Your all-time favorite band

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Ok, let's have it - who is your all-time favorite band?

 

The band that has the most songs I enjoy - Beatles

The most fun band during my youth - Earth, Wind & Fire

 

If we’re going over the full span of a career it’s probably U2. (Split Enz is in the conversation.)

Having said that, I’ve never loved a band more than Fishbone circa 1984-1988.

 

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Led Zeppelin is a close second.

My first reaction was almost DMB. But I paused so as not to draw ridicule.

 

Probably Fleetwood Mac.

Fleetwood Mac was simply THE concert ticket to have in my later-high school and college years, and I still enjoy their rocking, rolling, rollicking music any time I hear it. I considered Heart the best of the soft-rock genre, a type of music I enjoyed for the pleasure and ease of singing, which I also liked to do.

I love music and always could appreciate a lot of different types, particularly in my younger years, though. It makes it hard for me to cite "a" favorite.

Also, my teen years happened to have been dominated by several groups that, musically speaking, were similar, to the point of seeming to be almost interchangeable -- Journey, Styx and REO Speedwagon, Chicago, and Heart come to mind -- and I liked all of them a lot. After that, I was partial to Boys II Men for some time, too.

 

REM

 

The Black Crowes. Just the perfect mix of all the genres I love — rock, folk, soul, etc. Still the best live show I’ve ever attended, and they do Zeppelin as well as anyone.

Also have to give a shout to Barenaked Ladies. Gordon was the soundtrack to my college years. And I’ve rediscovered some of their later stuff now that my kids are big fans, too.

 

Couldn't pick just one. At least a dozen to fit my moods, from Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys to P-Funk. But I'm paying serious money to see American Utopia tonight, if that gives a clue as to how I feel about Talking Heads.

 

Seeing as I just went overseas to see them for three nights, I'd say it's The Hold Steady.

 

I should add that if we're talking live acts and not just recordings, I've got to give a special shoutout to the J. Geils Band.

 

The Abe Hubert Junior High Band. It was a much simpler time, when the drum section was still the drum section and not laden with the high-falutin percussion label. And there was that one girl in the clarinet section.