Ever try to come up with your five favorite bands of all time? Mine are The Doors, R.E.M., Pixies, Nirvana, Beck.
Ever try to come up with your five favorite bands of all time? I was challenged to do this in 1996, and now I'm doing it again ten years later.…
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76 - Eric Berlin
I dig those who shout it loud and proud Donnie!
77 - Martin Lav
A list with no NEIL YOUNG is not a list.
Cummon.....
1. Neil Young
2. Beatles
3. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
4. The Who
5. The Ramones
78 - Dave
1 - TOOL
2 - Inner Surge
3 - Nirvana
4 - Smashing Pumpkins
5 - Rage against the Machine
79 - SteveS
1) White Lion
2) Black Sabbath (with Ronny James Dio) tied with Dio's solo career
3) Led Zeppelin
4) David Arkenstone
5) George Michael
80 - bobby
#1. Led Zeppelin (no contest) #2. The Beatles #3. Pink Floyd #4. The Who #5. The Stones
81 - Stephen
Oh Wow Tough Question UMM I gotta go with:
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Wolfmother
BEatles
U2
Jimi Hendrix
AAAAAAHHHHHH But theres much more ACDC Fall Out Boy Led Zepplin Cant DEcide
82 - Kartiste
Over the years there have been many bands I liked; and many, many songs I liked. But when it comes to naming "all-time favorites", I apply a different screen. It's not just whether I put them at the top of the quality heap, but rather, did they transform my life? By that measure, there are really only four. In chronological order:
1. Otis Redding
2. Beatles
3. Little Feat
4. Talking Heads
And if I were to compare the transcendent power of these four, there's really just one worth mentioning, and that is, of course, The Beatles. They seem to be on most everyone's list, regardless of their age. No other band in the history of recorded music has ... well, there's no profundity I could put here that hasn't already been articulated better by someone else. I'll just say this, with respect to my own life: For no other band would I travel, 47 years after the fact as I did, to the place where the band was formed, walk the same sidewalks, under the same sky, and find it meaningful. Those who have been introduced to their music in latter years, even those who are now big fans, cannot appreciate the scale of their impact upon young people (who are now old people). Nothing - NOTHING - compares to it. They may as well have been from another planet, so different was their sound from what went before. Today, of course, one hears the Beatles against the backdrop of ten thousand other bands who themselves were influenced by the Beatles. If ever another band comes along that can repeat what the Beatles did - and, like fusion power, it is at least theoretically possible - count yourself blessed if you get to experience it.
83 - JohnO
The Grateful Dead
Little Feat (Lowell George era especially)
The Clash
Uncle Tupelo (Wilco & Son Volt too)
Eric Clapton (pre 1974)
This is way too difficult! Any list without Bob Marley, John Mayall, John Coltrane, Theolonious Monk, Bob Dylan, Merle Haggard, Charles Mingus, Duane Allman, John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Mark Sandman and too many more to name is hardly a list at all.
84 - ok
Led Zeppelin
RHCP
Bob Marley
any Clapton
Hendrix Experience
85 - CQ
I know this is more than five but these seven I think are in a class of there own above everything else. I'm sure this list will change over time. I'm a 19 year old guy if you were wondering.
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyed
Jimi Hendrix
Steely Dan
Rage Against the Machine
Radiohead
Almost make it: Beck, The Verve, The White Stripes
Nick Drake, Frank Zappa, Kings of Leon
86 - Eve
The Beatles
Jonas Brothers
Switchfoot
Coldplay
Pink Floyd... and much more :D
87 - imane swetty in facebook
a-one the best a1
88 - Rod Bowles
Jimi Hendrix "are you experienced"
Pink Floyd "Meddle"
Leslie West - Mountain "Flowers of Evil"
Allman Brothers Band "Live at the Fillmore East"
Jeff Beck "the Jeff Beck Group"
89 - Richard Wang
1.Dragonforce
2.Mayhem
3.Diablo Swing Orchestra
4.Kalmah
5.Mystic Forest
All of you are tools and slaves to the mainstream.
90 - haightsyou
Oingo Boingo
Misfits
The Animals
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
The Shins