Your top 10 favorite bands/artists

[lennon211]

Beatles
Rolling Stones
Who
Yardbirds
Beach Boys
Dick Dale
Bob Dylan
Kinks
Booker T & the MG's
Monkees

That's it. I'd say that those are the top 10 for me.

[jimk]

Do I have to stick to rock/pop groups? OK here goes, I guess. In no particular order

The Beatles (of course)
The Byrds (naturally)
Tom Petty (as you certainly would have expected)
Roger McGuinn's solo stuff including his Folk Den Project (by now predictable)
C.S.& N. (ditto)
Chuck Berry
Les Fradkin
Starry Eyed And Laughing (an English band that was either too late, or too early to get in on the real jingle/jangle sound. But jangle they did!)
Pure Prairie League
Dick Betts (OK, so he plays a Gibson LP, but he's one of the few LP pickers IMHO who can make himself identifiable in just a half bar of music.)

Whew! That's 10. Had a hard time not slipping into folk music, country music, Western Swing, or bluegrass.

JimK

[jps]

I do not see any qualifiers. I was originally going to include The Cleveland Orchestra in my list!

[jwr2]

Rush
King Crimson
Yes
Pink Floyd
Who
Tull
Creed
3 Doors Down
Collective Soul
SRV
Hendrix
Zeplin

[captsandwich]

The Top 3:
The Clash
The Pixies
The Specials

The rest (subject to change, depending on my mood):
Gang of Four
Sonic Youth
Midnight Oil
Sex Pistols
Nirvana
The Jam
Stiff Little Fingers

[janglerocker]

Now that's a great list. I might pull Radiohead and Arctic Monkeys and replace 'em with The Pretenders and of course put XTC at the top of the list, but other than that, PERFECT.

In no order
The Jam
Small faces
The clash
The vapors
The Who
The Beatles
Arctic Monkeys
The Kinks
Radiohead
Secret Affair

[fatcat]

Most of my 10 has been covered already so I'll just add :
Storyville
Badlees
KDLang

[scotty]

Now that's a great list. I might pull Radiohead and Arctic Monkeys and replace 'em with The Pretenders and of course put XTC at the top of the list, but other than that, PERFECT.

Why thankyou.Ive not mentioned any Ska bands but i will again!

[dswp]

As of today and in no particular order

The Band
Band of Gypsies
Jeff Beck
Yes
Genesis
Rush
Radio Head
Cheap Trick
Smithereens
Mark Knopfler

[phlemmy]

i'm so glad i don't live with any of you people.

i'm sure the feeling is mutual.

[jimk]

I do not see any qualifiers. I was originally going to include The Cleveland Orchestra in my list!

Oh...well, shucks...here's another top 10

Jim Kweskin Jug Band
Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys (the 1946-48 line-up with Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs)
The New Lost City Ramblers
Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys
Jelly Roll Morton & the Hot Peppers
King Oliver's Creole Orchestra
Louis Armstrong's Hot 5
Benny Goodman Sextet
Gid Tanner & the Skillet Lickers (old-time country fiddle band)
Marley's Ghost
The Quintet of the Hot Club of France


OK, so that's 11.

[incubus2432]

In no particular order. A few are mainstays and some are in rotation.

Motorhead
Metallica
Black Sabbath
Iron Maiden
Green Day
KISS
Primus
Rammstein
Tool
Slayer

[rick_ovic]

In no particular order:-

Hendrix
SRV
Smithereens
Airway Lanes (iTunes "Single of the Week" in Australia this week!)
Pollyanna (Aussie power pop trio)
Deep Purple
The Who
Kiss
Jeff Buckley
Foo Fighters