NationStates Jolt Archive

I was bored, so I thought of this. List your top ten band, album, song, and guitar solo. If you can't think of ten, just do five.

Top Ten Bands
1. Pink Floyd
2. Green Day
3. Metallica
4. Black Sabbath
5. Nirvana
6. Iron Maiden
7. The Beatles
8. AC/DC
9. The Doors
10. Red Hot Chili Peppers

Top Ten Albums
1. Darkside of the Moon (tie) (Pink Floyd)
2. The Wall (tie) (PF)
3. Wish You Were Here (tie) (PF)
4. Animals (tie) (PF)
5. Master of Puppets (Metallica)
6. Dookie (Green Day)
7. Nevermind (Nirvana)
8. The White Album (The Beatles)
9. Paranoid (Black Sabbath)
10. Piper at The Gates of Dawn (PF)

Top Ten Songs
1. Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd)
2. Sheep (PF)
3. Master of Puppets (Metallica)
4. Minority (Green Day)
5. Number of the Beast (Iron Maiden)
6. Have A Cigar (PF)
7. Battery (Metallica)
8. Brain Damage (PF)
9. Interstellar Overdrive (PF)
10. Warpigs (Black Sabbath)

Top Ten Guitar Solos
1. Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd)
2. One (Metallica)
3. Warpigs (Black Sabbath)
4. Have A Cigar (PF)
5. Time (PF)
6. Money (PF)
7. Fade to Black (Metallica)
8. Welcome Home(Sanitarium) (Metallica)
9. Shine on You Crazy Diamond (PF)
10. Hotel California (The Eagles)

Top 10 bands
1) Biffy Clyro
2) Radiohead
3) The Smashing Pumpkins
4) Oceansize
5) The White Stripes
6) Broken Social Scene
7) Weezer
9) Nirvana
10) Foo Fighters

Top 10 albums
1) Biffy Clyro - The Vertigo of Bliss
2) Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
3) Oceansize - Effloresce
4) Radiohead - Kid A
5) The White Stripes - de Stijl
6) The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
7) Sigur Rós - Takk...
9) Nirvana - In Utero
10) Jeff Buckley - Grace, Gomez - Bring it On, tied.

Not even going to touch top 10 songs, I could be here all year trying to decide.

Surprisingly hard to pick top albums, so I limited myself to one per band. Even then, so many other albums by so many other bands could have been up there.

My top 10 list changes on a regular basis, but these artists have, at some point, contributed immensely to my enjoyment.

1. Agalloch - Pale Folklore - The Misshapen Steed
2. Dead Soul Tribe - A Murder of Crows - In a Garden Made of Stones
3. Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth - Noldor (Dead Winter Reigns)
4. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children - An Eagle in Your Mind
5. Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets - The Tide
6. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica - Dark Center of the Universe
7. Jethro Tull - Aqualung - Wond'ring Aloud
8. Silly Wizard - Live Wizardry - The Blackbird
9. Anathema - A Natural Disaster - Balance
10. Nick Drake - Pink Moon - Things Behind The Sun

I couldn't care less about guitar solos. It's the song as a whole that matters to me.

I limited myself to one album/song per band. I wouldn't say these are in exact order, but they're close.

Top Ten Bands-
1. Smashing Pumpkins
2. Live
3. Tool
4. Garbage
5. Godspeed you! black emperor
6. Pearl Jam
7. Silverchair
8. Radiohead
9. R.E.M.
10. Explosions in the Sky

Top Ten Albums-
1. Secret Samadhi (Live)
2. Mellon Collie and the Infinate Sadness (SP)
3. Aenima (Tool)
4. Neon Ballroom (Silverchair)
5. f#a# (godspeed you! black emperor)
6. Kid A (Radiohead)
7. Garbage (Garbage)
8. Darkest Days (Stabbing Westward)
9. Binaural (Pearl Jam)
10. The Battle of Los Angeles (Rage Against the Machine)

Top Ten Songs -
1. Gas Hed Goes West (Live) / Tonight, Tonight (SP)
2. 46 & 2 (Tool)
3. Push It (Garbage)
4. Dead Flag Blues (godspeed you! black emperor)
5. Emotion Sickness (Silverchair)
6. Leave (REM)
7. I Got Id (Pearl Jam)
8. Street Spirit (Radiohead)
9. A Poor Man's Memory (Explosions in the Sky)
10. Never the Culprit (Pulse Ultra)

Well, it may not all be "rock" but it's close enough. Here we go!

