My top five are:
#1 - Led Zeppelin
#2 - The Pixies
#3 - The Beatles*
#4 - Arctic Monkeys (some of you lucky basterds in Britain may have seen them D:<)
#5 - Oasis
Some others are Soundgarden, Prodigy, Killing Joke and Blur, and it would be interesting to know who other people like.
*From here I don't know what order they're in, they might not be in top five...
John Bonham, best drummer in the world (Led Zeppelin). :D
2. Killswitch Engage
3. Slipknot
4. Lamb of God
5. Five Finger Death Punch
BUT....
This year I have been to see Kings of Leon, The Prodigy, Muse, Ian Brown, Lostprophets, The Blackout, Reverend and the Makers and Kasabian.
2. Avenged Sevenfold
3. Killswitch Engage
4. Three Days Grace
2) The Beatles
3) Alice in Chains
2. Disturbed
3. Hollywood Undead
4. Demon Hunter
5. 30 Seconds To Mars
1. The Beatles
2. Pink Floyd
3. Led Zepplin
4. Dethklok
5. The Killers
6. Mastadon
7. REO Speed Wagon
8. Thin Lizzy
9. Foo Fighters
10. Bob Marley
Goo Goo Dolls
The Beatles
The Doors
Weezer
Blink 182
Queen
Guns N Roses
2 we came as romans
3 rise against
4 escape the fate
5 a day to remember
2.Bring Me The Horizon
3.Owl City
4.Chase Coy
5.Led Zeppelin
6.In Fear and FAith
7.Alestorm
8.Brokencyde
9.MUSE
10.Styx (FTW)
11.Billy Joel
12.Bless The Fall
13.Alice In Chains
14.Audioslave
15.Creed
16.Seether
and I think that's about it
Black Flag
Bring me the Horizon
Asking Alexandria
OM&M
Operation Ivy
We Came As Romans
Bands like Led Zeppelin set out to creat not something to fit a category, but whatever came into their head that they thought was good. It was later categorised into heavy metal. The same goes for bands like Pink Floyd ("prog rock"), and many others.
2. queen
3. Linkin Park
4. Nickelback
Oasis are great as well
oasis, stereophonics, RHCP, metalica, drowning pool,ozzy osbourn,slipknot, maralyn manson (only the old tracks), muse... there are to many basicaly from ramstine to marron 5
I loved Songs About Jane though : D
Doctor Octogonopus BAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've seen more, but I can't remember who all right now...
2. Rage Against The Machine
3. Soundgarden
4. Smashing Pumpkins ( OLD Pumpkins - b4 the gay albums )
5. TOOL
1. rudimentary peni
2. reagan youth
3. minor threat
4. dystopia
5. DRI
reagan youth is the shit.
DRI and RP are great too.
the others are awesome, but i can only listen to so much straight edge...
2. Rolling Stones
3. Modest Mouse
4. Silver Sun Pickups
5. Flaming Lips
AC/DC-Rock N Roll Aint Noise Polution
Foreigner-Jukebox hero
The Beatles-I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Guns N Roses-paradise City
Journey-Dont Stop Belevin
Rise Against-Prayer of the Refugee
Foo Fighters-The Pretender
Green Day-21Guns
Journey: wheel in the sky
The Beatles: I am The Walrus
Foo Fighters: Everlong
Rise Against: Audience of One
Green Day: 21st Century Breakdown
Guns N Roses: Live 'n Let Die
ACDC: NOTHING because I hate ACDC. In my opinion they should end their career considering their age. They suck like Slash sucks.
2. them crooked vultures
3. system of a down
4. beastie boys
*ahem*
1. Opeth
2. Mastodon
3. Tool
4. Isis
5. High on Fire
6. Primus
7. Meshuggah
8. Job for a Cowboy
9. Gojira
10. (can't forget) Metallica
Leftover crack/ choking victim
yo la tengo
Mischief brew
This bike is a pipe bomb
man man
digitalism
notwist
beirut
MF DOOM
Blackbird Raum
Balkan Beat box
Jeffrey Lewis
Leningrad
2. metallica
3. tool
4. alice in chains
5. skillet
2.Rage Against the Machine
3.Radiohead
4.White Stripes
5.Pink Floyd
The All American rejects
Black Kids
Foo Fighters
Gomez
Ian Brown
Kings of Leon
Levellers
Linkin Park
Live
Lostprophets
Madness
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Mighty mighty Bosstones
Muse
NOFX
The Offspring
Pearl Jam
The Pigeon Detectives
Rage Against the Machine
Rancid
Reel Big Fish
Reverend and the Makers
The Stone Roses
Tim Armstrong
Transplants
And
Red Dwarf for good measure.
