BEST BAND RATINGS

[Dogwatcher]

Well - we've all got to have one guilty pleasure and mine's Ice Ice Baby!

Surely he was Eminem's hero - paving the way for white boys in the industry. lol

[BenchedEagle]

Ok guys the moment u have all been waiting for!................. Lizbeff's Top 25!
All these bands are in my 25 any day, but order changes depending on mood.

1: The Beatles
2: Tool
3: Deftones
4: Soundgarden
5: Nirvana
6: Alice in Chains
7: Stone Temple Pilots
8: Smashing Pumpkins
9: Nine Inch Nails
10: System of a Down
11: Jimi Hendrix Experience
12: Pearl Jam
13: Radiohead
14: Powderfinger
15: Silverchair
16: Pantera
17: Faith No More
18: Sepultura
19: Sonic Youth
20: Led Zeppelin
21: Lamb of God
22: Queens of the Stoneage
23: The Doors
24: Creedence C R
25: Mark of Cain

[The Real Number 3]

Good Thread Indeed..... and a hard task but i shall try...

1: Johnny Cash
2: The Beatles
3: CKY
4: HIM
5: Turbonegro
6:The Living End
7: Wolfmother
8: Gyroscope
9: Ben Folds Five
10: Chumbawamba
11: Billy Ray Cyrus
12: The Bloodhound Gang
13: Rage Against The Machine
14: Machine Gun Fellatio
15: Korn
16: Prodigy
17: Greenday
18: The Knife
19: My Chemical Romance
20: Foo Fighters
21: Spiderbait
22: Magic Numbers
23: Marilyn Manson
24: Offspring
25: Jimmy Eat World

as you can see there is no Rap or Hip Hop in my list as I cant stand it! Also there alot of bands that missed out on my list such as Basemnt Jaxx, Hunters and Collectors and last but not least The Beach Boys

[zipzap]

Zip Zap - I love your list! The whole list.

Not the stand outs (which are of course St Nick Cave and New Order for mine) but the stuff I loved is St Etienne, Ride, The Chills, The Hummingbirds and The Underground Lovers, as it's rare I see them on a list like this!

Of those I particularly love The Chills and Ride.

Will contribute my top 25 soon.

Cool! I look forward to seeing it DW

[zipzap]

In no particular order and subject to change. I've been lucky enough to see 14 of these bands live.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
New Order
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
Violent Femmes
Shihad
Blur
The Cure
Spiderbait
Public Enemy
The Happy Mondays
The Killers
The Beatles
The Wonderstuff
The Beastie Boys
Rage Against The Machine
Tom Jones
Led Zeppelin
Billy Bragg
Redgum
Vanilla Ice
Wedding Parties Anything
Dandy Warhols
The Prodigy
The Chemical Brothers
James Brown

Pretty cool list too but Tom Jones? Vanilla Ice? What are they putting in that Loxton water!

I've seen 9 of those bands live...

[Dogwatcher]

Tom Jones - as if Robbie Williams hasn't modelled his career on him!

He's gold - cheesy but cool. A great voice.

And Leaper has already pulled me into line about Vanilla Ice!

[Kahuna]

I'm staggered!Not one person has mentioned Pink Floyd (until now).
My list in no order apart from numbers 1 & 2

1 Pink Floyd
2 Little Feat
Free
Allman Brothers
Uriah Heep
Deep Purple
Eagles
Kinks
Jethro Tull
Badfinger
Creedence
Doobie Brothers
Cream
Moody Blues
Hollies
Focus
Rolling Stones
Byrds
Redgum
Doors
Poco
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Steely Dan
Toe Jam Jug Band

[BenchedEagle]

10: Chumbawamba
11: Billy Ray Cyrus

Please tell me u aint serious????

[The Real Number 3]

yeah im serious! look away from achey breaky heart and look at his other songs! as for chumbawamba can seriously tell me u dont like tubthumping

[BenchedEagle]

yeah im serious! look away from achey breaky heart and look at his other songs! as for chumbawamba can seriously tell me u dont like tubthumping

I can seriously tell u i dont like Tubthumping.

[MUNGO JERRY]

1. Mungo Jerry
2. The Rolling Stones
3. The Beatles
4. Led Zep
5. Black Sabbath
6. Kiss
7. Skyhooks
8. Police
9. Status Quo
10. Free

[mal]

I'm staggered!Not one person has mentioned Pink Floyd (until now).
My list in no order apart from numbers 1 & 2

1 Pink Floyd
2 Little Feat
Free
Allman Brothers
Uriah Heep
Deep Purple
Eagles
Kinks
Jethro Tull
Badfinger
Creedence
Doobie Brothers
Cream
Moody Blues
Hollies
Focus
Rolling Stones
Byrds
Redgum
Doors
Poco
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Steely Dan
Toe Jam Jug Band

KAHUNA what a list, but like me your showing your age man.
That list is pretty grooovy man.
PINK FLOYD was a great band.
Im cheating off you as i forgot THE HOLLIES and BADFINGER[another beatles sound alikes]
CCR another brilliant band I forgot as well.

And another band which clearly should have been in my top 10 was THE YARDBIRDS

KAHUNA 3 questions
1 Who and what was FOCUS + thier best hit
2 Who was The Jam Jug Band + thier best hit
3 Did you used to watch Gidget Movies

[mal]

1. Mungo Jerry
2. The Rolling Stones
3. The Beatles
4. Led Zep
5. Black Sabbath
6. Kiss
7. Skyhooks
8. Police
9. Status Quo
10. Free

Great list, all 10 great bands
Did you nearly put in BAD COMPANY as number 10

[Sheik Yerbouti]

STONES
MARLEY
ZAPPA
FLOYD
KENNEDYS
XTC
SPECIALS (before they tried to save the world)
DEVO
B52's (early)
DIVINYLS
STEELY DAN
JOPLIN
STEVE MILLER BAND
COSBY/STILLS/NASH/YOUNG (in all guises)
PATSY CLINE
CARPENTERS
DAVE WARNERS FROM THE SUBURBS
SPEEDBOAT
BADFINGER
STRANGLERS.

