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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: NUKE on July 18, 2002, 12:08:47 AM
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Based on: Songwriting, performance, vocals, creativity/originality and impact on popular music.
1. Beatles
2. Zepplin
3. Stones
4. Metalica (maybe 3 instead.... time will tell) Metalica may go down as one of the last big impact bands.
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1. Led Zeppelin
2. Pink Floyd
3. There's other bands? Damn, I need to get out more.
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Metallica doesn't belong on the list, IMHO.
Not that I don't (or didn't) like Metallica. I've got a few albums. :)
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U2
Beatles
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In no particular order...
Beatles
U2
Rolling Stones
The not-so-obvious choices:
Run-DMC
Nirvana
Prince and the Revolution
Biggest impact on current "popular" music?
Matchbox Twenty (yes, I'm sick of them and everyone that sounds like them and no I don't consider them one of the best of all time... just fitting a whine in)
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Dont forget Queen.
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Beatles
U2
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Jam
The Stranglers
Nirvana
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Beatles
PinkFloyd
Duran Duran (Early sets)
Midnight Oil (Pre-political motivation)
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My woman used to live near Simon Le Bon, apparently he walks to the local off licence (thats liquor store to yanks) and if the other customers dont recognise him he starts whistling "The Reflex".
I always wished he'd be in there the same time as me so I could ignore him and wait for Rio to start being whistled......then turn round and say "Hey, I remember you, you're that fella who hit the bum note at Live Aid."
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Lynyrd Skynyrd (pre '77)
CCR
Deep Purple
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1. Beatles
2. Pink Floyd
3. Queen
4. The Who
5. Led Zeppelin
The only thing Metallica will make a big impact on? Drug Rehab
Masher
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My choice:
- Led Zeppelin
- Black Sabbath
- Rolling Stones
- Velvet Underground
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
Others: Cream, MC 5, Stooges, Deep Purple, Nirvana, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Bad Company, U 2, T-Rex...
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Boy George
George Michael
M&M
LOL
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Kajagoogoo
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Right Said Fred
Falco
Flock of Seagulls
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The Sex Pistols
The Who
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Beastie Boys
The Rush
The Jam
The The
The Allman Brothers Band
The Velvet Underground
The Neil Young and Crazy Horse
The Shadows
The Band of Gypsys
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No-one mentioned the Grateful Dead?
Jerry just rolled over.
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Metallica has been around since '82... roadkill they don't belong on that list. Twenty years!
They are the Beatles of heavy metal.
-SW
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-Jimmy hendrix
-living color
-metallica
-rolling stones
-faith no more
-sound garden
-Bob marley
-the beatles
-red hot chilly peppers
-live
-urban dance squad
-van halen
-queen
-and more i'm forgetting here
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Originally posted by AKSWulfe
Metallica has been around since '82... roadkill they don't belong on that list. Twenty years!
They are the Beatles of heavy metal.
-SW
The Beatles of Heavy Metal ? ROFL. Curly needs to keep you away from the liqour cabinet Wulfe.
They are long haired hippys who intice mankind in advocating the dragging of fingernails down blackboards in a vain attempt to put a tune to their music.
Now..... Neil Diamond ! He could have been a Beatle ! :)
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Originally posted by Curval
No-one mentioned the Grateful Dead?
Jerry just rolled over.
Agreed - The Dead had a HUGE impact. One year before Jerry died they were still the highest $ grossing touring band in the world!
Little Feat! - OK, not a huge impact, but they were really good.
Genesis - along with
Yes - helped define/break the boundaries of rock music.
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"I will survive, I will surviiiiive, I will survive." Whoops, someone counted their chickens before doing every drug know to man.
Masher
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The Beatles
The Grateful Dead
The Smashing Pumpkins
Fugazi
Pink Floyd
Beastie Boys
Bob Marley & the Wailers
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Good to see Bob Marley in many of these posts....
My list:
Elvis (read the thread topic)
Beetles
The Rolling Stones
Jimi Hendrix
Bob Marley and the Wailers
Frank Zappa
Led Zeppelin
The Grateful Dead
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Since they formed in 1981, San Francisco Bay Area band Metallica has gone from underground heavy metal band to one of the most successful acts in the world, with an intensely loyal fan base.
