Name your top 10 favourite bands

We had this a long time ago, thought that I would bring it back. ;)

My list:

1. Megadeth
2. Slayer
3. Anthrax
4. Metallica
5. Children of Bodom
6. Fear Factory
7. Iron Maiden
8. AC/DC
9. Exodus
10. Bathory

HM to: Mudvayne, Dimmu Borgir, and VoiVod.

Right now I'm not sure, for the longest while I had Guns n Roses at #2 but I haven't been listending to them much recently.

I suppose I'll go with...

1. Nirvana
2. Metallica
3. Rage Against the Machine
4. Tool
5. Led Zeppelin
6. Pink Floyd
7. The Clash
8. The Beatles

9 and 10 would got to two of : The Rolling Stones, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Guns n Roses, Pearl Jam, Black Sabbath, CCR, Nine Inch Nails, the list goes on...

Oasis
the Beatles
the Jam
the Stone Roses
Kings of Leon
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
the Verve
Wilco
Ryan Adams
the Libertines

HM: the Coral, the La's, the Kinks, Gomez, the Dandy Warhols, and the Clash.

1. Dream Theater
2. Liquid Tension Experiment
3. Iron Maiden
4. Symphony X
5. Avenged Sevenfold
6. OSI (Office of Strategic Influence)
7. Rage Against the Machine
8. Racer X
9. The Beatles
10. Pink Floyd

Honorable Mentions to Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.

Incubus
Rush
The Misfits
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Roots
Outkast
Pink Floyd
The Doors
Guns N Roses
The White Stripes


hm: rage against the machine, the clash

1. The Police
2. U2
3. REM
4. The Beatles
5. The Tragically Hip
6. The Cure
7. Counting Crows
8. The Replacements
9. Coldplay
10.Radiohead

My favorite band growing up was without a doubt, Alice in Chains. But over the past several years, I've really gotten into the underground metal scene. Even though I rarely listen to AIC now, I still have to put them at the top of my list:

1. Alice in Chains
2. Dark Tranquillity
3. Opeth
4. In Flames
5. Amorphis
6. At the Gates
7. Isis
8. Katatonia
9. Anathema
10. Hypocrisy

Narrowing my list down to 10 is damn near impossible. There are about a hundred other bands that I could easily put in this list.

1. Coldplay
2. Foo Fighters
3. Led Zeppelin
4. Tragically Hip
5. Rolling Stones
5. AC-DC
6. Metallica
7. U2
8. Oasis
9. Iron Maiden
10. Stereophonics

HM: 3 Doors Down, Audioslave, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Van Halen and Nirvana (these are HM just because currently I'm listening to more of the above)
Best band to never exist : Steel Dragon (great movie)

1. Radiohead
2. The Beatles
3. The White Stripes
4. The Kinks
5. Modest Mouse
6. The Beach Boys
7. Barenaked Ladies
8. Weezer
9. Simon and Garfunkel
10. Wilco

My current top 10 bands

1. Oasis
2. Radiohead
3. Modest Mouse
4. The Arcade Fire
5. Pink Floyd
6. Nirvana
7. The Strokes
8. Pearl Jam
9. Genesis
10. Sublime

1. AC/DC - Especially Bon Scott years (70's)
The Rest:
Van Halen (only with Diamond Dave)
ZZ Top (mostly pre- MTV era)
The Wallflowers
Counting Crows
REM
Metallica (80's only)
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Blue Rodeo
Tragically Hip

I also love Mellencamp and Seger and like Petty and Springsteen, but they're not really bands like those listed above.

1. Pearl Jam
2. Incubus
3. Eric Clapton/Cream/Derek & the Dominoes

only bands I consider as favorites

Currently.

1. Radiohead
2. Franz Ferdinand

3. Zepellin
4. Pearl Jam
5. The Beatles
6. Nirvana
7. Foo Fighters
8. Tragically Hip
9. Mike 'The Streets' Skinner
10. The Dandy Warhols

Kind of interesting that there's so many bands from the 90s on some of these lists. Probably the last decent decade of music we'll have for another twenty years.

