Marc Radle |
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Inspired by another thread, I thought it would be fun if everyone listed there Top 5 Favorite Bands (or solo acts).
Don't worry about ranking them in any particular order - just list your top 5.
These are the 5 bands (or, like I said, individual musicians) that you love above all others; you listen to most often; you couldn't live without if you were stranded on an island etc.
Genre doesn't matter - if you love Metallica, Miles Davis and Mozart, then put 'em all on your list!
Here's my list:
Top 5 Favorite Bands
Rush
Pink Floyd
Kiss
Aerosmith
Iron Maiden
Doodlebug Anklebiter |
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There is a high-falutin' British film magazine called Sight & Sound that has been running (IIRC) since the early '50s. Every ten years, they have a huge poll of directors and film critics to determine the "Top 10 Films of All Time!!!"
It should be happening soon, come to think of it, but in the last poll (2002ish?) the editors wrote that, while everybody else pruned their faves down to ten, Martin Scorsese submitted a list with 800+ films on it!
That's just about how I feel. No way in hell can I pare it down to five, but I'll attempt 10:
The Beatles
The Clash
The Smiths
The Pogues
Funkadelic
Booker T & the MG's (which is a way of cheating, since they played on most of the Stax! albums--Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Rufus Thomas, etc., etc.)
Public Enemy
John Coltrane
Elvis Costello & the Attractions
The Velvet Underground
And, still, I didn't include a single country or blues artist.
Can we have a "What are your top 800 bands?" thread?
The Eldritch Mr. Shiny |
It should be happening soon, come to think of it, but in the last poll (2002ish?) the editors wrote that, while everybody else pruned their faves down to ten, Martin Scorsese submitted a list with 800+ films on it!
That's just about how I feel. No way in hell can I pare it down to five, but I'll attempt 10:
Seconded.
Social Distortion
Black Flag
Richard Thompson
Brand New
Mark Erelli
Richard Shindell
Fugazi
Johnny Cash
The Ramones
The Ruts
karlbadmanners |
The Flaming Lips
Saves The Day
Type O Negative
Opeth
Bad Religion
Ani Difranco
VnVNation
The Clash
The Decemberists
Neil Young
That's as close as I can get to narrowing it down...I listen to a LOT of music
EDIT: I am loving all the classic punk bands I'm seeing so far! OH AND HOLY CRAP SOMEONE ELSE WHO LISTENS TO REFUSED!!! THEY ARE/WERE AMAZING
Morgen |
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Jethro Tull
Queen
the pillows
(Though lately it's been a lot of music by Daniel Ingram. Smilesmilesmile...)
Pedro Coelho RPG Superstar 2013 Top 4 |
Doodlebug Anklebiter |
Richard Thompson (DA addition)/The Fairport Convention/Sandy Denny
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Fugazi (/Minor Threat)
Johnny Cash
The RamonesFrom Karlbadmanners: Neil Young (/Buffalo Springfield/the first 2 CSN(&Y)) albums
Yes, yes, yes!! (Not the band--although The Band were pretty awesome)
10 bands are not enough!! I couldn't fit in: The Rolling Stones, Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, Al Green, Gang of Four, Charles Mingus, Serge Gainsbourg, Television, Belle & Sebastian, Hank Williams, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Ludwig van Beethoven, ABBA, Ice-T, Kraftwerk, etc., etc., etc.
Okay. I'll stop now.
Marc Radle |
I fond and sincere thank you to those that followed the rules :P
To those that did NOT ... Ahem ... Top 5 Favorite Bands means, you know ... your top 5!!! None of this "I can't pick just 5, here's 10 or 20.
Come on - be decisive! :)
Seriously, let's really try to pick your TOP 5 only!
Those of you that wimped out and listed more than 5, go back and edit those lists!!! No whining or complaining! Top 5 ONLY! :)
Asphere |
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I fond and sincere thank you to those that followed the rules :0
To those that did not ... Ahem ... Top 5 Favorite Bands means, you know ... your top 5!!! None of this "I can't pick just 5, here's 10 or 20.
Come on - be decisive! :)
Seriously, let's really try to pick your TOP 5 only!
Those of you that wimped out and listed more than 5, go back and edit those lists!!! No whining or complaining! Top 5 ONLY! :)
Stop trying to put me in a box. I'm Asphere.
houstonderek |
The Ten Most Played, according to Banshee:
The Misfits
The Cramps
Desmond Dekker
Cake
Ella Fitzgerald
Dead Kennedys
The Rolling Stones
Bob Dylan
The Bird and the Bee
Cat Power
What I listen to is far too dependent on mood, company, situation and other factors for me to try to chose five "favorites". If you ask for five favorites in a particular genre I may be able to accommodate, but my tastes are far too varied to pick one type/band/whatever over another.
houstonderek |
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I fond and sincere thank you to those that followed the rules :P
To those that did NOT ... Ahem ... Top 5 Favorite Bands means, you know ... your top 5!!! None of this "I can't pick just 5, here's 10 or 20.
