Your Favourite Band...of all time!

ronano

Smashing Pumpkins - Darcys breasts during Adore

Attractive Nun

Radiohead for me. For some reason, I used to dismiss them as 'depressing' and conform to the general prejudice against them brought about probably by that scene from Father Ted, thinking only monster bands like the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd should qualify for 'best band of all time' titles. But I genuinely have not heard a band better than Radiohead. The way The Bends sucks you in, only for OK Computer to blow you away. The Beatles are so highly regarded because they managed to evolve, but Kid A goes beyond evolution - it's simply one of the most engaging records ever made IMO. And that's only half the story. They are just so good.

As for the Smashing Pumpkins, I am definitely a fan - and Mellon Collie has long been one of my favourite albums, but I must admit I do get a little jaded with their music pretty quickly if I listen to it too much.

Tomohawk

originally posted by Attractive Nun
The way The Bends sucks you in, only for OK Computer to blow you away.

A load of sucking and blowing, a lot of people would that about their music...:D

nando

Favourites would have to be Placebo. Thoroughly enjoyed all their live performances and have not grown tired of their albums over the past 7 years since I started listening to them.

Radiohead - also a great band. Saw them on their Big Top Tour? i think in Punchestown several years ago and really enjoyed them.

Anto McC

Bruce Springsteen and the E street band

I know very little of Placebo,i always get them confused with Muse for some reason!!

lufc100

For me its gotta be the Super furry animals, consistently brillant & have yet to put out a bad or average album. Been at the top of the game now for over 10 years,
SFA OK

ball ox

lufc100 wrote:

For me its gotta be the Super furry animals, consistently brillant & have yet to put out a bad or average album. Been at the top of the game now for over 10 years,
SFA OK

agreed although I think love kraft is leaning towards average tbh

mloc

Dave Matthews Band... saw them live at The Alpine Music Centre in June, almost 50,000 people. It was well worth it!

Mushy

For me at the moment, it has to be the Smashing Pumpkins*

Dave Matthews Band: Dont know their music at all but know the name. A band I want to get into. Give me time please!



*give me 5 mins and it'll be Alice in Chains again

treefingers

ball ox wrote:

agreed although I think love kraft is leaning towards average tbh

i love the super furries, and i agree - love kraft is their worst. which doesn't make it a bad album or anything.....

radiator>phantom power>fuzzy logic>guerrilla>mwng>rings around the world>love kraft

and love kraft is still a great album! what a great band...

DaveyWavey22

Totally Tool for me!

Jiggingjauntis

I can't believe we're at post 63 and no has mentioned the Smiths yet? They are without a doubt one of the finest bands ever and prehaps the most deserving of the "best band of all time" tag. It would be hard to think of a band since them that hasn't been in someway influenced by their lyrics or musical style or indeed enjoys a devoted fan base.

Tool are a fine band. I'm not really mad about metal but their music is at least though provoking and attempts to do something novel.

Tomohawk

This forum is for "your" favourite band of all not time not the "best band of all time". I like the The Smiths too but my favourite band of all time would be one their manc contemporaries and neighbours.

Hippo

Favourite band: The Beatles....so much invention, so much fantastic music, and a productivity and quality rate that leaves everyone else far behind. The Smiths? Marr is a lovely guitarist, and Morrissey is a real PITA. Sorry.

ChuckProphet

Ride

DMBandit

I'd like to big up the Dave Matthews Band also. Wouldn't be immediately liked by most people, they're an aquired taste. Once your in though, you won't regret it. Such a great mix of styles with some amazingly crafted songs.

delta_bravo

Cremo wrote:

my favourite would be weezer. although i only like 2 out of their 5 albums their first 2 were i think the best two albums of the 90's and they have such a back catalog of songs that have never surfaced - this makes me cling on to them hoping they'll release them .

radiohead i never really got into but i do realise their greatness i like a few of their songs but to a radiohead it would the main "radio" type songs like street spirit, karma police, paranoid android etc.

yeah weezer is my all time favourite also. there is a massive 3gig collection of all their demos floating around cyberspace. pm me if you want to find them;)

carlowboy

Foo Fighters, because I do :P


Weezer: Some brilliant anthems mixed with mediocrity.

