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I always think more in terms of albums. There are many bands that have produced some of my favorite albums, but then I either haven't heard much of their other material or don't like their other material. When I say I like a band, it may only mean that band in their "heyday," so it's difficult to come up with bands that I like consistently through their careers. Some bands I may like consistently, but not as much as some other bands. And are bands with one or two album careers comparable to ones with extensive careers? I dunno. But I've tried to make a list with a good intersection of the two. Also, I'm excluding classical.

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The Beatles
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I feel like this has been done a bunch of times over the years.  It would be interesting to go back and see how some of the old-timers lists have changed (I'm sure mine has).
 
 
Anyway for now I'll say (in no particular order)
 
- Cranberries
- Rocio Durcal
- Maria McKee
- R.E.M.
- Violent Femmes
- Concrete Blonde
- the Go-Gos
- Rod Stewart (before he became a bitter old woman)
- Johnny Cash
- Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris
 
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Iron Maiden
Deep Purple
The Smiths
Led Zeppelin
The Police
Joni Mitchell
Uriah Heep
David Bowie
Television
CCR
The Cure
The Allman Brothers Band
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^^ Oh, yeah. David Bowie and Thin Lizzy. Should had put them in my list as well.
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The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
David Bowie
Neil Young
The Who
Simon & Garfunkel
Eric Clapton
The Kinks
The Doors
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This is impossible - mostly because my faves change all the time.

Today the list looks like this:

The Stooges
The Future Sound Of London
David Bowie
Pharoah Sanders
Wu-Tang Clan (though mostly side-projects from Wu members)
The Doors
Funkadelic
Sun Ra
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Actually I do not much listen to artists outside of prog nowadays... Embarrassed

When I spin something which I do not regard as prog then it is:

The Beatles
Crowded House
(the only album of) Blind Faith
Simon & Garfunkel
Tears For Fears
The Eagles
The Police
U2
Billy Joel
Elton John
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Originally posted by Formentera Lady Formentera Lady wrote:

Actually I do not much listen to artists outside of prog nowadays... Embarrassed

Same here...but when i do.,they r among these-
Black Sabbath
Led Zeppelin
Deep Purple
The Who
The Kinks
The Beatles
The Doors
Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
Dire Straits
Soundgarden
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Iron Maiden
Talking Heads
Muse
Led Zeppelin
Allman Brothers Band
The Head and the Heart
Of Monsters and Men
Megadeth
Black Sabbath
Creedence Clearwater Revival
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Originally posted by Polymorphia Polymorphia wrote:

I always think more in terms of albums. There are many bands that have produced some of my favorite albums, but then I either haven't heard much of their other material or don't like their other material.
I was thinking this over. I included both Manic Street Preachers and Massive Attack on my list, on the basis that I couldn't possibly live without either This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours or Blue Lines, but do those groups really belong on my top ten list?  So how do you categorize a group that produced one brilliant album when you're kind of "meh" about the rest of their output?  and how different would a top ten non-prog album list look from a top ten non-prog band list?
 
Hmm, I sense another thread in the offing.
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Joe Walsh
Dave Mason
Sly and the Family Stone
Mountain
The Grateful Dead
The Spinners
Buddy Miles
Bob Marley and the Wailers
Chicago
Stevie Wonder
Public Enemy
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Originally posted by emigre80 emigre80 wrote:

Originally posted by Polymorphia Polymorphia wrote:

I always think more in terms of albums. There are many bands that have produced some of my favorite albums, but then I either haven't heard much of their other material or don't like their other material.
I was thinking this over. I included both Manic Street Preachers and Massive Attack on my list, on the basis that I couldn't possibly live without either This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours or Blue Lines, but do those groups really belong on my top ten list?  So how do you categorize a group that produced one brilliant album when you're kind of "meh" about the rest of their output?  and how different would a top ten non-prog album list look from a top ten non-prog band list?
 
Hmm, I sense another thread in the offing.
 
