Your top 10 favorite bands.

[Il Medico]

So, who are your top ten favorite bands?
Here's mine. (in no particular order)

The Beatles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYck2B_0-DI

Electric Light Orchestra:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMbtR4JJ1RE

of Montreal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBYGjC_hJ9A

Jimi Hendrix!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCwCBh0z3Hs

Owl City:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EsMHFXdLxI

Bowie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D67kmFzSh_o

Scissor Sisters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSdE9x5bvjU

Neutral Milk Hotel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH3CRVVBL9o

The Doors:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PECk9A-07Pw

Sara Bareilles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4eaz_GzyTI

[Random Precision]

Pink Floyd above all others. After that: The Doors, The Stones, Sigur Rós, Johnny Cash, Niyaz. Bleh I'm not bothered to list out the full ten.

[mannetje]

Not in particular order either.
I like Metallica the best, for the rest it is. Sepultura, The Beatles, Supertramp, The Doors, Paolo Conte, air, J.U.S.T.I.C.E., The Roots, Blof (dutch band).:thumbup:

[Bandito]

The Adverts, Turbonegro, Cock Sparrer, The Ruts, Chelsea, Vice Squad, Peter and The Test Tube Babies, The Clash, The Specials and...hmm....ah yes! Oxymoron!
:thumbup1:

[MilitantAnarchist]

In no particular order...
Crass, Conflict, Paul Carter, TV Smith, Inner Terrestrials, Eastfield, The Usual Suspects, The Restarts, Madness, The Specials,

[LeninBalls]

Always changing, too many to name. But for the present:

Muse
The Apples
Hanadensha
Flight of the Conchords
Nour Eddine
Acid Mothers Temple
Khanate
The Killers
Jimi Hendrix
Morbid Angel

[Pirate Utopian]

Here's a top 3.

1. 6xcwt9mSbYE

2. TKYALsp-sIg

3. BE2K7SOgbWA

[Axle]

In no particular order: Metallica, Rage Against the Machine, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Public Enemy, Tool, Mastodon, Fu Manchu, Kyuss and Flogging Molly.

[Искра]

the best band: The Clash

right now I listen mostly to reggae/ska, so heres my top 10:
Augustu Pablo, Toots and Maytals, The Skatalites, Black Uhuru, Clint Eastwood, Militant Barry, The Selecter, The Specials, Bad Manners

But since I was listening punk until resently here's my other top 10:
Shitlickers, Terveet Kadet, UBR, Tožibabe, Solunski Front, Kaaos, Eu's Arse, Sieg Hail, IV Reich and Disorder
But I don't listen to punk to much (once a month one LP) :D

[Spawn of Stalin]

Bob Dylan, The Smiths, The Velvet Underground, Turbonegro, Neil Young, British Sea Power, Cat Power, Destroyer, Fugazi, Joy Division.

[Madvillainy]

The Velvet Underground, Joy Division, David Bowie, Public Enemy, The Beastie Boys, The Clash, The Specials, The Pop Group, Patti Smith and Marvin Gaye. :)

[KarlMarx1989]

1) Marilyn Manson
2) Cradle of Filth
3) Moonspell
4) Cannibal Corpse
5) Lacuna Coil
6) Mortal Love
7) Scythe
8) The Black Dahlia Murder
9) Job For a Cowboy
10) 悪音[Akune]

[Shin Honyong]

In no order:

The Replacements
Dinosaur Jr
Iron Maiden
Husker Du
The Beatles
Public Enemy
A Tribe Called Quest
Judy and Mary
Bob Marley & the Wailers

[BurnTheOliveTree]

Flogging Molly.

They're quality! :)

[kellster102292]

1-Metallica
2-Drist
3-Apoctolyptica
4-Rage Against The Machine
5-System Of A Down
6-Tantric
7-Avenged Seven Fold
8-Shadows Fall
9-Linkin Park
10-Iron Maiden

[cb9's_unity]

These aren't necessarily in order and some of these are bands i'm just really into now.

Operation Ivy
The Get Up Kids
Streetlight Manifesto
Rage Against the Machine
Sublime
Protest The Hero
Between the Buried and Me (I saw them Saturday)
Propagandhi
At the drive in
Necrophagist

Honorable mentions go to The Casualties, Maps & Atlases, Nofx, Eluveitie, Catch 22, and At the Gates and quite a few other bands. A few of those could have been in the top ten.

[Orange Juche]

Radiohead is my favorite band, Muse is my second. The following are after, in no particular order:

-The Beatles
-The Doors
-The Flaming Lips
-Simon & Garfunkel
-Interpol
-My Bloody Valentine
-Dresden Dolls/Amanda Palmer (Solo)
-Queen

[nbolek71]

Mine are always changing but currently they are (in no particular order):

The Cramps
BLK JKS
Life & Times
The Clash
Joy Division
Mars Volta
Portugal. The Man
MC5
The Raveonettes
The White Stripes

[Stranger Than Paradise]

Bowie
Stevie Wonder
Talking Heads
Public Enemy
The Specials
Gang Of Four
Funkadelic

[Kamerat]

The list is a mix of rock and electro.
1. System Of A Down
2. Scars On Broadway (soad/2)
3. Prodigy
4. Faithless
5. Chemical Brothers
6. Rammstein
7. Rage Agains The Machine
8. Metalica
9. Pantera
10. Pan Pot

[#FF0000]

In no particular order:

Refused
The Clash
At The Drive-In
The (International) Noise Conspiracy
Cursive
Bright Eyes
The Mars Volta
Explosions in the Sky
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Modest Mouse

I wish there was room for a few more, like The Shins, Jethro Tull, so many fucking blues artists, Nick Drake...etc, on there.

[Os Cangaceiros]

- The Dead Kennedys
- Black Flag
- X
- Black Keys
- The Cramps

I dunno. Those are some I like. A lot of electronica/trance as well.

[Rusty Shackleford]

No Order:

Black Sabbath, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Doors, Acid Bath, Electric Wizard, Jimi Hendrix, Finntroll, Gogol Bordello, The Violent Femmes, The Beatles(not so much any more though)

[Sam_b]

I can't really make a 'list' of my favourite groups and suchlike very well, as its always changing and never a constant. If we stick to 'bands', inferring I can't nominate solo artists, I would at this moment probably go for:

The Smiths
Joy Division
Belle & Sebastian
Death Cab for Cutie (I know...)
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Radiohead
The Velvet Underground
Swell Maps
The Clash
Arab Strap

[Skramz]

No order:

Optimus Prime
The Spirit of Versailles
Mandy Moore
The Hated
Envy
Sigur Ros
The Pine
The Kodan Armada
Kite Flying Society
The Saddest Landscape

[RedDragon]

At the moment I'd say:-

Iron Maiden
Metallica
Machine Head
Opeth
Pink Floyd
AC/DC
Mastodon
Trivium
Children Of Bodom
Lamb of God

[#FF0000]

No order:

Optimus Prime
The Spirit of Versailles
Mandy Moore
The Hated
Envy
Sigur Ros
The Pine
The Kodan Armada
Kite Flying Society
The Saddest Landscape

what

[Chapter 24]

Black Sabbath
Pink Floyd
Nile
Alice in Chains
Frank Zappa
Yes
Iron Maiden
Necrophagist
Primus
Tool
Led Zeppelin
Jethro Tull

[pierrotlefou]

No order:

Optimus Prime
The Spirit of Versailles
Mandy Moore
The Hated
Envy
Sigur Ros
The Pine
The Kodan Armada
Kite Flying Society
The Saddest Landscape


Envy> most bands





top 10 at the moment in no order.
pg.99
city of caterpillar
arab on radar
slowdive
black dice
fela kuti
sun ra
panthers
the plot to blow up the eiffle tower
some girls

honorable mention: godspeed and pretty much any other Constellation Records band

[ev]

'The Beatles' - What the fuck is wrong with you people? The Beatles suck arse.

My favourite bands (in no particular order):

*Dream Theater
*Red Hot Chili Peppers
*Pink Floyd
*Metallica
*Queen
*System Of A Down
*Opeth
*The Smashing Pumpkins
*Pantera
*Pearl Jam

Actually, It's hard to pick a top ten, I also like:

Deep Purple, Slayer, Black Sabbath, Tool, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, KISS, Cannibal Corpse, Led Zepplin, REM, Nirvana, and Liquid Tension..

I like others, but the above should at least be mentioned.

- Music Connoisseur (me)

[nbolek71]

'The Beatles' - What the fuck is wrong with you people? The Beatles suck arse.


And why is that?

[ev]

That's like saying, why is the sun hot, or why is the sky blue..

They are crap because they lack all artistic talent, they conformed to the trend of the time to sell albums, if a band like the beatles came out today they would be a laughing stock..

[nbolek71]

That's like saying, why is the sun hot, or why is the sky blue..

They are crap because they lack all artistic talent, they conformed to the trend of the time to sell albums, if a band like the beatles came out today they would be a laughing stock..

Ok you know without the Beatles, none of the bands you've mentioned would've been on there.

Lack artistic talent? Why because they can't shred a million notes per second? Listen to "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" and "Helter Skelter" without those songs heavy metal probably wouldn't have ever been made or without a song like "Day Tripper" "Birthday" "Hey Bulldog" etc etc, riff based rock probably would've been different.

Can you write a song as timeless as "Yesterday" or innovative like "Tomorrow Never Knows"? You're probably thinking of early 60's Beatles with songs like "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" or "Can't Buy Me Love", which, sure sound simple, are powerful songs in their own right. For the time, no one has heard anything like it before. They changed everything you know about pop (meaning popular music including rock, blues, metal, jazz, hip hop etc). Frank Sinatra himself said the song "Something" is the greatest love song of all time.

