Your Top Ten Fave Bands -or guess 'em

Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
redsock:
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Note: Out of a perceived sense of decorum, I didn't post it ten times. Really though, what other bands U like???

Me…when was the last time I saw you out at a show? As many other board members can tell you, I enjoy a lot of music more than the Clov. My top 10 would be very hard to peg down as it changes from moment to moment.

Originally posted by Sugartastic Tee Silk:
No Liz Phair or Wheat?? ;)

Originally posted by Bollocks:

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
Bags

Cheap Trick
GBV
Tommy Keene
The Replacements
The Posies
Big Star
Madonna
Metric
The Shins
B-52s

What!! No Bob Mould?????
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You funny, funny people….
While Liz Phair's "Exile" is one of my desert island discs, as is The Posies "Failure", overall they're not top ten material. And Madonna?! Kosmo, just 'cuz I'm going to the concert? That damn Markie, he told you I had Madonna on in my car. It was one song on a mix!! But you certainly got the gist of my list, yessiree bob, you did.

Here's my list – now this is alltime top ten (actually 11):

Bob Mould
The Replacements
Siouxsie & the Banshees
Foo Fighters
that dog.
Cheap Trick/The Police
Sloan
Jellyfish
Tommy Keene
Judybats

One thing I think is interesting is this list, which I just posted on another site – it's your 10 favorite *currently active* bands – so kind of your faves right now.

Good topic….I almost think 10 on this list is harder than Desert Island discs.

Snow Patrol
The Wrens
Sleater-Kinney
Sloan
Scout
Foo Fighters
Fountains of Wayne
Guided by Voices
Washington Social Club
The Decemberists/New Pornographers (tie, I'm cheating)

Dammit: Spoon, Idlewild and Soundtrack of our Lives have to be honorable mentions. Told ya this was hard.

As for doing list for y'all, I'm terrible at that. I know a few fave bands: I'd put
- Lloyd Cole on Brennser's
- couldn't believe Beautiful South wasn't on Mank's first list
- figure Old 97s and Pernice for Rhett (but don't know if they're all time or current faves)
- going with bands with cute hair is about as well as I could do for LuLu
- pollard's got GBV and a bunch of Pitchfork darlings
- Sugartastic El Tee is a band coming to Birchmere I've never heard of
- Lily loves her Damien Rice
- Markie – The tyde, the Delgados, and some stuff Pollard's given him recently
- Dupek, some prog rock I know by name but am not so sure I know any songs
- thirsty, something loud
- redsock, EXIT CLOV
- Skeeter, a mix of jam and indie and post-punk and…damn that guy loves music
- Bede, GBV and….?
- Kurosawa, all the coolest shit coming out of the British Isles (or music that sounds like it comes from the British Isles but is from Brooklyn)\
-ggw, he seems to go to just about everything and I can't tell if he's liking it or not, but he did see Dylan
multiple times, didn't he….he's old school I'm thinkin'
- Kosmo, no doubt there are five power pop bands I had never heard of before meeting him – like starbelly, De Novo Dahl, the Shazam, Myracle Brah
- samantha, I GOT BIG TITS and I'M IN HIGH SCHOOL
- flawd, a bunch of bands I have NEVER heard of
- guiny, I have no clue
- sonick, let's all say it together, radiohead

I forgot people, sorry, never thought I was going to do that….

Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
redsock:
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Note: Out of a perceived sense of decorum, I didn't post it ten times. Really though, what other bands U like???

DUDE, he discovered Snow Patrol FIRST! :p
(though I don't know that it means it's in his top ten…)

Since I have been branded with the Pitchfork label, much like Sonick with that Spin tattoo on his ass, don't ask me how I know, I have only drank with him once. I will take a shot at my current top 10. I think only 2 or 3 may be loved by Pitchfork.

GBV
Decemberists
Shearwater
Ted Leo
Mountain Goats
Okkervil River
Lucero
Pernice Brothers
Microphones
Superdrag

Ones that would be on an all time list but are not in high favor right now due to previous over listening:

Wilco
Neutral Milk Hotel
Son Volt/Jay Farrar
Jayhawks
Modest Mouse
Jeff Buckley
Built to Spill
Luna

Ones that may be on it soon:
Beta Band
Von Bondies
Of Montreal
Thermals

Nirvana
Mindless Self Indulgence
Tomahawk
Deftones
Nelly furtado

Honorable mention: The Melvins

Too funny…I was going to say that Snow Patrol would be on your current fave list. Snow Patrol might show up on mine, which I hear I have to thank someone for…Wondering if it is on his…(sorry for the run-on).

