Man oh man… I’m sick of Christmas Music! All day long! We have about 5 CD’s of the stuff, and we rotate through them. Could you imagine having to listen to nothing but Christmas Music and nothing else for the rest of your life?
But what could you listen to for the rest of your life? 5 Bands. Nothing else. That’s it.
Here’s mine:
1. Pink Floyd
2. Led Zeplin
3. Queensryche
4. AC/DC
5. Rob Zombie
George Strait
SRV
Chris Cornell
Mike Ness
Metallica
Jim
Metallica was almost on the list… almost. Very close.
The Cure
Leonard Cohen
Warren Zevon
The Dresden Dolls
Regina Spektor
What can I say, I’m complex.
Weird Al Yankovic
Ennio Morricone
Led Zeppelin
The Who
John Williams
Metallica
Shinedown
Godsmack
Brad paisley
Avantasia
5 CDs worth? George, you have NO idea how lucky you are. At my workplace, we’ve got about 3 CDs worth of music, total, that gets played over the PA System. We go through every single track at least twice each shift, usually more. And it isn’t even good music; mostly that pop diva princess stuff that’s popular these days. Christmas music is the same; maybe 3 CDs worth. I swear, if I hear “Have a Holly Jolly Christmas” one more time…
I’m sorry, what? 5 groups I could listen to for the rest of my life? Okay, uh… here we go:
-Queen
-ZZ Top
-Bee Gees
-Foreigner
-Johnny Cash
Whoop! Scratch Foreigner & replace with Chicago, please.
Well done, Ogre & great suggestions from the others…some awesome bands!
Only 5…hmmm…OK.
Total agreement on #1
1-Pink Floyd
Gotta have blues-big list but if I had to pick one…
2-SRV
3-Zeppelin (Black Crowes are close…but Led Zep are the cornerstone)
4-Metallica – Demigods of metal – if you gotta go to war…
Wow, this is hard…but I gotta go punk…
5-Ramones – if you never saw them live: my condolences…
Big props to all the bands on the lists so far. I know and love each of them…even Weird Al 🙂
Toss Zeplin(not a fan, period. Sorry.) Toss Zombie(Good, even great, but top 5? No.)
Add Johnny Cash, and believe it or not- CW McCall. I never get tired of his stuff.
Runners up- George Straight, Merle Haggard or Waylon Jennings. In fact, why not the Statler Brothers or SRV.
Huh. Just five? Really? That’s like saying five calibers only. Don’t work in my world.
And of course, as already pointed out you did leave out Metallica. That’s a big “WTF? Over.” Right there in and of itself.
Metallica… I know… when I started the list – Metallica was going to be on it. Rob Zombie just popped up…
Rush
Led Zeppelin
Steely Dan
Todd Rundgren
Jethro Tull
1. NIN
2. Evanesence
3. Van Halen
4. Seether
5. Stone Sour
Hey, don’t take offense at my choices. My #1 doesn’t mean he’s the best. Not by any stretch. But I love his music and it’s MY list after all…
1. White Zombie/Rob Zombie
2. VAST
3. The Black Keys
4. NIN
5. Soundgarden/Audioslave/Chris Cornell
Damn, tough to argue with Ogre’s list. No Metallica…but who to strike to allow them on?
Pantera, Vulgar Display of Power era, needs to be up there too.
Glad to see Queensryche mentioned. It’s been years since I listened to Mindcrime. Can’t even find the CASSETTE TAPE I have it on.
Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense
5 is an onerous restriction.
Frank Zappa
Johnny Cash
Scott Walker (solo and Walker Brothers works)
David Bowie
Lounge Lizards
…so I get bored with the popular stuff. What about it? ;-}
Merry Christmas all!
I’d just about concur on your list,
But I’d have to drop one band to add
The Cruxshadows.
Just which band would be problimatic.
What no Barry Manilow??????:-)
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1- Pink Floyd
2- Radiohead
3- Sigur Ros
4- Janes Addiction
5- Elbow
CCR
Willie Nelson
Steve Goodman
Townes Van Zandt
Todd Snider
Led Zeppelin
The Who
Boston
Van Halen
ELO
Iggy Pop
Ramones
Tangerine Dream
Replacements
Husker Du
Damn I forgot ELO. I might have to make some room on my list.
Let’s add some class to the mix – some smooth
Glenn Miller
Tommy Dorsey
Benny Goodman
Nat King Cole
and, hmmm John Phillip Sousa, just for some martial/patriotic spirit.
In a hurry:
1. Led Zep (and other projects of these gods of Rock & Roll)
2. Pink Floyd
3. Metallica
4. Alice in Chains (and offshoots: Mad Season, Jerry Cantrell solo, etc.)
5. Soundgarden (and other Chris Cornell projects: Temple of the Dog, Audioslave, solo, etc.)
If I had more time, I’d probably evaluate only groups w/ 10 or more albums (in fact, I may have done that; I’m just not gonna go count ’em and their offshoots to see if they meet that stip), just to maximize the song variety.
Good exercise, Og. I’ve never thought about just 5. I’ve always thought about Top 10s.
So many great selections in everybody’s entries!
Can I just bring my iPod Classic 160GB with 5000+ songs by God knows how many artists? Please?!
1. mastodon
2. Audioslave
3. Celtic Women
4. Frank Sinatra
5. Buddy Holly
Celtic Women are awesome. The singing group is good too.
Oh man I hit “Dislike” with my big finger on this tiny screen. I meant “Like”
OK … you can guess the ages of posters by looking at the bands they list.
Everyone likes whatever was playing on the radio / internet when they were in their teens.