What are your favorite bands?

No one has any favorite bands? I'll bite!

My favorites generally rotate as my tastes vary, but here are a few:

All time favs: The Moody Blues, Zao, Weezer

Current Favs: Baroness, Shrinebuilder, High on Fire, The Sword, Trouble, Electric Wizard

Favs that ebb and flow: My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy (specifically the Under the Cork Tree album), Underoath, Foo Fighters

Just to name a few:

Cage The Elephant
Motion City Soundtrack
The Libertines
Nirvana
Whiskeytown
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
The Rolling Stones
The Foo Fighters
The Black Crows
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band
Babyshambles

30 Seconds to Mars, Linkin Park and Goo Goo Dolls.

Those are the three bands I listen to most often. I like others, but those are my defaults.

I'll try and keep this list short...

Alkaline Trio
Finch
Hell Is For Heroes
Reuben
At The Drive-In
Nirvana
Queen
Hundred Reasons
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Alexisonfire
Hot Water Music
Motion City Soundtrack
The Movielife
65 days of static
Pink Floyd
Glassjaw

I could go on, but I won't.

Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, In Flames, Meshuggah, The Beatles

It frequently changes. Right now I'm into Kings of Leon, Black Keys, One Eskim0... Long time favs include Rolling Stones, Sound Garden, Rage Against the Machine and their offspring, Audioslave. Robbie Robertson, Credence, Van Morrison, Smokey Robinson and Tom Petty.

I can get really carried away with this stuff. I'm such a music geek. It drives most of my friends nuts, and I have trouble keeping music references out of my writing.

The Dresden Dolls - "dark cabaret," quirky two-piece
Pet Shop Boys - 80's synthpop
Cobra Starship - dance-punk
The Sounds - dance-punk/new wave
Bad Religion - punk rock
Roxette - 90's swedish pop!
AFI - punk rock with a gothy twist
Millencolin - swedish punk rock
Flogging Molly - punk rock with an irish folk twist
Lady Gaga - stuff
Blink-182 - pop punk, high-school nostalgia
Annie - norwegian pop
The Cardigans - swedish pop. love those scandinavians
Ace of Base - i can't believe they replaced BOTH vocalists, wth
The Ark - swedish glam rock and it's ridiculous
Gym Class Heroes - hip-hop played with instruments
Tsunami Bomb - female-fronted punk-rock
Gin Blossoms - 90's grunge-lite
Duran Duran - and i won't cry for yesterday, there's an ordinary world, somehow i have to fiiiiiiiind
No Use for a Name - punk-rock
Ferry Corsten - dutch trance DJ
Armin van Buuren - dutch trance DJ
Tiesto - dutch trance DJ
Gareth Emery - british guy who is like a dutch trance DJ
Sander van Doorn - dutch trance DJ
Dash Berlin - dutch trance DJ
Deadmau5 - canadian progressive house DJ

To wit, one of my friends just started throwing French electro at me, and I countered with the Dutch. I eventually undercut her with The Plastiscines, a French female garage rock band.

Oh, I also forgot Jimmy Eat World. I love Jimmy Eat World!

Slayer and Suicidal Tendencies are my all time favorite bands. Then I have my flavors of the month which vary widely across the musical spectrum.

Current favourite: The Agonist.
Previous favourite (for about 8 or 9 years): Cradle Of Filth.
Honourable mentions: Arch Enemy, Evanescence, Chalice, Dark Tranquillity, Astarte, The Veronicas, Katy Perry.
Old favourites I'm not really into anymore: KoRn, Slipknot, The Offspring, Blink 182.

Muse
Greenday
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
and

I'm digging a lot Bjork currently.

BT, Paul Van Dyk, Bloom 06 (eiffel 65's other band), Eiffel 65, Static X, Crossfade

Tom waits

I understand he is not a band, but the best damn songwriter there ever was.

The who
Modest mouse
Led Zeppelin
Neil diamond (Again not a band, although he has one)
The radiators
Queen

You should have specified a number of favorite bands. I could go on for ages.

in no particular order-

The Libertines
Biffy Clyro
Kings of Leon
Babyshambles
Sex Pistols
Ramones
Led Zeppelin
The Clash
The Killers
Foo Fighters
Nirvana
The Smiths
Metallica
Arctic Monkeys

I know I'll lie awake tonight sweating with second thoughts about this list (yes, I am that much of a geek), but here goes (in no particular order & I've included solo acts):

Nine Inch Nails
The Stooges
The Beatles
Laura Marling
Peaches
Ladytron
AA Bondy
Queens of the Stone Age
Bob Dylan
Depeche Mode
The Dead Weather
The Who
Dinosaur Jr
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Hello Saferide
The Ettes
Primal Scream
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan

ETA: I have to give an honorary mention to the old Icarus Line (before Aaron left) simply because Penance Soiree may be one of the best albums ever made and Getting Bright At Night has THE best guitar solo in the history of music

REM
The John Butler Trio
Radiohead
The Rolling Stones
Kate Bush
Regina Spektor
Fanfarlo
Arcade Fire
Muse (The early stuff, before they got all space-agey)
Johnny Cash
PJ Harvey
Florence And The Machine
Nick Cave
Animal Collective
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (It's a real band!)
Petteri Sariola
Andy McKee
Erik Mongrain
The Beatles

Off the top of my head, my favorites are...

Kamelot
Within Temptation
Savatage
Yuya Matsushita (yes, just one guy instead of a band but oh well)
Kalafina
Keane
Maroon 5
Train
Backstreet Boys (OH NOSTALGIA)
Fall Out Boy
Panic! At the Disco
The Beatles
Blackmore's Night

Too name a few. Though there are artirst who may have 1 song (Like Adele - Set fire to the Rain) that I absolutely love, I'll post artists with higher like list.

Eminem
Black Eyed Peas
Bruno Mars
Carlos Santana
Daiki Kasho
Don Omar
Elton John
Hanz Zimmer, and several other composers
Michael Jackson (the Jacksons, Jackson 5)
Justin Timberlake
The Killers
Linkin Park
Maroon 5
Ne-Yo
OneRepublic (And Ryan Tedder)
Starsailor
Sting
Usher

A-ha. And about four bands from each one of the above posts.

The Velvet Underground
Captain Beefheart and the magic band
Pavement
The Rolling Stones
The Stone Roses
The Auteurs
AC/DC
The Traveling Wilburies
The Byrds
The Doors
The Who
Television
The Howling Bells
Pink Floyd
The Stooges
Alabama Three
Pentangle
Th' Faith Healers
Compulsion
J. Richman and The Modern Lovers

ABBA, The Beatles

I can't believe I forgot Yeah Yeah Yeahs!

Recently digging Christina Perri and Lily Allen.

Still swear by the list from above, which failed to mention My Chemical Romance somehow (awesome band).

Currently I'm loving:

Local Natives

Band of Horses

The National

David Bowie

Arcade Fire