Haters not allowed.
1.Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
2.The Beatles
3.Led Zeppelin
4.The Who
5.The Grateful Dead
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It's hard to say just 5:
-The Band
-The Beatles
-Muddy Waters' band with Little Walter, Jimmy Rogers, Otis Spann...Greatest blues band ever.
-The Wailers (the one with P. Tosh and Bunny)
-Booker T. & The M.G.'s



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Ian Dury & the Blockheads
Humble Pie
Neil Young & Crazyhorse/The Trans band
The KLF
= 5th The Vevet Underground/Lou Reed, Roger Waters/Pink Floyd, Sex Pistols, Chuck Berry, Love & Rockets, Madness, Peter Tosh, Lynyrd Skynyrd & Howlin' Wolf.



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How about seven?

The Beatles
The Who
The Beach Boys
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Jethro Tull

>Faces
>Meters
>Booker T & The MG's
>Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers
>Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers

Check this cat out!

The Grateful Dead
The Kinks
J Geils Band
Creedence/Fogerty
Pre 90's Aerosmith

top 5 set in stone is impossible. but i'd say it rotates amongst this group of artists.

tom waits
fela kuti
the velvet underground/lou reed
louis armstrong
the band
chilly gonzales
bob wiseman
brian wilson/the beach boys
oscar peterson
thrush hermit/joel plaskett
neil young
the beatles



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you asked for five so I'll give you five

Beatles
Who
Led Zeppelin
Stone Roses
last but not least the Black Crowes

Beatles
REM
Led Zeppelin
The Who
The Kinks

...and for solo performers
Elvis
Bob Dylan
John Lennon
Robert Plant
David Bowie



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ROCKMAN



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Intressting Band other than Stones is:

Elvis Presley - Scotty Moore - Billy Black
Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Miles Davis Quintet with John Coltrane and of course >

John George Paul Ringo

2 1 2 0

the rolling stones are my #1 but after them

1 megadeth
2 twisted sister
3 queensryche
4 crosby,stills,nash and young
5 grateful dead
6 the doors
7 cream
8 the band
9 aerosmith
10 allman brothers

but it changes sometimes and thats not solo artists

I'll give you High Five:

The Beatles
Alice Cooper
Bob Dylan
Suzi Quatro
Larry Norman

Black Crowes
AC/DC
Jet
The Who
Allman Brothers

The Beatles
CCR

Are there any others?

Ok,

AC/DC
Lynyrd Skynyrd (The real one!)
Expensive Winos

Pink Floyd
The Soundtrack of Our Lives
The Beatles
Hansson & Karlsson
The Stooges

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tonterapi
Pink Floyd
The Soundtrack of Our Lives
The Beatles
Hansson & Karlsson
The Stooges

This is like: and what band is not belonging? My answer is: Pink Floyd


2 1 2 0

1. Grateful dead
2. Jefferson airplane
3. Traffic
4. Träd, gräs och stenar
5. Incredible String Band

Beatles
Doors
Jimi Hendrix Expirence
Cream
Pink Floyd
Grateful Dead
Led Zepplin
Jethro Tull
Santana



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5 is very difficult,
let's do that :
english-
led zepp
who
deep purple
kinks
pink floyd

american
allman
ccr
black crowes
mellencamp
tom petty

The Black Crowes
EELS
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Delaney & Bonnie
The Band

The Beatles
The WHo
The Kinks
Floyd
Zeppelin

SOLO
Dylan
Bowie
Tom Waits
Lou Reed
Iggy

Not sure whether to count Bruce in the 'band' or 'solo' category, so I'll put him in both with a disclaimer

Bands

(1. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band)
2. The Beatles
3. The Clash
4. The Who
5. Social Distortion
(if the E Street Band dont count, then at a push I'd go for The Velvet Underground. The Stones obviously would be my favourite band though)

Solo
(tie) 1. Dylan
(tie) 1. Springsteen
(who's first depends on my mood. I think Dylan stands alone ahead of ANY act in the history of music in terms of greatness, but Bruce's work is more consistent and he's easily my favourite live act)
3. Elvis
4. Neil Young
5. Johnny Cash



I tend to gravitate more towards solo acts than bands..if I was listing my top 30 acts, barely 20% of them would be bands.

For the record:

My Top 5 Solo Artists:

1 Bob Dylan
2 John Lennon
3 Lucinda Williams
4 Johnny Thunders
5 Freddie Wadling

2 1 2 0

Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Clash
The Stooges
Derek And The Dominos
T-Rex

Solo acts:
Bob Dylan
Al Green
Solomon Burke
Beck
Prince

Carolyn Wonderland.
She's fire, ice and dynamite!

Captain Beefheart's Magic Band
Can
Van Der Graaf Generator
Free
Family

5 is indeed difficult as it's constantly changing, but here goes:

AC/DC
Bon Jovi
REM
Bruce Springsteen
The Eagles?

I tried to base it on number of times I listen to them plus % of lyrics known....The 5th spot was the hardest, and the Eagles have 1 more CD in my 400 disc changer than Fleetwood Mac, so that is how they won out....an honorable mention could be made for Paul Simon/Simon & Garfunkel as well.

No particular order:

Mastodon
Dillinger Escape Plan
Springsteen & E-Street Band
Nirvana
The Beatles