EWB's 100 Favourite Bands: 2010 Edition

[Clawson]

1. Oasis

2. The Beatles

3. The Gaslight Anthem

4. Band of Horses

5. The Smiths

6. Editors

7. The Tragically Hip

8. The Stone Roses

9. Arctic Monkeys

10. The Weakerthans

11. Sugarplum Fairy

12. Kasabian

13. The Jam

14. Foo Fighters

15. Athlete

[DFF]

Last year...

Bugger me, this is going to be tough.

1. Turisas

2. Wintersun

3. Iron Maiden

4. Queen

5. Dream Theater

6. Opeth

7. Muse

8. David Bowie

9. Sabaton

10. Rush

Close but no cigar: Metallica, Ensiferum, Rolling Stones, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Within Temptation, Blind Guardian, Hanoi Rocks, Sonata Arctica, Lynyrd Skynrd, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Rick Wakeman, Between The Buried And Me, KISS, Coheed & Cambria.

EDIT: Forgot Rush

Seen as though this is an annual thing, from his year I'm going to just copy my Last.fm list for the last 12 months.

Thus my list for this year is:

1. Sabaton (248 plays)

2. Alestorm (178)

3. Bigelf (160)

4. Amorphis (143)

5. Gojira (109)

6. Iron Maiden (100)

7. Ensiferum (95)

8. Opeth (88)

9. Equilibrium (88) - yes, the same score, but Opeth are better

10. Blind Guardian (85)

11. Between The Buried and Me (85) - same as above.

12. Wintersun (83)

13. Def Leppard (79)

14. Airbourne (76)

15. Y&T/Yesterday&Today (64)

Close but no cigar: Candlemass (62), Steel Panther (62), Dream Theater (53), Manowar (53), Turisas (52), Sonata Arctica (51), Black Sabbath (50), Porcupine Tree (49), KISS (41) and Judas Priest (40)

[EddieRuckus]

Top three are about the same, everything after is all over the place >>

1. The Beatles

2. Radiohead

3. Lamb of God

4. Killswitch Engage

5. A Perfect Circle

6. Foo Fighters

7. Black Label Society

8. Arch Enemy

9. NIN

10. Tool

11. Gorillaz

12. Paramore

13. Eminem

14. The Vines

15. Blink 182

[YI]

...so we have 111 bands...and fuck me it's depressing. Should I keep it open a bit longer?

[Guest Mr. Potato Head]

Yes for sure, it's only been a few days.

Plus hopefully we've heard from all the metalheads.

[apsham]

1. Matthew Good

2. Leonard Cohen

3. Elvis Costello

4. The Format

5. The Beatles

6. Barenaked Ladies

7. Atom & His Package

8.Jason Mraz

9. New Found Glory

10. Loudon Wainwright III

[Maxx]

1. Green Day

2. Alkaline Trio

3. The Gaslight Anthem

4. The Lawrence Arms

5. Against Me!

6. Fake Problems

7. The Smashing Pumpkins

8. Rise Against

9. The Offspring

10. Blink 182

11. Reel Big Fish

12. Less Than Jake

13. The Riverboat Gamblers

14. Jimmy Eat World

15. The Falcon

[YI]

You've got 15.

[Cactus Drags]

1 65daysofstatic

2 Frank Turner

3 The Automatic

4 Reuben

5 Brand New

6 The Gaslight Anthem

7 Coheed and Cambria

8 A Wilhelm Sream

9 Thrice

10 Does It Offend You, Yeah?

11 The Offspring

12 The Crystal Method

13 The Police

14 Underoath

15 MSTRKRFT

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Yeah now all the metal fans are out of the way we should be able to get some more decent bands moving up the list....Like Mew getting their second vote! Whooo!

If Metallica are up near the top again then it's a terrible state of affairs.

[Blue Rosler]

1) Haddaway

2) Marina and the Diamonds

3) Caetano Veloso

4) The Baseballs

5) Gorillaz

6) Sam Roberts Band

7) Dizzee Rascal

8) Cheap Trick

9) McFly

10) Darwin Deez

11) Florence and the Machine

12) White Lies

13) Noah and the Whale

14) Vampire Weekend

15) AA Bondy

[New Damage]

One man's garbage is another's treasure and all that jazz.

[YI]

...some other fucker better vote for AWS. GRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

[TheRossWalker]

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. Edited.

I always forget someone. Low Anthem are gone, I could never kick Marina out.

[Gazz]

...some other fucker better vote for AWS. GRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

You called?

1. Muse

2. Metallica

3. Queens of the Stone Age

4. Trivium

5. 30 Seconds To Mars

6. Pendulum

7. Alkaline Trio

8. The Gaslight Anthem

9. A Wilhelm Scream

10. Reuben

11. Alexisonfire

12. Frank Turner

13. 36 Crazyfists

14. Say Anything

15. A Day To Remember

[DFF]

Yes for sure, it's only been a few days.

Plus hopefully we've heard from all the metalheads.

Hopefully we've not heard from all the metal heads. Hopefully, we've heard from all the Indie boys.

[Blue Rosler]

One man's garbage is another's treasure and all that jazz.

I don't even care, I am shameless with my shit music. (And trust me, it gets a lot worse)

[Rich]

Yes for sure, it's only been a few days.

Plus hopefully we've heard from all the metalheads.

Hopefully we've not heard from all the metal heads. Hopefully, we've heard from all the Indie boys.

Sorry, can't hear you from behind all that hair

[Jimmy]

1 65daysofstatic

2 Frank Turner

3 The Automatic

4 Reuben

5 Brand New

6 The Gaslight Anthem

7 Coheed and Cambria

8 Thrice

9 Does It Offend You, Yeah?

10 The Offspring

11 Underoath

12 The Crystal Method

13 The Police

14 Deadmau5

15 MSTRKRFT

Has he got a song better than Heartbreaker? Because that is a tune

[Cactus Drags]

...some other fucker better vote for AWS. GRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

*AHEM*

1 65daysofstatic

2 Frank Turner

3 The Automatic

4 Reuben

5 Brand New

6 The Gaslight Anthem

7 Coheed and Cambria

8 Thrice

9 Does It Offend You, Yeah?

10 The Offspring

11 Underoath

12 The Crystal Method

13 The Police

14 Deadmau5

15 MSTRKRFT

Has he got a song better than Heartbreaker? Because that is a tune

They. And that whole Fist of God album is amazing. 1000 Cigarettes, Heartbreaker and It Ain't Love being my favourites.