EWB's 100 Favourite Bands: 2011 Edition

[gunnar hendershow]

1. The Beatles

2. Wu-Tang Clan

3. Radiohead

4. Nujabes

5. Boards of Canada

6. Notorious B.I.G.

7. The Velvet Underground

8. Pearl Jam

9. Massive Attack

10. Bob Dylan

11. Jay-Z

12. Led Zeppelin

13. The Roots

14. The Smiths

15. Blur

[The Future]

1. Radiohead

2. Red Hot Chill Peppers

3. A Perfect Circle

4. Porcupine Tree

5. Nirvana

6. Paramore

7. Incubus

8. The Killers

9. Oasis

10. Kanye West

11. Led Zeppelin

12. Our Lady Peace

13. Owl City

14. Sunny Day Real Estate

15. Portishead

EDIT: Removed Metallica

Edited July 27, 2011 by The Future

[RPS]

From last.fm...

1. Kanye West

2. Grizzly Bear

3. Das Racist

4. Hercules And Love Affair

5. Twin Shadow

6. James Blake

7. M.I.A.

8. Bon Iver

9. Adele

10. Scissor Sisters

11. Diamond Rings

12. Hot Chip

13. Sleigh Bells

14. Blur

15. The Clash

2010

1. Grizzly Bear

2. Gorillaz

3. Kelis

4. Antony and the Johnsons

5. Hercules and Love Affair

6. Kid Cudi

7. La Roux

8. Hot Chip

9. Basement Jaxx

10. Scissor Sisters

11. Yeasayer

12. Dizzee Rascal

13. Miike Snow

14. The xx

15. Kanye West

2009

1. Hercules and Love Affair

2. Antony and the Johnsons

3. Kanye West

4. Michael Jackson

5. M.I.A.

6. Of Montreal

7. Peaches

8. Grizzly Bear

9. Daft Punk

10. Lady GaGa

2008

1. Daft Punk

2. Blur

3. M.I.A

4. The Clash

5. Justice

6. Rufus Wainwright

7. Of Montreal

8. Hercules & Love Affair

9. Nine Inch Nails

10. Hot Chip

2007

1. Bloc Party

2. Blur

3. Justin Timberlake

4. The Format

5. Kanye West

6. Daft Punk

7. M.I.A

8. My Chemical Romance

9. Final Fantasy

10. Babyshambles

Edited July 28, 2011 by RockPaperScissors

[Plubby]

1. Linkin Park

2. Red Hot Chili Peppers

3. Avenged Sevenfold

4. Paramore

5. Maroon 5

6. Audioslave

7. Kaiser Chiefs

8. The Offspring

9. Eminem

10. Blink 182

11. Gorillaz

12. The Dropkick Murphys

13. The Killers

14. The Fratellis

15. The Eagles

[Darnez FC Forever]

1. Sevendust

2. Metallica

3. Disturbed

4. Iron Maiden

5. Hammerfall

6. Machine Head

7. Steel Attack

8. Five Finger Death Punch

9. Avenged Sevenfold

10. Trivium

11. The Agonist

12. Within Temptation

13. Killswitch Engage

14. Queensrÿche

15. The Sins Of Thy Beloved

Woo

[Benjamin]

Wait, so it's not just bands, but solo artists as well? Damnit, I will edit when I'm not posting on my phone.

Also, Sugababes was that group that sang Push The Button right? I swear that is the awesomest song ever.

[GoGo Yubari]

Yeah, solo artists are generally included too even if the name doesn't imply that.

[GA!]

1 - Manic Street Preachers

2 - Muse

3 - Foo Fighters

4 - The Smashing Pumpkins

5 - Weezer

6 - Deftones

7 - Biffy Clyro

8 - Alter Bridge

9 - The Beatles

10 - REM

11 - Julee Cruise

12 - Kate Bush

13 - Devin Townsend

14 - Boards of Canada

15 - The Lightning Seeds

2010 list (where I must've been really off some bands at the time)

1 - Manic Street Preachers

2 - Muse

3 - Biffy Clyro

4 - The Smashing Pumpkins

5 - The Beatles

6 - Deftones

7 - Alter Bridge

8 - John Frusciante

9 - Crystal Castles

10 - Feeder

11 - Boards of Canada

12 - Black Moth Super Rainbow

13 - Devin Townsend

14 - The Lightning Seeds

15 - Arctic Plateau

[Skummy]

1. Tom Waits

2. Scott Walker

3. Morphine

4. The Lucksmiths

5. David Bowie

6. The Fall

7 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

8 The Smiths

9 The Pogues

10. Television Personalities

11. Sparks

12. The Ramones

13. Roxy Music

14. The Divine Comedy

15. Joy Division

I'll end up changing my mind a thousand times, but leaving it at that.

