What are your Top 10 favorite rock bands?

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Here are 10 of my favorite rock bands in no particular order:
Pearl Jam
Soundgarden
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
P-Funk
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Yes
Huey Lewis and the News
Rush
Led Zeppelin
Duran Duran

In mostly no particular order:

Pink Floyd
The Beach Boys
Led Zeppelin
The Who
Rush
Alice in Chains
King Crimson
Yes
Radiohead
Sonic Youth

Converge
Discharge
Spazz
Insect Warfare
Benümb
Celtic Frost
His Hero Is Gone
Mohinder
Orchid
I Hate Myself

Jane's Addiction
Faith No More
Alice In Chains
Suicidal Tendencies
Tool
Pink Floyd
Ministry
Animals As Leaders
Once Human
Pop Will Eat Itself

In no particular order-

The Cranberries
Joy Division/New Order
Sun Kil Moon
Wild Nothing
Beach Fossils
The Smiths
The Durutti Column
George Harrison
Sufjan Stevens
Mazzy Star
The Lemonheads
Depeche Mode
Carpenters

Off the top of my head in date order. Have to like more then one or two songs.

Buddy Holly
The Ventures
Jan and Dean
The Beatles
The Kinks
Shangri-Las
The Sonics
The 5th Dimension
The Cowsills
Joni Mitchell
Three Dog Night
Sly and The Family Stone
The Jackson 5
Led Zeppelin
Jethro Tull
Emerson Lake, and Palmer
Steve Miller Band
T-Rex
The Sweet
ELO
War
Rufus
Queen
Heart
Buzzcocks
X-Ray Spex
Siouxsie and the Banshees
The Ramones
Magazine
Dead Kennedys
Joy Division
Elvis Costello
Talking Heads
Tom Tom Club
Kate Bush
The Cars
Joe Jackson
The Pretenders
The Cure
B-52’s
XTC
Madness
The Specials
The English Beat
Gary Numan
Ultravox
OMD
Yaz/Alison Moyet
Depeche Mode
Bannanarama
The Bangles
Human League
Missing Persons
Berlin
The Thompson Twins
Killer p****
Divinils
The Smiths/Morrissey
Love and Rockets
Pet Shop Boys
Cracker
Sinead O’Conner
Soundgarden
Nirvana
Hole
L7
Liz Phair
Lush
Alice and Chains
311
Weezer
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Amy Winehouse
Duffy
Adele
Lily Allen
Kate Nash
Florence and The Machine
Marina and Diamonds

Yeah I know, a lot more then ten entries. As you might have heard Autistic people have issues with planning and prioritizing.

The Angels
Midnight Oil
Cold Chisel
Australian Crawl
Moving Pictures
Crowded House
Apocalyptica
BMTH
While She Sleeps
Evanescence

This list goes to eleven. It’s one better, isn’t it?



- NoMeansNo
- SNFU
- Fugazi
- Killing Joke
- Metallica
- Slayer
- Rammstein
- Meshuggah
- Tool
- Nine Inch Nails
- Skinny Puppy

Not necessarily bands I still listen to regularly, but ones that inspired me the most, whether for their records, innovations, commitment to their art or beliefs, or legendary live performances.

We got some good taste on this thread

Since people are including metal and I kept my list strictly rock, my top metal bands would be:

Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath
Judas Priest
Dio/Rainbow
Rhapsody of Fire
Symphony X
Kamelot
Mastodon
Meshuggah
Katatonia
Porcupine Tree (if you consider them metal and not rock)
Sunn O)))
Tool
Opeth
Danzig
Angra
Rage Against The Machine
Helloween
System of a Down
As I Lay Dying
All That Remains
Dethklok

I wanted to trim it down to 10 but I failed

How could I have forgotten Suzi Quatro and the 60s garage band she had with her sisters The Pleasure Seekers?

Joe Jackson
Lene Lovich
Kraftwork

Beatles
George Harrison
Moody Blues
The Who
Cheap Trick
ELO
Van Halen
Ozzy
Queen
Ramones

(In no particular order)

Sunn O)))
Enslaved
Emperor
Mayhem
Neurosis
Mogwai
Agalloch
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Rammstein
Deftones

Slaughter To Prevail is quickly rising to the top for me lately. Other notable mentions would be Imperial Triumphant, Oranssi Pazuzu, and Russian Circles.

I have a lot of favorite bands and some of these may not be considered entirely "rock", but here it goes:
Alice in Chains
Disturbed
Credence Clearwater Revival
Chicago
Aerosmith
Kansas
Breaking Benjamin
Van Halen
The Beatles
Frankie Vallie & The Four Seasons

These may not be considered Rock in the typical sense but….

Motionless In White
Darkthrone
AFI
Amaranthe
Fear Factory
From Ashes To New
Blind Channel