Can you come up with a list of your 100 favorite bands?

Wow. My list is almost the same as yours. Adding you to my contacts and trying to find my list. I had one around here somwhere....

Ok....going through all my old answers was too exhausting/distracting, so I am just relisting:

1. The Grateful Dead

2. The Doors

3. The Shins

4. The Decemberists

5. The White Stripes

6. Bob Marley and the Wailers

7. Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young

8. Creedence Clearwater Revival

9. Howlin' Rain

10. The Dixie Chicks

11. Willie Nelson

12. Iron & Wine

13. Johnny Cash

14. Neutral Milk Hotel

15. Joni Mitchell

16. Simon & Garfunkel

17. Solas

18. Led Zeppelin

19. Richard Thompson

20. Blue Oyster Cult

21. Dolly Parton

22. Eric Clapton

23. The Feeling

24. Jimi Hendrix

25. The Mamas and the Papas

26. Wilco

27. Elvis Costello

28. Pink Floyd

29. Nick Drake

30. Leonard Cohen

31. Tom Waits

32. Van Morrison

33. The Temptations

34. Porcupine Tree

35. Metallica

36. Shemekia Copeland

37. Amy Correia

39. Pantera

40. Jefferson Airplane

41. Meat Loaf

42. Ray LaMontagne

43. The Strokes

44. Phish

45. Godsmack

46. Ozzy Osbourne

47. Death Cab For Cutie

48. The New Pornographers

49. Emmylou Harris

50. The Raconteurs

51. Fionn Regan

52. Jose Gonzalez

53. Marc Broussard

54. Nirvana

55. Of Montreal

56. Peter Tosh

57. Patsy Cline

58. Radiohead

59. Reba McEntire

60. The Wood Brothers

61. 10,000 Maniacs

62. Stars

63. Lyle Lovett

64. Aimee Mann

65. Amy Correia

66. Beck

67. The Who

68. Mr. Gnome

69. NIN

70. Whatfor

71. Modest Mouse

72. Spoon

73. Janis Joplin

74. Cream

75. Guns N Roses

76. Lynyrd Skynyrd

77. Of Montreal

78. DeVotchKa

79. Kathleen Edwards

80. Waylon Jennings

81. The Blow

82. Stevie Ray Vaughan

83. Cold War Kids

84. Iron Maiden

85. Belle & Sebastian

86. Carbon Leaf

87. The Velvet Underground

88. John Lennon

89. R.E.M.

90. Remy Zero

91. Robert Plant

92. Alison Krauss

93. Bonnie Raitt

94. Sufjan Stevens

95. The Arcade Fire

96. Mojave 3

97. Superwolf

98. The Cinematics

99. Thievery Corporation

100. Smokey Robinson

That was exhausting and I feel like I've left out a lot and put in a lot that maybe I shouldn't have.

Well I struggled a bit to find the last 20 or so, but the first 50 is a pretty good description.

