Fave Bands Of All Time - Top 20

[chonabot]

Must be Friday afternoon , and it's raining in Newbury.......

Well we've had a lot of favourite songs of most genre's , don't think we have had a favourite band topic , if we have , tough!

Chonabot's top twenty bands of all time

1. Led Zeppelin - simply in a class of their own ,listen to Lemon song and disagree.

2. The Black Crowes - the New Zep?

3. Rolling Stones - just too many great tracks.

4. Rush - Outstanding music and even better lyrics

5. Hendrix - well the man was a band in his own right

6. Fun loving Criminals - Fantastic hip hop meets Santana

7. UFO - NWOBHM at its best

8. Chilli Peppers - Early stuff is still sublime

9. Floyd - superb collection of concept albums

10. Fleetwood Mac - when Peter Green was still God

11. Cream - First real supergroup

12. Beatles - can't be ignored , classic pop and ballads

13. Skynyrd - Redneck heroes

14. Police - fantastic musicians

15. Jeff Buckley - Created the most important album for 10 years

16. Van Halen - Guitar genius

17. ZZ Top - much more than sharp dressed men

18. Pearl Jam - sh1t all over Nirvana

19. Dylan - legend

20. Tom Petty - American classics

Looking at the above list makes me look and feel like and old fart , still in my 30's though. I have all types of music in my collection but my favourites are guitar based on the whole. Any views on my collection? Lets see yours.

Mods please fell free to move this as it's probably in the wrong section.

[Curt]

I'd include Tower of Power in there for a little soul.

[wolf5370]

Mixed bag...

1. Iron Maiden (especially with Dicky baby)

2. Aerosmith

3. Human League

4. Elton John

5. Queen

6. Kiss

7. Dire Straights

8. Pink Floyd

9. Guns & Roses

10. Deep Purple

11. Madness

12. UB40

13. Meatloaf

14. Bryan Adams

15. Little Angels

16. Lead Zepplin

17. White Snake

18. Slaughter

19. Winger

20. Def Leopard/Magadeth/Metalica/Yes/most heavy rock bandsMostly Rock Bands, with some lighter stuff in there too. Few overlaps with your too.

[britmaveric]

Britmaveric's Top 20 Bands of ALL Time - No Particular Order

1. Chillipeppers

2. New Order

3. Depeche Mode

4. Oasis

5. ColdPlay

6. Prodigy

7. Garbage

8. U2

9. Rolling Stones

10. Aerosmith

11. Pulp

12. Sneaker Pimps

13. No Doubt

14. Bush

15. Nirvana

16. Pearl Jam

17. Nine Inch Nails

18. Clash

19. Beattles

20. Radiohead

[Padkapow Guy]

If Padkapow guy was spinning the hits, it would have to be like this.

1. Lynyrd Skynyrd

2. Led Zeppelin

3. Van halen

4. ZZ top

5. Molly hatchet

6. Motley Crue

7. Def Leopard

8. Guns & Roses

9. Bob Seager

10. Aerosmith

11. Stones

12. Cars

13. CCR

14. Hendrix

15. White snake

16. Clash

17. U-2

18. Beetles

19. Elvis

20. Lynyrd Sknyrd

PKG

[Neeranam]

What about some of the punk/70/80's bands

Pistols, Clash, Joy Division, Lurkers, Jam, Stranglers, Ramones, Damned, Undertones, SLF, Adverts, etc etc

[britmaveric]

Clash is on me list!!!

[chonabot]

C'mon Neeranam you could add a few more to make up to 20 dude!

Excellent list so far ( spesh Zep) keep em comin guys.

Zep facts - never released a single in the UK.

Zep 4 sold 70 million units in US alone.

total Album sales over 200 million ( 10 albums )

One of only 4 artists ever to sell over 10 million units on 4 seperate album releases.

Edited August 26, 2005 by chonabot

[TRIPxCORE]

Lots of good picks so far. My list, in no order, is a little heavier but here goes:

1. Metallica

2. Dream Theater

3. Fear Factory

4. Coldplay

5. Pink Floyd

6. Chimaira

7. U2

8. Red Hot Chilis

9. Steve Vai

10. Joe Satriani

11. Al Di Meola

12. Dave Matthews Band

13. AC/DC

14. Hendrix

15. Type O Negative

16. Theivery Corporation

17. Slayer

18. Sade

19. Pantera

20. ME! I play guitar, bass & drums and make my own CDs

[Ice Maiden]

TRIPxCORE - The only song I've heard by Type O Negative was "Don't wanna be me" great song.

