The Republic of Heaven

1. Deftones
2. SoaD
3. Muse (Who I get the feeling will appear a lot)
4. RATM
5. Incubus

Anyone? Live or dead.

You can't possibly expect me to narrow it down to five, can you? I do like the look of your list, though.

Innoparticularorder:

Steely Dan
REM
Beatles
Underworld
Talking Heads

No much room for anyone who formed after 1990 there!

You can't possibly expect me to narrow it down to five, can you? I do like the look of your list, though.

Changed. It can be as many as you want now!

EDIT - That's also the first time I've been complimented on my musical taste, mostly because my friends require the band to be dead or split up to be good.

Hmmm...The Beatles...Dispatch..hmmm....

1. Radiohead.
2. Pink Floyd.
3. The Beatles.
4. The Flaming Lips.
5. The Rolling Stones.
6. Manic Street Preachers.
7. The Stone Roses.
8. Red Hot Chilli Peppers.
9. Coldplay.
10. Oasis.

apart from what's been said, and just for the moment cos i want to be the first to mention them:

def leppard
coldplay

surely i can add to this later...

edit: darragh you horrible person you STOLE COLDPLAY FROM ME! AAAHHH!

Banddds?

1. Radiohead.
2. Pink Floyd.

Darragh knows where it's at.

Darn tooting I do although it is difficult to decide between the two.

1. The Jimi Hendrix Experience
2. Elbow
3. The Flaming Lips
4. Beck*
5. Modest Mouse

*Well he has a band.

The CLASH.

QUEEN
U2
Green Day
The Beatles
Nirvana
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Blink-182 (don't laugh at me, I think they're funny)
Led Zeppelin

There are more, I'll think of them eventually

Ooh, I have more now.

Jefferson Airplane
The Doors
The Rolling Stones
Placebo
Depeche Mode
The Cure
Franz Ferdinand
Green Day
Jack off Jill

Ehhh....this is DIFFICULT. But I'll try to name some... (in no particular order)

1. Black Sabbath
2. the Ramones
3. the White Stripes
4. Queen
5. Green Day
6. the Smiths


*Dante stole my 'ever'...* *cries*

Ok, thought of more:

1. The Beatles
2. Queen
3. Dispatch
4. Simon & Garfunkel
5. Ben Folds Five
6. Led Zeppelin
7. Guster
8. Phish
9. Cake
10. Green Day

oooer! <has urge to go and listen to cake>

Ok, thought of more:
5. Ben Folds Five

I love Ben Folds Five to death, but for some reason I wouldn't consider them a Top Band Ever. :]

Muse
Blur
Feeder
Slipknot
Ash
Jeff Buckley

oh yeah, dante good musical taste and ceres who are underworld?

They're best known for Born Slippy from the Trainspotting soundtrack, but that's far from being their best work, IMO. It's like everyone says Bolero when you mention Maurice Ravel, but that's daft when you think of Daphnis and Chloe or Le Tombeau de Couperin or Ma Mere L'Oye.

Basically, Underword do techno / trance. The big difference between them and everyone else who does techno / trance is the vocals by Karl Hyde. I strongly recommend their first album, dubnobasswithmyheadman.

Amazon.co.uk review:

Although Leftfield's Leftism may take the title of best album by a British dance artist, the debut LP from Underworld was a sublime collage of lush textures and insistent beats which displayed the kind of dynamic ambition which has made their live shows so exciting. The daft-yet-heartfelt vocals of Karl Hyde drift amongst Rick Smith's controlled guitar and Darren Emerson's mesmerising drum patters, an intoxicating blend on tracks such as "Mmm...Skyscraper", "I Love You" and "Cowgirl". "Tongue", meanwhile, shows a gentler, warmer side to the band, as Hyde's tones wrap themselves lovingly around subtle chords, while the lush melodies and uplifiting ambience of "M.E." provide a worthy finale. The rarest of things: a varied, emotional dance album that doesn't sacrifice authenticity for innovation. --Ed Potton

Uh...King Prawn'll do...'bout the only band I know of. Oh the guy in the flat above us lent me his Jeff Buckley album, though. It was as bland and uninspiring as I felt it inevitably would turn out to be. Damn youngsters and their rock and rolling <.< Am I the only one who preferred the Rufus Wainwright cover of Hallelujah?