Top 20 - Bands

[ElScoob]

Actual ranking shifts on kind of a daily basis according to my mood, so this is no particular order other than the order in which they come to mind...

The Clash
The Ramones
Social Distortion
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Stooges
U2
Chuck Berry
Elvis Presley
Buddy Holly
Johnny Cash
Carl Perkins
Eddie Cochran
Little Richard
Bob Dylan
James Brown
Otis Redding
Booker T. & The MGs
Wilson Pickett
and, uh...

Er...

Hell. I don't know if I can come up with a definitive twentieth. It kind of drops off after that point to artists who have some songs I like but of which I am not any kind of especially devoted fan. Aretha Franklin? Sam & Dave? Marvin Gaye? Green Day? The Foo Fighters? Pink Floyd? Led Zeppelin? I guess most any of them could fit in, but I don't know if I could choose just one...

Oh--wait. It just came to me. Knew I was leaving someone out. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, definitely. There we go--that's twenty.

[Vasquez Rocks]

1. Prince
2. John Frusciante
3. The Cure
4. Pink Floyd
5. Heart

The rest in no particular order:

Soundgarden
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Queen
Audioslave
The Beatles
Wings
Foo Fighters
Led Zeppelin
Hall & Oates
Kool & the Gang
Pedestrian
The Mars Volta
The Bicycle Thief
Pearl Jam
Depeche Mode

[Pingfah]

ElimParra wrote:

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It's sad I use to like Poison when first started. I remember Unskinny Bop was first on the radio. Could also add Warrant to that list.

You know, I was listening to their Native Tongue album the other day, that's the one after they fired their guitarist and tried to get serious. It was actually pretty good

[J.T.B.]

In rough order, most favorite on top:

1. The Rolling Stones
2. The Clash
3. The Ramones
4. X
5. Steely Dan
6. The Replacements
7. Talking Heads
8. The Blasters
9. Los Lobos
10. REM
11. Sly and the Family Stone
12. Booker T. & the MG's
13. CCR
14. The Who
15. The Minutemen
16. The Band
17. The Beatles
18. The Pretenders
19. Blondie
20. The Police

That's "bands" only, including solo artists would be a little different.

--Justin

[Pat]

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[HappyDayRiot]

This will never be in any kind of order I had to copy straight off Facebook

System of a Down
Nine Inch Nails
Girls Aloud
Faith No More
Rage Against the Machine
Radiohead
Depeche Mode
Deftones
In Flames
SikTh
Led Zeppelin
Mansun
Muse
Tool
The Mars Volta
Arcade Fire
Massive Attack
Mínus
Gorillaz
Incubus
Black Sabbath
Porcupine Tree
Cult of Luna
Soulfly

That's 24 and I honestly cannot exclude more!

[Hermiod]

Crikey this is hard. In no order whatsoeever.

Within Temptation
Lacuna Coil
Nightwish (I may be the only person in the universe to prefer the new girl, though)
The Who
Alter Bridge
Juno Reactor
Faith No More
Evanescence
Deftones
Professional Murder Music
Foo Fighters
Audioslave
Muse
The Killers
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Linkin Park
Lostprophets
Velcra
Saliva
Snake River Conspiracy

[Turd Ferguson]

Top 5

1. Van Halen
2. Creedence Clearwater Revival
3. Foo Fighters
4. Godsmack
5. Disturbed

Rest in no particular order:

Van Hagar
Adema
Korn
White Zombie
Boston
No Doubt
Journey
Smashing Pumpkins
The Offspring
Powerman 5000
The Killers
AC/DC
Rob Zombie
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Linkin Park

[BRG]

I'm not a huge music lover, but here are my Top 5.

1. The Beatles
2. Led Zeppelin
3. The Who
4. The Rolling Stones
5. Queen

The rest., in no particular order.
Guns n' Roses
Pink Floyd
REM
U2
Oasis
Radiohead
Nirvana
The Eagles
Blondie
Metallica
Keane
The Beach Boys
Cream
Jimi Hendrix
Duran Duran

BRG

[melancholymecha]

My favorite is Nine Inch Nails
there are others I like too, like The Cure, Foofighters, Radiohead, Bjork, Portishead, etc & own a couple cds of, but NIN's the only one I have 2 or more cds of...

[JonathonWally]

melancholymecha wrote:

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My favorite is Nine Inch Nails
there are others I like too, like The Cure, Foofighters, Radiohead, Bjork, Portishead, etc & own a couple cds of, but NIN's the only one I have 2 or more cds of...

Good to know I'm not the only big NIN fan.

[HappyDayRiot]

JonathonWally wrote:

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Good to know I'm not the only big NIN fan.

Deal me in on that one! The only band ever to release something for free and I STILL bought the full release months later!

[Alidar Jarok]

NIN could easily be on my list. My list was far closer to 20 bands I like than my top 20.

[Pingfah]

I tend to follow artists through their whole careers, so I am doubling up and more on some bands with common key personnel as I consider them to be essentially the same thing.

Queen
Stone Temple Pilots
Pearl Jam
Bjork
Ry Cooder
The Afghan Whigs/Twilight Singers/Greg Dulli
Mike Patton/Faith No More/Tomahawk/Peeping Tom
Screaming Trees/Mark Lanegan
Alice in Chains
Anthrax
Seth Lakeman
Radiohead
The Prodigy
The Almighty
Live
Leatherface
Jeff Buckley
Manic Street Preachers
Therapy?
Iron Maiden
Counting Crows

I think i had to cut out some really good bands there

[Nerys Myk]

1. The Beatles
2. The Who
3. U2
4. The Clash
5. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
6. The Jam
7. The Rolling Stones
8. REM
9. Elvis Costello and the Attractions
10. The Kinks
11. Oasis
12. Red Hot Chili Peppers
13. XTC
14. The Doors
15. The Police
16. Beach Boys
17. The Ramones
18. Stray Cats
19. Cream
20. Jimi Hendrix Experience