Your Top 10 Bands/Artists

[Crow]

i dont think we've had one for bands, we've had one for songs and albums...either way do your top 10

1. Jimi Hendrix and The Experience
2. Rory Gallagher
3. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
4. Bob Dylan
5. Led Zeppelin
6. T-Rex
7. Beck
8. Johnny Cash and the Tenessee Two
9. Radiohead
10. David Bowie/Roy Orbison/John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers

cant decide on number 10

[Jesus]

Top 11 eh

AC/DC, SRV, Clapton, Atkins, Marley, Floyd, Gallagher, Zappa, Hendrix, Setzer, Cash.

Hon. Mentions: Junior Brown, Johnny Winter, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters (invented electricity) JJ Cale, George Thorogoode

[Blaksmoke]

The Clash, Modest Mouse, The Who, RAtM, Umphrey's McGee, Radiohead, A Tribe Called Quest, Hendrix, Wu-Tang as a collective and its various members, Miles Davis, Outkast, Primus, Paul Simon, Victor Wooten, Brand X, Jaco Pastorious, Stanley Clarke, The Sex Pistols, Talking Heads, Puplic Enemy, Bob Marley, Soundgarden, Audioslave, Bob Dylan, Sly Stone, Michael Hedges, Pat Metheny, Fugees, The White Stripes, Coltrane, Joe Strummer, Herbie Hancock, Chuck Mingus, Talib Kweli, Richard Bona, The Coup.

That's probably about it for the top of the list, save a few I'm sure I forgot.

[Garfunkel]

i have too many to list, instead i will post my library:

http://garfunkel.freehostia.com/songs.htm

[Crow]

U2, Nickelback? ewww

[Garfunkel]

U2 may be overrated but they are still good.

Nickelback the same.

[Negativity]

1.The Beatles
2.Little Richard
3.The Ramones
4.Buddy Holly
5.John Lennon
6.Johnny Cash (with or without his various bands)
7.Bob Dylan
8.The Doors
9.Bing Crosby
10.Steven Seag... umm, The Kinks.

[Boggy700]

I love list!

1. Radiohead
The first music I ever really loved.

2. Boards Of Canada
Absolutely beautiful and nostagic music.

3. Daedelus
Extraordinarilly imaginative and wonderful.

4. Amon Tobin
Some of the most gargantuan music I've ever heard.

5. cLOUDDEAD
A surreal avant-hop dream.
A shame they are over.

6. Beck
Is there anything Beck cannot do?

7. Ra
Not the band 'Ra'.
The french grunge-electro musician, graphic artist and filmmaker 'Ra'.
My enjoyment parralels his creation.

8. Cornelius
Another all-around artist.
Beautifully joyus music and music videos.

9. Fantomas
One of the most interesting and superb bands I know.
From short bursts of avant-metal to a film soundtrack covers album to a soundtrack for a non-existant horror film to more shorts bursts of experimental-metal.

10. Bjork
Bjork has an amazingly emotive and untamed (at times) voice.
Her album 'Medulla' is breathtaking.
(No pun intended.)
(Well maybe just a little.)
(It is only a little pun anyway.)

[Teh Roxor!]

I love list!
10. Bjork
Bjork has an amazingly emotive and untamed (at times) voice.
Her album 'Medulla' is breathtaking.
(No pun intended.)
(Well maybe just a little.)
(It is only a little pun anyway.)
I agree. I agree that you love lists, and I agree that Björk is amazing.

I don't think I can make a top ten list, so I'll go the lazy rout.

http://www.last.fm/user/TehRoxor/

That may not be a clear representation of who I think is best, but it does show who I've been listening too. And here's the chart:
http://imagegen.last.fm/basic10/oartists/TehRoxor.gif (http://www.last.fm/user/TehRoxor/?chartstyle=basic10)

[Garfunkel]

Queen is so cool :)

[BugenhagenXIII]

Not my top 10 of all time, but the ones I've been listening to most recently:

Kevin Devine, Pablo, Barenaked Ladies, John Mayer, Elliott Smith, Cake, dredg, Tool, Electric Six, Neutral Milk Hotel.

[seahorse]

in no particular order...

the flaming lips
kings of leon
radiohead
bowie
devendra banhart
queens of the stone age
the beatles
the white stripes
pink floyd
pixies

[Orgasm Simulator Robot]

i like the flaming lips too.

you will not have the rest of my list.

beep.

