Your three favorite bands...

Velvet Underground
P-Funk
MX-80 Sound

English:

Led Zeppelin
Beatles
Buzzcocks

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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

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