1. Bright Eyes

2. Elliott Smith

3. Conor Oberst

4. Cursive

5. The Smiths

6. Bowling For Soup

7. Billy Talent

8. The Faint

9. The Good Life

10. Tim Kasher

11. Sufjan Stevens

12. Now It’s Overhead

13. Tilly and the Wall

14. Death Cab For Cutie

15. Kate Nash

16. Plain White T’s

17. Lemon Demon

18. Son, Ambulance

19. Rilo Kiley

20. Blaqk Audio

21. Georgie James

22. The White Stripes

23. Neil Young

24. A Weather

25. Bear Country

26. McCarthy Trenching

27. Tokyo Police Club

28. Feist

29. Radiohead

30. Willie Nelson

31. Art in Manila

32. Nik Freitas

33. Cute is What We Aim For

34. The Postal Service

35. Two Gallants

36. Orenda Fink

37. Desaparecidos

38. Sorry About Dresden

39. Hawthorne Heights

40. Boys Like Girls

41. The Get Up Kids

42. Criteria

43. Metro Station

44. Logan Whitehurst

45. Neva Dinova

46. Maria Taylor

47. Fourth Of July

48. Led Zeppelin

49. Zed

50. Meg & Dia

51. Suzannah Johannes

52. The Academy Is…

53. The Red Hot Chilli Peppers

54. Modest Mouse

55. Johnny Cash

56. Matchbook Romance

57. Our Lady Peace

58. Simon Joyner

59. 1,000,000 Light Years

60. Goodshirt

61. Ben Folds Five

62. Tim Rushlow

63. Morrissey

64. The Juliana Theory

65. The Dixie Chicks

66. Motion City Soundtrack

67. Don McLean

68. Reliant K

69. Funeral For A Friend

70. Panic At The Disco

71. Imogen Heap

72. Brand New

73. Rufus Wainwright

74. Keith Urban

75. The Who

76. The Rocket Summer

77. Tegan and Sara

78. Flight of the Conchords

79. New Found Glory

80. Joy Division

81. Eric Bachmann

82. Story Of The Year

83. The Mouldy Peaches

84. Regina Spektor

85. The Killers

86. Snow Patrol

87. The Ting Tings

88. Tenacious D

89. Nolans Sisters

90. Shihad

91. The Flaming Lips

92. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

93. Sum 41

94. White Flight

95. Elton John

96. Rascall Flats

97. Taking Back Sunday

98. 3 Doors Down

99. The Pink Spiders

100. Lindsay Pool

In no particular order:

1. Marilyn Manson

2. Black Sabbath

3. Megadeth

4. Iron Maiden

5. Metallica

6. The Offspring

7. Andromeda

8. Dust for Life

9. Element Eighty

10. Three Days Grace

11. Avenged Sevenfold

12. Kiss

13. The Rolling Stones

14. Cream

15. The Police

16. Kansas

17. Blue Oyster Cult

18. Deep Purple

19. Anarchy Club

20. Firewind

21. ACDC

22. Smash Mouth

23. Bullet for My Valentine

24. Breaking Point (older stuff only)

25. Drowning Pool (older stuff only)

26. Disturbed

27. Dragonforce

28. Eric Clapton

29. Emilie Autumn

30. Symphony X

31. Cirith Ungol

32. Slayer

33. In Flames

34. A Perfect Circle

35. Aerosmith

36. Thin Lizzy

37. The Beastie Boys(only the old stuff)

38. Dethklok

39. Three Doors Down

40. Judas Priest

41. Alice in Chains

42. Sonic Youth

43. AFI

44. Creed

45. Finger Eleven (first album only)

46. Foreigner

47. Faith No More

48. Anthrax

49. Flyleaf

50. Guns N" Roses

51. Accept

52. Skid Row

53. Van Halen

54. The Who

55. Flaw

56. Green Day

57. Tom Petty

58. George Thurgood

59. Lacuna Coil

60. Mindless Self Indulgence

61. System of a Down

62. Muse

63. Nirvana

64. Opeth

65. Queen

66. Queens of the Stone Age

67. Rammstein

68. Rob Zombie

69. Rise Against

70. White Zombie

71. Rage Against the Machine

72. Red Hot Chili Peppers

73. Smashing Pumpkins

74. Rammstein

75. REM

76. Staind

77. Static X

78. X Japan

79. Godsmack

80. Nine Inch Nails

81. Sum 41

82. Lamb of God

83. Led Zeppelin

84. Flaw

85. Chumbawamba

86. 30 Seconds to Mars

87. Mudvayne

88. Otep

89. Sheryl Crow

90. Stone Temple Pilots

91. Kittie

92. The Human Abstract

93. Tool

94. Twisted Sister

95. Bad Company

96. The Monkees

Sorry, there are not 100 bands that I like yet. Yet again, this is not in order. Most of the stuff in the top twenty are my favorites over the others though.

OK Jess. This is an interesting question that I will return to give you my top 100 artists.