Boo-yah

Has to be weezer. Their first two albums and the b-sides/demos from that era are what justify them being my favourite band. Their overall output ranges from magnificent to terrible (Maladroit!!!) but the good stuff is incredible and overshadows the crap for me.

delta_bravo

Boo-yah wrote:

Has to be weezer. Their first two albums and the b-sides/demos from that era are what justify them being my favourite band. Their overall output ranges from magnificent to terrible (Maladroit!!!) but the good stuff is incredible and overshadows the crap for me.

nice to see a bit of a weezer fanbase floating around boards;)

Rich_Why

Boo-yah wrote:

Has to be weezer. Their first two albums and the b-sides/demos from that era are what justify them being my favourite band. Their overall output ranges from magnificent to terrible (Maladroit!!!) but the good stuff is incredible and overshadows the crap for me.

I'd have to say that I personally find the Green Album far worse than Maladroit. But still the Blue Album and Pinkerton are a different class. Great band Weezer, though I admit I don't listen to them half as much as I used to.

Man this thread has really taken off! Any chance it could be sticky'd?

Nea

Ween are my fave band of all time. I started off listening to Chocolate and Cheese after hearing them on Beavis and Butthead. Amazing album! Each of their albums are wonderful and weird!!

I would say they are picking up newer fans in Eire now thanks to the Club Orange ad. Hopefully they will play here again on their next European tour.


Weezer - Loved the first 3 albums, the last 2 were poo! I saw them in Brixton last year but have to say I was disappointed after such a long wait to see them.

JC 2K3

SONIC YOUTH!!!!!

Seriously some of the most amazing music ever, Daydream Nation is an absolute masterpiece, takes a while to get into it and it's essential that you listen to the whole thing through every time(for me anyway), but immensly rewarding. They're more commercial stuff isn't bad either. Goo is a fantastic album.

An honourable mention goes to thhe Meat Puppets. Meat Puppets 2 and Up on the Sun are two of the most influential and original albums ever.

exiot

Red Hot Chili Peppers.. older era and the new stuff.

I got Daydream Nation out of the library a few months ago and loved it, nearly all tracks are great with the exception of Providence but absolutley loved Teenage Riot

JC 2K3

exiot wrote:

I got Daydream Nation out of the library a few months ago and loved it, nearly all tracks are great with the exception of Providence but absolutley loved Teenage Riot

Providence is a brilliant interlude in the album. As I mentioned earlier, DN is really something that should be enjoyed as a whole album rather than taking it track by track. Teen Age Riot is indeed a kickass and catchy tune, in the context of the album it serves as a great, bright opener before it gets a bit more punkish and obscure with Silver Rocket. Providence on it's own is an all right alternative effort, but in the context of the whole album it serves as a nice and necessary interlude, a break from the generally fast, noisy and raw earlier tracks.

sonic juice

sister is sonic youth's best album!daydeam nation is great but u gotta be dedicated,well then again it is painfully epic.Sister juxtaposes their beautiful and distorted sound into a vibrant junkyard burning bright of adrenaline,anguish,rage and sensual permutations...defintely my personal fav band..hard to imagine them having that sound without the velvet undergrounds existence/influence.

other my fav and their best albums;
Squarepusher-ultravistor:its an odyssey {intelligent brain dance music}where ur conscience becomes the vocal and emotional pulse in the ambient landscape that is a modern internalization much like John Keats poetry.Ryan Adams-heartbreaker:wanna be moved,feeling romantic or downheartened,listen to this{I dont know why so many people hate him-jealousy?},Wilco-Yankee hotel foxtrot:one year nonstop listening to this album,its become apart of me.Any album by John Coltrane is genius,even if u dont dig jazz,the music is still transcendent...

fish-head

The Clash are my favourite band because they made music that mattered to me, cared about their fans and never let themselves get cornered into anything. Plus they always made sure their albums were dead cheap.. A triple album for the price of one? Pure class.

John Coltrane: A pure unadulterated genius, A Love Supreme is one of the finest jazz albums ever made. Cant decide whether he was better with Miles or by himself though..

serutan

Since 1988 my favourite band have been The Wedding Present bordering on obsessive. Wonderful lyrics, great music and a must see live.

The Clash, as I didn't listen to them when I was growing up I missed out on them. Waht I've heard has been pretty good though.

cournioni

Stone Roses! River cools where I belong....

nlgbbbblth

serutan wrote:

Since 1988 my favourite band have been The Wedding Present bordering on obsessive. Wonderful lyrics, great music and a must see live.

possibly my second or third favourite band since around the same time. Every gig they've (plus Cinerama) played here (1988 - 2006) has been amazing

psycho_Bateman

my all time favourite band is The Smiths, im absolutely addicted to them, completely. morrissey & marr possibly the most original duo ever like mc cartney and lennon without the pretentiousness. the smiths basically changed my life really and that deserves recognition and moz is possibly the most honest man ive even heard of.

