# Whats your favorite top 5 Bands... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 14, 2004, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-top-5-bands/224453 "2004-01-14T21:01:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![atlantarage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e495f1/32.png) [@atlantarage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atlantarage)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-top-5-bands/224453/1 "2004-01-14T21:01:23Z")
Tell what your favorite bands are- Mine are- 1)Sister Hazel 2)Adelayda-new band from Alabama 3)Kerry Getz-singer from Cali 4)Toby Lightman-she was just on TRL yesterday for artist to watch for 5)Dexter Freebish 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![justplainDave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@justplainDave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justplainDave)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-top-5-bands/224453/2 "2004-01-14T21:33:44Z")
My top 5 would go as follows: 1. 311 2. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones 3. Blues Traveler 4. Miles Davis (To keep true to the “band” concept from the OP, I’ll specify his Quintet from “Kind of Blue”) 5. Beatles ---
**Author:** ![Quack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e99b99/32.png) [@Quack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quack)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-top-5-bands/224453/3 "2004-01-15T00:57:49Z")
1. Operation Ivy 2. Beatles 3. Rancid 4. Pink Floyd 5. Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band (really there are about 5 or 6 bands I could put here, but why not Bob?) ---
**Author:** ![Melon\_Farmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Melon\_Farmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melon_Farmer)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-top-5-bands/224453/4 "2004-01-15T01:20:43Z")
Radiohead The Clash The Pixies Pink Floyd Rolling Stones I would put Jeff Buckley and PJ Harvey here, but they’re not exactly ‘bands’. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-top-5-bands/224453/5 "2004-01-15T01:29:50Z")
1. Belle and Sebastian 2. The White Stripes 3. Throwing Muses 4. The Pixies 5. Wire The first three are in stone. The last two shift constantly. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-top-5-bands/224453/6 "2004-01-15T01:41:59Z")
1. Yello 2. Pink Floyd 3. Talking Heads 4… Hmm… 4… I can’t think of any others, really. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-top-5-bands/224453/7 "2004-01-15T01:50:53Z")
I’m sure I’ve responded to a thread like this before, and I bet that if I that thread later, I’ll see that my list has changed. Whatever, that was then, this is now… for now. In no order… **The Minutemen X Split Lip Rayfield The Rezillos The Detroit Cobras** ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-top-5-bands/224453/8 "2004-01-15T01:52:09Z")
> [@SPOOFE](#): > > Hmm… > > 4… > > I can’t think of any others, really. I guess I should have said the same thing. 🙂 It’s easy to get three, but expanding it to five (or ten) is more difficult. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-top-5-bands/224453/9 "2004-01-15T01:52:29Z")
Los Angeles Philharmonic. Does that qualify as a “band”? (There’s more to music than just “bands,” you know. . .) ---
**Author:** ![Cyrokk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Cyrokk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyrokk)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-top-5-bands/224453/10 "2004-01-15T01:53:34Z")
1. Led Zeppelin 2. Black Sabbath 3. Tool 4. The Beatles 5. A three way tie between Iron Maiden, Slayer, and Megadeth ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-top-5-bands/224453/11 "2004-01-15T01:55:44Z")
Rock Van Halen Rolling Stones Aerosmith Led Zep Bad Company Pop Beatles Bee Gees Beach Boys Depche Mode Hollies ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-top-5-bands/224453/12 "2004-01-15T02:12:32Z")
1. The Beatles 2. The Who 3. The Rolling Stones 4. The Eagles 5. Led Zeppelin That’s all you need, right there. ---
**Author:** ![Trom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Trom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trom)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-top-5-bands/224453/13 "2004-01-15T02:14:19Z")
Built to Spill Radiohead Grandaddy Badly Drawn Boy Modest Mouse ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-top-5-bands/224453/14 "2004-01-15T02:21:07Z")
Hüsker Dü The Who XTC The Pixies Butthole Surfers ---
**Author:** ![Sassafras\_Kid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Sassafras\_Kid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassafras_Kid)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-top-5-bands/224453/15 "2004-01-15T02:24:52Z")
The Jazz Butcher The Meteors Spacemen 3 Social Distortion The Jam I would have added the Clash, but “Cut the Crap” still makes me mad! ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-top-5-bands/224453/16 "2004-01-15T02:39:54Z")
In no particular order Soul Coughing / Mike Doughty (lead singer, now solo) Tool They Might Be Giants Oingo Boingo Bjork I’m kinda all over the place. ---
**Author:** ![AtomicBanana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@AtomicBanana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicBanana)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-top-5-bands/224453/17 "2004-01-15T02:50:53Z")
1. Counting Crows (not so much their latest album though, hope it’s not a trend…) 2. Radiohead 3. Social Distortion 4. Audioslave (sorta new, but I just can’t stop listening to them) 5. Nirvana ---
**Author:** ![nitroglycerine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nitroglycerine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nitroglycerine)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-top-5-bands/224453/18 "2004-01-15T02:50:55Z")
The Cynics The Fleshtones Lazy Cowgirls Electric Frankenstein The Dictators Jon ---
**Author:** ![nitroglycerine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nitroglycerine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nitroglycerine)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-top-5-bands/224453/19 "2004-01-15T02:54:03Z")
> [@nitroglycerine](#): > > The Cynics > The Fleshtones > Lazy Cowgirls > Electric Frankenstein > The Dictators > > Jon Hmm…my long forgotten sig made me want to replace The Cynics with The Cramps on my list. Jon ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-top-5-bands/224453/20 "2004-01-15T03:04:34Z")
Hm… 1 through 3 are definites, 4 and 5 change periodically: 1: **Bruce Springsteen** 2: **The Who** 3: **Paul Simon/Simon and Garfunkel** 4: **Tom Petty** 5: **The Beatles** [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-top-5-bands/224453.md?page=2)