Interference's Top Ten Bands

[roy]

1. U2
2. The Beatles
3. Joy Division
4. The Pixies
5. Radiohead
6. Belle & Sebastian
7. Bowie
8. The Smiths
9. The Blue Nile
10. Mercury Rev

 

[I'm Ready]

Is this for BANDS or ARTISTS? I've seen Bob Dylan, Madonna, Peter Gabriel, Bowie, Cash, Tori Amos, etc, etc

Anyway, I made 2 lists, one for BANDS and other one for ARTISTS:

Band List:

1- The Beatles
2- Queen
3- Pink Floyd
4- The Rolling Stones
5- Led Zeppelin
6- Radiohead
7- Deep Purple
8- The Who
9- Creedence Clearwater Revival
10-U2

Artist List:

1- John Lennon
2- Bob Dylan
3- Simon And Garfunkel
4- Jimi Hendrix
5- Bjork
6- Ray Charles
7- Cat Stevens
8- Peter Gabriel
9- Bob Marley
10-Vangelis

you need to combine your lists to an overall top 10

 

[00Kevin]

woops, just posted the same thing as i'm ready

 

[gareth brown]

1. Radiohead
2. U2
3. The Beatles
4. DEVO
5. Pink Floyd
6. POLYSICS
7. Blur
8. David Bowie
9. Yellow Magic Orchestra
10. Jeff Buckley

6-10 is a bit of a mixed bag, I can't really put them into an order I'm happy with i'm sure i've missed a crucial band

 

[Judah]

1. Built to Spill
2. The Beatles
3. Radiohead
4. Mogwai
5. U2
6. Pavement
7. The Smiths
8. Guided by Voices
9. Bob Dylan
10. Neil Young/Interpol (tie...sorry!)

 

[Irishteen]

1. U2
2. The Boomtown Rats
3. Gary Moore
4. Aslan
5. Thin Lizzy
6. Morrissey
7. Stereophonics
8. The Verve
9. Oasis
10. Queen

 

[Matt786]

1. The Beatles
2. The Rolling Stones
3. Bob Dylan
4. Bruce Springsteen
5. Radiohead
6. U2
7. The Who
8. Pink Floyd
9. The Velvet Underground
10. Neil Young

 

[Aygo]

1. U2
2. Depeche Mode
3. Oasis
4. Coldplay
5. Garbage
6. The Beatles
7. REM
8. Blur
9. RHCP
10. Radiohead

[PS: why are people posting solo artists instead of bands?]

 

[Aygo]

a few are posting solo artists... so, here I go...

1. Madonna
2. David Bowie
3. Lenny Kravitz
4. Robbie Williams
5. Bjork
6. Janet Jackson
7. Annie Lennox
8. Prince
9. Alannis Morissette
10. Michael Jackson

 

[vaz02]

1.u2
2.Led Zeppelin
3.The Rolling Stones
4.Queen
5.Oasis
6.Pink Floyd
7.Green Day
8.Blur
9.Depeche Mode
10.The white stripes

 

[Anu]

These are my favorites today (not for all time) with special emphasis on acts mostly ignored so far and leaving out some of my obvious favorites (U2, REM, Led Zepelin, The Beatles, Radiohead, Chili Peppers, etc.) that appeared on too many lists already. Anu

1 My Morning Jacket
2 The Flaming Lips
3 Tool
4 A Perfect Circle
5 The Arcade Fire
6 Snow Patrol
7 Coldplay
8 Keane
9 The Killers
10 Live

 

[Bono's shades]

1. U2
2. Bruce Springsteen
3. R.E.M.
4. The Beatles
5. Jeff Buckley
6. Elvis Costello
7. Talking Heads
8. INXS
9. Prince
10. The Police

 

[the rockin edge]

this is a convoluted cross between my all time faves and what my faves are right now. confusing enough?

1. Mark Knopfler/Dire Straits (however you choose to categorize that )
2. Dave Matthews Band
3. Oasis
4. Bruce Cockburn
5. Pink Floyd
6. Pearl Jam
7. U2
8. Jimi Hendrix
9. REM
10. Coldplay

 

[Muggsy]

hmm.... I'm a little lazy with the order... but here they are:

1. Tool
2. The Cure
3. Black Sabbath
4. The Smashing Pumpkins
5. Depeche Mode
6. MetallicA
7. Nightwish
8. Nine Inch Nails
9. The Clash
10. Pantera

Mentions to: U2, sex Pistols, the Doors, Therion.

Artists (well I only have 4 but they are worth to mention )

1. Bjork
2. Manu Chao
3. Emilie Simon
4. Rasputina

 

[Zoots]

a few are posting solo artists... so, here I go...

you're supposed to post only one list comprised of bands and/or artists!

 

[VertigoGal]

this is kind of at the moment...there are only a few bands that I actually have all the CDs of.

1.Aimee Mann
2. Van Morrison
3. The Beatles
4. Beth Orton
5. The Cranberries
6. Elliott Smith
7. Arcade Fire
8. U2
9. Red Hot Chili Peppers
10. The Velvet Underground

something like that

 

[Salome]

1. U2
2. R.E.M.
3. The Beach Boys
4. AC/DC
5. Aphex Twin
6. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
7. Palace Brothers / Palace Music / Will Oldham / Bonny Prince Billy
8. Talking Heads
9. Tindersticks
10. Sonic Youth

bah, I have to re-do this

1. U2
2. R.E.M.
3. The Beach Boys
4. AC/DC
5. Aphex Twin
6. Palace Brothers / Palace Music / Will Oldham / Bonny Prince Billy
7. Frank Zappa
8. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
9. Talking Heads
10. Tindersticks

much better

 

[U2DMfan]

rushed and crude, oh well, me drunk....

