Your favourite five bands

[upsidedownwalrus]

Massive Attack
Nirvana
Pixies
Dreadzone
Public Enemy (if they count)

3 of the same! (And I love PE too)! And you live in China too! Shady eh?

 

[Flashman]

The Smiths
The Delgados
Belle and Sebastian
Joy Division
Cocteau Twins

..as far as bands go (how many Scots there?? Never really thought about that, cheers Scotland!)

Big ups to:

Bowie
Kate Bush
His Bobness
Nick Drake
John Cale

 

[Andy the Don]

In no particular of of favourtism..

The Jam
The Stone Roses
The Smiths
The Clash
Pink Floyd

Had to go for British bands, but bubbling under would be..

Velvet Underground
The Kinks
Talking Heads
Public Enemy
Specials

 

[arfy]

The Clash
The Specials
The Pogues
Alabama 3
Stone Roses

 

[Dubversion]

Today?

Shellac
Flaming Lips
Broken Family Band
Sparklehorse
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.

tomorrow, maybe Mogwai would squeeze in, or Leatherface, or the Handsome Family

 

[pennimania]

Been thinking about this for nearly 24 hours!!

and still can't make my mind up!

The Beach Boys
The Smiths
Nirvana
Velvet Underground
Joy Division/New Order

 

[Pigeon]

Errrr...

PE
The Birthday Party
Fugazi
The Clash
Gang of 4

 

[Macabre]

The White Stripes
Dead Kennedys
Pink Floyd
Flamming Lips
Mogwai


For now anyway

 

[g force]

Right now...

The Clash
The Lemonheads
Sonic Youth
Public Enemy
The Pixies

but there's always room for the Buzzcocks, Joy Division and a few others.

 

[grosun]

Hm.. I'm gonna take "bands" to mean not individuals to make my life easier & skip Nick Drake & so on.. so...

Sonic Youth
Flaming Lips
Herman Dune
Pixies
A Tribe Called Quest

...mebbe!

 

[shoddysolutions]

Top 'Five' bands, in no particular order:

1. The Jackson Five
2. Jurassic 5
3. Dave clarke Five
4. MC5
5. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

 

[Sweet FA]

Today I am mostly favouring...

Stone Roses
Toots & The Maytals
Anti Nowhere League
AC/DC
Jimmy Cliff

 

[RubberBuccaneer]

Again at present

Birthday Party/Cave ( well someone had New Order/JD)
Joy Division
Gun Club
Pogues
Stooges

Can you guess my age ?

 

[Sweet FA]

Top 'Five' bands, in no particular order:

1. The Jackson Five
2. Jurassic 5
3. Dave clarke Five
4. MC5
5. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

6.

 

[kained&able]

will change on a minute by minute basis and is no order but.....


Pitchshifter
Nine Inch Nails
guns n roses(edited from nas as he isn't a band)
Soundgarden
Capdown



dave

 

[foo]

a hard one as it changes daily.

off the top of me bonce today then...

massive attack
burning spear
wailing souls
sugarbabes
the specials.

 

[CharlieAddict]

PJ Harvey
Tool
Mogwai
Pink Floyd
Godspeed

 

[Wolfie]

Velvet Underground
Sly and the Family Stone
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Flaming Lips
The Broken Family Band


others that might make it in on a different day - King Crimson, Pixies, Small Faces, Kinks ....

 

[LDR]

Powder Finger

I'm a fan of PowderFinger too. Well, at least I'm a fan of their albums. However, I saw them a couple of years back in Brixton and they were very boring live.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Guitar Wolf
World Domination Enterprises
The Dwarves
Pussy Galore
Lee Hazlewood

 

[greenman]

Best 5 live gigs I have been to -

Manic Street Preachers
Beautiful South
Pogues
Bowie
My Bloody Valentine

Though would also mention Joy Division/New Order as band I have really enjoyed listening to over the years, and think Editors are quite good young imitators.

 

[Leica]

The White Stripes and Velvet Underground.

 

[knopf]

Husker Du
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
The Fall
Can
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

 

[starfish]

Going by who i have most records/CDs of it is

Big Country
The The
Pink Floyd
Fun Lovin Criminals
The Smiths

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Going by who i have most records/CDs of it is

Big Country
The The
Pink Floyd
Fun Lovin Criminals
The Smiths

Big Country -bad
The The-good, but I didn't include them as they have been shit since infected.
Pink Floyd- bad
Fun Lovin Criminals-bad
The Smiths-bad

 

[Utopia]

Radiohead
Super Furry Animals
Plaid
Goldfrapp
Bjork

 

[starfish]

Big Country -bad
The The-good, but I didn't include them as they have been shit since infected.
Pink Floyd- bad
Fun Lovin Criminals-bad
The Smiths-bad

Sorry but when did this thread turn into a slag off someones choices. Plenty more posts on this thread to pick put. Why mine?

 

[isvicthere?]

the Smiths

the Kinks

the Clash

the Television Personalities

Elvis Costello and the Attractions

 

[Bomber]

Spanning the era's

Five who are always likely to appear somewhere in my lists when asked such an impossible question as this !!

The Stones
The Faces
Frank Zappa
Weather Report
Led Zeppelin

 

[Idaho]

The ones that keep coming back to me over the years:

Roxy Music
Talking Heads
Velvet Underpants
Camper van Beethoven
De La Soul