What are your 10 favorite bands?

[OriginalGeek]

1. Lower levels are subject to change

01. Led Zeppelin
02. Rush
03. Black Sabbath
04. Napalm Death
05. Carcass
06. Death
07. Bathory
08. Atheist
09. Motorhead
10. Pink Floyd


The next 40 would be a mix of metal and classic rock (most definitely The Who and the the Beatles and the Beach Boys etc...) and some country and John Coltrane and some 80s new wave and several punk bands. The top 100 would include something from nearly everything except probably nu-metal. Just never liked that. There would also be a few rap artists in there. Wu-Tang, M.U.R.S, Louis Logic, Dalek, A Tribe Called Quest, Blackstar etc... But I am not as familiar with them yet as I am the music I've been listening to since the early 80s so I may find rap songs where I love the flow and the beat but then find out the lyrics are horribly misogynist or promote other things I don't agree with so I drop them from the rotation. I do that with metal too.

I am also not well educated on classical but I love Beethoven and Mozart and Tchaikovsky and several others so I keep looking for that stuff to add to the list.

ETA: Oh and of my top 10, Bathory is the only one I haven't seen live (and the real Led Zep but I have seen all the surviving members in various formations - Jimmy with the Firm, Robert solo, Robert and Jimmy together, JPJ on his Zooma tour)