Your Top 5 Favorite Rock Bands Of All-Time

[mn dave]

Sad Wings of Destiny!

And Rush?  Must have been thinking of someone else.

Oh, yeah, sorry. Mirror Image selected Rush.

[71 dB]

Says the guy who listens to techno 

Sarge

Quality "techno". Most of techno music is even more stupid than rock. 

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

I must say I don't listen to much rock nowadays; when I do it's almost invariably these:

Beatles
Stereolab
High Llamas
Who
Tim Buckley

I do think very high grades should be given Vampire Weekend, who are putting the pop back in pop - they are clever, inventive and fun.  Remember when fun was the operative word for this music? 

[Henk]

Pink Floyd
Van der Graaf Generator
Jimi Hendrix
Smashing Pumpkins
dEUS

[bhodges]

Not saying they're "the best," just my faves, per thread title:

The B-52's
The Creatures
The English Beat
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Talking Heads

Runners-up:

Blondie
Gang of Four
R.E.M.
Romeo Void
The Specials

--Bruce

[Sergeant Rock]

Most of techno music is even more stupid than rock. 

On that we can agree 

Sarge

[mn dave]

Music can't be STUPID! Music is SOUND!

[Sergeant Rock]

Music can't be STUPID! Music is SOUND!

But lyrics can be stupid.

Sarge

[mn dave]

But lyrics can be stupid.

Oh, yeah. But who listens to those? 

[North Star]

Music can't be STUPID! Music is SOUND!

That sound's stupid. 

[mn dave]

That sound's stupid. 

[Karl Henning]

Oh, yeah. But who listens to those? 

And if you saw my love,
You'd love her, too....

[mn dave]

And if you saw my love,
You'd love her, too....

Karl does.

[mn dave]

Pretty sensitive for a death dealer.

[North Star]

Relax, I'm not really saying that the sound that is music is stupid. 

[North Star]

Pretty sensitive for a death dealer.

Perhaps MnM Dealer would be more fitting.  0:)

[mn dave]

Perhaps MnM Dealer would be more fitting.  0:)

[Brahmsian]

Perhaps MnM Dealer would be more fitting.  0:)

Well, that is better than Meth Dealer.   

[mn dave]

Well, that is better than Meth Dealer.   

I deal in M&M's all the time, with peanuts.

[Mirror Image]

Pink Floyd
Van der Graaf Generator
Jimi Hendrix
Smashing Pumpkins
dEUS

Nice list, Henk. I have a love/hate thing going on with Van der Graaf Generator right now. Pink Floyd are one of my favorites. I like Smashing Pumpkins a lot (loved Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness, Siamese Dream). Hendrix was an early fave, but I don't listen to much of his music nowadays, but I respect what he did for rock music of course. I never heard of dEUS before. I'll have to Google them.