Hey Jim! Still recovering from 6 days in the hospital with a nasty case of pancreatitis. Very painful! Still need to see the surgeon to set up the removal of my gallbladder. It never ends Jim. Glad to see YES in your video here. I did my best to share my love of the band with you. Take care my friend! 👍🎵🎼🎶😎
Nice vid Jim. As an Australian thanks for the shout out to our greatest musical export Acca Dacca. Arguably in the top 10 blues-rock bands of all time, despite their simplistic music. RIP Bon, long live Angus.
My Top 10: 1. The Beatles 2. The Doors 3. Led Zeppelin 4. L'Arc~en~Ciel 5. Alice in Chains 6. Depeche Mode 7. APC/Tool 8. Soundgarden 9. Pink Floyd 10. Pearl Jam
in order to compile a list, I felt compelled to bracket my selections with a time frame (couldn't do less than 12): Beatles 1966-1970 Elton John 1970-1975 Queen 1973-1976 Yes 1971-1977 Genesis 1971-1978 David Bowie 1971-1976 UK 1978-1979 Rush 1976-1981 UFO 1974-1979 Spock's Beard 1996-2002 Porcupine Tree 1996-2002 King's X 1989-1996 Here's an idea for a future list: top 10 albums by artists NOT in your top 10 bands Thanks Jim - always a pleasure!
I like that you like at least the first years of the Phil-era of Genesis! But you don't think Duke is still part of their good times? I agree that after Duke, their music changed a lot (I still like it though, but it's very different), so I can imagine you excluded it.
@@thijs941 You know, I basically chose timeframes based upon what I actually go back and listen to now. Duke was a solid album, but it is an emotional open wound and I find it less desirable to revisit.
Hmm.. personal favourites, leaving out some of the all-time greats : 1 Pink Floyd 2 Steely Dan 3 Jethro Tull 4 Genesis 5 Fleetwood Mac 6 AC⚡️DC 7 Creedence Clearwater Revival 8 The Cure 9 Thin Lizzy 10 Kent ( Swedish band )
Tough one this! I'd probably have to go with: 10. Cardiacs 9. Mr Bungle 8. Karnivool 7. Meshuggah 6. Steven Wilson / Porcupine Tree 5. Talk Talk 4. Gentle Giant 3. Radiohead 2. Pink Floyd 1. Opeth Tool and Haken would definitely go in the honourable mentions list. Can't stand Dream Theatre personally
Hi Jim, Great personal list of feel good bands you have. I knew you would put Iron Maiden first 😊. Mine is a bit different. These bands I can play any time in almost any mood. 10. IQ 9. Wardruna 8. Riverside 7. Iron Maiden 6. YES 5. Pineapple Thief 4. Ozric Tentacles 3. Tangerine Dream 2. Genesis Pink Floyd will always be my number one band. Many great bands like Dream theater, Depeche Mode, talk Talk, Porcupine tree, I can’t put in my list because I can’t listen to them at any time; I have to be in the mood for it. Maybe a favorite top ten list of singer/songwriters next 😅
Your video ranking Iron Maiden album covers sent me down a rabbit hole with their music. You spoke about them with such enthusiasm! You're correct when you say there is always room for new musical experience!😊
the way you feel about iron maiden is the way i feel about Marillion, with and after fish, and fish solo stuff too, best music ever to me always will be
Really interesting list Jim, enjoy your content immensely. Here’s mine a couple are there for my adrenaline fuelled moshing through my youth. 10.Rush 9.Sepultura 8. Black Sabbath 7. Gojira 6. Machine head 5. Opeth 4. Queen 3. Mastodon 2. Dream theater 1. Metallica ( similar to you with Iron Maiden!! their in my DNA
Awesome list Jim!! Porcupine tree and Haken would reside in my top 10 i do believe and Tool is always in my top 3! It will Never change! Also back in black is so iconic! Love that record! I need to explore Iron Maiden! Much love friend!!
I really enjoyed your show. Your explanations were profound, and you could see the emotion that those great bands have produced in you.IMOH music has to move you, reach your feelings, to feel good. They say (those who have studied emotional intelligence, like Dr Daniel Goleman) that there are only three things that put the human being on another plane, in another space, and one of them is music. Of course, for this to happen you have to like the music, and that is very subjective and that is why you connect or not with that music. But despite this, I think that there are great bands, and then comes everything else. For me there is a level of prog/hard/classic/metal rock music that is very difficult to reach, whose legacy and influence has been enormous. For me they are (in no particular order): Led Zeppelin P. Floyd Rolling Stones Beatles Yes Deep Purple Genesis Black Sabbath Rush Jethro Tull Iron Maiden Queen AC/DC Genesis ELP The reason for each of them can take us days of conversation. I will just say something simple, but for many it sounds unconvincing. In the 70's, in particular, in the first five years, where most of these bands generated their masterpieces, there was nothing like that. NOTHING. All of them were great CREATORS. Of course, some of them borrowed from the blues, but their styles were innovative and from there everything that came after developed.
Fantastic stuff Jim, no doubt there were a few bands that you wanted to include but couldn’t because you didn’t want to take out anyone else. I’m off to see Ozrics (and The Orb) in a few months time, I’m looking forward to it.
19:03. I agree 100% with you on all counts of your assessment of Haken. I only just discovered them in 2022 when they co-headlined with Symphony-X, of whom I have been a fan since the early 2000s. I have seen Haken live 3 times since 2022, and like you, I cannot grow tired of their unique progressive style of music. Everything they have done has been appealing to me.
Ooooh nice gonna do mine before watching and see if we have any in common Jim🤗. Bare in mind with me they change almost every day apart from core 2 or 3 bands. One is very recent band so bit of recency bias maybe... Here goes.... 10 Blind Guardian 9 Alice In Chains (inc. Mad Season) 8 Amorphis or Nightwish (can't decide!!) 7 Talk Talk 6 Iron Maiden 5 Cult of Luna 4 God Speed You! Black Emperor 3 Black Sabbath 2 Broadcast 1 Opeth Just missing but get in on other days Sparks, Porcupine Tree, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, REM, Smashing Pumpkins, Amorphis/Nightwish, Amon Amarth, The Levellers, Sepultura, Renaissance, Nektar, Clannad, Swans, Free/Bad Company, Jethro Tull, Aha, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, The Cure, Crowded House, Fleetwood Mac, Ghost, King Crimson, Radiohead. Can, Faust, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Van Der Graf Generator, Wildbeasts, Echo & The Bunnymen, Gojira, Caravan, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Fairport Convention, Goldfrapp, Still Corners, Nirvana (inc back catalogue), The Beatles, Flaming Lips, The Doors, Rush, Moody Blues, .nearly forgot King Gizzard ATLW.....and loads more can't think of right now. Anyway they've all been in or near top 10 over the years.🤘👨🎤. If included ANY artist I think Bowie, Prince, Kate Bush, Miles Davis, Curtis Mayfield, Nina Simone, Leonard Cohen, Frank Zappa, Bjork, Stevie Wonder, Grant Lee Buffalo, Nick Drake, Scott Walker, Sixto Rodriguez would feature in top end sometimes too. 😊👍 Ok I'm gonna watch now....and like go ah 💩 when I think of obvious band forgot ...lol... ok from your top 10 Jim I forgot Yes - I love them but they've not become top end for me yet...Tool just can't enjoy - one of my irrational irritation bands,...Muse I liked in my 20s - Origin of Symmetry is fantastic...Clannad are the band I just drift off with and really comfort me in ways other bands cannot do consider them my permanent no.11😁🐐....Oh Haken are cool just not for moi....just got over the Dream Theatre hump thanks to you Jim... and enjoy then now without irritation but they won't ever get up there...oh I forgot Metallica but for some reason they never get up there despite loving them on and off since i wad 10...yeah Maiden are in my DNA too.....wish i could see them but never happened unfortunately ....
