Your personal favorite best rock/metal band/artist of all time. (POLL Included)

So, OT, what band/artist do you personally consider the best.  It could be what band you personally think IS best, or just your favorite.  It can run the whole rock/metal gamut, but please pick just one.

The bands listed in the poll are merely perennial favorites, and you need not choose them.  Other great choices could include:

Pink Floyd
Yes
Genesis
Journey
AC/DC
Dio
The Eagles
Iron Maiden
Judas Preist
Metallica
Megadeth
Slayer
Anthrax
Green Day
Faith no More
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Bon Jovi
Death
Cannibal Corpse
Morbid Angel
Suffucation
Thin Lizzy
The Doors
Scorpions
The Who
Sublime
Rush
The Kinks
Radiohead
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Sound Garden
Alice in Chains
Helmet
Black Flag
Jane's Addiction
Tool
The Ramones
The Sex Pistols
The Clash
The Replacements
Weezer
Beastie Boys
Jimi Hendrix
Van Halen
Captain Beefheart
Frank Zappa
Elvis Presley
Testament
Meat Loaf
Nile
Lamb of God
Korn
Meshuggah
Fear Factory
Sepultura
Pantera
Exhorder
Dream Theater
Fate's Warning
Queen
Queensryche
Mayhem
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Nevermore
Oasis
Type O Negative
Clutch
Marilyn Manson
Alice Cooper
Kiss
Beck
Aerosmith
Def Leppard
Cheap Trick
Procol Harum
Fog Hat
Free
Grand Funk Railroad
Jethro Tull
Cream
Heart
Exodus
Kreator
Venom
Motorhead
Guns N' Roses
Chuck Berry
Spinal Tap
Acid Bath
Deep Purple
Mott the Hoople
David Bowie
Bruce Springsteen
The Police
Devo
Janis Joplin
Yngwie Malmsteen
Buddy Holly
Bad Company
Badfinger
Ted Nugent
Tom Petty
Steppenwolf
Roy Orbison
Creedence
U2
Steve Miller Band
Bob Dylan
The Beach Boys
ZZ Top
R.E.M.
Santana
Stevie Ray Vaughan
The Velvet Underground
Elvis Costello
Smashing Pumpkins
Rage Against the Machine
311
Blue Oyster Cult
The White Stripes
Nine Inch Nails
The Monkees
The Rutles
Vader
The Cure
Depeche Mode




....I will add to the others' list if neccessary...

Slough Feg, while there are other bands that have songs I like more, Slough Feg outclasses them by not having a single song I dislike across all their albums.

Death. The band the genre was named after.

Modest Mouse.

Death. The band the genre was named after.

the_bi99man

Very, very wrong. If anything, it's named after Possessed's song, and even that would be a far fetched hypothesis. 

Anyway, in my case, sometimes it's Mercyful Fate/King Diamond, sometimes it's Hellhammer/Celtic Frost, and sometimes it's Bathory. What doesn't seem to change is that, in my mind, that first wave of Black Metal era was when Metal as a whole hit its raw creative peak. Everything that came after that was and is basically adding more cosmetic elements to the formula. 

Modest Mouse.

applesxc47

My all-time favourite is Radiohead. Everything they've done has influenced my music creation in one way or another. The way they hit me with their writing and creation is incomparable to any other band in the world. Seeing them live not too long ago was also a dream come true.

Minus the Bear

MEGADETH!!!!

Lots of Dad Rock on that list. I'm not sure- Maybe I'm kind of a prissy rock fan. I like new wave-y/brit pop rock bands. Killers, Depeche Mode, Oasis, Smiths, Bloc party, ect.

My all-time favourite is Radiohead. Everything they've done has influenced my music creation in one way or another. The way they hit me with their writing and creation is incomparable to any other band in the world. Seeing them live not too long ago was also a dream come true.

J4ck_The_R1pper

In my opinion, OK Computer is the best record they have- and things have just stumbled down an awkward, experimental road ever since. 

[QUOTE="J4ck_The_R1pper"]

My all-time favourite is Radiohead. Everything they've done has influenced my music creation in one way or another. The way they hit me with their writing and creation is incomparable to any other band in the world. Seeing them live not too long ago was also a dream come true.

Shmiity

In my opinion, OK Computer is the best record they have- and things have just stumbled down an awkward, experimental road ever since. 

your opinion is awful

[QUOTE="applesxc47"]

Modest Mouse.

Granny_Spanked

That's one of those bands that I thought I would swoon over, but I hate the hell out of every record they have. 

[QUOTE="Shmiity"]

[QUOTE="J4ck_The_R1pper"]

My all-time favourite is Radiohead. Everything they've done has influenced my music creation in one way or another. The way they hit me with their writing and creation is incomparable to any other band in the world. Seeing them live not too long ago was also a dream come true.

