Your Top 5 Bands and/or Musicians of all Time

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Re: Your Top 5 Bands and/or Musicians of all Time

Post by rijaca »

Bands/Musicians
Grateful Dead
Widespread Panic
Allman Brothers Band (especially with Warren and Derek)
Eric Clapton (Blind Faith, Cream, Derek and the Dominos, solo,...). Except "Wonderful Tonight" :barf:
Clash
Little Feat (with Lowell George) (Best live LP ever is "Waiting for Columbus"). Bonus points for best LP artwork, too.

Notable concerts
First ABB show: Mile High Stadium 6/23/74.
First GD show: Red Rocks 7/8/78.
Other notable GD shows: Ventura 7/30/83 (the night the lights went out in Ventura); Telluride 8/15-16/87 (too much of everything is just enough)
First WSP show: Fox Theater Boulder 1/18/96

Other notables:
The Cure Fiddler's Green 9/4/89 (Best light show ever!)
U2 Sun Devil Stadium 12/19-20/87 (last two shows of Joshua Tree tour, $5 tix)

Shows I've seen in past year or so...
Widespread Panic (RR and Broomfield Halloween)
SCI (Big Gigantic Incident at New Years)
Yonder Mountain (with beer tastings!!!)
Dispatch
Michael Franti and Spearhead/North Mississippi All Stars
The Revivalists (Thanks Dave!!!)
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Re: Your Top 5 Bands and/or Musicians of all Time

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Pink Floyd surprisingly on a lot of lists. I listened to them a lot as a teen and then one day realized they are the most depressing thing I've ever listened to and gave up on it. But they do get a mention for one of my favorite song titles. 'Careful With That Axe Eugene'.

I saw Def Leppard when they opened for Blackfoot (yeah, who?), we didn't know who they were.

Led Zeppelin was enormously talented but Jimmy Page, as it turned out, was a despicable human being.

Favorite album- Nightfly by Steely Dan alum Donald Fagen.
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Re: Your Top 5 Bands and/or Musicians of all Time

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1. Bob Dylan
2. Toots and the Maytals
3. nofx
4. The Slackers
5. Flogging Molly
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Re: Your Top 5 Bands and/or Musicians of all Time

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Matt wrote:Alphabetically:
Dead Kennedys
Grateful Dead
Operation Ivy
Phish (bring it, Shitless, I dare you)
Just publically putting it out here is punishment enough for you.

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Re: Your Top 5 Bands and/or Musicians of all Time

Post by CorduroyCalves »

Good question. My top 5-10 fluctuates but my top 2 have always been Rush and Van Halen, not necessarily in that order. Right now, I would put 311, AC/DC and Fleet Foxes to round out the top 5.
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Re: Your Top 5 Bands and/or Musicians of all Time

Post by Cygnus X1 »

The avatar might be a give away for #1. :mrgreen:
Rush
Metallica
Led Zeppelin
Ted Nugent
AC/DC

But for winding down, The Eagles
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Re: Your Top 5 Bands and/or Musicians of all Time

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Radiohead
Sufjan Stevens
Chris Thile
Fleet Foxes
Decemberists


Classic Rock
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Re: Your Top 5 Bands and/or Musicians of all Time

Post by FireOnTheMountain »

Neat, how cool is this?! My thread, so I get to commentate and please feel free to do so also!

Cooling Listings (imo)/comments:
- Janis Joplin Live concert
- Marley ----> Live Marley show > live dead show ??????
- Allman Brothers (not just Eat a peach, but their live stuff, plus they really got down with 2 sets of drums)
- Live Dave Matthews before they went completely to s**t (ie the stone, 2 step = amazing)
- Radiohead (music junkie AndYouSeeMe and I put "Reckoner" in the top 5 best songs of all time)
- Metallica
- Love the punk shout outs including Dead Kennedys but sorry DaveB i'd go old school afi (or mayyybe bad religion) > old school nofx

Bands/Musicians Sad to see Not on the List:
- The Doors
- Cat Stevens
- Zevon (dude has a song called "My s**t's Fucked Up", I mean come on...)
- Korn (Go watch their 99 woodstock performance on Youtube)
- Queen? (Best vocals of all time???)
- Wu Tang and maybe Tribe Called Quest

And the Most interseting of them all:
Matt wrote: David Byrne, Telluride, 2009. IDK WTF he was doing headlining a bluegrass festival, but it blew my mind.
Totally remember seeing this on the venue and thinking, huh...? Very cool to see you thought it was awesome.

Lastly, and sorry, but it must be done:
Cygnus X1 wrote:The Eagles
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Re: Your Top 5 Bands and/or Musicians of all Time

Post by XrunclimbskiX »

1. Jack white
2. Modest Mouse
3. Jimi Hendrix
4. SilverSun Pickups
5. Yeah yeah yeah’s

There are a lot of other good ones in here, Pink Floyd, etc. But I struggle listening to music I have heard for such a long time.
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Re: Your Top 5 Bands and/or Musicians of all Time

Post by Eli Boardman »

Revised and updated:

Bands:

Grateful Dead
Pink Floyd
The Doors
Led Zepellin
The Rolling Stones

Individual artists:

Bob Dylan
Bruce Cockburn
Jewel
Nanci Griffith
Warren Zevon
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Re: Your Top 5 Bands and/or Musicians of all Time

Post by dpage »

Fugazi
Hot Water Music
Snapcase
Avail
Youth of Today
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Re: Your Top 5 Bands and/or Musicians of all Time

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Metallica
AC/DC
Tool
Van Halen
Blondie
Garbage
Belly

...can't just limit it to only five.
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