What are your favourite bands? (I'll name my favourite 15 in random order)

[Roy]

Madredeus
Cocteau Twins
Anathema
Alice In Chains
Hey (Polish)
Tristania (but only their music until 2007, after that it gets pretty bad, I don't think there is even one original member left)
Queens Of The Stone Age
Agalloch
The Gathering
Dead Can Dance

from older ones;

The Beatles

Other than that:

Sigur Rós, Gorgoroth, Draconian, Opeth

[TheMaestro]

Medellín cartel

[Celestia]

In no specific order


Slowdive
Depeche Mode
Fleetwood Mac
Aerosmith
Tool/A Perfect Circle
Soundgarden/Audioslave
Alice in Chains
Stone Temple Pilots
Pearl Jam
Metallica
Arcade Fire
Coldplay
Radiohead
Lifehouse
Palace
Led Zeppelin

[RenaRyuguu]

U2
Oasis
Foster the People
Royal Blood
Fake Shark
Beach Boys
Four Seasons aka the Jersey Boys
Kaiser Chiefs
Two Door Cinema Club
Good Charlotte
Republic Tigers
Shiny Toy Guns
Kings of Leon
Coldplay

[Sandis]

15 all time favorite bands (incuding childhood):

Beach House
Catatonia
The Cranberries
La Oreja de van Gogh
Skylė (Lithuanian)
ABBA
Dark Sanctuary
Cranes
Cocteau Twins
Nightwish
The Pretenders
Mellonta Tauta
Fleetwood Mac
The Knife
Depeche Mode


I summed up quality, quantity and impact in certain time periods.
One super favorite song was not enough to enter top 15 (Procol Harum, Sigur Rós, Slowdive, Pixies).
Some bands were close to the top 15 (top 20 probably would be easier).

[oszkar07]

Not in any particuliar order.(oops I didn't notice the 15 part...oh well)

The Rolling Stones
The Beatles
The Eagles
The Who
The Beachboys
Cream
Jimi Hendrix
Eric Clapton
Bob Dylan
Bob Marley
Van Morrison
Paul Simon
Neil Young
Tom Petty
John Lennon
Smokey Robinson
Pink Floyd
Fleetwood Mac
Led Zepplin

David Bowie
Elvis Costello
The Clash
The Police
The Cure
Depeche Mode
New Order
U2
Big Audio Dynamite
The Pretenders
Kate Bush
Def Leppard

Alice Cooper
Tom Waits
The Doors
Deep Purple
White Snake
ZZ Top
Kiss (earlier stuff 70's -80's mostly)
Cheap Trick
Van Halen
Aerosmith
John Cougar Mellencamp
Black Label Society /Zakk Wylde

The Pixies
Talking Heads
Terence Trent Darby
Prince
Soundgarden
Pearl Jam
Stone Temple Pilots
Slash and Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators
Red Hot Chilli Peppers

International
Omega : Hungarian
Bijelo Dugme : Jugoslavia
Googoosh: Iran

[Rafael Passoni]

My favourite ones are The Smiths, The Cure, Nirvana, Guns'Roses, Bee Gees, Beatles, kings of Lion, Silverchair, Alice in Chains, Red Hot Chili Peppers.

[Mortimer]

Rock/Metal
Saxon
Manowar
Powerwolf



Hip Hop/Rap
Snoop Dog, Dr Dre, NAS, DMX





Country
George Strait, Toby Keith



Serbian
Rifat Tepic, Milos Bojanic, Mitar Miric, Nedeljko Bajic Baja, Mile Kitic

[Blondie]

1. The Prodigy
2. Boris brejcha
3. Underworld
4. Depeche Mode
5. Afrojack
6. Neo (hungarian)
7. New Order
8. Röyksopp
9. Draft Punk
10. Tony Igy
11. Faithless
12. Chaotic Rave System
13. The Advent & Industrialyzer
14. Chris Liebing
15. Carl Cox

etc etc and i missed 100 other band what i listen very often

[Dunai]

Many people are listing solo artists or music groups while the question was about favorite bands. I find it funny that people make this mistake all the time in real life too and I always feel the need to correct them

Some of mine in no particular order: Porcupine Tree, Nirvana, Tool, Pink Floyd, Nine Inch Nails, Slayer, Korn, Alice In Chains, Radiohead, The Velvet Underground, The Smiths, and I could just go on an on, I simply have too many big favorites.