2.Hollywood Undead
3.The Beatles
4.Angels and Airwaves
2. The Who
3. Pink Floyd
4. Them Crooked Vultures
5. Red Hot Chili Peppers
6. Foo Fighters
2, for today
3, bob marley and the wailers
4, sublimeee <3
5, Red Hot Chilli Peppers
I quite like many other heavy metal bands such as Slipknot as well
And may God find room in the deepest, foulest, most dreaded depths of hell itself for the Jonas Brothers.
No particular order:
Bon Iver
Immortal Technique
Broken Bells
Fresh Espresso (Mad Rad too)
Explosions In The Sky
Sufjan Stevens
Maclemore
Doug Burr
The Fleet Foxes
Barcelona
Etc. etc. etc.
Goes on for forever, as I'm sure all of your lists do.
Green Day
Rise Against
Linking Park
Bad Religion
Avenged Sevenfold
The Fratellis
Incubus
MGMT (Old MGMT)
Pennywise
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
2. Bullet for My Valentine
3. Lamb of God
4. Ozzy
5. Avenged Sevenfold
6. Job for a Cowboy
#1 - Led Zeppelin
#2 - Ben Folds Five
#3 - Pixies
From here no order:
Arctic Monkeys
Ash
The B52's
The Beatles
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Blur
The Dandy Warhols
Death in Vegas
Fatboy Slim
Green Day
Groove Armada
Interpol
Jamiroquai
Jeff Buckley
Jet
Killing Joke
Mclusky
Midnight Oil
The mint Chicks
Nirvana
Oasis
The Offspring
Ok Go
Pink Floyd
The Police
Primus
The Prodigy
Purdy
Queen
Radiohead
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Silverchair
The Smiths
Soundgarden
They Might Be Giants
Wolfmother
Yo La Tengo
I listen to lots of artists (too many to list them all), but here are some of them [in alphabetical order, sorted by genre]:
Rock: AC/DC, Aerosmith, And So I Watch You From Afar, Blink-182, Bloc Party, Camel, Chickenfoot, Coldplay, Deep Purple, Dire Straits, Daughtry, Evanescence, Fall Out Boy, Frost*, Genesis, Gentle Giant, Green Day, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Eat World, Joe Satriani, John Mayer, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Linkin Park, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Marillion, Maroon 5, Mayday Parade, Metric, Motorhead, Muse, Neal Morse, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, OneRepublic, Orbs, OSI, Pain of Salvation, Paramore, Phish, Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, Queen, Radiohead, Rainbow, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Roger Waters, Rush, Steve Hackett, Sting & The Police, The Beatles, The Flower Kings, The Who, Three Days Grace, Transatlantic, Within Temptation, Yes, You Me at Six, Zero 7.
Metal: Aghora, Alice in Chains, Amorphis, Anthrax, August Burns Red, Avenged Sevenfold, Ayreon, Between the Buried and Me, Black Sabbath, Blind Guardian, Bloodbath, Cacophony, Cynic, Dethklok, Dio, Dream Theater, Fates Warning, Five Finger Death Punch, Green Carnation, Iced Earth, Iron Maiden, John Petrucci, Karl Sanders, Liquid Tension Experiment, Liquid Trio Experiment, Machine Head, Megadeth, Metallica, Mutiny Within, Nile, Opeth, Revolution Renaissance, Slayer, Slipknot, Stratovarius, Symphony X, Tool, Trivium, Type O Negative, Winds.
Classical: Beethoven, Chopin, C.P.E. Bach, Debussy, Fucik, Handel, J.S. Bach, Liszt, Mozart, Pachelbel, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Vivaldi.
Other: 009 Sound System, ABBA, Andy McKee, Apocalyptica, Bee Gees, Benn Jordan, B.o.B., Buckethead, Daft Punk, Dante Bucci, David Guetta, David Vendetta, Davide Swarup, DJ Shadow, Eftekasat, Enrique Iglesias, Fort Minor, Frank Sinatra, Gary Jules, George Winston, Globus, Hans Zimmer, Henry Mancini, James Horner, Jordan Rudess, Kyle Gabler, La Monte Young, Lady GaGa, London Philharmonic Orchestra, M83, Manu Delago, Mr. Scruff, Niacin, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Robert Miles, Sam Sparro, Scott D. Davis, Serphonic, Shantel, Solar Fields, Souad Massi, Stevie Wonder, The Flashbulb, Tiesto, Victor Wooten, Yann Tiersen, Yiruma, Yoav.
Library size: 1,211 albums; 131 GB (and growing)
#2 - Nirvana
#3 - The Pixies
#4 - Kasabian
#5 - SOAD
2.Nickelback