Inspired by all time favorite book thread…
I want to know your top 5 favorite bands/singers, all time.
And because musical taste is always shifting, I want to know your top-five right this minute.
All Time:
Currently in love with:
Your turn…
All time:
Tool
Deftones
Black Sabbath
Led Zeppelin
Slayer
Currently:
The New Bomb Turks (missed the first list by a hair)
Tom Waits
Weezer
Afghan Whigs
Alexisonfire
All time:
The Clash
Blue Oyster Cult
The Reverend Horton Heat
Flogging Molly
QueenWebb Wilder
Current:
I’m old and I don’t listen to the radio. Who’s good?
All-Time:
The Beatles
The Bonzo Dog Band
The Who
Pink Floyd
Traffic
Current:
The White Stripes
Otis Taylor
She & Him
Lyle Lovett
Jonny Lang
All time:
Genesis (Gabriel/Hackett years)
Porcupine Tree
Peter Gabriel
Pink Floyd
Kate Bush
Current:
Porcupine Tree
Keane
Blackfield
Dream Theater
Coldplay
All Time:
Nirvana
Metallica
Tool
Pink Floyd
Alice in Chains
Currently:
Abba
Bjork
She & Him
Norah Jones
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
All Time
Marvin Gaye
EWF
Steely Dan
Joe Jackson
Dr. Buzzards Savannah Band
Current
DLG
Kashif
CeeLo Green
Jennifer Hudson
Adele
No real difference for me (as in I don’t really grasp the distinction between the two groups, either that or I have admittedly not kept up with this decade’s trends), so…
The Church
Porcupine Tree
REM
Ride
(3 way tie for 5th) Echo & the Bunnymen, Renaissance, Ozric Tentacles
Evah:
The Who
The Beatles
Bob Dylan
Simon & Garfunkel
Radiohead
Now:
Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges (Clube da Esquina)
Jorge Ben Jor
That’s all I can think of at the moment. I’ve been on a Brazilian streak for a month or two and can’t recall what else I’ve been listening to.
Ever:
Rush
Aerosmith
Ozzy Osbourne
Boston
Bruce Springsteen
Now:
Theory of a Deadman
Nickleback
Daughtry
Kid Rock
Velvet Revolver (which SUCKS cause they’re GONE dammit!)
Ever in the history of the universe:
Wilco
Smashing Pumpkins
Bright Eyes
Spoon
Modest Mouse
Currently, as of 2:56 eastern standard time:
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Strokes
Cursive / The Good Life
Whiskeytown / Ryan Adams
Uncle Tupelo
Music that I still listen to often -
Heavy Rotation recently in the car -
Of all time:
Queen
Rolling Stones
The Pixies
The Cure
The Beatles
Currently:
The Fratellis
The Decemberists
The Format
Bishop Allen
The Ting Tings
All time:
All time favourites;
King Crimson
The Band
Gentle Giant
XTC
Frank Zappa
Current (to me, anyway) faves:
Shakti
Justin Vali Trio
Jeff Buckley
John Abercrombie/Gateway
Sigur Ros
Ever:
The Who
Big Star
The Smiths
The Cure
R.E.M.
Currently:
Bright Eyes
The Decemberists
Okkervil River
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
The New Pornographers
Dang, narrowing it down to 5 each is tough.
All Time:
Van Halen (David Lee Roth era)
U2
Guns and Roses
Phill Collins
Rod Stewart
Currently:
Santana teaming up with modern day singers - So the most current would be Into the night
Flyleaf
Buckcherry
3 Doors Down
Coldplay
All Time:
Current:
Nice, they’re awesome.
All-time:
Depeche Mode
Death Cab for Cutie
VNV Nation
Anything Box
Mesh (UK)
Current:
Goldfrapp
IAMX
Flight of the Conchords
KLOQ
Neuropa
All Time:
Led Zeppelin
Rush
Van Halen
Chicago
The Eagles
Current…I don’t know. I am not enough into current music to know which bands whose songs I like are even still together.