How did they conform to the trends of the time? They started nearly all of the trends of the 60s and beyond. The album "Rubber Soul" was the pre-cursor to the entire psychedelic era. When they came to America in 63 or so, garage bands began to form as they saw the influence of the British invasion (mostly The Beatles). Many of the studio tricks you hear on "Rubber Soul" "Revolver" "Sgt. Pepper's" "The White Album" the Beatles, (with the help of George Martin) did it first.

All of the bands you have listed as your favorites had been influenced by the Beatles either directly or indirectly.

I do not care whether or not you like The Beatles, that's a matter of opinion but you cannot say they lack artistic talent. All four members (George, Ringo, John, and Paul) were all virtuosos in their own right on their respective instruments and beyond.

PS.... looking back at your list of bands, Mike Portnoy listed Ringo Starr as an influence plus a few songs took song titles from the Beatles and incorporated them into their lyrics.

Kurt Cobain says John Lennon was his idol; Jimmy Page wrote the song "Rain Song" because George Harrison told him they didn't have many ballads (plus the first couple of chords were borrowed from Harrison's "Something"); Freddie Mercury is a fan of John Lennon and The Beatles;

Pink Floyd recorded "Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" (along with nearly all of their other records) at Abbey Road Studios, right next door to The Beatles during the sessions for Sgt. Pepper's (plus John Lennon can be seen with Paul McCartney is the DVD Pink Floyd live in london 66/67);

If it weren't for John Lennon and his political activism, or George Harrison's Concert for Bangledesh, Serj Tankian probably wouldn't have been so vocal or help start the Axis of Justice tour with Tom Morello;

If it weren't for the "White Album" Metallica probably wouldn't have released "the Black Album"; Chili Peppers crossed the famous Abbey Road crosswalk naked on their "Abbey Road E.P.";

The Beatles were the first to play at stadiums with over 50,000 people in attendence, if that didn't happen, Iron Maiden, KISS, Led Zeppelin, or any of the "stadium rock" bands probably wouldn't have done the same.

So once again, DO NOT say they lack artistic talent because obviously all of your favorite bands can see it.

[Sam_b]

Envy> most bands

Is that Envy as in the Japanese post-hardcore band?

Ha the fortune to see them for free at an Antifa Mayday festival in Prague, they were absolutely mindblowing. European distro is on Mogwai's Rock Action label which makes it all the better :cool:

[Pirate Utopian]

Let me start by saying, I dont mind the early Beatles (up until about Help!) and even a few songs after that like Helter Skelter are cool but they were at their best as a skiffle/beat group.
They were kinda like Johnny Kidd & The Pirates.

John Lennon had his moments when he went solo. Yoko Ono's music is the real musical revolution.


How did they conform to the trends of the time? They started nearly all of the trends of the 60s and beyond. The album "Rubber Soul" was the pre-cursor to the entire psychedelic era. When they came to America in 63 or so, garage bands began to form as they saw the influence of the British invasion (mostly The Beatles).
Mostly the primal rock of The Who and The Kinks, with gritty vocals and raunchy blues of the Stones in the mix.
The Beatles were a small influence but so were Herman's Hermits.


Kurt Cobain says John Lennon was his idol; Jimmy Page wrote the song "Rain Song" because George Harrison told him they didn't have many ballads (plus the first couple of chords were borrowed from Harrison's "Something"); Freddie Mercury is a fan of John Lennon and The Beatles;
All those musicians made some of the most overrated whiney crap to ever be shoved down everyone's throat.


Pink Floyd recorded "Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" (along with nearly all of their other records) at Abbey Road Studios, right next door to The Beatles during the sessions for Sgt. Pepper's (plus John Lennon can be seen with Paul McCartney is the DVD Pink Floyd live in london 66/67);

...so? Using the same studio means fuck all.


If it weren't for John Lennon and his political activism, or George Harrison's Concert for Bangledesh, Serj Tankian probably wouldn't have been so vocal or help start the Axis of Justice tour with Tom Morello;
Okay that's just bullshit. Activism is waaaaay older than even blues music let alone rock music, let alone the Beatles.
And musical activists? You've never heard of Joe Hill? Woody Guthrie? Odetta? Bob Dylan?
They all predate Lennon's activism. Which was nothing but annoying hippie crap rather than anything useful.
Yes I know Lennon was alledgelly more feared than Mao by the US, I dont care, Lennon made a handful of decent songs but as an activist he did hardly anything substantial.


The Beatles were the first to play at stadiums with over 50,000 people in attendence, if that didn't happen, Iron Maiden, KISS, Led Zeppelin, or any of the "stadium rock" bands probably wouldn't have done the same.
Yeah, fuck the Beatles for letting that happen.
Overpriced spectacles where the band is as alienated from audience as possible is hardly anything positive.


So once again, DO NOT say they lack artistic talent because obviously all of your favorite bands can see it.
Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust.

[GiantBear91]

1. Rage Against The Machine
2. Sepultura(Perfer older stuf but I like the new stuff just as well.)
3. The Misfits(same as Sepultura)
4. EyeHateGod
5. Deftones
6. Between The Buried and Me
7. BraveYoung
8. Torch Runner
9. Wu-Tang Clan(everyone in it)
10. Busta Rhymes(older shit[before Genisis])

[GiantBear91]

Envy> most bands





top 10 at the moment in no order.
pg.99
city of caterpillar
arab on radar
slowdive
black dice
fela kuti
sun ra
panthers
the plot to blow up the eiffle tower
some girls

honorable mention: godspeed and pretty much any other Constellation Records band

I agree, Envy is a pretty amazing band.

Wait... are you talking about the Envy(Doom/screamo) band from Japan?

[nbolek71]

Mostly the primal rock of The Who and The Kinks, with gritty vocals and raunchy blues of the Stones in the mix.
The Beatles were a small influence but so were Herman's Hermits.

I'll give you that, but who truly paved the way for The Stones, The Who, The Kinks etc etc?



All those musicians made some of the most overrated whiney crap to ever be shoved down everyone's throat. That is a matter of opinion. I was simply illustrating the influence The Beatles had on Evan's favorite bands.



...so? Using the same studio means fuck all. You don't think being right next door to the biggest band in the world at the time, making a psychedelic record, experimenting with all sorts of techniques and trickery all the while having the same engineer who worked with said band up until "Rubber Soul" is not going to have an influence on the Pink Floyd?



Okay that's just bullshit. Activism is waaaaay older than even blues music let alone rock music, let alone the Beatles.
And musical activists? You've never heard of Joe Hill? Woody Guthrie? Odetta? Bob Dylan?
They all predate Lennon's activism. Which was nothing but annoying hippie crap rather than anything useful.
Yes I know Lennon was alledgelly more feared than Mao by the US, I dont care, Lennon made a handful of decent songs but as an activist he did hardly anything substantial. Well no shit there was activism before the Beatles, but they truly transformed it into something entirely different. Concert for Bangledash was the first "aid" concert. John Lennon was a symbol of the anti-war, anti-establishment movement of the late 60s and 70s which the U.S. government feared! Nixon tried to have Lennon deported! But once again I was illustrating the influence the Beatles had on Evan's favorite bands.



Yeah, fuck the Beatles for letting that happen.
Overpriced spectacles where the band is as alienated from audience as possible is hardly anything positive. True (Roger Waters wrote about that during the Animals tour and turned it into the Wall, who was loosely based on Syd Barrett, who was the main lyricist and songwriter for Pink Floyd in 1967 during the sessions for Piper At The Gates of Dawn, but I'm sure you already knew that ;) )



Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust.
Reference to the broadway production, not the actual Beatles :P

[Pirate Utopian]

I'll give you that, but who truly paved the way for The Stones, The Who, The Kinks etc etc?
Johnny Kidd & The Pirates? Chuck Berry? Muddy Waters?
The Stones and The Beatles began around the same time.


You don't think being right next door to the biggest band in the world at the time, making a psychedelic record, experimenting with all sorts of techniques and trickery all the while having the same engineer who worked with said band up until "Rubber Soul" is not going to have an influence on the Pink Floyd?
Not per se. But I'll give you that in this case there may have been some.


Well no shit there was activism before the Beatles, but they truly transformed it into something entirely different. Concert for Bangledash was the first "aid" concert. John Lennon was a symbol of the anti-war, anti-establishment movement of the late 60s and 70s which the U.S. government feared! Nixon tried to have Lennon deported!
I'll take MC5.


True (Roger Waters wrote about that during the Animals tour and turned it into the Wall, who was loosely based on Syd Barrett, who was the main lyricist and songwriter for Pink Floyd in 1967 during the sessions for Piper At The Gates of Dawn, but I'm sure you already knew that ;) )
Syd Barrett's influence made Pink Floyd interesting, Umma Gumma is Floyd's best album. I dont really care for post-Barrett Floyd.


Reference to the broadway production, not the actual Beatles :P
:confused: No it's The Clash.

[Wanted Man]

'The Beatles' - What the fuck is wrong with you people? The Beatles suck arse.

My favourite bands (in no particular order):

*Dream Theater
*Red Hot Chili Peppers
*Pink Floyd
*Metallica
*Queen
*System Of A Down
*Opeth
*The Smashing Pumpkins
*Pantera
*Pearl Jam

Actually, It's hard to pick a top ten, I also like:

Deep Purple, Slayer, Black Sabbath, Tool, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, KISS, Cannibal Corpse, Led Zepplin, REM, Nirvana, and Liquid Tension..

