Top 5 Bands

Andy A 007

What are your top 5 favorite bands of all time?

Here's my list:

1.Pink Floyd

2.Queen

3.Led Zeppelin

4.The Rolling Stones

5.The Doors

Loeffelholz

That's a damned good list as far as I'm concerned, Andy. Five is such a small number...I'd have to figure out who to bump to #6 and #7 in order to make way for the Beatles and the Who...

I have a few regional (Midwestern U.S.A.) favourites from my schoolboy days that would be up there, as well: Cheap Trick, R.E.O. Speedwagon, Styx...

Actually, twenty is too small a number! B-)

Ravenstone

1. Queen
2. Ultravox
3. Roxy Music
4. Meatloaf
5. Thin Lizzy

Ooo, but then there's Rainbow, Deep Purple, and Motley Crue.....

Andy A 007

Loeffelholz wrote:

That's a damned good list as far as I'm concerned, Andy. Five is such a small number...I'd have to figure out who to bump to #6 and #7 in order to make way for the Beatles and the Who...

I have a few regional (Midwestern U.S.A.) favourites from my schoolboy days that would be up there, as well: Cheap Trick, R.E.O. Speedwagon, Styx...

Actually, twenty is too small a number! B-)

Thanks Loeffelholz. And yes, 5 is far too small a number. Thats kind of the idea. The challenge of narrowing your favorite bands down to 5 is half the fun! I know I really had to think to narrow mine down. There were quite a few bands that barely missed being on my list, such as David Bowie, Gorillaz, Van Halen, Simon & Garfunkel, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and the Ramones.

Barry Nelson

A lot of bands picked with a lot of dead guys.

Here is mine, at least for today.

1 - J Geils Band
2 - AC/DC
3 - Fleetwood Mac
4 - The Who
5 - The Pretenders

I actually had hard time naming 5, because I couldn't think of 5 that were deserving. A more current band I enjoy is The Killers.

Monique

1) Zeppelin
2) The Who
3) Steely Dan
4) Journey
5) The Eagles

Edit: Oh Man, Barry I just saw your list...I agree about J. Geils and Fleetwood Mac! Good choices!

Alex

Impossible to pick 5 but will give it a shot.

The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
Judas Priest

Too late to add The Animals, CCR, Kiss, and the Mamas and the Papas? :007)

Loeffelholz

Alex wrote:

Too late to add The Animals, CCR, Kiss, and the Mamas and the Papas? :007)

That's what I'm saying. If the limit is five...I've got some thinking to do

Lexi

well mine are a bit if a mix

1. Keane...(yes, sorry...)
2. Snow Patrol.
3. U2
4. Duran Duran
5. Cold Play.

Edit: oooh, I missed Dire Straits....why? Oh why? I might have to shoehorn Duran Duran for that....(although DD were my complete soundtrack to my teenage years....)

well...I'll keep the list as it is...but DS are hidden sneakily behind DD

Jamesbondjr

1- The Ramones
2- Greenday
3- Dire Straights
4- Metallica
5- Bon Jovi

Monique

Alex wrote:

Impossible to pick 5 but will give it a shot.

The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
Judas Priest

Too late to add The Animals, CCR, Kiss, and the Mamas and the Papas? :007)

Alex, I thought for sure you would put Jethro Tull!

Lady Rose

Lexi wrote:

I might have to shoehorn Duran Duran for that....(although DD were my complete soundtrack to my teenage years....)

Nooooooooooooooo ... you have to leave Duran Duran.I too spent my entire teenage life dreaming that I was going to marry John Taylor. Obviously all he had to do was take one look at me and he'd have been hooked .... my problem was getting him to take a look at me )

Barry Nelson

Monique wrote:

Edit: Oh Man, Barry I just saw your list...I agree about J. Geils and Fleetwood Mac! Good choices!

Thanks Mo, what I like depends on my mood, I can listen to Sinatra one day and AC/DC the next. You had a good list too, although I am not big on Steely Dan. I like early Zeppelin (they almost made my list), but some of their later stuff, I didn't care for.

Alex

Monique wrote:

Alex, I thought for sure you would put Jethro Tull!

How could I forget the greatest Progressive rock group of all time? They're going on my list immediately! -{

Along with, ELO, Frampton, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, Duran Duran, Steppenwolf, Heart, Allman Brothers, Kinks .......... )

Impossible to chose! :007)

Sir Miles

Alex wrote:

Impossible to chose! :007)

Certainly is...so I'll go with....

1) The Beatles
2) The Beatles
3) The Beatles
4) The Beatles
5) The Beatles

...hope I didn't leave anyone out there

Andy A 007

Alex wrote:

Impossible to pick 5 but will give it a shot.

The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
Judas Priest

Too late to add The Animals, CCR, Kiss, and the Mamas and the Papas? :007)

Great list Alex! And like I said before, yeah it is nearly impossible to pick 5. That's the challenge of this thread.

Alex

Thanks, Andy. You've got a pretty legendary list yourself. -{

Krassno Granitski

Aerosmith

Led Zeppelin
AC/DC
Metallica
The Who

Other favorite include
Black Sabbath
Judas Priest
Rush
Def Leppard 1979-1982
Guns n' Roses
Fleetwood Mac
Van Halen
The Rolling Stones