Favortie Bands/Musicians, Albums, Songs

[Decker]

With all of these music threads being posted I just figured why doesn't everyone post their top Bands, Albums, and Songs in lists with number one your favorite and no maybes! Lists of 20 only('cuz top 10 is too damn small for many) and no ties. The Genre doesn't matter and also musical groups like The Tempations, etc. And It doesn't have to be from the US, England, and Australia

Bands/Musicians:
1. The Red Hot Chili Peppers
2. AC/DC
3. Greenday
4. Led Zeppelin
5. Gun N' Roses
6. Def Leppard
7. Eric Clapton
8. B.B. King
9. Cold Play
10. The Killers
11. Jimi Hendrix
12. Queen
13. Eagles
14. Nickleback
15. Lynyrd Skynyrd
16. Foreigner
17. Steve Miller Band
18. The Gorillaz
19. Van Halen
20. Santana

Songs:
1. Sweet Child O' Mine
2. Snow(Hey OH!)
3. Simple Man
4. More Than A Feeling
5. Back In Black
6. All Along The Watchtower
7. Porcelain
*There's more but can't think of them at the moment!*

[Bijo]

All Along The Watchtower is a nice song. I think I'm going there right now :)

[Reverend Joe]

Overall, my favorite band of all time is the Jefferson Airplane. I've been listening to them for longer than any other psych-rock band, other than the Doors and Pink Floyd; and I really consider the Doors to be more Teen psych-rock, and I pretty much stopped listening to Pink Floyd back in late 2005. The Airplane has been one of my guiding psychedelic forces ever since I decided that I really was a hippie. Plus, I listen, and have listened, to them more than any other band (and that's including a solid summer when I listened to NOTHING but Pink Floyd.) Then there's also the Band, a really underrated band, in my opinion; they have a real one-of-a-kind progressive-psychedelic folk sound, and they are absolutely wonderful and relaxing to listen to in any inebriated state. Creedence deserves a mention, if only for keeping it real Southern style, as well as Muddy Waters and his band.

As for individual artists, none of the members of the Airplane really stand out for me; they worked best as a team, although Jorma Kaukonen is one of the best and most underrated guitarists of all time (and writes some good tunes at that,) and Jack Casady plays a mean damn bass. My favorite individual artists are mainly Syd Barrett and Jimi Hendrix, as well as Janis Joplin and the early Muddy Waters, and all those other great old Bluesmen. J. R. Robertson, the man who did the best and better part of the writing for the Band, deserves a good mention as well.

[Reverend Joe]

Damn, no edit button... forgot albums and songs.

Aside from the obvious first 6 Airplane albums (with the exception of the mediocre "Crown of Creation",) my favorite albums, oddly enough, are usually not by my favorite artists. For one, there's "Magical Mystery Tour" which, although the B-side is lacking, has a great list of A-side tracks (especially "The Fool on the Hill", "Flying", and "I Am the Walrus.") It also happens to be the only Beatles album I enjoy (although granted, I haven't yet gotten around to "Revolver" or the White Album.) There's also "On Fyre" by the Lyres, who, as far as I know, never produced another album like "On Fyre," "Outside Inside" by Blue Cheer, who are otherwise rather talentless to my ears, the BOC live album "Some Enchanted Evening," "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by the Iron Butterfly (I still can't believe this was their only good album) and "Nashville Skyline" by you-know-who (he should have quit smoking for good, because it's the only time his voice didn't sound like someone stuck a hobo in the studio and told him to sing some random lyrics. )

...And I can't think of any favorite songs. Kinda varies, I guess.

[Tristuskhan]

Bands and musicians, but the music I listen is so diverse I can't rank them:
-the Clash
-the Dead Kennedy's
-Ar re Yaouank (breton traditionnal)
-the Afghan Whigs (anyone from Cincinnati here?)
-The Roots
-Leningrad (anyone knows russian ska here?)
-John Coltrane quartet with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones (the God of Thunder himself)
-Fela Anikulapo Kuti
-Toumani Diabaté
-Fletcher Henderson's big band, 1925-1935
-Diaouled ar Menez, another breton trad
-Aziz Herawi's afghan ensemble
-la familia Valera Miranda
-Dead Prez
-Kortatu

About the songs, I can't answer, really. Singing birds, maybe...

