Top 10 Bands...Right Now

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  • Bushleaguer28
    Bushleaguer28 Posts: 776
    The best band on the planet RIGHT NOW is Arcade Fire. There was a time I would have laughed at that but its the truth. That's not to say I like them better than PJ, but I'll put PJ second on this list.
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  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 30,153
    Skeleton Key wrote:
    QOTSA/TCV/Anything JHo
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  • Music For Rhinos
    Music For Rhinos Posts: 1,693
    Bushleaguer28 wrote:
    The best band on the planet RIGHT NOW is Arcade Fire. There was a time I would have laughed at that but its the truth. That's not to say I like them better than PJ, but I'll put PJ second on this list.

    Im laughing at that right now. Cant STAND arcade fire. But, to each his own i guess.
  • Raineman311
    Raineman311 Posts: 127
    1) Pearl Jam
    2) Incubus
    3) Our Lady Peace
    4) Foo Fighters
    5) Rise Against
    6) Soundgarden
    7) 30 Seconds to Mars
    8) Alice in Chains
    9) Against Me
    10) A Perfect Circle
  • Leezestarr313
    Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,458
    PJ / EV
    QOTSA / TCV / EoDM / Desert Sessions / Anything JHo :)
    Arctic Monkeys
    Alice in Chains / Nirvana
    Deep Purple
    Nicolas Jaar
    The Headless Horsemen
    Kitty, Daisy & Lewis
    Mark Lanegan Band
    Grinderman
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  • Iqra
    Iqra Posts: 12
    This is mine judging from what I've been listening to most lately (in no particular order though)

    Pearl Jam (of course!)
    Electric Wizard ( I really think that Black Masses is a pretty kick ass album)
    Boris (They released two new records recently and never the same stuff)
    Lantlos
    Stonebride
    Arcade Fire
    Alcest
    Local Natives
    The Roots
    People Under Stairs
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  • boroff89
    boroff89 Posts: 786
    edited August 2011
    Active only. . .

    1a. Pearl Jam
    1b. Arcade Fire (never thought anyone would equal Pearl Jam, but they've done it)
    3. The Shins
    4. Rise Against
    5. The National
    6. Wilco
    7. Thrice
    8. Ben Folds
    9. Incubus (falling fast after two subpar albums in a row)
    10. Modest Mouse
    Post edited by boroff89 on
    It makes much more sense to live in the present tense.
  • boroff89
    boroff89 Posts: 786
    Bushleaguer28 wrote:
    The best band on the planet RIGHT NOW is Arcade Fire. There was a time I would have laughed at that but its the truth. That's not to say I like them better than PJ, but I'll put PJ second on this list.

    I concur. I have them at a tie for the top on my list.
    It makes much more sense to live in the present tense.
  • joely_91
    joely_91 Posts: 795
    1. My Morning Jacket
    2. Soundgarden /Audioslave
    3. Pearl Jam
    4. The Black Crowes
    5. Seeker Lover Keeper
    6. Band of Horses
    7. REM
    8. Mark Lanegan
    9. Screaming Trees
    10. The Head and the Heart

    Honorable Mentions... Alice In Chains, Chris Cornell Solo, Portishead, Foo Fighters, Alter Bridge, Black Keys and The Kills
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  • Mawky1103
    Mawky1103 Posts: 311
    1)Pearl Jam
    2)My Morning Jacket
    3) Kings of Leon (get better Caleb)
    4) Audioslave
    5) Radiohead
    6) The Black Keys
    7) Soundgarden
    8) Nirvana
    9) Van Morrison
    10) Cat Power

    For me, at the moment.
  • Leash_In_Hiding
    Leash_In_Hiding Posts: 691
    Leeze wrote:
    PJ / EV
    QOTSA / TCV / EoDM / Desert Sessions / Anything JHo :)
    Arctic Monkeys
    Alice in Chains / Nirvana
    Deep Purple
    Nicolas Jaar
    The Headless Horsemen
    Kitty, Daisy & Lewis
    Mark Lanegan Band
    Grinderman

    Just started checking out Eagles of Death Metal a little more than I had in the past they are pretty sick...Nice list
    The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself - EV

  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,249
    Michael Franti & Spearhead
    RUSH
    U2
    Living Colour
    Ben Harper
    Pearl Jam
    Smashing Pumpkins
    Megadeth
    Rise Against
    Steel Pulse

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    Mawky1103 wrote:
    1)Pearl Jam
    2)My Morning Jacket
    3) Kings of Leon (get better Caleb)
    4) Audioslave
    5) Radiohead
    6) The Black Keys
    7) Soundgarden
    8) Nirvana
    9) Van Morrison
    10) Cat Power

    For me, at the moment.

    Excellent pick on Van Morrison. That man is a musical master. I've recently discovered the greatness that is "Tupelo Honey"
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  • restlesssoul
    restlesssoul Posts: 6,952
    1. My Morning Jacket
    2. Yuck
    3. Pearl Jam
    4. Brian Jonestown Massacre
    5. The Tragically Hip
    6. PJ Harvey
    7. QOTSA
    8. REM
    9. Beck
    10. Nirvana
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  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    In no particular order:

    The Tragically Hip
    Pearl Jam
    Wilco
    Headstones
    Drive-By Truckers
    The Weakerthans
    Foo Fighters
    Heartless Bastards
    The Hold Steady
    The Black Keys

    Honorable mentions:
    U2
    Cuff the Duke
    Arcade Fire
    Gomez
    Joel Plaskett Emergency
    Wintersleep
    Death Cab for Cutie
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

    -Tom Waits
  • pjamaholic
    pjamaholic Posts: 1,225
    Pearl Jam
    Muse
    Red Hot Chilli Peppers
    Pink Floyd
    Led Zeppelin
    Queen
    U2
    Nirvana
    The Living End
    Franz Ferdinand
  • Nevermind90
    Nevermind90 Posts: 722
    Pearl Jam
    The Tallest man on earth!!
    My Morning Jacket
    Gomez
    Wilco
    Spoon
    The Kills!!
    Arcade Fire
    Kings of Leon
    ~ Enjoy The Struggle

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