Who's Your Favorite..

[James]

bands or music artists?

We've had a lot of threads touching the best this or that, but I don't recall a straight call to list our favorites.

(keeping my fingers crossed that Pierson will list a band I've heard of!)

Mine in order of rank:

1. Eric Carmen solo

2. Raspberries (1 & 2 have alternated back & forth over time)

3. Elton John (through "Single Man")

4. Neil Diamond (still creat'n great stuff at 65!)

5. Rush (through Hemispheres)

6. Foghat

7. Burton Cummings

8. Eagles (sometimes think they should be #1 on my list....a tremendous run through "Hotel California")

9. Vienna Choir Boys (put me on a higher plane)

10. Status Quo (only live show I've seen..1976 backing up Foghat..where I didn't know one song (at the time) but was completely "delivered"...when you look up "kick a**" in the dictionary, there's a picture of Status Quo)

11. REO Speedwagon (1st live album puts them here by itself...after it they were just average to good...and before it, the studio versions were well below the quality of the live versions

12. America

13. BeeGees

And you guys?

[Bill C]

1. The Beatles

2. Raspberries

3. Badfinger

4. Eric Carmen

5. .38 Special

6. REO Speedwagon (Including everything after the first live album)

7. Little River Band

8. Eagles

9. Cars

10. Bread

Some of these are interchangable but the first 4 are correct.

[TOMMY TUNES]

1. Raspberries

2. Frank Sinatra

3. Eric Carmen

4. Sex Pistols

5. Dictators

6. U2

7. April March

****************************BEST OF THE REST***********************

Blondie, Cars, Elvis Costello, Green Day, Queen, Yes, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kinks, Monkees, Hermans Hermits, David Bowie, Todd Rundgren, Roxy Music, Ramones, Talking Heads, Go-Gos, Beach Boys

[TOMMY TUNES]

Forgot Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in with the best of the rest. How could I leave out my fellow paisano from Jersey.

[Poor4Life]

1. Elton...Almost everything except "Victim of Love"!

2.Billy Joel...wish he'd put out something new!

3.Beatles (of course!)

4.Eagles..."Desperado" is a classic album!

5.Cheap Trick...Robin Zanders voice never seases to amaze me.

6.The Monkees...The first group that got me interested in music. I was 8, and the different styles of music that they encompassed influenced me into liking different genres of music to this day...

7.Elvis...no need for explanation here.

8.Zeppelin...I don't listen to the radio so I've never gotten tied of thier stuff.

Jeff

Jeff

[pierson]

it's weird to rank artists/bands, but judging from what I gravitate towards... they're all intertwined... i'm too mixed about Eric's solo stuff to rate it, although he's not nearly as disappointing as Alex Chilton...

as of today here's 100...

