What Are Your Top 5 Bands?

[Pan]

Checked thread to see if I ever posted...nope.

Pop/Rock/Folk/Blues Solo list.

1. Tom Waits
2. *David Bowie
2. Beck
4. *Prince
5. P.J Harvey
*2016 :(
Honorable mention; Tom Petty

[TarSpartan]

Oh what the hey, here we go. My current top 5:

Beatles
Queen
Elton John (+band)
Pink Floyd
Jellyfish

[Rosgakori]

Blind Guardian
Nightwish
CMX
Viikate
Whispered

These are the ones that are the best thing right now, though Nightwish and CMX are kind of mainstays.

[Molten Dragon]

Let's see....

Black Sabbath
Iron Maiden
Jethro Tull
Megadeth
Led Zeppelin

[Cole Deschain]

Top Ten bands/groups, in no particular order:

Clutch
Monster Magnet
Black Sabbath (especially with Dio, but Ozzy is also perfectly fine.)
Electric Light Orchestra
Public Enemy
Postmodern Jukebox (the vocalists come and go, but the core of the band is largely consistent)
Cream
Grand Ole Party
Queen
Solas

Honorable Mention: The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, The Temptations

Top Ten awesome people who either fly solo or whose bands/groups get less press than they do:

Patsy Cline
Janis Joplin
Lead Belly
Otis Redding
Aretha Franklin
Marvin Gaye
Supaman
Jimi Hendrix (the Experience was awesome, but let's be honest, Jimi is the one we remember)
The Notorious B.I.G.
Bessie Smith

Honorable Mentions: Prince (easily makes my top three "awesome musicians who also composed music like friggin' gods"), Roy Orbison, Placido Domingo