1-U2
2-Beatles
3-Pearl Jam
4-Tool
5-Soundgarden
6-Faith No More
7-Alice in Chains
8-Nivana
9-PinkFloyd
10-Radiohead

probably way off, but there you go

 

[MacPhistoPT]

rushed and crude, oh well, me drunk....

1-U2
2-Beatles
3-Pearl Jam
4-Tool
5-Soundgarden
6-Faith No More
7-Alice in Chains
8-Nivana
9-PinkFloyd
10-Radiohead

probably way off, but there you go

Awesome list, the most similar to mine's

 

[jacknife23]

1.U2
2.
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10. Pink Floyd

 

[dazzlingamy]

1. The Smiths/Moz
2. U2
3. The Beatles
4. Savage Garden/Darren Hayes
5. Athlete
6. Jamiroquai
7. Josh Pyke
8. Rufus Wainwright
9. Stereophonics
10. Pete Murray

 

[elevation2u]

U2
Police
Radiohead
Smiths
Springsteen
Dylan
R. Adams
Wilco
Stones
Manu Chao

this is too hard

 

[GibsonGirl]

1.U2
2.
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4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10. Pink Floyd

If that's your way of bashing Pink Floyd, it's terribly lame.

 

[LMP]

If that's your way of bashing Pink Floyd, it's terribly lame.

oh GG, I need to show you a myspace comment conversation I had with this dumbass kid:

dumbass: pink floyd blows massive black penis, they are the worst band of all time
me: kiss your mother with that mouth? May the rock gods burn your house down.
dumbass: pink floyd puts me to sleep like i put ur mom to sleep last night and pink floyed should burn because of how much of a discrase they were to classic rock
me: different strokes for different folks.have fun with your good 'ol boy southern rawkkk, now that's real classic rawk.
dumbass: even the song on my myspace is better than pink floyd and i jsut put that up there for a joke and plus pink floyd is for pot heads example: comfortably numb
me:ah well you know me, I smoke tons of pot while listening to Floyd.

mmm, close-minded ignorance

 

[GibsonGirl]

oh GG, I need to show you a myspace comment conversation I had with this dumbass kid:

dumbass: pink floyd blows massive black penis, they are the worst band of all time
me: kiss your mother with that mouth? May the rock gods burn your house down.
dumbass: pink floyd puts me to sleep like i put ur mom to sleep last night and pink floyed should burn because of how much of a discrase they were to classic rock
me: different strokes for different folks.have fun with your good 'ol boy southern rawkkk, now that's real classic rawk.
dumbass: even the song on my myspace is better than pink floyd and i jsut put that up there for a joke and plus pink floyd is for pot heads example: comfortably numb
me:ah well you know me, I smoke tons of pot while listening to Floyd.

mmm, close-minded ignorance

OH MAN. I go bloody mental when stupid people bring up the "Pink Floyd is for potheads" myth. That thing haunted me throughout all my years at high school. Oh my God, look at her, she's wearing a Pink Floyd shirt, she must do drugs! I nearly stopped wearing my DSOTM shirt to school, the rumours got that bad. When people bring up that silly myth, I just feel like flipping them a rude hand gesture and walking away. It's not worth it.

Just one more reason to shun myspace.

 

[LMP]

OH MAN. I go bloody mental when stupid people bring up the "Pink Floyd is for potheads" myth. That thing haunted me throughout all my years at high school. Oh my God, look at her, she's wearing a Pink Floyd shirt, she must do drugs! I nearly stopped wearing my DSOTM shirt to school, the rumours got that bad. When people bring up that silly myth, I just feel like flipping them a rude hand gesture and walking away. It's not worth it.

Just one more reason to shun myspace.

That sucks about the pot thing, people just suck in general.

2/3 of the Floyd fans at my school are "Dark Side of the Wall"-ers.

Meaning they just buy the DSOTM shirt to look cool, and don't understand what I'm talking about when I try to talk to them about the band.

They're not as bad as "Ramones fans"

 

[GibsonGirl]

That sucks about the pot thing, people just suck in general.

2/3 of the Floyd fans at my school are "Dark Side of the Wall"-ers.

Meaning they just buy the DSOTM shirt to look cool, and don't understand what I'm talking about when I try to talk to them about the band.

They're not as bad as "Ramones fans"

Heh, I can definitely sympathise! It seems that roughly 90% of all people who wear band shirts have absolutely no idea when it comes to said bands' music. In my experience at least. One guy came to school with a Radiohead shirt on one day, thinking he was so cool and indie. So I asked him what his favourite Radiohead album was and he said Paranoid Android. Same goes for most people who wear Pink Floyd shirts. One unfortunate soul I spoke to thought that DSOTM was their only album!

 

[LMP]

I think there should just be a test for buying band tees:

either sing one of their songs,
name two/three songs or one album,
or name one or two bandmembers.

My favorite was the one girl who told me her favorite Ramones song was London Calling

 

[GibsonGirl]

My favorite was the one girl who told me her favorite Ramones song was London Calling

That's hilarious! And I agree. You should have some sort of basic knowledge of a band before you start wearing their shirts in public. Otherwise, you just look like a complete twat.

But anyway, it's interesting to look at these lists. Lots of B&Cers have similar tastes.

 

[LMP]

I see U2 , Pink Floyd, R.E.M., Radiohead, and The Beatles making the Top 5.