Whats your top 10 bands?

[davo78]

The Smiths
Radiohead
Pixies
The Cure
Arcade Fire
Wild Nothing
Wild Beasts
The Shins
Joy Division
The Ruby Suns
Wilco
Sigur Rós

 

[edgie]

AC/DC
Bon Jovi
Megadeth
Iron Maiden
Metallica
Guns N Roses
The Angels
Fear Factory
Cold Chisel

That's about it really. Takes a lot for me to like an entire bands worth. Bruce Springsteen, Def Leppard, David Bowie, Anthrax all close to becomeing a "favourite band". Airbourne just one album away.

 

[Roddy]

I actually have a clear cut top 6:

Rush
Devin Townsend
Dream Theater
Opeth
Porcupine Tree
Karnivool

Beyond that, there's probably a thousand.

 

[The_Big_Ship]

Boards of Canada
Radiohead
Talk Talk
The Chameleons
Portishead
The Beatles
Stereolab
The Cure
Joy Division
Deerhunter

 

[Ninty]

In no order, as of right now;

Foo Fighters
Nine Inch Nails
Oceansize
Enter Shikari
sleepmakeswaves
Floating Me
Manchester Orchestra
Sydonia
Biffy Clyro
Karnivool

 

[bungalow_bill]

The Beatles

<large gap>

inpo

The Smiths
Radiohead
Duran Duran
Roxy Music
XTC
Kraftwerk
Split Enz/Crowded House
The Go Betweens
The Church

 

[rocker_oz33]

well today my top bands would be in no real order

the doors
pearl jam
foo fighters
biffy clyro
karnivool/cog
iron maiden
childern collide
chilli peppers

that will do for now/

*god l have heard of some of the bands in this thread.

 

[tiger dream]

The ones that maintain my interest over the years.
New Order/JOY DIVISION.
Underground Lovers/gb3
Duran Duran
Pet Shop Boys
Madonna
Missy Higgins
KISS
Jesus and Mary Chain
THE THE
Depeche Mode
-----------
The Cure
The Paradise motel
The Beloved
Drop city/The lovetones.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
LOW
Primal Scream
Happy Mondays
Stone Roses
The Veronicas

 

[Eddie Dingle]

My top ten acts are:

Kylie Minogue
Melissa Tkautz
Jason Donovan
The Chantoozies
Dannii Minogue
Bruce Samazan
Craig McLachlan
Gayle & Gillian Blakely
Natalie Imbruglia
Toni Pearen

And any other actor turned singer. They are the best because they are actors and singers so they are more talented than any band or singer. You can especially tell in their film clips because they can act and sing.

 

[HyperAgressiveDonk]

10 is not enough

Top 20 artists

1. The National
2. The Walkmen
3. You Am I ( + Tim Rogers Solo & with Temperance Union )
4. Radiohead
5. Regina Spektor
6. Augie March
7. Surjan Stevens
8. TV On The Radio
9. Arctic Monkeys
10. Downhills Home
11. The Kinks
12. Arcade Fire
13. Eddy Current Suppression Ring
14. The Shirelles
15. Leonard Cohen
16. Neutral Milk Hotel
17. Nick Cave
18. The Beatles
19. Wilco
20. Elbow

 

[Roos4eva]

Currently (in no particular order):

QOTSA
Nine Inch Nails
Arctic Monkeys
Beastie Boys
Jane's Addiction
A Tribe Called Quest
Frenzal Rhomb
Them Crooked Vultures
Foo Fighters
Tool

 

[blackshadow]

No particular order

X (Australian)
Ministry
Rolling Stones
The Stooges
Celibate Rifles
Monster Magnet
Janes Addiction
Johnny Cash
Tom Waits
Neil Young

 

[SugarShane]

In no order as preferences change from time to time

Unwritten Law
Disturbed
Mudvayne
Rammstein
Stone Sour
Slipknot
Rob Zombie
Our Lady Peace
Cold
Alter Bridge

