Top 5 MODERN DAY bands and songs

[tim]

What are your top modern day bands and songs? THE SONGS AND BANDS DON'T NEED TO MATCH UP

These are mine:

<u>Bands (in order)</u>
5) Weezer
4) Robert Randolph and the Family Band
3) Wilco
2) Foo Fighters
1) Red Hot Chili Peppers

<u>Songs (in order)</u>
5) New Slang- The Shins
4) Clocks-Coldplay
3) Times Like These- Foo Fighters
2) Under The Bridge- Red Hot Chili Peppers
1) Breaking The Girl- Red Hot Chili Peppers

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Define "modern", then I can do it.

 

[tim]

Bands that started playing in the last 20 years or so that are still playing.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Okay, for me it's really hard to make the all-time top modern bands.

Personally:
1. Sublime
2. Slightly Stoopid
3. System of a Down
4. Coldplay
5. Oasis

I'll try and think of all-time, but it may take awhile.

 

[Lavalamp]

System of a Down aren't still playing together.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Jah.

 

[Voodoo Child]

I realized that 20 years isn't a good definition of "modern" when I noticed that half the bands I started thinking of (Alice in Chains, Sublime, Jane's Addiction, Rage Against the Machine, etc.) aren't really around anymore.

It's hard to rank bands too. Going by that criteria though, I think my top twenty list would go something like -

1. Red Hot Chili Peppers
2. John Frusciante
3-20 (alphabetical). Alice in Chains, Ataxia, The Flaming Lips, Galactic, Gov't Mule, Incubus (pre-Light Grenades), Michael Franti & Spearhead, Oasis (in doses), Pearl Jam, The Raconteurs, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Smashing Pumpkins (pre-comeback), Sonic Youth, Sound Tribe Sector 9, The Strokes, Sublime, Tool

I'm sure I'm forgetting a few though.

 

[Vintage]

1. Tool



459834250345345. Any emo band

 

[BasX]

ill make my modern as in last 3 or so years
1-Deftones
2-Thrice
3-As I Lay Dying
4-Mudvayne
5-Demon Hunter

 

[Answer_AI03]

Top 5 bands:
1. Metallica
2. Nirvana
3. Sublime
4. DMB
5. Coheed and Cambria

Top 5 songs:
1. Tool- Vicarious, or 46 and 2
2. As I lay Dying- Confined (most badass hard song ever written)
3. Nirvana- Smells like Teen Spirit
4. Atreyu- Right side of the bed
5. Anything off of the Thice the Alchemy Index water album!

 

[BasX]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Answer_AI03 @ Jun 19 2008, 02:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Top 5 bands:
1. Metallica
2. Nirvana
3. Sublime
4. DMB
5. Coheed and Cambria

Top 5 songs:
1. Tool- Vicarious, or 46 and 2
2. As I lay Dying- Confined (most badass hard song ever written)
3. Nirvana- Smells like Teen Spirit
4. Atreyu- Right side of the bed
5. Anything off of the Thice the Alchemy Index water album!</div>
wrath upon ourselves by AILD is pretty siick too, but confined kicks ass

 

[Voodoo Child]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Answer_AI03 @ Jun 19 2008, 01:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Top 5 bands:
1. Metallica</div>

You've gotta love Metallica, but they've been around for 27 years, so they technically don't match the criteria, otherwise I was definitely going to list them. It's crazy to think they've been around that long, isn't it?

 

[Sasha]

Tool I believe will always be my favorite band, though at this particular time I'm not really listening to them. Otherwise it's really hard for me to give you a list because I discover something new every day that I think is better than the day before and that is even better than my "favorite" bands or "favorite" songs. Times change, moods change, and music just creates the backdrop for that. I find these type of lists redundant.