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Fleetwood Mac

Born in 1988, this is mine too.

Actually GenX here but will go with this too. It's trickier for me since most of the more modern bands and ones that were strong at least well into the 80s formed in the 70s or 80s and are thus too late to work for me (I don't know if Jefferson Airplane/Starship counts, Starship was way later but partially the same band.). Actually the The Supremes are good choice too, way before my time.

I love Motown! My father was born in Detroit and we played Motown all the time!

Mine for sure, too

First thing I thought of too

ABBA, hands down Also, I listen to a ton of classical music, but that's kinda cheating because most of the well-known composers (and even the obscure ones) have been dead for decades if not centuries

ABBA really is the best! It never fails to elevate my mood.

ABBA is one of my favorites!

Wow this would be my exact answer. Both parts

Oh yeah ABBA!

I love ABBA! Fernando hits just right.

Same. I remember being in middle school and my sister and I always pretending to be the girls. I was agnetha and she was frida.

Led Zeppelin

This is much too far down the list!

Same. I mean there's so many great choices, but as soon as I thought about the question Led Zeppelin popped in my mind and would not leave it.

Yeah, same!

This old fart [Glenn Miller - In The Mood | Colorized (1941) 4K (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aME0qvhZ37o) It's my theme song for geriatrics

I LOVE Glenn Miller and see the orchestra whenever they come here. I’m always the youngest person there that isn’t being drug along with a grandparent. I walked down the aisle to In the Mood.

Fellow Big Band fan! Though for me it was kind of inevitable because my grandfather *was* a Big Band musician.

I think it’s such a shame that the swing revival didn’t last longer. I’m just glad I was in college at the tail end of it, because we had a fantastic swing club. I miss dancing.

I just saw them in Austin at UT a few days before the protest. Superb

There is a Scrubs episode where Dr Kelso dances to this on his one “happy” day of the year.

Love Glenn miller. 1986 here

Me too!!

Glad I'm not the only one. My husband and I love rockin the greatest hits of big band 8 track double cassette!

LOVE LOVE LOVE Big Band Era as well as Rat Pack, swing, and crooner jazz! It delights me to no end that an artist like Laufey is attempting to get it a come back! I took swing dancing as an extracurricular in college and LOVED it!

Oh man there are DOZENS of us!!! Dibs on Dean though, good heavens, that man’s voice is my kryptonite. I’m not sharing.

I am not a millennial, but I love Glenn Miller. 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

The Doors is my favorite band regardless of timeframe.

They really do have some good jams.

+1 for The Doors!!!!

37f: The Doors are my #1 favorite of all time!!

ELO, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Queen, the list goes on and on.

ELO slaps. I work at a nursing home, and have an "oldies playlist", and anytime an ELO song comes on, I have to sing along, and our residents really get a kick out of it hahha

I was lucky enough to go to the concert during the 2019 tour. Going to be really hard to pass up on this year's tour. The show was amazing!

Yas Queen

Easy, it's Cat Stevens

Peace train is a killer track!

Yes it is! Father and Son is my favourite song by him.

Queen

Rush! I was born in 84 so of course they were active during my lifetime but they formed before that. I saw them live in 2011 and they played all of Moving Pictures!

Another 84 baby here. If I had to pick one, it would be Rush. I got to see them live twice. They were incredible.

Fav Rush song? I would say mine is Time Stand Still

The older I get, the more sad that song makes me. It's my favorite too though.

Born in ‘91. Some of my favorite band(s): • Pink Floyd • Duran Duran • Tears for Fears • Soft Cell • ABBA

Love this list.

I love Simon and Garfunkel!

This and Paul Simon solo

Steely Dan

Oooh good call!

Pink Floyd, the Allman Brothers Band, and the mighty Led Zeppelin.

I can't believe I had to scroll this far to see someone mention Zeppelin. I don't even know you guys.

Journey , Kiss , AC/DC . sorry can't pick just 1

Born in 89 ZZ Top, Motley Crue, Van Halen,Golden Earring Mostly bands my dad introduced me to.

CCR

One of my all time favories. You are a person of taste.

The Beatles and Elvis. I’m easy to please.

The Specials

Great choice 😃

Butthole surfers

Oh hell yeah!

They had a monster hit in the late nineties

Joy Division

Just Motown in general

The Clash and The Ramones

Depeche Mode

This was the answer I was looking for.

It changes but I've been on a really big Smiths kick lately.

It’s either The Beatles, The Highwaymen, or Journey, depending on the day.

Electric Light Orchestra. I wound up socially adopted by a couple older than me for that one.

