Top 3 Bands

TommieGunshot · 03-26-20, 09:04 AM

Prince and The Revolution
Prince and The New Power Generation
3rd Eye Girl

honorable mentions: Guns 'N Roses; Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

stevek173 · 03-26-20, 09:14 AM

Currently The Black Keys, Cage the Elephant and Highly Suspect (though BIG dropoff on their latest album)

All Time probably Kings of Leon, Pink Floyd and The Beatles. U2 as alternate but only their pre-2000 stuff

Mr KLC · 03-26-20, 10:06 AM

Chicago
Hall & Oates
Survivor

Easy-Rider 66 · 03-26-20, 10:25 AM

Springsteen
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Pink Floyd

Al Masters · 03-26-20, 10:32 AM

Led Zeppelin
The Rolling stones
The Who

Crayzee · 03-26-20, 11:08 AM

No way i can narrow it down
zeppelin
deep purple
ten years after
rockpile
allman brothers
skynyrd
charlie daniels band

outlaws
doors
cream
who
rory gallagher
iron maiden
bill haley and the comets
fleetwood ma- entire history - all lineups
hendrix
chuck berry
stray cats

thats the short list

deadphish · 03-26-20, 02:27 PM

Originally posted by Easy-Rider 66

Springsteen
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Pink Floyd

there's an interesting trio...certainly some diversity.
it was tough for me to leave out Floyd...would have made my top 3 in high school.

Auto Donk · 03-26-20, 02:42 PM

Originally posted by deadphish

as a musician & music lover it's nearly impossible for me narrow it down to 3. so i kinda cheated...

1. Bob Marley & The Wailers, Grateful Dead, Groundation (3 way tie)
2. Phish
3. Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention

honorable mention: Leftover Salmon

explains a lot..... phish

Auto Donk · 03-26-20, 02:51 PM

identified by the first cassette i bought of each:

purchased this in the seventh grade, first cassette purchases of music ever for me, bought four with my lawnmowing money: presence, nazareth hair of the dog, rush 2112, and aerosmith draw the line..... at sears!

(this is an objective pick, as I'm not a huge van halen fan and didn't particularly care for dlr, but vh blew top bands off the stage as the undercard, and brought life back into a genre on the verge of dying after areosmith's latest releases were falling flat....)

note: in utero was my first cassette I BOUGHT, some dumbass left nevermind at my place after a house party at A&M.... also, gallons has become my fav nirvana song over time, replacing lithium,.... solos in my head everytime I'm really laying the wood these days......

honorable mention: gnr, anytime you can make crowds do shit like this in the video, you got immense game:

deadphish · 03-26-20, 03:19 PM

Originally posted by Auto Donk

identified by the first cassette i bought of each:

that was my fave Zep tune when i was in high school....loved to play drums along w/it under headphones.
great choice...but you're still a tool

Auto Donk · 03-26-20, 03:22 PM

Originally posted by deadphish

that was my fave Zep tune when i was in high school....loved to play drums along w/it under headphones.
great choice...but you're still a tool

at least we found some common ground, you phish-fan tool deluxe!

DwightShrute · 03-26-20, 03:49 PM

top 3 is tough but #1 is easy.

#1. The Stones

#2. Bob Seger

#3. AC/DC

deadphish · 03-26-20, 04:04 PM

i can't see Dwight's post (on ignore). i'm gonna guess...

1. New Kids on the Block
2. Color Me Badd
3. Wham

Easy-Rider 66 · 03-26-20, 04:06 PM

Originally posted by deadphish

i can't see Dwight's post (on ignore). i'm gonna guess...

1. New Kids on the Block
2. Color Me Badd
3. Wham

#1. The Stones

#2. Bob Seger

#3. AC/DC

DwightShrute · 03-26-20, 04:08 PM

Originally posted by deadphish

i can't see Dwight's post (on ignore). i'm gonna guess...

1. New Kids on the Block
2. Color Me Badd
3. Wham

deadphish · 03-26-20, 05:24 PM

Van Halen was my fave band when i was in grade school. just stumbled on this while searching for something Fleetwood Mac related. this chik rocks...

