Favorite NON-ROCK (or metal...) Bands, songs, musicians!

[Insane3]

I don't feel like naming a lot of bands/artists so what about electro-pop swedish Jay-Jay Johanson.

[CheezerRox]

Daft Punk I always sorta liked, although I haven't heard too much.

Sonn Sharrock (Jazz) is pretty good.


I'm pretty much a n00b to almost anything besides rock. I like the blues A LOT, but most of it I like is more blues-rock.

[synthesizedpiano]

Classical:
Rachmaninov
Chopin
Beethoven
Haydn
Bach
Pachelbel

Jazz:
Chick Corea
Charles Mingus (Has the best bass solo ever at the begining of Haitian Fight Song, and he's my favorite bassist of any genre)
Charlie Parker
Benny Goodman
Dizzy Gillespie
Nina Simone (amazing voice...)

[Metallican]

Um, do Christmas songs count?

[AeroZeppelinSevenfold]

Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Mozart and those other dudes are pretty badass as well.

[Shredder87]

Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Mozart and those other dudes are pretty badass as well.

Looking at your sig makes me think...


I WANT LITTLE WING GOD DAMN IT!!!!!



that is all

[OldFogey]

Tom Lehrer (a piano-player with work mostly centered around parody. Kind of on the folky side, but not sure. Check out the compilation I did on him in the music blog, since no one's downloaded it)

Tom Lehrer is great. Really funny stuff. Musically he reminds me a little bit of Mose Allison. Mose is great. His song Parchman Farm has become a blues standard, thanks in large part to John Mayall (it's on the Bluesbreakers album with Clapton). Mose has a funny streak, too. One of my favorite songs of his is "Your Molecular Structure."

Mose wrote "Young Man Blues."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUnGI5XkP3U

Your Mind is on Vacation reminds me of a jazzy Zappa:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCpekvOkwNM

[Hungryfreak]

I hadn't heard Mose Allison before. I love those songs, though, especially the second song there. It definitely reminds me of some of Zappa's stuff, especially the bass. I'm definitely going to have to check him out further. Thanks for bringing him to light for me.

[FujiSkunk]

It's a fine line between rock and pop, so I imagine there would be quite a few arguments about who is in my "pop" and "rock" directories. Are Hall & Oates rock? I say yes. Are the Beach Boys? I say no; their influence is indisputable, but to me their music is a little too rooted in the '60s to have that "timeless" quality that defines true rock music to me, so I call them "classic pop." Other favorite borderliners are Dan Fogelberg (rock), Duran Duran (pop), the Little River Band (rock), Cyndi Lauper (pop), the Lovin' Spoonful (rock), and Tommy James and the Shondells (haven't decided yet).

In the less-debatable genres, my favorite country artists include Alabama, Willie Nelson and Kenny Rogers, and my favorite new age artists include Enya, Jean Michel Jarre, the Mannheim Steamroller and Yanni (stop laughing). My favorite classical piece is Mendelssohn's "Fingal's Cave."

[My name is Fez]

Simon & Garfunkel, Kenna, and Michael Jackson ftw.