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So to go along with the favorite song thread, here's one for your top 10 bands. They don't have to be the top 10 BEST bands of all time, just your 10 favorite bands. There is no right answer.

Mine are in no particular order as that would take me days to figure out by rating every song and album from 1-10 and going off of average scores, which I won't do right now.

The Vandals
No Doubt
Queens of the Stone Age
Rammstein
Mindless Self Indulgence
Lacuna Coil
Missing Persons
Shiny Toy Guns
Jimmy Eat World
Dream Theater

Those are the top 10 for me. Runners up are: Arch Enemy, Coheed & Cambria, Daft Punk, Foster the People, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Pendulum, and Silversun Pickups

1)the beatles
2)rolling stones
3)creedence clearwater revival
4)the who
5)U2
6)Queen
7)ABBA
8)the doors
9) the B-52's
10)led zepplin

1) Rage Against the Machine
2) Andre Nickatina
3) Marshall Tucker
4) K-os
5) Alkaline Trio
6)Dropkick Murphys
7) Tom Petty
8) Silversun Pickups
9) The Southland
10) The Crystal Method

dajobe wrote:1)the beatles
2)rolling stones
3)creedence clearwater revival
4)the who
5)U2
6)Queen
7)ABBA
8)the doors
9) the B-52's
10)led zepplin

That is a damn good list right there. Alas, it is mostly the music of the generation or two before mine. The Beatles I would argue are the greatest band that ever was or will be. It is a sad thought of the music we missed out on with where technology went post Beatles. They could have done a great many things. However, I suppose it is best to think that they ended strong instead of trying to always come out with stuff like some bands do where the new music doesn't hold a candle to the older stuff.

In no particular order:

Red Hot Chili Peppers
They Might be Giants
U2
Madness
Ian Dury and the Blockheads
Big D and the Kids table
Coldplay
Darling Violetta
Vampire Weekend
We the Kings

I could probably quite easily manage another 10, that i'd like to be in my top 10.

Oh dear, top ten. Tough call. This is always tough for me so I'm going to mention bands pretty much as they come to me, so this is in no particular order:
Iron Maiden
Megadeth
Xasthur
Emperor
Mushroomhead
Opeth
Impaled (I guess this also means Carcass, since Impaled is basically four guys who really, really like Carcass, but I don't own any Carcass so I can't actually add them to this list. )
Slipknot (You heard me. What of it?)
Ghost
ChthoniC

In no order

Metallica
Black Sabbath
Rage Against The Machine
The Black Dahlia Murder
Operation Ivy
The Nekromantix
Reverend Horton Heat
Streetlight Manifesto
Slayer

In no particular order:

Queen
Muse
Linkin Park
Led Zeppelin
Foo Fighters
Van Halen
Lostprophets
Dire Straits
Iron Maiden
Sum 41

It seems to be mostly two genres...

Well saved me some hassle by making it a top ten.

Not in order

Foo Fighters
Queen
Daughtry
Paramore
Dire Straights
The Beatles
Evanescence
Biffy Clyro
The Killers
The Jimi Hendrix Experience

These probably change frequently, but off the top of my head, today, and in no particular order:

The Raveonettes
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
Led Zeppelin
Dire Straits
Iron Maiden
Dream Theater
The Cult
Jethro Tull
ZZ Top
Mazzy Star

Aerethan wrote:The Beatles I would argue are the greatest band that ever was or will be. It is a sad thought of the music we missed out on with where technology went post Beatles.

Seriously? God I hate this attitude. You look at Rolling Stones "Top 500 albums" and four of the top ten are Beatles albums. Seriously? The fourth best Beatles album is better than everything that's been put out in the forty years since they broke up. I don't buy that. Not even close. That's just pandering to baby boomers right there. Don't get me wrong, I like the Beatles. I've got all their albums. But to say they're the best that ever was or ever will be disrespects a lot of equally talented musicians. What's more, to say that they're so great discounts their flaws. It's like, because they broke up and people wanted more, people conveniently forget the crap. Revolution #9. That song alone should wipe The White Album off any sort of best of albums list. There are some awesome songs on The White Album, but there's some garbage there too, and a great album should be consistently great, not great as long as you ignore certain tracks. Just about every Beatles album is plagued with a weak song or two, frequently the ones they gave Ringo to sing.

Great bands are great live. Maybe the technology wasn't available to them before they stopped touring, but plenty of other acts from that era, including The Who, The Stones, Zeppelin, and Hendrix all managed to figure it out. The Beatles were certainly forerunners of a social movement, and an incredibly influential band, but no, not the greatest that ever was or will be.

In descending order; 10, 9, 8, etc.


The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Queen
The Grateful Dead
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
The Black Keys
Santana
The White Stripes
Nickelback

Evilledz wrote:
Lostprophets

Jeez, I haven't heard anything by these guys in yeeeaaarrrs haha. Oh, memory lane...