Bands: in approximate order, I'll just thoss up my favorite album by each
1) Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble / Texas Flood
2) The Jimi Hendrix Experience / Electric Ladyland
3) Led Zeppelin / Led Zeppelin II
4) Cream [or any other Clapton] / Generally I only listen to live Clapton tracks, he's spectacular live but I find his studio stuff pretty bland.
5) Neil Young [CSN&Y, Buffalo Springfield etc.] / Harvest
6) The Doors / Self Titled
7) The Who / Who's Next
8) Pink Floyd / Dark Side of the Moon
9) Queen / Jazz
10) ZZ Top / Tres Hombres

It's too late to think up a list of my favorite solo's so I'll just throw a couple of my favorites out there:

Knopfler/ Sultans of Swing
Hendrix/ Little Wing
Vaughan/ Texas Flood
Clapton/ Crossroads
Satriani/ Satch Boogie
Jimmy Page/ White Summer, Since I've Been Loving You
Honourable mention goes to Mr. Van Halen for Eruption
I tend to enjoy blues-guitar rather than heavy metal shredding, to each his own.

In loose order:

Artists:
Tom Waits
The Beatles
Bob Dylan
Sam Cooke
Beck
The Velvet Underground
Johnny Cash
The Spinners
Spoon
Van Morrison

Albums:
Revolver - The Beatles
Marquee Moon - Television
Free Wheelin' Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
Odelay - Beck
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
March 16-29, 1992 - Uncle Tupelo
Pink Moon - Nick Drake
Stankonia - Outkast
Supergrass - Supergrass
Source Tags and Codes - And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead

Songs:
Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix
Gun Street Girl - Tom Waits
B.O.B - Outkast
Everlong - Foo Fighters
Sweet Jane - The Velvet Underground
Don't Think Twice - Bob Dylan
Girl From the North Country (Nashville Skyline) - Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash
Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks
Tuff Ghost - The Unicorns
Marquee Moon - Television

Like others, I limited myself to one entry per category per band.

Top Ten Bands
1. Nirvana
2. The Smashing Pumpkins
3. Local H
4. Metallica
5. Therapy?
6. Motörhead
7. The Melvins
8. Ministry
9. Napalm Death
10. R.E.M.

Top Ten Albums
1. Nevermind (Nirvana)
2. Metallica (Metallica)
3. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (Smashing Pumpkins)
4. As Good As Dead (Local H)
5. Overkill (Motörhead)
6. Fontanelle (Babes In Toyland)
7. Clear Hearts Grey Flowers (Jack Off Jill)
8. Frenching the Bully (The Gits)
9. Houdini (The Melvins)
10. Forest of Equilibrium (Cathedral)

Top Ten Songs
1. Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)
2. The Unforgiven (Metallica)
3. Losing My Religion (R.E.M.)
4. Bullet With Butterfly Wings (The Smashing Pumpkins)
5. Bound For the Floor (Local H)
6. Screamager (Therapy?)
7. Motorhead (Motörhead)
8. Suffer the Children (Napalm Death)
9. Set Me Straight (The Melvins)
10. It All Dies Anyway (The Gits)

Top Ten Guitar Solos

For this category, I didn't particularly pick the solos, but rather the guitar parts for the verse or chorus of the song. (The purpose of this is that the guitar is the main reason I like the song, as opposed to the lyrics or the vocal style.)

1. Stigmata (Ministry)
2. The KKK Took My Baby Away (The Ramones)
3. Disgracelands (Therapy?)
4. Fade To Black (Metallica)
5. Spirit Crusher (Death)
6. Suffer the Children (Napalm Death)
7. Sleepless (Anathema)
8. Spiritual Law (Slayer)
9. I Hate You (Verbal Abuse)
10. Careful (Sebadoh)

Jello Biafra never even mentions the Dead Kennedys?

Jello Biafra never even mentions the Dead Kennedys?Nope...they could have gotten a mention in a category of best lyrics, but not of best guitarring.

These are by no means in order! That would've required more thought and time then I'm willing to give!

