Your Top 5 Groups Of All Time!

1. The Chameleons
2. The Cure
3. The Smiths
4. Joy Division
5. Skinny Puppy

#1-4 Brits, #5 Canadian, no American groups.

Top favorite American

1. Pixies
2. Ramones
3. Fleetwood Mac (when the 2 Americans joined and they became a Cali band)
4. Weezer
5. Foo Fighters

U2
Beach Boys
Springsteen & E-Street Band
Journey
Police

Others:
Smashing Pumpkins
Steely Dan
Van Halen
Tool
Godsmack
Jethro Tull
Cheap Trick
REM
Offspring (prefer them to Green Day, but GD is fine too)
Loverboy
Bush
Fixx
Guns & Roses
Bon Jovi
Firehouse
ELO
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Duran Duran
Creed
Bush
Bad Company
Candlebox
Led Zeppelin
Heart
and many more.

What's with all the Heart mentions?

Guitar Hero. (My nephew has it)

Atheist
Summoning
Equilibrium
In The Woods...
Opeth

Hard to narrow down into a top five. In no particular order though my top list of groups woud have to include The Beatles, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Rush, Enigma, Yes, Deep Forest, The Moody Blues, Parliament, and ELO - based on the number of albums I have (or had) for each of these, compared to all the others. (I know...more than five).

YouTube - Heart-Crazy On You

Magic Man and others, no fluke Ann & Nancy Wilson rocked the 70's and 80's (even 90's):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_(band)

Oops, didn't realize you linked it in your post.

So many truths spoken in jest.....

Radiohead
The Stone Roses
Daft Punk
The Beatles
Muse

Uno - U2
Dos - Led Zepplin
Tres - Pink Floyd
Cuatro - Janes Addiction
Seis - REM

Here's a one hit wonder:

YouTube - Billy Thorpe - Children of the Sun (Stereo!)

I also failed to mention Peter Frampton

YouTube - Peter Frampton-Baby I love your way
Peter Frampton - Do You Feel Like We Do (1976)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhFROOn_D7E

Ill name pop band, and not get music snob on y'all

Faith No More
The Police
U2
Depeche Mode
Pet Shop Boys


my snob list

Hocico
Aes dana
Zero cult
Decoded Feedback
Tau factor

Opeth
Pink Floyd
Marillion
Iron Maiden
Dream Theater (cheese and all; their musicianship is insurmountable in the hard rock world)

I'm obviously a metalhead and a prog rocker.

EDIT: YES!! I knew there had to be at least one other person on this board who recognized their sheer awesomeness. And I'm not even a death metal fan. Opeth simply makes beautiful, unique music. I'd call Blackwater Park the pinnacle of metal's aesthetic validity. It's a tossup between it and Marillion's Misplaced Childhood for my favorite album ever.

Led Zep
U2
Beach Boys
Smiths
Specials

In that order.

2 Irish, 2 English, 1 Yank

Artists as opposed to groups:

Roy Orbison
Bowie
Elton
Colin Blunstone
Johnny Cash

2 yanks, 3 Brits. no females.

Zep, Specials & Smiths are all English - thats three