Just wanted to see who people's true favorites are. I'm not after who you think is the most influential or greatest group of all time. Just the one who you personally have gotten the most enjoyment out of. Mine is fairly well known, of course:

Good old Def Leppard. :)

Feel free to include your favorite albums by the artist as well.

My top 3 are Hysteria, Pyromania, and Slang. Great rock albums all of 'em.

My Bloody Valentine. They were kind of under the radar as far as radio and media hype, but they really changed everything. What everybody thought Nirvana/Pixies were, MBV really was.

Also, their live performance was so loud that I was actually completely deaf for several hours afterwards.

Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi

I can't tell if this is an honest answer or if I'm being mocked. :)

Chris LeDoux

Tool

I brought Pyromania on my trip to the beach earlier this month, I always liked them. I admit I was a little shocked to see a rockumentary on them and they all had very heavy British accents. I never knew they were British until then (of course, I never really thought about where they were from). So there I was, fixated on VH1 and thinking...wtf?

My favorite album of all time is Joshua Tree by U2 - but other than that album, I never was much of a fan of their other stuff.

I don't really have a favorite band but felt like I needed to contribute.

Enuff Z Nuff

Glassjaw

I usually have a fav band of the moment, and right now mine is The Mars Volta. But all-time I have always found my way back to Pink Floyd.

Queensryche Operation:Mindcrime

i have 3 copies of the cd 1 for work 1 for home 1 for car

Marvin Gaye.

Stevie Wonder & Donny Hathaway come damn close though...

Queensryche Operation:Mindcrime

i have 3 copies of the cd 1 for work 1 for home 1 for car
I saw the Operation Mindcrime tour back in the day. It was great stuff. Easily one of the best concerts I've ever been to. Just played the whole album straight through (even opened with some stuff off "Empire"). For a while there, it was all I listened to.

Toss up between REM and Frank Sinatra.

Pavement / Stephen Malkmus.

SM's new CD is fucking AMAZING.

311 - grassroots - selftitled - music

The Temptations by far

I also favor Stevie Wonder and the Smokey Robinson/Miracles

Van Halen, with Led Zeppelin in 2nd.

Bon Jovi

Stop kissing up to Sak, you're not in the RWBL anymore.

I honestly don't know. I would like to see Bob Dylan before he is finally finished performing, though..

Pink Floyd and the great Weird Al Yankovich

Take a guess.

Oh, and Queensryche did the whole Mindcrime album last year, complete with a couple of actors and small stage. Great show.

Eazy E: Eazy Duz It is my favorite album ever. I've owned it no less than 4 times in 3 formats, can sing along even today...

Really makes one wonder what could have been if Eazy had survived and reconciled with his fellow NWA'ers in this "feel-good" rap era; when comebacks are the norm, and super producers and featured acts inundate albums to either highlight or overshadow performer's strengths and weaknesses...

-Chas

Elliott Smith.

Either U2, The Beatles, or Kris Kross. I just can't decide.

Really makes one wonder what could have been if Eazy had survived

He probably would've gotten shot.

Dropkick Murphys

You haven't lived until you have been to the Avalon Ballroom on St Patty's weekend to see them. The most positive energy you will ever see at any show.

I love all their stuff but my faviorate tunes are:

Fields of Athenry
Barroom hero
Workers Song
Walk Away
Finnegans Wake

The Wedding Present

Probably John Denver.

Runner-ups would be U2 (esp 1980s) and Pink Floyd.

Live

Throwing Copper is the best and then the others all tie for second. :)

Rush

Favorite albums:
1. Permanent Waves
2. Moving Pictures
3. 2112
4. Hemispheres

My impression of at least 75% of people reading this thread: "Damn, what's the most obscure band I've heard of, I can look really cool if I name them!"

Boyz II Men is my favourite musical group.

Second favourite and my absolute favourite to see perform is Gin Blossoms.

I've seen them in concert once and I'm going to be seeing them again in concert on July 2nd. Excellent times.

Led Zeppelin

Afghan Whigs- Black Love

-Gentleman

-1965

Peter Gabriel held the spot for a pretty long time for me, but now I think it's Radiohead.

Got 3 for the list:

Billy Joel: Piano Man
Innocent Man
The Stranger

Van Halen: MCMLXXXIV
5150
OU812

U2: Joshua Tree
Achtung Baby
War

Peter Gabriel held the spot for a pretty long time for me, but now I think it's Radiohead.

Peter Gabriel did two of my all-time favorite songs: In Your Eyes and Solisbury Hill, but I am not crazy about his other stuff.

Jane's Addiction, the Chili Peppers, Idlewild, Suicidal Tendencies, Scott 4, Jellyfish, And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Teenage Fan Club and Dinosaur Jr have all been long standing favourites, with a feeling that they are constantly better than other bands I like.

I've bought so many great debut albums by bands that I can;t include many new bands who show a lot of promise (i.e. Kasabian, The Killers, Kaiser Chiefs, etc) who have still only released one album. But both The Raveonettes and Kings of Leon have had two class albums and they are getting close to inclusion in the A-list

(I'm sure they'll be very excited about the prospect of making an anonymous English guy's favourite list!) :)

Pavement / Stephen Malkmus.

SM's new CD is fucking AMAZING.

I agree on the new CD but I saw Pavement on some good nights and on some rather bad ones as well. I remember one time SM was yelling at someone else in the band the whole show because of some perceived mistake.

My pick is Guided By Voices. Lots of beer + GBV = about as good as it gets and I've never seen the later without a lot of the former.

