Your MOST Favorite band! (rock on!)

[Silo]

When I think about : Who is my most favorite band?...I would have to say...Van Halen. I have enjoyed more of "Van Halen's" songs over the years than any other band. Now that I have mentioned my "MOST favorite band," what is yours?

[HomeSlice]

3 way tie

Pearl Jam
Dave Matthews Band
Jimmy Buffett

But i think that PJ might have a slight edge over the other 2.

[vandal]

Dead Kennedys.

[SisterCoyote]

You couldn't PAY me enough to answer this question on a public message board. ;)

Fetish fine, FRPG no sweat, but not my all time favorite band. ::shakes head:: nope.

[MysterEcks]

The Eagles.

(Yes, I'm closer to 40 than 30.)

[Asmodeus]

Goose Creek Symphony

https://www.oz.net/gcs/

[Typo Negative]

The Reverend Horton Heat. The Dickies. It's a toss-up.

Hey, vandal. Nice to see another punk rock fan here.

[Coldfire]

It's this obscure progressive rock trio from Toronto, Canada. You probably wouldn't know them.

[TwistofFate]

what, Bryan Adams backing group?


:: d&r ::


oh, and Primal Scream rock.

[Coldfire]

Watch yourself, Larrigan, or I'll tie you up to a chair and make you listen to the Kelly Family all day :D

[TwistofFate]

[whining] Sometimes... I wish I was an Angel....




My god, what a travesty of music. 17 German Crusties all being driven about by their Dad, singing songs to make impressionable [read: Stupid] teenage Girls Cry and Hold Candles at their live shows.


Kelly Family.... dont let me find you. You're all going down.....

[RealityChuck]

The Bonzo Dog Band (aka, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band).

The most amazing band ever -- think Monty Python as musicians. Good musicians. Their instrumentals could make you laugh out loud. You can find out all about them at the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (http://www.cam.anglia.ac.uk/~systimk/music/bonzos/Index.Html) page.

(BTW, many of Monty Python's songs were written by Neil Innes of the Bonzos after the group broke up).

[Jonathan Chance]

Gotta be Cowboy Mouth from NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA! (Are you WITH ME?!?!?!)

There's a reason we mouth fans are called "The Hardest Working Audience In Show Business"! I've seen a ba-zillion bands lives and they bring it out every time.

Coldfire! I've been a Rushfan(tm) for almost 20 years now (I first saw them on the GUP tour). Be careful how you bring them up. I might just have to whip you with my 100+ live tape collection with shows that date from FBN to CP.

Are you WITH me?!?!?!?

[Coldfire]

Coldfire! I've been a Rushfan(tm) for almost 20 years now (I first saw them on the GUP tour). Be careful how you bring them up. I might just have to whip you with my 100+ live tape collection with shows that date from FBN to CP.

Are you WITH me?!?!?!?


Grace Under Pressure. Fly By Night. Counterparts. I'm SO with you, brother! Can I get an Amen?

(As for the "unknown prog-rock trio"-angle: I was joking :D)

[zut]

Depends on what mood I'm in.

Tom Waits
The Damned
Yeah Yeah Noh
Railroad Jerk
Spaceman 3
Mr. Quintron

...and more I'm not in the mood to mention.

[HomeSlice]

Ok, I've heared of like 1 of these bands...I must be too young :D

[Bottle of Smoke]

What I prefer to have in my car cd player:

The Pogues
The Replacements
James McMurtry

What usually winds up there:

Raffi
Sesame Street

The scary part is that oftentimes I leave those in even when I am alone in the car.

[SaxFace]

Bad Brains

And they've my favorite rock band since I was 12. I've never gotten sick of them, and I still think their music is amazing.

[SwimmingRiddles]

This 3 man outfit from Boston called Guster. http://www.guster.com . They're fun.
The Pixies.
When I'm depressed, Everclear. And I don't care if they DID do a Gap commercial.
There's a lot of other bands that I enjoy, but those are the ones I love. (ps: Guess who's getting free Chili Pepper tickets? ME! Lalalalalaaa!!!)

[Nutty Bunny]

Gotta be Cowboy Mouth from NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA! (Are you WITH ME?!?!?!)

Actually, yeah! When I was living in Raleigh, NC, I saw them at G105's Big Shindig in '97. G105 had been playing a couple of their songs for about a month before the show and I liked them, but when I saw them live, it blew me away! Great live band!

As for my favorite. I have two (depending on my mood):

Ben Folds Five
The Tragically Hip (best live band--EVER)

[Sassy]

the Allman Brothers :cool:

[zut]

HomeSlice tells me,
Ok, I've heared of like 1 of these bands...I must be too young :D

Alackaday! Forsooth, 'tis I who am too old!