[H8ed]

I have only one Weird al is my favorite.

[Kiwi]

My list is constantly changing because I can never narrow my list down to 10, so here's my current set of favourites:

1. Baroness
2. Hella
3. Estradasphere
4. Boards of Canada
5. Aphex Twin
6. Venetian Snares
7. Melt-Banana
8. Fantomas
9. Lamb of God
10. ISIS

[Spatula]

In no particular order:

1. Rage Against the Machine
-----RATM and Nirvana were my first "real" bands that I ever got into, and Rage always provides me with some good energy when I need it. ZDLR will always be more pissed off than I.
2. Beck
-----See: Boggy
3. Bjork
-----See: Boggy. Also, "Possibly Maybe" makes me get really emotional.
4. Gorillaz
-----Showed me that everything Damon Albarn does is musical gold. It also showed me that he can cover any realm of music and make it amazing, be it rock, rap, hip-hop, punk, and even dub.
5. Drive Like Jehu
-----Post-Hardcore and Math Rock entrepeneurs. They were the first of their kind and completely engulf the modern ideas of the Post-Hardcore movement ("You aren't and it isn't and nobody's listening/And nobody gives a fuck what you go do with your life.") But, then again, maybe I'm giving them too much credit.
6. Le Tigre
-----I love female vocals, and Le Tigre was the first all-female (I guess) band that I ever got into. It's a shame they disbanded before I got to see them live.
7. Radiohead
-----Genius at it's finest.
8. The Beatles
-----My dad brought me up listening to the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, The Who, David Bowie, The Talking Heads, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Frank Zappa, and other music of that idea, so I had to include one of those bands in my top ten...I still listen to all of them but the Rolling Stones, but I think I appreciate The Beatles the most.
9. Sigur Ros
-----Euphoric sounds from Iceland. I went to one of their concerts last year and it was one of the greatest and most relaxing experiences of my life.
10. Jaco Pastorious
-----He's the reason I started up at the bass. The end.

Honorable Mentions (or bands that I want to be on my top ten but aren't because that would violate the number ten):

The White Stripes, Any of the classic bands I mentioned earlier, Amon Tobin, Cornelius, Kid Koala, Daft Punk, Basically any Elephant Six band (Of Montreal, Neutral Milk Hotel, etc.), any DFA Band (LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip, The Rapture, Black Dice, etc.), Death From Above 1979 (didn't make the top ten because they only had one and a half albums before they broke up), Gruvis Malt, The Sneaker Pimps (circa Kelli Dayton), Phish, Daft Punk, !!!, The Pixies, Fatboy Slim, Blackalicious, Doesy.

[Lucent Beam]

Alphabetical order:

The Beatles
Bonnie Pink
The Get Up Kids
Olivia Lufkin
The Rentals
Suicide Machines
Treblecharger
Utada Hikaru
Weezer
Yaida Hitomi

[Broly]

01. Lamb of God
02. Disturbed
03. Rage Against the Machine
04. System of a Down
05. Black Label Society
06. Megadeth
07. Pantera
08. AC/DC
09. Nirvana
10. A Perfect Circle

That order is constantly changing, but those are about it.

[Rizon]

Well, this is what i enjoy listening to atm. In no particular order.

1, Alkaline Trio

2, Offspring

3, Marilyn Manson

4, Flogging Molly

5, Dream Theater

6, Tool

7, Pearl Jam

8, Rush

9, Muse

10, Buckcherry

[Greg]

Rage Against the Machine
Nirvana
System of a Down
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
The Beetles
Beck
Pink Floyd
Bob Marley
Alice in Chains
Tool

[Ihsiin]

Prepare for my list of DOOM (in a decidedly unalphabetic order).

Wreck of the Hesperus
Wraith of the Ropes
Undiscovered Moons of Saturn
Tyranny
Trollmann av Ildtoppberg
Skepticism
Shining
Shape of Despair
Om
Nortt
Funerary Dirge
Everything by Stijn van Cauter (more or less)
diSEMBOWELMENT
Darkflight
Catacombs
Burzum
Asunder
AHAB

I may have strayed over the limit slightly.

[Media]

In no particular order, I'll list not the bands I'm the most into right now, but the ones I always know I can turn to. The ones that I can rely on all the time.

Led Zeppelin
The Beatles
Allman Brothers Band
The Who
Grateful Dead
Jimi Hendrix (Experience and Gypsy Sons & Rainbows Band)
The Doors
The Rolling Stones
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young/Buffalo Springfield (yes, I'm culminating them)
Michael Jackson...DON'T DENY THE MJ.

