OT: Your List of Favorite Music Artists ever ...

[Ski11585]

Okay. Adding some variety here.

1: Led Zeppelin - The first band I fell in love with.

2: DMB - I know all the criticisms of DMB. I don’t care. Carter Beauford is a legend. And they were the first band I saw live as a youngin’ in... 94? At the Palumbo center. I think Toad the Wet Sprocket opened for them.

3: Phish - I held out for a long time because I didn’t want to listen to a “stoner band.” Then my friends tricked me into listening to Stash off A Live One. I was hooked.

4: Chick Corea Elektric Band - My first foray into more progressive jazz.

5: Dave Weckl - Any bogus Rolling Stones best drummer list that ignores jazz drummers like Weckl is absolutely bogus.

6: Hiromi Uehara - If you listen to her entire discography back to back you notice some repetitive themes, but her improvisational piano work is second to none.

In no order.

Kanye West - the most influential musician post-2000. Name me an artist with three better albums than College Dropout, Late Registration, and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

OutKast - Best rap duo out there?

Dream Theater - I hate their singer. And half their songs are trash. But the ones that hit are pure fire. Portnoy brings it.

Ben Folds Five - Mostly a nostalgia hit from college.

Rage Against the Machine - Love their music and I’m a sucker for the political agenda.

Primus - I came to them kinda late, but Claypool plays a mean bass.

Tool - Everything about then is amazing.

Van Morrison - I can listen to Astral Weeks daily for the rest of my life. One of the best singer/songwriters ever.

Kendrick Lamar - I don’t listen to much modern stuff, but I like how he’s pushed the genre.

For the last ten? Some combination of A Perfect Circle, Anderson Paak, Alice In Chains, Avishai Cohen, Coheed and Cambria, Goodie Mob, Prince, Jane’s Addiction, Rush, and Stevie Ray Vaughn.

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

Okay. Adding some variety here.

1: Led Zeppelin - The first band I fell in love with.

2: DMB - I know all the criticisms of DMB. I don’t care. Carter Beauford is a legend. And they were the first band I saw live as a youngin’ in... 94? At the Palumbo center. I think Toad the Wet Sprocket opened for them.

3: Phish - I held out for a long time because I didn’t want to listen to a “stoner band.” Then my friends tricked me into listening to Stash off A Live One. I was hooked.

4: Chick Corea Elektric Band - My first foray into more progressive jazz.

5: Dave Weckl - Any bogus Rolling Stones best drummer list that ignores jazz drummers like Weckl is absolutely bogus.

6: Hiromi Uehara - If you listen to her entire discography back to back you notice some repetitive themes, but her improvisational piano work is second to none.

In no order.

Kanye West - the most influential musician post-2000. Name me an artist with three better albums than College Dropout, Late Registration, and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

OutKast - Best rap duo out there?

Dream Theater - I hate their singer. And half their songs are trash. But the ones that hit are pure fire. Portnoy brings it.

Ben Folds Five - Mostly a nostalgia hit from college.

Rage Against the Machine - Love their music and I’m a sucker for the political agenda.

Primus - I came to them kinda late, but Claypool plays a mean bass.

Tool - Everything about then is amazing.

Van Morrison - I can listen to Astral Weeks daily for the rest of my life. One of the best singer/songwriters ever.

Kendrick Lamar - I don’t listen to much modern stuff, but I like how he’s pushed the genre.

For the last ten? Some combination of A Perfect Circle, Anderson Paak, Alice In Chains, Avishai Cohen, Coheed and Cambria, Goodie Mob, Prince, Jane’s Addiction, Rush, and Stevie Ray Vaughn.

Ski. Good stuff. We can all find common bond over music, film, food. Despite your counterpart's attempt to paint me in a different lite, I love doing that, experiencing people from other countries interests.

Yeah, I should have put Tool in my list. Love Maynard, weird as he is, Danny Carey is absolutely one of the greatest drummers, I actually did get to see Primus so that was a treasure, Van Morrison's Into the Mystic is absolutely one of the finest songs ever written, and yes, this white as can be middle aged dude is proud to say I saw Snoop Dogg, Prince, George Clinton and the P Funk All Stars and Bodycount (Ice T) in my time. Even though I am as dorky looking of a white dude as there can be, I think I have decent taste in music. (though not an iota of musical ability at all)

 

[jtownknowitall]

Return to Forever was the original Chick Corea Elektric Band.