I love your pool of bands for the churn! I should do that! And I think I’m going to do an artist list as opposed to a band list. There’s a lot of amazing artists that are competing for top spots too!
@@JimNewstead cool idea! Go for it. Oh and was considering getting Haken tickets but the seating arrangements at Kentish town are very wishy washy so I can't do it unfortunately .....next time Maiden do 02 its you and me Jim!!!🤗👨🎤
@@operating yes aren't they brilliant!!! If this was albums top 10 list first on my list with no hesitation would be Colour of Spring.....ironically many of my top bands or artists would not have an album in my top 10 all time list but Talk Talk for sure (there are so many bands with one superb all timer record....)👍
My artists, not necessarily groups, would be, and not in any perfect order. Depends on the mood, but mostly it is this: 10. Tears for Fears 9. Todd Rundgren 8. Radhika Miller 7. Oregon 6. Talk Talk 5. Checkfield 4. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer 3. Yes 2. Kate Bush 1. Pat Metheny Group
Funny how life is sometimes mirrored. I saw ACDC in 1980 and was a rocker for 20yrs. I then moved away from my birthplace and without fellow rockers i drifted away from metal and rock for 5yrs. Then someone gave me a Muse album. Like you it reawakened my love of rock. Then someone gave me a Porcupine Tree album who may now be my fave band. They opened me to pure prog like Yes etc Love Haken enough to wear their Tshirts..rare for me
Ah, I set a bright musical light, and the same brained musical moths come fluttering! It’s not surprising that we share similar tastes…. Muse were pivotal for me!
First of all I agree with you, there is always new music, new good music, you only have to be ready to listen to it. Second I realized, that although in many videos (not only mine) you said things that made me think, we are brothers from different mothers 😆 but this video shows, there's also lots of differences in our musical tastes. As I wrote to your Maiden Covers List, there are certain subjects, to which I cannot make an exact 1 - 10 list. The same with bands .. I simply know too many and I like too many and as you said the list might change everyday ... and it's hard to limit it to 10 bands. I actually had to make 2 lists, because in my personal sight of music there are 2 phases : before Dream Theater and after Dream Theater started. So of the first phase I have Yes, Pink Floyd and Iron Maiden on my list, next to Led Zeppelin, UFO, Deep Purple, Kansas , Eloy, King Crimson and Rush. Once there was Dream Theater they became my favourite band, and even though I didn't like the last 10 years too much, they still are. There are other bands like Opeth, Riverside, RPWL, Von Hertzen Brothers, Blind Ego , Transatlantic, Nevermore, Communic ... I'm writing this, without thinking too long ... and probably forget lots of others ... it's just changing from day to day. Maybe you ask me tomorrow again 🤣🤘 So 7 of your bands didn't make it into my list, and a subject we have to talk about later is the Haken/DT comparison ... I think, you just don't know enough DT, especially the 90s, yet ... but that's something for the future ...
Great list, Jim. Plenty of those bands would be on my list too and there are some nice surprises in there too. I think you and I have been on a very similar musical journey. Iron Maiden was my first gig in 1984. Pink Floyd would probably top my list, if I ever made one. I saw the Ozrics recently. Great list, great video. 👌
We’re about the same age - so it was pretty awesome to be 15 when an album like Somewhere in Time hit. Maiden changed my life. I’m in my 50s and wearing a Powerslave shirt as I type.
My 10. Rush, Police, Genesis, Yes, Eurythmics/Annie Lennox, Queen, Talking Heads, Silversun Pickups, Tom Petty & Heartbreakers, and weirdly Phantogram. (I know nobody asked, but I’ve honestly never tried to answer this question. Thank you for indulging me😊)
Thanks Jim, a fascinating story, as always! My top 10 bands, in no particular order: Alice in Chains Faith No More Iron Maiden Mastodon Megadeth Metallica Slayer Soundgarden The Tea Party Tool Close behind- Anthrax, Gojira
Cool video Jim! I'm just missing Genesis! :O Not a fan? Perhaps time to rediscover their stuff :) Had some hope that Marillion was in there too haha, but maybe their old stuff is weighing them down?
Iron Maiden is the ultimate comfort band, it's true. Iron Maiden is home. Here's my top 10: Rush, Yes, Van der Graaf Generator, Blind Guardian, Iron Maiden, King Crimson, Black Sabbath, Megadeth, Judas Priest, and The Beatles.
Difficult isn’t it - For what its worth and after more thought than my brain wanted to deal with I ended up with 1 Pink Floyd, 2 Muse, 3 Porcupine Tree, 4 Supertramp, 5 Yes, 6 Steely Dan, 7 Genesis, 8 Epica, 9 Dream Theater, 10 Nightwish. A few matches with your list and some of the others on your list warranted consideration
I've got Iron Maiden to see live here in New Zealand in a couple of weeks and still debating The Cult in November. I've never seen Maiden but did see The Cult on the Sonic Temple and Ceremony tours back in the day.
Great list Jim. I thought you might have had an electronic act in there and speaking of The Ozric Tentacles I've always been a huge fan of their electronic alter-ego Eat Static 👍
A very interesting and heartfelt explanation of your fav bands and one I will come back to, to rewatch again it’s that’s good. No major surprises, Osric excluded , but a fascinating watch
Of the groups you listed, you piqued my interest with Muse and Ozric Tentacles. I think for me, the first time you mentioned Ozric on the channel was while listening to Olias, yet I have yet to try giving them a listen. If I find time to listen to either Muse or Ozric, where do you suggest I begin? I’m usually a chronological listener, but if each group has an album which you think would suit my listening preferences, I welcome the suggestions.
Great recommendations Jim. I'll start with 'In Absentia'. Procupine Tree was always a band that was just there, without ever giving it a proper try. Up the Irons! Btw. As you said i cannot fathom me being without Maiden. Senjutsu and Brave New World are my favourite from the last era. Thank you for describing exactly what Maiden is to me as well.
@@KeimpeJ it sure if you’ve checked out other stuff from then, but my favorite album is fear of a blank planet, and I highly recommend checking out their live stuff. Anesthetize live from tilberg (you can find it on RUclips from the bands channel) is my favorite live song/performance of all time
I don't really do top 10 albums because my taste changes so much. I guess if i was asked 20 years ago it would mostly consist of punk bands, if you asked me 10 years ago it would have been mostly heavy rock and 80s electronic, today it is mostly prog rock and prog metal. Bands i am listening to at the moment though are, Robot God - Newish Space Rock, Prog Rock band who are awesome. King Crimson - So experimental and almost every album feels different. Van Der Graaf Generator - Unique sound, incredible but take some getting into. Marillion - Mostly the later Marillion stuff since Hogarth joined. The Fall - 50,000 Fall fans cannot be wrong. (80s weirdness). Cabaret Voltaire - 80s experimental electronic industrial. Killing Joke - recently discovered them and loving their 80s albums so far. Hibiscus Biscuit - New Jaz inspired band with a single album released, really loving this album. The Black Heart Death Cult - New Shoegaze band their album Sonic Mantras is really good.
