Who are your top 5 bands/artists?

[Kid Presentable]

Right now? I'd like a few choice experiences that made them so for you. I reserve a slot for changing favourites, but my all time in no real order:

Beastie Boys (You could take it as read, in most cases, but I'd like to hear why they're not if that's the case)

QOTSA (in the rotating slot, previously occupied by Nirvana, Led Zeppelin, 'Blood Sugar' Peppers and Rage against the Machine in my younger days)

De La Soul - The only group I've been listening to as long as the B-Boys. Put onto them by my friends hot sister who had 3 feet on vinyl. I saw her tit when I was a kid hee hee.

Fuck, I'm not having much luck answering this one.

I want to say The Beatles, but it's really predictable. I do love them, though.

I am going to put Fugazi back in there. It had been ages since I'd had an album of theirs, but the little bundle I've collected recently reminded me why I loved them. Just really great (to a point)

Fuck it, Faith no More as well. As an all-time list, this looks shit. I realise I listen to too many artists at a surface level. :\

[Kid Presentable]

I don't know why I started this thread. :(

[abcdefz]

Top five is too hard. Maybe if it were top five of each genre or something.

[Kid Presentable]

It is hard, and looks bad. ave a go, mate.

[abcdefz]

It'd be interesting if the computer kept a record of what I'd been listening to most.

For the last couple of months, it'd probably be Miles Davis, Shostakovich, Elvis Costello, Horace Silver, and Bruckner.

[TurdBerglar]

led zep

sabbath

qotsa

soundgarden

kyuss/ratm

[Mr Films]

The Secret Machines (my favorite band to emerge this decade)
Radiohead (not just cuz of In Rainbows- but it sure helped)
Beck (fucking one man army)
Beastie Boys (yeah, ok sure)
Incubus (fuck all you guys, I love them so)

honorable mention:

Kanye West
M.I.A.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The White Stripes

[AceFace]

It'd be interesting if the computer kept a record of what I'd been listening to most.

For the last couple of months, it'd probably be Miles Davis, Shostakovich, Elvis Costello, Horace Silver, and Bruckner.

http://www.last.fm/

[hpdrifter]

Wow, top 5 of all time? This doesn't really reflect where my taste is now but it does reflect the music I've spent the most time on:

Bboys
deftones
Zeppelin
Sarah McLaghlan (yeah, :confused:)
A mishmash of jazz singers

[AceFace]

ok, this is gonna be really hard.

#1 slot Beastie Boys. listening to them the longest of my life and i currently can't listen to anything else but.

#2 The Police - I've been a HUGE fan all my life. the virgin fest was like a huge jack off for me with my two favorites playing back to back.

#3 PULP - i <3 Jarvis

#4 Rancid - can not go wrong with ANY of their records

#5 rotating slot. Right now it's Interpol. i wish i had given them a chance 3 albums ago.

[abcdefz]

http://www.last.fm/



The thing is, this is my work computer, and I don't have administrative rights, so I can't install programs or anything. But it's
interesting to know that that's out there.

[MC Moot]

It's hard because it swings all over the place,all the time and my faves are largely based on the experience of seeing them live....right now I might say:

James Brown
Beasties
Pavement
Beck
U2

[AceFace]

is that really how you spell Snuffalupogous? did you look that up?

i used to be afraid of snuffy.

[mickill]

Ever?

Prince
Elvis Presley
The Stones
Beasties
Zeppelin


Right now I'm into listening to/in the process of filling in the gaps in the catalogs of:

The Clipse
Jay-Z
The Kinks
Bob Marley
Bowie

[mickill]

But if it was about the most influential/important/absolute greatest, I'd definitely have James Brown in there, as well....along with Dylan, Hendrix, The Beatles and most likely Sinatra.

[abcdefz]

Right now I'm into listening to/in the process of filling in the gaps in the catalogs of:

Bowie





...I just gave Bowie another run a couple months ago. I think I sort of get it, and sometimes it really works (a bunch of Heroes, and obviously
Ziggy Stardust is great) but.... he's just so fucking mannered or something. Very, very self-conscious, and it makes some songs
or just some parts of songs really awkward.

