list some of your favorite bands and artists here, so maybe other people might like 'em too.

AC/DC
Amon Amarth
Black Label Society
Black Sabbath
The Brian Setzer Orchestra
Danzig
Deathspell Omega
Dragonlord
Guns N' Roses
Iron Maiden
Megadeth
Pantera
Rob Zombie
Sepultura
Turmion Kätilöt
Van Halen
:wumpscut:
Zyklon

yeah... I'm a metalhead.

Halford/Fight
Racer X
Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
Iced Earth
Metal Church
Motorhead
Yngwie Malmsteen
early 80s Ozzy Osbourne
Deep Purple (mk II, of course)
Rainbow
Foghat
Doobie Brothers (sans Michael McDonald!)

The Libertines
Gogol Bordello
Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Surfjan Stevens
Avett Brothers
Andrew W.K.
Pure
Queen
The Flaming Lips
Eric Clapton
John Mayer
Jack Johnson
Tenacious D
Streetlight Manifesto

The Rolling Stones
The Beatles
Yasushi Ishii
Apocalyptica

Telefon Tel Aviv
Sigur Ros
Pernice Brothers
Collective Soul
Beck
Cake
Electric Light Orchestra
Pearl Jam
Stereophonics
The Verve
The Rolling Stones
Cibo Matto
(oops.) forgot to add Primitive Radio Gods and Filter

Queen
Tenacious D
Yngwie Malmsteen
Steve Vai
AC/DC
Guns 'n Roses
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Dir en Grey
The Pillows
David Bowie
Jimi Hendrix
The Beatles
Led Zepplin
The Offspring
They Might be Giants
Vanessa Mae
Yo Yo Ma
Bach
Bethoveen
Van Halen
Rush
Cake
Paganini
Ozzy Osbourne
Pink Floyd (sometimes)
Gorillaz
Billy Joel
Aha
The Rolling Stones

I'm classy.

J'aime le music!!! Here's a few:

The Beatles
Beck
Blonde Redhead
Bob Dylan
Bright Eyes
Broadcast
Damien Rice
David Bowie
The Decemberists
Donovan
Electrelane
Elliott Smith
The Flaming Lips
John Lennon
Julieta Venegas
The Kills
Lily Allen
Lou Reed
The Mars Volta
Mazzy Star
Metric
Nellie McKay
Neutral Milk Hotel
Nico
Nine Inch Nails
Orenda Fink
Pixies
PJ Harvey
Placebo
Regina Spektor
The Rolling Stones
The Shins
Smashing Pumpkins
The Smiths
Sonic Youth
Sufjan Stevens
Tegan and Sara
Tilly and the Wall
U2
The Velvet Underground
Zwan

This shall now become a contest between whose list of musical artists is longer.

I think you can definitely learn a lot about a person via their musical taste. I'll limit my list to a top 5 or I'll stand the risk of passing out at my keyboard.

1.) Neutral Milk Hotel
2.) Streetlight Manifesto/BOTAR
3.) Bomb The Music Industry!/ASOB
4.) Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
5.) Spring Heeled Jack USA

The slashes are because they're essentially the same band if you want to get technical. HOWEVER If you want to get REALLY technical they're not the same band at all! Hooray!

EDIT: Fern, have you checked out the band Beirut? I think you would really dig them based solely on your list.

aquacow
1.) Neutral Milk Hotel
2.) Streetlight Manifesto/BOTAR
3.) Bomb The Music Industry!/ASOB
4.) Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
5.) Spring Heeled Jack USA

=D

I like so many bands...
Off the top of my head right this minute I'll say:

T-Rex
Led Zeppelin
Peaches
Tori Amos
The Who
The Cars
Madness
The Cure
Effigy
Descention
The White Stripes
Effigy

-those are just some much listened to guys on my current playlists :)
-edit-
Oh! I forgot a good one: the Ditty Bops

Zeppelin
Wolfmother
GN'R
Megadeth
Metallica (Old Metallica, they suck now)
Black Sabbath
Mayhem
Iron Maiden
Dethklok
Lamb of God
Slayer

In no order whatsoever (except Jethro Tull):

Jethro Tull
Lemon Jelly
Inspiral Carpets
The Damned
Rammstein
Pink Floyd
Radiohead
Jethro Tull
Iron Maiden
David Bowie
Blue Oyster Cult
Air
Black Sabbath
Animal
Genesis
Megadeth
Muse
The Pogues
Jethro Tull
Franz Ferdinand
Jeff Wayne
Hawkwind
Sparks
The Jam
The Clash
Stranglers
Meat Loaf
The Darkness
The White Stripes
Jethro Tull

Guess my favourite, go on. You'll never get it.