Sales of Metallica albums (including 8 full-length albums, and one EP) total over 60 million copies worldwide (with over 40 million coming in North America alone), and have earned gold and/or platinum certifications in over 40 countries. In addition, a live box-set release (containing over 8 hours of live music and video, retailing at over $80), has sold over 600,000 units worldwide, making it the biggest selling box set of its kind in history.
Metallica has garnered numerous awards accolades throughout the world their career, 4 Grammy Awards, 2 American Music Awards, 2 MTV Music Video Awards and 26 California Music Awards.
When it comes to touring, there are few, if any, bands who deliver live the way Metallica does. Their shows, which began in clubs and garages in the early 80’s, are now selling out in arenas and stadiums throughout the world, and continue to be the most intense, powerful and visually stimulating concert experience ever delivered. The most impressive achievement that bears mentioning is the fact that Metallica continues to be a strong attraction in the touring world; a truly rare feat in today’s mercurial entertainment business, where fans often change allegiance to bands as often as they do hairstyles.
Metallica is a band whose success can be directly attributed to a passion and no-compromise attitude in every project they undertake.
Their music is just too new for you fellers.
-SW
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U 2
The Smiths
The Cure
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Would any of the above exist without the Crickets? The guys has been "DEAD" 40 years and still sells records.
Sorry slow day. ;)
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Led Zeppelin
Pearl Jam
Run DMC
yes Run DMC invented the whole awful Hip-Hop scene... such a shameful note on an otherwise amazing carreer. thats why the belong there.
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An opinion from an Asian barbarian: ;)
Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
they are the all-time three whales on whom the popular music world rests upon.
Then:
Jethro Tull
Deep Purple
CCR
The Kinks (looks like I am the only Kinks fan in former USSR)
Rolling Stones
Fleetwood Mac (early albums not modern pop crap)
AC/DC (the spirit of R'N'R)
Dire Straits (the only R'N'R band w/o obvious blues roots)
I intentionaly leave Jimmy Hendrix outside of this list. He was the one and only.
Soviet bands: Aquarium (definetly the only one itel-rock band, though too many Western rock tunes used w/o copyright notice ;))
Zoopark (Mike Naumenko was the only Russian who understood true nature of R'N'R)
Nol' (Zero). Bayan is much more impressive then Hammond organ.
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Tenacious D
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Originally posted by Boroda
An opinion from an Asian barbarian: ;)
Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Well, well, well...
... and this from a commie bastard :)
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Originally posted by MrBill
Would any of the above exist without the Crickets? The guys has been "DEAD" 40 years and still sells records.
Sorry slow day. ;)
Buddy was great,but Chuck was way better...Ask Keith...:)
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Originally posted by mietla
Well, well, well...
... and this from a commie bastard :)
I am a commie bastard only according to mr. Littman, and you know why he thinks so ;) After two years passed I finaly published my correspondence with our Albanian "friends" on a "you-know-what" website :) Maybe next year I'll publish my experience with Russian law-enforcement that came upon me by their request...
You guys in Poland were happy to have at least SOME Western music. The first Beatles LPs were released in USSR in 1986, and I, a 13 years old boy, spent 3 hours in a cold March rain in a line to buy them... I am still proud that I have a Yugoslavian "Meddle" LP by Pink Floyd. It costed me enormous ammount of money in a black market.
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I listened to Metallica in the early 80's when they weren't a household name. They sold out starting with and Justice for all....after that I stopped cold turkey listening to them. I only have pre And Justice stuff by them.
My fav. by them is Kill em all.
Masher
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Originally posted by BUG_EAF322
-Jimmy hendrix
-living color
-metallica
-rolling stones
-faith no more
-sound garden
-Bob marley
-the beatles
-red hot chilly peppers
-live
-urban dance squad
-van halen
-queen
-and more i'm forgetting here
Yes... I expected to see Alice In Chains on this list. :)
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They didn't sell out until Load.
Black Album and before was all good.
-SW
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I agree with the Asian Barbarian. :)
;) The Kinks are great! Tho my favorite song by them was from the early 80's. Come Dancing.
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Midnight Oil
Led Zepplin
The Police
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Big bad question... Impact, Songwriting, Originality, Performance, Creativity... ow!
