Your three fave bands/artists: maximum of three; a running survey

[delicatemoth]

Bubbling under - Heavenly and The Family Cat.

That could have been a great group.

The Fall
Messiaen
John Coltrane, specifically his groups with Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner; and Garrison, Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders and Rashied Ali

[Wouter D]

1. The Beatles
2. Motorpsycho
3. Air
(4. They Might Be Giants)

[Sporting]

Genesis

The earlier incarnation or/and post-Gabriel?

[WOM]

Haha...what a question.

[Auntie Beryl]

Talk Talk
David Bowie
Jellyfish

[johnr]

The earlier incarnation or/and post-Gabriel?

Broadly, all of it till Duke, and the occasional track afterwards until the last two albums, which were shit. Up until then, different styles, but some through lines that keep me listening, and appreciating.

[ember]

Tragically Hip
Powderfinger
Kevin McDermott Orchestra

[WOM]

ember, I'd like to introduce you to Patrick Thistle....

[ember]

ember, I'd like to introduce you to Patrick Thistle....

Hmmm, I'm not convinced how my next few choices (the Stones, Georgia Satellites and Gun) sit with George Ezra.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Race With the Devil Gun? Wow!

[jwdd27]

The Stone Roses
Prince
George Michael

[Sporting]

Survey results updated in first post. Keep them coming (if there's anyone left to opine...).

[Patrick Thistle]

Survey results updated in first post. Keep them coming (if there's anyone left to opine...).

There have been 2 mentions of The Tragically Hip

[Sporting]

I will correct this when I get home.

[Sits]

The Stone Roses
Teenage Fanclub
The Beatles

[Southport Zeb]

Belle and Sebastian
The Divine Comedy
They Might Be Giants

[ember]

Race With the Devil Gun? Wow!

Not quite; this mob...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_(band)

[Disco Child Ballads]

Do you own the Fuzzy Warbles compilations?

I don't, I have to say. I love XTC, but my obsession with them doesn't extend to shelling out the money for 9 CDs worth of Andy Partridge demos. I've the 4 CD box set of BBC radio sessions though.

The Blue Aeroplanes and Genesis seems like an interesting combination of artists.

[johnr]

I don't, I have to say. I love XTC, but my obsession with them doesn't extend to shelling out the money for 9 CDs worth of Andy Partridge demos. I've the 4 CD box set of BBC radio sessions though.

The Blue Aeroplanes and Genesis seems like an interesting combination of artists.

I love an overlapping multiplicity of stringed instruments, obtuse lyrics and allegories, and pastoral music-scapes, and they've both got that, at times.

[wittoner]

I'm treating the likes of The Beatles, Bowie, etc. as the equivalent of The Bible & Shakespeare on Desert Island Discs. They should be on my list but they're so familiar that I don't make any effort to listen to them anymore.

The artists that recur most often when I'm putting music on at home these days would be:

Flying Burrito Brothers/Gram Parsons

Traffic

Captain Beefheart

[slackster]

I’ll keep it to pop:

1. Roxy Music
2. Rolling Stones
3. Neil Young

[Satchmo Distel]

Beach Boys
Billie Holiday
Mozart

[Duncan Gardner]

The Revival
The Biscuit
The Rigid Digits

[Benjm]

New Order
Kraftwerk
Prince

The top spot is secure, the next two have strong claims but could easily be replaced with half a dozen other contenders.

[Etienne]

Tindersticks
Magnetic Fields
Randy Newman

I find it horrible to have to leave out Four Tops, Prince, Pulp, Bonnie Prince Billy, Dusty Springfield and Gillian Welch. Oh and Etta James.