Best Song of your 10 Favorite Bands

[KevShmev]

Hmmm, a quick scan shows that I apparently never posted in this thread.  So here goes:

Rush - 2112
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
Pink Floyd - Time
Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely 
The Flower Kings - Garden of Dreams
Dream Theater - Scarred
U2 - All I Want is You
Devin Townsend - Bend It Like Bender
The Beatles - A Day in the Life
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

[Quadrochosis]

Porcupine Tree - A Smart Kid
Devin Townsend - Deep Peace
Opeth - A Fair Judgment
Coheed and Cambria - Delirium Trigger
Nick Drake - One of these Things First
Mew - Comforting Sounds
dredg - The Canyon Behind Her
The Dear Hunter - Red Hands
Yes - And You And I
Pink Floyd - Pigs (Three Different Ones)

[zxlkho]

That's so stereotypical

[Ravenheart]

Porcupine Tree - A Smart Kid

Definitely my favorite PT song 

[Portrucci]

gonna do favourite tracks 'at the moment' instead of, 'of all time'....or something like that

Agalloch - Black Lake Niðstång
Can - Yoo Doo Right
Crippled Black Phoenix - Troublemaker
H.U.V.A. Network - .Blank
Moonsorrow - Pimeä
Neu! - E-musik
Shpongle - ...And The Day Turned To Night
Tangerine Dream - Mysterious Semblance At The Strand Of Nightmares
Ulver - Proverbs Of Hell, Plates 7-10
Wolves In The Throne Room - Face in a Night Time Mirror, Pt. 1

[mathiasris]

Dream Theater - In the name of god
Pantera - Strength beyond Strength
Opeth - Ghost of Perdition
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Iron Maiden - To tame a land
Pink Floyd - The great gig in the sky
Yes - Heart of the Sunrise
Genesis - Firth of Fifth
Avenged sevenfold - Nightmare
Megadeth - Lucretia
Death - Flesh and the power it Holds

[Train of Naught]

The Dear Hunter - The Poison Woman/The Lake and the River (this changes a lot though)
Dream Theater - Breaking All Illusions
Avenged Sevenfold - Save Me
Protest the Hero - Sequoia Throne
Alter Bridge - Blackbird
The Mars Volta - L'Via L'Viaquez
Machine Head - Darkness Within
Deftones - Prince (changes from time to time)
Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name
Metallica - Fade to Black

Strange to see Metallica is slowly being pushed out of my favorite bands list. I still love their music and they've been my favorite band for years, but I guess I'm losing interest, and most of my love for Metallica is becoming emotional value rather than actual interest in the music. Iron Maiden isn't the same, they've been very active recently and they're still putting out amazing music (still need to check out Book of Souls).

[Destiny Of Chaos]

Dream Theater - In the Presence of Enemies
Epica - Consign to Oblivion (A New Day Dawns pt. III)
Kamelot - Memento Mori
Nightwish - Beauty of the Beast
Opeth - The Lotus Eater
Redemption - Sapphire
Shadow Gallery - I Believe
Sonata Arctica - The End of This Chapter
Symphony X - Candlelight Fantasia
Transatlantic - The Whirlwind

[SebastianPratesi]

The Mars Volta - L'Via L'Viaquez

Strange to see Metallica is slowly being pushed out of my favorite bands list. I still love their music and they've been my favorite band for years, but I guess I'm losing interest, and most of my love for Metallica is becoming emotional value rather than actual interest in the music. Iron Maiden isn't the same, they've been very active recently and they're still putting out amazing music (still need to check out Book of Souls).

Great to see some love for The Mars Volta - that one is not my favourite song (or band) anymore, but for a long time it was.
And about Maiden: I agree - it's great seeing them so active this far in their career. The Book Of Souls is an awesome album to me, so I recommend you check it out when possible.

OK, this is my list:

Bands I got into when I was...

...In Elementary school
2001  Blink-182 - "Ghost On The Dancefloor" (2011)
          The Offspring - "All I Have Left Is You" (2012)

...In Highschool
2004  The Cure - "This. Here & Now. With You" (2008)
          Iron Maiden - "The Book Of Souls" (2015)
2005  Dream Theater - "Illumination Theory" (2013)
          The Mars Volta - "Desperate Graves" (2009)

...In College
2010  Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Zero" (2009)
2012  Les Luthiers - "Paz En La Campiña" (2008)
2014  Eruca Sativa - "El Genio De La Nada" (2012)
          El Cuarteto De Nos - "El Aprendiz" (2014)

(Many of my favourite songs were released a long time after I got into the band, and that's something that makes me feel good with myself - I'm always open to new releases by bands, eventhough they are past their prime. There's always the possibility I might be surprised )

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

I assume by "best" we mean our "favorite".  It's tough, because nailing down my 10 favorite bands could vary from day to day.  Here's what it might look like today:

Kiss – King of the Night Time World
Van Halen – Feel Your Love Tonight or Sinner’s Swing
ZO2 – Red Line Highway
Smithereens – Behind the Wall of Sleep
Descendents – Coolidge
Dokken – In My Dreams
Enuff Z’Nuff – New Thing
Steel Panther – Girl From Oklahoma
Mr. Big – Merciless or Take a Walk
Whitesnake – Slide It In

[Outcrier]

Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
Boards of Canada - Roygbiv
The Cure - Lovesong
Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again
The National - Mistaken for Strangers
Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring
Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely
The Smiths - There is a Light that Never Goes Out
Kanye West - Monster

[ozzy554]

Note this list really isnt in order as it would have taken me too long to decide on the ranking 

Black Sabbath - The Writ
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman
King Diamond - Black Horsemen
Judas Priest - Beyond The Realms of Death
Dream Theater - Metropolis
Metallica - Fade to Black
Deep Pruple - Child in Time
Iron Maiden - 22 Acacia Avenue (this one changes a lot)
Megadeth - Holy Wars
Alter Bridge - Blackbird

[SebastianPratesi]

Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)

The Smiths - There is a Light that Never Goes Out

(although I like "Neighborhood #3" more)

[Zantera]

Updated I guess:

Cardiacs - Dirty Boy
Oceansize - Music For a Nurse
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Storm
Swans - Blind Love
Boris - Flood III
The Cure - Plainsong
Converge - Jane Doe
Sigur Rós - Festival
Kayo Dot - The Manifold Curiosity
The Mars Volta - Cassandra Gemini

Last one was a tough choice between TMV and a few others (PT/SW, Anathema, Deftones, NiN, BTBAM & Neurosis) but I went with TMV this time. It's really hard though. The only 5 I'm 100% on would be the top 5. The rest changes.

[senecadawg2]

Wow, what a bump. An oldie but a good one.

I remember reading this thread back in the day but not posting. In a relatively fluid ranking (of bands/artists, not songs):

David Gray - Falling Free
Anathema - Internal Landscapes
Agalloch - Our Fortress is Burning
Porcupine Tree - shesmovedon
Ludovico Einaudi - Oltremare
Glen Hansard - Bird of Sorrow
Steven Wilson (Yeah I'm cheating, kind of) - Happy Returns
Rush - 2112
Yes - And You and I or Heart of the Sunrise
Opeth - Ghost of Perdition

[Tomislav95]

I bumped this thread in 2011 didn't even know I was active back then

Dream Theater - Trial of Tears
Porcupine Tree -  Heartattack in a Layby
Iron Maiden - Infinite Dreams
Opeth -  Reverie/Harlequin Forest
Mastodon - The Czar
Riverside - Second Life Syndrome
Rush -  Different Strings
Anathema - Thin Air
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms

[ThatOneGuy2112]

Hard to pick 10 favorite bands. Not something I've given a lot of thought, so I'll just go with 10 I really love knowing I'm missing a few.

The Mars Volta - Cicatriz ESP
Agalloch - The Hawthorne Passage
Slowdive - When the Sun Hits
Yes - And You and I
Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Sleep
Harmonium - Histoires sans paroles
King Crimson - Starless (quite possibly the greatest closer in rock music)
Swans - Helpless Child
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond

[mike099]

This is more difficult than I thought:

Porcupine Tree    Shesmovedon
Steven Wilson     Deform to Form a Star
Haken                 Pareidolia
Redemption         Leviathan Rising
Pink Floyd            The Great Gig in the Sky                   
Fleetwood Mac      I'm So Afraid
Eagles                  Already Gone
Dream Theater      Breaking All Illusions
Beardfish              Sleeping In Traffic
Rush                    La Villa Strangiato

[LieLowTheWantedMan]

Animal Collective - Safer
Boards of Canada - Kid For Today
Brand New - Limousine
Swans - The Sound
Kendrick Lamar - Sing For Me, I'm Dying of Thirst
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - BBF3
Sigur Ros - Vidrar Vel Til Loftarasa
Pavement - Grounded
Death Grips - On GP
Sufjan Stevens - Impossible Soul

[mathiasris]

Strange to see Metallica is slowly being pushed out of my favorite bands list. I still love their music and they've been my favorite band for years, but I guess I'm losing interest, and most of my love for Metallica is becoming emotional value rather than actual interest in the music.

Totally agree! The only Metallica song i still listen to is: And... Justice for All, and they were my favourite band!

