Your top five bands at this moment would be??????

[aquaman]

Me:
1) Bocca
2) 16 Horsepower
3) Fugazi
4) Sonic Youth
5) Bay City rollers

[Systematic Chaos]

1. Hmm, that's tough but here goes:

1) Gentle Giant
2) Yes
3) Spock's Beard
4) Renaissance
5) King Crimson

And not necessarily in that order, because I can't make up my friggin' mind. :) On edit: OR COUNT. Edited to change 2nd "4" into a "5".

[aquaman]

3. That's the point, it changes by minute.

[WindRavenX]

2. mine

1) Coldplay
2) Matchbox 20
3) No Doubt
4) Red Hot Chili Peppers
5) Bruce Springsteen and the E street band

[pocket]

4. Naked Raygun

the Clash
Dropkick Murphys
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
the Real McKenzies

[Forkboy]

37. Nick Cave is great stuff

Though I thought Nocturama was lousy :shrug:

He has some unreleased B-Sides coming out soon,if it's not out already.That should be good.

I could listen to "As I Sat Sadly By Her Side" all day long :)

[WildClarySage]

5. top five? bands only?

For tonight, anyway

Hot Hot Heat
Fairport Convention
Poe
Outkast
Battlefield Band

[WildClarySage]

6. damn

I wish I'd thought of the Clash.

And the Pogues, come to think of it. Can we make this a top 7?

[aquaman]

7. Fairport Convention, what would you suggest?

I am a huge Nick Drake fan and he apparently loved this band. I have never heard them. What should I start with?

[WildClarySage]

8. Start with a greatest hits/best of

there are several good ones. And go from there. They went through several lineups, each as good as the last (IMHO) and that should be a good intro. They are really fantastic. If you like what you hear (and there's no reason you won't!) look for a group called Fotheringay, a sort of spinoff which had some great material too.

Editing to add... this site has some mp3s and samples http://www.folkcorp.co.uk/jukebox/

[Dastard Stepchild]

12. Do you like Elliot Smith?

I love Nick Drake, and the two remind me of one another. Jeff Buckley as well, as he was a bit tortured in his own way.

[aquaman]

15. Oh yeah,

Elliot Smith was brilliant. I have every release.

[Dastard Stepchild]

17. Same here. Most excellent. n/t

[Sufi Marmot]

18. Fairport Convention recommendations...

That tastefully understated electric guitar playing on "Hazey Jane II" from Bryter Layter and "Time Has Told Me" from Five Leaves Left is Richard Thompson, of Fairport Convention and later solo fame. Dave Mattacks, once of FP, also plays drums on Bryter Layter. Joe Boyd produced both Nick Drake and FP and used FP members as backing musicians on Nick Drake's albums.

For Fairport I would start with any one of the first five albums when RT was still with the band. You can't go wrong with Unhalfbricking, What We Did On Our Holidays, Leige and Lief, or Full House. Their eponymous first album is interesting but sounds more like other 60s groups of that era and doesn't have their trademark folk-rock sound, and Sandy Denny hadn't joined the band yet.

I haven't heard much of FPs stuff done after RT left them around 1970, but maybe other people can give specific recommendations.

I'll put in a plug for Richard Thompson's entire post-Fairport catalog, which is amazing. If you like Nick Drake you might like I Want To See the Bright Lights Tonight and Pour Down Like Silver for starters.

Oh yeah, just remembered - Danny Thompson (no relation to Richard) who played bass on Five Leaves Left and was in the folk-rock band Pentangle, has been Richard Thompson's bass player for at last ~15 years.