1. Nirvana

2. Foo Fighters

3. Blondie

4. Catatonia

5. Manic Street Preachers

6. The Verve

7. Queen

8. Violent Delight

9. R.E.M

10. Green Day

11. Chemical Brothers

And thats all I can come up with so far, I'll edit later. No particular order btw.

[Rj 81]

Hmmmm.........

1, The Beatles

2, Oasis

3, Stereophonics

4, Prodigy

5, Charlatons

6, The Coral

7, The Zutons

8, Badly drawn boy

9, U2

10, Red Hot Chilli Peppers

11, UB40

12, Rolling Stones

13, can't think of anymore

14, can't be bothered going upstairs to look at my CD collecion

[thaidinnotts]

1. UFO

2 Pink Floyd.

3 Black Sabbath.

4 Rush.

5 Judas Priest.

6 Led Zeppelin.

7 Montrose.

8 AC/DC

9 Van Halen

10 Whitesnake

11 Guns n Roses

12 Thunder

13 Saxon

14 Rainbow

15 Metallica

16 Lynyrd Skynyrd

17 Iron Maiden

18 Molly Hatchet.

19 Scorpions.

20 The Carpenters.

[lampard10]

1-20

Moody Blues

Barclay James Harvest

Genesis

Jefferson Aeroplane

Cream

Yardbirds

Hawkwind

Deep Purple

Led Zeppelin

Black Sabbath

Scorpions

Tangerine Dream

Fleetwood Mac

Steeleye Span

Pet Shop Boys

Duran Duran

Beatles

Stones

Earth & Fire(Dutch group)

Simon & Garfunkle

Meatloaf

AC/DC

Uriah Heep

No particular order, & no disco stuff. Too old for that. More than 20 as well.

[Jai Dee]

Steeleye Span

All Around My Hat - the album... I'd forgotten how good that band was!

Cheers Lampard.

[taxexile]

1 pink floyd

2 the who

3 led zep

4 neil young with crazy horse

5 frank zappa (any of his bands)

6 cream

7 zz top

8 bob dylan

9 little feat

10 jeff beck

11 steve vai

12 jj cale

13 beatles

14 grateful dead

15 ry cooder

16 bert jansch

17 traffic

18 iggy pop

19 captain beefheart.

20 the clash

[kelv23]

No particular order but here goes

1 Beastie Boys

2 Slayer

3 System of a Down

4 Aphex Twin

5 Hardfloor

6 Bob Dylan

7 Beck

8 Coldplay

9 Foo Fighters

10 Faith No More

11 Cypress Hill

12 Jimi Hendrix

13 Nirvana

14 Nine Inch Nails

15 Oasis

16 Radiohead

17 Pink Floyd

18 AC/DC

19 The Prodigy

20 RHCP

Top 5 Most Hated " musicians " of all time

1 Robbie Williams

2 Elton John

3 2 Unlimited

4 Pet Shop Boys

5 80/90's poodle haired " Rock " bands

sorry if I've offended anyones taste ,actually no I'm not sorry

[lampard10]

1-20

Moody Blues

Barclay James Harvest

Genesis

Jefferson Aeroplane

Cream

Yardbirds

Hawkwind

Deep Purple

Led Zeppelin

Black Sabbath

Scorpions

Tangerine Dream

Fleetwood Mac

Steeleye Span

Pet Shop Boys

Duran Duran

Beatles

Stones

Earth & Fire(Dutch group)

Simon & Garfunkle

Meatloaf

AC/DC

Uriah Heep

No particular order, & no disco stuff. Too old for that. More than 20 as well.

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Jeez!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've forgotten Pink Floyd

And Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and John Mayalls Bluesbreakers.

Edited August 27, 2005 by lampard10

[taxexile]

and John Mayalls Bluesbreakers

well said ,

better stick them on my list too.

[andyfletch]

Nice one taxexile - you've managed to add one that the others haven't - The Who,

How about a few more:

1) Talking Heads

2) Jethro Tull

3)Elvis Costello

4) Ian Dury and the Blockheads

5) Wishbone Ash

6) Gillan

7) Rainbow

8) Michael Schenker

9) Hawkwind

10) Blackfoot

There's only 10 there, but the rest has already been said. Seems to be a general consensus that musically TV is not into much after the end of the 80's !!!!!!

[cdnvic]

Only the first half dozen are in order.....