Top Ten Bands
1. Metallica
2. Testament
3. Guns N' Roses
4. Pantera
5. Acid Bath
6. The Eagles
7. Queen
8. Pink Floyd
9. The Doors
10. Lynard Skynard

Top Ten Albums
1. Master of Puppets (Metallica)
2. Reign in Blood (Slayer)
3. Appetite for Destruction (Guns N' Roses)
4. The Angel and the Dark River (My Dying Bride)
5. When the Kite String Pops (Acid Bath)
6. Stay Hungry (Twisted Sister)
7. Hotel California (The Eagles)
8. The Wall (Pink Floyd)
9. The American Way (Sacred Reich)
10. Deliverence (Corrosion of Conformity)


Top Ten Songs
1. Master of Puppets (Metallica)
2. Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd)
3. Voodoo Child (Jimi Hendrix)
4. Who's to Blame (Sacred Reich)
5. Free Bird (Lynard Skynard)
6. The Show Must Go On (Queen)
7. Nymphetamine (Cradle of Filth)
8. Unsuccessfully Coping With the Natural Beauty of Infidelity
(Type O Negative)
9. I Am the Cross (Exhorder)
10. Albatross (Corrosion of Conformity)

Top Ten Guitar Solos
1. Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd)
2. One (Metallica)
3. Sweet Child O Mine (Guns N' Roses)
4. November Rain (Guns N' Roses)
5. Cemetery Gates (Pantera)
6. Free Bird (Lynard Skynard)
7. Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin)
8. Hotel California (Eagles)
9. Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)
10. Any Solo Performed by Alex Skolnick or Marty Friedman

I'm just going to do a rough top 10 bands. Even then it's hard to put it in any order.



1. Nirvana
2. Kyuss
3. Led Zeppelin
4. Rage Against the Machine
5. Dead Kennedys
6. The Doors
7. Black Sabbath
8. Monster Magnet
9. Tool
10. Alice in Chains

These are notin any order. The objects at the top of the catagories are on my iPod, which is more why they are at thetop than the objects relative "goodness."

Bands:
System of a Down
Metallica
Black Sabbath
Led Zepplin
Johnny Cash
Tupac
Alice Cooper
Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
ACDC
And just for the hell of it, KISS.

Albums:
System of a Down: Toxicity
Black Sabath: Paranoid
Dirty Rotten Imbeciles: Thrash Zone
Metallica: ...And Justice for All
Alice Cooper: Billion Dollar Babies
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Rammstien: Rosenrot


Songs:
System of a Down: Chop Suey!
Black Sabath: Iron Man
Tupac: Changes
Dirty Rotten Imbeciles: Thrashard
Metallica: One
ACDC: Highway to Hell
KISS: Rock and Roll (if that is even what it is called)
Alice Cooper: Eighteen
Led Zepplin: Stairway to Heaven
Led Zepplin: Kashmir

KISS: Rock and Roll (if that is even what it is called)
Might this be "Rock and Roll all Nite"? Its chorus goes: "I wanna rock and roll all nite...and party every day."

5. Therapy?
They're doing an acoustic set in HMV in Belfast on Friday, followed by a DJ set in a pub/club place in Belfast, also on Friday. Contemplating whether or not to go...

DJ sets only £4 in, and I imagine the acoustic set will be free. HMV is about a minute walk from my work, and I finish at 5, so I'll probably go along to see what the craic is.

Nope...they could have gotten a mention in a category of best lyrics, but not of best guitarring.
Not even Holiday in Cambodia?

Let's see...

Bands/artists:
65daysofstatic
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
VNV Nation
Tool
David Bowie
NOFX
Radiohead
System of a Down
Pure Reason Revolution

Albums:
The Fall of Math - 65daysofstatic
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
One Time For All Time - 65daysofstatic
Advance & Follow - VNV Nation
Lateralus - Tool
Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables - Dead Kennedys
Everyone Into Position - Oceansize
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Cult - Apocalyptica
OK Computer or Amnesiac - Radiohead. I can't decide which I prefer.

