If you like these you should check out ming city rockers, gigged with them a couple of times and they're great!

Iron Maiden
Bon Jovi
Queen
Ozzy Osbourne


Guilty pleasure - The Darkness.

These are the only bands who I genuinely love everything they've wrote!

Jimi Hendrix
Smashing Pumpkins
Fleetwood Mac
Black Sabbath
Led Zepplin
UFO
Muse
Metallica
Santana

Magnum
Journey
REO Speedwagon
Bruce Springsteen
Whitesnake
Bon Jovi
The Pogues
Fleetwood Mac

are the main bands i listen to.

Dirtbox Disco
[spunge
Bowling For Soup
Kajagoogoo
The Men They Couldn't Hang
King Kurt
Manic Street Preachers
Rouen

Biffy Clyro
Foo Fighters
Blue Aeroplanes
Pixies
Slade
Rush
Beatles
My Chemical Romance
Triumph
AC/DC
Scorpions (pre 'Wind Of Change')

james. seen them a few times and going to leeds in 10 days. love them to bits

The E Street Band
Good Charlotte
Green Day
Linkin Park
The Killers
Westlife (guilt pleasure!)

Feist

Honest?

Out of all those bands I'm mostly passionate about the E Street Band. This is because I'm a massive fan of Bruce Springsteen and I've listened his music for years now. I'm finally going to see them in July and I've read two books about this special group of people who are a massive inspiration to me.

Regarding Good Charlotte, Green Day, Linkin Park and The Killers I've listened to these a lot in my life in the past. Not so much these days but I could still defend their music with passion.

Also I can quite happily listen to pop music and Westlife just happen to be on most than most of the other mainstream pop artist I play on YouTube. However you certainly won't see me going to a pop concert.

Wow, that's a blast from the past.

I still have Young for a day on 7" vinyl and Young for a day album on CD.

Thin Lizzy (Lynott, Gorham, Downey, Robertson/Moore era)
Deep Purple
Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance
Grimethope Colliery Band

Just discovered, via you tube, an amazing guitarist. Popa Chubby. Disregard the name and check him out. CAN HE PLAY!!!

Isn't he a Jimi Hendrix tribute act?

Yes they are, though. Especially the Beatles, as they changed the face of popular music and their influence has been and remains vast. I'd suggest that anyone of any age that gave the work of the Beatles a serious listen would find a huge amount of "relevance" along with some amazing music in there. Ask Oasis (or are they now old timers too?

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But influences in your youth and late teens are what seem to set most people in stone, and much of what most artists mean to people is strongly coloured not just by the music, but exactly because it is closely interwoven with their personal experiences whilst growing up, and someone listening 20 years in the future can hear the music, but it hasn't made those connections. I understand that, and it's also why it's so hard to be objective about (a) music to which you got hooked in your teens and (b) music which pre-dates (or in many cases post-dates) your formative years. If you ever really can. And it's unlikely in the extreme that someone who was a genuine legend to you, and still is, can ever achieve that status in the ears of a newbie, even if they can get into the music.

An interesting point for discussion would be why this seems to be the opposite to what happens with classical music. For some reason classical music, opera etc. just doesn't chime with many young people, but of course the minority for whom it does, and the huge number of people of all ages who love the stuff, continue to venerate the old composers, Wagner, Beethoven, Mozart etc. Yes I know people continue to come up with modern classical music but still the old timers remain pre-eminent. (The same sort of thing applies to paintings, the greatest artists all seem to be largely dead).

Anyhoo, having just got back from chillin in Benidorm I found the chance to have a listen to some stuff I love with a passion. I got through

Neil Young - (i.e. God. Doesn't often put a foot wrong, and the great thing is he doesn't give a fook if he does)

Bowie - had the chance for a good listen to his 2013 album. Overall, this was, and is, a hard listen and I think I need to give it more time. But here's the thing; yes, it [iis[/i Bowie, especially on Where Are We Now, but not as we know him. In many ways, a young 'un listening to this stuff is in no worse a position to judge than a Bowie addict, as it is largely unique, much of it with a discordant and deathly bent. Someone mentioned PJ Harvey, I respect her stuff though not my favourite sort of thing, but I’d be interested if a fan could have a listen to “I'd Rather Be High” and “How Does the Grass Grow?” and tell me if you think the influence is there.

Then I moved on to Bob Dylan. I have loads of his early stuff and later, but this time I concentrated on the excellent Love and Theft album, and the even better Modern Times. Though like Bowie, Dylan has always attracted a wide range of reviews. It was nice to have the chance to devote some time to them, and I love them both.

I don't care what people think

I love U2 & Coldplay

I remember being a 9 year old kid singing all the words to One by U2 whilst watching them in Roundhay Park, Leeds. An amazing performance it was. As for Coldplay, just a brilliant band with really big epic sounding songs. I saw them at Etihad stadium last year they were outstanding and Fix You is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard

Fix You live is unreal for sure!

It's very poignant taking into consideration the story behind it.

I believe it's been chosen as the theme music for the IPL Cricket?

I love The Charlatans, more for historic reasons really - not really enjoyed their last 3 albums, although You Cross My Path was OK (and free).

Favourite band at the moment are probably the Counting Crows - whilst they aren't that productive (6 albums or so in 15 years), they rarely produce a weak track, never mind a weak album, and are fantastic live.

Special mention to the Jayhawks too, especially as the best incarnation of the band reformed fairly recently.

Anti-Flag
ADHD
AFI
Agnostic Front
Argy bargy
Ash
Autopilot Off

Oh by the way these are just my favourite bands that start with A next time it will be B.

Aged 17 - Manic Street Preachers
Aged 18 - Queen and Madness
20-21 - The Darkness
22-present (aged 30):

Green Day
Good Charlotte
The Offspring
Paramore
Kill Youth Culture
The Freaks Union
The Paddingtons
The Killers
Blink 182
Sum 41
Limp Bizkit
No Doubt
My Chemical Romance
The Cribs
The Ting Tings

Moon Safari - the Swedish band not the album by the French band Air.