Come on - be decisive! :)
Seriously, let's really try to pick your TOP 5 only!
Those of you that wimped out and listed more than 5, go back and edit those lists!!! No whining or complaining! Top 5 ONLY! :)
Dearest Marc, I leave this lovely poem here for your enjoyment:
Ever reviled, accursed, ne'er understood,
Thou art the grisly terror of our age.
"Wreck of all order," cry the multitude,
"Art thou, and war and murder's endless rage."
O, let them cry. To them that ne'er have striven
The truth that lies behind a word to find,
To them the word's right meaning was not given.
They shall continue blind among the blind.
But thou, O word, so clear, so strong, so pure,
Thou sayest all which I for goal have taken.
I give thee to the future! Thine secure
When each at least unto himself shall waken.
Comes it in sunshine? In the tempest's thrill?
I cannot tell--but it the earth shall see!
I am an Anarchist! Wherefore I will
Not rule, and also ruled I will not be!
JOHN HENRY MACKAY.
Welcome to the interwebs :-)
maouse |
Social Distortion
Black 47
Bush
and what the hell... Randy Newman, Keith Green, and Weird Al
I guess I don't really have favorites, but those are the ones I have listened to most recently.
(OK, I am lieing a little, I could listen to Social D all day, and have... but I think it affects me when I do. lol)
Orthos |
The problem with telling people "be decisive" about favorite bands is that most people I know their favorite groups are always in shuffle depending on who's more recently released something, whether or not they liked it in comparison with their older stuff, and other factors.
Plus what HD said. Five is a far, far, far, far, far too small number in which to attempt to categorize something as broad and varied as music. Trying to narrow it down to a single set would end in a repeating edit cycle of "Wait, how did I not remember X group? And who should I drop in their place?"
Also Yay Anarchy!
So yeah, not gonna happen. =P
However to best accommodate your request I will only list bands I would have at one point or another considered worthy of a top-five spot, rather than all the bands I enjoy listening to on a regular basis. Otherwise I'd be here all day =P
In no particular order:
Sonata Arctica
Blind Guardian
Iced Earth
Demons & Wizards
Sabaton
Within Temptation
Therion
Nightwish
Symphony X
Sirenia
Tristiana
Helloween
Manowar
Doodlebug Anklebiter |
The problem with telling people "be decisive" about favorite bands is that most people I know their favorite groups are always in shuffle depending on who's more recently released something, whether or not they liked it in comparison with their older stuff, and other factors.
Plus what HD said. Five is a far, far, far, far, far too small number in which to attempt to categorize something as broad and varied as music. Trying to narrow it down to a single set would end in a repeating edit cycle of "Wait, how did I not remember X group? And who should I drop in their place?"
Also Yay Anarchy!
So yeah, not gonna happen. =P
However to best accommodate your request I will only list bands I would have at one point or another considered worthy of a top-five spot, rather than all the bands I enjoy listening to on a regular basis. Otherwise I'd be here all day =P
In case you'd like to be here all day, there's always the What Are Your Top 800+ Bands? thread.
Charlie Bell RPG Superstar 2015 Top 16, RPG Superstar 2013 Top 16 |
TheWhiteknife |
In no particular order:
Against Me!
The Misfits (any incarnation except the current only Jerry Only one)
Bouncing Souls
Type O Negative
SLAYER
Obviously it depends on my mood which is my favorite at the time.
Honorable mentions
Iron Maiden (Di'anno, Dickinson,or Bayley. Doesnt matter.)
Johnny Cash (video by the Highwaymen, technically)
pre-load Metallica
Amon Amarth
The Descendents
In flames
Bad Religion
Tiger Army
Spineshank
Dropkick Murphys
Rage against the Machine
AND the one closest to making the cut into the top 5:
Doodlebug Anklebiter |
TheWhiteknife |
The Eldritch Mr. Shiny |
Black Flag
Brand New
Mastodon
Richard Shindell
Social DistortionHonorable mentions: Richard Thompson, Fugazi, Mark Erelli, Agent Orange, Colin Hay, Minor Threat, Johnny Cash.
Missed a few here: Against Me!, Rollins Band, Dropkick Murphys, Chuck Ragan, Elliott Smith, Gyaos.