Actually, maybe not. It's more likely that I'm just pretentious enough to pride myself in an esoteric musical taste, including some stuff that I'm too young for.

Tom Waits: Still cranking out music ahead of his time.
The Damned: The best first-wave punk rock band.
Yeah Yeah Noh: Obscure (in the US) early 80s new wave.
Railroad Jerk: Late 90s rock 'n' roll.
Spaceman 3: Late 80s drone-fuzz.
Mr. Quintron: Way cool New Orleans rock 'n' roll organist.

And did I mention the Stooges? The godfathers of punk rock?

[Kilgore Trout]

tool.
led zeppelin.

[ThisYearsGirl]

The Pogues
The Clash
Led Zeppelin
Jonathon Richman and the Modern Lovers

[red_dragon60]

Rage Against The Machine. I know you all think that they are flaming hypocrite slumbag idiots who don't deserve to breathe, but I like them. Besides, what other band has a Harvard-educated guitarist(Tom Morello)?

[Pizzle Boy]

The Tragically Hip.

Great band with wonderfull, lyrics.

[ReservoirDog]

Counting Crows.

Dammit. Someday, somebody here is going to agree with me.

[Nacho4Sara]

The Beatles

DMB

Jah Works (a local reggae band)

[Ozone]

KISS!!! Greatest rock band of all time!! Too bad they're hanging it up... :(

CandyMan - Oh wait, that's MY band.... :D

[Necros]

ReserviorDog, Counting Crows is pretty good, but I'm going to have to go with Five-Eight.

[Kat]

Mine would be Sawyer Brown.

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Electric Light Orchestra
Beatles
ABBA (HEY, I can hear you snickering...)
Blondie (up to "Eat to the Beat")
Elton John (in the 70's)

[MissMonica7]

Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Pearl Jam
Peter Gabriel (I know he is not a band, but whatever)

[Gr8Kat]

Faith No More
Guns N' Roses
The Who

If you were to make me choose just one, it would be FNM.

[PunditLisa]

Definitely the Eagles . Don Henley is on my laminated list. The rest are really fine musicians, though whoever told Joe Walsh he could sing should be taken out and scourged. They sound as good live as they do in the studio. And did I tell you that Don Henley makes me swoon?

Journey ,for supplying me with background music for my jr. high and high school make-out sessions. (I know, I know, I'm aging myself here.)

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band for putting 100% into every show. The Beatles are awesome. The Police ere good, too.

[Falcon]

Two-way tie:

Rush (I know, Coldy....BIG surprise.)
Dave Matthews Band

[Profane]

My favorites:

Hepcat
Crass
Subhumans
Siouxie & the Banshees
NIN
Beastie Boys
Queen

[SilentKnight]

Led Zeppelin (hope I spelled it right)
The Who
The Grateful Dead
Bob Segar and the Silver Bullet Band
The Rolling Stones

[tiggeril]

A tie here:

1. U2 (stop laughing!)
2. Garbage

[brachyrhynchos]

The Clash.

[Proudest Monkey]

of the Dave Matthews Band (July 8, Foxboro Stadium, here I come!).

[Saint Zero]

Journey
Rush
Alice Cooper
Sammy's Van Halen (Dave's okay, Gary bites.)
Joe Satriani or Yngwie Malmsteen
Boston (later, and don't snicker!)

yeah, I've got a strange MP3 collection :)

[Darkpyre]

I'd probably go with someone more like matchbox twenty. Maybe Tonic.

[murano13]

R.E.M. is the only one for me.

[Sherman]

The best bands by decade:

1950s - Buddy Holly and the Crickets
1960s - Cream
1970s - Queen
1980s - (tie) R. E. M. and Prince & the Revolution
1990s - Nirvana
2000s - so far Limp Bizkit

[flikker]

Hole

[Barney111]

A tie here, too:

The Band
Little Feat

[HomeSlice]

of the Dave Matthews Band (July 8, Foxboro Stadium, here I come!).


Best show I've seen in my life!!!

[LocalLoop]

1. Tool

and in no particular order:
Pearl Jam
Talking Heads
Los Lobos

[Falcon]

Homeslice and Proudest Monkey - July 18, RFK Stadium, here I come! My 7th or 8th DMB show!

[Monster104]

I have a lot of favorite bands, and I haven't put the mental effort to figure out which is my single-most favorite. Right now, they consist of The Vandals, Suicide Machines, Operation Ivy, Violent Femmes, Matchbox 20, The Offspring, The Clash...I guess those are all my favs.

