Top ten (or so) bands of all time in your life?

No list is complete without:

White Lion
Stryper
Mr. Big

I think I just threw up.

 

Really surprised no Tool mentions yet.

Tool
Deftones
Linkin Park
Slipknot
Nightwish
Lamb of God
Eminem
Soundgarden
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Tom Petty

Honestly, where you guys may be struggling to come up with 10, I almost found it difficult to come up with 10. My top 6 or so are easy, really impacted the first 20+ years of my life in ways no others compared. The last 4 I had to think on a bit but really don’t carry the weight of the others.

 

I should have had Tool on my list also.

I know the pieces (eleventh) fit.

 

How did I miss them?

Boz Scaggs, too.

Shit I think I'm up to about 20 now...

 

I'm not much of a music lover, so I can't really say any one of these bands truly changed my life in a meaningful way, but they are certainly reflective of the era in which music was a pervasive element of my day-to-day (90's-early 2000's):

Nirvana
Metallica
Tool
Beastie Boys
Dre/Snoop
Wu-Tang Clan
Radiohead
311
Sublime
Soundgarden (and anything else Chris Cornell was involved in)

 

License To Ill
Straight Outta Compton
Kick - INSX
Appetite For Destruction
The Chronic
Cocktails - Too $hort
Nevermind - Nirvana
Van Halen - Best of...
Ready To Die - Biggie
Metallica - Metallica

 

You just made up the first 8 on your list.

 

AC/DC (Bon Scott)
Van Halen (David Lee Roth)
Led Zeppelin
David Bowie
Queen
Nirvana
Bush
Lynard Skynard
Samantha Fish
Circa Paleo

There are so many that produced SOME righteous stuff, but don't really have a full catalog that I would care to own, as 'D-Zum' points out when it comes to Guns n Roses.

 

Tone deaf out of tune shouting is not music, much less good music.

 

Mom, you're just jealous.

 

I used chatgpt to come up with the names.

 

10!? Man that's squeezing it.... barley covering feels and genres.

Ok,

-Ernest Ranglin
-Bob Marley
-James Brown
-Mike Love
-JJ Cale
-Sturgill Simpson
-JJ Grey
-Mark Knofler
-Operation Ivy
-NOFX

That covers top to bottom, feels, song writing, talent, fart jokes. Damn you @Dave K

 

Pat -- Below the Bassline for the win. We might be the only two people who know who he is here (even though everyone has heard his riffs).

 

Yeah, 10 is tough but it’s also a fun challenge. Do I include Crimpshrine? But that might push someone like TSOL out. How do I not include Slayer? But if I put in Slayer that’ll eliminate Pulley. I love NOFX but really don’t like Fat Mike. . .

Hmmm, gotta think more on this. Lol

 

When Ernest comes on at the shop everything stops and the old acoustic bass wall hanger comes down for some groove. I've gotta be careful or I won't get anything done. Gladys, Aretha, Bob, Ernest, James Brown are all on careful rotation... productivity drops accordingly lol.

 

Bad Religion should have won out of those two but, we all just went to the Final tour NOFX show this past Saturday in Orlando and they played a 2 and a half hour set, closed with The Decline and played a million times tighter than I've ever heard them.

 

Adele
Billie Eilish
Adele
Billie Eilish
Adele
Billie Eilish
Adele
Billie Eilish
Adele
Billie Eilish

 

Joy Division / New Order
Ozzy
Iron Maiden
Blues Brothers (the 2 albums are great)
The Jam / Paul Weller
Bauhaus / Peter Murphy
Ska (Specials, English Beat, Bad Manners, Selecter, Madness)
Prince
The Clash / Big Audio Dynamite
David Bowie

 

You forgot Taylor Swift.

 

NONE of you MF’ers play any belly rubbing music?
Fleetwood Mac is good, but
Charlie Parker and Dave Brubeck add some spice to all that meat and potatoes.