 

[Deez Baby]

The Beatles
The Strokes
Arctic Monkeys
Bloc Party
The Doors
Foals
Tame Impala
Black Keys
Creedence Clearwater Revival
The White Stripes

 

[deledio7]

The Drones
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Modest Mouse (pre millenium)
Pixies
Tom Waits
Wilco
Elliott Smith
Radiohead
Tapes n Tapes
Brian Jonestown Massacre

 

[JP Sauce]

The Drones
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Modest Mouse (pre millenium)
Pixies
Tom Waits
Wilco
Elliott Smith
Radiohead
Tapes n Tapes
Brian Jonestown Massacre

Wanna hang out?

 

[saintal]

Trying to base this on the past 10 years or so, rather than just what I’m into now.

Pain of Salvation
Oceansize
Agalloch
Anathema
Opeth
Devin Townsend
Dream Theater
Smashing Pumpkins
Metallica
Porcupine Tree

 

[Dr2Sheds]

Pavement
Yo La Tengo
Swervedriver
Pixies
MBV
Gersey
Belle and Sebastian
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Kim Salmon and the Surrealists
Sonic Youth

just missed the cut: Sounds Like Sunset, Black Keys, Panics

 

[Tex_21]

No particular order

Guns N Roses
Cold Chisel
Die Toten Hosen
Megadeth
Stone Sour
Led Zeppelin
AC/DC
Brooks & Dunn
Metallica
One of Alter Bridge, Slipknot, Sabbath, Aerosmith, Van Halen. (and probably heaps of others depending on my mood)

 

[Roobs321]

something like this;

1. Autechre
2. Radiohead
3. George Michael
4. Massive Attack
5. Bjork
6. Madonna
7. Pink Floyd
8. Wilco
9. The Roots
10. Tangerine Dream

The Next Ten in no order;
Porcupine Tree, A Tribe Called Quest, The Arctic Monkeys, The Beatles, Neil Young, Crowded House, Miles Davis, Tool, The Doobie Bros, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

And just for fun, Favourite albums from artists not in my Top 20;
Ride - Nowhere,
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks,
Warpaint - The Fool
Lifehouse - Stanley Climbfall
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Mastodon - Leviathan
U2 - Achtung baby
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma

 

[bradrowe#32]

1. Pearl Jam
2. My Morning Jacket
3. Augie March
4. Neil Young
5. Bruce Springsteen
6. Bluebottle Kiss
7. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
8. Cat Power
9. Radiohead
10. The Who

 

[GoldenHodge]

1. The Beatles

The rest in no particular order:

- The Clash
- Green Day
- Muse
- Beastie Boys
- The Libertines
- Reel Big Fish
- The Ramones
- Public Enemy
- The Misfits

 

[dumb]

no order and finding 10 as i flip through WMP

pink floyd, who i tend to leave on this list despite only sporadic playing over the last couple of years
jucifer
agoraphobic nosebleed
grails
esoteric
massive attack
darkthrone
kyuss
GNR
behemoth

 

[JP Sauce]

Also, this:

Hey, I also run away from girls wanting to have sex with me, but don't lump the OP's awful music taste in with me!

 

[aussierulesrules]

Not all now necessarily, but over the course of my life from about the age of 12:

Guns N' Roses
Daylight
Red Hot Chili Peppers
AC/DC
Metallica
The Doors
Nirvana
REM
Faith No More
Pearl Jam
Foo Fighters

With apologies to the likes of Garbage, No Doubt, U2, Green Day, Blink 182, Creedence, Led Zeppelin, Australian Crawl, Cold Chisel, Hoodoo Gurus, Midnight Oil, Crowded House, Baby Animals, Pink Floyd, Soundgarden, Killers, Queen, Stone Temple Pilots, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Dire Straits, Kaiser Chiefs, Muse, Smashing Pumpkins, Hole and anyone else I've forgotten.