1 elo

2 the beatles

3 steely dan

4 the monkees

5 three dog night

6 jim croce

7 creedence clearwater revival

8 the cars

9 the moody blues

10 billy joel

11 queen

12 chicago

13 sweet

14 john denver

15 abba

16 led zeppelin

17 the beach boys

18 styx

19 wings

20 elton john

21 alan parsons project

22 crosby stills nash

23 the eagles

24 simon & garfunkel

25 heart

26 hall & oates

27 the guess who

28 boston

29 fotomaker

30 don mclean

31 olivia newton john

32 america

33 the rutles

34 weird al yankovic

35 jimmy buffet

36 paul simon

37 genesis

38 duran duran

39 madonna

40 blue oyster cult

41 carpenters

42 fleetwood mac

43 four seasons

44 dire straits

45 bread

46 beegees

47 david bowie

48 alice cooper

49 the fixx

50 inxs

51 the police

52 steve miller band

53 the bangles

54 the who

55 george harrison

56 foreigner

57 aerosmith

58 firefall

59 tom petty & heartbreakers

60 toto

61 gene cotton

62 kansas

63 the rolling stones

64 the hollies

65 no doubt

66 supertramp

67 don hendley

68 the go gos

69 pink floyd

70 reo speedwagon

71 rem

72 mamas & papas

73 lynard skynard

74 andy gibb

75 donna summer

76 donald fagan

77 carly simon

78 cranberries

79 jewel

80 the doors

81 sting

82 rod stewart

83 yes

84 talking heads

85 stevie wonder

86 johnny cash

87 little river band

88 pat benatar

89 paul mccartney

90 counting crows

91 the zombies

92 blood sweat & tears

93 lovin spoonful

94 john lennon

95 ambrosia

96 al stewart

97 james taylor

98 kc & the sunshine band

99 michael jackson

100 juice newton

I'll try my best to come up with a list that suits my flavor , yet I'll betray some of my favorites for sure . Now , this list is just what I came up with in a short time and it's based

totally on my taste and NOT reality views and accomplishments of artists . Meaning , I appreciate some artists and their influence & presence , but they are not my flavor . BTW

don't focus on the order so much since it's 100 , so you know what I mean ;( here's the list of my taste 101 :

(1) LeD ZePPelin

(2) ElVis

(3) ThiN LiZZy

(4) RoRy GaLLagher

(5) ThE JiMi HenDrix ExperienCe

(6) SaM CooKe

(7) DeeP PuRple

(8) CreaM

(9) ThE DooRs

(10) PinK FloYd

(11) ThE BeatLes

(12) YeS

(13) BlaCk SaBBath

(14) WiShbone AsH

(15) NicK DraKe

(16) RoBert JohnSon

(17) MuDDy WatErs

(18) ThE WhO

(19) T-ReX

(20) KinG CrimSon

(21) BoB DyLan

(22) B.B. KinG

(23) CreeDence ClearWater RevivAl

(24) EriC ClapTon

(25) EmErson LakE & PaLmer

(26) JeFF BecK

(27) NeiL YounG

(28) SteVie RaY VauGhan

(29) RobiN TroWer

(30) PeTer GrEEn (GrEEn's FleetwOOd MaC)

(31) ThE YarDbirds

(32) JoNi MitChell

(33) HumBle PiE

(34) HowLin' WolF

(35) ThE RoLLing StOnes (BriaN Jones era)

(36) BudGie

(37) TeN YeaRs AfTer

(38) FrEE

(39) JoHnny CaSh

(40) BaD ComPany

(41) DaVid BoWie

(42) MarVin GaYe

(43) Ac/Dc

(44) VaN HaLen

(45) ThE KinKs

(46) BluE OySter CulT

(47) JeFFerson AirpLane

(48) ThE AllmaN BroThers BanD

(49) CrosBy StiLLs NaSh & YounG

(50) FairPort ConVention

(51) ThE GueSS WhO

(52) ThE ClaSh

(53) BoB SeGer & ThE SilverBulletts

(54) ThE BanD

(55) UriaH HeeP

(56) RuSh

(57) JeThro TuLL

(58) RoY BuchaNaN

(59) QuEEn

(60) SpOOky TooTh

(61) OzzY OsBourne (RanDy RhoadS era)

