Your three favorite bands...

Current 93, Momus, Tom Waits ...

evah is a long time ...

2/ Magazine

3/ Van der graaf Generator

(oh this is too hard...)

the other are debatable.

contenders: Lightning Bolt, Landed, Policy of 3, Assfactor 4, Fugazi.. bleh. somethin.

Still....okay, I'll try:

(1) Killing Joke (then, now and forever)
(2) Cop Shoot Cop
(3) Kiss

....or possibly the Stranglers, the Ramones, the Clash, Queen, Motorhead, Buzzcocks, Julian Cope, Firewater, the Sex Pistols, Sisters of Mercy, the Circle Jerks, Bowie, Iron Maiden....oh, fuck, and loads more.

Current bands
1)Katatonia
2)Katatonia
3)Katatonia

Beatles
Replacements
Van Halen

Insert "rockist" barb here.

As an aside, it's really hard to rate bands that had one great album, like Neutral Milk Hotel, here.

do I have horrible taste?

wow, that was easy.

no, erm, really... for long term liking and consistency of taste...
-spacemen 3
-the velvet underground
-stereolab

*Wire
*Modest Mouse
*Sloan

Contender: Slowdive

Left out: too many brilliant bands with fewer or less consistently great albums (sloan is inconsistent but gets in anyway).

Slint
Radiohead
My Bloody Valentine

(I will try to be more esoteric next time)

Raymond Scott, Talking Heads, Dismemberment Plan, Talking Heads, Sun Ra, White Stripes, Public Enemy, Replacements, Run DMC... oh I dont know.

Hall of fame: The Beatles, the Fall, Liliput.

4ever
1. Sonic Youth
2. Joy Division
3. Pulp

thats right.

Eternally: easy - Beatles/Pet Shop Boys/Clash (with or without mournful inflation).

Forever:
1. Belle & Sebastian
2. Apples in Stereo
3. Wu-Tang Clan

honorable mention: grandaddy, magnetic fields, tribe called quest, the roots

Forever:
- The Doors
- Future Sound of London
- Orbital
(but too many to name, i would like to add Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Eat Static, Slayer, 808 state, Pwei, Stone Roses, I'll still be loving all these bands till the d.i.d)

all-time:
Beatles
Beach Boys
Boredoms

-Drive Like Jehu
-The Boredoms
-The Beatles

Not always in that order, though.

At the Moment:

-Parson Sound
-The Boredoms
-The Can

Throwing Muses, John Cale, Shirokuma

Now :

DJ Food, Squarepusher, Rei Harakami

Beatles
Echo & the Bunnymen
The La's

Evah(at time of writing, subject to change by time message appears on screen): Magazine, Blur, and, er, I dunno, the Verve or someone.

1. Bunny Brains
2. V-3
3. Friendly

the beatles
mc5
pixies

but i'd also rate high belle and sebastian, beastie boys, jsbx, le mans, mccarthy, paolo conte, television...

faust
brian eno
scritti politti

current :

deerhoof
jim o'rourke
liars

The Melvins
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Victory At Sea

Two years ago:
Autechre
Lamb
Portishead (hahahaha ALP)

Today:
Sleater Kinney
Bardo Pond
Cocteau Twins

OF ALL TIME
Cocteau Twins
Sleater Kinney
Autechre

However...

Low
My Bloody Valentine
Pavement

based purely on the # of tracks on my phone (the purest metric I have)

Manics
Tindersticks
Mark Eitzel/AMC

Does spotify have info on my most played artists and songs of all time? I don’t have it linked to last fm scrobbles anymore and I think someone might have stole my account there because the top songs in there in the past year are songs I don’t even know... anyhoo according to it my top three bands artists are:

1. Stereolab
2. Can
3. Grimes

they did a 2017 year-end thing. it works for me to just go here to see it, if you're logged into your spotify account: https://open.spotify.com/genre/2017-page

Ah but that one only gives me the 2017 ones. I want one for the 10 years or so I’ve been on spotify.

I'll agree with Catherine Wheel. Also Meat Puppets and Scrawl.

Last.fm says:

Dylan
Miles
Eno

I'll take that.

Most consistently listened to would probably be

Keith Jarrett
Pearl Jam
Ryan Adams

my last fm seems pretty otm: Los Campesinos!, Half Man Half Biscuit and Xiu Xiu

Radiohead and Talk Talk would be my top 2. I have no idea what the third one might be. Or I can't remember.

The Clientele (earlier stuff)
The Lilys (earlier stuff)
Sun Kil Moon (earlier stuff)

Can, Cocteau Twins, Mercyful Fate

awesome seeing some dillinger four love on here, was my first concert B)

Impossible question really as this changes throughout life

Broadcast
Stereolab
Cocteau twins

Honorary omissions: chromatics, tori amos, peej

yes, led zeppelin, the beatles

elvis costello & the attractions
dinosaur jr
steely dan

also sleater-kinney. and the stones. and parliament-funkadelic. and roxy music. and i can keep going.

it'll have to be 4

steely dan
the fall
pavement
sonic youth

New Order
Black Sabbath
Wu-Tang Clan

i guess it'd be

pavement
grateful dead
VU

if we're going for all-time, most consistent over time/most impact. daily, things ebb and flow. idk. i'm boring

if we're talking BANDS:

talking heads
the beach boys
the boo Radleys

global t -- that's a good trio (by yr own criteria)

talking heads ousting autechre in 2018 but no real change. actually I think I prefer Autechre to the Beach Boys these days

Something like this

Pet Shop Boys
Saint Etienne
Broadcast

Van der Graaf Generator
Tindersticks
Shearwater

Vaselines
The Fall
Fleetwood Mac, preferably including Lindsey B

pumpkins
ac
beatles

Beatles
Hawkwind
Yellow Magic Orchestra

grateful dead
mazzy star
some version of one of the electric bands miles davis had in the early 70s - al foster, michael henderson, james mtume, pete cosey, reggie lucas, dave liebman

Beach House
Fleetwood Mac
Pet Shop Boys

The Clientele
Talking Heads
Low

The Clientele
Joni Mitchell's Hejira band
Destroyer's Kaputt band

New Order
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Belle & Sebastian

Ignoring Philip Glass etc., lastfm says:

Radiohead
The Rolling Stones
Amadou & Mariam

The Black Angels are #19 and climbing...

Beatles, Fall, Saint Etienne

funk bros
tcb band
chic org

Revision # 7:
Zep
Sabbath
VH

The Cure

Steely Dan
Spoon

and then The Boo Radleys

followed by New Order

Brighouse and Rastrick Brass
Goombay Dance
Black Velvet

The Fall
Prefab Sprout
Velvet Underground

Really though it's more fluid and not so set in stone. But all three of those above are bands whose work i know back to front. And whose entire catalog of l.p's i can and do sing along with. In and out of the shower.

Revision C:
2814
Telepath
HKE

Rolling Stones '63 - '72
Sonic You t h
PRINCE

Jane’s just shot to #1!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dpxn3T4XUAAkr_I.jpg

all time: the Boo Radleys, the Beach Boys, Talking Heads although I don't listen to any of them that much any more

Echo & the Bunnymen
Joseph Arthur
David Sylvian (sort of sharing and alternating 3rd/4rd spot with Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry solo, but Sylvian ultimately wins because of Gone To Earth).

going for a "Joseph Arthur" was used in a non-musical context in my childhood!