Can U Do it? Favorite 20 bands/performers of all time?

Hmm, this is going to be tough to just name 20, and these are no where in hell being near in order but:

1.Iron Maiden
2.Megadeth
3.Nuclear Assault
4.Death
5.Coroner
6.Obituary
7.Exciter
8.Overkill
9.Alice Cooper
10.King Diamond/Mercyful Fate
11.Napalm Death
12.Judas Priest
13.Twisted Sister
14.Angel Witch
15.Diamond Head
16.Scorpions
17.Sodom
18.Black Sabbath
19.Nasty Savage
20.Kreator
21.Tygers Of Pan Tang

Here is what I came up with, with my favorite song from each one in parenthesis. This is difficult because my favorites are always changing.


1. Iced Earth (Travel in Stygian)
2. Silent Scythe (To Each His Own)
3. Black Destiny (Red Angel)
4. Twisted Tower Dire (The Reflecting Pool)
5. Shatter Messiah (Deny God)
6. Grave Digger (Rebellion The Clans are Marching)
7. Nevermore (Poison God Machine)
8. Iron Maiden (Aces High)
9. Running Wild (Black Hand Inn)
10. Sabaton (Shadows)
11. Bruce Dickinson (The Book of Thel)
12. Steel Prophet (Ides of March)
13. Overkill (In Union We Stand)
14. Domination Black (Black Water Dreams)
15. Helstar (The King is Dead)
16. Primal Fear (Angel In Black)
17. Manowar (Holy War)
18. Helloween (Time of the Oath)
19. Accept (Metal Heart)
20. Agent Steel (Ten Fists of Nations)

1. ?
2. Manic Street Preachers
3. ?
4. I Love You
5. Thee Hypnotics
6. ?
7. Amy Winehouse
8. Hanoi Rocks
9. ?
10. ?
11. ?
12. Redd Kross
13. The Pipettes
14. ?
15. Blue Ash
16. ?
17. The Pretty Things
18. ?
19. The Gun Club
20. ?

I'm not going to tell you all my secrets am i?

Judas Priest
Slayer
Morbid Angel
Accept
Doro
Warlock
Bathory
Misfits
Samhain
Danzig
Impaled Nazarene
Solitude Aeturnus
King Diamond
Mercyful Fate
Iron Maiden
Death
Motorhead
Celtic Frost
Immolation
Kreator

In No Order:
Stryper
Iron Maiden
Twisted Sister
Motley Crue
Overkill
Megadeth
Exodus
Vengeance Rising
Kreator
Helloween
Sacrament
Living Sacrifice
Barren Cross
Deliverance
Dio
Believer
The Crucified
Slaughter
Iced Earth
Anthrax

in not particular order:

KISS
Black Sabbath
Deep Purple
Alice Cooper
Aerosmith
Judas Priest
Metallica
Iron Maiden
AC/DC
The Misfits
Led Zeppelin
Frank Zappa
Savatage
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Rush
Queen
The Ramones
The Beatles
Pink Floyd
Billy Joel

Damn, that is way too hard for me. Haha, I am a real kiss-ass when it comes to naming "favourites" ...I always end up with a millon "tie's". Haha. Well, I will try, but there will be hundreds that could have made the list, that didn't. In no particular order (except, maybe the first two ) "

1. Metallica
2. Meat Loaf (don't laugh. He was a HUGE part of my youth, my musical roots.

3. Black Sabbath
4. Judas Priest
5. Kiss
6. Alice Cooper
7. Dio (all his bands)
8. Iron Maiden
9. Queen
10. Blue Oyster Cult
11. Deep Purple
12. Thin Lizzy
13. Europe
14. TYR
15. Mercyful Fate/King Diamond
16. Bon Jovi/Bryan Adams (sorry, I know it's in order, but they are very similar, )

17.Twisted Sister
18. Danzig
19. Candlemass
20. Gasolin' (danish)

Honorable Mention : Ultimatum

- Again, there are hundreds of bands that could have been on here, but most of these are hear, because of the impact they had on my youth and memories, not only because they are so amazing, all though some are.

In Order:
AC/DC
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Deep Purple
Scorpions
Black Sabbath
Helloween

Rest in no specific order:
early Metallica
Megadeth
Iced Earth
Nightwish
early Def Leppard
Accept
Aerosmith
Van Halen
Lacuna Coil
Slayer
Guns N Roses
Europe
Mr.Big

Mglaffas81 wrote:

2. Meat Loaf (don't laugh. He was a HUGE part of my youth, my musical roots.

Meat Loaf rules! Great singer and good actor, he makes us big guys proud.