Like you, the numbers are somewhat superfluous, as they change depending on mood. I'm heavily into prog rock, as my list clearly indicates. But I also liked some of the really good pop-rock bands too (but only the top ones) Lists like this are so divisive, because it comes down to personal tastes really. 1) Rush 2) Yes 3) Led Zeppelin 4) Pink Floyd 5) Journey 6) Triumph 7) The Cars 8) CCR 9) Grateful Dead 10) The Eagles
@@JimNewstead Don't bother reacting to Eagles, as they block literally everything. Great band to check out on your own time though. Take It to the Limit, Seven Bridges Road, and many, many other great songs. Reaction wise, Triumph would be your best bet. I 'strongly' feel they were one of the best arena rock bands of the late 70s through mid 80s. I also feel they were severely underrated as a group. I'll link you to one of the best live performances I've seen by any band. I'm 58, so have seen a few live performances in my time and might know a good show when he sees it. No Autotune, no safety nets, just 100% unadulterated musical bliss in front of a crowd of 375,000 at US Fest 83' Metal Day. Triumph - Lay It on the Line ruclips.net/video/oI8Z_huqcUg/видео.html
@@JimNewstead I have to ask… Is that HC the album? Or only the song HC itself? If only the song, the HC album is definitely a worthy listen. Not that a reaction on YT is feasible. They’re as bad, if not worse, than the band which shall not be discussed at blocking.
Such a difficult thing.....some bands shaped my childhood some my adulthood....some have 1 amazing album and some have dozens.... In no order ill through some together TOOL/Jesus Lizard/Sleep/Porcupine Tree/Tears for Fears/Depeche Mode/ Tame Impala/ James/ The Sword/The Black Angels/Melvins.....some of these are interchangeable on my mood but some will never leave.....
Wow...interesting....Im different...all I hear in Iron Maiden is standard 80s riff rock whenevr I hear them...I find The Cult tiringly bland....( over Porcupine Tree??....what???)...lol...love Tentacles....I would probably place Yes at #1....Genesis at 2....then off into Beatles, Gentle Giant, P.T. of course, Big Big Train ( a recent discovery)...etc...not to say my list wouldnt change from time to time....
My thrown together list, open to additional choices if I gave it some thought: The Clash The Who Talking Heads Velvet Underground Sonic Youth Pere Ubu Black Sabbath King Crimson Husker Du Sleater-kinney Jimi Hendrix Experience Minutemen
Jim, I'm going to be honest and say I couldn't pick 10, couldn't pick 20, probably manage up to around 40 or 50. Leaving Solo acts out makes it difficult atm as well, as one Solo act in particular would be nudging Top 5 and is wrong genre too. As I've gotten older, and having the 70's as my teenhood I feel spoilt for choice. I was old enough to hear the Beatles, the Move, Bowie, Bolan et al and all of them create a formative image of music I wanted to listen to. The first REAL album I bought was Fireball by Deep Purple, and the first band I saw live was Hawkwind follwed by Wishbone Ash and then Argent. My musical was set for the next 20 or so years, however age DOES change your taste and whilst I still love evrything I grew up with I believe I have moved with the times even though I stubbornly refuse to listen to some genres, though ocassionally an artist will pique my curiosity and I'll investigate further. My heavy metal loving son certainly got me into goth metal/symphonic metal such as Nightwish and Within Temptation. To me EVERY style of music deserves a listen, a proper LISTEN, even if only once before dismissing them forever.
how cool that Ozric is your number 3! They would be my number 1. I love many types of music and styles, but OT is literally a universe apart! I've seen them live twice this year... live they are even better! Ed Wynne is one of the greatest if you ask me
They were actually in this list this morning, got bumped, came back, went again…. I think there problem is I don’t know enough of their catalogue to make a fair judgement!
@@JimNewstead Not sure how much you’ve got through but there’s still a lot to explore, Hemispheres is a favourite but there’s Signals, Grace Under Pressure, Power Windows, all amazing albums…lots of fun ahead 🤘
The biggest reason for my list to be very different from yours is that I could NEVER ever decide my top 10 favorite bands. It is beyond me how people can do it. My top 10 bands includes at least 50 bands easily after a very short consideration and among those bands there is none I could drop out of the top ten. Secondly I have always lived from the diversity of the music I have been listening. It would just kill me immediately if I would have to choose 10 bands to be my favorite since it would take away 90% of my favorite music. By that I mean, I have to be able to feel that this is the best band and piece of art I have ever heard on one moment and tomorrow that band and record would not fit in my top 100 list. In other words I would feel it would restrict me from enjoying the music I listen out of those top lists in the fullest way. I can not stand people who listen to the same type of music and same artists and records day in day out. Even thinking that one band would be the best one very single day for the rest of my life makes me feel sick. Long time ago a musician and a friend of mine told me to do a top 100 songs list in Spotify and share it with me. We had lots of similarities, very varied music taste, tolerance for very different, harsh, minimalistic, artistic, poppy styles and even though I tried to refuse and hesitated, I tried as he was very persuasive. I begun the job and as I am a thorough person, I started going through the alphabet. I got a quite good list done in a day or two and I thought ok, I have done probably 5% of my favorite songs (I was probably on "D" in my first quick sweep through the alphabet), and thought that lets see how much is still missing from the one hundred. My count was way over 500 songs on that point. I gave up immediately since I knew that I could never drop a single song from the list, it just would not be possible. All the songs meant so much to me and in the right mind and setting any one of them could the number one. I messaged my friend and told all this to him. He did not ask me to continue, he just said, I am sorry, I would have liked to get your list, but I understand. That was the last time I tried to put the music I like and love in some kind of order, is it a song, a record or a band. It is just totally pointless to me and it just makes me feel restricted and does not give me a single good feeling. I think art is not to be put in order, my conscience will not let me do it. It is not that I would feel I am doing wrong to the bands or other people. It is that I feel I betray myself, it feels I am lying to myself, telling myself things that I could never ever possibly know. One thing I have learned with music is that you are never ready, you will never be done with it and tomorrow will always surprise you if you keep your eyes, your ears and especially your mind open. The only thing that I am sure of about me and music is that I am not the one who decides the order of the best songs, albums or bands, it is not me now, tomorrow or at any point of time in the future. Not even for myself. I would be on the wrong anyways and that would feel wrong so I will never ever try that again. Then there are other reasons our lists would be different, but I will not go that way. Let's just say that I have noticed I have very much the same type taste of music as you but there obviously are some differences. I would be surprised if there would not. But then again, tomorrow I might feel differently about some of your favorite bands.
My list will probably be something like this: 1. Opeth 2. Elder 3. Talk Talk 4. Led Zeppelin 5. Ayreon 6. Metallica 7. Pain of Salvation 8. Mastodon 9. Death Grips 10. Pink Floyd
How big is tool in the UK relative to other prog bands? Here in the US, nobody has heard of Opeth, porcupine tree, gentle giant etc. But tool is selling out 20k stadiums and have slightly cracked the mainstream
Outside those that follow this sort of music, they’re unknown. But that’s the same with all these bands! They’re big in metal and have headlined Download Festival.
Oh let's have a go at this! Some choices will change depending on mood, and the order is sorta random (except for no 1): 10. Def Leppard 9. Orange Goblin 8. Judas Priest 7. Yes 6. Genesis 5. Alice In Chains 4. Van Halen 3. Amorphis 2. Opeth 1. Marillion
I don't have 10 written in stone. My top 4 is and 5 most likely. 1. Pink Floyd 2. Tool 3. Faith No More 4. Alter Bridge 5. Mastodon?🤔 Others that most likely are in the top 10 are Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Rancid, R.E.M., CCR, George Strait (yes, country). Everything else fluctuates.