[Bijo]

* Radiohead
* Beatles
* Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
* Red Hot Chili Peppers (only older styles (Blood Sugar Sex Magik, etc.) + Californication)

[Husar]

The only ones I dare put in here are Nelly Furtado and Feist. Like pretty much every song of them.
There is a lot of other music I listen to but I can't really list it here, maybe Karma, if that points anyone into the right direction.

[Togakure]

My favorite bands and the albums that gave me reason to like them:

1. Queen (Queen, A Night at the Opera; A Day at the Races, News of the World)
2. Aerosmith (Get Your Wings, Dream On, Toys in the Attic, Rocks)
3. Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, The Wall)
4. Led Zeppelin (I, II, III, IV, Houses of the Holy, Physical Grafitti)
5. Lynyrd Skynyrd (Pronounced)
6. The Eagles (Eagles, Desperado, Hotel California)
7. Kansas (Leftoverture, Point of Know Return, Two for the Show)
8. Jeff Beck / Jan Hammer (Blow by Blow, Wired, There and Back, Guitar Shop)
9. Journey (Journey, Infinity, Evolution, Departure, Escape)
10. Billy Idol (Billy Idol, Rebel Yell)
11. U2 (War, The Unforgettable Fire, The Joshua Tree)
12. Missing Persons (Spring Session M, Rhyme and Reason)
13. Depeche Mode (Black Celebration, Music for the Masses, Violator, Songs of Faith and Devotion)
14. Nine Inch Nails (Pretty Hate Machine, The Downward Spiral, Fragile)
15. Front Line Assembly (Millenium, Hard Wired)
16. Patrick O'Hearn (Ancient Dreams, Between Two Worlds, Rivers Gonna Rise, El Dorado, Mix Up, Indigo, Trust, Metaphor, So Flows the Current)
17. Enya (The Celts, Watermark, Shepherd Moons, A Day Without Rain)

The order reflects chronology more or less, not rank. I'm sure I'm forgetting some (I've been on a music "fast" for the last five years or so), so I'll leave a few slots open for now.

Peter Frampton, Frampton Comes Alive!, gets an honorable mention. On my first day in 7th grade, I watched the entire auditorium erupt with screaming girls as five long-haired 8th graders played "Show Me the Way," complete with talkbox solo. All I'd done up until then was classical music; I was quite a nerd. I pushed my glasses up on my nose and thought to myself: that is so easy. And look at all these girls creaming over themselves for these dorks! I can do this. That moment set the direction of my life for the next decade (much to the chagrin of my parents, though they supported my dream despite their disappointment). I was gonna ROCK. And I did .

[Gawain of Orkeny]

The Beatles (Abbey Road, Revlover, Sgt Peppers) Everything :)

The Who ( Live at Leeds, The Who sell out,Tommy , Who,s Next ,Quadrophenia)

Frank Zappa (Freak Out! ,Over-Nite Sensation ,Apostrophe('),Roxy & Elsewhere.Bongo Fury,Zoot Allures,Zappa In New York,Sheik Yerbouti,Joe's Garage,You Are What You Is and Baby Snakes

Cream ( FRESH CREAM, DISRAELI GEARS, WHEELS OF FIRE, GOODBYE)

Jeff Beck / Jan Hammer (Blow by Blow, Wired, There and Back, Guitar Shop)

The Kinks (Kinks,Kinda Kinks,Something Else By The Kinks,The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society,Arthur Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire,Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround, Part One,Sleepwalker and Low budget.

Jethro Tull (This Was, Stand up, Benefit, Aqualung, Thick as a Brick, Living in the past, A Passion Play, War Child ,Minstrel In The Gallery,Too Old to Rock'N'Roll: and Songs From The Wood