(sorry about the rant i get a little :rolleyes: about them)


stone roses are a great band, i love that semi psychedelic funky melodic approach they had to rock and the fact that they never seemed to give a toss, browns solo stuff is really intelligent but the stone roses had the stronger attraction to me musically.

gary the great

Placebo for me!

Limerick Dude

gary the great wrote:

Placebo for me!

*high five*

Neville Flynn

The flaming lips

curtains

The Mars Volta - for me, the only band to have made any real progression in music in the last 10 years, doing something totally different. (Also have to mention the Chilis, just for continuing to produce thoughtful pop songs of craft and energy)

The Flaming Lips - wonderfully fun band to listen to!

CheersDarlin'

The Libertines or Bright Eyes

Pitseleh

Mine's the same as the poster above so it saves me doing half of the work

It'd have to be Bright Eyes for me too, I wasn't hugely fond of "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning" - it's just a bot too 'polished' for me, especially compared to "Digital Ash In A Digital Urn" and "Lifted, Or, The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground" - his finest works in my opinion. His various EPs all contained tracks easily strong enough for studio albums. Only 24, 25 and has been coming up with great tracks for years... would be great to see live too.

blahhh

^ Not particularly into those two....probably because I haven't listened to much of either

For me it's Pearl Jam, love the versatility of their music.

- Placebo are a growing favourite too.

gustavo

Never really got into Pearl Jam but love Black and Jeremy

My favourite band of all time is Oasis.

icklekinkykat

the cure love them

egon spengler

Its a really close toss up between Queen and Radiohead. I cant decide which.

Pighead

egon spengler wrote:

Its a really close toss up between Queen and Radiohead. I cant decide which.

A close toss up? Its either gonna be one or the other, or did the coin land on its edge. Toss it again. Theres no way it'll land on its edge twice in a row.
For the best band ever there can only be one winner. SUEDE.

John

Could anyone posting here please post in the manner as set out by the OP. If the thread continues as a "My fave band = postcount+1" I'll lock it. Thanks, you're all lovely people really.

KnifeWRENCH

i know its been said a lot already,but SMASHING PUMPKINS.. mellon collie, adore and the aeroplane flies high are all such amazing albums..cant wait for the reunion,because i only got into the pumpkins after they split up,so never got the chance to see them live (that,plus the fact that i was 7 when mellon collie was released)

For the best band ever there can only be one winner. SUEDE.

ooh...i have to say,i couldnt disagree with you more..i absolutely HATE suede.i think brett anderson has one of the most nauseating voices in music...."trashed" is a pretty good song,but his voice ruins it,any other songs ive heard i no likes... :eek:
sorry!

Endasaurus

psycho_Bateman wrote:

my all time favourite band is The Smiths, im absolutely addicted to them, completely. morrissey & marr possibly the most original duo ever like mc cartney and lennon without the pretentiousness. the smiths basically changed my life really and that deserves recognition and moz is possibly the most honest man ive even heard of.

(sorry about the rant i get a little :rolleyes: about them)

Roffle. The Smiths weren't pretentious?!

I mean, they're my absolute favourite band as well and I love them, but let's be serious for a second..

NoDayBut2Day

I have quite a few. Hard to name just one.
I like Death Cab for Cutie a lot.

egon spengler

Pighead wrote:

A close toss up? Its either gonna be one or the other, or did the coin land on its edge. Toss it again. Theres no way it'll land on its edge twice in a row.
For the best band ever there can only be one winner. SUEDE.

and then Id have to decide which one will be heads and which one will be tails, and Id have to have a coin toss for that too and so on into infinity, I cant decide, both bands are equally amazing imo. Suede were a pretty damned good band, then Bernard left and while Coming Up was a decent pop/rock record for its time I found everything after it to be dissapointing.

Reni

Yes!!Stone Roses all the way..In my Mersey Paradise
Also happens to be my fave song

DáireM

My favourite band are the Counting Crow, I think they write great, catchy songs and also good ballads.

I luuuurve the Stone Roses, they were absolutely class! Defo my fave after the Crows.

Kingsize

Too many good bands to choose from but based on sheer influence on me & amount of times ive listened to them but i'd have say THE CLASH !!!