What are your favorite bands?

[ExcruciationX]

Here's mine in order of era. I've added a "Badass alert" to songs that basically rock.

60's

Iron Butterfly (best song, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida)

Steppenwolf (favorite songs, Born to Be Wild, Magic Carpet Ride)

Strawberry Alarm Clock (best song, Incense and Peppermints)

The Doors (favorite songs, Light My Fire, Riders on The Storm)

Jimi Hendrix Experience (best song, Purple Haze)

70's

Sugarloaf (best song, Green Eyed Lady) Badass alert!

Climax Blues Band (best song, Couldn't Get It Right)

Boston (best songs, Don't Look Back, Smokin', Foreplay/Longtime) Badass alert

Creedence Clearwater Revival (favorite songs, I Heard It Through The Grapevine)

Chicago (favorite songs, 25 or 6 to 4, Saturday in The Park) Badass alert

Deep Purple (favorite songs, Smoke On the Water, Hush) Badass alert

Rare Earth (favorite songs, I Just Want To Celebrate, Get Ready) Badass alert

Dire Straits (best song, Sultans of Swing)

80's

Iron Maiden (favorite songs, The Trooper) Badass alert.

A Flock of Seagulls (favorite song, I Ran)

Van Halen (favorite songs, Jump) Badass alert.

Queensryche (best song, Queen Of The Reich

Today

DragonForce (best song, Through the Fire And Flames) badass alert.

Look some of these songs up if you haven't heard of them (especially Green Eyed Lady, Boston's stuff, and Chicago's stuff).

[WhizzBang]

I only have 5 bands which I would count as favorites, as I like pretty much everything they have done.

The Fall
The Breeders
Gorkys Zygotic Mynci
Orange Juice
The Pooh Sticks (last album sucks though)

[ExcruciationX]

Who are these?

[bah]

Nirvana
Smashing Pumpkins
Pixies
Tool
RATM
Radiohead
The Cure
Billy Bragg (only 1 guy so not a band)
Descendents
Caustic Soda
Propagandhi
Leæther Strip
Wumpscut
Project Pitchfork
VNV Nation
Aphex Twin
Squarepusher
Portishead
Lamb
Cake
The Whitlams
The Panics
Gotye (again, just 1 guy)

Those are the names that stand out that ive really liked from 12 or so till now. I've certainly mellowed

[quzar]

Favorite favorites...

Rage Against the Machine
The Limp Twins (and all Will Quantic acts, since only one album was released as the Limp Twins)
The Roots
Mindless Self Indulgence
Johnny Cash
Blood Sweat and Tears

I love it how my favorites basically all come from different genres.

Others that I love, but simply aren't up with those above:
MC 900FT Jesus, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Janis Joplin, Blackalicious, Amaral, Audioslave, Soundgarden, Infinite Mass, Hilltop Hoods, Pink Floyd, Yes, Yoshida Bros., Jimi Hendrix, Cachao, The Moody Blues, MC Chris, Nick Drake, Orishas, The Beatles, String Cheese Incident,

and
soundtracks to the following shows/games:
Cowboy Bebop, BECK, Scrubs, Grey's Anatomy, Shenmue, and Chrono Trigger

[JKKDARK]

Bon Jovi
Van Halen
Poison
Aerosmith
Skid Row
Warrant
Def Leppard
Guns N' Roses
Whitesnake
Mötley Crüe

My 10 favorite bands

[lmtlmt]

blink 182
cake
ledzepplin
D12
g-unit
gorillaz
black eyed peas
tripod
scared weird little guys
ACDC
greenday
HIM
PANIC! at the disco
plus 44

just to name a few

[Triv1um]

1. Metallica
2. Trivium (older stuff)
3. Megadeth
4. Pantera
5. Mendeed
6. Chimera
7. Stone sour
8. Coheed and cambria
9. Testament
10. Slipknot

Just my rough top 10

[lmtlmt]

oh i forgot slipknot and metallica

[Shadowblind]

Arch Enemy
At the Gates
Lamb of God
Disturbed
Korn
Dragonforce
Slipknot
Rob Zombie
PM5K
All that Remains
As I Lay Dying
Mastadon

I don't know what it is about metal that just sounds so awesome, but those are the hardest of metal bands.