Honorable mentions: Cream, John Lennon, Santana Blues Band, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, AC/DC, Phish, Buddy Guy, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, White Stripes, David Bowie, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, and last but not least BECK!

[Negativity]

I think Beck is better at songwriting than he is at performing.

I'm not much of a fan.

[Media]

Well I've never seen him perform live, but I like his records. They're nice and mellow, although he does have his songs like "E-Pro".

For the record, most modern artists are balls live, but I'll reserve my judgement of Beck until I actually see a show of his.

[Blaksmoke]

I should probably add anything Michael Jackson did between 1978 and 1987. Also Blakalicious, De La Soul, Lauryn Hill, Kenna, Jeff Buckley, System of a Down, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, and Charlie Parker.

[Media]

I forgot my favorite hip hop groups!

De La Soul and The Fugees/Lauryn Hill are definitely on there. A Tribe Called Quest, Snoop Dogg (in the 90's), and Run DMC are there too.

I also forgot Aerosmith now that I think about it. Before they went all ballad-y, the were a solid band.

[Spatula]

De La Soul :)

[Media]

Word

[TheGreenElf]

We've had this list but I'll post mine in no real order this time.

Thursday
Thrice
Coheed and Cambria
From Autumn To Ashes
Rise Against
Alexisonfire
R.E.M.
Cursive
The Receiving End of Sirens
Underoath

Other good ones...Biology, Vedera (Girl singer, amazing voice), Eisley (Girl band, amazing voices), Queen, Saves the Day, Rage Against the Machine, Jimmy Eat World and Flogging Molly to name a few.

[Dark_Cloud]

In pretty much the correct order:

1. Red Hot Chili Peppers
2. Sparta (Honorable mention to At the Drive-In and Mars Volta)
3. System of a down
4. Del Tha Funkee Homosapien
5. AFI
6. The Killers
7. The Strokes
8. Tool
9. Jedi Mind Tricks
10. They Might Be Giants (before the whole kid music thing)

Oh, and I left off all the legends such as Bob Marley, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, etc. I tried to keep my list to current artist.

[Mauler]

Wonderful. This topic seems to surface every 6 months. Anyway, I like these.
I am going to be a bit unfair and select some musicians who have many bands. Also some bands. This is an ALL TIME list. Not at the moment.

1. Glenn Danzig (Misfits/Samhain/Danzig)
2. Mike Patton (Fantomas/Faith No More/Mr Bungle/etc etc.)
3. Iggy Pop (& The Stooges)
4. Type O Negative
5. The Doors
6. Black Sabbath
7. Metallica
8. Nine Inch Nails
9. Johnny Cash
10. Tapio Rautavaara (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapio_Rautavaara)

[Crow]

since everyone is having honourable mentions then:

John Butler Trio, White Stripes, Iggy Pop, Beatles, The Cure, Pink Floyd, Muse, Thom Yorke, Eric Clapton, Yardbirds, Dire Straits, Buddy Guy, Lou Reed

[Shadow19]

In no order except top 2:

1. Alice in Chains
2. Tool
3. Soundgarden
4. Red Hot Chili Peppers
5. The Smashing Pumpkins
6. Rage Against The Machine
7. A Perfect Circle
8. Metallica
9. Mushroomhead
10. Stone Temple Pilots

Honorable mentions: Pearl Jam, Faith No More, Coheed & Cambria, Foo Fighters, Rammstein, Deftones, Incubus, Audioslave, Temple of the Dog, Chevelle, Beautiful Creatures, Creed, Alter Bridge, Dead Celebrity Status, Project Wyze, Nirvana, Guns N' Roses, Iron Maiden, Mad Season, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Porcupine Tree, Queens of the Stone Age, etc.

[Spatula]

Lou Reed! Can't believe I forgot about him. "Perfect Day" is the best song ever.

[[[tavis]]]

not that anyone cares or thinks rap is even music. here's mine. not really any order, well EXACT order.

1. Mos Def
2. LL COOL J - old school NOT his new stuff
3. Outkast
4. warren g
5. a tribe called quest
6. rakim
7. the roots
8. gang starr
9. beastie boys
10. wu-tang

here is my not rap top ten

1. counting crows
2. red hot chili peppers.
3. the roots (they do live music)
4. aaron neville
5. rage against the machine
6. soundgarden
7. earth wind and fire
8. green day (dookie and prior)
9. parliament funkadelic
10. ohio players

[Media]

Tavis, you like good rap, therefore it can be considered music.

