lurker post:
Gonna cheat a bit on the 5 bands for the rest of my life, and have my first two be people, because I pretty much listen to side projects more than DT:
1. Mike Portnoy (he is my most listened to artist. it doesn't matter much what project it is, I usually like it a lot)
2. James LaBrie (LOVE his voice, and a lot of his side-project/solo stuff is amazing)
3. Metallica (MUST include live albums/B-sides)
4. Pink Floyd (I couldn't live not knowing I'd never hear Shine On or The Wall again)
5. Green Day (just to break up the prog/metal fest I would have)
That's actually quite tough. I could make a seperate list of five different bands and be completely happy. In fact:
1. Styx/Dennis DeYoung
2. Rush
3. "Weird Al" Yankovic
4. 311
5. The Beatles
...would be just fine.
Spock's Beard
SB is purely due to the depth of their discog. Was thinking of S-X and Avantasia, but went with SB due to having more albums.
That's the trick. You gotta pick bands with a lot of albums.