Bands you listen to most often

[Fruits N Nuts]

I'm curious what bands you're listening to most often these days. I tend to rotate between a handful of bands, stick with them for a while, then rotate on to a new batch. Currently I've been listening to:

Mice Parade
Sufjan Stevens
Aloha
Film School
Math & Physics Club
The Pernice Brothers
The Sea & Cake

 

[Maid@ Vale Lover]

At the moment it is always some show from BBC radio1 that runs in realplayer (some even get recorded)

Mostly the Lock Up

or

the Rock Show

or

Lamacq Live

GREAT SHOWS


For now it is last weeks Keane Live that is running over and over

another one is

Less Than Jake at bbc

 

[vivaissy]

okay you caught me...i always find myself drawn to idlewild albums.

i just like em. is that so wrong?

 

[deathfornoreason]

Other than The Smiths/Moz:

*The Decemberists
*Billy Bragg
*Joy Division
*Pulp
*Public Enemy

And, at the moment - after revisiting the "Live Forever" documentary - a lot of the lesser-known Britpop groups, especially Sleeper.

 

[dazzak]

The bands I always listen to are:

Moz/Smiths
Suede/The Tears
Pet Shop Boys
Rufus Wainwright
Nick Cave
New Order
Talking Heads/David Byrne
Roxy Music
Bowie
Pulp

 

[Springheeledjim84]

Just now it seems to be:

Morrissey/The Smiths
Belle and Sebastian
The Clash
David Bowie
REM
Magazine
Rufus Wainwright
Jeff Buckley
The Long Blondes

 

[Springheeledjim84]

....and Nick Cave.

 

[poprenaissance]

the smiths / moz
the millennium
belle and sebastian
roxy music
the chills
harpers bizarre
soft cell / marc almond
cocteau twins

 

[igotpictures]

Smiths and Moz of course
New Roteeka
The Wanderers
4-skins
Cockney Rejects
Blondie
Angelic Upstarts
Angry Samoans
Sex Pistols
Nina Simone
Polecats
StrayCats
Gene Vincent
Eddie`c
Elvis
Ramones
Richard Hell
New York Dolls
Cobra
Cockney Cocks
The Clash
Bowie
Joy Division
Placebo
Iggy (specially in the Stoogers)
Buzzcocks
T-rex
Dead Kennedys
Marianne Faithfull
Byrds
Beatles
Kinks
The Who
Johnny Thunders
Judy Garland
Billie Hollieday
Bad Brains
Wayne County
Cracker Jacks
Bull the Dog and....Cake

much more but you know...

 

[thaxter tewksbury]

Besides the Smiths
Nanci Griffith
Tracy Chapman
Bill Morrissey
John Coltrane
Bad Religion
Trashcan Sinatras

 

[TwinKle]

Placebo
Hope of the States
Dirty pretty Things
Babyshambles
Libertines
Muse
Bauhaus
Smashing Pumpkins
BRM
Depeche Mode
Nine Inch Nails
Bunnymen
Banshees
Cure
Gene
Interpol
Nick Cave
She Wants Revenge
Radio 4
Sonic Youth
Jesus and the Marychain
Guillemots

 

[++++++]

Besides Moz/Smiths:

David Bowie
Depeche Mode
The Beatles
Smashing Pumpkins
New Order
Fiona Apple
My Bloody Valentine

 

[Bona Drag]

Moz
Smiths
Fugazi
T Rex
The Liars
Broken Social Scene
Walker Brothers
Q and not U
Françoise Hardy (because my girlfriend)
The Shangri-Las
The Make-up
Jacques Brel (my girlfriend again)

 

[poprenaissance]

Moz
Smiths
Fugazi
T Rex
The Liars
Broken Social Scene
Walker Brothers
Q and not U
Françoise Hardy (because my girlfriend)
The Shangri-Las
The Make-up
Jacques Brel (my girlfriend again)

yer girlfriend has seriously good taste. yer a lucky man!

 

[Sister]

Moz/Smiths - especially recently after new album and tour.
Some other acts I was listening to recently:

The Raincoats
The Organ (new)
The Jam
Cat Power
CocoRosie
Tarantula AD
Devendra Banhart
Dresden Dolls (new album)
Pixies
Iggy
Hole/CL
Broken Social Scene
The Arcade Fire
Patty Smith
The Slits
The Clash
The Fury Furnaces
Lisa Germano
LCD Soundsystem
Ska Jazz Review
Cesaria Evora

 

[Rushes]

Besides Morrissey and them Smiths, at the moment it's mostly:

Marc Almond/Soft Cell
Rufus Wainwright
Antony and the Johnsons
The Divine Comedy
Judas Priest/Rob Halford
David Bowie
Alice Cooper
Richard Thompson
Frank Zappa

 

[MetalPingu]

I tend to just have a select few artists that I'll listen to most for a period of time, but they normally seem to be chosen from out of one larger group anyway:

Leonard Cohen
Pixies
Sufjan Stevens
Rufus Wainwright
Nick Cave
Patti Smith
The Velvet Underground
Lou Reed
New Order
Joy Division
The Flaming Lips
Mercury Rev
Johnny Cash
Buddy Holly

Judas Priest + Halford and Slayer in my weaker moments

Recently I've been really loving my punkier stuff, so stuff like Sex Pistols, Ramones and The Jam are also beginning to make the rounds!

I should plonk my last.fm thing into my sig, that's a good way of keeping track of what you listen to =).

EDIT: Silly me for forgetting the Pet Shop Boys!

 

[tender hooligan]

Placebo, Jesus and MaryChain,u2, Killers, Editors, Suede

 

[Cracked Actor]

Other than the obvious...

Suede/The Tears
U2
David Bowie
Joy Division/New Order
The Raveonettes (why oh why has noone else heard of them?)
Primal Scream
Libertines/Babyshambles
and all the old Madchester stuff

 

[Rushes]

Judas Priest + Halford and Slayer in my weaker moments

Hoorah! Me too, as you probably noticed. But what do you mean by "weaker moments"?! There's no shame in loving metal!