Who Is Your Favourite Group And Why?

[struth]

Thats where spotify comes in. Mind you i guess im not buying much really now as i get it with spotify, but best ones i will save up and get the vinyl

[Macca]

. Even the best and most popular bands of today like The Stereophonics, Manic Street Preachers, U2 etc etc

LOL - they were the 'bands of today' 20 years ago maybe. Get with the times grandad. You'll have shit music and like it.

My theory is artists today are way too healthy in body and mind. It's all about saving the environment and carrying your idiotically-named baby around in a papoose.

To create great music you need a mountain of drugs, an ocean of drink and at least one person in the band with serious personality disorder (the one who writes the lyrics). There's none of that anymore and what do we have to show for it? London fucking Grammer.

[walpurgis]

To create great music you need a mountain of drugs, an ocean of drink and at least one person in the band with serious personality disorder (the one who writes the lyrics).

Bang on!

[Arkless Electronics]

LOL - they were the 'bands of today' 20 years ago maybe. Get with the times grandad. You'll have shit music and like it.

My theory is artists today are way too healthy in body and mind. It's all about saving the environment and carrying your idiotically-named baby around in a papoose.

To create great music you need a mountain of drugs, an ocean of drink and at least one person in the band with serious personality disorder (the one who writes the lyrics). There's none of that anymore and what do we have to show for it? London fucking Grammer.

Saving the environment is rather important! other than that I can mainly go along with what you say there but I think there is a bit more to it than that... it all went wrong in the 80's when "the kids" stopped protesting about anything any more and started wearing white socks and highlights in their hair instead of safety pins and/or greasy leather jackets etc... and seemed to welcome "the man" rather than telling him where to shove it!

Anyway, one good thing coming from the chief shitgibbon becoming so called president is I look forward to a new slew of protest songs!!

[Macca]

Saving the environment is rather important! !!

Not for a rock band. I mean if they want to give some money privately that's fine, it's when they start 'raising awareness' that I start shuddering.

If they are not touring or recording they should be somewhere exotic having it large and causing trouble. Happy Mondays stole all the furniture and equipment from the studio they were recording in and swapped it for drugs. Preserving the Alaskan Moose was the last thing on their agenda. People may tut tut but there's no doubt: Kill the fat and you kill the burger.

[Anthony K]

Funkadelic for me , although Jazz wise would be Avishai Cohen and his ever changing lineup...oh and then there is Pat Metheny Group

[ReggieB]

For most of my young live: Genesis. Why, well to be honest, because that was what my big brother liked My favourite period - after Peter Gabriel left (also my favourite period for Garbriel too - His first album is still my favorite) - Favourite album - Wind & Wuthering (Blood on the Rooftops - still raises goose bumps). Also a soft spot for And Then There Were Three, which was the first album of theirs that I owned at 15.

Now I tend to go from one favourite to the next. At the moment, I'd have to say The Budapest Cafe Orchestra. I love the album The Gaelic Chronicles, and they are great fun to see live.

Oh and for a curved ball - The Sixteen. I saw them at Hereford Cathedral a couple of years ago and have been a fan since. Superb singing.

[Infinitely Baffled]

Blimey, what a question! So many bands, and so many of them that make you feel great in different ways. Like one earlier post said, I could give a different answer on each day of the week.

But the one I'm going to choose for this damp Welsh Thursday is Ry Cooder - in any and all of his incarnations. Why? Because the man is simply a musician to the core, not a rock star, or a front man or an ego-gratifying twerp. Break him in half and you would just find "Music" written right through him like a stick of rock. Mainly roots Americana, of course, but unmissable in his other collaborations too: African, Indian, Hawaiian, Cuban, Zydeco. You name it and Ry Cooder is deeply into it and truly understands it. His playing ability on just about anything with strings is beyond wonderful, his singing voice is direct and satisfying, and his original compositions are often first class too.

I guess the word that best sums up his appeal for me is "authentic".
IB

[Len Co]

As I get older I find myself turning into my parents, or possibly grandparents; it happens to us all. More and more I am listening to stuff that was recorded when I was a baby, or even before I was born, well before actually. Also more of it is instrumental e.g.Dixie Jazz, Dance Bands, Swing etc - no depressing,soul-searching lyrics to bring you down. Though I must admit I like a good old Torch Ballad now and then. One act that never fails to raise my spirits is Harry Roy and his orchestra, real good light hearted fun for the most part, but well played too. He wrote a song called My Girl's Pussy you know, and you thought explicit lyrics were a modern invention! Give it a try, what harm can it do?

[GJO]

Not to difficult for me,would be Mink/Willy De Ville,such a diverse range of music over a 35 year career,recorded with the likes of Mark Knopfler and Dr John,sadly never got to see him live.

A good taster if interested https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/CDs-Vinyl...=willy+deville