The Definitive Top 10 Thread

[ron the dial]

So, there have been random "Your Favorite ______" that I've seen going on in here, but I'm way too lazy to go searching for them all. So let's just go ahead and just provide the answers to all of these questions and I won't have to. Feel free to add your categories as you answer.

- Top 10 Bands
- Top 10 Albums
- Top 10 Songs
- Top 10 Lyrics
- Top 10 Vocalists
- Top 10 Guitarists

etc.

[FakeLaser]

I'm gonna be a bitch and do top 10s because it's way too hard to narrow it down to 5s.

Top 10 Bands
Pink Floyd
Joy Division
The Smiths
Incubus
Glassjaw
Sonic Youth
Brand New
Radiohead
The Beatles
A Tribe Called Quest

Top 10 Albums
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl Volumes
Glassjaw - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
Brand New - Deja Entendu (I was swayed again)
Incubus - Morning View
Joy Division - Closer
Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland

Top 10 Songs
Joy Division - Ceremony
Death Cab For Cutie - We Laugh Indoors
Sonic Youth - Providence
Pixies - Alec Eifel
The Smiths - Asleep
Glassjaw - Two Tabs of Mescaline
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (I-V)
Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien
The 6ths - Falling Out Of Love With You
Explosions In The Sky - Glittering Blackness

Top 10 Lyrics
Joy Division - The Eternal
Velvet Underground - The Gift
Brand New - Play Crack The Sky
Elliott Smith - Fond Farewell
Glassjaw - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence
Gang Starr - Moment of Truth
Death Cab For Cutie - Styrofoam Plates
The Mars Volta - Take The Veil Cerpin Taxt
The Smiths - Half A Person
The Cure - Disintegration

Top 10 Vocalists
Darryl Palumbo (Glassjaw)
Brandon Boyd (Incubus)
Ian Curtis (Joy Division)
Morrissey (The Smiths)
Cedric Bixler Zavala (At The Drive In/The Mars Volta)
Roger Waters (Pink Floyd)
John Lennon (The Beatles)
Black Francis/Frank Black (Pixies/Solo)
Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu/Ten In The Swear Jar/IBOPA)
David Bowie
Robert Smith (The Cure)

Top 10 Guitarists
David Gilmour (Pink Floyd)
John Frusciante (Solo work/Mars Volta)
Omar A. Rodriguez Lopez (At The Drive In/The Mars Vola/Solo/De Facto)
Jimi Hendrix
Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth)
Johnny Marr (The Smiths)
Mike Einziger (Incubus/Time Lapse Consortium)
Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)
George Harrison (The Beatles)
Matt Bellamy (Muse)

[ron the dial]

I considered switching to ten, but left it. Tens are all good, though.

[ron the dial]

Also, our lists are going to be disgustingly similar when I get mine compiled.

[FakeLaser]

Well, we are disgustingly similar people.

[weather vane]

Top 10 Bands

Mötley Crüe
AC/DC
Guns N' Roses
Van Halen
Metallica
Poison
Journey
Alice Cooper
Queen
The Doors

Top 10 Albums

Mötley Crüe - Too Fast For Love
Mötley Crüe - Shout At The Devil
Mötley Crüe - Dr. Feelgood
AC/DC - Back In Black
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
Van Halen - 1984
The Doors - The Doors
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Metallica - Black Album
AC/DC - Highway To Hell

Top 10 Songs

Mötley Crüe - Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)
AC/DC - What You Do For Money Honey
CKY - Close Yet Far
Dr. Hook - Cover of The Rolling Stone
Guns N' Roses - Civil War
Mötley Crüe - Confessions
Van Halen - Panama
AC/DC - Jailbreak
Mötley Crüe - Without You
Journey - Don't Stop Beilevin'

[ron the dial]

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Top 10 Bands
- Ben Folds Five
- Sonic Youth
- Pink Floyd
- The Smiths
- The Appleseed Cast
- Brand New
- Twiztid
- Radiohead
- Smashing Pumpkins
- The Dismemberment Plan

Top 10 Albums
- The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl Volumes 1 & 2
- Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen
- Brand New - Deja Entendu (I still think that God and the Devil is a better record, but I'm more attached to this one)
- Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
- Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (or Meddle)
- Refused - The Shape of Punk To Come
- Radiohead - The Bends
- Wu-Tang Clang - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
- Blink 182 - Dude Ranch
- The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead

