# Your MOST Favorite band! (rock on!) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 8, 2000, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favorite-band-rock-on/21719 "2000-06-08T04:17:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favorite-band-rock-on/21719/41 "2000-06-10T16:44:00Z")
of the Dave Matthews Band (July 8, Foxboro Stadium, here I come!). ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favorite-band-rock-on/21719/42 "2000-06-10T16:58:31Z")
Journey Rush Alice Cooper Sammy’s Van Halen (Dave’s okay, Gary bites.) Joe Satriani or Yngwie Malmsteen Boston (later, and don’t snicker!) yeah, I’ve got a strange MP3 collection 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Darkpyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@Darkpyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkpyre)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favorite-band-rock-on/21719/43 "2000-06-10T17:20:07Z")
I’d probably go with someone more like matchbox twenty. Maybe Tonic. ---
**Author:** ![murano13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dec6dc/32.png) [@murano13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/murano13)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2000, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favorite-band-rock-on/21719/44 "2000-06-11T03:21:53Z")
R.E.M. is the only one for me. ---
**Author:** ![Sherman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Sherman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherman)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2000, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favorite-band-rock-on/21719/45 "2000-06-11T03:33:47Z")
The best bands by decade: 1950s - Buddy Holly and the Crickets 1960s - Cream 1970s - Queen 1980s - (tie) R. E. M. and Prince & the Revolution 1990s - Nirvana 2000s - so far Limp Bizkit ---
**Author:** ![flikker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8baadc/32.png) [@flikker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flikker)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2000, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favorite-band-rock-on/21719/46 "2000-06-18T10:30:58Z")
Hole ---
**Author:** ![Barney111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Barney111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barney111)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2000, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favorite-band-rock-on/21719/47 "2000-06-19T04:17:53Z")
A tie here, too: The Band Little Feat ---
**Author:** ![HomeSlice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9d8465/32.png) [@HomeSlice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HomeSlice)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2000, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favorite-band-rock-on/21719/48 "2000-06-19T04:26:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > of the Dave Matthews Band (July 8, Foxboro Stadium, here I come!). > \*\* Best show I’ve seen in my life!!! ---
**Author:** ![LocalLoop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@LocalLoop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LocalLoop)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2000, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favorite-band-rock-on/21719/49 "2000-06-19T05:10:53Z")
1. Tool and in no particular order: Pearl Jam Talking Heads Los Lobos ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2000, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favorite-band-rock-on/21719/50 "2000-06-19T06:24:15Z")
Homeslice and Proudest Monkey - July 18, RFK Stadium, here I come! My 7th or 8th DMB show! ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2000, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favorite-band-rock-on/21719/51 "2000-06-19T06:50:48Z")
I have a lot of favorite bands, and I haven’t put the mental effort to figure out which is my single-most favorite. Right now, they consist of The Vandals, Suicide Machines, Operation Ivy, Violent Femmes, Matchbox 20, The Offspring, The Clash…I guess those are all my favs. ---
**Author:** ![Buddy\_Holly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Buddy\_Holly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buddy_Holly)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2000, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favorite-band-rock-on/21719/52 "2000-06-19T06:59:14Z")
Number 1: Violent Femmes Close runners up: Led Zeppelin The Doors Buddy Holly and the Crickits The Jimi Hendrix Experience Solo Artists: Bob Dylan Michael Jackson ---
**Author:** ![chief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@chief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chief)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favorite-band-rock-on/21719/53 "2000-06-21T23:55:07Z")
Guns N’ Roses runners up: Led Zeppelin Rolling Stones Black Crowes ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@The\_Tof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tof)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2000, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favorite-band-rock-on/21719/54 "2000-06-22T07:06:08Z")
In no particular order… (Oh man… I can hear them all snear) Queen Aerosmith Metallica Pink Floyd I would have posted a least favorite song… but I tend not to dislike songs, (unless sung by rap artists). \ I don’t know why ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2000, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favorite-band-rock-on/21719/55 "2000-06-22T08:04:01Z")
Pink Floyd. No contest. I have close to 30 different Floyd CDs. I’m nuts. ---
**Author:** ![LiraV33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6f9a4e/32.png) [@LiraV33](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiraV33)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2000, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favorite-band-rock-on/21719/56 "2000-06-22T12:29:09Z")
how can i pick one??? ummmm…DMB, Pink Floyd, Phish, Led Zep, but the number one of all time??? Grateful Dead, hands down ---
**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:** [June 22, 2000, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favorite-band-rock-on/21719/57 "2000-06-22T13:21:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Rage Against The Machine. I know you all think that they are flaming hypocrite slumbag idiots who don’t deserve to breathe, but I like them. Besides, what other band has a Harvard-educated guitarist(Tom Morello)? > \*\* Try Bad Religion. Singer Greg Gaffin has Bachelors degree in Anthropology, Master of Science degree in Geology from UCLA and is working on a PhD in Zoology at Cornell. ---
**Author:** ![bovary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e68b1a/32.png) [@bovary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bovary)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2000, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favorite-band-rock-on/21719/58 "2000-06-22T15:03:06Z")
1 The Doors then maybe Floyd or Zeppelin One of the greatest geniuses and another of my favorites has to be Frank Zappa how can you not like Zappa ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2000, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favorite-band-rock-on/21719/59 "2000-06-22T15:08:33Z")
R.E.M. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2000, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favorite-band-rock-on/21719/60 "2000-06-23T02:11:50Z")
Replacements Ramones U2 (Joshua Tree and earlier) Duran Duran (for some reason I keep coming back to them - since 1982) Lemonheads Misfits Minor Threat Primitives I think this reveals a lack of focus on my part. Some of the stuff in my music collection leaves even me wondering “What is she THINKing?!?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favorite-band-rock-on/21719.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favorite-band-rock-on/21719.md?page=4)