[Buddy Holly]

Number 1: Violent Femmes
Close runners up:
Led Zeppelin
The Doors
Buddy Holly and the Crickits
The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Solo Artists:
Bob Dylan
Michael Jackson

[chief]

Guns N' Roses

runners up:

Led Zeppelin
Rolling Stones
Black Crowes

[The Tof]

In no particular order.. (Oh man.. I can hear them all snear)

Queen
Aerosmith
Metallica
Pink Floyd

I would have posted a least favorite song.. but I tend not to dislike songs, (unless sung by rap artists). <shrug> I don't know why

[friedo]

Pink Floyd. No contest. I have close to 30 different Floyd CDs. I'm nuts.

[LiraV33]

how can i pick one????? ummmm....DMB, Pink Floyd, Phish, Led Zep, but the number one of all time??? Grateful Dead, hands down

[Typo Negative]

Rage Against The Machine. I know you all think that they are flaming hypocrite slumbag idiots who don't deserve to breathe, but I like them. Besides, what other band has a Harvard-educated guitarist(Tom Morello)?

Try Bad Religion.

Singer Greg Gaffin has Bachelors degree in Anthropology, Master of Science degree in Geology from UCLA and is working on a PhD in Zoology at Cornell.

[bovary]

1 The Doors

then maybe Floyd or Zeppelin

One of the greatest geniuses and another of my favorites

has to be Frank Zappa
how can you not like Zappa

[Spoke]

R.E.M.

[Motorgirl]

Replacements
Ramones
U2 (Joshua Tree and earlier)
Duran Duran (for some reason I keep coming back to them - since 1982)
Lemonheads
Misfits
Minor Threat
Primitives

I think this reveals a lack of focus on my part.
Some of the stuff in my music collection leaves
even me wondering "What is she THINKing?!?"

[argyle87]

It's nice to see all of the punkers come out of the woodwork on this one. For me, it would be a four way tie.

Bouncing Souls
Misfits
Bad Religion
Motorhead

[Bluemonchichi]

Siouxie & the Banshees, VNV Nation, Apoptygma Bezerk and Iris.... ok, there are more, but I tried to limit it to four.... although I really shouldn't leave out Pink Floyd, Live, Garbage.... okay, I'll stop now, but really I could keep going. I love music!

[JCorre]

I think I would have to go with:

Led Zeppelin

Then:
Pearl Jam
Jane's Addiction(I think 'Nothing's Shocking' is one of the best albums of all time)
Rush
Pixies

[spark]

Band, solo artist, what's the difference?

1. Elvis Costello
2. Tom Waits
3. Warren Zevon
4. The Refreshments

The Beatles, Stones, and Who are so obvious as to have been retired from "favorite" lists into their own little "it goes without saying" hall of fame

[Biotop]

1. The Residents

2. Current 93

3. Nurse with Wound

4. The Moon Lay Hidden beneath a Cloud

5. Black Tape for a Blue Girl

[Ike Witt]

Alice In Chains
Talking Heads
Pink Floyd
Tool
Barbara Striesand

[CVALLEYGAL]

Well Mysterecks...I'm closer to 30 than 40, and the Eagles are one of my all time favorites. Second to Eagles is Deep Purple. Also love the Moody Blues, Queen and Kiss. Guess I have a pretty broad range of music. everything from Beethoven to Ted Nugent. Depends on my mood, and for most bands..certain songs only.

[Mauve Dog]

1. Dead Can Dance

"Dream on, my dear, and renounce temporal obligation"

How many other bands out there even know what those last three words mean, much less used them all (or any of them!) in the same sentence, in the same song :p

After that, in no particular order:

2. Lisa Gerrard (after DCD broke up)
3. They might be Giants
4. Bach
5. Mozart
6. Vivaldi
7. Enigma
8. Black Tape for a Blue Girl
9. Loreena McKennit
10. Sarah Mclachlan
11. Chris Deburgh

[Robot Arm]

In no particular order,

They Might Be Giants
The Bobs
Moxy Früvous

[Robot Arm]

Just remembered two more,

Uncle Bonsai
Cub

[Mamapotomus]

COWBOY MOUTH!!!
The Mouth live moves my soul.

Runners up are:
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
They Might Be Giants
Lyle Lovett
BR5-49
Southern Culture on the Skids

[DoctorJ]

In no order:

Phish (Deer Creek->Polaris, here I come! Five shows, baby!)
Dylan
U2 (People bitch because their new stuff doesn't sound like their old stuff. Would you rather they keep cranking out cookie-cutter albums into their old age? (cough Stones cough)
the Dead
REM (see U2 comment, although some evidence indicates that they may be in the process of Jumping the Shark)
Beck (one of few important artists to emerge in the 90's, IMO)
Tom Waits
Springsteen
Asylum Street Spankers
Reverend Horton Heat

ask me tomorrow, and I'm sure the list will have changed...

Dr. J

[wolly36]

Ben Folds Five.