What is your favourite song/artist?

[Master Jmd]

Following the 'what era of music do you like' poll, what is your favourite song and/or artist (singer/group)?

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Hmm...i had to ask myself that one...hmm...well, i would say that it is a big clash between;

• Brian Adams - Summer of '69 - Can't really describe... 9.5/10
  
• Brian Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting - All for one - Very Inspirational, nice words... 10/10
  
• Cher - Walking in Menphis (sp?) - Nice beat, nice words... 10/10
  
• Cher - Jessie James - Nice beat, nice words, tells a nice story... 10/10
  
• Bangles - Eternal Flame - Very Inspirational...prefer this to Atomic Kittens version... 9/10
  
• Labi Siffre - (Something Inside) So Strong - Brilliant, Highly Isperational... 10/10
  
• LeAnn Rimes - How Do I Live - Very Inspirational, Very Powerful!... 9/10
  
• Cher - Jipsies, (sp?) Tramps and Thieves - Nice beat, nice words... 8/10
  
• Mott the Hoople (sp?) - All the young dudes - Nice beat, love the electric guitar... 9.5/10
  
• Derick and the Dominoes - Layla - Nice beat, love the electric guitar... 9/10
  
• Brian Adams, Um...Sporty Spice (forgotten name!) - Baby When You're Gone - Nice words, nice beat 9/10
  
• Queen - We Will Rock You - Brilliant Guitar playing by Brian May... 10/10
  

Hmm...not many ...there are more, but i think it will be just a bit too much

Edited June 19, 2004 by Master Jmd

[Emperor Oli]

My Mum would string you up for Cher's Walking in Memphis. Apparently she "butchered" it and the original Marc Cohn version is superior. Gypsies btw or gyppos whatever you prefer

[Master Jmd]

Gypsies btw or gyppos whatever you prefer

i knew it was something like that

[Sylvester]

ow Eternal Flame! I remember that the first time round.

Mind you i preferred Manic Monday.

And I like Queen too, my favourite is one of these three; 'Killer Queen', 'It's a Kind of Magic' or 'We are the Champions'

Fave songs... hmm?

Well... no particular order here... (notice any similarities?)

1) Europe - Final Countdown (1980 something, 1986?)

2) Alice Cooper- Poison (1988)

3) T'Pau - China in Your Hand (1987)

4) Testament - Electric Clown [1992] (but i like The Ballad too) [1989]

5) Madonna - Like a Prayer (i liked that as a kid) [1989]

6) Metallica - Frayed Ends of Sanity [1988?]

7) Depeche Mode - Everything Counts [1982 and 1989] (or Sacred) [1987]

8) Flock of Seagulls - Wishing i had a photograph of you [1983]

9) Adam and the Ants - Stand and Deliver [1983ish]

10) Deep Purple - Black Night [1968?]

11) Clash - Rock the Casbah [1980s]

12) Iron Maiden - The Prisoner [1983] (or Can i Play with Madness?) [1986ish?]

13) Transvision Vamp - Baby i don't care [bet it's 1988/9]

14) Duran Duran - Save Prayer [1986ish]

There's so many others i like...

[Sylvester]

I dunno if i have a fave group as such but Iron Maiden comes close. I always had alot of respect for Madonna cos she's done many different things, hmm Michael Jackson. Well i have to hand it to him he does actually seem to be talented, even if i'm not keen on him personality wise. Thriller was always a pretty decent song, but my mother was Michael Jackson mad so i have listened to much of his stuff over the years.

She also liked Simply Red, now that was taking it too far... arrrghhhhh save me.

I like some of Eminem's stuff too, strange as that might seem.

Did someone say eclectic?

[Master Jmd]

so you dont have any from the 80's then

[Sylvester]

so you dont have any from the 80's then

oh no, very little...

Actually i think i've got the 80s covered for most genres... from Salt N' Peppa to Metallica... I'm tripping over the stuff.

There was a time when i was 60s mad, so i've got that lying round too, haven't got much 70s though, didn't take to that decade as easily for some strange reason...

I hate 50s. If there's one decade i definately avoid it's 50s and Rock and Roll. Elvis, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, you name it i tried to avoid them all.

