Top 25 Favorite Bands

[Sutekh]

might seem odd but I feel the need to specify at what period these bands are my favourite, because most of them have done stuff before or after that I don't care for

Radiohead (OK Computer to I Might Be Wrong EP)
Manic Street Preachers (Holy Bible)
Akercocke
Electric Wizard
JK Flesh
The Bug (Ragga/Dubstep phase from after "tapping the conversation" up to the "Filthy" EP)
NIN
The Doors (first two albums)
Marilyn Manson (Portrait to Live album)
Public Image Limited (first two albums)
Prodigy (up to fat of the land)
Nirvana
Smashing Pumpkins (Siamese Dream/Mellon Collie)
Joy Division
Aphex Twin
NWA
Coil
Metallica (kill em all to Master of Puppets)
Black Sabbath (s/t to Master of Reality)
Pantera (CFH to live album)
Dead Kennedys
Rage Against the Machine (yeah I know it's corny adolescent leftism but I would be lying if I said it didn't kick my arse)
Led Zep (I-IV)
The Cure (faith to disintegration)
Ministry (twitch to filth pig)

[GulDukat]

might seem odd but I feel the need to specify at what period these bands are my favourite, because most of them have done stuff before or after that I don't care for

Radiohead (OK Computer to I Might Be Wrong EP)
Manic Street Preachers (Holy Bible)
Akercocke
Electric Wizard
JK Flesh
The Bug (Ragga/Dubstep phase from after "tapping the conversation" up to the "Filthy" EP)
NIN
The Doors (first two albums)
Marilyn Manson (Portrait to Live album)
Public Image Limited (first two albums)
Prodigy (up to fat of the land)
Nirvana
Smashing Pumpkins (Siamese Dream/Mellon Collie)
Joy Division
Aphex Twin
NWA
Coil
Metallica (kill em all to Master of Puppets)
Black Sabbath (s/t to Master of Reality)
Pantera (CFH to live album)
Dead Kennedys
Rage Against the Machine (yeah I know it's corny adolescent leftism but I would be lying if I said it didn't kick my arse)
Led Zep (I-IV)
The Cure (faith to disintegration)
Ministry (twitch to filth pig)

RE: RATM--adolescent? Maybe, but those three albums have held up very well. Killer band too. Love Audioslave too. I was listening to Revelations today and that's such an underrated album.

[3:15]

At the moment:

Swans
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Boards of Canada
Joy Division
Talk Talk
Mogwai
Sonic Youth
My Bloody Valentine
Sunn O)))
Stars of the Lid
Brian Eno
Steve Reich
Arvo Pärt
The Beach Boys
Ben Frost
Beck
Tom Waits
Miles Davis
Queens of the Stone Age
Grouper
David Bowie
John Fahey
Neil Young
Tim Hecker
Radiohead

[ManBurning]

The other day, I was thinking "Top 10 bands, that would be a fantastic topic for ETS" So, I did a search to see if it existed already. It doesn't already exist, but wow... top 25??? Holy smokes you guys are crazy... I could come up with 25, but I mean, 10 is more fun. Trimming the fat. Keeping the best of the best. More challenging that way as well.

1. NIN
2. Rammstein
3. KMFDM
4. Ghost
5. TOOL
6. Covenant
7. Foo Fighters
8. Rancid
9. Marilyn Manson
10. Avatar

Those are definitely my top artists. The top 5 are pretty much set, the bottom 5 might move up and down depending on my mood.

Honorable mentions in no particular order would include:

David Bowie
Clawfinger
Priest
Offspring (up to about Americana. Post Americana Offspring is trash)
ohGr
Puscifer
A Perfect Circle
Imperative Reaction
Pain
Prick
PIG

[Dryalex12]

Fuck....im not sure if i have....but ill try

Alice in Chains
NIN
Deftones
Soundgarden
Linkin Park
My Chemical Romance
Tool
System of a Down
Coldplay
Chevelle
Korn
Blue October
STP
Hopsin
A Tribe Called Quest
The Fu-Shnikets (or however the fuck you spell it)
RATM (mostly just the music)
Mudvayne
QOTSA
Death Grips
Slayer
A Perfect Circle
Creed (i will still defend them)
Devin Townsend
Slipknot

[versusreality]

this is tough. here's a shot, in no order really because my favorites depends on my mood at that moment.

