# Favorite Bands **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 13, 2005, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/289925 "2005-02-13T22:43:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![antechinus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@antechinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antechinus)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/289925/41 "2005-02-14T03:27:47Z")
Roughly … 1. TISM Beasts of Bourbon Birthday Party Hoodoo Gurus The Cramps Sonic Youth REM - pre Green The Pixies Bad Seeds Butthole Surfers Is that 5 ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/289925/42 "2005-02-14T03:49:34Z")
> [@Roland Orzabal](#): > > Mesh (the UK one, not Mesh StL) Whoah, another UK Mesh fan here?? I had no idea. Anyway, mine are … 1. Depeche Mode 2. Anything Box 3. Mesh (UK) 4. VNV Nation 5. The Echoing Green With honorable mentions to The Cure, Skinny Puppy, Nine Inch Nails, Erasure, and Tool. ---
**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/289925/43 "2005-02-14T04:36:26Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Well, I don’t drink beer and, thus, would not serve any at a party. This has gone from bad to worse. First, you were just playing crap music. Now you’re telling us there’s no beer? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/289925/44 "2005-02-14T04:41:25Z")
Blind Guardian. Arcturus. Borknagar. X-Japan. Ayumi Hamasaki. (Plus… oh, about infinity more, of course. :)) ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/289925/45 "2005-02-14T04:43:10Z")
In no particular order 1. [Broadcast](http://www.broadcast.uk.net) 2. Stereolab 3. R.E.M. (pre Reveal) 3.5 Hunters and Collectors 4. TMBG (pre Mink Car) 5 Cocteau Twins ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/289925/46 "2005-02-14T05:40:54Z")
1. Collective Soul 2. U2 3. Nirvanna 4. Smashing Pumpkins 5. Green Day Say…guess how old I am? ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/289925/47 "2005-02-14T05:54:18Z")
My “Top 5” can change at anytime and blah, blah, blah etc. [ol] [li]The Minutemen[/li][li]The Pogues[/li][li]The Stooges[/li][li]The Young Fresh Fellows[/li][li]The Immortal Lee County Killers[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Monkey\_Chews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@Monkey\_Chews](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monkey_Chews)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/289925/48 "2005-02-14T08:01:59Z")
1. Concrete Blonde 2. Oasis 3. Doves 4. The Bangles 5. The B-52’s ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/289925/49 "2005-02-14T08:23:57Z")
Hmm. 1. Tool Right about now is when I pause for 30 minutes trying to work out the rest of my list… System of a Down, Eagles, Staind, Sevendust, Zeppelin, blahblahblah. Slipknot. I like Bush. Umm… Eagles? I listen to Korn and I’m not afraid to admit it. Not necessarily in this order though, which is where the pause comes from. It’s hard to rank such radically different sounds, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Time\_Like\_Tears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@Time\_Like\_Tears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Time_Like_Tears)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/289925/50 "2005-02-14T08:26:04Z")
Gah, just 5? Have to go for a sampling, then. 1.) Tool 2.) Pink Floyd 3.) Radiohead 4.) Stabbing Westward 5.) The Crystal Method ---
**Author:** ![Time\_Like\_Tears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@Time\_Like\_Tears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Time_Like_Tears)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/289925/51 "2005-02-14T08:28:55Z")
> [@Roland Orzabal](#): > > Yoko Kanno (not a band, but one hell of a songwriter) Makes sense from a BeBop fan. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/289925/52 "2005-02-14T08:34:13Z")
1. The Beatles (bought all their stuff from 1962 to 1966) The rest in no particular order: Eagles (especially _The Last Resort_) The Hollies Bee Gees Pink Floyd (“I’ve always been mad”) Simon and Garfunkel (especially _Homeward Bound_) ---
**Author:** ![Coil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Coil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coil)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/289925/53 "2005-02-14T09:56:18Z")
Oooh, tough choices. 1. The Sisters of Mercy 2. Depeche Mode 3. The Cure 4. Kraftwerk 5. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Runners-up include: Nine Inch Nails, Rammstein, Stan Ridgway, Front 242, Rosetta Stone. ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/289925/54 "2005-02-14T10:05:03Z")
the Beatles Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and his later bands eX-Girl Devo number five is a toss-up between the Kinks, Ruins, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Jefferson Airplane, etc. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8797f3/32.png) [@The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Universe_Lashes_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/289925/55 "2005-02-14T11:02:14Z")
Sonic Youth Wilco Bob Dylan Radiohead The Pixies ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/289925/56 "2005-02-14T11:10:03Z")
Skipping the bleeding obvious\*\*\*\*\* The Soft Boys Steely Dan Doll by Doll B-52s (early period with Ricky) The Waitresses \*\*\*\*\*Beatles, Floyd, Who, Zappa, Zeppelin. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/289925/57 "2005-02-14T11:18:19Z")
1. Soul Coughing 2. Pixies 3. Pizzicato Five 4. The Pogues 5. Led Zeppelin (And the Beatles. And the Chemical Brothers, Alison Krauss and Union Station, Southern Culture on the Skids, the Art of Noise, Poi Dog Pondering, Me First & the Gimme Gimmes, Morcheeba, The Clash, and The Beastie Boys.) ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/289925/58 "2005-02-14T11:53:09Z")
No particular order Led Zeppelin Shellac Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Queen Radiohead (OK Computer onwards) Also kicking around the top 5 are Nirvana, Mastodon, Explosions in the Sky & Lift to Experience ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/289925/59 "2005-02-14T12:10:24Z")
> [@unclviny](#): > > No chance of limiting this list to only 5 and in no particular order: > > King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Liquid Tension Experiment, Br-549, Reverend Billy C. Wirtz, Beatles, Adrian Belew, Tony Levin Band, California Guitar Trio, Dead Kennedy’s, Talking Heads, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Danny Dean & the Homewreckers, David Bowie, Junior Brown, Genesis (pre-Abacab!), Ramones, Can, Gong, Steve Hillage, Hawkwind, FM (the Canadian version), Paula Cole, Robert Fripp. > > And many many more, my “favorite” changes several times a day > > Unclviny Holy shit - a true kindred soul. My list’s a complete subset of yours, except for my vote for Mike Keneally. I should have listed all of the bands in the King Crimson orbit and I’d have been a lot closer. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/289925/60 "2005-02-14T12:11:34Z")
> [@buns3000](#): > > This has gone from bad to worse. First, you were just playing crap music. Now you’re telling us there’s no beer? ☹ I’ll assume you’re trying to be funny and leave it at that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/289925.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-bands/289925.md?page=4)