1. U2
2. The Dillinger Escape Plan
3. The Beatles
4. Refused
5. Led Zepplin
6. Snapcase (from Buffalo)
7. Stevie Ray Vaughn (artist)
8. Wes Montgomery (artist)
9. Every Time I Die (from Buffalo)
10. Frodus/Fugazi

In no particular order...

The Beatles
REM
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
The Band
Dire Straits
Beausoliel (Louisiana's premier Cajun band)
Silly Wizard (Scottish/Celtic music)
The Who
early Stones
Creedence Clearwater Revival

Honorable mention to ZZ Top, The Police, Genesis, The Eagles, and George Thorogood and the Destroyers

The Band


forgot them. they're #4

forgot them. they're #4


I'm shocked, considering you and I were the only ones who were championing them on the Best Bands polls...fat lot of good that did us.

1. Dio
2. Iron Maiden
3. Judas Priest
4. Warren Zevon
5. Rolling Stones
6. Rainbow
7. Deep Purple
8. Black Sabbath (Dio Years)
9. Traveling Wilburys
10. Rush

1.Finger Eleven
2.Pearl Jam
3.Seven Mary Three
4.Live
5.The Nixons
After that it is a toss-up between Smashing Pumpkins, Led Zeppelin, Beatles, NIN, Watchmen, The Hip, Collective Soul, Matchbox 20, System of A Down, Public Enemy, OLP,

I'm not going to rate them, that's just unfair...that's like ranking your children...and I have 11...I couldn't take any of them off.


Modest Mouse
The Arcade Fire
The Fiery Furnaces
Of Montreal
Wilco
Elliott Smith
Rilo Kiley
Pavement
Neutral Milk Hotel
The Decemberists
Sufjan Stevens

In no particular order...

AC-DC
Guns N Roses
Skid Row
Cinderella
Nickelback
Van Halen
Whitesnake
Theory Of A Deadman
Def Leppard
Journey

1. Something Corporate / Jack's Mannequin
2. the Academy Is...
3. Mae
4. Underoath
5. Eric Clapton / Cream / Derek and the Dominoes
6. Thrice
7. the Beatles
8. Brand New
9. the Mars Volta
10. Armor For Sleep

HM: Jimmy Eat World, Green Day, Gatsby's American Dream

Of Montreal

I tried listening to quite a few of their songs, mostly because of you, nmk and ARianna, but I just couldn't get into them. Any songs you recommend?

In no particular order...

AC-DC
Guns N Roses
Skid Row
Cinderella
Nickelback
Van Halen
Whitesnake
Theory Of A Deadman
Def Leppard
Journey
What? You mean Nickelback fans exist?

I tried listening to quite a few of their songs, mostly because of you, nmk and ARianna, but I just couldn't get into them. Any songs you recommend?

I recommend all of Cherry Peel. I love that lo-fi pop sound they started out with.

In no particular order...

Pavement
The Microphones/Mount Eerie
Matthew Good (slowly falling though... :()
Built to Spill
Sparklehorse
Sufjan Stevens
Iron and Wine
The Fiery Furnaces
Neutral Milk Hotel
Modest Mouse
MF Doom
The Wrens

I picked 12 because it looks nicer.

1. Oasis
2. Led Zeppelin
3. The Verve
4. The Beatles
5. The Clash
6. Travis
7. The Strokes
8. Dream Theater
9. Dropkick Murphys
10. Dio

pink floyd
metallica
iron maiden
ozzy osbourne
ac/dc
kiss
rush
black sabbath
led zeppelin
rolling stones

This is tough.

