Who are your Top 5 music bands ???

[JBSLJames]

Alllllllrighty then.

Five Bands - Bands meaning groups that play their own instruments ( :lookaroun )


This does not include solo artists regardless if they play their own instrument or not (okay, now this is getting kinda weird)

1. The Beatles
2. Van Halen
3. Kansas
4. Bon Jovi
5. Petra

My top 5 Soloists

1. Michael W Smith
2. Billy Joel
3. James Taylor
4. Harry Connick Jr.
5. Twila Paris

 

[JBSLJames]

I have delayed posting here because I was leery of the responses I might get, but WTH, here goes (This is also real, and heart-felt. Also these can hardly be called "bands"):

1. The Philadelphia Orchestra
2. The Berlin Philharmonic
3. The Academy of St. Martin's in the Field
4. The Atlanta Symphony
5. The Cincinnati Pops - Gotta love all the great Disney albums Erich Kunzel and company have done. For you rockers who don't have a clue, check out Telarc CD-80196 "A Disney Spectacular"

Yep, Kunzel does a great job and makes us Cincinnatians proud.

 

[wdwishes2005]

Pink Floyd. ( Really? )
Nivana
Franz Ferdinand.

 

[Uponastar]

In no order:

Queen
The Beatles
Billy Joel
Elvis Costello
George Harrison (solo)

wdwishes2005: dd would love your choice of Franz Ferdinand. She has a pic of herself and the blonde guy on her cell phone. Has tickets to see them again next month in NJ. Totally obsessed!

 

[coasterphil]

311
The Clash
Streetlight Manifesto
Rage Against the Machine
Flogging Molly

 

[1stStarIC2nite]

Yuck.. it's time to update on what I had a year or so ago :lol:

The Killers
Franz Ferdinand
Syd
Aerosmith
Panic! At the Disco

 

[NemoRocks78]

- Aerosmith
- Huey Lewis & the News
- Alter Bridge
- Motörhead
- Fozzy

 

[maelstrom]

- gordon lightfoot.
- jimmy buffett.
- nick drake.
- ani difranco.
- iron & wine.
- air.
- zero 7.
- sound tribe sector 9.
- led zeppelin.
- pink floyd.

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[Pongo]

In no particular order:

Something Corporate
Relient K
The All-American Rejects
The Format
John Mayer
Gorillaz
The Postal Service

 

[SIR90210]

5. Bruce Springsteen
4. Billy Joel
3. The Beatles
2. The Who
1. U2

 

[guitarman520]

Dream Theater
Extreme
Van Halen (Roth era)
AC/DC
Queensryche

 

[Stitch_Kingdom]

The Ordinary Boys
The Killers
Hard-Fi
Arctic Monkeys
Basement Jaxx

This is at the moment and is so easily gonna change...

 

[PencilTest]

-Cake
-Beck
-Foo Fighters
-The Ditty Bops (Female duo with some of the best harmonies I've ever heard. Plus, they play mandolin and juggle!)
-They Might Be Giants (E Eats Everything!)

 

[crazycalf]

Hard to choose 5 but probably

Madball
The Suicide Machines
Slipknot
H2O
Pennywise

A few others that I love are NOFX, Hatebreed, Ignite, Pantera, Less Than Jake, Clutch and Down.

 

[dxwwf3]

A couple of years can change someone's opinion:

1. Limp Bizkit
2. Korn
3. Rage Against The Machine
4. N.E.R.D.
5. Aerosmith

 

[Neverwhere]

Counting Crows
The Refreshments (and/or Roger Clyne)
Barenaked Ladies
Rush
Lavay Smith


Quite a variety I know.

 

[TheOneVader]

My favorite artists aren't all bands, so I'll just list my favorite artists in no particular order:

Hanz Zimmer (Black Hawk Down Soundtrack kicks butt)
The White Stripes
Juno Reactor (Awesome techno/electronica band)
Julian Nott (Wallace and Gromit )
Moby
Nellie McKay
Lemon Demon (Yes, they did Ultimate Showdown, eBaums World Sucks, etc.)
Aerosmith
Franz Ferdinand
Mark Mothersbaugh (Mainly his work for The Sims 2)
Jerry Martin (SimCity)
Jerry Goldsmith
Gregory Smith
John Williams
Cusco
David Arkenstone
Gavin Greenaway
Clint Mansell (Requiem for a Dream Soundtrack kicks butt)
Russell Brower
Uttara-Kuru
Hevia
E.S. Posthumus
Darude
Jeff Beal (Monk!)
The Verve (Bittersweet Symphony)
Junkie XL

Oh wait, you said 5... I don't think I can narrow it down...

 

[MicBat]

-Better Than Ezra
-Oasis
-Coldplay
-The Killers
-Maroon 5

 

[Steamboat_Kevin]

Updating on my old list.

1. Ben Folds/Ben Folds Five (Seeing him live on March 11 )
2. Jack Johnson
3. Flogging Molly
4. Catch 22
5. Guster
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[Enderikari]

1. Jump, Little Children (Jump)
2. Guster
3. Ben Folds (Five)
4. The Killers
5. U2