# Your Top 5 Favorite Bands, All Time and Current

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**Created:** [February 16, 2009, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-5-favorite-bands-all-time-and-current/486121 "2009-02-16T17:53:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-5-favorite-bands-all-time-and-current/486121/41 "2009-02-18T03:26:46Z")

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All Time:

Pat Metheny Group  
Peter Gabriel  
Genesis  
The Who  
Metallica

Currently:  
Return To Forever  
The Hold Steady  
TV On The Radio  
Ben Folds  
Weird Al Yankovic

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**Author:** ![Carmady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@Carmady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carmady)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-5-favorite-bands-all-time-and-current/486121/42 "2009-02-18T03:43:36Z")

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Big Star  
X-Ray Spex  
PJ Harvey  
Neutral Milk Hotel  
Nick Cave

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**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-5-favorite-bands-all-time-and-current/486121/43 "2009-02-18T03:45:51Z")

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All Time:

1. Lynyrd Skynyrd
2. Led Zeppelin
3. The Doors
4. Janis Joplin
5. Jimmy Buffett  
Current:

I don’t do much in the way of modern music. I do like a cover band called _Almost Famous_. They’re from Memphis, and appear regularly in Tunica, among other places.

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**Author:** ![Mister\_Armageddon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@Mister\_Armageddon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Armageddon)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-5-favorite-bands-all-time-and-current/486121/44 "2009-02-18T04:44:42Z")

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All Time:

1. Nirvana
2. The Clash
3. Guns n’ Roses (original lineup only, of course)
4. R.E.M.
5. Toad The Wet Sprocket

Current:

1. Silversun Pickups
2. Muse
3. Dead Confederate
4. Kaiser Chiefs
5. Cold War Kids

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**Author:** ![Lilacs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Lilacs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lilacs)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-5-favorite-bands-all-time-and-current/486121/45 "2009-02-18T12:59:20Z")

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All Time:

The Beatles  
The Who  
Sonic Youth  
The Dead Kennedys  
The Clash

Current (to me means just my current obsessions)

The Rolling Stones  
Judas Priest  
Rhianna  
Sly & the Family Stone (Sly is in my top ten all time)  
Minor Threat

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-5-favorite-bands-all-time-and-current/486121/46 "2009-02-18T13:25:28Z")

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Hard to consider. There were some bands I was nuts over when I was younger, but don’t really listen to anymore.

All time, sorta  
Jethro Tull  
Phish  
Colonel Bruce Hampton and whoever he’s with  
Yes  
Gov’t Mule

Nowish  
Umphrees McGee  
Spoon  
Dunjen  
Dandy Warhols  
North Mississippi All Stars

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