1. Red Rider

2. Rush

3. Deep Purple

4. Led Zeppelin

5. Blue Oyster Cult

6. Neil Young & any of his groups.

7. Triumph

8. Chilliwack

9. Kansas

10. Split Enz

11. Boston

12. Fleetwood Mac

13. The Moody Blues

14. The Hollies

15. Thin Lizzy

16. Pink Floyd

17. REM

18. Blondie

19. U2

20. Dire Straits

cv

[Tornado]

no particular order.

Kiss

Black Crowes

Extreme

AC/DC

Foreigner

Bad Company

Whitesnake

Def Leppard

Queen

Foo Fighters

Match Box 20

Led Zepplin

The Jam

Van Halen

Cold Chisel

Guns'n'Roses

Pink Floyd

The Clash

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[Jockstar]

Heres my list. Again in no particular order. The music i have on my PC is varied. But heres a;ist for now

1. The Beatles

2. The Rolling Stones

3. The Who

4. Oasis

5. The Prodigy

6. Prince( his early stuff)

7. Santana

8. The Jam

9. The Charlatans

10. Guns and Roses

11. The Stone Roses

12. The Happy Mondays

13. Bob Dylan

14. Paul Weller

15. The Strokes

16. The Verve

17. Cream

18. Red Hot Chilli Peppers

19. The Doors

20. Van Morrisson

And the list goes on... There is many i havent listed as i have so many great bands that i like.

[Tornado]

No Proclaimers on your list Jock?

[jayenram]

OK, I've got bugger all else to do whilst they fit the windows:

As usual, no order (but only bands)

Van Morrison (and the Caledonia Soul Orchestra).

Cream

Pink Floyd

Fairport Convention

Ten Years After

Colosseum (preferably with Farlow)

Blood Sweat & Tears (preferable with D.C.T.)

Beatles (from Sgt. Pepper onwards)

The Who

Santana

Fleetword Mac (anytime between the startup and Stevie Niks' departure)

The Strawbs

Vanilla Fudge

Clannad

The Chieftains

The Kinks

Uriah Heep

Yes

Jethro Tull

John Mayall's Bluebreakers (before "Laurel Canyon")

And a few others who didn't quite make my top twenty:

Rolling Stones (don't know why not)

Meat Loaf

King Crimson

Edgar Broughton Band

Chicken Shack

Steve Miller Band

Love

Jefferson Airplane (they should be in the top 20 if only for "White Rabbit")

Blodwyn Pig

Captain Beefheart

Amen Corner

Mott the Hoople

Dire Straits

Graham Bond Organisation

Hawkwind

Black Sabbath

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

Procul Harem

Traffic

I did like a few of the "Motown" bands of the sixties also.

[cdnvic]

Can't believe I missed Jethro Tull and ELO. And the Moody Blues..... damm you Chon, you get me going like this everytime you start one of these.

cv

[The Dude]

Must be Friday afternoon , and it's raining in Newbury.......

Well we've had a lot of favourite songs of most genre's , don't think we have had a favourite band topic , if we have , tough!

Chonabot's top twenty bands of all time

1. Led Zeppelin - simply in a class of their own ,listen to Lemon song and disagree.

2. The Black Crowes - the New Zep?

3. Rolling Stones - just too many great tracks.

4. Rush - Outstanding music and even better lyrics

5. Hendrix - well the man was a band in his own right

6. Fun loving Criminals - Fantastic hip hop meets Santana

7. UFO - NWOBHM at its best

8. Chilli Peppers - Early stuff is still sublime

9. Floyd - superb collection of concept albums

10. Fleetwood Mac - when Peter Green was still God

11. Cream - First real supergroup

12. Beatles - can't be ignored , classic pop and ballads

13. Skynyrd - Redneck  heroes

14. Police - fantastic musicians

15. Jeff Buckley - Created the most important album for 10 years

16. Van Halen - Guitar genius

17. ZZ Top - much more than sharp dressed men

18. Pearl Jam - sh1t all over Nirvana

19. Dylan - legend

20. Tom Petty - American classics

Looking at the above list makes me look and feel like and old fart , still in my 30's though. I have all types of music in my collection but my favourites are guitar based on the whole. Any views on my collection? Lets see yours.

Mods please fell free to move this as it's probably in the wrong section.

