For my money, it's gotta be Radiohead.

What say the rest of you mugs?

Head and shoulders above.

Songwriting, musicality, live performance, variation, conceptually.

Also eternal thanks for bringing me back to reality about good progressive music actually is.

Hard to say but I give Modest Mouse mad props they are extremely talented, went to a live show a while back and it was awesome. They had everything from a stand up bass, violins, two drummers, trumpets, you name it they used it. Not to mention the thought that goes into the lyrics.

I never have a single "best" of anything. Some of my faves are:

Queens of the Stone Age
Them Crooked Vultures
Toadies
Motorhead
Arcade Fire
Band Of Skulls
The Von Bondies
The Stone Foxes
Jack White/White Stripes/The Raconteurs/The Dead Weather

Give some of these a listen if you have not yet hard them already. Lots of great music out there now... thank Buddha!

Oh, come on. Best band on the planet. Pick one!

Soulfood - Your link's not working (on my phone, anyway). Who was your pick?

Porcupine Tree.

I linked the track "the incident" as it was the title track on their most recent album.

Django django.

Sonic Youth! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsSK8frRjdU

Best band still playing - Queens of the Stone Age

Best band of all time - The Beatles

The Shpongle live band.

Does that count as a band?
I'm more into electronic music lately, but I can't think of a better traditional (modern) band than Radiohead

check out this powerfull performance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AJrCsp2Ago

I also love the Mars Volta but I don't like their live performances, probably due to Cedrics singing (sounds good on albums though)

I too am partial to Radiohead. Let us also not forget about Tool. Just want to say that I am not a connoisseur of fine music, just an avid listener, so I'm not claiming to be unbaised.

Rodrigo y Gabriella are quite talented, although niched. They have a background in metal that makes them more accessible.


Toe is pretty awesome too. There seems to be lots of potential for talent in the math rock genre.


Do electronic producers count as "bands"? Although I have only shallow knowledge of this genre, my favorite so far is Shigeto. I love the Eastern aesthetic.



What about hip hop? I'd say Wu Tang Clan, but I'm sure someone else would say that is blasphemous to some hip hop god or other.

Well as some folk are putting in more than one band, Pure reason revolution are my other best band in the world potentially, they just don't have the enough material yet IMO to be consider'd legendary:

Love this track




Hmm... just discover'd they aren't making music anymore...


Yup. Porcupine tree.

No doubt

Pretty cool, soulfood. I'll check them out further.

That porcupine tree is pretty good

I'm more partial to metal (of all types) so of course my favorite band (as of late) is going to be a metal band. They're a Swedish progressive/djent/ambient style band. Very, very amazing guitarists (the band has three). Their latest album was a concept album and I'm completely in love with it



Oh, and I forgot to post about Rodrigo y Gabriella, they're absolutely amazing. I heard them for the first time while watching the show Breaking Bad Amazing guitar playing going on there.

Well, I can't just leave it at one Veil of Maya is also one of my favorite bands lately. Again, some serious progressive metal guitar playing. This song in particular keeps making me think of Salvia.

"I know the truth...
It's still denying me.
I know the truth...
It haunts me.

They know I
Live upon the
Glass slide"



And yes, let us not forget about Tool. One of my all time favorites.

I'm digging some of porcupine trees stuff, thanks soulfood

i can't choose the 'best band in the world' since i don't think there is such a thing. I have some favorite bands though of course.. Tool is the most mind blowing live experience I've ever had, by FAR. I've also been in love with the mars volta, the beatles, led zeppelin, and the talking heads for a long time..just to name a few

i'm having fun checking out some of the suggestions in this thread to

Tool, hands down.

http://www.youtube.com/w...SupI&feature=related

Now that I've discovered electronic ambient spacemusic, it fills my every waking hour. BUT when I was a sensitive teenager I pretty much worshiped Opeth, and their masterful balance of beautiful melodies and dark riffs. And a vocalist who has the ability to go from angelic singing to demonic growling.

Trackmarked amoeba lands craft,
cartwheel of scratches,
dress the tape worm as pets.

Tentacles smirk please,
flinch the cocooned meat,
infra-recon forgets.

Evaporated the fur,
because it covers them.
if you only knew the plans they had for us.
- The Mars Volta