Best Song of your 10 Favorite Bands

[Bombardana]

Dream Theater -   The Glass Prison / Learning to Live
Iron Maiden -       Fear of the Dark
Metallica -           Master of Puppets / One
Slayer -              Seasons in the Abyss / Angel of Death
Overkill -             Devil By The Tail / Elimination
Megadeth -         Holy Wars... The Punishment Due / Tornado of Souls
Symphony X -      Sea of Lies / Smoke and Mirrors / Of Sins and Shadows / Rediscovery
Opeth -              The Drapery Falls / The Leper Affinity
Black Sabbath -   War Pigs
Pantera -            Walk / Domination / Cemetery Gates
Cannibal Corpse-  From Skin to Liquid / Hammer Smashed Face

I'm not really sure on any of these

[3MinuteWarning]

1.  Porcupine Tree - Normal
2.  Dave Matthews Band - Jimi Thing
3.  Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons
4.  Pink Floyd - Learning To Fly
5.  Tool - Lateralus
6.  Meshuggah - Straws Pulled At Random
7.  Rush - Xanadu
8.  Opeth - Bleak
9.  Pain of Salvation - In the Flesh
10. Marillion - Neverland

[skydivingninja]

Updating my previous list:

Rush-Natural Science
Dream Theater-Trial of Tears
Coheed & Cambria-The Light & The Glass
Pink Floyd-Shine on You Crazy Diamond
Porcupine Tree-Shesmovedon
Peter Gabriel-Secret World
Bruce Springsteen-Thunder Road
Iron Maiden-Powerslave
Marillion-Neverland
Muse-Hysteria

[Dcrupi]

Alien Ant Farm                   -S.S. Recognize
Avenged Sevenfold             -A Little Piece of Heaven, Critical Acclaim
The Chronicles of Israfel      -Laudanum, Kill Division
Coheed & Cambria              -Gravemakers & Gunslingers, The Final Cut, Wake Up
The Dillinger Escape Plan      -Nong Eye Gong
Dream Theater                   -Octavarium, Misunderstood
Incubus                            -Aqueous Transmission, Nebula, Look Alive
The Mars Volta                  -Ilyena, Eria Tarka
Pain of Salvation                -Used, Nihil Morari, Dea Pecuniae
Ra                                   -Push, The Only One, Waste of Space

HELL YES, another Ra fan!!!  I thought I was all alone on this board...

Also, Sigz, excellent choice in Heartattack In A Lay By.

[Starkweather]

No order

The Human Abstract - Counting Down The Days

Machine Head - Descend The Shades of Night

7L & Esoteric - Play Dumb

Opeth - Hessian Peel

Septic Flesh - Communion

As Blood Runs Black - Legends Never Die

Queen - Hammer To Fall

Iced Earth - Dracula

Dredg - The Tanbark is Hot Lava

Behemoth - The Reign ov Shemsu-Hor

[Accelerando]

Alter Bridge - Blackbird
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
P.O.D. - Seeking The Wise
The Who - Sparks
Creed - Whose Got My Back?
Genesis - Suppers Ready
U2 - Bullet The Blue Sky

[emindead]

Dream Theater - Learning To Live

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

Queen - Somebody To Love

Sonata Arctica - Full Moon

Bob Dylan - Blowing In The Wind

Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence

U2 - With or Without You

Iron Maiden - The Clansman

Los Prisioneros - Muevan Las Industrias

Soda Stereo - Juegos de Seducción

[Ouda]

To avoid several hours of mental computation, I just wrote my top 15 bands.

1. Metallica - Hit the Lights (production is shit but whatever)
2. Dream Theater - Octavarium
3. Queens of the Stone Age - Burn the Witch
4. System of a Down - Mr. Jack
5. Mastodon - The Last Baron
6. Megadeth - Holy Wars...
7. Muse - New Born
8. Queen - Stone Cold Crazy
9. Hollerado - Fake Drugs
10. Iron Maiden - Children of the Damned
11. Nine inch Nails - You know what you are?
12. Rush - YYZ
13. Van Halen - Hot for Teacher
14. Wolfmother - Joker and the thief
15. The Police - Next to You

[Space Invader]

This is a toughie

In no particualr order:

1. Redemption - Sapphire
2. Dream Theater - Octavarium
3. Muse - Citizen Erased
4. Thrice - The Whaler
5. Dominici - Nowhere to Hide
6. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
7. Wolverine - Bleeding
8. Mastodon - Sleeping Giant
9. Metallica - No Leaf Clover
10. Planet X - Alien Hip Hop

Of course, my top ten change with alarming frequency, but this is where it's at right now.