1-NIN
2-The Orb
3-Orbital
4-Primal Scream
5-Oophoi
6-Brian Eno
7-Mark Lanegan
8-Luke Vibert
9-Aphex Twin
10-The Verve
11-Lush
12-The Cure
13-One Dove
14-Meat Beat Manifesto
15-Outkast
16-Gomez
17-Moon Duo
18-Massive Attack
19-Bjork
20-Prince
21-Funkadelic
22-The Chemical Brothers
23-Smashing Pumpkins
24-Final/Godflesh/JK Flesh
25-Amon Tobin

bonus:
The Future Sound of London
My Bloody Valentine
Slowdive
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Jesus & Mary Chain

geez, 25 was easy, I could keep going. didn't even scratch some of the jazz stuff or some other genres.

[kel]

oh, jeez. i'll try ...

scritti politti
lady gaga
janet jackson
nine inch nails
arcade fire
lcd soundsystem
scissor sisters
britney spears
prince
hall and oates
earth, wind, and fire
madonna
slayer
michael jackson
hole
depeche mode
tv on the radio
tori amos
peaches
deerhunter
the magnetic fields
the doobie brothers
passion pit
ladytron
mgmt

[Sutekh]

1. Nin
2. Manson (up to the live album)
3. Ministry (twitch to filth pig)
4. Manic street preachers (up to "lifeblood")
5. Joy division
6. Radiohead (up to "amnesiac")
7. Dead kennedys
8. Sex pistols
9. Public image limited (up to "album")
10. Smashing pumpkins (up to "machina")
11. Pantera
12. Electric wizard
13. Akercocke
14. Dr dre
15. Die antwoord
16. Delia derbyshire
17. Coil
18. Rage against the machine
19. The doors
20. Iggy pop
21. The prodigy
22. Massive attack
23. Nirvana
24. Aphex twin
25. Leftover crack

Lots of other great bands, but those are the ones that for me had good solid runs of decent albums (sex pistols excluded)

Edit - forgot massive attack

[PhoenixML]

25? These are the bands/artists I religiously follow/adore:

1. Trent Reznor (NIN, HTDA, soundtracks)
2. Maynard James Keenan (Tool, APC, Puscifer)
3. Anthony Green (Circa Survive, Saosin, solo, other projects)
4. Archive
5. Thom Yorke (Radiohead, solo, Atoms For Peace)
6. Deftones
7. The Mars Volta
8. Travis
9. Pink Floyd
10. (so many bands I love, but none that I highly regard like the others in that list)

I might have cheated, but that's how it works for me. It's not NIN I specifically love, it's all of Trent's works. It's Deftones I love, not Chino's sideprojects. Make sense?

[Self.Destructive.Pattern]

Sheesh, I thought I added to this. I'm game...in no particular order:

Chevelle
Radiohead
Jimi Hendrix
Phantogram
MiMOSA
Miles Davis
Deftones
System of a Down
The Sound of Animals Fighting
Thrice
Vince Staples
A Tribe Called Quest
Pretty Lights
Odesza
Bright Eyes
Ghost Loft
Kid Cudi
Little Dragon
Santigold
Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Silversun Pickups
The Avalanches
The Shanghai Restoration Project
2pac
Team Sleep
Michael Jackson
Chromatics

Added a few .

[neorev]

Not exactly in order...

The Prodigy
The Chemical Brothers
Fluke
Underworld
Leftfield
Meat Beat Manifesto
Deftones
Nirvana
Nine Inch Nails
Radiohead
The Smashing Pumpkins
Woven
Amon Tobin
Orbital
Clark
Jackson And His Computerband
Justice
Atari Teenage Riot
The Mad Capsule Markets
Beastie Boys
System Of A Down
Moderat
Deadsy
Nosaj Thing
iamamiwhoami

[Krazy]

- Tool
- NIN
- Slayer
- NWA
- Iron Maiden
- KISS
- Pink Floyd
- Eminem
- Pantera
- Black Sabbath/Ozzy
- 2Pac
- Metallica
- Marilyn Manson
- Beastie Boys
- Megadeth
- 2 Live Crew
- Ice T
- APC
- Alice In Chains

(not 25, but best I can think of)

[Sutekh]

Not exactly in order...

The Prodigy
The Chemical Brothers
Fluke
Underworld
Leftfield
Meat Beat Manifesto
Deftones
Nirvana
Nine Inch Nails
Radiohead
The Smashing Pumpkins
Woven
Amon Tobin
Orbital
Clark
Jackson And His Computerband
Justice
Atari Teenage Riot
The Mad Capsule Markets
Beastie Boys
System Of A Down
Moderat
Deadsy
Nosaj Thing
iamamiwhoami

Did you get the leftism in full tour by leftfield in America?

