Name a few musicians/bands we wouldn't normally think...

[Cancer]

Major +1 here. Especially the string quartet in Homegenic.

Ray

Yes sir, Homegenic FTW. One day I will do an indust/destructo version of Pluto.

Here's mine:
Kronos Quartet
Republica
Yanni (my stepdad turned me on to him, amazing)
Chick Corea (my stepdad again...)
Bjork (of course...)

 

[oompa]

a very interresting thread idd!

i listen to all kinds of -thought through- videogame music, to name some "well known" *cough* composers:

Yasunori Mitsuda (chrono series)
Nobuo Uematsu (ff series)
Hiroki Kikuta (most of mana series)
Koji Kondo (mario/zelda series)
etc etc

well.. that list could go on for all eternity with unfamiliar japanese names

loads of lounge/ambient/psytrance/electrojazz such as:

Zero 7
Air
Thievery Corporation
Shpongle
Aes Dana
Entheogenic
etc etc

that list could also go on forever with weird hitech futuristic names

some 70's rock bands that might not be as famous as zep/bs/dp and those bands, like:

budgie
captain beyond
eloy
kansas
etcetc

 

[Shaman]

Well, I could add some to my list too:

-Pink Floyd
-BLackmore's Night
-A Perfect Circle
-King Crimson
-Camel
-Tomaso Albinoni
-Uriah Heep
-Queen (especially Night at the Opera)
-Vivaldi
-Wagner
-Bach
-Mozart
-Krieg
-Tsaikovsky

 

[jem_legacy]

I confess, being a fulltime metal head is impossible, for me anyway:

Beyonce
Akon
Gwen Stefani
No Doubt
and more Im to embarassed to list

Dont laugh, Im still f-more metal than any of you

 

[angusyoungwanabe]

oh man let me see here...
Michelle Branch
Creed
Taproot
Billy Joel
Dave Matthews Band
Sister Hazel
Audiovent
Third Eye Blind
Bob Marley
Social Distortion
The Clash
Gary Hoey
Bad Religion
Pennywise
Jack Johnson
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Unwritten Law (pre-2000)
Mormon Tabernacle Choir
"Weird" Al
Pearl Jam

 

[Kotex]

Beastie Boys
Gnarls Barkley
Dashboard Confessional

Beethoven

 

[telecaster90]

Dashboard Confessional
Taking Back Sunday
Less Than Jake

 

[whatthe17]

Sticking Strictly to Non-Metal Bands Only:
Oingo Boingo
Primus
Muse
Divinyls
Zero7

Individual Artists:
John Mayer
T-Bone Burnett
Doro Pesch
Sia Furler
Ani DiFranco
Bjork
Sarah Brightman

Plus I listen to a lot of Soundtrack music:
Danny Elfman
Bernard Herrmann
David Arnold
Wojceich Kilar
John Debney
Howard Shore
James Newton Howard
James Horner
John Williams
Hans Zimmer
Alan Silvestri
Edward Shearmur
John Carpenter

I don't know how in the hell I left out Chrissy Hynde and the Pretenders!

 

[Variant]

Plus I listen to a lot of Soundtrack music:
Danny Elfman
Bernard Herrmann
David Arnold
Wojceich Kilar
John Debney
Howard Shore
James Newton Howard
James Horner
John Williams
Hans Zimmer
Alan Silvestri
Edward Shearmur
John Carpenter

+ fuckinginfinity! for John Carpenter, he's one of my biggest atmospheric/synth influences... not to mention that more movies of his are on my fav's list than anyone else. Oh yeah, add Jan Hammer!

As for me, many that were mentioned here, Seal, Supertramp, Billy Idol, Tears For Fears (needs to hear 'Mad World' now!!!) Massive Attack, The Police (but not post-Police sting), The Moody Blues, and the like. I guess my biggest non-guitarist/rock/metal/etc. pleasure would be jazz... traditional three-piece kinda stuff, as well as some fusion and modern tangents. Just no syrupy sax 'n' croon crap.

 

[Unknown Doodl3.2]

Eminem
Christina Aguilera
Ludacris
some Celine Dion

 

[playstopause]

Eminem
Christina Aguilera
Ludacris
some Celine Dion

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