PHers Top 50 Bands Of All Time

[geeks]

Cyder said:

Difficult question, I'm a bit younger than most of the dinosaurs that have already posted I think ...

1. Muse
2. Foo Fighters
3. Queen
4. Deep Purple
5. Queens of the Stone Age
6. Oasis
7. Guns n Roses
8. Green Day
9. The Offspring
10. Clean Bandit

All good choices as well, to be honest I am crap at stuff like this I have no real go to bands but picked some that I always enjoy, I also wondered if I was a bit younger, maybe we should include ages with with them, I am 35 for example!

[colin_p]

Very difficult as it spans all genres. I'm approaching this as those who I most and have most listened to;

A very predictable list for someone who listens predominantly to "rawk" ...

Iron Maiden
AC/DC
Metallica
Guns and Roses
Alice in chains
Pearl Jam
The smashing pumpkins
Thin Lizzy
Soundgarden
Black Sabbath


Very honourable mentions to those who missed the most listened to list above;

Led Zeppelin
Deep Purple
David Bowie
Free
Bad Company
Budgy
Motorhead
Saxon
Alice Cooper
Anthrax
Beachboys
Beatles
Big Country
Black Crowes
Creedence Clearwater revival
The Cult
The Darkness
Deftones
Eagles
ELO
Elvis
Small Faces
The Faces
Fu Manchu
Judus Priest
Kinks
Korn
Kyuss
Lynaryd Skynryd
Megadeth
Monster Magnet
Ozzy
Placebo
Queens of the stoneage
Rage against the machine
Rainbow
Ramones
Rolling Stones
Roxy music
Scorpions
Slayer
Steve Miller band
Stonesour
Suede
T Rex
The Who
.........and many others

[SAB888]

Black Sabbath
Evanescence
Creed
Seether
Queensryche
Pink Floyd
Ozzy Osbourne
Fleetwood Mac
3 Doors Down
The Eagles

Edited by SAB888 on Wednesday 4th December 18:15

[Walter Sobchak]

Massive Attack
Radiohead
Depeche Mode
Joy Division
Cream
Pink Floyd
Fleetwood Mac
The Stones
Bowie
RHCP

Edited by Walter Sobchak on Monday 9th December 20:07

[pitboard]

Steely Dan
The Band
Little Feat
Velvet Underground
Grateful Dead
Allman Brothers
The Beatles
Rolling Stones
Fabulous Thunderbirds
Tedeschi Trucks

[StanleyT]

10 - Television
9 - Velvet Underground and being cheeky Lou Reed and Bowie configurations after
8 - Doors
7 - Echo and the Bunnymen (Ian Mac days)
6 - Jesus and Mary Chain before they went acoustic in the 1990s.
5 - Sisters of Mercy
4 - Leonard Skynard (Irish cover band in the 1980s)
3 - Macc Lads
2 - Stone Roses
1 - Bob Dylan

[cherryowen]

cherryowen said:

My initial first (Rock) 10:-

Zep
Sabbath
Purple
AC/DC
Whitesnake
Judas Priest
Thin Lizzy
UFO
Kiss
Van Halen

Next 10 (Prog Rock) in no order as above:-

Pink Floyd
King Crimson
Genesis
Yes
Rush
Marillion
Emerson Lake & Palmer
Frank Zappa
Asia
Camel

[Johnspex]

Good to see Queen only mentioned a couple of times.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Bowie
Lou Reed
Velvet Underground
Sex Pistols
The Clash
Sparks
Elvis Costello
The Cure
Ian Dury
Talking Heads

[Johnspex]

Good to see Queen only mentioned a couple of times.

[underwhelmist]

Joy Division - mentioned a few times already, good!

Pixies - can't see any mention of these. Groundbreaking.

The Wedding Present - OK more indie than rock but get down the front and see if you still call it shoe-gazing!

Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine. Unstoppable. It's in the name. Until they stopped of their own volition.

Colourblind James Experience. Best xylophone solo on a song about moving to Memphis ever.

A Certain Ratio. A weird noise you can dance to.

The Blue Nile. Not exactly prolific but brilliant.

B52s. Bonkers, and wonderful.

Talking Heads. Arty, bonkers and wonderful.

Edited by underwhelmist on Thursday 5th December 23:40

[dandarez]

As I have been lucky to have watched so many bands (and singers - it does say bands in the heading) since the 60s, I'll 'try' and add extra ones not mentioned. One band is mentioned by a few already, but too vague so I've adjusted it to eras.
No particular order either. Could add 50 others easily.