[Darkes7]

Iron Maiden - Paschendale (yes)

How could I forget about Where Eagles Dare and The Clansman... fixed.

[chrisbDTM]

Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons
cKy- Dressed in Decay
Rush - Subdivisions
Between the Buried and Me - Sun of Nothing
Protest the Hero - Bone Marrow
Yngwie Malmsteen - Fire & Ice
Symphony X - The Divine Wongs of Tragedy
Avenged Sevenfold - Blinded in Chains/ A Little Peace of Heaven
Veil of Maya - Entry Level Exit Wounds
Liquid Tension Experiment - When the Water Breaks

[PlaysLikeMyung]

i wish i could quote, but i cant, and i lold when i saw this:

divine wongs of tragedy

[TioJorge]

I thought this thread would help me and others maybe discover new bands or great songs or albums, since I am still new to the metal and prog scene and discovering new bands every week.

So post the Best Song(or 3) I don't mind (In Your Opinion) of your 10 favorite bands and help me or others discover some more great music!

Dream Theater -  Change of Seasons/In the Name of God/Voices

Pink Floyd - Dogs/Comfortably Nuimb/Coming Back to Life

Dredg - Planting Seeds

Opeth - Burden

Between the Buried and Me -  White Walls

Marillion - Sugar Mice

Beach Boys -  Till I die/surfs up/Caroline No

Pain of Salvation - Shore Serenity/Undertow

Avenged Sevenfold - Seize the Day/Critical Acclaim

Rush - Tom Sawyer/Mission


These are the bands that I am only really familiar with so you see why I look forward to your more experienced lists!

when you get more music i have a feeling beach boys will leave your top 10

Huge fail right there

Truly. I'd give him a little slack though, he's probably still in the mindset that the Beach Boys aren't nearly cool enough for him to understand how much of an impact they had on the world, both musically and otherwise. They aren't my style, but I've heard enough of them to realize that half the bands I listen to today wouldn't be around and/or wouldn't be nearly as talented if not for the Beach Boys. Either way, here goes:

Porcupine Tree - And The Swallows Dance Above The Sun and Slave Called Shiver
Dream Theater - Surrounded
Opeth - April Ethereal
Between The Buried And Me - Sun of Nothing and Mordecai (To close to decide/lazy)
H.I.M. - The Sacrament
The Killers - Spaceman
Metallica - Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Tool - Jimmy
A Perfect Circle - Orestes
Counting Crows - I Wish I Was A Girl

There it is. A little of this, a little of that. I'm sure CC will stand out to most as being a WTF choice among the others, but I guess that's what happens when you grow up in a house blazing Metallica and Black Sabbath at one moment (metalhead dad), then Rush and CC the other (hippie/southern mother). This thing changes nearly constantly, but this list I think is pretty consistent, even if the songs will change, most of the bands will stay save for a couple (HIM and Killers most likely). Good lists on here though, seeing some interesting choices.

[MetalManiac666]

I put my fave album from the band in the middle also, just for fun. Strange how many of my favourite songs by the band aren't on my favourite album - 6 out of 10.


1. Dream Theater - Images & Words - Lines In The Sand
2. Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun - Arriving Somewhere...But Not Here
3. Symphony X - V - Of Sins and Shadows
4. Metallica - Master of Puppets - Outlaw Torn
5. Rammstein - Mutter - Seeman
6. Opeth - Blackwater Park - The Leper Affinity
7. Megadeth - Rust in Peace - Holy Wars
8. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon - Money
9. The Doobie Brothers - The Captain & me - Long Train Running
10. Iron Maiden - Powerslave - Hallowed Be Thy Name

Holy shit, it's the muther fuckin' Doobie Brothers!   