[Spatula]

My rap top ten would be:

1. Del Tha Funkee Homosapien
2. Handsome Boy Modeling School
3. Atmosphere
4. Sage Francis
5. People Under the Stairs
6. DJ Nu-Mark
7. Outkast
8. Beastie Boys
9. Wu-Tang
10. DJ Format

[[[tavis]]]

Tavis, you like good rap, therefore it can be considered music.

why thank you. i def pride myself in listening to GOOD music. or what i feel is good music. tho i do catch myself every now and again listening to bullshit hype music.

[Gaul]

top 10 in no particular order

Rise against, Coheed and Cambria, At the Drive in, The Mars Volta, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Armor for Sleep, Shinedown, Breaking Benjamin, Sum 41, Funeral for a Friend

[[[tavis]]]

shit i forgot shinedown

[The Dude]

All time favorites

1) The Beatles
2) Led Zepplin
3) Muddy Waters (if you have never heard of him, you have no right listening to classic rock)
4) Eric Clapton
5) Allman Brothers
6) AC/DC
7) jimi hendrix
8) Bob dylan
9) David Bowie
10) Queen


Current favorites

1) Sublime
2) The Decemberists
3) White Stripes
4) 311
5) Pixies
6) Smashing Pumpkins
7) red hot chilli peppers
8) Eels
9) Bouncing Souls
10) Weezer

[Crow]

dude i think everyone has heard of Muddy Waters, well i certainly hope they have...

Tavis, The Roots are an awesome band, ?uestlove is a pretty good drummer

[disrupter006]

METAL
Chimaira
In Flames
Lamb of God
Trivium
Unearth
Killswitch Engage
Machine Head
Devil Driver
Bury Your Dead
All That Remains

NON METAL
Korn
Gary Jules
Slipknot
The Offspring
Billy Talent
System of a Down
Stone Sour
Static-X

Neither list is in a particular order...

[Chris]

With the exception of number 1, no particular order to this:

1. Led Zeppelin

2.The Rolling Stones
3. Pink Floyd
4. Beastie Boys
5. Rage Against the Machine
6. Queen
7. AC/DC
8. Black Sabbath/Ozzy Osbourne
9. Foo Fighters
10. Stone Temple Pilots

[Blaksmoke]

You guys need some funk, bad.

[Jesus]

My List was cut thin as it was without mentioning Shul, Brown, Rite, Chang, Clinton or Pickett.

[[[tavis]]]

You guys need some funk, bad.

i have parliament / ohio players and earth wind and fire on there.

:heybaby: :heybaby: :heybaby: :heybaby:

[Media]

Oh, you better believe that I love the funk but they're not on my favorite bands list.

Sly, Clinton, late Hendrix, and the Ohio Players among others.

[Kiwi]

Sly & The Family Stone!! :worthy:

[Spatula]

I want to get funked up.

[Dark_Cloud]

Chili Peppers can be pretty funky at times! They have it all!

[Blaksmoke]

Some of the old Pepper's stuff is quite good, mainly because Flea knows how to use the thumb.

But Flea has nothing on Stanly, Marcus and Vic. They're here to help you put funk back into your life...

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

[Dark_Cloud]

Peppers actually did a cover of Sly and the Family Stone's tune "If you want me to stay", which is pretty much amazing if you ask me.

[Crosman]

Bands/Group
1. P.O.D
2. 311
3. Evenesence
4. Boys 2 Men
5. The Coral Reefers
6. Guns & Roses
7. Bones Thugs in Harmony
8. Ying Yang Twins
9. Korn

Artist.
1 Jimmy Buffett
2. Michael Jackson
3. Bob Marley
4. Kenny Chesney
5. Tracy Lawrence
6. Tracy Byrd
7. Prince
8. Petey Pablo
9. T pain
10. Ludacris
11. Trick Daddy
12. DMX
13. 2 pac
14. Allen Jackson/ Ziggy Marley
15. Jamiroqui/ Ice Cube

[Media]

I'm digging The Black Keys, in the case of new bands, right now. Sloppy, lo-fi, blues/riff rock for the 21st century. The guy sings like a white version of a blues legend, and fingerpicks all the solos. They're a guitar/drum duo, but their sound is pretty solid.