1. Big Star

2. Beatles

3. Todd Rundgren

4. Neil Young

5. Pernice Brothers

6. David Bowie

7. Raspberries

8. Byrds

9. The Jam

10. Joni Mitchell

11. Beach Boys

12. Dwight Twilley Band

13. Zombies

14. The Who (64-71)

15. Kinks

16. Small Faces

17. Prefab Sprout

18. Dramarama

19. Elvis Costello

20. Ramones

21. Cheap Trick

22. Frank Sinatra

23. Mott The Hoople

24. Clash

25. Sex Pistols

26. Blur

27. Radiohead

28. Ed Harcourt

29. Alice Cooper

30. Turtles

31. The Smiths/Morrissey

32. Roxy Music

33. Trashcan Sinatras

34. Bob Dylan

35. Hamell On Trial

36. Flashcubes/ Screen Test

37. Jon Brion

38. The Church

39. Nilsson

40. Badfinger

41. Hollies

42. Led Zeppelin

43. Rolling Stones

44. Faces

45. Dictators

46. Dusty Springfield

47. Replacements

48. Pulp

49. Stevie Wonder

50. Velvet Underground

51. Suede

52. Marshall Crenshaw

53. Nirvana

54. Monkees

55. Dirty Looks

56. Tommy James & The Shondells

57. Posies

58. New York Dolls

59. Pink Floyd

60. Ivy

61. REM

62. Robyn Hitchcock

63. XTC

64. Al Green

65. Steely Dan

66. Psychedelic Furs

67. Patti Smith

68. Lloyd Cole

69. Nick Drake

70. Chamber Strings

71. Elliott Smith

72. Grant Lee Buffalo

73. Elton John (1970-75 only)

74. Adorable/Polak

75. Marjorie Fair

76. Magnet/Even Johansen

77. T. Rex

78. John Lennon

79. Paul McCartney

80. George Harrison

81. St Etienne

82. Buzzcocks

83. English Beat

84. New Order

85. Tommy Keene

86. Jesus & Mary Chain

87. Slade

88. Eno

89. Echo & The Bunnymen

90. Duffy/Lilac Time

91. Rockpile/Nick Lowe/Dave Edmunds

92. Artful Dodger

93. Van Duren

94. Emitt Rhodes

95. Simon & Garfunkel

96. Johan

97. Wonder Stuff

98. Squeeze

99. Bongos/Richard Barone

100. Everly Brothers

[CubbiefanMike]

There is lot of great stuff in my collection but I guess these are the artists I listen to the most.

1) Raspberries (EC)

2) Beatles (solos)

3) Genesis (solos)

4) Rush

5) Led Zeppelin

6) Pink Floyd

7) Foreigner

8) 10,000 Maniacs (NM)

9) Monkees

10) Buddy Holly

11) Deep Purple

12) Creedence Clearwater Revival (JF)

13) The Doors

14) The Cars

15) Eagles

16) Kiss

17) Journey

18) Sex Pistols

19) The The

20) Simon & Garfunkel

[Tony Cartmill]

OK, Sure Pierson, but what about your next 100 after that?

[popdude]

Hey Pierson, speaking of Van Duren (or as he's more commonly known, #93), I hear he performed a rousing version of "Chemical Fire" at his International Pop Overthrow gig in Nashville over the weekend. Pretty cool, eh?

[Mitch]

In no particular order.......

Top 25

1.Alice Cooper

2.Raspberries

3.Aerosmith

4.Led Zeppelin

5.Beatles

6.Stones

7.The Who

8.Lynyrd Skynyrd

9.Jimi Hendrix

10.Black Sabbath

11.David Bowie

12.Queen

13.Tommy James

14.Turtles

15.38 Special

16.Blue Oyster Cult

17.Starz

18.The Godz

19.Ian Hunter

20.Doors

21.Cheap Trick

22.Left End

23.Luxx

24.Brother Cane

25.Eric Carmen

[John Shaft]

Off the top of my head:

1. Kiss

2. Prince

3. The Temptations

4. The Four Tops

5. Eric Carmen / Raspberries

6. Garbage

7. Girl

8. Frank Sinatra

9. Journey

10. The Rolling Stones

11. The Replacements / Paul Westerberg

12. Faces

13. Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes

14. Kyle Vincent

15. Neil Diamond

16. Cheap Trick

17. J. Geils Band

18. Alice Cooper

19. Todd Rundgren / Utopia

20. The Tubes

21. Hanoi Rocks

22. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band

23. Alexander O'Neal

24. Marvin Gaye

25. The Gap Band

26. Morris Day & The Time

[TOMMY TUNES]

There is lot of great stuff in my collection but I guess these are the artists I listen to the most.

1) Raspberries (EC)

2) Beatles (solos)

3) Genesis (solos)

4) Rush

5) Led Zeppelin

6) Pink Floyd

7) Foreigner

8) 10,000 Maniacs (NM)

9) Monkees

10) Buddy Holly

11) Deep Purple

12) Creedence Clearwater Revival (JF)

13) The Doors

14) The Cars

15) Eagles

16) Kiss

17) Journey

18) Sex Pistols

19) The The

20) Simon & Garfunkel

All year you're ranking on my Sex Pistols and then you go and rank them in your Top 20. Like EMF and Andrew "Dice" Clay say "You're unbelievable."