[zepp-head]

Dream Theater - Surrounded, A Change of Seasons, Scarred

Genesis - The Cinema Show

Frost* - Milliontown

Van Halen - Right Now, Mine All Mine

Led Zeppelin - Trampled Underfoot, That's the Way, Fool in the Rain

Journey - Winds of March, Lights, Mother/Father

Rush - Red Barchetta

Queen - Somebody to Love

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

ELP - Pirates, Trilogy

[sonatafanica]

Truly. I'd give him a little slack though, he's probably still in the mindset that the Beach Boys aren't nearly cool enough for him to understand how much of an impact they had on the world, both musically and otherwise. They aren't my style, but I've heard enough of them to realize that half the bands I listen to today wouldn't be around and/or wouldn't be nearly as talented if not for the Beach Boys. Either way, here goes:

It's funny you should say that because my friend and I, who are always listening to album after album after album (and enjoying only a small number of them, I myself only listen to about 25 bands in total) to see what the world's music is made of, listened to a few Beach Boys albums a few weeks ago.

I Just Wasn't Meant for These Times came out of nowhere. Back in their time no one was singing songs about actual depression. When I heard the line "Sometimes I feel very sad",.....oh my god.


They are definitely more than just a Surfin' USA band.

[petrucci07]

Dream Theater: Voices
Pain of Salvation: Beyond the Pale
Porcupine Tree: Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
Metallica: Disposable Heroes/Master of Puppets/...And Justice For All
Radiohead: Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Trivium: Declaration/Shogun/Down From the Sky
Muse: Butterflies & Hurricanes/Map of the Problematique/Citizen Erased
Avenged Sevenfold: The Wicked End/Critical Acclaim/A Little Piece of Heaven
Coldplay: Death and All His Friends/Prospekt's March/Fix You
Opeth: Ghost of Perdition

You've no idea how long that took me.

[Dr. DTVT]

Wide variety here I think/hope: (alphabetical order after DT)

Dream Theater - this is like asking someone which of their children are their favorites, but if I HAD to pick one it might be Octavarium

Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other Side
Children of Bodom - Bastards of Bodom
Devin Townsend - Earth Day
Enchant - New Moon
Iron Maiden - The Trooper
Opeth - Heir Apparent
Pain of Salvation - Handful of Nothing
Rush - 2112 (caveat - MUST BE LIVE)
Shadow Gallery - New World Order
Symphony X- Inferno (Unleash the Fire)

List is subject to change 

[Dr. DTVT]

4) Iron Maiden - Paschendale

Very yes...awesome song that is never going to get the respect it deserves b/c it's not "classic" Maiden

[Jamesman42]

Tell the world of Paschedale. 

[Darkes7]

I also put it in my Iron Maiden favourites. It's easily one of the best songs they've ever created, and in their case it means A LOT.

[Mladen]

Iron Maiden - Sign of the cross
Helloween - Halloween
Judas Priest - Ram it down
Dream Theater - Metropolis
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to heaven
The Beatles - I am the walrus
Megadeth - The Disintergrators
Thin Lizzy - Cowboy song
Pink Floyd - Sheep
Symphony X - The Oddyssey

[ZachyDou]

1. Dream Theater - Octavarium
2. Metallica - All Nightmare Long/Hit The Lights
3. Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows
4. Mastodon - Oblivion
5. Muse - Stockholm Syndrome
6. Hollerado - Fake Drugs/Riverside
7. Thrice - Daedalus
8. Matthew Good Band - Everything is Automatic/Born Losers
9. Rise Againts - Tip the Scales
10. Tenacious D - City Hall

and because I can't chose:
11. Wintersleep - Astronaut/Oblivion

[Ouda]

11. Wintersleep - Astronaut/Oblivion

What about Orca?

[setrataeso]

Think fast...

Dream Theater - Metropolis
Great Big Sea - Here and Now
Muse - Map of the Problematique
Thrice - The Whaler
Rise Against - Drones
Rush - YYZ
Liquid Tension Experiment - Freedom of Speech
Metallica - ...And Justice for All
John Williams - Alliance Assembly
Howard Shore - The Great Eye

Very different artists

[ZachyDou]

11. Wintersleep - Astronaut/Oblivion

What about Orca?

ummmm.... it's not my favorite? 

[chrisbDTM]

i wish i could quote, but i cant, and i lold when i saw this:

divine wongs of tragedy

oops
missed that!

