy past...just sounds like they are having an absolute blast ..

Easy. Pulp, different class, common people.

Living 17 miles from Sheffield no band claim close to encapsulating my transition from teen to adult.

Fiendishly wrapped up in the dirty underworld that is Cocker's Sheffield.

The anthem Common People with its awesome structure and poetry was an amazing final bow out at their final concert at the arena.

Common People's intent was a bit misunderstood but that made it all the more powerful as it was politicised by the listener into a bona fide anthem.

I don't listen so much these days to Pulp but they hold the benchmark for me.

The Rembrandts

LP

Chasing shadows - Kansas

Band : Thin Lizzy

Album : Johnny the Fox

Song : Cowboy Song offa Jailbreak

It will be different tomorrow but as of 20:25 this fine Tuesday evening.

Band - Clutch

Album - In The Right Place by Dr John & the Meters

Song - Drunk Drivers / Killer Whales by Car Seat Headrest

Band: Sonic Youth

Album: Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins

Song, impossible to pick, but these are all at the top of my moss played.

Simon - Lifehouse, Bed of Lies - Matchbox 20, Away from the Sun - Three Doors Down, I forgot where we were - Ben Howard.