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New Edition
New Kids on the Block
Backstreet Boys
N*Sync
Jonas Brothers

Currently awaiting the next great band to come along.
 
Hartsock said:
Top 5 meaning top 5 that I will probably listen to into my old age until death. Not the top 5 I'm listening to right now.

1. Modest Mouse
2. Jimi Hendrix
3. The Black Keys
4. Rage Against The Machine
5. Aesop Rock


Currently listening to

1. Japandroids
2. Dillinger Escape Plan
3. A$ap Rocky
4. Deftones
5. Johnny Cash
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Modest Mouse obviously has something against God
 
Thanks to this thread, I've finally worked up the courage to give Modest Mouse an honest listen. Don't know if I'll make it through the day guys.

I pretty much hate all old music, but the few modern bands with staying power seem to be:

Eminem,
Avenged Sevenfold
Shinedown
Seether
selective Stone Sour (though don't care for Corey Taylor's harder stuff).

Also surprised to see Blue October get a tiny bit of burn. That dude has the most unique voice and musical sound combinations.
 
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franklin said:
Thanks to this thread, I've finally worked up the courage to give Modest Mouse an honest listen. Don't know if I'll make it through the day guys.

I pretty much hate all old music, but the few modern bands with staying power seem to be:

D12
Avenged Sevenfold
Shinedown
Seether
selective Stone Sour (though don't care for Corey Taylor's harder stuff).

Also surprised to see Blue October get a tiny bit of burn. That dude has the most unique voice and musical sound combinations.
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Fixed!
 
All Time Top 5 in rough chronological order:

Electric Light Orchestra
Oingo Boingo
Tears For Fears*
Faith No More
Garbage

* With Tears For Fears, I like covers of their music as much as I like the original songs. It is Roland Orzabal's writing more than the band's sound that lands them on my list.

As for current top 5, it is different by the day and by whatever mood I'm in.
 
Al-O-Meter said:
All Time Top 5 in rough chronological order:

Electric Light Orchestra
Oingo Boingo
Tears For Fears*
Faith No More
Garbage

* With Tears For Fears, I like covers of their music as much as I like the original songs. It is Roland Orzabal's writing more than the band's sound that lands them on my list.

As for current top 5, it is different by the day and by whatever mood I'm in.
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Hmmm... I guess I can try to do a top 5 not necessarily in order, but like you my tastes change daily/weekly depending on mood. Inspired by your top 3.

ELO / Jeff Lynne
Keane / Tom Chaplin
Erasure
Jack Johnson
Chicago

Any of these might rotate in and out of the 4-5 positions at any time. Top 5 is impossible, but even top 30 is rough. The rest of the stuff I listen to on the reg is only a few songs from a band so without a deep dive I didn't think to put them on the list.

Barenaked Ladies
Beatles
Metallica
Bill Withers
Coldplay
Dire Straits
Tears for Fears
Queen
OneRepublic
They Might Be Giants
The Traveling Wilburys
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Roy Orbison
The Clash
Clapton
Billy Joel
Tom Cochrane
Huey Lewis & The News
Fleetwood Mac
The Eagles
The Moody Blues
Oingo Boingo
The Candy Skins
Jackson Browne
Duran Duran
Pet Shop Boys
Depeche Mode
Nat King Cole
CCR
Bowie
R.E.M.

*let the psychoanalyzing begin
 
SOJA
Stick figure
One Drop
Sublime
NOFX
 
Jazz Spazz said:
Hmmm... I guess I can try to do a top 5 not necessarily in order, but like you my tastes change daily/weekly depending on mood. Inspired by your top 3.

ELO / Jeff Lynne
Keane / Tom Chaplin
Erasure
Jack Johnson
Chicago

Any of these might rotate in and out of the 4-5 positions at any time. Top 5 is impossible, but even top 30 is rough. The rest of the stuff I listen to on the reg is only a few songs from a band so without a deep dive I didn't think to put them on the list.

Barenaked Ladies
Beatles
Metallica
Bill Withers
Coldplay
Dire Straits
Tears for Fears
Queen
OneRepublic
They Might Be Giants
The Traveling Wilburys
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Roy Orbison
The Clash
Clapton
Billy Joel
Tom Cochrane
Huey Lewis & The News
Fleetwood Mac
The Eagles
The Moody Blues
Oingo Boingo
The Candy Skins
Jackson Browne
Duran Duran
Pet Shop Boys
Depeche Mode
Nat King Cole
CCR
Bowie
R.E.M.

*let the psychoanalyzing begin
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That is a great list. There are songs from every one of those artists that are among my favorites. My top from Tom Cochrane is Lunatic Fringe when he was fronting Red Rider. Because it was used as the theme for the 80’s movie Vision Quest, for decades I thought it was about pushing so hard athletically that you were crazy, kind of like Michael Sembello’s Maniac serving as the theme for Flashdance. It wasn’t until a long time later that I figured out it has nothing to do with anything related to athletics and was calling out White Supremacy. Great song. Great artist. And I still enjoy occasionally watching Vision Quest.
 
Al-O-Meter said:
I'm very familiar with your last 2, but can you recommend tracks from your top 3 artists?
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Listen to True Love, Prison Blues or Devils by SOJA. They are the best lyrically imo. Alot of their songs are rather serious or political in nature.(they have a ton of songs/albums and damn near every song is good. Lead singers voice reminds me of Bob Marley a bit. They were the runner up for a Grammy for reggae album of the year for one of their albums too)

Stick figure I would recommend Weight Of Sound. They are the best instrumentally in my opinion. Most their songs are not serious at all. Fun party songs.

One Drop lead singer has a beautiful voice and are the best vocally. Go with One More Night or She's Gone. They have a good political song called Hector Pieterson that's about apartied in south Africa. It's really good. They mostly do love songs.
 
This must have been during my 1.5 year hiatus.

Tough to do a list like this. So many great bands over the years. Many underrated bands I probably would forget way too many. I can give you a top 5 that I will always stop and listen to though, roughly in order of preference:

1) Hall & Oates
2) Monster Magnet
3) Soundgarden (really anything with Cornell - RIP - greatest rock vocalist of all time)
4) AC/DC
5) Andy Grammer

I could do this by era (70's, 80's, etc.) or genre or time in my life (teenager, young married & new RM, teenage kids in the house, etc.) And probably never get to a definitive list.

But the bands/artists above are those I would choose if I were to be stranded on a deserted island and could only take a single "best of" record by each of 5 different groups.
 
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