1. Porcupine tree 2. Steven Wilson 3. Opeth 4. Yes 5. Led Zeppelin 6. Deftones 7. Muse 8. Alice In Chains 9. Tool 10. Pink Floyd 6-9 can be swapped depending on the day
Yep, music is subjective af and I feel like my list proves that quite well: 1. Opeth 2. SOAD/Megadeth 3. Godsmack 4. Porcupine Tree 5. Haken 6. Gojira 7. Alice Cooper 8. Manowar 9. Metallica 10. Leprous
Difficult to put in order. I was a teenager in the 70s and this pretty much defines my favourite bands. So Yes was my favourite band up to 2004 but I don't care much for what the reformed band has done since. Then I would group the next with little to separate them : Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Genesis (Prog era), Deep Purple, The next tier: Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Moody Blues, Nektar My final place I would award to, not because they are the least favourite out of the ten but because they are a band of the present era: Karnataka.
I don’t think I know of Karnataka, but the rest of your list is terrific. I may just have to look Karnataka up to see if they appeal to me. Have you done any reactions to Karnataka, Jim?
@@IllumeEltanin Yes, he has a number of times. This was the first one posted by me. I was going to post the link but then I risk the possibility of you tube removing my post. "Listening to Karnataka - Forsaken, Your World Secondly I did a mixtape #24 - Celtic Prog which included the song "Tide To Fall" live then I think it was Will who did a mixtape which included the song "Road to Cairo"
There are bands that you want to like and you try it again and again. But it doesn‘t work. In my life One of them is Tool. Now it try it with „the grudge“
Another good list, Jim! I do wish TOOL was higher, though hehe!😜🍺 You echo my main complaints about Dream Theater exactly. I recognize they are all top-notch musicians, but I just don't like them. Maiden have been together for almost half a century....wow! Mad respect, great band.👍
Dream Theater has a few songs that are pure perfection and I'm so thankful to that. Unfortunately I have to agree. They have so much stuff I can't listen to compared to Tool or Pink Floyd. I love 80% of Tool and 90% of Pink Floyd after Atom Heart Mother.
Apart from The Beatles, who had a short but fertile recording career, I don't have any long-term favourite bands or artists (it's a case-by-case thing, depending on the period and the albums). I lost interest in AC/DC after Bon Scott died (I never could stand Brian Johnson). From Porcupine Tree I especially like the period with Chris Maitland, having little taste for the prog metal direction with Gavin Harrison. From The Cult, I only like their debut studio album Dreamtime, which is more post-punk oriented. From Pink Floyd I only like their albums from 1967 to 1977 (with a preference for the period from 1968 to 1971). and so on...😉
It is opinion.... and I've not heard enough of Fripp's band yet. Undoubtedly very important, and if this list was top 10 most important bands ever, they might be there!
@@JimNewstead Thank You😊. I discovered Your chanel becouse of PT and prog music in general. I have many to see and hear here😁. I didn't find Motorpsycho yet. Do You know this band?
@@Hope-cm8fb I sure do. I’ve made this handy index for the channel. It’s alphabetised for all the bands/artists featured and links directly to the RUclips playlist for each band. reactionships.com/home/the-index/
@@JimNewstead Wooow 🔥I have many hours to listen to😊💚🍀💚. I would also recommend interesting bands such us: ✨Throes of Dawn (e.g. Black Wreath of Mind from 2016) ✨Soup (e.g. Sleepers) ✨Sigur Ros (e.g. Untitled #8)
No deep purple? Or black sabbath surely the grandfathers of rock deserve a mention they have influenced so many bands it’s a shame you forgot about them
HAPPY THE MAN... I keep recommending them because I know you'd love them. Now I've learned that a key member, Frank Wyatt (Keys & Sax) songwriter passed away last year. SAD also because HTM are the GREATEST American Pure Progband EVER yet due to lack of marketing they were underexposed thus underappreciated or known by many. I consider them the offspring and just below YES, GENESIS & GENTLE GIANT. He released a solo album "Zeitgeist' in 2020 which contains many of the wonderful hallmarks of HTM. (LINK BELOW) Upon hearing his music maybe you'll consider exposing more people finally to this amazing band ruclips.net/video/Y9ockq_kg0s/видео.html YES I will buy you coffee!
Hey Jim! Still recovering from 6 days in the hospital with a nasty case of pancreatitis. Very painful! Still need to see the surgeon to set up the removal of my gallbladder. It never ends Jim. Glad to see YES in your video here. I did my best to share my love of the band with you. Take care my friend! 👍🎵🎼🎶😎
Yikes! Sounds painful. Sorry to hear you’ve been laid up…. You played a part for sure with Yes coming my way!
@@JimNewstead 👍😎
Wishing you a speedy recovery Jeff. Take care of yourself.
"I've had that before and was also hospitalized. But it passes, you will get better."
Hope you get better soon fellow Yes fan.
Nice vid Jim. As an Australian thanks for the shout out to our greatest musical export Acca Dacca. Arguably in the top 10 blues-rock bands of all time, despite their simplistic music. RIP Bon, long live Angus.
My Top 10:
1. The Beatles
2. The Doors
3. Led Zeppelin
4. L'Arc~en~Ciel
5. Alice in Chains
6. Depeche Mode
7. APC/Tool
8. Soundgarden
9. Pink Floyd
10. Pearl Jam
in order to compile a list, I felt compelled to bracket my selections with a time frame (couldn't do less than 12):
Beatles 1966-1970
Elton John 1970-1975
Queen 1973-1976
Yes 1971-1977
Genesis 1971-1978
David Bowie 1971-1976
UK 1978-1979
Rush 1976-1981
UFO 1974-1979
Spock's Beard 1996-2002
Porcupine Tree 1996-2002
King's X 1989-1996
Here's an idea for a future list: top 10 albums by artists NOT in your top 10 bands
Thanks Jim - always a pleasure!
Oh my…… now THAT is a superb list idea!!!! 💡
I like that you like at least the first years of the Phil-era of Genesis! But you don't think Duke is still part of their good times? I agree that after Duke, their music changed a lot (I still like it though, but it's very different), so I can imagine you excluded it.
@@thijs941 You know, I basically chose timeframes based upon what I actually go back and listen to now. Duke was a solid album, but it is an emotional open wound and I find it less desirable to revisit.
@@relativetimeworx8459 fair enough!!
Where is Pink Floyd?
Nightwish, Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, VDGG, Pink Floyd, Camel, Genesis, Ayreon, Yes and Barclay James Harvest.
Hmm.. personal favourites, leaving out some of the all-time greats :
1 Pink Floyd
2 Steely Dan
3 Jethro Tull
4 Genesis
5 Fleetwood Mac
6 AC⚡️DC
7 Creedence Clearwater Revival
8 The Cure
9 Thin Lizzy
10 Kent ( Swedish band )
Tough one this! I'd probably have to go with:
10. Cardiacs
9. Mr Bungle
8. Karnivool
7. Meshuggah
6. Steven Wilson / Porcupine Tree
5. Talk Talk
4. Gentle Giant
3. Radiohead
2. Pink Floyd
1. Opeth
Tool and Haken would definitely go in the honourable mentions list. Can't stand Dream Theatre personally
YES!!! OPETH #1🖤🙏🖤
Hi Jim,
Great personal list of feel good bands you have. I knew you would put Iron Maiden first 😊.
Mine is a bit different. These bands I can play any time in almost any mood.
10. IQ
9. Wardruna
8. Riverside
7. Iron Maiden
6. YES
5. Pineapple Thief
4. Ozric Tentacles
3. Tangerine Dream
2. Genesis
Pink Floyd will always be my number one band.
