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Your Favourite Top 15 Bands aaaaaand new top 5
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 7:10 pm
by OneBardGooner
Okay it's off season and we're all Borrrred to Feckin tears already and more than just a tad Tetchy with this HEAT!!
So let's see if we can't do something nice and jolly..like
name our top 15 bands/artists of ALL TIME! - Well so far anyway!
okay I'll go first ( this ain't as easy as it sounds!- at least not for moi)
1. Yes
2. Joni Mitchell
3. Neil Young
4. Jackson Brown
5. Four Tops
6. America
7. Pink Floyd
8. Marvin Gaye
9. Alan Stivell
10. Bob Marley
11. Stevie Wonder
12. James
13. Led Zeppelin
14. Hot House Flowers
15. Genesis
aaaaaaaaaannnd
Top 5 New Bands/Artists that could well challenge your top 15
1. Blue Nile
2. Fleet Foxes
3. Caroline LaVelle
4. Bon Iver
5. Spocks Beard
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 4:25 am
by g88ner
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 12:17 pm
by Pal Lydersen
pixies
the stooges
neil young
warren zevon
bruce springsteen
dropkick murphys
smokey robinson & the miracles
the four tops
the beachboys
the kinks
the beatles
the who
nick cave
pink floyd
the fall
new:
tv on the radio
hammell on trial
wilco
grinderman
willy mason
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:08 pm
by OneBardGooner
Oh! No I didn't
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:02 pm
by mrgnu1958
Bard"y...i absolutely loveeeeee Genesis.
I saw em at wembley arena in about 1980 when Phil collins had THE BEARD.
GREAT DAYS THOSE!!!
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:41 pm
by dbrien
not in any particular order
David Devant and His Spirit Wife
Elbow
Pop Will Eat Itself
Morrissey
The Smiths
Paul Weller
Billy Bragg
Janes Addiction
Public Enemy
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Beastie Boys
Belle and Sebastian
Eat
Fishbone
Harry Connick Jnr
Ian Brown
Simon and Garfunkel
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:05 pm
by g88ner
oh, too difficult!
- KARNIVOOL
- The Smiths
- Radiohead
- Depeche Mode
- The Beatles
- Rolling Stones
- Cat Stevens (
but not Yusuf Islam 
)
- Joy Division/New Order
- Oasis
- Nirvana
- Pixies
And loads more!
New(er) bands....
- TV on the Radio
- Bright Eyes (
My equivalent of RaM's obssession with Karnivool 
)
- Modest Mouse
Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 3:03 pm
by OneBardGooner
mrgnu1958 wrote:Bard"y...i absolutely loveeeeee Genesis.
I saw em at wembley arena in about 1980 when Phil collins had THE BEARD.
GREAT DAYS THOSE!!!
Yeah they sure were Gnuey....I saw Genesis twice when P.Gabriel was with them - the last one being 1975 when they did the Lamb Lies Down On Broodway Tour MAGNIFIQUE!!!!...well weird but Excellent!
Btw Gnuey where's your top 15 + 5 !?????
I did hear there's a band called Basil
Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:24 pm
by cusamano
1. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
2. Bob Dylan
3. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
4. Johnny Cash
5. Neil Young
6. Coldplay
7. Elvis Presley
.
.
.
and:
The Cure
Franz Ferdinand
Guns´n´Roses
Frank Sinatra (those Rat Pack fellas)
Strokes
Maximo Park
U2
Green Day
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Led Zeppelin
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:42 pm
by donaldo
Elvis Presley Broke down the all the barriers.The King of rock n roll
Chuck Berry-blues,RnB Rock n Roll he did the lot
Ray Charles-The great Brother Ray
Rolling Stones The greatest rock n roll group ever
The Beach Boys- The genius of Brian Wilson
Bob Dylan- The poet of a Generation
Otis Redding- He is what soul is all about.Raw energy
James Brown- The Godfather
Marvin Gaye- The Greatest male soul singer
Stevie Wonder- Genius
Aretha Franklin- Greatest female soul singer
Jimi Hendrix- Made his guitar talk
Neil Young- Folk,country,rock and roll he does it all
Curtis Mayfield-Philosopher of soul
Led Zeppelin- Greatest Rock Band
All artists who have left their mark on the history of music.
And to be honest no one in the last 20 years has come near any of them
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 5:23 am
by gusher311
No particular order:
311
Dave Matthews Band
The Beatles
Dr. Dre
Incubus
Kanye West
Muse
Oasis
Queen
Radiohead
Stone Temple Pilots
The Strokes
Third Eye Blind
Weezer
Jay-Z
Led Zepplin
Thats pretty much what I listen to
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:16 pm
by MattM316
Top 15 in no particular order:
Manic Street Preachers
Amen
Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
Marilyn Manson
The Doors
Girls Aloud
Tool
Throbbing Gristle
Nine Inch Nails
Killing Joke
The Bronx
The Beatles
Nirvana
Neil Young
Kyuss
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 4:52 pm
by DB10GOONER
In no particular order;
Van Halen (both varients - but NOT with the tosser from Extreme)
Neil Young
Alice in Chains
The Specials
(early) Madness
The Selecter
Stiff Little Fingers
Rolling Stones (pre 1983)
Randy Rhoads-era Ozzy (RR was a God. RIP)
Avenged Sevenfold
G'n'R
(early) Mötley Crüe
Pearl Jam
Pixies
Iron Maiden
AC/DC (both varients but pre 1985)
Soundgarden
Blink 182 (before they went all benny emo
)
newish stuff I'm listening to;
Trivium (not sold on them yet...)
Lilly Allen's latest album (some top melodies)
Slipknot (kinda getting back into them)
Shit I hate;
All boy bands/girl bands and any manufactured reality/"talent" show rubbish. I hope Luis Walsh and Simon Cowel get fucking gang raped to death by a rampaging hord of rhino's that are ODing out of their minds on viagra and caffeine.
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:37 pm
by olgitgooner
'kin 'ell !
I never realised we had so many oldsters on here.
My top 15 are, in no particular order (although the Beatles were the best thing since sliced bread)......
Beatles
Rolling Stones
Kinks
Hollies
Who
Hendrix
Moody Blues
Small Faces/Rod Stewart/Faces
Stevie Wonder
Blind Faith/Cream/Traffic/Steve Winwood
Roberta Flack
Al Green
David Bowie
U2
Queen
Nik Kershaw
Spandau Ballet
Pet Shop Boys (West End Girls was fantastic, and I'm not gay)
Elton John (still not gay
)
Squeeze
Oh feck. I've done more than 15. What the heck.
Five newer artists...
Take That (slightly embarassed, but they DO produce original stuff)
Blue (embarassed again)
Green Day
Kaiser Chiefs
and, one for the future....
Raygun.
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:54 pm
by olgitgooner
