Sorry, no favorites here. I like so many kinds of music and different kinds of music speak to me in different ways at different times. Probably my favorite music is anything with close harmony...I still remember my brother and I listening to the Andrew Sisters on our old hi-fi when we were in elementary school. But acapella groups, CSNY, Simon and Garfunkle, gregorian chants, the Brothers Cazimero (hawaiian) and even, yes. barbershop quartets, there's something about voices coming together like that that send my socks rolling up and down.

As a teen I was into classical music...Beethoven's darkness spoke to my teen angst while Bach's fugues, inventions and other pieces tweaked my logical brain while it traced and followed the intertwining melodies and themes. Renaissance music was a favorite as I used to play in a recorder group as a teen.

I grew up being a Beatle maniac so all of their songs strike chords in my heart, but I've always secretly wanted to be Diana Krall, easily singing while tickling the ivories in that mellow jazzy way. (I went to see her in concert and the smoke machine they had running to create "atmosphere" set off the venue's fire alarm!!)

And speaking of jazz, there is also a corner of my heart that is forever intrigued by Rhapsody in Blue which I think is one of the best and most creative pieces of music ever written. I enjoy so much Gershwin music and was always so sorry he passed so young.

80s music is special but I like some of everything. What I listen to most--Jimi Jamison and Survivor and Huey Lewis and the News.

I would be surprised if having ecclectic music taste is yours alone. In order to answer your question I would need smaller paramaters--so I guess I am in the group of too many to choose just one!! Different times, different events, different purposes all frame my favorites.

I don’t think I have a favourite musical artist. I definitely have favourite songs that either get me bebopping around or bring back memories that make me both laugh and cry.

Right now, I’m loving most stuff by Harry Styles.

^ He's so cute, isn't he?

And Bookwoman, big thumbs up to the Beatles! I sort of thought Annie might say that since I feel like she's quick to come up with a Beatles tune for almost every category Lars comes up with on the weekends. Always look forward to that.

Don't really have a great favorite...I love music and have it going all day. Just

depends on the mood I'm in for the day, I guess. Mostly the old ones.... Never fail with Elton John, Billy

Joel or Paul McCartney, Bon Jovi, Rod Stewart and on and on. Yesterday was a jazz

day for me, and I had Charlie Parker playing yesterday a lot. And like Winton Marsalis.

....Michael Buble singing "Home" gets me....Lucas Graham had

a couple that I loved...yeah...on and on, I guess. Don't like Hip Hop or some of

the "teens" favorites, and not much Country..but will always stop and listen to

Fleet Wood Mac and Elvis if I hear it playing.

Right now: Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, Tones, Pink...

Fun songs with a beat.... I do like older rock songs...Mick Jagger/Charmed Life

Uptown Gal: Michael Buble's Home really gets to me too! Not one favorite, but a few. Fleetwood Mac, Eagles, Hall and Oates, and Stones. Many are broken up, retired, or dead. Except Keith Richards of course. LOL

Too many to list 😃

My favorite is Nina Hagen, and I got to meet her in San Francisco in 1982. A friend took pictures of us, but I don't know what I did with them. She autographed albums for my brother and me, and for my brother, she wrote "Hallo Brother!" Her handwriting is rather strange. I also gave her a book as a present.

Oh there are so many and from a variety of genres. Otis Redding, Van Morrison, Stones, Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, Journey, Boston, Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow, Chris Stapleton, Allison Krauss, Emmy Lou Harris, Andrea Bocelli.

I'm sure I’ve left some out.

No contest--Elton John. And when he has Ray Cooper with him, heaven on earth! I've seen him live about 10 times. In September, we went to his farewell tour, and he was as wonderful as ever. He doesn't stop to take a breath!

I don't have a favorite. I am a child of the 60's and 70's so my genre of choice is classic rock and roll but no particular artist. Don't care much for country or jazz but I do like blues! And classical music of all types.

Every time I hear a Johnny Rivers song (Summer Rain, Swayin’ to the Music, Secret Agent Man, Poor Side of Town, etc ) I am just blown away by his beautiful voice.

Other favs: Johnny Mathis, John Denver, and Phil Collins.

If I had to choose one and only one, I'd go with David Bowie. He's been among my favorites since I was twelve, finally old enough to discover my own music. I loved how Bowie changed over his career, how he could turn on his popularity with mass-appealing songs, then deliberately release an album with a totally different sound: "Ch-ch-ch-changes" indeed! From his earlier songs to his last masterwork, his music reaches me.