[pierson]

it was 200 hundred but it was cut down... easy to do these days w/ 40+ years of rock and roll to dig into

[aggiesjc]

Just to name a few -- Eric Carmen, Raspberries, Neil Diamond, Kyle Vincent, Hollies, Jim Steinman, Lindsey Buckingham, Fleetwood Mac, Cheap Trick, Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Boston, ELO, Gary Allan, Marty Stuart, ABBA

[popdude]

Just to name a few -- Eric Carmen, Raspberries, Neil Diamond, Kyle Vincent, Hollies, Jim Steinman, Lindsey Buckingham, Fleetwood Mac, Cheap Trick, Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Boston, ELO, Gary Allan, Marty Stuart, ABBA

Jennifer, you have great taste!

[Tony Cartmill]

Since I listen to more talk radio than today's music...No Pierson-sized list here:

1. Eric Carmen

2. Bee Gees

3. Kyle Vincent

4. Butch Walker/Marvelous 3

5. Kenny Loggins

6. Chris De Burgh

7. Raspberries

8. John Williams

9. The Beach Boys

10. Dan Fogelberg

11. Yes

12. Art Garfunkel

13. The Eagles

14. Earth Wind & Fire

15. Little River Band

16. Alan Parsons Project

17. The Beatles

18. Andrew Lloyd Webber

19. Hillsong

20. Edwin McCain

21. Olivia Newton John (John Farrar)

22. Queen

23. The Monkees

24. Partridge Family

25. Dave Loggins

26. Bruce Springsteen

27. Def Leppard

28. John Mayer

29. Boz Scaggs

30. Madonna (pre-1990)

31. Gene Cotton

Who'd I leave out?

[aggiesjc]

Tony, I should have included the BeeGees, Partridge Family, and Boz Scaggs.

And, John, thank you!

[Tony Cartmill]

I forgot Cyndi Lauper next to Madonna...

And Jennifer, If we spent enough time, could we reach 100?

[popdude]

Here's some of mine. In no particular order, except for #1:

1. Beatles

2. Ramones

3. Shoes

4. Raspberries

5. Badfinger

6. Fountains of Wayne

7. Tommy Keene

8. The Who

9. The Kinks

10. Graham Parker

11. Elvis Costello (pre-1981)

12. Lindsey Buckingham

13. Cheap Trick

14. Matthew Sweet

15. Chris von Sneidern

16. Pezband

17. Wonderboy/Robbie Rist

18. Terry Anderson & the Olympic Ass-Kickin' Team

19. Walter Clevenger and the Dairy Kings

20. Emitt Rhodes

21. Dwight Twilley

22. Phil Seymour

23. Big Star

24. Paul Collins' Beat

25. 20/20

26. The Records

27. Material Issue

28. The Shazam

29. Rolling Stones

30. Dave Clark Five

31. Sex Clark Five

32. John Lennon

33. Paul McCartney

34. The Clash

35. Queen

36. The Archies

37. The Merrymakers

38. Splitsville

39. The Rubinoos

40. Tom Petty

41. Marshall Crenshaw

42. DM3

43. The Someloves

44. Blondie

45. Flamin' Groovies

46. Loud Family

47. Game Theory

48. Nick Lowe

49. Dave Edmunds

50. Buddy Holly

51. The Toms

52. Young Fresh Fellows

53. Eugene Edwards

54. Left Banke

55. Barry Holdship

56. Plimsouls

[bahoodore]

1) Bee Gees

2) Beach Boys

3) Beatles

4) Del Amitri

5) Raspberries

6) Strawbs

7) Sinatra

8) Elton John

9) Jackson Browne

10) Bay City Rollers

Bahooey

[Tony Cartmill]

I forgot Keane, Elton John, Del Amitri, Fountains Of Wayne,and Chris von Sneidern...Thanks HooeyBa and Dude of Pop.

[aggiesjc]

Yes, Elton John and Marshall Crenshaw, too! Wish I knew more about Chris von Sneidern.

[aggiesjc]

Thanks for the advice -- sounds like CvS is worth checking out!

[Marco57]

Kudos to Pierson for listing the Pernice Brothers!

[Paulie Mississippi]

There are so many that it's hard to make a comprehensive list.

I'll make my list of the most recent purchases of CD's I've made (past couple of years) -

Eric Carmen

Raspberries

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Marshall Tucker Band

Sugarland

Dwight Yokam

Jimmy Buffett

Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Keith Anderson

England Dan & John Ford Coley

Emerson Drive

Looking Glass (finally found them on CD!)

Michael Nesmith

Sittin' Ducks