Top 5.
The Beatles.
Little Feat.
The Clash.
The Smiths.
The Beta Band.
Yours?
Ooooh, need to cogitate.
Any rules Rusty? Does it have to be a collective? Or a named person and their band?
Talking Heads
Dinosaur Jr
Portishead.
Hmm.
Bands rather than solo artists, CG.
You can have the Caledonian Soul Orchestra as a band if you like.
🙂
The Beatles
The Who
REM
RHCP
The Mothers of Invention
Elbow 😉
Van Morrison & the Caledonia Soul Orchestra.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
Jimi Hendrix Experience.
Cream.
Free.
Yes yes, I'm old. 😀
Edit: thanks Rusty but the CSO wouldn't exist without Van.
I love that elbow, and the fall and radiohead and the shitehouse family
The Wedding Present for the win 🙂
Fugazi
Beastie Boys
Husker Du
REM
but that is purely my opinion
Bruce Springsteen and the East Street Band.
Southside Johhny and the Asbury Jukes a distant 2nd.
Only 2 bands I've seen live............ 😳
Elbow
Mumford and Sons
Coldplay
Radiohead
Scouting for Girls
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
The Vengaboys
Black Sabbath
Although I can appreciate the Beatles (and others) are probably the best band eva, in terms of their influence. Thinking purely about the bands I have listened to the most over the years.
Queen
The Doors
Pink Floyd
Led Zepplin
The Prodigy
Daft Punk
For me it has to be Black Sabbath.
I can't do a top 1 but top 5's doable. Not in order except that I did rearrange it so it makes a nicer shape
Mogwai
Biffy Clyro
The Wildhearts
Hundred Reasons
The Dust Junkys
(the Dust Junkys did one album... But it's that good)
High fives Hatter - you seeing them next month?
Okay, so an actual answer
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band
Steve Earle and the Dukes
Dire Straits (yeah, bite me)
Crowded House (ditto)
The Smiths
Top 5:
Foo Fighters
ACDC
The Hives
The Bluetones
Vengaboys
The Stooges
My Bloody Valentine
Toots & the Maytals
Velvet Underground
Maceo & the Macks
Public Enemy
The Prodigy
AC/DC
The Heavy
RAGTM
Gomez
The Clash
Rancid
Camera Obscura
Jesus & Mary Chain
The Kinks
Rolling Stones
Guns n Roses
Pink Floyd
Black Sabbath
Iron Maiden
off the top of my head as an over the years list
clash
daft punk
radio bemba sound system (manu chao)
ben folds five (shoot me)
velvet underground
Looks a bit white compared to most of what I listen to but hey
Muse
Garbage
Van Halen
Motorhead
Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
Radiohead, Reef, Queens of the Stone Age
Beastie Boys
Jurassic Five
Public Enemy
Queens of the Stone Age
Rage Against the Machine
System of a Down
Portishead
Toots and the Maytails
The Specials
The JBs
Could go on, various phases and different music for different moods!
Creme Brulee
I'm going to potter over to the Tap for a swift one and to consider my answer of any Frank Zappa band.
Creme Brulee
For the win
Guess what I grew up listening to:
The Clash
The Damned
Stiff Little Fingers
The Undertones
Then I got to listen to a wider range of stuff:
The Smiths
The House Martins
The Beautiful South
Just realised all but one start with 'the'
Black Sabbath
Mr Bungle
The Boredoms
Napalm Death
Acid Mothers Temple
Hatter, saw the Vengaboys in April, they were amazing!
Black Sabbath - Ozzy era
Zappa - various lineups over the years
Talking Heads - the expanded Remain in Light lineup
Hawkwind - circa Hall of the Mountain Grill
Loads more in contention...
knacker nick noch
sound trumpets of the space monkey
4gotten tomatoes
bang bang jump
raging wings mocking snow
Today,
Foo Fighters
The Prodigy
Pet Shop Boys
Queen
The Killers.
If you asked me again next week you'd probably get a different answer
The Rubettes.
New Model Army
The Clash
The Damned
Fields of the Nephilim
The Jam
roper, have you just made them up?
Yes.
Yes he has.
🙂
He's winning so far.....
Bonzo Dog Doodah Band
The Smiths
Pixies
The Wedding Present
The other two are a moveable feast but with those 3 above I can find a tune for most needs.