I love most all the music from the 60s, the very best decade for music ever. I also like the 70s and beyond that not much. I love the Beatles, Simon, and Garfunkel, the Stones, Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, ABBA, The Eagles, Boston, Chicago, and I am sure many more. from that period. I do not like today's music and, I dislike rap intensely. In my opinion, rock died in the late 60s and early 70s.

Liking so many artists, and so many genres from classic to country makes it hard to choose. If I had to choose a favorite artist it would have to be Don Williams; I can listen to him sing anything. My favorite group would be the Eagles; so much talent in one group of people.

lily316, I agree !

For most of us, as regards popular music, I think personal preferences are hugely influenced by peers, time and place. When it was, where we were and what were current trends were going on when we started to pay attention to popular music. What were our peers listening to, what styles were popular and which artists prominent in the media. What was heard on the radio.

For me, that was SoCal in the 60s-70s. Groups who lived and hung out in Laurel Canyon (as has been popularized by a few films and books), played on the Sunset Strip and venues elsewhere in the area. Surf music. National trends (like the British Invasion but not so much Motown). And what was happening in San Francisco with groups nurtured by Bill Graham - Jefferson Airplane foremost among them but many, many others, like Credence, Quicksilver, Santana but not the Dead.

I count too many groups whose music I've listened to for 6 decades now to pick a favorite. So, my answer is - None of them is but all of them are my favorite.

It was difficult for me to find peers who had the same taste in music that I had, and I think I have bucked peer pressure for most of my life. I know what I like, and it has nothing to do with what anyone else likes. In the 1970s, I made my own clothes or bought vintage clothes because I did not like 70s fashion. According to my marketing professor, this puts me in the "3% fringe" of society, as he called it.

I was always happy to find people who had similar tastes to mine, and that was reasonably easy in San Francisco, but also in Vancouver, which is one of the reasons I liked going there.

In the 1960s, I had pen pals in UK and Australia who would mail records to me, and I would pay them or exchange records that they wanted.

Depends on the day who I would say I like best. Lately it is Willie Nelson

Automatic reaction is Neil Diamond. Haven't seen him mention so I guess I'm alone in that.

Oh blfenton! Hands down, Neil Diamond’s Sweet Caroline has to be one of the most fun group sing-a-long!

As I read through the replies, I shake my head yes and smile to 95% of those mentioned. I also have a hard time limiting to one, but if I HAD to say one then of course it would be the Beatles. And if I had to pick a Beatle, it would be Sir Paul.

But but I do love and enjoy and appreciate so many others.

For classic rock I probably like the following the most in no particular order...The Beatles, The Eagles, Queen , CCR, Aerosmith, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers, Tom Petty, and I'm sure I left out several. For contemporary I prefer country music. I also like a lot of classic country music. I don't care at all for what the current crowd of whatever they call this genre turns out.

Ricky Nelson, always and forever. Sigh.

Bill Withers. Not too often mentioned, but I'm a big fan.

Also Billy Joel, Quincy Jones, Neil Diamond, and George Benson (more as a singer than songwriter).

Eclectic here, pretty fond of Iris De Ment, Bob Dylan, the Eagles, the Band, and Peter Oustroushko.

The first time I saw the Grateful Dead live in ‘72, my life changed forever and it never changed back. I am fortunate to have seen them several hundred times, and all these years after the death of Garcia in ‘95, I still have a great circle of friends (that included my late husband) met through our shared love of the music. We are all still Deadheads! Other huge favorites are Patti Smith, Tom Petty, all the many Dead-related and adjacent bands, and lots of others from the ‘60s and ‘70s, many of whom I was lucky to see live during that time: The Beatles, The Byrds, Dylan, Joan Baez, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Neil Young, The Lovin’Spoonful, The Allman Brothers, Jefferson Airplane, Santana, Van Morrison, Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Brown, Paul Simon, and so many others. I grew up in the Bay Area; we were so lucky to have Bill Graham as our local impresario. In my early twenties I worked at a rock club in Huntington Beach and got to see all the performers who came through that tiny venue.

Bennie Goodman and David Lindley. Jimmy Buffet gets an honorable mention.

Being your resident dj I have to say the 70s music. Top 2 for me are ABBA and the Eagles.

Singer-songwriters. Jim Croce. Gerry Rafferty. Carole King, Billy Joel. Art Garfunkle. Jim Brickman. Also the Eagles, Boston, Cass Elliott, Karen Carpenter. I love heart in songs. and for fun, I drove my son and friends to a Jonathan Coulton concert in middle or high school, so why not go myself? I thoroughly enjoyed it (so did Peter Sagal, who I think had also brought a kid to the show).