Ziggy Stardust I can listen to without reservation, but almost none of his other albums in their entirety.

[MC Moot]

is that really how you spell Snuffalupogous? did you look that up?

i used to be afraid of snuffy.

I have been able to spell my own name since I was 4....;).....he used to drive me crazy,cause everyone thought big bird was losing his mind,he'd go to get Mr Hooper or someone to introduce him and Snuffy would always amble away leaving Big Bird looking like he was crackers.....:D

[xtinaguad]

the virgin fest was like a huge jack off for me with my two favorites playing back to back.

LOL Huge jackoff I love it!...I usually say a girls wet dream :)

Here are mine:
1. Beasties
2. New York Dolls
3. Dead Boys
4. Rolling Stones
5. Phantom Planet

[willis drummond]

B-boys
Clash
Tribe
Pearl Jam
Rolling Stones

[mickill]

Ziggy Stardust I can listen to without reservation, but almost none of his other albums in their entirety.

Hunky Dory is pretty easy to get into as well, no?

[Waus]

It'd be interesting if the computer kept a record of what I'd been listening to most.

http://www.last.fm/


OH SHIT Aceface beat me to it. We should buddy up aceface -

username: Chuck_Chillout

[abcdefz]

Hunky Dory is pretty easy to get into as well, no?


It's like a lot of his stuff: I want to like it more than I actually like it. Almost always, if I throw it on, it's because I'm hoping it's growing on me.

If all his stuff were as good as the first half of Heroes, I'd be a happy man.

[abcdefz]

But if it was about the most influential/important/absolute greatest, I'd definitely have James Brown in there, as well....along with Dylan, Hendrix, The Beatles and most likely Sinatra.




...I've got my officemate into A Swingin' Affair. I think he likes the Sinatra/Jobim album, too, but he whistles along with Affair. (y)

[cosmo105]

5. Phantom Planet

the whole band's full of assholes. alex greenwald was pretty hot when i was 16 but not a very nice guy.

top five, all time

1. Sleater-Kinney
2. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
3. Beastie Boys (never listen to them anymore, but i still have mad love)
4. Bjork (last album was disappointing but i still adore her)
5. this is a tough one...i'll go with Ben Folds. i'd say descendents but i only own a few albums. maybe wilco? again, only a few...i guess i'd say death cab, because i really loved them a few years back, but i hated their last album and never listen to them anymore. sigh.

[xtinaguad]

the whole band's full of assholes. alex greenwald was pretty hot when i was 16 but not a very nice guy.

Damn...Sam Farrar is a sweetheart! Assholes or not their self titled album was under-rated. We all have our guilty pleasures.

[cosmo105]

tall, skinny guy? big pouty lips? he was the biggest asshole to me. seriously. whatever, maybe he was just in a bad mood. i just hate that they all have this "hot shit" attitude when really they're not that great. yeah, i enjoyed some of their tracks, but come on guys. just because you grew your hair long and started dressing like art students, doesn't mean that you're credible artists.

[Lex Diamonds]

This list could be different if I wrote it even in an hour, but right at this moment it's what I'm feeling:


The Stone Roses - their first album is actually perfect in my eyes, even though most of their following shit was lacklustre.

Jay-Z - he is the most consistent heavyweight rapper of all time, plus he has the right balance of swagger/mystery to be a super cool dude.

The Beastie Boys - immensely intelligent and versatile musicians, even though their subject matter may not always suggest so.

Johnny Cash - to me, the definition of a legend in music.

Blur - I would have Oasis here but The Stone Roses are so similar, and Blur are just as good in a different way. Some of the best music of the 90s, which is saying a lot given the huge hip-hop/rock surge of the decade.

[Deep_Sea_Rain]

1. Beastie Boys
2. Everclear
3. Weezer
4. Outkast
5. "Weird Al" Yankovic

[kleptomaniac]

beazley boys / bs 2000 / country mike / brooklyn <33333!!!
public enemy
run-dmc
bad brains
m.i.a.

