Top TWENTY Favourite Bands

[MunchyBrain]

Because it's much easier than Top Ten, and nobody ever does it, and it's much more interesting.

1. The Smiths
2. Hüsker Dü
3. Dead Kennedys
4. Minutemen
5. Johnny Hobo & The Freight Trains
6. Black Flag
7. The Replacements
8. Mission Of Burma
9. Oi Polloi
10. Pulp
11. The Jesus and Mary Chain
12. Echo & The Bunnymen
13. Breaking Circus
14. fIREHOSE
15. Scratch Acid
16. Bad Brains
17. Tom Waits
18. This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb
19. Wipers
20. Bauhaus

Or something like that.

 

[iamkali62]

1. The Smiths/Morrissey, 2. Kirsty MacColl, 3. Black Flag/Henry Rollins, 4. The Housemartins, 5. Lisa Germano, 6. Neil Finn, 7. Crowded House, 8. Split Enz, 9. XTC, 10. Andy Partridge & The Fuzzy Warbles, 11. Brahms Symphonie NO 1. 12, The Goldberg Variations by Glenn Gould, 13. Pet Shop Boys, 14. New Order, 15. Etta James, "Gold", 16. Dinah Washington, 17. Cocteau Twins, 18, Queen, 19. Depeche Mode, 20. Fugazi

 

[Uncleskinny]

9. Oi Polloi

There's a band I didn't expect to see mentioned on this board. Once played a gig in Edinburgh with them. Nice chaps.

Peter

 

[sweetness522]

1.Morrissey/ The Smiths
2. Echo & the Bunnymen
3. David Bowie
4. The Beatles
5. REM
6. Oasis
7. Erasure
8. The Doors
9. Culture Club
10. Duran Duran
11. New Order
12. Elton John
13. Midnight Oil
14. U2
15. Human League
16. The Who
17. Depeche Mode
18. The Cure
19. Pet Shop Boys
20. Talking Heads

 

[Something against us]

1. Morrissey
2. The Beatles
3. Sinéad O'Connor
4. The Smiths
5. The Cure
6. Marshall Crenshaw
7. Prince
8. Tori Amos
9. Elvis Costello & The Attractions
10. Joni Mitchell
11. Joy Division
12. Kate Bush
13. R.E.M.
14. Bob Dylan
15. Suzanne Vega
16. Nine Inch Nails
17. The Pogues
18. Damien Dempsey
19. Laura Cantrell
20. George Harrison

 

[Skinner]

1. The Smiths.Morrissey
2. Failure/On/Ken Andrews/Year of the Rabbit (Any form of Ken Andrews)
3. Dredg
4. Silverchair
5. The Police
6. Steely Dan
7. Avenged Sevenfold
8. Against Me!
9. R.E.M.
10. Poison the Well
12. Depeche Mode
13. Tegan and Sara
14. Kings of Leon
15. From Autumn to Ashes
16. Metallica (in high school)
17. Girl in a Coma
18. Hanson
19. Nutbox
20. The Beatles

 

[lightupvirginmary]

Can i do singers as well as bands? Alright then...

1 Bright Eyes
2 Morrissey / The Smiths
3 The Killers
4 Patrick Wolf
5 Bloc Party
6 Hole/ Courtney Love
7 Eminem
8 Idlewild
9 Emmy The Great
10 Lightspeed Champion
11 Death Cab for Cutie
12 Seafood
13 Rilo Kiley
14 Pulp
15 The Dears
16 Desaparecidos
17 New Rhodes
18 Gene
19 Manic Street Preachers
20 Smashing Pumpkins

Not in that order... but nearly. Yes you can tell I was a teenager mid-90s.

 

[MunchyBrain]

There's a band I didn't expect to see mentioned on this board. Once played a gig in Edinburgh with them. Nice chaps.

Peter

I never expected to hear them mentioned on this board by anyone except me.

 

[Riah Shusher]

Excluding solo artists...

