Top 5 Artists/Bands

[colonel_moo]

Ok SOC, I'm sick of browsing the "what are you listening to" thread to get a feel for what you guys listen to. I know this type of thread has been done before, but I find this stuff interesting since music is a huge part of my life. So, getting to the point, its too hard to ask someone their favorite band (i at least have a difficult time picking just one) so list your top 5 favorite bands here!

As for me, my day to day, week to week listening habits change frequently, but here are my top 5 bands (in no particular order):

Mark Knopfler / Dire Straits (Classic Rock)
Dream Theater / Liquid Tension Experiment / John Petrucci (Progressive Metal)
Rx Bandits (Rock/Progressive)
Muse (Alternative/weird genre of their own)
The Devil Makes Three (Folk/rock... somewhat local band from Cali)

Yeah, I kinda cheated at my own rule by listing more than one band in two spots, but they are closely related. Mark Knopfler formed a solo career after the Dire Straits broke up, and Liquid Tension Experiment and John Petrucci's solo career are spin offs of Dream Theater.

My tastes vary quite a bit, and I will listen to pretty much everything except almost all rap, and most country.

EDIT: By the way, if anyone uses Last.fm, add me! ArmyOfOrr42

[VS3 Sniper]

Some of my top 5 are -

ACDC (Rock)
Eazy E / NWA (Rap/hip hop)
Modest Mouse (Alternative Pop/Rock)
CCR (CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL) (Rock)
Black Sabbath / Ozzy Osbourne (Rock/Heavy Metal)

There are a lot more artists I listen to but those are just some off the top of my head. My top 5 changes often tho.

[durrell]

Wow. Narrowing it down to 5 is REALLY hard for me. But I'll try.

Jack Johnson (Acoustic)
My Morning Jacket (Rock/Alternative/Sound of their own)
Coldplay (Alternative/Rock)
John Mark McMillan / Jonathan David Helser (Christian/Folk) - I cheated like Moo
Misty Edwards (Rock/Piano/Christian)

I bounce around different artists a lot, but those are 5 that I listen to very frequently. My last.fm tells a different story, but if it showed artists most listened to for the last few months..it would line up with those 6 artists listed, haha.

By the way moo, I added you.

[badlandsrox]

Pretty simple for the first few, a bit harder for the others...

Aerosmith
Motley Crue
Guns N Roses
Raconteurs/White Stripes
Local Bands

[colonel_moo]

Wow alot of classic rock here... I grew up on the stuff, I love it too!

Durrell: Jack Johnson is awesome!

[durrell]

Notice my number one artist on last.fm. He is by far my favorite.

Going to see him on August 12th.

[colonel_moo]

Lucky! I really need to get some more of his stuff. All I have is the Brushfire Fairytales album (which is excellent).

I am going to see Dream Theater on the 20th though... I'm pretty pumped about that!

[VS3 Sniper]

I like Jack johnson too.

And I LOVE classic rock, its mostly what I listen to.

[DFSniper]

Originally Posted by durrell

Wow. Narrowing it down to 5 is REALLY hard for me. But I'll try.

same.

i grew up on classic rock and 80s metal, but lately i've been listening to a lot more punk.

AFI (Punk/Rock. Pre-Decemberunderground)
Metallica
The Cult (Rock?)
Bouncing Souls (Punk)
Linkin Park/Fort Minor (Two completely different sounds, but lets face it, Mike Shinoda is awesome!)


ninja edit: i'm probably going to go see ZZ Top and Blind Melon on post at the end of may!

[tater_salad]

Iron Maiden (Metal)
Serj Tankian (Rock)
Gangstarr (Hip-Hop)
System Of A Down (Hard Rock/Metal)
Ozzy Osbourne/Black Sabbath (Metal)