I searched and could not find a straightforward thread in which people name their top ten/twenty favorite bands of all-time, so here it is.

My list:



1. Oasis



2. The Rolling Stones



3. Blur



4. Kings of Leon



5. Radiohead



6. The Kinks



7. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds



8. Pulp



9. The Smiths



10. Spiritualized

11. Arctic Monkeys
12. The Beatles
13. The Libertines (and Babyshambles)
14. The National
15. U2
16. Belle and Sebastian
17. Joy Division
18. R.E.M.
19. The Strokes
20. The Who

Nice list. Our musical taste overlaps a fair bit, even though we are mortal enemies.

The Kinks' run from their inception to the early seventies is perfection! A bit (a lot) more inconsistent from 1972 onward, but no bother.

If I went to twenty-five or thirty, I would definitely include Bauhaus, the Clash, Led Zeppelin, the White Stripes, maybe Gorillaz... But I am already exhausted from ordering the top twenty.

Ha. I thought it was strange you were so against the Kinks.

Ignoring solo acts,

1. Nightwish
2. Trans-Siberian Orchestra
3. Heart
4. After Forever / ReVamp
5. Queen
6. Epica
7. Led Zeppelin
8. Within Temptation
9. Evanescence
10. L'Arc-en-Ciel
11. Versailles
12. Electric Light Orchestra
13. Blondie
14. Therion
15. Dream Theater
16. AC/DC
17. Sonata Arctica
18. Guns N' Roses
19. Depeche Mode
20. Dixie Chicks

1. Led Zeppelin
2. Pantera
3. The Doors
4. Black Sabbath
5. AC/DC
6. The Rolling Stones
7. The Who
8. Metallica
9. Rage Against the Machine
10. Iron Maiden
11. Judas Priest
12. Anthrax
13. Slipknot
14. Foo Fighters
15. A Day to Remember
16. Weezer
17. Stone Temple Pilots
18. Volbeat
19. August Burns Red
20. Deftones

I can barely think of 20 bands.

**Reserved**

Let's see what I can do...

Foo Fighters
The Beatles
Nirvana
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Blink 182
AC/DC
Barenaked Ladies
Cary Brothers
Coldplay
The Darkness
The Hives
Dashboard Confessional
The Format
Green Day
Jimmy Eat World
Led Zeppelin
The Who
Linkin Park
Queen
Queens of the Stone Age
The Smiths
Weezer
The White Stripes
Oasis
The Killers

This is kinda why I'm afraid of posting a list, I'm inevitably gonna forget one of my faves too...

1. Creedence Clearwater Revival
2. Beatles
3. Led Zeppelin
4. The Smiths
5. Sundays
6. U2
7. Coldplay
8. Electric Light Orchestra
9. Stars
10. Muse

no order

- Reverie Sound Revue
- Guns N' Roses
- The Submarines
- The Killers
- The Naked and Famous
- Oasis
- AC/DC
- The Beach Boys
- Fleetwood Mac
- Pink Floyd

HM - Beach Boys, Queen, No Doubt

I am not sure I have heard of Reverie Sound Revue. I will have to give them a spin.

I hope I am not forgetting any band. Although this may not be the order of music I would listen to today (except Floyd ... always # 1), this is how much I was into/liked the music through the years.

1 – Pink Floyd
2 – The Mars Volta
3 – Radiohead
4 – Tool
5 – Muse
6 – King Crimson
7 – Deftones
8 - Caifanes/Jaguares
9 - Stone Temple Pilots
10 - The Smashing Pumpkins
11 - Chevelle
12 - Pearl Jam
13 - A Perfect Circle
14 - Porcupine Tree
15 - Café Tacuba
16 - At the Drive In
17 - Modest Mouse
18 - Dream Theater
19 - Rage Against the Machine
20 - Queen

In random order and cherry picked from the above lists:

The Killers
The Strokes
Nirvana
Radiohead
R.E.M.
Oasis
RHCP
Blur
The Ramones
Pearl Jam
No Doubt
Foo Fighters
Nirvana
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Blink 182
Third Eye Blind
Barenaked Ladies
Coldplay
Green Day
The Who
Live
Linkin Park
Weezer
The Verve
Goo Goo Dolls
The White Stripes
Oasis
Guns n Roses
The Fugees
Def Leppard
Daft Punk
Blondie
Ace of Base
ABBA
Run DMC
Foo Fighters
Blink 182
Third Eye Blind
Barenaked Ladies
Coldplay
Green Day
The Who
Linkin Park
Weezer
The White Stripes

1. Red Hot Chili Peppers
2. Audioslave
3. Muse
4. Coldplay
5. Queens of the Stoneage
6. Placebo
7. Rammstein
8. UB40
9. Editors
10. The Prodigy
11. Foo Fighters
12. System of a Down
13. Savage Garden
14. Hard-Fi
15. The Darkness
16. Florence and the Machine
17. The Killers
18. Linkin Park

I only have 18.

No Order:

Daft Punk
Dead Kennedys
Metallica
Nine Inch Nails (is this a band?)
Nirvana
Radiohead
Rob Zombie
Smashing Pumpkins
The Beatles
Wu-Tang Clan

NIN is probably be my favorite band of all time.

I consider Nine Inch Nails a band, if in an unconventional sense. They are similar to an act on my list, Spiritualized, where there is one major and consistent creative force, and the band are the people he plays with on any given record or at any given gig. (If only Spiritualized could ever achieve even one quarter of the popularity of Nine Inch Nails, ha.) There is a very long Wikipedia page entitled "List of Nine Inch Nails band members."

Rob Zombie might be questionable, on the other hand. I know he always has a gang of musicians with him, including John 5 as of late, but I still consider him a solo act (as contrasted with his former, proper band, White Zombie).

Valid points all. Will check out Spirtualized.

I forgot Kasabian. Jam them in at #13 on my list.

One more to go until I hit 20.

For the record, I don't class dance/electronic acts as "bands", so they are excluded from my list, apart from The Prodigy which I feel are a "band" as they don't only use electronica. A band that majorly use sounds and noises, like Leftfield, I have left off the list - if we were including them, then Leftfield would rank #2 or #3, and my list would be littered with many others.

I would think instruments would be required to be classified as a "band".

I consider electronic groups such as Kraftwerk, Daft Punk, the Chemical Brothers, and Underworld bands.

I do not.

Nah, they are groups. Not bands. The same goes for acts such as Westlife and N-Sync, they are just called groups, because they don't make use of musical instruments; the main players just sing.

I am not a fan of such a distinction. I would never list my ten favorite "groups" as contrasted with solo artists and bands. Bands, groups, duos, collectives = bands, in my opinion.

But to each his own.

Which proves how wrong it is.