Many great bands like Dream theater, Depeche Mode, talk Talk, Porcupine tree, I can’t put in my list because I can’t listen to them at any time; I have to be in the mood for it.
Maybe a favorite top ten list of singer/songwriters next 😅
Your video ranking Iron Maiden album covers sent me down a rabbit hole with their music. You spoke about them with such enthusiasm! You're correct when you say there is always room for new musical experience!😊
There always is!
the way you feel about iron maiden is the way i feel about Marillion, with and after fish, and fish solo stuff too, best music ever to me always will be
Really interesting list Jim, enjoy your content immensely. Here’s mine a couple are there for my adrenaline fuelled moshing through my youth.
10.Rush
9.Sepultura
8. Black Sabbath
7. Gojira
6. Machine head
5. Opeth
4. Queen
3. Mastodon
2. Dream theater
1. Metallica ( similar to you with Iron Maiden!! their in my DNA
Awesome!!!
👍☮️👑🐍🙏😎
I know! Thanks Scot 😁
Gonna say it... my favourite Maiden albums are the first two with Paul Di'Anno. Never was a fan of Bruce Dickinson... *runs for cover* 😊
Awesome list Jim!! Porcupine tree and Haken would reside in my top 10 i do believe and Tool is always in my top 3! It will
Never change! Also back in black is so iconic! Love that record! I need to explore Iron Maiden! Much love friend!!
Love ya back, fella!
I really enjoyed your show. Your explanations were profound, and you could see the emotion that those great bands have produced in you.IMOH music has to move you, reach your feelings, to feel good.
They say (those who have studied emotional intelligence, like Dr Daniel Goleman) that there are only three things that put the human being on another plane, in another space, and one of them is music.
Of course, for this to happen you have to like the music, and that is very subjective and that is why you connect or not with that music. But despite this, I think that there are great bands, and then comes everything else.
For me there is a level of prog/hard/classic/metal rock music that is very difficult to reach, whose legacy and influence has been enormous.
For me they are (in no particular order):
Led Zeppelin
P. Floyd
Rolling Stones
Beatles
Yes
Deep Purple
Genesis
Black Sabbath
Rush
Jethro Tull
Iron Maiden
Queen
AC/DC
Genesis
ELP
The reason for each of them can take us days of conversation. I will just say something simple, but for many it sounds unconvincing.
In the 70's, in particular, in the first five years, where most of these bands generated their masterpieces, there was nothing like that. NOTHING.
All of them were great CREATORS. Of course, some of them borrowed from the blues, but their styles were innovative and from there everything that came after developed.
Fantastic stuff Jim, no doubt there were a few bands that you wanted to include but couldn’t because you didn’t want to take out anyone else.
I’m off to see Ozrics (and The Orb) in a few months time, I’m looking forward to it.
No doubt at all!
Never expected this ! Here's hoping for some of my own favourites.
19:03. I agree 100% with you on all counts of your assessment of Haken. I only just discovered them in 2022 when they co-headlined with Symphony-X, of whom I have been a fan since the early 2000s. I have seen Haken live 3 times since 2022, and like you, I cannot grow tired of their unique progressive style of music. Everything they have done has been appealing to me.
Haken are the mutt’s nuts!
Ooooh nice gonna do mine before watching and see if we have any in common Jim🤗. Bare in mind with me they change almost every day apart from core 2 or 3 bands. One is very recent band so bit of recency bias maybe... Here goes....
10 Blind Guardian
9 Alice In Chains (inc. Mad Season)
8 Amorphis or Nightwish (can't decide!!)
7 Talk Talk
6 Iron Maiden
5 Cult of Luna
4 God Speed You! Black Emperor
3 Black Sabbath
2 Broadcast
1 Opeth
Just missing but get in on other days Sparks, Porcupine Tree, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, REM, Smashing Pumpkins, Amorphis/Nightwish, Amon Amarth, The Levellers, Sepultura, Renaissance, Nektar, Clannad, Swans, Free/Bad Company, Jethro Tull, Aha, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, The Cure, Crowded House, Fleetwood Mac, Ghost, King Crimson, Radiohead. Can, Faust, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Van Der Graf Generator, Wildbeasts, Echo & The Bunnymen, Gojira, Caravan, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Fairport Convention, Goldfrapp, Still Corners, Nirvana (inc back catalogue), The Beatles, Flaming Lips, The Doors, Rush, Moody Blues, .nearly forgot King Gizzard ATLW.....and loads more can't think of right now. Anyway they've all been in or near top 10 over the years.🤘👨🎤.
If included ANY artist I think Bowie, Prince, Kate Bush, Miles Davis, Curtis Mayfield, Nina Simone, Leonard Cohen, Frank Zappa, Bjork, Stevie Wonder, Grant Lee Buffalo, Nick Drake, Scott Walker, Sixto Rodriguez would feature in top end sometimes too. 😊👍
Ok I'm gonna watch now....and like go ah 💩 when I think of obvious band forgot ...lol...
ok from your top 10 Jim I forgot Yes - I love them but they've not become top end for me yet...Tool just can't enjoy - one of my irrational irritation bands,...Muse I liked in my 20s - Origin of Symmetry is fantastic...Clannad are the band I just drift off with and really comfort me in ways other bands cannot do consider them my permanent no.11😁🐐....Oh Haken are cool just not for moi....just got over the Dream Theatre hump thanks to you Jim... and enjoy then now without irritation but they won't ever get up there...oh I forgot Metallica but for some reason they never get up there despite loving them on and off since i wad 10...yeah Maiden are in my DNA too.....wish i could see them but never happened unfortunately ....
I love your pool of bands for the churn! I should do that! And I think I’m going to do an artist list as opposed to a band list. There’s a lot of amazing artists that are competing for top spots too!
@@JimNewstead cool idea! Go for it. Oh and was considering getting Haken tickets but the seating arrangements at Kentish town are very wishy washy so I can't do it unfortunately .....next time Maiden do 02 its you and me Jim!!!🤗👨🎤
Another Talk Talker! Sweet!
@@operating yes aren't they brilliant!!! If this was albums top 10 list first on my list with no hesitation would be Colour of Spring.....ironically many of my top bands or artists would not have an album in my top 10 all time list but Talk Talk for sure (there are so many bands with one superb all timer record....)👍
My artists, not necessarily groups, would be, and not in any perfect order. Depends on the mood, but mostly it is this:
10. Tears for Fears
9. Todd Rundgren
8. Radhika Miller
7. Oregon
6. Talk Talk
5. Checkfield
4. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
3. Yes
2. Kate Bush
1. Pat Metheny Group
Glad to see Yes on the list, of course. A lot more songs for you to discover.
Funny how life is sometimes mirrored. I saw ACDC in 1980 and was a rocker for 20yrs. I then moved away from my birthplace and without fellow rockers i drifted away from metal and rock for 5yrs. Then someone gave me a Muse album. Like you it reawakened my love of rock. Then someone gave me a Porcupine Tree album who may now be my fave band.
They opened me to pure prog like Yes etc
Love Haken enough to wear their Tshirts..rare for me
...and saw Iron Maiden in 1980 too
Ah, I set a bright musical light, and the same brained musical moths come fluttering! It’s not surprising that we share similar tastes…. Muse were pivotal for me!
First of all I agree with you, there is always new music, new good music, you only have to be ready to listen to it.
Second I realized, that although in many videos (not only mine) you said things that made me think, we are brothers from different mothers 😆 but this video shows, there's also lots of differences in our musical tastes. As I wrote to your Maiden Covers List, there are certain subjects, to which I cannot make an exact 1 - 10 list. The same with bands .. I simply know too many and I like too many and as you said the list might change everyday ... and it's hard to limit it to 10 bands.