And Weather Report was better.

 

[gary2]

Frank Sinatra, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Helen Forrest, Billie Haliday, Helen O’Connell, Harry James and a few others that most if not all have ever heard of.

I like Carmen McRae. Saw her at Hapers in Oxford Center.

 

[gary2]

Sinatra
Garland
Harry Chapin
Van Morrison
George Benson
John Mellencamp
Bob Seger
Whitney Houston
Eddie Money
Gary Moore
The Drifters
The Eagles

My favorite live performance: Lionel Hampton at Pittsburgh Jazz Festival.

Somebody that should have had a much bigger career: Jimmy Hall the lead singer for Wet Willy.

Live musical performance that moved me the most: Jenifer Holiday in Dreamgirls on Broadway.

I also loved black 80s, earlier 90s music as seen on Midnight Love.

 

[gary2]

Mrs Buffett and I just went to the Beach Boys show at Hard Rock Casino in AC.
Only two Beach Boys left but they replaced the others with some guys who sound
just like the originals.
Great show!
Great video during the show!
It was a full house of people who grew up with the Beach Boys all wearing beach shirts, dancing, just having fun during the show!

Thanks for the like for my list.

 

[CougarClaws]

U2 - never heard of them until college, was drunk as a skunk at a frat party basement, they were blaring and I was awakened. A friend with benefits chick was with me, next time we got together she brought me all of their albums to that time on cassettes she recorded.

They spoke to me, and on long road trips I still run their late 70s, early 80s stuff at times.

I did not like their transition into Joshua Tree/Rattle and Hum at first, but another chick helped get me there with them.

And as other noted I tried to hang it, but increasingly lost focus when they went discotech. There are some really good tunes they have turned out since then, In a Little While, End of the World, First Time, but ...

Genesis (including Phil Collins and to a lesser extent Peter Gabriel) - also spoke to me.

Pearl Jam - second time I got hit by lighting. I had heard them, but I was working in a group home with adjudicated youth and one of the kids did a casette of Ten and I just wore that out, and followed them hard after that. Saw their final stop off their tour in 2002 up at PSU, they did half a dozen encores, including a version of Crazy Mary that I still get chills to when I play my pirated concert DVD.

Journey - definitional music for my HS years. Styx as a backup to them. Come Sail Away was the first rock tune that really hooked me.

G&R, Motley Crue, Poison - lump them all in, I got into the hair bands a good bit.

Bush/Dave Mathews - ran hot and quick for me mid 90s.

RAM - Still a staple off this 53 year old's work out music, and semi cathartic for the lunacy of where this stupid as $hit country is today.

Those first three U2 albums are still amazing, as is Joshua Tree. Could care less about the rest nowadays.

Funny story - in 1981 as a young teen - my go-to's were Men At Work business as usual, Styx pieces of eight, U2 boy, Genesis abacab, Foreigner 4, B52's, Journey escape, & Yes fragile - all on tape. A very strange collection looking back.

 

[Ski11585]

Return to Forever was the original Chick Corea Elektric Band.

And Weather Report was better.

Fair enough. Even if it’s a tribute to Scientology, Corea’s To the Stars is one of my all time favorite albums.

 

[jtownknowitall]

Fair enough. Even if it’s a tribute to Scientology, Corea’s To the Stars is one of my all time favorite albums.

Listening to it now for the first time. Apple Music is a godsend.

 

[SoufOaklin4Life]

I’ll go with bands I listen to without tiring of:

The Roots
Bad Religion
The Cure
Dinosaur Jr
Smashing Pumpkins
Sublime
Dave matthews band
Janes Addiction
Ben Folds Five

For an album- nine inch nails pretty hate machine .

Some newer artist I enjoy
Chvrches
Billie Eilish
Matt and Kim
The interrupters
Walk the Moon

 

[Jeffburgh]

Those first three U2 albums are still amazing, as is Joshua Tree. Could care less about the rest nowadays.

Funny story - in 1981 as a young teen - my go-to's were Men At Work business as usual, Styx pieces of eight, U2 boy, Genesis abacab, Foreigner 4, B52's, Journey escape, & Yes fragile - all on tape. A very strange collection looking back.

Good stuff there.

I have a genesis pandora station, rolled in some other similar groups, and they play some great non radio version of men at work top hits.

Always liked Yes, too, just never had any if their albums.