I like others, but the above should at least be mentioned.

- Music Connoisseur (me)

Not much of a Beatles fan, but this is coming from the guy who lists RHCP, System of a Down, The Smashing Pumpkins, KISS..? All timeless acts of great artistic significance, no doubt, unlike the Beatles. :rolleyes:

"Music Connoisseur"? I'll just assume you're trying to be ironic.

[ev]

Oh please..

The beatles are lame, and completely overrated. To say music wouldn't have evolved into the genres that exist today without the beatles is ludicrous. Sure, the beatles made a few catchy songs that were easy to remember (and thats why the sold so many albums), but if a band like the beatles came out today, they wouldn't sell a fucking thing - admit it.

It pisses me off that a lot of good bands don't get any real recognition for their musical talent, but then you look at the beatles they got too much, and for what? Simple music that any fucking mook today could compose. They were fucking overrated and if you don't see that fundamental point, you may as well be the musical equivalent of a US neo-conservative republican.


Shit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNsmrd-aR1c

Good Music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4ids4rOegI

Notice how item #1 (shit) are the beatles, whilst item #2 (good music) are dream theater. The first is an unrespectable group of conformist pseudomusicians, whilst the second are real musicians! :ohmy:

Simple isn't it?

[Wanted Man]

I know you're responding to others, but I'd like to make clear that I'm not defending the Beatles. I'm only saying that it's not much worse than the dork-rock that you seem to enjoy. I think the Beatles are overrated, but I don't go around about how they were "shit" in a confused attempt to sound rebellious and edgy. Who are you to judge "real music", anyway? Are all the bands you listed "real music"? Well I'll be damned.

Also, I'm not sure why you're comparing "I Saw Her Standing There" to your brand of pretentious, juvenile, 15-minute prog-metal that I stopped listening to since high school. At least the Beatles song is done in a few minutes, it sounds "catchy and easy to remember" (as you put it), therefore it does not annoy me as much as the other song you posted, which I closed as soon as the guy started singing.

As for whether the Beatles would sell anything today, I have no idea. As if "selling records at this particular point in time" has anything to do with good music, anyway. It would probably sell millions, because it's "catchy and easy to remember" and people don't have a very good taste in general, and will buy something for a variety of reasons that are not directly related to their actual enjoyment of it.

The difference is in the details. One million people will buy the Beatles record because they like accessible and catchy music. The other million will buy something from your list and feel good about themselves for listening to "real music" that does not conform to any trends and is only accessible to real music connoisseurs (please please please please please please PLEASE tell me that that was not serious). That's why there are only a few thousand bands like that, and they are only sold at every other record shop, and can only be downloaded on every bloody goddamn website. Who is fooling themselves the most?

[Stranger Than Paradise]

Liking The Beatles seems to me a bit of a fashion. It goes in and out of style. There is notinhg of real substance to the Beatles though in my opinion and they weren't as influential as people will have you believe. Personally I enjoy some of their music, specifically the songs which seem to break away from conventional rock/pop of the time. But all in all The Beatles aint that great.

[Pirate Utopian]

I know you're responding to others (...) Who is fooling themselves the most?
I agree with this completely.

Besides everyone knows the best band of the British Invasion werent the Beatles but...
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[nbolek71]

Chuck Berry? Muddy Waters?
The Stones and The Beatles began around the same time.
Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters were American musicians. Of course they did influence The Stones and The Beatles, but I was talking about which band led the way for the Stones and the Kinks and The Who to come to America during the British invasion?



I'll take MC5. I love the MC5 and no doubt were they connected to the new left of the time, but I guess it's more or less the use of celebrity to support a case is what I am trying to get at. John Lennon and George Harrison had a much bigger voice than the MC5



Syd Barrett's influence made Pink Floyd interesting, Umma Gumma is Floyd's best album. I dont really care for post-Barrett Floyd. I'll take Meddle as their best effort.



:confused: No it's The Clash. Duh, but the phoney beatlemania was not a knock on the Beatles but rather the lacking of substance in music/art etc during the time exemplified by the fact that broadway had a production called Beatlemania, thus is not the real thing.

;)

[nbolek71]

but if a band like the beatles came out today, they wouldn't sell a fucking thing - admit it. That's why the Beatles remasters sold over two million copies in the first week alone right? ;) (I'm not equating number of albums sold to talent by any means, but the complete catalog of the Beatles were came out this year....)


It pisses me off that a lot of good bands don't get any real recognition for their musical talent, but then you look at the beatles they got too much, and for what? Simple music that any fucking mook today could compose. They were fucking overrated and if you don't see that fundamental point, you may as well be the musical equivalent of a US neo-conservative republican. Ok... can you come up with something like Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band? or the entire White Album? I am not knocking Dream Theater in any sense of lacking musical talents, they are incredible at their instruments (though personally I don't care for the band too much). It's not always how well you can play an instrument, it's about songwriting.



Notice how item #1 (shit) are the beatles, whilst item #2 (good music) are dream theater. The first is an unrespectable group of conformist pseudomusicians, whilst the second are real musicians! :ohmy:

Simple isn't it?

That music connoisseur comment is really showing through in this post :rolleyes:

[Pirate Utopian]

Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters were American musicians. Of course they did influence The Stones and The Beatles, but I was talking about which band led the way for the Stones and the Kinks and The Who to come to America during the British invasion?
In that way... I tought you ment musically.


I love the MC5 and no doubt were they connected to the new left of the time, but I guess it's more or less the use of celebrity to support a case is what I am trying to get at. John Lennon and George Harrison had a much bigger voice than the MC5
But it what they did was so liberal and soft. MC5 played at the DNC in 1968 when all the others bands were afraid to show, they lived in a squat, they pissed off corporations despite the fact it would cost them albumsales.


Duh, but the phoney beatlemania was not a knock on the Beatles but rather the lacking of substance in music/art etc during the time exemplified by the fact that broadway had a production called Beatlemania, thus is not the real thing.
I think it was more an attack on the overidolisation of artists.

[The Accomplice]

Too many to count for me. I'll type in the ones I can remeber at the moment. The list is in no special order:

1) At The Drive-In
2) The Mars Volta
3) Rage Against The Machine
4) Nuclear Assault
5)The Coup
6)The Arsonists
7) Sepultura
8)Wu Tang Clan
9) Jedi Mind Tricks (I prefer their first 4 albums)
10) Cunninlynguists

[pierrotlefou]

Notice how item #1 (shit) are the beatles, whilst item #2 (good music) are dream theater. The first is an unrespectable group of conformist pseudomusicians, whilst the second are real musicians! :ohmy:

Simple isn't it?
Wait are you really comparing a band who could write good pop music with a band who just jacks off their instruments while everyone listening falls asleep? Really? Sure, DT are more technically proficient with their instruments than the beatles, but they don't even play the same type of music. It's silly to compare the two.


edit: wait I just read your list of favorite bands. I understand now. You have to be a joke. Yr dissing the beatles but you like metallica? You should be banned from musical discussion for being tone deaf.



I agree, Envy is a pretty amazing band.

Wait... are you talking about the Envy(Doom/screamo) band from Japan?
Yeah. post hardcore I'd call em but lots of these sub genres are a little interchangeable.

[Louisiana]

Here are mine in no particular order:

New Order
Depeche Mode
Fountains of Wayne
Bee Gees
Kansas
Chicago
Santana
ELO
Expose
Enigma

[Y Chwyldro Comiwnyddol Cymraeg]

Bob Maley and Wailers
Dr Feelgood
The Specials
The Coup
Miles Davis
Gill Scott Heron
Parliament/Funkadelic
Peter Tosh
Dead Prez

[A.R.Amistad]

1.John Mellencamp
2. Amon Amarth
3.Korpiklaani
4.Ensiferum
5.Iced Earth
6.Agalloch
7.Dethklok
8.Children of Bodom
9.Black Stone Cherry
10. Drive-By Truckers

I know its quite a wide range. I am a Mellencamp worshipper fan because I have a lot in common with him (Hometown, love of my homestate Indiana, political and social viewpoints, style, etc.) and I get his music all the way. Still, I'm really a big metalhead when it comes to music, especially folk metal, melodeath, power-prog metal, etc. I also like roots and southern rock, classic rock, folk, blues, oh yeah and a REALLY obscure new age band called the Afrocelt Sound Systems. Their worth a listen, but brace yourself for the highly unusual.

[RHIZOMES]

1. Bone Thugs n Harmony
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2. Above the Law
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3. Genesis
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4. The Gun Club
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5. Philip Glass
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6. Brotha Lynch Hung
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7. 2Pac
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8. Notorious B.I.G.
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9. The Wipers
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10. Geinoh Yamashirogumi
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Honorary 11. Warren G
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Why should the blues be so at home here? Well, America provided, the atmosphere.

[Il Medico]

To Evan:

I rather like the Beatles, and don't really like the second band you posted. So in my opinion, the first band is quality and the second band is shit. But that's just it, an opinion. The point of this thread was to post a variety of music you like, not to sit around attack people because they like a band you don't. Grow up. Everyone has different taste, for you to think yours is superior to anyone else's is just you being a pretentious prick.

[KarlMarx1989]

It pisses me off that a lot of good bands don't get any real recognition for their musical talent, but then you look at the beatles they got too much, and for what?Personally, I like underground music. :P...but seriously, to me; listening to music is about relating to the lyrics and the stories told through music. I do like a good sound, but I won't listen to a song about something I can't relate to just because it sounds good. Sometimes, however, I won't listen to music that sounds terrible even though I can relate in anyway.

