Your top 10 favorite bands/artists

[JakeK]

We're on this forum for two reasons. One is because we're Rickenbacker fans, and we love the sight of them, and the second is because we're music fans. All music fans have favorite bands/artists. Who are your top 10 favorite bands/artists? You do not have to list reasons, but I'm curious to know who you guys enjoy so if there's an artist or band I do not know of, I can discover new music every day.

My top 10 favorite bands/artists:

1. Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
2. The Rolling Stones
3. The Beatles
4. The Byrds
5. The Who
6. The Bangles
7. Bob Dylan
8. The Eagles
9. Eric Clapton
10. Neil Young

[nattiep]

Hmm, I have a lot of bands for my list, but I'll try to narrow it to 10.
01. Rush
02. Pink Floyd
03. The Beatles
04. Queensrÿche

No real order after this, cuz they change slots depending on my mood.
05. Mercyful Fate
06. King Diamond
07. Judas Priest
08. Iron Maiden
09. KISS
10. KT Tunstall

[jps]

Not in any particular order:

Renaissance
Yes
Genesis
Shadowfax
Joni Mitchell
Jaco Pastorius
Flim & The BBs
Gentle Giant
Pat Metheny
Wayne Johnson

[sloop_john_b]

Tastes change consantly. Fall/Winter '07 has been Dylan, Beatles, anything with Jeff Tweedy, The Felice Brothers, anything with Brian Wilson, Bright Eyes, Palestrina, Beethoven, Wagner, G. Gershwin.

[tmossman]

Teenage Fanclub
Superdrag
Cheap Trick
Smithereens
The Jam / Weller
Wilco / Tweedy
Sloan
Beatles
Replacements / Westerberg
Redd Kross

[kenposurf]

Beatles
Stones
The Blasters
Dick Dale
Byrds
Love
Jimi Hendrix
Beach Boys
Albert Collins
Andrea Bocelli

[scotty]

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

[wj350]

1. The Beatles

2-10 in no particular order:
Fleetwood Mac (with Buckingham/Nicks)
Sarah Brightman
Sarah McLachlan
Rolling Stones
Dido
Eagles
Brian Setzer
Four Tops
CTA (the original band with Kath and Cetera)

Very hard to answer honestly, except for #1. My tastes tend to run all over the place, linger for varying periods of time, and then off in another direction.

[firstbassman]

Well, there really isn't "ten" for me. There's three:

Jefferson Airplane (of course)
Hot Tuna
Grateful Dead

And then everybody else, including:

Beach Boys
Hendrix
Joplin (Janis, not Scott)
Simon and Garfunkel
Springsteen
Stones
Who

[woodyng]

looking at my record collection,band-wise,i would have to say....yes,genesis,beatles,cheap trick,aimee mann,toad the wet sprocket,xtc,steppenwolf,who,pretenders. with side orders of john mclaughlin,bill evans,and miles davis...sibelius,and mozart....brand x,cardigans....help i can't stop!

[phlemmy]

iron maiden
rolling stones
warlord
triumph
thin lizzy
motorhead
yngwie malmsteen
sacred rite
fates warning (john arch era)
obsession

[gibsonlp]

Sorted alphabetically:

Beach Boys
Beatles
Byrds
Kinks
Love
RockFour
Simon & Garfunkel
The Who
Yes
The Zombies

[sowhat]

If we take English-speaking acts only, right off the top of my head:
Dire Straits
Ramones
Simon & Garfunkel
Ventures
Beatallica
60s garage bands
Searchers/Swinging Blue Jeans
And some more.

[blueflamerick]

1. Descendents
2. Bad Religion
3. ALL
4. Mike Watt
5.Brian Setzer
6. Iron Maiden
7. Henry Rollins
8. Dinosaur Jr.
9. Aerosmith
10. Shades Apart

[rickenbrother]

No particular order:

• 1. Yes
  2. Rush
  3. Beatles
  4. Alice In Chains
  5. Porcupine Tree
  6. Deep Purple
  7. Black Sabbath
  8. Kings X
  9. Tool
  10. Pink Floyd

Really hard to narrow it down to just ten!