[Garfunkel]

ooooh!! i forgot dragon and Wang Chung!

[Mirai]

In rough order...

1. U2
2. R.E.M.
3. Pearl Jam
4. Live
5. John Frusciante
6. Red Hot Chili Peppers
7. Iron Maiden
8. Guns N' Roses
9. Led Zepellin
10. The Clash

Honourable Mentions:
Velvet Revolver, Stone Temple Pilots, The Killers, Kings Of Leon, Rage Against The Machine, Nirvana, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Queen, Foo Fighters, The Beatles

I'm surprised Bob Dylan hasn't gotten more love on here, the man's a fucking legend. Plus, if the devil walked the Earth, he'd look like what Bob Dylan looks like now.

[Boggy700]

I'm surprised Bob Dylan hasn't gotten more love on here, the man's a fucking legend.
Well yeah, but everybody has their personal favorites regardless of how good or bad they are.
If greatness was proportional to some kind of universal popularity rating, we'd all have exactly the same list.
That would be boring.

[Negativity]

I like Dylan.

Some of his lyrics just... annoy me though.

[Garfunkel]

Dee, your list is very good, Iron maiden rocks.

[cubist]

Er

Secret Chiefs 3. Boggy, go find and listen. Everyone else, Halloween (ftp://ftp.bunglefever.com/pub/Secret%20Chiefs%203/20060113%20-%20Los%20Angeles/Secret%20Chiefs%203%20-%2020060113%20-%2007%20-%20Halloween.mp3). No, I'm not linking to illegal downloads; the band (and more pertinently, Trey Spruance) knows the FTP exists, and are not opposed to the free dissemination of live or rare material.

Elliott Smith. Love. What else can I say?

Mr. Bungle. Disco Volante is one of the best albums I've ever heard.

Radiohead. First five seconds of Kid A might just be the best first five seconds of any album in existence.

Clint Mansell. Particularly his soundtracks to Darren Aronofsky's films. The Fountain soundtrack.. wow. Dude. Wow.

Tin Hat Trio, The Stares, Miasma & The Carousel of Headless Horses, Neurosis, Isis.

Ten.

Dammit. Deathspell Omega. Kénôse has to be one of the most fantastic examples of black metal to grace this earth. And the band.. who has seen such clarity of vision?

Eleven. It's my favourite number anyway.

[Negativity]

Why do all the smart kiddies like the same music?

[cubist]

Because we're egotistical bastards who want to lord our esoteric and clandestine tastes over everyone else.

We also like long words.

[Negativity]

Uselessness is a long word.

[Crow]

time to re-list, things hath changed!

1. Jimi Hendrix and The Experience
2. Rory Gallagher
3. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
4. Dire Straits
5. Beck
6. Led Zeppelin
7. John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers
8. Johnny Cash and the Tenessee Two
9. Radiohead
10. The White Stripes

for now...

[frosty]

1. Pink Floyd
2. Tool
3. Mr. Bungle (California FTW)
4. Alice in Chains
5. Blind Melon
6. A Perfect Circle
7. Led Zepplin
8. Radiohead
9. Sublime
10. Steve Miller Band

[Ihsiin]

Time for an update, I think.

Wreck of the Hesperus
Wraith of the Ropes
Undiscovered Moons of Saturn
Tyranny
Trollmann av Ildtoppberg
Skepticism
Shining
Shape of Despair
Om
Nortt
Funerary Dirge
Everything by Stijn van Cauter (more or less)
diSEMBOWELMENT
Darkflight
Catacombs
Burzum
Asunder
AHAB

To this list I add Esoteric and Xasthur, and I remove... uh... Om, perhaps... yes, that'll do.

[Kiwi]

Awww, poor Om, I'll take care of them in my list then :)

Boris
Sunn O)))
Om
Secret Chiefs 3
Meshuggah
Lustmord
Múm
Auricular
Architect
Cornelius

[Ihsiin]

Electron sea... damadum dee... ok, I put them back in my list.

[cubist]

Sunn O))), I feel bad for leaving them out.

*puts Black One in CD player*

[PeterUK]

Currently;

Red Sparrowes
Dillinger Escape Plan
Mr Bungle
cLOUDDEAD
At the Drive IN
Death From Above
Animal Collective
Thom Yorke
Boards of Canada
Explosions in the Sky

And Sigur Ros because the album Music For Split Sides because I felt during the last few minutes it was seriously the end of the world.