I have been told that I am picky with music, but I see it as understanding myself more because I listen to songs for their lyrical meanings.

I do like creative lyrics that are deep and well thought out. I don't like most of the lyrics that are used which are simple and shallow. Also, I like a fast and complicated drum beat. :D

[BakuninFan]

1. Bob Dylan
2. Pink Floyd
3. Talk Talk (last two albums)
4. Neutral Milk Hotel
5. Peter Gabriel
6. Joy Division
7. Van Morrison (Astral Weeks only)
8. The Velvet Underground
9. Sigur Ros
10. Stereolab

[Invader Zim]

I don't know if I have favorite bands anymore, I go through phases of listening to stuff. At the moment the top of my most played music is, in no order:

Bob Dylan,
belle and Sebastian,
grandaddy,
tool,
manic street preachers,
the stone roses,
pendulum,
billy bragg,
catatonia,
the cranberries

[Ol' Dirty]

Assuming that these are rock bands, I'll post them:

Rage Against, Bob & the Wailers, the Only Band the Matters, U2, ZZ, A Perfect Circle, Red Hots, Nine Inch, Led Zep.

[Atrus]

Pink Floyd, The Smiths, Cold War Kids, Radiohead, Placebo, Muse, Fleetwood Mac, Raphael, Joy Division, James.

Mostly bands from before I was born, but let's face it, music was better then.
I also agree that the Beatles are massively overrated, and being from liverpool I've been subjected to them all my life...

[Skramz]

what
She has an amazing voice. lol



@Envy comments

Yes, the screamo, post-rock or post-hardcore(whatever you wanna call them)band from Japan.

[Sam_b]

It pisses me off that a lot of good bands don't get any real recognition for their musical talent, but then you look at the beatles they got too much, and for what? Simple music that any fucking mook today could compose. They were fucking overrated and if you don't see that fundamental point, you may as well be the musical equivalent of a US neo-conservative republican

So, hold on there. Define 'simple music' and define 'musician'. For example, I would regard 'Teenage Kicks' by the Undertones as one of the best singles released. Its a wonderful pop song. It has about four chords in it - does that necessarily make it bad?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oskM5XD_Yc4

Its about personal taste and what you define as music, and what you want to listen to given a particular time. I include this song because it will probably annoy you if you are so narrow-minded:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mo5ehG8xZw

[h9socialist]

Among rock bands:
1. Deep Purple (incl. Rainbow, Blackmore's Night & Ian Gillan Band)
2. Frank Zappa
3. Yes
4. Jethro Tull
5. King Crimson
6. Jimi Hendrix
7. Black Sabbath
8. Judas Priest
9. Emerson, Lake and Palmer
10. Uriah Heep

Among Blues bands and musicians:
1. Muddy Waters
2. Howlin' Wolf
3. B. B. King
4. Buddy Guy
5. Albert Collins
6. Hubert Sumlin
7. Little Walter
8. Johnny Winter
9. Otis Rush
10. Shuggie Otis

[Lyev]

Probably the Jonas bros are my favourite band eva! Those guys are great! But, I try to vary my taste, I like, at the moment: Modest Mouse, Joy Division, The Smiths, Bombay Bicycle Club, Bob Dylan, The Clash, The Dead Kennedys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs oh and Flaming Lips; Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is quickly becoming one of absolute favourite albums. Also, an enduring favourite are RATM.

By the way, love these guys too, Electric Mud is fantastic;


Among Blues bands and musicians:
1. Muddy Waters
2. Howlin' Wolf
3. B. B. King

[The Ben G]

In no real order,

Crass, Napalm death, kmfdm, Ministry, Danzig, Dead kennedys, Motorhead, Megadeth, Suicidal tendencies, and Celtic frost

[More Fire for the People]

Blue Scholars, Common Market, Jay-Z, Kid Cudi, Kanye West, Common, Blu & Exile, Rick Ross, Ghostface Killah, Nas

No particular order.

[Rise Above]

Frank Zappa
Tom Waits
The Pogues
Neu!
David Bowie
Black Sabbath
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Can
Kyuss
Queens Of The Stone Age

Something like that. Of late, anyway.

[Invincible Summer]

No particular order, and it's mainly what I'm liking right now:
- Arjen Anthony Lucasson's various projects (Ayreon, Star One, Guilt Machine, etc)
- Break of Reality
- Fear Factory
- RATM/One Day as a Lion
- Pantera
- Pure Reason Revolution
- Frontline Assembly
- Massive Attack
- Neurosis
- Karin-Dreijer Andersson (The Knife, Fever Ray)
-

[TheCultofAbeLincoln]

The Beatles, The Doors, The Screaming Trees, Tool, Johnny Cash, Jimi, Pink Floyd, The Clash, Nirvana, Allman Brothers, CCR, CSNY, and yeah that's more than 10

And throw in cream and stevie ray vaughn

[Uncle Hank]

I'll just post my top 5 because everything is sorta hazy after that point.

Sigur Rós

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtqYwT0qSVM

Explosions in the Sky

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0o8JCxjjpM

System of a Down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK4ynCvvV0A

Johnny Cash

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9IfHDi-2EA

The Rolling Stones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM-VvLvmV6o

[Weezer]

1. ZlFPmHaXO9E
Procol Harum

2. 44ZLCIOyKLg
Kenny Loggins

3.98P-gu_vMRc
Electric Light Orchestra(ELO)/ELO Part II

4.nfLEc09tTjI
Earth, Wind, & Fire

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Dead Kennedys

6. u6Tla25fqKQ
Long John Baldry

7. ax2xcEPooVw
HORSE The Band


8. _E6BNE_Rtqo

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Various Video Game Music

9. c5IIXeR5OUI
Louie Armstrong, or really Jazz in general.

10. aE89OeM5nmU
Peter Sarstedt

[Red Isa]

I like the band Benign a lot. Especially the song Lenin from their album Common Language. It's sooo good!!!

youtube.com/watch?v=FOoXdFBsWr8

[communard resolution]

Same top 3 as Pirate Utopian: the Holy Trinity of art rock, proto punk, glam, or whatever else you wanna call it. Not a bad thing Iggy's wearing a T. Rex shirt either.

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/6315999/Iggy+Pop+David+Bowie+++Lou+Reed.jpg

[Das war einmal]

According to my last.fm account these are my ten favorites:

1 http://cdn.last.fm/flatness/clear.gif (http://www.last.fm/music/Nine+Inch+Nails) Nine Inch Nails (http://www.last.fm/music/Nine+Inch+Nails)

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2 http://cdn.last.fm/flatness/clear.gif (http://www.last.fm/music/Nine+Inch+Nails) KMFDM (http://www.last.fm/music/KMFDM)


780
3 http://cdn.last.fm/flatness/clear.gif (http://www.last.fm/music/KMFDM) Marilyn Manson (http://www.last.fm/music/Marilyn+Manson)


580
4 http://cdn.last.fm/flatness/clear.gif (http://www.last.fm/music/Marilyn+Manson) Rammstein (http://www.last.fm/music/Rammstein)


426
5 http://cdn.last.fm/flatness/clear.gif (http://www.last.fm/music/Rammstein) Das Ich (http://www.last.fm/music/Das+Ich)


312
6 http://cdn.last.fm/flatness/clear.gif (http://www.last.fm/music/Das+Ich) Akira Yamaoka (http://www.last.fm/music/Akira+Yamaoka)


306
7 http://cdn.last.fm/flatness/clear.gif (http://www.last.fm/music/Akira+Yamaoka) Stabbing Westward (http://www.last.fm/music/Stabbing+Westward)


279
8 http://cdn.last.fm/flatness/clear.gif (http://www.last.fm/music/Stabbing+Westward) Turmion Kätilöt (http://www.last.fm/music/Turmion+K%C3%A4til%C3%B6t)


268
9 http://cdn.last.fm/flatness/clear.gif (http://www.last.fm/music/Turmion+K%C3%A4til%C3%B6t) Metallica (http://www.last.fm/music/Metallica)


256
10 http://cdn.last.fm/flatness/clear.gif (http://www.last.fm/music/Metallica) Megadeth (http://www.last.fm/music/Megadeth)

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But thats not entirely correct, I would say Tool is far more my favorite then Marilyn Manson for instance (and certainly more than Das Ich or Turmion Katilot) but it only keeps track since one year and therefor I have listened an awfull lot Tool and Metallica on cd.

But my music taste has altered a lot the last two years I listen far more to Industrial than 'ordinary' metal.

[rebelmouse]

million of dead cops
discharge
dead kennedys
unison (from serbia)
totalni promasaj (total failure)
sex pistols
soulfly
sepultura
public enemy
the cult

[farleft]

In no particular order:

The Clash
The Beatles
Bob Marley & The Wailers
The Jam
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
Babyshambles
Oasis
Blur
Big Audio Dynamite
Carbon/Silicon

[un_person]

In no order: Rage Against The Machine, The Nightwatchman, Woody Guthrie, The Coup, Immortal Technique, The International Noise Conspiracy, Ryan Harvey, Evan Greer, Billy Bragg, and Steve Earle.

[Die Rote Fahne]

Billy Talent
System of a Down
Anti-Flag
Rise Against
Coheed and Cambria
Gallows
Bad Religion
Linkin Park (Their old stuff)
Protest the Hero
Rage Against the Machine

[KarlMarx1989]

1) Marilyn Manson
2) Cradle of Filth
3) Moonspell
4) Cannibal Corpse
5) Lacuna Coil
6) Mortal Love
7) Scythe
8) The Black Dahlia Murder
9) Job For a Cowboy
10) 凶音[Magane] -- There was a bit of a mistranslation.

