Top 5 Bands of all times all Genres (your choice) Screw the polls!!

[Guava Jelly]

1. Tommy Dorsey featuring Frank Sinatra
2. The Beatles
3. Queen
4. Merle Haggard and The Strangers
5. Cake

Hey it's my Fu_king list eat me :mad: :silly:
now post yours

[Xipe Totec]

1. In no particular order

Yes
Emerson Lake and Palmer
Santana
Cake
The Chieftains

[Burma Jones]

2. Okey Dokey

Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
Duke Ellington's Big Bands
Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie's band of 1945-1946
The Beatles
Willie Nelson and Family

[Initech]

3. One from each genre:

1. The Mothers of Invention (unclassifiable)
2. Porcupine Tree (progressive heavy metal)
3. Flogging Molly (drunken Irish punk music)
4. Parliament / Funkadelic (interplanetary funk music)
5. The Roots (hip-hop group that actually plays their own instruments)

[Guava Jelly]

6. Dude Zappa is a gawd!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mothers_of_Invention
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohVpYt_S8lY
Bobby Brown_frank zappa..
This song kills me

[Initech]

7. Fuck yeah!

Zappa rules and there's no debating that one! Bobby Brown is hilarious. Hell, all the songs on Sheik Yerbouti are!

[Guava Jelly]

9. I love that album!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A8GIhCOMzA
Flakes

[Initech]

17. Dude, always nice to see fellow Zappa fans around!

We are hard to come by these days!

[flvegan]

4. All genres? Easy...

1. Beastie Boys
2. Rise Against
3. Frank Sinatra
4. Public Enemy
5. Faith No More

[Guava Jelly]

5. Dude..Love the sigline!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr5gdrj6bZQ
faith no more
This was a very Kewl band!!

[flvegan]

10. Check this out, bro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-ASvd9gGas

The best FNM song, evah...

Find a live version to truly appreciate Mike Patton. He's a god.

Sig line is Rise Against. Soon to be gods.

[flvegan]

18. Here

Ignore my previous...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMB0c64ZR84

I was blessed enough to have met Mike Patton once. I'll never forget it. He's a truly unique and supremely talented individual.

[mainegreen]

8. Faith No More.

Good stuff. Good stuff.
Best version of war pigs ever and Angel Dust is genius.

[Guava Jelly]

12. They did a killer war pigs

fo sho

[flvegan]

19. Angel Dust is the Paul's Boutique of the genre.

Damn. I got to intermingle a Beastie Boys reference with a Faith No More reference.

Shit...I just achieved enlightenment.

[greendog]

11. ~

David Grisman Quartet w/ Tony Rice

Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick

The Band

Silly Wizard

Pentangle

[Guava Jelly]

14. I heard of maybe one of those bands (the) is a clue. And that makes it even cooler!

Thank you.:hi:

[greendog]

38. Here's a couple of good clips of Pentangle from c.1970.

They did a folk/ jazz/ blues thing. Great vocals, 2 great guitar players, and maybe the best acoustic bass player around.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFuxq_J1VuA&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRrnHrnweFg&mode=related&search=

[SoxFan]

13. Is this eclectic enough?

1. Dick Pillar's Polkabration Band
2. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
3. Spinal Tap
4. Right Said Fred
5. Ratt

:headbang:

[Guava Jelly]

16. All that matters is that you like it.

And i have heard a few of your choices..:thumbsup:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RCXwy0krNs
bitch school

[SoxFan]

22. "That's a joke, son"

Ny real answers (posted on the other thread) were U2, the Beatles, the Waterboys, Steve Earle & the Dukes, and REM before Scott Litt ruined them.

[Guava Jelly]

24. Joke or not

Somebody loves at least one of your joke choices...:D
And I am a big fan of two of your actual ones

[some guy]

15. I'd rather eat cake

but not Cake.

:hi: I was just noticing the other day that I hadn't seen you post in a while. Nice to see you again. :pals:

I've no idea on top 5 bands. Tower Of Power would be on the list, though.

[Guava Jelly]

20. Thank you..

I just did a search of my screen name and noticed you asked a Canadian friend about me ;)
I made her a new album cover.:D

I am probably now a deadman..

[some guy]

23. Very Nice

:applause:

Now all she has to do is record the songs to put on the disc that goes inside the fine cover! :D

deadman? Naw, she might want to make you a Dedmon...tonian, though.


:yourock:

[Guava Jelly]

27. Free healthcare and a smokin hawt lady of the north

Shit..I am packing my bags like yesterday!!
I just need to complete the dowry..A cute little sportscar w/Chauffer, some horses, a flat in paris,A new wardrobe,And a house in the country.
She will surely correct me if i am wrong. :eyes:
:silly:

[some guy]

32. horses for sure.

I don't know about all the rest of it, though.

I'm glad I'm just a groupie. All I have to do is help her pack occasionally, carry the triangles, and let her have her way with me whenever she wants.

It's not a respectable calling, but it's pretty low pressure. :P

[Guava Jelly]

34. I hate you

:rofl: Where do i sign up??

[some guy]

36. .

LOL :rofl:

line form somewhere behind me. :evilgrin:

[Oeditpus Rex]

21. The Benny Goodman Orchestra with Gene Krupa

The Beatles

Queen

Pink Floyd

The Austin Lounge Lizards

[BrotherBuzz]

25. A mixed bag of nuts here

•Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
•Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks
•Django Reinhardt and his Quintette du Hot Club de France (with Stéphane Grappelli)
•Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven
•The Beau Hunks - this Dutch orchestra absolutely nails all the nuances of Marvin Hatley's Hal Roach Studio music scores. Check them out.

[MrSlayer]

26. Slayer, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Ice Cube.

"Motherfuck Fire Marshall Bill"

[Guava Jelly]

29. kicken it oldskool and a Clarkie!! thumbsup :o)

Like fuck yeah!!!!

[Writer]

28. Okay... here's mine.

1. The Count Basie Orchestra
2. The Beatles
3. Led Zeppelin
4. U2
5. Beethoven never dies!

(Note the absence of any country/western. ;))

[Guava Jelly]

31. You are one hip chick!

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8DVI5Cc1s0
one of my favorite beatles tunes
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TGLjWPZ9wM
favorite zep tune
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfJtUL7FkMo
fav u2 tune
u2 minneapolis who's gonna ride your wild horses

:hi:

[Writer]

35. U2 is my favorite band.

I fell in love with Zeppelin later in life.

Good stuff.

:7

[stuntcat]

30. mineses

Fleetwood Mac
Queen
Prince and the Revolution
This Mortal Coil
for #5 I can't choose- Portishead or Everything But The Girl. I can't leave either of them out of my list.

I tried to be in the Rock Band list but my real favorites aren't all Rock :headbang:

[Guava Jelly]

33. Well than you get a special 5a 5b listing

We just love what we love...Yes indeed :thumbsup:

[pokerfan]

37. Beatles, Stones, Grateful Dead, Led Zep, Bob Marley & the Wailers

The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Grateful Dead
Led Zeppelin
Bob Marley & the Wailers