[neorev]

Did you get the leftism in full tour by leftfield in America?

Sadly, we did not get a Leftism tour here in the States, which sucks major ass!

[Thorn]

I listen to a lot of punk. A lot of it. So I'm gong to list some of my favorite non-punk bands and then go for my 25 favorite punk bands.

Non-punk:

1. NIN
2. Coil
3. PIG
4. HTDA
5. Skinny Puppy
6. Pigface

Punk (in no particular order):

Zounds
Societic Death Slaughter
Discharge
Doom
Crow
Gloom
Disclose
Zyanose
Electro Hippies
Vermin
Crass
Amebix
DIRT
Hellbastard
The Mob
Poison Girls
Effigy
Rudimentary Peni
Deviated Instinct
Not A Cost
Icons Of Filth
Mommy
Infantile Dissention
Instinct Of Survival
Honey Bane

I'm missing sooooo many fucking crucial beloved bands. Mostly anarcho-punk or crust. This doesn't even scratch the surface for me. Find myself drifting mostly towards UK and Japanese stuff.

[koz-ivan]

1. The Sisters of Mercy
2. Front 242 - et al
3. Simon & Garfunkel / Paul Simon
4. Skinny Puppy - et al
5. Leonard Cohen
6. VNV Nation
7. Thoushaltnot / Seeming / Alex Reed
8. nin - et al
9. Out Out
10. Ministry - et al
11. KMFDM
12. Johnny Cash
13. Eminem
14. Sean Rowe
15. Assemblage 23
16. Consolidated
17. Covenant
18. Depeche Mode
19. Tori Amos
20. DEVO
21. Roger Waters / Pink Floyd
22. Leæther Strip
23. Billy Joel
24. Marilyn Manson
25. Sinéad O'Connor

26/27 it seems wrong to not name check Bowie & Gary Numan on the list, certainly they are more iconic than some on my list, but this isn't an objective best list.

[curbes]

1/ NIN
2/ HTDA
3/ Prick
4/ Sigue Sigue Sputnik
5/ Alien Sex Fiend
6/ Stabbing Westward
7/ Schnitt Acht
8/ I Will Never Be The Same
9/ Jesus Jones
10/ Neuroticfish
11/ Celldweller/Circle of Dust
12/ Heimataerde
13/ Unitary
14/ Delta-S
15/ Echoing Green
16/ Lost Signal
17/ Filter
18/ Dead Can Dance
19/ The Smiths
20/ Strapping Young Lad
21/ Edge Of Dawn
22/ Imperative Reaction
23/ Pride and Fall
24/ Seabound
25/ Covenant

[iamclassic]

1. Nine Inch Nails/HTDA/Trent
2. Coheed and Cambria
3. At the Drive-In/Sparta/Mars Volta
4. A Perfect Circle/Tool/Puscifer
5. Cave In/ Mutoid Man
6. Glassjaw
7. The Smiths
8. Pompeii
9. The Decemberists
10. Mewithoutyou
11. The Blood Brothers
12. Refused
13. Dead Kennedys
14. Minor Threat/Fugazi
15. Far/Jonah Matranga
16. Fairweather
17. Q and Not U
18. Sigur Ros
19. The Weeknd
20. Rush
21. U2 (up to 2000)
22. The Cure
23. Silverchair (nostalgia’s sake)

There are more than 23 bands here anyway. I think my list may be all over the place.

[center27j]

1. Poison
2. Warrant
3. Skid Row
4. Ratt
5. Def Leppard
6. Cinderella
7. Slaughter
8. Faster Pussycat
9. White Lion
10. The Bulletboys

[dvp]

1. The Beastie Boys
2. Talking Heads
3. Devo
4. Blitzen Trapper
5. Beck
6. Nine Inch Nails
7. Harry Nilsson
8. Man Man
9. JJ Cale
10. Battles
11. The Kinks
12. Mr. Oizo
13. Primus
14. Stereolab
15. Tobacco/Black Moth Super Rainbow
16. Digable Planets
17. FartBarf
18. Soul Coughing
19. The White Stripes
20. Cibo Matto
21. De La Soul
22. Tom Waits
23. Leslie Hall
24. LCD Soundsystem
25. Animal Collective

[wizfan]

Not exactly in order...

