Only in alph. order
Black Sabbath
Cardiacs
Deep Purple
Dire Straits
ELO
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Genesis
Iron Maiden
Jethro Tull
Madness
Magazine
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Pink Floyd
Sidi Bou Said
The Smiths
Squeeze
The Stranglers
Uriah Heep
Whitesnake
XTC
Tpo 20, shees. Top 10 will do.
Cardiacs
Van der Graaf Generator
King Crimson
Gentle Giant
Magma
Henry Cow
Stormy Six
Aranis
Sigur Ros
Marillion
The first two are also my top 2, the rest is in no particular order. Marillion is in there because it was the first band I got really into and turned me into progressive rock.
Alphabetically - but by chance #1 IS #1
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band
David Bowie & the Spiders From Mars
Faust
Frank Black & the Catholics
Free
Gong
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Johnny Winter And
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Spirit
Status Quo
Steely Dan
T-Rex
The Kinks
The Move
The Velvet Underground
Van Der Graaf Generator
Ween
XTC
Yes (up to GFT1)
Top 5 are the top 5 after that random
Univers Zero
Mike Oldfield
King Crimson
Pink Floyd
Black Sabbath
Neil Young
Roy Harper
Leonard Cohen
Radiohead
Hatfield & The North
National Health
Present
Yes
The Future Kings of England
Rainbow
Miriodor
Henry Cow
Magma
Led Zeppelin
Deep Purple
Ian
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
Your No. 1 is also my No.1Originally Posted by thedunno
Bum!!! I knew I'd forgot something....Make that Top 21 bands
Enlighten me please.
Wow, no Beatles on any of those lists so far.
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
hmmm. I have no idea, but I'll throw out 20 that I like. Tomorrow I might think of 20 different ones.
Gentle Giant
Genesis
Advent
Mr. Sirius
Arti & Mesteiri
Big Big Train
Flower Kings
Yes
Captain Beyond
M Coast
Beach Boys
Fleetwood Mac (pre-Buckingham/Nicks)
PFM (pre-Lanzetti)
Camel
Thinking Plague
Thieves Kitchen
Glass Hammer
Hatfield & The North
Kenso
Fleet Foxes
I figured 'rock' was a loose term here...
Dear God how did I miss Thinking Plague? Drop Deep Purple, add them.
Ian
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
When it comes to lists like this, 20 seems barely enough. But by limiting it to rock bands, thus leaving out blues, jazz, and individual artists I think I can just make it...
Led Zeppelin
Rolling Stones
Porcupine Tree
Pink Floyd
Decemberists
Gov't Mule
Rush
Yes
The Who
R.E.M.
Steely Dan
Genesis
The Kinks
Jethro Tull
Beatles
Black Sabbath
Faces
Slade (guilty pleasure entry)
White Stripes
Iron Maiden
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
I'll probably unintentionally omit some bands but just offa the top-o-my-head (in no particular order):
Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Chicago (from CTA to VII anyway)
Santana (from s/t to Amigos at least)
Kansas
Yes
Thin Lizzy
Gov't Mule
Metallica
Black Sabbath
Jethro Tull
Gentle Giant
VDGG
Genesis
Cream
Jimi Hendrix
The Who
Rolling Stones
Van Halen
Soundgarden
Steely Dan
The Who
Arthur Lee/Love
Those 3 are for me head & shoulders above my other 17, which would probably change every day.
Today's list:
Discipline
XTC
Moon Safari
District 97
Dire Straits
Magic Pie
Caravan
Half Past Four
Harmonium
Marillion
Jefferson Airplane (NO Starship)
Little Atlas
Camel
Magenta
Zombies/Argent
Nazz/Utopia/TR
Ann/Nancy Wilson (Heart, Lovemongers,solo)
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
Alice Cooper Group
Def Leppard -Steve Clarke era
ELP
Dream Theater
Deep Purple -MK 2 line up only
Flowerkings
Led Zeppelin
Neal Morse
Oasis
Rainbow
Savatage
Spocks Beard
Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Tears for Fears
The Who
Transatlantic
Styx
UFO-Schenker era
Uriah Heep -Byron era only
Yes
Last edited by Rufus; 07-13-2013 at 11:52 AM.
King Crimson
Pink Floyd
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
The Beatles
The Who
Alice Cooper Band
Black Sabbath
Radiohead
Soundgarden
The Rolling Stones
Genesis
Rush
David Bowie
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Led Zeppelin
Opeth
Queen
Van der Graaf Generator
Tool
Yes
Todd Rundgren
Magma
MC5
Soft Machine
Genesis
Pink Floyd
Yes
Jethro Tull
Jefferson Airplane
Blue Cheer
Who
King Crimson
Quicksilver Messenger Service
SRC
Rush
Beatles
Tangerine Dream
String Cheese Incident
Mothers of Invention
Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Savoy Brown
I'm not lazy. I just work so fast I'm always done.
Can't believe I forgot Rush. I'll take out the Stones and put Rush in my list.
Cant really name a Top 20 as my tastes change all the time. So, to rattle from the top o' me head:
Not in order:
Rush
Electric Light Orchestra
Pink Floyd
Yes
Klaatu
Ethos
Porcupine Tree
The Beatles
R.E.M. (pre-"Document")
Duran Duran
ABC
The Killers
Frontline Assembly
Front 242
Brick
Slave
Parliament
Spock's Beard
The Brothers Johnson
Average White Band
Sweet
EDIT: I forgot Sweet...thats 21 I can think of
Last edited by klothos; 07-13-2013 at 01:23 PM.
I came up with 16, in the order they occurred to me...
The Beatles
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
King Crimson
Yes
Jethro Tull
Grateful Dead
Camper Van Beethoven
The Residents
Booker T. & The MGs (Okay, I'm calling them rock, but more realistically they're R&B.)
Santana
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Hawkwind
The Decemberists
Djam Karet
Camel
[edit] Rush should be in there too. I can't think of everything, apparently. [/edit]
What can I say? I listened to a lot of classic rock radio as a teen.
Two other likely candidates...
Setna (Are these guys rock, or more properly jazz?)
Wolf People
Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.
In no particular order
Bap
Grobschnitt
Hoelderlin
Novalis
Free
The Band
Wigwam
Trace
Gentle Giant
Van der Graaf Generator
Kayak
See, I knew I'd forget a bunch-King Crimson, ELP, Prefab Sprout, Tull, Floyd, Love, etc... Aargh. I think maybe I'm not cut out for this kind of stress...
Porcupine Tree
Rush
Jethro Tull
King Crimson
Yes
Genesis
Deep Purple
Pink Floyd
Black Sabbath
SBB
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Led Zepplin
Judas Priest
Riverside
Caravan
King's X
Scorpions
Uriah Heep
Grobschnitt
Budgie
Almost all of their catalogue (as long as they got at least 4 albums)
Traffic
Out Of Focus
Soft Machine
Maneige
Harmonium
Nucleus
Mahavishnu
Jefferson Airplane
Univers Zero
Ten Years After
Pentangle
Bands in their essential
Spirit (60's)
Gong (70's)
VdGG
Floyd (70's)
Tangerine Dream (70's)
Santana (& Carlos solo) (70's)
Crimson & Genesis (70's)
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Genesis
Pink Floyd
The Flower Kings
The Eagles
Billy Joel
Porcupine Tree
Rush
Jethro Tull
King Crimson
Camel
Soft Machine
Brand X
Peter Gabriel
Anathema
Kansas
Threshold
Caravan
ELO
Alan Parsons Project
BJH
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