[Anguyen92]

Alter Bridge - Blackbird
Rush - Xanadu
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Skillet - Rebirthing
Dream Theater - Breaking All Illusions (This was actually tougher than I thought it would be, but the older songs just do not hold as much weight to me as their modern era)
Shinedown - Fly From the Inside
Big Wreck - Albatross
Black Stone Cherry - Ghost of Floyd Collins
Sixx: A.M. - Life Is Beautiful
Breaking Benjamin - Without You

[TheCountOfNYC]

Metallica: Master of Puppets
Dream Theater: Octavarium
Avenged Sevenfold: Save Me
Pantera: Domination
Sum 41: The Hell Song
Guns N' Roses: November Rain
Van Halen: Jump
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Around the World
Shinedown: Lady So Divine
Halestorm: You Call Me a Bitch Like It's a Bad Thing

[Agalsed]

Dream Theater - Octavarium
Agalloch- Bloodbirds
Opeth - Bleak
Death - Flesh and the Power it Holds
Converge - Wretched World
Iron Maiden - The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Krallice - The Clearing
The National - Slow Show
Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place

[Nihil-Morari]

No order:

Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Frank Zappa - *Impossible*
Fantomas - Suspended Animation  (album)
Mono - Moonlight
Neal Morse/Spock's Beard - The Light
No-Man - Watching over Me
Sigur Ros - Untitled 7
Transatlantic - Stranger In Your Soul
Pain of Salvation - Used
Bass Communion - Construct IV

Very cool to see this again after 6,5 years. A couple of those I still love, and a couple I rarely ever listen to nowadays. I always thought my taste has changed a lot in the past few years, but apparently it didn't really.
I mean the bold ones are still a couple of my favorite songs ever. The italic ones are songs I still really like, but don't listen to that often. And the two others I grew out of (PoS) or have no idea how they came up in that list (Bass Communion). I don't even remember owning (digitally I'm not sure, but physically definitely not) that song. Will revisit it. It's like getting a letter from my past self 

EDIT: actually I DO own that song, on CD. I thought it was Construct I, oh well, another that I still really enjoy.

[Heretic]

The National - Slow Show
Haken - Atlas Stone / Crystallised
Thrice - Words in the Water
Fall of Efrafa - Republic of Heaven
Frightened Rabbit - Head Rolls Off
August Burns Red - Marianas Trench
Fair to Midland - Walls of Jericho
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Blaise Bailey Finnegan III
Anathema - Lightning Song
Between the Buried and Me - Sun of Nothing

[CharlesPL]

DT - LtL,Metropolis pt.1,ACoS,ToT,SDoIT,Surrounded,8V

Honorable mention : Another Day , and Many More

Iron Maiden - To Tame A Land/Infinite Dreams/Hallowed (live Version)/Rime
Pink Floyd - Echoes /Us and Them/High Hopes/Coming Back to Life/Sorrow
Genesis - Supper's Ready
Marillion - White Russian/The Great Escape/Goodbye to all That/This Strange Engine
Rush - Natural Science / HM: The Camera Eye/Xanadu/La Villa/
Metallica - Fade to Black / HM : Welcome Home
Yes - Awaken/And You and I/Machine Messiah
Supertramp - Child of Vision/Crime of the Century/Fool's Overture/A Soapbox Opera/Asylum/Rudy/Goodbye Stranger
The Alan Parsons Project -Old and Wise/The Turn of a Friendly Card/Time/Games People Play/Eye in the Sky/Lucifer and many more
Camel - The White Rider/Goose :azn/Song Within a Song/Lunar Sea/Air Born/Another Night
Alice in Chains - Nutshell/Rotten Apple/Frogs/Would?/God Am/Shame in You/Over Now/Love Hate Love
Faith No More - Epic/Zombie Eaters/The Real Thing/Caffeine/Midlife Crisis/Malpractice/Kindergarten/Evidence/Just a Man/She Loves Me Not
A7X - The Wicked End/MIA/Strength of the World/Save Me/  HM :I Won't See You Tonight (Part 1)/Burn It Down/Blinded in Chains/Sidewinder/Remenissions/"A Little Piece of Heaven
Megadeth - 5 Magics/Devil's Island/Addicted to Chaos/Holy Wars/In my darkest hour
Joe Satriani - Rubina/Ice 9/Crush of Love/Always with Me, Always with You/Echo/Flying in a Blue Dream/The Bells of Lal (Part Two)/Cryin'/Why/Motorcycle Driver/Thinking of You/Love Thing/Time/Clouds Race Across the Sky/The Power Cosmic 2000-Part II
Shawn Lane - Powers of Ten (full album )
Steve Vai - Fire Garden Suite/The Crying Machine/Blue Powder
John Petrucci - Animate-Inanimate/Jaws of Life/Kiss and Thinking
LTE - 3 Minutes Warning/Water/Universal Mind/Paradigm
Transatlantic - Stranger/Devil/Above/New World
Al Di Meola - Casino/Dark Eye Tango/Chasin' the Voodoo/Mediterranean Sundance/Race with Devil on Spanish Highway
Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover/Manhattan
The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed (full album) and Nervous
Jon & Vangelis - The Friends of Mr Cairo/State of Independence
Manowar - Achilles/Bridge of Death/Battle Hymns
Cynic - Veil of Maya/Celestial Voyage/Textures/How Could I/King of Those Who Know
Black Sabbath Killing Yourself to Live/A National Acrobat/Warning/Megalomania
Animals As Leaders Tempting Time/Another Year/An Infinite Regression/Odessa
TesseracT - Fate/Eden
The Police - Invisible Sun/Breath/Magic
Sting - Russians
Bruce Dickinson - Man of Sorrows
Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely
Mahavishnu Orchestra - One Word
Linkin Park - In the End/Papercut/Breaking the Habit/From the Inside/Leave Out All the Rest
Roger Hodgson - Had a Dream (Sleeping with the Enemy)/Give Me Love, Give Me Life