1. The Smiths
2. My Bloody Valentine
3. The Velvet Underground
4. The Fall (arguably a solo act)
5. Gang of Four
6. Slowdive
7. Television Personalities
8. The Jesus and Mary Chain
9. Talking Heads
10. Joy Division
11. The Clash
12. This Heat
13. The Birthday Party
14. Fugazi
15. Dead Kennedys
16. Bauhaus
17. Wilco
18. Pulp
19. Richard Hell & the Voidoids
20. The Brian Jonestown Massacre

 

[Black_Eyed_Sioux]

1. Siouxsie (In any form)
2. Morrissey (Again, in any form)
3. PJ Harvey
4. Gary Numan
5. Sisters Of Mercy
6. Bauhaus
7. Magazine
8. Nico
9. Lou Reed
10. Sparks
11. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
12. Kate Bush
13. The B-52's
14. Buff Medways
15. Alec Empire
16. Bjork
17. Dusty Springfield
18. Klaus Nomi
19. Martha & The Muffins
20. Interpol

 

[Half_a_Person]

1. The Smiths/Moz
2. AC/DC
3. Siouxsie and The Banshees
4. Missing Persons
5. The Cure
6. Echo and The Bunnymen
7. My Chemical Romance
8. Cocteau Twins
9. Stereolab
10. The Pixies
11. The Sounds
12. Joy Division
13. Hole
14. Bikini Kill
15. Le Tigre
16. Ladytron
17. Def Leppard
18. Modest Mouse w/ Johnny Marr
19. Kraftwerk
20. Blondie

 

[mcrickson]

0. Myself
1. Moz/Smiths
2. Crime and the City Solution
3. Magazine/Howard Devoto
4. Nico
5. Dinah Shore
6. Patti Page
7. Sparks
8. Constance Demby
9. The Gothic Archies
10. The Magnetic Fields
11. Bob Dylan
12. Einsturzende Neubauten
13. Tchaikovsky
14. John Lennon
15. Simon Bonney
16. Nick Cave
17. The Velvet Underground
18. The Beatles
19. Tuxedomoon
20. Myself

Hey, i have to like my own music, i put so much freaking time into it!!!

 

[I am a Ghost]

In no order excepting 1 through 5.

1.The Smiths
2.The Beatles
3.Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
4.R.E.M
5.The Go-Betweens
6.The Pixies
7.The Arcade Fire
8.Elvis Costello and The Attractions
9.The Divine Comedy
10.Talking Heads
11.Pulp
12.Blur
13.The Kinks
14.Joy Division
15.Kings Of Leon
16.Mercury Rev
17.Slade
18.T-Rex
19.The Undertones
20.The National

 

[Sharron Needles]

No order:

The Smiths/Moz
Velvet Underground
The Stooges
T-Rex
Bowie
Roxy Music
The Damned
Ramones
Cock Sparrer
Small Faces
Scott Walker
Wire
James
Suede
Pulp
Radiohead
The Jam
B&S
The Fall
The Swell Maps
Buzzcocks

 

[prisoner77]

1. The Smiths/Morrissey
2. The Jam
3. Siouxsie & The Banshees
4. Stiff Little Fingers
5. Sex Pistols
6. Elbow
7. James
8. Belle & Sebastian
9. The Beatles
10. Neil Young & Crazy Horse
11. Grandaddy
12. R.E.M.
13. Ian Dury & The Blockheads
14. Rolling Stones
15. Pulp
16. The Pogues
17. The La's
18. T.Rex
19. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
20. The Divine Comedy

 

[morrisseychic]

No order: except First 2

Morrissey/Smiths (1)
Duran Duran (2)
R.E.M
The Cure
Depeche Mode
Nirvana
Sonic Youth
New Order
Beastie Boys
Smashing Pumpkins
The Police
The Pixies
Crowded House
Nine Inch Nails
Beck
Radiohead
Pet Shop Boys
B-52'S
Inxs
Red Hot Chili Peppers (nothing after 1991)

 

[Trill]

1. The Smiths
2. 28 Costumes
3. Robyn Hitchcock
4. The Beach Boys
5. Ween
6. The Divine Comedy
7. Morrissey
8. Pixies
9. R.E.M.
10. Billy Bragg
11. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
12. Pulp
13. Blur
14. Beastie Boys
15. Meat Puppets
16. Loudon Wainwright III
17. De La Soul
18. They Might Be Giants
19. Malcolm Middleton
20. Jeffrey Lewis

 

[oye terence]

1.the smiths
2.suede
3.the beatles
4.belle and sebastian
5.pulp
6.joy division
7.luna
8.gene
9.dinosaur jr.
10.versus
11.Ivy
12.new order
13. blur
14.beat happening
15.satisfact
16.death in june
17.heavenly
18.trashcan sinatras
19. the english beat
20.chapterhouse


man that was hard.

 

[Skinner]

man that was hard.

That's what she said!

I'm sorry I have a complex or something, I have do to it and that was the perfect set up.

But interesting list as well.

 

[nugz]

That's what she said!

I'm sorry I have a complex or something, I have do to it and that was the perfect set up.

But interesting list as well.

hahahha, nice one!