Auto Donk · 03-26-20, 05:26 PM

Originally posted by deadphish

i can't see Dwight's post (on ignore). i'm gonna guess...

1. New Kids on the Block
2. Color Me Badd
3. Wham

no flock of seagulls or kajagoogoo?

nash13 · 03-26-20, 05:44 PM

1. Radiohead
2. The Cure
3. David Bowie

JohnGalt2341 · 03-27-20, 02:21 PM

Current favorite musician: Ewan Dobson

Overall favorite: MetallicA

Honorable mentions over the years: Hot Water Music, The Lemonheads(mostly early stuff), The Replacements, Pavement, Rush, Cake, Quicksand, The Pixies, Jane's Addiction, Led Zeppelin, R.E.M., Fountains of Wayne, Weezer... hell I'm already naming more than I intended to.

Sanity Check · 03-27-20, 02:49 PM

1. Bob Marley

2. ?????

3. ?????

mcaulay777 · 03-27-20, 04:12 PM

1 Kiss
2 Iron Maiden
3 Adam and the Ants.

Terrapin Station · 03-27-20, 04:52 PM

Social Distortion
Rancid
Rolling Stones

JohnGalt2341 · 03-27-20, 05:25 PM

Originally posted by Terrapin Station

Social Distortion
Rancid
Rolling Stones

Nice. Have you ever seen the punk documentary "Another State of Mind"? It features Social Distortion and a band called Youth Brigade. They are followed around for their summer of 82 tour. I highly recommend it.

Also... what's your favorite Social Distortion album? Song?

Bob Loblaw · 03-28-20, 03:31 PM

1 Dylan
2 Zeppelin
3 Beatles

deadphish · 03-28-20, 09:19 PM

Originally posted by Bob Loblaw

1 Dylan
2 Zeppelin
3 Beatles

solid trio...i'd rank Dylan in top 3 song writers

Wabashwonders · 03-29-20, 03:23 PM

REO Speedwagon
Riot
Screamin’ Cheetah Wheelies

BOA12 · 03-29-20, 03:30 PM

Originally posted by deadphish

as a musician & music lover it's nearly impossible for me narrow it down to 3. so i kinda cheated...

1. Bob Marley & The Wailers, Grateful Dead, Groundation (3 way tie)
2. Phish
3. Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention

honorable mention: Leftover Salmon

My favorite song of fall time "Better". Still have the cassette somewhere. Phish tape too.

habitualwinning · 03-29-20, 06:52 PM

Zeppelin and Metallica are the two best, most complete body of work, rock bands of all time. The third for a top 3 would be ridiculously debatable. Pink Floyd gets hurt, imo, by never touring much. The Beatles are too soft and poppy, imo. I'd probably go something like Tool for my 3rd.

stevenash · 03-29-20, 07:23 PM

blankoblanco · 03-29-20, 08:01 PM

Originally posted by stevenash

Best song on the album! Always wondered why it wasn't one of their hits but I guess it had a little more edge to it. Plus it seems to be about the guy murdering a girl so maybe that's not radio friendly

stevenash · 03-29-20, 08:22 PM

Originally posted by blankoblanco

Best song on the album! Always wondered why it wasn't one of their hits but I guess it had a little more edge to it. Plus it seems to be about the guy murdering a girl so maybe that's not radio friendly

Watch the whole murder trilogy!
You’ll be glad you did.
This is beyond incredible.

cincinnatikid513 · 03-29-20, 08:28 PM

sublime
metalica
elton john

blankoblanco · 03-29-20, 09:24 PM

Originally posted by stevenash

Watch the whole murder trilogy!
You’ll be glad you did.
This is beyond incredible.

Oh shit, I had no idea about this, pretty cool. Thanks!

deadphish · 03-29-20, 09:37 PM

Originally posted by habitualwinning

The Beatles are too soft and poppy, imo.

their final 5 albums are far from soft..

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
The Beatles (1968)
Abbey Road (1969)
Let it Be (1970)

poppy? a few songs on those albums are i suppose...but most their poppy stuff is pre 1966

is this soft? many music buffs say this song is responsible for the birth of heavy metal.