-SM

[aquaman]

30. Thanks for the recommendation....

[leftistvote2008]

9. Right now?

1. The Cure
2. Cake
3. System of a Down
4. Deftones
5. Green Day

[MiddleRiverRefugee]

10. Eclectic enough for you?

1) Spirit
2) Buck Owens and the Buckaroos
3) Bill Evans Trio w/Scott LaFaro & Paul Motian
4) Emerson Lake & Palmer
5) Mountain

[Susang]

11. Fine, if I have to...

In no particular order:

1) The Postal Service
2) Garbage
3) Yaz
4) The Style Council
5) Air

[flamingyouth]

13. You rule for picking both Fugazi & the Bay City Rollers

I'd say it's safe to say that your musical tastes run the gamut.:7

[flamingyouth]

14. Here are mine (for the moment):

Love
Sonics
Gits
Carter Family
Stooges

[solinvictus]

16. 5 favorites

1) Skinny Puppy
2) The Pixies
3) Reverend Horton Heat
4) Bauhaus
5) Depeche Mode

[AlecBGreen]

28. the Reverend R O C K S!!!!!

too bad I lost the CD ... DAMNIT :argh:

edit: oh yeah (duh)

1) Phish
2) Yellowman
3) The Talking Heads
4) The Del McCoury Band
5) Familyman (bass player of the wailers)

[Ottmar]

19. in no particular order

2raumwohnung
Leftfield
Booker T & The MGs
Sugababes
Air

[dudeness]

20. bay fuckin city rolers ..

lmao

[dudeness]

21. in no order

pink floyd
dandy warhols
talking heads
ac/dc
deep purple
the cure
the smiths
lou reed
the velvet underground
john butler trio
midnight oil

[GOPisEvil]

22. OK - here goes - off the top of my head

Uncle Tupelo
The Long Winters
The Gourds
Drive By Truckers
The Wrens

[dawg]

23. my top 5

1) Yes
2) Beatles (Am I the first to list these guys?)
3) U2
4) Genesis
5) Kansas

[realisticphish]

24. 1. phish, of course

2. Dream Theater
3. Rage Against The Machine
4. Tenacious D
5. The Who

[coloradodem2005]

25. For me...

1. Rush
2. Led Zeppelin
3. Dream Theater
4. Deep Purple
5. Rage Against the Machine


That is just at this moment. Good to see another Dream Theater fan.


On another note, Fans of Deep Purple should get "Deep Purple In Rock".

[realisticphish]

27. Dream Theater kicks ass

my roommate last year turned me onto them; I thought they were just another 80's hair band. Ah, how appearances can be deceiving

[Rabid]

26. This Morning

Ramones
Marillion
Dickies
Prince
Mighty Mighty Bosstones

[chenGOD]

29. Top 5 right now...

Lightning Bolt
Squarepusher
Kraftwerk
Bermard Parmegiani
Barkmarket

this will change in about 4 hours. When I wake up from the sleep I am about to enter.

[Mojambo]

31. Right now?

1. Bad Religion
2. New Pornographers
3. Flaming Lips
4. Dance Hall Crashers
5. Weakerthans

[Dying Eagle]

32. OK

1. Nirvana
2. Beattles
3. Pink Floyd
4. Eric Clapton
5. Led Zepplin

[No2W2004]

33. Not in any order:

Pink Floyd
The Beatles
No Doubt
Radiohead
Johnny Cash (& whatever group is backing him up!)

[Kazak]

34. Okay...

1) Stereolab
2) Tortoise
3) Floyd
4) The Flaming Lips
5) Praxis

Honerable mention (since he is not acutally a "band"): Luke Vibert

[Dr Fate]

35. Turtles, Dukes of Stratosphere, Brian Jones era Stones, ...

...Elvis Presley (gospel period) AND the Kinks.

[curse10]

36. 1. Franz Ferdinand! 2. Velvet Revolver!

3. Beastie Boys

[HEyHEY]

38. WELLL

Animals
Social Distortion
TIjuanna Brass
Beach Boys
Rolling stones

[Forkboy]

39. ok,here's mine

Melt Banana
Opeth
Ministry
The Melvins/Fantomas
Pig Destroyer/Agorophobic Nosebleed (both the brainchild of Scott Hull)

Honorable mention to the music my friend makes alone in his basement called Massive Inch!