Your Top 5 Bands

Post by **Worm of Despite** » Fri Dec 19, 2003 4:46 pm

Since someone bumped this thread, I'll update my list. Lotsa changes, I see, since last I checked.

1. The Beatles (Abbey Road, White Album, Sgt. Peppers, Magical Mystery Tour, Revolver, Rubber Soul)

2. King Crimson (Red, In the Court of the Crimson King, Discipline, Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Three of a Perfect Pair, The Power to Believe)

3. Procol Harum (Procol Harum, Shine On Brightly, A Salty Dog, Home, Broken Barricades, Grand Hotel)

4. Pink Floyd (Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall, The Dark Side of the Moon, Meddle, The Division Bell)

5. Led Zeppelin (Houses of the Holy, Physical Graffiti, Untitled, Led Zeppelin)

Post by **Brinn** » Fri Dec 19, 2003 5:26 pm

U2, Beatles, Smashing Pumpkins, REM, Grant Lee Buffalo in no particular order.

Post by **aTOMiC** » Fri Dec 19, 2003 6:24 pm

RUSH-NEW WORLD MAN, XTC-GENERALS & MAJORS, THE CARS-PANORAMA, FOGHAT-STONE BLUE, RAMONES-SEDATED

Post by **dANdeLION** » Fri Dec 19, 2003 6:40 pm

Sorry, I cannot limit to less than 10. But I will limit myself to best albums, as opposed to songs.

1. Rush: (Hemisperes, A Farewell To Kings, Moving Pictures, Permanent Waves)

2. Beatles: (Sgt. Peppers, Abbey Road, White Album, Revolver)

3. Pink Floyd: (Dark Side, Atom Heart Mother, Wall, Wish U Were Here, Animals, UmmaGumma)

4. Steely Dan: (Aja, Pretzel Logic)

5. Led Zeppelin: (Presence, Physical Grafitti, In thru the Out Door)

6. Spinal Tap: (S/T, Break Like the Wind)

7. U2: (Boy, October, War, Unforgettable Fire, Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby, All that You can't Leave Behind)

8. Genesis: (Selling England By the Pound, Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, Foxtrot, Nursery Cryme, Tresspass)

9. Police: (All five albums)

10. The Who: (Who's Next, Quadrophenia)

Post by **Lord Mhoram** » Fri Dec 19, 2003 8:23 pm

The Doors, Waiting For the Sun, Light My Fire, Hello, I Love You, LA Woman, Roadhouse Blues, Break On Through, Moonlight Drive, Maggie McGill, Riders On the Storm, The End, Gloria, People Are Strange, Love Me Two Times, Touch Me, The Crystal Ship, Peace Frog, When the Music's Over, Not To Touch the Earth, The Wasp, Love Her Madly, Celebration of the Lizard

Smashing Pumpkins, Today, Thru The Eyes of Ruby, Bullet with Butterfly Wings, God, Mouths of Babes, Zero, Cherub Rock, Mayonaise, Soma, Hummer, Tonight, Tonight, 1979, Disarm, Drown

Nirvana, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Love Buzz, You Know You're Right, Been A Son, Come As You Are, The Man Who Sold the World [cover], Milk It, Serve the Servants

Pearl Jam, Jeremy, Once, Black, Blood, Untitled, All Those Yesterdays, Spin the Black Circle, Betterman, Nothingman, U, Down

Stone Temple Pilots, Sour Girl, Down, Interstate Love Song, Meat Plow, Trippin On a Hole in a Paper Heart, Plush, Sex Type Thing, Creep, Big Empty, Vasoline

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Fri Dec 19, 2003 11:26 pm

Hey, this is by far the closest I've ever come to the asked-for number!!

Beatles
Abbey Road; White Album; Let It Be; Revolver; Sgt Peppers

Bruce Springsteen
Greetings From Asbury Park; The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle; Born to Run

Cat Stevens
Mona Bone Jakon; Tea for the Tillerman; Teaser and the Firecat; Catch Bull at Four; Buddha and the Chocolate Box

Elton John
Self-titled; Madman Across the Water; Empty Sky; Goodbye Yellowbrick Road

Peter Gabriel
First 4 untitled (though the 4th had the "disposable" title of Security); So

Steely Dan
Can't Buy a Thrill; Countdown to Ecstasy; Pretzel Logic; Aja; Katy Lied; Royal Scam

And more by each...

Post by **matrixman** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 8:58 am

Post by **Loredoctor** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 9:55 am

Depeche Mode: Violator

New Order: Best Of

Ministry: Land of Rape and Honey

TISM: WWW.TISM.Wanker.com

Joy Division: Permanent

Post by **CovenantJr** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 11:47 am

Anyone here seen High Fidelity?

Well, anyway...

No contest for the top spot:

1) Bad Religion -- album: Stranger Than Fiction -- song: Anaesthesia

The rest are trickier, and liable to change on a daily basis. Seriously...