Afghan Whigs- Black Love

-Gentleman

-1965

Sorry for the dola but the Afghan Whigs are my number two. I followed them around about 5 cities in the midwest back on the Black Love tour. Good times.

My impression of at least 75% of people reading this thread: "Damn, what's the most obscure band I've heard of, I can look really cool if I name them!"
How do you figure, I've probably heard of 90% of the bands listed here.

Hanson

Peter Gabriel did two of my all-time favorite songs: In Your Eyes and Solisbury Hill, but I am not crazy about his other stuff.
John, I am very sure that Quiksand is not crazy about some of your stuff.

For the last 30 years--The Rolling Stones: Between the Buttons--Beggar's Banquet--Some Girls

After that it would probably be Throwing Muses or Go-Go's (but that is because of an unhealthy 20 year lust for Belinda Carlisle)

Pearl Jam
1. Ten
2. Vs., Vitalogy, Yield
3. No Code, Binaural, Riot Act

Cheap Trick, first heard them 27 years ago during lunch break back in high school. The girl I was smoking a joint with plugged Heaven tonight into her Car cassette player and I was hooked. That girl and those bad habits have long since gone, but I still have plenty of CT in my MP3 player.

Fav albums:
Silver-25th anniversary concert and live at Budokan are my 2 favorites as I think they are at their best live.

Top 3 studio Albums
Heaven tonight
Dream Police
Lap of Luxury

Cheap Trick, first heard them 27 years ago during lunch break back in high school. The girl I was smoking a joint with plugged Heaven tonight into her Car cassette player and I was hooked. That girl and those bad habits have long since gone, but I still have plenty of CT in my MP3 player.

Fav albums:
Silver-25th anniversary concert and live at Budokan are my 2 favorites as I think they are at their best live.

Top 3 studio Albums
Heaven tonight
Dream Police
Lap of Luxury

Surrender from At Budokan is one of the best songs of all time. :)

My impression of at least 75% of people reading this thread: "Damn, what's the most obscure band I've heard of, I can look really cool if I name them!"
And my impression of you is a guy who's never listened to anything but Top 40 radio. I've heard of every band on this list before your post, and only 2-3 could be considered remotely obscure.

As for me.... I think the Beatles are simply a cut above anything ever, so it's kind of them by default.

But putting them aside, it's probably Superchunk. Favorite albums are (in an ever-shifrting order) Indoor Living, Foolish, and Here's Where The Strings Come In

As for me.... I think the Beatles are simply a cut above anything ever, so it's kind of them by default.

But putting them aside, it's probably Superchunk. Favorite albums are (in an ever-shifrting order) Indoor Living, Foolish, and Here's Where The Strings Come In




When I was much younger I remember seeing Superchunk open for Fugazi (memory hazy - I could be wrong). I remember knowing nothing at all about Superchunk, but being impressed by them.

The Replacements- Hootenany

Another vote for Def Leppard... favourite albums being Adrenalize and Pyromania

im probably seeing Dave in like 2 weeks, pumped for that

Probably Alkaline Trio at the moment... although Sleater Kinney is a close (and rising) second...

Alkaline Trio for me also....

I downloaded a Def Leppard bootleg a month or so ago and just got around to checking it out. It's a very good recording from 1983 at the LA Forum. Anyone want a copy?

I have to say Chris Cornell is my favorite performers. The guy has a tremendous voice.

At the very first place:
WuTang clan.

I'd say the group Yes would be probably my all-time fave, because their album 'Fragile' really opened my ears up to a new world of music that I never knew existed... more so than even Radiohead's 'OK Computer'.

Radiohead

then Trail of Dead

then Bright Eyes

The Doors
Motley Crue

tie between the Dandy Warhols and Ben Folds Five

I think I would shoot myself if my favorite band booked this gig:


Def Leppard will reportedly perform two songs on ABC's "Live with Regis and Kelly" airing Thursday, June 30 at 9:00 a.m. The band are expected to play one of their classic hits as well as a new song for the "Live" audience.

Oh, and that should say, "The band is expected to play..." Godammit! :mad:

Overall favorite - Radiohead

Favorite band to see live - Counting Crows

Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band - The River
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood

However, now I'm mellowing with age and listen more to folk like Stan Rogers or Chuck Brodsky.

I think I would shoot myself if my favorite band booked this gig:


Def Leppard will reportedly perform two songs on ABC's "Live with Regis and Kelly" airing Thursday, June 30 at 9:00 a.m. The band are expected to play one of their classic hits as well as a new song for the "Live" audience.

Promotion is promotion, I s'pose. I'm just pissed that their concert in Schaumburg sold out. At the time I was trying to get tickets, it was the ONLY show on the whole freaking tour that was sold out. :mad:

I guess. It probably has more to do with the target audience of 30-something moms who remember Pour Some Sugar On Me than anything else. And I remember when John Waite plaed Regis a few years ago. Not my favorite artist, but I've always been a big fan of his from the Babys through his recent solo stuff.

We're getting old. I can't wait until Cadillac whips out a Slayer song to try to sell its 2018 STS.

Live

Throwing Copper is the best and then the others all tie for second. :)
Throwing Copper is good, but Mental Jewelry is better. ;)

It's tough to say what my all-time favorite band is, because I've had so many different bands were favorites at different points in my life. If I were to be forced to pick one a gunpoint (which is effectively the idea of this thread) it would be Alice in Chains.

1. Dirt
2. Jar of Flies
3. Facelift