Best band in HISTORY!!!! ROCK ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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UPDATED: Friday, December 18, 2009 08:13
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Radiohead.
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Originally posted by BigRichard:
haven't seen that movie, but I've heard Joshua Tree. Still worth seeing if I wasn't blown away by Joshua Tree?
Perhaps. The movie puts you in the front row so you can really see and appreciate the Edge's amazing abilities on guitar. The film has them doing all their earlier hits as well. And there is a segment with B.B. King that is priceless.
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well I like B.B. King.
I saw the It Might Get Loud documentary recently, part of which is about The Edge, and he was very interesting, but at the same time, I felt like he's more of a sound engineer than a guitarist...or something like that. Don't get me wrong, he's great at getting what he wants from the guitar, I just wouldn't say he's one of the greatest guitarists, as many lists have claimed him to be. The perfection he puts into getting the right sound though, is fantastic. That documentary is worth a watch btw.
I'll see if I can find a copy of Rattle and Hum, might be worth a watch.
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Originally posted by BigRichard:
Am I the only one who thinks U2 is way overrated?
Beatles, Stones, Who, Zepp, Queen I can all get on board with, but I just never cared much for U2. They have a few good songs, but I just don't much see the reason they're so huge. But again, this IS all down to personal opinion.
U2 is overrated man.
"Mom, he has her chip. He has her."
John Connor,"Born To Run", TSCC EP 2x22
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Originally posted by BigRichard:
Am I the only one who thinks U2 is way overrated?
Beatles, Stones, Who, Zepp, Queen I can all get on board with, but I just never cared much for U2. They have a few good songs, but I just don't much see the reason they're so huge. But again, this IS all down to personal opinion.
I was not much of an early U2 fan myself, that is until the late 80's when I saw their concert movie Rattle and Hum that featured many Joshua Tree songs. If you haven't seen it you've missed something pretty special. But since then, these last 20 years, they have not lived up to that glory, imho.
Funny, because I pretty much gave up on them AFTER Rattle and Hum. Loved their early stuff, War, Boy, and the like. I was just listening to "Bad" in the car the other day. Still poignant, still moving.
As for best bands in HISTORY, that's a toughie.
I have to give props to the Rolling Stones. They're not my favorite band, not even in the top ten, really, but they ARE an enormous musical presence and force. And where every other rock band their age and younger seems to constantly be breaking up and reuniting (I'm lookin' at YOU, The Who and Eagles and Aerosmith!), the Stones have just kept chugging along. They've put out some clunkers, but they've also put out some songs that come damned close to musical perfection.
Pink Floyd. "By the way, which one's Pink?" If there ever was a "Pink" in the band, it was Syd Barret. For me, though, there was never any doubt about who "Floyd" was - that was Roger Waters. It was his band, through and through, and never more so than after Syd left and was replaced with some male model-slash-guitarist. :) Pink Floyd officially ended in 1983, with the release of The Final Cut. Roger wanted it that way. That's why the last line of the album IS the last line of the band: "We were all equal in The End." As he said of the later abomination that called itself by his band's name, "It's my music. It's my words. It's my PIG! It's their dry ice." Apparently he didn't think David Gilmore's version of Pink Floyd brought much to the table, though I did like a couple of his songs. But with Waters, I like entire albums' worth, and still do.
Black Sabbath. I don't think I'd put them on a list of best bands in history. And please note that the very first album I ever owned, that I bought with my very own hard-earned money, was Black Sabbath's "Master of Reality" in 1971. I still own every one of the Sabbath albums with Ozzy Osbourne. They pretty much invented heavy metal and injected it with its dark imagery. Influential? Hell to the yeah. But "best"? Tony Iommi was never a great guitarist, but he did the best with what he had (he lost the tips of two fingers on his "fret hand" in an accident as a teenager). He pretty much single-handedly invented the deep, plodding guitar style that became heavy metal.
Led Zeppelin. Love 'em or hate 'em - and critics universally hated them - Zep was the sound of rock in the seventies. Their influence on the world of rock, blues-rock, and hard rock simply can't be overstated. It wasn't technical prowess that made an impact (I swear you can hear Jimmy Page's fingers just falling off the damn guitar neck on his sloppy-ass solos), it was just the sheer power of that guitar, that voice, that bass, and those drums.
Thing is, those are all rock bands. What about country? Blues? Swing? Folk? Pop? I've rarely heard any band as tight and well-oiled as Los Lobos (give their "Kiko" album a try sometime, not just their "La Bamba" soundtrack), except when I went and saw Little Feat live in concert, and was simply floored by them. How about Elvis Costello and the Attractions? They do punk, pop, country, bluegrass (!), soul, and just about any other style you can name, and do it all ridiculously well.
Talking Heads?
King Crimson?
The Beatles? Has any rock band had more of an overall influence on rock and pop music in history than they have?
Joy Division/New Ord
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#1 Van Halen with david lee roth
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Y'know, Meatpuppet, I almost put them on my list. Eddie Van Halen's performance on "Eruption" alone sent every other rock guitarist running back to the shed for some new lessons.
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AC/DC Has the second best selling album in the WORLD,("Back in Black", with over 200 million units sold, and Kwicko never even mentions them! What's up with that man? I mean you have the masterfully energetic Angus Young on the lead guitar, his brother Malcom is his back up, Phil Rdd on the drums, BOTH Brian Johnson, and Mister BON "FRIGGIN'" SCOTT, ( R.I.P.), And you don't have them on your list? Man they were the most influential in the 80's, they have produced multiple hit albums, here in the US, and internationally, they have had a major sound change in the vox department, AND ARE STILL GOING STRONG INTO 2010! So why aren't they on your list Kwicko? By the way, "Black Ice", is a GREAT album, it needs more sells.
"Mom, he has her chip. He has her."
John Connor,"Born To Run", TSCC EP 2x22
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Trying to differentiate between "best" and "favorite" is always a difficult task.
I have always had a preference for bands that incorporate multiple influences into their work, most especially blues, folk, country and rock. Steve Earle is the epitome of that style today, although he is a solo performer for the most part.
There is a segment in The Last Waltz where Scorcese is interviewing Levon Helm, and they are talking about Memphis.
LEVON: That's sort of the middle of the country there. Bluegrass or country music, if it comes down to that area and it mixes with rhythm, and it dances, then you have a combination of all those different kinds of music...country, bluegrass, blues music, show music.
SCORCESE: What's it called then?
LEVON: Rock 'n' Roll!
That's just one of the reasons that The Band was, is, and always will be my favorite musical group.
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I would say that The Beatles (because how can you not), The Who (because Townshend was a damn good songwriter, Daltrey was a damn good singer and Entwhistle and Moon were damn good rhythmists), The Clash (you want variety London Calling has it in shitloads), AC/DC (because they have sold a more than a few albums), Pink Floyd (say what you want David Gilmour was a fucking brilliant guitarist and singer), Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton (both amazing musicians), and maybe Aerosmith or The Rolling Stones or Guns 'N Roses (just to cover that section) as probably the most important rock n roll bands and musicians. But I would probably also count some of the blues legends like Robert Johnson.
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