THE RESULTS: EWB's 100 Favourite Bands

[YI]

-60-. STREETLIGHT MANIFESTO (40pt: 10-10)

YAY!!!

-59-. VELVET UNDERGROUND (42pt: 8-4-2)

-58-. LINKIN PARK (42pt: 9-3-2)

-57-. PANTERA (45pt: 7-5-3)

-56-. THE WHO (48pt: 7-6-3)

[syck]

Pantera needs to be higher then they should...waaayyy higher I think. They're one of the top metal bands in the past 20 years or so. But they did make the list so I' am happy. It would make me even more happy is they were higher.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

How amusing. The Who's ranking is actually lower than Roger Daltrey's age.

[Skummy]

Eh...I don't think it's elitist to pass judgment on any of these bands, we all voted in this, and we all obviously would like to see our votes do well. If we can't say whether or not we like these bands, why bother with a discussion thread at all? What else is there to say?

Oh, and the Velvets best band so far.

[probablyoliver]

And just when it was starting to look promising, we get Linkin Park.

Kudos EWB, kudos.

[TheTruth]

How did every other group w/ the same stye as Linkin Park back in the early 2000's become unpopular, besides Linkin Park? Why is this world so cruel? I will admit though, the second verse in Bleed It Out & Numb are really catchy.

[YI]

Lets have another one today;

-55-. PEARL JAM (48pt: 8-6-2)

-54-. THE EXIES (48pt: 9-5-2)

-53-. PLUS 44 (48pt: 7-2-2-1)

-52-. BREAKING BENJAMIN (51pt: 10-4-3)

-51-. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE (54pt: 8-6-4)

[Benji]

Because everyone else repeated the same style of song over and over again, Linkin Park evolved and changed even slightly in their style.

[probablyoliver]

I was going down those five, and my heart was sinking with every one, and then it hits JT.

[Benji]

I was going down those five, and my heart was sinking with every one, and then it hits JT.

Are you kidding? That was the best five yet.

[GoGo Yubari]

That was a really dull five. Also, the juxtaposition of the Velvets and Linkin Park makes me laugh.

[probablyoliver]

I never hit it off with Pearl Jam. I see them in the same league as bands like Alice In Chains; they were good for their time, but they should have stayed in that time. Whereas other gruge acts of that time like SoundGarden, Pixies and Nirvana still sound just as good. Pearl Jam just don't interest me at all.

The Exies... who?

Plus 44 are alright at best. A couple of good songs and milllllles ahead of AVA, but again; they just don't excite me. They're a good pop band, but in a shortlist for the top 100? No way, no how.

Breaking Benjiman are exactly the same. To me they just sound like popular, radio friendly alt. rock that has no substance to it.

Timberlake, on the other hand, is the best thing to happen to pop music since "Love Me Do", and I'm not even adding hyperbole there, Timberlake is just that damn good.

[GoGo Yubari]

The Exies... who?

I pretty much know them as "that band who had a song that was fun to play in Guitar Hero but wasn't actually fun to listen to."

And Breaking Benjamin... yeah. Can I get a side of bland with that bland?

[probablyoliver]

They're popular because of Guitar Hero? And they made it to Fifty fucking Four?

I repeat;

Kudos EWB, kudos.

[Benji]

Again, it's a matter of favourites, not best and the Exies are more than a Guitar Hero band, Inertia is a powerhouse album, it's not mind blowing, but it's strong, especially "My Godess", that is one mother fucker of a track.

[probablyoliver]

It may be a matter of favourites, and call me elitist if you will, but EWBs favourites are so spur of the moment, non-sensical and just plain fucking dire.

Edited November 1, 2007 by Ollie

[Benji]

If you expected anything else after the last four or five times or whatever, I worry for your memory Ollie-san

[probablyoliver]

I was only involved in one of these in the past, and all I remember was Mad Capsule Markets made the cut, and the top three were Zeppelin, Radiohead and the Beatles; so I have no problem with it at all. This time around is just vile so far, with only about fifteen bands I can bare and only about five I'd put in a top 200, let alone 100!

The problem is that the voting seems to be based on what people are liking at that moment in time, and not what their favourite bands ever are. It's like this is a top 100 for the first week of October (or whenever the voting was), when really the voters should really spend some time thinking as to who their favourite acts are.

It's like, take me for example. Right now I'm listening to a lot of The Format, a lot of Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly and a lot of Stereophonics, yet I wouldn't dream of voting them as my top 10 favourite bands. They're just what I like listening to right now, and it seems that the members here seem to get confused as to voting for who they like at that moment in time and who they maybe should be voting for.

I'm not having a go or nowt, because I know it would be influenced by what's happening at that moment at time, who's got a new album out (and therefore who you're listening to the back catalogue of) and stuff like that. It's like, I imagine bands like Rage Against the Machine, Nine Inch Nails and Smashing Pumpkins are probably going to be quite high in this list, or at least they'll place in the list, whereas two/three years ago when all of them were inactive, they'd probably be a lot lower in the list.

It's a tough one to judge, but the voting really is soooooo spur of the moment.

[Benji]

I win, mine were 100% real favourites

[probablyoliver]

I didn't vote, but for the record Justin Timberlake, Deftones, Million Dead, yourcodenameis:milo, Reuben, Pixies, Radiohead, The Smiths, The Beatles and Led Zeppelin would have been the ten. I haven't a clue what the order would have been tho.