I actually had to make 2 lists, because in my personal sight of music there are 2 phases : before Dream Theater and after Dream Theater started.
So of the first phase I have Yes, Pink Floyd and Iron Maiden on my list, next to Led Zeppelin, UFO, Deep Purple, Kansas , Eloy, King Crimson and Rush.
Once there was Dream Theater they became my favourite band, and even though I didn't like the last 10 years too much, they still are. There are other bands like Opeth, Riverside, RPWL,
Von Hertzen Brothers, Blind Ego , Transatlantic, Nevermore, Communic ... I'm writing this, without thinking too long ... and probably forget lots of others ... it's just changing from day to day.
Maybe you ask me tomorrow again 🤣🤘
So 7 of your bands didn't make it into my list, and a subject we have to talk about later is the Haken/DT comparison ... I think, you just don't know enough DT, especially the 90s, yet ... but that's something for the future ...
Great list, Jim. Plenty of those bands would be on my list too and there are some nice surprises in there too. I think you and I have been on a very similar musical journey.
Iron Maiden was my first gig in 1984. Pink Floyd would probably top my list, if I ever made one. I saw the Ozrics recently.
Great list, great video. 👌
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
We’re about the same age - so it was pretty awesome to be 15 when an album like Somewhere in Time hit. Maiden changed my life. I’m in my 50s and wearing a Powerslave shirt as I type.
My 10. Rush, Police, Genesis, Yes, Eurythmics/Annie Lennox, Queen, Talking Heads, Silversun Pickups, Tom Petty & Heartbreakers, and weirdly Phantogram. (I know nobody asked, but I’ve honestly never tried to answer this question. Thank you for indulging me😊)
Great list!
I made a playlist of your favorite prog bands and it’s been a mixed bag for me but Elder!!!! Looooove their music. Thanks for introducing them to me
Great list, although surprised to not see Riverside or Opeth on there!
Me too😢
Its allways a personal list. I respect that
Thanks!
10:Steven Wilson 9.Talking Heads 8.Genesis (pre Abacab) 7.Magazine 6.Yes (pre 90125) 5.King Crimson 4.Bowie 3.Radiohead 2.Pink Floyd 1.Beatles
Thanks Jim, a fascinating story, as always! My top 10 bands, in no particular order:
Alice in Chains
Faith No More
Iron Maiden
Mastodon
Megadeth
Metallica
Slayer
Soundgarden
The Tea Party
Tool
Close behind- Anthrax, Gojira
The Tea Party (particularly 90s era) is so underrated
1. Jethro Tull
2. Yes
3. Moody Blues
4. Genesis
5. Strawbs
6. Marillion
7. Pink Floyd
8. Wishbone Ash
9. Uriah Heep
10. Saga
Cool video Jim!
I'm just missing Genesis! :O Not a fan? Perhaps time to rediscover their stuff :)
Had some hope that Marillion was in there too haha, but maybe their old stuff is weighing them down?
Iron Maiden is the ultimate comfort band, it's true. Iron Maiden is home.
Here's my top 10: Rush, Yes, Van der Graaf Generator, Blind Guardian, Iron Maiden, King Crimson, Black Sabbath, Megadeth, Judas Priest, and The Beatles.
Difficult isn’t it - For what its worth and after more thought than my brain wanted to deal with I ended up with 1 Pink Floyd, 2 Muse, 3 Porcupine Tree, 4 Supertramp, 5 Yes, 6 Steely Dan, 7 Genesis, 8 Epica, 9 Dream Theater, 10 Nightwish. A few matches with your list and some of the others on your list warranted consideration
Cool and interesting list. :)
I've got Iron Maiden to see live here in New Zealand in a couple of weeks and still debating The Cult in November. I've never seen Maiden but did see The Cult on the Sonic Temple and Ceremony tours back in the day.
Very good.
Great list Jim. I thought you might have had an electronic act in there and speaking of The Ozric Tentacles I've always been a huge fan of their electronic alter-ego Eat Static 👍
Electronic bands.... that's a different list!
@@JimNewsteadWe look forward to the video 👍
Old stuff: Genesis, Yes, Jethro Tull, Gentle Giant, Beatles
New Stuff: Haken, Spock's Beard, Transatlantic,, NMB, Wobbler
Honorable mentions: Steely Dan, Who, Traffic, Pink Floyd, Moody Blues
Ah…. Lovely sounds in there Sidecar😁
A very interesting and heartfelt explanation of your fav bands and one I will come back to, to rewatch again it’s that’s good. No major surprises, Osric excluded , but a fascinating watch
Thanks Dave, you need to have conviction for your choices!!!
@@JimNewstead Definately and I wouldn’t want to try and argue with you about your choices. All the best
Of the groups you listed, you piqued my interest with Muse and Ozric Tentacles. I think for me, the first time you mentioned Ozric on the channel was while listening to Olias, yet I have yet to try giving them a listen.
If I find time to listen to either Muse or Ozric, where do you suggest I begin? I’m usually a chronological listener, but if each group has an album which you think would suit my listening preferences, I welcome the suggestions.
Try Pungent Effulgent or Erpland for Ozrics - it's their first album and as good a place as any to start! Muse.... Blackholes and Revelations
Alternatively do band that pivoted you. For me ELO, UFO, Marillion, Queensryche, Muse, Porcupine Tree, Opeth.
Yes!!! Pivot bands…. I feel another list coming on…,
Hi Jim! Thanks for Ozric, never heard of them (so ignorant).
Not at all.... hope you discover something amazing!
Glad you like the ozrics. Way ahead of the rest. Live they are killer.
I know, seen them many times!
The Cult are awesome.
Yes they are!
Great recommendations Jim. I'll start with 'In Absentia'. Procupine Tree was always a band that was just there, without ever giving it a proper try. Up the Irons! Btw. As you said i cannot fathom me being without Maiden. Senjutsu and Brave New World are my favourite from the last era. Thank you for describing exactly what Maiden is to me as well.
How did you find the album?
@@derekd.4156 Quite nice!
@@KeimpeJ it sure if you’ve checked out other stuff from then, but my favorite album is fear of a blank planet, and I highly recommend checking out their live stuff. Anesthetize live from tilberg (you can find it on RUclips from the bands channel) is my favorite live song/performance of all time
@@derekd.4156 Thanks a bunch Derek!
Lately i revisited the complete Motorpsycho discography, that took me a year :D Haha cheers.
Ozric Tentacles are playing same venue in near future...saw on the Kentish town gig list.
I saw them at Kentish Town last November. That’s where I shot that live video from.
I don't really do top 10 albums because my taste changes so much. I guess if i was asked 20 years ago it would mostly consist of punk bands, if you asked me 10 years ago it would have been mostly heavy rock and 80s electronic, today it is mostly prog rock and prog metal.
Bands i am listening to at the moment though are,
Robot God - Newish Space Rock, Prog Rock band who are awesome.
King Crimson - So experimental and almost every album feels different.
Van Der Graaf Generator - Unique sound, incredible but take some getting into.
Marillion - Mostly the later Marillion stuff since Hogarth joined.
The Fall - 50,000 Fall fans cannot be wrong. (80s weirdness).
Cabaret Voltaire - 80s experimental electronic industrial.
Killing Joke - recently discovered them and loving their 80s albums so far.
Hibiscus Biscuit - New Jaz inspired band with a single album released, really loving this album.
The Black Heart Death Cult - New Shoegaze band their album Sonic Mantras is really good.
80s era Maiden was definitely the best.