[Post-Something]

1. Sonic Youth
2. Fugazi
3. Radiohead
4. Boards of Canada
5. Explosions in the Sky
6. Red House Painters
7. Aphex Twin
8. Big Black
9. Pixies
10. My Bloody Valentine

[AK]

In no order:
Bleeding Through
Anti-Flag
System of a Down
Rage Against the Machine
Bullet For My Valentine
Killswitch Engage
Linkin Park
Rise Against
Propagandhi
Bring Me The Horizon

[Jazzratt]

In no order:
Corrosion of Conformity
KMFDM
Emilie Autumn
Dead Can Dance (I was going to put either Brendan Perry or Lisa Gerrard here because I'm a huge fan of their solo stuff, but it's too bloody hard to choose just one)
Hungry Lucy
Random Hand
Down
Clutch
The Last Dance
The Cruxshadows.

Of course those are my top 10 right now. I love too much music to consistently list a top ten. Others that may be included on that list at other points:
Nas
Dead Prez
Blaggers ITA
Hardskin
Hammerfall
Sonata Artica
Bob Dylan
Leonard Cohen

Oh fuck it, you get the idea.

[NecroCommie]

King diamond
Rhapsody (of fire)
Emperor
Megadeth
Stratovarius
Symphony X
Keep of kalessin
Wintersun
Kiuas

My music taste owns that of yours!

[manicexpressive]

Marshall Crenshaw, Webb Wilder, Chixdiggit, Todd Snider, the Weakerthans, the Suicide Machines, the Spats, the Fags, Combichrist, the Breeders....among others....

[Jazzratt]

Marshall Crenshaw, Webb Wilder, Chixdiggit, Todd Snider, the Weakerthans, the Suicide Machines, the Spats, the Fags, Combichrist, the Breeders....among others....

Some fucking class acts there.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

In no order:

The Killers
Bloc Party
Muse
The Enemy
The Wombats
The Pigeon Detectives
Oasis
The Rifles
Fall Out Boy
Lostprophets

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

In fact i'd deffo chuck in Metallica there, forgot about them.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

hmm...
Marvin Gaye, Talking Heads, Duke Ellington, Fela Kuti, James Brown, The Roots, Odetta, Wilson Pickett, A Tribe Called Quest, Curtis Mayfield

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

Blue Scholars, Common Market, Jay-Z, Kid Cudi, Kanye West, Common, Blu & Exile, Rick Ross, Ghostface Killah, Nas

No particular order.

Surely Wu Tang deserves a spot on that top-10

[The Ben G]

In no order:
Corrosion of Conformity
KMFDM
Down
Bob Dylan

Oh fuck it, you get the idea.

I think that you and me are the only people in the world that likes these 4 equally.:thumbup1::thumbup1::thumbup1:

[The Red Next Door]

gatas parlament
mama soul
los tetas
peyote aseino
macaco
flobots
control machete
keny Arkana
king giddra
oohmp
ich ich
sabrina setlur
fantatischen vier
fettes brot
aterciopados
dam
lily allen

[Decommissioner]

It's hard to pin down, so I will just make a quick list of ten bands that I listen to on a regular basis

Neurosis
Malady
Mouth of the Architect
Nadja
Indian
Mogwai
Grails
Wolves in the Throne Room
Brother Inferior
North of America

[*Viva La Revolucion*]

No particular order and including solo artists as well as bands:

Radiohead
Tracy Chapman
Blur
The Clash
Billie Holiday
Florence and the Machine
Devendra Banhart
Fleet Foxes
The Doors
Nirvana

And an 11th, Pink Floyd with Syd.

[Sam_b]

Florence and the Machine

Really?

[*Viva La Revolucion*]

Really.

[Invader Zim]

Sonata Artica
Bob Dylan



I went to a Sonata Artica gig the other week wearing a Bob Dylan t-shirt. Suffice to say it was I thought, until this moment, a unique combination.

[APathToTake]

In no order

Machine head
Tool
Pink Floyd
The Chariot
As I lay dying
All Shall Perish
Lamb of God
Suicide Silence
Rage Against the Machine
Lupe Fiasco

[Sleeper]

1.) Bad Religion
2.) Duran Duran
3.) The Bravery
4.) Distance to Empty
5.) Kansas
6.) The Eagles
7.) The Killers
8.) Metallica (I'm sorry, they're whores, but their music was awesome pre-1993, S&M was great too)
9.) Tool
10.) The Cult

[Woyzeck]

1] Frank Zappa
2] Tool
3] Rush
4] Led Zeppelin
5] Dream Theater
6] The Mars Volta
7] Opeth
8] Mastodon
9] Iron Maiden
10] Yes

[Woyzeck]

Neurosis

Neurosis are so fucking good. Respect comrade.

[Woyzeck]

King Diamond, Emperor

Excellent taste comrade.

[cyniclight]

1.The Beatles
2.Oasis
3.Blur
4.Red Army Choir
5.The Suede
6.Supergrass
7.Maximo Park
8.H.I.M.
9.Pulp
10.The verve Basically a lot of Brit pop and mainly Euro oriented music

[Chimurenga.]

Currently. In no order:

The Clash
Gang Of Four
Morrissey
Black Flag
Refused
Drive Like Jehu
Fugazi
Rage Against The Machine
At The Drive-In
Bad Brains

[Stand Your Ground]

In no order:

KMFDM
Three Days Grace
Intro5pect
Propagandhi
Total Chaos
Behind Enemy Lines
Killswitch Engage
Demon Hunter
Moscow Death Brigade
Antagonist A.D.

[YeOldeCommuniste]

Jefferson Airplane.


Then, in no particular order... The Beatles, The Doors, Muse, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, and some others. Music-wise, I was born a generation too late. :lol:

[Communist]

The Beatles, Black Sabbath, Mayhem, Rolling Stones, Asia (John Payne era), Flying Burrito Brothers, and after that it goes in all sorts of directions. I'm a true music geek.

[Intifadah]

no particular order

The Clash
Joy Division
RATM
Nirvana
Oasis
The Stone Roses
The Specials
The Prodigy
The Smiths
early U2 - can't stand them as humans but hey...

[Scary Monster]

1.The Beatles
2.Oasis
3.Blur
4.Red Army Choir
5.The Suede
6.Supergrass
7.Maximo Park
8.H.I.M.
9.Pulp
10.The verve Basically a lot of Brit pop and mainly Euro oriented music

:thumbup1: It's hard to find a Suede fan (here in the States, at least). Theyre among THE most under-rated bands ever!

My top 10 in no particular order:

The Clash
Bauhaus
The Skatalites
Marvin Gaye
Queen Adreena
Suede
T. Rex
David Bowie
Misfits
Burning Spear

[Chimurenga.]

:thumbup1: It's hard to find a Suede fan (here in the States, at least). Theyre among THE most under-rated bands ever!

Their self-titled record is the best thing to come out of the whole "brit-pop" scene.

[Tacos and Beer]

Everyone loves lists!
(Not in any order)

1. Streetlight Manifesto
2. Propagandhi
3. Against All Authority
4. Rage Against the Machine
5. ZSK
6. Common Enemy (more so because they're very personable w/ their fans)
7. Black Flag
8. Krush Klamath (local band)
9. The Suicide Machines
10. No Cash

More of a Hip-Hop head, but eh, I like bands too. :)

[Meridian]

It fluctuates a little, but at the time being mostly among these:

1. Neurosis
2. Tool
3. King Crimson
4. Isis
5. Swans
6. Tribes of Neurot
7. Pink Floyd
8. Cult of Luna
9. Irepress
10. The Angelic Process

[I.Drink.Your.Milkshake]

Bob Dylan
David Bowie
The Clash
The Beatles
The Last Poets
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Boards of Canada
The Velvet Underground
The Happy Mondays
Blur

[Girl A]

My Bloody Valentine
Radiohead
The Beatles
Pixies
Animal Collective
The Smiths
Talking Heads
Public Enemy
TV On The Radio
Pavement

[Red North]

1. NOFX
2. Anti-Flag
3. System of a Down
4. Dethklok
5. Flogging Molly
6. Rage Against the Machine
7. Sex Pistols
8. Real McKenzies
9. The Misfits
10. Bad Religion

[punisa]

1. The Rolling Stones
2. The Who
3. Guns N Roses
4. Oasis
5. Van Halen
6. NOFX
7. Iron Maiden
8. Sex Pistols
9. Blur
10. Deep Purple

[A Proletarian Manifesto]

1. Oi Polloi
2. Dead Kennedys
3. The Restarts
4. Suicide Machines
5. Anti-Flag
6. Skinflicks
7. The Casualties
8. Discharge
9. 4-Skins
10. Slipknot


My old band the violators was pretty sweet too, but I wont put it in top 10 because It was pretty local.

[CommunistDaughter]

I doubt anybody actually looks at these, but ah well.
A mixture of all-time loves and more recent favorites:

1. The Clash
2. Brand New
3. The Gaslight Anthem
4. Animal Collective
5. Against Me!
6. The Weakerthans
7. Green Day
8. The Replacements
9. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
10. Fake Problems

[mosfeld]

At the moment, according to Last.fm (based on my most plays this week):

1. Crystal Castles
2. Public Enemy
3. Noisia
4. Rusko
5. Skream
6. Roni Size
7. Boards of Canada
8. Justice
9. N.W.A
10. The Coup

[choff]

1. Andrew Jackson Jihad
2. Blind Guardian
3. Skinless
4. Streetlight Manfiesto
5. Bloodbath
6. Arsis
7. Korpiklaani
8. Gogol Bordello
9. Bad Religion
10. Amon Amarth

Those are my top ten most plays for this week. Changes all the time, but I guess it's a pretty solid idea of what I listen to.

