Let's share our particular Top50 bands

[Crannadict]

Many have asked me what my remaining 49 bands were for the Top50, I imagine in derogatory mode. However, I think it would be interesting to discuss it from a totally friendly point of view and without falling into insults or personal disqualifications.

And to avoid this type of absurd discussions I will put my Top50 without any kind of order:

• CSNY
• Fleetwood Mac
• R.E.M
• Boston
• Kraftwerk
• CCR
• Deep Purple
• Black Sabbath
• The Cranberries
• Stone Temple Pilots
• Jethro Tull
• Bee Gees
• Beacj Boys
• Led Zeppelin
• Ramones
• INXS
• Héroes del Silencio
• The Rolling Stones
• Motorhead
• The Doors
• Yes
• Steppenwolf
• Guns N Roses
• Judas Priest
• AC/DC
• Lynyrd Skynyrd
• The Kinks
• Queen
• Rush
• The Beatles
• Caravan
• The Smiths
• RHCP
• Caifanes
• ZZ Top
• S&G
• Linkin Park
• Depeche Mode
• Cream
• Iron Maiden
• Camel
• Thin Lizzy
• Genesis
• The Cure
• U2
• Eagles
• The Clash

* Talking Heads, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, The Velvet Underground or Nirvana are in #51 - #100

​

 

[platinumsage]

You must have loved Q magazine.

 

[Crannadict]

You must have loved Q magazine.

Don't know this magazine

 

[Steel Icarus]

Let's not. It's just going to end up a wankfest/hipster/boreathon.

 

[colacubes]

Why would you have a top 50? A top 10 I can understand, but once you get below that it’s just bands you mostly like.

 

[Crannadict]

Let's not. It's just going to end up a wankfest/hipster/boreathon.

What a boring dude you are

 

[Supine]

Top 50 is a bit hard to list. I’m not sure you have managed it either

 

[MickiQ]

How do you determine favourite? I have plenty of bands where I have a copy of every album they've made.
Which band is my favourite varies on a near daily basis where I will listen to one performer a lot then not for a while.
I consider myself to have cosmopolitan tastes but there are still half a dozen bands in that list I have never heard of.

 

[prunus]

Let's not. It's just going to end up a wankfest/hipster/boreathon.

But that’s my favourite type of thon.

 

[Knotted]

Having favourite bands is inherently conservative and you should fight the very idea. Definitely fight it if it means collecting all the Rollilng Stone's albums including the rubbish ones when you could be listening to Stick in the Wheel or Sault or Błoto or something current. Not that I'm not guilty of obsessing over old favourites.

 

[SpookyFrank]

My top 50:

• The Cranberries
• The Strawbs
• Bananarama
• Fiona Apple
• Black Grape
• Peaches
• Lemon Jelly
• Tangerine Dream
• Sloedive
• Chuck Berry

 

[SpookyFrank]

Aimee Manngo

 

[SpookyFrank]

Suzi Kumquatro

 

[SpookyFrank]

Quince-y Jones

 

[Riklet]

Christ what a boring list.

 

[Pickman's model]

Many have asked me what my remaining 49 bands were for the Top50, I imagine in derogatory mode. However, I think it would be interesting to discuss it from a totally friendly point of view and without falling into insults or personal disqualifications.

And to avoid this type of absurd discussions I will put my Top50 without any kind of order:

• CSNY
• Fleetwood Mac
• R.E.M
• Boston
• Kraftwerk
• CCR
• Deep Purple
• Black Sabbath
• The Cranberries
• Stone Temple Pilots
• Jethro Tull
• Bee Gees
• Beacj Boys
• Led Zeppelin
• Ramones
• INXS
• Héroes del Silencio
• The Rolling Stones
• Motorhead
• The Doors
• Yes
• Steppenwolf
• Guns N Roses
• Judas Priest
• AC/DC
• Lynyrd Skynyrd
• The Kinks
• Queen
• Rush
• The Beatles
• Caravan
• The Smiths
• RHCP
• Caifanes
• ZZ Top
• S&G
• Linkin Park
• Depeche Mode
• Cream
• Iron Maiden
• Camel
• Thin Lizzy
• Genesis
• The Cure
• U2
• Eagles
• The Clash

* Talking Heads, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, The Velvet Underground or Nirvana are in #51 - #100

​

I'm not seeing many bands there with women in them

 

[JuanTwoThree]

I'm not seeing many bands there with women in them

It's incredibly vanilla without PoC except Phil Lynott. No Wailers, Family Stone, P Funk and so on.

 

[Pickman's model]

It's incredibly vanilla without PoC except Phil Lynott. No Wailers, Family Stone, P Funk and so on.

No bad brains, no Supremes, no Lee "scratch" Perry, no witch, no little richard or chuck berry...

