Top 25 Favorite Bands

[Ripe(withdecay)]

Nine Inch Nails
Faith No More
Mr. Bungle
Linkin Park
Trivium
Korn
Depeche Mode
Thrice
Buckethead
Incubus
Panic! At The Disco!
Primus
Rush
System of a Down
Dream Theater
Killswitch Engage
Armor for Sleep
Slipknot
Stone Sour
Rammstein
Taking Back Sunday
Scale the Summit
The New Regime
Limp Bizkit

[piggy]

Was only able to come up with 20...

R.E.M.
NIN
Pearl Jam
U2
Depeche Mode
Morrissey
The Cure
The Smiths
The Jesus And Mary Chain
Echo And The Bunnymen
Joy Division
Mazzy Star
The National
B.R.M.C.
The The
James
The Church
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
David Bowie
PJ Harvey

[Vertigo]

@Vertigo , i REALLY like that GIAA track! what album should i start with?

I started with the self-titled album, so I guess I'd recommend that. It's pretty evocative and varied, within the band's remit at least. It rocks out and chills out by turns.

[elevenism]

edit: Just realized that I didn't include Joy Division. Goddamn it... And since lately I've been marathoning Jesus and Mary Chain, they should be there too... and on that note, why the fuck didn't I put My Bloody Valentine on there. I'm going to walk away and let it alone.

hey dude, i had a pretty hard time with mine too, lol. it took me like an hour of changing things around.
BUT...my ulterior motive for making this thread is to find new music from intelligent people, and it's working.
Currently checking out Unwound.

And just as i suspected, our musical tastes are pretty fucking eclectic.

[thelastdisciple]

NIN
Celldweller
Rammstein
Poets of the Fall
Queens of the Stone Age
Faith No More
Rage Against the Machine
A Perfect Circle
Abney Park
Caravan Palace
Molotov Jukebox
Elysian Fields
Tom Waits
Gary Numan
Depeche Mode
Tool
Puscifer
Eisbrecher
Left Spine Down
Blue Stahli
SONOIO
deadmau5
Metric
Hanzel und Gretyl
Black Light Burns

[frankie teardrop]

Currently checking out Unwound.

one of say, ten bands, i'm bummed to have left off my list as well.

[blackholesun]

Too damn hard. This is as good as it gets. No order.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Silver Mt. Zion
Pygmy Lush
Sun Kil Moon
Grails
Joy Division
Unwound
Converge
The Sea and Cake
Slowdive
The American Analog Set
Isis
Songs: Ohia
Pinback
The Black Heart Procession
Boards of Canada
Radiohead
Bill Callahan/Smog
Nine Inch Nails
Do Make Say Think
Swans
Carissa's Wierd
The Mercury Program
Tim Hecker
Jesu

[dvdglss]

nin
oceansize
smashing pumpkins
failure
foo fighters
queens of the stone age
depeche mode
placebo
mastodon
tool
a perfect cirlce
isis
...and you will know us by the trail of dead
my bloody valentine
filter
dredg
abandoned pools
vessels
marilyn manson
castor
porcupine tree
soundgarden
nirvana
king crimson
cave in

[nobies]

1. the beach boys
2. the talking heads

why even bother finishing the list

[voidnz]

(Not in order) 25 is actually pretty tough.

NIN
Gary Numan
Manson
Queens of the Stone Age
Rob Zombie/White Zombie
Korn
Filter
Alice in Chains
AFI
Jane's Addiction
KMFDM
Ministry
Orgy
A Perfect Circle
Tool
Rammstein
Mushroomhead
Static-X
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Slipknot
The Prodigy
Placebo
Disturbed
Stabbing Westward
Limp Bizkit...

Smashing Pumpkins and Dope are close. Hard to pick after the first 10 because everything else I kind of like the same.

[SIR.LONDONCLEANLILY]

No particular order:
1. Pantera
2. Aphex Twin
3. Front Line Assembly
4. Tool
5. Puscifer
6. A Perfect Circle
7. Philip H. Anselmo and The Illegals
8. Down
9. Rebel Meets Rebel
10. NIN
11. Superjoint Ritual
12. Black Sabbath
13. Ozzy Osbourne
14. Guns N Roses
15. Buckethead
16. Iggy Pop
17. Mastodon
18. Tenacious D
19. Tomahawk
20. White Zombie
21. Type O Negative
22. Alice Cooper
23. the disease is the same
24. Ohgr
25. Sir. London Clean-Lily

Damn that was hard...