Here's a few:
Bob Dylan
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Velvet Underground/Lou Reed
The Rolling Stones
Burt Bacharach
Miles Davis
The Sex Pistols
Bauhaus
Brian Eno
Hawkwind
Motorhead
Einsturzende Neubauten
Can
The Smiths
Big Black
The Fall
The Suns of Arqa
The Sugarhill Gang
Frank Zappa
Galliano
Ozric Tentacles/The Oroonies
Jacques Brel
Sun Ra (claimed he was from Saturn - nuff said)
Funkadelic/Parliament
The Stranglers
Throbbing Gristle/Psychic TV
The The
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Gong
Tom Waits
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Originally posted by Nifty
I agree with the Asian Barbarian. :)
;) The Kinks are great! Tho my favorite song by them was from the early 80's. Come Dancing.
My fav is "Apeman"...
"I don't feel safe in this world no more
I don't wanna die in a nuclear war
I wanna sail away to a distant shore
And make like an apeman."
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Originally posted by NUKE
Based on: Songwriting, performance, vocals, creativity/originality and impact on popular music.
Breaking it down:
Songwriting:
Beatles
Stones
Who
Yes
Led Zepplin
Performance (live)
Grateful Dead
Genesis
Who
Stones
Little Feat
Vocals
Led Zepplin
Stones
Who
Genesis (Peter Gabriel)
Styx
Creativity / Originality
Beatles
Yes
Genesis
Led Zepplin
Impact
Chuck Berry
Little Richard
Beatles
Led Zepplin
Who
Buddy Holly
Nirvana
Sex Pistols
This is really a tough decision across the board. Great thread idea.
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I love Zep... but how on earth can you put them at the top of the vocals list AND leave the Beatles off (and Queen for that matter?) Lennon/McCartney is probably the best vocal matching of any band, IMO. Add into that the fact that George and Ringo could sing pretty damn well, and you've got the best vocals.
Vocals (in order)
Beatles
Queen
Beach Boys/The Mamas and The Papas (tie)
Simon and Garfunkel
Honorable Mention: Styx, Floyd, Who, Elvis, Jim Morrison
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Queen! Your right, forgot them!!!
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Originally posted by SC-Sp00k
The Beatles of Heavy Metal ? ROFL. Curly needs to keep you away from the liqour cabinet Wulfe.
They are long haired hippys who intice mankind in advocating the dragging of fingernails down blackboards in a vain attempt to put a tune to their music.
Now..... Neil Diamond ! He could have been a Beatle ! :)
Ok normaly I wouldn't yell at a police officer, but since you're in Australia :D
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Metalica was the best band of the 80's period!!!!! They inovated metal the same way the Beatles inovated rock n roll. Though I agree about compairing them to the Beatles. They really should be compaired to Bethoven or Mozart or the like. As my proof I give you "Anesthesia", "Call of Katulu" or "Orion" that's just 3 instrumentals! That doesn't include songs with words like "Master of Puppets", "Ride the Lightning","Fade to black", "Creeping Death" or "Four Horsemen" or any of their songs!
These guys actually took time to compose thier music! Most of thier songs in the 80's were well over 5 minutes long which is why they never really got much radio play back then. Yes, they were "alcoholica's" and yes they partied and had long hair. But they were NOT hippies! They thought about every note they recorded back then! Then Cliff died :( Still a fan though :D
Nobody mentioned Chicago!
didn't see Rush
also didn't see Primus
I'd defenately have to add Glenn Miller
my 2 favorites right now are POD and Puddle of Mud followed by Nickleback...
You are all communist nazi's!!!!!
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I seriously thought about mentioning Glenn Miller and Louis Armstrong. (miles davis too). Actually, they do influence some popular music, I mean swing was back in for a year or so. ;)
Chicago is fantastic, but not in the top 5 of any category (except maybe best trombonist in a rock band!)
Rush is good too, but only should be in the top 5 for the best rhythm. ;)
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Originally posted by midnight Target
Impact
Chuck Berry
Every rock guitarist should forward 50% of their royalties to Chuck Berry.
And send most of the rest to BB King (invented lead guitar as played in rock) and Robert Johnson.
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Ain't noboby kin tetch Flatt and Scruggs...
Ain't nuthin gooder
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The JBs
Average White Band
Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Santana
Brothers Johnson
Doobie Brothers
Allman Brothers
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Jimi Hendrix - Band Of Gypsys
Pink Floyd
Deep Purple
Apulanta
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The more I read this thread the more I kick myself for forgetting some great bands or people.
Like
Songwriting -
Carol King
Paul Simon
Brian Wilson (Beach Boys)
Vocals -
Beach Boys - duh! Maybe even at the top of this list.
