1. KRAFTWERK ....... see kraftwerk thread
2. JOE JACKSON ........... for not giving into record companies and just doing the albums he wants to do
3. PEARL JAM ........... what can i say
4. SINEAD OCONNOR ........ see number 2
5. PAUL WELLER .......... for sticking to his guns and not reforming the jam :thumbsup:

1.Oasis- I know there a bit crap now but a lot of there early stuff i still like a lot.
2.eminem-I just think his lyrics and rhymes are just brilliant.
3.Sade-Her voice/songs are just amazing.
4.Jimmy Hendrix-No explanation required.
5.Rick James-Comedy value,just bang his name into kazza and you'll see what i mean. :D "Cocain is a hell of a drug" LOLOLOLOL:D

ooo baby! this is a tough one.

hmmm, let me think.......

not sure of the order

metallica
pearl jam
bad religion
no use for a name
tori amos
rem

oops thats 6, and there's probably about another 20 that i could put, but don't want to take the pi**. if i could put djs as well i think hybrid and james zabeila would be up there somewhere.
Might just cheat and put another list later.
bye!

bjork
tori amos
lamb
goldfrapp
zero 7 (my latest obsession :P )

:)

1. Joe Satriani
2. Thomas Newman
3. Freddie Mercury
4.
5.




I'll edit when I think of the next three...

In no particular order ..............

1) Iggy Pop (skinny sex god!!)

2) Marc Almond (love his solo stuff and the very dark stuff with The Mambas.

3) Norah Jones (voice of an angel)

4) Jools Holland (The man just oozes talent)

5) Richard Cheese and lounge against the machine (cheesy lounge style covers at its very best!!)

Also just getting into Goldfrapp....... kinky and fun.

Ooooops how could I forget David Bowie? :rolleyes:

Eminem
Frank Sinatra
Oasis
Michael Jackson
Rolling Stones (for the sheer amount of time they've been going)
And number 6 for the Record would be 'The Beatles'

i would put the following musicians that i admire

1. Matt bellamy (Muse)

2. Kirk Hammett (Metallica)

3.Chris Cornell (Soundgarden/Temple of the Dog/Audioslave)

4.Freddie Mercury (you know who)

5.Synyster Gates (Avenged Sevenfold)

There are many more including slash and jimi hendrix, my list would probably change everyday depending wot mood im in

Hmmmm probably (and not in any order!) :

The Sex Pistols - Soooooo much better than most people think! Though The Great Rock 'N Roll Swindle is a better album than Never Mind The ********!

Dropkick Murpheys - if only for the Spicy McHaggis Jig!

The Clash - no comment neccesary!

Blondie

The Prodigy

Excuse the pedantry, but the thread seems to be about who you admire - not who you like the most.
A few people seem to just be listing their favourite stuff...

Woops posted a reply to another thread and somehow it got here. Tried to delete it, but it wouldn't let me. So I had to write something in this box to replace it.
Sorry!

Originally posted by Andy78
Well said e-man. I can't ever recall being told that i must repress the fact that i'm bristish. I think people are going over the top a little here. the stories about people not being allowed to fly a st georges cross, if true, are rare cases not the norm. If you want to celebrate being british or english or whatever, feel free, i'm sure you'll be fine.
In reply to lazarus, I wouldn't worry too much about losing your english identity and becoming britsish, as i doubt that any of us can really prove that our family tree has always been rooted in english soil. This country has been very mixed up for a long time. I know for a fact that my family history comes from Ireland and New Zealand. I'm still classed as british though. So i wouldn't get too stressed about your english history while it may not truely be your history.
Erm... what's this got to do with Music?:loopy:

Er, don't ask how I managed to do that Da Bouncer, I haven't got a clue. Was replying to a completely different thread and it ended up here somehow.

In no particular order:

Muse (especially Matt Bellamy - musical genius!)

All of REM, but Michael Stipe because he's so modest, shy and humble even with such phenomonal success.

Flook...Brian Finnegan's tutoring me for a week this summer!!!

Zero 7...missed them last week, but the new album is loooveeellyy, great brass and woodwind arrangements.

All of my friends who have CDs out! Well done for having the talent and determination!

1 Jimmi Hendrix
2 Joe Satriani
3 Robin Trower
4 Jonny Lang
5 Bruce Hornsby or John Cougar Mellencamp (can't make my mind up)

1. Frank Zappa - A great man in many senses, both musical, satirical and professional. And not least of all his talent for inspiring true greatness from other leading artists.

