Your three favorite bands...

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.

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

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