Top 10 favorite bands

[rockerluke]

In any order, except no. 1:

1. Mr. Big

2. Rush

3. Dream Theater

4. Iron Maiden

5. Blind Guardian

6. Savatage

7. Megadeth

8. Queen

9. Pink Floyd

10. The Beatles

[darkon]

Jesus, this is hard as shit.

1- KMFDM

2- Gorillaz

The next 8 are really interchangeable along with 40 other bands

3- Blind Guardian

4- Mindless Self Indulgence

5- In Flames

6- Radiohead

7- Iron Maiden

8- Aphex Twin

9- Del Tha Funkee Homosapien (I'm taking into account all projects he's been on. Specifically Deltron.)

10- Queen

Might not be accurate, but I was trying to put in artists from all my favorite genres.

[Gundampilotspaz]

I really don't like to pick but I'll go by my Audioscrobbler:

1

Spock's Beard

2

Blind Guardian

3

Savatage

4

Ayreon

5

Dream Theater

6

Neal Morse

7

Jethro Tull

8

Gamma Ray

9

Trans-Siberian Orchestra

10

Deltron 3030

10

Dio

[uniform_motion]

1. Charles Mingus

2. Frank Zappa

3. Cat Stevens

4. Harry Nilsson

5. David Byrne

6. Warren Zevon

7. David Bowie

8. The Eeels

9. Bjork

10. Yoko Ono

[guy incognito]

Ayreon/Vengeance

Blind Guardian

Dan Swano/Nightingale/Unicorn/Edge of Sanity/etc.

Devin Townsend

Edguy

Grave Digger

Kamelot

Savatage

Stratovarius

Virgin Steele

[Belial]

In no particular order.

1. The Beatles
   
2. Simon & Garfunkel
   
3. Bob Dylan
   
4. Green Day (Sorry, but I loved them long before American Idiot)
   
5. Nirvana
   
6. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
   
7. Cake
   
8. Johnny Cash
   
9. Tenacious D
   
10. Smashing Pumpkins
    

10. Yoko Ono

Are you fucking serious? As in *the* Yoko Ono, the one that killed The Beatles?

[darkon]

Are you fucking serious? As in *the* Yoko Ono, the one that killed The Beatles?

To her credit she's a fantastic artist. But, yes, she did kill The Beatles.

[Tanni Foemangler]

in no order, possibly succumbing to "current favesies":

novembre

throne of chaos

king crimson

pain of salvation

eucharist

unholy

edge of sanity

dan swano's moontower (counts as a band, far as i'm concerned)

pestilence

blind guardian

[stranger]

This will also be more of a "current favorites" and is in no order...

Norther

Arkona

Riverside

Ensiferum

At the Gates

Behemoth

Devil Doll

In Flames

Novembre

Anorexia Nervosa

[Kreutz]

RAMMS+EIN

Type O Negative

Fear Factory

Opeth

KMFDM

Metallica

Nine Inch Nails

The Misfits w/ Glenn Danzig

Pantera

AFI on their first two LPs

[stranger]

those last 3 really stand out to me... hehe i dunno why

[GummyBearOfDoom]

Judas Priest

The Beatles

Iron Maiden

Blind Guardian

Gamma Ray

Cold Play

Dio

Black Sabbath

Savatage

Deep Purple

No specific order.

[NosferatuNeko]

1. korn

2. rufio

3. system of the down

4. bjork

5. nin

6. static-x

7. gorillaz

8. umm yea i cant think of any more there in no real order

9.

10.

[Crube]

1. Iron Maiden/Bruce Dickinson

2. Rush

3. Metallica

4. Megadeth

5. Anthrax

6. Opeth

7. Strapping Young Lad/DTB

8. Black Label Society

9. U.F.O.

10. Korn

[darkon]

2. rufio

Freshman year of high school has just come back and kicked my ass.

While I didn't listen to Rufio, they were like this hugely worshiped band by people in my school. They would break into random "RU FI O!" chants and stuff.

[Arcane]

Freshman year of high school has just come back and kicked my ass.

While I didn't listen to Rufio, they were like this hugely worshiped band by people in my school. They would break into random "RU FI O!" chants and stuff.

Do they get there name from Rufio from Hook? I've always wondered that...

[Mithrandir]

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Bob Dylan

Simon and Garfunkle

Pink Floyd

The Doors

Neutral Milk Hotel

The Beatles

The Decemberists

Leonard Cohen (his early stuff)

Tom Waits

(in no order)

Edited December 10, 2005 by Mithrandir

[margot]

!! ok my turn.

Pavement

Bob Dylan

The Shins

Nick Cave

The Pixies

Tom Waits

The Velvet Underground

Dinosaur Jr.

David Bowie

Joan Baez

also: the doors

yea, yea.

Edited December 10, 2005 by Lindsay

[HappyLittleBoozer]

This is in no order...

Pink Floyd

Queen

Iron Maiden

Rolling Stones

GWAR

The Beatles

Alright... I simply can't continue this list any further. After number six, it's all up to my mood. But really, I'd have to make two lists, one for rock and one for metal.

Edited December 10, 2005 by Ozymandias Alhazred Rapscallion

[Crube]

In retrospect... Trying to put the bands in Top Ten is kinda hard... With the exception of Iron Maiden and Rush.

[Elitist Indie Hipster]

Like foldered, this is also a current top ten, not in any specific order

Decemberists

the white stripes

Neutral milk hotel

Apples in Stereo

Stephen Malkmus (without the Jicks)

Brendan benson

Matthew barber

the shins

Elliott Smith

Rush

[Belial]

Like foldered, this is also a current top ten, not in any specific order

Decemberists

the white stripes

Neutral milk hotel

Apples in Stereo

Stephen Malkmus (without the Jicks)

Brendan benson

Matthew barber

the shins

Elliott Smith

Rush

Dig the Decemberists and The Shins man.

[Ceraziefish]

1. The Doors

2. The Beatles

3. Frank Zappa

4. The Rolling Stones

5. Dick Dale & His Del-Tones

6. The Red Elvises

7. Spiderbait

8. Cab Calloway

9. The Jimi Hendrix Experience

10. Peter Tosh

Man, there's a lot more I'd like to put on there. And this is also in no order, I just wrote 'em down as they came up on my playlist.

[Wind]

I figured someone here would say Morrissey =/

[Battle_Pope]

current favorites in no particular order:

The Books

The Microphones

Boards of Canada

Edge of Sanity

Job For A Cowboy

Notorious B.I.G.

Capsized and Sinking

Minotaur Shock

Broken Social Scene

Sigur Ros