[Calvin6s]

Awesome thread.  I'm going to use it to discover (or rediscover) bands.  Don't know how people could narrow it down not just to the top 10 bands, but then the best song of each.  Seems like it would drive me crazy.

[Estiui]

Dream Theater Learning to live
Haken Falling back to Earth
Transatlantic Duel with the devil
Beardfish Sleeping in traffic
Genesis Firth of fifth
Pink Floyd Breathe
Spock's Beard At the end of the day
Riverside The depth of self-delusion
Steven Wilson Routine
Big Big Train Judas unrepentant

[Fluffy Lothario]

Bob Dylan - I guess Gates of Eden. Though in recent times, Abandoned Love
Miles Davis - maybe Spanish Key?
Grateful Dead - I guess I have to say Dark Star, though To Lay Me Down or Brokedown Palace are both contenders for my favourite song ever written
Charles Mingus - er, the fourth track of Black Saint and the Sinner Lady. Don't even know what it's called.
Sigur Rós - Mílanó or Svo Hljótt
Damien Rice - Delicate
The Mars Volta - Cassandra Geminni
Fat Freddy's Drop - Shiverman, I suppose
Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert Part One
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls

[Sacul]

In no order:

Anathema - The Lost Child
Everything Steven Wilson - Trains
Kashiwa Daisuke - Stella
Devin Townsend - Hyperdrive!
David Maxim Micic - Where is Now?
Liquid Tension Experiment - Freedom of Speech
Pink Floyd - Us and Them
Nine Inch Nails - Heresy/Somewhat Damaged/March of the Pigs (can't decide)
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Infected Mushroom - Heavyweight

[twosuitsluke]

Fat Freddy's Drop - Shiverman, I suppose

Boom, Fat Freddy's Drop!! My girlfriend got me in to them, only have one album but I love it!

[425]

Let's give this a shot. My tastes have been moving so fast lately because of roulette stuff that I don't know what my ten will be, but I'll try. Probably will mix old and new stuff.

These are the bands that are solidly among my longtime favorites.

Coldplay - Midnight
Death Cab for Cutie - We Looked Like Giants
Dream Theater - Breaking All Illusions
Haken - Celestial Elixir
Iron Maiden - Starblind (there are several that could go here, though)
Metallica - To Live Is To Die
Nightwish - Ghost Love Score
Transatlantic - All of the Above (I guess? Could be The Whirlwind or Kaleidoscope as well)

The other two will have to be from bands that I'm still getting into, where I don't have nearly all their albums:

Kamelot - Memento Mori
Yes - Close to the Edge

[home]

I am probably forgetting something but here:

Porcupine Tree - Trains
Pink Floyd - Wish you where here
Fair To Midland - Orphan Anthem '86
Haken - Cockroach King
Karnivool - Alpha Omega
Syd Barrett - Octopus
The Mars Volta - The Widow
Iron Maiden - Blood Brothers
The Beatles - A Day in the Life
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulance

[LordCost]

Leprous - Forced Entry / Coal / Not Even A Name
Haken - Pareidolia / The Point Of No Return
Pain Of Salvation - Revival / Black Hills / In The Flesh
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Sunshine The Werewolf / We Are The Storm
Anathema - Universal / Alternative 4
Oceansize - Trail Of Fire / You Can't Keep A Bad Man Down
Thumpermonkey - My Reality Is Stronger / Sleeve
Thrice - For Miles
Faith No More, Mr Bungle - Malpractice / Ars Moriendi

I couldn't choose only one song for a band. It's already hard for me to choose only 10 bands between long time favourites and recently discovered bands

[SebastianPratesi]

Coldplay - Midnight
Death Cab for Cutie - We Looked Like Giants

Good to see some love for Coldplay in this forum, though I like other songs more than that one.

Also: I discovered Death Cab For Cutie last year, with Kintsugi. Great album! Reminds me of Coldplay and The Cure, both of which I like a lot.

The Beatles - A Day in the Life

Wow, you really got into The Beatles these last few months!