Top Ten Musical BAnds ever (or Your Favorite)

In My Humble Opinion
21

OK, no particular order, limiting myself to popular music of the second half of the 20th century:

Beatles
Beasite Boys
Who
Rolling Stones
Stereolab
Pavement
Nirvana
Portishead
Public Enemy
Radiohead
Led Zeppelin

(OK that was 11)

And some solo artists
Zappa
Bowie
Lennon
Albert King
John Lee Hooker
Bob Marley
Hendrix
Presley

We could open a whole can of worms with jazz groups/artists and classical/international music.

22
  1. Rush
  2. Pink Floyd
  3. Beatles
  4. Creedence Clearwater Revival
  5. Camel
  6. Yes
  7. Savatage
  8. Marillion
  9. Dire Straits
  10. Tea Party

Actually, it’s a number one with 9 runners up, really. And there’s about 20 more runners up that I can think of.

23
  1. LIVE !!! (this best band EVER let me tell you!)
  2. Wheatus (great @ X-Fest 2000)
  3. Bloodhound Gang (Hilirous and Entertaining @ Mayday 2000)
  4. Greenday (outstanding preformance @ X-Fest 2000)
  5. Smashing Pumpkins
  6. Powerman 5000 (great @ X-Fest 99)
  7. Nirvana
  8. Beatles
  9. Nsync
  10. Christina Aguilera
24

Ooops I forgot to mention Savage Garden…so that eleven sorry :slight_smile:

25

If I had a few more slots, two from your list, Belle and Sebastian and The Ramones, would definitely be on there. I get the impression our CD collections are very similar, birdybird!

26

Fleetwood Mac
Rush
Styx
Beatles
Stones
Matchbox 20
Live
Jethro Tull
Pink Floyd

As for solo artists…Billy Joel,Elton John and Barry Manilow rank at the top!

Bands I could do without include Journey,Forigner and ZZ Top,Sorry folks.

27

Lots of great bands mentioned, so I’ll just add one candidate:

Tower of Power

East Bay grease, folks. You got to funkifize.

28

In no particular order

Beatles
Luna
Jets to Brazil
Sebadoh
Pavement
Weezer
Descendents/All
Minutemen/Firehose
Shudder to think (on Dischord)
Early Bad Religion

This is a difficult question though. There are so many other bands that deserve to be on this list.

29

10.New Order
9.Pet Shop Boys
8. The Cure
7.Coil
6.VnV Nation
5.Skinny Puppy
4.NIN
3.Depeche Mode
2.Front242
1.Einsturzende Neubauten

Honorable Mentions:
SPK
LeÆther Strip
TOOL
Laibach
Dead Can Dance
This Mortal Coil
Download
Tear Garden
FeindFlug
WhiteHouse
Foetus, Is That Foetus on your breath?, Scrapping Foetus of the wheel…you get the idea
Wumpscut
Hocico
Beatles

30

Bands:

  1. The Beatles
  2. The Band
  3. U2
  4. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  5. The Byrds
  6. Led Zeppelin
  7. CCR
  8. The Rolling Stones
  9. Pink Floyd
    10)Jimi Hendrix Experience
    Solo:
  10. Dylan
  11. Van Morrison
  12. Joni Mitchell
  13. Neil Young
  14. Paul Simon
  15. Prince
  16. Stevie Wonder
  17. Buddy Holly
  18. Sinatra
    10)Aretha Franklin
31

In Anarchical Order (No Order)

  1. Tool
  2. Deftones
  3. Toadies
  4. Pavement (Absolute Fav.)
  5. Hum
  6. They Might Be Giants
  7. Pearl Jam
  8. Catch 22
  9. NoFx
  10. RxBandits

There are so many other bands or artists I could put on here…