👍✌️🤟🤘
Like you, the numbers are somewhat superfluous, as they change depending on mood. I'm heavily into prog rock, as my list clearly indicates. But I also liked some of the really good pop-rock bands too (but only the top ones) Lists like this are so divisive, because it comes down to personal tastes really.
1) Rush
2) Yes
3) Led Zeppelin
4) Pink Floyd
5) Journey
6) Triumph
7) The Cars
8) CCR
9) Grateful Dead
10) The Eagles
There’s a big chunk of your list that I don’t know at all…. The Cars, Triumph, CCR, The Eagles other than HC.
@@JimNewstead Don't bother reacting to Eagles, as they block literally everything. Great band to check out on your own time though. Take It to the Limit, Seven Bridges Road, and many, many other great songs. Reaction wise, Triumph would be your best bet. I 'strongly' feel they were one of the best arena rock bands of the late 70s through mid 80s. I also feel they were severely underrated as a group. I'll link you to one of the best live performances I've seen by any band. I'm 58, so have seen a few live performances in my time and might know a good show when he sees it. No Autotune, no safety nets, just 100% unadulterated musical bliss in front of a crowd of 375,000 at US Fest 83' Metal Day. Triumph - Lay It on the Line ruclips.net/video/oI8Z_huqcUg/видео.html
@@JimNewstead
I have to ask…
Is that HC the album? Or only the song HC itself? If only the song, the HC album is definitely a worthy listen. Not that a reaction on YT is feasible. They’re as bad, if not worse, than the band which shall not be discussed at blocking.
Such a difficult thing.....some bands shaped my childhood some my adulthood....some have 1 amazing album and some have dozens....
In no order ill through some together
TOOL/Jesus Lizard/Sleep/Porcupine Tree/Tears for Fears/Depeche Mode/ Tame Impala/ James/ The Sword/The Black Angels/Melvins.....some of these are interchangeable on my mood but some will never leave.....
Let's see: Radiohead, Beatles, Stones, Doors, Who, Yes, Floyd, Tame impala, Jane's Addiction, REM, Steely Dan: Solo Artists, Bowie, Joni, Prince, Stevie, Marley.. Still plenty more I adore.
Wow...interesting....Im different...all I hear in Iron Maiden is standard 80s riff rock whenevr I hear them...I find The Cult tiringly bland....( over Porcupine Tree??....what???)...lol...love Tentacles....I would probably place Yes at #1....Genesis at 2....then off into Beatles, Gentle Giant, P.T. of course, Big Big Train ( a recent discovery)...etc...not to say my list wouldnt change from time to time....
My thrown together list, open to additional choices if I gave it some thought:
The Clash
The Who
Talking Heads
Velvet Underground
Sonic Youth
Pere Ubu
Black Sabbath
King Crimson
Husker Du
Sleater-kinney
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Minutemen
Jim, I'm going to be honest and say I couldn't pick 10, couldn't pick 20, probably manage up to around 40 or 50. Leaving Solo acts out makes it difficult atm as well, as one Solo act in particular would be nudging Top 5 and is wrong genre too. As I've gotten older, and having the 70's as my teenhood I feel spoilt for choice. I was old enough to hear the Beatles, the Move, Bowie, Bolan et al and all of them create a formative image of music I wanted to listen to. The first REAL album I bought was Fireball by Deep Purple, and the first band I saw live was Hawkwind follwed by Wishbone Ash and then Argent. My musical was set for the next 20 or so years, however age DOES change your taste and whilst I still love evrything I grew up with I believe I have moved with the times even though I stubbornly refuse to listen to some genres, though ocassionally an artist will pique my curiosity and I'll investigate further. My heavy metal loving son certainly got me into goth metal/symphonic metal such as Nightwish and Within Temptation. To me EVERY style of music deserves a listen, a proper LISTEN, even if only once before dismissing them forever.
A major caveat to mine would be- “The Beatles are a given and in any Top Ten List they are notwithstanding”
Haha…. The Beatles don’t count on any list as they are ground zero for modern music.
how cool that Ozric is your number 3! They would be my number 1. I love many types of music and styles, but OT is literally a universe apart! I've seen them live twice this year... live they are even better! Ed Wynne is one of the greatest if you ask me
I reckon once you’ve heard more Rush and given time they will be in your top 10. They’re a mixture of everything on this list
They were actually in this list this morning, got bumped, came back, went again…. I think there problem is I don’t know enough of their catalogue to make a fair judgement!
@@JimNewstead Not sure how much you’ve got through but there’s still a lot to explore, Hemispheres is a favourite but there’s Signals, Grace Under Pressure, Power Windows, all amazing albums…lots of fun ahead 🤘
It wasn’t until I realized I would always buy their music everytime that I realized that they were completely huge I. My life! Funny.
"Top 10 Comfort Food Bands" nice idea
Yay!
The biggest reason for my list to be very different from yours is that I could NEVER ever decide my top 10 favorite bands. It is beyond me how people can do it. My top 10 bands includes at least 50 bands easily after a very short consideration and among those bands there is none I could drop out of the top ten. Secondly I have always lived from the diversity of the music I have been listening. It would just kill me immediately if I would have to choose 10 bands to be my favorite since it would take away 90% of my favorite music. By that I mean, I have to be able to feel that this is the best band and piece of art I have ever heard on one moment and tomorrow that band and record would not fit in my top 100 list. In other words I would feel it would restrict me from enjoying the music I listen out of those top lists in the fullest way. I can not stand people who listen to the same type of music and same artists and records day in day out. Even thinking that one band would be the best one very single day for the rest of my life makes me feel sick.
Long time ago a musician and a friend of mine told me to do a top 100 songs list in Spotify and share it with me. We had lots of similarities, very varied music taste, tolerance for very different, harsh, minimalistic, artistic, poppy styles and even though I tried to refuse and hesitated, I tried as he was very persuasive. I begun the job and as I am a thorough person, I started going through the alphabet. I got a quite good list done in a day or two and I thought ok, I have done probably 5% of my favorite songs (I was probably on "D" in my first quick sweep through the alphabet), and thought that lets see how much is still missing from the one hundred. My count was way over 500 songs on that point. I gave up immediately since I knew that I could never drop a single song from the list, it just would not be possible. All the songs meant so much to me and in the right mind and setting any one of them could the number one. I messaged my friend and told all this to him. He did not ask me to continue, he just said, I am sorry, I would have liked to get your list, but I understand. That was the last time I tried to put the music I like and love in some kind of order, is it a song, a record or a band. It is just totally pointless to me and it just makes me feel restricted and does not give me a single good feeling. I think art is not to be put in order, my conscience will not let me do it. It is not that I would feel I am doing wrong to the bands or other people. It is that I feel I betray myself, it feels I am lying to myself, telling myself things that I could never ever possibly know.
One thing I have learned with music is that you are never ready, you will never be done with it and tomorrow will always surprise you if you keep your eyes, your ears and especially your mind open. The only thing that I am sure of about me and music is that I am not the one who decides the order of the best songs, albums or bands, it is not me now, tomorrow or at any point of time in the future. Not even for myself. I would be on the wrong anyways and that would feel wrong so I will never ever try that again.
Then there are other reasons our lists would be different, but I will not go that way. Let's just say that I have noticed I have very much the same type taste of music as you but there obviously are some differences. I would be surprised if there would not. But then again, tomorrow I might feel differently about some of your favorite bands.
