Your Top 10 Bands/Artist

[Liftedmemory]

1. Bob Dylan
2. Drive-By Truckers
3. The Gaslight Anthem
4. Pearl Jam
5. Neil Young
6. Sage Francis
7. My Morning Jacket
8. Johnny Cash
9. John Prine
10. The Roots

***These are interchangable
some days Against Me!, The Hold Steady, R.E.M. and Wilco are put up there..

[Iowan]

Just spit balling here, no particular order:

Drive-By Truckers
Pearl Jam
The Rolling Stones
The Hold Steady
Lucero
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Wilco
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Ryan Adams/Whiskeytown

Just missing this cut would be anything Jack White, Neil Young, Skynyrd, Zeppelin, Foo Fighters, GNR, and Slobberbone.

[oilpiers]

No particular order, but I have difficulty placing the more obscure over the clear cut icons.
Beatles
Stones
The Who
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Neil Young
R.E.M.
U2
My Morning Jacket
Velvet Underground

The only one not a household name here is MMJ, and personally I put them at my top. Notable exclusions are DBT, of course, Bowie, Springsteen, because it is not the top 11, and bands I just love like Jayhawks, Uncle Tupelo, Cheap Trick, and many others. It is like saying your man cave is the best part of your house, but you need the essential rooms like a kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom more than the cave.

[211poundsofpork]

(again, no particular order)

Drive-By Truckers
Bruce Hornsby
Pink Floyd
Johnny Cash
Santana
Tori Amos
The Black Crowes
The Band
Led Zeppelin
Albert King

[Tequila Cowboy]

We've done this a lot and mine changes in terms of order quite a bit but here goes:

Rolling Stones
DBT
Replacements
Bob Dylan
Grateful Dead
R.E.M.
The Clash
Faces
Dinosaur Jr.
Tom Petty

Currently (not all bands are still active but this reflects my current listening, some repeats):

DBT
Glossary
Slobberbone
Centro-Matic
Dylan
Stones
James McMurtry
Wilco
MMJ
Jason Isbell

[LuthierJustin]

1. Tori Amos
2. Buckethead (And any of his bands)
3. Robert Fripp (any of his projects)
4. Frank Zappa
5. Tool
6. Bill Laswell (any of his bands)
7. Sunn O)))
8. Miles Davis
9. DBT
10. Brian Eno

Other honorable mentions, Massive Attack, Barenaked Ladies, Fiona Apple, Björk, Mahavishnu Orchestra...

[Shakespeare]

Super Furry Animals
Wilco
Bob Dylan
Prince
Nirvana
Sparklehorse
DBT
Queens of the Stone Age
Neil Young
Gram Parsons or Tom Waits

after Prince it's all pretty interchangeable.

[LuthierJustin]

I forgot Steven Wilson, Sleep, Boris...

[211poundsofpork]

(again, no particular order)

Drive-By Truckers
Bruce Hornsby
Pink Floyd
Johnny Cash
Santana
Tori Amos
The Black Crowes
The Band
Led Zeppelin
Albert King

Sheesh, I love these threads. And of course (me, trying to be a completist) I have to add others to this ever-changing list:
The Grateful Dead, B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Miles Davis, Thin Lizzy, Jason Isbell, Joe Satriani, The Who, The Allman Bros. Band, P.J. Harvey, Lucinda Williams, The Ominous Seapods, Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Peter Green, Leon Russell, Jerry Garcia Band...

[Slipkid42]

I can't split hairs and put these in any order, but here's my 10.

Allman Brothers
The Who
Drive-by Truckers
Led Zeppelin
Blue Oyster Cult
The Beatles
Neil Young
The Rolling Stones
Bob Dylan
Hank Williams

There's about a hundred more sittin' @ #11.

[LuthierJustin]

I have a funny Leon Russell story. I saw him 3 or 4 years ago at a small venue in Athens, the melting point. As part of his show his other keyboard player did a song solo, I think it was the Beatles Yesterday, the rest of the band stayed on stage, some guy walks up to the stage and tried to hand Leon a pen and piece of paper fr him to sign it. Leon looked at him like he was crazy and shook his head. I'm sure he felt 2 inches tall after that .

[tinnitus photography]

Robyn Hitchcock (and related bands)
Neil Young
Sonic Youth
Black Sabbath
Wilco
Sun City Girls (and related)
Pavement (and SM solo)
Guided By Voices (and related)
The Verlaines
The Who

[RolanK]

Stones
Bowie
DBT
Dylan (Who?)
Zeppelin
The Smiths
Motorpsycho

That's only 7...but then there are hundreds of bands and artist I really love as well, but I guess not to the extent, and not with the same impact, as those listed above . I guess I am more an albums guy than a band/artist guy.