2 & 3 .Carl Stalling & Milt Franklyn - An amazing combination of Composer and Conductor of the most insane orchestra ever - the Warner Brothers Cartoon music orchestra.

4. Beethoven - for being deaf

5. David Gilmour - nuff said.

Can I admire Bowie five times?? :)

I'm disappointed in what most of you have put down so far...
Bring on my list:

1) Blink 182 - bloomin amazin
2) Sum 41 - they actually write pretty good songs
3) The Beatles - You can never cheek them
4) New Found Glory - Could listen to them all day. The lead singer's got a quality voice
5) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Would be higher if the lead singer could sing live!!

Originally posted by noseyrosie
In no particular order:

Muse (especially Matt Bellamy - musical genius!)
All of REM, but Michael Stipe because he's so modest, shy and humble even with such phenomonal success.

Fair play to you mate, they both rock! Not sure about da rest but I'll have to trust you on them.

Originally posted by theonenathe
I'm disappointed in what most of you have put down so far...


Why disappointed? To be honest i think they're all superb choices.

I wish i could be bothered to post my own list, then i think everyone would be disappointed.

Wilf

If we're talking admiration , not just my favourite bands...

Francis Dunnery

Mike Patton

Michael Einziger (he's the guitarist in Incubus)

Philip Glass

James Hetfield

Originally posted by uniB
James Hetfield

a wise choice, i would haveput him dwn but i didn want to have kirk and james in the same list, tried to vary myself

1. Lee 'Scratch' Perry, The Upsetter. A genius despite being a bit bonkers.
2. Jimi Hendrix
3. Jim Morrisson
4. John Coltrane
5. Zero Seven (but only because they're my mates band)

Originally posted by theonenathe
I'm disappointed in what most of you have put down so far...
Bring on my list:

1) Blink 182 - bloomin amazin
2) Sum 41 - they actually write pretty good songs
3) The Beatles - You can never cheek them
4) New Found Glory - Could listen to them all day. The lead singer's got a quality voice
5) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Would be higher if the lead singer could sing live!!

Your disappointed with our choices when you have Blink 182, Sum 41 and New Found Glory in your list? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!

i like blink 182, but i dont admir them, ut so what if the uy likes blink, its is influences, everyone is different, but then again the guy souldn slate our choices

Originally posted by oxbeast
5. Zero Seven (but only because they're my mates band)

I'm just getting into Zero 7 :)

1. Jack Black
2. Jack White
3. Frank Black
4. Frank White
5. Dusty Springfield

1. Led Zeppelin (just genius, studio work is excellent and live- unbelievable)

2. The Doors (unique, hear ANY song by them and you know it's them)

3. Jimi Hendrix (just a guitar god)

4. Eric Clapton (as above!)

5. The Beatles (I don't feel I need to explain this)

1) The smiths and morrissey solo
2)Jobriath
3)New York Dolls (influenced bands like the ramones)
4)
5)




will edit when they come to me

Joe Satriani - the guy rocks, he takes double handed tapping to the extreme, look at Midnight or Bamboo... amazing! he's inspired me to learn how to tap properly, i WILL master the double handed tapping!

Red Hot Chili Peppers - the bands been through a lot of stuff, especially John Frusciante and Anthony Kiedis, but they keep going and they still are as amazing as their earlier stuff... John Frusciante is such an amazing song writer!

Kirk Hammett - any guy that does 12hrs practise a day with Satriani as his tutor deserves some merit, 12hrs practise a day is VERY intense.

Beethoven - The guy was deaf and he wrote some AMAZING stuff, I can't write music hardly and I have great hearing! surely that deserves merit!

hmm... a 5th person... hmm...

Tom Morello - he takes a guitar, and a limited number of effects pedals and makes some of the most amazingly unique sounding records ever... Tom Morello surely deserves some admiration on how he plays guitar!

Nick Cave ~ Genius

Bob Geldoff ~ Moved mountains

Emmet Ray ~ Fictional

Woody Guthrie ~ Influencial

______________~ So many more

Originally posted by evildrneil
Hmmmm probably (and not in any order!) :

The Sex Pistols - Soooooo much better than most people think! Though The Great Rock 'N Roll Swindle is a better album than Never Mind The ********!

Dropkick Murpheys - if only for the Spicy McHaggis Jig!

The Clash - no comment neccesary!

