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Also in no particular order off the top of my head:

 

The Beatles

Wilco

The Band

Elvis Costello

XTC

Big Star

Oasis

Paul Weller

Badfinger

Nick Drake

Crowded House

The Stone Roses

The Smithereens

The Byrds

Gram Parsons

Teenage Fanclub

The Beach Boys

Cake

The Posies

Men At Work

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My 20 favorite bands of all time

 

Pearl Jam

Neil Young

Wilco

Dinosaur Jr

Alice In Chains

Radiohead

Tool

Smashing Pumpkins

Pink Floyd

Doors

Soundgarden

Arcade Fire

Mastodon

Mars Volta

Queens of the Stone Age

Flaming Lips

My Morning Jacket

Built To Spill

Modest Mouse

Miles Davis

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Off the top of my head, in no particular order:

 

1) Bruce Cockburn

2) Bob Dylan

3) Phil Ochs

4) The Beatles

5) Frank Zappa

6) Wilco

7) Joni Mitchell

8) John Coltrane

9) Miles Davis

10) Billie Holiday

11) Pink Floyd

12) The Grateful Dead

13) The Rolling Stones

14) Steely Dan

15) Muddy Waters

16) Warren Zevon

17) Jimi Hendrix

18) Jefferson Airplane

19) The Beach Boys

20) Bob Marley

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I may have thought it possible to make a list like this before I went and read the lists that have already been posted. It's too Sophie's Choice for me -- I can't do it. But damn, I wish I could sit around and drink beer/listen to music with you people in real life. Great lists.

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Wilco

Grateful Dead

Neil Young

Dylan

The Doors

Allman Brothers

Pink Floyd

The Band

Rolling Stones

Velvet Underground

Morophine

Radiohead

Frank Zappa / Mothers of Invention

Janis Joplin

Jimi Hendrix

 

Yeah I'm an old fart

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No, you just have excellent taste! :thumbup

 

 

Thank ya.....

 

Just the stuff I grew up with you know? I like some of the newer stuff out there but it just doesn't grab me like the Dead, Allmans, etc stuff does

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Well, we do have a few things in common on our lists ...

I was looking for an "ouch" avatar to respond to the "old fart" comment, but could't find one.

 

 

Yeah....ya gotta love FZ eh? I think we have discussed this before but damn I can be in the worst mood and then put on Joe's Garage and I just start crackin' up

 

This is......the...central.....scruuuuuuuuuuuuutinizer...again

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Wilco

Uncle Tupelo

Golden Smog

Loose Fur

Whiskeytown

The Jayhawks

Neil Young

Tom Petty

Bob Dylan

Bruce Springsteen

The Who

The Clash

Joe Strummer/Mescaleros

Rolling Stones (younger version)

U2

Elvis Costello

Nirvana

Radiohead

Led Zeppelin

Wilco

 

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not in order:

Sleater-Kinney

Cat Power

Wilco

Ryan Adams

Whiskeytown

the Jesus and Mary Chain

Manic Street Preachers

Radiohead

Broken Social Scene

Destroyer

the Smiths

Fiery Furnaces

the Constantines

Sonic Youth

Spiritualized

Wu-Tang

Pearl Jam

the Hold Steady

Blood Brothers

Pavement

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not really in any particular order, the last two are guilty pleasures.

 

1. Wilco

2. Bob Dylan

3. Neil Young

4. Tom Waits

5. Radiohead

6. The Carpenters

6. Blonde Redhead

7. Emmylou Harris

8. Johnny Cash

9. The Rolling Stones

10. Patty Griffin

11. PJ Harvey

12. The Shins

13. Brian Eno

14. Harry Nilsson

15. Scissor Sisters

16. Golden Smog

17. Beth Orton

18. Michael Nyman

19. Kelly Clarkson

20. hairband ballads

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i saw that some of my favorites weren't being represented so i thought i'd give it a go. i just went through itunes and picked the artists i thought would be in the top 20, then put them in an order. turns out i have a top 26.

 

1. Leonard Cohen

2. Tom Waits

3. Wilco

4. Bob Dylan

5. The Beatles

6. Neil Young

7. Van Morrison

8. Randy Newman

9. The Band

10. Bruce Springsteen

11. Miles Davis

12. Cat Power

13. Clem Snide

14. M. Ward

15. Galaxie 500

16. Joanna Newsom

17. Jonathan Richman

18. Led Zeppelin

19. Nick Drake

20. The Smiths

21. Simon and Garfunkel

22. The Velvet Underground

23. Sparklehorse

24. My Morning Jacket

25. Pavement

26. Josh Ritter

 

I'm sure some of you get this same feeling when reading your own lists, but just reading my list I feel home and safe and warm.