[dlb]

Not in real order but I guess the ones that are my most favorite come to my mind more easily:

Nine Inch Nails
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Mark Lanegan
Electric Six
Oasis
Queens of the Stone Age
Rammstein
Killing Joke
Alec Empire
UNKLE
the Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
Ween
Refused
Primus
the Dillinger Escape Plan
Kyuss
Masters of Reality
the Black Angels
A Perfect Circle
Tomahawk
Beck
Turbonegro
Massive Attack
Tito & Tarantula

And many more...

[Mr. Blaileen]

I'll do twenty, in no particular order past the top 4:

Nine Inch Nails
Tool
Primus
Pink Floyd
Deftones
Black Sabbath
A Perfect Circle
Frank Sinatra
John Coltrane
The Mars Volta
Mastodon
Metallica
The Notorious B.I.G.
Eminem
System of a Down
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
Wu-Tang Can
Porcupine Tree
Hans Zimmer

[TheFlyingWombat]

This is hard. Only 15 because anything else I like doesn't really have a place on a "favorites" list

1. Nine Inch Nails/HTDA/Trent's Film Scores
2. The Cure
3. Radiohead
4. David Bowie
5. Elton John
6. Talking Heads/David Byrnes' Solo Stuff
7. Rush
8. The Beatles
9. U2
10. Soundgarden
11. Gary Numan
12. Queens of the Stone Age
13. Blind Melon
14. Jackson Browne
15. Of Monsters and Men

[Charmingly Miserable]

The numbered ones are in order. Everything else is in no particular order.

1. Jeff Buckley
2. Fiona Apple
3. NIN
4. Soundgarden
5. Tori Amos
The Cure
Depeche Mode
Smiths/Morrissey
Regina Spektor
David Bowie
Iamamiwhoami
Salem
Metronomy
Death Grips
MGMT
Banda de Turistas
Perfume Genius
Trust
Duran Duran
The Haxan Cloak
Lady Sovereign
Marina and the Diamonds
White Ring
Dizzee Rascal
Dresden Dolls

(this list can and will change)

[icecream]

1. Jeff Buckley

FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!

Not about Buckley, but I can't believe I left Leonard Cohen off my list!!
He could easily be after NIN on my list

Fixed it. Too much of a sin to leave off

[Calla lily]

Hard one. In no order (well except for the top 5 probably). Also some of these are not music I currently listen to, but have had some sort of influence over my life in the past that causes them to still make the list.

1. Nine Inch Nails
2. The Smashing Pumpkins
3. Grateful Dead
4. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
5. Pink Floyd
6. Bad Religion
7. Metallica
8. James Taylor
9. Tool
10. The Doors
11. Led Zeppelin
12. Depeche Mode
13. Nirvana
14. The Cure
15. The Beatles
16. America
17. New Order
18. Prince
19. Dead Kennedys
20. R.E.M.
21. Guns N' Roses
22. Beastie Boys
23. Tom Petty
24. Chicago
25. U2

[Atu]

No particular order. I don't consider them best in any way and I know I'm missing a lot others, but I guess it looks something like this:

NIN / HTDA / Reznor & Ross (obviously)
The Dillinger Escape Plan
We Fell to Earth
Wardruna
The Low Frequency in Stereo

65daysofstatic
Fall On Your sword
Tool / A Perfect circle
CAN
The Beatles

Carina Round
Anna Calvi
Grimes
FKA Twigs
iamamiwhoami

Lorde
Warpaint
Jesu / Pale Sketcher
Arcade Fire
Die Antwoord / MaxNormal.TV

Hiromi Uehara
Kronos Quartet
Hilary Hahn
Lykke Li
Bat for Lashes

[WorzelG]

