Your Top 10 Artists (other than the Eagles)
One thing I’ve noticed recently is the wide range of musical tastes that Borderers have. For example, I know that there are quite a lot of fans of Keith Urban here, yet we also have quite a few fans of old school rock and roll bands like Guns N Roses. On a personal level, I’m not the only big fan of Pink Floyd here, and I’m not the only person who tends to prefer the ‘classic’ bands, but there’s also plenty of people who listen to a lot of contemporary music. I think it’s pretty great how the Eagles and their music can bring together people with such different tastes!
What I’d really love to know is which other artists are most popular on The Border and I’ve been wondering about how best to measure this for a while. So my idea is to ask people for their top 10 (non-Eagles) artists. This can include bands and solo artists.
I really want this to be inclusive as possible, so you can list your favourites in order of preference, but you don’t have to put them in any order at all. The scoring system is very simple and will hopefully be fair – each mention of an artist is worth one point, and I’ll keep a record and tally up the number of mentions to create a list of the most popular artists. If enough people post I’d be happy to put this list up. If you feel ten is too many, you don’t have to name ten, although I think any list should have at least 5-6 artists at the very least. If you find it difficult to decide you can give honourable mentions if you wish, although only the top ten will be counted as I think this is fairer.
This list is open to all artists except for the Eagles and their solo works. This is partly because I think the results might be a bit predictable! More importantly though, it wouldn’t really answer my question. Having said this, it’s absolutely fine to include bands that Eagles members played in like Poco or The Flying Burrito Brothers. I’d love to hear from as many people as possible, as this will provide a better and more complete picture of our collective tastes. Really looking forward to seeing how this turns out. I will post my own list later!
Thanks
Jonny
Re: Your Top 10 Artists (other than the Eagles)
The Association
The Beach Boys
The Beatles
Bread
The Byrds (Clarence White era)
The Doors
Joni Mitchell
The Monkees
Simon and Garfunkel
Spanky and Our Gang
Re: Your Top 10 Artists (other than the Eagles)
Jackson Browne
Joni Mitchell
CSNY-including them as solo artists
Traffic/Steve Winwood
The Strawbs
JD Souther
Linda Ronstadt
Judy Collins
Emmylou Harris
Dan Fogelberg
in no particular order
Re: Your Top 10 Artists (other than the Eagles)
Beatles
Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
Dire Straits
Mark Knopfler
Genesis
Peter Gabriel
Bob Dylan
Elton John
Van Morrison
Apologies to Phil Collins who just missed the cut. Note: mine are all British. It didn't seem right to just say Knopfler/Gabriel/Collins were band members. Their work, especially Knopfler's, is too important to me to do that.
My other honourable mentions are Pink Floyd, the Bee Gees & Queen.
Re: Your Top 10 Artists (other than the Eagles)
1. Guns N Roses
(Including Chinese Democracy which with Slash and Duff playing it makes it even better for me as it is my favorite album of all time. Some great songs on there. My Favorite is Madagascar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3wZFYfqMAE)
2. The Beatles
3. Lynyrd Skynyrd
4. Eric Clapton
5. Gary Clark Jr
6. George Harrison Solo
7. AC/DC(Axl introduced me to the band and let me tell you he sounds so much like Bon Scott).
8. Foo Fighters
9. ZZ Top
10. Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers.
Re: Your Top 10 Artists (other than the Eagles)
George Strait x 10
Woo hoo, he's in the lead!
JK, I'll have to really think about this. I enjoy music from different genres and what I favor depends on my mood.
Re: Your Top 10 Artists (other than the Eagles)
Metallica
Slayer
Motley Crue
Alice In Chains
Bon Jovi
Rascal Flatts
Journey (with Steve Perry)
Ghost
Billy Joel
James Taylor
Re: Your Top 10 Artists (other than the Eagles)
The Beatles
Pink Floyd
Frank Zappa
Yukihiro Takahashi/YMO
Deep Purple
Depeche Mode
Akiko Yano
Don McGlashan/The Muttonbirds
Neil Finn/Crowded House/Split Enz
De La Soul
Loads more. These are just ten off the top of my head. If you ask me tomorrow, I might have a different list.
Re: Your Top 10 Artists (other than the Eagles)
AT you like a lot of Jappense artists. What do you like about them?
Re: Your Top 10 Artists (other than the Eagles)
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travlnman2
AT you like a lot of Jappense artists. What do you like about them?
I lived in Japan for four years, and deliberately searched out Japanese artists. I hardly went to any Western concernts the entire time I was there. I like Japanese artists, but they tend to be those active in the late 80s and early 90s for that reaason.