What is the best band ever to have made music?

It's a difficult question and there really is no definitive answer.

I have my favourites and I have a list of three.

Post your favourite bands and if they match mine, you'll be rewarded.

Post your TOP TEN and the person who posts the most that match mine gets the DP.

I'm not saying that mine are the best - it's all subjective.

Let's get a music conversation started!

In no particular order

Pink Floyd
The Pursuit of Happiness
Emerson Lake and Palmer
The White Stripes
Big Sugar
The Offspring
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
The Doors
The Guess Who

With an honourable mentions to The Dale Gribble Bluegrass Experience and Rod Torfulson's Armada featuring Herman Menderchuck.

Amazing selection!

Doesn't mean it matches mine though - but still - some amazing bands there!

Ok here is my top 10 in no particular order.

Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
U2
ACDC
Queen
Aerosmith
Metallica
The Beatles
The Eagles
Eric Clapton - mostly like his solo work and his stint with Cream & Derek & The Dominoes. His other bands were merely ok.

Here are my top 10 in no particular order...

Pink Floyd
Rolling Stones
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
The Doors
The Guess Who
U2
Queen
The Police
The Eagles

The Rolling Stones
Oasis
Queen
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Journey
Bob Marley
Flight of the Conchords
Frank Sinatra
The Strokes
The Who

In no particular order:
The Beatles
Smashing Pumpkins
David Bowie
Dire Straits
Sunny Day Real Estate
Flight of the Conchords
Joy Division
Led Zeppelin
The Ramones
Nirvana

Led Zeppelin
Yes
The Moody Blues
The Who
Cream
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble
Rage Against The Machine
U2
The Beatles

Harvey Danger
U2
Dave Matthews Band (sigh. I can't pretend my high school obsession didn't happen.)
David Bowie (woohoo!)
Radiohead
The Beatles

annnd I will update when I decide on more. Short attention span today.

Ahhhhhh - Dang - the Moody Blues....great band which totally slipped my mind.

Ride my Seesaw was the first track to ever truly blow my mind. I have clear recollections of sitting in front of my dad's big speaker at age 5 totally grooving to that cut on the old man's turn table.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y...

hehe - those riffs and solos still totally hold up

updated my list to be a top 10, not just a top 3.

hey beanfest, when is the deadline to post or update the top 10?

This is an incorrect testing. Clearly a top ten is not required.
I shall answer in a format of ten. Observe.
Tenacious D
Tenacious D
Tenacious D
Tenacious D
Tenacious D
Tenacious D
Tenacious D
Tenacious D
Tenacious D
Tenacious D.
Anyone who disagree's is wrong. Anyone who complains is wrong. This is the truth.

I'll take my DeePs now.

I've got to go with my favorites, which may or may not be a top 10. All of whom I love because they did something original.

Bowie
Placebo
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Rage Against The Machine
Queen
The Beatles
Nirvana
Muse
Nine Inch Nails

@shikkah shikkah
I was going to post "The Sting" ten more times, but you totally got there first ;)

Hah. Tenacious D are really the greatest band on earth... No joke. They also made the greatest movie EVER, in the form of POD. I would have done the same thing over there, but you'd already done the sting so...

Posting in this thread to remind myself to post in this thread later.

Even though I know I won't "win".

Could there be a finer song than, "Take the Skinheads Bowling", by Camper Van Beethoven?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U...

sadder than "Sweetness and Light" by Lush
http://www.imeem.com/thezebraups...

more bouncy happy than "Ordinary Day" by "Great Big Sea"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J...

This contest will end at the end of the month. So far - only one of my top three bands has been mentioned....

*bump*

In a couple of days - this contest will be over!

There's 5k at stake! Post your favourite bands here!

If you've posted before - do it again - and if you aren't sure, perhaps you're dazed and confused, well, please don't ask!

And if you can't get it now....well...that's all!

This wasn't a very popular contest it seems! Well - it's still all to play for so I'll give it another few days. Post your favourite bands - your top three. The person who matches most of mine wins 5k. Simple as that!

Read my previous post - the clues are there!

HINTS ABOVE!

I WIN!

Pain! http://www.thepainpage.com Pain is a little known band but if you like innovative & catchy punk rock with lyrics that come from a seemingly educated source... they kick royal buttocks! Some songs to check out - Futz said Julie, Right On, Jabberjaw, Full Speed Ahead, and all their other songs are good too... One of the few bands I've ever heard where I like every track on every CD!

Pain! http://www.thepainpage.com Pain is a little known band but if you like innovative & catchy punk rock with lyrics that come from a seemingly educated source... they kick royal buttocks! Some songs to check out - Futz said Julie, Right On, Jabberjaw, Full Speed Ahead, and all their other songs are good too... One of the few bands I've ever heard where I like every track on every CD!

my top three in no particular order...

led zeppelin
the who
rolling stones