Jefferson Airplane - OK just Grace Slick then
Janis Joplin - Blues Queen
Temptations - Oh yea
Faruq Freddie Bulsara (Freddy Mercury)
Originality -
The Beach Boys again. Invented the genre and the "concept album".
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Proly not in the best of all time catagory .... but am I the only one who likes/remembers Creedence?
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Originally posted by midnight Target
The Beach Boys again. Invented the genre and the "concept album".
I thought "The Who Sell Out" was before Pet Sounds..?..
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Info I got says "Who Sell Out was broadcast 1st on 12/27/66, but not released as an album until 12/16/67. Pet Sounds was 1966, but I don't have specific date.
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Wow, where to even begin.
At the top of the heap, in no particular order:
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Jimmy hendrix
Nirvana
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Smashing Pumpkins
Pretty Dammed Good, in no particular order:
The Sex Pistols
The Who
Velvet Underground
The Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Grateful Dead
Beatles
Janis Joplin
Queen
The Smiths
Iron Maiden
Ozzy/Sabbath
DKs
Fear
Black Flag
Elvis Costello
The Ramones
Johnathan Richmond
Tull (going to see in a few weeks actually)
Pre-Disco Stones
Dire Straits
Mignight Oil
Boston
Rush
I somehow, with the exception of some metal and punk, managed to miss most of the 80s music scene. I noticed one day: "Hey, WTF happened to the guitars? Is that a drum machine? This is as bad as disco!" :) Floyd and Zep kept me happy until Nirvana. What a loss Kurt was, up there with the other greats who burned out much too young.
Charon
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Alot of great groups listed.
Just want to add The Eagles..great 3+hour show here in Kansas City last week.
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The Ramones? Well ok, they were one of the 1st punk bands, but they really were quite bad.
I saw the Ramones in the UCSB (Santa Barbara) Gym back in 1976. My buddy wanted to get an autographed 45 (thats a record for all you babies) and while we stood in line, one of us commented on what a bunch of sweetheart bags the Ramones were. When we got to the front of the line, the guy signing the 45 looked at my bud and said "sweetheart bags huh?" Then he laughed and wrote "We ain't no duche bags" on the record. (Misspelling and all). That 45 was framed and placed on the wall of reverence in my buddies Isla Vista apartment.
RIP Joey
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Hell so many to choose from but.....
Chuck Berry - All catagories (Ok forget "My dingaling") :rolleyes:
BB King
John Lee Hooker
(Ok Blues/RnB out of the way)
Black Sabbath (I still don't think any other band can imitate their sound).
Deep Purple (Gillan, Lord, Paice (Sp)? Blackmore) Lineup
ELP (Showed all the other 70's "Synth" bands how it should be done)
Alice Cooper (Creativity/Originality - Just go see him live)
Rolling Stones (You can't stay up there for 40 years without being at least a bit good -Whoops slipped back into RnB) :D
Grateful Dead, Are they still alive?
Mike Oldfield (For originality)
Jimi Hendrix
Lynard Skynard (A sound all of there own)
Dory Previn (Who)??? :p (One of a kind - trust me)
Artists like Clapton, Gary Moore, Mark Knophler (Sp)? all worthy of a mention but only as masters of their art not as originators
TTFN
snafu
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Hey MT, rock and roll isn't all about being good musicians and having high production values :) I still get a kick out of Rockin' Roll High School! whenever it's on. And, as you say, there were a proto punk band with a lot of influence for the genre.
Charon
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Faith no More
Ramones
The Temptations
Early Metallica
Red Hot Chillis
Anthrax
Louis Armstrong
Chuck Berry
Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
Ack.. too many, I'm spiraling .
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The Ramones actually invented the word Punkrock, or so the story goes .
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If the Ramones had not toured England in 1975,there would have been no Sex Pistols,The Clash..etc...Hugely influential band..
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Ouch all these posts and nobody mentioned my favorite:
Steely Dan
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Originally posted by Curval
My fav is "Apeman"...
"I don't feel safe in this world no more
I don't wanna die in a nuclear war
I wanna sail away to a distant shore
And make like an apeman."
Hehe, look at my signature template - it's from the last song on the same album ;) An essence of Communism, at least like we make it now - free for everyone ;)
Ray and Dave really ROCK.
Indeed, forgot to add Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Best KBD soloes ever, maybe even better then Jon Lord.
MrBill - many people already mentioned Creedence Clearwater Revival = CCR ;)
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DOH!
