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Uhhh...I have to break it down into two categories...and this is still soooo not my "best" top 5 breakdown.

"Rock"

1. The Clash

2. Minor Threat

3. Soft Machine

4. Ramones

5. Operation Ivy

"Jazz"

1. Miles Davis' bands (50s through the 70s)

2. John Coltrane Quartet

3. Herbie Hancock's bands (same era as Miles)

4. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

5. Medeski, Martin, and Wood

What did you do, Google "top five punk bands" and "top five jazz groups"?

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Uhhh...I have to break it down into two categories...and this is still soooo not my "best" top 5 breakdown.

"Rock"

1. The Clash

2. Minor Threat

3. Soft Machine

4. Ramones

5. Operation Ivy

"Jazz"

1. Miles Davis' bands (50s through the 70s)

2. John Coltrane Quartet

3. Herbie Hancock's bands (same era as Miles)

4. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

5. Medeski, Martin, and Wood

What did you do, Google "top five punk bands" and "top five jazz groups"?

Huh? Is this sarcasm? I am guessing it is, as Soft Machine is not "punk" (unless you consider early psych-jazzy rock punk...I kinda do 8-)). I did put like ten minutes or so of thought into those lists... ???

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I'm gonna just shoot from the hip here and question myself later. Bands that have influenced my writing :

Black Sabbath

Pixies

Iggy Pop's first 6 studio albums (the 3 Stooges records/Kill City/The Idiot/Lust For Life

Far

The Cure

and what the hell, At the Drive In, too. I cheat at shit.

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While there are a bunch of bands i admire alot, these bands were my fav's because in hindsight every album they did never really let me down. Not to mention 3 out of the 5 bands had exceptional Lyricists. 4 out of the 5 being exceptional songwriters.

1. Boston

2. Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3. Jawbreaker

4. The Pogues

5. WhiskeytownThe Replacements

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I can do top 3,

1. Dinosaur Jr

2. Superchunk

3. Kiss

After that it's too difficult, I really like Ben Deily era Lemonheads for example but don't particularly care for the later stuff. I also love most Teenage Fanclub but their last albums I don't really like too much so i don't think they can go in the top 5.

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After that it's too difficult, I really like Ben Deily era Lemonheads for example but don't particularly care for the later stuff. I also love most Teenage Fanclub but their last albums I don't really like too much so i don't think they can go in the top 5.

i had a similar problem with Saves The Day. I love the early stuff, and some of the more recent stuff is OK, but after In Reverie they just fell off. I would have loved to include them in my top 5 but i just couldn't because of this.

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