Your Big Fives

[PeterG]

Whatever styles you like, you don't have to use mine.


70s Hard Rock
Black Sabbath
Deep Purple
Thin Lizzy
Uriah Heep
Wishbone Ash

Folk-Rock
Fairport Convention
Jethro Tull
Pentangle
Stealers Wheel
Steeleye Span

Acid, Space, Psych
David Bowie
The Doors
Hawkwind
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Pink Floyd

Blues Rock
Bad Company
Cream
Free
Led Zeppelin
Whitesnake

80s metal
Iron Maiden
Motorhead
Raven
Saxon
Venom

[spacefreak]

70s Hard Rock
Led Zeppelin
Free
Mountain
Uriah Heep
Budgie

Folk-Rock
Incredible String Band
Fairport Convention
Bob Dylan
Steeleye Span
Arbete och Fritid

Psych
Jefferson Airplane
13 Floor Elevators
Group 1850
Kaleidoscope (UK)
Tim Buckley

Space,
Gong
Hawkwind
Pink Floyd
Amon Duul 2
Ozric Tentacles

Blues Rock
Cream
Allman Brothers band
Fleetwood Mac
John Mayall
Groundhogs

70s metal
Black Sabbath
Judas Priest
U.F.O.
Rush
Aerosmith

80s metal
Motorhead
Slayer
Venom
Iron Maiden
Mercyful Fate

[PeterG]

Yea, Mountain, what a great band!

So I'll have to do this now then:

North American Hard Rock

April Wine
Blue Oyster Cult
Montrose
Mountain
Rush

[Rufus]

70's Glam
The Sweet
Slade
T-Rex
David Bowie
Roxy Music

70's Rock
Budgie
UFO
Uriah Heep
Thin Lizzy
Led Zep

80's Popular music/bands
Tears For Fears
Talk Talk
Def Leppard
Duran Duran
Heaven 17

[progeezer]

Arthur Lee/Love
The Who
Steely Dan
Genesis (only through W & W)
After Crying

That's my big 5 overall.

[bill g]

70s rock

Wishbone Ash
Doobie Brothers
Mountain
Blue Oyster Cult
Black Sabbath

Blues Rock

Allman Brothers
Fleetwood Mac
Cream
John Mayall
Savoy Brown

60s

Beach Boys
Love
Free Design
Moody Blues
Beatles

80s style

Kate Bush
XTC
The Sundays
Cocteau Twins
Tears For Fears

Space Rock

Captain Beyond
Hawkwind
Gong
Pink Floyd
Ozric Tentacles

Indie

M Coast
Fleet Foxes
Tennis
Stereolab
Freelance Whales




Prog, 90s to now

Advent
Mr. Sirius

and then a ton of artists fairly equal, including Big Big Train, Thieves Kitchen, Thinking Plague, Flower Kings, Sanguine Hum, Kenso, Karda Estra, Glass Hammer and others.

[klothos]

Bubblegum Music

early Sweet
1910 Fruitgum Company
Hanson
Ohio Express
One Direction


2000s - now Pop

The Killers
Ok GO
Imagine Dragons
Fun
Dirty Loops

Funk
The Brothers Johnson
Lakeside
Cameo
Slave
Brick
Ohio Players
Sun
Skyy
Parliament/Funkadelic

Techno Industrial

Frontline Assembly
Front 242
Skinny Puppy
Assemblage 23
VNV Nation
Sphere Lazza

Electro Metal/ Industrial Metal

Celldweller
Cynic
Fear Factory
Rob Zombie
later-era Shotgun Messiah

Bands That I Think Deserve PE/OT - or even PE/Main - Discussion but I generally never see mentioned anywhere here

Mr. Bungle

[No Pride]

'60s Rock
The Beatles
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Cream
Led Zeppelin
Deep Purple

'70s Prog
Gentle Giant
Genesis
Yes
ELP
King Crimson

Post '70s Prog
Underground Railroad
Kenso
Advent
Thinking Plague
Kimara Sajn

Pop
XTC
Steely Dan
Nik Kershaw
Kevin Gilbert
Queen

'70s Fusion
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Bruford
Return To Forever
Dixie Dregs
Weather Report

Post '70s Fusion
Chick Corea Elektric Band
Tribal Tech
Yellowjackets
Allan Holdsworth
Pat Metheny Group


Straight Ahead Jazz
John Coltrane
Charlie Parker
Wes Montgomey
Wayne Shorter
Herbie Hancock

Funk/R&B
Earth Wind & Fire
Tower of Power
Herbie Hanckock & the Headhunters
Stevie Wonder
James Brown

Shred Guitar
Steve Vai
Lyle Workman
Steve Morse
Guthrie Govan
Greg Howe

Brazilian
Joao Bosco
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Ivan Lins
Milton Nascimento
Elis Regina

Classical
Stravinsky
Debussy
Ravel
Brahms
Hindemith

Bands That I Think Deserve PE/OT - or even PE/Main - Discussion but I generally never see mentioned anywhere here

Mr. Bungle

There has been at least one thread about them here, maybe more. And they do get mentioned in other threads. They hit the spot for me with "California."

[progeezer]

Yeah, Patton (& MB, FNM & Fantomas) is/are revered by many here (incl me).

[bill g]

I own 'California' as well. Great stuff.

