HI
The best band I like is Beatles. I also like Pink Floyd and Guns N Roses.

I can't choose between Pink Floyd and Sigur-Ros

Most definitely Queen !
I have all the CD's, all the DVD's, a reds special replica guitar, the AC30BM amplifier (500pc limited edition) and the digitech red special pedal.

Queen rock!

Queen, Simon & Garfunkel, Pink Floyd.

But modern musicians I like best are Sinéad O'Connor and especially Enya.

No offense, but liking something as technical as Classical Music, how can you enjoy something like AC/DC? The Guitar might be technical sometimes, but the bass is so boring I want to blow my brains out.

Anyway, my favorite bands are..

The Beatles, Steely Dan, Moody Blues, Ten Years After, Billy Joel, Supertramp, Uriah Heep, and Cream.

There are more I just cant remember them all off the top of my head.

I find it really interesting that the majority of classical enthusiasts usually tend to be drawn to the 'rock' end of the music specrum as opposed to 'pop' when enjoying contemporary music. I am a classical gal/ renaissance babe/ metal-head, so I guess I fit the bill My favourite bands are Korn, System of a Down and Lamb of God. I still stand by my theory that if Beethoven lived today that he would not have composed orchestral music but would have probably been the lead singer/guitarist of Rammstein (German metal band). When he released his 3rd Symphony it was remarked that it 'was not even music at all' because of it's 'brash' nature. I have heard similar remarks about Slipknot- usually by my mother who is a Pussycat dolls fan, who whines 'ooh this is even worse than that 'Berliooze'- it's just shouting!' hehe.

This brought back a memory of my partially mis-spent youth- a short story called Gianni by Robert Silverberg. I encountered it in [well... I'm not sure I want to say- but it's proof that I read the articles..... let's just say February 1982]. Well, the premise is that Pergolesi was time fowarded to a period not too far from our own era, and embraced Sex&Drugs&Rock'n'Roll.

There is a dozens deep honor roll of musicians who died early- but if you think of Pergolesi transposed to the 21st century and ending up addicted to the leading "recreational" drug of the day, or Beethoven launching riffs from a 6-string Stratocaster, perhaps it's not so bad that they had liveth in their own hour.

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The hardest knife ill us'd doth lose his edge. Shakespeare- Sonnet 95

True.

I tend to like individual songs better than groups, because I won`t like all songs by a group. That said, I like stuff by-

Yes
Genesis
Bjork
Queen
A-ha
Beatles
Police
Deep Purple
Billy Talent

and many others. But approx. 90% of my listening is classical.

Your signature made me laugh, Chi_town/Philly.

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"(gives) the charming and bizarre sensation of eating a pink bon-bon stuffed with snow." - Debussy on the music of Grieg
''Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.'' - Claude Debussy
Make Your Music Lessons More Fun

The Beetles, Oasis (first two albums), Radiohead and the Arctic Monkeys

That's pretty much it as far as my taste for rock music goes. There are a few other decent bands, but I wouldn't bother buying their cds these days.

Yngwie Malmsteen, Dream Theater, Metallica, At Vance

The Beatles is my favorite band.

Yeah I know... they're mentioned all of the time. I don't care, though. There is no other band that has as many songs that appeal to me as they do.

I agree that the Beatles are awesome- my first musical fixation was dedicated to them when I was a child, long before I got into classical music. Recently I've been really getting into Lamb of God and Nothingface- they both kinda remind me of early Slipknot...

I really cannot understand how somebody can listen to Lamb Of God and Slipknot as well as have a genuine interest in Classical music. Eh, gotta keep your MySpace popular somehow.

Lol I won't deny that I do get that a lot- especially when I go to classical performances looking like a grunge mosher I love classical music more than metal, though that's definately up there too. I am drawn to both genres for similar reasons- I love to feel like I'm part of something greater than myself I suppose. When I listen to Beethoven and Korn I can hear their emotions and they're raw and exposed and it's like I can empathise. I suppose if you take left and right wing extremism in anything then you will almost always inevitably return to a point where both almost collide.

First, you have to understand that Slipknot are Clowns. check it out:

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=n_w0iN_xG0U