Favourite bands

[Big Dick McGee]

We here at TK are a mighty eclectic bunch, I'm sure this will elicit all types of interesting responses. What I'd like to know are your 5 (or 10, or 20, etc) favourite bands. Could be favourite now, fave all time, whatever. I know mine evolves every few years. The band doesn't even have to be active right now. Just a group whose music you can return to time and time again.

Notice I didn't say "best bands", as that's far to subjective. Ok, so here are mine, pretty much in order:

1. No Doubt
2. Alice in Chains
3. Pearl Jam
4. Metallica
5. Foo Fighters
6. The Beatles
7. Live (though they got weird as shit their last 2 albums)
8. Van Halen
9. Rush
10. Beastie Boys

 

[Consumer]

1. Judas Priest/Rob Halford - I still listen to their songs over and over, even if I am slightly embarrassed at the fact.
2. Motorhead - see above statement.
3. Lorena McKennet - Anything and everything that woman sings is amazing.
4. Lyle Lovett - both his Country and his Blues are great. "Simple Song" is still one of the pieces of music that makes me cry.
5. Metallica - A diverse Heavy-metal band, if that's not an oxymoron. Good to listen to, good to get revved up to.
6. Jethro Tull/Ian Anderson - complex music...my ears like it.
7. The Ditty Bops - VERY tight harmonies and a diverse set of styles. "Oh La La" and "Sister Kate" are on every one of my "favorites" list. ("Fish to Fry" isn't bad either).
8. Billy Joel.
9. Jimmy Buffet - mainly because that's most of what I can sing.
10. Ug...too many to put in this slot.

 

[Loktar]

1. They Might Be Giants
2. Beatles
3. Weird Al Yankovic
4. Metallica
5. Billy Joel
6. Eminem
7. Michael Jackson
8. Elvis
9. Moxy Fruvus
10. Bing Crosby

 

[eloisel]

Some of my favorite bands (not single performers), not necessarily in this order:
The Beatles
The Moody Blues
Led Zeppelin
Santana
Three Dog Night
Loggins & Messina
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
Bad Company
The Doobie Brothers
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band


hmmmm...
could you make it more like 100?
I've been liking music a long time.

 

[Yub]

Not in order...more of a ball than a line

They Might Be Giants
Ween
The Aquabats
Eels
Daft Punk
Nick Cave
Elvis Costello
Beck
The Presidents of the United States of America
Beastie Boys

 

[Tisiphone]

Tori Amos
Bjork
Deee-Lite
Portishead
Prodigy
Florence + the Machines
Metallica
CCR
Rage Against the Machine
Loreena McKennitt
Rolling Stones

And that's all I can do before I jump on air. Huge classical music fan too.

 

[whisky]

I like bands others are ashamed to like, I make no apoligies for this.

Bands
The Beatles
Abba
The BeeGees
Steps
Rolling stones
Siscor sisters
The Jackson five
Queen

Artists
Eminem
Katy Perry
Kylie
Madonna (mostly earlier work)
Justin Timberlake
Michael Jackson
Shakira

 

[Tisiphone]

Dammit! I forgot Queen, LoL.

 

[Ilyanna]

Rollins Band (everything from Henry, to be precise)
Queen (my teenage love that's actually as fresh as ever...)
The Sweet (been listening to that stuff since I was 5 lol!)
Metallica (the early stuff)
Slayer
Pantera
Little Feat
Beastie Boys
Chili Peppers
Melissa Etheridge
AC DC
Bad Brains
Spearhead
Thin Lizzy
Seeed (german band, awesome)
Kate Bush
Freaky Fukin Weirdoz

to name but a few...

 

[Tisiphone]

ACDC
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Doors
NIN
Led Zeppelin
B-52's

 

[Gagh]

I can't possibly boil this down to a top 10, so I'll just reel these off {and I'll stick to Bands):

Queen
The Beatles
Flaming Lips
Morcheeba
Portishead
Air
The Prodigy
Kings of Leon
Depech Mode
Manic Street Preachers
Death Cab For Cutie
The Jam
The Clash
PiL
Cream
The Cure
Daft Punk
The Decemberists
Kraftwerk
Radiohead
Throwing Muses
Pink Floyd
Gomez
Franz Ferdinand
Foo Fighters

Can I stop now?

 

[Tisiphone]

See, I remember other band when I see the lists. IT'S TOO MUCH FUCKING PRESSURE

 

[Ilyanna]

PiL

Ohhh, Johnny Rotten! Haven't listened to him for ages! *goes and checks youtube*

 

[Loktar]

Ooh....Bloodhound Gang....forgot about them too.

 

[jack]

Not Necessarily In Any Order

1. Pere Ubu
2. Beatles
3. David Bowie
4. Yes
5. Led Zeppelin
6. Black Sabbath
7. Santana
8. Jimi Hendrix
9. Mahavishnu Orchestra
10. Keller Williams/Buckethead

 

[Big Dick McGee]

Also:

The Clash
The Smiths
The Cure
Cracker
Tonic
Taylor Swift

 

[Yub]

I've just found all my old music from the mid 90's:

Regurgitator
Spiderbait
Custard

Great Oz Music

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Artists that I listen to too much and/or go see live and/or talk about to anyone who will listen:

Elvis Costello
Annie Lennox/Eurythmics
Rickie Lee Jones
David Bowie
The B-52's
Talking Heads/Tom Tom Club
Bob Dylan
Van Morrison
The Smiths (solo Morrissey too but to a lesser degree)
The Blue Nile

Artists who I listen to just as much as the above but something made me put them in a second tier because either they haven't aged as well, or because I don't listen to absolutely EVERYTHING they've ever put out, or maybe they broke up or died:

New Order
Jeff Buckley
U2
Lyle Lovett
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Joni Mitchell
The Pretenders
Devo
Depeche Mode
Joe Jackson
The Roches
Crowded House/Neil Finn
Lou Reed/Velvet Underground
Yoko Kanno (The Seatbelts plus her anime soundtracks)
Eric Clapton
Nina Simone
Billie Holiday
The Cure
The Replacements/Paul Westerberg
Cake
Suzanne Vega
Sade
Cyndi Lauper
Placebo
Lloyd Cole (& the Commotions)

Artists I also love but haven't embarrassed myself over:

Doves
Paul Simon
The Who/Pete Townshend
Peter Gabriel
Patti Smith
PJ Harvey
Violent Femmes
Prince
R.E.M.
The Cranberries

Artists I don't admit that I listen to still:

Billy Joel
Madonna
Culture Club/Boy George
Fleetwood Mac (Buckingham/Nicks era)
Diana Ross/Supremes
70s Disco & sappy 70s AM Radio Top 40

THIS LIST SUBJECT TO CHANGE EVERY 10 MINUTES

 

[headvoid]

Impossible task, so I will just list my favourite bands of the moment.

LCD Soundsystem
Friendly Fires
MGMT
Miike Snow (yes, it's spelled correctly - buy the album its good)
Simian Mobile Disco

I am afraid I also like Vampire Weekend, but I am painfully white and middle class so no surprises there.

I could name, Underworld, Portishead, Chemical Brothers, Jackson 5, Rufus Wainright, Lily Allen and a who host of eclectic stuff, but I thought I would limit it to "new and interesting"

 

[Tisiphone]

Forgot Soundgarden and Concrete Blonde.