DancingChaos
Rush

I love Geddy Lee's voice.

Actually, I just love progressive rock.
(even Rick Wakeman and his lovely coats.)

#1: David Bowie!!!
everything else isn't quite in order:
Beatles
Paul McCartney
Bob Dylan
Billy Joel
the Libertines
Franz Ferdinand
the velvet Underground
Nico (~_~!!)
Belle & Sebastian
the Strokes
mecano
My Chemical Romance!
Gackt
Malice Mizer
New Pornographers
Estopa (don't make fun of me, they're a sentimental favorite)
Irving Berlin
George Gershwin
Judy Garland
Tchaikovsky
Helen Forrest (if only for her version of "the man I love" )
Peggy Lee
Howard Keel (XD!)
Donald O'Connor (for his work in Singin' in the Rain... that man was a god.)
Bing Crosby
The format
sex pistols
the guillemots
beulah
morning musume (sorry world)
Asian kung-fu generation
high and mighty color
Lata Mangeshkar
Rolling Stones
DONOVAN! ^^
My Bloody Valentine
Blood Brothers
Mitsumassyu (we're bff's... meaning I met them once.)
Enya (I don't care who knows it!)
Simon & Garfunkel
Patti Lupone (cause I'm a drama geek!!)
oreja de van gogh
amaral
Buddy Holly
Weezer
Queen
Aya Matsuura
sarah vaughn

...ok that's all I'm willing to type.

Agnostic Front
Apoptygma Berzerk
Assemblage 23
Beatles, The
Bella Morte
Berlin
Billy Idol
Cars, The
Christian Death
Clash, The
Covenant
Cruxshadows, The
Cure, The
Curve
Damned, The
Das Ich
David Bowie
Dead Kennedys
Dir en Grey
Doors, The
Eurythmics, The
Exploited, The
Fugazi
Funker Vogt
Goteki/Sneaky Bat Machine
Guns n' Roses
Johnny Cash
Led Zepplin
London After Midnight
Lush
Men at Work
Metallica
Misfits, The
Nirvana
Nonpoint
Operation Ivy
Pet Shop Boys, The
Placebo
Pogues, The
Police, The
Project Pitchfork
Queen
Rolling Stones, The
Roy Orbison
Sex Pistols
Siouxsie & the Banshees
Stray Cats, The
Subhumans
Vanessa-Mae
Velvet Revolver
Voltaire
Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, The
Wolfsheim
Zeromancer

Here's my eclectic list of faves in no particular order:

The Beatles
U2
The Pixies
Metallica
New Order
Led Zeppellin
Depeche Mode
Pantera
INXS
The Who
The Police
Nirvana
Arctic Monkeys
Echo and the Bunnymen
Front 242
Nine Inch Nails
REM
The Beastie Boys
Incubus
Earth, Wind, and Fire
War
Van Halen (Both Diamond Dave and Sammy Hagar versions)
Foo Fighters
Soundgarden
Alice in Chains
Black Flag
Duran Duran
Isis
Iron Maiden
Slayer
Midnight Oil
White Zombie
Tears For Fears

I believed I've told my favorite artists various times already, so this time I decided to make a list of my 25 favorites in order.
My Top 25 favorite bands/artists (composers included):

01. Muse
02. Danny Elfman
03. Placebo
04. Pixies
05. Beck
06. Tool
07. John Williams
08. Radiohead
09. Jimi Hendrix
10. Spinvis
11. Aphex Twin
12. Queens of the Stone Age
13. Slowdive
14. Jeff Buckley
15. Thomas Newman
16. Danger Doom
17. Pink Floyd
18. The Arcade Fire
19. The Mars Volta
20. Be Your Own PET
21. Wolfmother
22. The White Stripes
23. Nine Inch Nails
24. Mindless Self Indulgence
25. Orbital

By the way: Custard Trout man, your musictaste is awsome :)

Um, think I'll just list my top 10, in no particular order:

Kamelot
Nightwish
Origa
Secret Garden
Lady Sovereign
Cat Power
Panic! At the Disco
Simply Red
Dido
Missy Higgins

...yeah, I've got a weird mish mash of tastes =P

btw, would David Brent from The Office count? If he does, he's my eleventh artist :)

wow, no one here likes rap...
I feel an odd sense of peace and happiness...

zirnitra
Danzig

I beat the song "Mother" on Hard in Guitar Hero II...