HOW COULD I HAVE LEFT OFF SKYNYRD!
Also, the Eagles, Steely Dan, Judas Priest, John Prine, REM... damm, too much good music :)
Charon
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Originally posted by AKSWulfe
They didn't sell out until Load.
Black Album and before was all good.
-SW
I agree IMO Master of Puppets was their best album, their subsequent albums may have been as good I think if Cliff had not died . In Justice they tried to compensate for the lack of a strong bass guitar sound with the bass drum beats . The black Metallica album was much better than justice imo, unfortunately, to me it seemed like their last earnest attempt . I like listening to their later albums but it's not the same music that made them famous .
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naming names like faith no more, anthrax, metalica...
not one person mentioned
(http://www.wickedland.com/pantera/pictures/images/logo.jpg)
sheesh:mad: :rolleyes:
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Hell... we all know that Spinal Tap made it all possible. :)
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I think I'm running with an older crowd..
Old School :)
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Yes... I expected to see Alice In Chains on this list.
Alice in chains is also good
to bad those guys drugged them selfes
My favourite band still is living color
They got william calhoun my favourite drummer
as i drum a little he's my god :D
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For me:
The Smiths
Pink Floyd (the Final Cut is imho the finest produced album ever)
Talking Heads (how have they been overlooked so far?)
Beastie Boys
The Cure
Souxsie and the Banshees
Bauhaus
David Bowie
Naked Raygun
The Specials
Fun Boy Three
The English Beat
Echo and the Bunnymen
... and just for fun the Angry Somoans
F.
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There is only one band (apart from the lyrics):
KRAFTWERK (http://www.kraftwerk.com)
and one i really really like:
LTJ Bukem
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...and NO ONE mentioned Frank Zappa?????
philistines, the lot of ya! ;)
Ok, I'm assuming that we're excluding Jazz & Blues, and focusing on great BANDS and not individual performers/songwriters, etc... so, in no particular order:
Frank Zappa - ANY band of his
Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Beatles
Traffic
Led Zeppelin
Steely Dan
The Meters
Parliament - Funkadelic
Sly & The Family Stone
any James Brown band of the 60s - 70s
Mahavishnu Orchestra
King Crimson
Little Feat
Velvet Underground
The New York Dolls
The Ramones
Humble Pie
Be-Bop Deluxe
The Clash
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
The Grateful Dead
The Police
Alice In Chains
Black Sabbath.... ONLY with Ozzy! Dio must be destroyed :)
AC/DC - preferably with Bon Scott
Pink Floyd, provided it stops with "The Wall" ;) Actually imho the Syd Barret floyd is the most interesting music of the lot.
Iggy & The Stooges
ZZ Top... BEFORE the fuzzy guitars came in!
... and many more that my memory won't produce on demand ;)
now.... Bands that Must Die:
Journey
Foreigner
Asia
Boston
Rush (that one word could start a 300-post flamewar ;)
Any leather/hair sporting 80s metal atrocity :)
any leather/hair sporting 80's "new wave" atrocity, with the exceptions on the above list
Abba
Styx
...feel free to add ;)
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Oh yeah I forgot:
Bootsy's Rubber Band
Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Three
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Lol!...Another nobody mentioned..
TOOL!!!
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Supertramp.... what about Supertramp!!!
RedAnt, nice list. Cept I kinda like Styx, and Neil Shone is a great guitar player (although I've never bought a Journey album)
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Man this guy rocked in the late 60's!..:)
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OK a few more cause i guess it's too much "rock" in here ;)
Joydivision
Bauhaus
Heaven 17
ABC
Wham
Blancmange
New Musik
Ideal
Human League (early ones)
David Bowie
New Order
Flash and the pan
Depeche Mode
The Clash
Sexpistols
Kissing the pink
Too much Pop? Take this:
VIOLENT FEMMES !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Nobody gives a crap what you like or asked you to show off your collection, who cares. I believe responses were to be based on and I quote
Based on: Songwriting, performance, vocals, creativity/originality and impact on popular music.
Just tryin to help keep it on track :D
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Originally posted by Creto
Nobody gives a crap what you like or asked you to show off your collection, who cares. I believe responses were to be based on and I quote
Just tryin to help keep it on track :D
Creto, m8, what happened to u? Think again, its an BB and if i want to post something i can post what i want (like u did too). So Uschi calm down and listen to the sweat sweat music of electro pop.