:):D;):cool:(y)

[Lyman Zerga]

U2
David Bowie
Falco
Bryan Ferry
Suede

[Rock]

today's list:

Anthrax
Lee Perry
Edan
Aretha Franklin
Lata Mangeshkar

[Caribou]

I think:

Radiohead
Blur
Kaizers Orchestra
Rufus Wainwright
Belle & Sebastian

but I hate these lists, because I'm missing out on so many bands. But Radiohead is the definite nr.1 into infinity.

[b-grrrlie]

right now:

Beastie Boys
BRMC
Bowie
Ed Harcourt
Radiohead


as per usual....

[Auton]

right now:

pulp
radiohead
little brother
eminem
david bowie

[icy manipulator]

beastie
RATM
Jamiroquai
Tool
Sasha

[EN[i]GMA]

the whole band's full of assholes. alex greenwald was pretty hot when i was 16 but not a very nice guy.

top five, all time

1. Sleater-Kinney
2. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
3. Beastie Boys (never listen to them anymore, but i still have mad love)
4. Bjork (last album was disappointing but i still adore her)
5. this is a tough one...i'll go with Ben Folds. i'd say descendents but i only own a few albums. maybe wilco? again, only a few...i guess i'd say death cab, because i really loved them a few years back, but i hated their last album and never listen to them anymore. sigh.

You put someone else above Ted Leo?

For shame.

I'll correct your error:

1. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
2. Beastie Boys
3. Gang of Four
4. Roxy Music
5. Guided by Voices

Not definitive, but probably representative. Radiohead's up there too, but I don't listen to them nearly as much as I listen to these bands.

I didn't to the Beasties much anymore, just because I've completely absorbed the music. I need to start listening again...

[pshabi]

Beastie Boys - Too many reasons to list, but they're the greatest thing in the world.

MF DOOM - I got into him close to two years ago. Just sick, sick flow. Unique presence on the mic and I dig the gimmicky mask image too.

Sublime - I don't wanna hear any frat boy bullshit either. Some of their biggest hits: "Date Rape," "Wrong Way," "Badfish," are some of my least favorite songs by them. I dig the stuff that shows the most hip hop influence: "Krs One," "April 26, 1992." I think Bradley Nowell is sensational and I really dig the solo acoustic stuff. He pretty much inspired me to pick up the guitar 10 years ago and I play and sing all of his/their stuff.

Bob Marley - I was REALLY into Marley at one point, not as much now. Still love him though. Really got into him when I moved to Florida back 2002. I was in my mid-20s. I smoked herb a lot (still do). The sunshine, the water, the beautiful weather, the beach, the pool, going shirtless on Christmas, etc. The music fit perfectly.

The fifth slot is owned by many bands/acts. The top 4 are definitely solid and never changing, in that order.

Nirvana, Jay Z, Bob Dylan, Kanye West, The Beatles, Rage and Biggie all fit in about equally.

[RaZoRbLaDe KiSs]

As of right now (this will probably change in a month of so) mine are:

The Beastie boys
Sex Pistols
Daft Punk (if they count)
Clutch
The Ramones

[xrocketman]

the beatles
zeppelin
wutang clan
beastie boys
el-p

[Jitters]

In no particular order:

Beatles
Beastie Boys
The Clash
Outkast
Parliament/Funkadelic

I got into the first three a few years back, I burned myself out on them by constantly listening to them but still listen to their albums every few months or so, I started listening to Kast and P-Funk a while back and still listen to both on the regular. I got a ton of albums by other groups I love but I have definitely spent a large part of my life listening to the above.

[roosta]

hmmmm...ive thought about this a million ways..and my criteria is all-time bands that consistently feature in my music listening..some of them might have left for a few years, but they were around long ago and for ages...some are constants...some come and go regularly...

beastie boys
dj shadow
wu-tang clan
jay-z
michael jackson

[RaZoRbLaDe KiSs]

The Clash
Outkast


Fuck I forgot about the Clash. I love them, and I love Outkast too, their early shit was fucking vicious. (y)

[DIGI]

Incubus (fuck all you guys, I love them so)


Dude, you've been saying this for years now. When are you finally gonna realize?

[DIGI]

Beasties
ween
Flaming Lips

those are my constants.