[MindRuler]

Iron Maiden - Revelations, Hallowed Be Thy Name, Caught Somewhere In Time
Savatage - Believe, Edge of Thorns, Gutter Ballet
Edguy - The Piper Never Dies
Evergrey - The Masterplan, Solitude Within
Blind Guardian - And Then There Was Silence
Dungeon - A Rise to Power, The legend of Huma
Nocturnal Rites - New World Messiah
Queensryche - Eyes of a Stranger, Take Hold of the Flame
Stratovarius - Visions, Infinity
Symphony X - Communion and the Oracle, The Accolade

[millahh]

5. Dropkick Murphys - Fields of Athenry

I wanna check out this band, any album to start with that you would recommend?

I actually got started with them through their live album "Live on St. Patricks Day". I think their most accessible album is "Blackout" though. "Do Or Die", "The Gang's All Here", and "Sing Loud, Sing Proud" have a different singer, but they're all excellent album (and "Sing Loud, Sing Proud" is far more traditionally-Irish oriented) with the new singer, my preferences are 1. "Blackout" 2. "The Meanest of Times", 3. "The Warriors Code".

With the old singer, 1. "Sing Loud, Sing Proud" 2. "Do Or Die" 3. "The Gang's All Here"

Sorry to get all pedantic on you, but Mike only sang on Do Or Die.  Since then, it's been Al (and of course Ken).  Maybe youre somewhat thinking of when they changed guitarists from the original guy (Rick?) to Marc & James?  That was between Gang's All here and Sing Loud Sing Proud.

[PlaysLikeMyung]

5. Dropkick Murphys - Fields of Athenry

I wanna check out this band, any album to start with that you would recommend?

I actually got started with them through their live album "Live on St. Patricks Day". I think their most accessible album is "Blackout" though. "Do Or Die", "The Gang's All Here", and "Sing Loud, Sing Proud" have a different singer, but they're all excellent album (and "Sing Loud, Sing Proud" is far more traditionally-Irish oriented) with the new singer, my preferences are 1. "Blackout" 2. "The Meanest of Times", 3. "The Warriors Code".

With the old singer, 1. "Sing Loud, Sing Proud" 2. "Do Or Die" 3. "The Gang's All Here"

Sorry to get all pedantic on you, but Mike only sang on Do Or Die.  Since then, it's been Al (and of course Ken).  Maybe youre somewhat thinking of when they changed guitarists from the original guy (Rick?) to Marc & James?  That was between Gang's All here and Sing Loud Sing Proud.

Well, you are Pedantic and Ridiculous

But you seem to be right. I could have pulled out my albums for that, but didn't feel like it, and so I guessed. Thanks for setting it straight.

They've gone through a lot of lineup changes. I was pissed when Spicy left and was replaced with Scruffy. Now, doing the Spicy McHaggis Jig would be really weird.

[ZachyDou]

and because i can (and forgot), ill add...

12. Liquid Tension Experiment - Biaxident

[lateralus88]

The hardest part is deciding who my top 10 favourites bands are...

Dream Theater - The Best of Times/Metropolis pt 1/Surrounded (fuckin ties)
Iron Maiden - Dance of Death
Tool - 10,000 Days (wings pt. 2)
Children of Bodom - Every time I Die
Nevermore - The Heart Collector
Opeth - In Mist She Was Standing
Shinedown - The Crow and the Butterfly
Buckethead - Big Sur Moon/Night of the Slunk
Unexpect - Desert Urbania
Avenged Sevenfold - Sidewinder

[phil87]

Dream Theater - Surrounded
Fightstar - Mono
Mono - Pure as Snow (Trails of the Winter Storm)
Pyramaze - What Lies Beyond
Matryoshka - Gentle Afternoon
Pink Floyd - Us and Them
Telegraphs - Forever Never
Muse - Stockholm Syndrome
The Dykeenies - Stitches
Chimaira - Pictures in the Gold Room

[tbw2445]

great idea!

Dream Theater: A Change of Seasons

Between The Buried and Me: Ants In The Sky or White Walls

Opeth: To Rid The Disease, but it always changes lol

Mastodon: The Czar

Pink Floyd: Sheep

Pantera: I'm Broken

Tool: Vicarious

The Who: Love Reign O'er Me

Deep Purple: Space Truckin'

Lamb Of God: Grace

[wraggy147]

I can only really have a top 6, any bands after that could drop in and out of a top 10 list day by day, but anyway.....

Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt 1
Marillion - Cover My Eyes
Iron Maiden - Can I Play With Madness
Bon Jovi - Lviin on a Prayer
Journey - Can't Tame The Lion
Metallica - Enter Sandman