 

[SoufOaklin4Life]

Ski. Good stuff. We can all find common bond over music, film, food. Despite your counterpart's attempt to paint me in a different lite, I love doing that, experiencing people from other countries interests.

Yeah, I should have put Tool in my list. Love Maynard, weird as he is, Danny Carey is absolutely one of the greatest drummers, I actually did get to see Primus so that was a treasure, Van Morrison's Into the Mystic is absolutely one of the finest songs ever written, and yes, this white as can be middle aged dude is proud to say I saw Snoop Dogg, Prince, George Clinton and the P Funk All Stars and Bodycount (Ice T) in my time. Even though I am as dorky looking of a white dude as there can be, I think I have decent taste in music. (though not an iota of musical ability at all)

I like And respect Tool-
But as talented as they are- their newer stuff bores me.

I’ll listen to the Opiate lp any time though

 

[DT_PITT]

Wow DT. Wow. You realize you and me, dare I say, share (at least musically) many of these same interests.

I mean you nailed many of mine. Even down to Johnny Marr, especially his work with the Smiths and Modest Mouse, and it is funny, we were both at many of these same concerts (REM, U2, Replacements, etc....).

My list, in no particular order.

U2: Especially up until the late 90's. Alot of people think they peaked with the Joshua Tree, however I think Achtung Baby was their finest album. I have been less enthused lately, and I don't know how one group can have my favorite songs of all time like 11 Oclock tic toc, NYD, End of the World, and also have my most despised song (Get on your boots) and Vertigo.

REM: Yeah, us 50 year olds.......this was our band.

I wasn't the biggest New Order fan, but I am its predecessor, Joy Division. Ian Curtis's manic depressive lead....I mean this was an outstanding group.

Pearl Jam/Nirvana. I put them both here but.....if I really think about it, from this genre....I have to go with Alice N Chains as the best overall. When you look at the songs they put out in such a short time period, they rival Nirvana, but never get the same credit for whatever reason.

Afghan Whigs. 90's SubPop and MTV 120 Minutes darling.

The National. Cincy > Pittsburgh when it comes to music.

The Replacements. Love the Brothers Stinson and Paul Westerburg.

Husker Du. Just friggin frenetic and awesome.

The Cure. I really don't like some the Cure's biggest hits, but man, the volume of work and so many great songs, such a distinctive sound, I just don't like when they did pop songs, I love their moody, somewhat instrumental songs.

Smashing Pumpkins. I just loved their first few albums especially.

Janes Addiction/Chili Peppers. Like this genre and groups, loved the Frusciente driven version of RHCP.

As far as the classics, yeah...DT is right, any list starts and ends with Led Zeppelin. I always say if I could have once concert to see live in their prime, it would be Zeppelin.

Pink Floyd. Especially huge David Gilmour fan, another group I wish I saw live. Comfortably Numb, live, maybe my single favorite song.

Neil Young because Uncle Neil is Neil friggin Young!!

The Who. I mean, how awesome were they, and again, another group I wish I saw live in their prime.

I liked many others from DT's list. Fleetwood Mac. Beastie Boys (including the greatest video of all time "Sabotage"), Clash, Prince, Foos, PJ Harvey, Chrissie Hynde, ( a great list would be favorite female artists), Doors, Jefferson Airplane/Starship up until Marty Balin left, one band I never liked but really grew to like as I got older because they were fantastic musicians is Lynyrd Skynyrd. I hated this genre growing up mostly because I thought the kids that liked it were losers, so I completely blew off Skynyrd or the Outlaws and now love that music, especially for the haze driven memories of "field parties" in high school.

I am sure there are others I am leaving off the list. Thinking back to concerts attended, records bought and especially how many times I played certain songs/groups.

I should add Husker Du and the Cure to "others receiving votes."

 

[DT_PITT]

Led Zeppelin
Bob Marley
Alice In Chains
Soundgarden
Smashing Pumpkins
NWA

N.W.A would also go into "others receiving votes" as would Chris Cornell, whose voice I may like more than any other.

 

[DT_PITT]

Don’t get mad at me but I think Elvis Costello is far too overrated. He may be a great songwriter but I just cannot get into him at all.
If you appreciate songwriters than you have to put David Bowie, van Morrison, Neil Young, Paul Simon, and Dylan.

Shame on anyone for not putting the single greatest rock band of all time on the list, the only rock band to utilize a flute.
Jethro Tull.

We have completely different, flip flopped, opinions on Elvis Costello and Jethro Tull. I find them quite boring.

