Your top 5s

What are your top 5 favorite....
Bands?
Songs?

My favorites in music have changed quite a bit lately.
Bands


For songs......

There's hundreds of bands that I like; it'd be very difficult for me to choose just five, haha. As far as songs ago, there's plenty of them as well, but few of my most favorites would be Come Clarity by In Flames, The Game by Motorhead, Master of Puppets by Metallica, Metalingus by Alter Bridge, and Cemetery Gates by Pantera.

ummm well my tastes vary widely and switch around all the time and i'm terrible at properly ranking things but I guess here's what I'm feelin right now

BANDS/ARTISTS
- Barenaked Ladies
- Imagine Dragons
- Boston
- John Mellencamp
- Jeff & Casey Lee Williams

SONGS
- Anything by Hedley
- Odds Are by Barenaked Ladies
- Underdog by Imagine Dragons
- Best Day Of My Life - American Authors
- Gold by Jeff Williams

@YungKnowledge - Chance the Rapper and Sublime are where it's at.

I love too many bands, albums and songs that it's impossible to condense what my favorites are into a list. But I'll post what I've been listening to the most in the past month or so.

Lists are not in any order.

Albums Right Now

- Red by Taylor Swift
- Blonder Tongue Audio Baton by Swirlies
- Dubna by Vtgnike
- The Book About My Idle Plot on a Vague Anxiety by toe
- Sleeping Beauty by Sun Ra

Songs Right Now

- Just in Time by Nina Simone [link]
- Tolerated by Girl Talk & Freeway (feat. Waka Flocka Flame) [link]
- 13.[MVP] by knxwledge. [link]
- Natural by Dessy Hinds & Nyck Caution of Pro Era [link]
- Baby It's You by Jojo [link]

None of these are in order.

Top 5 Artists
- Katy Perry
- Kelly Clarkson
- Sara Bareilles
- Avril Lavigne
- Paramore / Rihanna

As for top 5 songs, there's no choosing those lol.

Glee:

SO hard and it always changes, but right now I'm going to go with:

Top 5 Artists/Bands
1.) Michael Jackson
2.) Bayisde
3.) Streetlight Manifesto
4.) 30 Seconds to Mars
5.) Coldplay

My list of favorite bands is always changing as I'm introduced to new music. I can't choose songs because I would spends hours changing the list.

Top 5 Artists/Bands
1. The All-American Rejects
2. Avril Lavigne
3. blink-182
4. Alex Britti
5. Celine Dion

This list is really different compared to when you asked me ... a few months ago? It was more like this:
1. blink-182
2. The All-American Rejects
3. --- nothing much else really :P

Top 5 Songs
1. Dirty Little Secret - The All-American Rejects
2. Van Jou - Xander de Buisonje
3. Una su un Milione - Alex Britti
4. Everytime I Look For You - blink-182
5. First Date - blink-182

And these lists are prone to changing everytime, so yeaah. :P

Bands

Simple Plan
We Are the in Crowd
Black Veil Brides
My Chemical Romance
All Time Low

Songs

Long Live the Kids - We are the in crowd
The Lucky One - Simple Plan
Welcome to the Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
Knives & Pens - Black Veil Brides
Therapy - All Time Low

I had a hard time choosing my songs. Most of my favorites lean towards Simple Plan because they've helped me in so many ways.

For Simple Plan, it would be:

1. The Lucky One
2. Welcome to My Life
3. Perfect
4. Me Against the World
5. This Song Saved My Life

Bands:

Dead Kennedys
Bad Brains
Black Flag
The Cramps
Minor Threat

Songs:

Fearless Vampire Killers - Bad Brains
Black Coffee - Black Flag
London Calling - The Clash
Stars and Stripes of Corruption - Dead Kennedys
California Uber Alles - Dead Kennedys

My favorites for quite a while are:

Bands:
01 - Skyforger - Latvian
02 - Týr - English and Faroese
03 - Arkona - Russian
04 - Heidevolk - Dutch
05 - Ensiferum - English and Finnish

Songs:
01 - Skyforger - Zobena Dziesma (translation: Sword Songs)
02 - Skyforger - Gatavs Biju Karavīrs (translation: Ready to be a Warrior)
03 - Skyforger - Sen Dzirdēju, nu Ieraugu (translation: Long I Heard, Now I See)
04 - Týr - Torsteins Kvæði (translation: The Lay of Torstein)
05 - Týr - Ragnarok

the above bands is what I listen too a lot, according to my Last.FM is different:
01 - Skyforger (wow, no surprise, I listen to them alot)
02 - Cannibal Corpse
03 - Slayer
04 - Korpiklaani
05 - Metsatöl

I can't do songs. But bands now that's totally different.

Top 5 artists/bands-

Evanescence,
Florence and the Machine,
Lorde,
Adele,
Lana Del Rey

Top 5 songs-

Girl with One Eye,
Team,
Young and Beautiful,
Lithium,
Rumour Has It.

artists:
Animal Collective
Radiohead
Modest Mouse
The Brave Little Abacus
The National maybe

songs:
idk

1. The Dear Hunter
2. Little Tybee
3. As Tall As Lions
4. This Town Needs Guns
5. Zelliack or The Speed of Sound in Seawater or maybe Circa Survive

Oh I love creating lists ^>^
My Music taste generally tends to change, but the top 3 bands seem to remain stationary. This is my current choice, anyway.

Bands

1. Muse.
2. Arcade Fire.
3. Enter Shikari.
4. The Strokes.
5. Vampire Weekend (Tied with Franz Ferdinand)

I honestly couldn't choose my top 5 songs, so I'll choose the favourite by each artist.

Songs

1. Plug in Baby- Muse.
2. Crown of Love- Arcade Fire.
3. Constellations- Enter Shikari.
4. Under the Cover of Darkness- The Strokes.
5. Walcott- Vampire Weekend.

As for 5 songs not related to these bands:

1. Amsterdam- Coldplay (This would probably land on an ultimate top 5 list if I was to compile one).
2. Take on Me- A Ha (Don't judge, demons)
3. Common People- Pulp
4. Fake Plastic Trees- Radiohead.
5. Gimme Shelter- The Rolling Stones

There's no way I could do 5 songs, but, I can do five bands/groups/whoever.

1. Chevelle (By far my #1, favorite band)
2. A Perfect Circle and/or Tool (anything with Maynard J. Keenan is great)
3. J. Cole
4. Kendrick Lamar
5. Rise Against

Honorable mentions: Empire of the Sun, The Black Keys, Kings of Leon, M83, Incubus, Volbeat, Five Finger Death Punch, 30 Seconds to Mars, Dave Matthews Band, Pearl Jam, U2, Five For Fighting, Explosions in the Sky, Coldplay, etc. The list goes on and on.

Top 5 Artists & Favorite Songs

This second list is just a list of songs that I think people should listen to. They're all fantastic and are sort of an eclectic mix of the sort of music I like!

Songs not in order

Shenandoah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QvoqvX2VPE

Piano Version of Numb by Linkin Park
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FAvWYv613I

3gatsu 9ka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paE6Qd5zY7c

Original Pokerap (haha lol I know, but this is pokecommunity right? {XD})
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMk8wuw7nek

A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes - Cinderella
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhTjnzlcIeI

For the songs part, I'll just list my favourite song from each of the band listed, in the same order.

Top 5 bands: The sorrow, Serenity, Mercenary, Pendulum, As I lay dying
Top 5 songs: My oblivion, Coldness kills, Beyond this night, Crush, Parallels