[Smarty Jones]

Drive-By Truckers, far and above everything/everyone else.
Johnny Cash is probably the closest second.

The other eight in no particular order:
Alabama Shakes
Hank Williams (Sr.)
Booker T.
Jason Isbell
Lucero
Charlie Rich
Jerry Lee
Eddie Hinton

^^See, guys? There's hope for the future yet.

[Zip City]

Top 10 current or all time?

Yes, those lists are different

[dee dee]

Drive-by Truckers
Rolling Stones
Black Keys
Neil Young
Todd Snider
Two Cow Garage
Grateful Dead
Wilco
Son Volt
North Mississippi Allstars

[oilpiers]

Top 10 current or all time?

Yes, those lists are different

Good question. Mine would be a VERY different list if it was current.

[Tequila Cowboy]

Top 10 current or all time?

Yes, those lists are different

Good question. Mine would be a VERY different list if it was current.

I included both in my post. Some overlap, but very different lists.

[vacant]

This week:

Neil Young
Black Sabbath
Black Crowes
Drive-By Truckers
Soundgarden
Clutch
Big Sugar
Screaming Trees/Mark Lanegan
Gov't Mule
Drivin' N' Cryin'/Kevn Kinney

[Flying Rabbit]

1. Sonic Youth

and the rest...in no particular order this week.
DBT
Wilco
Pearl Jam
Neil Young
The Band
Minutemen
Low
Sigur Rós

and like Slipkid said, a whole heck of a lot of bands sitting right below or interchangeable at any moment.

It'd be cool to do this with genres or albums within genres. I'm a nerd for lists.

[mahg33ta]

ohh I love lists too.

all-time:
1. My Morning Jacket
2. Peter Gabriel / Gabriel era Genesis
3. Dire Straits / Mark K
4. Tool
5. Led Zep
6. Fishbone
7. Pearl Jam / Vedder
8. U2
9. Pink Floyd
10. Rush

honorable mention: X Ray Spex, Rage Against Machine, Rusted Root


Current / Past Few Years
1. My Morning Jacket
2. Delta Spirit
3. Deer Tick
4. Head and the Heart
5. The National
6. Wilco
7. Dawes
8. Avett Brothers
9. Brown Bird
10. Band of Horses

honorable mention: Felice Bros, Heartless Bastards, Alabama Shakes

[Clams]

I've been thinking about this a little, and I think the best way (for me, anyway) to tackle this is to just list the artists I listen to the most. They would be (INPO):

DBT
Isbell
Bruce
The Stones
Neil
Hayes Carll
Lucinda
McMurtry
The Beatles
Dylan

Just missing the cut...
Gram Parsons/FBB, TP, Dire Straits/Knopfler, Ray Wylie Hubbard, CCR/Fogerty, Hank

[Duke Silver]

Right now, no particular order, excluding dbt (because c'mon):

Rolling Stones
Neko Case
Josh Ritter
Kathleen Edwards
Neil Young
Jeff Tweedy
James McMurtry
The Band
Ian Felice
Ryan Adams
Springsteen

[Ty Webb]

In no particular order:

DBT
Widespread Panic
Grateful Dead
Gram Parsons
Old 97's
Operation Ivy
The Pharcyde
Velvet Underground
Rolling Stones
The Doors

[sactochris]

Two Cow Garage
DBT
Hold Steady
Stones
Mott The Hoople
Warren Zevon
VU/Lou Reed
The Clash
Dylan
The Dead

[Smitty]

excluding DBT

contemporary:
McMurtry
Snider
Glossary
Dexateens
Lucero
Bloodkin
Slobberbone
Don Chambers
JTE

all time:
hank
neil
townes
stones
gary stewart
merle
steve earle
george jones
skynyrd
otis redding

[Penny Lane]

1. Sonic Youthand the rest...in no particular order this week.
.

wow, had no idea...i love SY...they don't get much mention around here..

[Penny Lane]

Current touring bands:


1. DBT/MMJ
2. Jason Isbell
3. Wilco
4. Deer Tick
5. Felice Brothers
6. J Roddy
7. Heartless Bastards
8. Fruit Bats
9. M Ward (wish he'd tour MORE)
10. Stephen Malkmus (solo)

[tinnitus photography]

9. M Ward (wish he'd tour MORE)

he's got Lee Ranaldo opening for him in May.

[Flying Rabbit]

1. Sonic Youthand the rest...in no particular order this week.
.

wow, had no idea...i love SY...they don't get much mention around here..

They were/are and always be the band I slobber over myself to listen to. Heard Daydream Nation in high school and it was a game changer.