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Thank ya.....

 

Just the stuff I grew up with you know? I like some of the newer stuff out there but it just doesn't grab me like the Dead, Allmans, etc stuff does

 

 

That's because most of it isn't as good.

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After number one, the order is just in the order they came to mind...

 

1. The Beatles

1. Wilco

1. The Tragically Hip

1. Frank Black / Pixies

1. Bob Dylan

1. Led Zeppelin

1. Smiths / Morrissey

1. PJ Harvey

1. Ween

2. Afghan Whigs / Twilight Singers

3. Jane's Addiction

4. Morphine

5. Blind Melon

6. The Poster Children

7. The Doors

8. Prince

9. 311

10. Throwing Muses (and all its spinoffs)

11. Primus

12 Tori Amos

13. The Flaming Lips

14. Barenaked Ladies

15. The The

16. The Police

17. The Lemonheads

18. The Wonder Stuff

19. James

20. Ani Difranco

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1. beatles

2. dylan

3. stones

4. elvis costello

5. wilco

6. squeeze

7. the kinks

8. the band

9. the shins

10. ryan adams

11. arcade fire

12. uncle tupelo

13. silver jews

14. spoon

15. new pornos

16. randy newman

17. nick lowe

18. son volt

19. eels

20. michael bolton (jk)

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Wilco / Jeff Tweedy

Centro-matic / South San Gabriel / Will Johnson

Calexico

The National

Drive-By Truckers

Alejandro Escovedo

Neko Case

Bob Dylan

Van Morrison

Neil Young

Lucinda Williams

Norman Blake

Ryan Adams

The Gourds

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

Dave Alvin / Blasters

Explosions In The Sky

Richard Buckner

Jon Langford / Mekons / Waco Brothers

Patty Griffin

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Wilco

Alejandro Escovedo

Ryan Adams

U2

Bruce Springsteen

Neil Young

Bob Dylan

Drive by Truckers

The Beatles

Radiohead

The Bee Gees

Pearl Jam

1968-1973 Rolling Stones

...and you will know us by the trail of dead

Elvis Costello

Led Zepplin

...

and that is basically it...

I listen to stuff...but nothing really interests me to the degree that I will even remember to post it on an internet fan site.

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1) Wilco

2) Rx Bandits

3) The Weakerthans

4) The Thermals

5) Constantines

6) The Slackers

7) Rocket From The Crypt

8) The Band

9) Ryan Adams

10) The Clash

11) Okkervil River

12) Ted Leo

13) Jim Guthrie

14) The Suicide Machines

15) Elvis Costello

16) Bedouin Soundclash

17) Streetlight Manifesto

18) Against Me!

19) Joel Plaskett

20) Broken Social Scene

 

Add Modest Mouse in there somewhere.

 

Limited to "guitar bands" for ease.

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1. The Beatles

2. Wilco

3. Nick Drake

4. The Velvet Underground

5. Elliott Smith

6. Neutral Milk Hotel

7. The Kinks

8. Grandaddy

9. The Olivia Tremor Control

10. The Zombies

11. Van Morrison

12. Miles Davis

13. Radiohead

14. Yo La Tengo

15. Smog

16. Califone

17. Sparklehorse

18. Pavement

19. Jon Brion

20. Brian Eno

 

--Mike

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1. Wilco

2. Broken Social Scene

3. Bob Dylan

4. Grateful Dead

5. Iron & Wine

6. The Smiths

7. Califone

8. Ween

9. The Beatles

10. Calexico

11. Gillian Welch

12. Yo La Tengo

13. Beck

14. The Cure

15. Uncle Tupelo

16. Spoon

17. Old & in the Way

18. Bob Marley & the Wailers

19. The Creatures

20. My Morning Jacket

 

 

That was fun

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In no particular order:

 

Wilco

Low

Page France

Nick Drake

Slovenly

Paul Duncan

Owen

The American Analog Set

El Ten Eleven

Jim O'Rourke

Fela Kuti

Horace Silver

Barenaked Laides

Graves

The Rapture

Loose Fur

Adem

Robyn Hitchcock

Pinback

Jon Brion

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for fun, purely what last.fm reports on me since i signed up just over a year ago:

 

01 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

02 Eels

03 The Decemberists

04 Rilo Kiley

05 Andrew Bird

06 The Shins

07 Bright Eyes

08 Band of Horses

09 Brakes

10 Okkervil River

11 Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins

12 The Hold Steady

13 The Thermals

14 The Elected

15 Ed Harcourt

16 M. Ward

17 OX

18 Cloud Cult

19 Sufjan Stevens

20 Ben Kweller

21 Bob Dylan

22 Damien Rice

23 Guster

24 Of Montreal

25 The Cure

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