Top 10 Songs
- Brand New - "Play Crack the Sky"
- The Smiths - "Asleep"
- Ben Folds Five - "Magic"
- The Appleseed Cast - "Steps and Numbers"
- Jefferson Airplane - "White Rabbit"
- Sonic Youth - "'Cross the Breeze"
- Smashing Pumpkins - "Thirty-Three"
- Radiohead - "True Love Waits"
- Pink Floyd - "Welcome To the Machine"
- Jeff Buckley - "Hallelujah"

Top 10 Lyrics
- Brand New - "Me vs. Maradona vs. Elvis"
- The Appleseed Cast - "Forever Longing the Golden Sunsets"
- Band of Horses - "St. Augustine"
- Pedro the Lion - "Bad Things To Such Good People"
- Okkervil River - "Black Sheep Boy"
- The Smiths - "How Soon Is Now?"
- Cursive - "A Gentleman Caller"
- HORSE the band - "The Black Hole"
- Modest Mouse - "Lives"
- Radiohead - "True Love Waits"

Top 10 Vocalists
- Jesse Lacey (Brand New)
- Morrissey (The Smiths/solo)
- Ben Folds (Ben Folds Five/solo)
- Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
- Stephen Merritt (The Magnetic Fields/The 6ths/others)
- Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys)
- Ian Curtis (Joy Division)
- Jonas Bjerre (Mew)
- Jake Snider (Minus the Bear)
- Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins)

[FakeLaser]

Downright eerie

[ron the dial]

Come on. 42 views with 3 responses (including me). Ridiculous. This is important stuff right here.

[road doggy dogg]

Bands:
blink-182
the living end
nofx
the all-american rejects
angels & airwaves
taking back sunday
anti-flag
rage against the machine
sum 41
rancid

Albums:
blink-182 - dude ranch
blink-182 - take off your pants and jacket
the living end - the living end
the living end - state of emergency
bad religion - the empire strikes first
nofx - wolves in wolves' clothing
blink-182 - cheshire cat
anti-flag - the terror state
taking back sunday - louder now
taking back sunday - where you want to be

Songs:
blink-182 - dick lips
the living end - growing up (falling down)
angels & airwaves - the adventure
blink-182 - untitled
blink-182 - dammit
the living end - nothing lasts forever
nofx - the decline
blink-182 - anthem part two
box car racer - cat like thief
nofx - seeing double at the triple rock

Lyrics:
nofx - the decline
blink-182 - not now
the living end - growing up (falling down)
the bouncing souls - manthem
brand new - seventy times seven
taking back sunday - cute without the 'e' (cut from the team)
blink-182 - untitled
jimmy eat world - clarity
roper - amplify
thrice - ultra blue

Vocalists:
TOM DELONGE
9 other guys

I don't know/care enough about guitars at all to fill the last category out. Also, who needs variety. :heart: Tom

[Skippord]

- Top 10 Bands:
King Diamond
Motorhead
Megadeth
Slayer
Alice In Chains
Soundgarden
Mercyful Fate
Venom
Tool
Black Label Society

- Top 10 Songs
Vicarious - Tool
The Lady Who Cries - Mercyful Fate
Eye Of The Witch - King Diamond
Ace Of Spades - Motorhead
Peace Sells - Megadeth
Black Metal - Venom
Bloodlust - Venom
Angry Chair - Alice In Chains
Black Funeral - Mercyful Fate
Renegades Of Funk - Rage Against The Machine

[Fryza]

Bands:
- Powerman 5000
- Blue Öyster Cult
- The Kovenant
- Rammstein
- Megadeth
- Alice in Chains
- Theory of a Deadman
- Breaking Benjamin
- Disturbed
- The Aquabats

Albums:
- "Tonight the Stars Revolt" - Powerman 5000
- "Reise, Reise" - Rammstein
- "We're Not Alone" - Breaking Benajmin
- "The Best of the Blue ÖYster Cult" - The Blue Öyster Cult
- "Ten Thousand Fists" - Disturbed
- "The Essential Alice in Chains" - Alice in Chains
- "Pokémon: The First Movie OST" - Various Artists
- "The Slim Shady LP" - Eminem
- "Bad Hair Day" - Weird Al Yankovic
- "United Abominations" - Megadeth