The Go! Team
Kings of Leon

[RobMoney$]

Beasties/ Van Gogh
Rolling Stones/ Warhol
Led Zep/ Dali
U2/ Klint
Smashing Pumpkins/ Monet

[Documad]

The ones who influenced me the most are the ones I can barely listen to anymore (in rough chronological order of influence):

Supremes (and many other girl groups)
Stones
Pink Floyd
Fleetwood Mac (try being a teenage girl and having no women in bands, plus I wanted Stevie's boots and hair)
Clash
Prince

I got to pick six because I'm so much older than you all. (Notice that music stopped influencing me once I hit college. :p)


Favorite groups of the past few years (they're all good live):

Radiohead
Sleater Kinney
Beasties
Sigur Ros
Wilco

[BangkokB]

Beastie Boys
Alice in Chains
Peter Gabriel
Exodus
Slayer

Are the usual suspects. But it depends on whats taking place in my life.
My Friday/Saturday Night music is completely different than my Sunday afternoon hung over music.

My just awake taking a shower music is all across the board as well~But never has the Friday/Saturday night music making the playlists

[Drederick Tatum]

at the moment.

Dethklok
Waajeed
v.a - After Dark
Selda Bagcan
Oh No

[DroppinScience]

Probably...

The Clash
Depeche Mode
Nirvana
The Beatles
The Smiths

[RobMoney$]

This thread has exposed some as having seriously horrible taste in music.
Thanks for starting this thread P.

[RaZoRbLaDe KiSs]

Helloween - The band that got me into metal, power metal at it's best. Mr Torture is probably my favourite song of all time.

The Darkness

Black Sabbath

Andrew WK


<3 :o

[trailerprincess]

Beasties
Patrick Wolf
Johnny Cash
The Libertines
Anthony & The Johnsons

Notable mentions to: Prince, Ryan Adams, Tricky, DJ Shadow, Jewel :p, Beth Orton, Weezer. Meh, too many to mention

[Gareth]

Oh No

are you listening to oxperiment? cos thats nice.
the madlib beat konducta 3&4 in india is a bit patchy though.

[Gareth]

at the moment:
lord finesse
a tribe called quest
bailter space
cornelius
pavement

cant stop listening to the funky technician.

[Auton]

Peter Gabriel

damn now i feel bad for not saying him... he's my absolute musical idol.:(

[adam_f]

For the moment:

The Roots
A Tribe Called Quest
Consequence
Jay-Z era Blueprint Album
David Banner

I don't know why I keep listening to David Banner, but it's in heavy rotation. I don't get it.

[Drederick Tatum]

are you listening to oxperiment? cos thats nice.


yeah, my friend recommended it to me since it uses loads of crazy Mediterranean psychedelic funk samples, and that shit is pretty bonkers. no idea what they're going on about when they sing, but it sounds cool.

[Rock]

cant stop listening to the funky technician.

word. i just got it yesterday and its pretty fucking good.

[Kid Presentable]

Finnesse is king. I'd put him on there but I only own 'From the Crates to the Files'. Then again, I don't own a great deal of Beatles. I'd probably swap Beatles for Led Zeppelin, to be honest. I dunno.

[DroppinScience]

It'd be interesting if the computer kept a record of what I'd been listening to most.

For the last couple of months, it'd probably be Miles Davis, Shostakovich, Elvis Costello, Horace Silver, and Bruckner.

Well, going by Last.FM, my Top 5 artists for this year would be:

Minutemen
Johnny Cash
The Jam
Led Zeppelin
Wanda Jackson

Definitely try out Last.FM sometime, a-z.

[thegoodmrbrodie!]

last.fm says:

1 Yo La Tengo 264
2 Eels 257
3 Edan 251
4 Beck 229
5 Pavement 226

:)

[DroppinScience]

last.fm says:

1 Yo La Tengo 264
2 Eels 257
3 Edan 251
4 Beck 229
5 Pavement 226

:)

And why haven't you added me on Last.FM?? :eek:

[mickill]

I think Return Of The Funky Man edges out Funky Technician just slightly. Beats were a little tighter and the rhymes got even sharper.

Oxperiment is pretty crazy. Probably the most listenable instrumental hip hop album since El-P's Collecting The Kid or the instrumentals on Dilla's Ruff Draft.

I feel like I should have had The Clash on my list.