[Abattoir_Blues]

My heart smiles to see The Clash at the top of so many lists.

In no particular order past the first two, mine are:
The Clash
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
The Slits
Essential Logic
Bikini Kill
Sugar Minott
Frank Zappa
PiL
Burning Spear
The Pixies

[Foldered]

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Saw your username and this thread and knew they'd be in your favourites.

I can't come up with anything, but I can just go to my most top played artists recently I guess:
Wolf Parade
Mother Mother
Pavement
Adam Green
Built to Spill
Nick Cave (and any other derivative like Grinderman, & the Bad Seeds, Birthday Party)
The Felice Brothers
She & Him
Chad VanGaalen
Dinosaur Jr.

Keep in mind that these change frequently and don't reflect my all time favourites.

[NGNM85]

It changes periodically, and it's tough to keep it to just 10, but here goes;

Sex Pistols
Smiths/Morrissey
Social Distortion
Clash
Green Day (Excluding the last two albums which were terrible.)
Offspring
The Germs
Cock Sparrer
Ramones
Gin Blossoms

[lulks]

the beatles
the beach boys
the zombies
the kinks
xtc
neutral milk hotel
animal collective
weezer
the smiths
belle & sebastian

[Sarah Palin]

Wu Tang Clan
Rage Against the Machine
Red Hot Chili Peppers
White Stripes
Ratatat
Beck
The Gaslamp Killer
Haiku d'Etat
Jimi Hendrix
The Mars Volta

[Elementnh4]

In no particular order: Metallica, Rage Against the Machine, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Public Enemy, Tool, Mastodon, Fu Manchu, Kyuss and Flogging Molly.
Insane! I'm From Michigan and except for flogging molly and mastodon those are all the bands I love bro

[KlownBaby19]

ABK
ICP
TWIZTID
Tech N9ne
Boondox
Disturbed
Queen
Three Days Grace
Breaking Benjamin

[TheSamsquatch]

1. Black Flag
2. Rage Against the Machine
3. Dead Kennedys
4. Minor Threat
5. Sublime
6. Primus
7. Minutemen
8. Public Enemy
9. Bad Brains
10. The Ramones

[Ele'ill]

I generally become attached to songs rather than bands but here are the top 5 - 10 bands that I have listened to on a regular basis

The Knife

Aesop Rock

Windy and Carl

Tori Amos/Piano covers on youtube (so I can learn!)

Lisa Gerrard/Dead Can Dance

Animal Collective/Panda Bear

Kate Bush

Bonnie Prince Billy

Iron and Wine

Jessica Lea Mayfield

[Zeus the Moose]

In alphabetical order:
Billy Bragg (British lefty musician)
Boiled in Lead ("world folk" group from the Twin Cities, MN)
Coyote Run ("the thinking man's Celtic rock band" [their words] from Richmond, VA)
Eluveitie (Swiss folk metal)
Korpiklaani (Finnish folk metal)
New Model Army (British classic punk)
They Might Be Giants (alternative-ish?)
Turisas (Finnish folk metal)
VNV Nation (British electronic/EBM/futurepop)
Warren Zevon (alternative rock, I guess?)

My musical tastes are a bit eclectic.

[leftace53]

Iron Maiden
Iced Earth
Pantera
Weather Report
Rodrigo y Gabriela (not really a "band" but oh well)
All That Remains
Pink Floyd
Black Sabbath
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Skindred

[this is an invasion]

In no particular order

Have Heart
Blood for Blood
Death Before Dishonor
Set Your Goals
Deez Nuts
Life Long Tragedy
Defeater
Immortal Technique
LoopTroop Rockers
Madball

[Adi Shankara]

Hrm...can they be individual artists too?

in no particular order:

1.) Super Cat

2.) KMFDM

3.) DJ Splash

4.) Basshunter

5.) KINO

6.) Immortal Technique

7.) K'naan

8.) Culture (a reggae band)

9.) Chaotic Dischord

10.) Chopin

[NoOneIsIllegal]

I listen to too much, but I hope this is somewhere my near top 10. Or at least of the past year or so:

- A Place to Bury Strangers
- Sodom
- Alcest
- Third Eye Blind
- La Quiete
- Eternal Tears of Sorrow
- 1000 Travels of Jawaharlal
- Gospel
- My Bloody Valentine

I can't pick a last one... Death? Cease upon the Capitol? Skywave? Circle takes the square? GY!BE? Caspian?
Oh well, fuck it...

[dawt]

Not sorted in any way.

Knochenfabrik
NoRMAhl
Slime
WIZO
Ramones
Infected Mushroom
Utah Philipps
The Grateful Dead
Cock Sparrer
Chaos Z

... but the list really goes on and on and on...

[nip]

For the sake of being in random order here are my top 10 favorite bands in random order

System of a down
Rammstein
Ministry
Megadeth
Rage against the machine
Pantera
Dead kennedys
Sex pistols
Public enemy
Corrosion of conformity

[ulises]

The Smiths, The Velvet Underground, Os Mutantes, Talking Heads, New York Dolls, Morrissey, Sex Pistols, The Strokes, Rolling Stones and James White

at least that's how it stands at the minute, my tastes generally change as soon as i've formed them

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

1) Katy Perry
2) Aqua
3) Amanda Lepore
4) Lady Gaga
5) RuPaul
6) Jefree Star
7) Judy Garland
8) The Dresden Dolls/Amanda Palmer
9) Scissor Sisters
10) Alanis Morissette

[The Ben G]

I listen to too much, but I hope this is somewhere my near top 10. Or at least of the past year or so:

- A Place to Bury Strangers
- Sodom
- Alcest
- Third Eye Blind
- La Quiete
- Eternal Tears of Sorrow
- 1000 Travels of Jawaharlal
- Gospel
- My Bloody Valentine

I can't pick a last one... Death? Cease upon the Capitol? Skywave? Circle takes the square? GY!BE? Caspian?
Oh well, fuck it...

Wow. Third eye blind and Sodom on the same list?

[RedLaw]

Very difficult to limit this list to only ten but here goes:

1. David Bowie
2. Talking Heads
3. Pink Floyd
4. Frontline Assembly
5. Rammstein
6. Devo
7. Garbage
8. S.N.F.U.
9. James Blunt
10. Selena

With an honorable mention to the Cars,Kate Bush and others.

[Crux]

My list would be endless.
But right now? Luke Haines/Baader-Meinhof, Text (http://www.myspace.com/textband), The Pixies, The Specials, QOTSA, Jens Lekman, Dangerdoom and Agoraphobic Nosebleed.

[Blake's Baby]

Sisters of Mercy, Velvet Underground, Joy Division, Stooges, Pixies, Sugarcubes, Dead Kennedys, Echo and the Bunnymen, Leonard Cohen, Jesus and Mary Chain.

[Leonid Brozhnev]

1. Led Zeppelin
2. System of a Down
3. Type O Negative
4. Fear Factory
5. Pink Floyd
6. Rush (I'm aware of all the Rand bullshit, they seem to be over it in their recent albums)
7. Hammerfall
8. Dimmu Borgir
9. Korpiklaani
10. Arch Enemy

Obviously I listen to much more than just this list, but currently these are my favourites.

[Il Medico]

So, who are your top ten favorite bands?
Here's mine. (in no particular order)

The Beatles:
Electric Light Orchestra:


of Montreal:


Jimi Hendrix!

Owl City:


Bowie:


Scissor Sisters:


Neutral Milk Hotel:

The Doors:


Sara Bareilles:

Damn, how things change. I know it wasn't that long ago, but some of thee bands wouldn't even come to mind right now if asked to name a top ten. :lol:

Right now, I'd probably say my top ten consist of:
The Avalanches
Architecture in Helsinki
of Montreal
Scissor Sisters
Edith Piaf
Ella Fitzgerald
Dean Martin
Nouvelle Vague
The Ramones
Vampire Weekend

[thomasludd]

This is my current playlist... my fave bands change frequently, though it's usually like some bands changing standing and some within top 30 jump to top ten.

1. :wumpscut:
2. Gabba Front Berlin
3. Hocico
4. Brighter Death Now
5. Skinny Puppy
6. Assemblage 23
7. yelworC
8. Ice Ages
9. Lustmord
10. Tactical Sekt

[Boyle1888]

No real order:

Nirvana
Rage Against the Machine
marilyn Manson
Dead Kennedys
The Stone Roses
Slipknot
System of a Down
Cancer Bats
Rolo Tomassi
Gallows
The Clash

[Ehsivar]

Favourite Bands:

1.) the pillows
2.) Dir en grey
3.) Nobuo Uematsu
4.) maudlin of the Well
5.) The Smiths
6.) 65daysofstatic
7.) Envy
8.) Yoko Shimomura
9.) Agalloch
10.) Russian Circles

Favourite Albums

1.) Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy IX Original Soundtrack
2.) Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy VII Original Soundtrack
3.) Yoko Shimomura - Kingdom Hearts Original Soundtrack Complete
4.) maudlin of the Well - Bath
5.) Dir en grey -Macabre
6.) Agalloch - The Mantle
7.) 65daysofstatic - One Time for All Time
8.) The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
9.) The Cure - Disintegration
10.) the pillows (mostly) - Fooly Cooly Original Soundtrack (collectively, the three volumes)

I think videogame music features some of the greatest artists of our time. While I'm well-versed in heavy metal, I think the majority of it, especially power metal and modern melodic death metal, leave much to be desired.

