Top 5 favorite bands

[poundingmetal74]

I'm curious to see who some of your favorite bands are. I could easily expand my list to 50 bands and still struggle with who to cut, but I figure 5 is an easy enough number to pair it down to the "all-time favorites"

5. Max Webster / Kim Mitchell
4. Creedence Clearwater Revival
3. Kiss
2. Skid Row
1. Queensryche

 

[Mustang678]

1. Breaking Benjamin
2. Poets of the Fall
3. Rise Against
4. Psychostick
5. Alestorm

The recent news about BB has made me sad

 

[The Woolly One]

1. Karnivool
2. Porcupine Tree
3. Red Hot Chili Peppers
4. Radiohead
5. Deftones


Iron Maiden, Birds of Tokyo, We Are Free, State Radio and Alter Bridge were also contenders for my top 5.

 

[Lucyfer86]

1. The Birthday Massacre
2. Heaven Shall Burn
3. Bring Me the Horizon
4. Sonic Syndicate
5. Dimmu Borgir

 

[darkman80723]

5. Pink Floyd
4. Jack Off Jill
3. She Wants Revenge
2. HIM
1. Nine Inch Nails

honorable mention: Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Bad Religion, Nirvana, Breaking Benjamin, and Red Hot Chili Peppers

 

[Klumpfot]

In order of band name length:

* Spawn of Possession
¤ Meshuggah
# Death
@ Cynic
½ Nile

 

[Dr.Awsome]

1. Blue Oyster Cult
2. Aerosmith
3. AC/DC
4. The Beatles
5. Led Zeppelin

 

[Dungeons]

1. Flogging Molly
2.Matisyahu
3.The Black Keys
4.Flobots
5. Supertramp

 

[PeePantz]

Although a couple aren't "bands":

-Drive-by Truckers
-Wilco
-Johnny Cash
-Clutch
-Bob Dylan

 

[Artina89]

Here are mine (in order)

5. If these trees could talk
4. Matchbox twenty
3. Rise against
2. Queen
1. Voltaire

 

[ciancon]

1. Arcade Fire.
2. Battles.
3. Mogwai.
4. Wild Beasts.
5. Crystal Castles.

 

[ParanoidAndroid]

5. Led Zeppelin
4. Foo Fighters
3. Radiohead
2. Queens of the Stone Age
1. Muse

This list changes a lot.

 

[Hox1809]

1. Led Zeppelin
2. Jimi Hendrix
3. Dream Theater
4. AC/DC
5. Pink Floyd

Bands that didn't make the top 5: Muse, Pain of Salvation, Mastodon, Metallica and Sting

 

[fenrizz]

1. Pink Floyd
2. Metallica
3. Coheed & Cambria
4. Nightwish (Only with Tarja though, irreplaceable!)
5. Immortal

This list is subject to change regularly.

 

[UltraDolphins]

Now this is a tough one. I'll stray a bit and post my top 5 out of the different genres.
1. Between the Buried and Me (Prog Metal)
2. Victor Wooten (Jazz)
3. Orbs (Prog Rock)
4. Foxy Shazam (Pop)
5. Ultra Dolphins (Punk)

And now everyone knows where I get my name.
Honorable mentions : Diablo Swing Orchestra, SkeletonWitch, and Tetrafusion

 

[SuperToaster]

1. Sabaton
2. Breaking Benjamin
3. Hollywood Undead
4. A Day To Remember
5. Papa Roach

 

[freakydan]

1) Rush
2) U2
3) Billy Joel
4) Meat Loaf
5) Flogging Molly

 

[bassdrum]

Do they need to be bands (which is to say, more than one person)? Oh, whatever, I'll just make two lists--and yes, this is indeed my clever way of making a top five list into a top ten list.

For groups:
1. Radiohead
2. Ozomatli (their older stuff, at least)
3. The Bad Plus
4. Muse (again, their older stuff)
5. Hail Mary Mallon

For individuals:
1. Sage Francis
2. Jose Gonzalez
3. Bonobo
4. DJ Shadow (except for about half of The Outsider)
5. Cut Chemist

Just don't ask for an overall list... Sorting through to choose only five would take hours of pain, suffering, and agony.