Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler What are your top ten acts of all time?

1. Black Sabbath
2. Eagles
3. Disturbed
4. Godsmack
5. Nightwish (with Tarja)
6. Within Temptation
7. Metallica
8. Pink Floyd
9. Lacuna Coil
10. Linda Ronstadt

Oops, missed Genesis/Gabriel in my list.

Its very hard to come up with just 10

Trouble is, my top 10 list is actually more of a rotating top 50 list. My top 10, six months from now, will probably be a little different.

Hmmm, I should have mentioned CCR since nobody else did! oh, and The Band, Stevie Winwood, early Styx(no "Roboto stuff") and Boston...

In no particular order:

The Beatles
Pink Floyd
ELO
Queen
Blondie
ABBA
Rush
Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass
The Grateful Dead
Puffy (aka Puffy AmiYumi)

Honorable mentions some of which could move up. Miles Davis, Cars, Jethro Tull, Epica, Hiromi’s Sonic Bloom, Nena, The Manhattan Transfer, Styx, Oreskaband, Angela, Astral Projection, The Bangles, Deep Purple, Nightwish, Yoko Kanno (composer)

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Arthur Rubinstein

Vladimir Horowitz

Anna Moffo

Leontyne Price

Martha Argerich

Itzhak Perlman

Placido Domingo

Vladimir Ashkenazy

Earl Wild

1) Ra
2) Dispatch
3) The John Butler Trio
4) The Jimi Hendrix Experience
5) The Red Hot Chili Peppers
6) The Offspring
7) Gorillaz
8) Skindred
9) Disturbed
10) System of a Down

For Jazz:

1) Miles Davis
2) John Coltrane
3) Charlie Parker
4) Louis Armstrong
5) Charles Mingus
6) Thelonius Monk
7) Dave Brubeck
8) Sonny Rollins
9) Stanley Turrentine
10) Joshua Redman

For Rock - I will go with the best acts that I have seen live (in no particular order):

1) The Rolling Stones
2) The Who
3) Queen (with Freddie Mercury)
4) Heart
5) Tori Amos
6) Sarah MacLachlan
7) Bob Seger
8) Tom Petty
9) Natalie Merchant
10) Styx

I was waiting for your list John. My parents were big Perlman fans and I remember watiching a classical documentary series featuring him as a host and at times performer.

Dean. Interesting list, but not surprising coming from you. I forgot the Dead. They would make my top 20 list with their varied styles. Blues for Allah is my favourite from them.

David. Though I never owned anythign by him until very recently, Dave Brubek is right up there for me as well.

I'm still waiting for someone to put Dwight Yoakam in their top 10.

I would like to add Blondie, the Cars, and Tom Petty to my favorites. Would have loved to see any of them live. Maybe with Tom there's a chance, still.

For an honorable mention I have to pick Styx and Boston.