(62) CaNNed HeaT

(63) TraFFic

(64) LYnYrd SkYnYrd

(65) SanTana

(66) GolDen EaRRing

(67) GenTle GianT

(68) IroN BuTTerfly

(69) LiTTle FeaT

(70) BluE ChEEr

(71) ThE MooDy BluEs

(72) UfO

(73) GraNd FuNk RaiLroad

(74) ZZ ToP

(75) GarY MooRe

(76) HawkwinD

(77) StePPenwolf

(78) ThE RamOnes

(79) ScOrpions

(80) RarE EarTh

(81) IggY PoP & thE StOOges

(82) PeteR FraMpton

(83) SiR LoRd BaltimoRe

(84) BachMan-TurNer OverdriVe

(85) ClaNNad

(86) TeD NuGent

(87) NazareTh

(88) CapTain BeyOnd

(89) KanSaS

(90) AeroSmith

(91) EagLes

(92) FogHat

(93) CharLee (WalTer RoSSi) >> thanks to Smiley

(94) MoTorhead

(95) DirE StraiTs

(96) EriC JohNson

(97) IroN MaiDen

(98) BlaCkfoot

(99) SteVe VAi

(100) GunS N' RoSeS

(101) JoE BonamaSSa

This should be fun:

o1.Led Zeppelin

o2.Prince and The Revolution

o3.Tokio Hotel

o4.Jackson 5

o5.Bob Marley and the Wailers

o6.Guns N Roses

o7.Aerosmith

o8.Cobra Starship

o9.Cinema Bizarre

1o.Forever the Sickest Kids

11.Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

12.Joan Jett

13.Deep Purple

14.Iron Butterfly

15.The Emotions

16.The New Power Generation

17.No Doubt

18.Linkin Park

19.All Time Low

20.My Chemical Romance

21.Michael Jackson

22.Nu Shooz

23.Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians

24.Nevada Tan

25.Paramore

26.The Mitchell Brothers

27.Nirvana

28.Sister Sledge

29.Apollonia 6

30.Vanity 6

31.Panik

32.Panic@The Disco!

33.Black Kids

34.The J. Geils Band

35.N.E.R.D

36.Kool and the Gang

37.Gnarls Barkley

38.MGMT

39.The Ramones

40.The New Radicals

41.The Kooks

42.The Beach Boys

43.The Troggs

44.Basement Jaxx

45.The Prodigy

46.Lisa Lisa & The Cult Jam

47.The Gap Band

48.Pink Floyd

49.AFI

50.Train

51.Coldplay

52.Gorillaz

53.Fall Out Boy

54.Electrovamp

54.Nena

55.Sly & The Family Stone

56.KC & The Sunshine Band

57.Indeep

58.Counting Crows

59.The Cure

60.A-ha

61.Tommy Tutone

62.We Are Scientists

63.Celldweller

64.Savage Garden

65.The Bee Gees

66.The Romantics

67.Fleetwood Mac

68.The Moody Blues

69.New Edition

70.NWA

71.Menudo

72.New Kids on the Block

73.The Fine Young Cannibals

74.One Republic

75.Metro Station

76.The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

77.The Red Hot Chilli Peppers

78.Chicago

79.Air-Supply

78.Sum 41

79.Blink-182

80.N*Sync

81.Green Day

82.Smashmouth

83.P.O.D.

84.Feist!

85.The Police

86.The Doors

87.The Temptations

88.The Supremes

89.Def Leppard

90.Black Tide

91.The Stray Cats

92.Kajagoogoo and LiMahl

93.Soft Cell

94.Melvin and the Blue Notes

95.Ray Charles

96.Clipse.

97.Hot Chip

98.Chromeo

99.DeBarge

100.98 Degrees

Well, that was fun.

That isn't even it, but hey.

