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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