Fatuous Stadium Wernkers
The Patronising Dickheads
Grim Humourless and Meaningfull
Bright Little Girlies with The Attitude
Bandwagon Flavour of the Month
knacker nick noch
sound trumpets of the space monkey
4gotten tomatoes
bang bang jump
raging wings mocking snow
superb choices
Möbius
Fatuous Stadium WernkersThe Patronising Dickheads
Grim Humourless and Meaningfull
Bright Little Girlies with The Attitude
Bandwagon Flavour of the Month
But how can you not pick:
Band I've not heard for 20 years and never will again
The sounds a bit like coldplay, frankly
The Radio 6 house band
Token reggae
@RustySpanner: Little Feat - definitely.
Queen.
Captain Beefheart & Magic Band.
As for two more - depends on my mood.
The Rubettes.
Damn it, I forget them and Showaddywaddy as well.
Baby Metal
Neil young and crazy horse
super furry animals
The jam
Gorkys zygotic mynci
Boo radleys(just for giant steps)
Dolly parton(with her bluegrass band)
Music threads are like politics,theirs are always the best:)
If we're allowed solo artists with a band then stick Lenny Kravitz on the end of my list.
roper, have you just made them up?
Sorry. Couldn't help it.
I dunno but I suppose the ones I tend to listen to in the car on my own are:
Foo Fighters
Muse
Guns and Roses
Blink 182
Queens of the stone age
But I also love dance, ballads that make me cry, as well as soul/mowtown and a bit of cheese....
in November it was mainly CCR, October it was The Roots and December is looking like Screaming Trees, mainly for Dust as it reminds me of Christmas for some reason and is an album I always return to. If I had to pick an all time favourite band it would be really difficult. Clutch would definitely be in the running for best rock band though.
Saw them last night - Pixies
It is really hard, even bands I really like have had a duff album or 2.
RHCP (but not what they have done in the past 10 years)
Jamiroquai (again not what they/he has done in the past 10 years)
Portishead (I only listen to dummy)
Air (I only ever listen to moon safari)
Clash (plenty of crap to go with the great in their catalogue)
Radiohead (only the bends and ok computer and a couple of other single tracks)
The doors (plenty of crap to go with the great in their catalogue)
Madness (great for nostalgia and I just love them anyway)
The specials (plenty of crap to go with the great in their catalogue)
but they are the ones I mostly keep returning to year after year while other fade out of my playlists.
The Cure
The Smiths
Killers
Oasis
Stone Roses
The Wailers
Daft Punk
The Clash
Velvet underground
The specials
QOTSA.
The Fall.
Slade.
The Smiths
Depeche Mode
New Order
The Jam
The Clash
Jeepers - I forgot soul! Most of the best are solo acts but the supremes, Earth wind and fire. chic all need to be up there as well
JLS (Posting for DD)
Fatuous Stadium Wernkers
The Patronising Dickheads
Grim Humourless and Meaningfull
Bright Little Girlies with The Attitude
Bandwagon Flavour of the Month
I suspect the first three refer to U2? Fair enough, BUT...
I would still include them in my top five. Not because of anything they have done since 2000, but for what they did between 1978 and 1994. So:
U2
Big Country
Crowded House
The Smiths
Credence Clearwater Revival
Pace the fact that there are many I have to leave off if limiting to five...
Hard to say but Fleetwood Mac must be up there
The Kinks
Small Faces
The Who
The Jam
December is looking like Screaming Trees, mainly for
.... Sweet Oblivion (adding to Dinosaur Jr)
Super Furry Animals
(Maybe The Smiths and Wilco)
The blackheads (especially when Ian Dury was around)
Kasabian
Queens of the stone age.
Muse
Prodigy
Deep purple
Lynerd Skynnerd
I really can't understand what so many people see in the smiths or anything about Neil morrissey, he's so depressing!
I would actually add that I think [b]Twenty One Pilots[/b] should make an early entry into the top rankings of bands.
The Pogues (before Strummer got involved)
Muse
Smiths
The Jam
Anything with Terry Hall (criminally under-rated)
Joy Division.... thread over
Best or favourite...? The bands that I love are not the best bands by most standards, but the way they make me feel...
Haze - Member
Saw them last night - Pixies
Me too. I hate to say it - it was very disappointing. Seemed to be going through the motions IMO. Didn't help that all the way through I was standing behind some idiot. She clearly thought the rock 'devils horns' gesture was the most cool and also profound thing ever...
Seemed to be going through the motions IMO
I took it as they were just getting on with it, firing them out without any messing.
I didn't see much either though, ended up down the front and was thrown around like a rag doll for most of it...
JLS
Take That
One Direction
E17
NSYNC (swoons).
Come to think of it, The Police were fantastic as well.
Sorry. Double post.
Based purely on the best live performances I have been to:
Thin Lizzy
AC/DC
Jethro Tull
Blowzabella
Jules Holland and The rhythm and blues orchestra
NOFX
The dwarves
Tankard
Prong
Consumed