Songs:
Radio Protector - 65daysofstatic (actually, just a piece of music, as there are no lyrics, but...well...meh)
Fiume - VNV Nation (ditto)
Suite-Pee - System of a Down
Such Great Heights - The Postal Service
Kobrakai - Lostprophets
Always: Your Way - My Vitriol
This Is Yesterday - Manic Street Preachers
Rock & Roll Suicide - David Bowie
Pyramid Song - Radiohead
Parabola - Tool

They're doing an acoustic set in HMV in Belfast on Friday, followed by a DJ set in a pub/club place in Belfast, also on Friday. Contemplating whether or not to go...

DJ sets only £4 in, and I imagine the acoustic set will be free. HMV is about a minute walk from my work, and I finish at 5, so I'll probably go along to see what the craic is.Lucky you. Yes, you should go. I dunno about the DJ set, but I'd imagine seeing them live is worth it. I never have. They rarely tour here. :(

Not even Holiday in Cambodia?Eh. My favorite part of that song is the "Pol Pot" part and the chorus.

In no particular order:

Bands:
Misfits
The Clash
Flogging Molly
Napalm Death
Cradle of Filth
Bad Religion
Social Distortion
AFI
Tool
The Offspring

Songs:
Bell Bottom Blues- Clapton
Love You To Death- Type O Negative
Reise Reise- Rammstein
What's Left Of The Flag- Flogging Molly
When The Angels Sing- Social Distortion
Days Of The Phoenix- AFI
Die Die My Darling- Misfits
Let Them Eat War- Bad Religion
Dead Eyes See No Future- Arch Enemy
Halloween- Originally by Misfits, covered by AFI

Lucky you. Yes, you should go. I dunno about the DJ set, but I'd imagine seeing them live is worth it. I never have. They rarely tour here. :(
Already seen them live, back in 2004 in our SU. Bruce Dickinson joined onstage them for a song. Excellent show.

Eh. My favorite part of that song is the "Pol Pot" part and the chorus.
Ah, ok. Mine is the guitar at the start.

Might this be "Rock and Roll all Nite"? Its chorus goes: "I wanna rock and roll all nite...and party every day."
Yes it is.

In no particular order:

Bands:
Misfits
The Clash
Flogging Molly
Napalm Death
Cradle of Filth
Bad Religion
Social Distortion
AFI
Tool
The Offspring
*Hisses*
Thought the girl that sung in Nymphetamine was hot.

That is an awesome band.

Ah, ok. Mine is the guitar at the start.I'll have to listen to the song again especially for that part.

Yes it is.I thought so.

*Hisses*
Thought the girl that sung in Nymphetamine was hot.

Just for the sake of saying so, she has her own band!

Band: Leaves' Eyes
Album:Vinland Saga

Pretty cool stuff!

Top Ten Bands
1. Pink Floyd
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers
3. Weezer
4. Smashing Pumpkins
5. Faith No More
6. Iron Maiden
7. Foo Fighters
8. Black Sabbath
9. Sum 41
10. AC/DC

Top Ten Albums
1. The Wall (PF)
2. Darkside of the Moon (Pink Floyd)
3. Wish You Were Here (PF)
4. Millen collien and the infinite sadness Smashing Pumpkins
5. Blood Sugar Sex Magik RHCP
6. Blue Album Weezer)
7. Mothers Milk(RHCP)
8. Americana- Offspring
9. SMash- Offspring
10.Black mettalica

Top Ten Songs
1. Say it ain't so -Weezer
2. Tonight Tonight -Smashing Pumpkins
3. No Brakes -The off spring
4. We care alot- Faith no More
5. Everlong-Foo Fighters
6. My Hero -Foo fighters
7. Whiskey in the Jarro -Mettalica
8. A Small victory-Faith No mOre
9. Soul to squeeze -RHCP
10. Fear of the Dark -iron MAiden

Won't comment on guitar solos except to say
Metallica Enter sandman for now

None of that is 100%
I am at a blank for most of it.

LOl, I could make a list of 10 just from contributions by other posters that I didnt think of till I read their posts (Doors, G'n'R, Metallica, System of a Down, AC/DC, Bowie, Led Zepplin, Clash, Red Hot Chillies, Offspring....there's 10)

My own ten artists/bands (in no particular order, and probably having forgotten heaps, and in addition to those previously mentioned by other posters)

Supergroove
Blondie
Split Endz
Men at Work
Meatloaf (pre-revival)
The Dudes
Incubus
Headless Chickens
Marianne Faithful
The Cure