If QOTSA stopped making albums after Songs For The Deaf, I'd probably have included them as well. They're still good, but nowhere near as untouchable as they once were.

Today I really dig Sly & Robbie, The Black Keys, Calexico, The Meters and MC5.

[Kid Presentable]

I think Return Of The Funky Man edges out Funky Technician just slightly. Beats were a little tighter and the rhymes got even sharper.

Oxperiment is pretty crazy. Probably the most listenable instrumental hip hop album since El-P's Collecting The Kid or the instrumentals on Dilla's Ruff Draft.

I feel like I should have had The Clash on my list.

If QOTSA stopped making albums after Songs For The Deaf, I'd probably have included them as well. They're still good, but nowhere near as untouchable as they once were.

Today I really dig Sly & Robbie, The Black Keys, Calexico, The Meters and MC5.

I was real fuckin surprised you put Zeppelin on yours (on that day). I always figured you liked em, but didn't think a whole heap of them compared to the Stones, Kinks or Beatles.

[easy 3]

Vague top 5

Beastie Boys
Beck
James Brown
Run DMC
Public Enemy

The first 3 are pretty solid, I was nuts about PE and Run DMC growing up, I think what gets me with Beck, the B Boys and JB is the quantity and consistency of their output - although I'm definitely more familiar with James' Funk classics more than his soul catalogue. I listen to those 3 acts all the time.

Other big favourites include Bob Marley, the Descendents, Edan, Medeski Martin & Wood, Simon & Garfunkel, Eric B & Rakim, KRS One and Sick of it All.

There's a hell of a lot of singles and albums by other artists that I love without being that mad about all their work, mainly hip hop and funk. I also really like obscure anonymous music like Drum and Bass mixtapes or Funk Breaks mixtapes or old punk or northern soul where you never find out who made which track, it just emerges organically from your social circle or gets played in a club.

p.s. I'm going to see the Bad Brains TONIGHT, so fuck you my man!

[abcdefz]

Definitely try out Last.FM sometime, a-z.



I don't have admin rights to my computer, so I can't install programs.

[Waus]

Beck, The Beastie Boys, Eels, The Ramones, Elliott Smith

[MC Moot]

Thinking about those live shows this morning,so:

Sonic Youth
R.E.M
Buffalo Daughter
Blues Explosion
Kid Koala

[DroppinScience]

I don't have admin rights to my computer, so I can't install programs.

No computer at home?

[SobaViolence]

1. Radiohead
2. Jimi Hendrix
3. the trinity of Robert Johnson, Son House & Muddy Waters
4. Broken Social Scene
5. Beastie Boys - except tt5b. they shoulda stopped at Sounds of Science

[hpdrifter]

I think Return Of The Funky Man edges out Funky Technician just slightly. Beats were a little tighter and the rhymes got even sharper.

Oxperiment is pretty crazy. Probably the most listenable instrumental hip hop album since El-P's Collecting The Kid or the instrumentals on Dilla's Ruff Draft.

I feel like I should have had The Clash on my list.

If QOTSA stopped making albums after Songs For The Deaf, I'd probably have included them as well. They're still good, but nowhere near as untouchable as they once were.

Today I really dig Sly & Robbie, The Black Keys, Calexico, The Meters and MC5.


I think I probably should have put Prince on my list. I was soooooo into him at one point I foolishly attempted to compile a complete Prince discography. Then I realized he makes music faster than I can buy it.

[saz]

humble pie
the stone roses
pink floyd
the small faces
spacemen 3







the trinity of Robert Johnson, Son House & Muddy Waters


nice

[basd]

Dizzee Rascal
The Streets
Dilated Peoples
The Clipse
Beastie Boys

[Lex Diamonds]

Dizzee Rascal
The Streets
Dilated Peoples
The Clipse
Beastie Boys
These are all amazing artists whose entire discographies I own and love, but are they really your top 5 of all time?

[Kid Presentable]

3. the trinity of Robert Johnson, Son House & Muddy Waters


I call balderdash on this.

[mickill]

What man? They're his favorite artists. Leave him alone!