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While I like all of these bands and have their albums, they aren't necessarily my favorites, or representative of what I usually listen to, but...
In no particular order...
The Clash
Black Sabbath (the ORIGINAL Sabbath, that is)
AC/DC (they slip in on influence)
Johnny Cash
The Misfits
Black Flag
Dead Kennedys
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No Steppenwolf?
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Nobody mentioned Jerry Lee Lewis.
One of the best live performances I have seen.;)
Drftr
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Originally posted by snafu
Black Sabbath (I still don't think any other band can imitate their sound).
Finally, another person that know the importance and quality of this band. I love how Tommy Iomy play guitar: intensity, intensity!
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Originally posted by MrBill
Proly not in the best of all time catagory .... but am I the only one who likes/remembers Creedence?
No, but you may be the only one who doesn't know that "CCR" =Creedence. Several have mentioned CCR. :)
On the other hand, no one has mentioned the DOORS !! Lyrics anyone?
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CREAM! The inventors of the wall of sound.
Eric Clapton was even proclaimed as GOD.
Duane Allman was awesome in a shortlived career.
Soundgarden especially their early albumns.
Ute
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Originally posted by Masherbrum
I listened to Metallica in the early 80's when they weren't a household name. They sold out starting with and Justice for all....after that I stopped cold turkey listening to them. I only have pre And Justice stuff by them.
My fav. by them is Kill em all.
Masher
Cool! I was pokeing around in a music store in 1983 and found "Kill'em All" buried way behind loads of other stuff. I saw the "Hammer and Blood" on the cover and thought "I just gotta hear this". Turned out to be one of my favorite albums for YEARS, I couldn't believe the "new(ish)" sound. Of course nobody in Oklahoma had ever heard of them, and some folks thought I was kinda wierd when they heard it blasting out of my very loud KRACO (woohoo, cheap as hell but great sound for about a month) car stereo.
...Started to un-like Metallica the 5000th time I heard Enter Sandman, now I can't stand the bastards since the napster thing.
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Originally posted by SirLoin
Lol!...Another nobody mentioned..
TOOL!!!
CROWBAR
...just a joke, really. Probably the worst 3-4 minutes ever wasted on "Headbangers Ball" lol.
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Was searching for a post I made a long time ago and came across this thread. I read through this one and was amazed that it never went off topic or became hostile.
Could music be the common thread ( no pun intended, yet implied by it's mention) we all realate too?
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Little Feat!
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im suprized no one has mentioned slayer:) kings of death metal
pink floyd very good band,,gots one of the top selling albums of all time<~right beside the eagles,,top album selling bands in the world right now
and for good old rock right now,,i have to say ac/dc and zz-top..they keep going and making good tunes every album:)
ccr great band,,allways thought john fogerty had one of the best rock and roll voices of his time
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Kraftwerk
Beatles
Rolling Stones
Violent Femmes
The Smiths
Heaven 17
ABC
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Lookout!
"Everything Thermals
Yeah, everything Thermals, straight from the pages of your journal.
I know nobody's ever seen it, the Thermals know all your secrets.
Yeah, everything Thermals, we're in an outerspace wormhole.
Brought to life by the big bang, traveled to Earth in a Dodge van.
The Thermals go right to your head, the Thermals have sex in your bed.
And everything in circles.
Yeah, everything Thermals. They come in four shades of purple.
Some are tikes, some have trousers. Some have pictures of flowers.
They are the Thermals, they guarantee life eternal.
And only need skin and bones, and a sweet pair of headphones.
The Thermals don't need drugs to have a good time.
The Thermals need drugs just to stay alive.
And everything in circles. Yeah, everything."
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Glenn Miller
Benny Goodman
Tommy Dorsey
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Earth Wind and Fire.:aok
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
Ain't noboby kin tetch Flatt and Scruggs...
Ain't nuthin gooder
Them guys ain't nuthin but potential session men for the likes of Bob Wills, Hank Williams, and Chet Atkins ;)
culero
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Originally posted by NUKE
Based on: Songwriting, performance, vocals, creativity/originality and impact on popular music.
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This is a tough thread to keep on topic because the parameters strongly limit choices but the temptation to mention personal favroite bands is strong...
The most limiting parameter IMO is "impact", "vocals" is also tough.
