Bob Dylan

Me, I always say that the Stones are #1A and Springsteen is #1B. You can't really compare. For me, they're on par. Almost

The Tragically Hip.

Gasolin - from Denmark.

Beefheart, Lee Scratch Perry, Dylan, Mark E Smith

Talking Heads - for general inspiration

Marvin Gaye or Bill Withers - for the soul

Curtis Mayfield or Fela Kuti - for putting everything into perspective

Funkadelic & Parliament - for the fun

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The Allman Brothers Band

I would say that but They only put out 2 studio albums, and a live album before Duane died. I don't consider them the same band afterward. Especially the Ramblin' Man Allman Brothers.

I agree to an extent (although the Haynes-Trucks guitar tandem was damn good).

Do you listen to any post-1969 Rolling Stones?

They also lost a slide playing, founding member who gave the group its name.

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Beefheart, Lee Scratch Perry, Dylan, Mark E Smith

Probably the least vocally-blessed selection, yet! ><

BOWIE

Wow. Hard to pin down anyone or any band in particular, but, in no particular order, to name a few...

Neil Young solo and with the Horse
Merle Haggard
The Beatles
Boz Scaggs (first solo album is so good)
Marvin Gaye's What's Going On
Gram Parson - Grievous Angel album
Joni Mitchell
Melody Gardot
Ray Charles
Bobby "Blue" Bland
Frank Sinatra

Springsteen
Paul Kelly
Led Zeppelin
Free
Dylan
Tom Petty/Heartbreakers
Graham Parker
Broderick Smith
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Faces
Junius Meyvant
The Band
Masters Apprentices
The Dingoes
The Beatles - post 1967
The Panics
Warren Zevon
Paul Weller
Lucinda Williams
Wilco
The Jayhawks
Simon & Garfunkel
Thin Lizzy

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None most of you would have heard much of. Most "rock" music lost it for me a long time ago. Maybe the Faces or very early Dylan (Blonde on Blonde and back). Little Feat while Lowell George was alive. Mike Bloomfield, Robert Johnson, roots of the blues sort of stuff. TP & HB just because I never really got into them too much in the past and only sort of recently discovered them for what they were beyond the massive hits. R Crumb and the Cheap Suit Serenaders always have a place in my heart. First four or five years of Grateful Dead.

jb

These days

Paul Westerberg

Bowie.

I also have a deplorable fondness for 70's disco and Abba.

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You've got the sun, you've got the moon,
and you've got the Rolling Stones.

What more do we want ?


Besides, once you've seen the original Who (with mighty Keith Moon), Led Zeppelin (although I left half way the concert because both my hearing and stomach were almost blown to pieces), U2, Bruce Springsteen, Jethro Tull, Yes, Dire Staits, Dylan (big mistake), Donovan, Dr. John, Slade (do you believe that?), BB King, Buddy Guy, Robert Grey, Chuck Berry, Van Morrison, Pink Floyd, AC/DC, Black Eyed Pies, Byrds, The Outsiders (Dutch pseudo Stones ?!?), J Geils Band, George Thorogood & The Destroyers, and more, and more, and more, then you know where you really live for ... THE ROLLING STONES ... (the only regret I have is that I never saw The Rollin' Stones live )


I'm a GHOST living in a ghost town

Now thats what ya call ...name dropping .... hhhhaaaaaaa



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Working this as a pyramid of sorts...higher the tier, the higher the priority:

Rolling Stones
Bob Dylan, The Beatles (and all solos)
Velvet Underground/Lou Reed, Led Zeppelin/Robert Plant, REM
The Kinks, The Who/Pete Townshend, ABBA, Elvis
Bee Gees, Fleetwood Mac, Queen, Pink Floyd, Bowie

bumped into next tier of pyramid....CCR/John Fogerty

I'd have a different/smaller pyramid for Jazz.



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Rolling Stones









and down here.......

Bob Dylan, The Who(60's and 70's) The Doors

The Doors, Neil Young, Black Sabbath, Nirvana, REM, Therapy?, Motorhead, MC5, The Stooges, Dead Kennedys, Sex Pistols, Muddy Waters, Iron Maiden, Jesus & Mary Chain, Stone Roses, Hole, Guns N Roses, New York Dolls/Heartbreakers, PJ Harvey, Mudhoney, The Pogues.

I list those as I have multiple records, CDs, cassettes, bootlegs etc by each, so they’re some of the go to.

U2

Beatles
Bowie
Dylan
Pink Floyd
Lou Reed
The Who
The Doors
Neil Young

I'll try to keep it to 12 LOL

The Who / Pete Townshend
The Clash
Fleetwood Mac
Paul Simon
Cat Stevens
R.E.M.
Dire Straits
Bob Marley
The Police / Sting
Toots & The Maytals
Buddy Holly
Bo Diddley

After the Stones come--

Led Zepplin
Doors
The Animals

Genesis (w/Peter Gabriel)
Yes

A few.

The Cult. There's a boogie there, as well as some depth that is beyond the silliness, and great guitar work from Billy Duffy that is excellent. And they always put on a fantastic show.

Jimmy Buffett. His early material, and some of his recent material, creates an ethos that is representative of where I live - and, of course, where I'd like to be, even though I somewhat live there. Along the way he's had some excellent musicians... and some pretty fine songs. Some really chooky (cheesy and or silly and or stupid) shit, too, but whatever. Even the Stones have chooky shit.

U2 - I know they are loved and hated here. And I understand. But after my wife died and I listened to Love Is All We Have Left and Lights Of Home, I felt like Bono had hung out with me while my wife died. Innovative and sometimes boring, overall, they love music and it's audible.

AC/DC.

Led Zeppelin.

Drive-By Truckers - another representation of where I live. And having met and hung out with them, well, ethos.

Jason Isbell - met him, knew his wife before they married. Awesome guitarist. Awesome lyricist. Cool dude. Great musician as well with a good head on his shoulders.

Soundgarden.

Pearm Jam.

Nirvana.

David Bowie.

The Beatles.

Muddy Waters.

Quite a few others - and some that are older, like Juliana Hatfield, quite new and different, like Mogwai.

After the Stones (who are #1 in the snow capped mountains)

Down at the tree line (#2)

Bob Dylan

His Bobness
Then the Grateful Dead

T@3

AC/DC

My top twelve (excluding the Stones):
T.Rex
Early David Bowie
Sex Pistols
Kinks
The Who
Beatles
Doors
The Clash
Mott The Hoople
Oasis
Stone Roses
Slade

Skatalites (or what's left of them)