Are New Model Army your favourite band? Other favourite bands/artists

[sozbot]

I'm guessing, as you're all here, that New Model Army are one of your favourite bands, but I'm curious as to whether they're your #1 favourite, or whether that spot is taken by another band or artist.

(I searched the forum for a similar topic and couldn't find it directly, so apologies if this has already been asked!)

For me, New Model Army are firmly in the #1 spot and have been for about three years. I have many other favourites, but somehow none of them fulfil me in quite the way that NMA do.

Other favourites of mine include:

Killing Joke
Skunk Anansie
Therapy?
Metallica
Rammstein
Tori Amos
Peter Gabriel
Kate Bush
Kate Miller-Heidke


I'm pretty big on heavier music nowadays, but as a teenager I mostly listened to softer, offbeat stuff like Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Peter Gabriel etc and will always love them dearly even though the majority of my listening nowadays is much heavier stuff. Just curious to see what you all love, and where your love of NMA came from!

 

[claireinblack]

The Stranglers

[Bunny]

Where to start!!
Madball, ICP and Volbeat are current faves. Previously Del Amitri, Radiohead, Rammstein, Ocean Colour Scene. Thats only the tip of it off the top of my hea.
NMA have been one constant fave for years.

[Intothewind]

I really don't have a fave band/artist. But I love loads of different stuff besides NMA.

kate Bush
Beach boys
The Beat
Nomeansno
The Chameleons
New order
Sly Stone
Mercury rev
Tom petty
Human league
The Smiths
and Prince

[Space]

These are bands that I buy everything they released. I devour their music and love at least 90% of it.
I'll list my #1 and then others in no particular order.

#1. THE BEATLES

Prince
Echo and the Bunnymen
The Chameleons
The Bodines
The Clash
Pearl Jam
Gene Loves Jezebel
Blue In Heaven
The Wedding Present
New Order/Joy Division
Teardrop Explodes/Julian Cope
The Specials
The Stone Roses
Paul McCartney and Wings
The Jackson Five

Others who have very strong material, but a good deal of their work I don't dig or never got into:

The Cult
The Church
Easterhouse
Del Amitri
Big Country
Killing Joke
Katy Perry
That Petrol Emotion
U2
The English Beat
Nirvana
Altered Images
Robyn Hitchcock/Soft Boys
Siouxsie
George Harrison
John Lennon
Bruce Springsteen
Radiohead
The Sisters Of Mercy
The Waterboys
Metallica
John Barry / Jerry Goldsmith / John Williams
Elvis Presley

[Gavin D]

Ben Harper
John Butler Trio (Only up to album "Sunrise over sea")
Stone Roses
Sepultura (Only up to album "Roots")
Queens of the Stoneage
Black Sabbath
Mark Lanagan
and on and on, may get back to work!

NMA are way out on top by a long way.

[Darkness]

UK SUBS
HAWKWIND
IRON MAIDEN

[The Ghost of Cain]

#1 New Model Army
The Cure
Midnight Oil
Nick Cave
The Levellers
Suede
James
Killing Joke
Stone Roses
H.I.M.
The Smiths
Pink Floyd

[lotus]

It`s now so easy to follow a band, that doesn`t exist today and split many years ago, some of the members are dead, only the record company owning the rights or the inherit and tray to make some money (or perhaps fight against each other - Zappa?)

I buy a cd (if I have only an old lp), and sometimes some rare stuff (I couldn`t buy earlier because lack of money or I couldn`t find it here), but most of the new offers of old never released stuff is only made to make money and a disappointment ...

[Shush]

NMA is my favourite band, yes. I would put that down to longevity. There have been other bands in the past who I would have said were one of my favourites, but the short list has always included NMA. None of my other favourite bands have delivered as many albums to keep them up there.

Who knows, if Nirvana did not end the way it did, and carried on with follow up great albums, maybe they would be a rival, but beyond all the personal attachment to the band I feel, and a band I go to see, there has been a constant stream of fine quality albums, and still hopefully more to come.

Most of my other favourite bands are long gone. Doors, Hendrix, Pistols, Nirvana, Generation-X, etc. etc.

[Rusco]

There are some other names which have mattered always a lot to me, as well as the NMA:

Bill Laswell
Jah Wobble
Dead Can Dance
Godflesh
The Panacea
Painkiller
Damned
UK Subs
Disorder
Coroner
Voivod

Also, I like to listen a lot to:

Kimmo Pohjonen
John Zorn
CMX
Swans
NoMeansNo
Fugazi
Doom
E.N.T.
Martyrdöd
Master
Scorn
Fields of Nephilim
Discharge
WatchTower
Mekong Delta
Infekcja
Hiatus
Anhrefn
Schwartzeneggar
Oi Polloi
Angelic Upstarts

...and the list goes on.

[peternotbaldyet]

New Model Army, Manic Street Preachers, Alice Cooper, Stranglers, Queensryche, Springsteen, Gaslight Anthem, Kinesis just off the top of my head and without mentioning the mighty Clash!

[Pazza]

.yep NMA are my #1

By a long way too

I like loads of other stuff, was into goth at uni and nowadays also love:

Gogol bordello
Pixies and black Francis
Chameleons
The church
Hugh cornwell
Bloc party
Sonic boom six
Gaz brookfield

To name just some old and new

What I realised was as I dropped off the Neph, Sisters, Mish, play dead, xmal, living in Texas, cocteaus,  Bauhaus, cure etc the one band i kept buying and continuing to like was NMA

I believe there is simply no one like em

Hv seen bands like the damned and dickies in recent years and they are great retro nights reliving some memory lane hits, but NMA keep delivering new stuff as good as if not better in some ways than the old stuff

Long may it and they continue to do so

That's why I am packing in as many gigs as poss while it does, as for me this is the best time ever to be a fan of the band

[Master Ray]

Katy Perry is my new No1.  My eyes have been opened...

 

[Anna Woman von NRW]

I'm sure it's no surprise to anyone that yes NMA are my favourite band. Nobody has spoken to me in the same way as their music does for such a long time and in so many ways - 26 years and counting for me. Yes that's a personal thing and means nothing in the grand scale of things but it's what touches me.

I could quite easily list out shed loads of other bands that I like but very few that come close to the feelings that this lot evoke. But these are the few that do/did come close:

The Smiths
The Cure
James
REM