OK, I'm prolly gonna blow it, but:
1) Elvis Presley
2) The Beatles
3) Pink Floyd
Only one of those is a personal favorite, BTW.
culero
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1. Doors
2. Stones
3. In doubt, probably Queen...
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Metalica was the best band of the 80's period!!!!! They inovated metal
Thats like saying the Bee Gees inovated disco.
As for influencial, Public Enemy should be on the list.
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1. beatles (gave birth to rock n roll)
2. led zeppelin and black sabbath ( gave birth to heavy metal)
3. lynard skynard (gave southern rock justice)
4. ccr (double tap on southern rock)
5. foghat, golden earring, iron butterfly, santana, molly hachet...
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you uncultured mainstream swine
you said band
here's a real list
The Grateful Dead are great..
The Allman Brother are awesome
Both bands of gypsies are great, Jimmi Hendrix & Django Reinhardt
Phish is tasty
Bill Monroe is nice
The David Grisman Quintet is quite nice
Oh Zepplin has it's moments
Jim Cullum jazz band is nice for dixie style (turn NPR on some sunday)
Marley of course is heady
and Sublime is Sublime
String Cheese is tasty at times
Old and In the Way
Bela Fleck
Beatles are good and Floyd of course .. but man you guys are some mainstream dweebs .... :rofl
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In kinda cronological order, not importance, I couldnt rank them in importance:
Louis Armstrong
Robert Johnson
Muddy Waters
Bill Monroe
Johnny Cash
Wille Nelson
The Beatles
The Who
Cream
Iggy Pop and the Stooges
MC5
The Ramones
The Clash
Black Flag
Metallica
Uncle Tupelo
Rage Against the Machine
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Zepplin
Floyd
AiC
prolly a few more.. but these guys are WAY up there..
dude
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Kurt Tank and his twittlers
Motorhead
Misfits
Maiden
Led
Danzig
Ramones
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no wonder ya'll can't fly .. you have no rythem :rofl
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I would rather listen to three cats and a bucketfull of razorblades in a washing machine than listen to the Beatles.
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Gordo wins this thread.
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Originally posted by Dune
I would rather listen to three cats and a bucketfull of razorblades in a washing machine than listen to the Beatles.
Ah, the first real derail attempt of the thread
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Revolution No. 9 was three cats and a bucketfull of razorblades in a washing machine.
Ravs
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Since this is purely subjective, and in no particular order:
Yes
AC/DC
Van Halen (Roth era)
The Beatles
Black Sabbath
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
Pink Floyd
Nirvana
The Glenn Miller Orchestra
Buddy Holly and the Crickets
Led Zeppelin
The Rolling Stones
ZZ Top
Jimi Hendrix Exerience/BOG
Eric Clapton/Cream
Stormtroopers of Death (S.O.D.)
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Nash, I couldn't have pulled out the victory without you. Thanks!
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The portion of the Beatles songs that Michael Jackson owns is valued at about 900 million dollars, and he doesn't even own many of the biggest hits.
Some may not like the Beatles, but a lot of musicians and many fans agree that they were a huge force and talent.
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Originally posted by Torque
Earth Wind and Fire.:aok
About friggin time someone mentioned EWF.
Add The Temptations and The Commodores to that list also.
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why does this thread have a paper clip on it. I've NEVER seen an attachment in this forum.
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ABBA
Air Supply
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While I didnt read each list I've seen alot of good bands listed but havent seen one performer that shouldnt be forgotten as being influential.
How can any list that includes the likes of the Beatles. Led Zep and such be complete without mentioning the one performer who as far as Im concerned is the true father of Heavy metal & Rock N Roll
that performer is
Chuck Berrry
I mean this dude was doing heavy stuff before anyone ever even came up with the word heavy metal
Classic example is "Johnny B Goode"
I mean if that song were released for the first time today it would still probably be a hit.
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Originally posted by midnight Target
Neil Shone (sic) is a great guitar player (although I've never bought a Journey album)
Granted but he did come out with the UGLIEST guitar of all time in the 80's.
Schon's ugly-prettythang guitars (http://template.edroman.com/guitar/home_sch.htm)
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Pink Floyd
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Originally posted by Red Ant
now.... Bands that Must Die:
Rush (that one word could start a 300-post flamewar ;)
All right mister......
you are hereby sentenced to 15 years of disco! :p
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Doobie brothers
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Pat McGee Band
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Hey mane i like ur swingin jazz list also
don't have jazz here but i know it's technical the most difficult to play music.
i hope i grow up some time to listen