Favorite non-metal band/album

What's your favorite non-metal album or band? I'm going to say Toto or Tears For Fears. No specific albums just anything by those two bands is amazing.

Probably The Beatles. From Rubber Soul onward especially.

Electric Light Orchestra is another favorite.

Gentle Giant.

David Bowie.

...and many more.

MagnusPrime wrote:Probably The Beatles. From Rubber Soul onward especially.

Electric Light Orchestra is another favorite.

Gentle Giant.

David Bowie.

...and many more.

I do love The Beatles. Me and my dad used to play The Beatles Rockband all the time.

Pierce Pettis. Album: Chase the Buffalo

As I wrote on a similar post, I don't really have a favorite as much as I go through periods of liking certain bands / albums until I move on to something else.  

But certainly there are bands I tend to go back to and they can be considered "favorites" I suppose.

So in that category I would put bands / artists / composers like:

Yes
Robin Trower
Bad Company
Seal
Journey
The Fixx
Steely Dan
Fleetwood Mac
Dvořák
Haydn

For a long time, I would've answered Wovenhand or 16 Horsepower but that ship sailed once they went "antagonistically woke"...  

Now I'd say the Slovak eclectic rock band Sexit.  Their first album is metal, but their subsequent five are rock.  They're really great and incredibly varied.  I made a thread about 'em here:
https://thecmr.forumotion.com/t8574-sexit-slovak-classic-heavy-metal#179407

Here's a favorite of mine:


And here's one of my wife's favorite tracks of theirs:



If they don't count, then my next pick would probably be Czech folk band Amnis.  They have a smaller catalog but I find myself listening to them a ton.  Really lovely stuff!
https://thecmr.forumotion.com/t13224-amnis-neo-folk?highlight=amnis

Bonus pick!  Musk Ox.

Between Neal Morse and Jupiter VI (Jimmy Brown of Deliverance’s prog-rock side project)

If we include rock, then my easy answer is Flyleaf. If we exclude rock, it becomes much more difficult...

Skillet, but my favorite album from them (Collide) I would call metal. If discounting hard rock, then PFR and the Them album. But they have some hard rock. As far as completely soft bands, Over the Rhine has some great songs.

Tough one. In Christian music probably 77s and Whiteheart.
Non maybe Dire Straits and Kansas.
Could be different tomorrow.

Shane Smith and the Saints -Red Dirt/Folk/Texas Country. I absolutely love these guys. They have it. I can't stand regular country.

The Cranberries

Whiteheart

Stevie Nicks Wild Heart and Uh-huh by John Mellancamp

Rock:
Petra
White Heart
DeGarmo & Key
77s
Larry Norman
Phil Keaggy

Not rock:
Rich Mullins
David Meece
Don Francisco

Michael Jackson and Army of Lovers are my jam outside of metal.

From Michael Jackson I enjoy Dangerous and Bad the most.

From Army of Lovers The Gods of Earth and Heaven is the best, but Massive Luxury Overdose and Glory Glamour and Gold are both great too. Some other Alexander Bard's projects have stuff I love too, like Vacuum and Bodies Without Organs.

Heaps.

Probably top of the list would be King's X and the Beatles. 

Fact I am realizing I really only like a handful of metal bands these days. Once upon a time it was just about all I listened to and in the Christian years I'd buy anything that was metal and Christian because it was limited and the only way to know if you really liked a band was to take a risk and buy it often (no Youtubes).

Now I'm stuck in my ways I like the handful of metal albums I've always enjoyed and could careless for anything new...guess that's what they meant when they said just wait till you get older! Also I just can't get excited about any metal these days I've heard it all. But it's probably me being stuck in a certain age of metal, an age when the origins of  metal were becoming underground and mainstream and  two rivers splitting from one conjunction, an age where everything was fresh and new and exciting. Now the world marches on with the gen Z generation of metal which I just don't get at all, but then again it's for me.

Dustofyears wrote:
Now Also I just can't get excited about any metal these days I've heard it all. 

I feel the same.  I check out most of the new bands in the metal realm and to my ears the vast majority of them sound like copies of copies of copies.   I suppose the younger folks like them and that's fine, but for me I always feel like I've heard it before, and done much better.  The real interesting stuff for me these days is in the prog rock world.   Not so much prog metal (most of the newer bands there I find boring too), but the prog rock because these newer bands have been incorporating other genres into their sound like post-rock, indie rock, alt-rock, pop, ambient, industrial, etc. as well as jazz and classical.   I've also gone back to appreciate some of the earlier bands because they're like a breathe of fresh air now when I hear all this newer music that doesn't interest me.

Constantine wrote:

Dustofyears wrote:
Now Also I just can't get excited about any metal these days I've heard it all. 

I feel the same.  I check out most of the new bands in the metal realm and to my ears the vast majority of them sound like copies of copies of copies.   I suppose the younger folks like them and that's fine, but for me I always feel like I've heard it before, and done much better.  The real interesting stuff for me these days is in the prog rock world.   Not so much prog metal (most of the newer bands there I find boring too), but the prog rock because these newer bands have been incorporating other genres into their sound like post-rock, indie rock, alt-rock, pop, ambient, industrial, etc. as well as jazz and classical.   I've also gone back to appreciate some of the earlier bands because they're like a breathe of fresh air now when I hear all this newer music that doesn't interest me.

Tried getting into prog like Yes and Rush etc but I find it too pompous (just for my own taste) and both Yes and Rush I just don't really get. Don't mind a little dream theater when the mood strikes Like A little jazz and classical now and then, like me some Enya. and use to listen to Mahavishnu Orchestra's Birds of fire album a lot back in the day. Realize there are no real surprises in my bag and my tastes are pretty simple with mostly mainstream tastes Beatles, GnR, Ac/Dc, Sabbath, King's X and classic rock to grunge period stuff along with some Christian albums etc. That's Just me though. Enjoy the prog.

You are right about the copies of a copies thing too, and that there being better bands before all those copies. Those are the bands I go to as well when it comes to metal. The generation think the new bands such as 200 stab wounds etc is a new thing, but then again I suppose we have to remember it's new to them so there's that. There's a bunch of stuff I hate creeping into metal now.