2) NOFX -- album: Ribbed -- song: Nowhere

3) Nightwish -- album: Wishmaster -- song: Wishmaster

4) Opeth -- album: Blackwater Park -- song: The Drapery Falls

5) No Comply -- album: Your Life Is Your Direction -- song: Falling From Crosses

Post by **[Syl]** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 4:04 pm

Not on my list, but Stranger Than Fiction was a great album. Not a bad song on it.

1. Tool (Sober, 46 & 2, Lateralus, Schism, Aenima, Opiate, Sweat, Eulogy, Flood)
2. A Perfect Circle (Sleeping Beauty, Magdalena, The Noose, The Nurse Who Saved Me)
3. Alice in Chains (Angry Chair, Brother, Sickman, Grind, Sludge, Dam That River, God Am, Shame in You, Rotten Apple, Nutshell)
4. Queens of the Stone Age (If Only, I Was a Teenage Handmodel, No One Knows, Hanging Tree, Mosquito Song, Give the Mule What It Wants)
5. Dredg (Lechium, Movement I, Movement II, Movement III, Traversing Through the Arctic Cold, Penguins in the Desert)
5. Failure (Saturday Savior, The Nurse Who Loved Me, Another Space Song, Comfort, Frogs, Pitiful)
5. Nine Inch Nails (Ringfinger, Eraser (polite version), Wish, Sanctified, Something I Can Never Have, The Becoming)

Post by **danlo** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 4:58 pm

Neil Young: Everybody Knows this is Nowhere-Cinnamon Girl, Everybody Knows this is Nowhere, Down by the River, Cowgirl in the Sand, Southern Man, Alabama, Ohio, Change Your Mind, Cortez the Killer, Powderfinger, Slip Away, Comes a Time, Welfare Mothers, The Loner, The Needle and the Damage Done, Time Fades Away, No-Wave, Like a Hurricane, Thrasher, Helpless.

Yes: Yessongs-Heart of the Sunrise, Relayer, Yours is No Disgrace, Close to the Edge, The Revealing Science of God, Lift Me Up, Owner of a Lonely Heart, Long Distance Runaround, Roundabout, Your Move, All Good People, Perpetual Change, Siberian Khatru.

Soundgarden: SuperUnknown-My Wave, Blackhole Sun, Spoonman, Feeling Minnesota, Fell on Black Days, Blow up the Outside World, Rusty Cage, SuperUnknown. Fresh Tendrils

Bush: Sixteen Stone-Everything Zen, Little Things, Comedown, Glycerine, Machine Head, Chemicals Between Us, Swim, Greedy Fly, Testosterone.

Everything by Tool, Alice in Chains and Pink Floyd!--fave Tool song: Undertow (recorded live in Australia)--fave PF Album: The Final Cut, 5 fav AinC songs: Man in the Box, I Stay Away, Would, Down in a Hole, Angry Chair.

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 11:31 pm

I was waiting for you guys to show up and mention Tool.

I still haven't ever heard them, afaik.

Post by **Landwaster** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 11:39 pm

Wang Chung
TISM
Died Pretty
Rainmakers
hmm struggling to think of a #5,
From AC/DC, Hunters & Collectors, ZZ Top ... hmmm

Post by **Damelon** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 11:42 pm

Beatles

REM

Styx

ELO

Doobie Brothers

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 11:46 pm

Ah, I LOVE Out of the Blue!! One of my top 10 albums!

Post by **theDespiser** » Tue Dec 23, 2003 2:14 am

Ozzy/Sabbath- all the original sab albums; Bark at the Moon, Diary of a Madman

Amon Amarth-Once Sent Through the Golden Hall, Avenger

Cradle of Filth-Dusk and Her Embrace

Misfits/Samhain/Danzig- Static Age, American Psycho/NovemberComingFire/Lucifuge, How the Gods Kill

Type O Negative-Bloody Kisses, Slow Deep and Hard, October Rust, World Coming Down, Life is Killing Me

My Dying Bride- Like Gods of the Sun, Angel and the Dark River

Napalm Death- Utopia Banished, Fear Emtpiness Despair

Post by **matrixman** » Tue Dec 23, 2003 4:22 am

Landwaster wrote:Wang Chung
TISM
Died Pretty
Rainmakers
hmm struggling to think of a #5,
From AC/DC, Hunters & Collectors, ZZ Top ... hmmm

Nice to know that Wang Chung hasn't been forgotten, Landwaster.

Post by **Landwaster** » Tue Dec 23, 2003 4:29 am

Always loved them, Matrixman

Post by **amanibhavam** » Sat Dec 27, 2003 12:19 am

Pink Floyd - every bleeding note they ever played

Dire Straits - Love Over Gold

Led Zeppelin - Two

John Mayall's Bluesbreakers

Police

Post by **matrixman** » Sat Dec 27, 2003 9:04 am

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