Songs:
- "Renegade" - Styx
- "Joan Crawford" - Blue Öyster Cult
- "Murder" - Powerman 5000
- "Gears of War" - Megadeth
- "Look at Me, I'm a Winner!" - The Aquabats
- "Land of Confusion" - Disturbed
- "John the Fisherman" - Primus
- "So Cold" - Breaking Benjamin
- "God Smack" - Alice in Chains
- "Acid Theatre" - The Kovenant

The rest, meh. I could go on several lengths with the songs though. Eh.

[mitch_h]

Bands
Radiohead
Joy Division
Sonic Youth
Belle and Sebastian
Animal Collective
Dismemberment Plan
Velvet Underground
The Beatles
Modest Mouse

Albums
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
Closer - Joy Division
Freewheelin - Bob Dylan
Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
The Lonesome Crowded West- Modest Mouse
The Velvet Underground and Nico - The Velvet Underground
OK Computer - Radiohead
If You're Feeling Sinister - Belle and Sebastian
Eithor Or - Elliott Smith
You Forgot it in People - Broken Social Scene

Songs (changes often)
I am Trying to Break Your Heart - Wilco
Stars of Track and Field -Belle and Sebastian
Long Long Long - The Beatles
Rubies- Destroyer
Purple Bottle -Animal Collective
Don't Think Twice it's Alright - Bob Dylan
F.M. - Junior Boys
Teenage Riot - Sonic Youth
Jens Lekman - Pocket Full of Money
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great

[Kapoutman]

Bands
- IAM
- Oasis
- Bad Religion
- Rancid
- Sublime
- Rollins Band
- Bloodhound Gang
- Goldfinger
- Primus
- Fonky Family

Albums
- "L'École du Micro D'Argent" by IAM
- "Definitely Maybe" by Oasis
- "Sublime" by Sublime
- "Indestructible" by Rancid
- "Hooray for Boobies" by Bloodhound Gang
- "Revoir Un Printemps" by IAM
- "Don't Believe The Truth" by Oasis
- "...And Out Come The Wolves" by Rancid
- "The Empire Strikes First" by Bad Religion
- "Stranger Than Fiction" by Bad Religion

Songs
- IAM - Revoir un Printemps
- IAM - Demain C'est Loin
- Oasis - The Importance of being Idle
- Oasis - Acquiesce
- Sublime - Badfish
- Rancid - Tropical London
- Sublime - What I Got
- Rancid - Radio Havana
- Bad Religion - Beyond Electric Dreams
- IAM - L'Enfer

[Mercury Bullet]

First Up, MB lists his top 10 bands in no particular order...

-311
-Van Halen
-Megadeth
-Guns N Roses
-Tool
-Queen
-Sublime
-Led Zepplin
-Audioslave
-Pearl Jam
-Dreamtheater

[St. Jimmy]

Bands:

Alkaline Trio
AFI
Jimmy Eat World
Dead Kennedys
Everclear
The Lawrence Arms
Against Me!
Hot Water Music
The Smiths/Morrissey
Our Lady Peace

[Jordan]

Bands -

The Beatles
Pink Floyd
Johnny Cash
Elvis
Bob Dylan
Nirvana
Modest Mouse
Nine Inch Nails
Eminem
Electric Light Orchestra

Songs -

The Final Cut - Pink Floyd
The Gunners Dream - Pink Floyd
Jackson - Johnny Cash
Love the One Your With - Crosby, Stills, and Nash
Something - The Beatles
Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight
Phantom of the Opera - Phantom of the Opera
Les Miserable - One Day More
Elvis - Kentucky Rain
Elvis - My Way

Albums -

Smashing Pumpkins - Melon Collie Infite Sadness
Beatles - Revolver
Nirvana - Nevermind
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
The Killers - Sams Town
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Pink FLoyd - The Wall
John Lennon - Imagine

[BigDaddyCool]

- Top 10 Bands

Slayer
Pantera
White Zombie
COC
Danzig
Ramones
Misfits
Metallica (before they gayed up)
Primus
Slayer

*in no paticular order
**I know Slayer is on there twice.