h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Dave Barry, the American humor writer, played in bands in his college days and more recently is a member of the "Rock Bottom Remainders". This is a band of authors - Stephen King, Amy Tan, etc. - that plays for charity. Rock legend Al Kooper is their "music director" or something, and says Barry is as good a guitar player as some pros.

Oh, yeah, Dave's definition of a "good band" is a band who is all playing the same song at the same time. Having been in a "Geezer Band", I can say that's not always a given ...

"The Rock Bottom Remainders plays music as well as Metallica writes novels."

Definition of a good band?

Good Charlotte
Green Day
Nirvana

- to name but a few.

Hmmm, my post was tongue-in-cheek, but seriously ...

The polls at vh1.com have been compiled into a little book with results for "The Best ...". Here are some examples:

70's Band: Led Zeppelin
80's Band or Artist: Madonna
90's Band: Nirvana
Pop Group: The Beatles

I don't see a 60's Band entry, but The Beatles are probably a lock for that.

My own taste runs to the more humorous (eccentric?): Dire Straits, Bare Naked Ladies, Todd Snider, Asylum Street Spankers, Brian Setzer ...

Yeah, Dire Straits are brill. Walk of Life, Romeo and Juliet and Money For Nothing are good tracks I know of.
My own taste in music-

Iron Maiden
GC (above)
Green Day
Evanescence
The Watch (my school band)
Guns 'n' Roses
Nightwish
Dashboard Confessional
Seether
InMe

I'm pretty much into rock and punk and a hell of a lot of other stuff. GC should've been in there.