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The dude ranks the Lemon Song very very high on his list of favorite tunes. This tune must be played on high volume to be truly enjoyed. I will go along with the following bands in your list. in no particular order

1. Zep (Lemon, Babe I'm gonna Leave You, That's the Way, Tangerine, Stairway, Custard Pie, etc)

2. Stones ('64-'76) Satisfaction to Memory Motel. You can throw in "Some Girls" and Emotional Rescue and even a few tracks on Tattoo You but after that it was straight downhill

3. Skynyrd We have total agreement on this one. Nothing short of greatness

4. Petty....No agreement on this being near top but '78-'81 was good material. After that was a downer. ###### the Torpedos was Petty's peak. Hard Promises ('81) was ok follow up

5. Cream very solid but not around long enough to make it in top 20

6. Van Halen not in list or close Great 1st album. abrupt decline thereafter ('78 1st LP self titled)

7. Dylan can make my list anytime even if only for his outstanding songwriting

8. ZZ Top was a great rockin' Band from Texas in the 70s. Fandango is a great showcase of how powerful they were live (Tush, Mexican Blackbird etc). Doesn't make a top 20 though. They really hit rock bottom selling out to comerciality with advent of MTV in the early 80s. Legs just don't cut it

9. Police.....Sorry, not close. short lived as Sting went solo. had some poppy hits that were "ok"

10. Beatles....Absolutely deserving of any top list

11. Jeff Buckley....who?

12. Floyd.......shoe-in

13. Rush.....I'll put em there. great 3 man band with awesome material

14. Pearl Jam....No Sorry. no can do

15. Fleetwood Mac. Up for consideration

16. Hendrix....sure, why not?

17. Chili Peppers.....Not a chance, sorry..worst on list so far

18. UFO .....Didn't think they had that much material. this is a top 20 all time list. while not that familiar, I don't think they make such an exclusive list. Lights Out is great song

19. Black Crowes....top 20? no sorry

20. Fun Loving Crims....who?

My Adds

1. Beach Boys ('62-'71)

2. Supertramp ('73-'83)

3. Doors ('67-'71)

4. Rascals ('65-'69)

5. Raspberries ('71-'74)

6. Bread (69-'74)

7. Marshall Tucker Band ('73-'80)

8. Stylistics

9. Chicago .....not possible to leave these dudes out

10. Allman Bros ...worthy I think

11. Black Sabbath.....I mean come on man

12. Bob Seger.....absolutely

13. Crosby, Stills, Nash Young and any and all pieces surely

14. Doobies

15. Eagles

16. earth Wind and Fire

17. Clapton (inc Cream, derrick dominoes etc)

18. Elton John

19. Elvis

20. Tull, Moodys, Simon & G, 3 dog night, Rod Stewart, Guess Who, The Who, Steve Miller

Good Thread, good choices

[chonabot]

Great lists so far , btw The Dude , Jeff Buckley was a Dude too , check out the Grace LP, rated by many as THE album of the 90's.Thanks for your ctitique as well sir.it is nice to see a lot of peeps having Zep in there , with a few choices I might have had in or near my top 20 . can't believe I missed The Who. A few choices I wouldn't have in my top 100 but that's music fols!

Keep 'em coming!

[kat]

Must be Friday afternoon , and it's raining in Newbury.......

Well we've had a lot of favourite songs of most genre's , don't think we have had a favourite band topic , if we have , tough!

Chonabot's top twenty bands of all time

18. Pearl Jam - sh1t all over Nirvana

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Whoa, What!!!

Britmaveric's Top 20 Bands of ALL Time - No Particular Order 

1. Chillipeppers

2. New Order

3. Depeche Mode

4. Oasis

5. ColdPlay

6. Prodigy

7. Garbage

8. U2

9. Rolling Stones

10. Aerosmith

11. Pulp

12. Sneaker Pimps

13. No Doubt

14. Bush

15. Nirvana

16. Pearl Jam

17. Nine Inch Nails

18. Clash

19. Beattles

20. Radiohead

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

We have similar tastes. However I can't get into lists of these kind anymore because I find them addictive, overwhelming, and all encompassing.

Maybe I'll post later.

[jayenram]

7. Dylan can make my list anytime even if only for his outstanding songwriting

16. Hendrix....sure, why not?

19. Elvis

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

If we were talking solo artists, Dylan would have definitely been top of my list, but we weren't. Hendrix and Elvis would also be there along with S & G but I don't consider them bands as such. I'd also put Leonard Cohen in as a solo artist. And probably many more.

[chonabot]

Hendrix would make it into band genre as he was with The Experience and The Band of Gypsies.

Without the likes of Mitch Mitchell, Buddy Miles, Noel Redding et al , I doubt those tracks would have swung quite so well. As a lead guitarist myself I never underestimate the influence of a great Rythym section.

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