Your favorite Rock Bands

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Morgoth412

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Okay, my musical tastes have changed alot in the past year, and now I have a bunch of new favorites:

TooL
King Crimson
Pink Floyd
Grateful Dead
Phish
Led Zeppelin

What are your favs?
-Kevin
 
Right now (changes weekly, if not more frequently... I guess this is the result of being an alt. radio music director when I was in college)... in no particular order:

Einsturzende Neubauten
Misfits
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Modest Mouse
 
As I grew up...

70's

Blue Oyster Cult
Bebop Deluxe
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Kansas
Steely Dan
The Stranglers

80's

Suicidal Tendencies
Husker Du
Slayer
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Metallica (up to MOP)
Mercyful Fate
Masters of Reality

90's

Pantera
Corrosion of Conformity
Opeth
Cry of Love
Galactic Cowboys
Masters of Reality (still going!)

00's

Mastodon
Lamb of God
Shadow's Fall
Masters of Reality (Goss refuses to give up)
 
Tool and Skinny Puppy. Both of them still make music that's complex enough that it doesn't get boring even on the hundredth listen.
 
Some interesting stuff already listed, especially from TorzJohnson. Mine:

Deep Purple and all the spin-off bands

Led Zeppelin

Black Sabbath

Judas Priest

Wishbone Ash

Uriah Heep

UFO

Looks like I'm stuck in 1970s England :eek:

Roger
 
Some interesting bands!

1970's:

Deep Purple
10cc
Slade
Pink Floyd
Stranglers
Siouxsie & the Banshees
Sex Pistols (didn't discover them properly till later)

1980's

New Order
The Smiths
Orange Juice
Magazine
The Cure
Spizz Energi
The Men They Couldn't Hang
The Pogues
The Jesus & Mary Chain

1990's

The Beautiful South
Pulp
Blur

2000's

Coldplay

Andrew
 
I like a wide range of bands, From Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. to Lou Reed, to Pink Floyd, and finally Led Zepplen. I came up with this list, based on the number of CDs I own by each respectively. Of course I owned tons of Vinly by even more groups. One that was an old time Vinyl Fav was Mott The Hoople!!

Ken
 
Lynrd Skynrd, 38 Special, Allman Brothers Band, Atlanta Rythym Section, Canned Heat, Humble Pie, Crosby Stills Nash and Young. Cavelady like. :cool:
 
Widespread Panic
The Allman Brothers Band
Blue Oyster Cult
Def Leopard
Georgia Satillites
Uriah Heap
Red Hot Chilly Peppers
Dick Dale and the Daletones - surf but still rock
The Woodies - same as above
 
Fun thread.

The Pogues
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Drive By Truckers
Boiled in Lead
Steve Earle and the Dukes
James McMurtry and the Heartless B*stards

Hm. Okay, they're all rock by some definition.

James
 
1. Any and every band that had Eric Clapton as a member.
2. Jimi Hendrix Experience
3. Allman Brothers (Duane Allman version most of all)
4. Santana
5. Little Feat
6. CSN/CSNY
7. Marshall Tucker
8. SRV and Double Trouble (Man, Stevie Ray was incredible. I cant believe it's been 13 years (this month) since the crash) :( :( :(
9. CCR
10. Traffic
11. Neville Brothers
12. ZZ Top
13. Jethro Tull
14. Eric Burden and War
15. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers



Edited to add a few. ;)
 
My list is long, but here are some of my fav:
Judas Priest
AC/DC
ZZ Top
Kiss
Motley Crue
Van Halen
Def Leopard
Journey
Pink Floyd
Gun N Roses
Rush
Dio
Y&T
Nickelback
OZZY
Kid Rock
Doors
Scorpions
Dokken
There are more, but I'll stop there.
 
Metal

Smashing Pumpkins (early)
Megadeth
Metallica (early)
Monster Magnet
Armored Saint
Alice In Chains
Anthrax

Metal/Other

Rob Zombie
Butthole Surfers
Soundgarden
Paw
King's X
Jane's Addiction
Filter

Alternative

Pixies (the best music on the planet)
Frank Black (the best music on the planet, again)
Camper van Beethoven
The Tragically Hip (early)
The Connells
Blur
Meat Puppets
The Pogues
The Replacements
Soul Asylum (early)
They Might Be Giants
Weezer
Travis
Nirvana
REM
Radiohead
The Eels
Built To Spill

Hard Rock

The Cult
Guns n Roses

Country Rock

The Jayhawks
The Silos
Wilco
Sun Volt

"Old" Alternative

Devo
Pere Ubu
The Clash

Techno/Industrial

The Crystal Method
Prodigy
KMFDM
Ministry
Big Audio Dynamite

Old Rock Bands

Queen
Aerosmith
Blue Oyster Cult
Black Sabbath
The Kinks
The Beatles
Jethro Tull
AC/DC
The Cars
T. Rex

One hit wonders? Bands with one great album:

Angel City
Boston
Breeders
R.L. Burnside
Dada
Danzig
Drivin n Cryin
Fatal Flowers
Grant Lee Buffalo
Kevorkian Death Cycle
The Lemonheads
Marilyn Manson
Mazzy Star
Mindless Self Indulgence
Morphine
Mott the Hoople
Mudhoney
Pavement
Joe Satriani
Rammstein
16 Horsepower
Sloan
Stone Roses
The Stooges
Thin Lizzy
Urge Overkill
Warren Zevon

Great "Anthology" Band Albums

The Alarm
Eric Burdon & The Animals
Bread
The Byrds
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Electric Light Orchestra
The Lovin' Spoonful
Jefferson Airplane/Starship
Journey
Kiss
Gordon Lightfoot
Mama & Papas
The Moody Blues
Ted Nugent
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Rush
Boz Scaggs
Bob Seger
Squeeze
Rod Stewart
Link Wray

The last two CDs I bought were Opeth (Blackwater Park) and Aimee Mann (Lost In Space). Both are good.
 
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