After 01, they arn't in particular order. But my #1 is actually my #1! =]

01. THE KILLERS

02. Scouting For Girls

03. Michael Buble

04. My Chemical Romance

05. Lily Allen

06. Katy Perry

07. Kaiser Chiefs

08. Razorlight

09. Muse

10. The Hoosiers

11. Coldplay

12. Mika

13. Elvis Presley

14. S Club 7

15. Bob Dylan

16. U2

17. Vanessa Paradis

18. The Police

19. Letters To Cleo

20. Kay Hanley

21. CSS

22. Klaxons

23. Paolo Nutini

24. Joss Stone

25. Kasabian

26. Pigeon Detectives

27. Kooks

28. Bob Marley

29. Stereophonics

30. The Feeling

31. Take That

32. Bjork

33. Imogen Heap

34. Feist

35. Britney Spears

36. Regina Spektor

37. Arctic Monkeys

38. Feeder

39. Sam Sparro

40. Maroon 5

41. Sophie Ellis-Bextor

42. Kate Nash

43. The Cribs

44. Kings of Leon

45. The Ting Tings

46. Remi Nicole

47. Plain White T's

48. James Blunt

49. One Night Only

50. Arcade Fire

51. The Temptations

52. David Bowie

53. Oasis

54. Simple Plan

55. Blondie

56. Ashlee Simpson

57. Queen

58. The Cranberries

59. The Cardigans

60. Save Ferris

61. Rogue Traders

62. Architecture In Helsinki

63. Kelly Clarkson

64. Rusted Root

65. P!nk

67. Randy Newman

68. Franz Ferdinand

69. Carrie Underwood

70. UB40

71. No Doubt

72. Gwen Stefani

73. TATU

74. Bitter Conflict

75. Rachel Stevens

76. J-Lo

77. Charlotte Church

78. Lindsay Lohan

79. Sugababes

80. A-ha

81. Adele

82. Culture Club

83. George Michael

84. Aly & AJ

85. Hard-Fi

86. Avril Lavigne

87. R.E.M

88. Keane

89. Norah Jones

90. Katie Melua

91. Rufus Wainwright

92. Raconteurs

93. Natasha Bedingfield

94. Will Smith

95. Duffy

96. John Mayer

97. Elton John

98. Travis

99. Bette Midler

100. Justin Timberlake

Whoa, i did it! lol shows how much spare time i have =] xo

ok then, in no particular order, 100 bands who have given me great pleasure over the years:

rem

porcupine tree

throwing muses

the psychedelic furs

husker du

bob mould

the blue aeroplanes

the comsat angels

firehose

the dream syndicate

the rain parade

witness

the cocteau twins

the bodeans

editors

tool

steeleye span

jethro tull

barclay james harvest

ultravox!

devo

amplifier

pure reason revolution

the levellers

seth lakeman

the damned

the ruts

mazzy star

green on red

sons and daughters

x-ray spex

the seers

the indigo girls

nada surf

seafood

the long ryders

fairport convention

the black angels

fischer z

the church

the hoodoo gurus

kitchens of distibction

straitjacket fits

the chills

the stranglers

madrugada

vex red

the pale saints

spacemen 3

the feelies

guadalcanal diary

and you will know us by the trail of dead

rage against the machine

band of susans

galaxie 500

grant lee buffalo

new model army

longwave

interpol

the perfect disaster

opal

system of a down

slobberbone

timbuk 3

dead meadow

black rebel motorcycle club

a perfect circle

the warlocks

comets on fire

the pogues

thin white rope

magazine

the music

horslips

eyeless in gaza

65daysofstatic

explosions in the sky

russian circles

abigail's ghost

the icicle works

big dipper

dumptruck

lostprophets

the bluetones

the stone roses

simon and garfunkel

the delays

the house of love

magoo

the beautiful mistake

stiff little fingers

the corries

toyah

grace notes

for against

espers

the cosmic rough riders

dark star

kerfuffle

amusement parks on fire

no genres, just music i love

Nope. I couldn't even make a top 10 list, let alone 100. Lol it would take weeks. I have the utmost respect for those who can though.

Tom Waits and Porcupine Tree? Cool. :)

Your top 100 list is very good!

I don't think I could ever make a list like this up, because I really only have a few "favorites" and as for the rest...theyre just musicians I like listening to. There is a difference, for me.