No garbage, no slits, not even the bangles, no Janis Joplin...

 

[killer b]

couldn't stop at 50, so I did 60.

• Can
• Suicide
• Captain Beefheart
• Daft Punk
• Larry Levan
• The Peech Boys
• Modern Lovers
• Niagara
• Yaz,
• This Heat
• Pere Ubu
• Outsiders
• Nation of Ulysses
• Mars
• Trojans
• Black Dice
• Todd Terry
• the Germs
• Section 25
• Althea & Donna
• Sexual Harassment
• a-ha
• Dorothy Ashby
• PIL
• The Fania All-Stars
• The Bar-Kays
• The Human League
• The Normal
• Lou Reed
• Scott Walker
• Monks
• Niagara
• Joy Division
• Laurent Garnier
• The Creation
• Sun Ra
• Scientists
• Royal Trux
• 10cc
• Rammelzee
• Eric B. and Rakim
• The Index
• Basic Channel
• Soulsonic Force,
• Juan Atkins
• Manuel Göttsching
• David Axelrod
• Electric Prunes
• Gil Scott-Heron
• The Slits
• Faust
• Mantronix
• Pharoah Sanders
• The Fire Engines
• Swans
• Soft Cell
• The Sonics
• The Sonics
• The Sonics
• The Sonics

 

[Raheem]

My top 50:

• The Cranberries
• The Strawbs
• Bananarama
• Fiona Apple
• Black Grape
• Peaches
• Lemon Jelly
• Tangerine Dream
• Sloedive
• Chuck Berry

Bet you read Blender magazine.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

20 Spanish-ish bands to my tastes:

Ska-P
La Polla
Fangoria
Héroes
Orquesta Mondragon
Cool Jerks
Duncan Dhu
La Union
El Ultimo de la Fila
Presuntos Implicados
M-Clan
Mecano
Seguridad Social
Pata Negra
Planetas
Barón Rojo
Celtas Cortos
Radio Futura
Trogloditas
Vargas Blues Band

 

[Crannadict]

20 Spanish-ish bands to my tastes:

Ska-P
La Polla
Fangoria
Héroes
Orquesta Mondragon
Cool Jerks
Duncan Dhu
La Union
El Ultimo de la Fila
Presuntos Implicados
M-Clan
Mecano
Seguridad Social
Pata Negra
Planetas
Barón Rojo
Celtas Cortos
Radio Futura
Trogloditas
Vargas Blues Band

You left out the greatest post-punk spanish band.

Why?

 

[Pickman's model]

In no particular order

Conflict
Slits
Supremes
Lee 'scratch' Perry
Sex Pistols
Professionals
Blondie
Little Richard
Eddie Cochran
Chuck Berry
Garbage
Roxy Music
Elvis Presley
Small Faces
The who
Marvellettes
Wolfe Tones
Thin Lizzy
Biblecode Sundays
Dog on a rope
Sisters of mercy
Leonard Cohen
Slade
Janis Joplin
Bad Brains
Sham 69
Rolling Stones (to 1975)
Jimi Hendrix experience
Siouxsie and the banshees
Bad religion
Catatonia
Skunk anansie
Dr feelgood
WITCH
Led Zeppelin
Madness
Alien sex fiend
Junior Manson slags
Mc5
Gentlemen
Athenrye
Summerfly
Anti-nowhere league
Guns n roses
AC/dc
The damned
Penetration
Ramones
Stooges
X-ray spex

 

[JuanTwoThree]

You left out the greatest post-punk spanish band.

Why?

Gabinete Caligari? Los Ronaldos? Siniestro Total? Who do you mean?

 

[Crannadict]

Gabinete Caligari? Los Ronaldos? Siniestro Total? Who do you mean?

You are disappointing me:

 

[JuanTwoThree]

You are disappointing me:

Before my time

 

[Crannadict]

Before my time

If you posted a lot of 80s bands hahahahaha

 

[JuanTwoThree]

If you posted a lot of 80s bands hahahahaha

I think most were still going in the early 90s when I arrived in Spain. Or I heard them in bars, at friends etc. I'll look into Décima Victima. I could like it.

 

[Crannadict]

I think most were still going in the early 90s when I arrived in Spain. Or I heard them in bars, at friends etc. I'll look into Décima Victima. I could like it.

I was being sarcastic anyway. Décima Víctima is the best post-punk band in Spain but they were totally underground, also the band was not 100% professional. They are only known by the people who actively lived that music scene in Spain and by those who investigated this music scene.

Spain did not have many talented musicians at that time, but a lot of bands did have a tremendous desire to learn. And DV learned to play very well, despite they had another job that was not music.

 

[Elpenor]

I won't take this thread seriously unless we get a top 1000 bands list