Nirvana
Eric clapton
Misfits (with danzig)
Rage Against The Machine
Dredg
lynrd skynrd
Jerry C
Atreyu
Norma Jean

Guns n Roses
Pantera
Beck
Pearl Jam
AIC
Hole
Nirvana
Nevermore
The Doors
STP
Smashing Pumpkins
Ac/Dc
Led Zepplin
Jimi Hendrix
The Who
Muse
Elton John

and I could go on.

I'm going to stand out from the crowd and NOT make a vertical list of my favorite bands. Just try and stop me!

311, A Perfect Circle, AC DC, Aerosmith, Age of Electric, Anthrax, Audioslave, Beck, Big Wreck, Billy Talent, Black Sheep, Bloc Party, Boston, Buckcherry, The Chemical Brothers, The Chrystal Method, Collective Soul, Daft Punk, Danger Doom, Deadsy, Death From Above 1979, Deep Purple, Deftones, DJ Enki, DJ Riko, DJ Shadow, Fatboy Slim, Felix da Housecat, Filter, Fischerspooner, Foo Fighters, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Gnarls Barkley, Goldfinger, Goo Goo Dolls, I Mother Earth, Incubus, Iron Maiden, Isis, Jurassic 5, Karp, LCD Soundsystem, Lemon Jelly, Madvillain, Marcy Playground, Marilyn Manson, Matthew Good Band, MC Chris, Meat Beat Manifesto, MF Doom, Modest Mouse, Motley Crue, MSTRKRFT, Music Instructor, New Order, Nickelback, Nine Inch Nails, Orgy, Overseer, Papa Roach, Paul Oakenfold, Pearl Jam, Percee P, The Pharcyde, Pixies, Placebo, Porno For Pyros, The Prodigy, Propellerheads, Queens Of The Stoneage, R.E.M., Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rob Dougan, Royksopp, Run-DMC, RJD2, Rush, Sam Roberts, Schoolly D, Serial Joe, The Shins, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Sublime, Sum 41, T. Rex, Tool, Wheatus, Whitesnake, The Who, Wide Mouth Mason, Wolfmother, WUNDRKUT, Yes, Z-Trip...

AND MORE!!

The Cruxshadows, M83, Clinic, Neutral Milk Hotel, Assemblage 23, Rammstein, Bright Eyes, Apoptygma Berzerk, Jack Off Jill, Gary Numan, Lacuna Coil, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Rapture, The Books, Tortoise

Beaums
I'm going to stand out from the crowd and NOT make a vertical list of my favorite bands.

RJD2!!!!! :)

Crazy Dutchman
RJD2!!!!! :)

Awwwwwwwww yeah! No one does break beats like RJD2! One of my dance groups is actually doin a routine to "Since We Last Spoke" this year. It's pretty dope.

Linkin Park
Simple Plan
Three Days grace
Sr-71
Sum 41
and anything good...

My favorite Band is Rob Zombie/White Zombie; whatever you wish to call them.

I honestly like all kinds of music. Here is a small list (Otherwise, it would be HUGE!)

Abba
Aerosmith
Louis Armstrong
The Beatles
Blondie
James Brown
Bif Naked
Bjork
Johnny Cash
Cibo Matto
The Clash
Patsy Cline
The Doors
Donovan
Jimmy Durante
Eagles
Elvis
Green Day
Jimmy Hendrix
Hole
Hank Williams, Jr.
P.J. Harvey
Billy Idol
The Irish Rovers
Joan Jett
Janis Joplin
Tom Jones
The Kinks
Carole King
Kris Kristofferson
The Killers
Jerry Lee Lewis
Loretta Lynn
Alanis Morissette
Marilyn Manson
Madonna
Metallica
Morcheeba
Motzart
No Doubt
Willie Nelson
Nine Inch Nails
The Offspring
Dolly Pardon
Pixies
Tom Petty
Queen
The Ramones
Bonnie Raitt
Jeannie C. Riley
Reverend Horton Heat
The Sex Pistols
Frank Sinatra
Salt N' Peppa
The Stray Cats
George Thorogood
Tom Waits
The Waitresses
Tammy Wynette (George Jones)
"Weird Al" Yankovic

I also like the scores done by: Danny Elfman, John Williams, and Stephen Sondheim

I feel so bad, beacause there are so many more that are worthy of mention...Oh, well.

Don't have time to list.

Favourite is Pearl Jam all the way.