Re-arrange your BEA Top Ranked Bands - Music

RoundTheBend
I miss the comfort in being sad

Location: Ground Control

As I am listening to the discographies, or at least their top ten, I have come to realize, as I am sure many of you could agree, that you have a different opinion of what the top ranked bands should be.

I probably will get a lot of flack for saying this, but David Bowie, Arcade Fire (Funeral is amazing, but the rest of their stuff I find blah, and their style is just a revisit of Talking Heads), The Smith's, Bruce Springsteen, could be replaced by better bands. The Doors for example, although saddened they kicked out R.E.M. from the top 20, definitely deserve to be in the top 20 over Arcade Fire.

Anyways, those are my two cents... what's your list? The catch is you can only move around the top 200, not add or subtract.

Here's my favorites (note I didn't say best):
Rank My Favorite Band My Favorite Albums
1 The Beatles Abbey Road/Sgt. Pepper
2 Radiohead In Rainbows/Kid A
3 U2 Joshua Tree/Zooropa
4 Nirvana Nevermind/Unplugged
5 R.E.M. Automatic/Accelerate/Up
6 The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream/Adore
7 Red Hot Chili Peppers BSSM/Stadium Arcadium
8 Beck Sea Change/Guero
9 Foo Fighters TC&TS/Wasting Light
10 Paul Simon Graceland/You're the One
11 Muse Absolution/Resistance
12 Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced/Live at Woodstock
13 The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed/Exile
14 Led Zeppelin II and IV
15 Top PettyHeartbreakers Full Moon Fever/Damn The Torpedoes
16 Coldplay Parachutes/Viva la Vida
17 Weezer Blue/Red
18 Velvet Underground Debut/Loaded
19 Rage Against the Machine Debut/Renegades
20 John Lennon Debut/Imagine
21 Pink Floyd DSOTM/The Wall
22 Arcade Fire Funeral
23 The Doors The Doors/Strange Days
24 Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison/American IV
25 Elvis Presley Debut/ELV1S
26 Sublime Sublime
27 Elbow Seldom Seen Kid
28 Queens of the Stone Age Debut/Songs for Deaf
29 Simon and Garfunkel PSRT/ Bookends
30 The Black Keys Brothers
31 Pearl Jam Official bootleg: Jonesbeach

These artists I like, but don't consider them my favorite, or I just haven't fallen for them yet, but find them good OR I can see why they would be ranked on the site, but don't find them terribly amazing:

32 Bob Dylan
33 David Bowie
34 The Clash
35 The Who
36 The Beach Boys
37 Pixies
38 Neil Young
39 Metallica
40 The Strokes
41 Miles Davis
42 The White Stripes
43 Queen
44 Van Morrison
45 My Blody Valentine
46 Talking Heads
47 Sonic Youth
48 The Cure
49 Black Sabbath
50 Sigur Ros
51 Modest Mouse
52 Tom Waits
53 Michael Jackson
54 Green Day
55 Tool
56 Stevie Wonder
57 Bob Marley
58 Portishead
59 Björk
60 The Sex Pistols
61 Lou Reed
62 The Killers
63 Depeche Mode
64 Nine Inch Nails
65 Beastie Boys
66 Ramones
67 Eminem
68 Elton John
69 The Police
70 Creedence Clearwater Revival
71 Nas
72 Grateful Dead
73 The Shins
74 Paul McCartney
75 Brian Eno
76 Vampire Weekend
77 George Harrison
78 System of a Down
79 LCD Soundsystem
80 OutKast
81 Madonna
82 The Allman Brothers
83 Aerosmith
84 The Mars Volta
85 Public Enemy
86 Cream
87 Crosby, Stills & Nash
88 The Decemberists
89 Built to Spill
90 Alanis Morissette
91 Faith No More

92 The Smiths
93 Bruce Springsteen
94 Guns N' Roses
95 Arctic Monkeys
96 AC/DC
97 Wilco
98 Kanye West
99 The National
100 The Kinks
101 Sufjan Stevens
102 Massive Attack
103 Elliot Smith
104 Gorillaz
105 Soundgarden
106 Franz Ferdinand
107 Tori Amos
108 Jay-Z
109 The xx