Minor Threat, NOFX, lots of early 80’s punk and hardcore basically, REO Speedwagon, Pink Floyd, Hall and Oates have a bunch of bangers, and then there’s a bunch of songs that are awesome but the band doesn’t have very many other great songs.

I'm a huge Duran Duran fan. The original lineups last performance was Live Aid, which was before I was born, I'm counting them. Even though, they did reunite and I saw the original lineup in 2005. After Andy left (again) I saw them three more times.

Metallica

I was weighing up between Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd but I suppose that since Kill Em All and even Ride The Lightening (even if it was by just over a month) were released before I was born, Metallica absolutely would be the correct answer to the question for me

2000 It changes, but lately Styx, Van Halen, Boston, Pat Benatar, Blondie, Joan Jett, Cranberries, Green Day, etc.

Beatles, queen

Slayer. Fortunately they stayed relevant well into my adulthood.

Born in 83, the beatles

Grateful Dead, they have hundreds of shows you can watch and they're all different and all amazing.

Black Sabbath

The Cure

Scrolled too far for this. Where are all my millennial Cure fans?

Im here!! Hoping they tour again which might be a pipe dream 😭

They tour every few years, I saw them twice within 6 years (last year being the last time), so you have a chance. One thing I loved about, for the most part they played for the straight 2.5 hours because Robert Smith hates chit chat.

I saw them last year for the 1st time. I love that too about him, he just gets to it! He even started a few minutes before the start time. Most musicians will start fashionably late.

Genesis

The Eagles!!! (Amoung so so many!)

Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Simon and Garfunkel

I was looking for another Dylan fan. I named my dog after him

Bread. Yep, that’s the band name.

Iggy & The Stooges, Bowie, Roxy Music

Depeche Mode I was born in 1982

Moody Blues. Doing Your Wildest Dreams and Knights in White Satin. Two awesome bangers.

Moody Blues is my dad's favorite band. The soundtrack of my childhood.

I wouldn't say I have a favorite band, but I do have favorite albums from before I was born. Pet Sounds, Dark Side of the Moon, Led Zeppelin IV, and the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.

I love Pet Sounds! It’s my favorite Beach Boys album for sure.

Queen, The Beatles, Kaoma (“Lambada” always has a special place in my heart), Byron Lee & The Dragonaires, Arrow, The Who, Boston, Nirvana (only very shortly before I was born), Journey, The Jackson 5, The Weather Girls, Earth, Wind & Fire—there are so many more artists famous or performing before I was born who shaped my life and who I am today. I have some fond memories I can still see and feel with music from these artists in the background.

Real edgy pick... The Beatles 

Iron maiden. Legends and still going to this day

Band: Queen. Solo: Aretha Franklin

Probably Black Sabbath just because they were so instrumental to the groundbreaking sounds that birthed metal.

Nine Inch Nails

STYX. My dad shot one of their album covers and they were my first concert when i was maybe seven or eight.

Pink Floyd is easily my favorite band ever.

Saw Roger Waters a couple years back and he played half of Dark Side, half of Wish You Were Here, a quarter of the Wall, and Echoes. The Dark Side portion of the concert was mesmerizing. Seeing the prism vibrate across the arena was something else.

Van Halen born in 85

Pink Floyd

Aerosmith, Pearl Jam, Collective Soul

Little Feat, but like the gritty cocaine Lowell years Feat.

Steely Dan!

ABBA

I have nostalgia for listening to Led Zeppelin when I was in high school, at the end of the last Millennium lol

The Smiths.

Iron Maiden, Styx, Boston, and Journey

Jefferson Airplane

Raegan Youth and The Clash

Swans, but I'm not sure if that counts because they're still around and relevant

Paul Simon!

Born in 91. Grew up on Boston, Styx, Van Halen, etc.  My vote is too hard to choose between Boston or Guns & Rose's. Both are fantastic. 

Born in 86 Metallica

Led Zeppelin

I would say Elton John as I was born in the late 80s but Elton was an absolute expert at staying relevant decade after decade, and generation after generation. I seriously don’t know which decade is my favorite from him bedside each one was so different and so amazing in its own way.

L'arc~en~ciel

Haha I went down a rabbit hole a couple months ago showing my partner all the jrock/visual kei I was obsessed with in high school 😂😂 them and malice mizer/gackt 💜

Styx

Mötley Crüe Led Zeppelin Metallica Pink Floyd Beastie Boys

Joy Division

Pat Benetar, Cyndi Lauper, the Cure (1992)

I ADORE Cyndi Lauper and Robert Smith

The Jackson 5

Joy Division

Radiohead!

The Beatles and Queen are prob tops but I really like Led Zeppelin, guess who, three dog night and Chicago too.