 

[DT_PITT]

Was at the 87 & 94 shows. But that 87 gig is in my personal top-10.

I've caught every Radiohead tour since 2001, including on my 50th birthday at Madison Square Garden a couple years back. Have you been to Blossom? Even though i got backstage with Rusted Root at Red Rocks, Blossom under that amazing roof is my fav large venue.

From 97 - 2003, the local Pittsburgh music scene was unbelievably good. Diverse as all getout too. Regularly caught 3-4 shows a week back then, had to learn the club soda lime trick to pull that off. Still catch some of those bands when they do the anual show or two.

Don't know what Blossom is.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

I like And respect Tool-
But as talented as they are- their newer stuff bores me.

Tools' new stuff? Their last album came out in 2006, and the one before that came out in 2001. It's been a running joke for years about when they were going to get around to releasing a new album, although theoretically that's going to happen at the end of the month.

 

[CougarClaws]

Don't know what Blossom is.

It's less than 2hrs from Pittsburgh, built as the home of the Cleveland Symphony near Akron in a large Park. Incredible acustics under that amazing roof - like something right out of Valhalla. And the closest place Radiohead played for almost two decades.

https://www.google.com/search?q=blo...f1OrjAhXLTN8KHXN7DsYQ_AUIGCgC&biw=393&bih=721

 

[DT_PITT]

I also kept up with the amazing new bands the last 25 years. Love Stereolab, Gorillaz, UNKLE, Madvillaine, Deltron 3030, Still Corners, RJD2, Thievery Corp, Caribou, Arcade Fire, Sigur Ros, Lana Del Ray, Daft Punk, The War On Drugs.

Some of the newer artists I like include (beyond some you have mentioned) include Grimes, Courtney Barnett, TuneYARDS, Middle Kids and many others. Love Sterolab too, but they've been around way too long to call them new, I think.

 

[Pitt79]

1. The Who
2. Billy Joel
3. Bob Seger
4. The Beatles
5, Johnny Cash
6. The Police
7. Dylan
8. Blue Oyster Cult
9. Boston
10, Styx
11. Buffett
12, Genesis
13. Cheap Trick
14. Ozzy
15. Cat Stevens
16. Grateful Dead
17. Steve Miller
18. Tom Petty
19. Van Halen
20. AC/DC

Not necessarily in that order after the first few. And probably count The Who like 5 times.

 

[DT_PITT]

Yeah, was at the REM shows in 87 and 89

Saw U2 way back in May of 1983, 85, 87, 92, and their latest stop 2 years ago when they did the Joshua Tree reprise.

Just saw U2 in 85, 87 and 92.

However, in the late 80's I knew the sax player from Ploughman's Lunch, who were originally the great Pittsburgh punk band, Carsickness. And for those keeping score, they were the band who opened for U2 when they played at the Decade.

His take on the U2 show is that it was indeed pretty great, but what they couldn't believe was how good they were for how young they were. He said they looked like teenagers.

 

[pitt-girl]

Some great stuff here.

But....Uh - Queen? They are most definitely a rock group. And also second the inclusion of the Clash.

 

[DT_PITT]

Yeah, I do like some, Modest Mouse is within the last 25, At the Drive In, The War On Drugs, the National, Parquet Courts, Decemberists, can't think of some right now.

Oh one I forgot from my all time favs is Pavement, which is definitely one of those love them or hate them type of groups.

I know that Pavement is a legendary band and Slanted and Enchanted is a seminal album, but they have always simply bored me to tears.

 

[CougarClaws]

Some of the newer artists I like include (beyond some you have mentioned) include Grimes, Courtney Barnett, TuneYARDS, Middle Kids and many others. Love Sterolab too, but they've been around way too long to call them new, I think.

Listened to a couple Grimes tunes while on the road today. Personally - didn't discover Sterolab till 98. That year 2000 show at Club Laga was amazing.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

I'll go a little heavier than most, in no particular order, although sorta chronologically:

The Who
Zeppelin
Sabbath
Springsteen
Rush
Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
Van Halen (I liked what Hagar did before he joined them as well)
Def Leppard (I believe they are cousins of one of Parrothead's favorites, "Death Leopard")
Metallica
Megadeth
Nirvana
Pearl Jam

Of the newer bands I'd add
Five Finger Death Punch (dumb name, good band)
Volbeat
In This Moment
Halestorm

And although they don't have a ton of stuff out there I love what Slash does with Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators.