[The Sandman]

1. Metallica

2. Iron Maiden

3. Green Day

4. The Gaslight Anthem

5. Nightwish

6. Machine Head

7. Avenged Sevenfold

8. Megadeth

9. Our Lady Peace

10. Volbeat

11. Motörhead

12. Foo Fighters

13. Trivium

14. Red Hot Chili Peppers

15. In Flames

Possible editing to come, not entirely happy with 11-15.

Edited July 28, 2011 by The Sandman

[Timmoru Suzuki]

1. Aerosmith

2. KISS

3. Queen

4. Alestorm

5. The Doors

6. Johnny Cash

7. David Bowie

8. Rock Sugar

9. System of a Down

10. Steel Panther

11. Slipknot

12. Thin Lizzy

13. T-Rex

14. Lynyrd Skynyrd

15. Bon Jovi

The order from about 5 down gets a bit scrambled... I may go away to reflect...

Edited July 28, 2011 by Yoshihiro timmayyama

[New Damage]

1. Reuben

2. Metallica

3. Soundgarden

4. Nirvana

5. Foo Fighters

6. Limp Bizkit

7. Pearl Jam

8. Killswitch Engage

9. Eddie Vedder

10. Drowning Pool

11. The High Crusade (Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin & Petey Williams' band )

12. Brand New

13. Shinedown

14. Helmet

15. Kanye West

Edited July 28, 2011 by TheModernWay

[GA!]

11. The High Crusade (Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin & Petey Williams' band )

...

I had no idea they were perennially jobbing in the music industry too.

*checks them out*

[Jimmy]

1. Los Campesinos

2. Eminem

3. Tokyo Police Club

4. The Cribs

5. Foals

6. Bombay Bicycle Club

7. Crystal Fighters

8. The Macabees

9. Darwin Deez

10. Laura Marling

11. Little Comets

12. Arctic Monkeys

13. The Vaccines

14. Cobra Starship

15. Gorillaz

This is just a rough list, anything between 3 and 10 can change around. Tyler The Creator, Kanye West and a few other bands nearly made the list - and still might if I change my mind in the next few days. My taste has changed a fair bit over the last year.

[=BK=]

1.Papa Roach

2.Nirvana

3.Guns N Roses

4.Rob Zombie/White Zombie

5.Wednesday 13

6.Sevendust

7.Seether

8.Marilyn Manson

9.The Used

10.Skillet

11.Disturbed

12.Pop Evil

13.The Birthday Massacre

14.State of Shock

15.HIM

Edit:Took 18V out for State of Shock

Edited July 28, 2011 by Kirkland

[VerbalPuke]

1. Iggy and the Stooges

2. Motorhead

3. The Pogues

4. Dead Kennedys

5. The Ramones

6. Black Sabbath

7. The Gun Club

8. Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers

9. The Screamers

10. The Sex Pistols

11. David Bowie

12. Iron Maiden

13. Alice Cooper

14. English Dogs

15. G.G. Allin

[Sousa]

I always do really badly at these and none of my bands make lists, but I admit to having terrible taste in music anyway.

1. Cowboy Junkies

2. They Might Be Giants

3. Ben Folds

4. Rilo Kiley

5. Elvis Costello

6. Leonard Cohen

7. The Flaming Lips

8. The Tallest Man on Earth

9. Howlin' Wolf

10. Dinosaur Jr.

11. that dog.

12. Guided By Voices

13. The Velvet Underground

14. The Presidents of the United States of America

15. Mazzy Star

[OctoberRaven]

1. Iced Earth

2. Six Feet Under

3. Slayer

4. Blind Guardian

5. Demons and Wizards

6. Nile

7. Sex Machineguns

8. Cage

9. Anthrax

10. Megadeth

11. Testament

12. Adorior

13. Bloodbath

14. GWAR

15. Motorhead

First three are a virtual deadlock really. I gave Iced Earth the nod because holy fuck is Glorious Burden an amazing album.

[Guest mr. potato head]

1) The New Pornographers

2) The Beatles

3) The Gaslight Anthem

4) The Tragically Hip

5) Mother Mother

6) The Guess Who

7) Wave Pictures

8) Page France

9) Sunset Rubdown

10) Fight Like Apes

11) White Lies

12) Metric

13) R.E.M.

14) Primus

15) Hot Hot Heat

[Guest BK2010]

1. Queen

2. Adam & the Ants

3. Dead or Alive

4. Culture Club

5. Cyndi Lauper

6. Duran Duran

7. Frankie goes to Hollywood

8. Soft Cell

9. Spandau Ballet

10. The Communards

11. UB40

12. Whitney Houston

13. Yazz

14. Tears for Fears

15. Nirvana

Yeah I don't really listen to recent stuff, Love me some 80s.