In no real order:

Bad Religion
Shai Hulud
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Gorilla Biscuits
Husker Du
Isis
Agent Orange
Faded Grey
Black Flag
Death by Stereo
Circle Takes The Square
Dismemberment Plan
Saetia
Orchid
Converge
The Suicide File
American Nightmare/Give Up The Ghost
Minutemen
Dag Nasty
Rites of Spring
Fugazi

Ok, so that's more than ten.

1. In Flames
2. Woods of Ypres
3. Opeth
4. Amon Amarth
5. Behemoth
6. Necrophagist
7. Bloodbath
8. Cryptopsy
9. Hypocrisy
10.Aborted

HM: Dark Tranquillity, Carcass, Burzum, At The Gates.

1. Elliott Smith
2. Modest Mouse
3. Sufjan Stevens
4. Bright Eyes (sue me)
5. Stars
6. The Arcade Fire
7. The Beatles

and then a bunch.

1. Pearl Jam (by far)
2. The Mars Volta
3. Tool
4. Ben Harper
5. A Perfect Circle
6. At the Drive-In
7. Weezer (Blue and Pinkerton are classics)
8. Sleater-Kinney

That's all I really care about.

1. Beatles
2. Led Zeppelin
3. Bruce Springsteen
4. Pink Floyd
5. John Hiatt
6. Steely Dan
7. The Who
8. Kinks
9. CSNY
10. Donovan

1. Metallica
2. Iron Maiden
3. Black Sabbath
4. Anthrax
5. Megadeth
6. Judas Priest
7. Ozzy
8. AC/DC
9. Guns N Roses
10. Pantera

I tried listening to quite a few of their songs, mostly because of you, nmk and ARianna, but I just couldn't get into them. Any songs you recommend?


Yeah, anything off Satanic Panic In The Attic :p:

Honestly my favorite Of Montreal is definitely one of the "lesser knowns," if a band like this can have those. Art House Solutions definitely speaks to the elitist snobby ******* in me. :sarcasm:


They're not a band for everyone, they definitely have their own style, that's for sure.

1. radiohead
2. broken social scene
3. wilco
4. arcade fire
5. stars
6. blur
7. beck
8. manitoba/caribou
9. loscil
10. pink floyd

Rolling Stones
The Eagles
Pink Floyd
Zeppelin
Radiohead
Queen
The Doors
Incubus
Phish
OAR

HM: Beatles, CCR, Tom Petty, Offspring, Metallica, Sublime, 311,

But I really don't have an official top 10, but the Stones and Eagles are always 1-2. The others change so much.

Sonic Youth
The Arcade Fire
The White Stripes
Radiohead
Our Lady Peace

Wolf Parade
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
The Tragically Hip
Matt Good

After OLP my list got real sketchy. The top group is my real favourites, the next 5 are bands I like but then again, I like alot of bands.

The Grateful Dead
Uncle Tupelo
Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals
The Gourds
Son Volt
The Talking Heads
Blues Traveler
Robert Randolph and the Family Band
Led Zeppelin
Peter Bruntnell
Lucina Williams
Tift Merritt

Metallica
Tool
Beatles
Pink Floyd
Fear Factory
Alice in Chains
Radiohead
Soundgarden
The Who
Slayer

1. Rush
2. Rush
3. Rush
4. Rush
5. Rush
6. Rush
7. Rush
8. Rush
9. Rush
10. Rush

Honourable mentions go to Zeppelin, the Stones, Ozzy/Sabbath, Van Halen (with David Lee Roth), Triumph, etc

1. Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire is the most underrated album out there

2. Audioslave
3. The Beatles
4. Guns N' Roses
5. The Jimi Hendrix Experience
6. Led Zeppelin
7. Pink Floyd
8. Pearl Jam
9. Soundgarden
10. Stone Temple Pilots

1. Pearl Jam
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2. Bob Marley and the Wailers
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3. Bad Religion
4. Rush
5. Neil Young
6. The Clash
7. Dropkick Murphys
8. Flogging Molly
9. The Eagles
10. Strung Out

1.In Flames
2.Children of Bodom
3.Dimension Zero
4.Metallica
5.Slayer
6.Shadows Fall
7.Arch Enemy
8.Iced Earth
9.Iron Maiden
10.God Dethroned

HM: to Lacuna Coil,Ac/Dc,Exodus,Skynrd,Seether,etc.