Today:

1. Ozdemir Erdogan
2. Frank Zappa (mostly just the stuff from his bootlegs)
3. the trinity of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Antonín Leopold Dvořák and Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
4. Dr. Robert Moog
5. John Hammond (but not his hits)

[abcdefz]

Antonín Leopold Dvořák


(y)

[AceFace]

5. Beastie Boys - except tt5b. they shoulda stopped at Sounds of Science

i could not disagree more. i LOVE that album. Shazam! won't leave my head.

[Kid Presentable]

i could not disagree more. i LOVE that album. Shazam! won't leave my head.
I think Shazam is a piece of crap (too much of a childrens entertainer type of thing), but I don't mind that album.

[hpdrifter]

What man? They're his favorite artists. Leave him alone!

Today:

1. Ozdemir Erdogan
2. Frank Zappa (mostly just the stuff from his bootlegs)
3. the trinity of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Antonín Leopold Dvořák and Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
4. Dr. Robert Moog
5. John Hammond (but not his hits)

Blowhard

[AceFace]

I think Shazam is a piece of crap (too much of a childrens entertainer type of thing), but I don't mind that album.

hmm, not sure i follow you with that children's entertainer thing, but i like it. captain asteroid may be the cutest guy i've ever seen. it's the gloves.

[RobMoney$]

Antonín Leopold Dvořák

I wanted to say him but I couldn't find all those accent marks on my keyboard.
You must have one of those beaner keyboards.

[balohna]

Beastie Boys
The Clash
Sonic Youth
Beck
Rage Against the Machine

[Gareth]

I think Shazam is a piece of crap (too much of a childrens entertainer type of thing), but I don't mind that album.

isnt that a movie starring shaquille o'neal??
oh wait..that's kazaam

[basd]

These are all amazing artists whose entire discographies I own and love, but are they really your top 5 of all time?



no, but these are the artists that i'm listening most frequently for last 2-3 months
only five bands/artists isn't enought

[Lex Diamonds]

Furry muff.

[Tzar]

1:
beasties

no order:
wu-tang clan
RATM
metallica
hilltop hoods

my top 5 are basically the groups/artists that i wouldn't hesitate buying any of their old/new albums. having said that, i refuse to buy that new hilltops remix album. very close in that list is Mastodon ahead of Slayer.

[Drederick Tatum]

according to Lastfm this week it's:
Toots and the Maytals
Andre Williams
J Dilla
Flying Lotus
Rolling Stones

[DroppinScience]

This week on Last.FM it was:

1) Sonic Youth
2) Mudhoney
3) The Sonics
4) Spoon
5) My Bloody Valentine

[balohna]

I've had Last.fm since early this year and it says:

Beastie Boys
The Clash
Tegan and Sara
Sonic Youth
Minor Threat


which is different than my own list that I posted earlier in this thread. It is worth noting that I've only been listening to Tegan and Sara for like a month and a half and they've almost caught up with the Beastie Boys and The Clash so they deserve a spot on my top 5 I'd say... unless I get sick of them or something. I was obsessed with Minor Threat's discography earlier this year but I don't listen to them all that much now.

[ffcp]

well....

Beastie Boys
No Doubt
Madonna
Björk
The Clash
Cake
Depeche Mode
Pet Shop Boys
Kylie

and others that I don't remember now

[adrockmelanie]

lately:

grizzly bear
black rebel motorcycle club
radiohead
the beatles
m83

[ericlee]

Kid, I've been circling around this thread like a buzzard. Top five ATM is too skim for me right now.

For me now, its more like top five hundred at least. Lately, all I do when I listen to my music, it's my mp3 on shuffle and I just let it go. I'll turn it off and when I listen to it again, I'll just continue from
where it left off.

I've got a playlist that goes from Frank Sinatra to the Meat Puppets and then to Mansun to Slayer and to Stevie Wonder.

[banzai]

minus the bear
at the drive-in
botch
bayside
death from above 1979 or the promise ring, it depends.

[mixmastermike]

Beastie Boys
RJD2
Jack Johnson
Amadou & Mariam
Jamiroquai

but my last.fm says:


Beastie Boys 2,960
Jack Johnson 1,273
Amadou & Mariam 1,041
Kanye West 1,015
RJD2 970
:)