Wow, y’all have excellent (and varied) taste.
In no particular order, and just at this particular moment:
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
The Clash
Depeche Mode
Assemblage 23
New Order/Operation Ivy (tie!)
not in any order…
HIM
Linkin Park
Nickelback
Lacuna Coil
Evanescence
My favorites change around a lot, but for now:
Evanescence
Sum 41
Arrogant Worms
Sarah McLachlan
Kurt Nilsen
**Primus (talk about original!)
Crooked Fingers ** (you will love them if you hear them)
**Pearl Jam
Five for Fighting ** (listen to something besides Superman and you will see why)
**Bad Religion ** ( I wish more punk bands had this kind of talent)
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I’m really sorry, but everytime I see this thread I think of this and I have to get it off my chest before I go mad. Three years ago Obsidian and I were on New Jersey transit after a concert and the garden when we over hear these REALLY drunk guys behind us talking about their favorite bands. One apparently said The Doors was his fourth favorite band and his buddy yells at the top of his lungs. “Tell me three bands you like better then The Doors and three times I tell you, you LIE!” We were laughing the rest of the ride and to this day when one of us is listing things the other will inevitably make a reference to this.
Whoo, I feel better, carry on.
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The Incredible String Band
The Beatles
Traffic
The Grateful Dead
Jethro Tull
I stuck to bands. Including solo artists would make it too hard to limit to five.
Tool
A Perfect Circle
Incubus
The Dandy Warhols
Radiohead
This is my criteria: Do I love them? Have I loved them for a long time? Do they evoke from me emotion? Do I think they’re just plain good? Is it difficult to imagine ever growing tired of them? Do I need to have all their stuff? Am I a mini-expert on them by choice (as opposed to having them force fed to me by the media)?
Here’s what I came up with:
1, 2, and 3, not really in order: Black Sabbath (the Ozzy, Ronnie, and Ian years); the Doors; Rob Halford. Of course saying Rob Halford is a bit of a cheat, since I mean any band he sang with–Judas Priest, Fight, Two, Halford, and now Judas Priest again (I should probably include Black Sabbath in here, too, even though Rob was only with them for something like two nights).
4 & 5 I don’t know. Ronnie James Dio, I guess, back wtih Sabbath and/or solo. Deep Purple. Possibly Alice Cooper. Led Zeppelin certainly gets an honorable mention. Slayer. Tony Iommi off the basis of his one solo album. Pink Floyd, maybe. Ozzy Osbourne. Iron Maiden and Bruce Dickinson’s solo stuff are near the top of my list, too, but I’m not sure if they hit the Top Five. Man, this is a difficult question.
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Yeah, I saw him/them on tour with Azure Ray a couple of months ago. I’ve been meaning to get Red Devil Dawn since then, but haven’t yet managed to. “Big Darkness” is going on my Best of 2003 mix CD.
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Big Star
Neutral Milk Hotel
Nirvana
Radiohead
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
- Sublime
- Aerosmith
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Rancid
- The Clash