Your three favorite bands...

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

Those aren't the bands I'm listening to most at the moment, but they're the bands who've given me the most entertainment over the last couple of decades.

reserving the right to substitute AMM and Pentangle for any of the above, at any time.

why? -
they are 3 bands that really kick out the jams
with truly individual expressions of punk
these guys won't ever date

beatles
sonic youth
pixies

i can "name that tune" by any one of these bands in like 3/4 of a second

dave matthews band
badly drawn boy
zero7/wilco (tie)

Silver Jews
Led Zeppelin
Fugazi

.

Third one is harder: A few years ago I'd have said Pavement, easy, but I don't listen to them much anymore. Maybe Steely Dan or the Beach Boys?

Killing Joke
the Stranglers
Kiss

roughly.

1/ Mouse on Mars
2/ African Head Charge
3/ Tortoise

Velvet Underground
P-Funk
MX-80 Sound

English:

Led Zeppelin
Beatles
Buzzcocks

submit and never return to

Ever:
Beach Boys
Autechre
Boo Radleys

Now:
Belle And Sebastian
Animal Collective
Tom Waits

Smashing Pumpkins
CCR
Pink Floyd

now;

The Beatles
Sigur Ros
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band (oh yes)

oh shit I already answered this 13 years ago

Plus one: Pinback

dillinger four
aerosmith

catherine wheel too

Wow brad, going there for A? Respect.

nothing gives me what get your wings and toys and rocks give me

I'm so mad I'll never get to see Dillinger Four live. Vs God and Situationist Comedy sold me on melodic punk.

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.

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!