1. Goo Goo Dolls
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Tie for 10th: Gob, Treble Charger, The Offspring, Aerosmith, Styx, Green Day, The Replacements, Foo Fighters, AC/DC

I like so many styles of music its hard to say.Since i see alot of metal i like on here,here is my current "metal" faves in no particular order:
Sabbath/Ozzy years
Pantera
Exodus(80`s)
Metal Church(1st cd)
Slayer
Metallica
Cannibal Corpse
Dying Fetus
Dehumanized
Fleshgrind
:yo:
*useless TRAGICALLY HIP info:My uncle did the photography for the album "Trouble at the Henhouse".I thought that was the coolest thing.Had to share...

In no order:

Graham Colton Band
Oasis
Coldplay
Counting Crows
Lifehouse
The Beatles
Radiohead
Lars Winnerback( Swedish singer)
Goo Goo Dolls
Foo Fighters

In no particular order

U2
Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Supertramp
Doors
Moody Blues
The Police/Sting
Cars
Dire Straits
Pink Floyd

Solo

Don Henley
Van Morrison
Neil Young
John Lee Hooker
Sheryl Crow
Bruce Cockburn
Bob Dylan
Gordon Lightfoot
David Bowie
Simon & Garfunkel

No particular order:

Metallica
30 Seconds to Mars
Audioslave
Rage Against The Machine
Foo Fighters
Incubus
The Mars Volta
Queens Of The Stone Age
Pearl Jam
Red Hot Chili Peppers

Hard to do but:

1. Beatles
2. Replacements
3. Clash
4. Cracker
5. REM
6. AC/DC
7. Led Zeppelin
8. Nirvana
9. The Call
10. (tie) Dire Straits, Dinosaur Jr., Big Star

Give me 20 more minutes and it might change.

[edited 20 seconds later - like, see, Rage! I forgot Rage! This is too hard.]

1. Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire is the most underrated album out there



Can't say that I agree it is under-rated. It is their best album. That's like saying that Rubber Soul is under-rated because Sgt Peppers gets all the press. I'd rate the albums:

1. Evil Empire [year of the boomerang]
2. Rage Against the Machine
3. The Battle Of Los Angeles
4. Renegades

Have you heard Live At The Grand Olympic Auditorium? It's great.
:yo:

1. Rush
2. Rush
3. Rush
4. Rush
5. Rush
6. Rush
7. Rush
8. Rush
9. Rush
10. Rush

Honourable mentions go to Zeppelin, the Stones, Ozzy/Sabbath, Van Halen (with David Lee Roth), Triumph, etc

Saw Geddy Lee sitting behind home plate at the Red Sox v. Blue Jays game last night. I figured it was him with the gaunt look, the hair and the fact that his nose was poking the umpire in the back.

Take off to the Great White North! Take off its a beauty way to go! Hey, don't laugh, I saw them on the grace Under pressure tour. Neal (Neil?) Peart is a god!

1)Led Zeppelin
2)Frank Zappa and The Mothers
3)Iron Maiden
4)Motley Crue
5)UFO
6)The Eagles
7)Dokken
8)The Allman Brothers
9)Santana
10)Jethro Tull

Can't say that I agree it is under-rated. It is their best album. That's like saying that Rubber Soul is under-rated because Sgt Peppers gets all the press. I'd rate the albums:

1. Evil Empire [year of the boomerang]
2. Rage Against the Machine
3. The Battle Of Los Angeles
4. Renegades

Have you heard Live At The Grand Olympic Auditorium? It's great.
:yo:
I'd rank 'em in reverse personally (outside of Renegades which was a bit of a dissapointment). So...