 

[DT_PITT]

Lots of great bands named so far. I'll add to them.

Beach Boys. For any of you who are musicians, you have to respect the way Brian Wilson wrote music. Lots of stuff going on with his songs.

Cars

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Dire Straits, and Mark Knopfler's writing and playing. His finger picking is incredible.

A couple of you have mentioned Van Morrison, and I agree. He's still playing concerts, and is as great as ever.

I'll give a "like" to Van Morrison. Astral Weeks is among my 20 favorite albums ever. Love Brian Wilson too. God Only Knows, Don't Worry Baby, Good Vibrations and Wouldn't it Be Nice would all be in my personal top 100 songs ever. But I didn't include them because after those 4, there aren't many I like much at all.

The Cars first album was also among my 20 favorite albums ever. But ever that they got really spotty in my opinion.

I'll offer my respect to SRV, but I absolutely hate his style of the blues.

 

[McKee Place]

I'm all over the place.

No particular order:

The Holy Trinity (Beatles, Stones, Who)
Billy Joel (first concert)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (and offshoots like his solo efforts and the Traveling Wilburys)
The Cars
The Police (and some Sting, not the last 15 years or so though)
The Clash
The Cure
Elvis Costello
Joe Jackson
Talking Heads
Squeeze
Stray Cats (which later led to loving the Brian Setzer Orchestra... literally started out as "what the f--- is this... whoa this is great")

Those are all constants I can go to at any time. Many others I love but only in phases.

Most recent, out of nowhere by accident by clicking the wrong link in my Sirius app, I've discovered Dwight Yoakum (through his channel called the Bakersfield Beat). He has a lot of great songs and many unique covers.

 

[SoufOaklin4Life]

Tools' new stuff? Their last album came out in 2006, and the one before that came out in 2001. It's been a running joke for years about when they were going to get around to releasing a new album, although theoretically that's going to happen at the end of the month.

Okay
Their albums post aenima

 

[Pitt79]

And since we're all connected to Pittsburgh, have to say I love Donnie Iris too.

And since Cleveland is nearby, have to give a plug to The Michael Stanley Band.

Both had good songs, but they where more like G5 teams, not major league

 

[Ray-Ray]

Crosby Stills and Nash
Dan Hicks and The Hot Licks
Aztec Two Step
Boz Scaggs
Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys

Love the inclusion of Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks, can't forget to include the Lickettes.
Many bands already listed are on my favorites, but have an affinity for an underrated group from the 70's. Uriah Heep, great melodies and the growl of the Hammond B-3 on many songs. Also can't leave Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band off the list. Hilarious songs and a great name.

 

[Ski11585]

Okay
Their albums post aenima

Man. Lateralus was fire.

 

[DT_PITT]

Okay. Adding some variety here.

1: Led Zeppelin - The first band I fell in love with.

2: DMB - I know all the criticisms of DMB. I don’t care. Carter Beauford is a legend. And they were the first band I saw live as a youngin’ in... 94? At the Palumbo center. I think Toad the Wet Sprocket opened for them.

3: Phish - I held out for a long time because I didn’t want to listen to a “stoner band.” Then my friends tricked me into listening to Stash off A Live One. I was hooked.

4: Chick Corea Elektric Band - My first foray into more progressive jazz.

5: Dave Weckl - Any bogus Rolling Stones best drummer list that ignores jazz drummers like Weckl is absolutely bogus.

6: Hiromi Uehara - If you listen to her entire discography back to back you notice some repetitive themes, but her improvisational piano work is second to none.

In no order.

Kanye West - the most influential musician post-2000. Name me an artist with three better albums than College Dropout, Late Registration, and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

OutKast - Best rap duo out there?

Dream Theater - I hate their singer. And half their songs are trash. But the ones that hit are pure fire. Portnoy brings it.

Ben Folds Five - Mostly a nostalgia hit from college.

Rage Against the Machine - Love their music and I’m a sucker for the political agenda.

Primus - I came to them kinda late, but Claypool plays a mean bass.

Tool - Everything about then is amazing.

Van Morrison - I can listen to Astral Weeks daily for the rest of my life. One of the best singer/songwriters ever.

Kendrick Lamar - I don’t listen to much modern stuff, but I like how he’s pushed the genre.