Originally posted by Bagalicious Tangster:

Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
redsock:
exit clov
exit clov
exit clov


Note: Out of a perceived sense of decorum, I didn't post it ten times. Really though, what other bands U like???

DUDE, he discovered Snow Patrol FIRST! :p
(though I don't know that it means it's in his top ten…)

Originally posted by pollard:
Neutral Milk Hotel

never know how to rank them. one good album, one top 5 ever album, and then poof, gone. ditto the galactic heros and henry's dress

i'd go:
gbv
the karl hendricks trio
dinosaur jr/jmascis
sleater-kinney
modest mouse
built to spill
the replacements
elliott smith
ted leo
sonic youth
forgot les savy fav. ah well, that's 11

Mine:

Old 97's
Hank Williams
Wilco
BR549
Billie Holiday
the Smiths
Pernice Brothers
Beulah
Jason and the Scorchers
Dwight Yoakam

…maybe more reflective of what I've been listening to lately

Too hard to name anyone else's. All the ones I would have attempted have already been done.

Originally posted by Bagalicious Tangster:
- Skeeter, a mix of jam and indie and post-punk and…damn that guy loves music

Despite the fact that The Dead are at the top of my list, I'm not really a fan of "jam bands".

The Grateful Dead
R.E.M.
Ramones
Psychedelic Furs
The Slickee Boys
David Bowie
X
Husker Du
The Rolling Stones
Bob Dylan

It varies depending on my mood, but this is pretty accurate. The Grateful Dead and REM are miles above the rest.

Fave all time in no order:
Replacements
Stooges
Husker Du
Afghan Whigs
Misfits
Beatles
Bowie
Modern Lovers
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Radiohead

…but as with the top 5 album thread that's off the top of my head and I'd probably answer a little different an hour from now.

Without putting too much thought into it, here's my initial 10 best, in no specific order.

Bowie
Beautiful South/Housemartins
Stranglers
Ian Dury and the Blockheads
Solas
Waterboys
Squeeze
Smiths/Moz
Joy Division/New Order
Stone Roses


I'm sure if I spent a little time I may tweak it a bit, but that's damn close.

ok, here are mine:

gbv
rem
american analog set
nick cave and the bad seeds
built to spill
pavement
pink floyd
spiritualized
low
sisters of mercy

These are all time faves. My major criteria is artists with a catalog of work including more than just one great album:

Depeche Mode
the Smiths
Catherine Wheel
Trembling Blue Stars
Magnetic Fields
Placebo
Portishead
PJ Harvey
Pet Shop Boys/Erasure (can I do that?)
James

That's hilarious.

The first time I heard Getz/Gilberto I didn't know what to make of it. It was so quiet. The girl I was dating at the time, who played it for me, probably wanted to make out to something listenable.

Originally posted by Bagalicious Tangster:

- thirsty, something loud

It took me awhile to think of ten.

Dylan
Bob Marley
Tragically Hip
Sleater-Kinney
Fugazi
The Wrens
Superdrag
Grateful Dead
Segovia
Minutemen

My top three:

Rupert Holmes
Crack the Sky
Menudo

Thirsty:

Sonic Youth
Breeders
Pixies
Lime Spiders
Finn Bros.
Midnight Oil
Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls
Ramones
Mental As Anything
Black Sabbath

Gotta say, this is super fun. I'm listening to Superdrag now because they're on a list or two. Great, great stuff.

Also, I think so many of the lists are really good, and I find that every single list has at least a couple bands I think are great as well. Really fascinating….

That's the only problem with the lists, there are lots of bands I LOVE that can't make it up there.

What about the great Baltimore band Laughing Colors?

Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
My top three:

Rupert Holmes
Crack the Sky
Menudo

Originally posted by Bagalicious Tangster:
Gotta say, this is super fun. I'm listening to Superdrag now because they're on a list or two. Great, great stuff.

Did anybody watch Leno on Wednesday night, apparently John Davis, lead singer of Superdrag and more recently a god man, was on as part of Allison Moorer's band.