1. BoLA
2. RATM
3. EE
4. Renegades

And I also own Live and its one of the best live albums I've heard, pure adrenaline.

1.Rolling Stones
2.U2
3.The Killers
4.Ozzy Osbourne
5.Coldplay
6.Outkast
7.Guns 'n Roses
8.Sum 41
9.Motley Crue
10.A Last Goodbye (maybe you've heard of them, local band (edmonton) who have played at Red's).

I obviously have a pretty wide range.

In no specific order.


The Grateful Dead
Pink Floyd
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
The Rolling Stones
Deep Purple
Santana
The Doors
Jimi Hendrix

No particular order.

- Pixies
- Queens of the Stone-Age
- The Tragically Hip
- Beck
- Danko Jones
- The Beatles
- Bjork
- Dredg
- Radiohead
- No Warning (well, not the new disc)
- Faith No More

I'm sure if you asked me this same question next week that my answer would be different.

1.Rolling Stones
2.U2
3.The Killers
4.Ozzy Osbourne
5.Coldplay
6.Outkast
7.Guns 'n Roses
8.Sum 41
9.Motley Crue
10.A Last Goodbye (maybe you've heard of them, local band (edmonton) who have played at Red's).

I obviously have a pretty wide range.

Obviously.

If you had Megadeth, Patsy Kline, Rasputina, Scott Joplin, Little Latin Lupe Lu, Liberace, Butthole Surfers, Tito Puente, Hasil Adkins and Madonna; THAT might be called a wide range.

In no particular order:

U2
Death Cab For Cutie
Rush
The Tragically Hip
Postal Service
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Switchfoot (they've been around a long time)
Rufio
Pinback
Foo Fighters
Red House Painters
Broken Social Scene

1) UFO
2) Queen
3) Black Sabbath
4) AC/DC
5) Pink Floyd
6) Rush
7) Iron Maiden
8) Queensryche
9) Accept
10) Grand Funk

1)Led Zeppelin
2)Frank Zappa and The Mothers
3)Iron Maiden
4)Motley Crue
5)UFO
6)The Eagles
7)Dokken
8)The Allman Brothers
9)Santana
10)Jethro Tull

Another UFO fan!!! Alright!

:yo:

1) Oasis
2) Tupac
3) The Beatles
4) Red Hot Chili Peppers
5) The Notorious B.I.G.
6) The Rolling Stones
7) Weezer
8) The Tragically Hip
9) Lynyrd Skynyrd
10) Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

I'll give it a go, in no particular order:

Radiohead
Elliott Smith
Marilyn Manson
The Eels
Stabbing Westward
NiN
The Tragically Hip
The Beatles
A Perfect Circle [at least Mer de Noms, that was an amazing album and a great concert]
Mindless Self Indulgence

As with everybody else, there are far too many more to mention.

In no order

Metallica
Megadeth
Pantera
Led Zeppelin
The Beatles
Sublime
Queen
Sabbath/Ozzy
Nevermore

Honorable mentions to: The Doors, Rush, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Kiss, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, Godsmack, Soilwork, Supertramp, AC/DC, Reel Big Fish, Catch 22, Symphony X, The Who....there are so many more but I can't choose

In no order,damn impossible:

Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
The Who
Jethro Tull
Jimi Hendrix
Rolling Stones
Neil Young
The Beatles
The Doors
The Eagles
CCR
Queen
Black Sabbath



Sure i'm forgetting others///

I'll try to keep it at 10....(this means I'm keepin' jazz out of the mix).
- Beatles
- Stones
- Zep
- Iggy
- Cramps
- PFunk
- James Brown
- Public Enemy
- David Bowie
- Steve Earle

-Just missing the cut.
- X
- Bob Marley
- Gram Parsons
- Modern Lovers
- Hendrix
- Replacements
- Sly & Family Stone
- Clash
- Radiohead
- Ramones
- AC/DC
- Fela
- Real Kids
- NY Dolls
- Dave Clark Five
- Solas
- Otis Redding
- Butthole Surfers
- Nirvana
- Beck
- Byrds
- Santana
- Allman Brothers
- CCR
- U2
- Minor Threat
- The Who
- Hawkwind
....and a ton more.

