Your Top 5 Favorite Bands All Time

[69er]

Eagles
CCR
Weezer
Oasis
Bone Thugs N Harmony

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

All 5 in a 1st place tie..

Jimi Hendrix Experience
Velvet Underground
Grateful Dead
The Doors
The Clash

• About 25 or so bands (give or take) in a tie for 2nd.
• At least 100 bands (literally) for 3rd, 4th & 5th.

 

[TheDayMan]

Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
The Clash
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Pearl Jam
Tom Petty (and the Hearbreakers, and no Heartbreakers, it's all good...)

Similar tastes around here.

 

[outofyourmind]

The usual cast = Beatles, Eagles, Beach Boys, Stones, Led Zeppelin


Off the beaten path that changes daily:
1) Elvis
2) Spinners
3) Hollies
4) BeeGees
5) Squeeze
6) CCR

 

[PatsFan2003]

All 5 in a 1st place tie..

Jimi Hendrix Experience
Velvet Underground
Grateful Dead
The Doors
The Clash

• About 25 or so bands (give or take) in a tie for 2nd.
• At least 100 bands (literally) for 3rd, 4th & 5th.

It's hard to limit it to 5.

The Beatles
The Greatful Dead,
The Jeff Beck Group (with Rod Stewart)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Cream

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

• About 25 or so bands (give or take) in a tie for 2nd.

which would include...

Yes
Traffic
Santana
The Pixies
Moody Blues

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Steely Dan has got to be in the top 5 or top 10.

 

[CatsTopPac]

Bob Marley and the Wailers
CCR
Wu Tang Clan
RHCP
Sublime

 

[Clayton]

Trent Reznor
Pearl Jam
Alice in Chains
Tom Petty
LCD Soundsystem

 

[Fandango]

I will supply one for all artists, rather than just bands.

Jack Johnson
The Beatles
Weezer
Bruce Springsteen
Vampire Weekend

 

[BearDownUA]

The Allman Brothers Band
Led Zeppelin
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Any band with Clapton (Cream, Derek & The Dominos, Blind Faith, solo)

Tie between Radiohead, Modest Mouse, and Jack White (white stripes, dead weather, racontuers) for the last spot

 

[Wazmankg]

Keeping it to 5 is really tough, so -

The Stones
Velvet Underground
Zeppelin
The Who
Roxy Music

 

[UK Cowboy]

Creed
Shinedown
Disturbed
Alter Bridge
Stone Sour

 

[Melman]

Since the 1st time that I saw them in concert (back in '80) right up to this day, the top spot has always firmly belonged to Rush

Back in High School ('78-'82), I would have said that my other two top bands were Kansas & Styx.

Sooo many other good bands from back in the day, plus a few honestly good ones that have come along since, that I'd be hard pressed to make out a list & feel 'secure' in it - other than Rush, of course! - from one day to the next.

+1 for Rush.

 

[Mister Twister]

Pink Floyd
Rush
Blue Oyster Cult
Megadeath
Foo Fighters

 

[Chewbaccer]

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Shenandoah
Confederate Railroad
Statler Borthers
Lynyrd Skynyrd

 

[futballiscool]

The Beatles (greatest band of all time)
Smashing Pumpkins (first favorite band as a teenager. still an active fan)
My Bloody Valentine (best, most innovative rock music made during my lifetime)
The Replacements (favorite lyricist)
Deerhunter (most consistently great band of this era. future Pavement/Pixies/VU type legends who'll be appreciated more 10 years after the fact)

 

[douggie]

Led Zeppelin
Rolling Stones
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Thin Lizzy
Rush

High Honorable Mention:

Eagles
Doobie Brothers
Styx
Bad Company
Tool

 

[MI Nightmare]

Pink Floyd
Bob Marley
Alice In Chains
Led Zeppelin
Sublime

 

[Banned 10x]

Feeling heavy?

Metallica
AIC
Suicidal Tendencies
Pantera
Slayer

Feeling laid back?

Beatles
Fleetwood Mac
Bob Marley
Zeppelin
Pink Floyd