[wideopenears]

Jazz, pre Bop-
Duke Ellington's Blanton Webster Band
Basie's Band circa complete Atomic Basie
Louis Armstrong's Hot Five
JellyRoll Morton
Artie Shaw's Big Band

BeBop
Charlie Parker
Dizzy Gillespie
Clifford Brown
Dexter Gordon
Wardell Gray

HardBop/Post Bop
Miles / Coltrane Quintet
Miles / Shorter Quintet
Coltrane's classic Quartet
Art Blakey's Jazzz Messengers
Mingus


Free Jazz
Ornette Coleman
Cecil Taylor
Sun Ra's Arkestra
Albert Ayler
Don Cherry

Soul Jazz

Cannonball Adderley
Horace Silver
Stanley Turrentine
Jimmy Smith
Lou Donaldson

Fusion/Jazz-Rock
Weather Report
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Miles Davis post Bitches Brew configurations /esp. With Cosey on Guitar
Return to Forever
Tony Williams Lifetime, Mach I and esp. Mach II

Post-Modern/Post-Jazz
Hermeto Pascoal
Henry Threadgill
Rob Mazurek
Nels Cline
Dave Douglas

Steve Coleman belongs here somewhere...

[NogbadTheBad]

Old British Rock
Black Sabbath
Deep Purple
Led Zeppelin
Budgie
Judas Priest

Original RIO
Henry Cow
Samla Mammas Manna
Univers Zero
Stormy Six
Etron Fou Leloublan

Zeuhl
Magma
Eskaton
Shub-Niggurath
Koenhjiyakkei
Weidorje

Chamber Rock
Julverne
Aranis
Present
Arteria
Archestra

Modern Avant
Thinking Plague
Cheer-Accident
Miriodor
Yugen
5UU's

Eastern Europe
Vezhlivy Otkaz
Uz Jsme Doma
Pikapika Teart
Rational Diet
Auktyon

Nu Jazz
Elephant9
Jaga Jazzist
Blue Cranes
Pixel
cellar & point

Old Jazz
Miles Davis
Thelonius Monk
Dave Brubeck
Sonny Rollins
John Coltrane

Avant Metal
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Guapo
Stolen Babies
Diablo Swing Orchestra
Unexpect

Canterbury
Caravan
Hatfield & The North
National Health
Egg
Gilgamesh

Space Rock
Hawkwind
Ozric Tentacles
The Future Kings Of England
Vietgrove
My Brother The Wind

Krautrock
Amon Duul 2
CAN
Faust
Ash Ra Tempel
Gila

New Age / World
Mike Oldfield
Popol Vuh
Pekka Pohjola
Vangelis
Jean Michel Jarre

Minimalist
Dawn Of Midi
Nik Bartsch Ronin
Sonar
Brandt Brauer Frick
Steve Reich

Electronic
Tangerine Dream
Klaus Schulze
Radio Massacre International
Steve Roach
ARC

Avant Folk
Comus
Jan Dukes De Grey
Make A Rising
Alec K Redfearn & The Eyesores
Biota

NWOBHM
Iron Maiden
Saxon
Tygers Of Pan Tang
Samson
Motorhead

Blues
BB King
John Lee Hooker
Howlin Wolf
Muddy Waters
Albert Collns

Italian
PFM
Banco
Le Orme
Area
Il Balletto Di Bronzo

Big 5
King Crimson
Yes
Genesis
Jethro Tull
Pink Floyd

[progeezer]

If you weren't spending time compiling your impressive breakdown, Ian, would you just be sitting there with your thumb up your arse?

BTW, those were not emoticons, but rather an explanation for the first sentence.

[NogbadTheBad]

I decided to stop I was just chillin watching the Red Sox lose.

[klothos]

I decided to stop I was just chillin watching the Red Sox lose.

My Mets plummeted into second place in the NL East tonight.........Although I am unhappy, it always pleases me to see a Red Sox fan to remind me of the Mets greatest hero: Bill Buckner

[PeterG]

80's Popular music/bands
Duran Duran
Heaven 17

+1
A couple of favs of mine too, but they still get dismissed by haters of 80s music who usually haven't even bothered to listen to either of those bands or any other early 80s bands for that matter.

So here's my five.

Early 80s synth/new romantics:

Spandau Ballet
Human League
Duran Duran
ABC
Heaven 17

[PeterG]

Avant Metal
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Guapo
Stolen Babies
Diablo Swing Orchestra
Unexpect

Holy fuggolo! That's an impressive post man, you really know your stuff.

And thanks for the avant metal, I know and love the first 3, but haven't yet heard DSO or Unexpect, but I will soon.

[PeterG]

CLASSICAL

English
Bax
Elgar
Finzi
Moeran
Vaughan Williams

Irish, Scottish & colonial
Grainger (AUS)
Harty (IRE)
Lilburn (NZ)
Muir Mathieson (SCO)
Stanford (IRE)

Russian
Khachaturian
Myaskovsky
Shostakovich
Stravinsky
Tchaikovsky

German
Beethoven
Brahms
Bruch
Orff
Wagner

Austrian
Bruckner
Kreisler
Mahler
Schoenberg
Webern

Czech & Slovakian
Dvorak
Martinu
Janacek
Ryba
Smetana

Rest of central and eastern Europe
Bartok
Chopin
Gorecki
Liszt
Penderecki

French
Berlioz
Honegger
Messiaen
Saint-Saens
Satie

Italian
Leoncavallo
Palestrina
Puccini
Respighi
Rossini

Swedish
Alfven
Atterberg
Blomdahl
Rangstrom
Wiren

Finnish & Estonian
Englund
Kokkonen
Part
Sibelius
Jarnefelt

American
Barber
Beach
Ives
Piston
Zappa