The Prodigy
The Chemical Brothers
Fluke
Underworld
Leftfield
Meat Beat Manifesto
Deftones
Nirvana
Nine Inch Nails
Radiohead
The Smashing Pumpkins
Woven
Amon Tobin
Orbital
Clark
Jackson And His Computerband
Justice
Atari Teenage Riot
The Mad Capsule Markets
Beastie Boys
System Of A Down
Moderat
Deadsy
Nosaj Thing
iamamiwhoami

Hey, that's my list! Great choices, there.

[neorev]

@wizfan hahaha, i didn't see your list yet. But seems like we got similar tastes.

It was a hard list. I got a dozen more artists that I'd love to include, but had to pick the best.

[eversonpoe]

wrong thread!

[hologram parade]

Karin Dreijer (Honey Is Cool, The Knife, and Fever Ray)
Alessandro Cortini (Solo, Modwheelmood, Skarn, Slumberman, Sonoio, and Blindoldfeak)
Daniel Rossen (Solo, Dept. Of Eagles, and Grizzly Bear)
Trent Reznor (HTDA, NIN, Niggy Tardust, and TRAR)
Health
Andrew Bird
Sharon Van Etten
Andy Stott (Solo, Hate, and Millie & Andrea)
Julia Holter
Liz Harris (Solo, Grouper, Raum, Helen, Mirroring, and Slow Walkers)
Tim Hecker
Josh Homme (Desert Sessions, Them Crooked Vultures, and Pre Villains QOTSA)
Massive Attack
Bjork
Victoria LeGrand (Beach House etc)
Death Grips
Nicolas Jaar (Solo, Darkside, Just Friends, and Against All Logic)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Brian Eno
Elliott Smith
Beck
Thom Yorke (Solo, Atoms For Peace, and Radiohead)
Faris Badwan (The Horrors, and Cats Eyes)
The Dead Weather
Charles Bradley

[thefragile_jake]

Nine Inch Nails
The Flaming Lips
Death Grips
The Smiths
Animal Collective
Radiohead
Kanye West
Sun Kil Moon
Pedro the Lion
Yo La Tengo
Weezer
My Bloody Valentine
Aphex Twin
Deerhunter
American Football
Ariel Pink
Daft Punk
Bjork
Converge
Sigur Ros
Neon Indian
Daughters
Iron & Wine
Arcade Fire
Oneohthrix Point Never

[ManBurning]

Daft Punk

Yes! Daft Punk. Whatever happened to these guys? They just dropped off the face of the planet, or at least the face of live existence. Been waiting for a Daft Punk tour for eons... These guys are the TOOL of the electronic world when it comes to touring. What's up with that? I see their name on basically every single "who do you want to play XX Festival" year after year. These guys would make a killing touring now with how big the Electronic scene has become over the years.

I'm surprised they never toured for their last release, or even did an Alive 2017 tour... since they seem to like to tour every 10 years on the 7's... 1997...2007... and then... nothing.

[the_tic_begins]

Not in any order.
Rammstein
NIN
Jewel
Pink Floyd
Pig Destroyer
Placebo
Nicole 12
Marilyn Manson
Coal chamber
Tool
Burzum
Mayhem
Agorapobic Nosebleed
Tom Waits
Johnny Cash
Tori Amos
Lady Gaga
Sia
David Bowie
Helmet
Highway Men (Cash is better overall but both Highway Men albums are amazing)
Cannibal Corpse
Grunt
Darkthrone
Dead Kennedys

[eversonpoe]

@the_tic_begins that is probably the most diverse list i've seen. from jewel & tori to burzum & agoraphobic nosebleed. a very wide range in taste.

[center27j]

Metallica (kill em all to Master of Puppets)
)

borderline heresy that you've purposefully discarded ....AJFA. that album is amazing and arguably the band at their peak.

[thefragile_jake]

Yes! Daft Punk. Whatever happened to these guys? They just dropped off the face of the planet, or at least the face of live existence. Been waiting for a Daft Punk tour for eons... These guys are the TOOL of the electronic world when it comes to touring. What's up with that? I see their name on basically every single "who do you want to play XX Festival" year after year. These guys would make a killing touring now with how big the Electronic scene has become over the years.

I'm surprised they never toured for their last release, or even did an Alive 2017 tour... since they seem to like to tour every 10 years on the 7's... 1997...2007... and then... nothing.

Well, Random Access Memories won them a Grammy and was one of most celebrated albums of 2013 so they didn't really need to tour. I would go nuts if they started doing the festival circuit again, but they don't necessarily need to anymore it feels like unfortunately.