For the last ten? Some combination of A Perfect Circle, Anderson Paak, Alice In Chains, Avishai Cohen, Coheed and Cambria, Goodie Mob, Prince, Jane’s Addiction, Rush, and Stevie Ray Vaughn.

I'll give you Outkast. Always liked everything a heard, long before "Hey Ya!"

Kayne's Dark Twisted Fantasy is a very interesting album and he is certainly very influential. I have a hard time deciding just where I come down on him.

I feel extremely old and out of it when I say I just don't understand what is considered to be so great about Kendrick Lamar. The messages are strong, but not new, and I just don't hear what is anything special about him musically.

 

[DT_PITT]

I'm all over the place.

No particular order:

The Holy Trinity (Beatles, Stones, Who)
Billy Joel (first concert)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (and offshoots like his solo efforts and the Traveling Wilburys)
The Cars
The Police (and some Sting, not the last 15 years or so though)
The Clash
The Cure
Elvis Costello
Joe Jackson
Talking Heads
Squeeze
Stray Cats (which later led to loving the Brian Setzer Orchestra... literally started out as "what the f--- is this... whoa this is great")

Those are all constants I can go to at any time. Many others I love but only in phases.

Most recent, out of nowhere by accident by clicking the wrong link in my Sirius app, I've discovered Dwight Yoakum (through his channel called the Bakersfield Beat). He has a lot of great songs and many unique covers.

Billy Joel's Nylon Curtain tour in November 1982 was my first concert.

Joe Jackson could have made my list too. Not many better first lines than -- "Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street."

 

[DT_PITT]

One band who could have made my "others receiving votes" but no one else has mentioned (so I'll give them (him) a shout out) is LCD Soundsystem.

 

[McKee Place]

Billy Joel's Nylon Curtain tour in November 1982 was my first concert.

Joe Jackson could have made my list too. Not many better first lines than -- "Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street."

Wow. If you happened to have seen him at Richfield Coliseum in Cleveland then we were at that same show, both as our first concert.

I don't know if he played Pittsburgh for that tour, I'd have to assume so (I'd go on to see him at the Civic Arena twice in future years). But maybe not, because we lived closer to Pgh but for whatever reason my friend's older sister (who scored the tix and also drove us, as we were only 15) got them for the Cleveland performance.

I'll say that as I got older and more exposed to other music and artists, Billy's recorded music lost a little luster to me. The records sounded a little thinly produced, or something. But many of the songs came more to life in concert.

 

[DT_PITT]

Wow. If you happened to have seen him at Richfield Coliseum in Cleveland then we were at that same show, both as our first concert.

I don't know if he played Pittsburgh for that tour, I'd have to assume so (I'd go on to see him at the Civic Arena twice in future years). But maybe not, because we lived closer to Pgh but for whatever reason my friend's older sister (who scored the tix and also drove us, as we were only 15) got them for the Cleveland performance.

I'll say that as I got older and more exposed to other music and artists, Billy's recorded music lost a little luster to me. The records sounded a little thinly produced, or something. But many of the songs came more to life in concert.

No ... it was the Civic Arena. I ended up seeing Billy Joel 4 times total.

But your last paragraph sums up much about how my feeling about his music changed. I absolutely hated the Innocent Man album, and can only point to "A Matter of Trust" as a song I liked much at all past 1983.

 

[DT_PITT]

Those first three U2 albums are still amazing, as is Joshua Tree. Could care less about the rest nowadays.

Funny story - in 1981 as a young teen - my go-to's were Men At Work business as usual, Styx pieces of eight, U2 boy, Genesis abacab, Foreigner 4, B52's, Journey escape, & Yes fragile - all on tape. A very strange collection looking back.

My 1981 list might have been almost the same. Didn't appreciate the B-52's till later. But LOVED Journey at the time. Didn't get into U2 until War. Add Supertramp, Kansas, The Police and REO Speedwagon to the very early 80's list.

As for Yes, Starship Trooper on the Yes Album, was, and remains one of all time favorite tracks.

 

[SouthSidePanther]

1. Joy Division
2. REM
3. The Clash
4. Talking Heads
5. Justin Vernon (Bon Iver, etc)
6. Chuck Berry/Buddy Holly
7. Kanye (pre-MAGA)
8. NWA
9. Dylan
10. Paul Simon

 

[SouthSidePanther]

Ugh. Left off Radiohead and Nirvana.

 

[pittiswhereiamfrom2]

Ugh. Left off Radiohead and Nirvana.

Unforgivable.