Top 10 Bands

[The Burgomaster]

It's tough to pick 10, but here's an attempt (in no particular order, and subject to change at any moment):

* RAMONES
* BLONDIE
* DOOBIE BROTHERS
* EAGLES
* LYNYRD SKYNYRD
* BLACK SABBATH
* ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS
* JOURNEY
* REO SPEEDWAGON
* ZZ TOP

[Allhallowsday]

No order, no Jazz, no RAVEL, just Pop / Rock: 
BIG STAR
THE STOOGES
THE BEATLES
THE ROLLING STONES
ELVIS PRESLEY 
JIMI HENDRIX
HANK WILLIAMS SR. 
THE BEACH BOYS
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
LED ZEPPELIN
... and I love BLUE CHEER... RICKY NELSON... THE SHIRELLES ... all cuts from my gut! 

 
A new variation... 10 different ones... 

FRANK SINATRA
MC5 
BLUE CHEER
RICKY NELSON 
THE SHIRELLES
NEIL YOUNG 
BLONDIE 
THE DRIFTERS
TALKING HEADS
RAMONES

[clockworkcanary]

I'm mostly still stuck in the 90s.

1. Bjork: disappointed in the last album, but the rest are 4 star or higher. Next level s**t from another world.
2. Tori Amos: seen her show nine times so far. Used to worship her, but since mid 2000s, her albums have been meh.
3. Jane's Addiction: first three albums are still epic.
4. Sisters of Mercy: all you need in a goth band
5. Ween: every genre plus a few of their own
6. Aphex Twin (or anything by Richard D. James,  with all of his alt titles)
7. Alice Cooper (70s era especially)
8. PJ Harvey: she'll tear you apart
9. Gary Numan: 70 and still tearing it up. Early stuff is the best.
10. Prince: epic musician

Brume would probably make that list, but it's such a new band that I'm into that who knows how I'll feel about them a year from now. Same probably goes for Kult of the Wizard.

Honorable mentions: Sonic Youth, Rasputina, Lords of Acid, Boards of Canada, God Lives Underwater, Kult of the Wizard, and The Orb.

[Allhallowsday]

...
9. Gary Numan: 70 and still tearing it up. Early stuff is the best.
...

Cool.  I have Replicas, and Pleasure Principle and Telekon.   

[HappyGilmore]

See, if I did an 'alternate' version...some of the ones I already listed would still be there.

1.) Ramones
2.) Misfits
3.) The Cure
4.)  Ray Charles
5.) Panic! At The Disco
6.) Twenty One Pilots
7.) Rolling Stones
8.) Beach Boys
9.) Weird Al
10.) Aerosmith. 

[RCMerchant]

Hallow's mentioned MC5. I DO love them- but I only know a handful of they're songs.
If I had to post 10 more- I would have to go-
. the BAD BRAINS
.LED ZEPPILIN
.STEPPENWOLF (I NEVER heard a song by them I didn't like. That's saying something.)

....and  have to give some thought to the rest. 

[RCMerchant]

...aw f**k!
. BLONDIE
. the NEW YORK DOLLS
. SUICIDAL TENDENCIES (yep- mu thrash days are showing.... ... I can listen to it to this day)
. SLAYER (yup. I said Slayer)
. Stan Getz
.Johnny Cash

[clockworkcanary]

...so many...need to break it down by genre:

Metal: (not necessarily in this order)

1. Brume
2. Metallica, pre-Justice
3. Danzig
4. Anthrax, Belladonna years
5. Pantera
6. Slayer
7. Ozzy Osbourne
8. Black Sabbath
9. Kult of the Wizard
10. Nuclear Assault

Female Vocalists:

1. Tori Amos
2. Bjork
3. PJ Harvey
4. Julianna Hatfield
5. Liz Phair
6. Katie Jane Garside
7. Kate Bush
8. Belly
9. Sioxsie and the Banshees
10. Rasputina

Grunge Era/Gutter:

1. Daisy Chainsaw
2. Queen Adreena
3. Nirvana
4. Mudhoney
5. Sonic Youth
6. God Lives Underwater
7. Smashing Pumpkins: Gish album only
8. Pear Jam: Ten only
9. Babes in Toyland
10. Dinosaur Jr

Electronica:

1. Aphex Twin/AFX/RDJ, Polygon Window (all Richard D. James)
2. The Orb (Dr. Alex Patterson)
3. Lazerhawk
4. Gary Numan
5. Nine Inch Nails/How to Destroy Angels
6. Zer0 0ne
7. Lords of Acid
8. Mu-ziq
9. Autechre
10. Squarepusher

Punk:

1. Misfits
2. Samhain
3. Black Flag
4. Circle Jerks
5. Dead Kennedys
6. Ramones
7. Dirty Rotten Imbeciles (D.R.I.)
8. Bad Brains
9. Suicidal Tendencies
10. Rednecks in Pain

Classic:

1. Alice Cooper
2. Led Zepplin
3. Doors
4. Ozzy
5. Pink Floyd
6. The Who
7. KISS, pre-Destroyer
8. Deep Purple
9. Jimi Hendrix
10. Black Sabbath

Weird Stuff:

1. Frank Zappa
2. Ween
3. Devo
4. They Might Be Giants
5. Black Goat of the Woods
6. In Slaughter Natives
7. Weird Al
8. Primus

[lester1/2jr]

closest to my heart

1. Guided by Voices
2. Stooges
3. Mobb Deep
4. Ghost (japan)
5. Slayer
6. Joy division
7. Unwound
8. Stones
9. Fugazi
10. Janes

[Rev. Powell]

1. Bjork: disappointed in the last album, but the rest are 4 star or higher. Next level s**t from another world.

 Rasputina

I love me some Bjork! No one has a voice like hers.

I have one track from Rasputina ("Possum of the Grotto")  that I got off a free sampler somewhere. Loved it and always meant to check out some more, but never got around to it.