Top 5 GROUPS/ARTISTS, all time

[Perfect Stu]

(in no order)

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Honorable mentions:

Creedence Clearwater Revival
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Led Zeppelin
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Jimi Hendrix
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ACDC
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The Doors
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Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Eagles
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Queen
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Sly and the Family Stone
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U2
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Oasis

[Typhoid]

Oh god.


I cant pick 5.


But since everyone will do all old bands, I'll do newer ones.




No order:



The Strokes
The Vines
The White Stripes
The Hives
Nirvana


H.M:

The Marble Index
The Waking eyes
Hot Hot Heat
Franz Ferdinand




The reason I didnt do older bands, is because I have a feeling everyone will, so I just did newer bands, and I just felt like clearing that up again.

[Acebot44]

It's impossible to do so I'll just give out the first 5 that come to mind...and then some

Black Sabbath
Eagles
Immortal Technique
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Michael Jackson

Honorable Mention:

U2
Neutral Milk Hotel
Death Cab For Cutie
Brother Ali
A Tribe Called Quest
Atmosphere

[MuGen]

2 words... in no specific order:

Smashing Pumpkins...
Something Corporate...
Straylight Run...

[Dyne]

Jazz:
Charlie Parker
Stan Getz
John Coltrane
Dave Brubeck (during Desmond era)
Glenn Miller

Rock:
The Beatles
Velvet Underground
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Uhh.. I don't know. You can't top those three.

[Joeiss]

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Very honourable mentions:

Muddy Waters
The Who
The Guess Who
Bella Fleck and the Flecktones
George Thorogood and the Destroyers
John Lee Hooker
NWA
The Wu Tang Clan
THe Beatles
Cream

And I am sure there are many many more.

[Swan]

For me:
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Metallica


Hmm, I can't think of anything else I'd put in the top 5.

[MuGen]

I'm getting really disappointed in some people....

Have you all forgotten Freddy Mercury and Queen?

"Here we are.... we're the princes of the universe....
I have no rivals, no man can be my equal...
take me to the future of you all!"

And no, it's not my favorite song cuz it's on Highlander....

[ZebraRampage]

The Beatles

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Electric Light Orchestra

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The Who

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Led Zeppelin

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Pink Floyd

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[Seth]

Rush
The Who
The Doors
Led Zep
The Beatles

there's five...so many more

[KillerGremlin]

Well.....this changes daily for me, but you can pretty much narrow down all major influences to:

The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Black Sabbath
King Crimson
Led Zeppelin

Zeppelin is soooooooo over rated though. They were seriously influenced by all the jazz bands of the 50s and 60s, and frankly, most of those bands never got the credit they deserved. Still, in the "big scheme" of things, Zeppelin should be on that list. Just like Nirvana will be on a list of top 10 most influential bands some 50 years from now, and no one will mention The Melvins or The Pixies.

[Stonecutter]

Zeppelin is soooooooo over rated though. They were seriously influenced by all the jazz bands of the 50s and 60s, and frankly, most of those bands never got the credit they deserved.

Yeah, but everything is infulenced by everything good that came before it, and you don't need to look past the bands that have clearly been influenced by Zep in the last 30 years to see their HUGE impact.

Not overrated, not at all.

[KillerGremlin]

Agreed, I suppose. All music is like that, for better or worse. I don't think the word "orginal" has had much bearing in music ever, although at least back in the days Zeppelin was using ideas from bands to make good music. And, they were pioneering music in a sense, so more power to them. It's to bad bands don't do that nowadays...Trapt, Nickleback, Alter Bridge....uggh. Utter unoriginal, uninfluential crap.

My dad pointed out, just the other day, the staying power of bands like Zeppelin and The Beatles. It's amazing that those bands, 30 and 40 years old, still get major airplay. What's even more amazing is that you can still hear Beatles/Zeppelin influences in modern music today. Oasis and The White Stripes are two fine examples.

[jeepnut]

Agreed, I suppose. All music is like that, for better or worse. I don't think the word "orginal" has had much bearing in music ever, although at least back in the days Zeppelin was using ideas from bands to make good music. And, they were pioneering music in a sense, so more power to them. It's to bad bands don't do that nowadays...Trapt, Nickleback, Alter Bridge....uggh. Utter unoriginal, uninfluential crap.

My dad pointed out, just the other day, the staying power of bands like Zeppelin and The Beatles. It's amazing that those bands, 30 and 40 years old, still get major airplay. What's even more amazing is that you can still hear Beatles/Zeppelin influences in modern music today. Oasis and The White Stripes are two fine examples.

Hey! Don't pick on Alter Bridge. Mark Tremonti rules.

[Canyarion]

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*starts walking towards a tree*

Who's the monkey? :D

*hides behind the tree*

[Joeiss]

That is probably the best Canadian musician ever.


And about Zeppelin, that is why I included Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker on my list. Zeppelin's blues songs are based on some older classics, but they still have their own feel to them...

And if you want to rip on Zeppelin, then rip on The Doors, CCR, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and George Thorogood and the Destroyers, too. Because they all have songs based on Blues classics.

[MuGen]

BBking says it all on the blues

[Fox 6]

The Beatles
The Doors
Zeppelin
CCR
Calpton ( and anything he was in )

[The Germanator]

No particular order:

The Beatles
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Electric Light Orchestra
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Frank Zappa
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Public Enemy
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MF Doom
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[KillerGremlin]

I was thinking Zappa, but I gotta give my props to Robert Fripp.

[jeepnut]

1. Five Iron Frenzy
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2. Living Sacrifice
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3. Extol
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4. Collective Soul
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5. Shadows Fall
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These are the groups that have had the most influence on my musical tastes (both what I listen to and what I play) and on my life.

[Stray_Bullet]

In my biased opinion, the top groups of all time are (no particular order):

The List
Garbage
KMFDM
Megadeth
Rammstein
Led Zeppelin


Honorable
Beck
Dream Theater
Smashing Pumpkins
Weird Al Yankovich
Jamiroquai
Metallica
Journey
Eric Clapton
Ted Nugent
Soundgarden
Depeche Mode
Paul Oakenfold
Cake

[Swan]

I add The Who to my list.

[Vampyr]

Led Zeppelin

Guns N' Roses

Iron Maiden

3 Doors Down

Ween



Honorabe Mention
Megadeth
Metallica
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Who
Linkin Park
Eric Clapton
Counting Crows

[Crash]

IN no particular order

3 Dog Night
Kingston Trio
Michael Jackson
Elvis
CCR