Your 5 favorite musical groups - Any genre

Mine(In order):

Miles Davis Quintet (60's with Herbie/Wayne/Tony/Ron)
The Police
The Dave Matthews Band
Pat Methany Group
A Tribe Called Quest

Ok here we go...

Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals
The Who
Oingo Boingo
Rush
Dave Matthews Band

In no particular Order.

Glenn

Martina McBride (only Linda Rondstadt and possibly Enya have more pure vocal talent, and Enya leans heavily on processing for her sound)

the Guess Who (they kept playing a free outdoor concert at a military base in West Texas in pouring rain with all of about 50 people standing around the stage screaming their heads off, and somehow I don't think U2 can say that)

Foghat (the best bar band in the world, no matter how big the bar)

the Moody Blues (the most complex backing music and vocals ever put on tape)

Queen (ok, Freddie was weird with a capital WEIRD, but very few groups did as many different things with music)

It would be impossible for me to pick my absolute top 5, but I guess my "heaviest rotation at the moment" is doable. Here goes, listed in no particular order:

XTC (I'm listening to Skylarking right now)
Iron Maiden
Alison Krauss & Union Station
Flaming Lips
Blackmore's Night
Slayer
Liz Phair
Queensryche
Built To Spill
Gordon Lightfoot
John Mayer
Judas Priest
Pile Driver (God help me I do love it so! )

In no particular order:

X
U2
REM
(See a trend here?)
Led Zeppelin
The Clash

Smashing Pumpkins
Nine Inch Nails
Radiohead
Pink Floyd
Tool

Tool
Rage Against the Machine
Alice in Chains
A Perfect Circle
Pink Floyd
Fourplay

I know it is six. Get off my back.

Led Zeppelin
Rush
Tool
Pink Floyd
Primus(after watching hallucino-genetics)

What kind of music is Fourplay? I've never heard of 'em. Btw, I love Alive in Chains, too.

Rush
SRV
Van Halen
Joe Satriani
Yngwie Malmsteen

But that's only considering guitar-oriented rock. Put Joe at the top followed by Eddie .

Def Leppard
Queensryche

Yngwie and Satch are both gods! I have all their stuff. The last couple of Satriani ones I also have on MC SACD- wow! Talk about some great sounding guitar rock.

Fourplay is a smooth jazz quartet...Bob James, Larry Carlton, Harvey Mason, and
Nathan East. Very popular within that sect. I'm a huge jazz fan, but they're a bit
too schmaltzy for my taste. I do admit I have their first self titled CD from 1991
and it has outstanding sonics...it's also now available on DVD-A.

Looks like Floyd seems to be the most common response in my "gee whiz" survey
so far. They certainly would have made my 6-10 list. Saw a few Whos as well.
They were never my cup of tea. I'll finish off my top ten for the hell of it...

6) Jimi Hendrix Experience
7) Pink Floyd
8) Weather Report
9) Bob Marley and the Wailers
10) Rage Against the Machine

I'd love to put Steely Dan in there because I love their music but I just can't
think of them as a band for some reason. It's just two guys and a bunch of
"ringer" studio musician guns for hire.

Steely Dan still makes my Top List. And it is....

Steely Dan/Donald Fagen
Pink Floyd
Chuck Mangione
Dave Brubeck
Vince Guaraldi
Ulu
Dave Grusin
Mason Williams
Passport
Rippingtons


I also listen to jazz, rock, and pretty much everything else save country.

What kind of music is Ulu?

Pink Floyd
Alan Parsons Project/Alan Parsons (solo)
Steely Dan
Guess Who
Camel
Porcupine Tree
Edgar Winter
Spyro Gyra
Moody Blues
Rolling Stones (earlier - through Sticky Fingers album)

Pink Floyd
The Who
Led Zep
Al Dimeola
Yo Mama or is that Yoyo Ma
Jethro Tull
Napalm Death
Academy of Saint Martins in the Fields
Ministry
Jorge Santanna (Carlos's incompetent younger brother - music sucks but album {vinyl only} covers belong in Playboy)
David Peel and the Lower East Side
Lords of Acid

Rob Babcock said:

What kind of music is Fourplay? I've never heard of 'em. Btw, I love Alive in Chains, too.

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Modern Jazz. Very dynamic. Great rythms.

Forgot to add

Roy Harper's Folkjokeopus - Average acoustic guitar on the worst recordings ever but you still have to sit and listen because of the message. Incidently, the subject of the song on Led Zep III "Hats off to Roy (Harper)"

I was truly wondering when Steely Dan/Donald Fagan were going to hit the list! Mine (in no particular order);

Steely Dan/Donald Fagan
Supertramp
Electric Light Orchestra
Moody Blues
Fleetwood Mac

Honorable mentions would go to;

Fourplay
Yellow Jackets
Manhattan Transfer
Toto
Abba (no jokes! )

Linda Ronstadt, Martina McBride and Enya all do in fact have wonderful voices, but don't forget Charlotte Church (at about 16-18 yrs old) and Barbara Streisand!