*No decent music has been released since 1987

[Punk Rooster]

1. Suffocation
2. Cradle of Filth
Misfits
Rancid
Machine Gun Fellatio
Queens of the Stone Age
Mr Bungle
Cannibal Corpse
Slayer
Metallica
Dead Kennedys
Dandy Warhols
Morbid Angel
Offspring
The Living End
Marilyn Manson
Madness
Jeff Buckley (how could I forget )

[whatcha got there?]

another toughie...ill give it a try...(once again, in no particular order)


1. matchbox twenty
2. powder finger
3. tool
4. the strokes
5. white stripes
6. pink floyd
7. deep purple
8. status quo
9. metallica
10. the beatles

[Kahuna]

Mal, Focus were a Dutch band from the 70's who released a number of albums but only aroused local interest with "Live at the Rainbow" which included the track "Hocus Pocus".This was on an earlier release and as I understand it was almost an acoustic track,however on "Rainbow" it grows several new legs.It becomes a show piece for the musicianship of all the members (the lead guitarist was voted best in the world in some poll or other way back when).It is a manic 8 minute song (not including the reprise) unbelievably toe tappable and reinstates yodelling as an artform.

The Toe Jam Jug Band,I have virtually no information on and I don't think they have ever had a hit as such.They are the exception in my list as the criteria I used was that the band must have released multiple albums to lend some credibility to the "Best" tag,where I only know of one song by TTJJB and that is "Plastic Jesus".I put it in just because I like the song so much.The song was in a well known movie from the late 60's.I understand virtual buns are a prized give away on this site so a bun for naming the film,another for naming the character who sang it and a goodly dollop of icing for naming the event that led to him singing it.

Not sure about your reference to Gidget,I will hold off incriminating myself till I get a better understanding of where you are going with it.No stuff it.Yes I did watch Gidget movies.It doesn't make me dirty.Just...........different

[Dissident]

My list for my first 29 years:

01. Pearl Jam

02. The Doors

03. The Allman Brothers

04. Metallica
05. Foo Fighters
06. Pink Floyd
07. Tool
08. The Beatles
09. Faith No More
10. Soundgarden
11. Mr Bungle
12. Alice In Chains
13. John Mayer
14. Dire Straits
15. Prince (And the NPG)
16. Jeff Buckley
17. Machine Gun Fellatio
18. Norah Jones
19. Miles Davis
20. Counting Crows
21. Augie March
22. The Kinks
23. Stone Temple Pilots
24. Muse
25. Cold Chisel

[Pseudo]

Rather than think about which artists are better than which, I shall simply rate artists according to the space occupied by their works in my collection. Ignoring classical music, and stretching the memory:

The The (6 albums {2 on both vinyl and CD}, 1 compilation, numerous 12" and 7" and CD singles, 1 video)
Gary Numan / the Tubeway Army (4 albums, 2 singles)
Devo (3 albums, one EP, one 7" single, one 12" single)
Grace Jones (2 albums, 2 compilations)
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (3 albums, 2 singles)
Hunters & Collectors (3 albums, 1 EP)
Clouds (3 albums, one video, one CD single)
Severed Heads (3 albums, 1 single)
Falling Joys (3 albums, one video)
The Fall (3 albums)
Twisted Sister (3 albums)
UK Squeeze (3 albums)
Kevin Bloody Wilson (3 albums)
Depeche Mode (2 albums, one compilation)
GANGgajang (2 albums (one on both tape and CD), 1 single, 1 DVD)
The Eurogliders (1 album, about 6x7" singles)
Batteries Not Included (2 albums, 1 EP)
Dead Or Alive (2 albums)
Peter Gabriel (2 albums)
Einstuerzende Neubauten (2 albums)
Bjork (2 albums)
The Alarm (2 albums)
Mark Of Cain (2 albums)
Violent Femmes (2 albums)
Beatles (2 albums)
Mike Oldfield (2 albums)
Brian Eno (2 albums)

I think I should be embarrassed at some of the above entries, but I'm not sure which ones...

[mal]

Mal, Focus were a Dutch band from the 70's who released a number of albums but only aroused local interest with "Live at the Rainbow" which included the track "Hocus Pocus".This was on an earlier release and as I understand it was almost an acoustic track,however on "Rainbow" it grows several new legs.It becomes a show piece for the musicianship of all the members (the lead guitarist was voted best in the world in some poll or other way back when).It is a manic 8 minute song (not including the reprise) unbelievably toe tappable and reinstates yodelling as an artform.

The Toe Jam Jug Band,I have virtually no information on and I don't think they have ever had a hit as such.They are the exception in my list as the criteria I used was that the band must have released multiple albums to lend some credibility to the "Best" tag,where I only know of one song by TTJJB and that is "Plastic Jesus".I put it in just because I like the song so much.The song was in a well known movie from the late 60's.I understand virtual buns are a prized give away on this site so a bun for naming the film,another for naming the character who sang it and a goodly dollop of icing for naming the event that led to him singing it.

Not sure about your reference to Gidget,I will hold off incriminating myself till I get a better understanding of where you are going with it.No stuff it.Yes I did watch Gidget movies.It doesn't make me dirty.Just...........different

In the GIDGET movie/movies there were some characters
there was a MOONDOGGY
and a BIG KAHUNA

I am also absolutley stunned at MUNGO JERRYs number 1 pick.