Currently, this is what I'd tell people:
Finns and their bands
Roxy Music
King Crimson
Talking Heads
Australian Crawl
Alice Cooper
Hunters & Collectors
Pink Floyd
Genesis
Skyhooks

No particular surprises!

Split Enz
Neil Young
Bob Marley
The Beatles
Pink Floyd
Fleetwood Mac
U2
Elton John
Miles Davis
The Rolling Stones

Bruce Springsteen
U2
Pearl Jam
Steve Earle
Crowded House/Neil Finn
Eric Clapton
Matchbox 20
The Eagles
Cold Chisel/Jimmy Barnes
REM

Midnight Oil
Icehouse
Split Enz
Crowded House
INXS
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Jimi Hendrix
John Farnham
The Who
Tim Finn

I'm 17, is there something wrong with me?

quote:

Originally posted by Greatfox:
Midnight Oil
Icehouse
Split Enz
Crowded House
INXS
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Jimi Hendrix
John Farnham
The Who
Tim Finn

I'm 17, is there something wrong with me?

Yep, it's called good taste.

The Beatles (Band and Solo)
Prince
XTC
Miles Davis
Ryan Adams
Van Morrison
Crowded House/Split Enz
The Rolling Stones
John Coltrane
Jimi Hendrix
and last, but not least Bob Dylan

Split Enz
Crowded House
Neil Finn
Tim Finn
Finn Brothers
The Beatles
Bob Marley
Neil Young
Mercury Rev
Bic Runga

There is always going to be an idiot that can't follow simple rules; I am 'that guy". Sorry in advance for including more than 10.

Listed in almost alphabetical order

1. All things Finn related. [no explanation necessary]
2. 10,000 Maniacs/Natalie Merchant. [really fell for her voice a long time ago]
3. BareNaked Ladies. [Go Canada!! Funny too]
4. Counting Crows. [listened to "August and Everyting After" like a zillion times]
5. Dave Matthews Band. [no one else likes them?]
6. Five For Fighting. [great pop music]
7. Foo Fighters. [like them better than Dave's old band...Nirvana!! Shocker!!]
8. Goo Goo Dolls. [both ballads and harder stuff]
9. Jason Mraz. [smart song-writer, often funny]
10. Peter Gabriel. [found "So" the same summer I found CH's debut album...fond memories indeed]
11. REM. [love M. Stipe's voice]
12. Snow Patrol. [trying newer stuff and liking it]
13. Shane Nicholson. [if you haven't heard this guy you really should...reminds me of Neil. Another bonus: He is an Aussie!!]

Honorable mention: When I want to hear a woman's voice I listen to Alanis, Michelle Branch, India Arie, Kasey Chambers, Christina Aguliera [gasp!...admit it though, she has got pipes]or Stevie Nicks.

Here goes the impossible...

• Neil Finn (Including Crowded House & his work in Split Enz & Finn Brothers)
  
• The Beatles (This can include Lennon & Harrison's solo work. Okay, and McCartney & Starr's)
  
• Phillip Judd (Including Split Enz, The Swingers & Schnell Fenster)
  
• A8BA (Yeah well @ least I admit it! Love the hooks!)
  
• Tim Finn (Obviously including The Enz with that. And The Brothers)
  
• Travis (Massive fan. This band has released more b-sides than regular album tracks!)
  
• Presidents of the USA (One of the first bands I really got into, still great)
  
• INXS (I suppose this can include Max Q, the Hutchence solo album & the newish JD-fronted album)
  
• The Zombies (Nearly Better than the Beatles. And I don't say that often! More underrated than Neil Finn!)

Man that was hard. I left out so many favourites! Here's an image I made up for my MySpace. It pretty much includes all I left out. Take a look if anyone really cares about my music taste

I'm 21 by the way. Do you think my list reflects that? I don't think I have anything on Greatfox though!

EDIT: I'm 22 actually...

Crowded House
Neil Finn
Paul Weller
Oasis
Travis
Stereophonics
U2
Sheryl Crow
Marvin Gaye
Franz Ferdinand

Figured I would do this by listing artists/bands I have the most CDs of. This is not in order of preference!

1 - The Beatles - Fave band of all time. Have a lot more vinyl than CDs (collectors stuff y'know)
2 - Crowded House/Neil Finn - All the albums naturally plus heaps of CD singles
3 - INXS - "The Swing" is in my Top 10 all time faves. Once again, lots of CD singles too
4 - Stevie Wonder - But I don't have "Songs In The Key Of Life" on CD yet! (of course, it's on vinyl)
5 - Madonna - Got the majority of her album discography. Guess I'm a huge fan, huh?
6 - 80's Compilations - The more obscure the better. I'm an 80's kid so I've spent a lot of time replacing 7" and 12" singles with CDs. May take a while
7 - Steely Dan - All the albums. This band's music never seems to age.
8 - U2 - Only got half their output on CD. The rest is on vinyl (that's including "The Joshua Tree") plus heaps of CD singles
9 - Groove Armada - Everything including mix albums (some rare ones too). A dance duo that even non-clubheads can easily get into
10 - The Blue Nile - well considering they only have four albums in 25 years, they're easy to collect. Truly brilliant and severely under-rated and appreciated.