1. The Pogues/Shane Macgowan
2. Danzig (including Samhain/Misfits)
3. Iron Maiden/Bruce Dickinson (love his solo work)
4. The Undead
5. Black Sabbath
6. Tom Waits
7. Judas Priest
8. Celtic Frost
9. Megadeth
10. Ac/Dc
11. Thin Lizzy
12. Dead Milkmen (along with Joe Jack's bands, and Rodney's Burn Witch Burn)
13. Tiger Army
14. The Damned
15. Johnny Cash
16. Ministry
17. Prong
18. Motley Crue
19. Led Zeppelin
20. Queens of the Stone Age/Kyuss

1. Black Sabbath/Heaven and Hell
2. Dio
3. Megadeth
4. Anthrax
5. Metallica
6. Iron Maiden
7. Bruce Dickinson
8. Kiss
9. Judas Priest
10. Iced Earth
11. Rush
12. Pink Floyd
13. Ozzy Osbourne
14. Van Halen
15. Alice Cooper
16. Sepultura
17. Soulfly
18. Al Atkins
19. Fight/Halford
20. AC/DC

I can do this ... but my list would change from month to month. However the top 5 or so would remain the same ...

METAL:

1. Pagan's Mind
2. Therion
3. Sirenia
4. Nightwish
5. Leaves' Eyes
6. Tristania
7. Sodom
8. Virgin Steele
9. Queensryche
10. Kreator
11. Dynasty
12. Sacrament
13. Manowar
14. Iron Maiden
15. Crimson Glory
16. Chastain
17. King's X
18. Britny Fox
19. White Lion
20. Stryper



NON METAL:

1. Clan of Xymox (aka Xymox)
2. Erasure
3. Depeche Mode
4. U2
5. The Cure
6. KMFDM
7. Rammstein
8. Jane's Addiction
9. The Choir
10. Mad at the World
11. Book of Love
12. Peter Murphy
13. Enya
14. Loreena McKinnett
15. Petra
16. Delerium
17. FLA (Front Line Assembly)
18. Front 242
19. Nitzer Ebb
20. REM

Lessee if I can do it...(favorite album at left, favorite song at right)

1) Aerosmith (Toys In The Attic/"Dream On")
2) Metallica (Master Of Puppets/"Master Of Puppets")
3) Led Zeppelin (any of the first six/"Stairway To Heaven")
4) Pink Floyd (Dark Side Of The Moon/"Time")
5) The Beatles (SPLHCB/"Hey Jude")
6) The Who (Live At Leeds/"Won't Get Fooled Again")
7) Bruce Springsteen (Born To Run or Born In The U.S.A. or The Rising/"Born To Run")
8) Queen (A Night At The Opera/"Bohemian Rhapsody")
9) Bon Jovi (Slippery When Wet/"I'll Be There For You")
10) Guns N' Roses (Appetite For Destruction/"Sweet Child O' Mine")
11) Rolling Stones (Sticky Fingers/"Gimme Shelter")
12) Black Sabbath (Paranoid/"Iron Man")
13) AC/DC (Back In Black/"Highway To Hell")
14) Iron Maiden (The Number Of The Beast/"Run To The Hills")
15) Jimi Hendrix (Are You Experienced?/"All Along The Watchtower")
16) Motley Crue (Dr. Feelgood/"Dr. Feelgood")
17) Rush (Moving Pictures/"Limelight")
18) Van Halen (Van Halen/"Panama" or "Jump")
19) Eagles (One Of These Nights/"Hotel California")
20) Judas Priest (Sad Wings Of Destiny/"Breaking The Law")

No order:

KISS
Early Metallica
Anvil
AC/DC
Megadeth
Black Sabbath
Ozzy Osbourne
Helloween
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Led Zeppelin
Motörhead
Ted Nugent
The Beatles
John Lennon
Jimi Hendrix
Van Halen
Pink Floyd
Deep Purple

AceFrehley655 wrote:

No order:

KISS
Early Metallica
Anvil
AC/DC
Megadeth
Black Sabbath
Ozzy Osbourne
Helloween
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Led Zeppelin
Motörhead
Ted Nugent
The Beatles
John Lennon
Jimi Hendrix
Van Halen
Pink Floyd
Deep Purple

Your lack of Dio disturbs me.

