Name Your Ten Favorite Bands Ever (Not In Any Specific Order)

[judoka loca]

Pearl Jam
Arctic Monkeys
Queens of the Stone age
The Strokes
The Doors
White Stripes
Jimi Hendrix (both bands)
Led Zeppelin
Alice in Chains
Nirvana

Yes. For all of these.

 

[Amerikuracana]

Zepplin
DMB
Pantera
Beastie boys
Alice in chains
GNR
Fear factory
Mad season
Pink Floyd
Deftones/ministry/nin/early incubus/pearl jam/Prince w various groups/crash test dummies

 

[Medical Marijuana Man]

The doors
CCR
The who
Mamas and the papas
Guns n Rose's
Beatles
Jimi Hendrix experience
Led zeppelin
Pink floyd
The four tops

 

[Hyperglide]

Led Zeppelin

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Smashing Pumpkins

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Type O Negative

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Metallica

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Rammstein

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Ministry

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The Clash

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Filter

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Nine Inch Nails

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The Tea Party (Fave Canadian Band)

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[esum80]

alice in chains
nine inch nails
soundgarden
type o negative
guns n roses
parkway drive
the clash
stone temple pilots
metallica
deftones

 

[HaulParris]

Radiohead
Arctic Monkeys
U2
After The Burial
Amorphis
Hatebreed
Regina Spektor
Astrud Gilberto
GlassJaw
REM

 

[Post 2 Decision]

Amon Amarth
Dark Tranquillity
Alcest
Anaal Nathrakh
At The Gates
In Flames
Belphegor
Anata
Harakiri For The Sky
Omnium Gatherum


HM: Uada, Kalmah, Allegaeon, Mors Principium Est, Insomnium, Ashbringer, Orpheus Omega, System of a Down, Die Antwoord

 

[Psychedelic]

Sleep
Black Sabbath
Iron Maiden
Kyuss
Yann Tiersen
Savatage
Muse
Dead Can Dance
Windir
Electric Wizard

 

[Boomb]

Depeche Mode
Guns N Roses
Edge Of Sanity
Iron Maiden
Led Zeppelin
The Beatles
Emperor
Radiohead
The Smiths
The Doors

 

[Satanical Eve]

My top 10 of all time

1. Metallica
2. Thin Lizzy
3. Misfits/Samhain/Danzig*
4. The Doors
5. Pink Floyd
6. Death
7. Richard D. James aka Aphex Twin
8. Mastodon
9 Sleep/OM
10. Devin Townsend

*Danzig era Misfits and the first 4 Danzig albums

My top 10 bands of the past year based on how much I listened to each

1. Mastodon
2. OM
3. Truckfighters
4. Gojira
5. Sleep
6. Boards Of Canada
7. Joy Division
8. Aphex Twin
9. Kyuss
10. Earthless

My top 3 guitarists to influence my playing style

1. Chuck Schuldiner
2. David Gilmour
3. Frank Zappa

 

[Senzo Tanaka]

If I'm going all-time, I prefer to pick bands that are pretty much done with their career or have a big body of work. I have a lot of bands that will probably ultimately be all time favorites but I want to see where they go.

The Beatles
The Beach Boys
Pink Floyd
Nirvana
Nine Inch Nails
Joy Division
Mogwai
Pet Shop Boys
Rage Against the Machine
The Smiths

 

[Hotora86]

3 would be easy. 5 would be easy. 10 is hard but I'll try.

- The Beatles
- Queen
- Jamiroquai
- Black Sabbath
- DIO
- Elf
- RHCP
- Bonobo
- The Incredible Bongo Band
- George Harrison (solo work)

Honorable mentions (where I love some of their stuff):
- UFO (for Phenomenon)
- Rainbow (for the Dio years)
- Beastie Boys (for The Mix Up)
- Daft Punk (for Random Access Memories)
- Al Stewart (for Year of the Cat / Time Passages)
- Steely Dan (for Can't Buy a Thrill / Aja)
- Errol Garner (for Gershwin and Kern)
- Donovan (for his greatest hits)
- Scorpions (for the ballads)
- Aerosmith (for Dream On)

 

[Shadiata]

Can't really put them into an "order"

Metallica
Pantera
Black Sabbath
Alice in Chains
Sublime
SRV and Double Trouble (SRV probably my overall favorite musician)
Beastie Boys
Soundgarden
RATM
Credence