My list will probably be something like this:
1. Opeth
2. Elder
3. Talk Talk
4. Led Zeppelin
5. Ayreon
6. Metallica
7. Pain of Salvation
8. Mastodon
9. Death Grips
10. Pink Floyd
Hi Jim please consider reviewing the final cut an album that divides Floyd fans
How big is tool in the UK relative to other prog bands? Here in the US, nobody has heard of Opeth, porcupine tree, gentle giant etc. But tool is selling out 20k stadiums and have slightly cracked the mainstream
Outside those that follow this sort of music, they’re unknown. But that’s the same with all these bands! They’re big in metal and have headlined Download Festival.
That proves nothing mate ED Shereen sells out 100.000 stadiums and he's shite ...
Iron Maiden is my # 1 as well.
Hmmm I haven’t listened to Live After Death in, maybe, 20 years. I think I’ll pop that in shortly…
For me, I guess:
1. Genesis
2. Marillion
3. Tears for Fears
4. Porcupine Tree
5. Dire Straits
6. Pink Floyd
7. Muse
8. The Smiths
Oh let's have a go at this! Some choices will change depending on mood, and the order is sorta random (except for no 1):
10. Def Leppard
9. Orange Goblin
8. Judas Priest
7. Yes
6. Genesis
5. Alice In Chains
4. Van Halen
3. Amorphis
2. Opeth
1. Marillion
I don't have 10 written in stone. My top 4 is and 5 most likely.
1. Pink Floyd
2. Tool
3. Faith No More
4. Alter Bridge
5. Mastodon?🤔
Others that most likely are in the top 10 are Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Rancid, R.E.M., CCR, George Strait (yes, country). Everything else fluctuates.
Thought you might of had Riverside in there Jim.
1. Porcupine tree
2. Steven Wilson
3. Opeth
4. Yes
5. Led Zeppelin
6. Deftones
7. Muse
8. Alice In Chains
9. Tool
10. Pink Floyd
6-9 can be swapped depending on the day
My Kiss is on Hall & Oat's list.
Yep, music is subjective af and I feel like my list proves that quite well:
1. Opeth
2. SOAD/Megadeth
3. Godsmack
4. Porcupine Tree
5. Haken
6. Gojira
7. Alice Cooper
8. Manowar
9. Metallica
10. Leprous
I’ll have to give Porcupine Tree another listen.
I thought with your glowing reviews Marillion would have been up there
Difficult to put in order. I was a teenager in the 70s and this pretty much defines my favourite bands.
So Yes was my favourite band up to 2004 but I don't care much for what the reformed band has done since.
Then I would group the next with little to separate them : Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Genesis (Prog era), Deep Purple,
The next tier: Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Moody Blues, Nektar
My final place I would award to, not because they are the least favourite out of the ten but because they are a band of the present era: Karnataka.
Perfect! Great list Tony, amazing bands, all of them!
I don’t think I know of Karnataka, but the rest of your list is terrific. I may just have to look Karnataka up to see if they appeal to me.
Have you done any reactions to Karnataka, Jim?
@@IllumeEltanin Yes, he has a number of times. This was the first one posted by me. I was going to post the link but then I risk the possibility of you tube removing my post. "Listening to Karnataka - Forsaken, Your World
Secondly I did a mixtape #24 - Celtic Prog which included the song "Tide To Fall" live
then I think it was Will who did a mixtape which included the song "Road to Cairo"
@@IllumeEltanin yes Pam…. A few. I’ll ping you the links later.
I thought you liked Agalloch!!!
Has it been six years already? (The Grudge)
Yeah, time really does fly...🙄
Yup!
There are bands that you want to like and you try it again and again. But it doesn‘t work. In my life One of them is Tool. Now it try it with „the grudge“
Fingers crossed!
My top ten in no particular order:
Pearl jam
Porcupine tree
James
Crowded house
Haken
Tool
Faith no more
Sigur ros
The smiths
Mansun
Another good list, Jim! I do wish TOOL was higher, though hehe!😜🍺 You echo my main complaints about Dream Theater exactly. I recognize they are all top-notch musicians, but I just don't like them. Maiden have been together for almost half a century....wow! Mad respect, great band.👍
Tool are fantastic…. To have broken into my top 10 is an achievement in its own right!
@@JimNewstead of course!👍
Dream Theater has a few songs that are pure perfection and I'm so thankful to that. Unfortunately I have to agree. They have so much stuff I can't listen to compared to Tool or Pink Floyd. I love 80% of Tool and 90% of Pink Floyd after Atom Heart Mother.
Apart from The Beatles, who had a short but fertile recording career, I don't have any long-term favourite bands or artists (it's a case-by-case thing, depending on the period and the albums).
I lost interest in AC/DC after Bon Scott died (I never could stand Brian Johnson). From Porcupine Tree I especially like the period with Chris Maitland, having little taste for the prog metal direction with Gavin Harrison. From The Cult, I only like their debut studio album Dreamtime, which is more post-punk oriented. From Pink Floyd I only like their albums from 1967 to 1977 (with a preference for the period from 1968 to 1971). and so on...😉
Carcass
Metallica
Opeth
Voivod
Alice in Chains
Mastodon
Peter Gabriel
Deftones
Enslaved
Katatonia
No Marillion 😢😢
Ian Astbury not Ashbury
OMG! Iron Maiden....seriously?
And any word about King Crimson... hmmm🤔
It is opinion.... and I've not heard enough of Fripp's band yet. Undoubtedly very important, and if this list was top 10 most important bands ever, they might be there!
@@JimNewstead Thank You😊. I discovered Your chanel becouse of PT and prog music in general. I have many to see and hear here😁. I didn't find Motorpsycho yet. Do You know this band?
@@Hope-cm8fb I sure do.
I’ve made this handy index for the channel. It’s alphabetised for all the bands/artists featured and links directly to the RUclips playlist for each band.
reactionships.com/home/the-index/
@@JimNewstead thank You 😊💚💚🍀
@@JimNewstead Wooow 🔥I have many hours to listen to😊💚🍀💚.
I would also recommend interesting bands such us:
✨Throes of Dawn (e.g. Black Wreath of Mind from 2016)
✨Soup (e.g. Sleepers)
✨Sigur Ros (e.g. Untitled #8)
Top 10 bands jim? For me youre still on a journey. Too early m8. 😁
I've been on a journey my whole life!
@@JimNewstead and we still enjoy the journey with you.
No deep purple? Or black sabbath surely the grandfathers of rock deserve a mention they have influenced so many bands it’s a shame you forgot about them
I didn’t forget them….. this is very much a personal top ten… but do check out my mixtape tomorrow as I think there’s tunes on there you’ll enjoy!
You miss Opeth
It’s MY list…. So no I didn’t! I love Opeth, but they are not quite top ten of my lifetime…. Certainly in the top 20 though.
@@JimNewstead sure, forgot to say i love most of the bands on your list! keep reaction to music🤘 GREETINGS FROM ARGENTINA
1) Radiohead 2) The Beatles) 3) Pink Floyd) 4) King Crimson, 5) Led zeppelin
HAPPY THE MAN... I keep recommending them because I know you'd love them. Now I've learned that a key member, Frank Wyatt (Keys & Sax) songwriter passed away last year. SAD also because HTM are the GREATEST American Pure Progband EVER yet due to lack of marketing they were underexposed thus underappreciated or known by many. I consider them the offspring and just below YES, GENESIS & GENTLE GIANT. He released a solo album "Zeitgeist' in 2020 which contains many of the wonderful hallmarks of HTM. (LINK BELOW) Upon hearing his music maybe you'll consider exposing more people finally to this amazing band ruclips.net/video/Y9ockq_kg0s/видео.html YES I will buy you coffee!
how you can said that muse is one 5 best band ever if Radiohead is superior to them ?