This is hard. In no order:
SAXON
THOR
KISS
WASP
IRON MAIDEN
JUDAS PRIEST
VENOM
KROKUS
EXCITER
RUNNING WILD
DORO/WARLOCK
SODOM
MANOWAR
OZZY OSBOURNE
STORMWITCH
HELLOWEEN
LOUDNESS
MOTORHEAD
ACCEPT
SCORPIONS

spiritoradio wrote:

Mglaffas81 wrote:

2. Meat Loaf (don't laugh. He was a HUGE part of my youth, my musical roots.

Meat Loaf rules! Great singer and good actor, he makes us big guys proud.

I like MEAT LOAF too.

in alpha order

10 metal:

Anacrusis
Anthrax
Death
Fates Warning
Heathen
Iron Maiden
Kreator
Megadeth
Nuclear Assault
Overkill

non metal:

Concrete Blonde
The Dickies
KMFDM
Ministry (ok, so Ministry and KMFDM have 'metal' periods, I still don't consider them in the same vein as the above list.)
New Order
Nitzer Ebb
Oingo Boingo
The Police
Sex Pistols
TSOL (ignoring their horrendous glam/hard rock phase.)

In no order:

Kiss
Black Sabbath
Thin Lizzy
King's X
Iron Maiden
Saxon
Alice Cooper
Kyuss
Mastodon
Armored Saint
The Ramones
Judas Priest
early Metallica
Death Angel
Solace
Motorhead
AC/DC
Green Carnation
Death
Nevermore

spiritoradio wrote:

Mglaffas81 wrote:

2. Meat Loaf (don't laugh. He was a HUGE part of my youth, my musical roots.

Meat Loaf rules! Great singer and good actor, he makes us big guys proud.

Right on!! I'k join the Big-Guy club (it's not that much in Fat, though... )

I'm doing only metal/hard rock for this list
1. Iron Maiden
2. Savatage
3. Circle II Circle (until I got all their releases at the beginning of this year they weren't on my radar but now I love them so much I must put them up here, JOP will probably show up on my list once I've heard more than MR)
5. Shadow Gallery
6. Helloween
7. Iced Earth
8. Dream Theater (used to be third but they haven't wowed me as much latley)
9. Kamelot
10. Symphony X
11. Tourniquet
12. Dio
13. Rhapsody
14. Hammerfall
15. Ayreon
16. Leaves' Eyes
17. Blind Guardian
18. Metallica (old-of course)
19. Testament
20. Rob Rock

I hate to limit this list because there are so many bands I want to put in a top list but to be honest with myself and to show restraint the list above is as close to accurate I can get.

My girlfriends top 20:
ANGEL DUST
SAVATAGE
BRUCE DICKINSON
ICED EARTH
LED ZEPPELIN
DEEP PURPLE
OMEN(HUN)
THE DOORS
METALLICA
VIRGIN STEELE
SILVER FIST
CIRCLE II CIRLCE
TIERRA SANTA
P.MOBIL
POKOLGEP
BLACK SABBATH with OZZY
MEGADETH
BONFIRE
LA GUNS
SLAYER
and one bonus:
AXEL RUDI PELL
Not bad, no???

spiritoradio wrote:

Mglaffas81 wrote:

2. Meat Loaf (don't laugh. He was a HUGE part of my youth, my musical roots.

Meat Loaf rules! Great singer and good actor, he makes us big guys proud.

Nothing wrong with Meat Loaf.

DallasBlack wrote:

I'm doing only metal/hard rock for this list
1. Iron Maiden
2. Savatage
3. Circle II Circle (until I got all their releases at the beginning of this year they weren't on my radar but now I love them so much I must put them up here, JOP will probably show up on my list once I've heard more than MR)
5. Shadow Gallery
6. Helloween
7. Iced Earth
8. Dream Theater (used to be third but they haven't wowed me as much latley)
9. Kamelot
10. Symphony X
11. Tourniquet
12. Dio
13. Rhapsody
14. Hammerfall
15. Ayreon
16. Leaves' Eyes
17. Blind Guardian
18. Metallica (old-of course)
19. Testament
20. Rob Rock

I hate to limit this list because there are so many bands I want to put in a top list but to be honest with myself and to show restraint the list above is as close to accurate I can get.

I forgot a number 4 so move everyting else up once and add Judas Priest to #20

note: for the past 10 years my top 3 remained unchanged:

1. Iron Maiden
2. Savatage
3. Dream Theater

I still like DT but not as much as I used to so this is a milestone in my metal life.