[Emperor Oli]

Yeah Michael Jackson's good, if not for his songs then for his videos! My favourite Madonna song is "Material Girl" cause it's just good Oops she's called Esther now isn't she

[Master Jmd]

very clasical picture there oli...

[Sylvester]

hmm i like Material girl cos it's about money...

but Papa Don't Preach, Cherish and Live to Tell are good uns.

I had the albums somewhere... somewhere

I haven't listed any classical cos i'm just getting back into that after a 5 or 6 year absence...

But i always like Edward Elgar and Tchai... okay i can't spell it but i like the 1812 overture.

And Vivaldi and Mozart are good. (Must listen to more of this!)

[Half Penny Jon]

Yeah Michael Jackson's good, if not for his songs then for his videos! My favourite Madonna song is "Material Girl" cause it's just good Oops she's called Esther now isn't she

Innocent before guilty............we all know he did it anyway!

[kuhli]

Favorite artist would be a toss-up between

->Iron Maiden

->Jimmy Buffett

also like Metallica and Mercyful Fate (King Diamond)

Favorite song would be a split between

->Iron Maiden-Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner

->Jimmy Buffett-He Went to Paris

Honorable mentions go to Iron Maiden-Hallowed Be Thy Name, Jimmy Buffett-Jolly Mon, Metallica-Wherever I May Roam, and King Diamond-The Candle.

Sylvester, most of your lists look like some of my MP3 playlists.

[Sylvester]

Favorite artist would be a toss-up between

->Iron Maiden

->Jimmy Buffett

also like Metallica and Mercyful Fate (King Diamond)

Favorite song would be a split between

->Iron Maiden-Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner

->Jimmy Buffett-He Went to Paris

Honorable mentions go to Iron Maiden-Hallowed Be Thy Name, Jimmy Buffett-Jolly Mon, Metallica-Wherever I May Roam, and King Diamond-The Candle.

Sylvester, most of your lists look like some of my MP3 playlists.

The Powerslave album! I really like that song Powerslave, and i'm partial to Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner (it just lasts an incredibly long time!), but as they say it's two minutes to midnight... [actually it 9.09]

But i always liked Remember Tomorrow and Charlotte the Harlot too.

[william]

Hmm, it's a toss between...

• Janine Jansen - Schindler's List, Main Theme (by John Williams)
  
• Nigel Kennedy - Hungarian Dance number 5 (by Brahms)
  

[Geoff T]

If we're being purist here (i.e. excluding chunks of opera), then my favourite song has to be "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen" from Mahler's "Rueckert Lieder". Goes for the emotional jugular every time. Sung by Janet Baker, of course.

[TomGoodheart]

So nobody likes Dance music then...

[Sylvester]

So nobody likes Dance music then...

yep i do... it was in there somewhere on another music thread probably!

Dance music is the best stuff that's in the charts now...

But with Dance music i never left the 90s. (not often i say that).

[ikkle-monkey]

im a soul man all the way artisits like Al Green and James Brown you know the sort of thing i mean.....

Right now im listing to the best of De La Soul which is one of my most favourite of albums

Oh and i better not forget Bob Marley i like a bit of that in the car

[Master Jmd]

Ok, after listening through a few or my albums, i have decided my favourite 6 songs (in no particular order):

• You've lost that Lovin' Feelin' - The Righteous Brothers - (for some reason it reminds me of George V )
  
• Roxanne - The Police
  
• We Will Rock You - Queen
  
• Bat out of Hell - Meat Loaf
  
• Without You - Nilsson
  
• December '63 - The Four Seasons
  

[william]

• December '63 - The Four Seasons
  

Do you mean the one by Vivaldi? Who is it played by?

[Emperor Oli]

Wow over his head

[Master Jmd]

Wow over his head

definately...

William, i said december '63 - The Four Seasons, and the Four seasons were the first to perform it it was made some time around 1965 - 1979

(900th post )

[william]

Oh, right.

[Geoff T]

But with Dance music i never left the 90s. (not often i say that).

Yes, the English produced some brilliant dance music in the 1590s, just as the Viennese did in the 1790s and 1890s.

[TomGoodheart]

I did try John Taverner Geoff, but even speeded up and a with a radical bass line dropped in it just didn't mix with the Trance Nation tracks I've been listening to....