# Your Current Top 5...? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 16, 2001, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-top-5/58277 "2001-03-16T19:38:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wag2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8baadc/32.png) [@wag2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wag2000)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2001, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-top-5/58277/1 "2001-03-16T19:38:30Z")
Bands? ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2001, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-top-5/58277/2 "2001-03-16T20:31:47Z")
Lessee: (In no particular order): 1. 3 Doors Down 2. Incognito (funky UK jazz, dance) 3. Tracy Bonham 4. Rush 5. Blues Traveler ---
**Author:** ![rockstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockstar)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2001, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-top-5/58277/3 "2001-03-16T22:16:16Z")
My current top 5 (though #1 never changes): 1. U2 2. Flaming Lips 3. Verve 4. Pink Floyd 5. Radiohead With runners up of: Clash, Vast, At the Drive-In, Moby, and Blur ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2001, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-top-5/58277/4 "2001-03-16T22:25:51Z")
May I include solo artists, please? Oh, well, I’m doing it anyway: 1. Me’shell Ndegeocello 2. Jill Scott 3. Groove Theory with Amel Larrieux 4. Sade 5. Jah Works (local reggae band) ---
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2001, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-top-5/58277/5 "2001-03-16T23:21:12Z")
1. The Clash 2. The Lounge Lizards 3. Elvis Costello 4. Patti Smith 5. Jeff Buckley Runners-up: Van Morrison, Iggy Pop, PiL, Beck, and Joan Baez ---
**Author:** ![RocknRoll\_Killing\_Machine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5daacb/32.png) [@RocknRoll\_Killing\_Machine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RocknRoll_Killing_Machine)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2001, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-top-5/58277/6 "2001-03-16T23:49:01Z")
Everything’s kinda weird this week for music Coalesce The Clash Garbage Refused Cream ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2001, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-top-5/58277/7 "2001-03-16T23:54:10Z")
Current, although not my “all time” favourites: 1. Stone Roses 2. Verve 3. Pixies 4. Soulwax 5. Laurent Garnier ---
**Author:** ![Renton\_lvr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7feea3/32.png) [@Renton\_lvr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renton_lvr)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-top-5/58277/8 "2001-03-17T00:20:23Z")
1. The Smiths 2. The Pixies 3. The Stone Roses 4. The Cure 5. Creedence Clearwater Revival ---
**Author:** ![robgruver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@robgruver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robgruver)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-top-5/58277/9 "2001-03-17T00:30:38Z")
1. Meat Loaf 2. The Clash 3. Limp Bizkit 4. Pat Green 5. Metallica 1 and 2 rarely change, but Metallica moved from 3 to 5 after the whole Napster thing and Pat Green moved up into the number 4 spot. ---
**Author:** ![Evnglion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f04885/32.png) [@Evnglion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evnglion)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-top-5/58277/10 "2001-03-17T01:13:18Z")
1. Two Mix 2. SES 3. Dream Theater 4. Three Doors Down 5. Moby Not too sure about the exact order, I may like Moby more than DMB considering I only like one of their CDs ---
**Author:** ![HalberMensch242](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@HalberMensch242](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HalberMensch242)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-top-5/58277/11 "2001-03-17T01:25:08Z")
Current top 5(this changes…a lot): 1.Tear Garden/Legendary Pink Dots 2.Venetian Snares 3.Doubting Thomas 4.Black Lung/Snog 5.A Perfect Circle ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-top-5/58277/12 "2001-03-17T01:26:40Z")
Well if you’re talking about at the moment…And I’m gonna take the liberty of putting singers on. 5. Guns N Roses 4. The Beatles 3. The Who 2. David Bowie 1. Rolling Stones (Number one rock band ever!) ---
**Author:** ![Randy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2acd7d/32.png) [@Randy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-top-5/58277/13 "2001-03-17T07:22:00Z")
1. **Todd Snider and the Nervous Wrecks** Rock-n-Roll with a Country/Folk twist 2. **Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble** 3. **Third Day** A Christian Rock Band, that is IMHO, better than most secular Bands. 4. **Led Zeppelin** 5. **John Hiatt and the Guilty Dogs** It may change tommorrow though. ---
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-top-5/58277/14 "2001-03-17T07:31:10Z")
Of the top of my head (and i know I’ll want to change my mind later): 1. Queen (that won’t change ever) 2. BNL 3. TMBG 4. Savage Garden 5. Crowded House or the Doug Anthony All Stars ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-top-5/58277/15 "2001-03-17T08:13:02Z")
Radiohead PJ Harvey Sparklehorse Loud Family Tie between Elvis Costello, The Pixies, Wilco, Gang Of Four, and Telvision ---
**Author:** ![Gatsby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df705f/32.png) [@Gatsby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatsby)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-top-5/58277/16 "2001-03-17T08:20:42Z")
1. Tom Waits 2. Sublime 3. Miles Davis 4. Elvis Costello 5. Less Than Jake Eclectic mix? You bet! Are we screen testing for the sequel to “High Fidelity” ? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-top-5/58277/17 "2001-03-17T10:33:32Z")
1. Superchunk 2. (tie) Paul Westerberg 3. (tie) Bob Mould 4. Go-Betweens 5. R.E.M. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-top-5/58277/18 "2001-03-17T11:18:39Z")
**the Dickies** All-time fave! **Rush The Reverend Horton Heat Lagwagon Face to Face** ---
**Author:** ![Alonist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Alonist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alonist)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-top-5/58277/19 "2001-03-17T11:59:39Z")
1.TMBG 2.Zaphod and the New Harmonics 3.MC5 4.Zappa/Beefheart 5.The Residents/Snakefinger ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-top-5/58277/20 "2001-03-17T14:26:30Z")
1. Genesis (pre’80) 2. Simon and Garfunkel 3. Pink Floyd 4. Japan 5. Eagles [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-top-5/58277.md?page=2)