WolfattheDoor34

In my opinion, OK Computer is the best record they have- and things have just stumbled down an awkward, experimental road ever since. 

your opinion is awful

You're seriously telling me- look at me sincerely through the internet- that KING OF LIMBS has better songs than OK Computer? You're insane. Radiohead has no SONGS anymore. They are just experimental and bizarre. It's not cool, it's not fun, it's not exciting. It's useless. Where are the big anthems? Where are the No Surprises? Fake Plastic Trees? There arent any. Radiohead can go to hell.

[QUOTE="WolfattheDoor34"]

[QUOTE="Shmiity"]

In my opinion, OK Computer is the best record they have- and things have just stumbled down an awkward, experimental road ever since. 

Shmiity

your opinion is awful

You're seriously telling me- look at me sincerely through the internet- that KING OF LIMBS has better songs than OK Computer? You're insane. Radiohead has no SONGS anymore. They are just experimental and bizarre. It's not cool, it's not fun, it's not exciting. It's useless. Where are the big anthems? Where are the No Surprises? Fake Plastic Trees? There arent any. Radiohead can go to hell.

:lol: you're such a moron, you don't deserve music

and no, tKoL is certainly not better than OKC - but Kid A, Amnesiac, and In Rainbows are

[QUOTE="Shmiity"]

[QUOTE="WolfattheDoor34"]

your opinion is awful

WolfattheDoor34

You're seriously telling me- look at me sincerely through the internet- that KING OF LIMBS has better songs than OK Computer? You're insane. Radiohead has no SONGS anymore. They are just experimental and bizarre. It's not cool, it's not fun, it's not exciting. It's useless. Where are the big anthems? Where are the No Surprises? Fake Plastic Trees? There arent any. Radiohead can go to hell.

:lol: you're such a moron, you don't deserve music

and no, tKoL is certainly not better than OKC - but Kid A, Amnesiac, and In Rainbows are

How? Can you justify this beyond that "I am a moron"? There is no way you can convince that song for song, any of their albums have bigger, better pop songs than OK Computer. It's impossible. Do you want to talk music theory? Analysis? I can go all day. I have given up on Radiohead's garbage. Their songs have just gotten weirder and weirder. They have not gotten better. I am thoroughly unimpressed. I will take Billy Corgan's quote, "I will piss on Radiohead". 

[QUOTE="WolfattheDoor34"]

[QUOTE="Shmiity"]

You're seriously telling me- look at me sincerely through the internet- that KING OF LIMBS has better songs than OK Computer? You're insane. Radiohead has no SONGS anymore. They are just experimental and bizarre. It's not cool, it's not fun, it's not exciting. It's useless. Where are the big anthems? Where are the No Surprises? Fake Plastic Trees? There arent any. Radiohead can go to hell.

Shmiity

:lol: you're such a moron, you don't deserve music

and no, tKoL is certainly not better than OKC - but Kid A, Amnesiac, and In Rainbows are

How? Can you justify this beyond that "I am a moron"? There is no way you can convince that song for song, any of their albums have bigger, better pop songs than OK Computer. It's impossible. Do you want to talk music theory? Analysis? I can go all day. I have given up on Radiohead's garbage. Their songs have just gotten weirder and weirder. They have not gotten better. I am thoroughly unimpressed. I will take Billy Corgan's quote, "I will piss on Radiohead". 

Tool

The Raveonettes, I just like 'em.

Jimi Hendrix - God of the guitar.

Your list lacks Vader >_>

Gojira

One of my favorites is The Who. 

The Beatles are the greatest band of all time, and some of the finest musicians in modern history. My personal favorite is probably Nine Inch Nails, but I always acknowledge how god-tier the Beatles are/were. Ninja-Hippo

[QUOTE="Ninja-Hippo"]The Beatles are the greatest band of all time, and some of the finest musicians in modern history. My personal favorite is probably Nine Inch Nails, but I always acknowledge how god-tier the Beatles are/were. LJS9502_basic

[QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"][QUOTE="Ninja-Hippo"]The Beatles are the greatest band of all time, and some of the finest musicians in modern history. My personal favorite is probably Nine Inch Nails, but I always acknowledge how god-tier the Beatles are/were. Ninja-Hippo

Nothing homophobic in my statements....unless you think that fact that I asked if you were coming out is something horrible..which makes you the homophobe. . I'm not as disliked as you like to think either. LJS9502_basic

EDIT: ANYWAY, music huh? The beatles are pretty good. I'm sure people like lots of other bands though. Sure would be a shame to let yet another thread get **** all over yet again. 

EDIT: ANYWAY, music huh? The beatles are pretty good. I'm sure people like lots of other bands though. Sure would be a shame to let yet another thread get **** all over yet again. 

Ninja-Hippo

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EDIT: ANYWAY, music huh? The beatles are pretty good. I'm sure people like lots of other bands though. Sure would be a shame to let yet another thread get **** all over yet again. 

Hseptic