Aerethan wrote:

dajobe wrote:1)the beatles
2)rolling stones
3)creedence clearwater revival
4)the who
5)U2
6)Queen
7)ABBA
8)the doors
9) the B-52's
10)led zepplin

That is a damn good list right there. Alas, it is mostly the music of the generation or two before mine. The Beatles I would argue are the greatest band that ever was or will be. It is a sad thought of the music we missed out on with where technology went post Beatles. They could have done a great many things. However, I suppose it is best to think that they ended strong instead of trying to always come out with stuff like some bands do where the new music doesn't hold a candle to the older stuff.

i am 20 so it was a couple generations before me as well, but my dad always listened to these bands when i was young and i have come to really like this era of music even though i guess U2 did some later stuff like vertigo(awesome)

Some bands I like, in no particular order

The Script (everything!)
Two Door Cinema Club
U2
Coldplay
Beatles (Here comes the sun, doodoo, doodoo!)
Queen
Bowling for Soup (Stacy's Mom, 1985)
30 seconds to Mars (namely This is war)
Lawson (the new song thats out, when.She was mine)
Linkin Park (What I've done, Numb).

Redbeard wrote:
The Raveonettes
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
Led Zeppelin
Dire Straits
Iron Maiden
Dream Theater
The Cult
Jethro Tull
ZZ Top
Mazzy Star

You are an old, old man.

Old I say!

Aerethan wrote:The Beatles I would argue are the greatest band that ever was or will be.

I can accept a person who grew up in the 60's loving the Beatles, that's fine, its nostalgia. But all these people in my age bracket that tell me "They're the best band ever!"...hellfire and damnation; they're just a band*.

Some of their songs are good (and Lennon had a talent for lyrics), and they gave us Ringo; these are both good things.






*So are the Pixies.

In no particular order, 10 of the bands I like. These currently are on my mp3 playlist.

Queensryche
Queen
Van Halen
Alice Cooper
Curve
The Cult
Def Leppard
Fields of the Nephilim
Heart
Whitesnake.

Whilst I do like some acts that hit the ground post 2000, they are few and far between. There also aren't many that are post 1990 (Grunge was responsible for many crimes against taste).

Noticing a distinct lack of Creed and\or Nickleback up ins.

Nickleback is my number 14. Not sure on 11-13 yes though lol.

Aye, both are in my bubbling under section, along with Linkin Park, AC/DC, 30 Seconds to Mars, 3 Doors Down, The Pretty Reckless and probably several others.

In no particular order:

The Beetles
Jimmy Hendricks
Leonard Skinard
Lead Zeppelin
Lincoln Park
Deaf Leopard
Arrowsmith
Motley Crew
Megadeath
You Two

U2 would have been on my list if they stopped making music about 6 years ago.

Basically bands in general need to learn to quit while they are ahead.

Cover bands I am assuming Grakmar. Seems way more of that about than I realised.

Saw a note about all female covers the other week, which I'd not heard of before. Some of their names are great. AC/Dshe, Lez Zeppelin, to a name a few.

1) Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds / Nick Cave / Grinderman
2) Tool/APC/Puscifer
3) Nine Inch Nails
4) Tori Amos
5) Velvet Acid Christ
6) VNV Nation
7) Alestorm
8) Rage against the Machine
9) Collide
10) Tricky

Randomly, I'm sure there are some that more accurately deserve a spot, but I'm just spitballing.

No prodigy on here either?!

You guys are nuts!

mattyrm wrote:No prodigy on here either?!

You guys are nuts!

Maybe we just have good taste in music

mattyrm wrote:No prodigy on here either?!

You guys are nuts!

Fire Starter, Smack My Bitch Up... That's it. Everything else sucks.

I don't know about a top 10, but I'll give it a go in no particular order. Can an artist like Neil Diamond be on here, or does it have to be a band? Ah, feth it. This is my list.

Genesis
Lincoln Park
Neil Diamond
U2
Aerosmith
The Beatles
Tom Petty
Foo Fighters
Mumford and Sons
Nirvana

My tastes are constantly fluctuating. The only ones that don't change out of this list are the top three:

1 Nine Inch Nails
2 Marilyn Manson
3 Watain
4 Type O Negative
5 Bathory
6 The Devil's Blood
7 Woods of Ypres
8 Darkthrone
9. Wolves in the Throne Room
10. Burzum

Damn, this is gonna be difficult:

Dog Fashion Disco
Polkadot Cadaver
Mr. Bungle
Psychostick
Primus
Rise Against
Send More Paramedics
Tub Ring
Random Hand
Steetlight Manifesto
Suicide Silence

yeah, I know, it's 11 but i REALLY couldn't decide who to leave out.

Bloodfever wrote:Damn, this is gonna be difficult:

Dog Fashion Disco
Polkadot Cadaver
Mr. Bungle
Psychostick
Primus
Rise Against
Send More Paramedics
Tub Ring
Random Hand
Steetlight Manifesto
Suicide Silence

yeah, I know, it's 11 but i REALLY couldn't decide who to leave out.

I would have left out Suicide Silence, if only because their last album was incredibly underwhelming and formulaic.

Yeah, bands is a broad spectrum really. My mind was thinking rock/metal of various flavours.

However if its any kind of band (ie more than one person) then my list needs to be relooked at. Lady Antebellum would be in there for starters.