Fleetwood Mac (Green/Kirwan era)
Fleetwood Mac (Buckingham Nicks era)
Fleetwood Mac (Campbell/Finn - current era)
PHD (incredible Jim Diamond)
Wishbone Ash (original band 70s)
Love Sculpture (Dave Edmunds) blew me away live in 1968 when they stood in for T.Rex.
"Now we're going to play something called 'Sabre Dance' " - WOW!
- 'course, they didn't last long. Edmunds as solo artist did though.

Spooky Tooth (early)
Humble Pie
ELO
The Doors
Ten Years After
Canned Heat
The Cars
ZZ Top
Focus
Thin Lizzy
Blondie
Supertramp
Savoy Brown
Chicken Shack (with Christine Perfect era - ie:McVie)
The Eagles
Rainbow
Santana (all early stuff)
Free
Moody Blues
CCR
Jefferson Airplane
Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Animals
Patti Smith Band
Colosseum (original line up - Valentine Suite period)
Rolling Stones
Beatles (Get Back era only)
10cc
Led Zeppelin
Big Country (rock period only, not bagpipes!)
Pink Floyd (Division Bell period)
Jeff Beck Group (early with Rod S.)
Kinks (early)
The Sweet (for one song only, 'Love is Like Oxygen' 1978 album version. Still sounds fresh today.)
Status Quo (all early, esp Piledriver era)
Groundhogs
Edgar Broughton Band (for 2 records only, 'Apache Drop Out' (1970 mick-take of the Shadows instru.)
and the brilliant, but dark, 'Hotel Room' (1971)

(bit o' Tamla etc, could list many more)
Bob & Earl
(Harlem Shuffle - first heard this with mates at a dance hall in Reading in 1968, two young dolly birds actually had the orig 63 UK release with them and got the DJ to play it. It went down a storm that night and was played about a dozen times! - We'd never heard it before but these two had played the single to death! They came home on the train to Oxford with us after!
It was re-released within a year and made the UK top ten. I'm not surprised! One of the best dance songs ever. Stones version doesn't come near.

Gladys Knight & The Pips
The Supremes
The Isley Brothers
Four Tops
Sly & The Family Stone

Christ, not like me at all, I nearly forgot!
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Edited by dandarez on Friday 6th December 01:12

[CanoeSniffer]

Arctic Monkeys
Foo Fighters
Franz Ferdinand
The Fratellis
Gorillaz
Kasabian
Queens of the Stone Age
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Stone Roses
The Vaccines

Difficult! My taste spans many genres, but if I truly think hardest about 10 bands only I could listen to for the rest of my life I think this is about it. 2000s-era alternative rocker at heart it appears!

Edited by CanoeSniffer on Friday 6th December 05:01

[Hub]

Er... before I vote, you say 'bands' but then mention solo artists, and a few have included them... can you clarify if this is just 'bands' or top 50 'musical artists'?

[droopsnoot]

I like random things from so many artists, but off the top of my head:

The Stranglers
The Damned
Genesis
Queen
ELO
Dr Feelgood
Iron Maiden
Buzzcocks
Eagles

and many, many more.

[P5BNij]

Changes slightly from week to week, I find it difficult not to include any solo artists but here's mine in no particular order....

The Rolling Stones
The Beatles
The Who
The Kinks
The Small Faces
Scott Walker
The Velvet Underground
Iggy & The Stooges
The Yardbirds
The Byrds

[jontykint]

Hub said:

Er... before I vote, you say 'bands' but then mention solo artists, and a few have included them... can you clarify if this is just 'bands' or top 50 'musical artists'?

It does say “Bands” in the title, so go on that I reckon

[jontykint]

Spritualized
Talking Heads
Talk Talk
Pink Floyd
Radiohead
Rolling Stones
Beatles
Led Zep
Can
U2

[irocfan]

Hub said:

Er... before I vote, you say 'bands' but then mention solo artists, and a few have included them... can you clarify if this is just 'bands' or top 50 'musical artists'?

from the OP: Solo artists should be considered separately to their respective band (in that Ozzy is Ozzy, Dio is Dio and Black Sabbath are Black Sabbath)


I'd say solo artistes are good

[smn159]

Led Zep
Pink Floyd
The Clash
The Jam
The Specials
The Who
Joy Division
Bowie
The Beatles
Hendrix