Your Top 5 Favorite Bands

[Mr. Bob Dobolina]

1. The Beatles
2. The Rolling Stones
3. The Band
4. The Turtles
5. The Monkees

 

[architect]

Pink Floyd is and will always be my number one.

There are so many fantastic bands out there I don't think I could narrow it down. Here are some of my perennial favorites... my go-to's, if you will.


The Eagles
Rush
Fleetwood Mac
Brand X
Gong
Metallica
Slayer
Joe Satriani
Steely Dan
Joe Walsh
Neil Young
Kevin Ayers

 

[Abraxas]

The Flaming Lips
The Mars Volta
Steely Dan
The Moody Blues
King Crimson

 

[Nololob]

3.- Uriah Heep

 

[Lost Little Girl]

Sorry, I have to cheat as I have six:

The Beatles
Guns 'n Roses
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Oasis
The Doors

(No particular order )

Love to see these bands in so many other people's lists

 

[Fever]

Lynyrd Skynyrd
Van Halen
Led Zeppelin
Foreigner
Nantucket

 

[TrekkiELO]

1. Electric Light Orchestra/ELO Part II/Jeff Lynne
2. Genesis/Phil Collins
3. Buckner & Garcia
4. The Alan Parsons Project
5. Fleetwood Mac

 

[Riff Raff]

At the moment and for the long time my top 5 bands of all time is this. 3-5 have often rotated but in terms of impact on me as a person I have them lined up.

1. (Favourite band ever) AC/DC. Why? The consistent habit they have of making catchy memorable rock anthems even the lesser known material. Love their discography of both eras too. Loved this band since I was a little kid.

2. Megadeth. The band to get me into heavy metal properly. Another band to have a ton of memorable songs and riffs alone. Mustaine has had some awesome musicians by his side and has himself written some of the best in metal.

3. Metallica. A band with a lot of songs to help me through tough times and even in the happier times. Their 90s material has grown on me more. I still hate St Anger and Lulu but otherwise each project has had something I love. 80s albums speak for themselves but songs like The Unforgiven II speak out to me a lot too. Sentimental value for me this band.

4. Cannibal Corpse. When on a bad day this bands consistent ability to pick me up with its violent style of death metal is why I never tire of these guys.

5. Epica or Tarja Era Nightwish. Tied here because Epica and the Tarja era Nightwish both have music styles that appeal emotionally like I said about Metallica. Both set a nice atmosphere in their music and I enjoy both of them to the extent of being on the list.

Close behind are bands like Judas Priest, Morbid Angel, Pantera, Katatonia and Opeth.

 

[CREAM'd]

Changes on a regular basis but Bob Dylan would/will always be #1.
Bob Dylan.
The Beatles.
Neil Young.
The Moody Blues.
The Pentangle.

 

[Lynch]

Top 5 is really tough since it's mood-dependent (for me).

But today, I'll go with the following:

KISS
Dokken
Judas Priest
Dio
Scorpions