There you go. Of course that's just a pinch of my collection and probably not representative of my broad tastes.

quote:

Originally posted by John/WestCoast:
There is always going to be an idiot that can't follow simple rules; I am 'that guy". Sorry in advance for including more than 10.

Listed in almost alphabetical order

1. All things Finn related. [no explanation necessary]
2. 10,000 Maniacs/Natalie Merchant. [really fell for her voice a long time ago]
3. BareNaked Ladies. [Go Canada!! Funny too]
4. Counting Crows. [listened to "August and Everyting After" like a zillion times]
5. Dave Matthews Band. [no one else likes them?]
6. Five For Fighting. [great pop music]
7. Foo Fighters. [like them better than Dave's old band...Nirvana!! Shocker!!]
8. Goo Goo Dolls. [both ballads and harder stuff]
9. Jason Mraz. [smart song-writer, often funny]
10. Peter Gabriel. [found "So" the same summer I found CH's debut album...fond memories indeed]
11. REM. [love M. Stipe's voice]
12. Snow Patrol. [trying newer stuff and liking it]
13. Shane Nicholson. [if you haven't heard this guy you really should...reminds me of Neil. Another bonus: He is an Aussie!!]

If it were a top 15 or 20, Dave Matthews Band would definitely be in mine! I have 4 of his cds which I really enjoy and actually seen him last May when he was here in Melbourne, GREAT show from an awesome 4th row seat

CH/Neil
Barenaked Ladies
10,000 Maniacs/Natalie Merchant
Cocteau Twins
R.E.M.
Nick Cave
Kate Rusby
Deacon Blue
The Beautiful South
Billy Bragg

Awesome thread - lots of mentions of stuff I don't think I've heard mentioned here before (Jason Mraz, Max Q). Here are my ten

- Finn Brothers (Especially Tim) and all their projects
- INXS
- The Whitlams
- Sarah Blasko
- Elliott Smith
- Andy White
- Wilco (Especially Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)
- U2, But only Achtung Baby and Zooropa. Most of the rest of their stuff does absolutely nothing for me.
- Bob Geldof & The Boomtown Rats (better than you probably think.)
- Bic Runga.

In no particular order:

The Beatles
Crowded House
Split Enz
Bob Dylan
Lovin Spoonful
Monty Python (they released records, so they count!)
The Eagles
Billy Joel
ELO
The Who

Any band related to Neil Finn
Peter Gabriel
Joni Mitchell
Jeff Buckley
Foo Fighters
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Bic Runga
Evermore
Powderfinger
Silverchair

quote:

Originally posted by Secret God™:
Here goes the impossible...

• Neil Finn (Including Crowded House & his work in Split Enz & Finn Brothers)
  
• The Beatles (This can include Lennon & Harrison's solo work. Okay, and McCartney & Starr's)
  
• Phillip Judd (Including Split Enz, The Swingers & Schnell Fenster)
  
• A8BA (Yeah well @ least I admit it! Love the hooks!)
  
• Tim Finn (Obviously including The Enz with that. And The Brothers)
  
• Travis (Massive fan. This band has released more b-sides than regular album tracks!)
  
• Presidents of the USA (One of the first bands I really got into, still great)
  
• INXS (I suppose this can include Max Q, the Hutchence solo album & the newish JD-fronted album)
  
• The Zombies (Nearly Better than the Beatles. And I don't say that often! More underrated than Neil Finn!)

Man that was hard. I left out so many favourites! Here's an image I made up for my MySpace. It pretty much includes all I left out. Take a look if anyone really cares about my music taste

I'm 21 by the way. Do you think my list reflects that? I don't think I have anything on Greatfox though!

EDIT: I'm 22 actually...

P.U.S.A...........EXCELLENT!!!

Here's mine (no particular order):

1)Split Enz (and spin-offs)
2)Genesis/Peter Gabriel (Genesis and PG almost singlehandedly formed my musical tastes in my early teens)
3)Presidents of the United States of America
4)Pavement/Stephen Malkmus
5)The Flaming Lips (the evolution of that band boggles my mind)
6)Camper Van Beethoven/Cracker
7)Ben Folds Five/Ben Folds (make me laugh, or make me cry)
8)Nirvana
9)Tripping Daisy/Polyphonic Spree (Tim Delaughter makes me want to dress in white robes)
10)R.E.M. (up to Monster, this band struck me to the core)

That was tough. I could easily add another dozen to that list.

I'm going to add 2 more to my list
Coldplay
Keane

2 main branches:
solo singer songwriters
Amy Macdonald
Ross Copperman
James Morrison
Nerina Pallot
KT Tunstall

rock bands
Snow Patrol
Keane
REM
U2
CROWDED HOUSE!!!!!

ten artists huh?

ok i'll play:

Beatles
Neil Finn/Crowded House
Rickie Lee Jones
Elton John (classic years)
Stevie Wonder(classic years)
Elvis Costello
Steely Dan
James Taylor
Jonatha Brooke
Ron Sexsmith
Miles Davis
Neil Young

...oops that was a dozen.