(nevermind. Edited intro as topic clearly states "your top 5")

1 - Aerosmith
2 - Eagles
3 - Def Leppard
4 - Guns N Roses
5 - Puddle of Mudd

In no order
1. The E Street Band (Greatest Live shows I have ever seen)
2. Buddy Holly and the Crickets (One of those "would have been phenomenal if he only had the time"
3. Beatles (this was a toss up between The Who, Zeppelin, Stones, and Beatles - Only the Beatles knew to stop before it went on too long).
4. Jerry Lee Lewis (Little Richard, Prince, and so many others owe Lewis their roots in raw sex promised through music)
5. System of a Down (my under-appreciated category. Serj is a freaking genius but so weird he will never be mainstream, ala Trent Reznor).

Honorable mentions include (but not limited to) A Perfect Circle, Avenged Sevenfold, Roy Orbison, Queens of the Stone Age, Ramones, Clash, and Sam Cooke.

No particular order

Rush
Pink Floyd
Eagles
AC/DC
Styx

I was going to say something about you hating the Beatles but then I saw Def Leppard at #3 and figured I'd better take it easy on ya. :D

This...

Nothing is more overplayed than the Stones, the who, Black Sabbath, etc...

Now they all suck so bad and are painful to listen too...

1) The Beastles


http://djbc.net/beastles/webcontent/...haWantLady.mp3

I know I'm in the minority here but would a lot of people really choose to listen to something from The Beatles over everything else?

I just don't get it and find them highly overrated. I feel like it's the default answer as to greatest band ever and that title could never be challenged. Basically they get the Michael Jordan treatment.

My top 5:

1) Black Sabbath/Heaven and Hell (I'm not a big Ozzy fan myself.)
2) Motorhead
3) Queens of the Stone Age
4) The Darkness (yes, for realz. They're AWESOME.)
5) The Pink Floyd (THE Pink Floyd, with Syd Barrett.)

Most of you are savages, other than the person who won the powerball, in which case I'm rethinking it and like your list better than mine.

Zappa
Floyd
Marillion
Iron Maiden
Aerosmith

Did you see Styx at Arrowhead in 1977/78(?) with Steve Miller Band and Peter Frampton?

Ozzy is over-played. The real Black Sabbath is not.

No shit. I've got all kinds of smart-assed one-liners, like, 'what sucks and has 9 arms??'

A couple of years ago I would have answered differently but my oldest son found my classic rock and now I've heard CCR, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, etc so many times lately that I'm, frankly, almost sick of it.

If you were talking desert island music, where I could only have the catalogs from five bands, I would have to pick Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Cure, Thin White Rope and Front Line Assembly (especially if I got to include all of the off-shoot bands like Delerium, Intermix and Conjure One).

Eagles
Boston
Pink Floyd
Van Halen
AC/DC