Your Top 5 Bands Ever (band, blues, player, Depeche Mode)

[At1WithNature]

1) The Beatles
2) Led Zeppelin
3) Rolling Stones
4) Jimi Hendrix
5) Pink Floyd

Just missed the cut:

Bob Marley and the Wailers
The Doors
Nirvana
Grateful Dead

[Six Foot Three]

Top 5

1.Ratt
2.Blondie
3.Rush
4.Depeche Mode
5.Information Society

[Irishtom29]

Elvis's first band---Scotty Moore, Bill Black and DJ Fontana.

Booker T and the MGs, they were the house band at Stax

The house band at Hi Records--- Howard Grimes and the Hodges Brothers

Muscle Shoals Sound house band----Roger Hawkins, Barry Beckett, David Hood and Jimmy Johnson.

Funk Brothers, the old house band at Motown.

[LaoTzuMindFu]

Rage Against the Machine
The Time
Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble
Led Zeppelin
Van Halen

[stepka]

Warren Zevon
Sonia Dada
Steely Dan
Cat Stevens
Talking Heads
more recently--Ollabelle

There are so many more, but these are the ones where I can truly listen to every one of their songs and love it. There's not many bands I can say that about.

[Mooseketeer]

It would vary with my moods so today's top 5 would be:

Capercaillie
U2 ( up to "Joshua Tree")
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Pink Floyd

Also :

The Clash
The Grateful Dead
Supertramp
The Cure
The Alarm
New Model Army
Cherish the Ladies
Fleetwood Mac
and a few other dozens...

[Jlyn5669]

The ones I love...

Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Heart
Fleetwood Mac
Metallica - Back in the day Metallica!

[square peg]

Bands

Kinks
Stones
Beatles
Steely Dan
CCR


Solo Artists

Bob Dylan
Neil Young
Todd Rundgren
Van Morrison
Warren Zevon

That was a whole lot easier than I thought it was going to be. Could be I'm a little tired this evening.


OK - 5 more bands that should be on the list: Just for good measure.

Led Zeppelin
Doors
Moody Blues
The Who
Beach Boys

[stepka]

Oops, I forgot about Ry Cooder and if I had to bump one I guess it would be Talking Heads. I love all of Ry's music.

[Irishtom29]

The Doors? They didn't even have a goddam bass player; what kind of lame band lacks a bass player?