Your top 20 fav rock bands of all time

[Mr. Grizzly Bear]

Alice Cooper
Dead Kennedys
King Crimson
Magma
Black Sabbath
Deep Purple
Magazine
Hendrix Experience
Cream
Van Der Graaf Generator
Gentle Giant
Humble Pie
Vinegar Joe
The Police
Patto
The Minutemen
Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band
Beatles
Spirit
Family

[Bungalow Bill]

I'm doing this just to see if I can even do it.

My criteria is artists/bands that have multiple albums that I can enjoy start-to-finish and that, at 48, I can still stand to hear after much over-exposure. (This rules out bands like The Beach Boys and The Eagles, which I like, but which only have certain songs that I enjoy.)


Alpha-order only (with favorite album):

The Beatles including some solo albums (Revolver; favorite solo is probably All Things Must Pass)
Cheap Trick (Dream Police)
The Decemberists (The Hazards of Love)
The Flaming Lips (probably Yoshimi but The Terror is really good and I love Christmas on Mars)
Gentle Giant (Three Friends)
Roy Harper (Lifemask)
Jethro Tull (Minstrel in the Gallery)
Billy Joel (The Stranger...sorry...nostalgic pick)
The Kinks (Give the People What They Want...nostalgia...)
Led Zeppelin (Houses of the Holy)
The Moody Blues (Days of Future Past)
Opeth (Heritage or Damnation)
Radiohead (not sure...)
Rush (not sure...)
Steely Dan (The Royal Scam)
Tears for Fears (Elemental or Everybody Loves a Happy Ending)
The Who (Face Dances...nostalgia...)
Wilco (not sure...probably Summerteeth)
XTC (Nonsuch)
Yes (difficult...I might not have a favorite...Tormato and Drama for nostalgia...)

Next five:

C, S, N (& Y) (first two are gems)
The Doors (I guess the debut...)
Genesis (Trespass)
Queen (not sure...maybe DatR)
Pink Floyd (not sure...)

Then it gets tough...

[Supersonic Scientist]

Pre-teen / early teen-years

1 Beatles
2 Grand Funk (what a surprise...)
3 Deep Purple
4 Mountain
5 Ten Years After
6 Robin Trower
7 Led Zepplin

Mid-teen years
8 (early) Santana
9 Yes
10 ELP
11 Genesis
12 King Crimson
13 Gentle Giant

...and moving forward...
14 Iron Maiden
14a Rush
15 Wobbler
16 Magma
17 IQ
18 Ozric Tentacles
19 Anglagard

Jazz-Rock
20 Mahavisknu Orchestra (I had to sneak them in somehow)

[Adm.Kirk]

No particular order, although the first four are probably in order. After that they could be any of those and I didn't include solo artists who were in these groups like Robert Plant or Paul McCartney. If I did that the list would expand quite quickly. I left it to bands and individual artists.

Led Zeppelin
The Who
The Beatles
Rolling Stones
Yes
Bob Dylan
Frank Zappa
Moody Blues
King Crimson
Jethro Tull
ELP
Genesis
Rush
Eric Clapton
Jeff Beck
Deep Purple
Pink Floyd
Van Morrison
The Band

I could have easily included Joni Mitchell, Camel, Gentle Giant, Jimi Hendrix, Paramore, CSN/Y, Neil Young, Renaissance, Chicago, Santana, Trettioariga Kriget, PFM, Uriah Heep, Paul Simon, and quite a few others if I had tossed in blues artists.

Bill

[kristi]

My top twenty, in no particular order....

King Crimson
CSN
Porcupine Tree
Anekdoten
Hatfield and the North
Love
Genesis
Yes
Radiohead
Steely Dan
Talking Heads
ELP
Pink Floyd
Anglagard
Jefferson Airplane
Traffic
Decemberists
Band of Horses
Consider the Source
Renaissance

[FKYES]

I'll give it a shot:

The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Rush
Pink Floyd
Yes
The Flower Kings
Metallica
Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath
The Police
Emerson Lake &Palmer
Steely Dan
Jimi Hendrix
Soundgarden
Alice in Chains
The Doors
Green Day
Camel
Deep Purple
The Who

[Digital_Man]

Yes
Rush
VDGG
Genesis
Camel
Beatles
The Who
Marillion
King Crimson
The Flower Kings
ELP
Led Zeppelin
Kansas
Porcupine Tree
U2
Gentle Giant
Pink Floyd
Moody Blues
REM
Echolyn


No order(after the first five)


Honorable mentions:

Banco
Black Sabbath
Alice in Chains
Iron Maiden
Rolling Stones
Spock's Beard
Caravan
Jethro Tull

[Progbear]

Well, according to my last.fm plays, subtracting solo artists:

1. Genesis
2. XTC
3. Yes
4. Kayak
5. Amon Düül II
6. Electric Light Orchestra
7. The Beach Boys
8. Prefab Sprout
9. Camel
10. Caravan
11. Eloy
12. Barclay James Harvest
13. IQ
14. Emerson, Lake & Palmer
15. Utopia
16. Gentle Giant
17. Grobschnitt
18. Jethro Tull
19. Novalis
20. Renaissance

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MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")

"It is not an obscenity to be free. It is a divine right." --Annette Peacock

N.P.:“Into the Storm”-Yes/Fly From Here

[Yanks2014]

This is VERY difficult! I couldn't put them in any real order, beyond the first few.

Beatles
Rush
Dream Theater
Genesis
Yes
Kansas
ELP
Marillion
King's X
The Police
Wings
Pink Floyd
Porcupine Tree
Anglagard
White Willow
Joe Satriani
Steely Dan
PFM
King Crimson
Jethro Tull

Honorable mention:

Iron Maiden
Flower Kings
Kenso
Allman Brothers
Marshall Tucker Band
Dixie Dregs
Riverside