- MC5
- Blur
- Bjork
- Aretha

....ah NUTS....why do I try to do these lists!!!??!

- MC5
- Blur
- Bjork
- Aretha

....ah NUTS....why do I try to do these lists!!!??!

keep going.........

I don't own any Allman brothers or Dylan albums,that's a sin

Saw Geddy Lee sitting behind home plate at the Red Sox v. Blue Jays game last night. I figured it was him with the gaunt look, the hair and the fact that his nose was poking the umpire in the back.

Take off to the Great White North! Take off its a beauty way to go! Hey, don't laugh, I saw them on the grace Under pressure tour. Neal (Neil?) Peart is a god!
:bow:

Peart is g-d...


I love the rush loving... they are solid.

i have the wherewithal to make a top ten!

1. Pearl Jam
2. Incubus
3. Eric Clapton/Cream/Derek and the Dominoes
4. The Band
5. Green Day
6. CCR
7. Led Zeppelin
8. The Offspring
9. Radiohead
10. The Cult

1. Project 86
2. Pink Floyd
3. Lynyrd Skynyrd
4. Collective Soul
5. Rush
6. Guns N Roses
7. Eric Clapton/Cream
8. Def Leppard
9. the Doors
10. Blindside

HM: Queen, Dokken, Hammerfall, Journey, the Beatles, Led Zeppelin and Tom Petty.

Whew, that was hard! I don't have a top ten... more like a top 20!

keep going.........

I don't own any Allman brothers or Dylan albums,that's a sin
Speaking of which...
Bob Dylan, (and the Band for that matter).

Like Costello, Dylan was an acquired taste for me....as I tend to be either rhythm / power / hook oriented for my music. They were just too damn "wordy" for me and it wasn't until I got older that I got appreciate/understand them.

Also hard for me to leave out, the great 50's / early 60's artists:
Chuck Berry ('The Great 28' is one of the best greatest hits lp's around),
Elvis
Jerry Lee Lewis
Little Richard
Eddie Cochran
Bo Diddley
Buddy Holly
the Everly Brothers
Link Wray...

And all the R&B / Blues artists that I love:
Louis Jordan
Muddy Waters
John Lee Hooker
Howlin' Wolf
Dave Bartholomew
Smiley Lewis
Professor Longhair
Sam & Dave
Wilson Pickett

...and the jazz, world and classical artists.....having to pick a definitive DID list would literally kill me

1) Nightwish
2) Collective Soul
3) Great Big Sea
4) Coldplay
5) Lifehouse
6) Within Temptation
7) Keane
8) Guns n' Roses
9) All-American Rejects
10) Dream Theater

in no particular order...

Metallica
AC/DC
Oasis
Our Lady Peace
Nirvana
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Simon and Garfunkle
Nine Inch Nails
The Tragically Hip
System Of A Down

HM: THe Beatles, THe Eagles

The bands I'm liking at the moment....

In alphabetical order....

Alice In Chains
Disturbed
Dream Theater
Godsmack
Limp Bizkit
Megadeth
Pantera
Rage Against The Machine
Slipknot
Tool

Eisley,
Death Cab for Cutie,
Rilo Kiley,
Straylight Run,
Taking Back Sunday,
The Shins,
The Go! Team,
et al.

Stones
Led Zepplin
The Who
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
Cream
Credence Clearwater Revival
U2
Queen
Elvis
Beatles/Beach Boys

Marvin Gaye anyone?

In this order:

1. Fleetwood Mac
2. The Police

3. Cream/Derek & The Dominoes
4. The Eagles
5. Chicago
6. Van Halen (Original line up)
7. The Cars
8. The Beatles
9. Styx
10. Journey