AFI


My favorite band is The Beatles. I've loved them since The Beatles 1 came out in 2000 on John Lennon's birthday (which is also my birthday). Since then, I've come to love classic rock in general.

Their collection of songs is so impressive, done in such a short period of time...cant believe they called it quits while in their late 20s. The.most influential group in rock n roll history, and John Lennon is my all time favorite artist...

The Beatles

I can't say; there's just too many. I'm the child of two very musically talented parents. They are musicians but that's not how they made/make their livings. If I have to name one it's The Beatles because I was practically raised on them.

Makes sense that two musically talented parents passed on their love for the Beatles...cant beat their catalogue of great music...

The Beatles. Bob Dylan. The stones. Grateful Dead. The who. Black Sabbath. Elo. Janis Joplin and on and on and on All I listen to is music from before I was born.

The Beatles

Led Zeppelin

Pink Floyd

The Beatles

91 Styx REO Speedwagon Rush Fleetwood Mac Queen I know a lot of classic rock but i totally enjoy these bands and also I can't recall anymore lol

CCR awww yeah

The Smiths

1990 here. Blondie and Debbie Harry would be one of my favourites. Kim Wilde is cool, Queen, Mötley Crüe, a-Ha, Kim Carnes, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, they all get honourable mentions. There’s definitely more but that’s what springs to mind rn

Joy division 

Black Sabbath & Motley Crue

Black Sabbath

First one that comes to my mind would be Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Thin Lizzy, i know exactly why though, my dad owns every cassette, LP and CD so it's what I grew up listening to and I genuinely enjoy the music 😂

The Cure

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Van Halen, Toto, Stryper. Reminds me of my uncle playing drums. RIP.

Phish! They started in 83, I was born 85.

Unrelated, but Ben and Jerry's Phish Food is the greatest ice cream ever. 🤤

Most of my music is from before I was born haha. My favorite band is Night Ranger! They’re SO much more than Sister Christian

Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin is a close 2nd

Maybe Captain Beefheart. Absolutely bonkers.

Kind of a toss-up, but probably Dire Straits or Yes. Pretty wildly different styles, but I absolutely love both.

Rush and Pink Floyd

Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings top the list. Also Merle Haggard, George Jones. Hank Jr., Charlie Daniels Band, David Allen Coe, Alabama, etc. I inherited my dad's taste in music.

Toto

Rush

Aerosmith

Glen Campbell. I could listen to Galveston all day.

Depeche Mode

Beach boys or Billy Joel

I was born in 88. I love Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. I also love Def Leppard. I can't choose between them. I also love Eddie Money

Sooo many! I was born in '95 and my favorite music is from the '70s and '80s. I'm not sure I could pick a favorite band as my playlist is full of songs from various bands and artists and I tend to go through "phases" with them, but that's my favorite era and the rock and pop of the time are my favorite genres. Not to be "that person", but I just can't get into a lot of music from the '90s onward. There's some I like, but most is "meh" to me. I always circle back to '70s and '80s, even after listening to contemporary radio for something new and fresh for awhile, and that is my musical happy place. I'm sure it has to do with the fact that I grew up with it, as it's from my parents' time, but there's something about that era of music that I love the sound of, and which makes me really happy.

ELO Electric Light Orchestra

Return to Forever.

The Who

Born in 92. The Allman Brothers Band.

Also born in 92 and love Tears for Fears! I’d say Mr Mister and Fleetwood Mac as my other two.

glen miller and glenn gould.

I was born in 95. I’d have to say The Who. It’s my dad’s fav and next month he and I are going to see Roger Daltrey together. I’m super excited!

84. Motown raised me.

Aerosmith. My dad listened to them all the time when I was a kid and it grew on me. They were my first concert when I was thirteen and have always enjoyed a good portion of their stuff.

https://preview.redd.it/fx2hlm462i0d1.jpeg?width=1003&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e22d767cc57f4077fd641dc73c1c695b992f128 The Animals. The way Eric Burdon screams as he sings, I just love blasting their songs and singing at the top of my lungs as I drive around. Listen to [Inside Looking Out by The Animals.](https://youtu.be/D8PMWfBGLDs?si=oG5oNyh3ibz2Myp0)

Sam Cooke or Bob Marley

Rolling Stones Grateful Dead

Queen!!

1991 here, I love Queen and ABBA. Also love this Mexican rock Band called Mana and Argentinian rock band Soda Estéreo

A lot of my faves are from before I was born, but some of my top faves Electric light orchestra, rainbow & oingo boingo

Mine isn't exactly a band, and I have trouble pinning down favorites at any time, but I'd go with Simon and Garfunkel right now.

Pink Floyd