110 Neutral Milk Hotel
111 Joy Division
112 The Flamming Lips
113 Fleetwood Mac
114 Jeff Buckley
115 Genesis
116 Rush
117 Nick Drake
118 Prince
119 King Crimson
120 Iggy Pop
121 Animal Collective
122 Pavement
123 Blur
124 Marvin Gaye
125 Fleet Foxes
126 Kate Bush
127 Interpol
128 Joni Mitchell
129 Yes
130 Television
131 John Coltrane
132 Bon Iver
133 Frank Zappa
134 Love
135 Elvis Costello
136 Iron Maiden
137 The Band
138 Deep Purple
139 Belle & Sebastian
140 P.J. Harvey
141 Manic Street Preachers
142 Dire Straits
143 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
144 Steely Dan
145 Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
146 Talk Talk
147 Leonard Cohen
148 Alice in Chains
149 Porcupine Tree
150 Kings of Leon
151 Charles Mingus
152 Daft Punk
153 The Zombies
154 The Replacements
155 Eagles
156 Pulp
157 Peter Gabriel
158 Jethro Tull
159 Can
160 Godspeed You! Black Emperor
161 Bloc Party
162 Roxy Music
163 The Verve
164 Primal Scream
165 New Order
166 Electric Light Orchestra
167 Wu-Tang Clan
168 MGMT
169 Joanna Newsom
170 Beach House
171 Kraftwerk
172 TV On the Radio
173 Bright Eyes
174 Dream Theater
175 DJ Shadow
176 Death Cab for Cutie
177 The Libertines
178 Patti Smith
179 Eels
180 Spiritualized
181 Grizzly Bear
182 Air
183 Judas Priest
184 Boston
185 Supertramp
186 A Tribe Called Quest
187 The Antlers
188 The Jam
189 Suede
190 Boards of Canada
191 Derek & The Dominos
192 Slint
193 The Jesus and Mary Chain
194 Counting Crows

Bands that even if you tortured me, I couldn't admit I liked:
195 The Stone Roses
196 Coceau Twins
197 Van Halen
198 Ryan Adams
199 The Prodigy
200 Oasis

There's a reason for the breaks, but can't really label them right...

Anyways, what's yours? At least re-arrange the top 50! Remember, can't add to the list!

AlexZangari

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Age: 30
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I might do this when I have multiple hours of time to spare. Also...

sethmadsen wrote:

Arcade Fire (Funeral is amazing, but the rest of their stuff I find blah, and their style is just a revisit of Talking Heads)

...what...?
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meccalecca
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Location: The Land of Enchantment

I never quite understood where the Arcade Fire - Talking Heads comparison came from. It started with an early review and snowballed into a thing people constantly bring up. If Arcade Fire sounds like any group form the 80s, it's Echo & The Bunnymen.

As for revising a list of 200 artists, that'd take forever, but the 10 artists I'd throw in 190-200 slots would probably be:
Green Day
MGMT
Oasis
Eagles
Franz Ferdinand
Sublime
System Of A Down
The Killers
Alanis Morissette
Red Hot Chili Peppers

RoundTheBend
I miss the comfort in being sad

Location: Ground Control

meccalecca wrote:

I never quite understood where the Arcade Fire - Talking Heads comparison came from. It started with an early review and snowballed into a thing people constantly bring up. If Arcade Fire sounds like any group form the 80s, it's Echo & The Bunnymen.

As for revising a list of 200 artists, that'd take forever, but the 10 artists I'd throw in 190-200 slots would probably be:
Green Day
MGMT
Oasis
Eagles
Franz Ferdinand
Sublime
System Of A Down
The Killers
Alanis Morissette
Red Hot Chili Peppers

I never read it anywhere, I just hear the vocal styles and other elements I don't know how to describe to be similar.

I wonder why there is so much Red Hot Chili Peppers hate on this site... other than that I would agree that most of those artists shouldn't be highly ranked, but maybe not hated, which is what you are possibly insinuating?