This is just culled from my CD collection where I own more than one CD by a band and have made some effort to follow a career in some way. In alphabetical order :
A-Ha
Adam Ant
Alice in Chains
Black Sabbath
Bloc Party
Cabaret Voltaire
Cocteau Twins
The Damned (only the two 'goth' albums Phantasmagoria and Anything)
David Bowie
Depeche Mode
Duran Duran
Faith No More
Guns N Roses
How to destroy angels_
Human League
Iron Maiden
Jean Michel Jarre
Kasabian
Led Zeppelin
Megadeth
Metallica
Ministry
Nine Inch Nails
Gary Numan
The Police
The Prodigy
Queensryche
Rammstein
Rush
Sisters of Mercy
Slayer
Type O Negative
U2

[ILoveFestivals]

In no order

TOOL
RATM
QOTSA
NIN
The White Stripes
Jack White
The Raconteurs
The Dead Weather
Puscifer
Arcade Fire
Black Lips
DFA 1979
Bassnectar
Skrillex
Dillon Francis
Gary Clark Jr
Gogol Bordello
LCD Soundsystem
Refused
Kasabian
Deftones
Depeche Mode
Arctic Monkeys
Cage the Elephant
Deftones


those are my top 25 at the present moment

[Swykk]

So you're into Tomahawk more than FNM? Interesting. I like both but to me, FNM is better.

[eversonpoe]

in no order (and more than 25 because i can't narrow it down that much because i love music too much):

mogwai
rosetta
coil
converge
mastodon

king crimson
thrice
blonde redhead
nin / TR&AR / htda
jimmy eat world

emeralds
telefon tel aviv
chelsea wolfe
circa survive
the cure

daughters
deftones
dillinger escape plan
young widows
joy division

liars
murder by death
poison the well
rachel's
russian circles

queens of the stone age
and pretty much anything mike patton has done

honorable mentions:

pixies
radiohead
smashing pumpkins
tom waits
frank zappa
depeche mode
judas priest

[Kunstmord]

Here's a somewhat ordered list

Tom Waits
Einsturzende Neubauten
QOTSA
Swans
ISIS
Earth
Public Image Ltd. (if you only count Metal Box and Flowers of Romance)
The Dead Weather
Deftones
David Lynch
David Lynch and John Neff
Smoke
Grinderman
King Crimson
XX
Angels of Light
Smashing Pumpkins
Radiohead

[littlemonkey613]

LOL I cant believe I forgot Tool/APC and Rage Against the Machine.....

[SIR.LONDONCLEANLILY]

So you're into Tomahawk more than FNM? Interesting. I like both but to me, FNM is better.

If this question was for me the answer is yes! I like Angel Dust by FNM and a few singles off other albums but As a whole Tomahawk is just great. The Native American influenced album takes a certain mood to appreciate but the other 3 and the M.E.A.T. Single are just awesome from start to finish!

[Swykk]

Yeah, it was for sure meant for you. I was just curious. I've not seen anyone rank tomahawk above FNM before. Thanks for answering.

[eversonpoe]

21. Deadsy

i just told my fiancee about this and she loves deadsy so she thought it was awesome.

[Throw_it_away9]

Love looking @ everyone's lists and seeing the recurring bands!

Alex, of TIA's top 25:
[Gun to my head, they are:]

NIN
Tool
Depeche Mode
Phoenix
Placebo
The Noise FM
Yelle
Sublime
Tech N9ne
Coheed & Cambria
Thirty Seconds to Mars
EOTO
QOTSA
The Doors
Pink Floyd
A Place to Bury Strangers
A Perfect Circle
Rammstein
Daft Punk
Goo Goo Dolls
Marilyn Manson
Muse
Queen
Grimes
Brian Jonestown Massacre

[neorev]

i just told my fiancee about this and she loves deadsy so she thought it was awesome.

Hahaha she's got good taste!
I love Deadsy ever since I heard their first EP when Jay Gordon of Orgy was playing bass in the band
He tried to copy the Deadsy sound with Orgy, but with more of a pop angle.
Commencement is a great album and took forever for a proper release.
I remember having that album for years before it finally got released by Korn's label Elementree
Another cool band on Korn's label was Videodrone.
and I quite enjoyed Deadsy's follow up Phantasmogore.

[GulDukat]

ETA- Frank Sinatra