Name you top 5 rock/pop bands or artists:

Mine are

1. The Smiths

2. Elvis Costello

3. David Bowie

4. REM

5. Lou Reed / The Velvet Underground

Only 5?  I think I could pick 5 for every mood...

1. Tom Petty
2. Dire Straits
3. Three Doors Down
4. Metallica
5. David Gray

 Easy- in no particular order:

Led Zeppelin

Deep Purple

Yes

Pink Floyd

Rolling Stones

Yup, I'm a died-in-the-wool 70's Heavy British Rock lover!  

 Wow this is a hard one...I like so much music it'd be hard to pick...

 I'll go with these five right now (in no particular order...)

•  The Moody Blues
  
  
• Emerson Lake & Palmer
  
  
• Pink Floyd
  
  
• The Doors
  
  
• The Beatles
  

 I'm a younger guy but I grew up spinning my dad's rock albums, you know the vinyl kind

Michael - I like your choice here. I have at least one DVD-Audio or SACD from each band you listed here except for the Stones (I don't think they have any hi-res discs out). It never sounded so good on my RC's!!!!!

most of the stones albums are available on sacd.

I was fortunate enough to grow up in the fifties, so most of my 5 favorite rock bands are from the 60's or early 70's. I really don't listen to most new music, it is all hip-hop or sounds the same to me. I would rather play my "good old stuff" or listen to some Big Band or New Age on my XM satelllite radio.

Not in any order-

1. Jimi Hendrix Experience

2. Led Zeppelin

3.  Van Halen (with both singers)

4. Buddy Holly and the Crickets

 5. Lynyrd Skynyrd

I would have to include The Who, I got to see them with Keith Moon a year before he died, man what incredible sound from only 4 guys! I also got to see the original Skynyrd with Ronnie VZ and the rest.

Can't forget ZZ Top, I started playing their first record on my college radio shows in 1972. Got to meet Dusty after the show in 1994. Jenna Elfman, the tv star, was a go-go dancer for them then.

Now you need to ask-

what are your 5 favorite blues bands/artists?

I will answer that next time.

They all sound great on my three Energy RC/LCR speakers!

Musicman from Iowa

PS, jeez can't forget The Doors!

Let it roll baby roll!

 1. Can

2. King Crimson

3. Kraftwerk

4.  Sly & the Family Stone

5.  The Stooges