[Chambered Word]

1. Queens of the Stone Age
2. Rammstein
3. Muse
4. Green Day
5. Public Enemy
6. The Dandy Warhols
7. Madness
8. The Clash
9. The Vines
10. Flogging Molly

I have about 20 different favourite bands though. :blushing:

[The Ben G]

1. Queens of the Stone Age
2. Rammstein
3. Muse
4. Green Day
5. Public Enemy
6. The Dandy Warhols
7. Madness
8. The Clash
9. The Vines
10. Flogging Molly

I have about 20 different favourite bands though. :blushing:

Why do you have Green Day up here?

[Il Medico]

Why do you have Green Day up here?
Cause he likes Greenday? :confused:

[Chambered Word]

Why do you have Green Day up here?

Green Day is pretty awesome.

inb4 hurr durr it's not punk, I'm aware of that. ;)

[UndergroundConnexion]

1. The Beatles
2. Oasis
3. The Smiths
4. Stone Roses
5 Sex Pistols
6. Joy Division
7. New Order
8. Orishas
9. The Who
10. The Doors

[skinny]

No particular order
K'naan
Sin 4 Sin
A2Z's
Rose Tattoo
Camarada Kalashnikov
Red Alert
Slade
Desmond Dekker
The Redskins
Theory of a Deadman

[NoOneIsIllegal]

Wow. Third eye blind and Sodom on the same list?
I could listen to 3EB's self-titled and Sodom's Agent Orange side by side every day. Only difference is, Sodom put out a lot of awesome material, 3EB only has one good album. 90s alternative and 80s German thrash, fuck yeah.

[BeerShaman]

1.John Mellencamp
2. Amon Amarth
3.Korpiklaani
4.Ensiferum
5.Iced Earth
6.Agalloch
7.Dethklok
8.Children of Bodom
9.Black Stone Cherry
10. Drive-By Truckers

I know its quite a wide range. I am a Mellencamp worshipper fan because I have a lot in common with him (Hometown, love of my homestate Indiana, political and social viewpoints, style, etc.) and I get his music all the way. Still, I'm really a big metalhead when it comes to music, especially folk metal, melodeath, power-prog metal, etc. I also like roots and southern rock, classic rock, folk, blues, oh yeah and a REALLY obscure new age band called the Afrocelt Sound Systems. Their worth a listen, but brace yourself for the highly unusual.

YEAH!!!:thumbup1:

[BeerShaman]

Here without a proper line:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR7xBj0bDD8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Oih6v42KE
Yeah!:thumbup1: (helicopter headbumping!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uQOyLllsxs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWNS_cBNpeY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ_VFJn2kJM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QBrZfsuUCg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOKbhQbvpPA
Muahahahahahahah! Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!:th umbup1:
Huah!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N505JczoEGI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EIIthiGLlA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IBCbNegM10

[93'perfuck]

Madvillain
DJ Shadow
Beastie Boys
A Tribe Called Quest
J Dilla
Boards of Canada
Charizma
Joy Division
Kid Koala
Souls of Mischief

[HEAD ICE]

10. Black Flag
9. The Red Hot Chili Peppers
8. Bill Callahan
7. Joy Division
6. The Residents
5. Leonard Cohen
4. Dead Kennedys
3. Scott Walker
2. Nick Cave and all his incarnations (Grinderman, the Bad Seeds, the Birthday Party)
1. Tom Waits

for rock music

[Widerstand]

1. La Dispute

TNmPASWnq_8

2. Touche Amore

DvRo_Mg0Dlo

3. Refused

cAVhec3SRJg

4. United Nations

8if1GMuvJpY

5. Comadre

Ng94UTrEjnY

6. Circle Takes The Square

MYbfkhwYIN8

7. Fear Before The March Of Flames

jAQarv718v8

8. Saetia

CK4nM-MS9es

9. Bring Me The Horizon

-TNckXgfYhA

10. Thrice

SY1SwqLOC3c

something along these lines.

[Blackscare]

IN no particular order:


The Melvins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uw92UaD_jQ

Primus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyasMtYTOhk

RATM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDzw9HLQCK4

Anything by Mike Patton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt856_nRxQk

The Black Keys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5FW8Xo8ENo

Atmosphere (fuck you if you think hip-hop groups aren't bands)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbEwHJX95QE

Meat Puppets

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxRsnRht51k
(this was the only decent one on youtube anymore)

Alice in Chains

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpiQmngJ2OE

Soundgarden

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU4L6THYAbM

And Motherfuckin' Tool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYNkVNXlfkw

[Peace Sells..]

current top 10?

1.) Alcest
2.) Daft Punk
3.) Amesoeurs
4.) Les Discrets
5.) Megadeth
6.) Silversun Pickups
7.) The Killers
8.) Bad Brains
9.) My Bloody Valentine
10.) Ghostface

[Kassad]

1. The Beatles
2. The Decemberists
3. Pink Floyd
4. Soundgarden
5. Alice in Chains
6. Tool
7. Oasis
8. Jefferson Airplane
9. The Rolling Stones
10. Massive Attack

A weird variation, I'd say.

[JerryBiscoTrey]

1. Grateful Dead
2. Grateful Dead
3. Grateful Dead
4. Grateful Dead
5. Grateful Dead
6. Grateful Dead
7. Grateful Dead
8. Grateful Dead
9. Rage Against the Machine
10. Grateful Dead

:D

[Il Medico]

1. Grateful Dead
2. Grateful Dead
3. Grateful Dead
4. Grateful Dead
5. Grateful Dead
6. Grateful Dead
7. Grateful Dead
8. Grateful Dead
9. Rage Against the Machine
10. Grateful Dead

:D
Eclectic music taste I see.

[JerryBiscoTrey]

Eclectic music taste I see.

Lol well im a deadhead. Okay heres the real list:

1. Grateful Dead
2. Rage Against the Machine
3. Bob Dylan
4. Bob Marley
5. Led Zeppelin
6. Joni Mitchell
7. The Doors
8. Allman Brothers
9. Public Enemy
10. Neil Young

[Rotfront]

Blind Guardian
Symphony X
Pain of Salvation
Kamelot
Orphaned Land
Eluveitie
Queensryche
Ayreon
Ensiferum
Rush

[Burn A Flag]

1. Dead Prez
2. The Coup
3. 2pac
4. Bone Thugs N Harmony
5. Cypress Hill
6. Non Phixion
7. Taproot
8. Ginuwine
9. Crossfade
10. Silverchair

Kind of an arbitrary list but I like all those artists a lot.

[John "Eh" MacDonald]

no particular order..

Black Flag
Black Keys
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Black Sabbath (mostly songs from first album)
Iggy Pop and the Stooges
The Doors
The Germs
Allman Brothers Band
The Spiderbabies
Triumph

[Il Medico]

update:

of Montreal
Vampire Weekend
The Decemberist
Franz Ferdinand
Modest Mouse
Edith Piaf
The Ramones
Suede
The Beatles
Scissor Sisters

[Bardo]

In no order:

The Beatles
Tool
A perfect Circle
Bob Dylan
The Doors
Dead Meadow
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Led Zeppelin
White Stripes
Sonic Youth

[Apoi_Viitor]

1. Touche Amore
2. Sed Non Satiata
3. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
4. Atari Teenage Riot
5. Daitro
6. Elend
7. Xasthur
8. Akutagawa
9. My Bloody Valentine
10. Unwound

[Who?]

1. The Beatles
2. Bob Dylan
3. The Kinks
4. Belle and Sebastian
5. Outkast
6. Radiohead
7. Pavement
8. The Smiths
9. Neil Young
10. Arcade Fire

[Delenda Carthago]

In no order

Britney Spears
Alanis Morrisete
Pink
Coldplay
Backstreet Boys
Adam Lambert
Scorpions
The Darkness
Limp Bizkit

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

Lately I'd say:

1- AFI
2- Bright Eyes
3- Tish Hinjosa
4- Ani Difranco
5-Alanis Morrisstte
6- Aqua
7- Jayne County
8-Amanda Lepore
9- Katy Perry
10- Phil Ochs

Subject to change over time.

[Delenda Carthago]

I d like to add Aqua too...

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

I d like to add Aqua too...
"My, Oh My" is my jam!

[Jalapeno Enema]

No way I could decide, so here's the most prolific from my collection:

The Darkness
sRYNYb30nxU
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Mr_uHJPUlO8
Louis Armstrong
wyLjbMBpGDA
Social Distortion
oh8zcbC_Dcw
The Offspring
gvVLGjWEIPw
Against me!
-p3B9aW8YKk
Shaggy
yBy0fKVljZU
Teenage Bottlerocket
IM2p6YlIg2k
Nelly
RtSDWq6HsJE
The Buzzcocks
FKXCzKWm9yo

[blake 3:17]

Public Enemy, Joy Division, Ignatz, Parliament, Hole, The Minutemen, Pavement, Sonic Youth, Fugazi

[Delenda Carthago]

"My, Oh My" is my jam!
gotta steal from the rich,gotta give to the poor...

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

gotta steal from the rich,gotta give to the poor...
"If you we're my king, I would be your queen"

It's beautiful.

[thesadmafioso]

In no order of any sort.

