I would have to say for me:

Death Cab For Cutie

At The Drive In

The Beatles

Lower Definition

oh sooo many!!!

I guess my top faves are:


Erasure
Depeche Mode
U2
Simple Minds
Thompson Twins
A-Ha
Alphaville
Anything Box
The Cruxshadows
Clan of Xymox
Enigma
Enya
Dead Can Dance
The Sisters of Mercy
KMFDM
Ministry
Skinny Puppy
Front 242
Madonna
Savage Garden


and the list goes on and on ...

I know their are way too many for me also.

Soo many for me as well Ill try to list most of them

Tom Petty
David Bowie
The Doors
Pink Floyd
Jupiter VI
Sombrance
Natalie Imbruglia
Foo Fighters
Stone Temple Pilots
Scott Weiland (solo)
John Lennon (solo)
Beatles
She Wants Revenge
Culture Club (some songs)
Hole
John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band
No Doubt
Joan Jett
Kings of Leon
Placebo
REM
The Violet Burning
Madonna (80s stuff)
U2
Jupiter VI
Alanis Morrisette
Jewel (first 4 albums)
Sarah McLaughlin

Ohhh how could I have forgotten REM. One of my faves.


Also a few more:

Dido
Peter Schilling
Joy Division
New Order
The Smiths
Electronic
Pet Shop Boys
The Lightning Seeds
The Wild Swans
The Cranberries

Enigma
Pink Floyd
The Mars Volta
King Crimson
Camel
Yes
Magma
Plumb
Miles Davis
Wadada Leo Smith
Herbie Hancock
Live
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Jars of Clay
Boris (the non-metal material)
VNV Nation
Assemblage 23
The Mission
Sun Ra
John Coltrane
Arcade Fire
Sisters of Mercy
Mazzy Star
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Mortal
The Cult


so nobody ever give me the 'not open minded' argument...just for future reference. most of these, and even metal bands, I can't seem to be able to talk about *anywhere*.

Eliminating any form of hard rock (like punk or industrial) my favorite non-hard music artists are:

Blackmore's Night
Alabama 3
Enigma
Afrocelt Soundsystem
Sonia Dada
Blessid Union Of Souls
Vangelis
Beth Hart
Solas
Wicked Tinkers

You've got some great stuff in your list Orion!

You are indeed very open-minded!

Us power-metal guys tend to be though, I've noticed.

But you're so ... sleazy..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MluPkoiuEic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REd0-btJIgI

Rush (my favorite band)
Beatles
Pearl Jam
Jaco Pastorius
A Tribe Called Quest

Having older siblings, I got alot of the 60's folk, motown, and hippie music exposed to me. Alot of that is stuff I still listen to, as well as the stuff I discovered myself. You know, the 70's rock of various flavors. Then you have the blues. First with the Britiish bands of the 60's/early 70's and progressing into checking out the original stuff. The Misissippi delta acoustic stuff and the later Chicago sound when they went electric.

Most of my favorite bands aren't metal. Well, here we go...

Allman Bros.
Al Stewart
B-52s
BB King
BTO
Bad Company
Barry Manilow
Beatles
Better Than Ezra
Blue Oyster Cult (debatably metal)
Bob Marley
Boston
Cheap Trick
Chicago
Cream
Crosby, Stills, and Nash
Daft Funk
Dan Fogelberg
David Bowie
Dead Kennedys
Devo
Django Reinhardt
Don Henley
Doors
Eagles
Elton John
Elvis Presley
Fleetwood Mac
Frank Zappa
Funkadelic
Genesis
George Harrison
George Thorogood
Golden Earring
Grand Funk Railroad
Grateful Dead
Guess Who
Head East
Heart
Heroes Del Silencio
Humble Pie
Iron Butterfly
J Geils Band
Jefferson Airplane
Jethro Tull
Jimi Hendrix
Joe Walsh
John Lennon
Jonathan Edwards
Kansas
King Crimson
Kinks
Klaatu
Lenny Kravitz
Los Lonely Boys
Lovin' Spoonful
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Michael Jackson
Moby Grape
Molly Hatchet
Nick Drake
Operation Ivy
Outlaws
Pat Metheny
Paul McCartney
Paula Abdul
Pearl Jam
Peter Frampton
Phish
Pink Floyd
Police
Primus (debatable)
Pure Prairie League
Queen
REM
Residents
Radiohead
Robert Palmer
Rod Stewart
Rolling Stones
Sam & Dave
Sex Pistols
Slade
Snow
Status Quo
Steely Dan
Steve Miller Band
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Stooges
Stray Cats
Styx
Subject Esq
Survivor
Sweet
They Might Be Giants
Tim Weisberg
Tom Petty
Traffic
Wall Of Voodoo
Who
Wild Cherry
Yes
ZZ Top

Jean-Michel Jarre!

- Depeche Mode
- Human League
- Duran Duran
- Helalyn Flowers
- Chicane
- The Rasmus
- Katherine Jenkins
- Sarah Brightman
- Celtic Legend
- RyanDan
- Mediaeval Beabes
- Emilie Autumn
- Amanda Somerville
- Dido
- Delores O'Riordan
- Madonna
- Leona Lewis
- Kosheen
- The Progidy

Nice, Tayla is a fellow Depeche Mode fan!!

Too many to list...but as you guys probably know by now...

THE SMITHS!!!!!

I also like the Beatles, Depeche Mode, the Cure, New Order, REM, U2, the Replacements, the Pixies, David Bowie..
...too many, too many to list.

But seriously....

THE SMITHS!

Assuming we are talking the modern definition of metal...

Aerosmith
Kiss
Ted Nugent
Thin Lizzy
Angel
Alice Cooper
UFO
AC/DC
Led Zeppelin
Rainbow
Deep Purple
Gillan
Frehley's Comet
The Sweet
Queen
Molly Hatchet
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Blackfoot
Yes
Genesis
King Crimson
Nektar
Peter Gabriel
Phil Keaggy
Keith Green
Pink Floyd
Sevendust
Coheed & Cambria
Asia
The Doors
Jimi Hendrix
ZZ Top
The Who

What exactly is metal? Is Van Halen a metal band?