1) Rush (being a female Rush fan is the best! You never have to wait in line for the bathroom at their concerts)

2) Led Zeppelin

3) Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (I would listen to Tom Petty sing "Old MacDonald Had a Farm," I swear)

4) Rolling Stones

5) Dave Matthews Band

Pearl Jam
Led Zepplin
Smashing Pumpkins
NWA
Nirvana

Pink Floyd
Radiohead
INXS
Queen
Ween

Opeth
Tool
Yes
Catharsis
Rage Against the Machine

Okay, I'll bite on this one...

1. Stone Temple Pilots
2. Led Zep
3. Beastie Boys
4. Godsmack
5. System of a Down, Rush, Metallica, The Ramones, Weezer

Tool
Cradle of Filth
Marilyn Manson
Twisted Method
Killswitch Engage

U2
The Who
Metallica
Pink Floyd
Smashing Pumpkins

LZ
AC/DC
Pink Floyd
Beatles
Duran Duran (this last one changes depending on the mood)

The First 4 I can basically listen to at any time/any mood.

As of this very instant:

- Ween
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- Guided By Voices
- Interpol
- Flaming Lips

Misfits
Beastie Boys
The Smiths/Morrisey
Minor Threat
Fugazi

1) The Beatles

2) The Smiths

3) AFI

4) Jeff Buckley

5) Depeche Mode

tough one but:
0) Benny Goodman (any version of his groups throughout the years)
1) The John Scott Trotter Band with the one and only Bing Crosby singing
2) John Lee Hooker
3) Glenn Miller
4) and probably De Dannan for my last (and most recent) one - like that Irish music especially

took off
Manhattan Transfer and Frank Sinatra because of the "band" part

In no particular order:

Meshuggah (get "Destroy Erase Improve...best...prog albumn...ever)

Old Man's Child (amazing mix of Black and Death metal with jsut enough classical guitar in the mix...gotta love it)

Opeth (Gods of their genre, masters of their instruments)

Dimmu Borgir (hper beats and amazing guitar work...nothing better)

Lamb of God (god I love Gridn core)

followed closely by, Children of Bodom, Amon Amarth, Naglfar, Hatbreed, Unearth, Killswitch Engage, and Shadows Fall

1. Radiohead, one great CD after another. The best band ever!
2. U2, I even liked Pop
3. Smashing Pumpkins, First Cd I owned was Siamese dream
4. Poor Old Lu, great band broke up, now together again. listen to "straight six" great LP
5. Broken Social Scene. only one real Cd, but damn them cannucks did good.

Pearl Jam
Fleetwood Mac
Nirvana
Dave Matthews Band
Smashing Pumpkins

(I'd also include Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Black Happy, Bob Marley & the Wailers, Lenny Kravitz, Alice In Chains, NIN, but you only asked for 5)

It's tough to limit it to 5, but...

Garbage
The Police/Sting
Depeche Mode
Anthrax
Metallica

Geeze, tough, but useful.
No order here & presently:


Dave Mathews Band
Coldplay
Hooverphonics
Zero 7
Thievery Corporation

Ummm...
aaAAHHH...It Hurts.....
It Hurtssssssssssssss

Okayrealquick!

ELOSTEELYDANTHEDOORSLEDZEPofcourseANDTHEBEATLES.

this will change immediately.

Somebody is gonna laugh at me I just know it lol

Enuff Z'nuff
Ratt
Def Leppard (pre-hysteria)
Puddle of Mud
Seven Nations

Genesis
Rush
Yes
Bob Mould/Sugar
Radiohead

Rush
Barenaked Ladies
Cowboy Mouth
Moxy Fruvous
They Might Be Giants

Remember, this is only an opinion, so please don't shit on it.

In order, only for the reason of what i get out of the music.

1. Insane Clown Posse
2. Twiztid
3. Atmosphere
4. Pink Floyd
5. Mos Def

Fuel
Filter
Tool
Primus
Guano Apes

1. Tool
2. A Perfect Circle (I like Maynard, ok!?)
3. King Crimson
4. Boy Hits Car
5. Sublime

1. Pink Floyd
2. Radiohead
3. Reverend Horton Heat
4. Beastie Boys
5. Beatles

Sparta
Marz Volta
At the Drive in
Beatles
Greenday

smashing pumpkins
radiohead
sleater-kinney
tool
beatles

In no particular order:

-The Beatles
-The Ramones
-System of a Down
-Thrice
-Taking Back Sunday

Bruce Springsteen
Bob Dylan
The Flaming Lips
Bright Eyes
Blackalicious


Guess I'm big on bands that start with B

Dave Matthews Band
The White Stripes
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
REM
Fleetwood Mac

agnostic front (old ones)
skatalites
symarip
slapshot
warriors (jamaican)

1. The Tragically Hip

2. Rush

3. Bob Marley

4. Pink Floyd

5. Matthew Good (Band)

Led Zeppelin
AFI
Black Sabbath/Ozzy
ACDC
Pink Floyd
The Doors
I know thats six but there are still too many other great bands

1. Iron Maiden
2. Iced Earth
3. Offspring
4. Blind Guardian
5. Nothingface

Tough Five, but..

1. Disturbed
2. Linkin Park
3. Trapt
4.AFI
5. ozzy!

Not in any real order, just listed em. There are so many more that I love, even possibly more. Also gotta love some rap here and there :P Cyn1cal, I just asw an Iron Maiden concert. great stuff!

In no particular order.

Snapcase
Boy Sets Fire
Strung Out
Thrice
Tool

Metallica
Tom Petty
REM
Stone Temple Pilots
Collective Soul

Those are my top five, even though I could replace all but Metallica with a lot of other bands. I'll use those as my official top 5, though!

-Lasereth

In no real order:

The Toasters
Operation Ivy
Radiohead
Charles Mingus
Nick Drake

Fine, so two are musicians and not bands, but they still rock. In retrospect, there's not much consistancy there.

ben folds five
our lady peace
dave matthews
cold play
radio head

U2
Rolling Stones
Beatles
Powderfinger
The Whitlams