Alternative rock is pretty much the only thing I listen to. Sirius xmu or alt nation, but I also listen to channel 33 which is new wave from the 80s. Bands like Depeche Mode, New Order, Blondie, Frankie goes to Hollywood. But I love fresh, new stuff. Bands like Automatic and Bon Iver and the National. My favorite band as an adult was a Scottish band named Frightened Rabbit, who unfortunately no longer exists after the suicide of it's lead singer, who wrote the most soul shattering songs. Woke Up Hurting just tore me apart.

I was raised on classical music, though, which was the only thing my parents listened to and to which we were subject to for years in the car and always on the radio in the kitchen. I couldn't tell you the names of what I was hearing, but I knew it all. As an adult, my mom would take my sisters and myself to the opera at Lyric Opera in Chicago 4 times a year. We tried to go after she passed but it was too painful to be there without our mom. There were many times I would hear familiar music without having known it came from that opera.

Interesting how new posters are so apt at posting on older threads.

I do like Ed Sheeran, but not my favorite of all time.

How about you , @sushipup2? What do you think?

35 posts before someone mentioned classical music!

I'm a HUGE Beatles fan and of course love a lot of bands from the '60s and '70s. I'm surprised at how many lyrics pop into my brain when I hear the songs. I also like blues and jazz. If I had to pick one single favorite musician, it would probably be Thelonius Monk.

Another vote for Elton John here and the Beatles. I enjoy all kinds of music though depending on my mood, Blues, jazz, classical (especially Baroque), classic rock, and classic country in small doses. I still own my original Abbey Road album. Unfortunately the cd player on my Bose radio has stopped working so I can't play my old CDs. I used to play them in the car but my new car doesn't have a cd player. Guess I'll have to buy one. Can't get the hang of streaming.

Too many to name. I like old rock and pop the most. Also like some older country more than new country but can listen to some of it. I like some new pop too but not much of it. Also like some folk music, older stuff from the 50s and super old country, like Patsy Cline. I grew up with that stuff because that was my parents' favorite type of music to listen to.

I have a wide range of music on my new Spotify playlist for my upcoming trip. I need to work on it some more. One of my friends is bringing classical music that I told her would put me to sleep so I guess I'll be napping when she is driving and playing that stuff. I think I would like a classical music show, in person, though. Weird, I know. Kind of like watching baseball in person or on tv. Big difference.

My daughter loves show tunes and I find it annoying when driving in a car. Watching a musical, that's okay with me but I don't want to listen to it while driving. She loves the Mamma Mia musical and plays the soundtrack all the time, I prefer to listen to Abba. The classical music friend hates Abba so I didn't put any of their songs on my playlist. lol. She loves Bob Dylan, I don't, but I have a song that was written about him on my list. ( :

I have a lot of fun pop from my childhood and some hard rock from my preteen and teenage years on the list. It was fun finding old, long forgotten songs I used to listen to.

I already listed mine five months ago...mostly all 60s and early 70s but recently I added a new one since my Pandora plays it almost every day on my Airbuds. That group is Bread.

Absolute favorite is Luciano Pavarotti. When he died, I was sad for days. Close runner-up is Mavis Staples. That lady can sing, and her guitarist Ricky is fabulous.

Jimi Hendrix and Bonnie Rait are two favorites, but I love many artists.

James Taylor

Morgan Wallen.....

I never had a favorite all time artist and don't remember idolizing any any, but had countless of favorite songs over the decades. My first favorite I remember was the "happy birthday song by Casey jones" and "flying purple people eater" as a little kid, and brings back the most enjoyable memories.

If I had to pick favorite songs with an artist behind them through the chapters of my life it would be to many to list. But Right there is a favorite I kind of idolize and is Benedetta Caretta, an Italian singer who has an incredible voice with perfect tone and totally mesmerizing to me even in Italian, with no memories associated to her so far. She sings covers in English and originals in Italian, could she be my first favorite artist? She is like listening to classic music while doing yard work and they both feel good. By gosh I think she is my first! I'm in love.... Tom Mcdonald could be my male idol now but all the way back to kindergarten it has to be Casey Jones happy birthday song. I love you too Casey.

Kevin, are you from Minnesota? We used to watch Casey and Roundhouse every chance we got.

I think Randy Travis is one of my all-time favoirte singers.

Country is my favourite genre; but not today's country. Reba, Brooks and Dunn, Dwight, George Strait, Alan Jackson, Wynona, etc etc. And the 80's artists, Restless Heart, Sawyer Brown, Keith Whitley. I love love Darius Rucker who used to be in Hootie and the Blowfish. He nails country.

I love love Engelbert, and I listen to smooth jazz as well.