Godspeed you! Black Emperor
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra
Set Fire to Flames
Do Make Say Think
Mono
Fly Pan Am
Explosions in the Sky
My Bloody Valentine
Elliott Smith
Neutral Milk Hotel

[Impulse97]

In no particular order.

Green Day
AC/DC
The Bloodhound Gang
Kotton Mouth Kings
Disturbed
Dreamtheater
Kid Cudi
Craig Morgan
The Beatles
The Who
Max Romeo

That's really 12 and there's many more lol.:D:hammersickle::trotski::hammersickle:

[Aloysius]

1. La Dispute
2. Touche Amore
9. Bring Me The Horizon

something along these lines.
I love you.

Anyway:
1. Brand New
2. La Dispute
3. Tom Morello (The Nightwatchman)
4. The Chariot
5. Joie de Vire
6. Straylight Run
7. The Pipettes (We Are The Pipettes and that's it.)
8. Nirvana
9. Rise Against
10. Blink-182

[BeerShaman]

1 Rage Against The Machine
2 Pantera
3 Kreator
4 Korpiklaani
5 Therion
6 Iced Earth
7 Anathema
8 Bob Marley
9 Bathory
10 Satyricon

+Disturbed, Lake of Tears, Active Member, Blind Guardian, Demons 'n' Wizards... In fact they are so much and chaotic that there is no sense mentionning them.

[socialistsalami]

David bowie is some good stuff :thumbup1:

[DuracellBunny97]

At the moment: The Coup, Propagandhi, Mr. Bungle, Authority Zero, The Fall of Troy, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Enter Shikari, Parkway Drive, Third World and Belvedere

[Diello]

I don't really believe in ranking musical acts like this, but:

1. Lou Reed
2. David Bowie
3. The Beatles
4. Iggy Pop
5. Joy Division
6. Bob Dylan
7. The Kinks
8. The Smiths
9. Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
10. T. Rex

[Johnny Kerosene]

Hard to pick just ten but, in no particular order:
1. Tom Waits
2. Motley Crue
3. Rubber Bandits
4. Sex Pistols
5. Lady Gaga
6. Jimi Hendrix
7. Dethklok
8. Bruce Springsteen
9. Billy Joel
10. Billy Bragg

[LostDesperado]

I couldn't choose so I'll just list 10 bands I listen too.
1. Rise Against
2. Screeching Weasels
3. Metallica
4. Pantera
5. Iron Maiden
6. Beatles
7. Dir En Grey
8. Amon Amarth
9. Tyr
10. Korpiklaani

[Ostrinski]

1. Radiohead
2. The Decemberists
3. Bob Dylan
4. Dead Kennedys
5. Streetlight Manifesto
6. Protest the Hero
7. Circle Takes the Square
8. Andrew Jackson Jihad
9. Dispatch
10. Jawbreaker
11. Kayo Dot
12. Dredg

Couldn't pick ten.

[Tomhet]

No rl order..
Burzum, Death, Agalloch, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Massive Attack, Dead Prez, Black Sabbath, Boards of Canada, Drudkh..

[Tomhet]

Always changing, too many to name. But for the present:

Muse
The Apples
Hanadensha
Flight of the Conchords
Nour Eddine
Acid Mothers Temple
Khanate
The Killers
Jimi Hendrix
Morbid Angel

That's SICK!!!! Hendrix, KHANATE, and Morbid angel together? :)

[Il Medico]

Christ, this thread is old.

[Per Levy]

MayheM - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCISzBSyMk8

Darkthrone - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9pn_dH15uU

Leftöver Crack - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZY3h4ecx_k

Anti Flag - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4q7soJ8edY

The Distillers - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V833lzt3G_o

Eisregen - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwtW0y4jYZs

Sigh - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq7RYq5z6mU

Angizia - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbsZdGEITYk

Satyricon - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rWUi3P8TG4

Vivus Temporis - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnfr8fegwX0&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9emOMzghzqo)

[Münchhausen]

the World/Inferno Friendship Society is my all-time favourite!
Other than that i can't really rank them, but i like:

Star Fucking Hipsters
Angel City Outcasts
the Aquabats
Japanische Kampfhörspiele
Bob Dylan
the Dead Kennedys
Skarface
the Misfits
and of course Richard Cheese :D

[$lim_$weezy]

Eh, old but fun.

Not in order:

Disrupt
Carcass
Defeated Sanity
Bathory
Gruesome Malady
Nile
Immortal
Bal-Sagoth
My Bloody Valentine
Fairyland

[Comandante Vadim]

1) Disturbed
2) Jimi Hendrix
3) Iggy Pop & The Stooges
4) Pantera
5) Black Flag
6) Anti-Flag
7) Bad Brains
8) Dead Kennedys
9) Crass
10) Nirvana

[stuckinarut]

You should check out the band Umphrey's McGee... they are amazing. Given your list, you will be transformed.

[Il Medico]

of Montreal
The Clash
Vampire Weekend
The Beatles
Scissor Sisters
The Specials
Modest Mouse
Suede
The Queers
Franz Ferdinand

[Zav]

1. TÝR
2. Loreena McKennitt
3. Crass
4. Dandelion Junk Queens
5. Paul Robeson
6. Rammstein
7. Bing Crosby
8. Louis Armstrong
9. Mozart
10. Vivaldi

[Magón]

Not in any order of likeness.

1. Cartel de Santa
2. Comets On Fire
3. Wolfmother.
4. Paco de Lucia
5. Ceci Bastida
6. The Shins
7. The Last Internationale
8. Soda Stereo
9. Rata Blanca
10. Destroyer

[Invader Zim]

Given that this is bands, I have ommitted electronica, etc, and just stuck to guitar based music; but according to winamp these are my most listened to bands since my last format.

Neutral Milk Hotel
Manic Street Preachers
... and you will know us by the trail of dead
Pixies
Jesus and the Mary Chain
Mogwai
God is an Astronaut
Grandaddy
TV on the Radio
Crystal Castles

In other words a load of noisy and distortion filled indie/post punk/post rock

[Sam_b]

Jesus and the Mary Chain

Winner

[Red_Devotchka]

mindless self indulgence, happysad, nin, nirvana, beatles, prodigy, queens of the stone age, placebo, pixies, and hmmmm... david bowie.
but it keeps changing all the time :O

[Tim Finnegan]

In no particular order:

(pre-split) Sepultura
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Amon Amarth
sSJWOV44Otc

Flogging Molly
pDwlGbEcJ6Y

New Model Army
feeVAo-3SNg

The Levellers
w3teVzKUbkg

Stiff Little Fingers
nTO7nXw4StY

Down
FBLbrJxGtro

Corrosion of Conformity
rKPicUnsPPg

Mastodon
labytsb3gfI

Luke Kelly
IEOxGfFfJDo

(Fear my 16-foot post! Bwa ha ha ha! http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd226/DemonYoukai/Smilies/evillaugh1.gif)

[Rooster]

In no order of preference:

1. Nine Inch Nails
2. Faith No More
3. Iggy Pop/Stooges
4. Jesus and Mary Chain
5. Velvet Underground
6. Noir Desir
7. John Frusciante
8. Mad Season
9. Tom Waits
10. Public Image Limited

Actually, I really can't decide. As I've gotten older my preference in music has expanded and I'm no longer able to compile definite lists. Getting old kinda sucks.

[Princess Luna]

1

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2

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3

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4

D1LhlVtbW_U

5

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i am to lazy too do 10, so here are my top 5 favorite bands/artists

[Ele'ill]

Right now- artist/album

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/k/kate-bush/album-the-whole-story.jpg

http://img.noiset.com/images/album/grouper-dragging-a-dead-deer-up-a-hill-album-cover-15923.jpeg(Grouper/Liz Harris)

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/112405/CD_DeathCabPlans.jpg

http://lulzimg.com/i09/21b5d4.jpg

[Ballyfornia]

hmmmm.... The pixies, ratm, Hendrix,Peter greens fleetwood mac, Metalica/megadeth, bob dylan, arcade fire, bob marley, Cream, Pearl jam. lots more aswell

[Ballyfornia]

Pixies kiss serious ass by the way.

[Arilou Lalee'lay]

In order of how much I like them based on artistic merit, pleasant-to-listen-to-ness, and nostalgia:

1. Toby Driver (including Kayo Dot, motW, Tartar Lamb, and his solo album)

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2. Atheist (listening to this song in TuxGuitar or similar is almost as good as the actual song. It's easier to appreciate the individual parts)

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3. Therion (no, I'm NOT a gnostic or a mystic, gnostic bands just have awesome music for some reason)

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4. Cynic (SWIM can see... live?... become?... this cover every time he does Salvia)

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5. System of a Down (I don't think they really need a video)

6. Captain Beefheart

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7. Arcturus (they're reforming maybe!!! Also the lyrics to this song are from my favorite pre WWII poem, of the same name by Poe)

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8. Avenged Sevenfold (this is the soundtrack of high school for me, and immediately brings back all of the passions of that time)

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9. Mekong Delta (I only have one of their CDs, but it has it's own extraordinarily precise brand of technical metal)
PLEASE IGNORE THE FUCKTARDED ALBUM COVER
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10. Symphony X (let this one be a synecdoche for all good prog metal and the rare bits of power metal that aren't terrible)

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Honorable mentions to Aerosmith, Spiral Architect (despite their crazy Randroidness: I pretend to like Derrida when I listen to them), almost all 60's music and most classic rock, David Bowie, Transcending Bizarre?, and Frank Zappa.

John Coltrane, Eyedea and Abilities, and many composers would be high up on the list (probably the majority of it) if it didn't have to be a band.

DRUNK EDIT: also the offspring