Favorite Bands/Artists • Page 2

Agreed. Couldn't just put The Starting Line since I love his side projects as well

 

Definitely listen through Futures then. it's dark, diverse and kind of epic in scope like Cities is. I'd go to Invented and/or Clarity after that based on Lowborn. Invented is very diverse like that record, while Clarity has that kind of ambient atmosphere in it.

 

I'm really excited for new Killers stuff. Battleborn is my favorite of theirs

 

Alphabetically:

Anberlin
Bombay Bicycle Club
Chvrches
Grizzly Bear
From Indian Lakes
Local Natives
MuteMath
Needtobreathe
Purity Ring
Vampire Weekend

 

Awesome, thanks Benjamin. I'm going to take your advice and check these records out first chance I get.

 

Personally I really enjoy ranking things, I keep reordering my list of favorite artists every once in a while.

1. Green Day
2. Muse
3. The Wonder Years
4. Brand New
5. Radiohead
6. Jimmy Eat World
7. The Front Bottoms
8. Modest Mouse
9. blink-182
10. Biffy Clyro

Edit: I'll add a few more. The Mountain Goats, Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, Thrice, Manchester Orchestra, The Hives.

But honestly, there are so many bands that I've just started to listen to which could end up in this list in a matter of months.

 

ill do a top 15

Motion City Soundtrack
Thursday
Every Time I Die
Circa Survive
Jimmy Eat World
Fall Out Boy
Bayside
The National
The Gaslight Anthem
mewithoutYou
Kanye West
Copeland
The Hotelier
Against Me!
Deftones

yeah im pretty comfortable with that I suppose. some that just barely missed the cut: Brand New, Thrice, Yellowcard, The Cure, Death Grips, Converge, The Dangerous Summer, Sleater-Kinney

 

I figure a band needs to have certain amount of music out before I can really consider them a favorite. Most of these have stacked discographies.

Mock Orange
Weatherbox
Polar Bear Club
AFI
Saves The Day
Patrick Park
Silversun Pickups
Minus The Bear
Good Old War
Bayside
Every Time I Die
Motion City Soundtrack


I quit. This is too hard.

 

AFI
Alkaline Trio
Bayside
Thrice
Black Sabbath
Jawbreaker
Norma Jean
Killswitch Engage
The Lawrence Arms
Every Time I Die
The Wonder Years
letlive.
Darkest Hour
Bad Religion

 

1. My Chemical Romance
2. Fightstar
3. Nate Ruess (fun./The Format)
4. The Smiths
5. Copeland
6. Kamelot
7. Death Cab for Cutie
8. Imogen Heap
9. Motion City Soundtrack
10. Joshua Radin
11. John Mayer
12. mewithoutYou
13. Say Anything
14. Frank Turner
15. The Reign of Kindo


Hellogoodbye, The Hotelier, Chad Perrone, Frightened Rabbit, The 1975 and Kanye West are all close. Also Eminem's a weird one for me because I love his first three albums so much but I hate what he is now so much.

 

no particular order except the first one

kanye west
copeland
jimmy eat world
bon iver
kendrick lamar
fall out boy
passion pit
chvrches
danny brown
sufjan stevens
burial
tame impala
thrice
radiohead

 

Weezer
Relient K
mewithoutYou
Death Cab for Cutie
The Beatles
Copeland
The Hold Steady
Bleach
Sherwood
Jacks Mannequin

 

All of these are cool. Crazy to see just how diverse these are, seems like everyone has at least one band on their list no one else has.

 

I tried to do mine off the top of my head without looking at my Spotify or iTunes. If I forgot about anyone I probably don't like them as much as these.

I like seeing mewithoutYou on so many lists though.

 

I'll add more to my list. I literally ranked every band in my itunes library. haha

11. Secret & Whisper
12. David Bowie
13. Emery
14. The Dear Hunter
15. Coheed & Cambria
16. Fair
17. The Postal Service
18. Anthony Green
19. William Beckett
20. I the Mighty

Love all the mewithoutYou, Jimmy Eat World and Copeland love.

 

Brand New
Portugal. The Man
Poison The Well
Glassjaw
Manchester Orchestra
Deftones
Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos
Tokyo Police Club
Tool
Say Hi (To Your Mom)
Strfkr
Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground
Edit: Animal Collective

That's all I could think of, but I'm sure there are a few bands that for some reason just don't come to mind.

 

Say Hi (To Your Mom) sounds interesting. haha Where would I start with that band?

 

I had to browse iTunes, too, after typing the first few.

 

I'd probably start with Numbers & Mumbles. It's one of my favorites and shows their signature sound that is still present almost 6 albums after its release. Plus Hooplas Involving Circus Tricks is just an awesome song.

 

Just started it, I really like Pop Music of the Future already so I could see this being something I play a lot more. I really like the kind of ambient tom and hi-hat thing going on near the end, always liked drum patterns and production like that.

 

Haha yep me too, I'm bad at thinking about big picture things like this

 

I keep thinking of bands I want to go back and add to my list.

 

The hardest thing about rating band's for me is trying to put a band that has 2/3 albums I love against a band that has 3/4 albums I love but also a few I don't.

 

That's my biggest problem too. Like, if Secret & Whisper put out a couple more albums I loved they'd probably be top 5, but I couldn't justify putting them above so many bands that have 5+ albums I really like.

 

If Fair released one or two more albums on the caliber of their first two they'd probaby make my top 10. Love seeing them mentioned in any case though. One of the best bands no one seems to ever remember.