Blondie

The Prodigy

Never realised you where such a punk nthusiast drneil

1. The Clash - for so many reasons, I have immense respect and admiration for them. Amongst many other reasons - Fantastic music, attitude, guts, honesty, integrity, total refusal to sell out again and again. The only major band who really 'meant it man' and never sold out. And never will - Joe RIP

2. The Manics - I think I've covered the Manics ad nauseam in threads elsewhere!

3. The Charlatans - admire them completely for keeping going and making great music despite great personal tragedy and setbacks that would have finished most bands.

4. The Smiths - for preventing the 80s being a total musical wasteland

5. New Order - for having the guts and the integrity to change their name after recognising they could no longer be regarded as Joy Division after the death of Ian Curtis. Respect

StarSparkle

Originally posted by evildrneil
The Sex Pistols - Soooooo much better than most people think! Though The Great Rock 'N Roll Swindle is a better album than Never Mind The ********!


:thumbsup: Fantastic choice of band Evildrneil - but if you've spent much time listening to The Great Rock 'n Roll Swindle you are One Sick Puppy!:gag:

Originally posted by StarSparkle
:thumbsup: Fantastic choice of band Evildrneil - but if you've spent much time listening to The Great Rock 'n Roll Swindle you are One Sick Puppy!:gag:


hey theres a few good tracks on there who can forget the tenpole tudor classic WHO KILLED BAMBI and ronne biggs singing NO ONE IS NNOCENT and BELSEN IS A GAS and the french version of EMI

:)

1. David Bowie 2.Marc Bolan 3.The Beatles 4.Rolling Stones 5.Roxy music/Bryan ferry and Sex Pistols :thumbsup:

Well here my two cents, never heard of any of them, exept of course old blue eyes and the beatles.

Originally posted by poppins
Well here my two cents, never heard of any of them, exept of course old blue eyes and the beatles.

Not even heard of Beethoven? Not even the dog in the films? There really should be more culture on American TV. :D

You've never heard of the Rolling Stones??!!

How is that possible?:suspect:

StarSparkle - even my dear old conservative Dad recognised the Stones when he came across them in the street in Edinburgh 'sometime in the 1960s'!

Originally posted by poppins
Well here my two cents, never heard of any of them, exept of course old blue eyes and the beatles.

You've never heard of Led Zeppelin?!?! :o

I've lost the will to live

1. Michael Jackson
2. Tupac Shakur
3. Dr Dre
4. Snoop Dogg
5. Outkast

As for rock: Megadeth and Metallica.

John Coltrane- the greatest, most original Saxophonist of the 20th Century. His "sheets of sound", and modal, exploratory approach on Tenor and Soprano have never, in my view, been equalled.
Brian Eno- he has done more than any other individual to bring avant garde ideas from music and art into the mainstream. His Ambient music, influenced by Satie, La Monte Young etc, is beautiful and works on several levels. You can use it as a field for active listening, or as a sound environment backdrop. He is responsible for 'liberating' two generations of non-musicians.

John McLaughlin- simply the most inventive, technically brilliant guitarist in jazz/world music today. Robert Fripp comes close re rock/experimental material, but Mc Laughlin's solo work, material with Miles Davis, and later with Mahavishnu Orchestra and Shakti mark him out as the best. He is a rare thing- a 'techi' whose music contains [often astonishing levels of] emotion.

Anton Bruckner- influenced by Wagner, he made some of the biggest, most gorgeous symphonies ever. They are often compared to those of Mahler in terms of grandness. In my view, Bruckner's massive Eighth Symphony is the greatest symphony by any composer, including Bach, Beethoven , Brahms, Mozart and Haydn.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart- he wrote so much that is brilliant. However, the cream of the crop [and quite seriously, candidates for the finest music ever written] are the six String Quartets devoted to Haydn. They are beyond compare in their Chamber Music field, containing such dazzling beauty as to leave the listener staggered. I don't know how any human being can be so brilliant.

Actually, I listen to Basement Jaxx really....

see I can't have only 5!
1.) Tupac
2.) MJ
3.)Dr. Dre
4.)Snoop Dogg
5.) Notorious BIG
6.)Run DMC
7.)Eminem
8.)Metallica
9.)Korn
10.)Godsmack
11.)Aerosmith
12.)Linkin Park
and the list can go on!!

Top 5 artists /musical/ you admire;

Aphex Twin; for being a complete and utter genius, who releases whatever the hell he pleases rather than what his fans/record company want.

Joy Division; for writing the best songs I've ever heard.

Sex Pistols; for tearing up the rulebook.

bruce springsteen
runrig
bon jovi
neil young
david bowie
U2

I can't believe I missed out Jello Biafra.