Personally, when I rank my favorite bands I consider their entire oeuvre. As a side effect, Genesis would never be in my Top 10/20/etc list being they produced albums after Wind & Wuthering. I can forgive a dud or two if their discog is a) huge and/or b) there are many 5 star albums involved. Perhaps that's unfair, but that seems the easiest way to do it (for me).
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There will be a lot of jazz:
 
Sun Ra
Peter Brotzmann
J Coltrane
A Braxton
Bang On A Can
J Zorn
The Thing
Merzbow
 
I can only think of 8 atm it seems. It seems I like prog.
 
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1. Allman Brothers Band
2. Deep Purple
3. Marshall Tucker Band
4. Lynyrd Skynyrd
5. Joe Satriani
6. Strunz & Farah
7. Grateful Dead
8. Ted Nugent
9. Judas Priest
10. Molly Hatchet 
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Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

There will be a lot of jazz:
 
Sun Ra
Peter Brotzmann
J Coltrane
A Braxton
Bang On A Can
J Zorn
The Thing
Merzbow
 
I can only think of 8 atm it seems. It seems I like prog.
 
Albert Ayler? Ornette Coleman? George Adams? Derek Bailey?
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Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

Originally posted by emigre80 emigre80 wrote:

[QUOTE=Polymorphia]I always think more in terms of albums. There are many bands that have produced some of my favorite albums, but then I either haven't heard much of their other material or don't like their other material.
I was thinking this over. I included both Manic Street Preachers and Massive Attack on my list, on the basis that I couldn't possibly live without either This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours or Blue Lines, but do those groups really belong on my top ten list?  So how do you categorize a group that produced one brilliant album when you're kind of "meh" about the rest of their output?  and how different would a top ten non-prog album list look from a top ten non-prog band list?
 
Hmm, I sense another thread in the offing.
I'm getting the same thing with you for some of mine, like Cake and TMBG. Couldn't live without Comfort Eagle or Flood but I only like a couple of things from the rest of their discography. It also happens with me in songs and artists too. For example, Thick As A Brick is my favourite song of all time. Nothing even comes close. It's also my third favourite album of all time. But yet, aside from Aqualung and a little bit of HH, i couldn't dig the rest. But yet I'm always inclined to put them on my list of favourite artists because of one song. Struggles.
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^so much for formatting Ermm
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Originally posted by emigre80 emigre80 wrote:

Originally posted by Polymorphia Polymorphia wrote:

I always think more in terms of albums. There are many bands that have produced some of my favorite albums, but then I either haven't heard much of their other material or don't like their other material.
I was thinking this over. I included both Manic Street Preachers and Massive Attack on my list, on the basis that I couldn't possibly live without either This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours or Blue Lines, but do those groups really belong on my top ten list?  So how do you categorize a group that produced one brilliant album when you're kind of "meh" about the rest of their output?  and how different would a top ten non-prog album list look from a top ten non-prog band list?
 
Hmm, I sense another thread in the offing.
Indeed. Television's Marquee Moon is one of my favorites, but I couldn't put them on my list for just one album. On the other hand, And Also the Trees, the Fall, and Boris have had long runs without a single bad album that I've heard, yet their albums may mean less to me than some others by one-great-album bands. I also didn't include more recent bands or ones that maybe are my favorites now, but haven't quite received a tenure. My list was very safe. 
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Originally posted by sublime220 sublime220 wrote:

Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

There will be a lot of jazz:
 
Sun Ra
Peter Brotzmann
J Coltrane
A Braxton
Bang On A Can
J Zorn
The Thing
Merzbow
 
I can only think of 8 atm it seems. It seems I like prog.
 
Albert Ayler? Ornette Coleman? George Adams? Derek Bailey?
 
Hmm...Ayler was a big miss for me. He totally deserves to be on my list.
 
Asmuch as I love Bailey, his solo discog has too much solo guitar for me to rate it too highly. But he has produced some great stuff. Good suggestions all. Thumbs Up
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