My top favorite 21 bands (mostly alternative/rock)

Bands listed in order of time most spent listening to by roughly estimating, since favorites change with time. I doubt most people would agree with the bands i put in the top 21, let alone the ordering itself but here it is.

  1. Radiohead (First three albums only) – Before they went the non-angstful (ie emotionless, yes that’s my take, compare the albums before and after and you can’t say otherwise) experimental computer crap and left the guitars they were easily the best band. Lyrics, singing, and melody all perfect. You either get them or you don’t, there is no in-between.
  2. Elliott Smith – Beautiful singing voice and great lyrics. Lots of melancholy. Most fav artist currently. Probably the best musician on this list, or I guess I should say was…
  3. Muse – Alternative on crack. Singing is over the top in a good way, quick beats and guitar rifs. Some songs are perfect to play while weaving through traffic. Lyrics are a little weak. Last album was dissapointing.
  4. Eminem – Either this or RATM the best music to play to while angry. Easier to relate to than other rappers since music isn’t about guns, money or women only and enunciates much better with slower beats.
  5. Coldplay – Loved them way before they went disgustingly popular, now I dislike them a lot more for some reason.
  6. Rage against the machine – Very energizing, makes you want to smash things and kill.
  7. The cure – The best “in love” band. So many good songs.
  8. Nine inch nails - Nothing needs to be said here
  9. Our lady peace – Canada’s best band. Alternative with a few quirky elements in it. Last album sucked.
  10. Travis – Coldplay’s and radioheads more popish little brother except more happiness, more pop and quicker hooks.
  11. Blink 182
  12. Avril lavigne
  13. Bright eyes
  14. The killers
  15. Dashboard confessional
  16. Linkin park
  17. Lucky boys confusion
  18. Three days grace
  19. All American Rejects
  20. Smashing pumpkins
  21. Sublime

Radiohead and Avril in the same list.

Hmmmmmm.

Avril, AMR?

Why do you have to make things so complicated?

i can’t help what i like. i don’t think you can judge them totally unless youve listened to all their albums completely. they have some catchy tunes. cant a guy have his guilty pleasures? anyway, what do you mean complicated? i assumed that was in a negative connotation for these bands in relation to my other bands?

Eww… Avril Lavigne.
Eww… Linkin Park.
For that matter, eww 17-20.

But you like RATM and Radiohead, Blink 182 and the Cure, so I don’t know what to say. I’m just glad you didn’t include Miss Murder among your favorite songs.

Here, I’ll post mine. It’s on Last.fm.

Overall Top Artists
1 CunninLynguists
2 Heiruspecs
3 Brother Ali
4 The White Stripes
5 Morcheeba
6 Eminem
7 Jedi Mind Tricks
8 General Electrics
9 Beck
10 Nirvana
10 Tonedeff
12 Outkast
13 Gorillaz
14 The Smashing Pumpkins
15 Danger Mouse & Jemini
15 My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
17 Queens of the Stone Age
18 Marcy Playground
19 Nine Inch Nails
20 Lords of Acid
21 Jurassic 5

If you like Nirvana, you should check out Alice in Chains. Pearl Jam also.

Cunnning Linguists is a Metallica Album isn’t it? Or somehting like that.

They should change their name to something original.

Judging from this I have one thing to say to you,

“You sir are a tool.”

I’m almost sure Metallica never had an album by that name.

I think you meant eww 17-19. You don’t like Smashing Pumpkins?

I’m not big on them.

i disagree. Since i post up my list on this board, i know what to expect, almost everyone disagreeing with me and calling me things like tool becuase i like bands like AAR and Avril which are considered pop-rock only fit for teenage girls who don’t know any better or other pop or famous bands. the fact is, i like them period. regardless of how they were made, who they were made by, who listens to them, and what elitist culture thinks of them. I enjoy their sounds and lyrics and it would be a lie to say it otherwise, that would make me a tool. I would also be a tool if i found some obscure indie bands to like just almost solely becuase no one else knows them so i could be in the “in” crowd of elitests for liking the non popular bands. and thus the non-conformist becomes the conformist adhering to the system, thus becoming a tool. the fact is you can’t judge whether a person is a tool for doing something unless you know why they are doing it. So, no i don’t like these bands to fit in, i like them bcause i do and don’t care about anything else. and yes i do listen to a ridiculous amount of indie music and basically anything i can get my hands on becuase im a music freak , but this is what my list has come out to.

hot! :smiley:
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regards, Sterenceup

You know, I checked the “all posts by” thing on sterenceup, and they’ve all been porn/spam. Can we just ban him already?

It does, after all, seem like 18 chances was more than Dunamis (a real poster) got.

It is a bot.

My taste is off on a tangent from everyone elses. Just check it out.

  1. Against All Authority
  2. Anti-Flag
  3. NoFX
  4. Blink 182
  5. Leftover Crack - an eclectic mix of metal, ska, and punk
  6. Operation Ivy
  7. The Casualties
  8. Strike Anywhere - good punk band from richmond virginia
  9. Kid Dynamite
  10. Rise Against
  11. The Unseen
  12. Propaghandi
  13. Minor Threat - Im from DC
  14. Bad Religion
  15. Rancid
  16. Gogol Bordello - ukrainian gypsy punk (klezmer with electric guitars and punk lyrics)
  17. The Descendents
  18. The Offspring
  19. Sum 41
  20. Agent Orange
  21. The Exploited

Nice mix of pop punk and street punk, haha. Good choices as well. The others I haven’t heard of or haven’t heard much of.

My favorite band at the moment is Chevelle.

  1. Interpol
  2. Fiery Furnaces
  3. Pixies
  4. Sex Pistols
  5. Reagan Youth
  6. RAM
  7. Alice in Chains
  8. Joy Division
  9. Death From Above 1979
  10. The Cure