Your Top 5 Favorite Rock Bands Of All-Time

[Christo]

Bel Canto
Dead Can Dance
Japan (& David Sylvian)
Talk Talk
Twice A Man

[The new erato]

Bel Canto
Dead Can Dance
Japan (& David Sylvian)
Talk Talk
Twice A Man

A Norwegian group there!

And I like Sylvian a lot, and even have a Dead Can Dance LP in my collction that I used to like.

[coffee]

1. Pink Floyd
2. Led Zeppelin
3. The Beatles
4. The Beach Boys
5. The Doors

[Christo]

A Norwegian group there!

And I like Sylvian a lot, and even have a Dead Can Dance LP in my collction that I used to like.

Correct, and great to learn!  I even heard and saw Bel Canto - at that moment only Nils Johansen and Anneli Drecker were left, Geir Jensen had already turned into Biosphere - once, in my home town of Utrecht, early nineties I guess. BTW, Anneli has one of the best voices in all pop music, IMHO. Hearing here live on the same level was something special (but I dislike her solo career, only as long as Nils Johansen wrote the music they were doing fine.) And I heard David Sylvian even three times live: in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Utrecht, IIRC. You may never have heard of Twice A Man, but they're your neighbours, from Göteborg, and still active there.

Pop music, I think, is for the most part a generation thing. Most pop musicians that I  like are of my own age, or a bit younger (but hardly ever older). That's to say: I missed the 1960s and 1970s completely and only joined in in the 1980s and 1990s. Those are the bands I still enjoy.

[The Six]

Japanese-only band list

Mr. Children
L'arc en ciel
Luna Sea
Judy and Mary

[Sammy]

Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Beatles
Rolling Stones
Dire Straits

I haven't listened to any rock music for decades, so my choices are rather old.

[71 dB]

Bel Canto

0:)

A Norwegian group there!

I have another Norwegian favorite: Briskeby 

Maybe groups like this are more pop than rock but who cares?

[chadfeldheimer]

My three favorites are:
Beatles
Velvet Underground
Can

then come a lot of bands that I really love in equal measures and therefore I'm not able to choose the last two of the five:
Beach Boys
Clash
Hüsker Dü
Kraftwerk
Pavement
Black Flag
Sly and the Family Stone
Kinks
Talking Heads
Pere Ubu
Jimmy Hendrix Experience
Rolling Stones
Nirvana

[vandermolen]

The Beatles
Jimi Hendrix
Chicago
Yes
Dreams

[Jubal Slate]

The Beatles
DEVO
Queen
The Stranglers
Talking Heads

...or something.

Ha! Here is what I said last time...
The Beatles
The Stranglers
DEVO
Talking Heads
Judas Priest

[North Star]

Jimi Hendrix

But which of his bands?

[Papy Oli]

5 bands I really couldn't do without :

Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Depeche Mode
Mogwai
Grant Lee Buffalo
Status Quo

[vandermolen]

But which of his bands?

With Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding as in 'The Jimi Hendrix Experience' and also 'Band of Gypsies'.

[San Antone]

I think Band of Gypsies was with Buddy Miles and not the same personnel as Experience.

[North Star]

With Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding as in 'The Jimi Hendrix Experience' and also 'Band of Gypsies'.

I think Band of Gypsies was with Buddy Miles and not the same personnel as Experience.

Yes and Billy Cox on the bass. Not that I'm sure Jeffrey meant that the personnel was same in the bands, rather that he had cheated and includes both bands on his list. 

[Jubal Slate]

Yes and Billy Cox on the bass. Not that I'm sure Jeffrey meant that the personnel was same in the bands, rather that he had cheated and include both bands on his list. 

Such a cheater.

[North Star]

Such a cheater.

Well this was started by MI John - I think it's traditional to post three different lists of five in these.  0:)

[Jubal Slate]

Well this was started by MI John - I think it's traditional to post three different lists of five in these.  0:)

Here is my third list:

One Direction
Backstreet Boys
INXS
Spice Girls
GWAR

[vandermolen]

Such a cheater.

I beg your pardon!   

I am well aware, thank you very much, that the 'Jimi Hendrix Experience' and 'Band of Gypsies' we're not the same line up (although not sure if Mitch Mitchell was on the drums in both groups). However, as Jimi was definitely there I do not think that this constitutes an example of 'cheating' although I know how touchy you GMG Forum types are. 

[San Antone]

I beg your pardon!   

I am well aware, thank you very much, that the 'Jimi Hendrix Experience' and 'Band of Gypsies' we're not the same line up (although not sure if Mitch Mitchell was on the drums in both groups). However, as Jimi was definitely there I do not think that this constitutes an example of 'cheating' although I know how touchy you GMG Forum types are. 

Two very differents bands; can't let you slide here.