Rockers

[gyrene81]

But still, nothing comes close to Gwar.

it was just a matter of time before someone mentioned that mess...seen them once and i'd rather shart my drawers and put them over my head than listen to that band.

[FiLtH]

Judas Priest
lamb of God
Iron Maiden
AC/DC
Ronnie James Dio
Black Sabbath
Avenged Sevenfold
Drowning Pool
Anthrax
Suicidal Tendencies
Krokus
Saxon
Pantera

Add in Slayer, old Metallica and some Megadeth and Ill take yer list.

[TonyJoey]

Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page my favorite guitar player, inspired me to pick one up for the first time)
Hendrix
AC/DC
Rush
Queen
Pink Floyd
Aerosmith
Van Halen
Black Sabbath

[Bobcat81]

it was just a matter of time before someone mentioned that mess...seen them once and i'd rather shart my drawers and put them over my head than listen to that band.

Somebody likes to party.

[Zacherof]

it was just a matter of time before someone mentioned that mess...seen them once and i'd rather shart my drawers and put them over my head than listen to that band.

I'd do t lime either(and I wish to keep my clothes clean)

[manglex1]

1. Slipknot
2. Avenged Sevenfold
3. Bullet for My Valentine
4. Five Finger Death Punch
5. Killswitch Engage
6. All That Remains
7. As I Lay Dying
8. Lamb of God
9. Whitechapel
10. Born of Osiris

[VonMessa]

you missed one...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZHWy6W00oM

They all should be buried in a hole so deep that it would take a week of falling down it before they hit bottom.

These guys are pretty good, however...

[Soulyss]

I've gone through a number of musical phases in my life. As a teen/high-schooler I was very much into grunge rock, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam were by far my favorites, but I also liked Alice in Chains, Nirvana, etc.

By college I had gotten into classic rock and many of the names that have appeared in this list already, Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Cream, Hendrix, etc.

Nowadays most of the music I listen to is a little off the beaten path, which I can't recommend enough that people explore.  There is a lot of really good music being written by guys, gals, and bands and because they play smaller venues they tour more, tickets are cheaper, and they are far more accessible.

About a year ago I went to the record release party for a San Francisco musician, Chuck Prophet.  People showed up piled in a bus and did a tour through SF at night drinking Southern Comfort from the liquor store in Haight Ashbury that Janis Joplin used to frequent.





That's my over Chuck's right shoulder caught mid sneeze, we ended the night with performance of the new record.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG3F9ETjR5s

Another one is Alejandro Escovedo out of Austin Texas, Alejandro came up in punk music, opened for the Sex Pistols,  lived at the Chelsey Hotel in NY while Sid and Nancy were there and had a few different bands before striking out on his own.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSlas3I06jg

He recently reformed one of his old bands, the True Believers.  Once described as a marching army of guitars, I think they were one of the best rock bands of the late 80's.  It's a shame they never gained more notoriety.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk4u0eiyyXk

[icepac]

I've been doing a "musical journey of discovery" by simply picking a member of a band I like at random and checking out any bands in which he or she has participated and persuing the threads from there.

The drummer for "Wrathchild America" took me from "souls at zero" to "snot" to "amen" to "candlebox" to "godsmack" to "another animal" to "vanilla ice" and I ended up at "ugly kid joe" doing an brand new song live on a brazilian tv show "unplugged".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLiAQpaDuiQ

It's pretty amazing where wikipedia and youtube can take you and doubly interesting when people pop up where you would least expect them.

[Motherland]

Last.fm is a very very very very cool website/service that tracks all of what you listen to with media players (itunes, winamp, foobar, spotify, probably pandora...) and then can make you very detailed /accurate recommendations of what you might like. Also an extremely detailed database of everything (it's user maintained so it's pretty much literally everything). Also there are lots of cool apps and programs so that you can see what you listen to represented in all sorts of different ways. There's a social media aspect to it too (i mean that's even probably the primary purpose) but I don't really use it.

[Lusche]

Also there are lots of cool apps and programs so that you can see what you listen to represented in all sorts of different ways.

And I love it 

[branch37]

Being raised on the other side from heavy metal, my top 10 list is as follows.

I cant believe I just now found this thread. 

1. The Beatles
2. Aerosmith
3. Led Zeppelin
4. Lynyrd Skynyrd
5. Guns N Roses
6. Pink Floyd
7. The Doors
8. The Who
9. Metallica
10. ZZ Top


I also have an opinion of Metallica that tends to fly in the face of the trend of this thread.  Personally, I think Load and Re Load are 2 of their best albums.  We can all agree that St. Anger sucks, but I think that the black album, Load and Re Load was their best run.

[Butcher]

Personally, I think Load and Re Load are 2 of their best albums.  We can all agree that St. Anger sucks, but I think that the black album, Load and Re Load was their best run.

 

[Zacherof]

[branch37]

As I said, my opinion.  I never said that their early stuff was not good.  I do enjoy it, but I just like load and re load better.  So with that said.